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About that "Wexit" crap?
Nov. 5th, 2019 08:23 pmSome details were pointed out to me. They might be of some importance.
https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/59na9q/wexit-founders-are-far-right-conspiracy-theorists
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/canada-wexit-and-the-federal-election-targeted-in-russian-disinformation-campaign-academics-say/wcm/0994b463-165c-484d-9765-dd407cd5760f
Conspiracy nuts suckered by people running real conspiracies. It's of a piece with some of that crap going on in Washington these last three or four years. Just sick and rotten enough to be real?
https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/59na9q/wexit-founders-are-far-right-conspiracy-theorists
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/canada-wexit-and-the-federal-election-targeted-in-russian-disinformation-campaign-academics-say/wcm/0994b463-165c-484d-9765-dd407cd5760f
Conspiracy nuts suckered by people running real conspiracies. It's of a piece with some of that crap going on in Washington these last three or four years. Just sick and rotten enough to be real?
Semi-Connected Thoughts
Aug. 3rd, 2019 09:22 am1. I'm feeling a need for a haircut, for a shower, for shopping...and I look at today's forecast of 60 % chance of rain, possibly thundershowers. Today is going to be a conflicted day at the start of what's locally a long weekend at the top of August.
2. There's a gathering of reich-wingers in Sydney, Australia this weekend. Their big question is "How do we make sure that no one can avoid being misruled by our Doctrine?" Fair warning: images of evildoers such as Farage - the man who ought to be made to wear DCU Joker makeup everywhere he goes - included with the SBS article.
3. Some good news to give the attendees of the conference cited in item # 2 some pain: Australia's about to achieve 35 % of energy sourced from renewables, within two years.
4. Isn't a large part of Putin's clout oil-based? He might want to reconsider that course of action.
More later...
2. There's a gathering of reich-wingers in Sydney, Australia this weekend. Their big question is "How do we make sure that no one can avoid being misruled by our Doctrine?" Fair warning: images of evildoers such as Farage - the man who ought to be made to wear DCU Joker makeup everywhere he goes - included with the SBS article.
3. Some good news to give the attendees of the conference cited in item # 2 some pain: Australia's about to achieve 35 % of energy sourced from renewables, within two years.
4. Isn't a large part of Putin's clout oil-based? He might want to reconsider that course of action.
More later...
Listening to the Mueller Testimony
Jul. 24th, 2019 01:22 pmAnd it's pretty much as I expected it to be.
The Republicans seem to see Mr. Mueller's "duty" as being to self-discredit as quickly and as disastrously as possible. Which is nonsensical at best, and dangerous to the US and to the people of many other nations as well.
More on other topics of interest as the day goes on...
The Republicans seem to see Mr. Mueller's "duty" as being to self-discredit as quickly and as disastrously as possible. Which is nonsensical at best, and dangerous to the US and to the people of many other nations as well.
More on other topics of interest as the day goes on...
RUSSIA/EU: Dugin Getting Quoted
Jul. 7th, 2019 06:24 pmGenocide-whisperer(1) Aleksandr Dugin got a few words in edgewise in this article, I noticed, comparing Putin to a force called the Katechon.
If there's anyone I'd consider closest to a human anti-christ in this day and age, it's Dugin.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/04/world/europe/pope-francis-putin.html
(1) Yes, I am going to call him that. It fits.
If there's anyone I'd consider closest to a human anti-christ in this day and age, it's Dugin.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/04/world/europe/pope-francis-putin.html
(1) Yes, I am going to call him that. It fits.
Before Gamergate and Comicsgate...
May. 1st, 2019 08:05 am...there were test runs.
https://slate.com/technology/2019/04/black-feminists-alt-right-twitter-gamergate.html
https://slate.com/technology/2019/04/black-feminists-alt-right-twitter-gamergate.html
...such as Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-18/insulting-putin-may-now-land-you-in-jail-under-new-russian-law
He's done so much that's worthy of insult from the 1990's onward - and we wonder about his KGB career prior to that - that it's difficult to determine where to begin. Though many people have made efforts to figure out the best answer to that question, to be sure.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-18/insulting-putin-may-now-land-you-in-jail-under-new-russian-law
He's done so much that's worthy of insult from the 1990's onward - and we wonder about his KGB career prior to that - that it's difficult to determine where to begin. Though many people have made efforts to figure out the best answer to that question, to be sure.
Brexit, Trump, Putin: Resisting All Three
Dec. 27th, 2018 08:29 pmI believe this to be true. I suspect the same goes for most of my friendlist here. Which is why I'm going to leave this linkage out in the open where other users can see it too.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/27/putin-trump-brexit-europe-britain-eu
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/27/putin-trump-brexit-europe-britain-eu
Dots, Connecting: From France to Alberta?
Dec. 8th, 2018 10:52 pmMax Boot on the "gilets jaunes" mess now underway in France, and the alleged connections to Putinists:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2018/12/08/france-online-extremists-put-centrism-torch/
Meanwhile, in Alberta:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-yellow-vest-protests-1.4938333
Is it such a stretch to think there's a direct link between these particular events in France and Alberta this week?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2018/12/08/france-online-extremists-put-centrism-torch/
Meanwhile, in Alberta:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-yellow-vest-protests-1.4938333
Is it such a stretch to think there's a direct link between these particular events in France and Alberta this week?
Connecting More Election-Meddling Dots
Nov. 25th, 2018 02:20 pmCarole Cadwalladr's latest on some of the investigations in the wake of Brexit Vote I:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/24/mps-seize-cache-facebook-internal-papers
Quoth the article:
Facebook said: “The materials obtained by the DCMS committee are subject to a protective order of the San Mateo Superior Court restricting their disclosure. We have asked the DCMS committee to refrain from reviewing them and to return them to counsel or to Facebook. We have no further comment.”
It is unclear what, if any, legal moves Facebook can make to prevent publication. UK, Canada, Ireland, Argentina, Brazil, Singapore and Latvia will all have representatives joining what looks set to be a high-stakes encounter between Facebook and politicians.
Brasil, huh? Do they suspect similar tampering being part of how Balsonaro got elected there?
Also, I think Ukraine has a life-and-death need to be represented at this particular multinational gathering, for reasons similar to those of Latvia and the UK (and maybe the States as well)...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/24/mps-seize-cache-facebook-internal-papers
Quoth the article:
Facebook said: “The materials obtained by the DCMS committee are subject to a protective order of the San Mateo Superior Court restricting their disclosure. We have asked the DCMS committee to refrain from reviewing them and to return them to counsel or to Facebook. We have no further comment.”
It is unclear what, if any, legal moves Facebook can make to prevent publication. UK, Canada, Ireland, Argentina, Brazil, Singapore and Latvia will all have representatives joining what looks set to be a high-stakes encounter between Facebook and politicians.
Brasil, huh? Do they suspect similar tampering being part of how Balsonaro got elected there?
Also, I think Ukraine has a life-and-death need to be represented at this particular multinational gathering, for reasons similar to those of Latvia and the UK (and maybe the States as well)...
Putin Screwed Up and Russians Know It
Aug. 15th, 2018 01:29 pmDetails here:
https://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2018/08/moscow-has-made-unforgivable-mistake-of.html
If you do check the links in the essay, of course, be careful.
But still...there are Russians who understand what the people running their government right now have gotten them into...and who do not like the implications and consequences at all. Even if they ever liked the intentions behind those acts.
https://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2018/08/moscow-has-made-unforgivable-mistake-of.html
If you do check the links in the essay, of course, be careful.
But still...there are Russians who understand what the people running their government right now have gotten them into...and who do not like the implications and consequences at all. Even if they ever liked the intentions behind those acts.
An Inconvenient - Nay, Dangerous - Truth
Jul. 17th, 2018 06:17 amCanada is now confirmed as geo-bracketed by hostile regimes.
The European Argument, Continued
Jul. 1st, 2018 03:46 pmAs I contemplate, rather than celebrate, Canada Day 151:
Three different visions of the EU in play? I suspect that there's a few more besides. However, Merkel and Macron might be able to get something genuinely helpful to most Europeans built despite their disagreements with each other.
Orban, on the other hand, is being Just Plain Toxic, not much better than Vladimir Putin and Aleksandr Dugin. Who are the absolute worst.
What parts of the picture am I missing here?
Three different visions of the EU in play? I suspect that there's a few more besides. However, Merkel and Macron might be able to get something genuinely helpful to most Europeans built despite their disagreements with each other.
Orban, on the other hand, is being Just Plain Toxic, not much better than Vladimir Putin and Aleksandr Dugin. Who are the absolute worst.
What parts of the picture am I missing here?
MOVIES: The Death of Stalin
Mar. 24th, 2018 10:57 pmJust got home from seeing The Death of Stalin. The Bytowne was packed, audience-wise. The film was a weirdly effective mix of comedy, drama and documentary.
The line that made me laugh? Khrushchev commenting that "now we can turn the corner".
Sad, angry laughter.
Oh, and I find out at the end that this is adapted from a French graphic novel!
The line that made me laugh? Khrushchev commenting that "now we can turn the corner".
Sad, angry laughter.
Oh, and I find out at the end that this is adapted from a French graphic novel!
Historical Research
Jan. 6th, 2018 09:00 pmWorking my way through reading this now. Noting some intellectual pitfalls I may be at risk of stumbling into along the way of defending my own vision of what human civilization is and could become if it survives and prospers.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/01/03/will-conservatism-end-in-nihilism/
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/01/03/will-conservatism-end-in-nihilism/
Reading Update - 28 December 2017
Dec. 28th, 2017 09:31 pmJust finished Persepolis Rising from the Expanse series. Starting on Andy Weir's Artemis and Masha Gessen's Man Without a Face biography of Putin. After that, hopefully Linden McIntyre's The Only Cafe, since that was one of the gifts I got this Christmas.
Cadwalladr:
Nov. 20th, 2017 07:46 amGuardian reporter Carole Cadwalladr - one of the best reporters covering the whole Putinist campaign against global democracy at the moment - documents an attempt to intimidate her into silence:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/19/my-fear-and-fury-in-the-eye-of-the-russia-leave-storm
I have no love for people who posted that bit of intimidation on the Leave.EU Twitter account. None. At all. Bullies in general tend to annoy me by their actions. Including psychological warfare.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/19/my-fear-and-fury-in-the-eye-of-the-russia-leave-storm
I have no love for people who posted that bit of intimidation on the Leave.EU Twitter account. None. At all. Bullies in general tend to annoy me by their actions. Including psychological warfare.
Putinists might be more than a little pleased with this consequence of DT-45's installation as US president.
Why?
Because Bombardier is Canada's main aircraft manufacturer. And it's headquartered in Montréal, Québec. One of its main extranational plants is in Northern Ireland. Both QC and Northern Ireland are national unity faultlines of their respective "parent" nations. (Yes, I am using "parent" in a dangerous way here. Understood. Let's move on for now.)
If Bombardier gets killed as a company because of this mess, that means major high-tech job losses in Canada and the UK, each in their respective national unity "faultline" zones. Which can lead to NATO's internal political cohesion taking a hit due to Canadian and British resentment of Washington's siding with Boeing.
So, two NATO countries internally disrupted, resenting a third which is itself already disrupted. Defence supply chains within NATO also messed up.
Am I wrong about this theory?
Why?
Because Bombardier is Canada's main aircraft manufacturer. And it's headquartered in Montréal, Québec. One of its main extranational plants is in Northern Ireland. Both QC and Northern Ireland are national unity faultlines of their respective "parent" nations. (Yes, I am using "parent" in a dangerous way here. Understood. Let's move on for now.)
If Bombardier gets killed as a company because of this mess, that means major high-tech job losses in Canada and the UK, each in their respective national unity "faultline" zones. Which can lead to NATO's internal political cohesion taking a hit due to Canadian and British resentment of Washington's siding with Boeing.
So, two NATO countries internally disrupted, resenting a third which is itself already disrupted. Defence supply chains within NATO also messed up.
Am I wrong about this theory?
