NATO Members to Build ‘Concrete Bunkers’ on Russian Border
Estonia announced on Friday that it intends to build hundreds of bunkers along its border with Russia. Fellow NATO members Latvia and Lithuania have signed on to the project as well.
Defense ministers of the three Baltic states met in Riga and approved the construction of what they called “anti-mobility defensive installations” on their eastern borders “to repel possible Russian aggression.”
“We are undertaking this effort so that the people of Estonia can feel safe,” said Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur. He added that the Ukraine conflict has shown that “in addition to equipment, ammunition and manpower, we also need physical defensive structures at the border.”
As part of the so-called “Baltic Defense Line,” Estonia pledged to build hundreds of concrete bunkers, each about 35 square meters in size and capable of housing 10 soldiers. They would be placed along the 294-kilometer border with Russia and linked with a network of support points and supply lines.
?️ The Baltic countries have agreed on the ?????? #BalticDefenceLine along their eastern border. It’s crucial to use time wisely to increase #defence readiness. #NotAnInch pic.twitter.com/PDcSqxtAh7
— MoD Estonia (@MoD_Estonia) January 19, 2024
Landmines, razor wire and “dragon’s teeth” anti-tank obstacles will be stored nearby so they can be quickly deployed in case they are needed, Kaido Tiitus, an aide at the Defense Ministry, told the state broadcaster ERR. The bunkers reportedly need to be able to survive a direct hit from a 152mm artillery shell.
The initial budget for the program is €60 million ($65 million). Construction is supposed to begin in early 2025. According to Tiitus, the most difficult part of the process will be buying the land that is currently privately held.
“There is a big question mark over selling land in south-east Estonia, for example, because people there do not want to sell land, the land is important to them, whether it has some kind of traditional value or whether it’s purely farmland that keeps people’s souls alive in that far corner of the country,” he said.
The Estonian Defense Ministry has estimated that around 600 bunkers will be necessary for the project, according to the outlet Postimees. Tiitus said the fortifications would “not be designed as eyesores or to disrupt everyday life.”
Border fortifications have had a controversial history in Europe since France’s Maginot Line, built between the world wars to defend the border with Germany. Nazi armies ended up going around the series of concrete bunkers and gun emplacements, defeating the French in just six weeks.
Albania’s Communist leader Enver Hoxha had more than 750,000 concrete bunkers built around the country between 1967 and 1986, to fortify against possible invasions from both NATO and the Soviet bloc that never materialized.
CRISIS: Denver Hospital Caught Injecting LIVE Ebola Vaccine In Workers Now Overwhelmed by Illegals, Has Racked Up $136M In Unpaid Care In 2023 Alone — REPORT
The same hospital in Denver, Colorado, that gave healthcare workers an Ebola vaccine with a 31% shed rate is also on the brink of collapse due to unpaid care related to the surge of illegals flooding the system, according to reports.
Denver Health, the largest “safety net” hospital in Colorado is experiencing this alarming convergence of crises.
“Since President Joe Biden took office and the southern border has been overrun with immigrants from all over the world, the cost of unpaid care at Denver Health has risen dramatically,” reports Cortney Weil of The Blaze. “In 2020, the hospital had about $60 million in unpaid care. By 2022, that number more than doubled to $125 million and then jumped another $11 million last year, bringing the total amount of unpaid care at Denver Health in 2023 to a whopping $136 million.”
“Those numbers coincide with the significant rise in illegal immigrants entering the city in the last few years. According to Dr. Steven Federico, the chief government and community affairs officer for Denver Health, the hospital treated 8,000 new patients from South and Central America in the last year, and those patients alone accounted for 20,000 hospital visits.”
Dr. Federico added that the medical needs sought by the new population included dental emergencies, mental health counseling, and childbirth.
Watch Dr. Federico call for federal support for this “humanitarian crisis”:
Denver Hospital Struggles with unpaid illegal alien costs pic.twitter.com/amCAPMxNLm
— Zeno Calhoun (@zenoc_oshits) January 18, 2024
In tandem with this crisis, news broke earlier this week that Denver Health workers were given doses of a live Ebola vaccine in November.
“Denver Health paramedics, doctors, and nurses have just been vaccinated with a live Ebola vaccine,” said Dr. Richard Bartlett Friday on The Alex Jones Show. “Never before have we had anyone in Denver, Colorado – or Colorado at all – vaccinated for Ebola. This is history-making.”
“Why would they be doing this? They said they’re doing it in preparation for a ‘potential Ebola outbreak,’ why would they be thinking that’s possible?”
Watch the full interview below where both Dr. Bartlett and Jon Fleetwood also raise the alarm on a U.S.-taxpayer-funded lab near Denver Health that will reportedly import bats from around the world and experiment on dangerous diseases.
BREAKING: Hospitals Injecting Staff With Live Ebola Vaccine That Sheds In Colorado, Warns Doctor
EVs In Chicago Are No Match For Polar Vortex
Average temperatures across the Chicago metro area plunged below zero this week.
Resulting in a double whammy for electric vehicle owners: paralyzed charging networks and battery degradation because of the cold blast.
“This is crazy. This is a disaster.”
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) January 17, 2024
Electric Vehicle owners find out the hard way what it means to go electric during Chicago’s harsh winter.
Can’t imagine why the EV market isn’t taking off.pic.twitter.com/1jRbsFX5L8
One woman complained she was stranded because one charging station “was all broken.”
POV: Owning an EV in Chicago… pic.twitter.com/420Q1X2tq1
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) January 19, 2024
“When it’s cold like this, cars aren’t functioning well, chargers aren’t functioning well, and people don’t function so well either,” Javed Spencer, an Uber driver, told The New York Times. He said he’s worried about being stranded again with his Chevy Bolt.
For years, the Davos elites have pitched to the masses about a ‘green’ new world of EVs and how nothing could go wrong. But these elites are not fortune tellers and are sometimes very wrong in their predictions, as EVs are no match for a polar vortex.
Is the cult of sports killing America?
Global Warming? North America Snow Coverage Hits “Decadal Highs”
Americans suffer from climate catastrophe fatigue after leftist corporate media outlets push endless climate doom headlines that seemingly never come true.
Another round of climate doom headlines came this week at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Many elites attending the event who spoke and or commented on the sidelines sound like broken records. They warn of imminent doom that never comes.
While the rest of us who don’t have private jets and gas-guzzling motorcades live in reality, the Lower 48 has been battered by a multi-week polar vortex blast of cold air that has made life absolutely painful. On top of freezing temperatures, snowstorms have hit many parts of the US.
“Talk about a turnaround or reversal of fortunes! North American #snow cover goes from record low to decadal highs in just a couple of weeks, thanks to the vagaries and whims of the #PolarVortex,” Judah Cohen, Director of Seasonal Forecasting at Verisk’s Atmospheric and Environmental Research, wrote in an X post.
Talk about a turnaround or reversal of fortunes! North American #snow cover goes from record low to decadal highs in just a couple of weeks, thanks to the vagaries and whims of the #PolarVortex. But you know what they say, “what goes up must come down.” pic.twitter.com/c8Gl5trZcs
— Judah Cohen (@judah47) January 19, 2024
And take a look at the snow coverage map.
Before the polar vortex split, corporate media outlets unleashed a flurry of headlines blabbering about global warming.
Next week’s forecast shows warmer air for the Lower 48, which means corporate media will be blasting headlines about global warming (again).
Is the cult of sports killing America?
All Of A Sudden, Leaders All Over The World Are Warning That World War III Is Very Close
Prominent leaders all over the globe are starting to publicly acknowledge that World War III is coming. In many cases they are expressing hope that it can still be avoided, but that becomes less likely with each passing day. Multiple parties are escalating the conflict in the Middle East, the war in Ukraine has entered a dangerous new phase, and the election that just happened in Taiwan has made a Chinese invasion much more probable. So what is going to happen if major powers start tangling with one another all over the planet? We really are on the brink of the unthinkable, but most people in the general population have no idea how dire things have become.
On Monday, British Defense Minister Grant Shapps warned that we are now in a “pre-war world” and that western powers could soon find themselves fighting Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea…
…now is the time for all allies and democratic nations across the world to… make sure their defence spending is growing too. Because as discussed, the era of the peace dividend is over. In five years time we could be looking at multiple theatres including Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea.
…we find ourselves at the dawn of this new era. [The] Berlin Wall a distant memory but we have come full circle, moving from a post-war to a pre-war world. An age of idealism has been replaced by a period of hard-headed realism.
I was stunned that he was willing to give the public such an honest assessment.
But of course he is right.
Multiple wars are coming.
U.S. officials are issuing similar warnings. Here is one example…
A source inside the Pentagon has warned Daily Express US that “we are on the brink of World War 3” amid surging conflict in the Middle East sparked largely by Iran.
The source inside the Pentagon that issued this rather ominous warning is a man named Nicholas Drummond, and he claims that the current war in the Middle East could literally result in “the end of Iran”…
Defence expert Nicholas Drummond echoed concerns that the conflict in the Middle East could potentially escalate but warned that if Tehran directly attacked Israel, the ensuing war would be “the end of Iran”.
So exactly what sort of weapons would be required to bring about “the end of Iran”?
You might want to reflect on that for a moment.
There is also a lot of talk about World War III in Russia. In fact, one of Russia’s most prominent news anchors named Vladimir Solovyov recently told his audience that our planet is “moving towards World War III”…
“We are moving towards World War III. In my opinion, it’s already underway. By the way Trump thinks so too,” the Russian presenter added, as he tried to cut to a soundbite of the former president condemning U.S. strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen.
Yes, he was actually quite correct about Donald Trump.
Not too long ago, Trump publicly warned a crowd in Iowa that “we’re very close to World War III”…
“World War III, we’re very close. I don’t know if you feel it. I don’t know, madam attorney general, if you feel it, but we’re very close to World War III when you see these discussions taking place.”
Personally, I am entirely convinced that World War III has already started, but what Trump and others are talking about is the hot phase when missiles start flying all over the place and millions of people die.
And we are so close to that right now. The following comes from a Daily Mail article entitled “The descent into World War 3: How Russia, Iran and China are simultaneously making moves that will drag us all into conflict”…
Leaked German intelligence documents suggest Berlin expects Russia to launch another wave of attacks to overwhelm Ukraine, and is scrambling to come up with contingency plans in the event Russian troops march westward from Belarus.
The Israel-Hamas conflict threatens to spread violence across the Middle East, with Iran’s so-called ‘Axis of Resistance’ – including Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Yemen’s Houthi rebels – increasing their attacks on Israel and commercial shipping routes, prompting the UK and US to launch a series of devastating strikes by air and sea.
Further East, Taiwan’s election of a new democracy-loving president has angered Beijing even further, with a Chinese invasion of the island nation in the coming years looking ever more likely.
It is likely that the Middle East will be the first flashpoint to fully erupt.
The region has become so unstable over the past couple of months, and the entire world was stunned this week when Iran decided to launch missiles and drones into Iraq, Syria and Pakistan…
Within 24 hours, Iran launched missile and drone strikes on targets in three countries — Iraq, Syria and Pakistan — and took the extraordinary step of announcing its responsibility for the attacks, triggering anger from its neighbors.
So why did Iran do this?
The Iranians claim that the strike in Iraq targeted “an Israeli spy hub”…
Baghdad recalled its ambassador to Iran after the Monday night attack on its northern semi-autonomous Kurdistan region killed four civilians and injured at least six. Tehran said the strike targeted an Israeli spy hub near the U.S. consulate in Erbil, the Kurdistan regional capital city. Iraqi Kurdish Prime Minister Masrour Barzani rejected the Iranian claim, describing the attack as a “crime against the Kurdish people.”
Iraq’s Foreign Ministry, meanwhile, called the attacks a “violation of international law” and said it would file a complaint with the U.N. Security Council. France’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Iran was “contributing to the escalation of regional tensions — and it must stop.”
As for the strikes in Syria and Pakistan, the Iranians claim that they were trying to hit Sunni groups that commit acts of terrorism…
Tehran also hit what it said were Islamic State targets in northern Syria in tandem with its strikes on Iraq. It then went on to target the headquarters of a Sunni armed group in Pakistan’s western Balochistan province near the Iranian border.
Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that it “strongly condemns the unprovoked violation of its airspace by Iran” which it said killed two children and injured three more. It added that “it is even more concerning that this illegal act has taken place despite the existence of several channels of communication between Pakistan and Iran.”
This could potentially draw Pakistan into the war in the Middle East.
And let us not forget that Pakistan has nuclear weapons.
It is very unusual for Iran to be this aggressive.
And Iran’s Defense Minister is promising that his nation will not hesitate to conduct similar missile strikes in the future…
The morning after Iranian attacks on neighboring Pakistan and Iraq, Iran’s defense minister vowed Wednesday that his country would “not set any limits” on using its missile capabilities against enemies whenever necessary.
“We are a missile power in the world,” the minister, Mohammad Reza Ashtiani, told reporters at a Cabinet meeting, according to state media. “Wherever they want to threaten the Islamic Republic of Iran, we will react, and this reaction will definitely be proportionate, tough and decisive.”
Meanwhile, the IDF and Hezbollah continue to pummel one another along Israel’s northern border…
The Israeli armed forces carried out a massive wave of airstrikes and artillery fire against targets in the Saluki valley in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, following repeated attacks against Israeli targets by the Lebanese terror organization Hezbollah.
According to Israel Defense Forces, the terror group “makes extensive use” of the valley for its activities, hiding its weapons and infrastructures in the valley’s forested areas.
According to Lebanese reports, the Israeli airstrike was among the largest of the war so far, hitting 15 different targets in at least 30 launched strikes.
And on Tuesday the U.S. military actually hit the Houthis in Yemen with a “pre-emptive attack” because the Houthis were apparently getting ready to launch more anti-ship ballistic missiles…
On Tuesday US forces carried out another round of strikes on Houthi sites in Yemen, but this time the operation is being dubbed a “pre-emptive” attack that came in response to militants preparing missile launches on the ground in real time.
“US forces struck and destroyed four Houthi anti-ship ballistic missiles,” a Central Command (CENTCOM) statement saud. “These missiles were prepared to launch from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen and presented an imminent threat to both merchant and US Navy ships in the region.”
War is here.
In fact, 2024 is going to be a year of war, and wherever conflict happens the U.S. is almost certainly going to be involved.
So how will the American people respond as the world erupts in flames?
In recent weeks, we have seen crazed protesters do some very alarming things in Washington, New York, Los Angeles and elsewhere.
But the truth is that World War III is still only in the very early stages. So what is going to happen once global events spiral completely out of control?
Unfortunately, I believe that it won’t be too long before we find out.
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US Home Sales Decline to Lowest in 30 Years as Americans Cite Economic ‘Suffering’
US home sales declined to the lowest level in almost three decades last year as prices rose to a record high.
Sales for 2023 came in at 4.09 million homes for the year, the lowest level since 1995. Additionally, sales in December declined by a full 6.2% versus December 2022.
On a month-to-month basis, sales declined in December in the South, Northeast, and Midwestern United States. Year-to-year sales experienced a decline in all regions of the country including the West.
Median home prices for 2023 rose to $389,800, a new record, demonstrating the effect of investors in the market. Such buyers represented 16% of home sales in December as institutions like Blackrock drove up housing prices in the country. Historically, first-time homebuyers make up 40% of the housing market but this number declined to just 29% in December.
On another measure of economic security, Gallup found a record high number of Americans responding that they were “suffering” in their annual Health and Well-Being survey. The polling organization found a greater percentage of Americans describing their status as “suffering” than during 2008’s Great Recession, continuing a trend from 2022.
Such respondents are “more likely to report lacking food and shelter, more likely to have physical pain, stress, worry, sadness, and anger” according to the firm.
Meanwhile China has made efforts to stabilize housing prices with President Xi Jinping remarking that “houses are built to be inhabited, not for speculation,” but the maxim is unlikely to gain support from either major US political party given the power of the banking sector in the strongly capitalist country.
Is the cult of sports killing America?