Wuhan virus –
The United States Senate has successfully passed legislation to declassify the origins of COVID-19.
OBSERVATION – Even the democrats are seeing that this is a potential hit to them in the 2024 elections and read from the tea leaves that they better be out front on it. Of course the swamp will do everything to keep information on the origins obfuscated and under wraps for a long as possible.
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In related- Newly released emails reveal that in January 2020, Dr. Anthony Fauci possessed crucial information regarding the origins of COVID-19. However, during that critical period when the nation was just beginning to comprehend the virus, Dr. Fauci opted not to disclose the information to the American people. Rather, he worked to keep it hidden, The Federalist reported this week.
OBSERVATION – By this stage, Fauci should be behind bars. He lied under oath to congress, he profited from the plandemic and he skates off scott free.
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Defense officials, speaking to the House Armed Services personnel subcommittee earlier this week, admitted they were still considering disciplinary action against troops who refused an order to get the COVID vaccine.
Which, with the knowledge we have today regarding the poor efficacy of the vaccine in preventing the spread of COVID, and the fact that the vaccine mandate has been rescinded with the benefit of hindsight, is astounding.
Gilbert Cisneros Jr., the undersecretary of defense for personnel, told the panel that servicemembers who refused the vaccine and did not apply for an exemption were still being reviewed.
“In order to maintain good order and discipline, it’s very important that our service members go and follow orders when they are lawful,” Cisneros said, adding that each case was being evaluated.
OBSERVATION - Starting on the basis that the DoD’s directives were illegal to begin with. They were NOT authorized to used the emergency use versions of the jab – only the official approved version – which has never come into existance. Secondly, DoD violated the law in blanket rejections of religious exemption requests.
The purpose is loud and clear – demoralize the military and reduce its effectiveness as a fighting force.
Economy –
The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage jumped back over 7% on Thursday, rising to 7.1%, according to Mortgage News Daily.
Growing fears that inflation is not cooling off are pushing bond yields higher. Mortgage rates loosely follow the yield on the U.S. 10-year Treasury.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/02/mortgage-rates-back-over-7percent.html
OBSERVATION – Housing and mortgage provide one view into the state of the economy, and it seems to be still on life support. The housing industry influences so much of the economy that when it suffers, the rest suffer as well.
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Related - U.S. home prices could tumble as much as 20% as the highest mortgage rates in two decades threaten to trigger a “deep global housing slide,” according to research from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.
The economists — Lauren Black and Enrique Martínez-García — pointed to signs of trouble detected in the U.S. and German housing markets that threaten to “pose a vulnerability to the global outlook because of the size of those nations’ economies and significant cross-border financial spillovers.”
Some of that peril, they said, stems from an affordability crisis. Signs of diminished affordability in the U.S. have usually preceded global deterioration.
“The possibility of a domino effect, where investors pull out of international housing seeking safety and liquidity elsewhere, also raises concerns of spillovers beyond Germany or the U.S. to the global economy,” they added.
For the U.S. housing market to return in line with its fundamentals, the researchers estimated that it would need to experience a 19.5% decline. Higher mortgage rates threaten to make the price correction even more dramatic.
OBSERVATION – Lower house prices vs high interest rates - not a good mix for recovery , let along economic improvments.
CW2/Domestic violence –
Walmart confirmed this week that it is closing all remaining stores in Portland.
Now this is being posted here instead of Economy because the closures are directly linked to the uncontrolled rise in crime following the BLM/Antifa riots of the 2020s and Antifa/BLM being the dominant political force the progressive city/state leadership jump to. The next set or riots- not if but when – will see BLM/Antifa push further out from the city centers even quicker as stores worth looting will be gone and the ‘safer’ more prosperous suburbs become more enticing. Whether or not these suburbs stand up and forcefully push back against these looters will need to be seen. BLM/Antifa learned that they can’t go too far out of town because they were strongly pushed back by locals ready for things to get spicy.
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Garland says the DOJ doesn’t prosecute many Antifa attacks on pro-life pregnancy centers bc they happen to be at night.
OBSERVATION- SMH, does he realize what he said and how lame of an excuse it was? He best presented the case for two tiered justice in this one sentence alone.
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Rasmussen has a new poll out showing that a whopping 61 percent of all voters, including a stunning 57 percent of Democrats, believe that federal agents played a role in inciting the Capitol riot of January 6, 2021.
In answer to the question “How likely is it that undercover government agents helped provoke the Capitol riot,” 61 percent of likely voters said it was either very likely (39 percent) or somewhat likely (22 percent) that they had done so.
59 percent of men and 63 percent of women believed that federal agents had “helped provoke the Capitol riot.” This major majority of voters who believe the Capitol riot was not simply naturally occurring breaks down among political party affiliation as well, with 57 percent of Democrats saying it is either very likely (34 percent) or somewhat likely (23 percent) while for Republicans the numbers are 51 percent saying very likely, and 19 percent saying somewhat likely.
OBSERVATION – Remarkably high democrat response. I expect that if (now there is concerns that the speaker wont release the videos as promised) the unedited videos from the day are released, this number would go higher.
Critical to note – just about every major event over the past several years has had significant federal agent involvement – either as informers or actual agent provocateurs.
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About 65 Wisconsin families are currently being held hostage by the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. The tribe has erected illegal barricades on the only roads that lead to their homes, preventing residents from entering and leaving. The only way out of the reservation is over frozen lakes that are quickly melting with the coming spring.
The yellow barricades and chained-together concrete blocks were set up 31 days ago over a bitter land dispute among two non-tribal title companies, the town of Lac du Flambeau, and the tribe. Meanwhile, racial tensions are rising, and many fear violence in a standoff that’s also shining a long-needed spotlight on the dysfunctional arrangement between Indian tribes and the U.S. federal government.
To open the roads for only 15 years, Tribal President John Johnson is demanding $20 million. It’s an amount Republican Rep. Tom Tiffany describes as tantamount to “extortion.” Tiffany also says it’s unlawful since all four roads in question receive federal funding through the Tribal Transportation Program. According to Tiffany, the tribe has received a total of $218 million in federal funds since 2013.
OBSERVATION – Underreported aspect of the CW2 are tribal actions to violate rights of non-indians on reservation properties. In multiple states, tribes are trying to flex their muscles to restrict/limit any actions that cross their ‘lands’. Here in the Redoubt, this has resulted in non-tribal law enforcement pulling back any assistance (because tribal police refused to cooperate), and now the tribes are crying for help to deal with skyrocketing crime and human trafficking related issues. In the Wisconsin case above, there is a potential for violence as violence could happen should the tribes not back down from their demands.
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Multiple Ohio elementary school kids are facing assault charges after disturbing video caught the group of black students attacking white students — and forcing them to say “Black lives matter,” according to cops.
Footage obtained by WKEF showed a tall student grabbing a much smaller one around the back of the head and marching him across the Springfield playground, with another joining to hold the struggling victim.
Others joined in when he was taken to an area near swings — with one charging in and knocking the helpless youngster to the ground, seemingly throwing a punch.
OBSERVATION – This story gained traction once videos of the assaults were released. This is the result of CRT instruction, BLM radicalism and just out and out poor job raising the kids (likely without a father). I’m not anticipating very much to be done by the school or other authorities and it is ok in their philosophy to attack whites (and Asians for that matter) just because.
Domestic / International Terror (modified)-
We are seeing now why Mark Muffley is not leading news reports on the bomb incident. –
FBI Special Agent Eddie Garcia testified that Muffley confirmed he was aware he had the explosive in his bag along with lithium batteries, butane and a small torch lighter, and he knew they were all prohibited.
Prosecutor Sherri Stephan also said Muffley admitted to using drugs including methamphetamine and that the pipe found in his suitcase had meth residue in it. Stephan said he had several previous run-ins with the law, including having his probation and bail revoked on multiple occasions. Stephan said Muffley had “shown a pattern of not being able to follow the rules of release.”
OBSERVATION - Every indication of your typical druggie democrat supporter FAFO.
Cyber Warfare –
Today, the Biden-Harris Administration released the National Cybersecurity Strategy to secure the full benefits of a safe and secure digital ecosystem for all Americans. In this decisive decade, the United States will reimagine cyberspace as a tool to achieve our goals in a way that reflects our values: economic security and prosperity; respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms; trust in our democracy and democratic institutions; and an equitable and diverse society. To realize this vision, we must make fundamental shifts in how the United States allocates roles, responsibilities, and resources in cyberspace.
1. We must rebalance the responsibility to defend cyberspace by shifting the burden for cybersecurity away from individuals, small businesses, and local governments, and onto the organizations that are most capable and best-positioned to reduce risks for all of us.
2. We must realign incentives to favor long-term investments by striking a careful balance between defending ourselves against urgent threats today and simultaneously strategically planning for and investing in a resilient future.
OBSERVATION – Deeper look indicates another push for digital identity and de-anonymize internet users who engage in what the Biden administration calls “malinformation.” Hence a hidden shift for more censorship with the potential for govt to go after individuals for the crime of “malinformation”, which we all know by now is a euphemism for being against the regime’s narrative.
This Initiative also places the burden on the govt and away from individuals – increasing govt controls over individual freedom (and stupidity) on the internet.
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Hackers breached a website that allows people to buy and sell guns, exposing the identities of its users, TechCrunch has learned.
The breach exposed reams of sensitive personal data for more than 550,000 users, including customers’ full names, home addresses, email addresses, plaintext passwords and telephone numbers. Also, the stolen data allegedly makes it possible to link a particular person with the sale or purchase of a specific weapon.
“With this data, you can then take a public listing…and resolve it back to the [data in the stolen database] so you have the name, email and physical address and phone number of [the seller] and presumably, the location of the gun,” Troy Hunt, a cybersecurity expert who runs the popular data breach repository and alerting service Have I BeenPwned, told TechCrunch. (The researcher who found the breach shared the data with Hunt so he can upload it to Have I BeenPwned.)
OBSERVATION – The site hit was GunAuction.com, a site that since 1998 allows people to put guns for auction online. Not only could criminals access the data for their nefarious purposes, the feds likely could have accessed it as well for a covert database of gun owners.
POLITICAL FRONT –
KJP: Joe Biden does not support preventing noncitizens from voting in Washington, D.C.
OBSERVATION – DC is moving to allow noncitizens to vote in elections, the senate democrats last night closed ranks to allow DC to move forward with the plan. Other blue cities have attempted to do the same over the past couple years, but those plans have not held up well in courts.
Russia -
WAR WATCH - First Anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine - Feb 24th, 2022
CURRENT ASSESSMENT
Russian forces have initiated an offensive who’s declared goals are to reach and secure the Luhansk and Donetsk oblast borders — an objective that Russian Chief of General Staff Army General Valery Gerasimov had also outlined on December 22, 2022. Troop and equipment build up is being noted
This offensive action is focused on several fronts –
1) the Svatove-Kreminna front,
2) Bahkmut region,
3) Donetsk region and
4) Zaporizhizhia Oblast around the town of Vuhledar.
Russia is also capable of launching more cruise/ballistic missile attacks directed against Ukrainian infrastructure -primarily its power grid, but massively reduced inventories of such missiles means these barrages will be further apart.
While Russia has nuclear capability, the probability is low that any will be used in the near future.
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken met briefly with his Russian counterpart on the sidelines of a G20 meeting in India on Thursday, and said afterwards he had urged Moscow to end its “war of aggression” in Ukraine and reverse its decision to suspend participation in the New START arms control treaty.
Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, speaking to Russian television after Blinken’s comments to the press, said they amounted to “PR and self-promotion.”
“They are well aware that the American people are asking what the Biden administration has done in the field of bilateral relations and the problems that it has created,” she told the Rossiya 1 channel. “Blinken needs to show something to the people, and he has nothing to show except to catch Lavrov along the corridor.”
NUCLEAR THREATS –
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, speaking at the United Nations conference on disarmament, warned that increasing Western support for Ukraine could result in an open conflict between the U.S. and Russia. He added that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s suspension of the New START nuclear treaty was necessary since Russia could not accept U.S. inspections of its facilities as long as Washington and NATO have openly declared the defeat of the Russian state as their ultimate goal. (FO)
OBSERVATION – continued saber rattling and trying to frame their rejection of START treaty requirement on the basis that the US is actually at war with Russia.
Ukraine -
WEATHER FORECAST – Temperatures rising to the mid 30’s – lower 40s with rain/snow over most of the forecast period
24 HOUR ROUND UP –
Russian forces appear to have temporarily scaled back efforts to encircle Bakhmut from both the southwest and northeast and may instead be focusing on pressuring Ukrainian forces to withdraw from the city by concentrating on the northeastern offensive. The decision could be in part because Russia cannot get support vehicles or even armor into position to provide support due to the deteriorating soil conditions. Combat continues to be fierce.
Russian Territory –
Strange happenings continue in Sushany village of Briansk region.
3 RosGuard troopers and police sapper wounded as their vehicle hit a landmine near Sushany village of Briansk region
The Kremlin accused Ukraine of conducting a border incursion in Bryansk Oblast, Russia. Ukrainian officials denied the Kremlin’s accusations and claimed that Russian officials might be facing problems with increasing partisan activity in Russia.
Operative Command “North”(Ukraine) had warned about possible provocation in the area over a week ago. This consisted of unmarked Russian miliary vehicles with ‘soldiers’ wearing Ukrainian style digital camo uniforms. You would have read it first
here
https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4120141/posts?page=123#123
Many observers and analysts are coming to the conclusion that this is a False Flag attempt by Russia. However, they should at least let their response units know where they planted the mines.
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Loud explosion was reported in Kolomna of Moscow region, audible across the town
Kolomna hosts multiple strategic enterprises, like KB Mashinostroyeniya or KBM, designers of Igla and Strela MANPADS, Tochka U and Iskander missiles. Russia authorities trying to deny that anything happened.
OUTLOOK –
Any potential for a quick Russian victory at Bahkmut are fading as the mud gets worse and Ukainian defenses stiffen from reinforcements. Russia has expended a lot of resources on the fight and still can’t get the mission accomplished. This is not to say the Ukraine will not have to realize a tactical withdrawal in the near future, but now the seasons are changing into its favor with the arrival of mud season. Their defense of Bahkmut has achieved a key objective – given Ukraine an opportunity to mobilize, train, equip and rearm for their offensive operations once the ground dries out again, while at the same time deflating the Russian mobilization and offensive in the east, placing Russian forces in a weaker position to defend against an Ukrainian attack. Russia doesn’t have the time to rebuild forces with the constant bleeding of men and resources in their fruitless attacks.
Videos on social media show the battlefields turning into goo as things thaw out. Vehicular traffic is near a standstill and even movement by foot is bogged down by clays attaching to the boots and creating a monster to try to slog along with – in addition to sinking calf deep in places.
To take with a little skepticism, Luhansk Oblast Administration Head Serhiy Haidai reported that Russian forces have concentrated a significant portion of their heavy military equipment in Luhansk Oblast but have been unable to use most of it due to unfavorable weather conditions on the frontlines. Haidai added that Russians are using Terminator armored fighting vehicles and T-90M tanks in the Kreminna direction, which indicates that Russian forces are continuing to prioritize this direction for an advance.
The big question – will Russia motorpool most of the buildup or disperse to keep safe from Ukrainian interdiction?
SERBIA / KOSOVO -
Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Spokesperson Maria Zakharova stated on March 2 that reports of Serbian authorities secretly transferring multiple-launch rocket systems (MLRS) ammunition to Ukraine are a matter of “deepest concern.” Serbian defense company Krusik supplied over 3,500 Grad MLRS rockets to Ukraine but claimed that it is not clear that Krusik knew that Ukraine was the final buyer of the rockets.
OBSERVATION – Wonder what happen in the Serbian calculations on their relationship with Russia? Wasn’t but a half year ago or so Serbia was trying to ratchet up tensions with NATO with a confrontation with Moldova. Since then the Serbs have staged an incredible pull back from Russian support. Now going as far as allowing Ukraine to get munitions for use against Russia.
Russian authorities appear to be concerned over a growing loss of leverage in Serbia, which Russia has worked to integrate into the Russian sphere of influence for many years.
I also think that Serbia is realizing that for economic growth, they need to hitch their wagon to the EU, who’s membership they’ve been trying to cultivate. Russia’s economy is likely to be failing fast as the war progresses - and that will hurt Serbia in the long run.
Israel –
In an unannounced visit, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Milley and other U.S. Defense Officials will reportedly arrive in Israel later today in order to conduct High-Level Meetings with Israeli Military and Intelligence Officials on the threat that Iran possesses to the region.
OBSERVATION - One of two things. Milley got word that Israel was about to get into ‘go’ mode for a more direct Iranian strike and want to stall, OR he is there to help coordinate support. Given the anti-Israeli policies of the biden regime the first is more likely than the later.
Iran –
Iranians chanted “death to the child-killing government” after eight schools reported poisonings in one day.
Reports of Iranian schoolgirls being poisoned at school continue to stream in from across Iran, with over 1,000 students in more than 50 schools impacted so far, according to opposition reports this week.
The poisonings were first reported in late November, with the pace of reports rising in recent weeks. On Wednesday, at least eight schools throughout Iran reported poisoning incidents in one day, according to opposition media.
According to the 1500tasvir account, which covers anti-government protests in Iran, some students have seen plainclothes security agents outside the schools right before the poisonings. Some reported eyewitness accounts have claimed that a small explosion was heard at some of the schools followed by a strong smell and then the symptoms of poisoning began.
OBSERVATION – There is evidence that suggests that these gas attacks are a response to the national protests that occurred several months ago over the death of a woman, beaten to death by “morality police’ for not wearing a head covering. Reports also indicate that schools with predominantly girls attending are the main target. This looks like it could trigger a new round of national protests.
Misc of Note –
A top union leader penned a letter to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg about a number of rail workers at the Norfolk Southern derailment site in East Palestine, Ohio, who have become sick, likely from the toxic chemical spill. CNBC obtained the letter on Wednesday.
Jonathan Long, a union representative for the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees Division of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, titled the letter “Norfolk Southern Is Dangerous to America” and said about 40 workers were ordered by the railway to clean up the wreckage.
Long said workers weren’t given proper personal protection equipment to clean up the toxic wreckage. He said many workers weren’t supplied respirators, protective clothing, or eye protection.
As a result of the chemical exposure, many rail workers “reported that they continue to experience migraines and nausea, days after the derailment, and they all suspect that they were willingly exposed to these chemicals at the direction of [Norfolk Southern].”
OBSERVATION – SMH, this is a hazwaste cleanup operation and the railroad (and any contracted for the work), must have specific PPE to do it. Unbelieveable that the EPA and Ohio state environmental regulators haven’t put their foot down. Having been involved in various degrees on environmental clean-up this is just mind boggling.
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Massive Sierra snowfall can have mixed blessings. All dependent on the weather. Still a lot of weather season left and the huge amounts of low snow make a scenario ripe for a Pineapple Express rain on snow event that could overwhelm the flood control system of Kalifornia. Such is a higher probability to the ‘soft’ spring and gentle warming. Kalifornia is a land of extremes and we are seeing it bigly.
Not stunning or whooping to those of us in flyover (well, except the Cheney family) but must be a total blown away shock to people living in DC and the surrounding 'mansion-heavy' elite counties around DC.
I expect Portland politicians to make it illegal to close any store.
Store owners gotta bend over, get a shaft in the butt, and lose money.
Globalism / Great Reset –
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced on March 1 it is seeking information from the public “on chronic chemical hazards from gas ranges.”
The commission released a draft public notice on the request for information, but has not released the final notice. The final one should be published in the Federal Register next week, a commission spokesperson told The Epoch Times via email.
The RFI comes after the Department of Energy proposed new rules for gas stoves and other cooking appliances.
“As required by Congress, the Department of Energy is proposing efficiency standards for gas and electric cooktops—we are not proposing bans on either,” a spokesperson for the department said in February.
The proposal would block approximately half of the gas cooking appliances currently on the market, the DOE said in a recent analysis.
OBSERVATION – Like a zombie, the gas stove ban rises from the dead as the govt moves forward like there was no pushback from when Trumka first pushed the ban several months ago. This is how a tyrannical govt works, like a glacier, slowly pushing opposition out of the way to attain its goals.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — Hundreds of tractors driven by angry farmers protesting a plan to cut nitrate levels converged on Brussels on Friday, creating major traffic disruption in Belgium’s capital city.
The BB farmers union and several others combined efforts to gather more than 2,700 farm vehicles, according to Brussels police.
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The Flemish regional government is struggling to find a deal to cut nitrate pollution over farmers’ objections that it would put many out of business.
Farmers also claim that their trade has to make much deeper cuts than industry and want to see a more equitable spread.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/03/04/farmers-blockade-eu-capital-to-fight-fertiliser-restrictions/
OBSERVATION – The European war on farmers and ranchers continue. They have skyrocketing food prices (even higher than here in the US) and their plans do very little to reduce their carbon ‘footprint’, especially in comparison to China and India, who are multiplying coal and gas power plants like rabbits. But the WEF/GGR pick the low hanging fruit first and the sheeple of Europe are ripe. And remember – you will have nothing (to eat) but will be happy.
Wuhan virus –
Early, early on in the wuhan jab plandemic, I noted reports that the mRNA turned out to be an abortificant – causing miscarriages in the majority of pregnant women tested. Now the understanding that the jab further affected other aspects of a woman’s reproductive system (as well as a man’s) – resulting in loss of fertility and ability to get pregnant. Now more evidence is out showing that Pfizer deliberately played games with preliminarily testing on pregnant women and misrepresented the results in order to get the CDC to approve use on pregnant women (follow the $$$). FOIA is coming around to bite them and hopefully place a bunch of Pfizer execs as well as officials in the CDC and HHS behind bars or at the very least shelling outboo-coo bucks in legal fees and judgements.
https://maryannedemasi.substack.com/p/exclusive-whatever-happened-to-pfizers
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Official British Government reports confirming eight times more people died due to Covid-19 vaccination within six months of the vaccine rollout than had died of Covid-19 within eighteen months are extremely worrying and evidence that the Covid-19 vaccines currently on offer should have been withdrawn from public use nearly 2 years ago.
According to official NHS data which can be viewed here, from March 2020 up to the 25th of August 2021; a period of 18 months, 90,147 Covid deaths within 28 days of a positive test have been recorded in England hospitals.
Of these 86.315 all died of other serious pre-existing conditions including dementia, chronic kidney disease, chronic pulmonary disease, chronic neurological disease, and heart disease. However, they were added to the Covid statistics due to having received a positive test within 28 days of their death.
https://expose-news.com/2023/03/01/covid-vaccination-8x-deadlier-than-disease/
https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/files//statistics/covid19/covid-deaths-21-report-week-32.pdf
OBSERVATION – The medical tyranny is not able to keep these numbers under wraps anymore as study upon study continue to come out showing the deadly affects of the jab on society as a whole.
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“Real Time” host Bill Maher took a victory lap on Friday on behalf of all COVID “dissenters” like himself throughout the course of the pandemic.
Following the revelations that U.S. government agencies like the FBI and the Energy Department are endorsing the COVID lab-leak theory and studies that show the effectiveness of natural immunity and the ineffectiveness of mask-wearing and lockdowns, Maher suggested a large swath of Americans should feel vindicated.
“I feel like the people who were the dissenters are looking pretty good. I was one of them,” Maher said during a panel discussion. “I remember getting a lot of s-— from a lot of places.”
Maher scoffed at January 2021 Daily Beast headline that read “Bill Maher Pushes Steve Bannon Wuhan Lab COVID Conspiracy.” “Yeah, it was just Steve Bannon,” Maher sarcastically reiterated. “Well, it was, you know, the former head of the CDC, it’s the FBI, it’s the Energy Department.”
OBSERVATION – News FLASH, blind squirrel finds nut.
Invasion of Illegals –
Federal authorities have not yet brought criminal charges against two Honduran nationals who allegedly shot and killed a bald eagle in Nebraska to eat it for dinner.
On February 28, Stanton County sheriffs arrested two Honduran nationals found carrying a dead bald eagle after responding to a report of a suspicious vehicle outside of the Wood Duck State Wildlife Management.
The two individuals, 20-year-old Ramiro Hernandez-Tziquin and 20-year-old Domingo Zetino-Hernandez, spoke no English and only carried documents from the Honduran consulate as a form of identification, according to Stanton County Sheriff Mike Unger.
Killing a bald eagle, the country’s national bird, violates the 1940 Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, a federal law with a maximum punishment of one year in prison.
OBSERVATION – SMH, protected class even to killing a bald eagle.
Biden / Harris watch –
Biden had a cancerous skin lesion removed last month during a routine health screening, the White House has said.
All cancerous tissue was removed and no further treatment is required, Mr Biden’s doctor said.
Kevin O’Connor, Mr Biden’s doctor, wrote in a note provided to media on Friday that the lesion was removed from Mr Biden’s chest on 16 February at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center outside Washington DC.
“No further treatment is required,” he said, adding that the area has “healed nicely” since the biopsy was taken.
The note said that the type of cancer found - basal cell carcinoma - does not normally spread, or metastasise.
OBSERVATION – Keeping this under wraps, failed transparency.
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Now one to raise your blood pressure futher - The Pentagon’s inspector general for Afghanistan complains in a new report the Biden administration is hiding classified annexes detailing side deals it made with the Taliban before the withdrawal, including restrictions on US fighting and Taliban counterterror efforts.
Biden made US troops in Afghanistan coordinate w/ his envoy Khalilzad on how & when they could engage with the Taliban enemy. Troops were not allowed to engage even when checkpoints attacked. In Doha, Khalilzad brokered withdrawal w/ the Taliban 5 Obama freed from Gitmo.”
OBSERVATION – Treasonous, how may soldiers were killed because of this abomination.
Strategic Activity / Deployments –
Air Mobility Command has directed its refueling and cargo planes to obscure the majority of identifying information painted on the aircraft, citing national security concerns — an unusual move that is alarming to government watchdogs.
James Stewart, a spokesman for Air Mobility Command, told Military.com in an emailed statement that airmen’s missions take them around the globe and often involve sensitive movements of cargo — the main reason behind the change.
OBSERVATION – OPSEC is one reasonable answer the AMC gave. A lot of other conspiracy theories floating around concerning more nefarious reasons, which I don’t see as valid.
POLITICAL FRONT –
CPAC is closing up for the season. I payed little attention the proceedings as this was an off year and there was a lot of blovating and chest beating as various factions and individuals jockeyed for position on the national stage for the 2024 dumpster fire.
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A Chinese military company that was linked to Hunter Biden’s investment firm is now assisting the Russian military in the war in Ukraine, according to a report.
BHR Partners investment firm, where Hunter Biden was a board member and 10% stakeholder, worked with AVIC Automotive, a subsidiary of the Chinese state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), to purchase the Michigan-based Henniges Automotive in September 2015, according to the Washington Examiner.
As the Wall Street Journal reported on February 4, AVIC’s subsidiary, AVIC International Holding Corporation, in October shipped $1.2 million worth of parts for Russian Su035 jet fighters to sanctioned Russian defense giant Rostec’s subsidiary Kret.
The Biden administration in recent weeks has warned that China is contemplating military aid to Ukraine, making Hunter Biden’s connection to a Chinese military company providing assistance to Russia a potential political headache for the administration.
OBSERVATION – Words escape me as to how to describe this level of corruption in the white house – and the words I do find would have me banned from the site.
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President Joe Biden’s willingness to sign a Republican-sponsored resolution to block new District of Columbia laws is angering some Democrats, and Rep. Debbie Lesko tells Newsmax that their reaction is “kind of fun to watch,” even if Biden’s decision is surprising.
“You know some of my Democratic colleagues, in fact, the majority of them really have this [opposition] against the police and law enforcement,” the Arizona Republican said on Newsmax’s “John Bachman Now” Friday. “They want to reduce criminal penalties on criminals and that’s why I believe crime is going up.”
The new D.C. laws overhaul how crime is prosecuted and punished in the nation’s capital, and by signing the resolution, Biden will allow Congress to nullify such laws for the first time in more than three decades.
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/debbie-laslo-biden-dc/2023/03/03/id/1110988/
OBSERVATION – Deep, dark blue DC wants to become a more crime ridden hell hole than it already is – even too much for biden.
China –
Initial US intelligence suggesting that China is considering supplying lethal aid to Russia for its war in Ukraine was obtained from Russian government officials, sources say. U.S. officials then spent weeks corroborating the information from other sources of intelligence, the current and former officials said, and with allies who also brought additional streams of information. -NBC News
OBSERVATION – China playing the game and what Russia doesn’t realize is that China will eventually ‘own’ Russia.
Russia -
WAR WATCH - First Anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine - Feb 24th, 2022
CURRENT ASSESSMENT
Russian forces have initiated an offensive who’s declared goals are to reach and secure the Luhansk and Donetsk oblast borders — an objective that Russian Chief of General Staff Army General Valery Gerasimov had also outlined on December 22, 2022. Troop and equipment build up is being noted
This offensive action is focused on several fronts –
1) the Svatove-Kreminna front,
2) Bahkmut region,
3) Donetsk region and
4) Zaporizhizhia Oblast around the town of Vuhledar.
Russia is also capable of launching more cruise/ballistic missile attacks directed against Ukrainian infrastructure -primarily its power grid, but massively reduced inventories of such missiles means these barrages will be further apart.
While Russia has nuclear capability, the probability is low that any will be used in the near future.
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Russian Personnel Issues –-
When Russia “mobilized” additional soldiers in late 2022, they did so in an improvised fashion because there was no precedent for such an action in a peacetime war like the one in Ukraine. This mobilization was left to regional (city and provincial) authorities, who had to select who would go PLUS provide uniforms, weapons and other basic supplies as well as pay and benefits. This saved the Defense Ministry a lot of money that it didn’t have in the first place. This seemed to be an innovative solution to many problems. It wasn’t. When the Defense Ministry was in charge there was some standardization in the process. In this case there wasn’t.
This meant that there was a wide variety of troops in terms of age, physical condition and willingness to serve in the army. The army did not provide any additional training for the newly mobilized troops. Some regions sent military veterans or even conducted some brief training. There was no time for much more. The mobilized troops had to be delivered to army units in Ukraine as soon as possible. In Ukraine the mobilized regional troops faced a grim situation. The army was unable to adequately supply its troops in Ukraine because the Ukrainians were very good at locating, attacking and destroying most of the supplies Russian sent to Ukraine for their troops. To make matters worse, there were corrupt officials in the Defense Ministry who often diverted supplies or the cash used to purchase them. Corruption was a major problem nationwide for a long time but this decentralized manpower mobilization scheme made it worse.
https://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htmoral/articles/20230304.aspx
Economic Impact –
Because of the war in Ukraine, Russia may run out of money in the next year, Russian oligarch and millionaire Oleg Deripaska, one of the richest men in Russia, warned on Friday.
“It seems like Russia won’t have money already next year, and we’ll need foreign investors,” he said at a economy conference in Siberia.
This statement came in contrast to a statement made by Russian President Vladimir Putin last week in which he said that the economy was proving resilient in the face of sanction place on Russia.
Western countries announced more than 11,300 sanctions against Russia since it invaded Ukraine last February.
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-733308
Ukraine -
WEATHER FORECAST – Temperatures rising to the mid 30’s – lower 40s with rain/snow over most of the forecast period
24 HOUR ROUND UP –
Ukrainian forces appear to be setting conditions for a controlled fighting withdrawal from parts of Bakhmut and has initiated that withdrawl. The Ukraine has preemptively destroyed bridges is likely an indicator that Ukrainian troops may seek to inhibit Russian movement in eastern 0Bakhmut and limit potential westward Russian egress routes out of Bakhmut.
Lead elements of Russian forces are beginning to probe the defenses of Chasiv Yar, the next Ukrainian stronghold to the west as it seeks to complete the envelope around Bahkmut.
Russian forces have been fighting to take Bakhmut, a city with a pre-war population of roughly 70,000 people, since roughly May 2022 and have suffered devastating casualties in the process. Some conservative estimate have 7 Russian losses per 1 Ukrainian.
Some increased Russian activity along the border of Sumy Oblast on approach routes to the town of Konotop – an invasion route Russian attempted a year ago.
Donetsk sector also relatively active.
Russian Territory –
Russian officials released limited info about the March 2 incursion in Bryansk Oblast but failed to provide clarity about what actually transpired. Putin did not address the reported incident in a meeting with the Russian Security Council, per a readout.
Russian special services reportedly detained Ukrainian saboteurs from the “Russian Volunteer Corps” who attacked two villages yesterday in Bryansk Oblast
OUTLOOK –
Looks like Bahkmut’s days are numbered, but it served its purpose of bleeding the Russian (and Wagner) armies immensely. Fighting for that village since May 2022, now Russia is facing another series of bloody and destructive battles to continue the move west, across even less favorable terrain. If the 7:1 Russian / Ukraine casuality ratio is correct, Ukraine’s stubborn defense of the town served its purpose well. Russia may gain a small morale boost, with Wagner trying to claim all of it, but the repayment when Ukraine takes the offensive will be bitter.
Continued fierce fighting around Bahkmut as Ukraine extracts it forces to the next defensive line. Depending on how quickly Ukraine breaks contact and redeploys, Russia will have to consolidate its gains – leading to a break in action made even worse by the increasingly muddy conditions.
Russia failed to prevent Ukrainian planning and preparation for its offensive. OTOH, Ukraine effectively diluted Russia’s efforts of a substantial winter offensive and set its miliary back several months due to losses. Bahkmut will be a pyrrhic victory on the books, one that apparently has done little to advance their objectives.
Iran –
Protests against the use of some kind of poisionous gas against school girls are continuing throughout Iran. Authorities responding in various degrees of violence against the protestors.