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”
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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