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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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Russia -

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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Wuhan virus -

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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