On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Word from multiple news services is that Putin announced "denazification" operations.

As if he wasn't probably backing the Azov Battalion all along to muddy the waters.

NBC News is reporting bombing of Kyiv and we have Twitter accounts of explosions over Kharkiv.

Dammit.

So this is how I get to go to bed tonight. Do I get to wake up tomorrow?

Or will Putin have an answer for Justin Trudeau's refusal to be overthrown this past week overnight?

And if you're Canadian? Now that the Emergencies Act has been invoked?

Expect some trouble.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/emergencies-act-banks-ottawa-protests-1.6353968

https://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p2/2022/2022-02-15-x1/html/sor-dors22-eng.html

This is not the kind of thing we want to do very often if we have to do it at all, and everyone needs banking services whether we want them or not. So something will have to be done to make sure that anyone caught and convicted can resume doing lawful business without being subject to extortionate penalties that might further radicalise them, yes...

Specifically these two from his book On Tyranny:

6. Be wary of paramilitaries
7. Be reflective if you must be armed

I don't think the head of the Ottawa Police Association, Matt Skof, is going to want that book to be available any more, whether he knows of it yet or not.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/convoy-protesters-police-tactical-knowledge-1.6345854

Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida and Ken Paxton, Texas AG are both pushing for investigations of GoFundMe in retaliation for their pulling the plug on the Convoy Coup Crowd's fundraising on that service. So I'm reading via Twitter at the moment.

Confirmed:

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/592987-desantis-state-ags-pledge-to-investigate-gofundme-removing-page-for

I am angered and unsurprised by this news.

Update 6 Feb 2022: The attorneys-general of West Virginia and Louisiana are making themselves heard along similar lines.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/05/gofundme-removes-donation-page-for-canadian-truckers-protest

1. The danger of recruiting outside your political party's "flock" as described by Rebecca Solnit.

2. New additions to and promotions within the Order of Canada.

3. Connected to the Epstein/Maxwell cases: BBC News calls itself out over an interview with Alan Dershowitz.

4. Queensway-Carleton Hospital cuts back on services due to COVID-19-induced staffing shortages.

5. DIY radio astronomy is setting up a new home in Ottawa-Gatineau.

6. From Reuters Graphics: Anatomy of a Death Threat - Trump supporters have waged a campaign of intimidation against the state and local officials who administer U.S. elections. This visual analysis explores hundreds of menacing messages - and explains why they’re difficult to counter. CW: records/transcripts of death threats as well as militant racism, misogyny, and antisemitism.

Good that they've gotten around to ALEC...

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021/12/07/leading-free-market-policy-network-enabling-anti-lgbtq-hate

Dammit.

Just got the news alert e-mail from the Toronto Star.

Dammit. Dammit. Dammit.

1. Facebook is playing numbers games about how/if they're (not) managing the hate-propaganda problem.

https://www.wired.com/story/facebooks-deceptive-math-when-it-comes-to-hate-speech/

2. We have the beginnings of a global taxation treaty. 136 countries are signed on thus far, and Deputy PM/Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is one of those who've helped make this happen. Chris Hall has an interview with her on The House.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/chrystia-freeland-global-taxation-1.6213178

3. Lee Valley Tools gives their customers and the wider public a heads-up of their own about global supply networking issues. Also, supply issues notwithstanding? They're still looking to hire according to the same newsletter that alerted their customers to the supply issues! (I know this because I'm subscribed to that newsletter.)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/lee-valley-supply-chain-1.6212065

EmptyWheel notices the time frame of Tucker Carlson's FOIA request re: the FBI:

https://twitter.com/DewlineO/status/1422983520566317057

Slashdot re: gadget ownership:

https://news.slashdot.org/story/21/07/10/0120236/by-2030-you-wont-own-any-gadgets

A WTH moment re: the Ontario government under Doug Ford:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/covid-19-ontario-august-4-lecce-back-to-school-plan-1.6128910

Slashdot notices Putinist efforts to redefine "cybercrime" at the UN. Oh, and they want "backdoors" into all our computers every-damn-where:

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/21/08/04/1642259/russia-tells-un-it-wants-vast-expansion-of-cybercrime-offenses-plus-network-backdoors-online-censorship

Spark on Privacy:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/spark/tech-titans-like-google-and-facebook-are-built-on-a-house-of-cards-says-oxford-philosopher-1.5893760