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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Interesting.
I can't log in to my credit union account.
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Wuhan virus -
A video showing Fauci and his HHS peeps in 2019 explaining how time-consuming RNA vaccine trials are, and how if only some “urgent call” that’s “not beholden to bureaucratic strings and processes” could come along they could introduce the vaccine more easily.
https://notthebee.com/article/heres-fauci-and-his-hhs-peeps-in-2019-explaining-how
I think it should be noted that Fauci also warned of a pandemic during the Trump administration.
Vermont, the state with the highest vaccination rate in the United States, is experiencing a CCP virus surge at levels not seen since the pandemic’s peak last winter.
OBSERVATIONS - more evidence that the vaccine narrative is failing fast.
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Economy -
Key point following yesterday’s poor jobs numbers - while the unemployment rate fell, so too did the important labor force participation rate, which has remained within a narrow range of 61.4 percent to 61.7 percent since June 2020. And the number of people who are not in the labor force — have no job and are not looking for one — is the highest it’s been since March.
On September 9th, Biden made the announcement that all employers with more than 100 workers would be required to enforce a national worker vaccine mandate. The White House stated that OSHA would, “develop a rule that will require all employers with 100 or more employees to ensure their workforce is fully vaccinated.”
However, following the announcement observers are noteing OSHA was not taking any steps needed to engage with business interests to trigger the first-step in the organization of a process to initiate a rule-making process. No deadlines have been established nor any thing to show movement on the ‘mandate’.
Inventories of distillates — used as diesel for both transportation and heating oil — are enough to meet 31.2 days of demand, according to the Energy Information Administration. That’s the tightest it has been for this time of the year since 2000. The dwindling supplies raise the specter of energy shortages and price spikes in the U.S. this winter — at a time when the rest of the world has already been upended by fuel shortages and blackouts. The reported reason for the shortage is a combination of increased fuel oil demands and refinery capacity down due to damage from the Texas freeze combined with scheduled maintenance of other refineries. Bloomberg suggests that some supply relief should come in November and December when refineries return from maintenance.
OBSERVATION - I’ve noted global energy shortages covering oil. nat gas and coal. This shortage has hit hard and fast here in the Redoubt with diesel prices jumping 40 cents a gallon in less than two weeks. Those i generally consider alarmists have been beating the drum of US blackouts this winter and I’m looking close to see if the blind squirrel did find a nut. Clearly natural gas supplies are strained here as well as globally and coal has been depressed with closure of coal plants. My prognosis is that the risk of blackouts are the highest in states that have forced the wind/solar sources to the point of shutting down coal/gas/nuclear facilities. Poster children of this threat are kalifornia and texas. Other states with similar unbalances face a similar fate.
ADDITIONAL NOTE - the jump in diesel prices will impact prices downstream - increased food and other product prices. 30 day reserve leaves very little room for any potential disaster - no diesel, no trucks delivering critical products.
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Invasion of Illegals -
Harris AWOL from a meeting with Mexican officials in Mexico City on Friday regarding security along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Over the past few days, Fox news and soldiers are reporting cartel gunfights in Ciudad Miguel Aleman, the Mexican city across from Roma, TX, frequently in recent days and weeks. The soldiers heard gunfire and explosions two days ago and videos of smoke billowing after a gunfight have hit social media. Most recently tracers have been reported passing over a TX Natl Guard camp.
In a parallel news, armed cartel members are increasingly appearing near the border in full view of US agents seemingly to taunt them.
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Biden watch -
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Friday that President Joe Biden is the most popular figure of anyone currently running for president or “any former recent president,” and “his agenda is incredibly popular.”
BREAKING NEWS - biden support at only 38% and falling like a rock.
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CW2/Domestic violence -
Another dark blue city - Portland - is facing record murders and violent crimes this year. Another pro BLM/Antifa defund the police city .
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CYBER/CANCEL CULTURE FRONT -
According to The Register, Google’s advertisers have demanded their ads not be shown on pages which dispute the climate emergency. Google is resounding by demonetizing websites which contradict their climate narrative.
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Strategic Developments /Deployments -
It is being reported that the CIA has sent a top secret cable to all of its stations and bases around the globe reminding informants and agents to be more careful as adversaries counterintelligence have become more successful with tracking and finding operatives which has lead to an increased number of operatives killed in the field.
The first two of four B-1B Lancer bombers and some 200 support personnel from the 9th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron of Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, had arrived at RAF Fairford, England, as of Oct. 6 to begin a series of U.S. European Command and U.S. Strategic Command exercises with numerous NATO allies and partners across Europe. (Air Force)
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China -
Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed on Saturday to realize peaceful “reunification” with Taiwan, though did not directly mention the use of force after a week of tensions with the Chinese-claimed island that sparked international concern. Observers note that the content of his speech was softer than in July, his last major speech mentioning Taiwan, in which he vowed to “smash” any attempts at formal independence.
Australia’s former prime minister Tony Abbott visited Taipei on Friday where he gave a speech urging the international community to show “solidarity” with the self-ruled island, resulting in a quick reaction out of China demanding that Canberra officials stay out of its internal affairs. China in response to Australia was that is could face cataclysmic upheaval for continued support of Taiwan.
The Evergrande et al financial disaster is continuing to run unabated by Chinese efforts. As a result, China is losing trust among global financial players.
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Israel -
Overnight, it is believed that Israel attacked the T-4 airbase near Homs Syria. It’s not the first time strikes have been conducted against T4 as Iran has been using it as a staging area for eventual operations against Israel. A stray S-200 landed inside Iraq believed to be from Syrian ADA operations. As usual, Syria claims they shot most of the missiles down.
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Iran -
It is reported thet biden has reportedly lifted sanctions on two Iranian entities involved in Iran’s missile program just as Iran is believed to be closing in on having enough nuclear fuel to build a nuclear bomb.
“The sanctions, targeting the Mammut Industrial Group (Mammut Industries) and its subsidiary Mammut Diesel, were originally imposed by the Trump administration in September 2020 as part of efforts to increase a maximum pressure campaign of sanctions on Tehran over its nuclear activity and actions in the region criticized as malign and destabilizing,” The Hill reported. “The entities were identified as being ‘key producers and suppliers of military-grade, dual-use goods for Iran’s missile programs.’”
OBSERVATION - This is a deliberate move by biden to facilitate Iranian objectives in nuclear development - delivery system to hit Israel with. Already Iran is moving forward fast to obtain enough pure uranium for a bomb, and now this. This action will only destabilize the regions even more and likely force Israel to launch a first strike.
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Lebanon -
Fuel crisis due to the economic implosion of the country is continuing to leave much of the country in darkness as there is no fuel to run the country’s power plants.
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Syria -
See Israel RE T-4 strike.
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Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan -
Afghanistan ISIS-K bomber that detonated his PBIED in Kunduz, killing 40-100 in a Shiite mosque is reportedly Muhammed al Uyghuri. He is noted by ISIS to be a Uyghur, framed in response to the Taliban & their relations with China.
State dept reportedly in negotiation with the Taliban over trapped Americans and allies still in Afghanistan.
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