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To watch the Epoch TV I need to create a free account and accept their terms of service. No paywall. But I have quite enough accounts with their associated passwords and I don’t intend to set up any more. I’ll just have to wait for this news to come via another (non-MSM) channel.
A bit more on vaccines in Australia, or at least in the national capital: the radio told me yesterday that the 4th jab is now available to anyone aged 20-65 but it’s optional, no pressure. I presume that people outside this age group have been or able to have been jabbed elsewhere and elsewhen.
Have you seen Dr Ted Noel’s video showing how masks perform (badly)? Very instructive:
I could fault his methodology a little, e.g. he dons them a bit crookedly and doesn’t try to fit them as closely as he might to his face, but I think his demo is very revealing. The lesson is that unless a surgical-quailty mask seals completely around the edges, it’s useless. Seal and stifle. My eye doctor is required to wear a mask on the job. Yesterday he told me that because he talks a lot to his patients during the day, his throat gets irritated from the tiny fibres that he breathes in. Now I’m wondering what that will do to his health. He’s tired of masks but must endure them.
Are face masks effective? I ws told by a retired operating theatre nurse that during a procedure they needed to don new masks every 20 minutes, because the masks clogged up and became ineffective. I don’t see any statements in the press or government instructions pointing this out.
Vaccine mandates may have vanished from Australia for the time being, but there are noises in the MSM about the encroaching monkeypox. There is also an awareness that this latest putative social crippler is spread only by close contact, not in the air, so maybe it’s not so bad. Until our medically-ignorant politicians are convinced otherwise. Stay tuned.
Meanwhile, the Reserve Bank of Australia recently announced an interest rate rise with more to come. In our over-heated, over-borrowed housing sector, this will push ever larger numbers of mortgage holders off the edge. There are already people living in tents in places like Adelaide, although so far in small numbers. Big things from little things grow…
At least our agricultural sector isn’t being shut down. Not yet, anyway. Quite the opposite: the NSW government some years back eased up on regulations controlling forest clearing for cattle grazing, and now the iconic marsupial is officially listed as endangered. But koalas are irrelevant to development — as indeed are most other aspects of the biosphere, aren’t they.
Indeed, it’s not just a war on farming that we’re seeing: it’s a war on the entire biosphere. The human race is being led and deceived into committing slow suicide by habitat destruction.
There is an old Russian expression, that says “you were born where you’re in need”…
There’s always exceptions. I was born in India, at a very early age. Four months later I was in Australia where I have remained ever since, and most likely will die here from one cause or another. It’d be nice to think that Oz needed me.
Friends of ours recently got the bug. They’re both vaccinated, but only the two AZ jabs. No boosters. Both recovered with no apparent ill effects after about a week. Hard to know if their jabs helped or not. Neither wants any more vaccines; they’re fed up with them.
It’s becoming obvious here that the vaccines don’t work but it’s also obvious that they’re being pushed and pushed regardless, only THOSE vaccines and we see little or no news of different vaccines being developed and used. Keep doing the same thing and expecting a different result.
I rather agree with Naomi Wolf and Jeff Wells: there IS something non-human about how this entire drama is being directed. Why not call it for what it is: demonic?
The German gov’t is not the only one persecuting its citizens for providing information.
The now gloriously-defunct neolib Australian federal gov’t started a neo-Stalinist, secret show trial of a man AND his lawyer who revealed that the feds bugged the embassy of Timor Leste to gain an advantage during sea boundary negotiations. Oil or gas is in the disputed territory.
The worry is that the new Labor gov’t, a thus-far much kinder and gentler regime, isn’t moving to stop the farce.
So disappointing. One faction of the empire fighting another?
Three state governments in Australia have passed laws criminalising dissent by anyone who protests against biosphere-destroying “development.” The neolibs and endless-growth fantacists are getting truly desperate.
I’m not alone in viewing this fighting in Europe as a civil war between parts of the Western Empire. Meanwhile the Eastern Empire watches and waits. What for, I’m not sure — maybe for the EU to weaken itself sufficiently so that the Eastern Empire can move in and take over? And would the takeover be done in conjunction with the Russian branch of the Western Empire?
And what would the Eastern Empire find of use in the European peninsula? Small amounts of oil and gas, some coal, no iron ore or bauxite, and lots of hungry mouths to feed.
Here we are, the brilliant human race, squabbling murderously over shrinking baskets of resources, squandering those very resources in the struggle to control them. Terminal stupidity.
Elon Musk hails from South Africa where the use of lethal force in self-defence is legal. I have seen adverts for cars with built-in flamethrowers to belch fire over attackers and hijackers. I don’t know what environment Musk grew up in and how that has formed his views.
Oops, I made some elementary mistakes. Honestly,my arithmetic is getting worse.
Range is 400km.
Cost of Melbourne trip (one way) is $115. I think the train costs less than that.Chris Hedges wrote, “No respite from gas prices that are projected to hit $6 a gallon.”
Yesterday I put some petrol in my tank, car’s tank that is, and paid $1.939/litre for 91 octane with 10% ethanol. The car runs quite happily on that. This converts to USD 4.92 per gallon. Getting there. On average the car consumes 9 litres/100 km, so the $70 I spent for 36 litres gives me a range of 325 km. I don’t drive much these days, so that should last me for a couple of weeks.
But should I suddenly want to drive to Melbourne, that would cost me $143 for the 660 km trip. Ouch. I can remember the unhappiness when petrol prices rose above $1/litre and the service stations had to find space for an extra digit on their billboards and pumps.
Diesel currently costs over $2/litre. Canberra gets 90-odd% of its food brought here by diesel. Yes, prices are noticeably going up.
And the country as a whole has about 2 weeks’ stocks of transport fuel. Try putting coal in your fuel tank. Back to WW2 days with gas generators on vehicles?
We have made such splendid provision for the future.
Most pietà paintings annoy me in that the model for Christ is largely unblemished, with only minor holes in the hands and feet. The gospels report that he was flogged and beaten almost beyond recognition. To depict the reality would be rather hard to take, and not suitable for children.
So, the Unrainians are putting Russion POWs on trial for war crimes, and the Russians are putting Ukrainian POWs on trial for war crimes. How far will this go?
I am greatly saddened by this whole ghastly war. I know Russians and Ukrainians and I like them all. Indeed, I have yet to meet a Ukrainian I don’t like (although I am sure that such a species does exist). To see them tearing at each other like this is appalling beyond words. May it soon stop. But even when it does, the hatreds and repercussions will go on for generations. Not a good investment in the future.
“They’re operating within an impenetrable superstructure of ideology” -Journalist Michael Tracy”
So what else is new? This is normal. Again I recommend reading Arthur Ponsonby’s book “Falsehood in War Time” about WW1. The first casualty in war is truth. The book is out of copyright and can be downloaded in PDF format. My position is simple and simplistic: I don’t trust anything I read or hear. Full stop.Harari and friends and the transhumanist project
So, they think they will not surely die? Oh, get real. Come on, eternally clever transhumanists, tell me: what are you going to do about the laws of thermodynamics? Are you going to conquer and change them? And exactly what will you DO with your immortality? Who wants to live on and on and on in a universe subject to the laws of thermodynamics which will in the very long-term decay away? What utter futility.Australian federal elections
Final voting day is this Saturday. A campaign of half-truths and pomposity is well under way. Will the fossil-fuel obsessed, biosphere-harming neoliberals get back in, or will we get a glimmer of hope and install a slightly more humane and realistic bunch? We are riders on the storm.Julian Assange
So sad. Justice stands far off, truth has fallen in the streets. “Assange delenda est!” is the goal. As another Australian, it distresses me to see how our righteous government has abandoned one of its citizens. Perfidious Albion. Perfidious Australia. I have lost all trust in both major political parties to have compassion for anyone except themselves.I am so completely fed up with everything.
Ukraine is the point d’appui of the Western versus Eastern Empires. Most wars are about access to resources, and this one is no exception. The decay of the Western Empire is quite obviously well under way. TPTB are daily becoming more agitated and arguably desperate.
However, the Norwegian-born official also noted that its Asia-Pacific partners – such as Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and South Korea – have been invited as well, stating that the current security crisis has “global implications.
I am confident that Australia will eagerly accept the invitation. Federal elections are near and the incumbents will be using Security as a major scare tactic. They will do whatever it takes to stay in office. But one of their own disaffected members put it nicely: Power Without Purpose.
NSW govt. in aus just passed a law – 2 years prison for protest that disrupts business.
So, the Mammon-worshippers have sanctified Business. Let them. All this will do is hasten the end. Meanwhile TPTB will happily ruin our best farmland by sacrificing it to the coal and gas industry. No matter; we can always source our food from somewhere else. There is an endless number of Somewhere-Elses, so no need to plan anything, make wise provision, store up for an indefinite future. All we need to do is sit back and let The Market perform its wonders. Hallelujah.
Actually, there’s a growing realisation in this nation that the current economic system is on course to catastrophe and we need to change and change soon. I await developments with interest.
Here’s an idle thought. I’m not serious but it’s fun to play with:
If Putin is a graduate of the WEF leadership course, then he’s in the same club as other world leaders. What if they asked and he agreed to make Russia into the international country of universal loathing and hatred by starting this war in Ukraine? The purpose is to provide a way to help destabilise, overthrow and replace the present world system. Russua becomes the big, powerful and frightening enemy of civilisation and the other empires (EU, US) must do whatever it takes to control it. The covid fracas has provided a testing ground for control measures, so now we can try for a bigger goal.
Probably too complicated a plan to manage! And I agree with other commentators that the elites aren’t unified at all, but are a collection of squabbling factions arguing over how they will cut up the pie when dinner time comes.
I’m so fed up with it all.
The clip of Matt Graetz ended too early for me: I didn’t see that his motion actually passed. Nor did I hear anyone “screaming.” But I did enjoy watching it.
On another note completely, I don’t see how Russia’s holding war crimes trials will impress the glorious west in the slightest, who will simply and loudly claim that the guilty are persecuting the innocent.
Veracious Poet wrote, “If I was Putin I’d also make damn sure Russia’s border was overly secure, as not only will espionage agents/assassins be illegally entering, but also migrants from surrounding regions harmed by U$/EU Empire idiocy…”
A big problem for Russia is its sheer size and long borders, many of which meander over open territory with no easy defences. To monitor and protect these costs a LOT. If China and Mongolia stay on side, that helps. Don’t know what Kazakhstan might do. In the south, the Caspian and Black Seas plus Caucasus Mountains afford good protection. In Europea lot depends on the stance of Romania/Moldava, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, the Baltics, and Finland.
Interesting to note Kaliningrad, potentially very useful Russian exclave. This could be a major headache for hostile parties, or it could fold quickly. Depends what’s stored in it…
Yeah, Morrison wants a “khaki election,” so he’ll pursue and promote the death-to-Russia, solidarity- with-the-oppressed-peoples-of-Ukraine lines (and they ARE oppressed, no doubt about it) for all they’re worth.
Does Ukraine even NEED our coal? According to the IEA Ukraine has abundant mineral resources including oil, natural gas and coal, and great hydro and biomass potential. Supplies are disrupted by this war but anything Australia can send them is trivial tokenism. Never mind; the Australian Coal Cabal would gladly stoke the furnaces of hell to keep their industry alive.
We’re in a war now, and it was Ponsonby who coined the term “When war is declared, truth is the first casualty.” A bit more from him: “A moment’s reflection would tell any reasonable person that such obvious bias cannot possibly represent the truth. But the moment’s reflection is not allowed; lies are circulated with great rapidity. The unthinking mass accept them and by their excitement sway the rest. The amount of rubbish and humbug that pass under the name of patriotism in war-time in all countries is sufficient to make decent people blush when they are subsequently disillusioned.”
Justice is repelled, righteousness stands far off; truth has stumbled in the public court and honesty finds no place there.
VERY glad for TAE Summary’s post yesterday about Arthur Ponsonby’s 1928 book Falsehood in War-time, Containing an Assortment of Lies Circulated Throughout the Nations During the Great War. I knew lies and vicious lies had been spread during that war but not in any detail. This book will fill a large gap.
Wikipedia have an article about this book (link). An excerpt:
Anne Morelli systematised the essential propaganda techniques of Ponsonby’s classic in her book Principes élémentaires de propagande de guerre. Morelli explains how these principles not only worked during the First World War, but were also applied in wars into 2001:
1. We do not want war.
2. The opposite party alone is guilty of war.
3. The enemy is inherently evil and resembles the devil.
4. We defend a noble cause, not our own interests (Just War theory).
5. The enemy commits atrocities on purpose; our mishaps are involuntary.
6. The enemy uses forbidden weapons.
7. We suffer small losses, those of the enemy are enormous.
8. Recognized artists and intellectuals back our cause.
9. Our cause is sacred.
10. All who doubt our propaganda are traitors.It would appear that these principles are being actively applied right into 2022, and in more than one arena: the Russia-Ukraine stoush and also the covid narratives.
In Canberra mask mandates ended a few weeks ago. Most people don’t wear them any more. Of those that still do, the age distribution is mainly older people, but some younger people continue. Individual enterprises can still require them, e.g. doctors’ surgeries.
Waiting now for the next variant to arrive, or for something completely new to emerge from the abyss.
Talking of suicide, it is now clear that Australia has decided to top itself.
Last Tuesday, the Federal Court overturned the ruling from last year that the Federal Environment Minister has a duty of care to protect young people from the effects of climate change when making decisions. Last year’s ruling was a world first, setting a precedent for cases all over the world, and it was also finally some common sense.
In other words, the future is of no consequence. Whatever we lust after now, we do, and hang the consequences.
This is madness. The darkness is closing in. May God have mercy on us all, because we sure won’t.
Kinzhal: no doubt the Western Empire is busily copying it. How much time I wonder before they have at least a working prototype? (Bit like the naval armaments race pre-WW1.) Then all hell will break loose.
Are we not the master race?
Here’s an extract from an email sent yesterday from in-laws in the US:
The war in the Ukraine is certainly sobering. [X] is currently a captain and his specialty is logistics. He is keeping us informed about that aspect of the war. It seems as if Russia really blew it there. He goes to some military sites and gets a better analysis of the war than we can find. Unfortunately it is still a David and Goliath situation.
Interesting that his “military sites” tell rather a different story to sites pointed to by TAE and others.
The Conversation this morning contributed this:
Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly invoked the “nazification” of Ukraine to justify Russia’s invasion of its neighbour.
While this claim has been debunked, Russia expert Robert Horvath says far less attention has been focused on the Putin regime’s own record of collaboration with far-right extremists.Wouldn’t surprise me to learn that both sides are flirting with fascism. That, after all, is the direction in which the glorious West is so rapidly heading. Chris Martensen in his latest video read out a press release from some years ago describing how the US Senate passed a bill which inter alia permitted the disbursement of US funds to neo-Nazi organisations in Ukraine. The Senate was inclined not to pass the bill but the DoD put considerable pressure on them and got the result it wanted. Why did it want that? What’s the goal? I think we all can guess.
Regardless of flirtations, it’s so depressing the way the public is being taught to hate Russia and everything Russian, and to glorify anything Ukrainian. The Ukrainian people are being used as mere pawns in a massive game. It’s totally unconscionable. Hatred solves nothing. Wars solve nothing.
The Australian aborigines made extensive use of fire for environmental control. They used cool fires to clear undergrowth and repair the land. It seems never to have occurred to them to hew down trees and make large(r) fires out of them. Of course, with little mining or metallurgy at their disposal, there was no need for large fires. Coal was known to them around Newcastle (in NSW), and they used it for domestic fires.
The Sydney Opera House sails are illuminated with blue and orange.
G’day oxymoron,
Great to have the metalwork out. I do hope you heal up completely. You are needed.
Read your party saga yesterday. Oh man, what a revelation! And yet what you describe easily fits the mentality and morality of TPTB in our benighted, once-lucky country. Good and recent illustration: the Environment Minister just won a court case saying that she does NOT have a duty of care for futue generations in making environmental decisions.
So it’s quite clear then: environmentalism gets in the way of jobs & growth. The biosphere is totally resilient. Demand creates supply ad infinitum. Tomorrow is another day.
“Humans are not meant to be ecological stewards (their short lifespans prevent them to perform the adequate assessment of the consequences of their acts).” I don’t agree either. In Australia the aborigines had been competently managing the entire continent as one huge estate for tens of thousands of years — until the Europeans barged in and wrecked so much of it. It can be done, but it takes learning, education and patience. Europeans are good at learning, not so good at education, and are totally impatient. They want it all NOW.
Yesterday the maternity hospital bombing was front-page news in The Australian, one of Murdoch’s stable. The photo looked bad, very bad. In the face of evidence like that, what’s the average reader to think?
Talking of inflation, yesterday I filled the car with E91 petrol, i.e. 91 octane, 10% ethanol. The price has risen to 202.4 cents per litre. I put in 48.8 litres and paid out $98. Good grief. I remember when that much would have cost me $12 or so. Can I afford many, or maybe any, long trips any more?
Diesel prices are rising comparably, and 90% of Canberra’s leafy greens and fruit comes from Sydney on diesel-powered trucks. One guess what food prices will do.
I subscribe to The Guardian Weekly. Here’s an excerpt from their latest email which arrived a minute ago:
The sunflower is Ukraine’s national flower and has become a potent symbol of hope and resistance during the invasion. It’s a concept Egle Plytnikaite, a Lithuanian illustrator based in Vilnius, has captured poignantly in her cover art for this week’s edition.
“My goal was to depict the unbreakable spirit of Ukrainian people who united for their country in the darkest hour,” she writes. “They are experiencing an absolutely horrible and inhumane terror from Russian occupiers and yet they manage to keep morale high and fight back with incredible force. There is a saying that ‘you cannot make a free man kneel’ and Ukrainians are a living example of that.
“Slava Ukraini, heroyam slava!” (Glory to Ukraine, glory to the heroes)
For many people, the true horror of Vladimir Putin’s assault on Ukraine was brought home last weekend by shocking images showing a family of four killed by Russian mortar fire while fleeing the town of Irpin. Yet, despite the dire conditions for civilians trapped in cities such as Kherson and Mariupol, determination to resist the Russian invasion stayed firm. Indeed, in refusing to leave Kyiv, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has epitomised courage and dignity in the face of Moscow’s onslaught.
Yet if I accept LezLuTHOR’s tweet, there’s not much going on in Irpin.
Very hard and time-consuming to compare and contrast the multitude of partisan opinions.
Quite the thread. Illusion warfare.
Ignoring the 33 numerology stuff, this entire post is interesting. What he filmed (or videoed) appears genuine and unstaged, although he could have pointed the camera away from scenes that don’t support his thesis. But on balance I’m inclined to say he didn’t.The Saker is available in Canberra on Firefox. So is RT.
I refuse to use Chrome for anything, suspecting/believing that it snoops. Yes, I know, a variety of Google cookies is unavoidable on a multitude of websites.
(News item on RT: “Tobacco giant sanctions Russia.” Isn’t that only good news from a health & welfare point of view?)
It’s wryly amusing to watch Australia attempting to bignote itself in joining the anti-China club. Not only is China our biggest customer for raw materials (and possibly foodstuffs; need to check), it’s also our biggest supplier of every type and kind of gadget. And aluminium metal for our naval patrol boats. Patrol boats to protect us from — one guess.
We signed a 99-year lease of the port of Darwin to a Chinese company some years ago. Darwin is where the bulk of our imported petroleum products arrive. We rely hugely on imports. One good cyclone, or one mysterious explosion, or 2 contaminated shiploads in a row, and we’re rationing petrol and diesel within 2 weeks. We do have a tiny oil reserve but it’s stored IN THE USA. Not here. The mind boggles.
We are so weak. So easily knocked off the global chessboard. Our governing elites seem so out of touch with reality.
Some people think Russia has made a colossal blunder, others think they are boxing very clever. (I wrote “Russia” not “Putin” because his is not the only mind involved in this.)
Maybe it’s a brilliant move. Reasoning: by taking action against Ukraine, the West has ganged up on Russia to a remarkable, unified degree. The West has shut Russia out of much of the global marketplace, especially for petroleum and natural gas. Oil reserves globally are very low at the moment and capex is way down. Even if it were to increase tomorrow, it would take 5 years for the boost to become apparent. Inflation rates are high and getting higher. The entire economy is dependent upon oil to give it life. Gail Tverberg opines that “Few people in America and Europe realize that the world economy is entirely dependent upon Russia’s exports of oil, coal and natural gas.” (emphasis mine)
In other words, Russia may have lured the glorious West into a trap, possibly a suicidal trap. It has achieved what it couldn’t easily have done before taking military action, i.e. ensure that the West firmly closes off its own supply lines. How long before our economies really totter and lurch, to everyone’s hurt?
That said, the whole effort could come badly unstuck. Wars are unpredictable. The only good war is no war.
I am noticing huge demonisation going on now. Anything Russian is to be loathed, despised and removed. I have a Russian friend; I can only hope that nothing nasty happens. It’s reminiscent of the Great War, WW1, where anything German was similarly demonised. Churchill prevented British women from attending a peace conference in the neutral Netherlands. Place names were anglicised. Foodstuff names were anglicised. Many lurid stories were circulated, most of which later proved to have been false. History rhymes.
I drove past the Russian embassy yesterday. No demonstrators, no placards, no banners. Nothing unusual except for an Australian Federal Police vehicle parked in the median strip opposite. Good; we’re honouring our obligations to protect foreign diplomats and their premises.
On the car radio came a news item that Australians were contacting the Ukrainian embassy to volunteer to go and join the fray. It sounded impressive until the newsreader announced the number so far: twenty. Yes, that’ll make a difference… They also played a clip from the Foreign Affairs minister saying that Australians should not go to war zones. Fair enough.
Actually, how embassies and high commissions are protected here gives an indication of the mental state, the gestalt, of the international community. When I moved to Canberra in the early 1980s there were three high commission buildings in a row: British, New Zealand, Canadian. (Commonwealth countries don’t send embassies to each other; they establish high commissions, hauts commissariats. Why this distinction I do not know.) None of these buildings had any sort of fence around it. All very relaxed. Some time after 9/11 the British high commission grounds sprouted a nice, strong fence. Some time later the Canadians got a fence. Finally, after a few more years, NZ joined the club and built their fence. Now we have three gated communities in a row. So sad.
The US and Russian embassies have always had stout fences. After 9/11 the US reinforced theirs by raising the ground by a metre or so all around and putting the fence on top of that, to prevent vehicles from trying to ram through the fence formerly at ground level. The Russian embassy fence is at ground level. The Ukrainian embassy is on the 12th floor of an office building in the downtown area.
The august Conversation this morning ran an article by a professor of History and Judaic Studies at the Uni of Michigan entitled “Putin’s claim to rid Ukraine of Nazis is especially absurd given its history.”
One excerpt:
For a brief period of time, Ukraine was the only state outside of Israel to have both a Jewish head of state and a Jewish head of government. “How could I be a Nazi?” Zelensky asked in a public address after the Russian invasion began. “Explain it to my grandfather.”
This is the kind of claim that requires careful analysis — but I simply do not have time.
There will be more such claims tomorrow and the next day and the next.
Veracious Poet wrote, “In the current climate of Clown World, where we never know what evil will be unleashed next, having physical possession of portable assets will be mission critical to survival, which also can be used as seed money to support small communities that pull together to survive the “useless eater” culling that is obviously upon us…”
Here’s another unleashable evil: personal property tax, with rates and scope vastly extended. TPTB will seek to tax EVERY physical asset. If you don’t pay, they will confiscate.
Australia doesn’t have PPT. Not yet, but I imagine TPTB are imagining it lots.
The Ukrainian situation will be very useful in our forthcoming federal elections. The incumbent (fossil-fuelled infinite-growth) party will strongly push the “national security” angle. I await to see what the (not much better) opposition will do. Not happy.
As you would expect, much agitation about Russia and Ukraine in the Oz MSM today.
Auntie (ABC) has these headlines among others:“Second wave of targeted missile strikes hits Ukraine and world leaders condemn Putin’s cold-blooded war.”
“The Russia-Ukraine crisis isn’t just unfloding on the ground. Cyber attacks are intensifying too.”
“The global economy is staring into the abyss as Ukraine invasion hits tje Australian stock market.”
“It’s 15,000 kilometres from Kyiv to Korumburra, but the Russia-Ukraine conflict will have impacts across Australia.”
“Russia sanctions, Ukraine conflict likely to increase petrol, gas, fertiliser and wheat prices.”
“China refuses to call Russia’s actions in Ukraine an invasion.”
“Why are building costs going through the rooof?”
“Australia won’t send troops, but how else is it going to help Ukraine?”No idea what terrifying stratagems Australia will deploy. The mouse that roared…
FYI, the national average unleaded petrol price rose to a record 179 cents per litre last week. Convert that to your local currencies and weights & measures, and see if running your car fits into your household budget. It does mine, but I don’t need to use the car a great deal.
One might argue that Trudeau has moved too far, too fast. He’s given the game away. The world can see clearly now how TPTB can (try to) control us simply by making it very difficult if not impossible to buy or sell using the state-authorised financial system.
This news is surely making its way around the world at very high speed, the Ukrainian sideshow not withstanding. I expect that a lot of people are making a lot of plans to deal with and counteract the situation.
