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To: null and void; aragorn; Baynative; Beautiful_Gracious_Skies; BusterDog; bgill; bitt; Black Agnes; ..

Next week I’m developing a plan to include a qualitative threat color to the different categories. I’m doing this to help me keep events focused in view of long term activity. The threat color status will come on on Fridays (hopefully) and reflect more than just the previous week’s activity. If there is a change, I will note it in a comment and why. It is easy to become numb to the volume of threats to this country from all the different vectors. At first they will be qualitative, hopefully I can come up with a more quantitive method to address any personal bias. My scale will be as follows -

Green - An area worth noting, but not immediately impacting on ‘US safety
Yellow - Incidents increasing and needing further monitoring
Orange - This is the moderate concern level. Definitely becoming a threat but in the longer term.
Red - A definite threat in both short term and long term. Some active events occurring
Black - Active and ongoing. Examples of this would be 2020 rioting, etc.

Open to thoughts.
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Wuhan virus -

CDC has conspicuously avoided updating the numbers on their website pertaining to natural immunity. It is information that could contribute to opposition to both the Covid-19 vaccines themselves as well as the mandates that are rapidly popping up across the country. They withheld this update, which requires approximately three minutes to accomplish, for five months.
It has acknowledged that far more people have natural immunity than was earlier reported. The CDC reports that a staggering 146.6 million people have been infected by the wuhan virus and have survived it.
The CDC estimates that 124 million of the 146.6 million infections resulted in “symptomatic illnesses,” although it is unclear why only one in four infections sought out medical treatment. The CDC further estimated that there were 7.5 million hospitalizations, although ‘hospitalizations’ may include routine treatment that happened to turn up a positive Covid-19 test, greatly inflating the figures.
146.6 million is at least 44 percent of the U.S. population, it may be an underestimate, based on the CDC’s earlier calculations. The CDC’s figures estimated in May that at least 120 million Americans had been infected with Covid-19. Bcause the CDC estimated (and continues to estimate) there have been at least four Covid infections for every case reported, then based on its report of 46.9 million cases, then there would be 187.6 million Americans who were infected and thus possess ‘natural immunity.’

No U.S. military branch has granted a request for religious accommodations from the COVID-19 vaccine mandate, military officials said in court filings Friday. Over 16,000 U.S. service members have submitted applications for a religious exception, not a single one approved.

A report from Britain is stirring up things. In it, it appears that the wuhan shot degrades natural immunity by as much as 50% in some instances and age groups. Pro-jabbers jumped on the statistical analysis are issued a rebuttal via the daily mail

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10155799/Stats-watchdog-scolds-PHE-replacement-data-misuse-supports-anti-vaxxers.html

However, a Swiss study confirms the analysis in part.
SARS–CoV–2 Spike Impairs DNA Damage Repair and Inhibits V(D)J Recombination In Vitro – https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/10/2056/htm by Hui Jiang and Ya-Fang Mei
Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner–Gren Institute, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden and Department of Clinical Microbiology, Virology, Umeå University, SE-90185 Umeå, Sweden
From the abstract - “Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS–CoV–2) has led to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID–19) pandemic, severely affecting public health and the global economy. Adaptive immunity plays a crucial role in fighting against SARS–CoV–2 infection and directly influences the clinical outcomes of patients. Clinical studies have indicated that patients with severe COVID–19 exhibit delayed and weak adaptive immune responses; however, the mechanism by which SARS–CoV–2 impedes adaptive immunity remains unclear. Here, by using an in vitro cell line, we report that the SARS–CoV–2 spike protein significantly inhibits DNA damage repair, which is required for effective V(D)J recombination in adaptive immunity. Mechanistically, we found that the spike protein localizes in the nucleus and inhibits DNA damage repair by impeding key DNA repair protein BRCA1 and 53BP1 recruitment to the damage site. Our findings reveal a potential molecular mechanism by which the spike protein might impede adaptive immunity and underscore the potential side effects of full-length spike-based vaccines. “

‘The significance of this study is not merely that mRNA vaccines prevent your DNA from repairing itself which will cause immunological disorders, cancer and premature ageing. The problem is that the mRNA is going into your cell nuclei. That is straight up gene therapy – not vaccination. mRNA should go directly to the protein assembly plants in your cells called ribosomes, which it should instruct to manufacture the protein spikes. It should not be going anywhere near the cell nucleus. Entering the cell nucleus means it is performing or effectively performing reverse transcription and making itself a part of or an addition to your genetic code. “

OBSERVATION - Now empirical evidence from the course of this ‘epidemic’ showing the damage to the system caused by the jab. These concerns have been popping up more and more lately, only to be put down by the powers that be. Persistent science studies like this are becoming harder to refute, so they are carefully kept from the eyes of sheeple.

RUMINT - There has been a presumed laboratory leak of COVID-19 at East China University of Science and Technology.
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Globalism / Great Reset -

Saule Omarova, President Joe Biden’s nominee for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), called during a March 2021 virtual conference to eliminate all private bank accounts and deposits.
Omarova discussed one of her papers, “The People’s Ledger How to Democratize Money and Finance the Economy,” which would help “redesign” the financial system and make the economy “more equitable for everyone.”
She said it would change the “private-public power balance” and democratize finance to a more systemic level.
During her conference speech, she said, “There will be no more private bank accounts, and all of the deposit accounts will be held directly at the Fed”:
OBSERVATION - This on top of wanting to bankrupt the fossil fuel industry. Total control of people’s money is what the globalilists desire for their great reset. biden is trying to do his part to help.

The COP26 UN climate talks in Glasgow have finished and the gavel has come down on the Glasgow Climate Pact agreed by all 197 countries. The Pact is the first ever climate deal to explicitly plan to reduce coal, the worst fossil fuel for greenhouse gases.
The deal also presses for more urgent emission cuts and promises more money for developing countries - to help them adapt to climate impacts. But for many, the pledges don’t go far enough to limit temperature rise to 1.5C. As part of the agreement, countries will meet next year to pledge further major carbon cuts with the aim of reaching the 1.5C goal.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the planet was “hanging by a thread”. “We are still knocking on the door of climate catastrophe... it is time to go into emergency mode - or our chance of reaching net zero will itself be zero.”

OBSERVATION - Note the “emergency mode” comment. This has been batted around since the success of wuhan ‘crisis’ as a vehicle to force carbon reductions. However, the energy crisis being felt by the world this winter will probably put the brakes on this plan until this spring as countries can ill afford to shut down coal and risk the physical impacts at this time.

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Economy -

Data released on Friday by the University of Michigan found that “consumer sentiment fell in early November to its lowest level in a decade,” driven by what researchers said was “an escalating inflation rate and the growing belief among consumers that no effective policies have yet been developed to reduce the damage from surging inflation.”

More on farming concerns. China produces almost one-third of the world’s phosphate, and it has been reported that China has banned all exports of phosphates during the first half of 2022. This will increase fertilizer shortages globally over the next growing season.
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Biden watch -

Video conference with China’s Xi Monday evening.

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CW2/Domestic violence -

Storm clouds growing pending the Rittenhouse verdict.
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Domestic Terror -

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued updated its National Terrorism Advisory System, providing insight to the department’s priorities. Threats from the Islamic State and other terrorist organizations are likely to remain “highly visible online” to inspire lone-wolf attacks in the U.S. Domestic Violent Extremist (DVE) groups remain the highest priority as “pandemic-related stressors have contributed to increased societal strains and tensions.” The department expects an increase in attacks from DVEs over public health restrictions, Afghan refugees, and anti-government sentiment. In response, DHS is “engaging industry partners to help them identify and respond to the spread of disinformation, conspiracy theories, and false narratives.” (FO)

It was revealed that in 2020 an attempted attack on the power grid using drones was stopped. Now analysis’s are growing increasingly concerned that domestic terrorists will adapt the technology here in the wake of the attempt on the Iraqi PM’s live last week. Helicopter drones are abundant on the open market and can easily be modified to carry bombs/explosives. With the improved guidance and lift capabilities they have the potential as the go to weapon for future attacks.
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Cyber Warfare -

Someone breached the FBI’s servers, and the hackers sent spam emails warning of fake attacks. Bleeping Computer reports:
The emails pretended to warn about a “sophisticated chain attack” from an advanced threat actor known, who they identify as Vinny Troia. Troia is the head of security research of the dark web intelligence companies NightLion and Shadowbyte.
Spamhaus noted that the emails went out to at least 100,000 recipients in a database.
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China -

The record-breaking snowstorm and severe winds that hit northeastern China have reportedly killed 6.4 million heads of livestock. This is a crushing blow to their already strained food production that has been hit by two years of severe floods and livestock illnesses, let along wuhan disruptions. .

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India/China -

Indian Gen. Bipin Rawat, the chief of India’s defense staff, told reporters on Friday that although China has recently built villages along its unmarked Himalayan boundary with India, the outposts are “well within” the Chinese side of the border, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported.
“They are building this infrastructure, [these] kind of so-called villages, which are well within their side of the LAC. They have not transgressed anywhere on our perception of the LAC,” Gen. Rawat told reporters on November 12. He referred to the LAC, or “Line of Actual Control,” which is New Delhi’s official name for the unmarked India-China border in the Himalayas.
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Russia -

See Ukraine and Belarus activity
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Ukraine -

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy stated that there are currently almost 100,000 Russian troops stationed near the Ukrainian border and that the West has shared intel on troop movements by Russia.
Former head of U.S. Army Europe says that what we are seeing is nothing new, but a continuation of what started back in April regarding the military buildup of Russian forces on the Ukrainian border. Lieutenant General Ben Hodges told White House Correspondent Jacqui Heinrich, “What we’re seeing is actually not something new. It’s a continuation of what started back in April. They never really went back to their barracks”.

OBSERVATION - New analysis of the Russian deployment indicates that Putin is putting military capabilities in place for a very quick military intervention into either Belarus or Ukraine. And through Belarus he can touch Poland and the Baltic nations.
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Iran -

Now appears that two strong earthquakes, a shallow, 6.3 (10 km depth) and a 6.0-6.2 (5.6 km depth) magnitude earthquakes stuck just north of Bandar Abbas this morning. Has the potential for a lot of damage, few reports yet as i type.
NOTE - This pair of quakes could still be original estimates and may eventually be coalesced into a single quake as seismic results are further analyzed - given that the time is the same for both (0700 UTC). This is not uncommon as early results are often based on computer analysis with later updates based on human reevaluation of the data.
Cool videos of vehicles stopped on the side of a road being bounced around by aftershocks.

NOTE - Bandar Abbas is a key location for Iran on the Straits of Hormuz, housing a lot of their military bases.

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Saudi Arabia -

Saudi has greenlighted its business, private, and governmental sectors to trade with Israel, for now via Bahrain and the UAE. Such Israeli-Saudi transactions have already been made in recent months.
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Syria -

Qatari Foreign Minister: We are not currently considering normalization with the Assad government, and we believe that it must be held accountable for its crimes
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Belarus -

Belarus wants Russian nuclear-capable Iskander missile systems to deploy them in the south and west of the country, President Alexander Lukashenko said in an interview with a Russian defense magazine published today.
However, the publication of the interview comes after Russia’s President Vladimir Putin suggested he was growing frustrated with the Belarusian strongman after Lukashenko threatened on Thursday to retaliate against any new European Union sanctions against Minsk over the migrant standoff by restricting Europe’s gas supply. Analysts say Lukashenko’s gas comments have likely tested Putin’s patience, because he didn’t clear the threat with Putin first. Russian gas supplies already at the centre of heated debate in Europe.

OBSERVATION - Possible that Putin is loosing control over the ‘narrative’ and he is trying to reign in this loose cannon.

The bitter dispute between Warsaw and Minsk dramatically escalated last night when Belarusian troops ripped up the border fence and prevented Polish soldiers from rebuilding it. Film footage released this morning by Poland’s Border Force reveals how its troops were blinded by lasers and strobe lights as they tried to shore up the frontier. A spokesman for the Polish Border Force told MailOnline: ‘Last night near Czeremcha, Belarusian soldiers began to destroy the temporary border by tearing up fence posts.
‘Polish forces were blinded by laser beams and strobe light,’ they said. ‘Also, a group of about 100 migrants were to cross and Poland says Belarusians gave them tear gas, which was used against the Polish forces.’

OBSERVATION - Its this kind of stuff that starts wars.

MOST recent - Poland is reporting more and more groups of armed Belorussian officers are on the border. The Polish border service claims that migrants receive instructions, equipment and gas from Belarusian servicemen. “Some tents started to disappear. Belarusians are preparing today for a big border crossing attempt” All Polish security services are on standby.

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698 posted on 11/14/2021 6:49:42 AM PST by Godzilla (Never give up, never surrender . . . . . .)
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To: Godzilla

Thanks, once again an excellent report!


699 posted on 11/14/2021 7:06:09 AM PST by norsky ( <a href=></a> <img src=""></img>)
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To: Godzilla
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the planet was “hanging by a thread”. “We are still knocking on the door of climate catastrophe... it is time to go into emergency mode - or our chance of reaching net zero will itself be zero.”

*****

We've been knocking on that door for a long, long time. The solution is more money from developed countries to underdeveloped.

It's a shakedown....wealth redistribution.

Plain and simple.

700 posted on 11/14/2021 8:25:38 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: Godzilla
Make that:

Black - An area worth noting, but not immediately impacting on US safety
Blue - Incidents increasing and needing further monitoring
Green - This is the moderate concern level. Definitely becoming a threat but in the longer term.
Orange - A definite threat in both short term and long term. Some active events occurring
Red - Active and ongoing. Examples of this would be 2020 rioting, etc.

Black, the "normal" font color for low level threats that barely make the cut to the Threat Matrix.
Blue, added.
Yellow, deleted, too low a contrast to a white background.
grading up the spectrum to RED the universal warning color!

Just my 2¢...

701 posted on 11/14/2021 10:04:11 AM PST by null and void (We can't be beaten unless we surrender, and we are NOT going to surrender!)
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To: Godzilla

Thank you so much for all you do! I really depend on your consolidation and observation! The Friday color coding sound really good.


702 posted on 11/14/2021 1:24:52 PM PST by Domestic Church (AMDG ... )
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To: Godzilla

“Next week I’m developing a plan to include a qualitative threat color to the different categories.”

*****

😕 😲 😫 💩 🔥


704 posted on 11/14/2021 3:02:02 PM PST by BusterDog
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To: null and void; aragorn; Baynative; Beautiful_Gracious_Skies; BusterDog; bgill; bitt; Black Agnes; ..

Thank you for your feed back on color ratings.
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Wuhan virus -

CDC has stopped using the herd immunity as a national goal. Part of this is the CDC admitting that the ‘vaccines’ so called immunity is only good for a few months. Dr Oliver Brooks, member of the CDC’s advisory committee on Immunization Practices warns that such a de-emphasis will demotivate many from vaccination.

CDC Admits No Record Of Naturally Immune Transmitting COVID-19
The CDC’s disclosure drew responses from several medical experts, including Johns Hopkins Dr. Marty Makary, who said it underlined how little data the agency has released concerning the recovered. Makary called on the CDC to make public data on any re-infections that have resulted in hospitalization or death, with information on the patient’s comorbidities or lack thereof. “CDC should be transparent with data on natural immunity. Instead we get glimpses from FOIA requests like this one,” he wrote on Twitter.

Taiwan’s Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) head Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) said on Wednesday (Nov. 10) that a panel of experts has decided to suspend administering second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech (BNT) COVID vaccine to children 12-17 years old amid concerns it may increase the risk of myocarditis. Cases of myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) and pericarditis (inflammation of the outer lining of the heart) have been reported after BNT vaccination of children between 12 and 17 years of age. According to U.S. statistics, the risk of youths experiencing myocarditis after receiving the second BNT dose is 10 times higher than after the first dose. Pfizer is linked to roughly 75% of the US mycarditis cases reported.

Fauci told The New York Times that officials are starting to see some waning immunity against both infection and hospitalization several months after the initial vaccination. He then cited data from Israel, which he said tends to be about a month to a month and a half ahead of us in terms of the outbreak.
“They are seeing a waning of immunity not only against infection but against hospitalization and to some extent death, which is starting to now involve all age groups. It isn’t just the elderly,” Fauci said. “It’s waning to the point that you’re seeing more and more people getting breakthrough infections, and more and more of those people who are getting breakthrough infections are winding up in the hospital.” Because of this, Fauci is claiming that it’s crucial for people who have been vaccinated to get their booster shot.

OVERALL OBSERVATIONS - The wuhan narrative is slowly crumbling and the globalists are struggling to get more jabbed before is falls apart further. However, the left is throughly entrenched and nothing short of a massive purging of their ranks will stop their efforts.
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Globalism / Great Reset -

China and India torpedoed a key component of the COP26 accord by substantially watering down the anti coal provisions. Both are facing severe energy shortages due in part to coal shortages for their power plants.

Austria is set to impose a new nationwide lockdown, Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg announced Sunday, with the restrictions limited to the unvaccinated. Schallenberg said that starting Monday, unvaccinated Austrians 12 and over will be ordered to remain at home, and will be allowed out only for a limited number of purposes. The lockdowns are to be enforced with random spot checks for the next 10 days with police patrols being stepped up. It will then be reviewed, according to the government.

SEE Economy for further related items.
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Economy -

Its bad and the govt doesn’t recognize it. Three US companies publish national rent indexes – CoreLogic, Zillow and Apartmentlist.com – and their readings of year-on-year rent inflation range from 9% to 16%. But the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a year-on-year rise in the rents of just 3.4%. Shelter represents a third of household expenditures according to the Consumer Price Index.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Sunday said that if inflation were going to end, it would depend mainly on how the pandemic goes.
“It really depends on the pandemic,” Yellen said, speaking with CBS’ “Face the Nation.” And “the pandemic has been calling the shots for the economy and for inflation. And if we want to get inflation down, I think continuing to make progress against the pandemic is the most important thing we can do.”

OBSERVATION - Easy to blame. Wuhan lockdowns started the ball rolling, but deliberate incompetence by biden et al has added to the mess.

Looting has become a fixture across the country, some estimating upwards of 100 million being stolen every day. Retail theft is now said to be responsible for $45 billion in annual losses in the U.S., according to one trade association. Many states have changed their laws to be more lenient on shoplifters in recent years, and this appears to be helping to fuel an enormous boom in organized retail theft

Larry Summers, who was Secretary of the Treasury under Clinton and directed the National Economic Council under Obama, said on CNN recently that inflation is going to be unavoidable for the near future. “I think the odds are that we’re going to have inflation of a kind we haven’t seen in 30 years, until either the Fed takes some significant move with respect to monetary policy, or until there’s some kind of accident that disrupts the economic growth we’re enjoying.”
“I think it’s possible but quite unlikely that inflation will recede back to its normal 2 percent level without some significant change in the path we’re now — we’re now on.” Summers continued by pointing out that he things the Biden administration is acting incorrectly and making the situation worse:

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Biden watch -

All eyes on the discussion with China’s Xi this evening. How badly will he botch it up.
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CW2/Domestic violence -

Closing arguments in the Rittenhouse trial begin today - 2.5 hours for each side. Kenosha and other cities are preparing for rioting.

Antifa radicals and anti-vaccine protesters appeared to clash Saturday night outside Gracie Mansion, the mayoral residence in New York City. The event came amid a wave of anti-vaccine mandate protests in New York City and around the country.
One independent journalist on Twitter recorded a confrontation between the two sides that included one person called the anti-vaccine mandate protesters “Nazi scum.”
America First protesters were also seen shouting “f-— Antifa” during the protest.
Contributing to this situation, Fox news called the antivax protestors “White Nationalist”, a term that has since been ‘edited’ out.

OBSERVATION - Antifa is turning their eyes increasingly upon anti-vax protests, seeing those nasty ‘nazi’s ‘ behind them. Antifa has supported some anti mandate protests but this counter protest may signal a new target of their wrath.

A Far-Left activist in a Fort Worth Independent School District Board meeting threatened parents all because they were criticizing CRT. The activist said that he would bring 1000 soldiers and that he will be “lock and loaded” next time.
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POLITICAL FRONT -

More insider rumblings against VP Harris and her ineptness as VP. Increasing scrutiny may well represent an attempt to get someone else into the position before jettisoning biden. The friction between factions has even forced CNN to sit up and take notice. Now reports that Harris staffers are leaking that biden administration is racist.
NOTE - Getting rid of Harris is a difficult challenge - if she doesn’t want to leave. This developing split may further lock up moving forward with biden’s agenda.
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Strategic Activity / Deployments -

Gulf Arab navies have held their first joint military exercise with Israeli warships, co-ordinated by the US Navy. The five-day drill in the Red Sea involved warships from the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Israel and the US. It began last Wednesday and included boarding, search and seizure tactics “to help ensure freedom of navigation”.
US Naval Forces Central Command said the training would “enhance interoperability between participating forces’ maritime interdiction teams”.
The exercise follows the signing of the Abraham Accords in September 2020, which saw the UAE and Bahrain normalise their relations with Israel. Since then, there has been an intense exchange of diplomatic, military and intelligence contacts between Israel and those Gulf states, as all parties share their concern over Iran’s activities.

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Cyber Warfare -

US and Israel announce joint efforts to combat cyber attacks.
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China -

“China’s daily coal output has reached 11.93 million tons, the highest level in recent years, and increasing coal supplies have laid a good foundation to ensure energy supply security and residential heating during the winter, the nation’s top economic planner said on Monday, as many parts of the country were hit by a severe cold wave over the weekend,” The Global Times, the state-run media outlet, reported last week.
SEE ALSO Globalism above.
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Russia -

See Ukraine and Belarus activity
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Ukraine -

Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview broadcast on Sunday that he had rejected a defense ministry proposal to hold snap Black Sea military drills in response to NATO activity because he did not want to escalate tensions in the region. “So the defense ministry is limiting itself to escorting (NATO) jets and ships,” Putin told the Rossiya-1 channel.

Russia has never planned on invading Ukraine, and won’t do so “unless provoked,” Russia’s deputy U.N. ambassador said on Thursday. His words followed sharp criticism from the United States over reports of a troop buildup at Ukraine’s border.
“Never planned, never did,” said Dmitry Polyanskiy when pressed by a reporter at U.N. headquarters on whether Russia is planning on a military invasion of Ukraine, amid reports of a surge in troop presence along the countries borders.
“Never going to do it unless we’re provoked by Ukraine, or by somebody else,” or if Russia’s national sovereignty is threatened, added Polyanskiy, First Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations.

Hundreds of British special force troops are ready to deploy to the Ukrainian border at a moment’s notice, amid rising tensions and fears of a possible Russian invasion in the region, according to reports.
The UK’s Special Air Service and Parachute Regiment are prepared to enter the region with medics, engineers, signalers, and hundred of paratroopers, The Mirror reported.
“The high readiness element of the brigade was told it may need to deploy at very short notice, a source told The Mirror.
“Between 400 and 600 troops are ready. Their equipment is packed and they are ready to fly to Ukraine and either land or parachute in. They have trained for both eventualities.”

Ukraine’s Foreign Minister - speaking at joint press conference with NATO chief - says the Russian troops build-up on Ukraine’s border and Moscow-ally Belarus’s use of migrants to destabilize European Union should be seen as one hybrid operation

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Europe General -

Great Britain - Three men have been arrested under the terrorism act, after a taxi exploded outside the Liverpool Women’s Hospital on Sunday morning. The passenger died and the driver was wounded. Police say a local taxi driver picked up a man yesterday who asked to go to Liverpool Women’s Hospital. As the taxi approached the drop off point an explosion took place. But the driver escaped the cab. Police say this was terrorism. “An improvised explosive device had been manufactured” by the passenger in the taxi. But the motive and the reason for the sudden explosion are not known.

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Iran -

See Syria above
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Syria -

Iran seems to be overstaying its welcome as Syria appears to now regret inviting Iran to help quell a long and ongoing insurrection in the country. According to Saudi news network AlHadath, Iran has repeatedly violated rules set by the Syrian regime in regards to deployment of forces and attacks on third parties like Israel and American military forces. That could explain why Syria’s other ally in this fight, Russia, has consistently turned a blind eye to Israeli strikes against Iranian forces in Syria.
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Central America General -

Argentina’s President Alberto Fernandez suffered a severe setback in midterm legislative elections held on Sunday, with his ruling Frente de Todos (Front for Everyone) coalition losing control of the Senate for the first time in almost 40 years. With over 90% of votes counted, the coalition — made up of a collection of Peronist and leftist parties — looked set to drop from 41 to 35 seats in the 72-member Senate. The conservative opposition, which was badly defeated in a presidential election two years ago, won almost all the key races in the legislative ballot, as voters turned away from the government amid widespread discontent over a deepening economic crisis, spiraling inflation and rising poverty.

OBSERVATION - Continued instability as leftists ruin the economy and the right overcorrects - common pattern throughout Central and South America.
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Venezuela -

Two members of the Lebanese Hezbollah terrorist organization were arrested in Colombia two months ago, Colombian Defense Minister Diego Molano revealed in an interview with the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo on Sunday.
Molano stated that in several meetings Colombian officials have held with different intelligence agencies, “there are concerns about the presence of Hezbollah in Venezuela and its relationship with terrorist groups and their financing,” according to El Tiempo.
Concerning the two Hezbollah-backed criminals who were arrested and deported from Colombia, Molano said that they intended to commit a “criminal act” in the country.
OBSERVATION - Iran’s support for Venezuela comes with this bonus - a base of operations to enable it to work its way into Central and South America. Principle goal would be to attack US and Israeli interests.
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Colombia -

See Venezuela above
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Belarus -

Polish Ministry of National Defense: The camp where the migrants have been so far is empty. People who were there moved to the border crossing. The migrant march took place under the control of the Belarusian services. Polish sources warn that these latest movements suggest that these migrants with the help of Belarus elements will forcefully attempt a border crossing very soon. Overnight 60 migrants tried to cross the border by force.

Kremlin’s spokesperson Peskov: Russia is ready to help resolve the migration crisis on the border of Belarus and the EU as a mediator. The Kremlin considers it wrong to blame Lukashenka for the migration crisis
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Armenia/Azerbaijan -

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan accused Azerbaijan’s troops on Monday of violating the border between the two countries and sacked his defense minister, the Interfax news agency reported.
Another Russian news agency, RIA, quoted Armenia’s Security Council as saying the incident took place on Sunday but the Azeri troops had since left.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan accused Azerbaijan’s troops on Monday of violating the border between the two countries and sacked his defense minister, the Interfax news agency reported. Interfax also quoted an Azeri foreign ministry spokesperson as saying Azeri forces were operating on the country’s own sovereign territory and accusing Armenia of “provocations.”
The incident marked an escalation of tensions between the two former Soviet republics, which fought a 44-day war last year that killed at least 6,500 people and ended in a decisive victory for Azerbaijan.

OBSERVATION - This is Russia’s circus, as they’ve placed peace keeping forces in Armenia to prevent this.

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706 posted on 11/15/2021 7:30:46 AM PST by Godzilla (Never give up, never surrender . . . . . .)
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