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.

Wow, Monday is taking off at a sprint
Tuesday may be an off day for me.
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Wuhan virus -

The U.S. lifted restrictions Monday on travel from a long list of countries including Mexico, Canada and most of Europe, allowing tourists to make long-delayed trips and family members to reconnect with loved ones after more than a year and a half apart because of the pandemic.

Starting Monday, the U.S. is accepting fully vaccinated travelers at airports and land borders, doing away with a COVID-19 restriction that dates back to the Trump administration. The new rules allow air travel from previously restricted countries as long as the traveler has proof of vaccination and a negative COVID-19 test. Land travel from Mexico and Canada will require proof of vaccination but no test.

The daily average number of cases has fallen by 36% over the past three months, according to a Reuters analysis, but the virus is still infecting 50 million people worldwide every 90 days due to the highly transmissible Delta variant.

In an interview, the American Trucking Associations’ executive vice president for advocacy Bill Sullivan told POLITICO that some companies may simply decide that the cost of the mandate is not worth the government’s checks. Sullivan said he has raised concerns to the White House, Office of Management and Budget and other executive branch officials. He noted that if companies drop their contracts, it may be harder to get certain foods to troops, transport fuel for military vehicles, or even deploy the National Guard.
“I am confident but with heavy heart recognize a vaccine mandate will mean less capacity for the government as a customer of freight,” he said. “It has the potential to seriously impact military readiness.” His association has also warned that it could also delay deliveries to consumers during the holiday season. “I feel like the president has tried to be beautifully simple like this could apply to everybody, and by doing that, there will be an impact,” he said.

LIKELY IN RESPONSE Department of Labor has now decided that most truckers will not fall under the mandate. And if they do, they will have the option of submitting weekly negative COVID tests instead of getting the shot if they wish. Not all truckers will be exempt. Those who drive with a partner in the cab or who have to regularly interact with other people while loading and unloading will still fall under the mandate.

OBSERVATION - If this situation was as dire as the administration states - there would be no exemption to getting the jab. Instead certain groups get exempt, others the hammer coming down.

Federal Defense contractors remain in uncertain territory as numerous companies and states are suing the Biden administration over its new medical mandates. Raytheon and Ingalls Shipbuilding stand to lose thousands of workers as new vessel orders remain high. A lawyer representing the industry said, “Contractors remain concerned about the loss of key employees, the lack of clarity on whether and how the contractors will be able to recover costs associated with the disruptions to their business because of the mandate, and their ability to meet delivery requirements of the customers up the federal supply chain.”(FO)

OBSERVATION - Administration is so myopic that they are shooting their own foot. OTOH, if biden’s goal to deliberately weaken the US then these mandates work for that goal.

Proctor and Gamble employees are threatening to walk out if P&G continues with following the biden mandates. This group tweeted “What you’ve already seen happen to the airline industry will soon happen to many other organizations”

A Washington, D.C., district court judge issued a minute order Thursday asking the Biden administration to agree that both civilian and active-duty military plaintiffs will not be terminated while they await a ruling after they sued the administration over religious exemptions to COVID-19 vaccines.
“None of the civilian employee plaintiffs will be subject to discipline while his or her request for a religious exception is pending,” read a minute order from District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly obtained by Fox News.
The Biden administration, which had until noon on Friday to respond, said in a filing that it would not agree to halt the discipline and termination of any employees in the process of seeking a religious exemption to the vaccine pending the court’s ruling on the temporary restraining order (TRO) motion. (Fox)

OBSERVATION - Another instance of biden thumbing his nose at the courts and going on with what he wants to do anyway. However, this ruling is not as binding as a full restraining order as the judge asked the administration to pause until the plaintiffs can complete their appeals.
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Globalism / Great Reset -

European federalists seeking to transform the 27-member European Union into a European superstate — a so-called United States of Europe — have revived a decades-old proposal to build a European army.

The call for a supranational army, part of a push for Europe to achieve “strategic autonomy” from the United States, is being spearheaded by French President Emmanuel Macron, who, as part of his reelection campaign, apparently hopes to replace outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel as the de facto leader of Europe.

Macron claims that Europe needs its own military because, according to him, the United States is no longer a reliable ally. He cites as examples: U.S. President Joe Biden’s precipitous withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan; the growing pressure on Europe to take sides with the United States on China; and France’s exclusion from a new security alliance in the Indo-Pacific region.

OBSERVATION - Some view this as a parallel organization to NATO and as such receiving some push back. However, the globalists will need their own military muscle to impose their will upon reluctant countries and areas.

Behind the headlines touting new emissions and finance commitments, the U.N. climate talks in Glasgow are facing a battle for credibility. Negotiators from nearly 200 countries return to the COP26 table on Monday, with just five days left to cut deals needed to cap global warming at 1.5 C - the limit beyond which the world will be courting devastating climate change impacts.
Among the big issues to resolve are: setting reliable rules for carbon markets, assessing how industrialized countries should pay for climate-linked losses incurred by the rest of the world, and working out financing to help developing countries adapt.
But one idea has gained traction: making countries review and, if necessary, update their emissions-cutting pledges every year, rather than on the current five-year schedule.
“It’s an emergency. Every five years? That’s not treating it like an emergency,” said Saleemul Huq, advisor to the 48-country Climate Vulnerable Forum, which began lobbying for more frequent reviews before the Glasgow talks even began.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told delegates last week that, if COP26 fell short, countries should be required to revisit their climate plans every year. (Reuters)

OBSERVATION - Accelerating their time lines can only realistically be done if a unified global crisis is called and enforced like the wuhan fiasco. This idea has been floating out there for a while.

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Economy -

Saudi Arabia’s larger-than-expected rise in oil prices is a signal it will continue resisting U.S. pressure to pump faster, according to Vitol Group. Aramco hiked December prices for customers in Asia, the U.S. and Europe on Friday, a day after OPEC+ stuck to its plan to boost output only at a gradual pace.

This comes as the Sec of Energy laughs at increasing US production and begs OPEC to boost their production instead. She said Sunday that President Biden is considering tapping into the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve amid rising crude oil prices.
During an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Granholm told host Dana Bash that Biden is looking at every tool at his disposal to address high gas prices in the U.S

Making matters worse, Biden is allegedly considering to shut down Michigan Line 5 oil pipeline. Politico reports that the administration is weighing what to do with Line 5, which is part of a network that moves petroleum products, including crude oil, from Western Canada to Escanaba, Mich. Approximately 540,000 barrels of these products are transported per day.
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Biden watch -

President Joe Biden’s approval rating fell to a new low of 38 percent in a USA Today/Suffolk University poll released on Sunday, with 59 percent disapproving of the job he is doing as chief executive.
BTW, Harris’ numbers are even lower. . . .
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CW2/Domestic violence -

A protest in Boston turned violent after Antifa groups arrived to a “Rise Against Tyranny” demonstration. Several organizations such as “Green Monster Antifa” and “Solidarity Against Hate - Boston” announced on Twitter they would be showing up to the event in order to “Tell the Capitol Rioters to Get Out of Boston.”

Work walkouts and protests are being called for in the US against wuhan mandates this weeks (8-11 Nov). These protests may likely be peaceful but potential for violence if Antifa thinks any on the right are pushing it.

George Floyd’s nephew has posted a video threatening jurors if they do not convict Kyle Rittenhouse. Cortez Rice, claimed that he knows people who have been taking photos of the jurors at the courthouse. Allegedly he plans to doxx jurors in the event of an acquittal and with that doxxing - physical attacks.

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POLITICAL FRONT -

Rumors about a pelosi retirement are flying. She has reportedly looked at property in Florida (of all places). This has started maneuvering by house dems for a potential replacement.

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Cyber Warfare -

The U.S. Department of State is now offering a reward for any information that leads to the arrest or conviction of those holding a leadership position in the DarkSide ransomware crime group who are responsible for the Colonial Pipeline Company ransomware attack.

A group of suspected foreign hackers has targeted nine organizations that operate in either the defense, energy, health care, technology or education sectors, with at least one in the United States, according to CNN.
A senior executive at Palo Alto Networks, Ryan Olson, says the nine organizations targeted are only the “tip of the spear.” Palo Alto Networks says the tactics used by the hackers fall in line with the same tactics used by Chinese hackers in the past.

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China -

A lot of news about China’s constructions of targets resembling US naval vessels in a remote desert area. Primarly two dimensional. No word on just which weapons systems these targets are designed for - standoff rockets/missiles or direct attack by aircraft.

The COVID-19 outbreak in mainland China continues to expand, with multiple transmission chains spreading to 20 provinces. Authorities have admitted that the DNA sequence of the virus that is causing the infections has mutated. Widening government restrictions have also put many Chinese citizens who are not confirmed close contacts in quarantine based on their mobile phone positioning data.
According to mainland Chinese media Beijing Evening News, the new round of outbreaks started when Shaanxi Province on Oct. 17 first reported COVID-19 cases among a tourist group from Inner Mongolia. As of Nov. 5, 20 provinces and regions have been affected, including the capital city of Beijing, Qinghai, and Gansu, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Shandong, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jiangsu, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Chongqing, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Zhejiang, Liaoning, Henan, and Shaanxi.
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Iran -
Iranian officials claim the US was behind the attack on the Iraqi PM.

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Iraq -

RUMINT - Pro-iranian militias allegedly launched rockets at the PM’s house - I think this is a rebroadcast of the earlier drone attack.

Iraqi armor and troops have entered Baghdad to beef up security of the Green zone.

Additional rumors/report that IRGC Quds force commander Ismail Qaani arrived Sunday night in Baghdad, met PM Kadhimi, and then met commanders of factions affiliated with Iran.

OBSERVATION - IF Quds force commander did as rumored, it is apparent that Iran is worried that things could spiral out of control very quickly and not in their favor. The main question here is whether Iran was directly involved in what amounts to an assassination attempt against the head of a friendly government. It’s a matter of big debate among Iraq watchers but no evidence either way.

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Belarus -

A large number of islamic migrants are trying to push across barriers and razor wire to enter Poland in the vicinity of Kuznica. Poland has police/military units opposite to force any back into Belarus. Emergency meeting was held with Polish President on the border crisis. Ministry of National Defense of Poland claims “ All activities of the migrants on the border are carried out under the supervision and control of Belarusian soldiers”

According to the President Gitanas Nausėda, Lithuania is ready to provide assistance to Poland in counteracting the current influx of migrants from Belarus. “The scale of the hybrid attack by the Belarussian government is unprecedented. We must remain united and in solidarity”, says Nausėda

The European Commission said “This is a continuation of the desperate attempts by Lukashenka’s regime to use people to destabilize the European Union”

OBSERVATION - This has potential for localized shooting as Poland is not constrained - they will not permit any to cross the border. Belarus soldiers on the other side don’t make matters any bettet. The EC is correct and echoes what I’ve been saying - this is a destabilizing effort but the source isn’t Lukashenko, but actually Putin who is using Belarus as a proxy.
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Its the Libyan model.Its how the cabal through the cia and 250k terrorists took down libya,first thelocal police country wide than a bombing campaign where more bombs were dropped on libya than in WWII. its here part of it:
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/paul-pillar/its-time-explain-the-libya-model-25984

Below is a clip using the Norks as next on the list of the cabal. But there are numerous countries on the list including the US.
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Libya’s experience does indeed weigh heavily on the thinking of North Korean officials, who have taken explicit notice of that experience, as a disincentive to reaching any deals with the United States about dismantling weapons programs. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s eventual reward for negotiating away all his unconventional weapons programs was to be murdered in a ditch.

There are other respects, however, in which the Libya model helps to explain the collapse of the North Korea diplomatic initiative. This part of the explanation concerns how the Trump administration is not following that model—the good part of that model, the part in which Libya was induced to give up its unconventional weapons programs, not the later part about the killing in the ditch.

The Libya story concerned more than just nuclear and other unconventional weapons programs. A greater focus for much of that story was terrorism. International sanctions on Libya that the United Nations Security Council imposed were linked to a specific demand: the surrender for trial of the two Libyan government employees who perpetrated the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988, killing 270 persons. Once Qaddafi surrendered the two, he said to the United States through an intermediary, “Let’s talk.” Turning over the Pan Am 103 suspects was the start of what the Libyan leader saw as a major turnaround in his policies, leading, he hoped, to an end to his pariah status.

This contact led to U.S.-Libyan talks, very closely held at the time and only later revealed publicly, beginning in 1999 during Bill Clinton’s administration. This was the start of a long and careful process of each side feeling out the other to discern its true intentions. The United States needed to determine whether Qaddafi was serious about turning over a new leaf. It assessed that he was. On terrorism, a Libyan regime that had been a big a part of the problem for many years could become part of the solution. Qaddafi regime was a target of some for the same radical Islamist groups that also were counterterrorist concerns of the United States.

The Libyan-U.S. rapprochement continued at a careful and measured pace. Expanding the agenda to weapons programs introduced new complications. It was only after four years of off-and-on negotiations that the United States (then under the George W. Bush administration), Britain, and Libya announced an agreement. The agreement accomplished everything the Western powers could have hoped for with regard to the Qaddafi regime opening up and giving up its nuclear and other unconventional weapons programs.

That diplomacy succeeded in large part because it was everything that the Trump approach toward North Korea has not been. The Libyan diplomacy involved careful preparation and assessment before any contacts or even any agreements to meet. Once meetings began, the process was not allowed to get ahead of careful appraisal of the other side’s intentions and whether the bargaining space would permit an agreement. The most important diplomacy was conducted out of sight, with even the fact of it kept secret. Demands were kept realistic in terms of what the evidence indicated would be acceptable to the other side. The diplomacy was sustained over a long time, through two different U.S. administrations of different parties.

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Wuhan virus -

Stronger RUMINT that Kalifornia Gov Newscum has acquired either Guillian-Barre syndrome or Bells Palsy. This after receiving a Modera ‘booster’ on top of a J&J primary shot. Some observers noted he wasn’t looking too good after this publicized photo shoot receiving the booster and ‘sources’ saying he did have a very negative reaction.

Thousands rallied in LA against the wuhan mandates. Protests also continue around the globe. National 8-11 protests to continue this week.

An internal report from within the US Customs and Border Protection agency suggests that more than half the border patrol workforce remains unvaccinated, and that if vaccine mandates are implemented it could leave just 8000 officers on duty.
The document, obtained by Fox News, notes that 48 percent of agents have not registered their vaccination status, and of the 52 percent who have done that, ten percent are unvaccinated.

Biden urges businesses to vaccinate workers despite the court order blocking our vaccine mandate. Strong pushback notes this is the same lawlessness for which the Biden campaign so often criticized Trump. And that suspicion is understandable. It’s not like the White House hasn’t ignored court rulings before.

British Medical Journal (BMJ) has reported on alleged data integrity issues with clinical trials that were carried out for Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine. The report is based largely on whistle blower statements and documentation. The BMJ has confirmed many of the allegations that have been made.

https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635

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Globalism / Great Reset -

“I can’t predict for you today when that will be. Because as we see, we now have a situation, we’re entering the winter. The good news is we’re continuing to come down and hopefully, we’ll go further and further down, but what happens globally will impact us. So if we get more people vaccinated globally and more people vaccinated now, hopefully within a reasonable period of time, we will get to that point where it might occasionally be up and down in the background, but it won’t dominate us the way it’s doing right now,” Fauci continued according to a report by Yahoo News.

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Economy -

U.S. gasoline prices have risen to a new seven-year high, according to new data from AAA, as elevated crude prices and an uptick in gasoline demand put upward pressure on prices at the pump.
As of Nov. 8, the national average price for a gallon of regular gasoline in the United States rose to a seven-year high of $3.422, up slightly from the previous day’s average of $3.421 and two cents from the week-ago average of $3.402, according to AAA.

The industry’s key index of used vehicle prices jumped another 9.2% over the span of just a month. That puts the index 38% higher than a year ago — compared to “just” 27% for the same stat in September.

The U.S. Federal Reserve warned Monday of potential spillover from China’s real estate troubles to the U.S. financial system.
Since this summer, highly indebted developer China Evergrande has rattled global investors as the company has attempted to avoid official default. Other Chinese developers have also struggled to repay debt, adding to concerns of wider fallout in the world’s second-largest economy — roughly a quarter of which is driven by real estate.
“Stresses in China’s real estate sector could strain the Chinese financial system, with possible spillovers to the United States,” the Federal Reserve said in its latest financial stability report, released twice a year.

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Invasion of Illegals -

Emboldened by news that the United States and Mexico will reopen shared land-border crossings, hundreds of migrants have arrived at Mexican border cities like Tijuana, hoping the reset will make it easier to cross and seek U.S. asylum. This is on top of the thousands working their way north from Central America.

Senior White House adviser said the Justice Department will set the amount of compensation if it deems that paying migrants separated from their families will save taxpayers money — payments that run as much as $450,000 or more.
“If the DOJ determines that it saves the taxpayers money and it rights a wrong, then they will make the determination that is necessary and I would assume if they make a determination, they’ll come up with what they think is an adequate dollar amount,” Cedric Richmond said on “Fox News Sunday.” Richmond said the Justice Department is making its decision independently of the White House.

See also wuhan mandate impact to border patrol above.

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Biden watch -

Three days after the passage of this infrastructure bill, Biden still hasn’t signed it.

Harris want NASA to track trees by race. . . . .
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CW2/Domestic violence -

Watch of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial is stepped up. By most counts, the prosecution’s case continues to implode as their witnesses have ended up supporting the defense’s narrative of self defense. There is an increasing possibility that at the end of the prosecution’s presentations, the judge could grant dismissal of most if not all charges. This will most likely result in violent protests in the region as well as BLM/Antifa strongholds across the country.

Anti wuhan tyranny protests yesterday went off relatively peacefully.
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Strategic Activity / Deployments -

Last week, the U.S. Navy conducted new missile tests in the Persian Gulf off the coast of Iran, proving their proficiency in operating a missile system that can target and destroy enemy speed boats, such as the ones Iran uses.
On Sunday, the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet and naval forces Central Command (NAVCENT) announced that between Thursday and Saturday, U.S. patrol coastal ships conducted a live-fire exercise with the MK-60 Griffin guided-missile system in the Persian Gulf.
This particular U.S. Navy weapons test came days after speed boats from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) swarmed around the U.S. Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS The Sullivans (DDG 68) and a Vietnamese-flagged oil tanker.
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China -

Additional OSINT imagery show at least one of the targets - a US carrier mockup - is mounted on a track / rail system for potentially mobile target practice.

China’s Communist Party Central Committee is now holding its 6th Plenum, running from Nov.8 through Nov.11, where it’s expected that an ultra-rare so-called “historical resolution” will be written that will allow Xi Jinping to rule for life, after a prior 2018 constitutional amendment already effectively removed the two-term limit for the President.

China has resumed air incursions into the Taiwanese Air defense zone, with up to a couple dozen aircraft per day.

See Evergrand comments under ECONOMY above.
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Russia -

Russia, which is the largest supplier of energy to Europe, had said that it would be rising gas flows to the continent on Monday. However, orders from a key Russian pipeline have shown that supplies will likely remain at their current level, prompting massive spikes in energy costs.
The Netherlands, which is used as a benchmark for European Union’s energy prices, saw increases of up to 9.7 per cent on Monday. The UK has also been impacted by the energy crunch, with British prices up by over 9 per cent, The Telegraph reported, given it imports energy from Europe.

OBSERVATION - Russia can disrupt European economy by squeezing natural gas supplies, disrupting them and causing them to focus internally while Russia maneuvers forces and other influences. Kind of a pay back for sanctions.
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Ukraine -

Pentagon notes that movements and staging of Russian operational assets east of Ukraine are under strict OPSEC. This is unlike the earlier crisis this past spring. Also accounts for less OSINT on the activity. What OSINT has started catching is worrisome. Sentinel-1 SAR-imagery of the garrison belonging to elements of the 3rd MRD/ 20th CAA in Boguchar at 1504z today November 8th. Based on lower density in the vehicle parks, it its likely some of the units stationed here has left garrison since November 2nd. Boguchar is an important reserve depot for hardware as well. Kantemirovka railhead just 50km down the road is active. All just east of the Ukraine border.

OBSERVATION - These developments are concerning for the level of OPSEC being used. However, I don’t think the use of a Turkish drone against separatist artillery by Ukraine is enough to justify Russian to attack it. This does parallel Belarus fomenting a border crisis with Poland and the Baltic Nations and a squeeze of natural gas to Europe.
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Israel -

Reports that IAF has hit targets in the vicinity of Tartus and Homs Syria. Most likely Iranian/Hezebollah munitions storage facilities and associated.
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Iraq -

Iraq security forces identified three suspects behind the attempted assassination of PM Mustafa Al-Kadhimi.
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Lebanon -

Reports surfacing that Iran no longer trusts Hezbollah to carry out larger attacks on Israel with long range rockets because Hezbollah is distracted by growing violence in Lebanon and economic collapse there that Hezbollah has contributed to. Most Lebanese accuse Iran and Hezbollah for contributing to the current problems in Lebanon, especially those related to Hezbollah becoming an extension of the Iranian al Quds force in the 1980s. Quds supports pro-Iran Islamic terrorists in foreign countries. Al Quds considers Hezbollah their greatest success but more and more Lebanese, Syrians and other Arabs in the region see Quds and Hezbollah as a deadly curse created by Iran. Loss of public support - even to the extent of direct public opposition could turn to enhance Israeli targeting of Hezebollah assets via informants to Mossad agents if direct combat ensues.
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Central America General -

Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega clinched a fourth consecutive term, results showed on Monday, after jailing political rivals ahead of a vote that prompted threats of sanctions from the United States and international calls for free elections.

OBSERVATION - Ortega as a thorn in US policy has been struggling to maintain the balance in Nicaragua. He doesn’t have the pocket book of the former Soviet Union paying his agenda like he did in the 80’s. Still his radical agenda exfiltrates into central america.
In the 1980s, Ortega served a single term as president before being voted out. He returned to the top job in 2007.
After initially delivering solid economic growth and attracting private investment, Ortega’s government changed course in response to 2018 anti-government protests. More than 300 people were killed during the ensuing crackdown.
Tens of thousands of Nicaraguans have since fled the country. Many of them gathered in neighboring Costa Rica on Sunday in a show of defiance against Ortega.

NOTE - When I served in the 7th Infantry Division it was converted to a light infantry unit, Nicaragua was its primary focus for potential action.
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Belarus -

Russian FM Lavrov accuses “The West” in the situation at Polish-Belarusian border, says “The West” triggered the crisis with actions at Middle East. Russian and Belarus FMs are reportedly meeting today on the issue.

The European Commission has accused Belarus’s authoritarian leader of luring migrants with the false promise of easy entry to the EU as part of an “inhuman, gangster-style approach”.
At least 2,000 migrants are now at the Belarus border with Poland.
“Upon arrival they are being pushed to the border and forced to make an illegal entry into the European Union,” said Commission spokesman Peter Stano.
IN RELATED There are reports of hundreds waiting for flights in Damascus organized by coordination between Belarus, Russia, and Assad. Their destination is Minsk, and from there to the Polish border. Most of them are Iraqi Kurds.
ALSO RELATED The European Commission is now looking to extend sanctions to include “third-country airlines” involved in flying migrants to Belarus. It said it was looking at flights to Minsk from a number of countries, including Syria, Iran and Qatar as well as Russia and several North African states.

EU and Nato members Poland, Lithuania and Latvia have all seen a surge in the number of people trying to enter their countries illegally from Belarus in recent months. Many are young men but they include women and children, largely from the Middle East and Asia.

OBSERVATION - Continued efforts by Belarus (and Russia) to destabilize the region. The presence of military forces on both sides has increased chances for a shooting/combat incident.
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Wuhan virus -

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has asked health regulators in the United States to authorize booster jabs of its COVID-19 vaccine for everyone aged 18 and older, amid concerns that coronavirus infections could rise again in the coming winter months in the US. FDA advisers in September rejected Pfizer boosters for all, saying they were unconvinced healthy adults need extra dose.

OBSERVATIONS - According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), new coronavirus infections, hospitalizations and deaths have been on the decline in recent weeks across the country. Combined with pushback resulting from biden mandates public support for boosters is not too great.

Missing California gov Newscum disappearance got more interesting with the reports that he and his wife were spotted at a wedding last weekend. The festivities lasted all weekend for the wedding of Getty Oil heiress Ivy Love Getty and Tobias Alexander Engel, a photographer. Of course - no photos.
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Globalism / Great Reset -

In an appearance during the 2021 Social Wealth Seminar (SWS) in March hosted by a nonprofit called the Jain Family Institute, Biden’s nominee for Comptroller of the Currency Saule Omarova confessed that the government needs to bankrupt entire energy sectors to impose top-down climate change initiatives. Omarova, is a former Communist youth leader who grew up in Soviet Kazakhstan and has openly embraced Marxist principles.
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Economy -

Amid a historic drought posing threats to future harvests, California farmers now say they are struggling to export the crops they do have because of a kink in the global supply chain that has left container ships lined up off the Southern California coast with nowhere to deliver their goods.
Problems with the supply chain have retailers worried their shelves — and their customers’ online shopping carts — will be empty during the crucial holiday shopping season, prompting emergency actions from state and federal leaders to clear up the logjam. Grower are attempting work arounds, but at a cost. But last month, more than 80% of scheduled shipments were canceled. Processors have resorted to paying much more to ship their products to other ports, sending pistachios and walnuts by train to Texas and Maryland and flying bales of cotton to Peru.

OBSERVATION - the impact to the US economy and food supply is huge and will drive shortages and prices higher.

Inflation at the wholesale level rose 8.6% last month from a year earlier, matching September’s record annual gain and offering more evidence that inflationary pressures are not yet easing. This is the highest annual pace in records going back nearly 11 years, the Labor Department said Tuesday.

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Invasion of Illegals -

Apprehensions of illegals at the border continue at record rates.
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CW2/Domestic violence -

The prosecution in the Rittenhouse trial closed its presentation yesterday. Some thought the defense would call for an acquittal for failure of the govt to make its case. However, it appears that the defense is moving forward with its case.
The judge also revealed that an individual(s) were caught filming the jurors entering their bus to go to the trial. This is most likely an effort to doxx the jurors in the event the trial goes forward through defense presentations and to deliberations.
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Strategic Activity / Deployments -

The USS Nimitz steamed out of Sinclair Inlet Saturday on its first voyage following months of work at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. The aircraft carrier, which returned to Bremerton in March after a record-setting 11-month-long deployment, now begins the work at sea preparing for the next one.

OBSERVATION - With China getting froggy, an additional CSG in the Pacific is necessary.
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Cyber Warfare -

A cyber attack disrupted dairy distribution in Wisconsin late last month, resulting in a big plunge in cheese prices.
A spokesman for one of the state’s largest milk processors, Schreiber Foods, told local newspaper, Wisconsin Farmer, that a five days “cyber event” halted operations as hackers demanded a rumored $2.5 million in ransom.
The ransomware attack began on Saturday (Oct. 23) and limited the company from buying 500-pound barrels of cheese, which are turned into slices and sold at supermarkets. The cyberattack on the dairy processor comes as hackers have targeted food supply chains. JBS SA, the world’s largest meat producer, was hit with a ransomware attack by hacker group REvil in June.
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China -

A group of American lawmakers visited Taiwan, arriving on a U.S. military plane, in a move likely to further inflame tensions between Washington and Beijing over the status of the self-governing island. It wasn’t immediately clear which U.S. lawmakers were on the plane. Trips abroad by lawmakers during congressional breaks, like the one this week, are so common that the congressional delegations are nicknamed “codels.”

NOTE - Expect a lot of chest thumping by China over this.

OSINT Satellite images appear to show China is making significant progress developing missile silos that could eventually launch nuclear weapons. Experts from the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), a nonpartisan national security research and advocacy organization, found that China has made significant progress on suspected silo fields in the western part of the country. The authors noted that “the missile silo fields are still many years away from becoming fully operational and it remains to be seen how China will arm and operate them.”
The suspected development of a first missile silo field was reported in late June. Following another report from FAS released in July on China’s suspected development of a second silo field, US Strategic Command tweeted, “This is the second time in two months the public has discovered what we have been saying all along about the growing threat the world faces and the veil of secrecy that surrounds it.”

China believes it can survive its real estate bubble that is now in the process of collapsing and crippling the economy along the way. The scope of the problem is vast. The pictures of Chinese ghost towns have been appearing for years and they are real. Over-building by corrupt local officials allowed this to happen and currently some 20 percent of Chinese apartments and houses are empty. That’s 65 million housing units, most of them recent construction and never occupied. Many are concentrated in over fifty Ghost Cities that are in parts of the country that are still largely rural and not attracting much of the investments and new companies that prefer coastal regions, especially in the south near Hong Kong.
The government believes it can cope, because it must. Failure is not an option because that means another revolution or at least a radical change in the current form of government as shown by Chinese history. Paying attention to Chinese history is respected and it is still a popular tradition to base major decisions on what has happened in the past.
Some of those historical examples are casting doubt on the Chinese plan to survive the current real estate crisis. The largest problem is corruption at the provincial and local level. Over the last decade there has been a major effort to purge the false reporting from national economic statistics. The false data problem is not gone but at least it is recognized. (StrategyPage)

HOWEVER The uncertainty ahead of Wednesday’s deadline for cash-strapped China Evergrande Group to make an offshore bond coupon payment is set to add to concerns about a deepening liquidity crisis in the Chinese property sector.
Evergrande, the world’s most indebted developer, has been stumbling from deadline to deadline in recent weeks as it grapples with more than $300bn in liabilities, $19bn of which are international market bonds. Another overdue $148m bond payment must be made on Wednesday, and it has coupon payments totaling more than $255m on its June 2023 and 2025 bonds on December 28.
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Iran -

Iran says it shot down two US drones over the Persian Gulf - The Iranian military on Tuesday said that they shot down two U.S. drones entering Iranian airspace. Iran said that the drones that it shot down were a model MQ-9 and RQ-4 drones. The drones were intercepted and shot down after Iran said that its military drills near the Straits of Hormuz were a ‘serious warning to our enemies

Iran’s stockpile of hard currency has skyrocketed during the Biden administration, rising from just $4 billion at the end of 2020 when sanctions were at their height, to more than $31 billion by the end of 2021, according to projections by the International Monetary Fund.
The Biden administration’s decision to pursue diplomacy with Iran and unwind the Trump administration’s sanctions has helped the country recover from its cash shortage, according to the IMF’s projections. The group says Iran’s cash reserves will top $31 billion by the end of the year and increase up to $42.9 billion by the end of 2022. This number could be even higher if the United States reenters the 2015 nuclear deal and removes all sanctions imposed by the Trump administration.

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Iraq -

Tension still high over the attempted assassination of the PM.
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Syria -

Unidentified aircraft destroyed sites of Iranian militias near the Syrian-Iraqi border.
OBSERVATION - Can’t determine if US or IAF strike.

South Syria: more attacks past hours in Daraa province: - a soldier (5th Division) from Homs-city was shot dead near Izraa - a reconcilied Rebel who joined a group affiliated with the Military Security killed by gunmen in front of his house in Sanamayn
OBSERVATION - Daraa has quieted down since the summer by a Russian backed ceasefire agreement. Obviously pockets of resistance or elements that have ‘gone to ground’ still exist.
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Belarus -

Poland faced “many attempts” to breach the border with Belarus overnight but now has 15,000 troops to repel them, the defense minister has said. TASS reports that Poland is moving military vehicles with heavy weapons to the Belarusian border,

Poland’s PM Morawieckim met with EUCO president Charles Michel the Belarus driven migrant problem. In a presser they say- “It’s not a migration crisis, it’s a political a crisis triggered by the special purpose of destabilization. It is a manifestation of a state terrorism”

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas called for new EU sanctions against Belarus on Wednesday amid an escalating migrant crisis at the Polish-Belarusian border.

Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak told public broadcaster PR1 that Tuesday night had seen “many attempts to breach the border.” However, he added, all those who crossed into Poland were stopped.

EU officials accuse Belarus of “weaponizing” the migrants against the 27-member bloc in retaliation for previous sanctions against Minsk. The say Belarus is flying them to the capital from abroad on special visas and taking them to the EU’s doorstep.

OBSERVATION - Situation continues to be volatile. As long as Polish and Belarus military face off chances for a significant shooting situation remain high.

Baltic states targeted as well. Lithuania’s parliament on Tuesday declared a state of emergency at the country’s border with Belarus and at camps hosting migrants who arrived from there, a tally of votes showed.
The state of emergency, which begins at midnight local time (2200 GMT) in the night of Tuesday to Wednesday and is to last a month, allows border guards to use “mental coercion” and “proportional physical violence” to prevent migrants from entering Lithuania. Lithuania’s declaration bans all travel to within five kilometres (three miles) of the Belarus border, unless allowed by border guards. Mobile phones could be taken away from migrants and public gatherings near the border and in the camps could be forbidden.
“The state of emergency is needed to use ... extraordinary measures to remove the serious threat posed to society by the massive influx of foreigners,” the motion before parliament said.
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Honoring all those who have served in our country’s military
HAPPY VETERAN’S DAY
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Wuhan virus -

France public health authority advises not to use Moderna for people under 30.
Wuhan fear porn accelerates from France as well. France is at the beginning of a fifth wave of the coronavirus epidemic, Health Minister Olivier Veran said on Wednesday. “Several neighboring countries are already in a fifth wave of the COVID epidemic, what we are experiencing in France clearly looks like the beginning of a fifth wave,” Veran said on TF1 television, adding the circulation of the virus was accelerating.

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Globalism / Great Reset -

“By 2030 in the United States, we won’t have coal,” Kerry said in an interview with Bloomberg.

Evergrande is falling into default. See China below for more details. Key from the story -

Only DMSA already recognized the default at that time and proved in a study that the bankruptcy of Evergrande, the world’s most indebted corporation, could ultimately lead to a “Great Reset”, i.e. the final meltdown of the global financial system.
“But while the international financial market has so far met the financial turmoil surrounding the teetering giant Evergrande with remarkable basic confidence – one can also say: with remarkable naivety – the U.S. central bank Fed confirmed our view yesterday. In its latest stability report, it explicitly pointed out the dangers that a collapse of Evergrande could have for the global financial system.”

The bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill passed last Friday includes a controversial new cryptocurrency tax requirement, despite months of aggressive lobbying by industry groups as they looked to fend over stricter regulatory oversight. One new provision in the bill would require brokers to report those transactions for digital assets, such as bitcoin or ether, to the IRS in the shape of a 1099 form. Brokers will also be required to disclose the names and addresses of customers. However, crypto advocates and other critics have argued that as written, the bill’s definition of who qualifies as a “broker” is too broader.
Another aspect of the bill would require businesses and exchanges to report when they receive more than $10,000 in cryptocurrency.

OBSERVATION - Globalist have to extinguish bitcoin or bring it under its control. This is just the US’ contribution to the effort.
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Economy -

See Kerry’s goal to kill the coal industry under Globalism above.

Record inflation blows the narrative of “transitory” conditions out of the water. It has even forced the MSM to sit up and take note.

Supply chain issues are impacting food banks’ ability to purchase bulk food packages. Tim Marks, President and CEO of Metropolitan Ministries Holiday Tent, says that the organization will not be able to purchase the required “20,000 turkeys and hams for families in need,” a group of families that have grown by more than 10,000 in the last year. The struggle is nationwide, with food banks requesting a significant increase in donations from those who can.

The latest Consumer Price Index rose to a 6.2% annualized rate of inflation, hitting the highest point since 1990. The Producer Price Index also rose to 8.6% year over year, showing increased costs for manufacturers and other producers. Ethanol prices have risen by 50% this year, explaining one reason why fuel costs have risen. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm hopes that gas prices won’t rise to a national average of $4/gallon, currently just under $3.50/gallon right now. The Biden administration is still looking at releasing fuel from strategic reserves to lower gas prices, although officials are now predicting that fuel prices will fall by early next year due to oversupply.(FO)
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Biden watch -

President Joe Biden marveled at the high cost of gas on Wednesday, without offering any solutions for lowering prices.
“Did you ever think you’d be paying this much for a gallon of gas?” Biden said. “In some parts of California, they’re paying $4.50 a gallon.”

The White House remains elusive about the timing of a physical exam for President Joe Biden, as more Americans question his physical and mental health.
The White House previously said last May Biden would get a physical before the end of the year and in October, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said it would be “soon.” Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Tuesday she had no update about an upcoming physical for the president.

OBSERVATION - this physical could be the trigger for art 25 proceedings to remove biden.
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CW2/Domestic violence -

Incoming New York City Mayor Eric Adams has promised that he will be “conservative on crime” and restore the NYPD’s ability to maintain law and order. The local chapter of Black Lives Matter is apparently outraged at the thought of the return of the major crimes unit of the NYPD that was disbanded under Bill de Blasio as part of his efforts to defund or abolish the police. The co-founder of the local BLM chapter wasn’t mincing words yesterday when he promised that if Adams brought back the special anti-crime units, there would be “riots, fire, and bloodshed.” (NY Daily News) Another BLM co-founder, Chivona Newsome, promised to “shut the city down” and “shut down City Hall.” She went on to vow that BLM would “give him hell and make it a nightmare.”

OBSERVATION - BLM/Antifa have been successful in shutting down police/legal actions against them, opening the door for dramatically increased criminal activity . The task for NYCPD will be very difficult, given the already depleted ranks of police and the pending expulsion of additional officers due to wuhan jab mandates.

Rittenhouse’s defense team appealed for a dismissal while continuing its defense pending the judge’s decision.
So far, no sign of mobilization of BLM/Antifa elements into the town to protest/riot, though leftist leaders have been raising the rhetoric level.
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Strategic Activity / Deployments -

The US military has deployed one of its two Iron Dome anti-missile systems to its Pacific territory of Guam after raising concerns of instability in the region. The Iron Dome would be of little use against ballistic missiles launched from China, but it would prove crucial against cruise missiles.

Israel, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and US Naval Forces Central Command are conducting a 5-day multilateral maritime exercise in the Red Sea, the US 5th Fleet announces.
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China -

China is three to six months from launching its third and most modern aircraft carrier, new analysis shows, in what would be a milestone for President Xi Jinping’s effort to project power into the high seas. The vessel, known for now as Type 003, the Center for Strategic and International Studies said in the report dated Tuesday. The center, a Washington-based think tank, added that satellite imagery shows “that the installation of the carrier’s main external components is nearing completion.”
The ship’s use of catapults “is a major leap forward for the People’s Liberation Army Navy,” the report said, because it will be able to “launch fixed-wing aircraft with heavier payloads and more fuel, as well as larger aircraft.” That would put China — whose two active carriers use simpler, “ski-jump” flight decks — into an exclusive club with the U.S. and France.
While advanced, it is thought that it will still fall short of current US carriers. The vessel is expected to have conventional diesel propulsion and be closer in size to the Kitty Hawk-class carriers built by the U.S. in the 1960s. The Type 003 is years away from going into active service considering “the technical challenges of building a modern aircraft carrier,” according to the center’s report. The U.S. Department of Defense said in an annual assessment released last week that the carrier was expected to be fully operational by 2024.

OBSERVATION - Big step forward. Current carrier launched aircraft cannot take off with full ordinance or fuel. This greatly limits their reach. Catapult launched aircraft can be fully loaded and fueled. For a China Sea scenario, it will be a potent weapon, but as noted, diesel power limits its strategic projection but allows significant regional power projection.

China Evergrande Group today again defaulted on interest payments to international investors.
DMSA, the German Market Screening Agency, itself is invested in these bonds and has not received any interest payments until today’s end of the grace period. Now DMSA is preparing bankruptcy proceedings against Evergrande and calls on all bond investors to join it.
In order to be able to file for bankruptcy against the company as a creditor, DMSA itself invested in Evergrande bonds, whose grace period expired today (Nov. 10, 2021). In total, Evergrande would have had to pay $148.13 million in interest on three bonds no later than today. “But so far we have not received any interest on our bonds,” explains Metzler. He adds, “With banks in Hong Kong closing today, it’s certain that these bonds have defaulted.”
For the DMSA expert, it is clear: “As soon as a court opens insolvency proceedings, Evergrande will also be officially bankrupt – and that is only a matter of days.”

OBSERVATION - Worst case scenario. Will China step in and bail it out? Watch global markets for response if this moves forward.

The much-anticipated virtual summit between President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping is tentatively scheduled for the evening of Nov. 15, a U.S. official told POLITICO on Wednesday.
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Russia -

See Belarus
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Ukraine -

Continued concerns over Russia deployment of military units close to its border.
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Syria -

Syrian President Bashar Assad has decided to dismiss the commander of Iranian forces in Syria Javad Ghaffari, Al-Arabiya News Agency reported Wednesday.
Sources in the presidential palace were dissatisfied with Ghaffari’s actions and went as far as deeming them a “violation of Syrian sovereignty,” the report said.
The sources said that Ghaffari had been dealing with the smuggling of goods and the establishment of a black weapons market tat could compete with the Syrian market.
A Syrian source explained that Ghaffari’s dismissal constitutes a decisive blow against former Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps head Qasem Soleimani’s vision of Iranian hegemony over the strategic area between Iran and Lebanon.
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Belarus -

Representatives of International Organization for Migration met today with migrants on the border between Belarus and Poland and advised them to apply for asylum in Belarus or return to home country

Additional 8.5 thousand servicemen of Ukrainian Border Guards, National Guard and police will be deployed on Belarusian border. Ukrainian Police in the border areas with Belarus has been put on high alert

Lukashenka threatens EU against introducing new sanctions: we will ban cargo transit via Belarus. It won’t be possible to bring goods from Russia. Lukashenka: if Poland and Lithuania will shut the border we will cut Yamal-Europe natural gas pipeline

Two Russian Tu-160 nuclear-capable bombers rehearsed bombing runs in a training exercise in Belarus on Thursday amid tensions over a migrant crisis at the Poland-Belarus border, the Belarusian Defence Ministry said. It was the second day running that Russia has sent strategic bomber planes to overfly Belarus in a show of support for its close ally.

OVERALL OBSERVATION - These bullet points show the situation to still be tense. One of the serious sanction pushbacks by Belarus is the threat to cut off natural gas to the west - who already are in the throes of an energy crisis. Russia’s show of force is a reminder of their support to their puppet proxy country.
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Wuhan virus -

The California governor new scum has extended the wuhan state of emergency to March 31, 2022. “Winter is coming. Winter is here,” Newsom said. “And as we are to be reminded and should be reminded, last year we had a challenging winter, particularly down here in Southern California. We started to see around this time last year case rates, positivity rates, hospitalization rates, ICU numbers start to increase. We’re starting to see that now all across the globe. We’ve seen those trends, not dissimilar to last year.”
The order extends provisions implemented to expand our health care workforce during the pandemic, allowing health care workers from out of state to provide services in California and enabling certain medical personnel and emergency medical technicians to continue supporting the state’s COVID-19 response, including administering vaccines. The order also continues flexibility for health care facilities to plan and adapt their space to accommodate patients and allows alternate areas, such as parking lots, to be used for vaccination efforts at clinics and other health care facilities.

Colorado Governor Jared Polis (D) signed an executive order this week that allows hospitals to turn away those who are unvaccinated against COVID-19. Polis’ order reportedly gives health care professionals the authority to prioritize crisis care under the direction of the state health department.

OBSERVATION - Going further down the road to a two-tiered America.

The Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) unveiled the emergency temporary standard this week. It mandates employers with 100 or more workers to require proof of COVID-19 vaccination. Any worker who does not must get tested for COVID-19 on a regular basis, at least weekly. Tucked into the 490-page standard is a section about how the public can submit comments on the proposed language. In it, the agency makes clear that the testing opt-out could be removed.
“Should OSHA impose a strict vaccination mandate (i.e., all employers required to implement mandatory vaccination policies as defined in this ETS) with no alternative compliance option?” the agency asked.

NOTE - Remove the testing option - then the jab is 100% mandated.

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Globalism / Great Reset -

Humanity needs a global reset because the unjust, pre-pandemic world is not worth going back to, Pope Francis asserted Monday. In a message to the Paris Forum on Peace, the pope painted a dire picture of a pre-coronavirus world dominated by corruption, war, and capitalistic oppression. “The reality we knew before the pandemic was that wealth and economic growth were reserved for a minority while millions of people were unable to meet the most basic needs and lead a dignified life,” Francis said, “a world in which our Earth was plundered by a myopic exploitation of resources, by pollution, by ‘disposable’ consumerism, and wounded by wars and experiments with weapons of mass destruction.”
“Return to normal would also mean a return to old social structures inspired by self-sufficiency, nationalism, protectionism, individualism and isolation,” he added, “and excluding our poorest brothers and sisters. Is this a future we can choose?” . . . . . Our conscience calls us “not to follow the easy way of returning to a ‘normality’ marked by injustice, but to accept the challenge of assuming the crisis as a concrete opportunity for conversion, transformation, to rethink our lifestyle and our economic and social system,” he said.

OBSERVATION - No surprise the Pope is a globalist, this is just a ‘religious’ support for globalism.

The Biden administration will reportedly lean on whistleblowers in an effort to enforce its new vaccine mandate for companies with more than 100 employees. According to an Associated Press report, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration – or OSHA – which has been tasked with handling the vaccine mandate rule, doesn’t have enough safety inspectors to enforce the mandate.

OBSERVATION - Snitching has been a big part of the wuhan tyranny and commonly used by totalitarian governments over history. Some things never change.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) released a statement today as the congressional delegation she led departed from the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland.
“Our delegation proudly and clearly stated its commitment to making gender equity a central component of climate action,” Pelosi said.

OBSERVATION - “Gender” inequality is a driving force behind global warming now. . . . . .

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Economy -

Analysts at Wells Fargo lowered 2022 GDP growth predictions from 4.5% to 4% due to the global supply chain crisis. Analysts went on to state that, “to the extent that there is any good news in the snarling of global trade routes, it is that 2023 will get a boost as the timing of our expected surge gets pushed into the second half of next year, which has a carryover effect that boosts 2023 GDP growth to an above-trend rate of 3.2% that year.”

Many analysts still see high inflation well into 2022.
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CW2/Domestic violence -

Closing arguments in the Rittenhouse trial are expected next week and the jury expected to return a verdict sometime next week.

Preparations for Rittenhouse riots is beginning. “The Chicago Police Department has canceled regularly scheduled days off starting Friday and through the weekend in apparent anticipation of civil unrest in the event that Kyle Rittenhouse is acquitted,” the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

OBSERVATION - Anticipating more BLM/Antifa plans for rioting throughout next week.

Internal documents released Thursday confirm that the National School Boards Association coordinated with the White House before formally sending a letter to the Biden administration requesting federal intervention to probe and potentially prosecute parents for threatening school administrators.
In an October 12 memo, obtained by the nonprofit Parents Defending Education, NSBA president Viola Garcia stated that the organization had been “actively engaged” with federal departments including the White House, Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, before sending their letter to the president.
OBSERVATION - This places the AG in danger of perjury charges for his congressional testimony where he denied any prior coordination or communications.

A school board president in Arizona has been accused of maintaining a secret online dossier containing personal details about parents who opposed mask mandates and Critical Race Theory. Scottsdale Unified School District Governing Board President Jann-Michael Greenburg’s access to the Google Drive file was revealed after he accidentally displayed the link in a screenshot he sent to a parent in a heated email chain.
The drive contained files labeled ‘SUSD Wackos’ and ‘Anti Mask Lunatics’ among others in a sprawling database tracking the online activities of parents in the district.
The drive was set to public, allowing anyone with a link to view it, and the contents, including the Social Security numbers, financial information and divorce records of parents, quickly set off a firestorm of calls for Greenburg to resign
The district blames Greenburg’s father Mark, who shares a home and computer with his son, for creating the bizarre dossier
Some of the files include memes mocking certain parents, PTA leaders and local elected officials.
Disturbingly, the drive also contains a background report that appears to have been generated by a private investigator, which includes personal details such as financial and criminal records of parents.

OBSERVATION - The tyranny of school boards brought to light recently is another front in a potential CW2 scenario, as leftists pull together data bases of potential opponents that can be used at a future time. This database is no different from the ones Antifa has pulled together against ‘facists’
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POLITICAL FRONT -

More rumblings on how some elements of the democrat left are struggling with how to get rid of Harris. Biden’s day of reckoning if fast approaching when he has to face up to a physical. And he can implode due to he meds and dementia at any time. The most unpopular VP in history hasn’t been helped recently with her ‘fake’ French accent during her trip to France. Right now the only way they can get rid of her is to impeach or convince her to step down. Until they can replace her with someone more ‘popular’ she is just adding to the impending train wreck for the ‘rat’ that tis the 2022 midterms.
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Strategic Activity / Deployments -

A pair of US B-1 bombers and a KC-10 tanker over Israel’s towards the Gulf yesterday as another show of force towards Iran.
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China -

Record snowstorms have affected 58 000 agricultural facilities in northeast China’s Liaoning Province over the past few days. Local authorities said they are rushing to ensure power and food supply while repairing damages in a region heavily affected by rolling power outages in September 2021.
The province has witnessed extremely heavy snowstorms, rainfall, cold wave and strong winds from Sunday, November 7 to Tuesday, November 9, 2021. The storms damaged more than 37 000 ha (91 500 acres) of cropland in 58 000 facilities and affected a total of 4 836 livestock farms.

OBSERVATION - China has had two disastrous crop/livestock loss years in a row. This only makes it worse. It takes a lot to feed its massive population. Now add power outages/shortages to the mix.
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The Russian defense ministry said on Friday that U.S. military activity in the Black Sea region was aggressive and posed a threat to regional and strategic stability, the Interfax news agency reported.
The ministry added that it had detected six NATO reconnaissance flights over the Black Sea in the past 24 hours.

See Ukraine and Belarus for activity
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Ukraine -

The U.S. is raising the alarm with European Union allies that Russia may be weighing a potential invasion of Ukraine as tensions flare between Moscow and the bloc over migrants and energy supplies. American intelligence sources have briefed their European counterparts of a possible Kremlin military operation in Ukraine’s east to annex territory similar to the 2014 annexation of the Crimean peninsula. The belief is that Putin is exploiting or creating the Belarus migrant crisis as a smoke screen or disruption operation to reduce resistance to an invasion.

OBSERVATION - Putin left a lot of equipment prepositioned last spring. US intel sources must be seeing additional troops coming into the region in addition to more armor. With winter coming on, Putin may be thinking af a lightening strike to seize Donbas region for the ‘separatists’. Hoping that the threat to shut off/limit natural gas to Europe being a sufficient threat to freeze any response.
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Middle East / N. Africa General -

On Thursday, the Yemeni media outlet Al-Masdar Online reported that Houthi jihadis in Yemen, which are backed by the Islamic Republic of Iran, stormed our embassy in Sana’a, seizing “large quantities of equipment and materials.” Just days before that, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), they “kidnapped three Yemeni nationals affiliated with the U.S. Embassy.”. A State Department spokesman confirmed the Yemeni report, saying: “The United States has been unceasing in its diplomatic efforts to secure their release. The majority of the detained have been released, but the Houthis continue to detain additional Yemeni employees of the embassy.” The U.S., the spokesman continued, is “concerned about the breach of the compound” and is calling “on the Houthis to immediately vacate it and return all seized property.”

OBSERVATION - US weakness has emboldened Iran to have its proxy force - the Houthi’s - to strike at a US embassy. Embassies are universally considered to be part of the nation they represent. Left unanswered - which this violation likely will ber - will only encourage more acts by Iran and its proxies against the US. BTW, biden removed Patriot missile systems from Saudi Arabia earlier this year as a quiet means of appeasing the mullahs.
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Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan -

In a phone conference with reporters on Monday, U.S. Special Envoy to Afghanistan Thomas West said the Biden administration is considering a “roadmap” to normalizing relations with the Taliban regime.
The vague roadmap West spoke of included some requirements the Taliban seems to have little interest in meeting. “We all want to see human rights, minority rights, and the rights of women and girls – including access to education at all levels throughout the country – respected, assured, and delivered upon. Statements are not enough. We want to see steps taken to form an inclusive and representative government, and that’s a point I think is especially shared by many regional powers as well.”.

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Belarus -

The border disputes between Belarus, Lithuania, and Poland are intensifying. Lithuania deployed an additional 2,500 soldiers to its border with Belarus, while an estimated 20,000 Polish soldiers deployed to their border with Belarus. U.S. Special Operations aircraft made several unannounced trips to Lielvārde, Latvia, potentially delivering special operations troops for an unconventional warfare campaign, in case the situation deteriorates.

Polish Border Guards: Tonight, we noted the use of a green laser by the Belarusian services. We assume that these were attempts to blind our officers and soldiers patrolling the border

On the Belarusian side, preparations are underway to create a large migrant camp on the border with Poland. Belarusian services deliver the necessary materials. Ministry of Defense of Belarus accuses Poland “and other countries” in desire to trigger armed conflict in Europe

Russian Ministry of Defense announces sudden combat readiness check for Russian Airborne troops to take part in a drill with Belarusian troops at firing range in Hrodna region of Belarus.

OBSERVATION - Increasing concern the Belarus migrant crisis may be a cover for Russian invasion of Ukraine Dombas region. EU pressure has started forcing airlines to stop transporting islamic individuals to Minsk - the current pipeline from the ME to Belarus. The natural gas weapon is still in play by Belarus.
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A U.S. appeals court on Friday affirmed its decision to put on hold an order by President Joe Biden for companies with 100 workers or more to require COVID-19 vaccines, rejecting a challenge by his administration.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans upheld the ruling despite the Biden administration saying on Monday that halting implementation of the rule could lead to the deaths of dozens or even hundreds of workers.
Further, the court cited a White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain retweet he made showing the OSHA rule is “the ultimate workaround” to institute the unconstitutional mandates.
OBSERVATION - Klain stepped in it, and the 5th took note of the lawlessness of the administration.
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Globalism / Great Reset -

The Queensland president of the Australian Medical Association said during a television appearance that people still refusing to get the vaccine will be “miserable” and “lonely” for the rest of their lives. “You won’t be able to hide, you won’t be able to get a doctor to sign off that you got an exclusion because there’s quite set rules on that and doctors will be audited, every one of their exclusions will be looked at very carefully,” he added, before threatening doctors with fines and termination. “It’s going to be very hard to maintain your employment if you’re not vaccinated and you won’t be able to go anywhere for any entertainment,” he said.
Perry concluded by saying that those who don’t get double jabbed will have “a very, very lonely life” and wouldn’t be able to maintain a job.
ELSEWHERE - Austria is to introduce a lockdown for unvaccinated people in two of Europe’s worst-hit coronavirus regions from Monday and could extend it across the country, the chancellor, Alexander Schallenberg, has said.
Millions of people not fully vaccinated against Covid in the regions of Upper Austria and Salzburg will be allowed to leave their homes only for reasons considered essential to life, such as going to work, grocery shopping or visiting the doctor, Schallenberg said – measures believed to be unprecedented in Europe.
The restrictions are in line with recommendations from medical experts and will be monitored through random checks that the health minister, Wolfgang Mückstein, compared to traffic controls.
Separately, the German government said it planned to tighten restrictions against unvaccinated people, as infections in both countries soared to record highs and intensive care units faced increasing strain.

In a recent interview with British politician Jeremy Hunt, Bill Gates said that governments around the world must begin to punish people for questioning mask and vaccine mandates online.

OBSERVATION - Tyranny for a virus with a 99.7% survival rate. Globalists are succeeding in forcing the jab on sheeple. We have gone way far past the “14 days to flatten the curve” into a 1984 dystopian world.

China and Saudi Arabia are among a group of countries seeking to prevent the UN climate deal in Scotland from including language that opposes fossil fuel subsidies, according to two sources close to the negotiations.
The issue of subsidies for oil, gas, and coal has become a major sticking point at the summit, where negotiators have already blown past a Friday deadline to strike an agreement aimed at keeping alive a goal to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Their objections may the cause of the draft agreement at the COP26 climate summit watering down commitments to end the use of coal and other fossil fuels. While the language around fossil fuels has been softened, the inclusion of the commitment in a final deal would be seen as a landmark moment.

OBSERVATION - Climate tsar Kerry earlier said the US will be coal free by 2030 - that may be the ultimate goal. However, China would find itself back in the literal dark ages if if has to shut down its coal power on that kind of a time table. Its already suffering severe power shortages. The stated goal of globalists still remains - eliminate fossil fuel.
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Economy -

United States agricultural suppliers are sounding the alarm over the rising cost of fertilizers that threatens to lower crop yields and worsen strains on global food supplies.
“It’s put a stranglehold on us,” said John Ortiz, sales manager at BigYield.us in Garden City, Missouri, an organization focused on creating strategies that increase the size and quality of crops grown on the farm using liquid nitrogen-based fertilizers.
“You’re always going to need seed. You’re always going to need fertilizer” to grow crops on a large scale, Ortiz told The Epoch Times. “People need to eat.”
Fertilizers have been in short supply in recent months due to the high cost of natural gas, a main ingredient used in their production.
Prices have nearly tripled in the past year alone, Ortiz said.
In 2020 it cost about $48 to treat one acre of top soil with fertilizer. In 2021 it costs around $120 an acre—an increase of $72, Ortiz said
As the world’s fourth largest producer of nitrogen-based fertilizers, the U.S. receives 20 percent of its urea and 40 percent of ammonium nitrate from Russia. China is also a big supplier of these products as the world’s second largest producer and exporter.

OBSERVATION - Increasing pressure on food supply. Last two years impacted global by weather issues, and wuhan, now the threat of lack of fertilizer necessary for modern production. We has to rely on unreliable sources now - Russia and china. .

In a rare moment of honesty, at the daily news briefing Psaki commented on skyrocketing gas prices: “Our view is that the rise in gas prices over the long term makes an even stronger case for doubling down our investment and our focus on clean energy options.”

Americans quit their jobs at a record pace for the second straight month in September, while businesses and other employers posted a near-record number of available jobs.
The Labor Department said Friday that 4.4 million people quit their jobs that month, or about 3% of the nation’s workforce. That’s up from 4.3 million in August. There were 10.4 million job openings, down from 10.6 million in August, which was revised higher.
OBSERVATION - Some view this as workers taking higher paying jobs. Some view it as a response to biden jab mandates. I think this is perhaps a 70/30 split at this stage. Jab mandates are definitely starting to hit hard now and the losses from resignations and firings should be showing up in a bigger way in next month’s report - though probably buried by the analysis.
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Invasion of Illegals -

Caravan leader Irineo Mujica, a dual citizen of America and Mexico, threatens the United States can expect a tsunami of tens of thousands of illegal migrants coming over the Southern border in the upcoming days and weeks. Mujica promised to convoke another caravan “in 10 days” in Veracruz, Mexico, that will join with the existing caravan of around 4,000 Haitian migrants. Mujica called for two caravans to meet up and merge in Veracruz on November 18th. Mexico has been impotent in stopping the current surge being organized.
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Biden watch -

President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping will hold their much-anticipated virtual summit on Monday evening as the two sides look to dial back tensions after a rough start to the U.S.-China relationship since Biden took office earlier this year.
The White House is setting low expectations for the video call between the leaders. The meeting will be the third engagement between the two leaders since February.
OBSERVATION - Low expectations indeed! China is in the position of power and they know it.
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CW2/Domestic violence -

Wisconson’s governor has authorized the deployment of 500 National Guard solders to back up law enforcement after the verdict is given in the Rittenhouse trial. The National Guard will only engage if local law enforcement requests that they spring into action, and Governor Evers’ press release makes clear that the National Guard cannot “impede” so-called peaceful protest or media reporting, and Evers’ statement encourages people to “peacefully” protest.

Other BLM/Antifa violence prone cities are also making preparations.

The liberal utopia of Seattle has become so dangerous that county employees will now have security guards escorting them to mass transit stations. On November 15, King County begins its “Walking Bus” program, where county employees working in downtown Seattle and Pioneer Square will walk with a security guard to and from the nearby train station and ferry terminal.

“No Oklahoma Guardsman will be required to take the COVID-19 Vaccine,” Army Brig. Gen. Thomas Mancino wrote in a Thursday memo.
The newly installed head of the Oklahoma National Guard has ordered that troops under his command will not be forced to comply with the Pentagon’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for members of the armed forces.
“No Oklahoma Guardsman will be required to take the COVID-19 Vaccine,” Army Brig. Gen. Thomas Mancino wrote in a Thursday memo. The memo was at odds with a Defense Department directive that the “total force” - including the National Guard - must be vaccinated against COVID-19.
Mancino noted in the memo that Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt is the organization’s “lawful Commander in Chief” when not under federal orders, implying that Stitt - not Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin - has the final call on any vaccine mandate.

OBSERVATION - This is a direct challenge to the jabbers in the Pentagon. Could represent the first attempted SPLIT from the federal forces. Much law fare is expected from this fallout, with lots of other states looking on to see if they could do the same.

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CYBER/CANCEL CULTURE FRONT -

Senate Commerce Republicans are whipping opposition to the nomination of Gigi Sohn, one of President Joe Biden’s picks for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
Biden nominated Sohn, former FCC counsel under Tom Wheeler and Ford Foundation alum, to an empty spot on the commission in late October, along with current acting Chair Jessica Rosenworcel to the permanent position.
While Republicans have been quiet in their response to the nomination of Rosenworcel, many are pointing to Sohn’s public statements on conservatives as reasons to oppose her confirmation.
“Ms. Sohn is another radical leftist that President Biden is seeding his administration with,” Sen. Ron Johnson told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Her hostility to free speech and constitutional rights is breathtaking and should be a grave concern to every American.”
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China -

Defence Minister Peter Dutton says Australia will help defend Taiwan against China if war breaks out and our allies are forced to act - as he revealed why France was kept in the dark about the ditched $90billion submarine deal.
Celebrating 20 years in parliament, Mr Dutton acknowledged China’s status as an economic and military superpower but said backing the US to protect Taiwan was vital to leave Australia in a global position of strength.
‘(China’s) been very clear about their intent to go into Taiwan and we need to make sure that there is a high level of preparedness, a greater sense of deterrence by our capability, and that is how I think we put our country in a position of strength,’ he told The Australian.
‘It would be inconceivable that we wouldn’t support the US in an action if the US chose to take that action.’

See Biden watch above for Monday’s video meeting.

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Russia -

Undersea sensors off the coast of northern Norway that are able to collect data about passing submarines, among other things, have been knocked out, the country’s state-operated Institute of Marine Research, or IMR, has revealed. The cause of the damage is unknown, but the cables linking the sensor nodes to control stations ashore are said to have been cut and then disappeared. This has raised suspicions about deliberate sabotage, possibly carried out by the Russian government, which definitely has the means to do so.
OBSERVATION - Cold war era tactic that is disturbing in today’s increasingly unstable world.

The Estonian military is preparing to stretch 130 km of barbed wire along the Russian border, if needed. The Minister of Defense said that it is necessary to prepare in case of a “hybrid attack”, as on the Belarusian border.
OBSERVATION - The Baltic Countries fear a Russian return. For those of a younger generation, the former Soviet Union was particularly brutal to those living in those countries.

Recent OSINT satellite imagery of the Syrian port of Tartus appears to show efforts to create a large smokescreen to obscure Russia’s strategic naval base there. Russian forces have reportedly conducted similar activities at this facility on at least one occasion in the past. Review of the photos indicate the attempt was less than successful.

See Europe General RE Serbian sanctions
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Ukraine -

Tensions continue to rise over Russian military deployments near Ukraine. The country’s parliament is considering a draft law No. 5844 “On The Principles Of State Policy In Transition” Russia views it as proclamation of withdrawal from the Minsk treaty.
In other words ~”pass this bill and there will be war”
OBSERVATION - If Russia decides to go for it, it will likely be a limited invasion, essentially seizing the Dombas region currently being fought over. To go further would invite a real big war. By nibbling away at Ukraine they may hope to mitigate that threat. That and the blackmail threat of no natural gas to Europe.
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Europe General -

Western powers are preparing sanctions against separatist Bosnian Serbs in a confrontation that could tear Bosnia apart and trigger a new Balkans conflict.
According to diplomatic sources, the US and UK are drawing up new measures to punish the nationalist Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, and Germany is leading a push for the European Union to follow suit.

Call for sanctions are due in part to Serbian movement closer to Russia, including receiving arms from it. Serbian parliament speaker Ivica Dacic said Russia is Serbia’s best ally and protects its “territorial integrity” — referring to Moscow’s support for Belgrade’s refusal to recognize the independence of its former province of Kosovo, declared in 2008. Unlike neighboring Montenegro, North Macedonia and Albania, Serbia did not join Western sanctions against Russia following its annexation of Crimea from Ukraine or the arrest of the Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny.

OBSERVATION - Some see this as Russia trying to utilize another country as a proxy force to destabilize Europe and permit it to maneuver for greater control. The former Yugoslavian region is still on edge following the break up of the country at the end of the cold war and the vicious civil war that followed.
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Israel -

Israel has a new weapon in its defense arsenal. The weapon, which reportedly can halt electronic capabilities of an enemy, is part of a new suite of electromagnetic warfare called Scorpius.
The Scorpius “missiles” send narrowly targeted beams of energy that disrupt enemy electronic sensors, navigation, radar or other electronic activity, according to Gideon Fustick, the marketing VP of Israel Aerospace Industries, Israel’s state-run defense contractor. But he said the new Scorpius weapons have an advantage over older forms of electromagnetic warfare because they can send targeted beams without interfering with unintended targets. He described Israel’s new weapon as a “revolution in warfare.”
This weapon has both ground and airborne based systems.

OBSERVATION - This has the potential to take EW to a very high level.
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Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan -

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday announced that the United States and Qatar have agreed that Qatar will represent the diplomatic interests of the United States in Afghanistan.

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Central America General -

The U.S. government is urging U.S. citizens to leave Haiti because of the country’s deepening insecurity and a severe lack of fuel that has affected hospitals, schools and banks. Gas stations remained closed on Thursday. Canada also issued a similar warning on Wednesday: “If you’re in Haiti and your presence isn’t essential, consider leaving if you can do so safely.”
The warnings comes as U.S. and Haitian authorities are trying to secure the safe release of 17 members of a missionary group from Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries who were kidnapped by the 400 Mawozo gang on Oct. 16. There are five children in the group of 16 U.S. citizens and one Canadian. Their Haitian driver also was abducted.
The rare warning from the U.S. State Department comes as Haiti’s government and police are struggling to control gangs that have blocked fuel distribution terminals for several weeks.
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Next week I’m developing a plan to include a qualitative threat color to the different categories. I’m doing this to help me keep events focused in view of long term activity. The threat color status will come on on Fridays (hopefully) and reflect more than just the previous week’s activity. If there is a change, I will note it in a comment and why. It is easy to become numb to the volume of threats to this country from all the different vectors. At first they will be qualitative, hopefully I can come up with a more quantitive method to address any personal bias. My scale will be as follows -

Green - An area worth noting, but not immediately impacting on ‘US safety
Yellow - Incidents increasing and needing further monitoring
Orange - This is the moderate concern level. Definitely becoming a threat but in the longer term.
Red - A definite threat in both short term and long term. Some active events occurring
Black - Active and ongoing. Examples of this would be 2020 rioting, etc.

Open to thoughts.
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Wuhan virus -

CDC has conspicuously avoided updating the numbers on their website pertaining to natural immunity. It is information that could contribute to opposition to both the Covid-19 vaccines themselves as well as the mandates that are rapidly popping up across the country. They withheld this update, which requires approximately three minutes to accomplish, for five months.
It has acknowledged that far more people have natural immunity than was earlier reported. The CDC reports that a staggering 146.6 million people have been infected by the wuhan virus and have survived it.
The CDC estimates that 124 million of the 146.6 million infections resulted in “symptomatic illnesses,” although it is unclear why only one in four infections sought out medical treatment. The CDC further estimated that there were 7.5 million hospitalizations, although ‘hospitalizations’ may include routine treatment that happened to turn up a positive Covid-19 test, greatly inflating the figures.
146.6 million is at least 44 percent of the U.S. population, it may be an underestimate, based on the CDC’s earlier calculations. The CDC’s figures estimated in May that at least 120 million Americans had been infected with Covid-19. Bcause the CDC estimated (and continues to estimate) there have been at least four Covid infections for every case reported, then based on its report of 46.9 million cases, then there would be 187.6 million Americans who were infected and thus possess ‘natural immunity.’

No U.S. military branch has granted a request for religious accommodations from the COVID-19 vaccine mandate, military officials said in court filings Friday. Over 16,000 U.S. service members have submitted applications for a religious exception, not a single one approved.

A report from Britain is stirring up things. In it, it appears that the wuhan shot degrades natural immunity by as much as 50% in some instances and age groups. Pro-jabbers jumped on the statistical analysis are issued a rebuttal via the daily mail

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10155799/Stats-watchdog-scolds-PHE-replacement-data-misuse-supports-anti-vaxxers.html‘

However, a Swiss study confirms the analysis in part.
SARS–CoV–2 Spike Impairs DNA Damage Repair and Inhibits V(D)J Recombination In Vitro – https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/10/2056/htm by Hui Jiang and Ya-Fang Mei
Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner–Gren Institute, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden and Department of Clinical Microbiology, Virology, Umeå University, SE-90185 Umeå, Sweden
From the abstract - “Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS–CoV–2) has led to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID–19) pandemic, severely affecting public health and the global economy. Adaptive immunity plays a crucial role in fighting against SARS–CoV–2 infection and directly influences the clinical outcomes of patients. Clinical studies have indicated that patients with severe COVID–19 exhibit delayed and weak adaptive immune responses; however, the mechanism by which SARS–CoV–2 impedes adaptive immunity remains unclear. Here, by using an in vitro cell line, we report that the SARS–CoV–2 spike protein significantly inhibits DNA damage repair, which is required for effective V(D)J recombination in adaptive immunity. Mechanistically, we found that the spike protein localizes in the nucleus and inhibits DNA damage repair by impeding key DNA repair protein BRCA1 and 53BP1 recruitment to the damage site. Our findings reveal a potential molecular mechanism by which the spike protein might impede adaptive immunity and underscore the potential side effects of full-length spike-based vaccines. “

‘The significance of this study is not merely that mRNA vaccines prevent your DNA from repairing itself which will cause immunological disorders, cancer and premature ageing. The problem is that the mRNA is going into your cell nuclei. That is straight up gene therapy – not vaccination. mRNA should go directly to the protein assembly plants in your cells called ribosomes, which it should instruct to manufacture the protein spikes. It should not be going anywhere near the cell nucleus. Entering the cell nucleus means it is performing or effectively performing reverse transcription and making itself a part of or an addition to your genetic code. “

OBSERVATION - Now empirical evidence from the course of this ‘epidemic’ showing the damage to the system caused by the jab. These concerns have been popping up more and more lately, only to be put down by the powers that be. Persistent science studies like this are becoming harder to refute, so they are carefully kept from the eyes of sheeple.

RUMINT - There has been a presumed laboratory leak of COVID-19 at East China University of Science and Technology.
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Globalism / Great Reset -

Saule Omarova, President Joe Biden’s nominee for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), called during a March 2021 virtual conference to eliminate all private bank accounts and deposits.
Omarova discussed one of her papers, “The People’s Ledger How to Democratize Money and Finance the Economy,” which would help “redesign” the financial system and make the economy “more equitable for everyone.”
She said it would change the “private-public power balance” and democratize finance to a more systemic level.
During her conference speech, she said, “There will be no more private bank accounts, and all of the deposit accounts will be held directly at the Fed”:
OBSERVATION - This on top of wanting to bankrupt the fossil fuel industry. Total control of people’s money is what the globalilists desire for their great reset. biden is trying to do his part to help.

The COP26 UN climate talks in Glasgow have finished and the gavel has come down on the Glasgow Climate Pact agreed by all 197 countries. The Pact is the first ever climate deal to explicitly plan to reduce coal, the worst fossil fuel for greenhouse gases.
The deal also presses for more urgent emission cuts and promises more money for developing countries - to help them adapt to climate impacts. But for many, the pledges don’t go far enough to limit temperature rise to 1.5C. As part of the agreement, countries will meet next year to pledge further major carbon cuts with the aim of reaching the 1.5C goal.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the planet was “hanging by a thread”. “We are still knocking on the door of climate catastrophe... it is time to go into emergency mode - or our chance of reaching net zero will itself be zero.”

OBSERVATION - Note the “emergency mode” comment. This has been batted around since the success of wuhan ‘crisis’ as a vehicle to force carbon reductions. However, the energy crisis being felt by the world this winter will probably put the brakes on this plan until this spring as countries can ill afford to shut down coal and risk the physical impacts at this time.

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Economy -

Data released on Friday by the University of Michigan found that “consumer sentiment fell in early November to its lowest level in a decade,” driven by what researchers said was “an escalating inflation rate and the growing belief among consumers that no effective policies have yet been developed to reduce the damage from surging inflation.”

More on farming concerns. China produces almost one-third of the world’s phosphate, and it has been reported that China has banned all exports of phosphates during the first half of 2022. This will increase fertilizer shortages globally over the next growing season.
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Biden watch -

Video conference with China’s Xi Monday evening.

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CW2/Domestic violence -

Storm clouds growing pending the Rittenhouse verdict.
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Domestic Terror -

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued updated its National Terrorism Advisory System, providing insight to the department’s priorities. Threats from the Islamic State and other terrorist organizations are likely to remain “highly visible online” to inspire lone-wolf attacks in the U.S. Domestic Violent Extremist (DVE) groups remain the highest priority as “pandemic-related stressors have contributed to increased societal strains and tensions.” The department expects an increase in attacks from DVEs over public health restrictions, Afghan refugees, and anti-government sentiment. In response, DHS is “engaging industry partners to help them identify and respond to the spread of disinformation, conspiracy theories, and false narratives.” (FO)

It was revealed that in 2020 an attempted attack on the power grid using drones was stopped. Now analysis’s are growing increasingly concerned that domestic terrorists will adapt the technology here in the wake of the attempt on the Iraqi PM’s live last week. Helicopter drones are abundant on the open market and can easily be modified to carry bombs/explosives. With the improved guidance and lift capabilities they have the potential as the go to weapon for future attacks.
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Cyber Warfare -

Someone breached the FBI’s servers, and the hackers sent spam emails warning of fake attacks. Bleeping Computer reports:
The emails pretended to warn about a “sophisticated chain attack” from an advanced threat actor known, who they identify as Vinny Troia. Troia is the head of security research of the dark web intelligence companies NightLion and Shadowbyte.
Spamhaus noted that the emails went out to at least 100,000 recipients in a database.
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China -

The record-breaking snowstorm and severe winds that hit northeastern China have reportedly killed 6.4 million heads of livestock. This is a crushing blow to their already strained food production that has been hit by two years of severe floods and livestock illnesses, let along wuhan disruptions. .

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India/China -

Indian Gen. Bipin Rawat, the chief of India’s defense staff, told reporters on Friday that although China has recently built villages along its unmarked Himalayan boundary with India, the outposts are “well within” the Chinese side of the border, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported.
“They are building this infrastructure, [these] kind of so-called villages, which are well within their side of the LAC. They have not transgressed anywhere on our perception of the LAC,” Gen. Rawat told reporters on November 12. He referred to the LAC, or “Line of Actual Control,” which is New Delhi’s official name for the unmarked India-China border in the Himalayas.
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Russia -

See Ukraine and Belarus activity
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Ukraine -

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy stated that there are currently almost 100,000 Russian troops stationed near the Ukrainian border and that the West has shared intel on troop movements by Russia.
Former head of U.S. Army Europe says that what we are seeing is nothing new, but a continuation of what started back in April regarding the military buildup of Russian forces on the Ukrainian border. Lieutenant General Ben Hodges told White House Correspondent Jacqui Heinrich, “What we’re seeing is actually not something new. It’s a continuation of what started back in April. They never really went back to their barracks”.

OBSERVATION - New analysis of the Russian deployment indicates that Putin is putting military capabilities in place for a very quick military intervention into either Belarus or Ukraine. And through Belarus he can touch Poland and the Baltic nations.
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Iran -

Now appears that two strong earthquakes, a shallow, 6.3 (10 km depth) and a 6.0-6.2 (5.6 km depth) magnitude earthquakes stuck just north of Bandar Abbas this morning. Has the potential for a lot of damage, few reports yet as i type.
NOTE - This pair of quakes could still be original estimates and may eventually be coalesced into a single quake as seismic results are further analyzed - given that the time is the same for both (0700 UTC). This is not uncommon as early results are often based on computer analysis with later updates based on human reevaluation of the data.
Cool videos of vehicles stopped on the side of a road being bounced around by aftershocks.

NOTE - Bandar Abbas is a key location for Iran on the Straits of Hormuz, housing a lot of their military bases.

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Saudi Arabia -

Saudi has greenlighted its business, private, and governmental sectors to trade with Israel, for now via Bahrain and the UAE. Such Israeli-Saudi transactions have already been made in recent months.
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Syria -

Qatari Foreign Minister: We are not currently considering normalization with the Assad government, and we believe that it must be held accountable for its crimes
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Belarus -

Belarus wants Russian nuclear-capable Iskander missile systems to deploy them in the south and west of the country, President Alexander Lukashenko said in an interview with a Russian defense magazine published today.
However, the publication of the interview comes after Russia’s President Vladimir Putin suggested he was growing frustrated with the Belarusian strongman after Lukashenko threatened on Thursday to retaliate against any new European Union sanctions against Minsk over the migrant standoff by restricting Europe’s gas supply. Analysts say Lukashenko’s gas comments have likely tested Putin’s patience, because he didn’t clear the threat with Putin first. Russian gas supplies already at the centre of heated debate in Europe.

OBSERVATION - Possible that Putin is loosing control over the ‘narrative’ and he is trying to reign in this loose cannon.

The bitter dispute between Warsaw and Minsk dramatically escalated last night when Belarusian troops ripped up the border fence and prevented Polish soldiers from rebuilding it. Film footage released this morning by Poland’s Border Force reveals how its troops were blinded by lasers and strobe lights as they tried to shore up the frontier. A spokesman for the Polish Border Force told MailOnline: ‘Last night near Czeremcha, Belarusian soldiers began to destroy the temporary border by tearing up fence posts.
‘Polish forces were blinded by laser beams and strobe light,’ they said. ‘Also, a group of about 100 migrants were to cross and Poland says Belarusians gave them tear gas, which was used against the Polish forces.’

OBSERVATION - Its this kind of stuff that starts wars.

MOST recent - Poland is reporting more and more groups of armed Belorussian officers are on the border. The Polish border service claims that migrants receive instructions, equipment and gas from Belarusian servicemen. “Some tents started to disappear. Belarusians are preparing today for a big border crossing attempt” All Polish security services are on standby.

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