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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 -
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.
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.
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Globalism / Great Reset -
Nearly 4 million fully vaccinated Australians are about to be declared unvaccinated as the government reduces the validity of the country’s green passports to just six months. Last week, the government, which is under the rule of unelected Chancellor Karl Nehammer, announced new plans that will force people into receiving additional vaccines in order to hold onto their green passes. This is despite the fact that the vaccines and boosters have not been protecting people from the virus.
Starting next month, Austria will become the first country in Europe to require all citizens to be fully vaccinated. Those who are not vaccinated, including children as young as 14 years old, may be fined as much as 2,000 euros every time they are caught outside in public without proof of vaccination. Those who refuse to pay their fine will be placed in a special prison for people who are non-vaccinated for up to one year.
Austrian police are to considerably ramp up checks regarding COVID restrictions. The crackdown will even go as far as deploying plainclothes police to the streets to catch out those who might attempt to go about their daily business while avoiding officers, top Austrian newspaper Kronen Zeitung reports. Police have done 1.6 million checks since the start of the nation’s “Corona Apartheid‘ lockdown of unvaccinated individuals, Austria’s Interior Minister Gerhard Karner has said they will be ramped up even further. “It’s about taking action against those who do not adhere to the rules. And taking action with fairness towards those who support the measures,” Die Presse reports Karner as also saying.
OBSERVATION - Austria is one of many countries facing increased protests by vaxxed and unvaxxed alike over these mandates and the latest movement of the goal posts will only add fuel to that fire. It is also a test case of the GGR to force compliance on the population.
Harbinger to the US - Quebec’s premier announced that it would be the first in the nation to financially penalize the unvaccinated. According to federal data, just over 85% of Quebec residents had received at least one vaccine dose by 1 January.
Premier Francois Legault said during a news conference that people who have not received their first dose of vaccine will have to pay a “contribution”.
The fee has not yet been decided, but will be “significant”, he said.
“I think right now it’s a question of fairness for the 90% of the population who made some sacrifices,” Mr Legault said. “I think we owe them this kind of measure.” Last week, the province announced that it would require proof of vaccination to shop in government cannabis and liquor stores.
OBSERVATION - This is a loophole the covid cultist corner of the GGR will increasingly use against resisters.
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Wuhan virus -
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is reportedly considering altering it’s masking guidance to recommend individuals wear “highly protective N95 or KN95 masks,” the Washington Post reported on Monday.
Citing an official “close to the deliberations who was not authorized to speak publicly,” the Post reported that the federal health agency is considering the recommendation change in the wake of the highly contagious omicron variant, despite the fact that it appears to be a more mild form of the illness.
Omicron is continuing to vex the covid cult. Guidance form the CDC over this very mild variant has been very disjointed and democrats are fearing that it is causing the narrative to fall apart. In front of a congressional committee, the CDC chief waffled about new quarantine and other guidance. Democrats also fear this will further degrade public confidence in the agency and the administration’s handling of the disease.
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Economy -
BREAKING - December inflation numbers are out and tell us what we know already. Inflation jumped in December at its fastest year-over-year pace in nearly four decades, surging 7% and raising costs for consumers, offsetting recent wage gains. Excluding food and energy, CPI rose by 5.5% YoY. A Fed response, with 7% inflation, gauged by economists using the Taylor Rule model suggests a Fed Funds Target rate of … 17.84%. Bear in mind that the current target rate is 0.25%.
OBSERVATION - Threat of a severe recession / depression has hit a new high note. The Fed cannot risk raising rates to 17% range, for if they do the economy will crash like the Hindenburg.
Worth a revisit since it was a major concern before it was over whelmed by other news and that was the concerns over mass evictions once the eviction moratoria was lifted. It is now about five months after the federal ban was lifted and nothing like what was warned about has occurred. Multiple reasons probably combined to limit this.
- One explanation, particularly in liberal circles, claims that the eviction tsunami never reached shore because the steps the government took to prevent it actually worked. The moratorium kept people in their homes while they worked on ways to avoid being removed. Federal payment programs provided through the relief bills helped people mostly keep up with their rent, including rental assistance, stimulus payments, and enhanced unemployment benefits that allowed people to stay in their apartments.
- Another is that state and local moratoriums stepped in and prohibited evictions. This delayed actions and permitted other relief measures to act.
- Another theory put forth suggests that the eviction tsunami actually did arrive and it’s been going on for a while now, except we can’t see it. They point to landlords who stopped performing maintenance for delinquent renters, rendering their homes unlivable. Others would change the locks on apartments without notice, forcing the tenants to go elsewhere. I’m sure some of that was indeed taking place, but if it was really happening in large numbers, wouldn’t we be seeing a sharp increase in homelessness by now? The available data doesn’t seem to support it.
- Still others think there are societal explanations. Perhaps the smaller, mom-and-pop landlords (who account for roughly half of all US rental units) were more understanding of people who fell behind and were more willing to give them time and work with them. Perhaps some of them genuinely liked their tenants and didn’t want to have to start a search for someone new who might not be as nice.
Most likely a combination of the above. However, hindsight suggests that the issue may have been over hyped by both sides.
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Invasion of Illegals -
More than 800,000 noncitizens and “Dreamers” in New York City will have access to the ballot box — and could vote in municipal elections as early as next year — after Mayor Eric Adams allowed legislation to automatically become law Sunday. Unless a judge halts its implementation, New York City is the first major U.S. city to grant widespread municipal voting rights to noncitizens.
More than a dozen communities across the U.S. already allow noncitizens to cast ballots in local elections, including 11 towns in Maryland and two in Vermont.
OBSERVATION - Deliberate dilution of citizen votes by an easily guided noncitizen component is a work around by the left to current refusals to grant citizenship too illegals. The clear danger is that they will cross over to national elections.
DHS cannot account for 50K illegals released into the US last year.
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Biden watch -
Pounding his fist for emphasis, President Joe Biden challenged senators on Tuesday to “stand against voter suppression,” urging them to change Senate rules in order to pass voting rights legislation that Republicans are blocking from debate and votes. “I’m tired of being quiet!” he shouted. “I will not yield. I will not flinch.”
OBSERVATION - The assault on the filibuster rules will only intensify as the midterms approach.
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CW2/Domestic violence -
The Justice Department is establishing a specialized unit focused on domestic terrorism, the department’s top national security official told lawmakers Tuesday as he described an “elevated” threat from violent extremists in the United States.
Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen, testifying just days after the nation observed the one-year anniversary of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, said the number of FBI investigations into suspected domestic violent extremists has more than doubled since the spring of 2020.
“We have seen a growing threat from those who are motivated by racial animus, as well as those who ascribe to extremist anti-government and anti-authority ideologies,” Olsen said.
OBSERVATION - We all know that the ‘terrorists’ are red blooded Americans. Ever since 0bama, deep staters have been looking for ways to target us. One more step where the govt has made nearly half the country enemies of the state.
Sen Cruz asked if any FBI agents or confidential informants committed acts of violence on that day, or actively encouraged or incited crimes of violence, questions with ill Sanborn, executive assistant director of the National Security Branch of the FBI, declined to answer.
OBSERVATION - Silence is loud and FBI involvement in patriot related movements from Malhure to the more recent conspiracy to kidnap the Michigan Governor is becoming more apparent that the agency is becoming an entrapment organization and fielding agent provocateurs. See DOJ domestic terror above.
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Domestic Terror -
See Afghanistan
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Strategic Activity / Deployments -
Special Forces candidates will participate in the two-week Robin Sage training exercises in which they will practice overthrowing illegitimate governments. Robin Sage places soldiers in a ‘politically unstable’ fictional country and uses ‘unconventional guerrilla warfare’ to defeat a ‘numerically superior enemy’
OBSERVATION - many pundits are raising red flags over this exercise in light of current political climate in the US, that the exercise encourages soldiers to target civilians . This is a recurring exercise as noted for SF candidates.
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North Korea -
Kim Jong Un attended Tuesday’s “hypersonic missile” launch, North Korean state media report. It is the first time Kim has been shown attending a missile launch in nearly two years. After watching the test, Kim urged military scientists to “further accelerate the efforts to steadily build up the country’s strategic military muscle both in quality and quantity and further modernize the army,” KCNA news agency reported.
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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.
Observers are noting departures from the bases of all four armies of Russia’s Eastern Military District. Some trains are already seen further west than the EMD, suggesting unusual redeployment. Videos show elements of the 5th, 29th, 35th, and 36th Combined Arms Armies heading west on trains, but their ultimate destination is so far unknown. Forward staging of these units with no announced military exercises points to Russia’s quiet wartime preparations.
OBSERVATION - Initially some thought this was in response to the situation Kazakhstan. I’m thinking this may be a fill in for the units currently deployed to Ukraine border as a strategic reserve. If this is the case, this suggests that Russia may be leaning towards the whole Ukraine capture scenario and expecting significant NATO response.
The Kremlin said on Tuesday it saw no reason to be optimistic after Monday’s talks on Ukraine and wider European security with the United States in Geneva.
Speaking to reporters on a conference call, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said it was too early to draw conclusions from the talks, which he said had been substantive, direct and open.
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Ukraine -
France is hosting a meeting between officials from Russia, Ukraine, and Germany to discuss the ongoing unrest and fighting in eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced last night that his government was “ready to make decisions” aimed at “ending the war” in the eastern part of his country and potentially calming down Vladimir Putin to the point where he might start withdrawing some troops from the border. To be clear, this meeting is not focused on the Russian troop buildup on the Ukrainian border and a potential war that might ensue if Putin invades. They’re talking about the actual war that’s already taking place between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.
OBSERVATION - The Dombass fighting is definitely a lit match in the whole Russian / NATO standoff. Any ‘agreement’ to deescalate the combat there may provide a relief valve to the current Russian threats against NATO. Though is isn’t clear what the Ukraine is offering or may offer, if it cedes the Domabass region control to Russia, they may be satisfied that it provides enough ‘buffer’ against NATO.
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Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan -
Taliban spokesmen are threatening to demand that they can essentially station suicide bombers to Washington, D.C if the US stations military forces at a re-opened embassy in Afghanistan. According to a December report, during ongoing talks in Doha, Qatar — where the Taliban government seeks international recognition — Maulvi Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid, Afghanistan’s acting defense minister, said that if America wanted troops in Afghanistan to reopen its embassy there, the Taliban wanted an equivalent number of terrorists in our capital.
“If America wants 2,000 English [i.e., American] troops at its embassy in Afghanistan, we also want 2,000 Fidayeen Mujahideen [i.e., suicide bombers] from the Fateh Force at the embassy of Afghanistan in America,” a Dec. 11 tweet from Yaqoob read. MEMRI noted that “Fidayeen is another term used by jihadi groups for their suicide bombers.
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