Globalism / Great Reset –
Sept 22- 23: UN Summit of the Future
The Hague will ban street advertising for fossil fuels, according to a notice published on the Dutch city’s website, as a number of cities worldwide crack down on publicity for fossil fuels and high-emissions sectors.
“The city council of The Hague adopted two proposals to ban fossil advertising in outdoor spaces,” council spokesman Jordy Kruse told the AFP news agency on Friday.
The first proposal informs advertising agencies that fossil fuel advertising is not permitted while the second bans all fossil fuel advertising in public spaces, Kruse said.
“We hope that this law will also give a signal to other cities to do the same to fight climate change,” Leonie Gerritsen, a Hague council member for the Party for Animals, one of the main drivers of the legislation, told AFP.
In June, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged every country to enact bans on ads for fossil fuel companies, which he called “the godfathers of climate chaos”.
OBSERVATION - Incrementalism, on a global scale.
CW2 / Domestic violence - Moderate THREAT - up dated Sep 12, 2024
— Downgrade due to lack of physical activity, but high due to rhetoric.
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Newly released crime statistics show violent crimes, including aggravated assaults, robberies, and rapes, have increased under the Biden-Harris government. During the recent debate between Donald J. Trump and Kamala Harris, the former president said crime is “through the roof” since he left office, driven in part by migrant crime. ABC News moderator David Muir interjected to claim, “The FBI says overall violent crime is coming down,” but the new figures—released by the Biden-Harris Justice Department—vindicate the America First leader.In 2020, Trump’s last full year in office, 1,569,390 violent crimes, excluding simple assaults, were recorded. The figure had risen to 2,485,830 by 2023. (Simple assaults are also up, from 2,988,770 to 3,933,230.)
Rapes and sexual assaults, in particular, are up from 319,950 in 2020 to 481,020 in 2023. Robberies are up from 437,260 to 731,620, and so-called “stranger violence” is up from 1,973,200 to an astonishing 3,233,400.
OBSERVATION - We knew this all along and I’m surprised that the DoJ of all would suddenly release this updated information.
Economy- HIGH Threat - as of AUG 5, 2024
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has said he would not rule out an outcome for the US economy which is widely considered to be worse than a recession.
The chief executive of the biggest bank in the US said this week ‘the worst income is stagflation,’ which he would not ‘take off the table.’
OBSERVATION - Many economists are not convinced that the economy is headed for sunshine and lollypops.
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Stock and metals markets are getting excited about a potential half point drop in the fed rate. Be careful what you wish for as such a drop has indications that the Fed realizes things are not coming in softly and are looking at braking hard. Next week’s fed meeting will tell all.
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The soaring U.S. national debt has led to interest payments surpassing $1 trillion for the first time in history.
NOTE - Americans generally don’t feel this directly, but the burden coming from govt activities are holding down the economy in general. When the piper comes, it will be really ugly - and this growth is deliberate, setting the US up for the ‘great reset’.
POLITICAL FRONT –
Merchan sentencing of trump - Nov 25th
Debates ???
Vance/walz - Oct. 1
**** Remember, most polls are designed to shape opinion, not reflect it. ****
****Notably, Democrats historically have an edge in support in national polls due to the large strangleholds on registered voters in the largest blue states of California and New York that do not impact the Electoral College but can skew the popular vote and a national poll.****
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Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that undated and misdated mail-in ballots cannot be counted. This is a huge win for Trump and vote integrity.
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Fallout continues from the ABC debate debacle -
Penn and Stein from the WSJ say it pretty clear, echoing what I said in an earlier post
“When referees put their thumbs on the scale, the game changes. The results have to be thrown out, we are robbed of our time, and democracy is drained of its meaning. A presidential debate shouldn’t be a staged wrestling match. It should feature two candidates on a level playing field so voters can make up their minds free of interference. Anything less makes a mockery of our institutions. ABC should have fact-checked both candidates or neither. Fact-checking only one was the worst possible decision. Even a Democrat can tell a whopper.”
“Time and again we find that supposedly neutral democratic institutions have been corrupted by bias. Debate moderators must check their biases and seek to be scrupulously fair, or they shouldn’t do the job. They should observe strict rules and come from a variety of networks. Most important, they shouldn’t interfere but rather trust voters to make their own decisions. ABC undermined the system for everyone.”
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Linsey Davis, one of the moderators of ABC’s three-against-one Donald Trump-Kamala Harris debate Tuesday evening, has come out as being proud of her interference in the debate.
Biden / Harris Watch –
On Friday, the vice president sat down with a local ABC News affiliate in Philadelphia to answer questions for a whole 10 minutes. It went down hill fast.
Reporter: What are your specific plans to bring down prices?
Kamala: “I grew up a middle class kid... I grew up in a neighborhood of folks who were very proud of their lawn. Ya know?”
Harris: “My focus is very much about what we need to do over the next 10-20 years to catch up to the 21st century around, again, capacity, but also challenges.”
OBSERVATION - Just a couple of the word salads spewed by harris in the interview. The interviewer is known to be a ‘fixer’, one capable of setting the parameters of an interview to improve the public status of a candidate. The look on his face during that 10 minutes tell all - it was a train wreck.
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Biden deliberately carried a bright red hat thought by some to be a maga hat as he entered af1 today. Some think he is sending a message to someone.
Illegal Immigration –
A resident of Springfield, OH, has told a city commission meeting that locals are being displaced from their homes to make way for Haitian migrants.
The man, who has not been named, said the federal government was paying “triple the rent” for Haitians arriving in the town, thus incentivizing landlords to prioritize immigrants over existing residents.
Addressing the city commission, the resident – who said he’d worked with the homeless community for more than 25 years – said he didn’t know of “a single homeless Haitian in this town because they all got vouchers” from the federal government.
OBSERVATION - The massive cat campaign has caused the MSM to unwillingly uncover a much more sinister side to the mayhem the influx of 20K haitians into a small town of 60K has caused. Creating homeless CITIZENS, substantial mayhem on the streets from haitian drivers, increased crime, increased trashing of neighborhoods, etc. And the MSM is suddenly discovering this is happening in towns all across America. Americans see this, knowing it to be happening and are rejecting democrat gaslighting excuses.
Russia -
NUCLEAR THREATS –
The Russian Security Council today discussed options for Russia’s response to the use of Western long-range precision weapons against it, a source told EZh. The discussion did not concern the use of nuclear weapons; it discussed measures to contain Western countries. This included both active containment measures and political and propaganda actions.
Russian leadership has issued a follow-up statement to President Vladimir Putin’s Thursday brief video address warning that if the US and UK authorize Ukraine to pursue long-range strikes on Russian soil, then NATO and the Russian Federation will be in an official state of war.
On Friday Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia, informed the UN Security council that NATO countries would “start an open war” in allowing Western long-range missiles to target Russia.
“If such a decision is made, that means NATO countries are starting an open war against Russia,” Moscow’s envoy introduced. “In that case, we will obviously be forced to make certain decisions, with all the attendant consequences for Western aggressors.”
Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun publicly announced today that “China will militarily support Russia if NATO attacks Russia.”
Ukraine –
WEATHER FORECAST – Temperatures in the upper 70s to mid 80s range, fair but with scattered light rain.
24 HOUR ROUND UP –
Another huge Shahed drone attack overnight. Out of 76 launched, 72 were shot down by air defense. One drone strayed into Belarus.
Use of Shahed-type drones is about to cross 1000 during last 30 days. Russia has used, at least 5429 Shahed-type drones since the 13th September of 2023(last year).
Turkish ship carrying 26,550 tons of grain to Egypt from Ukraine was attacked by Russia with a Kh-22 cruise missile launched by a Tu-22M supersonic bomber in Romanian Exclusive Economic Zone in the Black Sea.
It appears that the US and Britain are backing away from allowing Ukraine to use its long range weapons to attack Russia proper, apparently fearing Russian responses.
Ukraine Kursk Offensive-
Russian forces appear to have stalled in their counter offensive. An assessment by ISW indicates many reasons
(ISW). The Russian military continues to counterattack throughout the Ukrainian salient in Kursk Oblast but will likely have to redeploy additional elements from elsewhere in the theater to Kursk to establish a force grouping capable of a sustained counteroffensive operation.
Russian authorities have largely relied on poorly-trained and equipped conscripts and small elements of Russian regular and irregular forces to address the Ukrainian incursion into Kursk Oblast thus far... and it is unlikely that most of the current Russian force grouping in Kursk is comprised of combat-experienced units.
A Russian counteroffensive operation to retake territory seized by Ukrainian forces in Kursk will very likely require even more manpower and materiel... than Russia has already concentrated in the area — especially if most of the already committed units lack combat experience.
The Russian military will most certainly have to redeploy units already committed to ongoing offensive operations... or operational reserves from Ukraine to Kursk Oblast to field the combat-effective units needed for a large counteroffensive operation and then subsequently guard the international border against future Ukrainian incursions.
Meanwhile, Ukraine forces have penetrated the border in two locations now further to the west of the Kursk salient. One of the biggest has forces moving deeper into Glushkovskyi district in Kursk following the border breaktrough near Novyi Put’. Note, this breakthrough, if it becomes sizable enough, will threaten the rear areas of the Russian counter attack.
Pokrovsk axis (Formerly Ocheretyne) -
Russian forces are pushing southward and have managed to capture Dolynivka village and Zhelanne Pershe village
Russian Territory –
Russia has repeatedly deployed 4 missile carriers with missile capacity of 24 Kaliber missiles into the Black Sea.
Outlook —
Looks like the west has blinked over Moscow’s latest threats. This mean Ukraine will have to continue to develop and build long range weapons on its own.
Looks like Russia’s response to the Kursk incursion will be to pull even more combat efficient units from other parts of the front. This means current offensive actions - particularly the Pokrovsk effort - will find it harder to sustain operations and may find themselves open to localized counterattacks.
I think an example of this is the new border crossing assaults by Ukraine. It should be noted that Russian forces in this area have had their logistics severely interrupted by the loss of bridges (regular and pontoon). Add to it any forces syphoned off for the Kursk operation. Now instead of looking east, Russia has to face a growing threat from the west.
The volume of Shahed’s used by Russia is impressive. Iranian and Russia production must be exceeding 30 /day just to keep up with the use. They are cheap to build and useful in overwhelming ADA assets, weakening their supplies of ammo, and allowing cruise and other missiles to penetrate, causing greater damage.
Future developments continue to be the pressed offensive in Pokrovsk and the fight in the Kursk sector.
ISRAEL –
Key overnight developments -
- Though not openly announced, it appear that the decision to go forward with an attack into S Lebanon to remove Hezbollah has been made.
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Lest we forget - there are still hostages being held in Gaza.
US official: Israel has made the decision to start a wide war against Hezbollah
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Continued search and destroy operations.
Hamas managed to fire two rockets towards Ashkelon, one launch was intercepted and the other fell in the maritime space, there were no casualties
——— LEBANON / HEZBOLLAH——————————-
Israeli army: About 35 rockets were fired from Lebanon towards the Galilee. We intercepted a number of them and most of them fell in open areas.
Israeli army: We targeted a weapons depot, a missile platform and military buildings in Majdal Zun, Jabin and Blida in southern Lebanon
——— SYRIA / HEZBOLLAH / IRAN———————————-
Military reinforcements and crowds of the Assad regime, supported by Iranian militias, are heading to the western Damascus countryside, where Russian-led military maneuvers are being held in the area. Information indicates that these crowds and maneuvers aim to repel the Israeli army in the event that it begins to penetrate southwestern Syria.
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Clearly, the Israeli emphasis has switched to face Hezbollah. The call by Hezbollah for civilians to evacuate indicates that by their view, things are going to happen soon.
The assembly of a hodge podge of Iranian backed forces in Syria suggests that they may attempt to attack Israel’s flank and not just ‘defend’ Syria. Blending in with a ‘Russian’ exercise grants them some protection from IAF strikes, but that won’t last should the shooting start.
Only thing left is timing, and Israel is in command of that aspect.
Iran –
Iran has increased its activities at two nuclear sites that were key to its early nuclear weapons program two decades ago, according to a report by the Institute for Science and International Security
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Told ya.
A resident of Springfield, OH, has told a city commission meeting that locals are being displaced from their homes to make way for Haitian migrants.
The man, who has not been named, said the federal government was paying “triple the rent” for Haitians arriving in the town, thus incentivizing landlords to prioritize immigrants over existing residents.
Addressing the city commission, the resident – who said he’d worked with the homeless community for more than 25 years – said he didn’t know of “a single homeless Haitian in this town because they all got vouchers” from the federal government.
Excellent insights today - I could have pulled quotes from half the piece and still wanted more... Oh, and the MSM still sucks.
Thanks
Globalism / Great Reset –
Sept 22- 23: UN Summit of the Future
Australia’s citizenry, one step further on the road to complete capture, is now subject to a codified new “misinformation” moratorium on social media.
Australia’s Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2024 continues to ignite heated debate, with critics arguing that the bill risks stifling free speech.
The proposed bill, which targets misinformation related to elections, public health, and critical infrastructure, requires tech companies to establish codes of conduct.
Platforms failing to self-regulate will face standards imposed by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), which would oversee enforcement. This could include fines of up to 5% of total global revenue for platforms that fail to comply with the new rules.
However, free speech advocates warn that this could have a chilling effect on legitimate public discourse and potentially limit people’s ability to criticize public institutions.
OBSERVATION - Censorship and the associated controls of free thought are not just a 1984 meme, but growing reality across the world today. Censorship is a fundamental tool of tyranny. Australia is in the process of making it law. Here in the US the process towards that same goal is ongoing, but from the wuhan plandemic on, national efforts to bully social media into censorship have been ongoing. Only a matter of time until similar laws are proposed here.
POLITICAL FRONT –
Merchan sentencing of trump - Nov 25th
Debates ???
Vance/walz - Oct. 1
**** Remember, most polls are designed to shape opinion, not reflect it. ****
****Notably, Democrats historically have an edge in support in national polls due to the large strangleholds on registered voters in the largest blue states of California and New York that do not impact the Electoral College but can skew the popular vote and a national poll.****
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CNN admits the Harris campaign’s X account (@KamalaHQ) has repeatedly deceived users by misleadingly clipping and inaccurately captioning video clips to attack former President Trump
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/14/politics/fact-check-harris-campaign-social-media/index.html
OBSERVATION - Odd that the generally reliable leftist CNN has suddenly turned on Harris. Their fact checks are through and suck the wind out of harris claims.
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This year’s political scrum has been full of a lot of twists and turns. The revolt by CNN against the harris campaign and the broader media response against ABC are just the latest shocks. Harris and walz are being forced outside the bubbly of ‘joy” and facing real questions over policies and it is beginning to clearly hurt them the polls.
Flip flops by harris and her cringeworthy word salads in particular are starting to gain traction. Keep in mind the polling axioms above, a great deal of disinformation is coming out via these polls.
Biden / Harris Watch –
Harris pulls another hillary and unveils a new accent at the Black Caucus Dinner
Illegal Immigration –
The cat revolt in Springfield OH has revealed more than cultural issues
- Citizens kicked out of rentals by landlords who are getting substantially more to rent to Haitians
- Illegal voter registration effort
- Job losses to Haitians who are getting paid pennies on the dollar while receiving outrageous sums of $$ via govt programs.
- Chaos on the streets as accidents have dramatically increased due to Haitian drivers.
- Increases in TB and other diseases
- Overload of the city services and schools.
- And yes, threats to pets and wildlife in parks, as documented in police reports.
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A new study of states that received Haitians delivered by the biden regime shows that red states received as much as 5 to 6 times the number that blue states received. This doesn’t include other groups!
OBSERVATION - Clearly an effort to skew eventually voting patterns and turn those states blue.
Ukraine –
WEATHER FORECAST – Temperatures in the upper 70s to mid 80s range, fair but with scattered light rain.
NOTE - Remnants of Storm Boris will potentially impact portions of Ukraine over the next several days. Forecast is likely for the southern half of the nation to feel excessive rains.
24 HOUR ROUND UP –
Ukraine shot down overnight:
0/2 Iskander-M ballistic missiles
1/1 Kh-59/69 cruise missile
10/14 Shahed drones
Ukraine Kursk Offensive-
Situation is relative stable across the salient.
According to Ukrainian military sources, the Ukrainian army has advanced +4km deep into Russian territory in the Glushkovo direction.
“Defeated a motorised rifle brigade and unexpectedly approached enemy mortars.”
NOTE - This new invasion is pushing into a region Ukraine has been depriving of resupply and access via campaign to take out bridges. Units may also have been thinned out to support the Russian counteroffensive in Kursk.
Pokrovsk axis (Formerly Ocheretyne) -
Russia pressing more attacks across the whole Donbas front.
Outlook —
The Kursk invasion is starting to fully impact other sectors of the Russian front. Growing assessment that the force mix of the 50K or so Russia has diverted to Kursk is insufficient to drive Ukraine out and larger, more experienced/equipped forces are needed. Russia is doggedly pursuing the Donbas operation with declining resources and facing the operations stalling out in many areas.
Ukraine for its part has been executing what appears to be an economy of force defensive operation in the Donbas to free up resources for use in Kursk. By necessity, this requires Ukraine to gradually give up ground after extracting as much blood as possible from Russia before setting up along a new line of defense.
Will they or won’t they - the US and Britain are flopping back and forth on the allowance of Ukraine to use supplied munitions to strike deep into Russia proper. So far it seems that Russian saber rattling has created enough push back that the west is reassessing the terms of usage for these weapons. Ukraine has reportedly submitted a list of targets for approval and I suspect that limited approval will be forthcoming.
Europe / NATO General –
Chairman of NATO Military Committee: Ukraine has the right to strike deep into Russian territory in order to weaken the enemy, its logistics and supplies on the fuel and ammunition front
ISRAEL –
Key overnight developments -
- Houthi missile penetrates into central Israel, striking open field.
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Continued search and destroy operations. Artillery and air strikes across the whole overnight.
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Israeli army: 40 rockets were fired from southern Lebanon towards Kiryat Shmona, some of which fell in open areas.
Israel launched numerous air and artillery strikes throughout Lebanon. Some very heavy strikes were reported in the northern Bekka valley region.
The IDF dropped evacuation order leaflets to a town in southern Lebanon, for the first time since the outbreak of war
Residents of southern Lebanon are fleeing their villages in anticipation for a war with Israel
——— SYRIA / HEZBOLLAH / IRAN———————————-
Israeli raids inside Syrian territory in Al-Qusayr, in addition to raids on the Lebanese-Syrian border, in the Hawsh Al-Sayyid Ali area.
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Aggressive Israeli security forces operations continue.
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Israeli army: At 06:21 this morning (Sunday), a surface-to-surface missile was fired from Yemen toward Israeli territory. An initial inquiry indicates the missile most likely fragmented in mid-air. During the incident, several interception attempts were made by the Arrow and Iron Dome Aerial Defense Systems, and their results are under review. Sirens were sounded in accordance with protocol. The entire incident is under review. Fallen fragments of the interceptors were identified in open areas and at the Paatei Modi’in Railway Station. A fire erupted in an area adjacent to Kafr Daniel
NOTE - Fragmentation of the missile was a common feature of Iraqi missiles during Desert Shield/Storm. Indicates it didn’t survive reentry. Israeli questions concerning effectiveness of detection and why it wasn’t seen earlier. The Arrow system has had a near 100% success rate - including the first ever combat exoatmospheric intercept. However, against a fragmented and probable tumbling warhead, target acquisition and intercept challenges become very high. Reports that Iron Dome was used to try to engage/breakup large pieces of the rocket. Rocket impacted in the Ben Shemen forest area in central Israel.
Military spokesman for the Houthis group: The enemy should expect additional qualitative operations. Claim the missile used overnight had a hypersonic warhead.
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US Central Command (CENTCOM) destroyed three Houthi drones and one Houthi “support vehicle” in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen on September 13.
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Movement toward eventual ground operations in S Lebanon took an upgrade with the calls for evacuation of civilians along the border zones. Reports suggest that Israel is increasingly targeting Hezbollah ammo depots over the past few days in an effort that would degrade their capability to resupply troops and rocket launchers. It will be difficult to say just when Israel will start, indicators that I see are pretty well being kept under wraps. The call for civilian evacuation definitely points to events starting soon. Could be as soon as a couple of weeks.
Houthi shooting for a lucky hit almost got one overnight. However, their missile broke up on reentry and failed to effectively reach its target, some believe to be Ben Gurion airport. Last time Houthi got a lucky shot in, Israel destroyed most of the Houthi’s key port facilities. Some think that with the IAF busy preparing the Lebanon battlefield, Israel may respond this time with their own ballistic missiles. I’m not sure as to how effective their intelligence game is with the Houthi in comparison to Hezbollah, but I think Israel may have a valid target set for a retaliatory strike. Unlike Israel, Houthi have no antimissile defense systems.
Iran –
The US and UK are concerned that Russia is sharing nuclear secrets with Iran, as well as classified information which may aid Iran in achieving its nuclear goals, Bloomberg and the Guardian reported.
According to the report, the information is provided in exchange for Tehran’s provision of ballistic missiles to Moscow, to be used in Russia’s war against Ukraine.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/396188
OBSERVATION - Contribution to Iran’s nuclear program was likely one of the golden rings Iran was reaching for when they started up the war support to Russia. Such help, like detonation device plans, would allow Iran to jump its nuclear bomb program by large bounds.
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Iran launched a military satellite using the IRGC’s Qaem-100 SLV. This is the third successful launch (the first was a suborbital test).
OBSERVATION - Remember, these launches are dual purpose - much like the launches by the US in the 50s and 60s were - tests for potential military launch vehicles capable of carrying a nuclear payload. Military application of this kind of rocket point to a regional or global desired capability to deliver nuclear munitions.