Threat Matrix 2021

Threat Matrix is a thread where global and domestic threats and trends to America are noted and commented on. Goal it to peel back the BS and get to the root of things.

Enter the dark ages of America. I think the following FR post is a good first cut at what to expect in the next few years in America -
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3922300/posts

Globalism / Great Reset -

Wuhan Virus -
Pfizer is claiming that its vaccine works against the newer strain of wuhan originally found in UK and that has spread to about 30 countries now.

Iran leader Khamenei bans imports of US, British COVID-19 vaccines. “They’re completely untrustworthy. It’s not unlikely they would want to contaminate other nations. “

The Chinese province of Hebei announced it was shifting to “wartime mode” against an outbreak of the Wuhan coronavirus and locked down travel between its capital Shijiazhuang and the nearby city of Beijing on Wednesday.

Economy -
The Fed is expecting CORE inflation to be in the 2% range in 2021. This ‘core’ doesn’t really include all the factors that hit the American pocket book, resulting in a larger rate felt by people. The argument for hyperinflation is still out there as well, but the Fed et al seem to be trying to keep that discussion minimized.

2020 Election-
Leftists and spineless republicans are demanding either impeachment or 25th amendment charges against Trump to have him removed before Jan 20. The cries are almost demonic levels. Pelosi/Schumer have called upon VP Pence to invoke the 25th, but as of yesterday he has refused. It is apparent now that Pelosi and her cabal is pushing forward with a streamlined impeachment process that looks to bypass committee meetings and go straight to a house vote. Similar streamlined process being pushed in the Senate.

Many are shocked that Trump has announced there will be a cooperative transition of the WH to biden. I’m not, he has no other options (inspire of what some pundits say).

In spite of all the negative reporting, Rasmussen’s weekday poll for Jan 7th has Trumps approval rating at 49%.!!!

The FBI indicates that they would even press charges against the President if they found ‘evidence’ of culpability. The president exists - that all the evidence the left needs for conviction. Remember how aggressively they went after BLM/Antifa - another harbinger of the next 4 years. Currently, FBI reportedly looking at filing sedition charges against participants.

CW2/Domestic violence -
The LEO that shot the Patriot Ashli Baffit is reported to be on administrative leave. His name has not been released. Photos/videos of the incident are producing damning evidence that the murder was unjustified. Ben Domenech of The Federalist noted, “This is crazy. There were other cops right behind her.” No one from DC notified her family, they had to learn of it from news sources.

Two characters identified at the forefront of the entrance to the capitol building have been further identified. One is a neo-nazi who’s photo on antifaphilly’s web site was for the purpose of doxxing him. The other, the infamous buffalo guy claims to be a Q fanatic and mega trump supporter, but in his case that is his cover story - to mock the right. BLM/Antifa has a very poor record of embracing pro-trumpers in their protests, so his presence and participation in those protests indicates his allegiance. That doesn’t mean that they were absent. One case of antifa infiltration that appears to have merit is the case of John Sullivan. He’s a man of the Left and a BLM/antifa protester from Utah. He was interviewed near the Capitol on Wednesday and admitted to being inside with the protesters. Sullivan was seen last in August in Washington calling for destroying the White House and encouraging a mob to “rip the president” out of the Oval Office. Other pieces of evidence include “protestors’ showing up with hammers and prepositioning molotov cocktails - both signature BLM/Antifa methods and tactics.

The US Capitol police chief has resigned under charges that he failed to properly protect the capitol. The House Sergeant of Arms has resigned. Democrats are also demanding that the Senate Sergeant at Arms resign as well. Much of this comes from abundant videos of Capitol law enforcements actions. Videos show people easily streaming into a side door of the Capitol, chatting with police. Some told the Washington Examiner that they encountered no resistance on their way into the building, where they hoped to tell lawmakers that they believed the election was stolen from President Trump. Such a peaceful nature runs opposite the desired narrative of the left.

Homeland Security has published a report that predicts terror trends for 2021. Little surprise that BLM/Antifa is not mentioned but conspiracy theorists and so called “white supremacists” are. We are back to 0bama era bias.

Iran -
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards unveiled an underground missile base at an undisclosed Gulf location on Friday, Iranian state media reported, at a time of heightened tension between Tehran and the United States. “The base is one of several bases housing the Guards’ Navy’s strategic missiles,” the state media quoted the head of the Guards, Major General Hossein Salami, as saying. Some reports suggest the base is near the Strait of Hormuz. A likely location to choke off oil flow to the world.

Enter the dark ages of America. I think the following FR post is a good first cut at what to expect in the next few years in America -
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3922300/posts

Wuhan Virus -
On Wednesday, the California Department of Public Health announced new “guidance” for people in California who have the nerve to want to wander around their free country. CDPH wants Californians to stay within 120 miles of their residences except for “essential” travel. They also demand those gross “non-essential” travelers don’t come at all, but if they must, then they should quarantine for 10 days. Everyone traveling for anything should also quarantine for 10 days upon return to California. Could this be an attempt to quell any response to the Jan 6 event in DC.

Biden is advocating (and will probably order once he is in the WH) that all vaccines be issued out immediately. The Operation Warp Speed council advocated holding back half of the vaccines to insure that the first group got their required second shot (all vaccines currently available require a second shot). By issuing out ALL stocks, Biden risks people not getting their second shot and losing any protective results. But he doesn’t care, he’ll get his second shot.

Economy -
The number of jobs decreased officially last month by -140,000, worst since April. Much of this due to expanded lockdowns in blue states.

2020 Election-
The left continues to scream like banshees for Trump to step down. Pence has already nixed (at least for now) a 25th amendment removal. However, there is no level of trust that he’ll keep that position. Pelosi has put the wheels in motion to impeach the president - will likely be successful to push it through in a streamlined manner. Articles expected to be filed on Monday. Mitch McConnell on Friday circulated to colleagues a memo outlining the procedure for holding another trial for President Trump if the House impeaches him for a second time. The document, which was first reported by The Washington Post, lays out how the Senate would proceed if the House approves articles of impeachment and transmits them to the upper chamber before or by Jan. 19, when senators are scheduled to resume regular business after the January recess. Biden will be inaugurated before the senate can vote on the impeachment.

According to Rasmussen, Trump’s approval rating is still high at 48% (Jan 8 polling)

CW2/Domestic violence -
Yesterday began the great social media purge, essentially a cyber civil war. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, youtube and reddit deleted the accounts of tens of thousands in an effort to purge their sites of any thing Donald Trump. Many others, such as Rush, deleted their accounts preemptively. #GoodbyeTwitter is trending. Trump did tweet from the official POTUS account, twitter immediately deleted it. Monday may show just how much an economic hit Twitter and other Big Tech will face from this purge and goodbye.

Big Tech also has set their sights on Parler, with Google removing its app, and Apple expected soon to follow because it won’t institute draconian speech restrictions on the right. Parler and MeWe experienced heavy usage thought to be people fleeing from Big Tech.

Cancel culture ‘warriors’ are pushing to have Fox News, News Max and others removed from cable and internet servers as well. The battle to control speech and distribution of news out side of the American Pravda is just beginning.

14-year veteran of the US Air Force Ashli Babbitt has received no recognition from congress, who yesterday honored a Capitol Police office that died last week.

People identified in the capitol building are losing their jobs across the country.

Weasels in the pentagon have compromised themselves by essentially taking orders from Pelosi, who called the Joint Chiefs to demand what they are doing to prevent Trump from using nuclear weapons.

The AP is reporting that national guard soldiers may be armed and on the streets during the inauguration. Right now, the only “protests” that are scheduled are from BLM/Antifa.

RUMINT - I’m hearing that militia groups are gearing up and gathering up across the country. A word of warning, there is a high probability that they have been infiltrated by government agents and provocateurs as the standoff a couple years ago in Oregon proved. From my info, it seems the ones gathering are the more hot-headed ones.

Wiki leaks release a boat load of documents yesterday. I expect a bunch of finds over the next couple days.

Leftist Portland Mayor Wheeler was accosted and punched by BLM/Antifa protestors at a restaurant.

More and more videos at the Capitol show the police letting protestors in with other photos showing the ‘protestors’ honoring the velvet ropes in the rotunda and not swarming all over. How can it be a “breach” if the police invite you in? Its the media’s attempt to produce false narrative about the capitol building “riots.”

More evidence of agent provocateurs from BLM/Antifa promoting the push in to the capitol, the leader of Far-Left ‘Insurgence USA’ Group, John Sullivan, encouraged rioters to enter the Capitol.

“Right Wing Extremists” as defined by NBC, are reportedly planning to march in DC for the Biden inauguration. Since his inauguration will be wuhan friendly, there will be virtually no public events. BLM/Antifa still have a protest scheduled - likely to push biden further to the left. This may fuel violent confrontations.

China -
US Ambassador to the UN, Kelly Craft, visited Taiwan yesterday, sparking off another round of vitriolic condemnations by China. “We wish to remind the United States that whoever plays with fire will burn himself,” the Chinese mission to the UN said in a statement. “The United States will pay a heavy price for its wrong action,”

N Korea -
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un threatened to expand his nuclear arsenal as he disclosed a list of high-tech weapons systems under development, saying the fate of relations with the United States depends on whether it abandons its hostile policy, state media reported Saturday. Kim’s comments during a key meeting of the ruling party this week were seen as applying pressure on the incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden, who has called Kim a “thug” and has criticized his summits with President Donald Trump. Kim’s comments were made during the ruling Workers’ Party congress, the first in five years. (AP)

Globalism / Great Reset -
The purpose of censorship, lying and deception is to control the information we read. Globalists do not want us to believe things that contradict what they say. They are trying to silence all opposition to their Global Reset / New World Order. Most of the media owners are part of the globalist movement, or at the very least, catering to it. Today’s society gets much of its world view information from social media. The great social media purge has pulled back the curtain on this aspect of the globalist agenda.

Wuhan Virus -
Vaccine makers are continuing to say their product is effective against new strains of the virus.

Blue states are demanding more units of vaccine, but they have a lot already on hand but are being inefficient in getting it out.

Economy -
Food prices indexes continued to rise for the 7th consecutive month. These price increases, coupled with the significant shortages could adversely impact citizens in the coming months. (On a personal note, we went to wally-world to find some stew meat - and if you old timers remember, stew meat was kinda the castoff pieces of the process and cheap - it was running over $6/lb. We eventually bought a Tri-tip roast for $5/lb. Price increases will deprive folks of protein necessary for the diet.)

CW2/Domestic violence -
CYBER FRONT - Big tech has temporarily thwarted Parler. Both Apple and Google have removed its app from their respective store and yesterday Amazon announced that they will ban the site of their servers where it is currently residing. Parler CEO said yesterday the company is shifting to new server host and hopefully will be back on line by Tuesday . Further said the effort was a “coordinated attack by tech giants to kill competition”. Meanwhile, expulsions/departures from social media continue unabated as twitterfacebookinstagramyoutube et al piously claim they are protecting Americans from hate while allowing leftist hate to thrive.

In its effort to stomp out violent speech and incitement of violence, Twitter ignores the trending “hang mike pence” hashtag.

Mozilla, the foundation and developer of the popular free web browser Firefox, published a blog post on Friday arguing that silencing and de-platforming President Donald Trump is not enough and that the entire internet needs to be re-tooled to stifle political dissent. Mozilla essentially called everyone who didn’t vote for Democrats in the last election racist. Essentially Mozilla wants to weaponize the entire internet. Push back has started with many going to alternative web browsers. Western Journalism quote of the day from this article “Big Tech is creating martyrs for free speech while debasing discourse.” This is the case of what’s been happening the past few days across social media.

Yesterday, CNN stepped up their campaign to have Fox News blacklisted and removed from cable networks and the internet.

CANCEL CULTURE FRONT -
The Lincoln Project announced it is compiling a data base of Trump officials and staff that details their role in the administration and track where they are. Similar ‘data bases’ have been compiled by other democrat groups for all supporters.

Alan Dershowitz reportedly said that social media (twitter and facebook) should lose Section 230 protections after banning Trump and supporters. Add to this, the ACLU has stated opposition to Twitter’s massive banning of conservative voices.

POLITICAL FRONT -
Pelosi makes accusations of “Sedition”, “Cowardice” and “Coup”, while over the weekend attempted to enlist the military to physically remove the president from office. From the Western Journal - Pelosi called Milley to ask him to ignore orders from Trump to use those codes. It’s unclear what initiated the call to Milley. No specific threat from Trump seems to exist, suggesting the call was made for political purposes. The pelosi reportedly told Milley she wants to limit the president from responding to international threats during the final days of his term. A statement from Col. Dave Butler, a spokesman for Milley, confirmed to The Times that the call took place. “Mr. Trump, they noted, is still the commander in chief; unless he is removed, the military is bound to follow his lawful orders. While military officials can refuse to carry out orders they view as illegal — or slow the process by sending those orders for careful legal review — they cannot remove the president from the chain of command. That would amount to a military coup, the officials said,”

Pelosi has reportedly given Pence until today to invoke the 25th amendment or she’ll start impeachment proceedings. Charges have already been written up and are set to be introduced in the house on Monday. Thru raw political power, the democrat house is likely to push through an indictment but it is unlikely the Senate will deliver a verdict of guilty as charged before the 20th. Deranged, democrats are trying to see if such actions can be continued against a former president, the goal to completely remove his influence on future national elections. Liberal atty (one of the few ‘honest’ liberals left in public view) Alan Dershowitz commented this weekend that impeaching Trump again is unconstitutional. He is reported to have said that it would be an “honor and privilege” to defend Trump if democrats try to impeach again.

Former CIA Director John Brennan wants Mao-like public humiliation sessions for Trump supporters before they will be accepted back into society. “Total denunciation of a despot’s legacy is necessary to eradicate any remaining malignancy “. The left’s desire for re-education ‘camps’ and internment facilities is very much alive and well. Note how they go to Soviet/Chinese models to combat opposing views/politics.

I’m trying to get better confirmation, but one of the most visible characters in the Capitol event was ‘buffalo boy’. MSM claimed he was a Trump and Q supporter and fanatic. News came out yesterday that he was the son of a very liberal judge and a Bernie boy. Other sources claim he portrays himself as an actor.

Preemptive fear mongering by the Washington (com)post. “Calls for widespread protests on the days leading up to the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden have been rampant online for weeks. These demonstrations are scheduled to culminate with what organizers have dubbed a “Million Militia March” on Jan. 20 as Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala D. Harris are to be sworn in on the same Capitol grounds that rioters overran on Wednesday.
As with the online chatter ahead of that assault on the Capitol, these calls to action have bristled with violent talk and vows to bring guns to Washington in defiance of the city’s strict weapons laws. Twitter cited some of these posts in its announcement stripping Trump of his account and preventing him from creating new ones in the future. Some event listings are openly discussing delivering “justice” for Ashli Babbitt, a rioter and Air Force veteran who was fatally shot by police inside the Capitol on Wednesday.”
MY OBSERVATION - for once the WP is pretty close to the news. Right wing militia member are seriously tee’d off and I can expect some sort of protest around the 20th. BLM/Antifa still has their protest scheduled too for that day. Another group is calling for armed marches in DC and all state capitols on Jan 17th. FOLLOWERS OF HISTORY will note that when a tyrannical regime trys to silence opposition, that opposition will double down and increased tyranny results in increased violence from their opponents who see no other means of response once their peaceful avenues or redress have been closed off. Note the Declaration of Independence folks.

China -
In a move that will give China conniption fits, the United States is ending restrictions governing official contacts with Taiwan, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Saturday, a move hailed by Taipei as ending “decades of discrimination”. This will last only as long as it takes for biden et al to reverse the policy for his CCP masters.

North Korea -
Kim Jong Un on Saturday threatened to expand his nuclear arsenal as he disclosed a list of high-tech weapons systems under development. Kim’s comments came during a key meeting of the ruling party and are seen as applying pressure on the incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden.

Pakistan -
Yesterday, a nation wide blackout hit the country and it is still off in most parts of the country. As a marker to how much has recovered, national internet connectivity is down 52%. “A countrywide blackout has been caused by a sudden plunge in the frequency in the power transmission system,” Pakistan’s Power Minister Omar Ayub Khan said on Twitter. I can only guess what they mean here. AC reverses the current flow at specific cycles per second (hertz). In the US this is 60 hertz. I can only guess that a major generating facility lost the ability to control the hertz of the production and this fowled up the grid.

Venezuela -
In what is destined to be a foretelling of America’s future, the Maduro-controlled National Assembly will legislate to expropriate houses and farms from Venezuelans that have emigrated as well as to INCARCERATE OPPOSITION LAWMAKERS (EMPH mine), the Assembly’s Vice President, Iris Valera, reiterated Wednesday.
NOTE - Anti-mauduro elements BOYCOTTED the election. This gave the congress over to his total control and with it the legitimacy. this is the disaster of “boycotting” elections (and we saw this in the Georgia runoff).

Please, please remember not to automatically accept as fact anything you read on the internet. The is so much misinformation, disinformation and flat out tinfoil flying around out there you need to be alert to and not accept without critical evaluation and verification. I’ve tracked sooooo much bs on the internet this weekend that people need to return to principle one - don’t believe everything you read on the internet

Wuhan Virus -
The Russian government is set to roll out electronic vaccination certificates that will provide proof an individual has received a COVID-19 jab for the purpose of traveling across borders and more countries are expected to follow.

Now one year after the ‘official’ start of the wuhan virus pandemic, China continues to stonewall investigations into the disease origins and early infection history.

CW2/Domestic violence -
BLM/Antifa marched down streets in NYC yesterday wearing what the commonly do during riots (helmets, shields, clubs and black apparel) chanting, “Our motherf*ckin streets!”. Silence from the media.

CYBER FRONT -
Twitter Inc. shares fell 7% in pre-market trading after the social media platform permanently banned outgoing President Donald Trump. Hopefully this is only the beginning.

Parler’s CEO, John Matze announced yesterday that it was a coordinated plan by Big Tech to bring it down. According Mantze “Every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers all ditched us too on the same day”. This could end the company by making it nearly impossible to get onto another server host. He said it may be longer than Tuesday before operations can begin to resume any kind of normality.

Rep Devin Nunes has called for criminal charges against Big Tech in the Parler matter. “This is clearly a violation of antitrust, civil rights, the RICO statute. There should be a racketeering investigation on all the people who coordinated this attack on not only a company but on all of those like us, like me, like you . . “ Sadly, the current regime will take no action, it has the blessing of our reptilian overlords.

Biden has hired at least 14 current or former executives from five major tech firms to serve in his administration or advise his transition team.

MY OBSERVATION - Not being a social media geek, but understanding and observing Big Tech’s hostility towards anything Trump, I’m still amazed how quickly and more importantly, how aggressively they have moved in their realm and towards Parler. This is a firestorm of censorship at a level unseen in recent history.

CANCEL CULTURE FRONT -
Airlines are increasingly hostile towards Trump supporters, with ‘do not fly’ lists (authorized by who?) and threats to have passengers removed.

A new fauxrage has been instigated by the Left following word that Ginni Thomas, a well-known conservative and wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, supported Turning Point USA, which bused in Trump supporters to the “Save America Rally” last Wednesday on The Ellipse in Washington, D.C. Justice Thomas has been in the gunsights of the left since his hearings. HIs is a classical example of where they cannot counter his reasonings - they have to silence him by any meany necessary.

Expanding on the cyber war front, Cumulus Media, which employs some of the most popular right-leaning talk-radio hosts in the United States, has told its on-air personalities to stop suggesting that the election was stolen from President Trump — or else face termination. The memo adds: “If you transgress this policy, you can expect to separate from the company immediately.” (WaPo)

Randall Lane, Forbes’ chief content officer, announced that Forbes Media was “holding those who lied for Trump accountable” in what he called “a truth reckoning.” Steve and the Forbes family no longer own Forbes the media company. In fact, Forbes Media was sold six years ago to Integrated Whale Media Investments, which is based in Hong Kong, and which has since become a territory of mainland Communist China.

POLITICAL FRONT -
Pelosi yesterday announced that a bill will be brought to the floor to demand the VP Pence implement 25th Amendment proceedings to remove the President from office. There still are congressmen that will vote no to the unanimous consent, so expect the bill to initiate impeachment to be more formally voted on Tuesday.

All “unity” has been tossed aside by the left. 80 million plus Americans are being defined as “domestic terrorists” and the left has accelerated its efforts to ‘punish’ them. More and more demands to hold them accountable for their ‘crimes’ against the country.

In a direct affront to the First Amendment, Democrats in both the House and Senate are planning to draft legislation to classify MAGA rallies as “domestic terrorist activity” and require the FBI, DOJ & DHS to take steps to prevent such “domestic terrorism.” Sen. Durbin is leading effort along with Rep Schneider.

Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.), said Sunday in a tweet she believes the election challenges contributed to the deadly riot inside the Capitol on Wednesday “Tomorrow, I’m introducing my resolution to expel the members of Congress who tried to overturn the election and incited a white supremacist coup attempt that has left people dead,” Bush tweeted. “They have violated the 14th Amendment. We can’t have unity without accountability,” she wrote.

Biden called Senators Cruz and Hawley “I think [Cruz and Hawley] should just be flat beaten the next time they run,” Biden said. “They’re part of the big lie, the big lie,” The “Big Lie” was an expression coined by Adolf Hitler in his 1925 book “Mein Kampf.”
Cruz responded on Friday.
“At a time of deep national division, President-elect Biden’s choice to call his political opponents literal Nazis does nothing to bring us together or promote healing,” Cruz said. “This kind of vicious partisan rhetoric only tears our country apart.”
Hawley also responded on Friday.
“This is undignified, immature, and intemperate behavior from the President-elect,” Hawley said. “It is utterly shameful. He should act like a dignified adult and retract these sick comments.” In September, Biden compared President Trump to former Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels.

Biden on Jan. 8 promised to “defeat” the National Rifle Association while he’s in office. “We must be ready for the onslaught,” the post reads, adding that a Biden administration, if officials get their way, “will ban and confiscate the most-commonly-owned rifle in the United States” and “will arbitrarily limit the number of guns that can be bought per month,” among other measures.

MY OBSERVATION - The speed and aggressiveness the left is moving to go after Trump supporters is frighteningly unexpected. There is no restraint and this is only adding fuel to the eventual push back. The sideline cheerers in social media are even more vitriolic, calling for stalinstic reprisals. I don’t like to be pessimistic but I can only see courses developing at this point -

1. Eventual kinetic civil war
2 Succession of Red States - particularly if the move by Rep Bush to expel representatives gains traction.

Make no mistake, this is the agenda the hard left has telegraphed over the past couple years. Also, make no mistake that they are going to stop here. Remember - they have defined evangelical Christianity (main Trump supporting demographic) as “Christian nationalists” and even Christianity Today (founded by Billy Graham - how far it has fallen) blames ‘white christianity’ for the violence. The ruthlessness and aggression of their actions underlies what I consider to be the realization that they wasted their opportunity under 0bama and believe they must ram as much down our throats before the 2022 congressional elections (which under normal times would see them loss probably both houses) and blunt efforts to change congress.

North Korea -
A ‘military parade’ was detected during the night in NK. Observers not sure if practice or not. Kim this weekend stated - “Our external political activities must focus on our arch-enemy and the fundamental obstacle to our revolutionary development, the United States,” Kim said, according to NBC. “The effort will focus on overpowering and bringing them to their knees,” he added. Doubt biden will be shaking hands with Kim any time soon.

Middle East General -
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo officially announces plans to designate Yemen’s Houthi movement as a terror org. “If Ansarallah did not behave like a terrorist organization, we would not designate it,” top diplomat says, citing Dec attack on Aden airport killing 27. That rocket/mortar attack targeted the new Yemeni government leaders as they exited an aircraft at the Aden airports.

Pakistan -
No word or details on why power went out this weekend. Any one else hear anything more definitive?

Israel -
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered on Monday moves to advance the construction of some 800 homes for Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank, an official statement said. The announcement, in the final days of the Trump administration, was widely expected ahead of the Jan. 20 inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, who has been critical of Israeli settlement policies in the past.
MY OBSERVATION - Biden will continue the antisemitic policies of 0bama’s administration. Netanyahu has to move now, because the US govt will become very hostile towards Israel.

Wuhan Virus -
The Bay Area has indefinitely extended its coronavirus stay-at-home order as ICU capacity remains extremely low amid surging new cases.

Biden is already unhappy with his wuhan team.

Economy -
Two years in a row. New swarms of locusts in southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya are spreading further in the eastern Africa region, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has warned. In its latest update…FAO said the immature swarms have been migrating from…eastern Ethiopia and central Somalia and spreading into Ethiopia’s SNNP region and into Kenya’s northern and coastal counties. Region is already suffering from food shortages from last years multiple mega swarms.

Global food shortages may cause prices to skyrocket here, especially if weather causes more problems like it did last year.

2020 Election-
President Trump still carries an approval rating of 48% according to Rasmussen (Jan 11).

CW2/Domestic violence -
There is gathering internet chat on the left to organize and disrupt the inauguration activities on Jan 20. Called J20, protests are scheduled not only for DC, but Seattle, Portland, Denver, and NYC. Additionally, the FBI is warning of plans for armed protests at all 50 state capitals and in Washington, D.C., in the days leading up to President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration. Leftist MSM already using the FBI report to generate fear across the country.
NOTE - MSM and leftist democrats are just salivating for an excuse to crack down on the second amendment following their tsunami assault on the first. They are looking to set things up to justify their crackdown. As angry as we are, we shouldn’t rush in like bulls in a china closet, but get a rational plan put together first.

President Trump on Monday declared an emergency in Washington, D.C. and ordered federal assistance to supplement efforts to prepare for President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration. The move came after D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) over the weekend asked Trump to issue an emergency declaration amid concerns about potential threats to the inauguration. It is expected that there will be as many as 15,000 national guards will be deployed in DC through the coronation.

Warning going out about a ‘protest’ on Jan 27 allegedly calling for armed Trump supporters to march on DC. Red Flags have red flags for this event. It appears that a boogaloo group is pushing for the event. We saw how the left pounced on 1st amendment rights due to the capitol incident - imagine their feeding frenzy is an agent provocateurs starts shooting. Many have noted that the poster associated with the online announcement of this ‘event’ has some very communistic undertones. For a sharper option read the following link.

https://bigcountryexpatoriginal.blogspot.com/2021/01/how-fucking-dumb-are-we.html?m=1

Portland BLM/Antifa recently began issuing notices to businesses and private property owners for allegedly supporting law enforcement, Far Right groups, evictions, homeless sweeps, and doxxing of Leftists. According to these notices, home and business owners are guilty of offenses such as “enacting violence,” being “active in the undermining of democratic institutions”, and endangering communities. Intelligence analysts note this tactic is “One of the chief tasks of an insurgency is to undermine the local government and execute more control or influence over local areas. Messaging that paints individuals or groups as dangerous criminals — and militant antifascists as community defenders — is textbook insurgent propaganda.” (FO)
MY OBSERVATION - The thought that BLM/Antifa will dial down their efforts now that biden is to be president and a leftist government installed is bogus. As I said before, they want to not only push the policies even further to the left, they want to eliminate our current government structure completely.

CYBER FRONT -
Someone illegally released some 70 terabytes of Parler user data that was scraped from its databases on Sunday before removal from the Amazon servers. Allegedly, an information security researcher claimed to have been scraping databases for photos and videos, which may have included content deleted by users. The researcher claimed to be making the data available in order to compile a list of Trump supporters, especially those who attended the Capitol protest. In addition to posted content, the data dump reportedly includes images of driver licenses or other forms of identification uploaded to confirm a user’s identity.
NOTE - I’ve posted before, the left is compiling databases since before the election of Trump supporters. Once the political targets have been crushed, they will be coming after you Joe and Jane American. That is the communist way.

Parler has take Amazon to court over its deplatforming the social site. Meanwhile, on Monday, Parler registered its domain and server to be hosted by Epik, an internet web-hosting company known for working with right-leaning websites. Gab, another social media platform popular with conservatives, also uses Epik. A web domain search shows that Parler is now registered with Epik. Epik defended Parler and said that it was being unfairly treated in comparison to its larger competitors Twitter and Facebook, which create an “undeniable double standard” when it comes to their policing and enforcement of content.

CANCEL CULTURE FRONT -
ACLU senior legislative counsel Kate Ruane is speaking against the social media purging saying in a statement:
For months, President Trump has been using social media platforms to seed doubt about the results of the election and to undermine the will of voters. We understand the desire to permanently suspend him now, but it should concern everyone when companies like Facebook and Twitter wield the unchecked power to remove people from platforms that have become indispensable for the speech of billions — especially when political realities make those decisions easier.

POLITICAL FRONT -
The unanimous consent bill to demand VP Pence use the 25th amendment to remove the president failed yesterday. Today the house holds a formal vote on the bill to demand implementation of 25th Amendment by Pence. Pelosi has announced that a bill to begin the impeachment process is scheduled for Wednesday.

A top Democrat is making an explosive suggestion to put Republicans who backed the Electoral College challenge on a no-fly list, among them Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo.
“There’s no question about it,” Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., the chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, told SiriusXM host Joe Madison, told The Washington Times.
“There’s no exemption for being put on the no-fly list. Even a member of Congress that commits a crime, you know, they’re expelled from the body. There are ethics charges that can be brought against those individuals. And people are looking at all of this.”
NOTE - “No Fly” lists of sorts are being used to discriminate against Trump supporters starting with those where in DC, whether on not they entered the capitol. This bears repeating - the left wants to totally crush any remaining Trump support.

China -
China is looking at ‘reforms’ to the Hong Kong election system aimed at reducing the influence of the pro freedom movement. This is following recent arrests of 50 people under new ‘security laws’.

Israel -
Blue & White leader Benny Gantz on Monday urged center-left parties to unite in a bid to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the upcoming March 2021 elections, saying he was “ready to sacrifice a lot” to initiate such a move. Gantz’s statement comes as Israel prepares for a fourth election round in just under two years.

Wuhan Virus -
Next step - wuhan passports/papers for internal travel
The United States is reportedly set to implement a requirement that all international visitors show a negative COVID-19 test result before flying to the country.
“The federal government will “require all international airline passengers to show proof of a negative COVID-19 test before boarding flights” to the U.S., The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is preparing to issue an order that would go into effect on Jan. 26 after having discussed such a move for weeks with agencies and with the White House’s coronavirus task force, the report says. “(the week).

Economy -
Small business optimism has fallen to a 7 month low due largely to continued wuhan shutdowns. The passed stimulus and vaccine deployment has done little to brighten the view.

2020 Election-
President Trump still carries an approval rating of 49% according to Rasmussen (Jan 12).

CW2/Domestic violence -
In response to the riot at the Capitol last week, the Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement (RAM) announced the formation of an overt militant wing in order to “defend people from the state and fascists.” According to RAM, the Revolutionary Abolitionist Front (RAF) will provide security at disruptions, help build “wider uprisings,” conduct training, establish safe houses for Leftists, and halt evictions. In addition, the group will conduct “militant patrols” of communities and surveil law enforcement — an activity referred to as “copwatch.” (FO)

Both left and right are considering ways to target politicians and relative supporters following Jan 6, and especially after Jan 20th. The left has developed sophisticated intelligence collection on their opponents using a wide variety of open source information as well as poor opsec on the right.

CYBER FRONT -
Twitter is whining about the fact that Uganda has blocked it to prevent election interference during its election.

So much going on I missed this one. GoDaddy deplatformed the biggest gun forum - AR15.com. The site was able to quickly able to create a temporary URL to maintain continuity No reason for the de-platforming has been given by GoDaddy.

POLITICAL FRONT -
House approved a resolution yesterday calling for VP Pence to remove Trump via 25th amendment. Pence said no. House moving forward with impeachment efforts. Liberal Allan Dershowitz has stated that “Its unconstitutional to impeach Trump for constitutionally protected speech.

House is voting on a resolution calling for impeachment. Reports suggest that McConnell is inclined to vote for impeachment conviction. Those reports are originating from leftist media, for are probably propaganda to influence opinion.

House Freedom Caucus Chair Andy Biggs (R-AZ) and Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-MT) (my rep!) called for Rep. Liz Cheney’s (R-WY) ouster as the House Republican Conference chairwoman Tuesday night after she came out in favor of impeaching President Donald Trump. In a statement, they said she broke the rules of the Republican conference and ignored the preference of republican voters, all for personal gain.

Yesterday, democrats introduced a bill to abolish the Electoral College. Looks like trying to do an end around to the constitution rather than a formal constitution change and the accompanying mandate for state ratification.

Israel -
Multiple reports are emerging that tonight’s airstrikes in eastern Syria, near the Iraqi-Syrian border, were extensive. Initial estimates are more than 18 airstrikes against multiple targets killed at least five Syrian soldiers and 11 Iran-backed militiamen. The targets were the standard fare, consisting of Iranian arms depots and military positions that were being used as a part of pipeline to store & stage Iranian weapons; warehouses also served as pipeline for components that supports Iran’s nuclear program. Reports indicate that the strikes were conducted with US knowledge and intelligence.

France and Germany are calling for a two state solution with Israeli borders back to the 1967 alignment. If Biden follows democrat precedent, he will likely support the call.

Cuba -
The US State Department on Monday imposed new sanctions on Cuba by re-designating the island nation a “sponsor of state terrorism.”
The state department accuses the socialist country of failing to uphold anti-terror promises it made when former President Barack Obama lifted the designation in 2015.

Please, please remember not to automatically accept as fact anything you read on the internet. The is so much misinformation, disinformation and flat out tinfoil flying around out there you need to be alert to and not accept without critical evaluation and verification. I’ve tracked sooooo much bs on the internet this week that people need to return to principle one - don’t believe everything you read on the internet

Wuhan Virus -
A WHO team has arrived in China to investigate the origin of the wuhan virus. They are under a 14 day quarantine before they can get to work. Just as the WHO team arrived, China announced it is locking down more than 22 million in their homes. Among the locales on lockdown were cities Shijiazhuang, Xingtai, and Langfang, along with counties in the Heilongjiang province and districts in the capital city of Beijing, The New York Times reported. Notably, per the report, the massive lockdowns – twice as large as the initial ones at the beginning of the Chinese outbreak – come as the country reported a mere average of 109 new cases a day in a country of 1.4 billion people.

Johnson & Johnson is on track to roll out its single-shot coronavirus vaccine in March, and expects to have clear data on how effective it is by the end of this month or early February, the U.S. healthcare company’s chief scientific officer, Dr. Paul Stoffels , said. BTW Stoffels is a World Economic Forum (WEF) attendee, the organization responsible for the ‘great reset’ doctrine.

Economy -
New weekly unemployment claims spiked far more than expected last week to reach a five-month high, as the coronavirus pandemic and stay-in-place orders weighed heavily on the labor market. Initial jobless claims, for the week ending Jan. 9: 965,000 vs. 789,000 expected and a revised 784,000 during the prior week, this is the highest level since August 2020. More than 18 million Americans were still claiming unemployment benefits of some form, including about 11.6 million individuals on pandemic-era federal unemployment programs.

Schumer has pledged to quickly pass funding for the additional $1400 checks for wuhan stimulus. However, even with control of the senate there is a question if the votes are there. One instance, Sen Manchin has said he would absolutely oppose the additional money. Biden is proposing a $2 trillion package versus Schumer’s $1.3 trillion.

2020 Election-

After a very stream lined process that provided no due process, House officially has the votes to impeach Trump for the second time. 10 Republicans vote yes:
John Katko (NY)
Liz Cheney (WY)
Adam Kinzinger (IL)
Fred Upton (MI)
Jaime Herrera Beutler (WA)
Dan Newhouse (WA)
Peter Meijer (MI)
Tom Rice (SC)
Anthony Gonzalez (OH)
David Valadao (CA)

CW2/Domestic violence -
FBI violence report continues to focus leftist fears. Many on the right are warning followers to avoid religiously any protests ANYWHERE on Jan 20 - building to be a potential HUGE red flag event. Take a deep breath, keep your powder dry.

According to a National Guard spokesperson, the Pentagon approved National Guard troops deploying to Washington, D.C. to augment security at the Capitol to be armed with lethal weapons. Chief of the National Guard Bureau, General Daniel Hokason, said, “We want our individuals to have the right to self-defense. If senior leadership determines that that’s the right posture to be in, then that is something we will do.”

CYBER FRONT -
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey issued a statement Wednesday addressing the social media giant’s decision to ban President Donald Trump from the platform for life. “If folks do not agree with our rules and enforcement, they can simply go to another internet service.” He went on to deny that the actions against Parler were coordinated but it is evident otherwise, particularly with other server providers following suit with Amazon.

This week, Facebook and Twitter collectively lost $51.2 billion in market value, Business Insider reported. Facebook’s stock market value dropped $47.6 billion while Twitter’s value dropped by $3.5 billion. Both Facebook and Twitter lost value on Monday and Tuesday, while Twitter regained some of its value on Wednesday with Facebook wavering at its previous closing level.

LiquidWeb has removed Oath Keepers from their servers. OK reports they are working to rebuild its site at a new server location.

From VA Citizens Defense League - ”Yesterday, Mailchimp suspended VCDL’s VA-ALERT account claiming possible policy violation, but with no explanation of what policy was possibly violated and no warning. “

Gab managed to rescue and post on its site the entirety of President Trump’s tweets - much to the chagrin of the leftists.

CANCEL CULTURE FRONT -
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) says she is proud to join a growing list of conservatives who have been banned or shunned by college campuses. On Tuesday, the Harvard Kennedy School informed the conservative lawmaker that they have decided to boot her from the school’s Senior Advisory Committee for what they referred to as her baseless claims of voter fraud during the 2020 presidential election.

POLITICAL FRONT -
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the House Freedom Caucus chair and Judiciary Committee ranking member, called Wednesday for House Republicans to hold a vote to remove Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) as the House Republican Conference chair. This after Cheney lead 9 other republican congress critters to vote for impeachment today.

McConnell has rejected an emergency session to address the impeachment 2.0 of the president. Any ‘trial’ would have to occur during Biden’s term and would be unconstitutional as there is no legitimate authority to remove from office a citizen.

Former Fourth Circuit Judge Michael Luttig argues in a Washington Post column that a Senate trial would be unconstitutional. Luttig argues: “Once Trump’s term ends on Jan. 20, Congress loses its constitutional authority to continue impeachment proceedings against him—even if the House has already approved articles of impeachment.” The Constitution’s impeachment clauses presuppose that impeachment and removal of a president happen while in office.
As an example, Judge Luttig cites Article II, Section 4: “The president, vice president and all civil officers of the United States shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.”
He also cites Article I, Section 3, which reads in part: “Judgment in cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States.”

Newly elected Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) announced on Wednesday that she would be filing articles of impeachment against President-elect Joe Biden on the first full day of his presidency. “I would like to announce on behalf of the American people, we have to make sure that our leaders are held accountable. We cannot have a president of the United States that is willing to abuse the power of the office of the presidency and be easily bought off by foreign governments, foreign Chinese energy companies, Ukrainian energy companies,” said Greene.

Strategic Developments /Deployments -
Nimitz CSG still operating in the Arabian Sea region.

North Korea -
The Workers Party Congress in North Korea produced a surprise this week, Kim’s sister, Kim Yo Jong, received what amounted to a demotion. Having previously been seen as a rising force in the family, she was not even named to the Politburo. Meanwhile, Kim was elevated from chairman to general secretary, a rank previously held by his late father and grandfather.

Iran -
Iran has started work on uranium metal-based fuel for a research reactor, the U.N. nuclear watchdog and Tehran said on Wednesday, in the latest breach of its nuclear deal with six major powers as the country presses for a lifting of U.S. sanctions. Iranian leadership has also said they have nothing to gain by going back to the nuclear agreement that Biden is pushing for and will continue on its own program no matter what.

Iran’s naval forces on Wednesday launched a major military drill in the country’s southern waters. The two-day missile exercise in the Gulf of Oman, code-named Eqtedar-99 (power), was attended by top military officials, including the chief of army staff, Gen. Hossein Baqeri.
MY OBSERVATIONS - Huge SIGNINT boon for our military. We’ve had a lot of platforms monitoring Iran lately and their arrogant exercise allow us a big advantage into understanding their operations and precursor signals/coms.

Took yesterday off, needed to decompress.

Wuhan Virus -
The faster spreading UK wuhan variant has been detected in Oregon. CDC is expressing concern that this variant known as B.1.1.7 could become the dominant strain in the US by March, like it has in the UK. This more contagious strain will be used to further justify increasing lockdowns/shutdowns of the economy and civil rights int the coming months. And speaking of rights, Michigan’s Governor has extended her state’s lock down for an even longer period.

Chicago’s mayor has reversed herself, now calling to reopen bars and restaurants to prevent the spread of wuhan - wait what?

Economy -
The Internal Revenue Service will delay the start of tax filing season until Feb. 12, 2021, which pushes the date when the tax agency will begin accepting and processing 2020 tax year returns.
On Friday, the agency said the start date for individual tax return filers will allow the IRS time to do additional programming and testing following the Dec. 27 tax law changes, which provided a second round of COVID-19 stimulus relief checks and other benefits. April 15 remains the deadline for filing 2020 tax returns.

2020 Election-
President Trump will be enroute to Florida when Biden is installed as emperor.

CW2/Domestic violence -
Echoing the continued warnings not to support this march on DC and other statehouses on the 20th. Evidence it this is a false flag attempt to trigger 2A crackdowns in addition to the ongoing attacks against Trump supporters. Keep your powder dry for now.

NG deployments to DC now exceed 25,000 (approaching 30K). To put this in perspective, in Afghanistan and Iraq combined we only have about 7,000 troops.
Speaking of Iraq, the Secret Service has declared a “Green Zone” in downtown DC, with vehicular traffic restricted to residents.

After claiming otherwise, the DOJ is now saying that there is no evidence that those who entered the capitol had the intent to capture and assassinate representatives. More media however continues to paint the capture and kill narrative. The narrative continues to be the instigators were Trump supporters, though multiple arrests of leftists have been arrested and in at least one case (John Sullivan) on line postings called for the burning down of the capitol and deliberate mayhem. Plus, CNN teamed up with him to penetrated the capitol, video shows other provocateurs with him. BTW, Sullivan was released without bail. In comparison, “bison boy” is being held without bond. Sullivan is the founder of a left-wing rioting group called Insurgence USA which goes around instigating riots with Antifa thugs.

Ken Cuccinelli, the acting Deputy Homeland Security Secretary, said he and FBI Director Christopher Wray briefed more than 5,900 state and local officials earlier this week about “a good deal of online chatter” that has prompted increased security around the country. DHS/FBI did say there’s no specific, credible threats at this point in time.

CYBER/CANCEL CULTURE FRONT -
American Thinker has been forced to close its comments sections. Its internet service provider demanded that or near instantaneous monitoring/censoring of comments deemed “violent” etc.

Project Veritas posted a secretly recorded video of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey talking about his censorship plans beyond President Donald Trump. Pretty damning video, but not surprising considering the coordinated Big Tech assault on conservatives.

No word on Parler’s attempt to reconstruct on a conservative friendly server site.

Mailchimp is now banning conservative sites and removing them from their email services. The first of these is the Montana Daily Gazette.

Bloomburg is apparently teaming up with Big Tech to target Pro- 2A websites and influencers. The initial efforts were evident when the AR15 website was pulled by GoDaddy (company owned by Amazon).

Word is circulating that Apple is planning to remotely axe the Telegram app from users’ iPhones now that President Donald Trump and millions of free speech advocates have migrated there. Telegraph notified its users on Tuesday that the app surpassed 500 million monthly active users during the first week of January, with 25 million new users joining just in the previous 72 hours alone. Earlier, Apple removed the Parler app from its store as part of a combined effort with google and amazon to shut that site down permanently.

POLITICAL FRONT -
Senate released transcripts of the FISA abuses/lies that were the foundation for the Mueller investigation. This on top of other documents declassified by the president over the past couple days. The release covered over by the media of course.

Pelosi has delayed forwarding the bill of impeachment to the senate. Part of her ‘reason’ is that they are pulling together the ‘evidence’ of the criminal act. Typical cart-before-the-horse. However, this delay virtually insures that it will not be acted upon by the Senate before the 20th. This sets up what is a clear unconstitutional attempt for the Senate to impeach the ‘civilian’ Trump. Even leftist attorneys Dershowitz and Turley note this is unconstitutional. It is a unashamedly an attempt to prevent Trump from running again in 2024 and a vicious assault on him and supporters. This has the effect of throwing Biden’s 100 day agenda under the bus by taking the legislative focus off that an onto a continuation of the political coup.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D -W.Va.) said in an interview this week that he believes the Senate should consider removing GOP Sens. Josh Hawley (Mo.) and Ted Cruz (Texas), arguing the Republicans were complicit in insurrection when they objected to certifying some Electoral College votes the same day a pro-Trump mob attacked the Capitol in protest of the election results. This is just another voice from the left demanding the removal of republicans from congress.
NOTE - watch closely since if campaign this gains traction, serious violence would be expected and it would stimulate the drive for the affected state(s) to succeed from the union.

Pelosi has threatened representatives with a $10,000 fine for failing to go through recently installed metal detectors. Other democrats are also wetting their pants with fear that republican representatives are going to kill them. Anti 2A hysteria wave coming next.

North Korea -
NK showed off a new missile believed to be a submarine launched ballistic missile (SLBM) in a parade yesterday.
MY OBSERVATIONS - Like it’s monstrous cousin, the MIRV ICBM displayed in last October’s parade this missile is more for show than go. Prior to the Trump initiatives with NK, they had been trying to successfully execute a sea launch of a missile (smaller version) without success. NK is also constructing / retrofitting submarines for SLBMs, but expect a considerable number of technical problems to work out before operational deployment. Kim made a big deal at the recent party conference about expanding NK’s military efforts in the strategic realm and this ‘missile’ reveal likely is part of that propaganda. Timing with the incoming biden administration cannot be missed. The unveiling of the new missiles appears designed to send the incoming Biden administration a message of the North’s growing military prowess.

Israel -
When biden assumes power, Israel is expecting a vacuum in US power to keep Iran in check, so Israeli news sources are reporting that the IDF is in the process of developing courses of action to take out the Iranian nuclear program on their own. This effort has gained new urgency given the Iranian move to start processing uranium to 20% purity, once that is obtained nuclear experts estimated that it could only take but a few months to jump to the 90%/weapons grade level.

Iran has sent several Shahed-136 loitering munitions, known as “suicide drones,” to its proxies in Yemen, Newsweek reported on Thursday. It has been noted that Israel has enhanced its anti aircraft missile system deployment in the southern part of the country as a counter measure.

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