Globalism / Great Reset –
In a statement issued by Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, she announced that new “energy efficiency regulations” are on the way that will directly impact residential natural gas furnaces. It’s not a “ban” in the traditional sense, but the new efficiency requirements being proposed will either be impossible to achieve or will drive the price of these furnaces beyond the reach of many working-class American homeowners. (Fox News)
OBSERVATION - Using regulatory power to bypass congress and force WEF energy destroying policies on America is what the WEF is all about. I wouldn’t be surprised if my current 98+% efficient forced air furnace fails to meet her criteria.
Similar forced change overs from natural gas are crippling England - with mandatory replacement using heat pumps - literally the most INEFFICIENT way of heating a home in a cold, wintery climate.
Terrorism -
See discussion of Chinese illegals plus other potential sleeper cells under “Illegal Immigration” below.
Military / Strategic Activity / Deployments –
Oct 4th is the primary day for a nation wide test of the emergency broadcasting system. This has been updated to include pinging every cell phone in the country, as well as TV and radio. Coincidence that on Oct 3d Russian is conduction a nation wide drill as well (see below under Russia).
I do not view the Oct 4th test in a dark way as a harbinger to some other disaster. Others out there on the tin foil fringe do however.
POLITICAL FRONT –
Congress managed to pass a 45 day CR yesterday to kick the budget plan down the road. The package drops aid to Ukraine, a White House priority opposed by a growing number of GOP lawmakers, but increases federal disaster assistance by $16 billion, meeting Biden’s full request. The bill funds government until Nov. 17.
However, that wasn’t the only circus. Democrat Congressman Jamaal Bowman is being questioned by Capitol police after pulling fire alarm before a House vote. In an ‘apology’, he claimed he thought the well marked FIRE ALARM was the mechanism to open a door. At the time democrats were attempting to delay a vote on a portion of the CR - and a fire alarm seemed to work just right.
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If the Democrats and Republicans nominate current President Joe Biden and Trump respectively, and Kennedy runs as a third party, 33 percent of Democratic voters would “likely” vote for him, as per the recent Rasmussen Reports poll, including 14 percent who would be “very likely” to back him. Among likely voters as a whole, 25 percent said they would likely vote for Kennedy if he ran against Biden and Trump, including 14 percent of Republicans, with 10 percent saying they are “very likely” to cast their ballots this way.
OBSERVATION - This is mind numbing bad new for democrats. Not only will they need to fabricate votes to top Trump, but fabricate votes to counter those lost to Kennedy.
One has to wonder - why has biden regime continued to refuse to provide Secret Service protection to Kennedy?
Illegal Immigration –
High-end burglaries are reportedly growing across Oakland County, Michigan . In some cases – hundreds of thousands of dollars in valuables are gone, and it’s believed an international crime ring is behind it all.
“If you see something, say something,” said Sheriff Michael Bouchard, calling on residents to look for anything out of the ordinary.
He says that transnational gangs are coming primarily from South America targeting wealthy communities in the US. Bouchard said they are casing and targeting high-end residences, grabbing cash, jewelry, watches, precious metals, high-end purses, and electronics.
“We estimate there are crews and operations all across the country in a pretty substantial number,” he said.
OBSERVATION - This is only one stage in the oncoming crime and violence we can expect from this uncontrolled flooding of our nation by illegals.
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Experts believe that more than seven million illegal immigrants have crossed the border since *President Biden occupied the White House.
The MSM downplay the situation by assuring us the invaders are “families,” even though most of the videos we see are of single, military-aged men, frequently from Venezuela. (NOTE - Venezuela emptied out most of its prisons a few years back)
OBSERVATION - The article goes on to express continued concerns over the numbers of Chinese males seeking into the country. A very real concern is that they are all a part of a special ops wing of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
We may be facing dozens of ‘sleeper cells’ by factions all over the globe. Since 9/11 islamic sleeper cells have been a concern, particularly with the growing ambition of Iran / Hezbollah to destroy the ‘great satan’ as part of its genocidal plans to eliminate Israel. With current geopolitical changes being brought forward by the biden regime’s deliberate destruction of this country, big openings for an aggressive China to establish the same. We already know they have secret ‘police stations’ in major cities across the nation targeting Chinese dissidents here as well as a well entrenched espionage system in our colleges and businesses stealing secrets by the bucketload. In the event of a conflict over Taiwan, these cells could cripple the country’s power grid or internet. Its just the type of warfare their doctrine describes.
Russia -
WAR WATCH - into the second year of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine - Feb 24th, 2022
CURRENT ASSESSMENT - Updated Sept 27, 2023
Russia is on a defensive footing across most of Ukraine, relying on Russian doctrinal defense in depth to blunt the Ukrainian offensive. However, Russian forces continue increasingly stretched and undermanned, with increasingly insufficient artillery support.
Ukranian action has forced Russia to move forces laterally to meet the Ukraine advance - thinning critical portions of the line and making them vulnerable to assault.
Russia’s strategic ballistic and cruise missiles continue to show evidence of massively reduced inventories. Recent attacks indicate the Russia has started to produce its own Shahed drones with Iranian assistance. Russia capable of continued, though limited, attacks in this arena. The majority of Russian strikes are with these Iranian drones. Major targets are grain shipping facilities in the Odesa region as well as trying to hit logistical targets across the rest of the country.
Supplemental cruise missile attacks using old models will be occasionally used to supplement the drones.
The Russian Black Sea fleet is increasingly hesitant to deploy into now contested waters. Ukraine’s mixture of seaborne and airborne drones and anti-ship missiles beginning to render areas more or less off limits to Russia. The fleet is reportedly in the process of redeploying out of Crimea and moving east to Russian bases, about 600 Km further away from the front lines.
Russia is capable of launching small scale attacks in various sectors of company and small sized elements, but any large scale offensive action in the face of the heavy demands from defending against the Ukrainian offensive are essentially nil.
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Deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia Dmitri Medvedev threatened to kill British instructors on Ukrainian soil, calling them British NATO specialists. Also Medvedev threatened to hit German factories, referring to the expected Taurus missile deliveries to Ukraine.
NUCLEAR THREATS –
Russia is set to conduct its first nationwide nuclear attack drill. This drill will span 11 time zones and will simulate a nuclear attack from the West.
It is scheduled to take place on October 3rd and will see the West as the nuclear aggressor. The one-day nuclear attack exercise, which has only ever been done region by region, will include preparation for the destruction of up to 70% of Russian housing stock and life support facilities.
OBSERVATION - It is reported that Russia over the past decade, has invested heavily in nuclear shelters to try to protect a substantial amount of its citizenry against a nuclear attack. These shelters are concentrated in the areas of high ethnic Russian populations - leaving other ethnic group areas across the country essentially unprotected. The expansion of drills like this indicate that the Kremlin is taking nuclear war very seriously. Here in the US you can no longer find any fallout shelters — they’ve all been decommissioned. No more air raid sirens either (I remember growing up and hearing the periodic test).
Ukraine –
WEATHER FORECAST – Temperatures decreasing from the 70’s to the 60’s with increasing chances of rain showers for the forecast period.
RUMINT –
Reports now that the UK will be transferring the official training program for the Ukrainian military to Ukraine, meaning British Forces (officially) on the ground in Ukraine training.
24 HOUR ROUND UP –
Poor night for Ukraine air defenses as they only stopped 16 of 30 Shahed drones overnight. Kryvvi Rih and Odesa regions were targeted.
News on the action on the Tokmok and Bakhmut fronts is pretty obscure. Rumors that Russia was forced to commit its 24th CAA in the Bakhmut - Kupiansk region indicates things are not going well. The 24th CAA is only a partially reconstructed army group that some analysts considered to be Russia’s operation reserve.
Russian Territory –
Ukrainian drones striking an plane factory in Smolensk, Russia this morning. That’s nearly 300 km away from the Ukrainian border. Another drone attacked Trubchevsk of Briansk region.
Drones also attacked the Sochi airport.
OUTLOOK –
No clarity on events on the front, only general concurrence that Ukraine is till taking ground.
Russia still seems to be at a loss and unfocused on everything except defense at all costs. What few quality VDV forces they have left are being chewed up on the Tokmok front, the scraped together 24th CAA is on the receiving end in the Bakhmut region. Russian high command is reportedly under pressure to regain the initiative but lacks the resources to do so.
Russia is also treading more and more on thin ice against Romania (see Europe / NATO General below). It is almost as if they are trying to get NATO into the fight in some way. Not a good idea, as a NATO/Ukraine force would seize air superiority and it wouldn’t be pretty for Russian ground forces.
Europe / NATO General –
Romania’s Defense Ministry reveals that Russia is waging electronic warfare against Romania. Daniel Petrescu, the Army Chief of Staff of Romania, says Russia is “actively & constantly” jamming GPS communications of ships in Romanian waters, increasing the risk of collisions.
OBSERVATION - Electronic warfare is an act of war that Romania could cite to activate Art 5 protections under NATO. Russia walking a very fine line here.
SERBIA / KOSOVO -
Additional movements of the Serbian Armed Forces have been reported near the Kosovo Border.
The 1st Infantry Battalion of the Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment stationed on the Island of Cyprus have reportedly begun to move into Kosovo in order to reinforce the NATO Peacekeeping Forces already in the country.
Serbia’s president on Sunday denied U.S. and other reports of a military buildup along the border with Kosovo, complaining of a “campaign of lies” against his country in the wake of a shootout a week earlier that killed four people and fueled tensions in the volatile Balkan region.
OBSERVATION - Situation developing into the most serious Serbian force build up in recent times.
Syria -
Syrian opposition-affiliated outlets reported an Israeli airstrike on an “Iranian weapons shipment” making its way from Syria to Lebanon, near the town of Ad-Dimas, west of Damascus.
Turkey –
Turkish officials report that two terrorists conducted an attack in Ankara against the Headquarters of the Ministry of Interior. Casualties reported. The incident isreported to be contained with one terrorist shot dead and the other perpetrator detonating their explosive device on their person. Other casualties are reportedly minor injuries to Police/Security Forces.
Putin's protecting Russians - and our 'elties' have decommissioned our Shelters and Security systems. That said I'm sure DC 'elites' have protected themselves...with new Shelters after publicly walking away from their older shelters.
White liberal 'elties' butter their own bread' with our money - and don't even leave crumbs for the people. How typical.
October is here, along with all the numerous discussions concerning potential “October Surprises”.
Reminder, Oct 4th is the national Emergency Test message. Many Reynolds aluminum stockholders predicting dire effects from this alert.
Globalism / Great Reset –
The biden regime is still pushing for some sort of internet censorship in spite of being slammed by the USSC over previous efforts to flag articles and silence critics on big tech platforms. In an interview with ProPublica on Sunday, biden expressed that there are essentially no gate keepers to what is posted on the internet and that ‘misinformation’ abounds.
OBSERVATION - biden reflects the globalist consensus that all speech on all platforms has to be censored in such a manner that only the approved narrative is expressed and endorsed. Same old, same old we’ve seen used in the Soviet Union, China and the myriads of tyrannical dictatorships across the globe.
IN RELATED - Canada is in the process of forcing all podcasts originating in country to register with the state. The Online Streaming Act, formerly Bill C-11, goes into effect on Nov. 28, meaning any online streaming service that operates in Canada and generates revenue of more than $10 million in a given year will have to register with CRTC.
Having a registry of podcasts would make it easier to censor those not holding to the official narrative.
Economy –
Trucking employment has declined significantly. Historically, when we see trucking employment declining, that has been an indicator of recession, reflecting reduced production and demand for goods.
End of FY 2023 reports will start dribbling out soon and the question is not if they will be bad, the question is just how bad. They could provide indicators of just what we could be looking at for a recession in 2024.
CW2 / Domestic violence -
Continued rumblings under the radar from radical Antifa elements trying to come up with scenarios that could be exploited to generate a 2020ish wave of violence across the nation.
Wuhan and other “new” Plandemics –
The scientists who wrote the Correlation Research in the Public Interest report, published on Sept. 17, 2023, and hasn’t yet been peer-reviewed, quantified the vaccine-dose fatality rate (vDFR) for all ages — which is the ratio of inferred vaccine-induced deaths to vaccine doses delivered in a given population, the Epoch Times reported.
The researchers calculated a mean all-ages fatal toxicity by injection of vDFR of one death per 800 injections across all ages and countries. According to the Times, this equates to 17 million COVID-19 vaccine-related deaths all around the world from 13.25 billion injections as of Sept. 2, 2023.
It was also discovered that the overall risk of death induced by COVID-19 vaccines is 1,000 times greater than it was previously reported in data from clinical trials, adverse event monitoring and cause-of-death statistics obtained from death certificates, the news source added.
OBSERVATION - Take a deep breath as these numbers are astronomical and pending confirmation. We already know that the ‘excess death’ rate among the jabbed is substantial, combined with the definite heart damage/deaths. If these numbers hold out -then the jab will be demonstrable as a genocidal agent.
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A new scientific study by Nakahara et al. tested COVID-vaccinated people to see if they have “silent” changes in heart muscle function that standard radiology tests could detect.
Scientists measured myocardial 18Fluorine-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) uptake. F-FDG has molecular similarity to glucose. However, 18F-FDG does not metabolize like glucose. Therefore, PET scans could detect it, and its presence shows the heart muscle’s abnormally high demand for glucose, indicative of abnormal cardiac function. More about it here.
Conclusions: Focal myocardial 18F-FDG uptake seen on oncologic PET/CT indicates a significantly increased risk for multiple myocardial abnormalities.
https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/radiol.230743
OBSERVATION - The mountain of evidence against the mRNA jabs continues to grow and the thing is Pfizer/Moderna and the govt knew these things and went ahead anyway.
IN RELATED - Using official government data for deaths in England and Wales between 2010 and 2022, former BlackRock portfolio manager Ed Dowd and his partners at Phinance Technologies found that excess death rates from cardiovascular diseases were up 13% in 2020, 30% in 2021, and 44% in 2022, which “point to a worrying picture of an even greater acceleration in coming years of deaths & disabilities.”
https://phinancetechnologies.com/HumanityProjects/Resources/Project Brief - UK Cardiovascular 15-44_091723.pdf
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Katalin Kariko of Hungary and Drew Weissman of the United States won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for work on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology that paved the way for Covid-19 vaccines.
OBSERVATION - No mention about the deadly side effects of the so called ‘vaccines’ have had on the general population. The papering over of the jabs must be maintained.
POLITICAL FRONT –
California Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed EMILY’s List President Laphonza Butler to fill the seat of the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein, elevating the head of a fundraising juggernaut that works to elect Democratic women who support abortion rights, according to a person familiar with the decision.” Politico reported. Butler is registered to vote in Maryland, not kalifornia.
OBSERVATION - She is a rabid pro-abort and a massive money machine for democrats. Some reckon newscum is placing her there to preload her to raise a snot load of money for his undeclared presidential run.
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McCarthy’s last-minute deal with House Democrats to get a clean CR passed in the House has exposed deep features in the republican majority in the House as well as caused Senate RINOS to rear their heads. The flare up of infighting may cost McCarthy his speakership and throw the House into a prolonged fight over his replacement. All this works to the democrats advantage in that it will cause the 45 day extension to descend on the country and they’ll get their ‘republican caused’ shut down.
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The Federal Communications Commission’s attempt to reinstate the internet policy known as net neutrality faces a major stumbling block in the form of Supreme Court scrutiny, according to some of its critics.
Under Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, the FCC released a new proposal on Thursday that would recategorize internet service providers under Title II of the Communications Act. This change would place them under additional regulations to ensure the ISPs do not discriminate or throttle content from various websites. Such a move would be a return to 0bama-era net neutrality rules.
OBSERVATION - Discussion focuses around the legality of such a move as similar govt regulation court cases have gone against the govt as exceeding their legal authority.
Illegal Immigration –
Things have gotten worse at the border. Initial data for September shows that over 260,000 illegal aliens were encountered. This is the highest number in a single month ever recorded. And it gets worse.
Border Patrol agents assigned to the nine southwest border sectors apprehended more than two million migrants for the second consecutive year. September’s apprehension of approximately 218,000 migrants pushed the Fiscal Year 23 report to just over two million migrants, according to unofficial Border Patrol reports reviewed by Breitbart Texas.
OBSERVATION - This does not include the ‘got aways’ that number in the tens (hundreds?) of thousands. This trend has total apprehended illegals to exceed 7 million by the end of biden’s term in Jan 6, 2025.
IIRC, at the start of the Trump presidential term, the estimated number of illegals in the county was placed at about 12 million. biden will have nearly doubled that number in just 4 years.
China –
An informal Bloomberg News survey of 15 analysts and money managers based in Hong Kong and mainland China indicate that worsening malaise in China’s real estate industry threatens FY 2024 growth. Six of them listed housing woes as the biggest risk for equities for the final quarter of 2023, followed by geopolitical tensions.
OBSERVATION - Continued concern over this sector of the Chinese economy and there is currently not off ramp.
Russia -
WAR WATCH - into the second year of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine - Feb 24th, 2022
CURRENT ASSESSMENT - Updated Sept 27, 2023
Russia is on a defensive footing across most of Ukraine, relying on Russian doctrinal defense in depth to blunt the Ukrainian offensive. However, Russian forces continue increasingly stretched and undermanned, with increasingly insufficient artillery support.
Ukranian action has forced Russia to move forces laterally to meet the Ukraine advance - thinning critical portions of the line and making them vulnerable to assault.
Russia’s strategic ballistic and cruise missiles continue to show evidence of massively reduced inventories. Recent attacks indicate the Russia has started to produce its own Shahed drones with Iranian assistance. Russia capable of continued, though limited, attacks in this arena. The majority of Russian strikes are with these Iranian drones. Major targets are grain shipping facilities in the Odesa region as well as trying to hit logistical targets across the rest of the country.
Supplemental cruise missile attacks using old models will be occasionally used to supplement the drones.
The Russian Black Sea fleet is increasingly hesitant to deploy into now contested waters. Ukraine’s mixture of seaborne and airborne drones and anti-ship missiles beginning to render areas more or less off limits to Russia. The fleet is reportedly in the process of redeploying out of Crimea and moving east to Russian bases, about 600 Km further away from the front lines.
Russia is capable of launching small scale attacks in various sectors of company and small sized elements, but any large scale offensive action in the face of the heavy demands from defending against the Ukrainian offensive are essentially nil.
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Three foreign cargo vessels left the ports of Odesa and five more are entering today, according to Marine Traffic. It hasn’t been this busy in months. Russian attempts at a naval blockade of Ukraine clearly not working.
Economic Impact –
Russia is getting around oil embargoes by selling to China and India and receiving payment in yuan.
Ukraine –
WEATHER FORECAST – Temperatures varying between the 50s and 70s with chances of rain showers for the forecast period.
RUMINT –
There are no immediate plans to deploy military instructors to Ukraine, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Sunday, rowing back from comments by his defense minister who had suggested troops could carry out training in the country.
24 HOUR ROUND UP –
Relatively quiet on the Russian drone/missile front, only a few drones reported but an increased number of repurposed S300’s shot at Kharkiv.
More unconfirmed reports that Ukraine continues to exploit tactical advantages in Tokmok and Bakhmut fronts.
OUTLOOK –
Fog of war continues along side OPSEC. A lot of unconfirmed reports of Russians scraping up what VDV forces they can to try to blunt the Tokmok push. Ukraine allegedly going to the ‘rope a dope’ - digging in and smashing the Russian counter attacks.
Europe / NATO General –
Bulgaria introduces ban on entry of cars with Russian license plates. The restrictions will apply to both cars and trucks. Croatia and France have also joined the ban on cars with Russian license plates. Additionally, Czechia has become the second country after Germany to record a precedent of confiscation of cars with Russian license plates.
SERBIA / KOSOVO -
In addition to the 1st Infantry Battalion of the Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment which has already begun to arrive in Kosovo from their Base in Cyprus; the U.K. Secretary of Defense has announced that 500-1,000 Troops from the British Army will also arrive in Kosovo over the next week in order to Reinforce the NATO Peacekeeping Force in the Country, which already includes over 400 British Soldiers.
NATO confirms strengthening of KFOR with 200 soldiers to join a 400-strong UK contingent already exercising in Kosovo. Says it’s a “prudent step” in order “to fulfill its UN mandate: to maintain a safe and secure environment and freedom of movement for all people in Kosovo”
RUMINT - Kosovo Police Director, General Gazmend Hoxha has announced that Intelligence has been received which shows that the Serbian Armed Forces are possibly preparing to annex a number of areas in Northern Kosovo near the border and that the attack last week in the Village of Banjska is part of the initial staging for this operation.
He further stated that the operation in Banjska had a number of short and long-term goals, one of which being the establishment of an underground network which would be used to bring weapons and paramilitary soldiers into Northern Kosovo; the Kosovo Security Force has already discovered multiple stockpiles of untouched weapons near the village since the attack.
OBSERVATION -
Bigger NATO ‘tripwire’ against rumors of upwards of 4 Serb brigades forming near the border. Are the serbs gambling that NATO is too tied up in regards to Ukraine to effectively respond?
Iran –
Iran can produce enough fissile material for a nuclear bomb in less than two weeks, the United States warned as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday held a security assessment with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant that focused on threats from the Islamic Republic.
“It is assessed that Iran is not pursuing a nuclear weapons program at this time,” US Defense Department stated in a report it published on Friday called the “Strategy for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction” in 2023.
OBSERVATION - The commonsense consensus is that Iran has the capability to enrich uranium to the 90% threshold in to enough quantities necessary to create the heart of a nuclear bomb in a short period of time. That is no surprise. Israel’s intelligence collectors would know of such an achievement as soon as it happens - an event that Israel has said would trigger war.
IMHO, the assumption that Iran “is not pursuing a nuclear weapons program” is bogus. A weapons program covers a wide degree of efforts, from making a bomb, creating a warhead, and creating weapons delivery systems. Those last ones continue unabated. Explosive design is largely now a days a computer operation with component testing (minus nuclear material). Activities that can be conducted fairly covertly.
Armenia/Azerbaijan –
Reports are that nearly all of the ethnic Armenians have left or in the process of leaving the disputed N-K territory.
Black Swans
“Trigger event” - that amorphous happening that is the last straw on the camel’s back that causes things to collapse and go sideways. In my assessment, so much of America resembles a line of dominos that just about any severe shock could ripple out and take vast amounts of our country down - economically, socially, militarily, governmentally, etc.
Wuhan demonstrated that the global powers that be will pounce on any similar event and that if you’ve followed here, are setting themselves up to exploit any global episode even more effectively than before.
In my daily readings of the tea leaves, I can’t discern one potential trigger as standing out more than the others. I do strongly suspect that events surrounding the 2024 presidential elections may well serve the cause for the left, but at high risk. Right now potential candidates include -
* Hard landing recession / economic crash
* Political assassination(s)
* Political related violence and protests
* Uprising of the millions of illegals / rise of cartel crime
* China / Taiwan
* Russia / NATO direct conflict
* Major west coast natural disaster (San Andreas or the Cascadia zone)
* Schism between red and blue states (fed gov).
My preps are continuing to be developed along a general collapse of the US scenario - things are aligning up to no other result.