Chrystia Freeland aka ‘Frida’ says we need to to stand up to bullies like Russia… WHAT? 

"I think that it is incredibly important for all of us to understand -- you know, that Putin is not hiding what he's up to, he's been very clear including most recently in the FT. He thinks that the liberal idea, the whole way that we live, the whole notion of how we've built our society that's what he's opposed. He's opposed to rules based international order and multilateralism and he is doing a lot of things around the world. When it comes to the geopolitics of Canada's support for Ukraine and of Canada's firm position towards Russia, frankly it has nothing to do with our model on them, the reason that Canada takes the positions we do is, because we do not agree that the liberal idea is dead, we do not accept that the rules based international order should just be thrown away." -- Chrystia Freeland, deputy prime Minister of Canada...

Maskirovka

If you are strong, appear weak. But if you are weak, appear strong. --Sun Tzu Seems appropriate, simple and to the point. The former words expressing the nature of the Russian in battle in Ukraine and the later of the expressed nature of the United States and Western coalition clusterfuck. Trying to appear strong in the weakness of its shared character. Bogged down in corruption, civil unrest and a growing disillusionment of America and the West as a whole, in that matter that the west's promotion and support of a beast in democracy that cannot support itself any longer...

CENSORSHIP and the Burning down of ‘Oldspeak’

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness..."...

Technocracy, Democracy and the Plutocrats: The Big, Big Narrative. (Part 4)

"It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself—anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face ... was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime [...]" Newspeak: a new and official language. A constantly revised dictionary of words...

Victory Day and the “German Instrument of Surrender”

"In the meantime, the fields smell of bitterness... Not only bitterness. I smelled those fields. They also smell of blood." Am I a pro Russian writer? A communist as if that would count here? Part of some Russian disinformation fifth column that aims to defeat the west from within by posting 'opinions and unchecked facts and disinformation about a thing'? Will I dump my vodka? No I won't and I am not that! I don't like propaganda and I don't like not being able to see both sides and make my own mind up about the information supplied. I don't like being censored or having someone tell me that RT is cancelled till further notice and now violates local law. Which for the life of me, I can't find anywhere in local law.

Pierre Poilievre, a Curious Journalist and Trudy Zoolander…

The Canadian dollar has lost 94% of its value since 1942. Ninety-four percent! But then again, what has not lost its value since 1942. The world it seems was a better place; not so confused about its beliefs, or the direction that humanity was travelling. 1942 was the second world war and Canada along with the allied powers were fighting a great war in Europe against, you guessed it, Nazi Germany and that jack-booting and black uniformed clusterfuck of arrogant eugenicists. People of the world were joined in a common goal of helping to eradicate Nazism as a disease of the soul, a contagion of the human spirit and the sole belligerent to freedom and the democratic values of that day...

THE STRAUSSIANS

"The closer you examine it, the clearer it is that neoconservatism, in large part, is simply about enabling the most irredentist elements in Israel and sustaining a permanent war against anyone or any country who disagrees with the Israeli right. That's the conclusion I've been forced to these last few years. And to insist that America adopt exactly the same constant-war-as-survival that Israelis have been slowly forced into ... But America is not Israel. And once that distinction is made, much of the neoconservative ideology collapses." -- Andrew Michael Sullivan But America is not Israel. Or is it? Why is Israel allowed to be a nuclear power yet larger, much older nations, rather, countries that have existed longer than the present day Israel, with a lot more to protect, are forbidden from becoming a nuclear power. All roads lead to Rome it seems. Or is that Jerusalem.

Nord Stream 2: The pipeline that was never going to be…

"There will be no longer, a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it." "We will ah, I promise you, we'll be able to do it." --Joe Biden ~~~~*~~~~ The timing of Joe Biden's sober statement, of February 7, 2022, couldn't have been better, "If Russia invades uh, that means tanks and troops crossing the uh, the border of Ukraine, again. Then uh, there will be uh, we there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2, we will bring an end to it." Direct to the point and with no side step of the chosen words, no uncle Joe, or "when I was a lad" intros to a long winded story about his past, no, directed like a guided missile " [...] we will bring an end to it!"...