My thanks to the freepers who helped clarify a claim that biden had been infected by wuhan. It is now apparent the news was in error and that the real news was that a close aid to biden coming down with the infection.
Clearly, if biden did come down with it it would create a mega crisis not only for democrats but the country as well.
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Wuhan virus -
OSHA’s new vaccine mandate exempts workman’s compensation claims for jabs that go bad.
Pfizer is telling young children that their experimental mRNA covid injection will make them “superheroes” and give them “superpowers.”
OBSERVATION - “Fact Checkers” are remarkably silent. This is disgusting propaganda.
Related - CDC director Walensky has indicated that no Federal vaccine mandate for students is planned ‘Right Now, at This Moment’
Italy’s Institute of Health reduced its COVID-19 deaths in the hard-hit country from over 130,000 to fewer than 4,000, reportedly now counts only those who died from COVID-19 has having died from COVID-19,.
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Economy -
Today’s Job report from the Labor Department records employers stepped up their hiring in October, adding a solid 531,000 jobs, the most since July.
US petroleum inventories are being depleted due to increased consumption and refineries running roughly 5% below pre-pandemic rates, putting downward pressure on inventories of refined fuels. Domestic crude production also remains well below pre-pandemic levels, which has resulted in an even stronger drawdown in crude inventories.
OBSERVATION - I noted several weeks ago that US Diesel reservers were at 30 days level.
Economic pundits are indicating that the Federal Reserve slowdown of its massive monthly purchases of government bonds after months of economic uncertainty stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, are a first step toward raising its interest rate target.
San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Mary Daly said that while interest rates traditionally increase to keep inflation under control, we haven’t had to make a decision in an ecosystem like this (5+% inflation) in years. She is concerned that traditional responses to an untraditional economic situation may not be the correct answer. She says that rate increases in the present are not “going to open the ports and get more goods through, it won’t put more trucks in the Port of L.A. so they can unload the ships faster, but it will absolutely slow the trajectory of growth going forward, we could find ourselves then in a place where we have missed full employment.” Meanwhile, Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Randal Quarles thinks that rates should increase much sooner than the Fed anticipates. While the Fed is aiming for Q2 or Q3 of next year for a rate hike, Quarles thinks elevated inflation could press the Fed to raise rates as soon as the Spring.
OBSERVATION - Not big on economic theory, raising rates in such an uncharted economic maelstrom as has been created by wuhan shutdown and impacts could be a boon or a catastrophic disaster.
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Invasion of Illegals -
Border Patrol released into the U.S. more than 283,000 migrants who crossed the southern border during the past year, according to official data shared with the Washington Examiner. 95,000 of which are not tracked by the government. Official Customs and Border Protection statistics show that more than 1.7 million encounters occurred at the Southwest border in the past 12 months. After averaging little more than 74,000 between October and January, Border Patrol has encountered an average of nearly 180,000 migrants between February and September.
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Biden watch -
White House deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Biden was actually “perfectly comfortable” with the idea, despite his comment Wednesday insisting it was “not going to happen.”
Who’s running the funny farm?
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CW2/Domestic violence -
A new survey by Civiqs reveals that 44 per cent of Americans oppose BLM as compared to 43 per cent who still support it.
OBSERVATION - Questionable poll ,but trend has been noted by others.
Having rolled out the mandate for 100+ companies, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) says it is “seeking comment” about whether businesses with fewer than 100 employees should be subject to the COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandate it is implementing on big businesses.
Companies with more than 100 employees have until 04 January 2022 to confirm the vaccination status of workers or provide a negative test weekly. Businesses have until 04 December 2021 to institute mask wearing mandates and paid time off to comply with the new rules.Twenty states attorneys general filed lawsuits over the federal contractor mandates and updated lawsuits are expected following the OSHA rule release.
OBSERVATION - The pushback on biden’s mandates is becoming large and law fare will be brutal. The ability of OSHA to make such mandates is questionable. Threatening civilians with the loss of lively hood for a disease with a 99.7% survival rate is a severe friction point and another fault line between red states and biden.
San Francisco is suffering from a vehicle glass shortage due to criminals smashing in windows to steal objects in those cars. Wait times for replacement up to 4 weeks are being reported.
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POLITICAL FRONT -
Pelosi pushing for a vote on biden build better bill.
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Strategic Activity / Deployments
The US Navy has fired the commanding officer, executive officer and top enlisted sailor of a nuclear-powered submarine that crashed into an underwater mountain on October 2, saying the accident was preventable.
Commander Cameron Aljilani and two others were removed from their positions on Thursday following an investigation into the crash in the disputed South China Sea.
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China -
Chinese property developer Kaisa Group and its units suspend trading in Hong Kong after missed payments. This is part of the greater property bubble that could wreak economic havoc in China and parts of the globe.
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Ukraine -
The number of Russian troops not far from the Ukrainian border and in areas controlled by Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine now totals 90,000, the Ukraine Defense Ministry said on November 3. The ministry said specifically that units of the Russian 41st army remained in the Russian town of Yelnya, about 260 kilometers north of the Ukrainian border, after Russia’s armed forces recently held a series of large-scale drills.
OBSERVATION - The recent saber rattling by Russia of equipment shipped towards Ukraine did end up at Yelnya as i noted a few days ago. This is a continuation of Russia pressure on the region and NATO.
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Iraq -
Tensions have been growing between the pro Shia militias and security forces since the election. Open fighting has broke out over night in Bagdad.
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Saudi Arabia -
The biden administration approved a $650 million sale of air-to-air missiles (AMRAAM) and related equipment to Saudi Arabia.
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Syria -
A number of regional media outlets have in recent days carried articles concerning a possibly imminent Turkish military operation into northeast Syria. Target being the Kurdish rebels in the area. Rumors of operations began following meetings between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the resort town of Sochi on September 29. Russia and Turkey are at odds in the Idlib and Aleppo regions and Russia is resistant to outside country intervention in Syria, preferring to have Assad forces ‘reunite’ the country instead.
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Turkey -
See Syria above.
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Belarus -
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko signed documents on 28 “programs” aimed at furthering the plan for integration between the two former Soviet states, both of which are deeply at odds with the West.
“We will be adopting a series of documents for further promoting and enhancing the economic, political and military integration of Russia and Belarus,” he said.
Belarus’ state news agency BELTA said the programs cover issues like energy supplies, transport services, investment, joint industry markets, harmonized financial, tax, credit, pricing, and trade policies – but also a new union-state “military doctrine.”
OBSERVATON - Belrus is a gateway for Russian military forces into the Baltic states, Central eastern Europe and Ukraine. A strategic corridor. I suspect these agreements will include establishment of Russian military bases permitting deployment further west.
The Polish Defense Ministry reports on an incident on the border with the Republic of Belarus. According to the Polish side, the Belarusian military, covering a group of migrants, threatened them with weapons. Putin in his remarks via video conference said the meeting was, “without exaggeration, truly important.”
OBSERVATION - Belarus has been a channel of islamic migrants into Europe with Poland bearing the brunt.
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Black Swans -
The volcanic eruptions on the Canary Island of La Palma have taken an interesting turn. After substantial fissure eruptions two new eruption sites have just appeared. One about a mile to the west of the original zone and now a third three miles to the north east at a location called Refugio del Pilar. This third location does raise my concerns on the stability of the landmass on the southwest flank of that island, which slid 13 feet down toward the ocean in a 1949 eruption. Clearly, now with three eruptive centers this eruption is becoming unique - especially if the two new sites become as productive as the first. It also indicates that the magma source is pumping a lot more into the island volcanic centers magma chambers than expected. Warrants further monitoring.
Notes are slim this morning, but you are all aware that things are pretty turbulent under the surface.
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Wuhan virus -
“The nation’s unvaccinated workers face grave danger from workplace exposure to coronavirus, and immediate action is necessary to protect them,” OSHA said.
“This is not a mandate,” Labor Secretary Marty Walsh told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Thursday
OBSERVATION - Orwell couldn’t have said it better . . . . .
New research published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has found that Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) “vaccines” are not even close to being safe for pregnant women like the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) claims they are. It turns out that miscarriages during the first trimester are as high as 91 percent in women who take the jab. The original data that was used by the federal government to authorize the jab for pregnant women in the first place clearly shows this. Based on this data, the New Zealand researchers calculated a range of 81.9 percent to 91.2 percent spontaneous abortions in women who get injected for the Fauci Flu before 20 weeks gestation.
OBSERVATION - From the start there were concerns about this - CDC and MSM successfully buried this unfortunate fact. Now in the face of increased efforts to jab children and pregnant it is important that this science comes to the forefront.
According to a presentation by Fiona Havers, who works at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and who is a member of the agency’s COVID-19 Response Team, “[D]uring the 12-month period October 2, 2020 through October 3, 2021, there were 66 COVID-19 associated deaths in children 5-11.”
OBSERVATION - The push for jabs is not about the virus - but power.
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Economy -
The House passes the biggest infrastructure package in decades, with the help of 13 republicans. Six leftist Democrats — Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib (the four original “squad” members), Cori Bush, and Jamaal Bowman — voted against it. Had the Republicans stood unanimously against the bill, six Dem defections would have defeated it.
OBSERVATION - This is a ‘win’ by ‘moderate’ democrats over the progressive left of the democrat party. This may be a limited victory that will certainly guarantee the left v moderate battle to increase. Some look at this as an initial democrat response to the election results - perhaps giving moderates more back bone against “the squad”
In their open letter to President Biden, the industry groups — which included the American Trucking Associations, National Private Truck Council, and Truckload Carriers Association — predicted that trucking companies may lose nearly four in ten drivers due to the mandate. “We estimate companies covered by the mandate could lose 37% of drivers at a time when the nation is already short 80,000 truck drivers. “
OBSERVATION - At this stage of the IMHO deliberate damage to the US economy, this letter will be falling on deaf ears.
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Strategic Activity / Deployments
The U.S. Army announced on Wednesday that it will be reactivating a European theater artillery command that had been defunct for the past three decades. In a Wednesday press release, the U.S. Army’s Europe and Africa theater command announced the upcoming reactivation of the 56th Artillery Command, with a reactivation ceremony scheduled for Monday, November 8. The 56th Artillery Command was last active between 1986 and 1991, when it was in charge of the European theater’s nuclear-capable intermediate-range Pershing field artillery missile systems. The unit was deactivated in June 1991 after the U.S. and Russia signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.
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China -
China’s legislature has paved the way to mobilize civilian assets for war, with the Communist Party of China (CPC) – and by association its General Secretary Xi Jinping – given greater control than previously over military planning and mobilization.
The affected laws include the National Defense Mobilization Law, the Civil Air Defense Law, the National Defense Transportation Law and the National Defense Education Law. The amendments were passed on October 23 by the standing committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) after a four-day meeting.
The legal changes mean economic, science and technology, transportation, air defense and political entities can all be readily converted for military use in a war situation, significantly at a time with tensions over Taiwan have reached a new fever pitch. (asia times)
OBSERVATION - China’s Xi is positioning himself for future war and getting the structure set up to conduct it his way.
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Middle East / N. Africa General -
The US State Department is now urging all Americans in Ethiopia to leave the war-torn country “as soon as possible”. This is based on fears of Tigrayan rebel fighters advancing on Addis Ababa.
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Iran -
Iran says its stockpile of 60% enriched uranium has reached 25kg.
Vietnam’s foreign ministry says it has been in talks with #Iran over a seized oil tanker, Reuters reports.
NOTE - Same tanker Iran claimed they chased US naval vessels from earlier this week.
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Iraq -
At least 125 people were injured in fierce clashes between police and pro-iranian militia supporters as angry crowds attempted to storm Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone. Videos published on social media show protesters who claim there was fraud in the recent parliamentary election pelting security forces with rocks. Officers wearing riot gear and armed with shields responded with tear gas, according to local media reports.
OBSERVATION - Pro-Iranian militia supporters in the Iraqi parliament suffered serious losses and standing in the recent elections .
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