Winter striking the Redoubt with some force this next week. Throw another log on the fire. . . .
Globalism / Great Reset –
Australian Government is moving to block future coal and gas projects.
The global warming impact of fossil fuels will, for the first time, be factored into the federal government’s environmental assessments as Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek opens the possibility of coal and gas projects being blocked due to climate change.
Australia is close to grid failure, that an outage at a single coal plant could cause the East Coast grid to collapse.
OBSERVATION - Little by little, the GGR’s minions are nibbling away at the global community. In this case, enforcement of energy poverty. In Canada, complete internet censorship, elsewhere digital currency and associated digital social scoring. Their apparent goal is to eventually merge these together under global control.
WEF’s Young Global Leaders, like Sadhguru, have long openly advocated for depopulation and are galvanizing public support for reducing the world’s population.
“The elephant in the room is human population because we cannot control human aspirations; we can only control human population. For this, we are instituting an award to honour men & women who consciously choose not to procreate.”
In a video published on Sadhguru’s YouTube channel, which has amassed 10.4 million subscribers, the WEF spiritual leader champions people having fewer and fewer children and insists the global population, which currently stands at 7.9 billion, must be reduced by at least half by 2050.
Like Sadhguru and WEF Agenda Contributor Bill Gates, WEF advisor Yuval Noah Harari admittedly wants to rid the planet of billions of people or “useless eaters.”
“We just don’t need the vast majority of the population,” Harari argued in a recent interview with Chris Anderson, the head of TED .“The future is about developing more and more sophisticated technology, like artificial intelligence [and] bioengineering, Most people don’t contribute anything to that, except perhaps for their data, and whatever people are still doing which is useful, these technologies increasingly will make redundant and will make it possible to replace the people.”
OBSERVATION – Reduction and a drastic reduction at that of the world’s population is a key foundational stone in the goals of the GGR/WEF. Not having children alone is not capable of attaining that goal – what they do desire as implied by their many statements – is a catastrophic depopulation event over a short period of time. They appear to be on the cusp of a biologic war springing from the wuhan mRNA jab latent lethal and reproductive effects. This is only a start. They are callous to famine and associated deaths in third world countries and the damage to modern agriculture (fertilizer, fuel etc.) their climate change (read death to the fossil fuel industry) will only make it worse.
Speaking of Bill Gates, his test efforts at depopulating the third world are well known. Since polio is still prevalent in the world where sanitation of food and water is a problem, Bill Gates decided to do something about it. Instead of improving sanitation to stop the route of transmission, he decided to attack the virus itself.
So, in 1988, Bill Gates embarked upon a campaign to eliminate polio from the planet, called the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged over 5 billion dollars to it so far. It was supposed to eradicate polio by the year 2000. That didn’t happen so he subjected millions of children in India to several doses of Oral Polio Vaccine from the years 2000 to 2017.
The result?
Reports vary, but the consensus is that hundreds of thousands of children were paralyzed due to vaccine-induced polio. Will he ever learn? Probably not. In October of 2022, he pledged another 1.5 billion dollars and extended the program to the year 2026. And he still thinks everyone on the planet needs to be “vaccinated” against anything and everything.
OBSERVATION – Just as with the mRNA jab, the ‘cure’ has turned out worse than the problem.
At the UN COP27 climate conference in Sinai, Egypt later this month, an invited, unified grouping of ‘religions’ ( Interfaith Center For Sustainable Development) across the world will participate. This group has issued the following statements as to some of its goals and purposes at COP27 –
“As we launch the Sinai Climate Partnership at the summit of Mt. Sinai, the initiative will unveil Climate Justice: Ten Universal Climate Principles, which will shape how religious congregations address climate change and foster a new vision for humanity and its endangered existence.”
“We come to Sinai in a movement of repentance and quest. We seek a new vision for humanity and its endangered existence, and we seek to receive and amplify a message of life-sustaining living and habits that humanity needs to hear today. In this spirit, the project partners will bring together premier religious leaders from the world’s major religions to put forth a prophetic interreligious call to action: “Climate Justice: Ten Universal Commandments.””
Goals of the Interfaith Climate Events
• Inspire and unleash the power of religions, religious leaders and faith communities as change agents for climate action and as sources for inspiring and motivating discussions among politicians and civil bodies.
• Motivate action among religious communities and the wider public to curb climate change.
• Invite media to cover religious leaders’ advocacy in combating climate change.
• Promote a coalition of religious leaders to work together for climate action.
• Generate new faith-inspired climate education materials for broad use.
OBSERVATION – Going biblical here, but so what. Scholars of bible prophecy see the parallels of the GGR/WEF as associated precursors to the antichrist’s global government. This ‘religious’ component is a direct precursor to the false prophet and religion of the antichrist. One cannot fail to notice the trend this is taking the world to – today in a way never before seen on a global scale.
Wuhan virus –
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has finally admitted that Covid-19 vaccination can have an adverse effect on female fertility.
The admission comes months after it was revealed in confidential Pfizer documents revealed that shedding of the Covid-19 vaccine is possible by skin-to-skin contact and/or breathing the same air as a vaccinated person, and can, unfortunately, lead to menstrual cycle disruption among women and miscarriage among pregnant women.
On the 28th October 2022, the EMA published new guidance that states “heavy menstrual bleeding should be added to the product information as a side effect of unknown frequency of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines Comirnaty (Pfizer) and Spikevax (Moderna)”.
The EMA says that heavy menstrual bleeding can be defined as “bleeding characterized by an increased volume and/or duration which interferes with the person’s physical, social, emotional and material quality of life.”
The new guidance comes after they belatedly reviewed the available data, including cases reported during clinical trials, cases spontaneously reported in Eudravigilance, and findings from the medical literature. The EMA confirmed, “cases of heavy menstrual bleeding have been reported after the first, second, and booster doses of Comirnaty and Spikevax”.
OBSERVATION – I noted reports from very early on, that there was a definite connection between the jab and spontaneous miscarriages as well as other reproductive issues in women. The covidians knew FULL WELL that there were serious adverse effects from the mRNA for women. And covered them up with the assistance of the CDC and FDA.
Economy –
In the final jobs report before Election Day, the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics said the October employment situation weakened from the prior month.
In October, the unemployment rate increased two-tenths of a point to 3.7 percent; and the labor force participation rate declined a tenth of a point to 62.2 percent.
The number of employed Americans — 158,608,000 in October — dropped by 328,000 from September’s all-time high of 158,936,000. At the same time, the number of unemployed Americans increased by 306,000 to 6,059,000, and the combination of that unemployed up/employed down produced the higher unemployment rate.
The nonfarm economy added 261,000 jobs last month, well above the consensus estimate of 200,000. Notable job gains occurred in health care, professional and technical services, and manufacturing.
OBSERVATION - There is a lot to digest in this report, mostly inclined to the negative. For starters, the unemployment rate calculations have been corrupted for many, many years now and are not a reliable indicator any more. This is largely due to changes as to how it handles individuals out of the job market and labor force participation. So, while a ‘good’ unemployment number, more telling is the 328,000 DROP in the number of employed and increase in unemployed. The number of Americans not in the labor force — they have no job and are not looking for one — also moved in the wrong direction last month, increasing 201,000 to 99,868,000.
Outwardly expanding ripples from the start of the housing bubble collapse are making their presence known in the banking sector. Among the growing list of many companies bracing for layoffs is now Wells Fargo, who has seen their U.S. loan volumes “collapse”. The fall off in loan volume has left some workers “idle”, according to a new CNBC report. This, in turn, has them worried about further job cuts.
In the early weeks of Q4, the bank had about 18,000 loans in its pipeline, the report says. This is down an astonishing 90% from a year earlier when the pandemic housing boom was in full swing.
OBSERVATION – Remember, the Fed has considered the housing market to be ‘collateral damage’ in their inflation fight.
Invasion of Illegals -
Doctors Without Borders, a medical aid nonprofit which is funded by a number of prominent tech companies, is publishing and distributing maps to migrants showing routes through Central America that reach the U.S., according to a copy of the map seen by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The map is labeled “shelters for people on the move” in Spanish and lists a number of clinics and other areas where aid can be found along the journey to the U.S., according to the document. While Doctors Without Borders hasn’t received U.S. government funding since 2002, the group still receives sizable donations from American companies, including from tech giants Microsoft, Google.org and Amazon.
OBSERVATION – Actions like this should remove their nonprofit status as they are aiding and abetting the movement of illegals into the country.
Authorities call them the “Border Bandits,” and they’re controlled by the most violent smuggling cartels in Mexico. Experts warn these cartels are getting extremely brazen in the San Diego region, as they have no fear of being caught.
The Turf War between known human smugglers at the border is now spilling over the border into San Diego, and they are bringing their weapons with them. USBP Agents have had twelve recent encounters with the border bandits on United States soil. During one of them, they chased the ‘Border Bandits’ as they fled back to Mexico, but they left all their weapons in the United States.
OBSERVATION – It isn’t rocket science to realize that the massive criminal elements in Mexico that control the border region will have their fights migrate into the US. Its been present in the wars between drug gangs here in the US for a number of years. The lucrative human trafficking aspect piggy backs on to the drug trade. The cartels are showing increasingly willingness to come packing into the US – a trend I expect to continue and grow over the near term – making border enforcement even more dangerous.
CW2/Domestic violence –
A Chicago man has been arrested and charged after authorities say he left threatening voicemails for a Republican gubernatorial candidate.
Scott Lennox, 21, said in one message that he was going “to skin Darren Bailey alive” after killing the candidate’s family, according to a filing from the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office that was obtained by The Epoch Times.
“He better kill himself and if he doesn’t, I am going to kill him,” Lennox said.
Lennox also described Bailey—an Illinois state senator who is running against Democrat Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker—as a racist white person and said he knew where Bailey and his children sleep.
OBSERVATION – Another example of violence stimulated from the rhetoric from the left/democrats.
A drag event in North Carolina was disrupted by the appearance of the extremist group the Proud Boys. The event, held at Hugger Mugger Brewery in Sanford, was organized by Lindsey Knapp, who operates Sanford Yoga and Community Center.
“The event on Oct 30 was chaotic,” said Knapp. “The Proud Boys were very hostile and openly harassing patrons as they entered and exited the brewery. They were calling them groomers and pedophiles and trying to intimidate everyone. The Proud Boys came to fight, wore masks, and flack vests.”
The Proud Boys were so hostile that Knapp says they ended up calling the Sanford Police Department and several uniformed officers stayed for the event.
OBSERVATION – Increasing violence / support of these ‘drag events’ by Antifa is creating a parallel rise in opponents and aggression on their part. This is part of a spiral of escalation that is likely to accelerate following the mid terms and especially if the red wave becomes a reality. The left will be forced to rely upon violence having lost the political clout. Other groups will rise up in opposition and increase in the potential for lethal confrontations will grow.
Department of Justice officials have reportedly discussed the possibility of appointing a special counsel to oversee the investigations related to former President Donald Trump should he opt to run again for the nation’s top job in 2024.
Though they are waiting for the midterm elections to pass before making major public moves, the DOJ is reportedly bringing on additional experienced prosecutors and preparing for a potential slew of indictments against major figures in Trump world, CNN reported, citing “sources familiar with the matter.”
“Now federal investigators are planning for a burst of post-election activity in Trump-related investigations,” CNN reported. “That includes the prospect of indictments of Trump’s associates – moves that could be made more complicated if Trump declares a run for the presidency.”
OBSERVATION – This would be a very dangerous step towards tyranny generally seen in third world countries. This would represent the fullest weaponization of the govt against a political rival and push matters closer to a break in the country.
CANCEL CULTURE FRONT
I’m attaching a link here with very little comment because the commentary says it better than I can. Censorship is the last resort of tyrants and we need to keep that in the forefront of our memories.
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2022/11/05/censorship-is-their-last-redoubt-n508231
France has recently demanded Rumble censor its site. They told France to pound sand. As a GGR minion, France is just following the WEF playbook on censorship.
POLITICAL FRONT –
What actually transpired at the Pelosi household?
NBC offered new details this morning on the police response before the attack — and Paul Pelosi’s curious reaction to it, at least at first. According to their sources, Pelosi himself opened the door when police arrived, and rather than walk out, he said ‘everything was good’ and began to walk back toward assailant David DePape. DePape even assured police that everything was “good,” which — given the broken window — police clearly didn’t believe.
Only then did the hammer attack occur, prompting an immediate response from the surprised officers, according to NBC.
And apparently, the officers weren’t informed that the residence belonged to the Speaker of the House.
It gets weirder – shortly after publishing the article NBC scrubbed its site of it. The NBC report from Friday was taken down with the explanation, “The piece should not have aired because it did not meet NBC News reporting standards.”
The report contradicted court documents filed in DePape’s case, which said Pelosi “nervously but calmly greeted” officers in a dimly lit foyer where both men stood.
OBSERVATION – SMH, the attempt to maintain ‘narrative’ shows there is fire with the smoke. Even the pro-pelosi anti MAGA mobs on twitter are silent about this turn of events.
Strategic Activity / Deployments -
B-1’s from Guam participating in wargames in S Korea, see below.
North/South Korea –
Situation remains tense in the Korean Peninsula.
A pair of B-1 bombers flew in from in from Guam to take part in ongoing drills with South Korea, per Yonhap. This is first time since 2017 that B-1s have done so.
Overnight there were reports of “significant fast air activity” (ie fighter jets flying around) reported over North Korea today.
Overnight North Korea fired at least four short-range ballistic missiles towards the Yellow Sea. Reports all have landed safely in the sea.
OBSERVATION – The risk of a misjudgment leading to war remains high. I among many are surprised that NK could actually get that many planes in the air at one time. However they are far inferior to modern jets that SK and the US have.
Russia -
WAR WATCH - Russia is now in 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. Russia appears to be focusing more on a missile campaign targeting electrical infrastructure to stress Ukraine as winter approaches.
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Kerch Bridge update –
Almost a month after the Crimean bridge was struck, imagery shows that repairs are still underway.
The daily traffic record for the bridge was 38,297 cars. Now, it’s reported that ferries can only carry 800 cars per day and just 250 cars can use the bridge each hour.
RUMINT –
Russia likely has begun deploying units intended to block the military’s own forces if they try to retreat from Ukraine during the ongoing invasion, according to the British Ministry of Defence.
In an intelligence update, the ministry notes that “due to low morale and reluctance to fight, Russian forces have probably started deploying ‘barrier troops’ or ‘blocking units.’ These units threaten to shoot their own retreating soldiers in order to compel offensives and have been used in previous conflicts by Russian forces.”
The report adds: “Recently, Russian generals likely wanted their commanders to use weapons against deserters, including possibly authorizing shooting to kill such defaulters after a warning had been given. Generals also likely wanted to maintain defensive positions to the death.”
NOTE – In WW2 Russia used the same tactic.
Logistics –
- Iran admitted they sent some drones to Russia ‘before the war’
Russian Personnel Issues –
- Lack of trainers has caused Russia to ship a large number of its mobilized conscripts to Belarus for training from their officer/NCO corps.
Ukraine -
WEATHER FORECAST - Cool temperatures with light to moderate rain through the 10-day period.
24 HOUR ROUND UP –
Heavy fighting continued southeast and east of Bakhmut, near Soledar again and northwest of Donetsk as Russian forces try a number of attacks to push through the front lines north of Pisky. Russian shelling was intensive around Bakhmut, northwest of Donetsk and North of Kherson, but was reportedly mostly more sporadic in the other impacted regions. Russian shelling increased in the Sumy region this morning.
Russian air/missile and drone strikes continued yesterday and overnight with Vinnytsia impacted with several strikes on power infrastructure and regions such as Mykolaiv, Zhytomyr and Khmelnytskiy also targeted. Drones were the primary attack method again.
Kyiv front ——
NSR
Northern (Chernihv region ) and North Eastern (Konotop - Sumy salient) Fronts ——
Widely scattered Russian artillery strikes.
Eastern (Kharkiv) front ——
Russian artillery scattered along the Russian border.
Donetsk Oblast ——
Continued Russian attacks around Bakhmut. Russian artillery all along the eastern front.
Crimean front ———
Russian actions in Kherson have analysts looking closely to what their motives and ultimate plan/goals are.
Occupation authorities have declared around a clock curfew in Kherson and vehicles with loudspeakers are driving all through the town, warning citizens they must evacuate the city “BY November 7.”
Emphasis on a definitive date and the intensive effort to depopulate (Russians call it ‘evacuate’) are unusual. What is going to happen on the 7th, which is BTW the day before our elections here in the US. We have a couple days until we find out.
Western / Central Ukraine ——
Widely scattered drone strikes.
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.
OUTLOOK ——
No significant change in the tactical situation.
However, the specter of a Russian surprise on Nov 7th has me a little concerned. Russia has spent a lot of time and effort fomenting a dirty nuke or dam destruction scenario as well as the threat of the actual use of a nuke to totally discount it as just more of the same propaganda.
Even Ukraine is acting cautiously and not jumping on the withdrawal of Russian forces, which makes me think they think Russia is up to something as well. (Cue Hans Solo “I have a bad feeling about this”)
Belarus -
Belarusian border guards accused Ukraine in provocation at the border with armored vehicle. Video published shows Ukrainian APC driving at the Ukrainian side of the border then turning around and driving off.
Israel –
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides on Thursday congratulated Israeli opposition leader Netanyahu on his election victory, but biden has yet to contact Netanyahu.
OBSERVATION – biden has been one of the most anti-Israel presidents along with 0bama.
Iran -
Nationwide protests against the government are on their 51st day. No signs of a let up, rather they appear to be increasing. Some evidence that some in the regime are showing concern that they may be overthrown as the effort to stop the protests so far have failed.
Iran admitted they’ve supplied drones to Russia, but before the start of the war, as they continue to deny ongoing supplies.
Big one today!
Energy poverty is a term we should all be using more. Europe in particular will be seeing a lot of it this Winter, and it will NOT be well-reported on here. We should all do our part to raise awareness here as we can, this is a huge issue.
With the midterms hitting this Tuesday, there are a lot of things that can happen to cause chaos. Those actions most likely will come without warning. Keep alert is the best measure.
Globalism / Great Reset –
The UN’s annual climate change summit has opened with hosts Egypt billing it as the world’s “watershed moment” on climate action.
More than 120 world leaders are heading to the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
About 30,000 people will attend the two-week summit, known as COP27
The summit will open with welcome speeches from the UN’s new climate change chief, Simon Stiell, and Egyptian Foreign Affairs Minister and COP27 President-Designate Sameh Shoukry.
Developing nations are demanding that previous commitments to finance are upheld. But they also want there to be discussion on “loss and damage” finance - money to help them cope with the losses they are already facing from climate change rather than just to prepare for future impacts. This would be the first time the issue has been put on the formal agenda of a COP summit.
Germany’s president expressed skepticism that progress could be made at the summit. UN chief Antonio Guterres warned that “we will be doomed” if a deal between rich and poor countries isn’t reached.
Guterres told Britain’s Guardian newspaper that wealthier countries must reach a “historic pact” with developing countries at the COP27 summit to minimize the effects of climate change.
“There is no way we can avoid a catastrophic situation, if [developed and developing countries] are not able to establish a historic pact,” Guterres told the newspaper. “Because, at the present level, we will be doomed.”
Guterres noted that developed countries are responsible for most emissions, while developing countries are likely to bear the brunt of the impact of climate change. He added that present climate policies “will be absolutely catastrophic.”
OBSERVATION - the so called ‘elites’ showing up for COP27 show their distain for the common folk in just about everything they do. They will be relying on climate models that are grossly flawed and don’t even match actual historical data. Here is an educational link for some of this
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/05/how-ipccs-1990-predictions-expensively-failed/
Meanwhile, they’ll demand more changes and the developing countries will demand more MONEY for the so called effects they are facing from ‘climate change’. This is all just a socialist money leveling operation as these ‘developing’ countries are largely lead by socialists.
One other note – the GGR crowd is once again resurrecting the call for a global climate ‘emergency’ along the same tyrannical lines of the recent wuhan virus plandemic. Such a declaration could allow subservient countries to force changes. However, the countries that are the most likely to follow along – those in Europe -are facing the harsh realities of energy poverty brought by ‘green’ energy and are pushing fossil fuels to get through the winter. At this stage, significant retrograde of fossil fuel based energy is unlikely for this region.
Here in the US OTOH, biden’s recent claim that he’ll shut down the coal ‘plants’ infers that he could act before the end of his term and the only way would be through some sort of emergency declaration as the incoming republican controlled congress wont likely accept such actions.
Wuhan virus –
In a FDA report looking at targeting data for children aged 5 to 17 between 2021 and mid-2022, the preprint study found that myocarditis, a form of heart inflammation, and the related condition pericarditis met the threshold for a safety signal for children aged 12 to 17 after the second and third doses of the mRNA vaccine.
A safety signal isn’t proof that a vaccine caused an adverse event. The purpose is to prompt investigation of the cause and determine whether or not the risks of a vaccine outweigh the benefits. (NOTE – ‘targeting data’ and ‘safety signal’ refer in part to the VAERS adverse reaction record).
The CDC has acknowledged myocarditis as a vaccine side effect but insists it’s rare. In August 2021, the CDC reported 42.6 cases of myocarditis or pericarditis per million males ages 12-15 after vaccination. However, in September, the CDC’s analysis of its own Vaccine Safety Datalink surveillance data showed the incidence of myocarditis after vaccination was three to five times higher for young men than what the agency was reporting in 2021. The first prospective cohort study on the subject – by researchers in Thailand looking at 301 teens 13-18 – estimated an astonishing 23,000 cases per million.
Last month, a Swiss study found elevated levels of the protein troponin in all of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine recipients it analyzed, indicating the shots are routinely causing heart injury. Further, up to 1 in 27 of the vaccinated people in the study showed levels associated with subclinical myocarditis.
Denmark and Norway have recommended that people under 50 and under 65, respectively, not get a booster shot. And Sweden is no longer recommending them for ages 12 to 17.
INTERIM OBSERVATION - It was considered “misinformation” and “dangerous fearmongering” less than a year ago to say the wuhan “vaccines” could cause myocarditis, heart attacks, or other deadly ailments. Today, what was once called “misinformation” has been confirmed as 100% accurate by the FDA, CDC, and WHO, albeit quietly.
CONTINUING - This is why the claim that many have made since around March, 2021, that wuhan “vaccines” hamper natural responses to diseases and cause recipients to become immunocompromised, is not surprisingly being proven accurate today. Sadly, the evidence is being drowned out by suppression, censorship, and gaslighting from Big Pharma puppets in government and media who aren’t concerned about who they’re harming as long as they keep getting paid.
Hospitals around the U.S. are suddenly struggling to keep up with surging rates of respiratory infections among children, such as respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), COVID, rhinoviruses and influenza. Censored scientists and doctors have long warned that the mRNA COVID jabs are destroying people’s immune systems, and that we’re going to see an avalanche of infections as immune system failure sets in
In June 2022, Stephanie Seneff, Ph.D., Dr. Greg Nigh, Dr. Anthony Kyriakopoulos and Dr. Peter McCullough published a paper10 in Food and Chemical Toxicology, reviewing the mechanisms by which the shots suppress immune function and trigger disease. As noted in the abstract:
“The utilization of mRNA vaccines in the context of infectious disease has no precedent. The many alterations in the vaccine mRNA hide the mRNA from cellular defenses and promote a longer biological half-life and high production of spike protein. However, the immune response to the vaccine is very different from that to a SARS-CoV-2 infection.
In this paper, we present evidence that vaccination induces a profound impairment in type I interferon signaling, which has diverse adverse consequences to human health.
Immune cells that have taken up the vaccine nanoparticles release into circulation large numbers of exosomes containing spike protein along with critical microRNAs that induce a signaling response in recipient cells at distant sites.
We also identify potential profound disturbances in regulatory control of protein synthesis and cancer surveillance. These disturbances potentially have a causal link to neurodegenerative disease, myocarditis, immune thrombocytopenia, Bell’s palsy, liver disease, impaired adaptive immunity, impaired DNA damage response and tumorigenesis.”
OBSERVATION - This information was out there for a LONG time and the CDC et al buried it as ‘misinformation’. This is why there should be no amnesty for the covidians. They damaged and killed too many in defense of their ‘narrative’ and the effort to prolong the pandemic emergency.
Economy –
Biden said Friday that coal plants are too expensive to operate, and “we’re going to be shutting these plants down all across America” in order to shift to wind power in a comment that drew criticism from the Republican National Committee.
“I was in Massachusetts about a month ago on the site of the largest old coal plant in America,” Biden said at an event in Carlsbad, California, on Friday. “Guess what? It cost them too much money. They can’t count. No one is building new coal plants because they can’t rely on it. Even if they have all the coal guaranteed for the rest of the existence of the plant.
“So it’s going to become a wind generation. And all they’re doing is it’s going to save them a hell of a lot of money and using the same transmission line that they transmitted the coal-fired electric on, we’re going to be shutting these plants down all across America and having wind and solar power, also providing tax credits to help families buy energy efficient appliances, whether it’s your refrigerator or your coffee maker, for solar panels on your home, weatherize your home, things that save an average, experts say, a minimum of $500 a year for the average family.”
OBSERVATION – Our economy relies on dependable energy and the left/biden desire energy poverty for all. If biden shuts down all coal (and his context suggests over a short period of time), it would literally take decades to build enough solar and wind to even begin to pick up the difference. History has shown it is completely unreliable. No amount of wind and solar can reliably supply the USA during adverse winter weather.
Solar power doesn’t work at night, or in winter – Northern states especially simply don’t receive enough sunlight (and snow cover doesn’t help either).
Wind alone cannot carry the USA’s energy needs during long periods when solar is unavailable. Wind simply isn’t a reliable source of energy.
Consider the Texas ice storm in February 2021. Solar dropped to almost nothing for over 10 days, and wind wasn’t available for significant periods. Consider also the Kalifornia heat wave of a couple years ago, wind shut down and the state baked in record temperatures with no other power available to spin up. Electric car users were begged NOT to charge their cars.
Final note – coal/gas plants are far, far cheaper per megawatt than wind or solar and have a much longer life cycle. Coal plants operate for over 40 years now. Wind plants have to be replaced about every 12 years or so.
Biden / Harris watch –
Biden announced he will shut down coal plants all across America (see Economy above). The statement put the WH into a tizzy trying to spin the statement. One response was that Biden ‘regrets’ comments about shutting down coal plants. KJP claimed biden’s words were “twisted”
OBSERVATION – WH staffers must be able to get more than their minimal numbers of steps in by walking back biden’s gaffs on a daily basis.
SEE ALSO Economy above
CW2/Domestic violence –
I’m not seeing any calls by the left or right for violence this Tuesday. The left (Antifa et al) may try to activate post election as they did after Trump’s election to ‘punish’ the people for the red wave. If you live in a blue city/region keep your head on a swivel and monitory local news for any ‘protests’ and avoid. The left is still trying to get the right provoked into a response that the govt can us to crack down any opposition to the regime’s goals.
Cyber Warfare –
Cybersecurity units from the National Guard will be activated in 14 U.S. states to help counter any threats to election officials’ networks ahead of, during, and after the upcoming Nov. 8 midterm elections, according to reports.
The 14 include battleground states Arizona, Iowa, and Pennsylvania, as well as Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, North Carolina, New Mexico, New York, Washington, and West Virginia, reported Politico.
CISA Director Jen Easterly has repeatedly said she doesn’t expect any major disruptions to the midterms. Most recently, on Nov. 1, at an event hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Easterly said that there is “no information credible or specific about efforts to disrupt or compromise” election infrastructure and that she was “very confident that we have done everything we can to make election infrastructure as secure and as resilient as possible.”
Air Force Maj. Gen. Rich Neely, head of the Illinois National Guard, said that he and his team are “not expecting to see anything.”
North/South Korea –
Things have quieted down since last weeks blow up. However, it can start up again on a very short notice.
Japan –
Taiwan is not the only country in the region facing incursions of territorial waters by Chinese and Russian vessels.
A People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) survey ship vessel entered Japan’s territorial waters near islands south of Kyushu this week, according to the Japanese Ministry of Defense.
The Shupang-class survey ship was sighted sailing northeast through Japan’s contiguous zone west of Gaja Island and entered Japan’s territorial waters southwest of Kuchinoerabu Island at 12:10 a.m. local time on Wednesday. The ship departed Japan’s territorial waters after three hours of operating near Yakushima Island and sailed southeast. According to Japanese officials, the transit was the fourth intrusion of a foreign warship this year, marking a record high.
On Monday, the Japanese MoD issued a statement that said on Oct. 28, a Russian Navy Balzam-class surveillance ship was sighted sailing west in an area 160 kilometers west of Cape Ryupi, Aomori Prefecture, Honshu. An image and hull number provided in the release identified the ship as Pribaltica (80), which is part of the Russian Navy Pacific Fleet.
Russia -
WAR WATCH - Russia is now in 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. Russia appears to be focusing more on a missile campaign targeting electrical infrastructure to stress Ukraine as winter approaches.
Russia is incapable of launching any significant offense against any of the fronts in Ukraine due to personnel issues (losses and untrained conscripts), severe logistical shortages and lack of armor/tanks. They are only capable of launching limited attacks – primarily in the east.
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NUKE WATCH -
China has warned Russia against threatening to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, in a rare departure from its usual tacit support for Moscow’s positions.
Ukraine -
WEATHER FORECAST - Cool temperatures with light to moderate rain through the 10-day period.
24 HOUR ROUND UP –
Fighting slowed around Bakhmut yesterday, returning more to trench fighting. Both sides in many regions are digging in or fortifying defensive positions for winter. Russian shelling was intensive around Bakhmut, whilst Ukrainian shelling of Russian forces was intensive around Svatove and Kherson. In most other impacted regions there were some sporadic intensive phases, but shelling was mostly sporadic.
Evidence of the construction of Russian defenses east of the Dnipir River were revealed – see below.
Russian air/missile and drone strikes continued yesterday and overnight but were limited.
Kyiv front ——
NSR
Northern (Chernihv region ) and North Eastern (Konotop - Sumy salient) Fronts ——
Scattered Russian artillery fire.
Eastern (Kharkiv) front ——
Ukraine forces continue to advance towards encircling Svatove. Ukraine has most of the key Russian supply lines within artillery range and SOF and partisans actively feed target data for interdiction.
Donetsk Oblast ——
Russia conducted 2 missile strikes at Zaporizhzhia overnight. More Bakhmut attacks repulsed.
Crimean front ———
Ukrainian and Russian sources did not report significant changes in the situation on the southern front on November 5th.
Battle for Kherson could get ugly as a local in Kherson tells BBC that many Russian soldiers in the city wear civilian clothes. (That is a war crime under the Geneva Conventions).
Better weather and more intel has permitted better analysis of the Russian defenses southeast of Kherson. The Russians are currently building three lines of trenches and bunkers on the right side of the Dnieper. These defensive positions use natural and artificial barriers such as the Dnieper River and the numerous canals in the Kherson region. Below is a link to a map that shows the approximate alignment of these defensive lines -
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fgz2LnSXgAALNiy?format=jpg&name=4096x4096
These defensive lines consist of trenches supported by buried positions for armored fighting vehicles. In places where it is difficult to dig trenches, Russia has deployed prefabricated “bunkers”
Western / Central Ukraine ——
NSR
Russian Territory -—
Big fire in Grayvoron district of Belgorod region after reported shelling
Partisan Resistance ——
NSR - but don’t let that fool you, there are plenty of unconfirmed reports of rear area attacks crossed Russian occupied territory.
There was a reported attempt to assassinate high-profile Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) Supreme Court Judge Aleksandr Nikulin.
OUTLOOK ——
Winter setting in is altering the fight. Until the ground freezes, off road maneuverability will be hampered by the fall mud.
I see no real changes in the tactical situation as it has been progressing for the past week or so. Slow gains by Ukraine and Russia throwing itself into the Bakhmut meat grinder.
Monitoring the Nov 7th date given by the Russian occupation forces in Kherson to see what may happen then or shortly thereafter.
Revelation of the extensive defenses on the east side of the Dnipir River show how important protecting Crimea from the Kherson axis is. What Russia has to fear is the potential for an offensive coming south out of the Zaporizhzhia region. Creation of such a fixed defensive line versus a mobile army did not work well in WW2.
Russian milbloggers worried for months of a third front in the Zaporizhzhia region. This assault would permit Ukraine forces to move south on the eastern side of the Dnipir River, flanking the fixed defensive network. Such a strike would also threaten to split the Russian forces in half, limiting their ability to support across the region.
Russia could be forced onto the horns of a trilemma. Keep forces in the Kherson line, put forces into the east and/or forces against a thrust from Zaporizhzhia. They have been barely capable of handling two fronts – a third would be very difficult to sustain.
Ukraine, with interior lines of logistics, could leave a holding force in Kherson and move units to the Zaporizhzhia region. It has already been targeting Russian logistics, command posts and troop concentrations in the region, so some of the shaping of the battlefield has commenced. This region relied heavily on the Kerch Bridge for supplies from Russia and is feeling the shortages as material is diverted to the west and east.
If Ukraine follows this tactic, they could be ready to go as soon as the end of the year, as analysts suggest that they will have secured Kherson and the west bank of the Dnipir River by then.
Belarus -
Monitoring activity which seems to be basic military training in established areas of central and western Belarus. No evidence of potential attacks into Ukraine.
SERBIA / KOSOVO -
Serbs in Kosovo have withdrawn from all political institutions including the, assembly, the government, the judiciary, the police and the administrative staff in the four municipalities in the north. All Serbian MPs are submitting their resignation to the Kosovo Parliament.
OBSERVATION – This is all about Kosovo having license plate rules for Serbs living in Kosovo as Kosovans face living in Serbia. Essentially this is a power play by Serbs who want their own entity within Kosovo which Kosovo govt said no. Serbia has rattled the saber a lot on this issue lately. Kosovo currently has a NATO peace keeping force in place and any Serbian attack will trigger an Article 5 response. Such Serbian aggression may be linked to their alliance with Russia and they may get froggy in order to tie NATO down from their support of Ukraine. Such actions would become very nasty fast as Serbia would essentially be on their own – with no Russian support (other than cheering them on) as Russia is too tied down in Ukraine.
Pakistan -
Civil unrest continues following the assassination attempt on Khan.
Iran -
Iran regime is forbidding trading foreign currencies and especially USA Dollar in all platforms from today, after the shock of falling rates of Iranian Rial against the dollar.
Iranian human rights activists report that 318 people have already been killed during the Iran protests, including 49 children. The protests, which has taken place in 136 towns and 134 universities, have resulted in around 14,800 protestors having so far been detained.
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan -
The U.S. government gave $1.1 billion in U.S. tax dollars to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in humanitarian aid since the U.S. withdrawal in August 2021 — and a top federal watchdog says several U.S. agencies are refusing to explain how the money was spent.
In SIGAR’s quarterly report to Congress the Inspector General explains that they are unable to track down how more than $1 billion taxpayer dollars was spent because multiple government agencies are refusing to cooperate.
Inspector General John F. Sopko says, “SIGAR, for the first time in its history, is unable this quarter to provide Congress and the American people with a full accounting of this U.S. government spending due to the noncooperation of several U.S. government agencies.” Sopko adds that both United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which administers the majority of U.S. government spending for Afghanistan, and the Treasury Department “refused to cooperate with SIGAR in any capacity.”
OBSERVATION – Said it before, say it again. The biden regime operates as a lawless entity, being law unto themselves.
Mexico -
Haven’t commented in this region lately. There is a lot of cartel – govt fighting on top of intercartel fights. The country is not a very safe area. As noted under ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION a few days ago, this violence between cartels is spilling northward over the border.