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.

Today is the anniversary of the invasion of Normandy. The Longest Day.

Relatively quiet, but as the way things have been, just a calm before another storm.

Wuhan virus -
More email releases, the deep Fauci sinks into to deep do-do. But there will be no consequences.

CDC is urging parents to get their teenagers vaccinated against COVID-19 after an alarming spike in hospitalizations among young coronavirus patients.
NOTE - I seriously doubt these numbers or ‘spike’ at this stage as nothing more than fear mongering to get more teens vaccinated. Teens still have a greater chance of being killed by lightning.
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Globalism / Great Reset -
Police forces in Canada and Australia have increasingly resorted to violence to shut down churches that continue to meet in violation of their wuhan virus dictates. The only country with more persecution against Christians is China. Global template beginning to take shape?

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele plans to introduce legislation that will make it the world’s first sovereign nation to adopt bitcoin as legal tender. Bukele said the country is partnering with digital wallet company, Strike, to build modern financial infrastructure using bitcoin technology.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen urged other rich nations on Saturday to keep up spending to support their economies even as the COVID-19 pandemic wanes, and said U.S. inflation this year would be elevated but transitory. Yellen told a news conference after G7 finance ministers met in London that they needed to invest in a fight against climate change and inequality, even after putting their economies “back on track” from the enormous hit of the pandemic.

OBSERVATION - The repeated emphasis of the word “transitory”, repeated by the Fed and similar. Think “14 days to flatten the curve”. Are they trying to lower concerns of something bigger coming and trying to condition the sheeple into thinking that a screaming inflation - perhaps even hyper inflation is only ’temporary’ to keep people from panicking. I’m not an economist, but words mean things and the track record on many similar subjects concerns me.
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Economy -
Farms in Kalifornia continue to be devastated as thousands of acres of crops are being plowed back into the ground and concern about a ‘dust bowl’ rise. Lakes are at record low levels, but that didn’t stop state demands for outflow to support fish in the delta.
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Invasion of Illegals -
The numbers of criminals and types are astounding. Sex predators intercepted at the border is up over 1000% in some areas. This is not good for America - chaos designed to bring the country to a point where the Great Reset can kick in as well.
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CANCEL CULTURE FRONT -
A man with backbone can silence the left. The snowflakes at Worldcon are having a very bad weekend. On Friday, the San Francisco chapter of Worldcon settled a lawsuit and agreed to pay restitution and to issue a public apology for banning conservative author Jon Del Arroz from their convention in 2018 and for besmirching him as a “racist.” Del Arroz is the most dangerous Hispanic voice in science fiction because he refuses to back down in the face of political bullies. (PJM)
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China -
The U.S. believes they have spotted a new Chinese ASAT (anti-satellite) system in orbit. This one, Shijian-17, has a grappling arm that enables the ASAT to maneuver into position and grab another satellite for closer examination or to put it in another orbit that will cause it to plunge earthward and burn up in the atmosphere. China also has high-powered, ground-based lasers that can disable a satellite at the lower end of low orbits for satellites that could not be forced low enough to be drawn into the atmosphere. This could result in a “Pearl Harbor” type surprise attack on American space-based sensors, navigation and communications systems. This would make Chinese surface or air-based attacks more effective.
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Israel -
WATCH DATE - JUNE 10TH - Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Saturday said he will demand a right-wing nationalist parade through Jerusalem’s Old City be called off if it “requires extraordinary security measures and endangers public order and diplomatic processes.” In response to Gantz’s announcement, far-right Religious Zionism leader Bezalel Smotrich called the defense minister “cowardly.”
“We didn’t wait for a Jewish, independent, sovereign state for 2,000 years only to have a cowardly defense minister publicly bow to Hamas’s terror threats (and invites more threats and more terrorism) and seek to prevent Jews from marching with Israeli flags in Jerusalem, our holy city and the united capital,” tweeted Smotrich, urging Netanyahu and Ohana to announce the march will be held as planned.
The Hamas terror group on Saturday warned of “consequences” if the march passes through the Damascus Gate entrance to the Old City. Muhammad Hamadeh, the terror group’s spokesperson in Jerusalem, called upon Palestinians to arrive at the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Thursday, when the march is supposedly set to take place, to “protect it from the malice of Zionism and their schemes.”

OBSERVATION - Tensions have been high since a new government was announced that included anti-zionist partys. Echos of what happened here in January. Not only that, but the marchers are looking to poke a finger into Hamas’ eye by entering there old city . Things will explode it marchers push towards the Temple Mount.

The eight-party coalition that aims to oust Netanyahu appears increasingly likely to secure the necessary majority support in the Knesset. The assessment among all members of the change bloc, led by PM-designate Bennett and Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid, is that the coalition will indeed be successfully sworn in.

In the wake of Operation Guardian of the Walls, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi agreed to set up 14 research teams on various issues that came up during the military campaign in the Gaza Strip. The teams will review almost every conceivable topic: intelligence, targets, inventory of armaments and interceptors, the efforts against the rockets, the home front, public image, and more. In about a month and a half, the General Staff will convene for a workshop over a few days, to review insights and lessons from the operation. Militarily, the IDF won in Gaza. Not by a knockout, but conclusively. Hamas did not properly assess the Israeli response, and certainly not its force. (IH)
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Iran -
Lack of maintenance and high temperatures looks to be the cause of the fire at Shahid Tondgooyan refinery, Tehran, Iran earlier this week.
Now another instance of poor maintenance? Initial reports circulating that a huge explosion has struck a steel factory in the city of Zarand in Iran’s Kerman province.
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Syria -
RUMINT - Reports of Syrian and IRGC Reinforcements arriving to Kuweires Airbase. Rumors that an offensive on Idlib is in the works. Further, reports that Turkey gave notice to its factions that Russia will attack. MONITORING
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South America General-
Peru’s presidential run-off on Sunday will be the Andean country’s most polarised election in its recent history.
The vote pits a left-wing teacher and populist political newcomer, Pedro Castillo, against a household name, right-winger Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of jailed ex-President Alberto Fujimori. Campaigns have been marked by considerable violence and deaths.
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Black Swans -
Some are getting all excited about an earthquake swarm on the southern shore of the Salton Sea, Kalifornia. Claiming it is a precursor to a volcanic eruption or the “big one”. Swarms are very common in the area this one is occurring. However, seismologists look to the Salton Sea region as the trigger point of the future big one on the San Andreas, with the rupture progressing northward towards Tejon Pass. These quakes don’t seem to be ones that could trigger such a rupture as the shock trending left-lateral versus the right-lateral nature of the San Andreas.

Not post tomorrow (Tuesday) unless all heck breaks out.

Wuhan virus -
The number of COVID-19 deaths in Alameda County, California, fell by about 25 percent after health officials changed their methodology for total mortality count, removing those that were not a “direct result” of the disease, or “in whom death caused by COVID-19 could not be ruled out.”
OBSERVATION - now multiply this nationally, and see that is confirms the skepticism of the reported numbers pointed out time and again here and the rest of FR.

(Reuters) - India reported 114,460 new coronavirus infections on Sunday, the lowest in two months, while the death toll increased by 2,677, as parts of the country prepared to ease movement restrictions.

In the Wall Street Journal, two eminent scientists explain why the evidence points toward a laboratory origin for the covid-19 virus. Much surrounds the gain-of-function changes apparent in the genetics of the virus. This was initially seen in Feb 2020 (scientific reports/studies are out there), but was suppressed by the scientific establishment and media.
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Globalism / Great Reset -
(Listed here as it is tightly linked the GR) Sunday Janet Yellen said that even though inflation is now at the highest level since Paul Volcker hiked rates to 20% and the US is about to issue another $3 trillion or so in debt just to fund existing stimulus programs, Joe Biden should push forward with his $4 trillion spending plans even if they trigger inflation that persists into next year and higher interest rates. “If we ended up with a slightly higher interest rate environment it would actually be a plus for society’s point of view and the Fed’s point of view,” Yellen said in an interview with Bloomberg. Speaking of additional stimulus packages, Yellen said. “They’re not meant as stimulus, they’re meant as investments to address long-standing needs of our economy.”
OBSERVATION - It is inconceivable that high interest rates is a plus for Americans and the economy. This could well be one of the tactics being engaged by the GR folks. The ‘plus’ according to the WEF will be subjecting the destroyed US economy under global control.
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Economy -
See Yellen above in great reset.
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Invasion of Illegals -
VP Harris has landed in Guatemala City, her first international stop since taking office. The administration is expected to announce new actions on trafficking and smuggling tomorrow, a senior official says. The admin is also hoping to unveil new anti-corruption measures. Protestors were at the Guatemalan Air Force base waiting for the vice president with open arms and signs. Big signs.
One sign simply stated, “Kamala, TRUMP WON,” another told the vice president that “Guatemala as pro-life,” and another want to her to “go home.”

NOTE - I’m not holding my breath for any major breakthroughs ..
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Biden watch -
Biden tweeted a video Sunday of his meeting last week with survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre, but did not mention that June 6 was also the anniversary of D-Day, the U.S-led invasion of Normandy in the Second World War. Another slap to the face of our military and veterans.
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CW2/Domestic violence -
The Department of Justice is reportedly considering sedition charges against members of the Oath Keepers militia over the Capitol protest on January 6. This is part of the ongoing process the marxists in control of the govt to weaponize all aspects of the state to silence/remove opposition to the progressive/communist goals of the current administration et al.

American Thinker has a good article showing the projected transjectory of CRT and violence. In summary, violence is justified (by CRT standards) is you are of a racist ‘class’ and even speak against a CRT dogma - like in this instance “white privilage”

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/06/the_amazon_drivers_attack_on_an_older_woman_is_an_important_warning.html

NOTE - This trend is not new, been monitoring it for quite a while, but under other monikers. CRT is just the latest evolution of the means to justify violence.

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CYBER/CANCEL CULTURE FRONT -
The University of Washington School of Law has proposed new Social Media Guidelines urging students “not post anything that could be viewed as discriminating in any way regarding race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, and physical/mental disabilities.” The document referenced the university’s Student Conduct Code, which, if violated according to the school’s standards, can result in punishment. According to the group Campus Reform, how obtained the new guidelines, some fear that the moving goal posts of what qualifies under the standards, changes based on what is trending in politics or on social media at any given moment. They are also concerned that what may be benign one day can be seen as offensive another. Others were concerned about the long-term 1st Amendment ramifications.
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Cyber Warfare -
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm admitted that our energy grid is vulnerable to cyberattacks - as exposed by recent incidents.
OBSERVATION - This vulnerability has been known for quite some time. A successful cyber grid attack would prohibit the nuclear retaliation that a nuclear EMP attack would create - because the actors would be so obscure. The severity of such an attack on our society would be devastating, even if short duration. The life blood of our country is electrical energy. Shut the power off for any considerable time and lots of people die, and others go stark raving mad. Just look to the 2020 Kalifornina outages and the 2021 Texas storm fiascos. We are too used to flipping the switch and having the lights come on.
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North Korea -
IAEA reports that there are indications that North Korea is possible engaged in reprocessing work to separate plutonium from spent reactor fuel that could be used in nuclear weapons. Steam has continued to emerge from a plant serving a reprocessing lab at Pyongyang since March. “The duration of this operation is consistent with the time required for a reprocessing campaign at the Radiochemical Laboratory. It is not, however, possible to confirm that reprocessing is taking place” the IAEA head stated.
NOTE - IAEA has not direct access to these facilities. One thing to be watching closely (though I may not be able thru OSINT sources) is any continued activity there by Iranian agents. Iran has in recent months started to reestablish connections with NK and may be working some sort of deal for NK plutonium and warhead design information in exchange for economic support.

North Korea has recently introduced a sweeping new law which seeks to stamp out any kind of foreign influence - harshly punishing anyone caught with foreign films, clothing or even using slang. NOTE - Totalitarian despots cannot have competing outside societal information and standards entering the ‘reality’ they established. Once the mirror is broken, they realize just how evil their leadership is and foments dissent that may turn uncontainable. Choi Jong-hoon, one of the few defectors to make it out of the country in the last year, told the BBC that “the harder the times, the harsher the regulations, laws, punishments become”. “Psychologically, when your belly is full and you watch a South Korean film, it might be for leisure. But when there’s no food and it’s a struggle to live, people get disgruntled.”
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Israel -
WATCH DATE - JUNE 10TH -
The organizers of the Jerusalem flag parade say the Police Commissioner notified them the event is canceled. However, many are continuing to press on with a march anyway. Far-right MK Itamar Ben Gvir and Likud MK May Golan say they will use their immunity to parade in the streets of Jerusalem’s Old City on Thursday regardless of police canceling the event.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Knesset lawmakers from all parties to “vote their conscience against the radical Left” if the so-called changed coalition presents a new government to the Knesset this week.
Netanyahu, who spoke at the Likud faction meeting, said that the right-wing parties Yamina and New Hope were essentially disenfranchising voters by partnering with the opposition parties on the Left in an effort to end his term through what they have called a “unity government.” Netanyahu said in his speech on Sunday that it would be a “government of deceit and surrender.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) Director Nadav Argaman on Sunday for issuing a public warning that the current atmosphere of incitement could lead to bloodshed. Argaman on Saturday condemned language that might be perceived as “one who endorses violent and illegal activities that could even lead to harming individuals.”
OBSERVATION - Anyone see the parallels with the left’s treatment and threats about Trump?
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Iraq -
Trend developing where the Iranian backed militias are beginning to switch to UAVs for their attacks. Unguided rockets are not doing the intended damage. But UAVs have been proven more accurate over the course of recent events and Iran has some good ones. On June 6th, two UAVs were intercepted by air defense at Ain Al-Assad Airbase, Iraq. The will require a modification of air defense warning/detection systems as well as rethink of methods to shoot down.
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Couple days worth of stuff - enjoy

Wuhan virus -
Getting worse - A new report from the New York Post published Monday claims Dr. Anthony Fauci informed world leaders in the Spring of 2020 that the COVID-19 virus could have originated in a Chinese laboratory.
“White House coronavirus adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci briefed world leaders more than a year ago on fears that COVID-19 had leaked from a Chinese laboratory, former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb has revealed,” reports the New York Post. was told at that time, back in the spring [of 2020], that Dr. Fauci had gone over to a meeting of world health leaders in Europe around the World Health Assembly, and actually briefed them on the information that they were looking at — that this could have been a potential lab leak, that this strain looked unusual,” Gottlieb told CBS News on Sunday.
OBSERVATION - Fauci’s conduct in this matter is criminal. So far he shows no signs of resigning or being prosecuted.

Wuhan fear mongers are warning that the nefarious Delta mutation is going to crash the world again. The Delta mutation is formerly known as the Indian variant, blamed for the massive infections and deaths in India. Current fears are rising in England and Australia. Of course Pfizer and Modera claim effectiveness against this variant.

Chinese lockdown of the city of Guangzhou has just gotten stricter. The AP reports that residents of the southern Chinese city will no longer be able to leave unless they can show that it is absolutely necessary to do so, following an outbreak of COVID-19 that has sickened dozens of people in recent days.
According to local authorities, anyone who is given permission to leave must show a negative test for the virus taken in the previous 2 days, according to rules issued by the city government that take effect Monday. The same rule applies to anyone seeking to leave the surrounding province of Guangdong.
The variant causing the Guangzhou outbreak (the “delta” strain ) is believed to be more infectious because those who carry it are slower to display symptoms while shedding more virus particles. No deaths have been reported from this outbreak.

The Indian Bar Association has taken legal action against the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Chief Scientist Dr. Soumya Swaminathan for her alleged role in spreading disinformation on the use of ivermectin to treat COVID-19. Ivermectin is showing effectiveness in combating the illness in India.

An expenditure that was a waste of money for businesses and other is the erection of plastic ‘shields’ to limit the spread of wuhan. Now, an April study published by the journal Science suggested that desk shields might even slightly raise the risk of Covid-like symptoms. And a prepublication paper from Japan late last month linked plastic shielding with infections in a poorly ventilated office.

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Globalism / Great Reset -
European Union countries on Monday approved the bloc’s flagship fund to wean them off fossil fuels and protect communities most affected, paving the way for members to start receiving the cash.
NOTE - Green new deal components are core to the WEF’s goals to bring the world under its stewardship.
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Economy -
The NFIB Small Business Optimism Index fell 0.2 points in May to 99.6. May saw a slight pause in the recovery of small business optimism after steadily increasing each month in 2021. As reported in NFIB’s monthly jobs report, a record-high 48% of owners reported unfilled job openings. Meanwhile in support of NFIB, Job openings in April soared to a new record high, with 9.3 million vacancies. The labor shortage is almost universally attributed to the unemployment enhancement in wuhan ‘recovery’ packages. Twenty-four Republican-led states have decided to do away with the weekly $300 boost. The benefits are set to expire naturally on September 6th, but these states will be ending them as soon as June 12, and 3.8 million will be impacted. Job searches immediately rose in the states that announced they’d be ending them early.

Biden broke off negotiations with a group of GOP senators led by Sen. Shelley Capito on Tuesday (R-W.Va.) amid disagreements regarding the structure and size of his proposed infrastructure spending plan. With talks with Capito’s group effectively dead, Biden shifted his efforts toward negotiations with a bipartisan group of 20 senators.
NOTE - Democrat definition of ‘bipartisan’ is that Republicans shut up and vote for it. biden’s ‘plans’ are very vague on expenditures and clearly fund projects that are not infrastructure but political handouts.
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Invasion of Illegals -
The Supreme Court unanimously held Monday that immigrants in the United States who are temporarily protected from deportation are not eligible for a green card if they entered the country illegally.
OBSERVATION - What message is the USSC sending to biden? He has opened the border to so many illegals that the legal system could be tied up for decades. This is a legal shot across the bow.

Word is that cartels are starting to use drones against Mexico and US. Useful for recon, cartels are increasingly weaponizing them, installing bombs that can be dropped and probably will evolve to lethal suicide drone terror groups like Iran deploys (may be even receiving the technology from them). They have used weaponized versions against the Mexican police and rival cartels.

Harris made a fool of herself - again - on the Guatemalan trip saying that the US fully enforces immigration laws and not to come and try to get in. This on top of her strange cookie incident (cookies shaped like her head). Even AOC is barking at her. . . . . ‘And of course, harris believes the border crisis is all due to ‘global warming’.
OBSERVATION - Video clips and reports are scary. She is totally unprepared to become President if biden has to step down. Clueless doesn’t even begin to describe her.
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CW2/Domestic violence -
Far Left activity is focused mainly on the Stop Line 3 disruptions in Northern Minnesota. This protest effort is expected to last months, for example the Dakota Access Pipeline protest lasted roughly 10 months.
Antifa elements are reinforcing radical environmental groups to try to shut the pipeline project down. Antifa also supporting Palestinian solidarity protests continue, now focusing on Israeli shipping company Zim.
BLM activity has tapered off after protesting in Minneapolis over the shooting of an armed black man.
OBSERVATIONS - no really big events to stimulate the left to riot.

A goal of the BLM/Antifa riots last year was defunding of the police. In Baltimore, the city council did just that and crime skyrocketed. Now businesses are warning the city that they will be withholding city taxes until law and order is reestablished. Some calling this a new “tea party” action.
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Strategic Developments /Deployments -
NBC reporting rumors that biden is seeking to quietly shut down Gitmo - a goal 0bama attempted but failed due to push back. With all the other chaos going on in his administration providing cover, this is one thing he may get accomplished.
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Cyber Warfare -
Multiple web sites and apps went down Tuesday when a cloud server had some kind of problem. Does not appear to be a cyber attack at this time. Affected sites were back up within hours.

The FBI managed to recover most of the ransom payed by Colonial Pipeline to get their systems back. They paid 75 bitcoins and they recovered 63.7 Bitcoins. Somehow they were able to track which ‘wallet’ the coins went into, managed to have a password and recover the ransom. The cyber world is wound up pretty tightly as the security of bitcoins and their wallets has been one of the big calling points for the ‘currency’.
NOTE - I’m not a bitcoiner, and understand little about the system set up - though many have tried to teach me. The fact that the feds were able to penetrate it against a seasoned group of hackers is pretty significant.

Microsoft has issued urgent patches to address significant zero-day exploits. Key are two Windows flaws that were chained to an exploit for a different Chrome vulnerability to plant high-end malware on specific targets running Windows.

At least 60 members of Congress from both parties have been unable to access data for weeks in the latest ransomware attack to strike the United States. The target was iConstituent, a tech vendor that provides constituent outreach services to dozens of House offices, including a newsletter service that allows lawmakers to communicate with residents in their districts and a service to track constituent casework.
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Russia -
Russia formally exited the Open Skies Treaty with United States.
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Israel -
WATCH DATE - JUNE 10TH -

Knesset speaker Yariv Levin announced on Tuesday that the new unity government led by Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid would be brought to a vote of confidence and be sworn in during a special session of the Knesset on Sunday. Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid congratulated the setting of the date for the vote, tweeting “It’s happening!”
The Bennett-Lapid government plans to promote two dramatic laws in its early days - the cooling-off law and the law to dissolve the Likud. According to the coalition agreement revealed by Channel 12 News, a law will be promoted that prevents those who served as prime minister for at least four years from running for the next Knesset, a law which would only apply to Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been prime minister for the last 12 years. The second law makes it possible to split the Likud faction on much more favorable terms than those that exist today. According to the law, it will be possible to do so by only four MKs instead of ten. This will make it easier to recruit defectors from the Likud to shore up the narrow coalition even as the Likud attempts to induce defectors from Yamina and New Hope to bring the coalition down.
The Likud said in response: Bennett is turning Israel into a dark dictatorship – North Korea meets Iran. Prime Minister Netanyahu fights Iran, and Bennett brings a law from Iran. This law will remove Israel from the society of enlightened democracies and put it among the darkest tyrannical regimes … Bennett is crossing every red line in his insane chase for the prime minister’s seat at any price.”
OBSERVATION - Remarkable the parallels between Israel and the US as the govt weaponizes against a political opponent.

Defense Minister Benny Gantz warns Israel will use overwhelming force in any future war in Lebanon against Hezbollah, saying the Israeli army’s recent strikes in Gaza against Hamas are “only the tip of the iceberg” in terms of the its capabilities.

The Israeli army says the al-Jalaa building housed Hamas electronic warfare means that were developed to disrupt the Iron Dome aerial defense system. This building was the one made famous by all the world’s press agencies who had offices there.
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Iran -
The United States still does not know whether Iran is ready to resume compliance with its 2015 nuclear deal and if Tehran continues to violate the pact, the “breakout time” it needs to amass enough fissile material for a single nuclear weapon will shrink to weeks, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday. Some estimate that the breakout period has shrunk too weeks.
OBSERVATION - This level of uncertainty and confusion is exactly what Iran wants.
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Iraq -
Earlier today PMF Leader Qassim Musleh was released from police custody, He was released due to a lack of evidence on his charges for “terrorism-related activities, “including “the killing of an activist”. He was arrested May 26th sparking a tense standoff between Iraqi and PMF forces in Bagdad. PMDF is one of the larger militias supported by Iran. In related, IRGC’s Qods Force commander Qaani is in Baghdad. Most likely to celebrate the release and rub American/Iraqi noses in it.
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Syria -
Saudi Arabia is close to reaching an agreement on diplomatic normalization with President Bashar al-Assad’s government, as Riyadh jockeys to play a lead role in removing the Iranian presence from Syria, Al Jazeera has been told…According to a senior official…“the political mood within the House of Saud has changed, many senior royals, particularly Mohammad bin Salman [MBS] himself, are keen to reengage with Assad”.

Meanwhile, things are heating up a little around Idlib province. Pro-Assad forces targeted with artillery shells the al-Abrar tents for the displaced near the town of Taoum in the northeastern countryside of Idlib, which caused damage to a tent gathering, which is a school and a mosque, in addition to the tent of one of the displaced. The White Helmets teams responded to the site and worked to secure it, and the damage was limited to material
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Afghanistan -
The Taliban has taken control of eight district centers in four different regions of Afghanistan over the past week as Afghan security forces struggle to maintain control of the security situation.
Eight districts in the north, south, southeast, west and center have fallen under Taliban control, while another district in the south is under effective Taliban control. The disbursed location of the Taliban attacks will force the already strained Afghan military to divide its forces if it wants to retake the districts.
OBSERVATION - Taliban are eating the elephant one bite at a time. Capture a province, consolidate control move on to the next - lather, rinse, repeat. Inspited of US/NATO training and support, the Afghan army just doesn’t have the same motivations as the Taliban.
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South America General-
Brazil is suffering from its worst drought in recorded history. Agriculture has been severely hit and industries will suffer as 60% of its power is derived from hydropower which has been severely curtailed. These impacts will not only affect Brazil but globally as well as it cannot supply food and products.
OBSERVATION - I’ve been watching global weather extremes for several years now. Initially the volume of reports could be attributed to increased reporting. Now looking at the data, mega droughts in S America. N America’s west and southwest being hit by dust bowl level severe drought. Other parts of the world being flooded by recored rains. These extreme conditions are almost becoming biblical, and I make that statement cautiously.
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10,000 foot overview
I’ve been posting a lot of notes, but want to connect some of the dots look at my most significant concerns from all this now that we are approaching the half way point of 2021? I’d though I’d list them out quickly kinda in the priority I see them.

1. Biden (forced) to resign. Such an action if based on dementia, would cast a shadow on ALL his executive orders. Transition of power to the equally incompetent harris could trigger significant political turmoil not only between Republicans and democrats, but within the democrat party itself. Inclusive of that would be the -s- hitting the fan as global policy is thrown into disarray, potentially encouraging America’s enemies to take advantage of the situation.
2. Economic crash. I’m not an economist but there are many warnings from those who are (and not the doomers who’ve been calling for a crash for years with the accuracy of some global warming cultists). The fall 2021 is looking to shape up to be when it hits, with Yellen et al trying to soften the public perception with ’transitory’ talk. Hyperinflation has now become a major concern. Such a crash could be the spark that triggers nation wide violence.
3. Israel/Iran direct clash. Both have been dancing around each other for the past couple years. Continued Israeli political turmoil with the biden incompetence in dealing with iran on its nuclear program may kick off the war no one wants. Such a war will hit America hard through secondary effects (oil disruption, loss of US military assets, etc). It may very likely turn nuclear.
4. China isn’t quite ready yet to tackle Taiwan, but will be in a few years - likely before the 2024 elections. depends on #1 above
5. Global Reset - They continue to put the pieces in place but can’t go fully forward until any American resistance has been subdued - meaning that the economy and civil stability must be crushed for their alternative ‘security’ will be accepted. Wuhan compliance is part of this as is the development of global corporate taxes.
6. CW2 - the biden administration is pushing anti-constitutional measures on all fronts and Red states pushing back with laws to cancel those measures. I originally thought most of CW2 would be an urban/rural scrum, but with State governments stepping in there could be a state vs state(federal) level of conflict. A second component could be if the AZ ballot examination trigger other examinations AND if they can prove fraud. This would generate a constitutional crisis of an proven illegitimately elected president.

Bottom line - still searching and being alert to the last straw that breaks the camel’s back. Hence these posts in Threat Matrix - to keep my eyes open to what is happening.
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Wuhan virus -
Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC on Wednesday he believes enough Americans are fully vaccinated to delay the risk presented by the Delta Covid variant.
“The question is: Are there enough unvaccinated people that this could get into the population and start spreading more widely? I happen to think it’s unlikely that this is going to be a threat until the fall, perhaps,” the former Food and Drug Administration commissioner said on “Squawk Box.”
NOTE - Talk like this continues the fear mongering of the medical establishment. “Delta” is reportedly already in the US, has been for months. Trying to leverage the fear factor to force more vaccinations.
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Globalism / Great Reset -
UK Boris Johnson endorsing a version of a “Marshall Plan” (an idea based on the US Marshall plan that helped rebuild Europe after WW2) to bring green power projects to the third world. NOTE - I expect he would like the US to pay for it like its namesake.

The White House budget office this week gave Biden the greenlight to move forward with removing a Trump-era health care policy designed to bring down the price of insulin. Biden’s bid to retract the rule was approved on Monday, as reported by Politico, with the expectation that the Department of Health and Human Services could publish the retraction within the coming days.
The measure, signed off on under the previous administration in December, aimed to require some 340B community health centers to deliver savings to low-income patients for insulin and epinephrine in a bid to bring down unaffordable prices.
OBSERVATION - Control of health care is right up there with food to control the masses. There is no legitimate reason to cancel this program, no benefit to the public, other than stop something Trump accomplished. Its not about health, its about control.
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Economy -
TC Energy, the company behind the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline, says it’s officially terminating the project — ending a more than decade-long battle over its construction. IIRC it is about 90% complete

Deutsche Bank said the U.S. may be headed toward one of its worst periods of inflation in history amid increased government spending and relaxed monetary policy, warning that the belief inflation is transitory could have serious consequences for the economy.
OBSERVATION - once again, the narrative reference to “transitory” should raise red flags, though in this case DB is speaking against the use by Yellen et al to deflect from the potential seriousness of the issue.
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Invasion of Illegals -
After the Guatemalan debacle, Harris is in Mexico to get to the bottom of the illegal crisis. In this, she is blaming Mexico for not accepting illegals with children back into Mexico - FORCING the administration to dump them unsupervised and with no court date into the interior of the US.

Meanwhile, illegal border crossings have increased for the fourth month in a row growing to 180,034 in May, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection - a 674% jump. They were also up by 674 per cent on crossings recorded in May 2020, when 23,237 illegal migrants were apprehended . Single adults still represented the majority of border-crossers, according to data from the U.S. Border Patrol. In May there was a decrease in the number of unaccompanied minors, from roughly 16,910 to 13,906 . CBP also said that a majority of those who crossed the border were already expelled due to Title 42, which allows the U.S. government to quickly remove people using the COVID-19 pandemic. Of the 180,034 crossers, 112,302 had already been expelled (repeat offenders).

Cartels are combining their human trafficking with drugs. In a year, fentanyl seizures have jumped 800% in Texas, and the drugs coming across the southern border are fueling an unprecedented epidemic across the U.S.
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Biden watch -
biden kicked off his overseas trip by rebuking Boris Johnson for ‘inflaming tensions’ in Northern Ireland. This caused the WH to almost immediately go into damage control to put out the flames of a major transatlantic bust-up with Britain.
OBSERVATION - This overseas engagement with global leaders, something he’s pawned off onto harris to a degree stateside, could result in a major meltdown and exposure of his increasing mental issues. He can’t afford to fall apart on the world stage as global media is not so tightly chained as US media.
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CW2/Domestic violence -
For the second time in five days on Tuesday , city workers removed barriers yesterday to reopen the intersection at 38th Street and Chicago Avenue, where Floyd died in custody just over a year ago. And for the second time in five days, activists blocked traffic again hours later without any opposition from authorities. Residents and businesses are not thrilled that the city is allowing the barrier to go back up unopposed. They say the area is like a war zone with regular shootings and drug dealers all over the place.

The Portland police have moved their police union headquarters after a year of near constant vandalism. PPA headquarters were in the Kenton neighborhood of the Rose City, but the building was a “target of vandalism” for Antifa militants and others during the past year of civil unrest. Recently, BLM/Antifa in April attempted to burn the building down again. The the new location for the headquarters has not yet been disclosed.
OBSERVATION - A victory for the insurgent leftists. Remember, at the core leadership level, Antifa is the face of a marxist insurgency. Capture and control of territory is part of the goals and plans of an insurgency. It provides a relatively safe base of operations for planning, logistics and operations. We can’t just look at the organization as a whole as a bunch of soy boys (those are the useful idiot element), but a planned operation to overthrow the nation (eventually).
One other parallel observation is the explosion in gang violence in cities like Portland. BLM/Antifa, with their supporting city councils, have driven police out of the force by the hundreds and defunded crime fighting activities. Reality, gang violence keeps the pressure on the police, freeing Antifa to operate on other areas, while maintaining their base.
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Strategic Developments /Deployments -
The Reagan CSG is operating off Japan as part of its scheduled patrols. Concerns were raised earlier about leaving that part of the Pacific without on station carrier presence. The Eisenhower CSG is operating near the Persian Gulf supporting Afghan troop withdrawals.
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Cyber Warfare -
JBS, the largest beef supplier in the world, paid the ransomware hackers who breached its computer networks about $11 million, the company said Wednesday. The company was hacked in May by REvil, one of a number of Russian-speaking hacker gangs, leading to meat plants across the U.S. and Australia shutting down for at least a day. News of the payment was first reported by The Wall Street Journal. In a statement, JBS indicated that while it was able to get most of its systems operational without REvil’s help, it chose to pay to keep its files safe.
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China -
In response to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken signaling the U.S. will start to build a “framework” with Taiwan to establish trade relations, a Chinese Embassy spokesperson has demanded communications cease.
“Stop all forms of official exchanges and contacts with Taiwan, stop elevating its relationship with the Taiwan region in any substantive way,” the spokesman said in a statement to The Wall Street Journal.

Lawmakers from 10 countries and the European Union have brought forward proposals concerning a boycott of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics in light of the communist regime’s treatment of the Chinese citizens, primarily the Uyghurs, Tibetans, and Hong Kongers.
NOTE - if the boycott is carried out, expect China to have a conniption fit. However, I think it will fall through. China has its fingers deep into media and the governments to bully the boycott away.
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India/China -
Express UK reports that tensions are high in the disputed border region. India is reported to have increased the number of its troop while China conducts live fire exercises banned by treaty in the border region.
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Israel -
WATCH DATE - JUNE 10TH -
Watching to see if the flag parade is conducted by Israeli right wing groups. Potential for civil violence in Jerusalem. The parade marks the capture of the Temple Mount as a result of the 6-day war in 1967.

Prime Minister Netanyahu is expected to execute an orderly transfer of power to Naftali Bennett next week, sources familiar with the issue tell. The Likud party is still declining to comment about the issuePrime Minister Netanyahu is expected to execute an orderly transfer of power to Naftali Bennett next week, sources familiar with the issue tell. The Likud party is still declining to comment about the issue.

Buried in other news was another IAF airstrike on various targets in southern and central Syria. This is the first strike attributed to Israel in nearly a month. Targets were the standard Iranian-created munitions depots and facilities designed to facilitate a desired Hezbollah attack on Israel.
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Iran -
Videos coming out showing Iran Navy IRIS Sahand crossing an area of the Atlantic Ocean. She must be accompanying the Makran which is reportedly on the way to Venezuela. Biden administration is warning Venezuela and Cuba to turn away Iranian ships believed to be carrying arms to Caracas, Venezuela, vowing to take “appropriate measures” to deter the “threat” to America and its allies in the West. Intel reportedly has the Makran carrying fast attack boats, potentially for delivery to Venezuela.
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Lebanon -
Cleric Ali Akbar Mohtashamipour, founder of Hezbollah in Lebanon in the 1980s, died from wuhan.
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Syria -
Fighting has picked up in southern Idlib Provience.
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Venezuela -
See Iran above.
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South America General-
Locals in Barranquilla, Colombia, responded to leftist riots in their neighborhood by taking the streets with machetes on Tuesday, according to Colombian media and citizen journalists. Colombia has experienced nationwide riots since late April, initially organized against a progressive tax proposal by conservative President Iván Duque. Even though Duque walked back the near-universally unpopular proposal days later, leftists have used the issue to create violence against the govt.
OBSERVATION - Marxists have been active in Central and South America for decades. It if this incidence is an indicator, the rioting may start turning into a civil war. This follows reports of citizens developing militia groups to defend their neighborhoods from leftist violence.
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Wuhan virus -
Third significant study that shows no need to vaccinate after recovering from wuhan. Cleveland Clinic concluded there is no need to vaccinate people who have been infected with the virus that causes COVID-19. The finding aligned with a study published last month in Nature by researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis concluding that even mild or asymptomatic cases of COVID-19 can produce lasting immunity that would guard against repeated infections. Also an Israel finding that people who had tested positive for the novel coronavirus in the previous three or more months had at least as much protection against new infection, hospitalization and death as vaccinated people.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday that it will convene an “emergency meeting” of its advisers on June 18th to discuss rare but higher-than-expected reports of heart inflammation following doses of the mRNA-based Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines. Though I could find no specific age demographics, recent concerns have surfaced regarding the CDC previously disclosed that reports of heart inflammation were detected mostly in younger men and teenage boys following their second dose, and that there was a “higher number of observed than expected” cases in 16- to 24-year-olds.
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Globalism / Great Reset -
Multiple countries looking to legitimize crypto currencies as a means to monitor transactions and eventually bring under control/regulation. President Donald Trump said that bitcoin “seems like a scam,” adding that he doesn’t like it because it’s “essentially another currency competing against the dollar, and I want the dollar to be the currency of the world.” The key to his statement is not the “scam” but the threat to the US dollar. If the USD actually is eroded as the world reserve currency, the impact to the stability of our economy increases almost exponentially. Such erosion and replacement is a goal of the Great Reset - one global currency and exchange vehicle.
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Economy -
Consumer prices for May accelerated at their fastest pace in nearly 13 years as inflation pressures continued to build in the U.S. economy, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The consumer price index rose 5% from a year earlier. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been expecting a gain of 4.7%. The reading represented the biggest CPI gain since the 5.3% increase in August 2008.

Think our food prices are bad, this is global. Britain experiencing the highest food inflation in decades and the UN reports the cost of food rises at fastest pace in over a decade. Stock up now!

More future inflation - Traders are accumulating call options on $100 Brent and West Texas Intermediate crude-oil contracts, anticipating higher oil prices through the end of 2022. “Everyone’s been looking at it [$100 call options]. For some context, the first time oil hit $100/barrel was in 2008 and it pushed the national average for regular unleaded gas to $3.04/gallon. In today’s dollars, we’d be looking at $3.80-4.00, or roughly a 25-30% increase above the national average right now. And those increases at the pump will also be seen in the grocery (and other) stores.

Current group negotiating an “infrastructure’ plan is looking at a back door increase to existing fuel taxes to help pay for road repairs. This is to be accomplished by Inflation indexing the gas tax, inflation increases, so does the tax.

The monument to stupidity continues as biden restored a $929 million grant for California’s high speed rail. The rail budget has more than doubled and schedule set back years and years as it has become a boondoggle for tax payers and a boon for politically well connected contractors.

Stock market analysts are looking into their crystal balls and warning of a market correction that could range from a standard bear market to a market collapse. Two indicators, one - Morgan Stanley’s Timing Indicator, which reached an all-time high. Historically, this is a good indicator of a correction; and the other - the Buffet Indicator, comparing total market cap to GDP, which has continued to hit all-time highs, most recently sitting at a whopping 209%.
OBSERVATION - As I noted yesterday, my #2 ranked threat to the US is an economic crash. Run away inflation, out of control govt spending/debt and stock market instability IMHO are converging in a very nasty manner.
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Invasion of Illegals -
TX Gov Abbot announced that TX will start building a wall to stop illegals. NOTE - This will have to thread its way through many court challenges as I’m sure the biden administration will claim sole authority for border control and try shut it down as Clinton did to Arizona years ago.
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Biden watch -
Stated yesterday that he liked Europe so much he doesn’t want to come home. Are comments necessary?
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CW2/Domestic violence -
Marxist critical race theory (CRT) is creating another major societal fault line and parents aggressively are pushing back over school districts trying to force it on children. Parent activism against CRT has resulted in many school board elections throwing out CRT proponents. CRT has pushed into all aspects of federal government and blue state governments. Most red states are banning any implementation of CRT programs/indoctrination.
NOTE - This is a standard marxist ploy to divide and conquer a nation. This has the potential to inflame racial strife and violence as much as the death of George Floyd.
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POLITICAL FRONT -
Rep. Ilhan Omar sparked fresh controversy with a comment which critics said equated Israel and the United States with terrorist groups. This has become a bridge too far for even her democrat colleagues and is getting pushback over the antisemitism. Fellow islamist Rep Tilab has been trying to defend her, as well as other vocal islamists have been trying to defend her statements as “freedom of speech’ and ‘islamophobia’.
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Cyber Warfare -
Hackers have stolen 26 million user logins for tech giants including Amazon, Apple, Facebook as well as vital payment information in the latest online security breach. The malware hack, exposed by cybersecurity provider NordLocker, also saw payment details nabbed from 3.25 million computers that run Windows software. It was uncovered after researchers discovered a 1.2 terabyte database filled with stolen personal information.
The other firms whose accounts were targeted include eBay, Instagram, Netflix, Paypal, Roblox, Steam, Twitch and Twitter. It saw victims computers’ infected by opening emails, or downloading bootleg software, and enabled the malware to take screenshots of their browsing activity - including private login details.
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Russia -
To supply advanced satellite to Iran below.
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Israel -
WATCH DATE - JUNE 15th UPDATED -

The annual flag march didn’t occur in full strength yesterday, but that didn’t stop some on the Israeli right from doing it any way. East Jerusalem protesters and Israel Police, as far-right lawmaker Itamar Ben Gvir marched to the flashpoint Damascus Gate entrance to the Old City. Ben Gvir waved an Israeli flag at the site, in what he said was a personal protest, after police banned him from parading through the Muslim Quarter to reach the Temple Mount. March organizers are now looking to reschedule the march for next Tuesday and are coordinating with police on the route. The march will certainly create significant violence between Israeli marchers and Palestian counter protestors.

The most recent IAF air strike in Syria took out General Aiham Ismail, the highest ranking SAA officer killed by Israel past years. Graduated in chemistry, he was part of Assad’s weapons program & died in the airstrike on the Homs Scientific Research Complex.

Israel has reportedly asked Egypt to prevent the entry to Gaza of cement and other building materials that could be diverted by Palestinian terror groups for military use. Israeli officials are hoping to meet with their Egyptian counterparts on the matter, having recognized that without monitoring of the goods entering Gaza, there is no way to block Hamas from rebuilding its military capabilities, the report said.
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Iran -
Russia is preparing to supply Iran with an advanced satellite system that will give Tehran an unprecedented ability to track potential military targets across the Middle East and beyond, according to current and former U.S. and Middle Eastern officials briefed on details of the arrangement.
The plan would deliver to the Iranians a Russian-made Kanopus-V satellite equipped with a high-resolution camera that would greatly enhance Iran’s spying capabilities, allowing continuous monitoring of facilities ranging from Persian Gulf oil refineries and Israeli military bases to Iraqi barracks that house U.S. troops, the officials said. The launch could happen within months, they said. It would have a resolution of 1.2 meters.
OBSERVATION - This is a year or so out but will give significant aid to Iranian intelligence and targeting in the region, from the Houthis in Yemen to Hezbollah in Lebanon.

US is reportedly lifting some sanctions against Iran ahead of nuclear talks. NOTE - more signals of weakness from the US will only encourage Iran to cheat and demand more concessions.
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Syria -
See Israel above.
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Afghanistan -
US troop withdrawals are at about the 50% mark.
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Wuhan virus -
Thomas Jefferson University researchers provide the first evidence that RNA segments can be written back into DNA, which potentially challenges the central dogma in biology and could have wide implications affecting many fields of biology. The study focuses on polymerases, which from what I understand from the study which are like notes copied from the central DNA repository of recipes, so they can be read more efficiently into proteins. But polymerases were thought to only work in one direction DNA into DNA or RNA. This prevents RNA messages from being rewritten back into the master recipe book of genomic DNA. However, these researchers found that certain polymerases break that barrier, allowing RNA to overwrite/modify the DNA.

OBSERVATION - This has HUGE implications for the mRNA pseudo vaccines Pfizer and Moderna, never before tried on humans and no knowledge/data on long term effects to the human body/DNA.

Mentioned in earlier posts, but now the lockdown in southern Chinese province of Guangdong has expanded to involve millions and they are carrying out mass testing. The “flare-up” consists of 100 cases of the “Delta variant” and 15 million others are now locked down.

The Food and Drug Administration forced Johnson & Johnson to toss about 60 million potentially contaminated COVID-19 doses produced at a troubled Baltimore plant, reports The New York Times.
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Globalism / Great Reset -
“We’re building back better together – building back greener and building back fairer and building back more equal…and in a more gender neutral and perhaps a more feminine way!” Boris Johnson said at a G7 Press conference. Johnson said “it is vital that we don’t repeat the mistakes” of the 2008 economic crisis. “The recovery was not uniform across all parts of society,” he said. “And I think what’s gone wrong with this pandemic … is that the inequalities may be entrenched.” He went on, saying as economies of the world powers recover, “we need to make sure that we level up across our societies and we build back better.”
“Build back better” was coined by the World Economic Forum

French president Macron has called for the sale of gold reserves by the G7 to fund a “New Deal” for Africa. This would be part of efforts to reallocate $100 billion in International Monetary Fund (IMF) special drawing rights to African states.

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Economy -
In the middle of an epic drought, Bureau of Reclamation increased flow releases from New Melones Dam into the Stanislaus River, all headed to the ocean and not crops. Same Bureau of Reclamation that completely shut down irrigation allotments.
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Invasion of Illegals -
Fed govt continues to fly illegals into Red states without informing the governors of those states.
NOTE - Not sure what the legal response by those governors can be at this point short of having state police meet those planes and stop deplaning - an act that will surely stay a bitter fed - state court feud. Needs to be done to force ‘transparency’.
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Biden watch -
Not good for biden at the G7. Labour Party member comments “At least Trump was attentive,” says Biden can’t keep up with G7 events or follow note cards, per WH official to @HumanEvents. Other commentators indicate the same, he just isn’t up to snuff physically or mentally. One instance, biden wandered away from the group, only to have his wife come and rescue him. Putin must be shaking in his bunny slippers.
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CW2/Domestic violence -
Various BLM/antifa related protests across the nation in the usual suspect cities in the coming weekend. Many are bolstering pro-palistinian marches, environmental protests and gay marches. Most violent activity is expected in Seattle and Portland.
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POLITICAL FRONT -
Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Justice Department will double the staff working on voting rights issues within 30 days and will provide new guidance on early voting, mail-in voting and post-election audits, saying the measures are needed to safeguard Americans’ basic right to choose their government.
The Attorney General says that he and his gang of attorneys and investigators are going to scrutinize every single action taken during these audits to intimidate and prevent audits from taking place.
OBSERVATION - This is weaponization of the AG/DoJ against red states. The AG’s office is on the cutting edge of trying to federalize the election process and remove it completely from any state controls. With many Red states implementing new rules and the 2022 mid terms approaching, the AG’s office has to go into hyperdrive to try to freeze / overturn a lot of these new laws in court. I don’t think the USSC will accept federal control, though it will take years to get there.
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North Korea -
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called K-Pop a “vicious cancer” and painted it as a threat to his country.
The New York Times reported that Kim made the comments as part of a broader campaign against the catchy music genre that originated in South Korea. He said it harmed the “attire, hairstyles, speeches, behaviors” of North Koreans. The Times reported that state media said it could make North Korea “crumble like a damp wall.” The Times reported that North Korea made a new law in December that could give people up to 15 years in a labor camp for consuming South Korean entertainment.

Kim Jong Un on Friday called for boosting the nation’s military power at a Central Military Commission meeting, DPRK’s state media KCNA said on Saturday. The meeting called for a “high-alert posture” against the “recent fast-changing” situation on the Korean Peninsula. This meeting is generally considered to be in preparation for the plenary meeting of the central committee of the country’s ruling Workers’ Party of Korea is planned for later in June.
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Russia -
The last of the Cold War era Russian Delta Class SSBNs (ballistic missile nuclear subs) are finally retiring after serving far longer than expected, mainly because they had to. Russia has, and is still having, trouble designing and building a post-Cold War class of SSBNs. For example, Russia was supposed to have the four new Borei class SSBNs in service by 2019, but that was delayed because sea trials of the fourth sub kept revealing new problems that had to be fixed. These problems and their fixes are expensive that the navy can only afford to build eight Boreis instead of ten originally planned. For an economically stretched Russia, expenditures and competition for limited funds have hampered a lot of the Russian military build up.
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Israel - WATCH DATE - JUNE 15th UPDATED -

The flag march is still on for June 15th.

In an apparent show of force, Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s military wing, Saraya al-Quds, openly carrying weapons and marching in Jenin, West Bank. This is likely related to an earlier incident in which two Palestinian Authority policemen were killed by IDF gunfire in Jenin. The IDF have begun investigating the operation, which escalated into a gunfight between the officers and an Israeli counterterrorism unit that acted to arrest two suspects believed to have been involved in recent shooting attacks . This level of provocation is unusual for the West Bank as the PA normally keeps groups like the PIJ in check.
Violence also broke out in Israeli communities as arabs/Palestinians fought Israeli security forces and police following Friday prayers.
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South America General-
Leftists have taken over the government of Peru. Marxist Pedro Castillo said multinationals should expect to leave 70% of their profits in Peru. WSJ notes, Castillo’s thinking is frighteningly similar to that of the late Hugo Chávez, who ruled Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013. Chavismo strangled Venezuela’s democratic institutions, sent human capital fleeing, destroyed the economy, and generated widespread poverty. Venezuela was once one of the most advanced countries in the region. Today Venezuelans live primitively, often without running water, electricity or basic medical supplies.

Heads up, tomorrow will be last post for about a week as i will be in the woods and away from cyber civilization. Need to breath the mountain air of the Redoubt and be refreshed.
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Wuhan virus -
The European database of suspected drug reaction reports is EudraVigilance, which also tracks reports of injuries and deaths following the experimental COVID-19 “vaccines.” Their report through June 5, 2021 lists 13,867 deaths and 1,354,336 injuries following injections of four experimental COVID-19 shots:

Pfizer: 6,732 deaths and 502,162 injuries to 05/06/2021
Moderna: 3,821 deaths and 101,767 injuries to 05/06/2021
Oxford/ AstraZeneca: 2,848 deaths and 724,457 injuries to 05/06/2021
Johnson & Johnson: 466 deaths and 25,950 injuries to 05/06/2021

From the total of injuries recorded, there are 683,688 serious injuries which equals over 50%. Keep in mind that the population of /Europe is about the same as the US.

A new study shows that hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), the antimalarial drug, combined with azithromycin (AZM), could increase the rate of survival by nearly three times for severely ill COVID-19 patients. The observation study analyzed 255 mechanically ventilated patients at the Saint Barnabas Medical Center in New Jersey.
OBSERVATION - Many of the previous HCQ studies focused on the drug alone. Proponents have always said that it is successful when used with other items, like zinc and antibiotics. This resulted in the suppression of studies and the probable increase in the loss of life. Additional note - fauci himself stated that it was effective against corona viruses pre wuhan days.
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Globalism / Great Reset -
The G7 nations agreed on Sunday to increase their climate finance contributions and meet an overdue spending pledge of $100 billion a year to help poorer countries, calling on other developed countries to join the effort. G7 will end the funding of new coal generation in developing countries and offer up to £2bn ($2.8bn) to stop using the fuel.
Under more global warming actions, the G7 group will promise to move away from coal plants, unless they have technology to capture carbon emissions.

Biden pushed a global $40 trillion infrastructure plan to “Build Back Better for the World.” “Financed” by the world bank (who receives the majority of support from the US), $40 trillion investment estimation by the World Bank through 2035 for their price tag. It is also to develop a “fair, sustainable, inclusive global economy” (buzz words from the WEF’s earlier documents as a counter to China’s initiatives around the world.
NOTE - The US will end up picking up most of the tab for this spending extravaganza. That much money on a global scale on top of ballooning national debts may well provided the globalists/ great resetters the leverage needed to take over.
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Economy -
More and more smart people warning of serious inflation coming at the end of summer/fall time frame. This will dwarf the inflation we’ve seen just since the first of the year. Stock up now.
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Biden watch -
Jill biden when asked about the upcoming meeting with Putin said “Oh my gosh, he’s over prepared,” she added with a laugh.
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CW2/Domestic violence -
Expect more eco-violence rather than urban violence as the drivers for urban violence are at a low point.
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China -
Taiwan, facing the prospect of an overwhelming Chinese surprise attack, is finally upgrading its SEAD (Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses) capabilities. This includes purchasing the most modern HARM (High Speed Anti-Radiation) missile the U.S. has available for export; the AGM-88E. Taiwan is getting the latest upgrades for these missiles, meaning the AGM-88Es won’t arrive until late 2022. Taiwan also has some of its F-16s upgraded, to the latest F-16V version, that includes the ability to use the AGM-88E. Taiwan is in the process of upgrading all its F-16s to this F-16V Block 52 standard. The E model is so popular because it is capable of going after moving ships. This makes the AGM-88E an effective anti-ship weapon as well.
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Israel -
WATCH DATE - JUNE 15th UPDATED -

Country prepares for the new govt coalition to take over.
More civil unrest between Israeli arabs/ palestinians and Israeli security forces.
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Iran -
Iran regained its vote in the UN General Assembly on Friday after the United States enabled Tehran to use funds frozen in South Korea to pay some $16 million it owed to the world body. Iran lost its vote in the 193-member General Assembly in January because it was more than two years in arrears. It owed a total of more than $65 million, but paid the minimum amount needed to regain its vote.
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Syria -
Massacre in the city of Afrin, north of Aleppo, due to repeated missile shelling by the SDF, 19 dead as a preliminary outcome, including a member of the Civil Defense. The hospital was one of the targets .
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Central America General
Harris’ trip to Guatemala and Mexico was such a dumpster fire that the WH is sending Samatha Powers down there to clean up her mess. Harris has received blistering comments for democrats for her non-performance. This is probably why she was left outside biden’s preparation for the G7 - simply totally incompetent.
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Heads up, today will be last post for about a week as i will be in the woods and away from cyber civilization. Need to breath the mountain air of the Redoubt and be refreshed.
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Wuhan virus -
Canadian immunologist and vaccine researcher Byram Bridle, Ph.D. is taking heat from the wuhan vaccine cultists over revealing test results for Pfizer’s development of its pseudo vaccine. The assumption that vaccine developers have been working with is that the mRNA in the vaccines would primarily remain in and around the vaccination site. Pfizer’s data, however, show the mRNA and subsequent spike protein are widely distributed in the body within hours. The spike protein is a toxin shown to cause cardiovascular and neurological damage. It also has reproductive toxicity, and Pfizer’s biodistribution data show it accumulates in women’s ovaries. Once in your blood circulation, the spike protein binds to platelet receptors and the cells that line your blood vessels. When that happens, it can cause platelets to clump together, resulting in blood clots, and/or cause abnormal bleeding. Pfizer documents submitted to the European Medicines Agency also show the company failed to follow industry-standard quality management practices during preclinical toxicology studies and that key studies did not meet good laboratory practice standards.
OBSERVATION - These are key negative results that have been reported by several reviewed studies now. Here we have the early development results that foreshadowed the aftereffects. Blood clots, feminine reproduction issues, heart inflammation, etc. Granted, this is one researcher, but he has the credentials to be able to speak on the subject. If his claims are true, Pfizer knowingly push a dangerous drug on the world and key medical leadership in the world (WHO and CDC) allowed it.

More wuhan doom porn as some researchers are indicating that the Indian variant of Covid-19 could be the dominant strain of the virus in the United States in just one week. It comes as Covid-cases continue to plateau in the US. On Saturday, 8,207 Americans tested positive to Covid. An additional 261 people succumbed to the virus, a decrease on the seven-day average of 379.

Or will it be the mexican variant? This variant represents 52.8% of all sequenced coronaviruses in Mexico, whereas in the United States it shows up only in 2.7% of the sequenced samples.
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Globalism / Great Reset -
Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday that California is on the cusp of releasing an electronic system that will allow businesses to confirm that their customers have received their shots. He is being careful not to call it a passport, but that is essentially what it is.
OBSERVATION - Weasel wording aside, this is one of the bigger attempts to force in a papers system. CA has documented every person who’s received a shot - a data base that could be electronically tapped by businesses (if they have the proper ‘incentives’). Currently there are there choices for businesses - don’t ask/don’t tell; make everyone stay masked or ‘verify’ vaccination status (creating a two tiered citizenship status).
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Economy -
According to Zumper, national rent growth has accelerated to nearly 5% for 2 bedroom units. And the expected change in rent over the next 12 months is 9.5%. Of course, national home price growth (ignored directly in the inflation numbers) is 13.16% YoY according to Case-Shiller.

Updated review of the number of small businesses killed by the wuhan shut down is now estimated at 40%. Most of the destroyed businesses were in the hospitality industry.

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Biden watch -
Apparently his G7 presser was a disaster. Kept getting Libya mixed up with Syria. Had trouble answering even the most basic of questions and revealed that he had a list of questioners he was permitted to call on.

During a sitdown meeting this weekend at the G7 in Great Britain, UK leader Boris Johnson had to step in and correct Joe Biden after biden interrupted the Prime Minister to welcome the President of South Africa.

European media commentary notes biden’s diminished mental facilities and lack of awareness during the course of the meetings.
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China -
Taishan Nuclear Power Plant, located in southern Guangdong province, is thought to have been leaking for at least two weeks after a French firm that co-owns the facility flagged the issue to Washington.
American agents have spent the last week monitoring the situation and have concluded it has the potential turn into a major disaster but that facility is not currently at ‘crisis level’.
NOTE - China has always had questionable quality control issues with major projects. This nuclear plant had many that were swept under the rug. Perhaps the chicken are starting to come home to roost here.
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Israel -
WATCH DATE - JUNE 15th UPDATED -
In advance of tomorrow’s Flag Day march, observers note lots of signaling coming from the Gaza factions in response to the currently planned Flag March through Jerusalem tomorrow. The factions talk of readiness and preparation, within Gaza itself, rocket units, and calls for confrontation at the march tomorrow by the factions. Senior Hamas official Moussa Abu Marzouk said that “striking all of Israel’s cities” is still an option for the terror group in response to Israeli actions in Jerusalem or other locations, the Kan public broadcaster reported Sunday. It has not ruled out resuming firing rockets at cities across Israel. The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) put out a statement Sunday warning the Israeli government of an “explosion” should the planned march celebrating Jerusalem Day, which had been twice postponed already, takes place. PLO said that “ensuing unrest could extend beyond Jerusalem to the Palestinian territories if the march takes place, saying that the ‘occupation authorities’ have not learned from the political changes in the region and internationally.”
The IDF has sent reinforcements to the West Bank in the face of these threats. Border police forces have also been bolstered in Jerusalem’s Old City and the alert level at Iron Dome batteries has been raised through concern over possible violent outbreaks including rocket fire from the Gaza Strip by Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

OBSERVATION - There is an almost guarantee of civil unrest targeting the marchers. The wild card is a potential resumption of rocket fire which originally started in part in response to violence in Jerusalem. Hamas et al may take this moment to test the mettle of the new government before it has a chance to settle in.

The new Israeli govt convened its cabinet for the first time today. Naftali Bennett has been sworn in as the 13th prime minister of the State of Israel. A mix of celebrations and protests ensued from the Israeli population.
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Iraq -
Iranian supported Iraq’s Kata’ib Hezbollah warned in a statement that US forces must leave, or we take them by surprise.
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Afghanistan -
Significant fighting in the KhanAbad district in Kunduz province. Taliban initially captured but were later driven out by Afghan forces. Expect to see a lot more of this action in the coming months.
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