Wuhan virus -
Rutgers becomes first major university to require COVID-19 immunization for students. It is the first in the nation to do so. It is not required of facility and staff. Students are allowed to request an exemption from vaccination for medical or religious reasons, according to the school’s communications office.
Manila has reentered strict lock downs due to wuhan. Presidential spokesman Harry Roque said on Saturday that the measures – which would affect more than 24 million people – would be in place from Monday until April 4.
OBSERVATION - this time frame covers Holy Week. For those unaware, that is a very important week to the nation’s Catholic community - and they get very extreme about it (been there to see some of that). How this lockdown is going to affect this is to be seen.
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Globalism / Great Reset -
“Homicides rose sharply in 2020, and rates of aggravated assaults and gun assaults increased as well. Homicide rates were 30% higher than in 2019, an historic increase representing 1,268 more deaths in the sample of 34 cities than the year before,” said a study conducted by philanthropy group Arnold Ventures and the National Commission on COVID-19 and Criminal Justice.
WHY IS THIS HERE - Alinksi postulated that revolutionary change can be driven by overloading the system. We are seeing in increased crime as well as the border chaos, progressive “woke” censorship and indoctrination, the waking and politicization of the military, assault on constitutional rights, etc. These all fold back into conditions that the globalists think will make the US welcome a global stability.
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Economy -
On top of federal gasoline tax, U.S. Transportation Secretary Buttigieg wants to charge you more to get to work and buy groceries thru a Vehicle Mileage Tax (VMT). Initial analysis indicates that this new tax will impact red states more than blue. Reportedly, this new tax will be used to fund highway infrastructure. A few years ago, Kalifornia instituted higher gasoline taxes to fund road repairs. How well did that go? Well a whole big chunk went to fund the choo-choo to nowhere, and roads are still crappy.
Blockage of the Suez Canal by the Ever Given (not Ever Green, that is the company name) is impacting global prices for goods. Just days into the blockage, shipping costs have exploded to nearly four times what they were last year, according to Bloomberg. Extended blockage will increase the cost of foods and other consumer goods for an extended period even if they get it dislodged today, because of the backup of ships and the limited passing capacity of the canal.
Food shortages/high prices are still on economists radars for both here in the US as well as abroad. The farm to fork system is still struggling following the wuhan lockdowns with farmers/ranchers trying to adjust their production to meet the forecast demands without over producing. OTOH, global pressures will drive domestic prices up as well because global production has been hit by wuhan as well as weather related catastrophes, plagues and diseases.
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Invasion of Illegals -
There is evidence that VP harris is walking away from directing the “crisis” at the border. Her spox are saying she is handling ‘diplomatic’ talks - what ever the heck that means.
A group of Senators completed a tour of the border yesterday with lots of press cameras in tow. Largely designed to draw attention to the border - it succeeded in that the bidenphile MSM was forced to report on the conditions in these holding centers and totally crush the administration’s narrative.
The staunchly liberal WaPo is complaining about the press lock down of the border, suggesting that biden’s actions to manage the press was bordering on ‘censorship’.
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Biden watch -
biden couldn’t even garner the support from the WaPo, who’s fact-checkers must have had to take a lot of medications to get through the abundant false claims by biden and actually publish so. The falsehoods are bad enough, but they were made with cheat sheets in hand that should have had the accurate facts on them. Overseas new agencies continue to mock the biden press conference and wonder at his poor health.
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CW2/Domestic violence -
The filibuster has become the major target of democrats for removal in order to advance their agendas. It will open Pandora’s box to afflict the US with all kinds of unconstitutional laws, laws designed to permit the democrats to retain power and subjugate the US under its tyrannical agenda.
Leftists at the Tenacious Unicorn Ranch (TUR) in southern Colorado continue to freak out, expecting to be overrun by right wing militia groups. The West Los Angeles chapter of the Socialist Rifle Association (SRA) is now supplying ballistic armor ranch defenders. Members of the Front Range chapter of the SRA in Colorado have been manning armed patrols of the ranch for several weeks. So far nothing is happening - no right wingers coming to play. The ranch is almost cultish in their fanaticism over the threat.
11 April - “White Lives Matter” rallies are being planned in Seattle, Washington; Orlando, Florida; Detroit, Michigan; Chicago, Illinois; Springfield, Missouri; Greensboro, North Carolina; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Anchorage, Alaska; Richmond, Virginia; Montgomery, Alabama; and Salem, Oregon. BLM/Antifa affiliated groups are mobilizing to violently disrupt them. Some think that this may be a baiting tactic to call these groups out to face off against police while the rallies are quietly cancelled. Proud Boys in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania allegedly organized such a bait rally on 19 September 2020.
Expect multiple BLM/Antifa protests/riots in the standard group of cities as have been conducted in the past.
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China -
Iran and China have signed a 25-year “strategic cooperation pact” in the latest expansion of Beijing’s flagship trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative as the US rivals move closer together. China has used these ‘cooperation ‘ pacts to gain leverage over other countries when those counties couldn’t maintain any loan payments or by forcing land for the deal.
In one of the largest air incursions to date, at least 20 Chinese military aircraft penetrated Taiwanese airspace on Friday. According to Taiwan’s Ministry of Defense, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) aircraft that entered the air defense identification zone (ADIZ) today comprised four H-6K bombers, 10 J-16 multirole fighters (Chinese-made derivatives of the Russian Su-30 Flanker), two J-10 fighter jets, two KQ-200 anti-submarine patrol planes, one Y-8 reconnaissance aircraft, and a KJ-500 airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft. The flight paths of these aircraft appear to have been to evaluate an attack route that would target the southern end of the island. This maneuver could be used to target military facilities on the eastern side of the island, currently out of range of most of China’s assets.
OBSERVATION - Numerous ‘exercises’ with increasing numbers of aircraft/equipment is a tried and true tactic for an aggressor to use. It wears down the targets defenses with all the alerts and in a way, lulls it into a false sense of normalcy bias - i.e. its just another drill. One of the biggest recent example of this was the 1973 Yon Kippur war, were Egypt conducted numerous exercises over the years to get Israel used to the idea that it was another exercise, then chose the holy period of Yon Kippur to launch its surprise attack when Israel’s guard was down.
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North Korea -
NK has accused biden of ‘provocation ‘ following his criticism of recent missile tests. NK observes indicate that this may encourage the country to conduct more tests. NK continues to ignore biden administration’s attempts to contact and start a dialogue.
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Middle East General -
An unusual and problematic alliance between Turkey, Iran and Russia appears to be developing. This, in spite of the fact that over the past several years each has opposed / supported proxy elements in shooting wars - Russia vs Turkey in Libya, Syria and the Caucasus, Russia v Iran in Syria, and Turkey v Iran in the Caucasus for example. Stability in the regions they’ve intersected in are becoming increasingly important to the as it diverts resources away from their other strategic goals. How long they are able to separate their differences to reach this goal is uncertain.
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Israel -
Post election and Israel is waiting to see if Netanyahu can pull a coalition together as he has done in the past. Biggest hurdle is that Lukud may have to bring in some groups that are not very appealing to their goals/orientation.
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Iran -
Iran and China have signed a 25-year “strategic cooperation pact” in the latest expansion of Beijing’s flagship trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative as the US rivals move closer together. Iran likely sees this as a new way around sanctions but is playing with a snake as well.
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Lebanon -
Lebanon’s outgoing prime minister said on Friday that experts had found “dangerous chemicals” at a warehouse at the Zahrani oil installations in the south. Hassan Diab said the country’s atomic energy authority identified the substances as “nuclear” after reviewing a report by German company Combi Lift, which Lebanon had tasked with clearing hazardous material at Beirut port. There is no indications as to the extent these materials/canisters are ‘nuclear’ related. Combi was hired after the mega blast in the port at Beirut last year, to deal with hazardous materials.
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Afghanistan -
biden says that it will be “hard to achieve” the May 1 withdrawal from the country.
NOTE - Taliban have stated that this will invalidate any agreement and make the US forces a target again.
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Wuhan virus -
Pfizer and Moderna have started to TEST this experimental mRNA faux vaccine on young children. They have already implemented testing on children as young as 12. This in the face of CDC data indicating that deaths for those 17 and under only account for 0.04 percent of all wuhan deaths reported in the United States. IDK about you, but this is scary.
(AP) — Brazil currently accounts for one-quarter of the entire world’s daily COVID-19 deaths, far more than any other single nation, and health experts are warning that the nation is on the verge of even greater calamity.
The nation’s seven-day average of 2,400 deaths stands to reach to 3,000 within weeks, six experts told the Associated Press. That’s nearly the worst level seen by the U.S., though Brazil has two-thirds its population. Spikes of daily deaths could soon hit 4,000; on Friday there were 3,650.
Since Texas opened up its state and removed wuhan restrictions, infections have dropped by some 34% - much to the chagrin of Fauci and his wrong prognostications.
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Globalism / Great Reset -
Famous landmarks in cities such as Paris, Moscow, Athens, Rome, Berlin and Rio de Janeiro have turned off their lights to raise awareness of environmental issues. Earth Hour is an annual global event organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature. This year’s event highlights the link between the destruction of nature and increasing outbreaks of diseases like Covid-19. (BBC)
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Economy -
biden’s administration has less than a week to decide on extending the nationwide eviction moratorium, due to expire on March 31st.
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Invasion of Illegals -
Govt estimates are estimating the illegal entry by unaccompanied children into the US will skyrocket even higher in April. This is based on the current trend (and improving weather conditions) as well as perception that the flood is the easiest way to force the US to admit the parents.
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CW2/Domestic violence -
Democrats are losing the narrative on anti constitutional bills like HR1 and the new gun ban in the senate. Schumer is threatening to kill the filibuster as a means to force the agenda out of congress and to the WH for signatures. Alinsky tactics of over loading the system are producing uncontrolled negative feed back on democrats.
Another scheme democrats are looking at is to place these measures under a continuing resolution / budget reconciliation.
biden is expected to push forward with EO’s addressing gun control. Key question is just what this will contain. Initial discussions seem to focus on using 3D printers as well as on imported guns. Neither of which will do anything to address the recent crimes. The chaos this administration has tossed the country into has devolved into a form of damage control, while planning to create the next crisis.
DHS is planning on adding “domestic terrorist” to the No Fly List. I think we can all see where this discussion is going - targeting all Trump supporters beyond those who dared to step foot in the Capitol (let along DC) on Jan 6th.
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China -
Iran and China 25-year “strategic cooperation pact” follow-up. China has concerns about fuel availability and may be looking to Iran as its gas station. The “deal” that Iran thinks they are getting will be less than what they really will get.
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Iran -
A U.S. DOD linguist based in Iraq revealed the ID of 10+ secret human assets & 20+ U.S. targets to an intermediary for Hezbollah, to assist in retaliating for Soleimani’s killing — before being arrested by the FBI.
With the Suez Canal constipated with the grounded freighter, Tehran is now talking about a 7,200-km. multimode route with India and Russia. Iran wants to use the port of Chabahar as a link to India. Recent Iranian reports have increasingly discussed investment in rail and ports and also seek greater connections to India and Pakistan, as well as Turkey.
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Syria -
Syria says it is rationing fuel as shipments are delayed by Suez canal blockage. That will not go over well to the local citizenry already hit hard by both economic chaos of the country plus civil war.
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