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I’m back again. Recovery is going very well, just trying to rebuild stamina and re-establish the old wake/sleep pattern. You sleep a lot from something like this. So starting this week, I’m putting more effort to return to consistent commentary. Thanks for your kind words and patience.
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Globalism / Great Reset -

Fingers of the G/GR are visible in dark blue states. One aspect consists of proposals by NY state last month (withdrawn after exposure ) and Washington state this week show movement towards forcible isolation of unvaxxed into ‘camps’. This follows a similar pattern Australia and other counties are developing to coerce the unjabbed into compliance.

Rhetoric from national leaders around the world has become increasingly nasty towards the anti-vaxxed. France Macron stirred nation wide protests after he called the unvaxxed “non citizens”. Canada’s Trudeau said recently ““They don’t believe in science/progress and are very often misogynistic and racist. It’s a very small group of people, but that doesn’t shy away from the fact that they take up some space.”
“This leads us, as a leader and as a country, to make a choice: Do we tolerate these people? Over 80% of the population of Quebec have done their duty by getting the shot. They are obviously not the issue in this situation”

Vaccine skeptics and others angered by COVID curbs have protested in Brussels, Prague and other European cities over the weekend.
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Wuhan virus -

Goalposts moving again. Fauci/CDC is in the process of redefining “fully vaccinated” to include the booster shot.

Some officials are reporting that Omicron has peaked many states. Similar reports from other nations around the world. However, Omicron has underperformed in creating more hospitalizations as well as only a minuscule numbers of deaths.
News hitting the wires include that many ‘cover’ hospitalizations are not due to the wuhan virus, but actually other causes, with a later detection of wuhan.

The impending passing of the Omicron peak hasn’t stopped some branch covidians from demanding more harsh measures against the unjabbed. As I’ve noted, this includes draconian increases in health insurance costs, But a lot of these bleats are based on the now falsified claims of the pandemic of the unvaccinated.
It is increasingly evident that the vaccines do not prevent infections and that current infection rates include significant numbers of ‘fully vaccinated’ individuals. Most recent examples are Whoopie and AOC.
New statistics from New York show that more than 40 percent of the state’s hospitalized coronavirus-infected patients were admitted for “non-COVID reasons” — with the ratio in New York City “about 50-50,” Gov. Kathy Hochul said Friday.

As 2022 progresses, the trend showing that the jab is creating more problems/deaths than it is preventing sill continue to comer out. One of the biggest reports I’ve seen on this is a 99-page study titled “Worldwide Bayesian Causal Impact Analysis of Vaccine Administration on Deaths and Cases Associated with COVID-19: A BigData Analysis of 145 Countries” found that in the US specifically, the jab has caused a whopping 38% more Covid cases per million – and an even more astonishing 31% increase in deaths per million.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/356248984_Worldwide_Bayesian_Causal_Impact_Analysis_of_Vaccine_Administration_on_Deaths_and_Cases_Associated_with_COVID-19_A_BigData_Analysis_of_145_Countries

Negative effects have been hard to ignore in the world of sports with fully vaxxed athletes collapsing on the playing fields with heart problems. Continued deadly effects will continue to increase and media will scramble to keep this under wraps.

Guidance issued by the Biden administration states certain individuals may be considered “high risk” and more quickly qualify for monoclonal antibodies and oral antivirals used to treat COVID-19 based on their “race or ethnicity.”

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shortened the recommended interval between the initial inoculation and boosting from six to five months. The CDC updated its recommended waiting period for those who completed their primary vaccination series with Pfizer’s shots while leaving the booster interval recommendation for people who received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine (two months) or the Moderna vaccine (six months) unchanged on Tuesday.
OBSERVATION - These changes reflect not only the ineffectiveness of the ‘vaccines’ but a desperation to try to control a miminal virus with over vaccination that is increasingly being demonstrated as not working.

Biden’s wuhan mandates didn’t get a very favorable hearing at the USSC with many seeing that they will be struck down.
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Economy -

Last week, jobs data reflected the economy still in deep doo-doo, being lass than half of what was expected. Biden has essentially defaulted to the Fed to control inflation.
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Invasion of Illegals -

SMH - the flood of illegals continues. Detention rates for illegal immigrants have dropped by almost 10% from the previous month despite the historic surge across the border. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Alternative to Detention program has reported limited effectiveness with remote tracking technologies, such as ankle monitoring, with over 150,000 people in the program.
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CW2/Domestic violence -

An Antifa member, Garrett James Smith, 22, was arrested and found carrying an active pipe bomb, Antifa propaganda and a written document on what to bring for his direct action. The arrest occurred near a right-wing rally outside the Pinellas County Courthouse in Florida on Jan. 6. He had recently returned from Portland, Ore.

Other BLM/Antifa activity continues at low levels.

Commentators are noting increasing talk by influencers on the left advocating a civil war to subjugate their opponents and protect “democracy”.
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POLITICAL FRONT -

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi decries corporate greed, but that hasn’t stopped her from raking in as much as $30 million personally from insider stock trades on the very Big Tech companies she oversees in Congress.
No surprise then that she is also blocking bipartisan efforts to prevent members of Congress from engaging in individual stock picks.
OBSERVATION - This is insider trading at its worst. Her public arrogance will not carry well with rank and file americans on both sides of the divide.

The whole Jan 6 anniversary has gained little to no traction judging from MSM response. This in spite of the PR efforts of the MSM but were burnt by the hyperbolic claims of equivalence to Pearl Harbor and 9/11.

Desperation at having HR1 and BBB stuck in the senate due to filibuster rules, Schumer is scheming to overturn it. Biden administration is focusing its domestic efforts on voting rights legislation. The stalled Senate voting rights bill is unable to pass without changing the filibuster rules. The unofficial deadline to pass voting reform is Martin Luther King Jr. Day as advocates claim inaction would make “a mockery of the holiday.” Sens. Manchin (D-WV) and Sinema (D-AZ) remain the Democratic holdouts, but Majority Leader Schumer indicated his willingness to use procedural rule changes and legislative negotiations to overcome their resistance.
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Domestic Terror -

Iran continues to threaten terrorist attacks against the US on US territory. Given the porous border, Iranian terror teams are likely in country and could execute attacks.
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Strategic Activity / Deployments -

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered the strike group to remain in the Mediterranean Sea, rather travel to U.S. Central Command.
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China -

Evergrande has proceeded to destroy 39 buildings in response to its meltdown. On December 16, 2021 it was reported that Evergrande was now considered ‘SD’ (Selective Default) by Standand and Poor’ and normally would be liquidating its holdings. Some observers are convinced the company is following a ‘scorched earth’ policy by essentially saying ‘We are going to put it in your face that we are not going to pay you and you will watch the assets that we could use to pay you vaporize in a controlled demolition’.

Hitting headlines last week was China’s ‘hoarding’ of about 50% of the global grain supplies. I noted last summer that China was trying to buy as much grain as it could lay its hands on due in part to two disastrous harvest seasons. I noted that this has caused a global increase in food prices.

China has also been facilitating Iran’s breaking of sanctions by buying considerable amounts of oil.
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India/China -

China reportedly expanding facilities within the disputed zone with India.
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North Korea -

Last week NK launched a ballistic missile into the sea of Japan. NK reportedly said it was a test of a hypersonic glide warhead. Other observers say it was a conventional warhead.
OBSERVATION - Even with this launch, aggressive posturing by NK has been very minimal. Could be associated with the apparent health change/extreme weight loss by Kim. Only recent belligerence is the NK claim that they created the burrito. . . . .

Word is coming out that dissension within the ranks of the NK military are increasing with desertions , insubordination and even threats against officers. Sources blamed the apparent rise in examples of insubordination — as well as a corresponding increase in incidents of superior officers brutally hazing enlisted personnel — on the stresses presented by a worsening North Korean economy due in part to COVID restrictions that have largely shut off trade with China.
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Russia -

INCREASED WARNING ONGOING - OSINT and other analysts are noting the continued build up of military assets that go far beyond those necessary for a military ‘exercise’. Putin has seriously deployed for combat and can execute several options at any moment.

RUSSIA in the process of a major deployment to Kazakhstan, an allied nation like Belarus. Some reports of as much as a CAA enroute. Known deployed units include Russia’s 98th Guards Airborne Division and the 31st Separate Guards Airborne Assault Brigade are actively securing government and strategic facilities. As many as 70 military cargo aircraft have reportedly been dedicated to moving troops and equipment into the region. Kazakhstan contains the Russian space complex, the vast majority of natural gas/oil deposits and a lot of other key infrastructure for Russia.
Riots there started initially over the doubling of gas prices and expanded to overall anti government protests. A week after violence erupted, the authorities say the situation has now stabilized, with troops continuing “clean-up” operations and guarding strategic facilities. A state of emergency and a nationwide curfew remain in place. Almost 8,000 people have been detained throughout the country, the Interior Ministry said on Monday.

OBSERVATION - Russia forces are hurrying to secure secure facilities with some airborne forces reinforcing local units. Security forces have been given clearance to “fire without warning”.
FURTHER - The diversion of military resources may have disrupted any potential invasion timelines for Ukraine.

Russia is also being accused of fomenting potential ivil war in the former Yugoslavia by their support of ethnic Serbs in the multiple breakaway countries. More specially in Bosnia, where in 1995 it was divided into two separate territories of the Muslim-Croat Federation (MCF) and the Republika Srpska (RS). Russia has been suppling the RS with a lot of new military equipment.
OBSERVATION - Instability in this region furthers Russia’s goal of a buffer zone by pulling serbs into their sphere of influence even deeper and consternate NATO operations. Russia has always sided with the Serbs and this is just another place where Putin will try to set Russia up to be the sole regional mediator and security guarantor, thus weakening NATO and the West by proving that they are unreliable.
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Ukraine -

Russia rules out any concession with US at talks on Ukraine, security in Europe, adding it is “disappointed” with US signals so far
“We will not agree to any concession. That is completely excluded,” Russia deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov says.
NATO rules out Russian demands that the alliance not admit new members.

The United States is not planning to pull U.S. troops out of Eastern Europe, nor has it ruled out Ukraine’s future membership in NATO, as Russia has demanded, Secretary of State Antony Blinken told CNN’s “State of the Union” with Jake Tapper on Sunday.

Ukraine has continued the call up and training of reserves in preparation for a Russian invasion.

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg says it’s “not realistic” to expect Russia-US/NATO talks this week to resolve Ukraine/Europe security crisis. But he hopes there’s the will to “engage in a process” to prevent conflict. Aim is to agree on a “way forward. a series of meetings”

OVERALL OBSERVATION - Putin may be offering some kind of ‘out’ with the continued negotiations with NATO. However, neither side is stepping back. With winter soon to come to an end (and frozen ground assisting movement of armored vehicles) Putin is running out of time and now with Kazakhstan diverting assets and attention on at least the short term, his window is getting smaller.
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Belarus -

Belarus forces reportedly have been deployed to Kazakhstan to support that govt.
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Israel -

Kind of the standard weekly point attack/counter attacks against Hamas.
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Iran -

Officials have increased the rhetoric against the US on the anniversary of the strike that took out IRGC commander Soleimani. Iranian supported militias have launched many attacks against US bases in Syria and Iraq over the past week. Threats include terror attacks in the US as well qs against President Trump.
Iran on Saturday announced the sanctions against 52 Americans for their role in the death of Iranian commander Soleimani
A few days before Soleimani anniversary, the US reportedly has sent a message to Tehran via an Iraqi delegation warning that if attacks on US bases in Iraq & Syria cause damages or harm to troops, “the consequences won’t be confined to Iran-backed groups”

Nuclear control talks are going nowhere in Geneva, as Iran holds to its preconditions and demands.
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Iraq -

Muqtada al-Sadr rebased a statement that the election of Parliament Speaker and deputy speakers is the first signs of a “national majority government.” Govt is forming on a more anti Iranian foundation.
OBSERVATION - Al Sadr , the boil on the butt of US forces has been on the outs with Iran for a considerable time and his backing of the recent elections and results put the Iranian backed militias on notice to get out of Iraqi politics.
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Turkey -

Lyra continues to crash further, throwing the country into economic chaos.
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Globalism / Great Reset -

Italy has targeted the unvaccinated with a host of new coronavirus restrictions Monday, with proof of vaccination or recovery from a recent infection required to enter public transport, cafes, hotels, gyms and other popular venues.. The new “super” health pass requirement, which eliminates the ability to show just a negative test to gain access to services. The new restriction were enforced Monday by police fanning out at train stations to check passengers’ vaccine status and make sure they were wearing the more protective Ffp2 face masks, which were now required on public transport.

Teachers unions continue to try force school shutdowns in major cities, most recently Chicago and now the Bay Area. This action continues to be designed to stress families and maintain societal chaos.

LA Times continues the effort to dehumanize and mock the unvaxxed and those who recently have died form it. “On the other, those who have deliberately flouted sober medical advice by refusing a vaccine known to reduce the risk of serious disease from the virus, including the risk to others, and end up in the hospital or the grave can be viewed as receiving their just deserts.”
OBSERVATION - Rush towards holocaust treatment continues.

Dark Blue Oregon pushing more restrictive measures. The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) proposed four new initiatives for consideration and the comment period is open now.
• Permanent statewide mask mandate with a $500 fine, per person, per daily occurrence
• Forced vaccination of healthcare workers
• Forced vaccination of teachers
• Roll out of a digital vaccine health-pass on March 8
Three of the initiatives started as temporary rules, which only last 180 days. According to Jonathan Modie, Lead Communications Officer of OHA’s Oregon Public Health Division, “OHA has rulemaking authority and under Oregon law, OHA is charged with investigating and controlling communicable diseases and directing matters concerning the preservation of life and health of people ... across the state.” OHA is proposing they make these initiatives permanent and expand on them.
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Wuhan virus -

Fauci will be facing off against Sen Paul today - bring popcorn.
CDC (Walenski) being forced to admit that the ‘vaccines’ don’t work to prevent / control wuhan.

The World Health Organization’s COVID-19 team said on Monday that while the “end” of the pandemic is “in sight,” things will “be difficult for the next three months at least.”
“I’m afraid we are moving through the marathon, but there’s no actual way to say that we’re at the end — we can see the end in sight, but we’re not there. And there’s going to be some bumps before we get there,” The WHO’s COVID-19 Special Envoy David Nabarro told Sky News in an interview.

“Governor Newsom and our state’s public health leaders are putting the needs of health care corporations before the safety of patients and workers,” the California Nurses Association (CAN) says in a statement condemning the state’s decision to allow COVID-infected nurses to return to work in hospitals.
Asymptomatic health care workers who test positive for Covid-19 or have been exposed to the virus and are asymptomatic can return to work immediately without isolation or testing, under the new policy.
“The move is a reaction to the severe hospital staffing shortages and crushing caseloads that the omicron variant is causing,”
OBSERVATION - Deep blue Kalifornia continues the insanity of infection spread to those at risk - hospitalized citizens. Stay out of the Kalifornia hospitals.

700 unvaccinated Mayo Clinic employees lost their jobs because they did not agree to take the COVID-19 vaccine or did not receive a medical or religious exemption. In addition, an unknown number of Mayo employees have already quit or retired to avoid being fired. The move comes as hospitals throughout the country struggle with a surge in hospital admissions combined with severe staff shortages.
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Economy -

Fed reserve chair Powell is facing congress for his confirmation hearings. Much of the watch is on his take on inflation and early talk is he’s going to say the spending party is over.
Goldman Sachs is expecting 4 fed rate increases, not the three the Fed has already announced last month. This indicates that inflation fears has gotten stronger, but also increases the chance that the raises will over correct and drive the economy into a deep regression/depression.

Bare grocery store shelves are muscling back into the news forefront, being loudly noted by such leftists as Politico and Slate. Biden is denying that the conditions are real, that the supply chain has been fixed. Actually, this is just the next step of the breakdown of the delivery system. Now stores are struggling to get their shelves filled - an increase in demand that cannot be met for even sustained supply. Food industry experts are warning us that supplies are going to get even tighter in the weeks to come.

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CW2/Domestic violence -

Smash-and-grab attacks continue across the country, with the greatest concentration being in Kalifornia. Voices are rising demanding more law enforcement but are falling on the deaf ears of the state legislature that passes laws essentially protecting criminals participating in these robberies.

Protests developing in Fayetteville, North Carolina after a black man was shot dead by an off-duty cop, who claims he acted in self-defense to protect his wife and daughter. Jason Walker, 37, was killed just after 2.15pm on Saturday outside his home on Bingham Drive. The deputy involved in the shooting, identified as Lieutenant Jeffrey Hash, was taken into custody, but not arrested, and put on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.
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Domestic Terror -

The Biden administration is taking seriously a string of recent threats and sanctions from Iran against Trump administration officials around the two-year anniversary of the Jan. 3, 2020 strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani. Iran’s actions may indicate Iran is plotting to assassinate the officials.
OBSERVATION - Iran has the capability to launch terror attacks and assassinations here in the US and with the weakness of the biden administration may be encouraged to try to execute some operations.
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China -

China has been shutting down cities with due to an increase of wuhan infections. Most recent but down involves the northern Chinese port city of Tianjin, near Beijing, said on Sunday that its entire population of 14 million would be tested for the coronavirus after it was found in 20 residents, at least two of whom were infected with the fast-moving Omicron variant.
OBSERVATION - China is hyper concerned about wuhan interrupting the impending Olympics.

China is currently negotiating with the West African nation of Equatorial Guinea to build, maintain and use a naval base for Chinese warships operating in West Africa and the Atlantic. The Chinese offer includes large loans and large bribes for local officials. Similar deals are being made with Myanmar (Burma). China already has bases in northeastern Africa (Djibouti) and Pakistan.
The Equatorial Guinea deal is particularly attractive because the base would be an expanded version of an existing base for the tiny local navy. Piers would be extended to handle any Chinese warship. This base is adjacent to an oil refinery, so refueling is not a problem. The Burma situation is more complex because Chinese investments are keeping an unpopular military government in power. China has been selling that government weapons at discount prices, including a used submarine.
All of these bases are made possible by Chinese financing in the form of investments and large loans. What this means is that China is increasingly using its large foreign investments as weapons. A typical situation involves loaning poor countries large amounts of money for huge development projects, like ports, roads and railroads. The loans are on terms that look attractive but eventually must be repaid by governments that find themselves unable to do so. When the debtor nation runs into trouble making payments, China offers to reduce the load in return for control, if not majority ownership, of the ports, railroad, airport or whatever. With control of these facilities China can probably run them more efficiently, and profitably. But control means it is easier for China to use the facility for military or espionage purposes.
This use of loans is called DTD (Debt Trap Diplomacy) and has been a favorite Chinese tactic for ever since they became a major trading nation in the last few decades and one of the wealthiest nations in the world. Nations currently vulnerable, because of large Chinese debts, include those in need of expensive port upgrades, like Sri Lanka, Djibouti, the Maldives, Pakistan, Venezuela and Equatorial Guinea. Most nations are aware of the DTD trap but where there is a lot of corruption China can create a DTD situation anyway. Some of these DTD efforts go bad and cost China a lot of money, but on average DTD is a net gain for China as it acquires military, economic and diplomatic advantages without having to fight..
https://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htlog/articles/20220111.aspx

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North Korea -

NK launched another missile today, observers noting it traveled more than 700 km at top altitude of 60 km at Mach 10. According to airline sources, the missile test prompted a brief groundstop for the US West Coast today, Observers also note that the performance of the missile was better than the one launched last week.
South Korea’s military has called North Korea’s missile launch a “clear” violation of UN Security Council resolutions,

OBSERVATION - Normal ballistic missiles are already “hypersonic”. What is being sought are warheads that can maneuver either powered or unpowered to their targets, making interception near impossible.
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Russia -

US officials say Russia now has just under 60 or so battalion tactical groups near Ukraine, and is moving in units specialized in logistics, as well as position attack aircraft near Ukraine. However there has been no surge in troops to the border so far. More logistics units are being deployed to the border region. According to U.S. officials to NYT, Russia has positioned additional ground-attack aircraft & attack/transport helicopters near the Ukrainian border. Russian forces near the border are being kept at their highest level of readiness.
Russian Western Military district launched field trainings in Bryansk, Smolensk, Belgorod and Voronezh regions with 3000 servicemen, 300 vehicles including T-72B3 tanks and BMP-2
OBSERVATION - Forces cannot remain at “highest level of readiness” for prolonged periods before combat effectiveness degrades.

RUSSIA announced the things have stabilized in Kazakhstan, and will start withdrawing troops in the next few days. Russian and Kazakhstan officials claim the riots were an attempted coup against the government.
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Europe General -

Operator of what is the world’s northernmost fiber optic subsea cable, Space Norway, has located the disruption to somewhere between 130 to 230 kilometers from Longyearbyen in the area where the seabed goes from 300 meters down to 2700 meters in the Greenland Sea.. The error happened on Friday morning, January 7.

OBSERVATION - The former Soviet Union had extensive plans to break underwater cables in the event of war. This tactic is still in play with today’s Russia. Some see this as a potential shot across the bow with the ongoing Ukraine situation.
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Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan -

WH announced about $308 Million in in additional humanitarian aid for Afghanistan.
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Black Swans -

South Africans have taken to Social Media to share videos of ‘millions’ of brown locusts that were swarming parts of the Northern Cape, Eastern Cape, and the Western Cape on Wednesday. These sightings have sparked new fears over the impact the insects might have on the country’s agriculture and economy, along with potentially threatening food supply.
OBSERVATION - this could represent the start of a third year of destructive locust infestations that have hammered Africa and Asia over the past two years. Food supplies in these regions are already stressed and could increase global food prices as they try to compete with China for limited supplies.