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Threat Matrix 2021
Godzilla

Posted on 01/01/2021 7:36:15 AM PST by Godzilla

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.


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: cw2; reset; terror; threatmatrix; threats
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UPDATE ON SW Airlines
cancelations today are at 364 (10%) and delays at 625% (17%). It is at the highest of all reporting airlines. (Flightaware)


641 posted on 10/11/2021 8:34:11 AM PDT by Godzilla (Never give up, never surrender . . . . . .)
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To: null and void; aragorn; Baynative; Beautiful_Gracious_Skies; BusterDog; bgill; bitt; Black Agnes; ..

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Wuhan virus -
Headline on Israel news - “The 17% Unvaccinated Make Up 60% of Deaths This Week” What they don’t clearly say is that 40% of deaths were from vaccinated.

New research from George Washington University has determined that treating COVID patients with aspirin reduced the risk of severe illness by nearly half.
The report noted that an aspirin regimen in more than 400 COVID-19 patients in hospitals across the United States cut the need for ventilation by 44%, slashed ICU admission by 43%, and reduced overall in-hospital mortality rates by 47%.
A related research study came to a similar conclusion -

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-blood-thinners-hospitalizations-covid-.html

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order Monday prohibiting COVID-19 vaccine mandates by any “entity,” including employers, if someone objects to the vaccine for “any reason of personal conscience.”
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Globalism / Great Reset -
Yellen admitted this weekend the reason behind the global tax - “This is really something we need to make globalization work.”
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Economy -
More coal shortage woes. 80% of India’s 135 coal-powered plants had less than 8 days of supplies left — more than half of those had stocks worth two days or fewer. Coal accounts for around 70% of India’s electricity generation. By comparison, over the last four years, the average coal inventory that power plants had was around 18 days worth of supply.
OBSERVATION - Shutdown of power yields shut down of factories and those effects will ripple across the region and the world. Demand for coal is causing prices to skyrocket.

With transportation / supply distribution in a total tails spin, increasing attention is coming to bear on Transportation Scty Buttigieg. Two months ago biden said they would get the situation under control. Buttigieg is his point man to get it done. “The supply chain disruption is a crisis,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) tweeted on Monday. “This will impact every American, especially those who can least afford it. It’s past time for President Biden and Pete Buttigieg to explain what they’re doing about this.”
Industry analysts indicate that on just the container ship side of the house, the log jams will continue into 2023.
Also of note - increasing emphasis on purchasing for Christmas now as the supply logjam is expected to mean empty shelves during the Christmas season.

House passed and biden signed the budget ceiling delay.
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Invasion of Illegals -
More reports of heavily armed cartel members flaunting their firepower in full view of US Customs and law enforcement.
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Biden watch -
Biden administration continues to buy Chinese drones for federal law enforcement, in the face of national security concerns. Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday ““Like so much that Biden administration has done on national security lately, this makes very little sense,” Ratcliffe said. “It’s harmful to our national security. And also, Chinese drone technology is not as good as U.S. drone technology. So it’s hard to make sense out of what’s doing this, other than it is consistent with the Biden administration taking a softer approach, trying to promote a false narrative that somehow China is a competitor and not an adversary.””
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CW2/Domestic violence -
BLM/Antifa activity remains at a low level, lacking a unifying event like 2020 to drive violence.
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CYBER/CANCEL CULTURE FRONT -
German court rules suspension of YouTube channel, created by artists and actors who criticized the COVID19 restrictions of the government, is unlawful.
NOTE - not enforceable in the US but is a potential development of a global trend.
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Domestic Terror -
AQ has put out a video threatening the US with attacks “more painful than 9/11”.
OBSERVATION - IMHO I don’t think AQ is in a position yet to pull this off on the scale threatened, but does have the capability to conduct smaller scale operations.

Some observers are watching closely to see if radical environmental groups followthrough with threats to sabotage national transportation hubs to further its war to impose green agenda items. This has resulted the past in with attempted and successful train derailments in Washington state. Targets being discussed include pipelines and “choke points for the U.S. economy” — namely major ports and transportation hubs which could be shut down through activism. Purpose would be to demonstrate - in their minds -the failure of capitalism to address the needs of the country and world.
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Cyber Warfare -
The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) announced on Monday that Iranian hackers successfully targeted US and Israeli defense technology companies.
More than 250 Microsoft Office 365 accounts linked to the US, EU and the Israeli government were hacked into through extensive password spraying.
In addition, Persian Gulf ports of entry and global maritime transportation companies with business presence in the Middle East were also targeted.
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China -
China’s military said on Monday it had carried out beach landing and assault drills in the province directly across the sea from Taiwan, though it did not link the exercises to current tensions with Taipei. The drills appeared to involve a small number of troops.
The weather was clear and the seas were calm - suggesting the drill did not happen on Monday as southern Fujian is currently being affected by a tropical storm passing between Taiwan and the Philippines.

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North Korea -
Kim is vowing to create an ‘invincible’ army. He also called for officials to focus on improving citizens’ lives in the face of a “grim” economic situation, state media reported on Monday, as he marked the anniversary of the country’s ruling party.
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Iran -
Iranian state television is claiming that its navy chased a US fleet in the Persian Gulf. Video footage showing Revolutionary Guards cheering as they tailgated the American vessels, was released by the ICRG. The US vessel in the clip is a Riverine Command Boat, a 52ft quick military assault seacraft that is often deployed in the Strait. No comment from the Navy at this time.

See cyber warfare above.
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Misc of Note - Going Galt?
SW Airlines follow up. Monday there were nearly 400 cancelations. As I type, only 89 cancellations have been reported. Evidence is strong, this was a sickout warning to the airline. Gov Abbott’s of Texas may have provided cover with his executive order forbidding job firings on the basis of vaccination. SW is under the mandate for Defense contractors to be fully vaccinated and not the news release ‘mandate’ against 100+ sized businesses.

More federal pushback? The deadline for federal employees at the Veterans Administration to provide proof of vaccination was Friday. As it turns out, there are still more than 45,000 VA workers who have not provided a CDC card or other proof of vaccination.

Another sickout appears to have hit Washington state. Friday, Washington State Ferries saw more cancelations than they usually see in an entire year, according to officials. Staff with WSF say there were 157 sailing cancelations on Friday. On average, there are about four cancelations per month. A spokesman for the state ferry service tried to avoid the issue of wuhan virus jab mandates by blaiming other personnel issues.
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642 posted on 10/12/2021 9:30:43 AM PDT by Godzilla (Never give up, never surrender . . . . . .)
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To: Godzilla


Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order Monday prohibiting COVID-19 vaccine mandates by any “entity,” including employers, if someone objects to the vaccine for “any reason of personal conscience.”

As well as conscience, religious and medical reasons are in there, including having recovered from covid:

https://texasscorecard.com/state/abbott-order-no-employer-can-compel-covid-vax/


643 posted on 10/12/2021 11:50:53 AM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.) )
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No update until Monday. Life has interjected itself. Stay safe and alert. If something springs up I’ll try to post.


644 posted on 10/13/2021 6:41:09 AM PDT by Godzilla (Never give up, never surrender . . . . . .)
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To: Godzilla

Get well, bro!!


645 posted on 10/13/2021 7:50:27 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: ealgeone

thanks for thought but not sick - will be on the road for that period


646 posted on 10/13/2021 8:24:45 AM PDT by Godzilla (Never give up, never surrender . . . . . .)
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To: Godzilla

Best wishes!


647 posted on 10/13/2021 10:06:07 AM PDT by matthew fuller (The Satanic Trinity- Obama, Soros and the Chinese Communist Party-FUBO44&46. )
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To: null and void; aragorn; Baynative; Beautiful_Gracious_Skies; BusterDog; bgill; bitt; Black Agnes; ..

Back and trying to consolidate the past week. Some of the following is just a summary of what I read.
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Wuhan virus -
The maelstrom of government mandates continues. Increasing numbers of reports that the media has been unable to keep down on how the jab is actually lowering the body’s natural immune system in addition to failing to prevent infections and infect may be creating more resistant versions.
biden administration is tripling down on mandated vaccination, holding a hard line on the non-mandated mandates that are already starting to strip needed workers for multiple sectors of the country.
- Police and other first responders
- Hospital staff
- Schools
- government workers (sniff sniff)
- other sectors.
These are stacked on already difficult markets to get workers.
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Globalism / Great Reset -
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky said on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday” that the Biden administration has a plan for the “education and counseling” of essential workers so they are comfortable getting vaccinated.
OBSERVATION - Some are saying that this ‘education and counseling’ are steps to internment camps/facilities like have been established in Australia and Canada.

UN is warning that failure for the world to achieve global warming control at the ongoing Cop26 summit in Glasgow “could plunge the world into chaos, sparking migration crises alongside food shortages, political disorder and war,”
OBSERVATION - Dissuasions on the globalist left are once again focusing on a global warning shut down modeled after the wuhan shutdown - noting how pliant the citizenry was to the initial lockdowns.
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Economy -
The sausage factory that is creation of this ‘infrastructure’ bill continues. Democrats now say the $3.5 trillion “human infrastructure”plan will likely end up closer to $2 trillion, though that figure still remains too high for many lawmakers. Less spending candy and fewer taxes are also not setting well on the progressive/marxist left. Pelosi has set an arbitrary Oct 31 deadline to get the measure passed.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen continues to insist that price inflation — food, fuel, and all the rest — is temporary:
“Americans haven’t seen inflation like we have experienced recently in a long time. But as we get back to normal, expect that to end,” Yellen told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday. She said she expects “improvement” by the “second half of next year.”
OBSERVATION - Many others continue to warn of hyperinflation - one being Twitter’s Dorsey (“Hyperinflation is going to change everything. It’s happening.— jack
(@jack) October 23, 2021
It will happen in the US soon, and so the world.— jack
(@jack) October 23, 2021 )
and another being economist Larry Summers, who has warned that the U.S. is in danger of losing control of inflation.
OBSERVATION - The “transitory” meme of inflation continues to fall apart under realities of current living.

biden’s claim to have the shipping ports surge to 24/7 has not panned out. Follow up by some MSM elements show that unloading operations are not accelerating.
OBSERVATION - The real problem IMHO is on the trucking side. First - there is a nation wide shortage of truck drivers. Second, Kalifornia has passed laws that restrict the age of trucks (under CARB regulations) as well as prohibiting the use of independent truckers. This past summer, Union Pacific has to shut down container trains because its operations in Chicago didn’t have the trucks to move them and operations there were backing up.
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Invasion of Illegals -
Another huge mass of illegals is pressing northward through Mexico - overwhelming some police elements attempting to stop the move.
September/end of FY2021 reports of border apprehensions is scary. The most striking increase from August to September was the number of Border Patrol encounters with migrants from Haiti, which more than doubled, from 7,580 in August to 17,638 last month (an increase of 132.7 percent), according to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data released on Friday.
Overall, the number of migrant encounters on the border in September, 192,001, took the annual total for FY 2021 to 1,734,686, breaking the previous record-high (1,643,679 in FY 2000) by 91,007. The majority of migrants apprehended along the southern border having entered the U.S. without relevant documentation come from Mexico and the northern triangle countries of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.

biden administration was caught flying illegals into numerous cities throughout the country under the cover of darkness.

The US customs and State Dept have allowed Afghanistan “refugees” with criminal backgrounds to be distributed across the US. One such ‘refugee’ recently raped a young girl in Montana - and his previous criminal history was known to the govt and he was still allowed in the country.
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Biden watch -
The Wall Street Journal is expressing alarm at the increasingly apparent loss of mental facilities of biden. In a tweet they said -
“We take no pleasure in pointing this out, since the U.S. needs a President who can handle the the strains of the job. Mr. Biden was never Demosthenes, and all Presidents stumble in speech. But Mr. Biden’s frequent public confusion about the major issues of the day is a reason for growing public concern.”

biden in a staged town hall said the US would defend Taiwan - a statement quickly walked back by the WH press.
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CW2/Domestic violence -
Still relatively quiet, though a few hundred went on a vandalism spree in Portland.

AG Garland was in the hot seat defending his letter that essentially called parents ‘domestic terrorists’. No backtracking by the AG but the hearings did bring the issue out of the shadows.
OBSERVATION - Another division being created by the administration. Already we hqve
- Red vs Blue
- vax vs unvaxxed
- legal vs illegal immigration.
- CRT vs non CRT
- mask vs unmasked
- mandate vs no mandate
- 2d amendment issues
- ‘voting rights’ vs protection of legitimate votes
And the list can go on. The cumulative result is elimination of any common ground - facilitating a potential kinetic senenario.
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Domestic Terror -
The illegal immigrant crisis is being compounded by over ten thousand Afghanis being released in the country without any identification.
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Strategic Developments /Deployments -
US military if facing potentially devastating reliance on Chinese made batteries for its equipment.

biden administration forced to admit that over 300 Americans are still trapped in Afghanistan - exposed for lying on the number of citizens stranded in the country.
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China -
The reports that China launched two major hypersonic warhead tests has shaken the intel/military in the US. First is that they though China didn’t have the technology but the second is the nature of the delivery. This delivery method is called Fractional Orbital Bombardment System which sends missiles through a partial orbit around the earth to strike targets from an unexpected direction. The Soviet Union investigated it during the cold war, but with the arrival of maneuverable hypersonic warheads China seems to be taking a second look at the method. Some think this will produce an essentially undetectable first strike capability but they are only partially correct. US satellites would detect the thermal signature of the launch, but the suborbital track of the warheads would be essentially untraceable/detectable.

Last week, China and Russian naval vessels conducted naval exercises that also included passage through Japanese claimed waters.

See India/China

China continues to threaten Taiwan. “The CPC’s warning against secessionism is not just talking the talk, and whether the final solution of Taiwan question will be peaceful or not, the secessionists will be judged, condemned and punished,” the CCP’s mouthpiece Global Times tweeted.

China’s Evergrande crisis is spreading to the rest of the property sector, with numerous companies defaulting. Fantasia, Sinic and China Properties Group are among the other developers to have failed to meet payments. This “Lehman” moment hangs like a sword of Damocles over the fundamentals of the country.

OBSERVATIONS - China is having to keep more and more balls in the air
Taiwan
Gross electrical power shortages - rolling blackouts continue
More crop losses
Competition with the US
India standoff
Aggression in the S China sea.
Other wuhan woes.

If China mishandles these, the dominos may well start falling and I would think the risk of a major war (to unify the country and deflect public ire) would increase.
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India/China -
Tensions are on the rise. According to unverified reports, troops from both sides have been briefly detained by the other, as military positions are fortified and talks to deescalate the situation seem at an impasse. Additionally, India has moved advanced ADA into the region, designed optionally against drones but also capable of engaging jets.
OBSERVATION - Not sure China can fight two wars at once (Taiwan being the second), but some think that China may strike this region first.
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North Korea -
Most significant event was the successful launch of a SLBM. Some claim it was from a sub, but could have been from the test platform.
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Russia -
See China naval exercise
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Europe General -
With the first major cold wave of the season - europe is scrambling to get enough electricity to keep their countries from freezing.
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Middle East General -
A coup is under way in Sudan, where the military has dissolved civilian rule, arrested political leaders and declared a state of emergency. Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok is among those reported to have been detained and put under house arrest, along with members of his cabinet and other civilian leaders. They are part of a transitional government designed to steer Sudan towards democracy after the rule of former president, Omar al-Bashir.
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Israel -
Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs acknowledges the reported Israeli strikes in the Quneitra area last night, according to the state-run SANA broadcaster. Attack was reportedly launched from Israeli Apache helicopters.

Talks between Israel and Russia are reportly indicating that Russia is tacitly permitting continued Israeli airstrikes in Syria, primary against Iranian/Hezebollah targets. Russia has long warned Israel to keep its warplanes away from Russian bases, and that’s likely still part of the understanding.
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Syria -
See Israel attack
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Black Swans -
Many Israeli watchers tend to note that bad things have happened whenever the US has done anything unseemly towards Israel - especially if it regards splitting Jerusalem. New this week that the US is looking to reopen a palestinian consulate in east Jerusalem (closed by Trump) instead in Ramallah where the PA has its govt is one such action. I won’t say this weekend’s record setting storm in Kaliforna is that response, but something to keep one’s eyes open for in the coming weeks.


648 posted on 10/25/2021 9:48:38 AM PDT by Godzilla (Never give up, never surrender . . . . . .)
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To: Godzilla

Thanks, much.

Good to see you, back.


649 posted on 10/25/2021 10:06:59 AM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 )
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Wuhan virus -
MY COMMENTARY - A rant for the start of the day.
Government coercion continues to increase. In Washington State, Inslee is increasing his tyrannical edicts to mandate the jab for ALL private business. NY DeBlasio continues to double down on NYC vaxdates. Other progressive/marxist zones continue to maintain dictates and increase restrictions.
Push back continues to build. thousands and thousand are putting their jobs on the line by refusing the jab. Many of them have applied for exemptions - in many instances to be denied out right. What it is going to take on the private sector side is just what Southwest airline pilots and flight crews did- show them what happens if they fire the unvaxxed (SW estimated about 58 million in losses). Going Galt is becoming the necessary route at this stage.

US Navy is setting up a special board to deal with the unvaxxed. They could face loss of veterans benefits and the requirement to pay back the govt for training expenses.
Thousands of New Yorkers marched in NYC in opposition to De Blasios mandate.

A large crowd of protesters marched through downtown Rochester NY Monday in protest of Mayo Clinic’s vaccine mandate, which could put as many as 8,000 people out of work.

For future reference - many of the wuhan tyranny and push backs may start appearing in the globalism / great reset section as these are reflecting the desire of the globalists to install absolute obedience on the masses.

The White House has outlined new rules for foreign travellers to the US, as flight restrictions lift for the first time since the pandemic began in 2020. The plan to reopen the US border next month to foreign flights includes a requirement that almost all foreign visitors be vaccinated against Covid. The US travel ban has grown to include dozens of countries, including the UK, much of Europe, China and India.
NOTE - Illegals get a pass at the border.
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Globalism / Great Reset -
The White House has outlined new rules for foreign travelers to the US, as flight restrictions lift for the first time since the pandemic began in 2020. The plan to reopen the US border next month to foreign flights includes a requirement that almost all foreign visitors be vaccinated against Covid. The US travel ban has grown to include dozens of countries, including the UK, much of Europe, China and India.
OBSERVATION - This announcement hints at a need for a globally recognized proof of vaccination.
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Economy -
Sen. Joe Manchin told reporters at the Capitol on Monday that Democrats could reach a deal on the framework of their spending package this week. Question is will the radical progressive accept the plan.

Duke Energy (DUK) CEO Lynn Good warned that the current energy crisis could continue well into 2022 and even into 2023.

The U.S. Energy Information Agency (EIA) forecasts natural gas costs will increase by 30% this winter for consumers, reaching a 15-year high. The average family heating their home with natural gas should expect to pay around $750 between October and March, with prices highest in the Midwest and Northeast.

Supply chain shortages have become a threat to cancer and COVID-19 patients unable to receive life-saving drugs.
The FDA currently lists 109 drugs in short supply nationally.
Three of the top five medications shortages are drugs used for chemotherapy, heart conditions and antibiotics.
One of the scarce drugs is the anti-inflammatory tocilizumab, used by both cancer and COVID-19 patients. The scarcity has forced physicians to ration drugs. Dr. Patrick Jackson, an infectious-disease physician gives tocilizumab to chemotherapy patients while denying COVID patients because there simply isn’t enough to go around. Many other key drugs are in short supply across the country .
https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/drugshortages/default.cfm

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Invasion of Illegals -
FEMA rejects appeal over denial of request of federal emergency declaration for border crisis in Texas. This rejection denies Texas financial reimbursement from the federal government for the millions of dollars the state is spending to combat the Biden border crisis. The agency will not reconsider its original denial of issuing a federal emergency declaration.

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Biden watch -
A recent speech biden quipped - “ Time is money. As one computer said, if you’re on the train and they say portal bridge you know you better make other plans”
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CW2/Domestic violence -
Increasing pressure on mandate tyranny and push back.

Largely flying under the radar, the BLM/Antifa left continues to plan and prepare for armed combat. Observers note that the left has been recruiting numerous veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan involved in training armed socialist and anarchist groups as well as funds coming in facilitating purchase of AR-15 style rifles and ballistic armor.
Largely the butt of jokes, there is a growing cadre of leftists that are preparing to go kinetic.

BLM/Anitifa activity continues at low levels across the country. On the flip side, in blue cities strongly influenced / controlled by BLM/Antifa presence, violent crime continues to rise.
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Domestic Terror -
The flood of illegals and spread of poorly to unscreened Afghans into the country raises concerns not only about increasing crime, but terror attacks.
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Cyber Warfare -
According to top Microsoft security officer Tom Burt, Russia is engaging in an effort aimed at retrieving data stored in the cloud. Microsoft said it recently notified more than 600 organizations that they had been the target of about 23,000 attempts to enter their systems.
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China -
Evergrande made a payment on 83 million dollars of interest with one day to go before it would have been declared bankrupt. It has to come up with another $47.5 million by this Friday or again, risk default.
OBSERVATION - been mentioning this situation a lot. It could cause severe economic chaos in China as well as other global investors/economy.
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Russia -
Russia announced Monday it would soon launch a “humanitarian operation” in Afghanistan, funding efforts to benefit the “Afghan people.” The announcement notably omitted to specify if the humanitarian aid would go to the Taliban, the de facto government of the country.
OBSERVATION - There is a growing competition between Russia and China to gain the favor of the Taliban in order to control this strategic region. Right now China has a slight advantage as the memory of Russian (Soviet) rule hasn’t faded away enough.

Russia reported its highest single-day COVID-19 case tally since the start of the pandemic on Monday resulting in some regions imposing a workplace shutdown to combat a surge in infections and deaths.
OBSERVATION - Russia’s economy pre-wuhan was in a world of hurt, continued impacts have further hampered restoration. This even though Russia has gained a lot of cash from the European energy crisis.
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Israel -
Iran has begun deploying advanced anti-aircraft missile batteries to the region, including in Syria where Israeli jets routinely carry out airstrikes, in an attempt to challenge Israel Air Force jets. Iranian/syrian attempts to mitigate/stop Israeli airstrikes have caused numerous changes in tactics by both sides. Currently Israel maintains the technological and tactical advantage.
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Iran -
IAEA reports that Iran is expanding its enrichment of uranium beyond the highly enriched threshold of 20% purity at a Natanz plant where it is already enriching to 60%.

See Israel about ADA deployments
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Syria -
Low tempo of action the past several days.
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Turkey -
Turkey and its Western allies climbed down from a full-blown diplomatic crisis on Monday after foreign embassies said that they abide by diplomatic conventions on non-interference, averting a threatened expulsion of 10 ambassadors. Crisis was created when embassy’s called on authorities last week to free Osman Kavala, a philanthropist detained for four years on charges of financing protests and involvement in an attempted coup.
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Venezuela -
The economy has regressed to the use of gold to buy goods and services . In other parts of the country the dollar has become the de facto choice. However gold has started a new rush and it is a very violent affair with gangs controlling and trying to control mining as well as claim jumping violence.
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650 posted on 10/26/2021 9:22:44 AM PDT by Godzilla (Never give up, never surrender . . . . . .)
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To: Godzilla

“Going Galt is becoming the necessary route at this stage.”

*****

We need to start a new thing: Everybody who can, take the month of December off.

Do it for Christmas, spend time with family. We can get rid of Christmas presents, too. Buy the kids toys for Thanksgiving instead.


651 posted on 10/26/2021 10:24:36 AM PDT by BusterDog
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To: BusterDog

There are different groups out there trying to set up shorter term ‘Galts’, See which ones are applicable to your area.


652 posted on 10/26/2021 2:16:56 PM PDT by Godzilla (Never give up, never surrender . . . . . .)
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Wuhan virus -
An FDA panel on Tuesday approved the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5-11 by a vote of 17-0, with one abstention.
OBSERVATION - Speaking to rthe choir but this age group is at virtually no risk to wuhan.

Apparently, the delta plus variant for the SARS-CoV-2 virus that hasn’t been isolated, verified, or purified is now in Massachusetts. The mainstream media and ruling class need you to desperately believe that this time, this variant is more transmissible than all the other ones.
Known as AY.4.2, the so-called “delta plus” variant is believed to be even more contagious than the highly transmissible delta variant. One expert said it could be 10% to 15% more contagious than delta. So far, the mutation has been detected in Massachusetts and some other U.S. states, according to Outbreak.info.

Swedish health officials have now decided that a moratorium on giving the Moderna vaccine to anyone under 31 will be extended indefinitely, the U.K. Daily Mail reported. The pause on the Moderna shots had been scheduled to end on Dec. 1.
Finland, Iceland and Denmark have taken similar steps. Norway is encouraging men under 30 not to get the Moderna shot, but is not mandating it.
OBSERVATION - These countries are leading the way in responding to the documented hazards of the jab.

Word coming from the CDC is of a third shot beyond the booster.

The Biden administration announced new travel requirements for international visitors on Monday. The new rules replace those put in place in January 2020 as protection from the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. The new rules will require most travelers to America to be vaccinated against COVID-19. The U.S. will accept any FDA-approved vaccine for regular or emergency use or approved by the World Health Organization.
Quarantine officers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will spot-check passengers who arrive in the U.S. for compliance, according to an administration official. Airlines that don’t enforce the requirements could be subject to penalties of up to nearly $35,000 per violation.
OBSERVATION - “Quarantine officers” ?

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Globalism / Great Reset -

Noam Chomsky In a recent interview - asked for his opinion on vaccine mandates, suggested that while refusing vaccination is ultimately an extension of one’s free will, such a decision should also entail insistence that the unvaccinated isolate themselves from society.
“If people decide ‘I am willing to be a danger to the community by refusing a vaccine,’ they should then say ‘Well, I also have the decency to isolate myself,’” Chomsky states in the clip. He goes on to say, “If it really reaches the point where they are severely endangering people, then, of course, you have to do something about them.”
OBSTEVATION - he further went on to imply that the unvaxxed should be on their own, with no assistance in getting food etc. Displays core intent of globalist/communists.

Contra Costa County has suspended the permit of the In-N-Out in Pleasant Hill after more citations for not following the vaccine mandate. This is the second In-N-Out to be closed for not screening customers for a vaccine card.
OBSREVATION - this is on the radar across the spectrum if citizens don’t start pushing back
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Economy -

Federal Reserve officials are poised to start slowing their aggressive bond-buying program in November, the first step that policymakers will take in dialing back pandemic-era support for the U.S. economy.
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell and other top policymakers have indicated over the course of the past month that they are preparing to start reducing the $120 billion in monthly purchases, a policy known as “quantitative easing” that’s designed to keep credit cheap. Reducing bond purchases will be the first step the Fed takes in returning to a more normal policy setting.
“I do think it’s time to taper, and I don’t think it’s time to raise rates,” Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said last week during a virtual discussion. (Fox)
OBSERVATION - If this slowing is not handled correctly, it will kick the legs out of the markets that have grown addicted to this money.

The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index, covering all nine U.S. census divisions, reported a 19.8% annual gain in August, remaining the same as the previous month. The 10- City Composite annual increase came in at 18.6%, down from 19.2% in the previous month.
OBSERVATION - Speaking to the choir - the housing bubble is reaching a hazardous zone. Prices sky high due and with the potential of increasing rates from the fed could crash all.

The New York Times published a story Monday explaining how nearly every aspect of Americans’ Turkey Day feasts will be more expensive this year from spices and ingredients to the aluminum pan that holds the bird and fixings. It’s not just a few extra cents here and there, it’s everything. And, as The New York Times concludes, “Thanksgiving 2021 could be the most expensive meal in the history of the holiday.” Turkey, is setting price records with the price per pound is expected to rise above $1.36, surpassing the record benchmark price set back in 2015.

Businesses and unions starting beg the biden administration to delay the deadline for the mandated jabs to some time after Christmas. They are facing the reality that a substantial number of workers will be forced out of their jobs, exacerbating already chronic employee shortages that will impact right during the holidays.
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Invasion of Illegals -

Border patrol reports 192,000 border encounters in Sept., says 26% immigrants making multiple tries. This compares to 57,674 the same time last year.
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Biden watch -
Scheduled to be at the G20 and likely trying to swing public view away from domestic chaos.
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POLITICAL FRONT -
With the flames of the dumpster fire ignited by biden et al policies - economic turmoil, energy crisis, wuhan scandal, invasion of illegals on the southern border, Afghanistan and other foreign policy fiascos - VP Harris touts the latest and greatest from the administration.
“President Biden and I released the first ever National Gender Strategy,” Vice President Kamala Harris announced via Twitter. “This is our vision for the future of our nation—one that is bold in strategy and one that this moment calls for.”

If rumors are true, Sen. Joe Manchin has been a one man wrecking crew against the 3.5 trillion an “infrastructure” bill Latest is that the IRS monitoring of bank accounts is dead. Pelosi et al are scrambling to try to put forth some kind of bill to save face with progressives and moderates. Not a guaranteed thing at this stage.
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Domestic Terror -

(CNSNews.com) – The U.S. intelligence community assesses that the Afghanistan-based terrorist groups ISIS-K and al-Qaeda intend to attack the United States, and could have the ability to do so in as little as six months in the former case, and within “a year or two” in the latter, a senior Pentagon official told lawmakers on Tuesday.
“I think the intelligence community currently assesses that both ISIS-K and al-Qaeda have the intent to conduct external operations, including against the United States, but neither currently has the capability to do so,” undersecretary of defense for policy Colin Kahl told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
“We could see ISIS-K generate that capability in somewhere between six or twelve months. I think the current assessment by the intelligence community is that al-Qaeda would take a year or two to reconstitute that capability.”

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Strategic Developments /Deployments -
The Navy’s newest super carrier - the USS Ford - is reportedly being prepared for its first real deployment some time next year.
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China -
China has launched a new satellite that analysts say can be used as a weapon capable of grabbing and crushing American satellites.
The Shijian-21 satellite was sent aloft on Sunday atop a rocket booster from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, ostensibly for cleaning “space debris,” according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, Beijing’s state-run space company. The company stated that the satellite is “tasked with demonstrating technologies to alleviate and neutralize space debris.”

OBSERVATION - China may consider US satellites to be “space debris”, just saying

(FO) A Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said the agency must impose restrictions on Chinese drone maker DJI Technology because of national security risks. Commissioner Brendan Carr described the company as “Huawei on wings” and called for the FCC to prohibit the purchase of DJI products with federal funds. “They are collecting vast troves of sensitive data on Americans and U.S. critical infrastructure, including high-risk images, facial recognition technology, and remote sensors that can measure an individual’s body temperature and heart rate,” Carr said. The Department of Homeland Security and Defense Department separately affirmed the Chinese drone maker is “providing sensitive U.S. infrastructure & law enforcement data to Beijing.”

Skynews is announcing that China has placed as many as 4 million under a 21 day lockdown, including portions of Beijing. Monitoring.
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Ukraine -
Ukraine has used a TB2 drone against separatist (Russian) artillery position which was in violation of Minsk agreements withdrawal range. Artillery appears to be D-30 towed howitzers.
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Iran -
Iranian state television, quoting an official from Iran’s SNSC, says a cyberattack has targeted gas stations across the Islamic Republic. A group calling itself “predatory sparrow” has claimed today’s nationwide cyber-attack on Iran’s petrol stations, also claiming responsibility for a similar attack on Iran’s railway network earlier this year. The claims are unconfirmed and must be treated with caution.
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Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan -
The Pentagon stated Tuesday that nearly 450 American citizens are still in Afghanistan following August’s U.S. military withdrawal, more than the Biden administration has previously claimed.

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653 posted on 10/27/2021 8:25:43 AM PDT by Godzilla (Never give up, never surrender . . . . . .)
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Wuhan virus -
Dr. Eric Rubin, who sits on the Food and Drug Administration independent advisory panel, stated on the FDA’s decision “The data show that the vaccine works and is pretty safe … and yet we’re worried about a side effect that we can’t measure yet, but it’s probably real,” Rubin said. “It really is going to be a question of what the prevailing conditions are,” Rubin said. “But we’re never going to learn about how safe this vaccine is unless we start giving it. That’s just the way it goes.”
OBSERVATION - So in essence the vaccine should be approved in spite of the unknown, for administering the vaccine is the only way possible to learn of potential side effects. Que Fauci’s beagles.
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Globalism / Great Reset -
Over the past few weeks, climate alarmism in the news and from globalist interests has reached a high water mark. In part this is due to the upcoming G20 summit.
OBSERVATION - The WEF has tied climate change activism to its global reset agenda. I’ve noted in the past many of these ‘elites’ are also calling for wuhan - like shutdowns to start to achieve carbon reductions. EU and Australia appear to be backing off the latest “net zero” plans of complete switch to ‘green ‘ sources. The current global energy crisis and skyrocketing demand for coal may have caused concern by the globalists that their agenda is failing.

The Chicago City Council is expected to pass a measure this week that would result in one of the largest guaranteed basic income measures in the country, amid calls from black lawmakers to put the money toward the city’s violent crime problem.
OBSERVATION - A universal wage is a key plank of the great reset to provide economic equality. It hasn’t worked where it has been tried on smaller scales, but communists rhetorically reply it hasn’t been done right.
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Economy -
Blaming rising COVID-19 cases and persistent supply shortages, the U.S. economy slowed to a 2% annual rate in the July-September period, the weakest quarterly growth since the recovery from the pandemic recession began last year. The government’s estimate Thursday of a 2% annual increase in GDP last quarter was even lower than economists’ forecasts for a significant slowdown in growth.

New orders for durable goods in the U.S. slipped 0.4% in September, breaking a four-month streak of growth, according to new U.S. Census Bureau data. In a related, MarketWatch reports U.S. trade deficit in goods soars 9.2% in September to record high of $96.3 billion.

What ever the democrats pass, it will hurt the economy As for now though, the circular firing squad continues to shoot, inspite of warm fuzzies from pelosi.
This has caused Biden to delay his departure to Rome, Italy today by several hours so he can meet with Democrat lawmakers. He was hoping to go to the climate conference in Scotland with legislative victories to hold up as proof of the U.S. commitment to climate change. The green new deal is included in the massive Build Back Better plan.
BREAKING - biden is saving all is well and that his new bill is the next best thing since sliced bread

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Invasion of Illegals -
The mob migrating to the southern border continues to grow and the administration is doing nothing to prevent it or deal with it.
OBSERVATION - This applies to other areas of seemingly biden incompetence - it is not incompetence but deliberate actions to destabilize the country to pave the way for a dictatorial government ‘savior’.
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Biden watch -
RUMINT - Jill Biden has been asking if there’s a process to remove a sitting Vice President.
OBSERVATION - Harris is a major barrier for democrats Biden’s mental facilities are failing, and at some stage he will step down on his own or forced down. Harris is a boat anchor and talk is pushing biden to run for re-election in 2024. There is no easy out for democrats on this one.
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CANCEL CULTURE FRONT -
Now Wuhan cancel culture. Westwood One radio host Dan Bongino is off the air this week after blasting the parent company for its vaccine mandate. Cumulus Media, which owns the radio network, told employees that they were required to be vaccinated by the end of September so that they could return to the office Oct. 11
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China -

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen confirmed to CNN during an interview on Wednesday that U.S. troops were on the ground in Taiwan helping the island prepare for a possible military invasion from communist China, warning that the threat from China is “increasing every day.”
Defense Department records show the number of U.S. troops in Taiwan increased from 10 in 2018 to 32 earlier this year. The State Department asked for more Marines to safeguard the unofficial U.S. Embassy in Taipei. Any U.S. military presence in Taiwan, big or small, is perceived by Beijing as an act of aggression, state media says.

Chinas energy crisis has spread from electrical production to vehicle fuel. Fuel stations in many parts of China have begun rationing diesel amid rising costs and falling supplies. Some truck drivers are having to wait entire days to refuel, according to posts on social media site Weibo. When they get to the pumps, in some places they can only purchase 10% of the tank’s capacity.
“The current diesel shortages seem to be affecting long distance transportation businesses which could include goods meant for markets outside of China,” said Mattie Bekink, China Director at the Economist Intelligence Unit.
“Depending on the duration and intensity of this crunch, we could well see this contribute to the global supply chain challenges.”

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North Korea -

North Koreans were told that they shouldn’t expect the China border to open and normal trade to resume until at least 2025. In the meantime, they’re just going to need to take one for the team and “tighten their belts.” (NY Post). This is largely a self-inflicted wound because Kim Jong-un closed the border with China (who traditionally supplies most of their imported food) at the beginning of the pandemic.
OBSERVATION - This is a dangerous approach as the NK population has been largely near famine conditions for nearly two years now.

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Russia -

Shops, restaurants and schools have shut in Moscow in a partial lockdown, as Russia battles record Covid deaths and infections.
Only essential shops like supermarkets and pharmacies are allowed to open in the capital, while food outlets are only providing takeaways.
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Ukraine -
Separatists have violated the ceasefire 9 times in the Donbas combat zone today already (Wednesday), twice with weapons prohibited by the Minsk agreements. One Ukrainian serviceman was mortally wounded in the shelling.
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Europe General -
Poland is discussing enlarging its military from 110,000 to 250,000 in response to an increasingly aggressive Russian militarized policy towards formerly soviet states.
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Iran -

Iran has agreed to resume talks by the end of next month with world powers over its nuclear deal, the country’s deputy foreign minister said Wednesday, after talks with EU mediators in Brussels.
OBSERVATION - Expect more delays by Iran and obfuscation for them to gain more ground on their nuclear program.

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Syria -
Turkey deployed hundreds more troops in northern Syria overnight in preparation for a long-suspended offensive against American-backed Kurdish forces, according to two officials, a move that could help President Recep Tayyip Erdogan shore up flagging domestic support and put pressure on the U.S. and Russia to rein in the Kurdish troops.
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Turkey -
See Syria above
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Life intervenes, sorry for the late post. Sunday and Monday will be delayed as well.
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Wuhan virus -
In what appears to ME to be an effort to delegitimize the argument “Why wouldn’t you also get at least one dose of the vaccine if you’ve already had COVID?” CDC has published a ‘study’ saying natural immunity is less effective than the jab. Now this flies in the face of an Israeli study that says natural immunity is multiple times more effective. CDC says at best natural immunity declines just as fast as a jab (now documented only effective for a few months). CDC claims “Unvaccinated people who had survived a previous COVID-19 infection were more than five times more likely to be reinfected with the virus compared to those who were fully vaccinated with the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines”

NYC is becoming the focal point of the impacts of mandated jabs.
- NYPD is already short handed and faces loss of hundreds who refuse the jab, with resultant crime increase
- NYFD if facing 20 % decrease in manpower due to firings of non jabbed firemen
- Ambulance reductions
- Garbage is beginning to pile up as sanitation workers are leaving due to the mandate, this on top of understaffing.
- Hospitals facing the firing of hundreds of key medical workers (doctors, nurses, technicians, etc)
Time will tell how quickly the city collapses.

Even in parts of the country where COVID-19 isn’t overwhelming the health system, patients are showing up to the ER sicker than they were before the pandemic, their diseases more advanced and in need of more complicated care.
Months of treatment delays have exacerbated chronic conditions and worsened symptoms. Doctors and nurses say the severity of illness ranges widely and includes abdominal pain, respiratory problems, blood clots, heart conditions and suicide attempts, among others.

OBSERVATION - The. Consequences of the Wuhan shutdown for other diseases was warned about shortly after it began. Now the chickens are coming home big time

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its COVID vaccine guidance for immunocompromised people, making them eligible to receive a dose of a COVID vaccine at least six months after completing their primary vaccination as well as a booster dose.

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Globalism / Great Reset -

COVID-19 booster shots will be mandatory for workers in Australia’s state of Victoria. During a press conference on Monday morning, Victorian Premier Dan Andrews announced his government’s strategy to implement booster shots was an essential part of Victoria’s “vaccinated economy.” “Two doses, or you’re not getting in [to the state]. Two doses, or you’re not going to work. This is absolutely critical,” he continued.
The premier then revealed that boosters would be “just as important as the first and second” shots.

For the next two weeks the United Nations climate change conference is being hosted in Glasgow, Scotland.

OBSERVATION - Watch for squirming as countries have thrown carbon limitations aside in their efforts to keep the lights on and homes warm.

During a mid-week press briefing, a reporter laid out a scenario from the trucking industry that also applies to many other sectors of the workforce. American Trucking Association wants the Biden White House to delay the requirement it’s pushing among private companies that workers get the COVID-19 shot to remain employed because the association warns that some drivers would quit before they’d get the vaccine. “Well, I think it’s important for people to understand that the first step here is not firing or quitting,” Psaki replied. “The first step is counseling, and sometimes there are alternative options as well.”

OPINION - By “counseling,” they mean that somebody will confront you until you change your mind to align with their objectives.

The World Health Organization (WHO) and other aid groups on Thursday appealed to leaders of the world’s 20 biggest economies to fund a $23.4 billion plan to bring COVID-19 vaccines, tests and drugs to poorer countries in the next 12 months.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the Group of 20, whose leaders are meeting in Rome at the weekend, had the political and financial power needed to end the pandemic by funding the plan, which he said could save five million lives.
“The request is for $23.4 billion. That’s a fair amount of money, but if you compare with the damage also done to global economy by the pandemic it is not really that much,” Carl Bildt, WHO Special Envoy to the ACT-Accelerator, told reporters earlier.

On Thursday, a Washington, DC district court judge issued a temporary restraining order that prevents Americans from being let go from their jobs following a lawsuit against the Biden Administration over COVID-19 vaccine religious exemptions.

OBSERVATION - the ‘religious exemption’ is only lip service as it is being routinely rejected by govt agencies, military and civilian businesses. There can be no religion except for the branch Covidians.

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Economy -
OVERALL OBSERVATION - The US economy is in a tailspin and everything biden has ‘done’ is only making it worse.

Democratic leaders scrambled to shore up support for President Joe Biden’s $1.75 trillion reconciliation framework among party factions as they sought to finally vote Thursday on a bipartisan infrastructure package before the president lands in Europe.
Progressive lawmakers said they wanted to see the actual text and also wanted assurances it could pass the 50-50 Senate, with some even calling for a Senate vote first on the final text, which may not be ready for days.

OBSERVATION - after the kumbyya moment yesterday, this new bill has hit rocks early with any bill delayed now to next week.

Fifty-seven percent of Americans agree the U.S. economy has gotten worse under President Joe Biden, according to a Rasmussen poll released Friday.

Two weeks ago, Joe Biden announced with fanfare that he was taking steps towards having our main port facilities operate around the clock to alleviate the supply chain snags that are causing so much disruption. Since then, according to the Washington Post, the backlog of ships anchored off the coast of Southern California has increased. For example, as of Monday, 73 container ships were anchored in San Pedro Bay. That exceeded the number present when Biden announced his initiative.

OBSERVATION - Does this surprise anyone?

(Bloomberg) — Almost every lump of coal that U.S. miners will dig out of the ground next year has already been sold, as surging natural gas prices prompt utilities to burn more of the dirtiest fossil fuel. The average price for Powder River Basin output of $16 a ton. That’s well above the $13.25 spot price last week, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence. Meanwhile, Oil posted a monthly gain of 11% on signs that consumption is outpacing supply and draining stockpiles.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen predicted on Friday that a nearly $2 trillion White House spending initiative will help lower rising inflation amid concerns that another burst of government spending will act as an accelerant to already rapidly rising consumer prices.
Speaking from Rome where she is attending the G-20 conference of global leaders, Yellen downplayed concerns that two sprawling spending packages will contribute to a recent bout of inflation that has caused wild swings in consumer prices.

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Invasion of Illegals -

According to The Wall Street Journal, the Biden administration “is in talks to offer immigrant families that were separated during the Trump administration around $450,000 a person in compensation” to the tune of total payments totaling “$1 billion or more.”

OBSERVATION - Words escape me on this plan. Pushback has been immense
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Biden watch -

President Joe Biden met with French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday, admitting he was unaware he upset the French while making a submarine deal with Australia in September.
“I was under the impression that France had been informed long before … honest to God I did not know you had not been,” Biden admitted to Macron during the meeting which took place in Rome ahead of the G-20 summit.
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Domestic Terror -
FOX5 has learned that threats to multiple malls and shopping centers could be linked to an activated ISIS cell.
We’re told, the cell could carry out an attack within the next 72 hours. Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis held a press conference saying his department is taking this very seriously. “Because we received information with a public safety value added to it, it’s our responsibility to have a greater presence, to be more aware and ask the community to have their eyes and ears peeled for more suspicious activity,” said Davis

OBSERVATION - One interviewed shoppers says it all “”It doesn’t surprise me with the way things have gotten in this country.””
Very possibly just a psyops campaign, but ISIS and other islamic terror groups know our pants are down and who knows who managed to sneak across the border over the past 9 months.
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North Korea -

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has recently lost about 20 kilograms (44 pounds), but remains healthy and is trying to boost public loyalty to him in the face of worsening economic problems, South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers Thursday.

OBSERVATION - Following the mysterious health issues earlier this year, Kim’s weight loss was noticed early. His obesity was believed to be contributing to a suspected heart condition. During his disappearance something happened to finally force weight loss.
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Japan -
Country is looking to qujckly enhance its military readiness and capabilities in the face of Chinese aggression. Some observers suggest that worst case, Japan could have a nuclear weapon in less than 12 months.
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Russia -
Russian ministry of Economic Development confirmed that export of thermal coal to Ukraine will be suspended starting 1st November due to “increased consumption inside Russia”

See Ukraine
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Ukraine -
Reports coming in that Russia is building up military forces near its borders with Ukraine in response to the Ukranian drone attack on separatist (Russian) artillery. Among many reports included trains bearing T-72B1 with reactive armor and later BMP-2s.

OBSERVATION - Could be saber rattling again. The artillery unit was clearly within a forbidden zone supporting separatists. Russia left a lot of equipment behind in bases in the region that could also be deployed, besides this equipment being shipped in.
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Israel -

The US State Department has confirmed it cannot open a consulate for the Palestinians in Jerusalem without Israel’s authorization.

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Iran -

In October 2021 Iran announced they had tested two new air defense systems; Joshan and Khatam. Also tested was a new long range (500 kilometers) Quds radar that can spot targets as high as 28,000 meters (90,000 feet). The two air defense systems were apparently capable of detecting and destroying low altitude intruders, like cruise missiles of manned fighters. No details were given on the Khatam system but it was revealed that Joshan was an update of the 2019 Khordad 15 system that included a passive (no transmissions) radar that could detect low level intruders, like an Israeli F-15s. These claims could not be verified because the tests, using live fire against target drones, were held in central Iran, far away from air space where hostile (American) SIGINT (Electronic Signals Intelligence) aircraft (manned or UAVs) might be operating.

SoS Blinken announced “The U.S. is sanctioning six Iranian targets linked to the regime’s Unmanned Aerial Vehicle activities. We are firmly committed to countering all of Iran’s threatening activity and those who support it.”
OBSERVATION - Some are scratching their heads at this action, given Iran’s announcement that they will be returning to the negotiation table in November.
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Lebanon -
See Saudi Arabis below
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Saudi Arabia -
Saudi Arabia ordered the Lebanese ambassador to the kingdom to leave within 48 hours on Friday and banned all Lebanese imports in response to critical comments made by a Lebanese minister about the Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen. Saudi Arabia also recalled its ambassador to Lebanon for consultations, the Saudi state news agency SPA reported.
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Syria -
Multiple explosions have been reported around Damascus.
- Al-Mezzah airbase
- Al-Dimas
- Qudssaya

OBSERVATION - This is an unusual daytime strike and some initial reports are that surface to surface missiles were involved, not air to ground (this is the Sabbath in Israel). Likely targeting Hezebollah storage facilities
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Turkey -

The Biden administration just inked a defense cooperation agreement with one NATO ally—Greece—that is trying to bolster its military deterrence against another NATO ally: Turkey.
The renewed and expanded defense protocol the United States and Greece signed on Oct. 14 amends their previously established Mutual Defense Cooperation Agreement. Both Washington and Athens are concerned by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s increasingly belligerent actions against Greece and other NATO countries like France

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Belarus -
Poland’s parliament has voted to build a controversial wall on its border with Belarus to block an influx of migrants who are illegally entering Poland.
Thousands of people - mostly from the Middle East and Asia - have tried to cross Poland’s border in recent months.
The EU accuses Belarus’s government of driving the rise, in retaliation for sanctions against its regime.

OBSERVATION - Russian ally Belarus is increasingly being used to funnel islamists into Europe to destabilize the region.
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Libya -

(Reuters) - Libya’s state oil company said on Tuesday that the 120,000 barrels per day (bpd) Zawiya oil refinery complex in a western city of capital Tripoli was severely damaged as a result of skirmishes late on Monday.

OBSERVATION - The ceasefire may be crumbling. Response to this violence will indicate if it will continue to hold.
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Wuhan virus -

As many have quipped, we’ve gone from 14 days to flatten the curve to get the jab or lose your job. . .

Dozens of NYFD stations were closed due to lack of firefighters as a result on DeBlasio’s mandate. This week trash is very noticeably piling up as mandate induced sanitation worker shortages kick in .

The global death toll from COVID-19 (as tallied by Johns Hopkins University) has reportedly topped 5 million on Monday.
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Globalism / Great Reset -

Delegates to the G20/COP26 spent their time approving the proposed 15% GLOBAL tax and trying to come up with ways to obtain a carbon net zero in the face in failure of ‘green power’ to support civilization and the resultant spike in oil/coal/natural gas demand. The COP26 begins in earnest today. Expect abundant chicken little pronouncements on the dire straits the world is in.
China and Russia - who are among the world’s biggest polluters - didn’t show up.

OBSERVATION - Watching to see how seriously the idea of a wuhan ‘lockdown’ to stop global warming catches on. GW is one of the key planks the WEF is looking at to leverage its global ‘reset’.

Welcome to the new normal - Residents in the Australian state of Victoria face prison time or massive fines of up to AU$90,000 (US$67,570) if they are deemed to have failed to comply with government-mandated health orders and pose a risk to the health of others, according to a measure rushed before the state’s Parliament on Oct. 26.
Associated news the Brisbane Times reported– “SPER (State Penalties Enforcement Register) was undertaking “active enforcement” on another 18.4 per cent of fines, worth about $1 million, which a spokesman said “may include garnishing bank accounts or wages, registering charges over property, or suspending driver licenses”. The remaining 25.2 per cent of fines were either under investigation or still open to payment without further action being taken.
Brisbane Times – “SPER was undertaking “active enforcement” on another 18.4 per cent of fines, worth about $1 million, which a spokesman said “may include garnishing bank accounts or wages, registering charges over property, or suspending driver licences”. The remaining 25.2 per cent of fines were either under investigation or still open to payment without further action being taken.
Queenslanders who received fines for breaking Covid-19 rules risk having their homes seized and bank accounts frozen in a government crackdown to collect $5.2 million in repayments.

OBSERVATION - Mad Max is in Oz. Expect the comply or else factor to be a couple orders of magnitude greater under the gracious rule of the Globalists.

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Economy -
Over the weekend American airlines had to cancel thousands of flights. They said it was due largely to weather and “staffing shortages”. Again one must wonder if this was an under the radar “sick out” by flight crews?

The cure is worse than the disease, say critics of an emergency plan of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach backed by the Biden administration. If you think port congestion is bad now, just wait for what comes next.
On Wednesday, two days after the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach announced a surprise emergency fee for containers lingering too long at terminals, the National Shippers Advisory Council (NSAC) held its inaugural meeting.
Starting Nov. 1, the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach will charge $100 per container for boxes dwelling nine or more days that move by truck and those dwelling six days or more that move by rail.
The fee will increase $100 every day. It will be charged to carriers, which will then almost certainly pass the fee along to shippers, meaning it will be the equivalent of an escalating demurrage charge. “As far as the ‘hyper-demurrage’ announced in Los Angeles/Long Beach, I think it will be catastrophic,” said Rich Roche, vice president of international transportation at Mohawk Global Logistics, during the NSAC meeting. Daniel Miller, global container lead at Cargill, dubbed California’s emergency charges “crazy fees” and said, “We know this is all going to come back to us. I had a couple of calls with carriers yesterday and they’ve already admitted that yes, they are going to come back to us.”

OBSERVATION - A post wuhan driver shortage coupled with obtuse Kalifornian regulations that have essentially killed off independent truckers and restricted available trucks is spelling disaster for biden’s 24/7 ‘agreement’ to unload faster. One result is shippers looking to off port locations to store containers pending trucks to get them for delivery. This all points to even higher shipping costs and more inflation.

The Biden administration is considering a release of oil from the strategic stockpile in order to combat higher oil prices. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude topped $84/barrel, and appears to be headed higher. Biden officials blamed OPEC for high prices.
OBSERVATION - This will be like a drop of water trying to cool the fires of hell. Production shutdown due to wuhan has not caught up to demand and the administration’s hostile energy policies haven’t helped matters any.

Add another item to holiday shortages - Christmas trees, with some sources saying some commercially farmed trees were burned by this summer’s fires. Others say drought has reduced he harvest as well.
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Biden watch -
biden said Putin would never use the natural gas stranglehold he has over much of Europe for political purposes.

In the group photo, biden was placed at the far left margin of the group -very physically evident that the US has lost its stance as a world leader.
Rumors continue about biden ‘soiling’ himself while at the Vatican . . . .
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CW2/Domestic violence -
The World Walkout Day kick-off events are scheduled for Wednesday, November 3, for protests against wuhan mandates and passports. (listed here as a ‘front’ of the current cold civil war being played out) Events scheduled in at least 18 cities across the US.

Portland continues to be the epicenter for BLM/Antifa violence as more protests against ICE are planned over the next four days. Unusual in the planning is the request for protestors to avoid come out in ‘black bloc’ apparel.

Elsewhere BLM/Antifa related violence continues to be on a low setting.
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Strategic Developments /Deployments -

US B1 bombers flew over the Persian gulf region as a show of force against Iran.

The Pentagon is warning that existing missile defenses at Guam will not be effective against a “large Chinese missile raid.” The U.S. Pacific Defense Initiative’s “number one underfunded requirement” is a defense system for the western U.S. and Indo-Pacific region. Congress wants to rapidly field a Guam Defense System, allocating an additional $100 million above the Pentagon’s request. The new missile defense system is not expected to be complete until 2025 at the earliest.(FO)
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China -
Some are saying Xi Jinping’s recent absence from the G20 has complicated China’s ambition to position itself as an alternative to U.S. leadership. And it has coincided with, some say contributed to, a sharp deterioration in relations with other nations. He has not left China in 21 months. Internal problems occupying his time.
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Japan -

Recent incursions by Chinese air and naval forces into the territorial waters and airspace of Japan have led the government of Japan to debate the acquisition of land-attack missile systems, capable of reaching mainland China and North Korea. Japan views these missile systems as needed to maintain a balance of military power in the region. This move could also open up avenues for Japan to develop nuclear weapons if they believe the United States won’t check Chinese military power over the disputed Senkaku Islands.(FO)
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Russia -
See Ukraine below
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Ukraine -
Tensions continue to grow as more Russian troops and equipment move towards the Ukranian border. This the result of Ukraine using Turkish drones to attack a ’separatist’ (read russian) artillery battery in a forbidden zone. This will mark the third time Russian backed forces have been hit by successful Turkish drone warfare tactics (first being Syrian and second Armenia). Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov hinted at the graveness when he announced Wednesday that Moscow was carrying out urgent investigations about the purported participation of Turk-made Bayraktar TB2 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that NATO’s support to the Kiev regime was posing a direct threat to Russia’s national security. The Kremlin’s assessment can only be more alarmed on the back of NATO member Turkey being now implicated as one of the war’s protagonists. In all likelihood, Turkish military personnel would be required to assist in operating the drone flights.

OBSERVATION - Searching to see if the Russian build up is approaching that of earlier this year. Remember, in the aftermath of that ‘exercise’ Russia left a lot of equipment prepositioned at key bases (Reforger - like, for you cold warriors), so that brining in additional vehicles/armor would not be a critical and movement of personnel to fall onto ready equipment easier to do with less scrutiny. OPEN SOURCE intel observers have noted deployment, but they seem to not have reached the same levels as earlier this year. At this stage this could be just a strong warning to Ukraine that has been tempered by the documented fact that russian supported forces broke agreements and forward positioned artillery in a no go zone - making them fair game for attack. May also be trying to warn off Turkey from further support. Turkey has mastered the low to mid intensity combat realm with their drone tactics. They decimated syrian forces as well as armenian units by surgical strikes on key units and equipment - russian supplied equipment.
I’m placing this on a YELLOW alert status pending more reports of troop movements and equipment to the border.
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Israel -
IDF launches month-long war readiness mega-exercise to simulate multi-front conflict with focus on northern Israel; army to hold multiple drills including brigade-level maneuvers; regular & reserve forces mobilized plus Navy, Air Force, cyber units. This drill to simulate war with Hezebollah also simulates an anticipated 2000 rocket launches per day.
OBSERVATION - Israel’s recent conflict with Hamas provided a very good, real world shakedown of how Iron Dome and other integrated systems would handle thousands of rockets daily.
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Iran -
Antony Blinken on Sunday wouldn’t rule out U.S. military action if Iranian leaders do not return to the negotiating table next month to resume discussions to prevent them from developing a nuclear weapon.
‘The Iranians have now said that they’re coming back to talks toward the end of November – we’ll see if they actually do, that’s going to be important,’ the Secretary of State chuckled when speaking to CBS Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan.
While Blinken said diplomacy is the preferred path forward, the administration is also exploring ‘other options’.

OBSERVATION - biden tossed out the sanctions imposed on Iran, leaving them with only military options.
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Lebanon -
See Saudi Arabia below
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Saudi Arabia -
The Gulf diplomatic crisis with Lebanon deepened Sunday, with Saudi Arabia saying dealing with Beirut was “pointless,” due to Iran-backed Hezbollah’s dominance, and the UAE pressing its citizens to leave the country. Prince Faisal said Sunday that the problem in Lebanon was “the continuous dominance of Hezbollah over the political system,” and the Lebanese government’s inability to steer Lebanon “out of this tunnel.”
The issue went “beyond a statement or particular position,“ he said, adding that Hezbollah’s role requires “reform and comprehensive revision.”
OBSERVATION - Lebanon is in deep, deep economic do-do and can ill afford to lose supporters. Now they are caught in between a rock and a hard place solidly between the Saudi-Iran power struggle.
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Turkey -
See Ukraine above
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657 posted on 11/01/2021 7:25:46 AM PDT by Godzilla (Never give up, never surrender . . . . . .)
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To: Godzilla

Threat Matrix - thanks all for updates.

Poison Jihad: UK Lawyer Injects Food Items with Blood
There are so many ways to kill, and jihadis try to utilize them all.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4008779/posts

Full circle: https://freerepublic.com/tag/sahnoundaifallah/index


658 posted on 11/01/2021 11:37:41 AM PDT by cyn
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To: null and void; aragorn; Baynative; Beautiful_Gracious_Skies; BusterDog; bgill; bitt; Black Agnes; ..

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Wuhan virus -

A new study lead by a Mayo Clinic doctor suggests that individuals who were injected with the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine are 3.5 times more likely to get Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis, a potentially fatal blood clot in the brain.
According to the study, individuals who were injected with the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 shot are 3.5 times more likely to get a Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis (CVST), a potentially fatal blood clot in the brain, when compared to the pre-pandemic general population.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2785610?guestAccessKey=f6fff3e2-d1bf-4380-955b-4320910dbcaf&utm_source=For_The_Media&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_content=tfl&utm_term=110121

India study on the effectiveness of ivermectin. Key result - Two doses of oral ivermectin (300 μg/kg/dose given 72 hours apart) as chemoprophylaxis among HCWs reduced the risk of COVID-19 infection by 83% in the following month.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8417612/

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Globalism / Great Reset -
COP26 is closing out with mixed ‘results’. America’s climate envoy John Kerry says the COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow is the “last best hope for the world to get its act together”.

Digital Drivers License is currently in the works in Utah and other states. The program will include your driver’s license info and your COVID-19 status. This will be tracked by the government and available to government employees. The program may also include the following information in the future:
** Your health records
** Your financial reports
** Credit scores
** Travel records
** Vehicle registration
** Spending
** Voting
** Sex offender status
** Licenses and Permits you have
** Parking Fines
** Social Credit Scoring
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Economy -

Walkouts have been announced against vaccine-mandating employers for November 3rd (this Wednesday) and Nov. 8 – 11. I noted the Nov 3d event yesterday.
In related, American Airlines claimed weather and staffing-led flight cancellations went into a fourth day, with the top US carrier canceling more flights on Monday to push the total number to nearly 2,300. Remarkably, weather didn’t impact other airlines.
OBSERVATIONS - Most likely driven by staffing ‘shortages’ given the example of SW Airlines last month.

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Invasion of Illegals -

Growing mob still enroute to the border from Mexico.
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Biden watch -

Biden appeared to fall asleep during COP26 opening speeches. When he woke up, he denounced/apologized for the US departing the Paris Accord under Trump. Upset many when he called for more ‘temporary’ oil/coal productions increases. He also said many have ‘seen the Lord’ in regards to climate change.
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CW2/Domestic violence -

Kyle Rittenhouse trial is underway this week. If the lawyer pundits are correct, he has a high probability of being found not guilty. Such a verdict will definitely generate the event that will rally the BLM/Antifa forces into large, violent riots. Ground zero will be Kenosha, but expect same in BLM/Antifa strongholds like Portland, Seattle etc. There is a possibility that rioters will use weapons in some of these riots as justified due to the verdict. Keep monitoring your local area if they were hit by BLM/Antifa rioting in 2020.

wuhan vax resistance - About 9,000 New York City municipal workers will not be paid starting Monday for failing to get immunized with the COVID-19 vaccine. 2,300 firefighters also called in sick Monday.

More defiance - In Wichita, Kansas, nearly half of the roughly 10,000 employees at aircraft companies Textron Inc and Spirit AeroSystems remain unvaccinated against COVID-19, risking their jobs in defiance of a federal mandate, according to a union official. Biden required all contractor employees be fully vaccinated against wuhan by Dec. 8.

OBSERVATION - As these repressive ‘mandates’ continue, and more key personnel leave the system (police, fire, ems, sanitation, medical etc) dangerously undermanned. Criminal and leftists will exploit this and citizens may have to forcefully respond. Civil instability factor will skyrocket.
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POLITICAL FRONT -

Sen Manchin continues to throw wrenches into biden’s two legacy bills - the ‘build america better’ and an omnibus mega spending / stimulus bill. Democrats are in melt down.
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Domestic Terror -

Undocumented Afghani ‘refugees’ in the number something like 12,000. Some consider the ISIS threat on malls to be linked to this.
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Strategic Activity / Deployments

Sixth Fleet flagship USS Mount Whitney (LCC 20), with embarked 6th fleet and
STRIKFORNATO staff, began its northbound transit to the Black Sea to operate with NATO allies & partners in the region.

OBSERVATION - This is occurring as Russia begins more saber rattling against Ukraine.
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China -

The Chinese government has told families to keep daily necessities in stock in case of emergencies, after COVID-19 outbreaks and unusually heavy rains that caused a surge in vegetable prices raised concerns about supply shortages.
The commerce ministry directive late on Monday stirred some concern on domestic social media that it may have been triggered by heightened tensions with Taiwan, while some said people were rushing to stock up on rice, cooking oil, and salt.
“As soon as this news came out, all the old people near me went crazy panic buying in the supermarket,” wrote one user on China’s Twitter-like Weibo. The People’s Daily said the ministry issues such notices every year, but had issued its instruction earlier this year because of natural disasters, the surge in vegetable prices and recent COVID-19 cases.

OBSERVATION - Population of China is jumpy and with good reason. wuhan shutdown, 2 years of bad agriculture and Taiwan are very much in the fore front. Add to it electric insecurity and the mix is potentially volatile towards the Xi presidency.

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Ukraine -

Ukraine’s military intelligence says no additional Russian buildup near the Ukrainian border has been detected. All reports in media regarding that is “most probably an element of special psy. ops,” it says
Meanwhile OSIMT satellite imagery shows the presence of a large ground forces deployment — incl. tanks, APCs, self-propelled artillery — to a training area north of Yelnya, Russia.
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Israel -

Israel will install thousands of fortified street shelters in dozens of border communities near Lebanon within months,
GLZRadio reports.

OBSERVATION - Israel continues to prepare for the eventual war with Hezebollah/Iran. IDF currently engaged in a week long readiness exercise simulating a Hezebollah attack. Israel knows that when they have to hit Iranian nuclear facilities, Hezebollah will pull the tigger.
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Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan -

Two large explosions have rocked Wazir Akbar Khan. Kabul. At least 15 dead and 34 wounded in attack on military hospital, a Taliban security official tells Reuters. There is a rumor of 2-3 attackers inside the hospital that are fighting with the Taliban.

OBSERVATION - Probably an ISIS-K attack. Be interesting to see how the Taliban handle getting a taste of their medicine.

The new IEA (Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan) government has discovered how dependent Afghanistan had become on foreign aid, most of it American and is trying to convince other foreign donors to get them money to deal with hunger and other problems that were largely created by the Taliban attacks on the former elected IRA (Islamic Republic of Afghanistan) government. The Taliban calculates that it needs $150 million a month just to prevent collapse of the currency and maintain some consumer price stability. EA admitted that about 75 percent of the IRA government’s budget was paid for by foreign donors and that the government was only able to collect about $130 million a month in taxes and fees. Without foreign aid the IEA cannot operate like the government it replaced.
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659 posted on 11/02/2021 7:38:27 AM PDT by Godzilla (Never give up, never surrender . . . . . .)
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To: Godzilla
Digital Drivers License is currently in the works in Utah and other states. The program will include your driver’s license info and your COVID-19 status. This will be tracked by the government and available to government employees. The program may also include the following information in the future:
** Your health records
** Your financial reports
** Credit scores
** Travel records
** Vehicle registration
** Spending
** Voting
** Sex offender status
** Licenses and Permits you have
** Parking Fines
** Social Credit Scoring

Conspicuously absent:
** Citizenship status
** Ability to legally vote

Odd omissions given the length and intrusiveness of the list...

While we're at it...
** Organ donor

No need to include that, because if "they" need your organs, you ARE a donor! OBVIOUSLY, duh! you got a driver license! See also "Implied Consent"...

660 posted on 11/02/2021 8:07:45 AM PDT by null and void (The SWAMP, Where Bottom Feeders Are Apex Predators!)
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