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2 Thessalonians 2:11-12 – “Yahweh shall send them a strong delusion, so that they will believe the lie. The result will be that all who have not believed the truth, but have taken their pleasure in wickedness, will be condemned.”

Wuhan Virus - Its not about the virus - its all about control
Show us your papers - The Biden administration is considering implementing mandatory coronavirus testing for travelers on U.S. domestic flights. Dr. Marty Cetron, director for the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told reporters Tuesday that the administration is “actively looking” into imposing the domestic travel testing requirement. This is on top of international testing requirement, which took effect Tuesday. As of Jan. 26, all U.S.-bound travelers must test negative for COVID-19 within three days of boarding their flights or present proof of having recovered from the virus.
In a related Fauci has said vaccination is not “a free pass” to travel.
NOTE - this won’t stop at just air travel, but expect it to encompass all forms of travel. Its not about the virus - its all about control

The highest paid government employee (even paid more than the president), Fauci is now recommending you wear TWO masks. CNBC talking heads went one further, saying a Virginia Tech study indicates that THREE masks would block up to 90% of the virus.
NOTE - too bad you suffocate in the process, attributed to wuhan. Virginia Kruta, associate editor at The Daily Caller, rounded it all up in one succinct tweet. “Masks don’t work don’t buy them. Ok masks work but first responders need them so don’t buy them. Actually masks work, you should use them. Everyone should mandate masks. Masks should even be worn in your home. Two masks are better than one. No one saw this coming?”

In a case of who was president at this time - Federal officials at the Department of Health and Human Services raided funds from a little-known agency intended for vaccine research and emergency preparedness, spending millions to move furniture and pay unrelated salaries, according to a new report from a federal watchdog.
An office within the HHS that oversees the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, or BARDA, “failed to account for” more than $500 million it used for administrative expenses between 2007 and 2016, according to the HHS Inspector General’s office, the agency’s investigative arm.

Economy -
biden mouthpieces on switching out from petroleum to ‘green’ based economy like John Kerry say petrochemical workers can get job (yet to even exist) in the green system. How well will that work out? According to data from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2019 a worker installing solar panels made an average of a little more than $21 an hour. Workers in oil and gas extraction made more than twice as much, at an average of over $42 an hour. But for a leach who married a ketchup billionaire - who cares, right?

Hedge funds took a beating yesterday after selling short essentially more stocks than were available. A Reddit group that drove GameStop shares 1,700% higher and cost Wall Street short-sellers billions briefly goes PRIVATE and messaging platform Discord BANS their server for ‘hate speech’ in the wake of SEC and White House ‘monitoring’ Losses for Gamestop stocks were 14.3 billion alone. This caused shudders through the entire market which dropped over 600 points - largest since Oct 2020.

Western Energy Alliance, a group representing fossil fuel producers on federal lands, filed a Federal lawsuit in Wyoming agains the US govt.. They say President Biden exceeded his authority with the recent order.

biden has ordered federal agencies to procure carbon pollution-free electricity and clean, zero-emission vehicles. Reason - to create good-paying, union jobs and stimulate clean energy industries. These jobs don’t exist but in the minds of deluded individuals like biden.

USDA late Wednesday posted notice that $2.3 billion in supplemental Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) payments will be temporarily frozen. “In accordance with the White House memo, Regulatory Freeze Pending Review, USDA has suspended the processing and payments under the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program - Additional Assistance and has halted implementation until further notice. FSA local offices will continue to accept applications during the evaluation period,” said a notice on the USDA CFAP page.

Chuck Schumer stated that it could be a month to a month and a half before the senate can get to and pass biden’t updated wuhan stimulus package. Seems the senate has other priories.

Invasion of Illegals -
Though currently restrained by Federal court order, ICE is forces to begin planning to release tens of thousands, mostly violent illegal aliens, onto the streets of the US with no ability to track/monitor.

CW2/Domestic violence -
The Acting Secretary of Homeland Security has issued a National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) Bulletin today after consultation with the intelligence community and law enforcement partners. There is currently a heightened threat environment across the United States that is likely to persist over the coming weeks. DHS does not have any information to indicate a specific, credible plot; however, violent riots have continued in recent days and we remain concerned that individuals frustrated with the exercise of governmental authority and the presidential transition, as well as other perceived grievances and ideological causes fueled by false narratives, could continue to mobilize a broad range of ideologically-motivated actors to incite or commit violence. HINT = targeting Trump supporters
NOTE - Key items
1 - ‘violent riots have continued in recent days’ These are BLM/Antifa operations but they try to attribute it to patriots in the second half of the sentence - “concerned that individuals frustrated with the exercise of governmental authority and the presidential transition”.
2 - DHS does not have any information to indicate a specific, credible plot. Yes, there is a lot of chatter from both the far left and the far right, but note again, they smear the far more aggressive left onto the right.

Full bulletin -
https://www.dhs.gov/ntas/advisory/national-terrorism-advisory-system-bulletin-january-27-2021

Rep. Kyle Biedermann of Fredericksburg, Texas, filed the “Texas Independence Referendum Act,” which is seen as the necessary first step towards the Lone Star State leaving the union. Many other states are keeping an eye on Texas’ actions and my jump on the band wagon is the draconian laws and regulations being proposed by biden are put into effect.

CYBER/CANCEL CULTURE FRONT -
Twitter troll Douglass Mackey, aka Ricky Vaughn, was arrested on Wednesday and faces ten years in prison for “tweeting” and “retweeting” joke memes on Twitter telling people they can “text” in their votes. In part the charges state he “was arrested this morning on charges of conspiring with others in advance of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election to use various social media platforms to disseminate misinformation designed to deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote.”
STATING THE OBVIOUS - If people were stupid enough to believe the memes, they shouldn’t be voting in the first place.

China -
China toughened its language towards Taiwan on Thursday, warning after recent stepped up military activities near the island that “independence means war” and that its armed forces were acting in response to provocation and foreign interference. Taiwan…reported multiple Chinese fighter jets and bombers entering its southwestern air defence identification zone…prompting Washington to urge Beijing to stop pressuring Taiwan.
MY OBSERVATION - It is looking even more likely that China may attempt to seize the island of Taiwan within the next couple years. I think that they are waiting for social and economic chaos to ignite in the US due to the dictatorial push by the left to tie our hands into not responding.

Russia -
Russia doubling down on the Alexei Navalny movement. Russian authorities on Thursday detained several allies of opposition leader Alexei Navalny and issued warnings to social media giants after tens of thousands of people took to the streets in over 100 Russian cities last weekend to demand his release.
The detention of Navalny’s brother Oleg, his top ally Lyubov Sobol, Dr. Anastasia Vasilyeva from the Navalny-backed Alliance of Doctors and Maria Alyokhina from the Pussy Riot punk collective comes as authorities try to stem another wave of protests set for Sunday. (WP)
Putin has further order social media (FB,Twitter, et al) to censor all messaging by Navalny’s supporters.

Middle East General -
biden SecState Antony Blinken announced Wednesday that there will be a suspension of arms deals may by the Trump administration. Foremost on his list is the sale of F35s to UAE and precision guided munitions to Saudi Arabia.

Israel -
biden is pushing quickly to reestablish relations with Gaza and principally Hamas. he is pushing the two-state solution as the only way towards peace. Hamas for its part is looking forward to eating from the gravy train of assistance to the Palestinian government coming from washington.

Iran -
Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization spokesman Behrooz Kamalvandi: In under 3 months, we will have installed 1000 IR2m centrifuges. We are simultaneously producing while installing these machines. Iran currently has 17kg of 20% enriched uranium. 90% purity is necessary for nominal nuclear weapons.

Lebanon -
Joining with riots reported around the globe (focused on Europe), Lebanon has wuhan riots that have gone on for the past couple days, and the situation in Tripoli have deteriorated quickly, with numerous gun fights being reported. At least 226 civilians and military personnel have been reported as being ‘wounded’ so far.
NOTE - Lebanon has been a powder keg for some time now. Desperate economic conditions, heavy handedness by Hezbollah (who essentially rule the country), wuhan virus woes now have pushed people to the breaking point again. I can expect Hezbollah to step in and start brutally putting some of these protests down like they have others.

Globalism / Great Reset -
This week, Schwab’s World Economic Forum hosted the world’s elite — everyone from national leaders to billionaire investors, business leaders and economists to social justice activists — most of whom joined virtually. World leaders look to the WEF each year to glean insights into the future of economics, finance, and money. Wuhan’s impact on the global economy was center stage. Much of the discussion of recovery from wuhan pandemic focused on transferring wealth from industrialized countries to the developing world. Discussions stressed that significant changes need to be made on the other side. One point was eliminating nationalism and embracing globalism.

Keep these goals of the great reset in mind as you view the news.
1) Perpetual pandemic lockdowns and economic controls until the population submits to medical tyranny.
2) Medical passports and contact tracing as a part of everyday life.
3) The censorship and de-platforming of all voices that oppose the agenda.
4) Greatly reduced economic activity in the name of stopping “climate change”.
5) Greatly increased poverty and the loss of private property.
6) The introduction of “Universal Basic Income” in which the government becomes the all-powerful welfare provider and nursemaid for a generation of dependent and desperate people.
7) A cashless society and digital currency system where privacy in trade is completely erased.
8) creation of a “shared economy” in which no one will own anything and independent production is outlawed.
9) The deletion of national borders and the end of sovereignty and self-determination.
10) The centralization of global political power into the hands of a select few elitists.

Wuhan Virus - Its not about the virus - its all about control
NYP reports Gov. Cuomo’s Health Department understated the number of New Yorkers who died in nursing homes during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic by more than 50 percent as the facilities struggled to properly isolate and treat residents amid a state order they not turn away COVID-19 patients.
The bombshell finding was contained in a new 76-page report released Thursday by state Attorney General Letitia James, which found that mismanagement and long-standing problems in the private care business turned nursing homes into COVID death traps.

Economy -
STRICTLY MY OPINION, DON’T TAKE IT TO THE BANK. I’m not an economist nor engage in stock market related trading, so I’m trying to get my mind around the whole Reddit group assault on GameShop and AMC stocks (there are other companies that were targeted as well like Nokia). The trading chaos is not the fault of GameStop, AMC, Nokia or others, it is the fault of hedge fund short sales. There are some out there saying this goes beyond the short trading and into the realm of a populist revolt that some link to an incipient Fourth Generation war. Fourth Generation War is waged by tribal entities, against each other or against the state (sometimes both), and it exists because citizens increasingly give their allegiance to their tribes — social, ideological, political, racial/ethnic, religious, etc. — rather than to the nation-state.

Another view is that folks that got burned in 2008 when companies sold naked stocks decided not to be burned this time, organized and pounced. The company “Robinhood” who’s app is used by many traders is now being sued for interfering with trades and potentially illegally selling user stocks in the affair.

Instead of taking the loss, the elite class struck back. Reddit restricted access to the Wall Street Bets forum (where the GameStop plan was hatched), chat service Discord deleted the Wall Street Bets server, NASDAQ (the exchange where GameStop is listed) suggested a future trading halt “to give investors a chance to recalibrate their positions,” and popular trading apps like Robinhood restricted new buy orders on GameStop to reverse the rise of the stock price. Instead of giving up, members of the digital populist revolt are vowing to redouble their efforts to drive the GameStop share prices higher and punish the hedge funds, even if it means financial ruin. Government involvement with new regulations and licenses is a probable outcome.

However, the newly minted Treasury Secretary Yellen received millions from short sell firm Citadel associated with the GameStop upheaval. Citadel handles about 60% of Robinhood’s trades.

Questions are arising if the same tactic is starting to hit the metals market. Precious metals ETFs and mining stocks are suddenly snapped higher Thursday morning, raising questions about whether the Reddit Rebellion is migrating to one of the most manipulated markets of all. As of noon local Thursday, prices were down to a +$0.54 / oz for silver after an initial run of +$1.50/oz, and now back up again to close higher.

BOTTOM LINE - Expect more chaos on these sectors of wall street. The exposure of naked stock sales (made illegal after 2008) show things haven’t changed much. The status quo has been upset. The question is how much of the bleeding reach into the rest of the market?
I don’t know if this helps, but here is an interesting take on the events -
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/suck-it-wall-street
https://www.americanpartisan.org/2021/01/elites-versus-you-the-crescendo-begins-to-peak/

CW2/Domestic violence -
Anarchist groups are calling for shifting the center of their operations from major metropolitan areas like Portland/Seattle, and into suburbs and smaller cities. They believe that they can out maneuver the police in those areas and spreading out other forces. Last summer we saw the attempt to move into these areas and they were met with mixed results, depending on the backbone of the residents. Usually smaller cities gave greater push back than some suburbs where more privileged tended to live.

Authorities are wanting permanent fencing to be installed surrounding the nation’s capitol. Walls work when liberals want them i guess.

POLITICAL FRONT -
A Democratic congressman from California will try to have Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Georgia Republican, expelled from the House. In a statement Wednesday night, Rep. Jimmy Gomez said he will introduce a resolution to kick Ms. Greene out of the chamber “in light of numerous reports revealing her repeated endorsements of sedition, domestic terrorism, and political violence.”

AOC accused Sen Cruz of “trying to get her killed” all because Cruz agreed with her on a GameStop issue. Democrats in the House have become increasingly hysterical about their safety and threats for the other side of the isle. Pelosi said Thursday that House Republicans pose a threat to Democrats, and she pledged additional federal money to boost security in the Capitol. When asked to elaborate on the enemies comment, Pelosi told the Washington Examiner, “It means we have members of Congress who want to bring guns on the floor and have threatened violence on other members of Congress.”

China -
People with British National (Overseas) status – a legacy of UK rule over Hong Kong up to 1997 – will be able to apply to live and work in the UK for up to five years, and eventually seek citizenship, under rules that were changed after China imposed the National Security Law on the territory last year. Any Hong Kong resident born before 1997 is eligible for BN(O) status and the new rules mean an estimated 2.9 million adults in Hong Kong and a further 2.3 million dependents could be eligible to move to the UK. Hong Kong has a population of about 7.5 million people.
NOTE - this is most of the population of HK and would seriously drain the brain and money trust of the former colony while denying China the wealth therein. I expect that China may retaliate in some measure to prevent an exodus on this scale.

I mentioned the other day that I was concerned of a China/Taiwan clash within the next two years. The following link has a broader discussion of the geopolitical peering into the tea leaves about what is on the mind of Chinese and biden administration leadership. Good read.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/2021-year-china-and-taiwan-clash-177022

Lebanon -
Rioting continued in Tripoli, with the town hall being stormed, documents being ‘searched’ and then set on fire.

Afghanistan -
The Taliban are not meeting the promises they made in the peace agreement with the United States, including reducing violence and cutting ties with Al-Qaeda, the Pentagon said Thursday.
“We are still involved in trying to get a negotiated settlement. The Taliban have not met their commitments,” said Pentagon spokesman John Kirby. The Trump administration came to an agreement in February 2020 that required the Taliban to halt attacks on US forces, sharply decrease the level of violence in the country, and advance peace talks with the government in Kabul. In return, the United States would steadily reduce its force level in the country, and remove all forces by May 2021.
OBSERVATION - I suspect the Taliban and AQ see us as week now that biden is president, so i don’t expect much movement on their part. biden won’t drop a MOAB on them like Trump did.

Turkey -
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to meet with Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif today in Istanbul. They’e expected to focus on developments in Syria and forming a 5+1 group for the Caucasus region that would include Iran, Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia.
NOTE - Turkey is trying to further establish itself as the real leader in the region, usurping Russia’s influence (but threw them a bone recognizing that they can’t be ignored).