Monday rises on the decline of America
Globalism / Great Reset -
See comments under Economy below.
Wuhan Virus -
UK study of the newer, more virulent mutant of wuhan, called B.1.1.7 could increase related deaths by 30%. 7 out of 10 studies indicate an increased risk between 28-91%, though the study indicates that 28-35% is more likely. the other studies show no increased risk. More studies are being recommended to clarify areas identified in the 10 studies. B117 is 40-80% more infectious already in the UK and has taken over as the primary variant causing infection. In Denmark, B117 cases are growing at 70% a week, despite strict lockdowns.
Merck ended its wuhan vaccine development program after poor trial results.
CA Gov Newscum is expected to announce lifting of state wide shutdown orders. I wonder to what extent the impending completion of the recall effort (and trying to sway people from it) has to do with this decision. Like his previous edicts, this one seems arbitrary.
Economy -
Frank Macchiarola, senior vice president of Policy, Economics and Regulatory Affairs at the American Petroleum Institute (API), said in an interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Saturday with host Matt Boyle that if President Joe Biden puts a permanent ban on oil and gas development on federal waters and land, it could cost 1 million American jobs. “If [Biden’s] priority is to bring back jobs in the United States and to grow our economy then they really need to rethink these policies, particularly the policy with respect to a leasing bans on federal lands for oil and gas development.”
MY OBSERVATIONS - Not being an economist, but an observer of history, fuel is literally a driver in an economic recovery. Higher fuel prices increase costs for goods and durables. Consumers having to pay more at the pump (as well as heat their house) don’t have the money for new products, depressing the market. Higher production costs make the US less competitive with nations like, oh lets say China, that can produce at a cheaper price. These combine into closures of US manufacturing and the loss of jobs. Well I think most are intelligent here to see how things continue down hill from there. Our economy is still very fragile from the wuhan shutdown and cannot stand shocks like this and expect to recover. Many are predicting a full out depression as a result. I don’t like being a doomer, but I can realistically see the big crash coming. BTW - a crashed US economy is one of the goals of the ‘global reset’ as a means of forcing global economic changes on the country.
CW2/Domestic violence -
A Tacoma police cruiser ran over a person Saturday night after responding to a reported street racing incident in the South 900 Block of Pacific Avenue. In response, BLM/Antifa cancelled planned protests in Seattle and Richmond and called to concentrate in Tacoma. They spent the night literally trashing the place.
MY OBSERVATIONS - These riots haven’t had the same levels of turnout as last years, likely due to the installment of the biden regime and the removal of the Trump catalyst. However, core elements in the undercover BLM/Antifa leadership are noted working in the background to enhanced logistical and communications capabilities as well as recruit leftists from out of the military to bolster its lethal elements. They are putting together a classical marxist/maoist insurgency for a long haul.
CANCEL CULTURE FRONT -
Kinda an odd add to this, cancel culture Amazon is fighting the use of mail in ballots for a unionization election citing the risk of voter fraud, and coercion. Who’d had thought?
POLITICAL FRONT -
Impeachment article from the House is expected to be delivered to the Senate today.
Senator Rand Paul that Chief Justice Roberts will not preside over any Senate impeachment trial of President Trump: the text of the Constitution only requires the Chief Justice to preside over the trial of “the President.” Trump is no longer “the President.” Roberts’s presence is therefore not called for. No Robert, no legitimate constitutional authority to impeach.
AZ Republicans have voted to censure Cindy McCain, Sen Flake and Gov Ducey for their disloyalty to Trump and actions to cover up voting irregularities.
Strategic Developments /Deployments -
Over the last 15 hours, USAF cargo activity (C130 and C17) traffic has started to get heavy as NG troops are being pulled out by state governors. NG Bureau still calling for 7000 “volunteers” to remain thru at least mid-March (Impeachment guards).
China -
Chinese air force planes including 12 fighter jets entered Taiwan’s air defence identification zone for a second day on Sunday.
OBSERVATION - this will only become more persistent and larger with time. One of the goals is to lull Taiwan into a false sense of regularity/routine than then strike - common warfare tactic.
A Chinese Communist Party newspaper warned early on Monday that Chinese warplanes will “sooner or later” cross the skies over Taiwan, and advised the Biden administration not to follow its predecessor’s “extreme” policies towards China.(CNS)
India/China -
Chinese and Indian troops have reportedly clashed again in a disputed border area, with injuries on both sides, Indian media say. The incident took place in north Sikkim last Wednesday, Jan 20th. India’s army said there had been a “minor” incident that had been “resolved”. A Chinese patrol tried to enter Indian territory and was forced back, the officials said. Some reports said sticks and stones were used, but there were no gunshots.
OBSERVATION - Control of this region is critical to India. It protects the “turkey neck” region of India as well as the only route of invasion into China from India and is the only location along the ‘border’ that India holds a numeric superiority to China.
Russia -
The Kremlin accuses Washington of “domestic affairs interfering” on the backdrop of the demonstrations in support of the Russian opposition Navalny
Black Swans -
Immature swarms of desert locust continue to appear in six zones of Ethiopia’s Afar and Amhara regions. Currently the swarms occured in Afambo, Asayita and Dubti districts of Ethiopia’s Afar region as well as in North and South Wollo zones in eastern Amhara region, FAO said in a statement. Any rainfall that may occur in the coming weeks will cause swarms to mature and lay eggs that will hatch and give rise to hopper bands during February and March,”
NOTE - these areas were devastated last year and have problems feeding themselves to begin with. Locusts also threaten the middle east and southeast asia. Hunger provides a mechanism for terrorists to recruit and puts pressure on global supplies.
Running a little late today, sorry.
Globalism / Great Reset -
VDH commentary is essential reading. Rewriting/redefining of history is important to the global reset - removal of our history. Orwell’s 1984 redux
Wuhan Virus -
More evidence lockdowns don’t work. European Journal of Clinical Investigation, authored by Eran Bendavid, Christopher Oh, Jay Bhattacharya, and John P.A. Ioannidis. Titled “Assessing Mandatory Stay-at-Home and Business Closure Effects on the Spread of COVID-19. In it they conclude “We find no clear, significant beneficial effect of mrNPIs (ie lockdowns) on case growth in any country….In none of the 8 countries and in none out of the 16 comparisons (against Sweden or South Korea) were the effects of mrNPIs significantly negative (beneficial). The point estimates were positive (point in the direction of mrNPIs resulting in increased daily growth in cases).” Basically , the more restrictive lockdown measures pointed to worse outcomes.
Critics are pointing out that CA’s Newscum’s lifting of the state wide lock down was politically motivated due to the pending successful petition to recall him. 1.2 million signatures have been collected to date. To trigger a statewide vote on the issue, 1.5 million Californians must sign the petition by March 17.
Economy -
The Congressional Budget Office estimated biden’s proposal to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour could eliminate 3.7 million jobs.
S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index Shows Annual Home Price Gains Climbed to 9.5% in November. Again, I’m not an economist but can see clearly two big contributing factors. 1 - Incredibly low interest rates and 2 - massive migration out of urban areas and into more rural regions. In just my corner of the American Redoubt, sight unseen purchases of homes/property has caused the market to zoom out of reach of most locals. This correlates with Kalifornia and New York having so many people move out that they are losing seats in the House.
(CNBC) About 18% renters in America, or around 10 million people, were behind in their rent payments as of the beginning of the month. The typical delinquent renter now owes $5,600, being nearly four months behind on their monthly payment, according to a new analysis. This also includes utilities and late fees. In total, an astounding $57.3 billion is owed by just more than 10 million renters.
CW2/Domestic violence -
BLM/Antifa supporter Portland Democrat Mayor Ted Wheeler is having a lot of love directed to him by his favored class. According to a police report, Wheeler pepper-sprayed a person who accosted him while he was leaving a restaurant on Sunday night. This is the second time this month that Wheeler has been accosted while dining out.
Has been noted here on numerous occasions, but gun/ammo sales skyrocketed last year. According to “Gun Study” It’s not quite 40 million guns. The number is even higher. The FBI released its annual report of all recorded firearm transactions (not individual firearms sold) and the final tally stands at a whopping 39,695,315. The logistic of a biden administration plan to tax or remove guns from the country will crash on these rocks as many democrats are now among those numbers and unlikely to willingly support gun control efforts.
CYBER/CANCEL CULTURE FRONT -
My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell permanently suspended from Twitter.
Twitter has announced a new feature called “Birdwatch” which aims to encourage users to police and flag each other’s tweets if they believe they spread misinformation. The company claims it wants to “broaden the range of voices” fighting against misinformation, but the feature has the potential to devolve into flagging wars between different factions of users.
POLITICAL FRONT -
biden has now gone on record supporting an impeachment trial.
The constitutionality of the impending Senate impeachment proceedings/trial is undercut by the constitution itself. The relevant wording in the Constitution is at the very end of Article II, establishing that a constitutionally errant “President, . . . shall be removed from Office” if he first has been impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate for “high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” The constitution presupposes the President to be the President - pretty clear for any one with reasonable reading comprehension. One tactic that could be expected to be raised is that the Senate no longer as jurisdiction since the only president is biden. But the constitution means nothing to the left - given that the House bill of impeachment violated the constitution on at least six points.
Florida Democratic congresswoman Stephanie Murphy Murphy, has recently proposed a bill that would prevent members of the ‘Stop the Steal’ movement along with subscribers to ‘QAnon’ from being able to obtain security clearances. Security clearances are a necessity for Americans who wish to join the US Military and also a requirement to obtain a number of federal jobs. This bill would essentially bar any American that has rallied in support of President Trump post-election or publicly voiced concern about election fraud from being able to hold a job in the Armed Forces or any federal law enforcement agency. This is nothing less than a huge raft of thought crimes that Americans could be punished for without ever having broken the law.
China -
Still monitoring its recent wuhan virus lockdowns
Israel -
See Syria for Golan Heights update
Israel is beginning to express concerns that biden will allow International Criminal Court actions against it and its leaders. If successful, a case, brought by the PLO, would call for European countries to arrest Israeli officials who travel outside the Holy Land. Israel is not a signature of the treaty that created the ICC. ICC investigations have been rejected as illegitimate by former Obama Administration officials in charge of ICC and detainee issues and by over 330 Members of Congress from both parties, as well as by the Trump Administration.
The Trump administration sanctioned several court officials including Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda over ICC allegations of war crimes committed by US troops in Afghanistan as well as the pending case against Israel.
Iran -
Bloomberg reports U.S. is trying to seize around 2 million barrels of Iranian oil from the Liberia-flagged Achilleas. Order came during Trump administration, but appears to be still in motion under Biden.
Syria -
Pro Assad forces upped their bombardment of southeastern portions of Idlib Provence in probable preparation for ground operations.
Syrian army units were spotted on the Lebanese side of Mount Hermon in the north of Israel on Monday night, Syrian state-media reported. The cluster of mountains that is Mount Hermon, or Jabal al-Shaykh, is the apex of the Golan Heights, and splits between Israel and Lebanon at its summit. The very top of the mountain is controlled by UN forces. This border region has seen both Israeli and Syrian airstrikes in areas close to the border.
MY OBSERVATION - The Golan Heights is the most strategic piece of terrain Israel controls. Syria and in some respects operating with Hezbollah, are trying to establish a ground presence in the area in probable preparation for the inevitable time when Iran/Hezbollah/Hamas et al finally pull the trigger and launch their offensive against Israel. Israel for its part has almost routinely hammered logistical facilities in the region, stalling build up. But Israel has also been actively helping the Syrian civilians in the area, suffering from the decades of civil war, a depression level economy and poor medical conditions. Some suggest that that aid has enhanced Israeli intelligence operations against Syrian/Hezbollah operations.
Turkey -
For the first time in five years Greece and Turkey began a round of “exploratory talks” yesterday. The talks are termed exploratory because they are non-binding, but the issues on the table are serious. From 2002 to 2016 Greece and Turkey held 60 rounds of these bi-lateral talks. This round, the 61st, is especially critical. Over the last three years Turkey and Greece have had several dangerous incidents that went far beyond their usual diplomatic posturing and rhetorical threats. The issues confronting the 61st round include air space control, the extent and division of continental shelf rights in the Mediterranean Sea and the status of several islands in the Aegean.
MY OBSERVATIONS - Turkey has stretched itself pretty thin over the past several years with its aggressive policy attempting to essentially to corner the oil/gas exploration in the Mediterranean and establish a new caliphate has had its cost. Sanctions and rejection by european countries have stressed its ability to support military (by proxy) operations in Libya, Iran, Syria, and Azerbaijan have hurt its economy. Efforts to ‘play nice’ may be an attempt to gain PR edge.