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Actually got a good nights sleep (dreams make leg move, causing pain and waking me up) Actually slept in! So a little late again.
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Wuhan virus -
Pfizer asked the U.S. government Thursday to allow use of its COVID-19 vaccine in children ages 5 to 11 — and if regulators agree, shots could begin within a matter of weeks.
NOTE - Children are at a far lesser risk of severe illness or death than older people, with less than 700 reported deaths nation wide since the start of the pandemic. Also note- there are increasing rumors that Pfizer has used orphans to test their jab. If verified, all heck should break loose.

In related - Swedish health officials on Wednesday paused usage of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for younger people and children after reports of possible side effects including myocarditis, while Denmark also announced that it halted the shot for those under the age of 18. Officials have “decided to pause the use of Moderna’s vaccine, Spikevax, for everyone born in 1991 and later, for precautionary reasons,” reads a statement from the Swedish health agency published on Wednesday, according to a translation from Swedish to English.
The agency further added there is “an increased risk of side effects such as inflammation of the heart muscle or heart sac,” noting that the risk is “very small.”
The agency said it now recommends the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine instead for people born in 1991 or later, noting that the decision is valid until Dec. 1. Those from that age group who got the first Moderna dose should not get a second dose, the agency added.
New data from Swedish and other Nordic sources “indicate that the connection is especially clear” between Moderna’s vaccine and side effects “especially after the second dose.”
“Both myocarditis and pericarditis often go away on their own, without causing any lasting problems, but suspicious symptoms should be assessed by a doctor at … a health center or emergency room,” said the agency. But it noted that “medical treatment and monitoring in hospital may be needed in established cases.”

OBSERVATION - Increasing connection between the jab and myocarditis and pericarditis is being established by investigators globally. The wuhan cultists will seek to steamroll these results to push the jab.

According to a large Israeli study, the natural immune protection that develops after a SARS-CoV-2 infection offers considerably more of a shield against the Delta variant of the pandemic coronavirus than two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Along with this is another study showing that the jabs are having significantly less protectiveness than we’ve been told. Study also confirmed natural protection from recovery wuhan patients are far better than these ‘vaccines’
The hits keep coming - The effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine falls below 50 percent after five months, according to a new study published in The Lancet medical journal on Oct. 4.
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Globalism / Great Reset -
The police state grows in the US - The U.S. government is reportedly secretly issuing warrants for Google to provide user data on anyone typing in certain search terms, raising fears that innocent online users could get caught up in serious crime investigations at a greater frequency than previously thought. Forbes reports -
“In an attempt to track down criminals, federal investigators have started using new “keyword warrants” and used them to ask Google to provide them information on anyone who searched a victim’s name or their address during a particular year, an accidentally unsealed court document that Forbes found shows.
Google has to respond to thousands of warrant orders each year, but the keyword warrants are a relatively new strategy used by the government and are controversial.
“Trawling through Google’s search history database enables police to identify people merely based on what they might have been thinking about, for whatever reason, at some point in the past,” Jennifer Granick, surveillance and cybersecurity counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union, told Forbes.
“This never-before-possible technique threatens First Amendment interests and will inevitably sweep up innocent people, especially if the keyword terms are not unique and the time frame not precise. To make matters worse, police are currently doing this in secret, which insulates the practice from public debate and regulation,” she added.
The government said that the scope of the warrants is limited to avoid implicating innocent people who happen to search for certain terms, but it’s not publicly disclosed how many users’ data are sent to the government and what the extent of the warrant requests are.” (Forbes)
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Economy -
McConnel offered a support for a short extension the debt ceiling into December. His statement emphasized that it would give the democrats time to ‘properly’ work out budget reconciliation and other issues.
OBSERVATION - Some see this a capitulation on McConnel’s part. I see a bit of strategy in letting the democrats continue their circular firing squad for a couple month more. Progressive and moderates are hammering at each other and current polling suggests that public opinion is trending against the progressives. So this could be seen as allowing the progressives to be further degraded.

OCC Comptroller nominee Saule Omarova confirmation hearings have hit a major iceberg - her extensive and outspoken pro marxist view of economics and desire to completely eliminate the current banking system in the US.

VP Harris is noticeably AWOL from the administration’s efforts to get its spending packages passed in congress.

New Zealand´s central bank raised interest rates for the first time in more than seven years on Wednesday, removing some of the support it put in place when the coronavirus pandemic began. The Reserve Bank raised the benchmark rate to 0.5% from a record low 0.25%.
NOTE - This is a harbinger for the US as inflation is expected to continue to skyrocket. This will in turn cause big ripples in the economy that has grown addicted to low Fed interest rates and could institute further economic hardship.

Spot rates for large dry cargo ships just topped $80,000 per day for the first time since 2009, and freight derivatives for the fourth quarter — a period when rates for these vessels normally pull back — just spiked.
OBSERVATION - This is largely driven by recent demands globally for coal and other fossil fuels and raw material in general. Bottom line -higher prices

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Invasion of Illegals -
The next caravan of illegals are mobilizing in Mexico and are demanding it transport them for free to the US border or prepare for war. “We are leaving in 20 days,” activist Irineo Mujica said Tuesday on social media. “We prefer to march with (travel) papers. […] And this time, with papers or without papers, we are ready for war. If the National Guard comes and they are cowardly enough to beat women and children, let them prepare because God’s hand is with us.”
There is currently no indication on which crossing location they may be trying to reach. Potentially upwards of 60,000 are associated with this surge.

Ten Republican governors visited the U.S.-Mexico border Wednesday to blame President Joe Biden for creating the crisis there and to lay out a 10-point plan for reversing his policies and stopping the surge of migrants.
OBSERVATION - USSC has ruled that border enforcement is the jurisdiction of the US govt, so any actions will have to be tailored to work around those requirements. Expect strong DOJ law fare like they have over Texas laws to circumvent fed control and arrest illegals.
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Biden watch -
Biden pitching his 3.5 trillion spending plan claimed that it is actually a tax cut.

In a recent interview, John Kerry said biden simply hadn’t been aware of the recent spat between the U.S. and France that followed Biden snubbing them on the U.S.-U.K.-Australia nuclear submarines pact.
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CW2/Domestic violence -
FBI agent and MSNBC analyst Clint Watts to confirm that white nationalists and anarchists were behind this parent protesting “scourge”: “To me, is this really about people being upset about mask mandates or are there sort of underlying disruptive forces, white nationalists, anarchists, whatever, in this country, that are using mask mandates and a public health crisis to sort of wage chaos?”

Meanwhile, in congress AG representative are being hammered the order for the DOJ and FBI to conduct investigations to silence opposition to radical leftist agendas in schools across the nation. Push back has also started to ramp up resistance to both leftist school boards and the administration for its meddling.

OBSERVATION - DOJ/FBI meddling will serve to fire people up - not ice dissension. As such it will add another can of gasoline to the fire of people’s perception of rights abuse by biden et al.
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POLITICAL FRONT -
President Biden has appointed an avowed Critical Race Theory supporter to the Department of Education. Biden appointed Precious McKesson, chair of the Nebraska Democratic Party’s Black Caucus, as a Special Assistant in the DOE’s office of Communications and Outreach.
OBSERVATION - This is another radical leftist that biden has put forward for key administration positions. Saule Omarova being another. These hard left sections indicate that biden is not interested in governing from the middle as he campaigned on (shock).
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Strategic Developments /Deployments -
The Navy announced the creation of Task Force 59 last month, which will operate out of U.S. 5th Fleet headquarters in Bahrain and try to apply emerging unmanned and AI technologies to solve some of the most urgent challenges in that region. The first command of its kind unmanned and artificial intelligence task force in the Middle East - U.S. Navy says it will begin using off-the-shelf gear to boost maritime domain awareness in the region, first gaining trust in the systems and then applying them to real missions.
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China -
Jack Posobiec tweet -
“Taiwan stuff heating up more than people realize
This isn’t just posturing
There are top Chinese generals telling Xi they want the green light”

FOLLOW UP - Lets step back and take a look at this

A swarm of articles from various sites appeared on the interwebs yesterday after this tweet. Some echoing the imminent nature of the threat, others a broader view.

What we do know - China has ramped up its rhetoric against Taiwan and other countries that may come to its aid in the event of an invasion. Communist Chinese government warned this week that war between China and those countries backing Taiwan, such as the United States, could be “triggered at any time.” We’ve also seen an unprecedented spike in air incursions into the Taiwan ADZ. These combine to work as psyops against Taiwan and the rest of the world.

We also know that the US is at its weakest state in generations, military may still have some peak readiness from the Trump years, but has rapidly eroded under biden. Also biden has totally fallen flat on his face in foreign policy matters and China knows that.

China’s aggressiveness has prompted Japan and Australia to prepare for war against China should an invasion occur.

So what are China’s goals?
Clearly Xi is pressing hard on the ‘reunification’ angle. Coming off the largely unopposed seizure of Hong Kong and genocide of the Ughers he is feeling pretty confident moving forward on Taiwan. China has morphed into an economic power, leaving the communist template modified, recognizing that such reliance on China is a ‘soft’ weapon and means to influence and control the world. Seizing Hong Kong - an economic dynamo and their Silk Road initiative that creates key control of resources is on the forefront of their goals. Taiwan on its own has established itself as an economic heavyweight in the realm of electronics and challenges China in that field. So a hostile take over (using business speak) is one goal. However, reducing the island to rubble takes away the industrial infrastructure and may serve as a guiding deterrent to some Chinese tactics, though not enough to limit their actions if necessary to capture the island.
A second goal is a military / strategic - its recent aggressiveness in the S China Sea exposes the fact that Taiwan, Japan, S Korea and other nations by virtue of their strategic locations as the First Island chain can essentially blockade China and deny it the raw materials and food it needs. Hence the aggressive seizure of disputed islands and the push towards Taiwan.

What tactics would we expect to see?
- Some note that a blockade could be used. This would follow Chinese strategic traditions, that they would prefer to win without fighting. But it is doubtful that Taiwan will capitulate without warfare. And any blockade would be challenged by the US and allies.
- A second avenue would be an aggressively enforced blockade with air or sea attacks against key infrastructure to cripple the Taiwanese armed forces and government. Again, this will likely receive a response from Taiwan supporters. This will also involve a potentially drawn out conflict, where China prefers a quick, decisive victory.
- Third is an invasion of the island. Wars are won or lost on the ground. I think that Chinese leaders are aware that the first two options will not be successful and will only rally major powers to Taiwan’s defense. But this requires the logistics of a mammoth amphibious operation the likes not seen since WW2 and never executed by China. The eyes of intelligence are focused on potential staging areas for indicators of the mustering for such an assault - troop build up, numerous ships preparing loading troops and equipment etc. It would be a turkey shoot as this armada crosses the Taiwan Strait, so they would have to have a very large force to absorb losses and still have a combat viable force reaching the island. However, this becomes China’s sole strategic option if it hopes to prevail without prolonged warfare.
- Wildcard action? Will China execute a nuclear first strike against the US to neutralize any response/support to Taiwan, doing same to Japan and Australia? This would provide some cover for the massive amphibious load up and move out but at risk of a nuclear response. This would open a pandora’s box. I think that Xi will rely upon internal US disfunction to limit and cover invasion build up.

Is war coming soon? Xi has made serious promises to his followers and faces severe problems if he delays. Given the mentally challenged biden and his case of incompetents ruling the country, the probability is very high that Xi will make the call within the next 3 years. That could be shortened is something major hit the country, such as biden being removed from office (25th), massive economic crash or the initiation of some sort of civil conflict/war.

Another driver is that China has not been immune to the wuhan economic turmoil. In the face of Evergrande’s debt crisis, there are increasing signs of stress in China’s property market after one developer failed to make a bond payment on Tuesday. Ratings agencies have downgraded Chinese developers Fantasia Holdings and Sinic Holdings over risks from their strained cash flow situations. Fantasia did not repay the principal amount of $206 million of a bond that matured on Monday, it said in a filing to the Hong Kong exchange. Though smaller than Evergrande, is represented the developing failure of the market in general. China’s energy crisis has shut down factories and shipping ports unable to ship goods due to wuhan lockdowns and overall chained delays in production of goods. Wars tend to divert attention from internal problems for a period.

I still hold to may current assessment, Xi will eventually pull the trigger and order the invasion, but not as immediately as some are reporting. China has invested too much in the promise of ‘reuniting’ the island to back down. However, under current world and US conditions this decision is not happening soon. Xi is measuring the mettle of the world and more importantly, the US in the timing of his decision. High probability of invasion within 3 years, but if the US collapses under any one of many factors currently building pressure (some note above), he will strike while we are not capable of a response.
We may have a better picture shortly as Chinese Communist Party Central Committee meetings get underway in a couple of weeks.
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Israel -
Hamas appears to be busy building a second front against Israel in Lebanon, and that it is trampling on Hezbollah’s toes in the process. While Hezbollah monitors Hamas’ activities in Lebanon, this is not always sufficient to control its activities. This was evident from rockets launched from Lebanon during the last conflict between Hamas and Israel months ago. Hamas appears to also be developing a presence in Syria and the West Bank. Both are early in their development , but Hamas is in the process of developing its infrastructure as they have in Gaza.

IDF is adjusting it sensors to detect drone strikes from Lebanon; while Hezbollah gains battlefield experience by using Iranian drones in Syria.
OBSERVATION - Use of hunter/killer drones have been successfully demonstrated in Syria and Armenia (two locations of many). I see Hezbollah using such against Israeli Iron Dome systems in the next war, to remove that defensive advantage.
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Iraq -
Iraqi elections are scheduled for 10th of October
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Post is a little rushed today - life has delivered a full plate of fun requiring most of my attention.
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Wuhan virus -
Australian health minister noted in a press conference that 78% of the wuhan hospital cases are those who are FULLY vaccinated. another 17% are those who are partially (one shot) vaccinated.

Interesting evaluation of Minnesota wuhan death vs age group. Large enough to extrapolate across the country.
https://healthy-skeptic.com/2021/10/07/relative-death-risks/

A study from Israel covering 4,800 healthcare workers showed antibody levels waned rapidly after two doses of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine. Two studies published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine confirm any immune protection offered by two doses of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine drops off after roughly two months — although protection against severe disease, hospitalization and death remains strong, the authors of the studies said. A study out of Qatar, researchers found effectiveness declined gradually, starting from the first month after the second dose, accelerated after the fourth month and reached a low level of approximately 20% in months 5 through 7 after the second dose.

Out of Florida, the Florida Dept of Health & Education data:reported that during September — with school underway — juvenile COVID cases & positivity rates plummeted. *No statistical differences* between counties without school mask requirements/offering opt-outs & counties imposing mask mandates on students.” Overall, new cases decreased by 79% in schools where no or optional masking was in place and for those districts that enforced masking, decreased 77% on average. Florida is also seeing significant decline in infections - At 27 new infections per 100,000 people, Florida now has the second lowest rate of COVID-19 infection in the entire country. Since the August 25 peak, the number of estimated infections by Nowcasting (covidestim.org) has decreased 95.9 percent. The reproductive transmission number (Rt) statewide is at 0.49 from a peak value of 1.45 on July 15.

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Globalism / Great Reset -
The federal reserve has just set a new record for the amount of overnight reserve repos, 1.6 trillion dollars as if the end of the September quarter. According to ICI Global, the total amount of money market funds worldwide is 4.54 trillion dollars measured in the same time frame. Since I am only good at simple math: 1.6 / 4.54 = .3524 (35%). That mean that United States Federal Reserve is providing slightly over 1/3 of the liquidity to the entire Commercial Paper market!
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Economy -

Senate passed the temporary debt ceiling bill - with great ruckus and to do. Schumer didn’t make any friends and further ticked off Manchin - who is key to getting any of the other democrat spending bills passed.
OBSERVATION - Again, I think McConnell is thinking long term by allowing a little democrat victory, he’s giving them knives and ropes as they will continue to fight and dicker until they are forced to address the debt ceiling again in a couple months;. General observations from the Senate debate is that Schumer burned some bridges to both the Republicans as well as key moderate democrats. The public will be entertained by more democrat fighting, lowering their polls even further while McConnell has given up very little.

Worries not only globally, but in the US over the availability of electricity this winter continue on . Ernie Thrasher, CEO of Xcoal Energy & Resources LLC., told energy research firm IHS Markit that U.S. utilities quickly turn to more coal because of soaring natural gas prices. “We’ve actually had discussions with power utilities who are concerned that they simply will have to implement blackouts this winter,” Thrasher warned. He said, “They don’t see where the fuel is coming from to meet demand,” adding that 23% of utilities are switching away from gas this fall/winter to burn more coal.

U.S. employers unexpectedly hired at a slower pace in September than in August.
The Labor Department released its September jobs report Friday morning. Here were the main metrics from the report, compared to consensus estimates compiled by Bloomberg:
* Change in non-farm payrolls, September: +194,000 vs. +500,000 expected and a revised +366,000 in August
* Unemployment rate: 4.8% vs. 5.1% expected, 5.2% in August
“Most back-to-school hiring typically occurs in September. Hiring this September was lower than usual, resulting in a decline after seasonal adjustment,” the Labor Department wrote in its report on Friday. “Recent employment changes are challenging to interpret, as pandemic-related staffing fluctuations in public and private education have distorted the normal seasonal hiring and layoff patterns.”
OBSERVATION - Govt reporting on unemployment/employment just goes to show how screwed up they’ve worked the numbers over the years. Especially in the wuhan era.

Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released monthly data on the state of food prices that showed global food prices rose for a second consecutive month in September to reach a new decade high, driven by gains for cereals and vegetable oils.
The FAO Food Price Index (FFPI), a measure of the monthly change in international prices of a basket of food commodities (including cereals, vegetable oils, dairy, meat, and sugar), rose 1.2% in September to 130 points and 32.8% higher than in September 2020.
The latest rise in the FFPI was primarily driven by “higher prices of most cereals and vegetable oils. Dairy and sugar prices were also firmer, while the meat price sub-index remained stable,” FAO said.
Compound soaring freight costs on land and sea, along with supply chain disruptions, have left some grocery chains with no other choice but to raise prices and or to leave shelves bare as food shortages persist. An executive of Kroger, one of the largest US supermarket chains, warned last month that grocery prices are set to move even higher as inflation sets in.
Inflationary pressures prompted the White House to calm discontent among working-poor families who allocate a high percentage of their incomes to basic and essential items. The Biden administration acknowledged inflation as a real concern last month (only nine months late). The administration has raised food stamps by 25%. (Zubu)
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Invasion of Illegals -
While speaking with Fox News this week, President Joe Biden’s former Border Patrol chief, Rodney Scott, confirmed that under Biden’s leadership, U.S. taxpayers are paying millions of dollars each day “to not” build a wall along its border with Mexico. This is due to contract clauses. Payments are up to 5 million per day. ______________________________

Biden watch -
Biden claims the vaccine mandate is the ‘the single most powerful’ economic stimulus he has enacted.

In a speech in Illinois biden’s train of though got derailed - again. “The Ohio Pennsylvania, Ohio Pennsylvania, I’m from Pennsylvania. The Illinois President of the Don Harmon… Um, we got great leadership too. Where’s Tim? … Folks. That’s how we beat COVID-19,” said the President.
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CW2/Domestic violence -
Missouri and Arkansas join Nebraska and West Virginia by refusing to comply with plan for IRS to be notified when accounts register more than $600 in transactions.
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Strategic Developments /Deployments -
US Navy submarine hits unknown “object” in South China Sea while submerged on Oct 2: US officials USS Connecticut now limping back to port with “no life threatening injuries” aboard. No damage to nuclear reactor. US submarine did not collide with another sub, official says. An official who requested anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak on the record said that the area’s topography at the time did not indicate there was a land mass in front of the boat. - Navy Times

A US special-operations unit and a contingent of Marines have been secretly operating in Taiwan to train military forces there, part of efforts to shore up the island’s defenses as concern regarding potential Chinese aggression mounts.” China is predictably ‘upset’.

The combined British, American, Dutch, Japanese, New Zealand and Canadian fleet is sailing through the disputed South China Sea.
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Cyber Warfare -
Wednesday night, , Chase, Capital One, Wells Fargo, Citibank, US Bank and the SNAP-EBT system all suffered severe electronic banking trouble until about 11:00 PM. On Thursday, banks in the UK suffered similar troubles, with accounts showing ZERO Balances! No word as to the cause of the problems.
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China -
see Strategic Developments /Deployments above.
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Syria -
Heavy shelling by pro assad elements have been pounding the Idlib region for much of the past week.
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Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan -
A suicide bomber has targeted a mosque in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz during Friday prayers, killing at least 50 people, local officials say. Though no group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, Sunni Muslim extremists, including the local Islamic State (IS) group, have targeted the Shia community because they consider them to be heretics. IS-K, the Afghan regional affiliate of IS that is violently opposed to the Taliban, has carried out several bombings recently, largely in the east of the country.
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Belarus -
Polish Border Guards spokeswoman Anna Michalska announced that on Thursday a patrol of Belarusian services fired shots in direction of Polish soldiers of the Polish Army on the border, possible with blank rounds.
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