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Reminder - no post on Tuesdays and I’ll be on the road Thursday - Sat this week.

Wuhan virus -
Fauci facing another flip-flop as the CDC prepares to updated guidance on wearing face masks outdoors, in another reversal. Fauci is facing more scrutiny over a program he provided US tax dollars for the wuhan lab to conduct experiments outlawed in the US. Same wuhan lab now tightly linked to seeking out pathogens for the Chinese Army.

More colleges engaging in the probably illegal requirement for students to prove vaccination in order to return to class.
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Globalism / Great Reset -
VP Harris will make the case before United Nations members on Monday that now is the time for global leaders to begin putting the serious work into how they will respond to the next global pandemic. In a parallel, a smiling Bill Gates in an interview with excerpts all over the internet, talked about the ‘next’ pandemic.
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Economy -
There is reportedly a national chicken wing shortage. We may chuckle, but this is but the tip of the ice berg of what’s coming later this summer. . . . .
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CW2/Domestic violence -
Leftists continue to try to gain traction from police shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant in Columbus, Ohio. The problem is the multiple videos are clear and straight forward, Bryant was about to disembowel an unarmed victim and refused police orders.

Various police departments in the U.S. report they are experiencing “recruitment and retention issues,” including Philadelphia, New Jersey, and Baltimore. The defund the police movement and continued riots were the police have been forbidden to stop/arrest rioters are a major factor.
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Strategic Developments /Deployments -
The U.S. Air Force is considering a plan to put part of its nuclear bomber fleet on 24-hour alert status to fill the gap left by the aging U.S. nuclear missile arsenal, but one top general is warning that plan isn’t sustainable and could exhaust the force. Currently the entire fleet of B1 bombers is on stand down due to mechanical issues.
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Israel -
Following more overnight rocket attacks, Israel gave an ultimatum to Hamas that if rocket fire from Gaza continues it will respond with a wide military strike. Israeli officials told the UN envoy that closing down the fishing area in Gaza was the last attempt by Israel to respond in non military ways to the rocket fire from Gaza, but the next response will be of military nature and will have grave consequences. Israel communities targeted include Nir Am, Sderot, Ibim, and Erez.

Hamas called on the various Islamic factions in the Gaza Strip to prepare for a potential flare-up with Israel, amid renewed tensions in Jerusalem and southern Israel. In a statement released on Sunday, it said that the various armed groups in Gaza should “close ranks ... and continue to gather in the Old City of Jerusalem and preserve the prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque.” The statement continued by praising the factions for “coping with the oppressive Zionist regime through determination” and added that they must “stay with the finger on the trigger by preparing the missiles and training them on the enemy’s bastions and essential military installations.”

Mahmoud Abbas, will reportedly hold a meeting with all Palestinian factions in the next 48 hours, where he will announce his intention to postpone parliamentary elections scheduled for May 22nd. A move that will undoubtedly raise tensions. Abbas will offer as an alternative, a broad Palestinian unity government that would include Hamas.
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Iran -
The New York Times is reporting that a high-ranking official in the Obama administration tipped off Iran to Israel’s covert actions. A leaked audio recording of Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif reveals that John Kerry revealed that information to Tehran, presumably during the negotiations for the deal with Iran over its nuclear-weapons development.
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Afghanistan -
US officially started pulling troops out of country as directed towards a 9/11 completion date. Taliban OTOH have stepped their bombing and attacks against Afghan govt and military targets. The Taliban say by failing to meet the May 1 withdrawal deadline, the U.S. is in violation of the agreement negotiated by the Trump administration last year, and therefore U.S. forces are now subject to attack.
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Turkey -
Turkey threatening pushback for calling the Armenian genocide - genocide, by closing US bases, threaten its citizens and ally with Iran, China and Russia, or other US enemies.
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Reminder - I’ll be on the road Thursday - Sat this week.

Wuhan virus -
The CDC has updated its guidance. Fully vaccinated Americans can now go without masks outdoors, except in crowded settings. A lot of Americans have been doing this for a while without the ‘vaccine’. Its about control, not the virus.
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Globalism / Great Reset -
Foodie site Epicurous has removed beef recipes, saying that we must changed out diet to safe the earth from global warming. This follows the reports that biden’s global warming plan for 2030 includes limiting beef consumption to 4 lbs/person/year.

Yellen continues to work with the IMF to find a mechanism to place govt controls over cryptocurrencies, particularly bitcoin. Govt controls would facilitate monitoring of purchases and ultimate control of individuals via the pocket book.
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Economy -
Housing market continues to skyrocket to new heights. Forecasts of double digit price increases thru the end of the year.

The Federal Reserve will remain on hold for the rest of this year despite an increasing belief on Wall Street that policymakers should throttle back the stimulus they’re providing to the U.S. economy, according to the latest CNBC Fed Survey. Respondents to the survey forecast the Fed won’t reduce its $120 billion of asset purchases until January, three months later than predicted in CNBC’s March survey. And the first rate hike won’t come until December 2022, survey respondents said.
NOTE - a rate hike will have devastating consequences, even if by a minimal amount. The economy is running of credit, cheap credit, and if that starts to become more expensive prices will skyrocket even more than expected this summer - potentially triggering hyperinflation.
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Invasion of Illegals -
As if it couldn’t be proven to be lower, VP Harris proved pundents wrong when she announced that the cause of the surge in illegals is due to “climate change” and LGBTQ violence a “root cause”. According to polls, harris is failing miserably to do her job on immigration (as well as other aspects).
https://pjmedia.com/columns/stephen-kruiser/2021/04/28/the-morning-briefing-americans-waking-up-to-fact-that-kamala-harris-is-an-idiot-n1443158

biden has ordered that Immigration enforcement officials from ICE or the Border Patrol will not be allowed to arrest any illegal aliens at courthouses “unless there is a public safety threat.” Arrests at a courthouse can still be made if “it involves a national security matter, a risk of imminent death or harm to anyone, or a hot pursuit involving a public safety threat. Officers may also make an arrest at a courthouse if it appears evidence in a criminal case will be imminently destroyed.”
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Biden watch -
Biden, who is fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, wore a mask Tuesday while walking outside by himself to the podium far from reporters and other people to announce new CDC guidelines that vaccinated people can go without masks outdoors as long as they are not in big crowds. Wait, what . . . .
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CW2/Domestic violence -
The Idaho State House passed HB 377 with a vote of 57 to 12, which seeks to ban Critical Race Theory from being taught at Idaho public schools. The House passed the bill as it warned, “the federal government is working to take over Idaho curriculum.”
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POLITICAL FRONT -
The FBI is combing through the data of Americans gathered illegally by the National Security Agency (NSA) to build cases against Trump supporters and other so-called right-wing extremists. A heavily-redacted report has been declassified from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) secret court showing that the FBI received private information about right-wing individuals in September 2019. This occurred as the FBI was ignoring pressing ANTIFA and Black Lives Matter terror threats while former President Donald Trump was still in the White House.

DHS is conducting a political purge of anyone who may be a patriot. This follows a similar ideological purge working thru the US Military . DHS leadership will provide the department’s employees with information on how they can accuse their co-workers by utilizing “mechanisms for reporting insider threats and other actions associated with domestic violent extremism.”
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Strategic Developments /Deployments -
USCG Cutter Hamilton entered the Black Sea, after working with the USS Roosevelt The Hamilton will be working with NATO Allies & partners in the region. Russian naval assets almost immediately started to shadow the ship.

biden ordered the deployment of over 600 soldiers to Afghanistan allegedly to assist in the troop pullout.
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North Korea -
South Korea’s unification minister is calling for the resumption of dialogue with North Korea. Seoul’s also announced the completion of a $361,945 conference room intended to facilitate video calls with Pyongyang on Monday.
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Russia - THREAT STANDING DOWN
Ukrainian border guards have not recorded any withdrawal of Russian troops from the borders of Ukraine, only from Crimea.
Russia is repeatedly refusing dialogue and diplomatic solution on Donbas and Crimea. It claims not to be a party to the ‘conflict’.
There continues to be mortar/grenade attacks by separatists along the line of contact in the Dombas region.
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Israel -
Two rockets were launched from Gaza towards southern Israel overnight. No damage was reported as they reportedly landed in an open field in Gaza. Reports that the Gaza factions are evacuating their HQs bases , outposts and other installations as IAF aircraft move over the strip.

Post election politics continue. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday finally caved in on his more than month-long opposition to appointing Blue and White leader Benny Gantz as Justice Minister in the current transitional government. The government approved the nomination of Gantz Wednesday afternoon.
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Iran -
A U.S. military ship fired warning shots after three vessels from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) came close to it and another American patrol boat in the Gulf, the United States military said on Tuesday.
The US ship involved is the USS Firebolt, (PC 10) a Cyclone class Patrol (coastal) ship which is currently home-ported in Bahrain. This is on top of Iranian harassment of two Coast Guard Cutters earlier in the month that was just reported.
NOTE - Iranian fast attack boats have been stepping up their harassment of US vessels in the gulf.

United States will no longer require Iran to comply with the nuclear deal before the U.S. will rejoin the deal, but that only Iran *intends* to comply.
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Syria -
Western Syria / Idlib relatively quiet. Most activity is in the eastern areas with clashes with ISIS.
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Black Swans -
The 7th IAA Planetary Defense Conference takes place week in Vienna, Austria, and it is there where NASA, ESA, JPL, and others will be playing asteroid impact games. Officially called a tabletop exercise, the idea behind this game is to simulate an asteroid impact. More to the point, on April 26, the participants pretended they’ve discovered a potentially dangerous near-Earth object (NEO). During this week, people will pretend to have made more discoveries about this imaginary asteroid and then come up with recommendations and responses.
OBSERVATION - it isn’t necessary tinfoil for this exercise. The earth has been hit with asteroids in the past and recent fireballs reinforce the fact that there are plenty of rocks out there that can damage the earth - the won’t be detected until the last minute if at all. I don’t see this as reflecting a ’secret’ asteroid targeting the earth.