Threat Matrix 2021

Threat Matrix is a thread where global and domestic threats and trends to America are noted and commented on. Goal it to peel back the BS and get to the root of things.

I’m back and what fresh craziness there is. A lot to get thru and a lot of summarization.

Wuhan virus -
India continues to suffer heavy casualties from wuhan virus strains.

Latest outbreak area of concern - the base camps of Mt Everest.

Latest data indicates that US “vaccinations” for wuhan have decreased significantly as skepticism over the effectiveness continue. After all, why take a risky, experimental shot(s) when you have to continue to distance and mask. Federal and state govts are diverting money to campaigns to get more people ‘vaccinated’ and social media is attempting to shame non vaxxed into being a test subject. However, it doesn’t help when biden calls those unvaxxed “lazy”and “will cause others to die”.

Now the NYT is “reporting” that herd immunity will not be achieved or can be. . . . .

CDC is now reporting that 3,848 people have died and 118,902 adverse reactions have now been logged into their Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). These come from the used of Pfizer and Modern mRNA based pseudo-vaccines. Remember, the govt paused Johnson and Johnson true vaccine over just 7 suspected blood clot incidents. Questions are now being raised about the accuracy of the VAERS numbers and if they are under reporting reactions/deaths. A reasonable observation considering how the CDC cooked infection numbers (evidenced by the disappearance of flu cases).
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Globalism / Great Reset -
OBSERVATION - one of the biggest movements I monitored was the growing effort to replace Bitcoin with a govt/bank controlled crypto currency. Second area of concern is whether or not our economy is being deliberately sabotaged to crash and usher in the “Great Reset”.
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Economy -
Inflation is here and going to get worse. Warren Buffet is even hot on that. That is being acknowledged by the MSM and easily seen in the supermarkets.
Supplies / food biggest hit as the system is still in shock from last years wuhan shut downs. Chicken shortage, pork shortage, increased cost for grains and produce (example Textured Vegetable Protein (TVP) a soybean product that I like to use has tripled in price). Computer chips forcing vehicle production stoppage.
Perhaps the biggest hit is that the MSM is now beginning to look a the situation and using the STAGFLATION word once again.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Tuesday afternoon she wasn’t forecasting interest-rate increases to rein in any inflation spurred by President Joe Biden’s proposed spending, clarifying comments that ruffled financial markets a few hours earlier. She had said that a Fed rate increase would be needed soon.
OBSERVATION - biden et al have got our economy so torqued that an implosion is a greater probability. The threat of hyperinflation and/or stagflation looms threateningly.
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Invasion of Illegals -
biden quadrupled the ‘cap’ on immigrants. Border patrol reports 6,000 illegals per day intercepted.

Schumer is looking at using budget reconciliation legislation to legalize millions of illegals. He is reportedly developing a plan to force through a full amnesty package via reconciliation. And rather than making it some sort of stand-alone bill that could be debated on its merits, he’s ready to shoehorn it into the massive infrastructure bill. Reconciliation bills only need a majority vote - no filibuster allowed.

Texas law enforcement officials are sounding the alarm about the skyrocketing human trafficking and opioid fentanyl is now flooding across the border. Between October 2020 and March 2021, customs agents seized more than 2.5 tons of fentanyl—a more than 300 percent year-on-year increase. Also seen is highly purified meth, now pouring across the border.
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Biden watch -
biden declared that those earning under $400,000 will pay NO taxes. Is this a “read my lips” moment?
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CW2/Domestic violence -
Background checks for gun purchases continue to set records. The ammo shortage is expected to continue well into 2022, though some relief is evident now - as still inflated prices.

Antifa was infiltrated and caught on audio/video calling for the killing of cops.

Violent protests by Antifa over May day did result in some felony charges to some in Portland. But the trend is that nothing will come from this.

DHS and FBI desired usage of ‘private’ companies to surveil US citizens for radical talk on social media marks a dangerous morphing of our government. If conducted by govt agencies it would be illegal. Taking the back door clearly shows that the Swamp is fully engaged in totalitarian operations. This following the revelation of a US Postal service agency doing similar monitoring and reporting.

Yesterday afternoon Chauvin defense attorney Eric Nelson filed a motion for new trial and a related motion for an hearing to interrogate the jury in order to impeach the verdict (a so-called Schwartz hearing). With mouthy revelations from the jury room and in particular one juror who deliberately lied about his activism with BLM and others saying a motivating factor was to avoid violence (mostly against themselves), the jury pool was corrupted beyond measure. Add to it mad mouth Maxine, well justice didn’t get served. Other point include the judge’s refusal to grant a change of venue and for declining to sequester jurors during the trial. He also accused prosecutors of “pervasive, prejudicial prosecutorial misconduct” . Kangaroo courts often fail at following the law to defend the rights of the accused. . . . . . .
If the Judge’s earlier comments carry any weight, the defense may win their motion. If so, expect violent riots to break out across the country.
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CYBER/CANCEL CULTURE FRONT -
Facebook has decided to permanently unfriend former President Donald Trump, with the social media behemoth’s Oversight Board announcing Wednesday morning that Trump’s massively popular account, which has been suspended and under review for months, will never be reinstated. However, Trump on Tuesday launched a new online platform to communicate with his followers online after being banned from social media platforms. The new platform, called “From the Desk of Donald J. Trump,” and visible on Trump’s website on the page www.donaldjtrump.com/desk, is up and running and allows Trump to post comments, photos and videos without censorship.
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POLITICAL FRONT -
Liz Cheney’s days as the #3 house republican are numbered according to various sources. Censored by her state of Wyoming, she has become increasing anti-trump and pro-biden and not following the caucus unity.
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China -
China has forbidden the Phillippines from fishing in portions of the China Sea. Phillippines has told its fishing fleet to ignore the threat.

Meanwhile, China’s 21 ton booster section is being tracked in a decaying orbit, where it will drop, no body knows and China could care less. It is expected to crash at an unknown location between May 8 and May 12 in the biggest uncontrolled re-entry in decades.
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North Korea -
Biden’s recent pseudo SOTU message was taken very harshly but NK leadership and Kim is threatening serious response of some kind.
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Russia - MAINTAINING WATCH
OBSERVATION - Increasing reporting on Russia now turning its attention to the Baltic countries.
Russia also causing anger by nationalizing citizens in the captured Dombas region of the Ukraine as Russian citizens and issuing Russian passports. Reports of troops departing the border with Ukraine.
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Ukraine -
The number of violations in the Dombas region have gone down significantly the past few days.
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Israel -
Reports of Israeli airstrikes against targets in the Syrian port city of Latakia and Masyaf overnight. Not the usual target and could mean that Israel was after a high value target. There were secondary explosions clearly visible. Syria claimed one of the targets was a civilian plastic warehouse.

PM Netanyahu’s mandate expires, the President now will decide if he gives it to his rival Yair Lapid or passes it to the Knesset.
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Iran -
biden’s diplomacy towards Iran is a dumpster fire. Latest is the report (denied by the WH) that he will free up billions in exchange for the release of hostages. His foreign policy leaders a clearly grossly ignorant of the culture and that showing such weakness only promotes further Iranian aggression.
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Afghanistan -
With the US in the process of leaving, China is quickly moving in the fill the vacuum. Afghanistan has trillions of dollars’ worth of natural resources , but so far China has found that the Afghans are too corrupt and unreliable to do business with. Another negative about Afghanistan is that it is a major source of heroin and other drugs that China will not tolerate.
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Wuhan virus -
Coronavirus infections in the U.S. are now at their lowest levels in seven months. Some claim it is the success of the vaccines, but more likely the reduction in testing combined with stricter standards for reporting infections.
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Globalism / Great Reset -
Washington State is going down the road of wuhan “passports” though the term isn’t used directly. To get into special vaccinated sections of events, individuals must provide a vaccine passport to the venue with the vaccine-only section. The vaccine passport may come in the form of a vaccine card, which must include your name, type of vaccine received, and the date of the last dose administered. You can also show a digital photo of the documentation.

The impending August 1 ceiling on federal spending could likely put into motion the economic ‘reset’ desired by globalists.
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Economy -
The debt ceiling will be hit on August 1st unless congress raises it. The Treasury Department warned yesterday that August’s debt ceiling deadline could cause some funding disruption for the federal government. “Treasury is evaluating a range of potential scenarios, including some in which extraordinary measures could be exhausted much more quickly than in prior debt limit episodes,” said one official.
WARNING - a split congress may not get it done and plan for economic chaos from a crashing stockmarket, consumer prices, food and other essentials.

A federal judge struck down on Wednesday the national eviction moratorium, potentially leaving millions of Americans at risk of losing their homes. The judge ruled that the CDC did not have the legal authority to issue the current moratorium. This is seen as a victory for beleaguered landlords who’s bills didn’t stop with wuhan. A spokesman for the Department of Justice said it planned to appeal the ruling. It also seeks a stay of the decision, meaning the ban would remain in effect throughout the court battle.
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Invasion of Illegals -
Nearly 25,000 migrant children were in the custody of the government, apart from their families, in early May. This is an unchallenged all time high.

Thousands of criminal illegal aliens, including those convicted of homicide and sex crimes, may evade deportation as internal records reveal that President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) does not classify them as “priority” for immigration enforcement.
Internal DHS records, obtained by Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, show that thousands of criminal illegal aliens in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody do not meet the Biden administration’s narrow requirements that allow federal agents to deport someone to their native country. Of the more than 14,100 criminal illegal aliens in federal custody, the records show that DHS has no plans to deport about 8,325, who are instead scheduled to be released into the US.
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Biden watch -
Internet rumors about a ‘bump’ or anomalous area of skin on biden’s forehead. Not convinced yet of how legit this is, could just be a camera artifact and lighting.
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CW2/Domestic violence -
Texas is closer to approving Constitutional Carry with the senate approval of a bill yesterday.

In addition to the Post Office spying on Americans and DHS/DOJ desires to use ‘private’ firms to spy, the FBI is under the microscope for continued FISA violations. 67 pages of declassified documents detail extensive use of foreign surveillance powers to spy on American citizens. The oversight committee is requesting an explanation on every FISA request since December 2019 and why the process continues to be abused. The continued use of foreign intelligence resources for domestic targeting indicates a waning rule of law and growing acceptance of weaponized domestic agencies.

BLM/Antifa activity remains at a lowered level, but the Chauvin trial appeal may trigger violent actions.
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CYBER/CANCEL CULTURE FRONT -
LifeSite News, a major pro-life news website, reports that Facebook has permanently blacklisted its page over “false information about COVID-19” and “vaccine discouraging information.”
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POLITICAL FRONT -
DOJ has sent a threat to the Maricopa County election examiners saying they have ‘concerns’ over security and other items.
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Ukraine -
Ukraine President says only 3,500 Russian soldiers left Crimea after withdrawal declaration. SoS Blinken says significant Russian forces and equipment remain at Ukraine’s border despite troop withdrawal announcement. Blinken also that the United States was actively looking to increase security assistance to Ukraine.
Activity stepped up along the Dombas front with 19 ceasefire violations reported yesterday.
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Israel -
The Israeli army overnight attacked pro-Iranian positions in the Syrian Golan Heights in the Quneitra area. A second night in a row of reports in Syria of Israeli army attacks, first being yesterday’s air strikes in the cities of Latakia and Tartous.

President Reuven Rivlin on Wednesday chose Lapid, who is the de-facto leader of the anti-Netanyahu bloc in the Knesset, to try to form a new government, but his path to success was still uncertain. Lapid is a far left politician and now has 28 days to try to form a coalition in the Knesset.
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Iran -
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Maj.-Gen. Hossein Salami has been claiming that Israel’s defense has been eroded and that Iran can destroy it in one operation.
NOTE - typical chest thumping by Iran. Of late Iran has taken it on the chin in several events from the damage to its spy ship in the Red Sea, to the disaster at its underground enrichment facility. This is the only way they can save face.
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Central America -
Today is day 8 of rioting in Colombia. The protests were originally called in opposition to a now-canceled tax reform plan, but demonstrators have broadened their demands to include government action to tackle poverty, police violence, and inequalities in the health and education systems.
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Black Swans -
Locusts again - Swarms of locusts that invaded the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, and Syria, may reach Turkey next if the country does not take action, an expert warned on April 30, 2021. As of May 3, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said unusually strong southerly winds carried mature adult swarms to the Middle East countries and nearly reached Turkey. These regions have already been hard hit and the mega swarm will not make food supply any more abundant, placing a greater strain on their economies and global food supplies.

Wuhan virus -
Nearly 252 million wuhan “vaccine” shots have been given to date in the US.

Cuomo has directed that Yankee Stadium and Citi Field respectively, will have separate seating for vaccinated and non-vaccinated people. All will be required to wear masks.

Heat on the CDC head - Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC) called for Centers for Disease Control (CDC) director Rochelle Walensky to resign Wednesday after reports suggest she allowed teachers union officials to influence school guidance on reopening.

Britain is concerned about the India variant B.1.617.2 which has now been detected across England with the highest levels in London and the North West.

Biden is backing a plan to shred intellectual property protections for American entities that developed vaccines as the pandemic raged. Chinese-run state “media” are applauding the announcement that will hand their communist government American technology
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Globalism / Great Reset -

Gun Owners of America has obtained and supplied AmmoLand News with copies of the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) User Manual. When a licensed gun dealer (FFL) runs a gun buyer through NICS, the system checks four (4) databases. These databases are Interstate Identification Index (III), NICS Index, ICE Database, and the National Crime Information Center (NCIC). Located in NCIC data is INTERPOL’s Foreign Fugitive File (FFF).

According to the unredacted copy of the NICS User Guide, the FBI employee doesn’t stop the transfer of the firearm at your local gun shop. After the sale is complete, the FBI representative will request the buyer’s address and personal information with a call to the FFL, who is compelled to cooperate. The FBI will then pass along the address, and possibly other private information, of the person who legally purchased a firearm to INTERPOL.

OBSERVATION - this is a slick method of creating a database of gun owners that FBI/DOJ is forbidden by law to establish. Once this information leaves the US, international jurisdictions have NO prohibitions on creating a database that FBI/DOJ can later turn around and use against US citizens. Now you can see why they want Universal Background Checks so bad.

Banks are moving more to supporting Bitcoin. Banks have noticed an increase in funds being withdrawn and sent to Coinbase, so they’ve begun to recognize the value they could create if they offered Bitcoin on their own platforms. Ultimate goal is to replace Bitcoin (that they cannot monitor or control) with another electronic currency.
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Economy -
Chinese exports to the US increased 49.3% since the first of the year.

The world risks “running out of copper” amid widening supply and demand deficits, according to Bank of America, and prices could hit $20,000 per metric ton by 2025. Copper is currently at a 9+year high with even greater demand forecast.

The U.S. economy gained a disappointing 266,000 jobs last month, despite widespread forecasts that predicted a number that would top 1 million, according to the latest monthly employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Shakey legs indicating that there is a long way to go before things even come close to being normal.

Economists continue to view into their crystal balls to discern if we will be having inflation, hyperinflation, deflation or even stagflation. Right now high inflation is the reality, and economy is struggling with continued disruptions, shortages and wuhan interference. If we get hit with another black swan event, things will likely implode.
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Invasion of Illegals -
During April, more than 177,000 illegal immigrants were apprehended by Border Patrol, according to preliminary Customs and Border Protection (CBP) numbers. An additional 42,620 illegal aliens escaped arrest by Border Patrol, which are known as “gotaways.” - a total of 219,620 for April alone (remember most of those caught will be released to the US.
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CW2/Domestic violence -
A group calling itself the Black Hammer reportedly has “liberated” 200 acres in the mountains of Colorado. They are self-proclaimed anti-colonizers, planning to create an ethno, communist state for black & brown people. They’re currently trying to raise $500k for earth bag home construction.

Asians continue to be violently assaulted across the US, and the primary perpetrators are blacks. MSM silent because it doesn’t support the narrative.

BLM/Antifa took to the streets of North Portland on Thursday, in a march for Patrick Kimmons, who was shot by police in 2018 after a gang shootout on the streets late at night. Lead by two support vehicles, they terrorized any citizen who’s vehicle they were able to trap. Twice on videos, multiple participants pulled AR-15s, AK-47s, pistols, and possibly a shotgun and/or Keltec Sub 2000 on motorists who happened be driving along. One minivan’s tires were flattened, had its back window busted out, and at least one mirror broken. Another guy was in a big pickup truck, and he was apparently drawing his own gun (he was foolish enough to exit his truck only to get a beat down and his gun stolen).

Garrett Rolfe, the Atlanta police officer who shot and killed Rayshard Brooks last summer, has been reinstated to his job, apparently with back pay. The Atlanta Civil Service Board reinstated Rolfe. Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms essentially confirmed Rolfe was not afforded his right to due process, citing the “volatile state of our city and nation last summer.” “Had immediate action not been taken, I firmly believe that the public safety crisis we experienced during that time would have been significantly worse.” In essence he was fed to the wolves to appease the mob.
NOTE - I expect a strong uptick in protests/rioting in Atlanta over the weekend.
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Strategic Developments /Deployments -
Single B52 doing a pass thru the Persian Gulf.
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China -
Continued Chinese aircraft penetrating into Tiawan’s air defense zone. Now a daily event.

The rocket booster is continuing to loose altitude, causing warnings that it could re-enter some time this weekend. Only good thing is that chances are 70% it will reenter over water.

Honeywell execs were caught sending sensitive information to China on various systems including F22 an F35 “engineering prints showing dimensions, geometries, and layouts for manufacturing castings and finished parts for multiple aircraft, gas turbine engines, and military electronics.”
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North Korea -
South Korea to kick off biennial integrated defense drill next week. N K is not amused and has issued vocal protests.

The Biden administration recently announced it had completed its North Korea policy review. Rumors are that the WH will take a “calibrated practical approach” and is “open to diplomacy” . However, much of what is being discussed is pretty soft and no hard policy measures have yet presented themselves.
biden will be in S K on May 21 to meet with his counterpart, President Moon Jae-in. Some suspect N K will launch some kind of provocations (missile launches) in protest.
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Ukraine -
U.S. officials have said that Russia has only withdrawn a few thousand troops. 80,000 troops still remain near the border of Ukraine. Equipment/armor vehicles have been left at forward points.
NOTE - this brings into question the size of the initial Russian deployment. Reports at the time indicated approximately 150,000 were deployed to the border. This would suggest that instead of limited withdrawal stated by the US officials, they have actually pulled out half of the deployed forces.
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Israel -
Hamas affiliated militant group Sons of Zawari have announced they have started their operations again with the message “This is just the beginning” as 3 fires are reported in Eshkol Regional Council, Israel. The militant group “specializes” in what I would say is “economical warfare” using methods to launch IEDs/flammable materials via balloons into Israel to burn crops, farmland, and wildfire parks. Militant Group “Grandsons of Nasser” affiliated to PRC’s (Popular Resistance Committees) Military Wing, al-Nasser Salah al-Deen Brigades have joined in with Zawari in their activities, at least 8 fires being reported today.

Israeli security forces are on high-alert after the threats of Mohammed Deif, the head of Hamas’ military wing, and the recent demonstrations and tensions in Sheikh Jarrah, KAN reported on Thursday. Another contributor to the attentiveness of Israeli security forces is the fact that this Friday is the last Friday of Ramadan.
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Iran -
Open-source satellite imagery has revealed the suspected development of a new missile base near Haji Abad in Iran, possibly the first hardened launch site intended specifically for solid-fuel ballistic missiles.

European and American officials reportedly saying Biden administration wants Iran to roll back activities to 2015 level, but Tehran doesn’t want to give up advanced centrifuges.
NOTE - Iran will keep its advanced centrifuges either way, covertly or overtly.
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Black Swans -
At an international space conference, attendees took part in an exercise that imagined an asteroid crashing into Earth. Bottom line - we are all dead. No heroic astronauts flying off to divert the asteroid or swarm nuclear missiles to pulverize it.

Wuhan virus -
Cancer screenings were a deadly victim of the wuhan plandemic. Many hospitals/medical facilities eliminated them in 2020, calling them non-essential. Others stayed away in fear of catching wuhan. The bill is now coming due as cancer rates are starting skyrocket.

Media and celebrities continue to berating the un-vaxxed in an effort to increase numbers. Other methods are resorting to bribing those who don’t want the shot. The credibility of the medical community - primarily the policy and rule makers - has taken a severe hit and this isn’t going to help.

Pfizer and Moderna pseudo vaccines are being called out by some in the medical community because the can also cause blood clots.
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Globalism / Great Reset -
The Canadian government is set to make Wuhan vaccine passports mandatory for travelers entering the country. This includes Americans who want to cross the border. Canadian Minister of Health Patty Hajdu said the country would “absolutely” take part in a vaccine passport program. He also confirmed that it was currently in talks with other Group of Seven (G7) nations regarding the rollout of a unified vaccine passport scheme.

A federal court in the Northern District of California entered an order today authorizing the IRS to serve a John Doe summons on Payward Ventures Inc., and Subsidiaries d/b/a Kraken (Kraken) seeking information about U.S. taxpayers who conducted at least the equivalent of $20,000 in transactions in cryptocurrency during the years 2016 to 2020. The IRS is seeking the records of Americans who engaged in business with or through Kraken, a digital currency exchanger headquartered in San Francisco, California.
OBSERVATION - As I’ve been pointing out, the govt cannot control and monitor activities of crypto currency and these are first steps to bring them under govt’s thumb.
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Economy -
Job report was so bad that even the leftist Chamber of Commerce is calling for the end of the unemployment bonus. Many red states are taking charge and eliminating the unemployment benefit, changing it to a work bonus like Montana. Unemployment rate increased to 6.1%. Yellen said Friday that the extra unemployment compensation funds were not a factor that made a difference in last month’s jobs numbers. As noted above, many disagree with her.
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CW2/Domestic violence -
DOJ moving on regulations to declare components of DIY “ghost guns” as weapons - requiring serial numbers and background checks.

Kalifornia is looking to reduce the punishment for gun crimes under there guise of saying laws against using guns in the commission of crimes disproportionately affect people of color. Remember, they want the public disarmed. Eric Siddall, vice president of the Association of Deputy District Attorneys of Los Angeles County (ADDA) makes it clear - “In essence, the bill decriminalizes the use of a firearm in California for the most severe, most violent felonies,” Siddall told The Daily Wire. “What this bill would do is encourage violent criminals to use guns during their crime because the penalty is so insignificant.”

Liberal “blue” cities are suffering from a huge shortage of police officers. This is the cumulative result of anti-police policies of the city leaders, no support to the police when facing last years (and even this years) riots and work conditions. This is leading to skyrocketing murder rates, gang violence and a reduction in police response to ‘lesser’ crimes. Alinski at work.
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Strategic Developments /Deployments -
An estimated 800 paratroopers with the 82nd Airborne Division’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team will parachute into Estonia Friday night, weather permitting. The jump is one of three brigade-size jumps over the next several days in which a total of 7,000 paratroopers from the United States and 10 other nations will conduct a joint forcible entry exercise called Swift Response at each of the landing sites in Estonia, Bulgaria and Romania.

Two additional US Air Force B-52H Stratofortress aircraft from the 5th Bomb Wing, Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, arrived at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, on Tuesday as the US Forces and NATO ramp up the troops’ withdrawal process from Afghanistan.
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Russia - MAINTAINING WATCH
Ukraine President says only 3,500 Russian soldiers left Crimea after withdrawal. These are much smaller numbers than Russia is claiming. Sharp increases in ceasefire violations have been occurring over the past couple days. Observers note that separatists and Russian forces have forward deployed some armor closer to the border and out of the assembly areas created by the recent ‘exercise’.
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Israel -
Violent clashes between Palestinians and Israeli police throughout Jerusalem. One large riot at the Al-Aqsa Mosque resulted in massive clearing of muslims from the site. Hundreds reportedly hurt. Many rioters on the Temple mount waved Hamas flags and chanted “We are all Hamas, waiting for your orders commander Mohammed Deif. Hamas — shoot a rocket at Tel Aviv tonight,” Friday marked the end of the month of Ramadan - a common kick off day for riots by muslims.

Israeli security preempted a terrorist attack when it stopped a bus carrying illegal workers that had three terrorists embedded with them. They tried to shoot it out with security and lost.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas cancelled the elections and now is encouraging Palestinians to begin to engage Israeli security that has resulted in one of the more violent Ramadan periods in recent years. Abbas is trying to bolster his crumbling position and credibility by stirring up violence. Old trick.
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Iran -
A massive fire broke out in Iran’s southwestern city of Bushehr near the Islamic Republic’s only functioning nuclear power plant late on Friday night, the semi-official Fars News Agency reported on Saturday. The cause of the fire is still unknown, according to Iranian media reports, but expect blaming the Israelis.
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Iraq -
Al-Arabiya reporting 2 drones have targeted the Ain Al-Assad airbase in Iraq which houses US soldiers, 1 drone reportedly was shot down.
OBSERVATION - This would be a new tactic. In the past it was the park and shoot tactic. This is a more deliberate attack method.
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Black Swans -
Fear mongering as some think the recent earthquake swarm in Yellowstone ( more than 40 earthquakes in April) indicates that the supervolcano is about to erupt. The science is that these swarm are routine and closely monitored to see if they indicate movement of magma or just a result of what come geologists call ‘breathing’ of the volcano - the periodic rising and falling of portions of the caldera. Don’t loose sleep over Yellowstone, there are far too many real threats out there.

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Wuhan virus -
There is a study by researchers at the Salk Institute that casts a long, dark shadow on these so called wuhan ‘vaccines’. It focuses on the virus’ spike protein and suggests “spike protein plays an additional key role in illness”, shows that SARS-CoV-2’s “distinctive ‘spike’ protein”…. Further, study suggests that the disease is a vascular disease (circulatory system). The questions keep coming. First it is the long term affects of the mRNA experimental concoction being called a vaccine. Now folks are trying to really get to the mechanism of the virus.

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington researchers claim deaths due to wuhan are more than 905,000. Great timing with the push for “vaccinations” eh? Other studies have indicated the death toll is far lower.

A document titled “The Unnatural Origin of SARS and New Species of Man-Made Viruses as Genetic Bioweapons”, written by Chinese scientists and Chinese public health officials in 2015, discussed the weaponization of SARS coronaviruses. It postulates a World War III scenario fought with biological weapons. This document reportedly was discovered (though some say it was uncovered during the recent inquiry into the source/cause of the pandemic) by Peter Jennings, executive director of Australian Strategic Policy Institute, he states “I think this is significant because it clearly shows that Chinese scientists were thinking about military application for different strains of the coronavirus and thinking about how it could be deployed,” One goal would be the sudden surge of patients requiring hospitalization during a bioweapon attack “could cause the enemy’s medical system to collapse,”
OBSERVATION - Pending further validation, this does fit CCP long term and asymmetric warfare planning. Makes the military association with the Wuhan lab even more important.

Polls indicate only 33% of Americans are following CDC guidelines. A majority, 66%, admitting to recently engaging in behavior the CDC officially discourages. Less than half of voters (46%) say they believe CDC generally provided reliable and fact based guidelines during the pandemic. The remainder said CDC acted in a partisan political manner or are not sure.
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Globalism / Great Reset -
The great wuhan lock down has caused homeschooling to jump by over 11%. This shocked the education elite who are now resuming their attacks on homeschooling by trying to label it racist, White Christian Nationalism - ad nausium. The more who escape the indoctrination centers, the more the globalists have to invest in controlling the masses. The vitriol has reached a very high level.

biden’s bid to prohibit the patenting of wuhan ‘vaccines’ fits right into one of the goals of the Global Reset - the cessation of the ownership of property. If a business cannot patent their work (talking all kinds of work, not just wuhan)- incentive to do the research to bring a product to market crashes.

Canadian PM Trudeau is pushing for Chinese style censorship of the internet. This includes fireballing the country from what is considers ‘hate’ . Canada has also progressed to using iron fisted tactics to shut down churches for non-compliances with wuhan regulations - another component necessary for the global reset.
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I’ve pointed out the strong start to food inflation and shortages building in the US. I’ve also pointed out this is a global issue driving it as well. United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization’s food price index increased for an 11th consecutive month in April, hitting levels not seen since May 2014, with sugar prices leading the rise in the main index. Since the first of the year, this index has risen 30%. Drought conditions in Argentina, Brazil, and the US increased corn prices by 5.7% last month, while wheat prices were flat.
OBSERVATION - Food insecurity, excessive cost and famine are huge drivers of civil unrest in much the world and with out wobbly economy additional cost for essentials takes away $$$$ for growth/expansion of other aspects of the economy.

Increase in lumber prices have increased the cost of an average new home by nearly $36,000 over last year. Steel prices have tripled over last year as well.

Only good news I’ve seen is that ammo is becoming more available and that prices have fallen. Example 9mm that had been going for as much as $1.20/rnd now down to 60-80 cents/rnd.
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Invasion of Illegals -
SMH - biden is looking at both amnesty AND reparations for illegals deported under Trump.

VP harris is still AWOL on the border crisis. There are headlines that she walked out of a meeting with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, but the article from ABC International only says that Obrador stated “ he has added the rudeness of communicating to Kamala Harris that she was not going to stay for the entire meeting – held virtually by the pandemic – for other commitments. “. Obrador reportedly stated that the US under biden was supporting Mexican elements that have designs to commit a coup against him. Obrador was also on a good working relationship with Trump, assisting greatly the cessation of illegals entering the US.
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CW2/Domestic violence -
GROWING TREND NOTED - BLM / Antifa road way blocking incidents have increased in recent weeks. Most recent ones have the rioters heavily armed and more than ready draw down on drivers. This is a method of intimidation and fear that requires a smaller number of rioters and can quickly be set up/taken down - keeping police off balance. The growing concern I have is that a full blown kinetic event can break out - either by itchy trigger fingered leftists or fed up / scared citizens. So far police don’t seem to want to break these blockades up. But if the shooting starts - as started to happen last year, the cycle of violence topped off with growing conservative anger maybe hard to stop. BLM/Antifa feel invincible right now.
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POLITICAL FRONT -
Though not commenting on it yet, I’m monitoring the Maricopa Co AZ vote investigation. Waiting to the end, but the potential for significant to the 2020 election could set the fuse for other state investigations. AFAIK, there is no clean constitutional recourse to any vote fraud that could over turn results other than kinetic or using the results to hammer the dems in the 2022 midterms.
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Cyber Warfare -
A cyberattack forced the shutdown of one of the largest pipelines in the United States, in what appeared to be a significant attempt to disrupt vulnerable energy infrastructure. The pipeline carries refined gasoline and jet fuel up the East Coast from Texas to New York. The operator of the system, Colonial Pipeline, said in a statement late Friday that it had shut down its 5,500 miles of pipeline, which it says carries 45 percent of the East Coast’s fuel supplies, in an effort to contain the attack on its computer networks. The Georgia-based company said it hired an outside cybersecurity firm to investigate the nature and scope of the attack and has also contacted law enforcement and federal agencies. CNBC is reporting that it was a ransomware attack which took the system down.
Lots of finger pointing but it will be a while before any good leads are identified.

OBSERVATION - Many cybersecurity experts believe that our nation’s computer networks controlling critical infrastructure and distribution networks have been penetrated and are at risk of similar attacks.
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China -
Object 48275, the core stage from the Chang Zheng [Long March] 5B No. Y2 launched on Apr 29, reentered over the Indian Ocean near the Maldives at about 0214 UTC May 9.

China is working with the government of Kiribati to take control of an abandoned US WW2 airbase, and upgrade it to handle military aircraft. The island is strategically located between Hawaii and the region containing Australia and New Zealand, controlling a large area of the Pacific.

NOTE - This is typical of the global program by China to buy into (via loans, etc) strategic countries and facilities, granting them leverage to eventually exert full control for military / global domination plans. Recently concerns raised about China’s control of a port in Western Africa that can permit it to project power (from based naval assets) into the Atlantic Ocean.
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Russia - MAINTAINING WATCH
President Vladimir Putin reviewed Russia’s traditional World War Two victory parade on Sunday, a patriotic display of raw military power that this year coincides with soaring tensions with the West. The parade featured over 12,000 troops and more than 190 pieces of military hardware, including intercontinental ballistic missile launchers, and a fly-past by nearly 80 military aircraft under cloudy skies.
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Israel -
It is being reported that the IDF today will begin the largest exercise in its history called the “Chariots of Fire,” which simulates a month of war on all fronts in the north and south. The exercise resembles an all-out war on Hezbollah and Hamas and massive firing of missiles. On top of this Israel’s Air Force was instructed a few hours ago to refresh targets for an attack in Gaza and move to high alertness. Hama’s threats are being taken very seriously.

Riots continue in Jerusalem / West Bank against Israel and a plan to expel Palestinians from a district in Eastern Jerusalem (on top of the end of Ramadan).
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Iran -
A U.S. Navy warship seized weapons believed to be of Iranian “design and manufacture,” including 150 anti-tank guided missiles and three Iranian surface-to-air missiles. The military said the guided-missile cruiser Normandy boarded a dhow, a traditional sailing vessel, in the Arabian Sea on Sunday. It is believed that the weapons were to be delivered to Houthi fighters .
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Saudi Arabia -
Saudi Arabia has a growing problem with Iranian UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) used as cruise missiles. For several years Iran has been smuggling in UAV components to northern Yemen where Shia rebels have been trying to take over the entire country since 2014. Countering these cheap UAVs so far has relied upon very expensive ADA designed for aircraft and true cruise missiles. Technology is quickly adapting to use lasers and enhanced radio wave (microwave / directed energy ) weapons to take down the UAVs.
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Syria -
Initial reports of an explosion(s) aboard a tanker anchored off of Baniyas, Syria. Video and photos circulating on Twitter.
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Afghanistan -
A bomb blast at a girl’s school in Kabul has killed at least 50 on Saturday. Govt official have blamed the Taliban though Sunni Islamist militants commonly launch attacks in the area.
NOTE - Taliban and other sects of Islam consider educating of women/girls to be forbidden and such targeting is a way to force the women to subject themselves to the males. This occurred in mass during the Taliban’s pre-911 control of the county. Since being overthrown, US efforts to increase education of women spread across the country. As the US and NATO pull out, expect more destruction of schools and harsh treatment of women.
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Turkey -
In the wake of recent violence in Israel, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called Israel a cruel “terrorist” state on Saturday as Turkish media called to “free al-Aqsa” in Jerusalem. On May 9, the president wrote in Turkish that he “invite[s] the whole world, especially the Islamic countries, to take effective action against Israel’s attacks on al-Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem and Palestinian homes.” His words are directed to reinforcing his status as a protector of Palestinians in Israel.

OBSERVATION - Turkey and Israel’s relationship has been rocky of late given Erdogan’s quest to reestablish the Islamic Caliphate under his rule and the associated anti-Israeli bias it brings. Recently the two countries appeared to be trying to patch things up, but this shows that the ‘patch’ is very weak.
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Reminder, no Tuesday post and due to construction on my house this week reports may be further sporadic. Lets hope things stay quiet for a little while.

Wuhan virus -
Fauci over the weekend said that the nation might be “close” to normal and might “approach” normal a year from now. Fauci also said it is “quite possible” that mask-wearing may be part of the “seasonal” landscape in this country. Shifting goal posts again.

Concerns rising from those who’ve received the Pfizer / Modera nRNA ‘vaccines’ and what may happen to blood supplied by donors caring those artificial virus components.
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Globalism / Great Reset -
Watched part of the movie “The Pianist” yesterday, based on the Warsaw Ghetto in WW2. Reading daily the rants and raves of leftists in America, the Ghetto is a very real desire of theirs. Control, contain and kill everyone that will not bow to the progressive, socialist agenda. Watch it - serious wake up call.

Pope Francis called for universal access to coronavirus vaccines and “the temporary suspension of intellectual property rights” Saturday. “God the Creator instills in our hearts a new and generous spirit to abandon our individualisms and promote the common good,” the pope told participants in the VAX LIVE concert, “a spirit of justice that mobilizes us to ensure universal access to the vaccine and the temporary suspension of intellectual property rights.”
OBSERVATION - Funny how these ‘temporary’ suspensions of rights are developing into permanent removal.

A new wrinkle on biden’s American Families Plan calls for banks and other financial institutions to report more than just a taxpayer’s interest earned, capital gains and losses. Banks and other financial institutions would also be required to report “aggregate account outflows and inflows.” In other words, the IRS will know about all of your bank accounts, whether you earned income on that account or not, how much is in the account in a given year, and how much was transferred in and out of the account. It is unclear how this would work, but what is clear is that this new reporting obligation will create a massive compliance effort on the part of financial institutions.

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Economy -
Alert - toilet paper (and other paper products) shortages are on the rise and even Costco has reduced the size of its roll. This is due in part to a wood pulp shortage and supply shortages from plants in . . . . wait for it . . . . China.

The cyber attack on Colonial Pipeline has left the east coast in serious straits. Fuel distributors have their tanks ‘full’ but if the shut down extends past Day 4 or 5, then shortages will be hitting hard with associated price spiking. BTW - today is the 4th day. U.S. Department of Transportation issued a regional emergency declaration granting drivers and carriers “relief from “Parts 390 through 399 of Title 49 Code of Federal Regulations . The declaration is in effect until the emergency is over or until June 8, 2021. The declaration essentially lifts limits on the transport of fuels by road. There is still no estimate of when the pipeline will be operational. Gasoline futures have jumped by 4% with potential prices by Memorial Day over $3/gallon. See cyber warfare below for more.
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Invasion of Illegals -
Playing a big PR game, the biden administration is claiming that they have better control fo the border crisis, but didn’t bother to mention was the fact that the reason they had better control is that they’re playing a shell game with the illegals, moving them from overcrowded border patrol facilities to shelters operated by HHS. Those shelters — in convention centers along the border — are now even more crowded than the CBP detention centers they left. According to the NYT - “In all, over the past week, more than 21,000 children were living in shelters under government care, leaving the shelters around 80 percent full. A shelter at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas has a capacity of 2,270 — and a caseload of 1,990. The San Diego Convention Center’s 1,450 beds are all taken. The Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio is 90 children away from its 2,100 limit and announced on Friday it would stop taking in migrant children after this month. The Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center is similarly full, according to the document.”
BTW harris is still AWOL from the border.
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Strategic Developments /Deployments -
Defender Europe 21 exercise includes a U.S. Military Sealift Command activated cargo ships shipping equipment to eastern europe nations like Albania. In this instance the 950-foot vehicle-carrier Bob Hope hauled the U.S. Army’s Florida-based 53rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team from Jacksonville to the port of Durres in Albania. In June, the deployment process will reverse. Ships will load up and sail back to the United States.
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Cyber Warfare -
The hackers who caused Colonial Pipeline to shut down the biggest U.S. gasoline pipeline on Friday began their blitz against the company a day earlier, stealing about 100 Gigs of data before locking up the system with ransomware. The hackers have been identified as cybercrime gang called DarkSide, who’ve pulled this tactic in the past. It’s not clear how much money the attackers demanded or whether Colonial has paid.
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China -
According to the Daily Mail, a China propaganda newspaper, The Global Times, has warned Australia over the Taiwan conflict Beijing has been ramping up efforts for Taiwan ‘reunification’ under ‘One China’ Newspaper said ‘long-range strikes’ should be used if Australia supports the US Chilling warning comes amid increasing tensions between Canberra and Beijing. Essentially, the warning calls for Beijing to bomb Australia if Canberra supports US military action in protecting Taiwan.
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Israel -
More clashes with Palestinian rioters and Israeli police in Jerusalem, one epicenter being the Temple Mount. IDF is reportedly sending 3 battalions of troops to Judea and Samaria to reinforce the local police.
NOTE - These riots are the worst that Israel has seen in years.

Reports that the IDF has decide to reinforce the Gaza Division with additional combat troops. Likely in response to 3 rockets were fired into southern Israel from Gaza, likely representing support for the rioters and potential other supporting violence.

Israeli helicopter fired a single missile towards a target in Quneitra, Syria. 1 casualty reported. Further info not known at the moment. Quneitra is near the northern edge of the Golan.
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Iran -
In late 2020 after Iran sent a Quds Force general to be the Iranian ambassador to Yemen. RUMINT now says that Iran is calling the shots for Houthi (not that this hasn’t been the case in the past, only Iran has taken this to a higher level now). A large part of this takeover is Iranian attempts to leverage the war as part of the negotiations to end economic sanctions. If Iran pulled out of Yemen the Houthi forces would be defeated, as they have many times before.
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France -
Another letter, this time by active duty French soldiers, warn of civil war if France continues to give concessions to Islamic radicals in the country. The French government condemned a similar letter published by semi-retired generals late last month. The minister in charge of the armed forces, Florence Parly, said at the time that they would be punished for defying a law that forbids reservists or serving members of the military from expressing opinions in public on religion and politics.
NOTE - many parts of France are “no-go” zones from non-Islamic people and are essential ruled by Islam factions.
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