Daily Chronicles

The Daily Chronicles are snippets of the most important news across the world for this and each day as it rolls in – as such, this thread is non-structured with the latest news on top. The rough theme: a tsunami and waterfalls of information

April 10

This is massive: Saudi Arabia is effectively now recognising the Ansarallah (Houthi) gov’t in capital Sanaa as the legitimate #Yemen gov’t, so the US puppet in-exile Mansur Hadi is no longer a thing. This means the 8 year war started by Barack Obama is over! https://t.co/DkmjzYBS4y

— Patrick Henningsen (@21WIRE) April 10, 2023

This is how a US proxy stops being a US proxy.   They just stop!

April 10

April 10

Bakhmut/Artyomovsk is reported to be 90% in Russian hands.  It won’t be long now, but the battles are bloody.

New numbers appear now from Donetsk Republic head, Pushilin – he says 75%.  We must live with this uncertainty until the Russian MoD reports.

April 10

The leaked documents:  Documents circulated online that are believed to be classified and belong to the Pentagon and US intelligence agencies may be fake, Reuters reported, citing its sources in the Washington administration.

– CNN reports that Ukraine is changing its military plans after Pentagon leak – mark my words, these documents may just give the so-called upcoming Ukrainian offensive a reason for non-existence.

-Bloomberg reported Monday that the leak – already considered the worst in a decade – will now be almost impossible to contain and may affect US support for a speculated major Kiev offensive.

April 10

SmoothieX12 (Andrei Martyanov) talked about the details of the planned NATO Air Defender 23 excercise in Europe.  Best to pick it up from him as he counts the weapons and it makes a poor picture.  http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/04/they-have-issues-with-air-power-larry.html

April 9

Leaked documents.  Larry Johnson says they are legitimate but historical (very recent historical), and kind of meaningless for today’s circumstance.   Scott Ritter says it is much ado about nothing.   Russia says:  “So what – it does not change anything for them.”  So the only interesting part here is that the US and apparatus again spied on their so-called allies.  The only purpose for this leak (legitimate documentation or not) in my view is to advertise that the US is supposedly still in charge of affairs and knows what is happening.

April 9

PLA deploys aircraft carrier, rockets, vessels, fighter jets, missiles in drills around Taiwan island.  The island is literally encircled by the PLA.

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202304/1288717.shtml

April 8

Long before Trump is president again, if he ever is president again, he is already playing empire games.

“Trump Seeking ‘Military Options’ For Mexican Cartels

Former US President Donald Trump has asked multiple policy advisers to draw up “battle plans” to deal with Mexican cartels as he aims to return to the White House in 2024, Rolling Stone reported. While in office, he threatened terrorism designations for drug gangs operating across the border but later reversed course.

The outlet reported that Trump had sought a “range of military options” from campaign advisers, including “strikes that Mexico’s government does not sanction,” citing two unnamed sources familiar with the discussions.

“‘Attacking Mexico,’ or whatever you’d like to call it, is something that President Trump has said he wants ‘battle plans’ drawn for,” one of the sources told Rolling Stone. “He’s complained about missed opportunities of his first term, and there are a lot of people around him who want fewer missed opportunities in a second Trump presidency.”

The solution is actually simple, very very simple, and can be done totally in the US itself.  As China worked itself out of opium addiction, with no help from anyone, so the US should work itself out of its own drug addictions.  As far as battle plans, perhaps the cartels will fight for Mexico but really cartels are owned by the US.

April 8

Chad gives German ambassador 48 hours to leave the country.  He was impolitely selling democracy very hard.

April 8

The natter space is full of commentary on the supposed leak of classified NATO or Pentagon documents, partially on the so-called Ukrainian offensive that will so-called start sometime in summer, and on the Ukrainian force structure in general.

I have never seen a supposed planned war offensive that is so highly advertised, even outside this supposed leaked document.  One would think a planned offensive will be done with a high level of operational plan security.

The Grayzone has the details.

April 8

The Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) on Saturday launched combat readiness patrol and military exercises around Taiwan Island, which will last from April 8 to 10 Beijing time as scheduled. The patrol and exercises take place in the maritime areas and airspace of the Taiwan Strait, off the northern and southern coasts of the island, and to the island’s east, said Shi Yi, a spokesperson for the command. These operations serve as a stern warning against the collusion between separatist forces seeking “Taiwan independence” and external forces and against their provocative activities, said Shi, adding that the operations are necessary for safeguarding China’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity.

This is after McCarthy met with Tsai from Taiwan and after China warned that these meetings must not continue.

April 8

If all was going well with US hegemony and the USD, US wouldn’t be engaging in a proxy with Russia wrt Ukraine, telling the world to decouple from China and trying to provoke China into a conflict with Taiwan.

It’s doing all this because the writing is on the wall.

— The Sirius Report (@thesiriusreport) April 8, 2023

April 7

Such positive news.

Varieties grown in saline-alkaline soil have a longer growth cycle & accumulate more nutrients, so they taste better, according to the researchers; by using the tech in low-salt-alkaline soils (~20% of the total affected), 250 million tons of grain could be produced per year.

I am very hesitant with genetic meddling of food plants. But this? Seems as if I could go with it.

April 7

On this yacht, the one who broke the Nord Stream Pipelines or so they say, they’ve now found the passports (not physically, this time, they must vary the story), but they’ve found that the yachties had Bulgarian passports. They must be in pristine condition I’m sure.

April 7

The tsunami of information does two things:  It makes it hard to select the most important in our world, and it forces a greater time and research commitment to select non-contaminated information.  Whereas I usually took about two hours in the early morning to assess the world, it is stretching to four hours.   Information also now comes in videos, podcasts and other types of streams.  It is quicker for the narrator but certainly is frequently a time waster to have six videos queued up to see what makes sense.

The scariest now are the Israeli bombings and the assault on the Al Aqsa Mosque.

This weekend a large part of the Western world commemorates Easter.  We wish them spiritually fulfilling days.