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Now is the time to work off those excess calories fighting through the crowds on Black Friday.

Wuhan Virus -
Pfizer has announced that its COVID-19 vaccine is being prepositioned for distribution, pending its approval by the Food and Drug Administration.

Much is being made about the article associated with Johns Hopkins University and the lack of ‘excess deaths’. First, the article appeared in a student published NEWSLETTER, not the peer reviewed publications of the University. Second, as such, the attempt to link it to the more rigorous publications is an intellectually dishonest effort. Now, with that said the material of the article - the essence there of - does raise some questions that should be placed to peer - review level as I don’t think the student who authored the article was a nut job either. Hopefully, a detailed review of the issues raised will be done. Similar examinations of the records have noted flu deaths apparently being absorbed into the wuhan death count.

New Mexico’s closures of grocery stores has continued to snowball, with people waiting hour in line in many places. Hardest hit are smaller communities where the only store has been closed. The democrat governor’s office issued a statement proclaiming that the state is “not forcing anyone to stand in a crowded line.” Photographic evidence says otherwise.

Not to be out done by LA, San Francisco has ordered a three week long shutdown. The curfew requires non-essential businesses to close and prohibits members of different households from gathering between 10pm and 5am until December 21. Santa Clara County just tightened its restrictions to include: “A new mandatory directive on travel will require people to quarantine for 14 days upon return to the County from travel of more than 150 miles. Healthcare workers and patients traveling to provide or receive care are exempted.”

Economy -
I mentioned yesterday that Black Friday sales were dismal. Now the numbers have been crunched and traffic at stores on Black Friday fell by 52.1% compared with last year, according to preliminary data from Sensormatic Solutions. However, online spending on Black Friday surged 21.6% to hit a new record, according to data from Adobe Analytics.

2020 Election-
Pennsylvanian legislature, controlled by republicans, is taking steps to reclaim its authority to appoint electors to the Electoral college.

CW2/Civil Disturbances -
Fallout from Minneapolis’ coddling of rioters, defunding of police and the resultant exodus of police has resulted in increased crime in more prosperous neighborhoods. The city councils’ response? Cut the police budget even more.

Iran -
As mourning begins for Fakhrizadeh’s, Iranian leadership ratchet up the rhetoric, calling for fire to be brought down on those who executed the kill. Meanwhile, none of the twelve individuals who allegedly participated in the Fakhri Zadeh assassinations have been arrested arrested. Another interesting detail that has come out is that 30 minutes prior to the hit, power in the neighborhood was cut off. This prevented him from being treated by a local emergency room, forcing him to be transferred to a hospital in Tehran.

The UN has called for restraint by Iran to prevent further escalation of regional tensions. Israel has remained silent on the operation.

The clock is running out, only a couple more weeks available to right this election.

Wuhan Virus -
Panic buying has hit scattered markets across the nation - primarily those with significantly increased strictness of lockdowns. Stores proactively placed limits on purchases of many items, but the supply chain is being stressed again. If a nation wide run occurs as in March, the system could implode since it hadn’t even reached any where near pre-wuhan virus levels.

Economy -
Small business confidence has fallen to an all-time low after the election of former Vice President Joseph Biden, according to the Q4 CNBC|SurveyMonkey Small Business Survey. A significant component of the sentiment comes from the indications that a biden administration will unleash even stricter shut down measures, reversing the current effort to reopen the economy. Those measures will result in an even bigger number of small businesses going bankrupt - with a cascading effect of increasing unemployment and some sort of government subsistence. Though the verdict is not out - concerns that this could cause an economic crash of great depression size.

2020 Election-
Judge Timothy C. Batten, Sr. issued an order on Sunday to freeze ALL Dominion voting machines in the state of Georgia. Via Attorney Linn Wood: “Defendants are ordered to maintain the statue quo & are temporarily enjoined from wiping or resetting any voting machines in the State of Georgia until further order of the Court.” Swimming against this are the GA governor and SoS pushing to wiping out the machines as soon as possible - even against court orders. Further, GA is maintaining the same voting procedures that are clearly against GA law.

In response to SoS Raffensperger’s push to wipe the memories of the election machines, a coalition of Republican groups are calling for an occupation of the Georgia State House in response to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger ordering the Dominion voting machines in the state to be wiped.

MY OPINION: They need to occupy all the county locations where these machines are stored, to prevent local officials from executing the erase. A protest at the capitol would be more show than go.

CW2/Civil Disturbances -
BLM/Antifa activity levels are relatively low. Smaller groups still causing problems in the hell holes of Seattle and Portland. Nationwide, BLM/Antifa and affiliated marxist/socialist groups continue logistical and intelligence preparation of the battlefield (IPB) equivalent planning and preparation.

Strategic Developments -
US Navy released photos indicating that the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) and Carrier Air Wing 17 are back in the Arabian Sea and conducting flight operations as of November 27, 2020.

Israel -
There are reports surfacing that Prime Minister Netanyahu is planning a summit with Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to take place in Cairo in the coming weeks.

Likud and the Blue and White alliance is about to blow up if B & W submits three bills advancing the gay agenda, opposed by Likud. Netanyahu is reported to be considering calling for early elections in response. Remember, Israel has just recently passed through an election marathon that took a better part of a year before a government could be formed.

IAF reported that militarily forces in N Israel ready for any action that Hezbollah may do in response to the assassination of Fakhrizadeh.

Iran -
Nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh’s funeral taking place today in Tehran. There is considerable anger,and calls for action.

Lebanon -
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah is reportedly “sheltering in place” even more (interesting, since he’s been essentially living underground for years) and is cancelling any movements following Fakhrizadeh’s assassination, fearing he is targeted as well (Mossad says “well, duh!”)

Maritime border talks between Lebanon and Israel scheduled for Wednesday have been postponed, and U.S. mediators will now contact the two old foes separately, Israeli and Lebanese officials said on Monday. These negations began in October and have been challenging in that according to Israel sources, Lebanon kept changing its positions and the current demands have been rejected by Israel. Part of those new demands consist of moving the boundary southwards into current Israeli areas that have been developed for oil and gas.

Saudi Arabia -
US delegation is enroute to meet with SA leadership, primarily to focus on normalization of relations with Israel.

Black Swans -
This category is open again due to a substantial increase in solar activity this month. The sun woke up from its century level lack of sun spots with vengeance and even more this week. Earth-orbiting satellites detected the biggest solar flare in more than 3 years yesterday (Nov 29th). The blast site is located just behind the sun’s southeastern limb. As a result, the explosion was partially eclipsed by the body of the sun. It might have been an X-class event. X-class events are of a great concern, as these caused events like the famous Carrington event in the 1800’s that resulted in telegraph stations catching on fire and auroral activity far south towards the equator. In 1985 a slightly smaller X-class event crashed the power grid in Quebec. Needless to say, this is 2020 and an X-class CME direct hit is not what we need to be dealing with now.