Wuhan virus -
Poland has imposed new lock down measures.
CDC changes requirement for social distancing to 3 feet. NOTE - there is no science behind any distancing rule.
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Invasion of Illegals -
biden’s immigration policy has not only created a border crisis but neither he nor his aides have outlined the new approach to asylum or said when it will be unveiled, creating an information void and giving rise to rumors that migrants would be allowed in. Amid sharply higher migration flows, confusion and skepticism surround Biden’s insistence that it’s not the time to come to the border.
Sources within the BP indicate that they are encountering as many as 5000 illegals per day. This compares with the crisis of the 0bama administration of 1000 per day.
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Biden watch -
biden stumbled multiple times and fell one time going up the stair into AF1 yesterday. WH blamed the winds.
I’m pinning it here for record. biden’s administration has displayed to the US’s most significant enemies - China, Russia, Iran and N Korea - that we are VERY weak and the dumpster fires raging on the border, military (social justice and political purging) and attacking the US economy. It is frightening that they have gone from fear/respect to disrespect in just a matter of months. This unraveling of Trump’s foreign policy has significant potential of a serious military conflict in the very near term, most likely against Iran.
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CW2/Domestic violence -
In an effort to further attack the right, biden showed up on Atlanta to condemn anti-asian racism. Only problem is yesterday the FBI declared that there was no evidence of racism/hate crime associated with the shooting of 6 asian women and two white women. The shooter was an addicted porn freak. Of course the democrat answer was to pass another ‘hate crime bill’
It appears that Nancy’s “wall” will be coming down after Capitol Police admit there is no credible threat against congress.
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CYBER/CANCEL CULTURE FRONT -
Twitter has locked Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene out of her Twitter account on the day that Democrats are introducing a resolution to overturn the will of voters and expel her from Congress. Expulsion is unlikely in that 2/3rds must vote to do so. That means a substantial number of republicans will have to cross the aisle to do so. Twitter restored access stating the move was a “mistake”.
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POLITICAL FRONT -
House Democrats are trying ta gain support for a long-shot bid to expel Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from Congress. So far, no republicans have made any indication that they will will cross over and support the measure.
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China -
The summit with China yesterday was an unmitigated dumpster fire for the US. Senior diplomats Wang Yi and Yang Jiechi raked US diplomats over the coals with their counter charge of BLM / racism. The whole fiasco only furthered China’s perception of the biden administration being a paper tiger and totally inept.
As mentioned in previous posts, China has a food shortage issue. In part due to agriculture disasters from weather (floods and droughts) and disease (pork and poultry). In an article by Newsweek, China is importing record amounts of soybeans and other products from the US. Xi has instituted programs to stop food wastage and to have people reduce what they eat. The US is blissfully unaware of the hammer held against china that US grown food has.
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Lebanon -
It is reported that an official Hezbollah delegation, headed by Lebanese Parliament member Mohammad Ra’ad, arrived in Moscow on Monday for a three-day visit at the Russian Foreign Ministry’s invitation. Russia is seeking to find a solution to Lebanon’s political crisis, which is preventing the formation of a permanent government in Beirut and threatening the checks and balances underlying the sectarian government system that has existed in Lebanon since 1943. As I have pointed out, Hezbollah is the real power begin the Lebanese society, it operates an alternative governmental system, separate from the central government in Beirut. It includes an independent economic system, including Hezbollah banks with ATMs, as well as a health system that provides a partial solution to the state’s inability to cope with the coronavirus pandemic. It is funded exclusively by Iran for its purposes and not humanitarian. Hezbollah prefers to work in the shadows, avoiding the glare of actually and overtly running the govt, but this creates other problems for Iran, but may be unavoidable. If the Lebanese govt completely collapses, there is the potential for overt take over of the govt that will be resisted and potentially drive a civil conflict (though Hezbollah has all the superior weapons). This take - over would then permit Iran to park warships in Lebanese harbors as well as taking over Beirut International Airport to use it as a military airfield, while at the same time establishing a military airfield in Baalbek. Some of this may sound extreme but not by much. The complications of a Hezbollah/Iranian take over would hamper some of its readiness to attack Israel as resources, manpower and planning would have to be devoted to stabilization of the country and its economy. That may provide Israel some breathing room.
NOTE - In a related posting, yesterday the leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah gave a speech addressing the domestic unrest and protests in the country.
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Syria -
Rumors that RAF planes flying from Cyprus are having their GPS signals jammed by hostile action - thought to be from Syrian territory. Security sources believe Syrian forces may have been helped and trained by Russian military personnel. Israel reportedly has also faced GPS jamming from a site in Syria. The suspect location is the Khmeimim Air Base, built by the Russians in 2015. Such jamming is a danger to commercial aircraft passing through the region.
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Black Swans -
After watching the region for the past couple months, volcano has erupted south-west of Iceland’s capital Reykjavik, the country’s meteorological office says. It says the fissure is about 500-700 metres long (1,640-2,300ft) at Fagradalsfjall on Reykjanes peninsula. The last eruption there was some 800 years ago. The event is effusive with little airborne ash that could impact UK or Europe. Just a cool eruption for geologists like me to follow.
Balzuo - chinese word for people who “only care about topics such as immigration minorities, LGBT and the environment, who have no sense of real problems in the real world, who advocate for peace and equality to satisfy their own feelings of moral superiority and who are obsessed with political correctness .
Our new word for “snowflake”.
Wuhan virus -
Oregon state health officials unveiled a new proposal in January which seeks to make temporary mask mandates permanent. This also includes social distancing requirements.
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Invasion of Illegals -
biden has lost the WaPO, which is calling the loss of control of the southern border a catastrophe. He is losing the leftist media by is gross mishandling of the situation.
The Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is considering releasing illegal border crossers who claim asylum without issuing a Notice to Appear (NTA) — meaning they will depart custody without a court date, according to news reports early Sunday morning. Such a decision would be unprecedented if enacted.
Biden is also considering flying detainees to ‘northern’ states bordering Canada to ease the border crisis. There is currently no indication as to whether United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has determined which northern and coastal states could receive the reported flights. Representatives from potentially affected states are demanding clarification.
NOTE - Too bad we are entering spring here in the American Redoubt - nothing like a brisk -20 to cause folk to reassess their desire to illegally immigrate.
Now biden admin has thrown $86 million to hotels to house illegals as well.
On Saturday morning, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) took to social media and appeared to question whether Joe Biden had revealed plans “to create a crisis” at the border while pursuing the Democratic presidential nomination more than 18 months ago. Details at link.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-leader-suggests-biden-revealed-plans-to-create-border-crisis-in-2019
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Biden watch -
This tweet nails it
Lauren Boebert@LaurenBoebert
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Vladimir Putin is basically calling Biden a senile old man, China rebuffed Anthony Blinken to his face & Kim Jong Un refuses to talk to anyone from the Biden regime... but it’s good to know that America is ReSpEcTeD AgAiN.
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CW2/Domestic violence -
MY OBSERVATION - I know that some may disagree with me, but then they are allowed to. My observation of the events of the last three months indicate that Patriots are keeping their powder dry at least to the extent that they are influencing their Red States to enact laws to negate unconstitutional edicts from DC. This tends to be the way of the right - work the system as a counter. However, this is IMHO the last fire wall. Should the feds/left try to crash that firewall with police state might, the right may have no other choice than to resist tyranny. These laws and edict are still working their way through congress and we may know more the future by early summer to see if the forecast is going to be hot. Remember too, things have been going crazy fast and it could hit the fan far sooner.
There are a number of announced BLM/Antifa protests across the nation this weekend. Will probably have a better breakdown of the action come Monday morning.
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Saudi Arabia -
SA was busy last night hitting a half dozen Houthis munitions facilities. This follows more drone attacks against the Aramco facility yesterday. SA also said that they conducted airstrikes on an armored Houthis offensive in Marib, the Yemeni government’s last remaining stronghold in the north.
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Afghanistan -
Unusual number (5) of USAF air refueling tankers transiting to Afghanistan from Gulf bases. They are going to put go juice into a lot of somethings. Can’t find any other info at this time to see just what may be afoot.
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