Globalism / Great Reset –
On Monday, newly sworn Premier Danielle Smith of Alberta criticized Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum (WEF) and announced that she would be cutting ties between her province’s health authority and the globalists WEF during a press conference in Edmonton.
“I find it distasteful when billionaires brag about how much control they have over political leaders as the head of that organization has,” said Smith following the swearing-in ceremony of her cabinet ministers.
“And so, quite frankly, until that organization stops bragging about how much control they have over political leaders, I have no interest in being involved with them. My focus is here in Alberta solving problems for Albertans with the mandate from Albertans,” she said.
OBSERVATION - Much of the WEF/GGR is coming from their lackey Trudeau who has angered the western provinces over numerous GGR agenda items from restricting oil production to attacking farming and ranching. There are hints of a potential separatist movement as Trudeau continues to push the agendas.
. While addressing the Business Roundtable on Monday, Biden said there is “going to be a new world order” that must be led by the United States.
“You know we are at an inflection point, I believe, in the world economy — not just the world economy, in the world. Occurs every three or four generations,”
“A lot of people died but nowhere near the chaos, and now is the time when things are shifting. There’s going to be a new world order out there. We’ve got to lead it, and we’ve got to unite the rest of the free world in doing it,” he continued.
WEF article from 2018 entitled “We must work together to build a new world order. This is how we can do it,” claims that the West has been resisting a “change in the international order” through “intransigent denial, while zealously clinging onto what we inherited from the Cold War.”
OBSERVATION – The phrase “new world order” has been on scene for a while but really took off under President George H.W Bush in 1991. It has come out of the conspiracy theory realm into harsh open reality in association with WEF and UN plans and goals. Biden et al are going to have a shock when they realize they aren’t high enough on the elite ladder to lead this brave new world and have been used as pawns.
Wuhan virus -
On Tuesday, the New York Supreme Court ruled that New York City must reinstate all employees that were fired because of their vaccination status. The order also states that for those fired, backpay must be issued. In its decision the court noted “Being vaccinated does not prevent an individual from contracting or transmitting Covid-19.”
OBSERVATION - Well, this will probably start promulgating to other situations.
Economy –
Top Wall Street bankers renewed their warnings about the world economy on Tuesday amid geopolitical tensions and steep interest rate hikes to tackle decades-high inflation.
Goldman Sachs boss David Solomon said economic conditions would “tighten meaningfully from here” and the U.S. Federal Reserve could hike rates beyond 4.5-4.75% if it does not see real changes in behavior.
OBSERVATION – “Behavior” = lowered spending by people.
Kraft Heinz CEO Miguel Patricio warned that because of persistent inflation, there will be more price increases in 2023 amid ongoing challenges that are hampering the food industry.
“We’ve already increased the prices that we were expecting this year, but I’m predicting that next year inflation will continue, and as a consequence [we] will have other rounds of price increases,” Patricio said in an interview with CNN Business on Monday.
MORE RELATED - The United States Department of Agriculture’s latest Food Price Outlook forecasts that all food on a year-over-year basis will see 9.5 to 10.5% inflation by end-of-year (EOY) 2022. The USDA forecasts food prices by EOY 2023 to increase between 3 and 4%.
OBSERVATION – Patricio saw the tomato shortage building in kalifornia and acted first. However, much of the rest of the food industry wasn’t so lucky.
The average interest rate on the most popular U.S. home loan rose to its highest level since 2001 as tightening financial conditions weigh on the housing sector, data from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) showed Wednesday.
The average contract rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rose by 22 basis points to 7.16% for the week ended Oct. 21 while the MBA’s Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, fell 1.7% from a week earlier. Mortgage application activity is at its slowest pace since 1997.
The Fed is expected to raise rates by 75 basis points for a fourth straight time at the conclusion of its next policy meeting on Nov. 1-2.
OBSERVATION – I’ve pointed this out before, the Fed chair considers the housing market to be ‘collateral damage’ in his war against inflation.
Invasion of Illegals -
Seizures at the U.S.-Mexico border have set a record in FY2022, according to the latest statistics released by the agency. While CBP’s latest monthly operational update for the border reported that fentanyl seizures dropped 19% from August to September, the total amount of fentanyl intercepted by federal authorities in FY2022 surpassed the amounts in FY2019, FY2020 and FY2021.
According to CBP’s statistics on the total pounds of drug seizures by the thousands, 14.1k of fentanyl was seized in FY2022 at the southwest border alone. Examining overall CBP statistics, including coastal/interior, the northern border and southwest border, that number jumps to 14.7k, compared to 11.2k in FY2021, 4.8k in FY2020 and 2.8k in FY2019.
OBSERVATION - biden’s policies are literally killing Americans. The associated crime is desired by him as well – Hegelian dialect at work.
CW2/Domestic violence -
Last night Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was swatted for the sixth time since August.
In the Portland/Seattle Antifia occupied zones, the leftists have become increasingly violent in regards to setting up counter protests to ‘protect’ so called family friendly drag events and to try to silence feminist speakers who are against transgenderism. Transgenderism support has generated the largest support by Antifa et al of most topics lately in those strongholds.
OBSERVATION – While unlikely to generate nation-wide protests, this does keep them in the forefront and in the eyes of like-minded brainwashed masses in colleges and universitites as being a valid ‘movement’ still.
Violence by Antifa et al is expanding on college campuses, rising to levels not seen since the Berkeley scrums of 2017. Any conservative campus speaker / group are facing increased violent leftist turnout. A recent example is the cancellation of an event organized by student organization affiliate Turning Point USA at UC Davis (aka People’s Republic of Davis) and featured Stephen Davis. It was canceled because of a brawl between about 100 protesters and counterprotesters led to pepper spray being used, barricades being knocked down and traffic cones being removed.
OBSERVATION – IMHO, these are recruiting and practice forums for Antifa in order to keep their teeth sharp and identify potential new members for entry into its core elements. Election year politics seem to be a good explosive mix on leftist campuses this fall.
CANCEL CULTURE FRONT
Elon Musk informs bankers that he intends to close the Twitter deal on Friday — Bloomberg
OBSERVATION – Break out the popcorn. . . ..
POLITICAL FRONT –
Democrats set the bar low, but low enough as Fetterman crashes and burns in last night’s debate. Looks like a senate seat pickup for republicans is pretty much secured.
Strategic Activity / Deployments -
The recent revelation of the Ohio-classa SSBN (submarine with ballistic nuclear missiles), which surfaced in the Arabian Sea has caused eyebrows to raise. Normally secretive because these subs carry 24 Trident II ballistic missiles, each of which can carry 10 warheads at a maximum, which in total gives the vessel an ammunition supply of 240 strategic nuclear warheads.
This action in the midst of a renewed nuclear threat by Russia was most likely a reminder that the US has nuclear teeth as well and counter strikes can come from just about any quadrant.
Russia -
WAR WATCH - Russia is now entering its ninth month of the “three days to conquer Ukraine” since fighting starting on Feb 24th.
CURRENT ASSESSMENT - Russian forces continue in a state of disarray following the defeats in the east and west. Russian leadership changes will take time to set up new chains of command and control, reprioritize support and operational goals. A major withdrawal from northern Kherson Oblast appears to be underway as Russian forces once again appear to have been out maneuvered and out gunned by Ukraine.
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All is not happy with putin’s warlords. Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov has slammed Russia’s ‘weak’ attacks on Ukraine in the latest show of high profile dissent from one of Vladimir Putin’s biggest cheerleaders. The colonel general ordered Kremlin troops to ‘wipe out Ukrainian cities off the face of the earth’ in a chilling video message on Telegram This rant comes after a HIMARS strike on one of his barracks that killed at least 40 and wounded 60 of his fighters.
Meanwhile Yevgeniy Prigozhin, the Russian tycoon behind the mercenary group Wagner, personally told Putin that his military chiefs are mismanaging the war, U.S. officials said.
According to the U.S. intelligence report that has been circulating in Washington, Prigozhin has expressed his view that the Russian Defense Ministry relies too much on Wagner and is not giving the mercenary group sufficient money and resources to fulfill its mission in the conflict, the people who read the report said.
Since the war started, Prigozhin has used Defense Minister Shoigu and top uniformed generals as his foils, positioning himself as a no-holds-barred leader able to show results on the battlefield in Ukraine.
It’s unclear if Prigozhin is primarily focused on wresting more influence within the Russian defense establishment or if he harbors greater political ambitions for himself or those close to him.
OBSERVATION – Dangerous power politics in the Kremlin. Prigozhin has the ears of ultranationalist elements in Russia and his partnership of sorts with Kadyrov represents a very serious danger to putin. I wonder when the Russian general staff is going to start pushing back stronger.
NUKE WATCH -
The nuclear rhetoric between Russia and Ukraine has increased, with each side claiming the other is preparing for a radiological attack using what is called a “dirty bomb”. Both sides have stated that they will not use either dirty bombs or nuclear weapons.
It must be noted that both Russia and Ukraine have warned of possible nuclear attack for months and nothing has come of it. Strategically, it makes no sense for Russia to launch a nuclear attack, however Russia has badly miscalculated the entire war. It is not beyond reason they would miscalculate again.
Russia has notified the U.S. that its annual nuclear exercise has begun and that it will include launches of nuclear capable missiles starting Wednesday, two U.S. officials said. – CBS
Ukraine’s nuclear energy operator says that Russian forces were performing secret work at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.
“If Russia were to employ nuclear weapons or a dirty bomb, there would be consequences, but again, I’m not going to go into details,” says Pentagon Pres Sec
Municipal authorities in St. Petersburg announced the creation of a new draft list of safe zones for use in the event of a “natural” or” man-made” emergency. The list identifies seven administrative districts of the city located a distance from the city center as “safe districts” to be used in evacuation measures. NOTE – This could be taken a couple of ways - propaganda or an actual/real prepartion for a kinetic response from NATO for actions taken in Ukraine, or a possible WMD attack by Ukrainian saboteurs inside Russia proper.
Logistics –
- Putin, facing military production delays and mounting losses, urged his government to cut through bureaucracy to crank out enough weapons and supplies to feed the war in Ukraine. The Russian military’s shortfalls in the eight-month war have been so pronounced that Putin had to create a structure to try to address them. On Tuesday, he chaired a new committee designed to accelerate the production and delivery of weapons and supplies for Russian troops, stressing the need to “gain higher tempo in all areas”.
Economic Impact -
- The effort to fill personnel shortages on the front continues to cause personnel shortages in domestic Russian industries such as transportation, limiting production.
- Putin called his government to “speed up” decision-making and manufacturing of military equipment
Ukraine -
WEATHER FORECAST - Cool temperatures with light to moderate rain through the 10-day period.
24 HOUR ROUND UP –
The Ukrainian counteroffensives continue in the south and east of the country. Heavy fighting continues east and south of Bakhmut and near Kreminna.
Russian shelling was intensive in several areas yesterday and overnight including in and around Dnipro, Nikopol, Soledar, Bakhmut, Kreminna and north of Kherson. Sporadic shelling continues in many of the other impacted regions.
Kyiv front ——
NSR
Northern (Chernihv region ) and North Eastern (Konotop - Sumy salient) Fronts ——
NSR
Eastern (Kharkiv) front ——
Russia launched a small ground attack on the border northeast of Kharkiv city. It was repulsed.
Unconfirmed reports that the Ukrainian army liberated another seven settlements in northern Donetsk, eastern Kharkiv and western Luhansk oblast, pushing the front line further east towards the strategic Russian-occupied city of Svatove.
Heavy battles south of Svatove. The Russian forward posts in Kovalivka and Novovodyane under increasing Ukraine pressure. These towns are key to the encirclement of Svatove.
Donetsk Oblast ——
More Russian assaults on the Bakhmut and Donetsk portions of the front. No gains reported. Wagner mercenaries struggling to regain the momentum at Bakhmut after being pushed back at several location.
Crimean front ———
Analysts are noting evidence that Russian troops are preparing to defend the city of Kherson and are not fully withdrawing from the north of Kherson Oblast.
Limited action in the Kherson Oblast, with scattered Russian artillery strikes.
Western / Central Ukraine ——
NSR…
Russian Territory -—
Follow-up on yesterday’s report of rail sabotage. On 24 October 2022, the governor of Russia’s Belgorod region announced that an explosive device had damaged the railway near the village of Novozybkovo, approximately 15km from the Russia-Belarus border. The line is the main rail link between Russia and southern Belarus.
The Russian anti-war group ‘Stop the Wagons’ (STW) claimed responsibility for the incident. This is at least the sixth incident of sabotage against Russian railway infrastructure claimed by STW since June.
This is part of a wider trend of dissident attacks against railways in both Russian and Belarus. The Russia military primarily relies on rail transport for deploying forces to Ukraine, but with a network extending to over 33,000km, largely transiting isolated areas, the system is extremely challenging to secure against physical threats.
Partisan Resistance ——
NSR - but don’t let that fool you, there are plenty of unconfirmed reports of rear area attacks crossed Russian occupied territory.
Explosion at “regional television company” in RUS occupied Melitopol this morning, assumed to be the work of UKR partisans.
OUTLOOK ——
Watching the Ukraine offensives in the east and south. In the east, progress towards Svatove is getting close to breaking thru the Russian line of defense west of the city and that break through could happen as soon as by the weekend.
Kherson is a different matter. Between Ukranian OPSEC and Russian propaganda its hard to decern the near term actions. Though currently relatively static, advances can suddenly happen as we’ve seen recently. Looking more and more like Russia is trying to pull Ukraine into a meat grinder by trying to hold Kherson. We’ll see how smart Ukraine is to that tactic and whether or not Russians want to make it their Melitipol.
Nuclear rhetoric is slowing a bit but where there’s smoke, there is often fire. Unprovoked nuke strike by Russia on Ukraine is still low. “Dirty bomb” charges could permit (in their mind) Russia to justify a nuke strike. Way too many ‘what if’s’ at this point, but if they do drop a nuke, it will be without warning to minimize NATO/Ukrainian response.
Belarus -
Latest info I’ve seen has Russian forces in training areas in the western half of the country. Most likely being trained by Belarus given that Russia has stripped its training bases of experienced soldiers to fill the leadership vacuums in Ukraine.
Oil and gas workers on Norway’s offshore platforms are reporting sightings of unknown UAVs. Norway’s working thesis is that they’re controlled from vessels or submarines nearby. At least 7 Russians have been arrested in Norway with drones.
SERBIA / KOSOVO -
Tens of thousands of ethnic Serb protestors took to the streets following the announcement of a recount of votes in Bosnia’s Serb-run administrative region, Republika Srpska. Incumbent Bosnian Serb politician Milorad Dodik claimed victory in this month’s general elections, but irregularities at polling stations and claims by opposition candidate Jelena Trivic that votes had been rigged forced a recount by the Bosnian election commission.
OBSERVATION – Serbs are continuing to not play nice in the region. Some view this as a possible parallel to the early beginnings of a separatist movement that hit Ukraine in 2007, resulting in the civil war over Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.
Iran -
Protests have continued throughout the country and are spiking today. Protest gathering by doctors and dentists in Tehran, to mark the 40th day of Mahsa Amini’s death, but also likely over anger at the abduction by government enforcers of Fatemeh Mashhadi.
Lethal force by IRGC elements have only made matters worse, inflaming the locals and increasing protest numbers.
Two members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards militia were shot dead by gunmen in the city of “Zahedan” in southeastern Iran
OBSERVATION – Iranian response to protestors has so far increased govt resentment and increased numbers protesting. The attack on the IRGC suggests that an incipient insurgency is forming.
NOT comfortable having two major world powers being run by people 'not up to snuff' ...
Check your winter preps NOW and update what you need, then get it. Don’t wait.
Globalism / Great Reset –
Yuval Noah Harari is one of Klaus Schwab’s top advisors at the WEF in a recent interview said -
“we will have a small elite that’ll makes all the decisions even if it doesn’t benefit the majority of the population … leaving the rest to drown”
OBSERVATION - The evil thoughts and plans that come out of this guy’s mouth are almost antichrist-like.
Almost as quickly as UK Prime Minister Liz Truss was ousted from office, so too was her (now-temporary) order to resume gas shale fracking - a plan which included offering UK households £1,000 each for allowing the practice in their neighborhoods.
According to the Financial Times, her successor - the WEF-sponsored (of “great reset, eat bugs, own nothing and be happy” fame) Rishi Sunak is reversing Truss’s order, and reinstating the fracking ban.
During his first prime minister’s questions in the House of Commons on Wednesday, the new UK prime minister told MPs that he “stands by” the Conservative party’s 2019 manifesto commitment that halted fracking. The moratorium was briefly lifted by Truss during her brief period as prime minister. -FT
The news brings clarity to Jacob Rees-Mogg’s Tuesday resignation. Rees-Mogg, a fracking advocate, was placed in charge of the UK’s energy strategy by Truss. He notably warned against ‘climate alarmism’ and said that he wants cheap energy for his constituents “rather more than I would like them to have windmills.”
OBSERVATION – Watch as Sunak pushes more GGR/WEF agenda under the guise of saving the British economy and saving the world. These reversals are just another sign of the power play that GGR players in the British govt were involved behind the curtains in the removal of Truss.
Wuhan virus –
Just in time for the holidays. A new COVID subvariant nicknamed by some as the ‘nightmare variant’ is on the radar of doctors across Massachusetts.
The strain is so new that it isn’t showing up yet on the CDC’s variant tracker. Dr. Shira Doron, epidemiologist with Tufts Medical Center, told Boston 25 News that there are reports that it has been detected in New York.
XBB, a descendent of Omicron, has been ripping through Southeast Asia in recent weeks. It’s caused cases to double in a day in several countries.
What’s concerning about XBB is that studies have shown it might be immune to current vaccines.
OBSERVATION – All variants are immune to the jab – as it has been admitted by Pfizer/Moderna and CDC et al. Just another scare.
Less than two months after the FDA used mouse data to give emergency use authorization to bivalent COVID-19 boosters, the real-world performance of the shots that target the ancestral strain and Omicron BA.4/5 subvariants is undermining the feds’ one-size-fits-all messaging.
New preprint studies by researchers at Columbia University and Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center, not yet peer-reviewed, found that the bivalents showed no meaningful improvement over the original monovalent boosters that targeted the Wuhan strain alone.
University of California San Francisco epidemiologist Vinay Prasad wrote in his newsletter remarked -
“Their entire vaccine policy seems to be interested in giving Pfizer and Moderna a perpetual market share for a yearly vaccine,” he said. “But seems to have no interest in generating credible randomized control trial evidence to inform the public.”
OBSERVATION – Prasad is correct – follow the money and ignore the lack of supporting documentation.
White House COVID Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha said Tuesday that COVID “continues to be a substantial challenge,” killing several hundred Americans a day, and is “probably the third leading cause of death among Americans and probably the number one cause of preventable deaths among Americans.”
OBSERVATION – Continuing the lie. The jab does not prevent infection or death from wuhan, on the contrary, the jab has become a more serious threat to health than the bug.
Economy –
BREAKING - A report from the Commerce Department released on Thursday shows the nation’s gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of 2.6% in July, August and September. That’s in contrast to the first six months of the year, when GDP figures showed the economy shrinking.
The apparent improvement, however, is largely the result of fluctuations in things like international trade, which don’t reflect the underlying health of the economy. They made GDP look artificially weak in the first half of the year, while pumping up the most recent figure.
“If you take a step back and look at GDP, it’s gone effectively nowhere over the last year,” says Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics. “One quarter or two it’s down a bit. This quarter it’s up a bit. But net-net, we’re kind of treading water.”
OBSERVATION – The left will try to spin this up as a victory. The fed is still on track for another 75 basis point increase in the prime. Zandi echos some of what I’ve seen other analysts hit on - - “don’t reflect the underlying health of the economy”. Closures of smelters, steel plants, implosion of the housing market etc. are still bearing down on the GDP. Watch for the later revision – some time after the midterms. Further, this spike in the GDP may just encourage the Fed to continue its aggressive anti-inflationary policies by assuming the economy can take it. SEE BELOW.
Analysts at Deutsche Bank said in a recent note that the Federal Reserve’s fight to crush inflation could send the unemployment rate as high as 6 percent by the end of 2023, equivalent to around 4 million Americans losing their jobs.
With all the tightening under way, Fed policymakers expect that the economy will slow and unemployment will push higher from the current 3.5 percent to 4.4 percent in 2023 and 2024.
But a recent analytical note from Deutsche Bank says the Fed is low-balling its estimate on how many Americans will have to lose their jobs as the central bank corrects its course.
“Our updated analysis continues to point to the need for a sharper rise in unemployment than embedded in the Fed’s latest projections for September,” Deutsche Bank analysts wrote.
Markets are now pricing in another big 75 basis-point rate hike in November and a terminal rate of 4.89 percent.
OBSERVATION – There was a major concern at the start of the Fed increases that it would overshoot and thus crash the economy versus the ‘soft landing’ narrative. Looks like this is coming true.
Diesel shortages in the NE are now prevalent throughout the East Coast as inventories there are at their lowest level ever heading into the winter. Energy suppliers are counting on the Colonial pipeline, the main supply of diesel for the Southeast, to replenish supplies. However, the first shipment will not reach Atlanta until Nov. 3, and New York a week after that.
“Because conditions are rapidly devolving and market economics are changing significantly each day, Mansfield is moving to Alert Level 4 to address market volatility. Mansfield is also moving the Southeast to Code Red, requesting 72-hour notice for deliveries when possible to ensure fuel and freight can be secured at economical levels,” Mansfield Energy wrote in an update to customers on Tuesday. The trucking firm has a fleet of tankers that delivers refined fuel products to more than 8,000 customers nationwide.
IN RELATED - East Coast is deepening as terminals already low on diesel are now low on gasoline. Distributor TAC Energy stated that numerous terminals over the past 72 hours have run out of gasoline and ethanol. Gasoline stockpiles on the East Coast have hit their lowest level since 2007.
OBSERVATION – The biden fuel crisis continues to get worse. There is nothing in the short term that suggests that there is any real relief coming soon. This will just serve for him to try to justify further pulls from the strategic reserve.
Abdulaziz bin Salman said that “people” were using emergency oil reserves to manipulate markets rather than their intended purpose of mitigating shortages of supply. The Saudi energy minister also warned that decisions by some to use emergency oil stocks “may become painful in the months to come.”
Brent crude oil was trading at $95-$96 a barrel on Wednesday – up from around $94 on October 6, the day after the OPEC+ decision was announced. In the intervening fortnight it has fluctuated within the $90-$98 range.
OBSERVATION – As I’ve said before, I’m convinced this is a deliberate sabotage of America’s oil reserve – so that when the next big shock wave hits the country we will be essentially helpless. Perhaps Salman speaks a truthful word of warning, foreknowing something coming down the road.
The specter of a national rail road strike has become a greater possibility. The Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen voted against September’s tentative agreement, according to results announced Wednesday. Five more unions are scheduled to vote on the deal in mid-November.
OBSERVATION - This has raised the odds that America’s freight railroad workers will go on strike sometime next month or early December. With barge and truck traffic already handicapped, a strike could cripple the supply / distribution system beyond the problems we’ve already seen.
Nearly one in five Americans have skipped meals or did not buy groceries due to surging inflation, including 28 percent of Gen Z and 23 percent of millennials, according to a recent survey.
Seventeen percent of respondents said they were receiving food items from a food bank, including 22 percent of millennials, while 17 said they have stopped buying healthier food options. Eighteen percent said they had skipped meals or did not buy groceries.
Beyond facing food insecurity, the same survey also found that high inflation is forcing Americans to delay certain healthcare expenses. Fourteen percent of Americans have canceled or postponed plans to see a healthcare specialist, ten percent have delayed taking prescribed medication, and 11 percent stalled receiving a yearly physical.
OBSERVATION – There is a parallel trend of increased demand on food banks. Retired and on a fixed income, this hasn’t affected me, though it is still a concern needing to be watched. However, millennials and Gen Z have a lot of unnecessary expenses on wasteful items that could be trimmed back to free up money for food and medical care. Just an observation from my millennial children and their budgeting priorities.
CW2/Domestic violence –
“The leak made those of us who were thought to be in the majority in support of overruling Roe and Casey targets for assassination because it gave people a rationale reason to think they could prevent that from happening by killing one of us.” - Justice Alito on the Dobbs leak
OBSERVATION - And yet months later, there has been no identification of, or reckoning for, the person(s) who leaked the draft opinion. Political assassinations would be a major escalation in the CW2 matrix. So far it has been words of violence with some liberals attempting to act out the rhetoric of violence spewed out by democrats.
Assassination of a USSC justice in the present situation would be very dangerous indeed to our country.
POLITICAL FRONT –
Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., off the top rope - -
“John Fetterman is the only American politician who makes Joe Biden sound like Winston Churchill,”
OUCH, that will leave a mark.
Strategic Activity / Deployments -
The United States has expedited the fielding of the upgraded B61-12 air-dropped gravity bomb to NATO bases in Europe. The original target date was Spring 2023, but is now planned for this December per sources to Politico.
OBSERVATION – I’d be cautious since this is from Politico. Regardless, this would be a common sense measure against the rising threats from putin.
Russia -
WAR WATCH - Russia is now entering its ninth month of the “three days to conquer Ukraine” since fighting starting on Feb 24th.
CURRENT ASSESSMENT - Russian forces continue in a state of disarray following the defeats in the east and south. Internal Russian leadership infighting – primarily between Wagner and Chechen mercenary forces and the establishment generals in the Kremlin, has lead to the likely hood that putin is leaning towards stronger measures in the fight. Internal dissention of the civilian population over the ‘mobilization’ and the risk of even a potential coup are rising.
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During the night, a Molotov Cocktail was thrown into the central building of United Russia (the political party of Vladimir Putin) on Kutuzovsky Prospekt.
“State-run news agency Interfax cited the press service of Russia’s Federal Security Service as saying a three-day exercise began on Tuesday and will involve the suppression of “threats of a terrorist nature” against officials, deputies and senators.”
Military vehicles brought to downtown Moscow for Putin’s Federal Protective Service (FSO) training exercises. The federal protective service announced these exercises two days ago.
NOTE - Might be anti-coup exercises. FSO is considered highly loyal to Putin. They are in charge of protecting Putin and other high level mafia officials in Russia. This exercise was announced two weeks ago.
NUKE WATCH -
Putin at the meeting with heads of security services of CIS countries reiterated Russian propaganda narratives about Ukraine on biological, nuclear weapons, including on “dirty bomb”. The simple fact that putin personally is pushing the dirty bomb ruse is enough to give second thought to the likelihood of such a false flag.
Russia’s defense minister spoke with his Indian and Chinese counterparts on the “possible use of a dirty bomb by Ukraine”.
NOTE - Russia continued push of this is becoming extremely concerning.
UNCONFIRMED reports that in Moscow, authorities are inspecting the bomb shelters in the city’s schools. The officials involved have been directed to get the shelters in working order. Notifications have gone out in Moscow to inform residents that bomb shelters are being prepared in hospitals, converting underground garages and other site. Similar actions are being taken in other major Russian cities. Emergency warning systems are being tested. Lists of locations suitable to be converted into additional shelters are being compiled.
NOTE – This may be linked to the current Russian strategic nuclear exercise, a commonsense exercise addition to review such preparations. However, the emphasis and urgency raises some concerns.
Ukraine -
WEATHER FORECAST - Cool temperatures with light to moderate rain through the 10-day period.
24 HOUR ROUND UP –
Heavy fighting continues around Kreminna and Bakhmut, but there are no reports of any real Russian progress.
Russian sources claimed that Ukrainian forces continued to conduct offensive operations west of Svatove.
Drones/missile strikes hit various areas of Ukraine.
Kyiv front ——
Over 6 attacks with Shahed drones in Kyiv region overnight, some were shot down by air defense
Northern (Chernihv region ) and North Eastern (Konotop - Sumy salient) Fronts ——
NSR
Eastern (Kharkiv) front ——
Ongoing push towards Svatove continues in a methodological manner. Russian artillery fire noted along the LOC.
Donetsk Oblast ——
Same old, same old. Russia launched multiple ground attacks in the vicinity of Bakhmut and Donetsk with the same results – being driven back.
Crimean front ———
Situation relatively static in N Kherson Oblast. Ukraine reportedly continuing to strike Russian logistical, command and troop concentrations.
Crimea power plant targeted by overnight Ukranian drone attack according to occupation authorities in Crimea. No blackout, casualties or significant damage reported.
Western / Central Ukraine ——
Russian air/missile strikes continued yesterday and overnight and were again mostly drone attacks. Odesa, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia! south of Kyiv, the Vinnytsia regio, Kramatorsk and Dnipro were all areas with reported impacts.
Russian Territory -—
NSR
Partisan Resistance ——
NSR - but don’t let that fool you, there are plenty of unconfirmed reports of rear area attacks crossed Russian occupied territory.
An extensive fire occurred last night near the railway station in Russian occupied Shakhtark, Donetsk Oblast. Some reports the fuel tanks were sabotaged by partisans to damage the important railway lines, other reports suggest Ukrainian artillery strikes. New explosions and fires in Shakhtarsk, as the fires continue.
OUTLOOK ——
Situation still relatively static, though could rapidly change. Key areas to watch out for -
- Any actual ‘dirty bomb’ event
- Ongoing offensive in Kherson (and what the Russians are up to there)
- Ongoing offensive in the east, any breakthrough against Svatove
Belarus -
No activity that indicates a Belarus invasion into N Ukraine. Scattered reports appear to be support to training Russian mobilized conscripts.
Israel -
IAF airstrikes reported over Damascus, Syria. Likely Israeli aircraft targeting IRGC militia weapons movements again.
Israeli raids targeted sites of Maher al-Assad’s Fourth Division
OBSERVATION – Almost routine strikes against Hezbollah sites and operations.
Iran -
Some of the largest protests so far spread across most of the country. Protestors are also starting to push back on the violence being inflicted on them by IRGC elements by attacking and killing them when given the opportunity.
US has seen indications Russia is considering training Iranians to help them crack down on Iran Protests, according to White House NSC spokesman John Kirby.
WH also said that nuclear negotiations are dead in the water for now.
ISIS claims responsibility on its telegram channel for the Shiraz attack in which at least 13 people were killed. Iranian President warned that the Shiraz terrorist attack will not go unanswered, and our enemies seek revenge by spreading division and violence.
OBSERVATION – A great deal of chaos hitting Iran from multiple directions. Note earlier saber rattling towards Azeri’s as well.
Syria -
Israeli airstrikes – see above
Venezuela -
Life in progressive dreamland continues to go more hellish. Maduro officials have accelerated ongoing efforts to close radio stations and seize transmission equipment belonging to independent media outlets in the country. Officials have closed 50 radio stations since the beginning of the year, with 15 closures coming in the last month, a significant increase from only nine closures last year. The closures reflect larger efforts by the Maduro government to consolidate government control over media in the country, which has left only 12 newspapers and 74 news and political radio stations, most of which are controlled by government agencies.
OBSERVATION – Surprised this level of censorship wasn’t instituted earlier.