10,000 foot overview
I’ve been posting a lot of notes, but want to connect some of the dots look at my most significant concerns from all this now that we are approaching the half way point of 2021? I’d though I’d list them out quickly kinda in the priority I see them.
1. Biden (forced) to resign. Such an action if based on dementia, would cast a shadow on ALL his executive orders. Transition of power to the equally incompetent harris could trigger significant political turmoil not only between Republicans and democrats, but within the democrat party itself. Inclusive of that would be the -s- hitting the fan as global policy is thrown into disarray, potentially encouraging America’s enemies to take advantage of the situation.
2. Economic crash. I’m not an economist but there are many warnings from those who are (and not the doomers who’ve been calling for a crash for years with the accuracy of some global warming cultists). The fall 2021 is looking to shape up to be when it hits, with Yellen et al trying to soften the public perception with ’transitory’ talk. Hyperinflation has now become a major concern. Such a crash could be the spark that triggers nation wide violence.
3. Israel/Iran direct clash. Both have been dancing around each other for the past couple years. Continued Israeli political turmoil with the biden incompetence in dealing with iran on its nuclear program may kick off the war no one wants. Such a war will hit America hard through secondary effects (oil disruption, loss of US military assets, etc). It may very likely turn nuclear.
4. China isn’t quite ready yet to tackle Taiwan, but will be in a few years - likely before the 2024 elections. depends on #1 above
5. Global Reset - They continue to put the pieces in place but can’t go fully forward until any American resistance has been subdued - meaning that the economy and civil stability must be crushed for their alternative ‘security’ will be accepted. Wuhan compliance is part of this as is the development of global corporate taxes.
6. CW2 - the biden administration is pushing anti-constitutional measures on all fronts and Red states pushing back with laws to cancel those measures. I originally thought most of CW2 would be an urban/rural scrum, but with State governments stepping in there could be a state vs state(federal) level of conflict. A second component could be if the AZ ballot examination trigger other examinations AND if they can prove fraud. This would generate a constitutional crisis of an proven illegitimately elected president.
Bottom line - still searching and being alert to the last straw that breaks the camel’s back. Hence these posts in Threat Matrix - to keep my eyes open to what is happening.
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Wuhan virus -
Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC on Wednesday he believes enough Americans are fully vaccinated to delay the risk presented by the Delta Covid variant.
“The question is: Are there enough unvaccinated people that this could get into the population and start spreading more widely? I happen to think it’s unlikely that this is going to be a threat until the fall, perhaps,” the former Food and Drug Administration commissioner said on “Squawk Box.”
NOTE - Talk like this continues the fear mongering of the medical establishment. “Delta” is reportedly already in the US, has been for months. Trying to leverage the fear factor to force more vaccinations.
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Globalism / Great Reset -
UK Boris Johnson endorsing a version of a “Marshall Plan” (an idea based on the US Marshall plan that helped rebuild Europe after WW2) to bring green power projects to the third world. NOTE - I expect he would like the US to pay for it like its namesake.
The White House budget office this week gave Biden the greenlight to move forward with removing a Trump-era health care policy designed to bring down the price of insulin. Biden’s bid to retract the rule was approved on Monday, as reported by Politico, with the expectation that the Department of Health and Human Services could publish the retraction within the coming days.
The measure, signed off on under the previous administration in December, aimed to require some 340B community health centers to deliver savings to low-income patients for insulin and epinephrine in a bid to bring down unaffordable prices.
OBSERVATION - Control of health care is right up there with food to control the masses. There is no legitimate reason to cancel this program, no benefit to the public, other than stop something Trump accomplished. Its not about health, its about control.
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Economy -
TC Energy, the company behind the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline, says it’s officially terminating the project — ending a more than decade-long battle over its construction. IIRC it is about 90% complete
Deutsche Bank said the U.S. may be headed toward one of its worst periods of inflation in history amid increased government spending and relaxed monetary policy, warning that the belief inflation is transitory could have serious consequences for the economy.
OBSERVATION - once again, the narrative reference to “transitory” should raise red flags, though in this case DB is speaking against the use by Yellen et al to deflect from the potential seriousness of the issue.
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Invasion of Illegals -
After the Guatemalan debacle, Harris is in Mexico to get to the bottom of the illegal crisis. In this, she is blaming Mexico for not accepting illegals with children back into Mexico - FORCING the administration to dump them unsupervised and with no court date into the interior of the US.
Meanwhile, illegal border crossings have increased for the fourth month in a row growing to 180,034 in May, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection - a 674% jump. They were also up by 674 per cent on crossings recorded in May 2020, when 23,237 illegal migrants were apprehended . Single adults still represented the majority of border-crossers, according to data from the U.S. Border Patrol. In May there was a decrease in the number of unaccompanied minors, from roughly 16,910 to 13,906 . CBP also said that a majority of those who crossed the border were already expelled due to Title 42, which allows the U.S. government to quickly remove people using the COVID-19 pandemic. Of the 180,034 crossers, 112,302 had already been expelled (repeat offenders).
Cartels are combining their human trafficking with drugs. In a year, fentanyl seizures have jumped 800% in Texas, and the drugs coming across the southern border are fueling an unprecedented epidemic across the U.S.
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Biden watch -
biden kicked off his overseas trip by rebuking Boris Johnson for ‘inflaming tensions’ in Northern Ireland. This caused the WH to almost immediately go into damage control to put out the flames of a major transatlantic bust-up with Britain.
OBSERVATION - This overseas engagement with global leaders, something he’s pawned off onto harris to a degree stateside, could result in a major meltdown and exposure of his increasing mental issues. He can’t afford to fall apart on the world stage as global media is not so tightly chained as US media.
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CW2/Domestic violence -
For the second time in five days on Tuesday , city workers removed barriers yesterday to reopen the intersection at 38th Street and Chicago Avenue, where Floyd died in custody just over a year ago. And for the second time in five days, activists blocked traffic again hours later without any opposition from authorities. Residents and businesses are not thrilled that the city is allowing the barrier to go back up unopposed. They say the area is like a war zone with regular shootings and drug dealers all over the place.
The Portland police have moved their police union headquarters after a year of near constant vandalism. PPA headquarters were in the Kenton neighborhood of the Rose City, but the building was a “target of vandalism” for Antifa militants and others during the past year of civil unrest. Recently, BLM/Antifa in April attempted to burn the building down again. The the new location for the headquarters has not yet been disclosed.
OBSERVATION - A victory for the insurgent leftists. Remember, at the core leadership level, Antifa is the face of a marxist insurgency. Capture and control of territory is part of the goals and plans of an insurgency. It provides a relatively safe base of operations for planning, logistics and operations. We can’t just look at the organization as a whole as a bunch of soy boys (those are the useful idiot element), but a planned operation to overthrow the nation (eventually).
One other parallel observation is the explosion in gang violence in cities like Portland. BLM/Antifa, with their supporting city councils, have driven police out of the force by the hundreds and defunded crime fighting activities. Reality, gang violence keeps the pressure on the police, freeing Antifa to operate on other areas, while maintaining their base.
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Strategic Developments /Deployments -
The Reagan CSG is operating off Japan as part of its scheduled patrols. Concerns were raised earlier about leaving that part of the Pacific without on station carrier presence. The Eisenhower CSG is operating near the Persian Gulf supporting Afghan troop withdrawals.
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Cyber Warfare -
JBS, the largest beef supplier in the world, paid the ransomware hackers who breached its computer networks about $11 million, the company said Wednesday. The company was hacked in May by REvil, one of a number of Russian-speaking hacker gangs, leading to meat plants across the U.S. and Australia shutting down for at least a day. News of the payment was first reported by The Wall Street Journal. In a statement, JBS indicated that while it was able to get most of its systems operational without REvil’s help, it chose to pay to keep its files safe.
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China -
In response to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken signaling the U.S. will start to build a “framework” with Taiwan to establish trade relations, a Chinese Embassy spokesperson has demanded communications cease.
“Stop all forms of official exchanges and contacts with Taiwan, stop elevating its relationship with the Taiwan region in any substantive way,” the spokesman said in a statement to The Wall Street Journal.
Lawmakers from 10 countries and the European Union have brought forward proposals concerning a boycott of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics in light of the communist regime’s treatment of the Chinese citizens, primarily the Uyghurs, Tibetans, and Hong Kongers.
NOTE - if the boycott is carried out, expect China to have a conniption fit. However, I think it will fall through. China has its fingers deep into media and the governments to bully the boycott away.
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India/China -
Express UK reports that tensions are high in the disputed border region. India is reported to have increased the number of its troop while China conducts live fire exercises banned by treaty in the border region.
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Israel -
WATCH DATE - JUNE 10TH -
Watching to see if the flag parade is conducted by Israeli right wing groups. Potential for civil violence in Jerusalem. The parade marks the capture of the Temple Mount as a result of the 6-day war in 1967.
Prime Minister Netanyahu is expected to execute an orderly transfer of power to Naftali Bennett next week, sources familiar with the issue tell. The Likud party is still declining to comment about the issuePrime Minister Netanyahu is expected to execute an orderly transfer of power to Naftali Bennett next week, sources familiar with the issue tell. The Likud party is still declining to comment about the issue.
Buried in other news was another IAF airstrike on various targets in southern and central Syria. This is the first strike attributed to Israel in nearly a month. Targets were the standard Iranian-created munitions depots and facilities designed to facilitate a desired Hezbollah attack on Israel.
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Iran -
Videos coming out showing Iran Navy IRIS Sahand crossing an area of the Atlantic Ocean. She must be accompanying the Makran which is reportedly on the way to Venezuela. Biden administration is warning Venezuela and Cuba to turn away Iranian ships believed to be carrying arms to Caracas, Venezuela, vowing to take “appropriate measures” to deter the “threat” to America and its allies in the West. Intel reportedly has the Makran carrying fast attack boats, potentially for delivery to Venezuela.
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Lebanon -
Cleric Ali Akbar Mohtashamipour, founder of Hezbollah in Lebanon in the 1980s, died from wuhan.
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Syria -
Fighting has picked up in southern Idlib Provience.
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Venezuela -
See Iran above.
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South America General-
Locals in Barranquilla, Colombia, responded to leftist riots in their neighborhood by taking the streets with machetes on Tuesday, according to Colombian media and citizen journalists. Colombia has experienced nationwide riots since late April, initially organized against a progressive tax proposal by conservative President Iván Duque. Even though Duque walked back the near-universally unpopular proposal days later, leftists have used the issue to create violence against the govt.
OBSERVATION - Marxists have been active in Central and South America for decades. It if this incidence is an indicator, the rioting may start turning into a civil war. This follows reports of citizens developing militia groups to defend their neighborhoods from leftist violence.
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Thanks for your posts. Godzilla. BUMP!
The obvious solution is...
The day biden is out, Pelosi will suddenly get the Natural Born Citizen religion.
Dual non-citizen parents anchor baby Harris is gone, gone, gone.
Next in the line of succession is...
Speaker of the House.
Madam, speaker? Here's your Presidential gavel...
She would be rather pleased with all that power...
Wuhan virus -
Third significant study that shows no need to vaccinate after recovering from wuhan. Cleveland Clinic concluded there is no need to vaccinate people who have been infected with the virus that causes COVID-19. The finding aligned with a study published last month in Nature by researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis concluding that even mild or asymptomatic cases of COVID-19 can produce lasting immunity that would guard against repeated infections. Also an Israel finding that people who had tested positive for the novel coronavirus in the previous three or more months had at least as much protection against new infection, hospitalization and death as vaccinated people.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday that it will convene an “emergency meeting” of its advisers on June 18th to discuss rare but higher-than-expected reports of heart inflammation following doses of the mRNA-based Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines. Though I could find no specific age demographics, recent concerns have surfaced regarding the CDC previously disclosed that reports of heart inflammation were detected mostly in younger men and teenage boys following their second dose, and that there was a “higher number of observed than expected” cases in 16- to 24-year-olds.
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Globalism / Great Reset -
Multiple countries looking to legitimize crypto currencies as a means to monitor transactions and eventually bring under control/regulation. President Donald Trump said that bitcoin “seems like a scam,” adding that he doesn’t like it because it’s “essentially another currency competing against the dollar, and I want the dollar to be the currency of the world.” The key to his statement is not the “scam” but the threat to the US dollar. If the USD actually is eroded as the world reserve currency, the impact to the stability of our economy increases almost exponentially. Such erosion and replacement is a goal of the Great Reset - one global currency and exchange vehicle.
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Economy -
Consumer prices for May accelerated at their fastest pace in nearly 13 years as inflation pressures continued to build in the U.S. economy, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The consumer price index rose 5% from a year earlier. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been expecting a gain of 4.7%. The reading represented the biggest CPI gain since the 5.3% increase in August 2008.
Think our food prices are bad, this is global. Britain experiencing the highest food inflation in decades and the UN reports the cost of food rises at fastest pace in over a decade. Stock up now!
More future inflation - Traders are accumulating call options on $100 Brent and West Texas Intermediate crude-oil contracts, anticipating higher oil prices through the end of 2022. “Everyone’s been looking at it [$100 call options]. For some context, the first time oil hit $100/barrel was in 2008 and it pushed the national average for regular unleaded gas to $3.04/gallon. In today’s dollars, we’d be looking at $3.80-4.00, or roughly a 25-30% increase above the national average right now. And those increases at the pump will also be seen in the grocery (and other) stores.
Current group negotiating an “infrastructure’ plan is looking at a back door increase to existing fuel taxes to help pay for road repairs. This is to be accomplished by Inflation indexing the gas tax, inflation increases, so does the tax.
The monument to stupidity continues as biden restored a $929 million grant for California’s high speed rail. The rail budget has more than doubled and schedule set back years and years as it has become a boondoggle for tax payers and a boon for politically well connected contractors.
Stock market analysts are looking into their crystal balls and warning of a market correction that could range from a standard bear market to a market collapse. Two indicators, one - Morgan Stanley’s Timing Indicator, which reached an all-time high. Historically, this is a good indicator of a correction; and the other - the Buffet Indicator, comparing total market cap to GDP, which has continued to hit all-time highs, most recently sitting at a whopping 209%.
OBSERVATION - As I noted yesterday, my #2 ranked threat to the US is an economic crash. Run away inflation, out of control govt spending/debt and stock market instability IMHO are converging in a very nasty manner.
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Invasion of Illegals -
TX Gov Abbot announced that TX will start building a wall to stop illegals. NOTE - This will have to thread its way through many court challenges as I’m sure the biden administration will claim sole authority for border control and try shut it down as Clinton did to Arizona years ago.
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Biden watch -
Stated yesterday that he liked Europe so much he doesn’t want to come home. Are comments necessary?
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CW2/Domestic violence -
Marxist critical race theory (CRT) is creating another major societal fault line and parents aggressively are pushing back over school districts trying to force it on children. Parent activism against CRT has resulted in many school board elections throwing out CRT proponents. CRT has pushed into all aspects of federal government and blue state governments. Most red states are banning any implementation of CRT programs/indoctrination.
NOTE - This is a standard marxist ploy to divide and conquer a nation. This has the potential to inflame racial strife and violence as much as the death of George Floyd.
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POLITICAL FRONT -
Rep. Ilhan Omar sparked fresh controversy with a comment which critics said equated Israel and the United States with terrorist groups. This has become a bridge too far for even her democrat colleagues and is getting pushback over the antisemitism. Fellow islamist Rep Tilab has been trying to defend her, as well as other vocal islamists have been trying to defend her statements as “freedom of speech’ and ‘islamophobia’.
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Cyber Warfare -
Hackers have stolen 26 million user logins for tech giants including Amazon, Apple, Facebook as well as vital payment information in the latest online security breach. The malware hack, exposed by cybersecurity provider NordLocker, also saw payment details nabbed from 3.25 million computers that run Windows software. It was uncovered after researchers discovered a 1.2 terabyte database filled with stolen personal information.
The other firms whose accounts were targeted include eBay, Instagram, Netflix, Paypal, Roblox, Steam, Twitch and Twitter. It saw victims computers’ infected by opening emails, or downloading bootleg software, and enabled the malware to take screenshots of their browsing activity - including private login details.
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Russia -
To supply advanced satellite to Iran below.
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Israel -
WATCH DATE - JUNE 15th UPDATED -
The annual flag march didn’t occur in full strength yesterday, but that didn’t stop some on the Israeli right from doing it any way. East Jerusalem protesters and Israel Police, as far-right lawmaker Itamar Ben Gvir marched to the flashpoint Damascus Gate entrance to the Old City. Ben Gvir waved an Israeli flag at the site, in what he said was a personal protest, after police banned him from parading through the Muslim Quarter to reach the Temple Mount. March organizers are now looking to reschedule the march for next Tuesday and are coordinating with police on the route. The march will certainly create significant violence between Israeli marchers and Palestian counter protestors.
The most recent IAF air strike in Syria took out General Aiham Ismail, the highest ranking SAA officer killed by Israel past years. Graduated in chemistry, he was part of Assad’s weapons program & died in the airstrike on the Homs Scientific Research Complex.
Israel has reportedly asked Egypt to prevent the entry to Gaza of cement and other building materials that could be diverted by Palestinian terror groups for military use. Israeli officials are hoping to meet with their Egyptian counterparts on the matter, having recognized that without monitoring of the goods entering Gaza, there is no way to block Hamas from rebuilding its military capabilities, the report said.
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Iran -
Russia is preparing to supply Iran with an advanced satellite system that will give Tehran an unprecedented ability to track potential military targets across the Middle East and beyond, according to current and former U.S. and Middle Eastern officials briefed on details of the arrangement.
The plan would deliver to the Iranians a Russian-made Kanopus-V satellite equipped with a high-resolution camera that would greatly enhance Iran’s spying capabilities, allowing continuous monitoring of facilities ranging from Persian Gulf oil refineries and Israeli military bases to Iraqi barracks that house U.S. troops, the officials said. The launch could happen within months, they said. It would have a resolution of 1.2 meters.
OBSERVATION - This is a year or so out but will give significant aid to Iranian intelligence and targeting in the region, from the Houthis in Yemen to Hezbollah in Lebanon.
US is reportedly lifting some sanctions against Iran ahead of nuclear talks. NOTE - more signals of weakness from the US will only encourage Iran to cheat and demand more concessions.
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Syria -
See Israel above.
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Afghanistan -
US troop withdrawals are at about the 50% mark.
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