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To: null and void; aragorn; Baynative; Beautiful_Gracious_Skies; BusterDog; bgill; bitt; Black Agnes; ..

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Remember, unlikely I’ll have an update out tomorrow due to other commitments.

Wuhan virus -
Scott Gottlieb says accidental lab leaks “happen all the time” amid mounting intelligence that COVID-19 originated with a mishap at the Wuhan lab in China. Gottlieb told CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday that definitively determining how the pandemic started was essential to preventing future outbreaks. “These kinds of lab leaks happen all the time, actually,” he explained. “Even here in the United States, we’ve had mishaps, and in China, the last six known outbreaks of SARS-1 have been out of labs, including the last known outbreak, which was a pretty extensive outbreak that China initially wouldn’t disclose that it came out of a lab.”
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Globalism / Great Reset -
Even at a local level, wuhan is being used to silence opposition to the greater agenda. The following link details an example.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2021/05/29/moms-learn-lengths-a-wa-school-board-will-go-to-silence-complaints-on-crt-and-masks-youll-want-to-sit-down-for-this-n1450563

Is the WEF telegraphing its next punch like it did wuhan? It recently warned that simulations show a cyber attack that will take down the world economy. Remember, global economic control is one of the main desires of the WEF.
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Economy -
According to Labor dept data, unemployment claims fell to 406,000 in the week ended May 22.

biden’s budget projections show 14.5 TRILLION in deficits over the next 10 years.

Former Trump Economist Stephen Moore on Sunday said the U.S. economy is looking at four to five percent inflation, “and that’s way above where the Fed wants us to be.” “They have a two to two-and-half percent, you know, inflation target,” he told John A. Catsimatidis on his radio show, The Cats Roundtable - WABC 770 AM. The effects of inflation are everywhere, he says. “You’ll see this in the supply chain. I mean I just bought some airline tickets this weekend for this summer… airline tickets are up 20%. You know food prices are up 10, 15, 20 percent and gas prices have increased a dollar a gallon in the last year,” he added.
OBSERVATION - What the Fed does or doesn’t do will affect the severity of the next crash. It no longer has any silver bullets in its belt.

Speaking of silver, reports that the fed is stopping delivery of physical silver - meaning the price of silver coinage will continue to skyrocket over the price of paper ‘silver’. Example, as it write, paper silver is at $28.11/oz but Eagles are at $37.10 with rounds at about $32.50/oz
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Invasion of Illegals -
Cartels and drugs surging across the border, inflation crime even more.
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Biden watch -
biden snubbed veterans participating in Rolling Thunder without explanation. This following the pentagon’s handling of their permit.
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Strategic Developments /Deployments -
The one looming crisis that still hasn’t seemed to garner the attention of the White House to any significant degree is the fate of an estimated 18,000 interpreters and other natives who have assisted the United States and other NATO forces for decades. This week, General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, created an awkward conflict between the military and Biden’s White House when he spoke out on the subject. The General notes that we are running out of time and he could get all of those people out of the country if ordered to do so, but it’s not up to him. (Fox News)
NOTE - These translators are marked for death. Saw that with Iraq and Vietnam and it looks like its about to repeat itself again.

With the pending deployment of the USS Reagan group to the middle east/western Indian Ocean, some are saying the Pacific is now left with no carriers. That is not quite correct. The Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group has just returned to San Diego from its patrol of the Middle East and will be down for a while. The USS Abraham Lincoln has completed its Planned Incremental Availability at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility’s San Diego Detachment. Following the overhaul, the Lincoln departed San Diego for sea trials on April 5 in preparation for a future deployment. It is likely that these trials will result in it being deployed to the Western Pacific to counter Chinese provocation. The U.S. Seventh Fleet, which is based in Japan, will still have dozens of other ships and aircraft, but the deployment of the only available carrier in the region represents a significant diversion away from Asia – even as biden has called the region a priority for the U.S. military.
NOTE - this could create a window for the Chinese to exploit. No definite time frame that the window of no carrier operations has been released.

A Navy warship and the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency on Saturday failed twice in a key test to shoot down a medium-range ballistic missile, raising questions about America’s readiness to intercept potential enemy attacks. The Defense Department did not reveal a specific location, but it’s believed the test took place somewhere off the coast of Hawaii.
NOTE - This was the missile launch the Russian spy ship was hanging around for.

The British Royal Navy and U.S. Marine Corps have undertaken a unique joint operation aboard the new British carrier Queen Elizabeth. This carrier, the first of two, is currently undertaking its first operational cruise. The operation is to train up British sailors and airmen in the use and deployment of the F35 VTOL version used by US Marines.
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China -
China is now one step closer to developing an “artificial sun” after an experimental reactor maintained a scorching 120 million degrees Celsius for 101 seconds.
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Israel - CEASEFIRE
Monitoring potential change of government happening today/tomorrow.
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Belarus -
According to the White House, the United States on June 3 will reimpose full blocking sanctions against nine Belarusian state-owned enterprises. Biden administration officials are also coordinating with allies in the European Union and elsewhere to develop “a list of targeted sanctions against key members” of Lukashenko’s regime, Psaki said. Some analysts are saying that this is only going to push Belarus closer into he Russian sphere as it tries to recreate the old Soviet Union. IMHO it is already deep in the pocket of Putin.
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Libya -
GNA (UN created Government of National Accord) is dealing with the remaining Islamic terrorists and smuggling gangs, as long as the Turkish mercenaries make no threatening moves. Most of the Syrian Arab mercenaries employed by the Turks are fine with the lack of fighting, but they are often moved around a lot, often to confront local militias. At this stage Turkey is looking at ways to back out of the situation while still trying to enforce it claims on Eastern Med oil/gas fields.
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Black Swans -
The plague of cannibalistic, fire-starting mice that have taken over almost half Australia is about to be visited by another. Experts now warning a plague of snakes is sure to follow.


411 posted on 05/31/2021 5:41:22 AM PDT by Godzilla (Never give up, never surrender . . . . . .)
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“Wuhan virus -
Scott Gottlieb says accidental lab leaks “happen all the time” amid mounting intelligence that COVID-19 originated with a mishap at the Wuhan lab in China. Gottlieb told CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday that definitively determining how the pandemic started was essential to preventing future outbreaks. “These kinds of lab leaks happen all the time, actually,” he explained. “Even here in the United States, we’ve had mishaps, and in China, the last six known outbreaks of SARS-1 have been out of labs, including the last known outbreak, which was a pretty extensive outbreak that China initially wouldn’t disclose that it came out of a lab.””

..... so it goes from “no way that happened” to “it happens all the time”. My question is, was it accidentally on purpose?


412 posted on 05/31/2021 8:01:02 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (" When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." -Ronald Reagan)
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To: Godzilla

Lots of good info, thanks.


413 posted on 05/31/2021 8:21:03 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (" When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." -Ronald Reagan)
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To: null and void; aragorn; Baynative; Beautiful_Gracious_Skies; BusterDog; bgill; bitt; Black Agnes; ..

Wuhan virus -
Wuhan virus variants are to be known by letters of the Greek alphabet to prevent hard feelings towards countries they developed in. . .

More and more doctors and scientists with well recognized grounding in the would of viruses are beginning to poke through the cloud of obfuscation by the media and globalists to warn of the likely long term dangers of the mRNA pseudo-vaccines as well as calling out the numbers games by the CDC over adverse reactions - even potential covering over of deaths. One specialist said that for other treatments, 50 adverse reactions would be enough to pull the drug from the market. Hundreds of thousands of adverse reactions have been documented and tens of thousand of deaths so far.
NOTE - I think much of this reporting is seen daylight because of the growing evidence of Chinese creation of the wuhan virus or at least being the cause of the release of the virus from its wuhan lab. When even the WaPo is backpedaling on its initial refutation of the origin theories, there must be smoke.
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Globalism / Great Reset -
Reminder, turmoil in the global wuhan situation, economy, illegals, etc - reflected in actions in the US, are being woven into their efforts to bring the world under submission. I don’t know what the final straw will be to collapse the will of the US, but it isn’t going to be pretty.
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Economy -
Brent oil advanced above $70 a barrel after the OPEC+ alliance forecast a tightening global market ahead of a production policy meeting.
NOTE - America’s energy independence is being destroyed by biden and the rest of the world knows it. OPEC is on the ascendency again calling the shots and trying to make up money lost at lower prices and demand.

On oil, reports are biden permitted the import of 1.033 million barrels of Iranian crude in March despite sanctions on Iran’s energy sector, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The cargo is only the second oil import by the United States from Iran since late 1991, data on EIA’s website showed. Rumor is that it was a sign of ‘good faith’ to Iran as part of the negotiations for nuclear disarmament.

The Biden Administration will suspend all oil and gas contracts in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Reportedly this will involve a directed environmental review which may make the contracts purchased under President Trump either void or too expensive for the oil/gas companies to comply.
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Invasion of Illegals -
Activists are lobbying biden to bring illegal aliens deported by former President Donald Trump’s administration back to the U.S., according to the Associated Press (AP). More than 935,000 illegal aliens were deported by the Trump administration.

Texas has declared a state of emergency on the border. Its law enforcement using other criminal violations to round up illegals while staying clear of immigration law and status.

The Biden administration on Tuesday formally nixed the “Remain in Mexico” program, the latest in a series of moves to dismantle the Trump administration’s restrictive immigration policies. The program, known formally as the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), was a cornerstone of Trump’s border management policy; it forced potential asylum seekers to stay in Mexico to wait out the result of their case in U.S. immigration court. (Hill)
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Biden watch -
Speaking in Tulsa biden said - “our intelligence community…tell us white supremacists are the most lethal threat to our Homeland, not Isis or Al Qaeda, white supremacists”. He also called voting integrity laws passed by many states to be “un-American” and announced that he is tapping VP Harris to lead efforts on voting rights (HR-1).
NOTE - Center-right commentators are expressing well documented concern over biden’s Tulsa speech. He made it very clear he is going after 50% of the US population. We already had that figured out, but in the past he couched it in weasel wording, now he is more open and aggressive about it.
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CW2/Domestic violence -
The structural ‘leadership’ of BLM is falling apart under open fraud by its ‘founders’ (Patrisse Cullors reportedly went on a mansion-buying binge, buying three or four mansions for example ) and other scandals. Public support has plummeted, even among black voters. This is leading to a rise in other, more radical groups that made their showing in Tulsa, such as the new Black Panthers and other armed, violence oriented elements. If the black community no longer sees BLM as the leaders of their “movement”, they may well start to migrate to these more violent groups, seeking their leadership.
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Domestic Terror -
The FBI, Texas DPS and Kerr County Sheriff’s Office have arrested a Kerrville man they say planned to carry out a shooting at a Walmart. Coleman Thomas Blevins, 28, popped up on the KCSO radar last week, so the office reached out to Blevins. According to the KCSO, it confirmed Blevins was planning a mass shooting after speaking with him. There, deputies say they found firearms, ammo, electronic evidence, concentrated THC and “radical ideology paraphernalia,” which they said included books, flags and handwritten documents.
NOTE - He’s being called a Neo-Nazi, photos also show a number of islamic as well as white supremist flags and materials.
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Strategic Developments /Deployments -
Word coming out that the Pentagon has approved two drones made in China for use by U.S. military. Wait, what?
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Cyber Warfare -
JBS foods was the target of an organized cybersecurity attack over the weekend. The company’s operations in the US and Australia were immediately impacted as all beef and lamb kills in AU were suspended. In the US, meat packer unions say shifts are being cancelled. There are few details available from the company, other than JBS is “actively working with an Incident Response firm to restore its systems.”
UPDATE - as of this morning, JBS stated that it has made “significant progress” to resolve the cyberattack that impacted its global operations and will have the “vast majority” of its plants operational on Wednesday.
“Our systems are coming back online and we are not sparing any resources to fight this threat,” JBS USA Chief Executive Officer Andre Nogueira said in a statement late Tuesday.

OBSERVATION - Supply chains are already seriously disrupted and this threatens to do the same as the Colonial Pipeline. JBS operates 84 U.S. facilities and accounts for about 20% of overall production capacity. This will only serve to boost already soaring food prices. Some estimate by as much as 30% increase in cost should the shut down last any significant period of time. It looks at this time disruption will be limited, but like Colonial, aftershocks in bringing the system fully online may continue for several more days.
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China -
Dual China/economy related. Industrial ports in Southern China are facing delays as workers are sent home due to COVID-19 outbreaks. Export operations were expected to resume Sunday, but the current backlog is anchoring ships for at least five days. The delays at the Yantian Port are forcing Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd to reroute ships globally in an attempt to preserve schedule reliability. Follow-on supply chain impacts could be felt for a number of weeks as the port remains at limited capacity.
OBSERVATION - Again, supply chain disruptions threaten global recovery and China’s domination of being the source for much of the world’s goods show why jobs should be established here and not in China.

The Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) intercepted 16 Chinese military aircraft that entered their airspace near the state of Sabah on Monday. The Chinese aircraft did not comply with Malaysian air traffic control instructions to make contact, and RMAF fighter jets were scrambled to intercept. According to the RMAF, the aircraft were “flying in tactical formation” and the event posed a “serious threat on national sovereignty and aviation safety.” Most incursions recently have focused on Taiwan and the Philippines, China’s claims, however, also extend well within the territorial waters of the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak, Vietnam, and the island nation of Brunei.

Chinese media pushing to prepare for nuclear war with the US.
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North Korea -
North Korea warned the United States it was creating an “acute and instable situation” in the region Monday following a recent summit between President Joe Biden and South Korean President Moon Jae-In. The warning was North Korea’s first response to the May 21 summit between the U.S. and South Korean leaders at the White House. Biden and Moon had agreed in a joint statement to end decades-long restrictions on South Korea’s missile program.
The U.S. initially barred South Korea from developing missiles with a range of longer than 500 miles over concerns about a regional arms race. The ending of restrictions would allow South Korea to produce missiles capable of striking all of North Korea but stop short of striking potential targets in China and Japan, according to the AP.
NOTE - Knew already NK was unhappy and this AP report is a little late in coming. The permission to develop missiles with ranges longer than 500 miles is a game changer, but will take years of development and then production to bear fruit.

In North Korea the military has been ordered to establish special military hospitals to deal with the growing number of soldiers unfit for duty because of malnutrition. Food shortages have been worse the past few years and a lot more people are simply not getting enough to eat. Since the covid19 border closings in early 2020, the food shortages have become common in the military and even the national capital. The food shortages in the military have been so severe that many units have a growing number of troops who are emaciated and visibly too weak to carry out their duties. The government does not want these malnourished soldiers to die and the new hospitals are a short-term solution until cross-border trade is resumed and food can get in. The farmers are expected to have larger crops in 2021 because heavy rains and floods in 2020 put a lot more water in reservoirs. ((NOTE - Farmers have no fertilizers except for human urine and feces as I noted in a past report)). Military food theft from locals has been going on for years now.
Foreign donors will no longer send food aid to North Korea because most of it is diverted to the military or markets where it is sold to provide the government with more cash for priority projects, like nukes, ballistic missiles, and electrified fences along the borders.

OBSERVATION - Some commentators have resurrected the theme of the mighty NK infantry, while totally ignoring the effects of famine on the soldiers, nor the loss of training as they scrounge for food. Back in the day when I was on active duty, NK had better fed and trained soldiers - and was a real concern. Today, that military is sorely impacted as indicated above.
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Russia - MAINTAINING WATCH
Russia said on Monday it would send what it described as “uncomfortable” signals to the United States ahead of a summit between the two countries’ leaders next month and announced it was beefing up its western border militarily. Regarding the western border, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu was quoted as saying “Around 20 military formations and units will be formed in the Western Military District by the end of the year,”
OBSERVATION - Again, Putin sees biden as weak and is seizing the opportunity to take advantage of the situation as well as rub biden’s nose in it. He is pressuring NATO and eastern european countries to bend to his wishes.

Warning of “uncomfortable” signals to come, the Kremlin indicated that high on the agenda would be a range of human rights and free speech issues in the United States, particularly the “persecution” of those behind the January 6 Capitol riot by the Biden administration. The words appear Moscow’s ultimate trolling response to Biden remarks on Sunday wherein he vowed to confront Putin on egregious human rights abuses: “Of course, we will be ready to discuss everything, including problems that exist in the United States,” Lavrov told reporters Monday following Biden’s statements according to AFP.
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Israel - CEASEFIRE

Israeli opposition leaders said they have received death threats in response to their plan to form a government that would oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Washington Examiner reported.
“This is the time for all public leaders to come out in an unequivocal call against every threat, whatever the democratic decisions are,” Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said, The Times of Israel reported. “We all need to respect them and avoid sparking a dispute — let alone, God forbid, a civil war.”

Hamas calls for yet another “Day of Rage” in the WestBank this Friday which will commemorate “Naqsa Day” aka the day when the “Six Day War” began in 1967.

Israeli army says it destroyed a Syrian Army observation post in Israeli territory west of the Alpha Line in the central Golan Heights. This marks the third such incident in the past year

Incoming Mossad director David Barnea on Tuesday gave a threatening speech against Iran, alluding to potential future assassinations of its nuclear scientists and attacks on its nuclear facilities. “The Iranian [nuclear] program will continue to be met with the full power of the long arm of the Mossad,” Barnea said. “We are very familiar with the different components of the nuclear program and we are very familiar personally with the officials involved in it and also with the officials who direct them.” (JP)
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Iran -
IRIS Kharg vessel is reportedly burning off coast Bandar Abbas, Iran. Fire is reportedly “Massive”, yet, no confirmations by the state-controlled news agencies. It has reportedly sank approx. 6 miles off of Jask Port. The Kargh is a modified Ol-class fleet replenishment oiler of the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy, named after Kharg Island. Its modifications include being fitted to carry dry stores and ammunition in addition to fuel. A STRATFOR analysis states “[w]ithout this vessel, the small number of Iranian frigates would be unable to embark on extended deployments without consistent and frequent port visits along the way”. Iran is claiming the Kharg caught fire due to an electrical fire.

Several hundred dissidents and activists in an open letter last month called on voters to boycott the election, describing it as little more than a “formality.” They called for the removal of the supreme leader, free and fair elections, and the clerical system to be replaced by a secular democratic constitution.
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Black Swans -
China has announced the first human case of H10N3 bird flu. They claim the “the risk of community transmission is low”. The 41-year-old man, a resident of the eastern city of Zhenjiang, was hospitalized April 28 after developing a fever and other symptoms, the National Health Commission said. He has reportedly recovered and is pending discharge from the hospital.
OBSERVATION - Worth monitoring, wuhan reporting began in china on a similar basis.


415 posted on 06/02/2021 7:11:03 AM PDT by Godzilla (Never give up, never surrender . . . . . .)
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