Live a life of active risk and affection.
The value of life is its depth, not its length.

Adapted from Roger Scruton.

 

J6 is opposition attack. Like the Mueller probe, that is its only purpose.

From Sundance:

"What the Mueller probe was to President Trump, the J6 Committee is to the MAGA movement.

Everyone, and I do mean e.v.e.r.y.o.n.e in Washington DC knew Robert Mueller was appointed as special counsel for one reason, to target President Trump, weaken his administration and ultimately remove him from office. Not a single entity in DC did not know that was the goal. The same is true here.

Everyone in DC knows Nancy Pelosi’s J6 Committee is intended to target Democrat political opposition. That is the goal. That is ONLY the goal. Not a single entity in DC does not know that is the goal."

Mauldin: Global Recession May Turn Scary

From Mauldin's latest free newsletter.

North Africa inclduing Egypt and Lebanon are heavily dependent on Russia and the Ukraine to feed their people.  Some will skip debt payments to feed their people and avoid riots.
A quarter of US$ denominated debt in China is "stressed" and risks going unpaid.
Ukraine and Russia corner the world market in sunflower oil.
GDP and the velocity of money tracked each other for decades but velocity plunged beginning 2010.  The measuring tape to predict recessions is damaged.
Every penny rise in for a gallon of gas costs the US economy 1.2 billion dollars.  The actual changes in the US are similar to a tax increase of $200,000,000,000.  It will be felt.
The 7.9% inflation jump February in the CPI index doesnt reflect the start of war.  This number is going up.
China gets a lot of oil from Russia too.   The world will want to burn the same amount of oil but will be buying it from a smaller pool.  There won't be enough for a while.

Sources for Ukraine-Russia information, Updates.

 Smallwarsjournal   Link has many sublinks to Twitter feeds you wouldn't otherwise see.

Cappy's army March 7th video has source clips on logistics and more with perspective and, oddly, humour.

Historical background on Russia from a retired Lithuanian intelligence officer.  Starts with the Holy Roman Empire, goes on to the Mongols (who never really left) and comes to the slivoki.  (English captions).

Ludlow with real politik observations in a March 1 American Thought Leaders video with Jan Jekielek.

Understandingwar.org has daily updates re situation in the field.  What's distinctive are the many footnoted links to Army headquarters, Facebook and Twitter sites, Pravda, CNN and so on.  Most in cyrillic script.

The following six links are from this article at spinstrangenesscharm.wordpress.com

Kotkin's interview at the New Yorker:   Re Zelensky: "Having a TV-production company run a country is not a good idea in peacetime, but in wartime, when information war is one of your goals, it’s a fabulous thing to have in place."  On the expansion of NATO: "Way before NATO existed—in the nineteenth century—Russia looked like this: it had an autocrat. It had repression. It had militarism. It had suspicion of foreigners and the West. This is a Russia that we know, and it’s not a Russia that arrived yesterday"

Vlad Vexler on what it would take for a coup in Russia.  Who will get to harness the half of the 85% of Russians who are going along with present bumps in the road but are watching to see who is the stronger horse.  Also, the oligarchs had political power in the 90's but much less now and their children are a factor too.  There's a few seconds clip of a waffling secret service head being challenged by Putin to spell it out.

Kuzio interviewed on morale of Russian Army.  "Lied to, lack fire in the belly" and more.  Those videos of tanks destroyed are not just by civilians.  Ukrainian forces are taking brag shots and posting them on social media and sending them in to headquarters too.   Putin just created 45 million Ukrainian nationalists instead of freeing "russians" from nazi rule.   Hacking put Ukrainian propaganda on Russian TV that older folk wath.  Information overload will fuel future war crime trials.  What about reparations as a tax on future oil exports.  NATO is already at war with Ukraine, 28 countries in fact are supplying weapons that are killing Russian soldiers and giving cyber defence.  NATO is supplying intelligence allowing Ukrainians to kill Russian soldiers. (Note two senior Russian officers located and killed.)  A No Fly zone could also be over Western Ukraine only to stop the refugee flood, it could be sponsored by OSCE or UN instead of NATO.  "To this day, Russians don't really know where their borders are".  We're seeing a declining great power declining faster.  Think about it: You've watched videos of Ukrainian soldiers talking Russian to Russian soldiers.  Speaking Russian doesn't make you a Russian nationalist any more than a Canadian speaking English makes them American.  Russia is back to 1991.

China has a nuanced and changing position.  Trade with Russia is about 1/20th of trade with the US.  Corporate China may be playing a more influential role than Govermental China.

Captured Russian officer gives thoughtful observations on what he was told going into battle.

Fukuyama on Russia's coming defeat.  "Russian soldiers were evidently carrying dress uniforms for their victory parade in Kyiv rather than extra ammo and rations"

What are woke pookies?
I knew a clever house poodle by name of Pookie.
Pookie liked to chase butterflies.
But not real butterflies.
He chased the shadows of those butterflies on the lawn.
A "Pookie" to me is someone who chases microaggressions
instead of low class matters like the use of force to control others.

"The Biden administration, a public relations outfit disguised as a presidency"

Canadian seniors in care had worst covid death record in the world.

During the first pandemic year, almost all Covid deaths (81%) in Canada happened in senior care homes and the protocols that were in place that helped make it happen. It appears to be the worst record on earth.  When Quebec deployed military staff to those homes, the news gotout.

"Who Killed Granny?"

Bonus read:   Letters from people with adverse reactions. 

 

Trudeau really said he paid off the media.

 27 second clip at a funny fraternal press dinner.  Trudeau ( lately "castrea" ) actually said it's no wonder the media give Liberals a break, because they were paid off with six hundred million dollarrs.  In case you forget, the payout which went to almost every known journalist and media group in Canada (except Rebel Media) was a few weeks before the last election was called.     It was meant as a joke but feels like a groaner.

 

 

Payback time for Trudeau: India's Ambassador Vohra calls him out for betrayal of trust. Read the unforgettable one minute transcript.

 India's ambassador to Canada calls out Trudeau for betraying Canadians.  Deepak Vohra's January 30th remarks are transcribed below the 1 minute video clip.

"Let me begin by saying the Canadian Prime Minister who tried to advise us on how to deal with the farmers' protest last year and swore that Canada will be there to defend the rights of preaceful protest, has run away from the truckers and others, even as we speak on the 30th of January 2022.  They are rallying against vaccine mandates, inflation, supply chain interruptions, etcetera.   So, the fellow who was trying to give us advice has actually gone into hiding.  He has betrayed their trust.  The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies. It comes from those you have faith in.  Some of the most poisonous people come disguised as friends and family.  My motto has always been to protect the opressed,  even if he is my enemy, but I will never forgive the traitor, even if he is my friend."

Is this unfair?

 

The picture leaves out other drug companies and more importantly leaves out the social media and more importantly leaves out politicians and the panoply of allied bureaucrats.  Some kids are being killed but this is not admitted.

Help is on its way. Cavalry arriving at Coutt's Crossing to Lift the Siege.

 

 

 

It’s not my money pic.twitter.com/IKRxhGo8wS

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 5, 2022

 

BC Hospitalisations and ICU use for last six years: Is it Up or Down from COVID? FOIA results are in: FLAT OR DOWN

Source:  http://docs.openinfo.gov.bc.ca/Response_Package_HTH-2021-13906.pdf

The Signs of Protest, Victoria January 29 2022. This is what I saw.

Here's what I saw on over fifty signs, some of them funny, in a peaceful crowd of over 2500 people on the Legislature Lawn January 29th in Victoria , the same day as the trucker convoy began arriving in Ottawa.  It gives you the spirit of the crowd.

The flag of Canada, everywhere.
"Strong and Free" (heart)
"Freedom cannot be given.  It can only be taken away."
"Bring back hugs - Show your smile"
"What about a debate?"  (several copies)
"Unnacceptable!  Let Freedom Reign (flag)"
"If I wanted a "prick", I would have married one."
"Bonnie Henry should be fired." (nice photo of her on 2ft x 3ft sign)
"Drain the Swamp"
"Truck Trudeau"

"You Shall Not Vax"
"No More Mandates:  Freedom!"
"In his hands"  (Picture of world cupped by pair of hands)
"Freedom and Love"
"I will die before I comply"
"Arrest Bonnie Henry, John Horgan, Lisa Helps, School Board"
"Freedom" (hearts)
"What about early treatment?"  (several copies)
The charter of rights was displayed like a flag atop a hockey stick
"Stop scapegoating the unvaccinated"
 "Canada Strong and Free"
"Proud Small Fringe Minority"  (Several versions of this spotted)
"Mandates Divide. Treatments Save Lives"
"No Vaccine Passports"
"Solidarity"
"Trucking Heroes"
"Canadians go to war with semi-trucks"

"I do not comply.  I do not consent"
"Canadian Media is a Crime Against Humanity"
"Stop all Mandates.  Enough is Enough"
"Leave our kids alone"
"Covid & Media: C-ollusion O-blivious V-acuous I-llogical D-eception
 A couple other signs naming CBC and more as part of the problem.

"Ivermectin Stops Covid: Dr. Pierre Kory FLCCC.net"
"This is not China! " (sign held by a man who looked Chinese himself)

"The Power of the People is Stronger than the People with Power"
"Media Slander is not Truth"
I'd rather be in the pub  (The sign said something like that)
Large flag saying "Fuck Trudeau"

"No to DAVOS GLOBALISM:  Leave our money, property, bodies alone."
"No NWO  No WHO  No Trudeau:  FREEDOM"
"No Covid Passports, No Discrimination, No Tyranny"
"On the right side of history"  (on several T shirts)
"No to Coercion"  (A couple other signs with the same word)
Several more signs about Jesus and Love
"This is how Freedom is done!"
Man wearing a plastic needle being injected into his brain
"End Vax Passports and Mandates"
"Truth and Love and Freedom and Peace"
"45 years RN. Lost my job"
"When we wear a tulip, we recognize each other as a community: Freedom"  (tulip badges were there)
"We Unify Canda "  (the name of a group as well as a message)
"No VAX Passports" (man wearing Canadian hockey shirt plus flag)
"OH Canada!! " (large flag picture) 

"May all beings live free"
"Stand on Guard"
"My body my choice"
"End Tyranny"
Placards laying out the 10 Nuremburg Code rules for medical research

The martial Ride of the Valkyries was played as the first Freedom trucks arrived bedecked with Canada's flag, followed by a lot of Beatles songs with "freedom" and "revolution" in the lyrics.

VAX: The Cure is Worse than the Disease.

The first battleline was over the nature of the virus and what our response should be.
The second battline was over the nature of our response where mRNA and lockdown powers eclipsed science and even common sense.
The third battleline is emerging and it's a scary one.  Who will be held responsible for mass manslaughter? The greatest maiming and killing event of history is rising from the miasma of fear and overreach.  The death rate from all causes is rising and it won't be swept forever under a rug because it's the database of all insurance companies.  It's not just rising, the death rate from all causes is suddenly several standard deviations out of line.

This isn't mass murder but it begins to look like manslaughter.
The VAX promoters have more to worry about than the Lockdown promoters.
The people to fear are not the ones who refused the jabs.  Those people can handle being misinformed and lied to and they stood their ground.  Fear the jabbed who didn't accept responsibility and will say, "We trusted you and our kids and friends are damaged and dead"    These formerly willing victims will be the ones to fear.