text: Good morning. Here’s your Early Warning for Thursday, 13 January 2022.TODAY’S BRIEFING:Bomb-making surges in U.S.Excess deaths rise 40% in U.S.Russia talks fall apart on UkraineEU trains for supply chain cyber attackHazards WarningIn Focus: Six hyperinflationary scenarios for the USEconomic Warning INTSUMSITUATIONAL AWARENESSBOMB-MAKING SURGE IN US: Renewed emphasis is being placed on the rise of improvised bomb incidents and domestic counterterrorism efforts. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) teamed up last year in Operation Flashpoint to get the approximately 250,000 stores that sell explosive precursor chemicals to report suspicious activity, following a reported 71% increase of bomb incidents from 2019 to 2020. The United States Bomb Data Center (USBDC) cited 428 such incidents in 2020. (Analyst Comment: Trending data from previous USBDC explosive incident reports going back to 2014 indicate a correlation to bomb incidents to presidential elections. Law enforcement agencies are looking to get ahead of the election cycle as the domestic population becomes more polarized