Globalism / Great Reset –
A new Montana law bans financial institutions from treating firearm purchases differently than general merchandise purchases.
“A financial institution may not require a firearms retailer in this state to use a firearms code that is different from that of a general transaction,” Senate Bill 359 reads. The 2nd Amendment Financial Privacy Act was passed by the Legislature in April and signed into law by Gov. Greg Gianforte last month.
OBSERVATION - This ‘code’ has been reported on and has been seen by many as a backdoor way of monitoring who is purchasing firearms and ammo - enabling a ready accessible record of gun owners. As these are global credit card companies, a WEF based element could use the data to target individuals and companies for shutdown as the CBDC process rolls out. Its nice to be in a Red State like Montana - but global forces will not let it rest and will find other angles to get at the same data.
Economy –
Those high prices we pay at the grocery store due to Bidenflation are affecting the bottom line for consumers. Higher grocery prices mean less money available in family budgets for other shopping. Retailers are slashing their sales predictions this week, sounding an alarm that a downturn is here. This affects all consumers, from upper class shoppers at Nordstrom to middle class shoppers at Macy’s to the most budget-minded shoppers at Dollar General stores.
OBSERVATION - As the article notes - secondary and tertiary effects spread outward, to distributors and transportation as well as those businesses employees of those companies spend their money at. Slashed sales also starts to put a cap on wage growth - no money/no higher wages - which further stresses the family budget.
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Senate passed the debt ceiling bill. Bloomberg economists say the bill could extend and deepen the coming recession and do nothing to halt the trajectory of U.S. debt – they expect the debt-to-GDP ratio to hit 117% this year.
Meanwhile, rumors are that the Fed has reached its “pause” point for new interest rate hikes.
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The nation’s employers stepped up their hiring in May, adding a robust 339,000 jobs, well above expectations and evidence of strength in an economy that the Federal Reserve is desperately trying to cool.
The unemployment rate rose to 3.7%, from a five-decade low of 3.4% in April.
The stronger hiring demonstrates the job market’s resilience after more than a year of rapid interest rate increases by the Fed. Many industries, from construction to restaurants to health care, are still adding jobs to keep up with consumer demand and restore their workforces to pre-pandemic levels.
OBSERVATION - Key here is restoring to pre-pandemic levels. Our economy still is struggling to reach that level. A ‘hot’ job market will continue to keep pressures on the Fed to continue to raise rates. However, since the economy is still working to restore pre-wuhan conditions, there is a lot less meat on the bones to absorb a recession.
Biden / Harris watch –
Biden fell on stage after handing out the last diploma to the Air Force cadets, going down on his knees
OBSERVATION - The ever increasing evidence of his physical feebleness, combined with the evident decline in his mental faculties is striking fear in the democrats as they push for his re-election. Quite frankly, I’m surprise he has lasted this long.
BTW - After arriving back in Washington, DC, via Marine One, Biden bumped his head trying to exit the helicopter.
POLITICAL FRONT –
Wray relented and has agreed to bring a subpoenaed document from the Biden family investigation to Capitol Hill for lawmakers to inspect on Monday, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer announced Friday.
The document in question, an FD-1023, contains uncorroborated allegations that an informant provided the FBI in June 2020 alleging that Joe Biden, when he was vice president, was engaged in a bribery scheme to change US policy in return for $5 million to his family’s businesses, lawmakers have said.
OBSERVATION - Wray’s stonewalling only put the DoJ/FBI into an even tighter bind as it seems public opinion that they are covering for the biden crime syndicate is growing. He had no legal leg to stand on - the document was request was fully under the purview of the House committee and claims of ‘classification’ or ‘source’ revelations were non starters. It will be interesting to see if the FBI tries to edit out key portions under those two claims.
China –
China’s Henan Province is experiencing the worst heavy rains in a decade – right when farmers are supposed to be harvesting an already damaged winter wheat crop. Officials dispatched emergency teams to drain fields ahead of more rain over the weekend. At least 15-20% of China’s total annual wheat production has so far been damaged.
OBSERVATION - A few days ago I reported that globally, the wheat crop is anticipated to be very good. The events in China go to point out that nature has ways of eliminating bumper crops in key regions that can then flip the narrative to that of shortages and high prices. Impact from this Chinese crop disaster have yet to ripple out across the global economy, but I expect China to soon start buying every available bushel of wheat it can get its hands on, like it has over the past few years with other crop failures. This will keep the price of wheat on the high side.
Russia -
WAR WATCH - into the second year of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine - Feb 24th, 2022
CURRENT ASSESSMENT - Updated June 1 2023
For all practical purposes, Russia’s winter offensive is over. Russian forces have failed in their attempt to secure the Luhansk and Donetsk oblast borders. Battlefield initiative is being taken over by Ukraine. At no location along the front is Russian succeeding in the attack.
Russia has been successful in finally capturing Bakhmut - a very pyrrhic victory by all counts, but doesn’t have the forces necessary to exploit the capture. It has also depleted its forces of a very usable reserve force to counter Ukrainian offensive actions.
Russia’s strategic ballistic and cruise missiles and Iranian made Shahed drones show evidence of massively reduced inventories of such missiles. Recent multi-way attacks on Kyiv resulted in most of the missiles/drones (well over 90%) being shot down and very few reaching a target.
Battle field shaping operations have forced Russia to spread its forces out, further complicating its defensive posture.
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NUCLEAR THREATS –
The U.S. has stopped sharing key information related to nuclear weapons with Russia. Russia’s unilateral suspension of the New START treaty necessitated this reciprocal gesture from the US.
The US is also revoking visas for Russian nuclear inspectors and cancelling standard clearances for Russian airplanes to enter US airspace
Ukraine –
WEATHER FORECAST – Temperatures with highs reaching the 60s - 70s, predominantly dry throughout the forecast period.
24 HOUR ROUND UP –
Russia’s missile/drone assault on Kyiv continues with 15 cruise missiles and 21 strike drones were shot down by Ukrainian air defense last night (100% shutdown).
The all-Russian pro-Ukrainian Russian Volunteer Corps & Freedom of Russia Legion continued to plague Russian border towns by conducting another raid.
Russian tension is building in anticipation of the Ukraine offensive.
Donetsk Front ——
Russian action at Bakhmut and Avdiivka have died down with only scattered artillery fire. Ukraine continues to make varying degrees of progress on the flanks of Bakhmut.
Zaporizhizhia Front ———
Russian sources are claiming that Ukraine artillery fire has substantially increased in this sector.
Explosions were reported striking the port in Berdiansk - a major receiving point for Russian ammo supplies
Crimean front ———
Several explosions reported in Henichesk, located along the northeastern access points to Crimea from the so called “land bridge” from Russia.
Russian Territory –
Ukraine carried out a 400 KM drone attack on one of Russia’s largest oil refineries at Krasnodar Krai. The strike precisely targeted the plant’s oil distillation facility, which is the most critical unit in the refinery.
Multiple large explosions in the Russian town of Kursk overnight.
Elements of the all-Russian pro-Ukrainian Russian Volunteer Corps & Freedom of Russia Legion reportedly conducted another raid into Belgorod Oblast, Russia on June 1. This time launching a raid in the vicinity of Shebekyne, located northeast of Kharkiv.
OUTLOOK –
BLUF - IMHO, it is becoming clear to me that the hammer will strike Zaporizhizhia with possible supporting attacks in eastern Ukraine. Much of the battle field shaping attacks have been toward Zaporizhizhia and Crimea and reports of increased conventional artillery and ground attacks are also indicators. This main axis it also the most direct route to Crimea - Ukraine’s stated objective. Supporting attacks to the east would serve to cut off the Russian ‘land bridge’ to Zaporizhizhia/Crimea once the Kerch Bridge is taken out again.
The offensive will be fought using two primary principles.
1) Tactical maneuver of trained combined arms teams against poorly trained and equipped Russian forces. This was made evident by last years Kharkiv offensive
2) Massive assault on Russian logistics and support. Key examples of this were the defeat of the Russian attacks in the north as well as the liberation of Kherson.
These two combine to isolate Russia forces and permit defeat in detail. One must realize that Russia’s forces are widely dispersed along the front and are heavily reliant on rail to move troops and material. They currently have long lines of communications to follow to move reactive forces to counter any Ukraine assault. Ukraine OTOH, has shorter lines of communications and thus are less reliant on rail, beefing up their road supply capability which increases their tactical flexibility.
The key question is how deep into Crimea will Ukraine be able to advance. The primary axis likely will be across the narrow Isthmus of Perekop that connects the peninsula to Kherson Oblast in mainland Ukraine along the E97 highway to the Crimean town of Krasnoperedkospk south of which the terrain opens up again. The rest of northern Crimea is relatively protected by the extensive and wide the Syvash lagoons. Ukraine currently has no identified amphibious assault capabilities with the size and capacity to conduct any large scale assaults on any of the western beaches of the peninsula. Speed of the attack will be critical for Ukraine to make a bridgehead onto Crimea via Perekop.
A secondary axis would drive towards the Sea of Azoz and the city of Mariupol - in a drive to further isolate Russian forces in the southern region from reinforcements from the east. This would avoid the heavily fortified regions around Donetsk but would allow Ukraine forces to rampage through rear areas to either the east or west, pressuring forces in eastern Ukraine.
There will likely be other more localized counter attacks in eastern Ukraine to freeze up Russian forces there.
I’m still seeing kick off within two weeks. Military forces lose their edge if kept at high levels of readiness for long periods. Hints from Ukraine leadership is that it will kick off sooner, not later.
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Russian launched missile/drone attacks on Kyiv 21 out of 31 days last month. They achieved very little as Ukraine ADA maintained virtually 95-100% shoot down percentage. Russia seems to be ignoring any Ukraine locations that are coming together for the offensive - no significant degradation of Ukraine forces. Russia has continued the focus on Kyiv as well as a few other cities.
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The Ukraine Ministry of Defense says that the ultra-long-range Storm Shadow missiles recently provided by Britain have already been wreaking havoc on Russian targets with stunning accuracy. Designed to strike at long-range, fixed-location targets, Storm Shadow has reportedly hit 100% of its targets since Ukrainian forces started using the cutting-edge, guided missile earlier this month. Russia of course denies this claim, but facts on the ground are hard to dispute. Storm Shadow has become a big of a game changer as HIMARS did many months ago, enabling Ukraine to accurately hit HVTs at longer distances than they have been able to in the past. Russia has found their command, control, logistics and personnel concentrations increasingly under fire, distressing their preparations for a Ukrainian offensive. It has also given Ukraine the opportunity to strike key facilities throughout the whole theater - hear that Kerch Strait Bridge. Russia must now stretch its cobbled communications out over even longer distances and spread its ammo/logistical dumps over wider areas in smaller quantities to survive the onslaught.
Moldova/Transnistria -
Poland has decided to strengthen Moldova, helping it defend against a potential Russian coup d’etat. Poland is donating a huge shipment (2 Hercules planes and 4 CASA planes) of weapons, ammunition and other equipment) to the Moldovan Ministry of Interior.
OBSERVATION - Increasingly warlike talk from Moldovan leaders against the Russian forces holding Transnistria. Momentum may be growing for Polish/Romanian supported action to drive the Russian forces out - perhaps as early as this year. Other news reports definitely have Moldovian security leaders speaking very hawkish about their capability to accomplish that task. Russia caught in the woes of an Ukrainian offensive and heavily drawn down military contingent in Transnistria may not be able to hold the ground.
Poland –
See Moldova above
SERBIA / KOSOVO -
Under pressure from Western leaders, Kosovo’s PM and President said they are open to new local elections in the four northern Serb-dominated municipalities
OBSERVATION - The Kosovian Serbs brought this on themselves by boycotting the last elections. This will only serve to sustain unrest, now with Serbian aligned municipalities that will continue to rebel against Kosovian govt.
Iran –
Washington Post reports that Iran has been building and training forces to target and kill US personnel and expel US forces from Syria, according to classified documents leaked on the Discord messaging platform. This campaign would be similar to that being conducted by Iranian backed militias in Iraq targeting iraqi commercial truckers supporting US/allied forces.
Turkey –
Repercussions from Erdogan’s victory means at the end of his new five-year term Erdogan will have held Turkey’s most powerful office for 25 years. Financial markets aren’t pleased with Erdogan’s re-election. Today the value of the Turkish lira hit a new all-time low: 20.75 to the U.S. dollar. (Austin Bay)
OBSERVATION - He will continue the high wire act, wooing Russian while maintaining NATO membership (and the benefits thereof). This further means that he will continue to see himself as the new sultan of the renewed ottoman empire - exerting force where and whenever he sees fit.
Mexico -
Video showing Sinaloa Cartel members in Guamuchil, Sinaloa with an AT-4 making waves in the interwebs. Some saying they obtained the AT-4s from black market Ukraine sales, but AT-4s have been available from international arms traffickers from Latin America inventories or even from illegal sales from stolen US military stocks in the past.
Black Swans
Persistent reports warning of power grid failures and blackouts this summer. These warning have been gaining over the past few years as the ‘green’ forces have shut down more coal/gas power plants and underwhelming replaced them with far, far less reliable and resilient wind and solar power projects. I have noted warnings by utilities of increasingly difficulties maintaining load balances - keeping the power network supplied with enough power to avoid brown/blackouts. In emergencies, that buffer is increasingly thin. Strongly recommend keeping a watch on your local power situation as the heat of summer comes upon us - particularly those in kalifornia, desert southwest and the eastern US in general.
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In another H/T to TIK, the flood of illegals are bringing a plethora of diseases into the country that in essence sets us up for multiple epidemics to develop. Very serious are antibiotic resistant forms of tuberculosis, common in the third world and highly virulent. Numerous other diseases are coming in and very, very few if any are screened for them before being dumped on our streets where they in many cases join that already health/sanitation challenged homeless encampments.
I hate Biden and his filthy thugs and goons in DC who allow this to happen in the name of a new permanent 'voting bloc' for democrats and their need for new children to rape...
Globalism / Great Reset –
World Health Organization (WHO), the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB), a body convened by the WHO, has called for a worldwide pandemic simulation to be carried out by the end of this year to test the effectiveness of the new terms before member nations sign them in 2024.
“We feel very strongly that we cannot wait for the next emergency to find out how well the pandemic accord and the IHR amendments will work; we need to know now,” Joy Phumaphi, co-chair of the GPMB, stated on May 22. “We therefore suggest that Member States, together with other key stakeholders, carry out a simulation exercise based on the draft accord and draft IHR amendments later this year, before they are finalized and adopted.”
Phumaphi said that the GPMB’s “Manifesto for Preparedness” includes three “tests” for the treaty and IHR amendments. These are whether the treaty and IHR amendments are “sufficiently powerful,” whether they “deliver equity and coherence,” and whether they “have robust mechanisms for monitoring and accountability.”
OBSERVATION - Now confirmed that the final vote on the amendments to the IHR is postponed to May 2024, this latest is very concerning. Not only because of the ““sufficiently powerful,” whether they “deliver equity and coherence,” and whether they “have robust mechanisms for monitoring and accountability.”” aspects, but that this is tracking to parallel the Event 201 plandemic gaming that occurred just prior to the wuhan plandemic breakout. Globalists have been ‘warning’ of a new pandemic - IMHO telegraphing their plans. The massive population controls they succeeded in establishing has only encouraged them.
NOTE - this next ‘pandemic’ according to WEF/WHO is one that will target the children/youth. Not surprisingly expected to occur 2024/2025 time frame.
ALSO NOTE - why telegraph? It is to make sure all elements are on the same time frame and ready to activate. The 2024/25 time frame also fits into the overall goals of full global reset by 2030. Thus the increasing centralization of power within global ‘government’ authorities. Pause for a moment over what wuhan served as a trigger for :
- DIGITAL PASSPORTS/IDs.
- DIGITAL CURRENCY
- GREATER PUSH FOR CLIMATE CHANGE CONTROLS.
Just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse . . . . .
Economy –
Germany, home to Europe’s biggest economy, has now fallen into a recession as consumer spending drops in the wake of higher energy prices.
During the first quarter of the year, the company’s GDP dropped by 0.3 percent, following a contraction of 0.5 percent during the last quarter of 2022. This meant Germany met the definition of a recession, which is two successive quarters of economic contraction.
The economic downturn in Germany saw household final consumption expenditure drop 1.2 percent during the first quarter of the year, and higher energy prices are one of the main driving factors. Although energy prices were already on the rise when Russia first invaded Ukraine more than a year ago, the conflict has seen them hit record highs. Although the situation now appears to be easing somewhat, with inflation slowing in Germany in April, it still remains quite high at 7.2 percent.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-06-02-germany-recession-high-energy-prices-reduced-spending.html
OBSERVATION - Our economies globally are tightly tied. What affects one also is daisy chained to other countries. The US is not exempt and this adds another brick to the probability that we will be in the same boat soon.
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On Thursday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” White House National Economic Council Deputy Director Bharat Ramamurti stated that the Biden administration plans to try to get some of the concessions it made in the debt limit bill back in future legislation.
OBSERVATION - Deal in good faith the democrats say. Charlie Brown met Lucy.
CW2 / Domestic violence -
Pay attention to the words. Transtifa violence is based on verbiage - that is any contradictory words are defined by them to be physical violence directed against them. Therefore, they are justifying actual physical violence in return - as self defense. This is an expansion of the infamous ‘Snow flakes’ of the Before Years and has become a tool to attempt to silence any and all opposition.
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Leading House Republicans won’t back the reauthorization of powers under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act without major reforms in the wake of the FBI’s FISA abuses and special counsel John Durham’s report.
Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Darin LaHood (R-IL), the Turner-designated leader of the committee’s FISA Working Group, and Rep. Mike Garcia (R-CA), another key committee member, all spoke with the Washington Examiner about the need for guardrails before FISA powers are reauthorized.
OBSERVATION - FISA has been weaponized against innocent US citizens by the deep state dwellers. It needs to be put down like a rabid dog. However, with that said, the deep state has also been busy developing and cultivating other sources and methods to collect intelligence on US citizens in a work around to FISA - acts that obfuscate their tracks in ways that FISA doesn’t permit.
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The Department of Homeland Security has been called out by GOP lawmakers for its repeated targeting of conservative Americans, and for funding a university program that explicitly links the Republican Party, as well as Christian and conservative groups, into the same category as organizations that promote Nazi ideology, Fox News reported on Friday.
OBSERVATION - News like this is almost a daily occurrence. Especially since the 0bama regime, the left has increasingly sought to pin the tail of nazi ideology on the right and in particular Christianity. Ranging from defining parents in opposition to woke policies of schools as “domestic terrorists” to latin based Catholics a domestic threat, to pro-life being the violent ones, etc This is setting up for an eventual govt crackdown on anything that opposes its leftist/marxist goals and narrative.
Wuhan Plandemic –
Biden Administration is about to choose Dr. Mandy Cohen to replace Dr. Rochelle Walensky as director of the Centers for Disease Control.
Cohen shares the same health authoritarian impulses as Walensky. She supported mask and vaccine mandates - and lockdowns even in 2021. But she is apparently more bureaucratically competent, and thus more dangerous, than Walensky.
OBSERVATION - This must be kept in context with the WHO efforts to centralize pandemic control and powers over the world. See Globalism / Great Reset for more on this.
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As more Pfizer documents are being force into daylight by FOIA and lawsuits, it is becoming even more clear that Pfizer knew by November 2020 that its mRNA COVID Vaccine was neither safe or effective.
Russia -
WAR WATCH - into the second year of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine - Feb 24th, 2022
CURRENT ASSESSMENT - Updated June 1 2023
For all practical purposes, Russia’s winter offensive is over. Russian forces have failed in their attempt to secure the Luhansk and Donetsk oblast borders. Battlefield initiative is being taken over by Ukraine. At no location along the front is Russian succeeding in the attack.
Russia has been successful in finally capturing Bakhmut - a very pyrrhic victory by all counts, but doesn’t have the forces necessary to exploit the capture. It has also depleted its forces of a very usable reserve force to counter Ukrainian offensive actions.
Russia’s strategic ballistic and cruise missiles and Iranian made Shahed drones show evidence of massively reduced inventories of such missiles. Recent multi-way attacks on Kyiv resulted in most of the missiles/drones (well over 90%) being shot down and very few reaching a target.
Battle field shaping operations have forced Russia to spread its forces out, further complicating its defensive posture.
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Between the border incursions and drones hitting Moscow and other cities/facilities PR spin from the Kremlin is working overtime.
Ukraine –
WEATHER FORECAST – Temperatures with highs reaching the 60s - 70s, predominantly dry throughout the forecast period.
24 HOUR ROUND UP –
Situation is static along the LOC. Ukraine continues to surgically target Russian C3, logistics and troop concentrations through out the occupied areas of southern and eastern Ukraine, with an apparent emphasis on southern Ukraine.
Donetsk Front ——
There are some rumors that Russia is moving elements from the Bakhmut region to support an offensive to capture the city of Marinka, about 40 KM west-southwest of Donetsk. At this stage the city is a ruin, and could easily be bypassed to the southwest, seizing highway h-15. But for some Russian reason, they want to continue to attack straight into another meat grinder.
Russian Territory –
More than 100 soldiers of the Russian Volunteer Corps have reportedly crossed into Russia from Ukraine near Urazovo-Verigovka, east of Belgorod. There are reports of heavy clashes taking place against the Russian Army.
Partisan Resistance ——
A vehicle with collaborators was blown up in Mykhailivka of Zaporizhzhia region
OUTLOOK –
Russian Volunteer Corps continues to play games in the minds of Russians and Russian military planners. So much so that now some are even wildly speculating that a significant incursion into Russia as part of the Ukraine offensive is a possibility. Already the relatively small Pro-Ukraine Russian militias are demonstrating the overall weakness of the Russian border and even EU countries are softening to the thought of no longer making Russia ‘off limits’ to Ukraine.
Still looking at a T- 2 week window for the offensive to kick off.
Misc of Note –
Tropical Depression 2 formed in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico at 21:00 UTC on June 1, 2023. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) forecast calls for slight strengthening into a tropical storm on June 2 and degeneration into a remnant low on June 3.
OBSERVATION - All you folks in Hurricane country - better get a start on updating your preps, just sayin.