February 28, 2022: Reader Tips

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This evening we feature a December 1975 episode of Streets of San Francisco called Spooks For Sale. It’s guest starring a fellow who rose to much prominence a bit later in his career … on the island of Oahu!

Csaba gets his truck back

Because mischief is important

Look at what the Canadian truckers have inspired in Northwest Texas

Bonus: This evening we start a new feature here on Reader Tips, featuring video portraits of freedom protesters captured by YouTuber JB Morrison. Here are the first two in his series:


“You can’t force freedom on people, but they sure do flock to it.”

78 Replies to “February 28, 2022: Reader Tips”

  3. Here’s a video by The Duran on the Ukraine situation. I’ve only been listening to these guys for about the last month, but I think this video is worth listening to (especially early, and when the guest in Kiev joins at about 1:45 in), although it’s long and from a day ago.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APcb-Yyy7Aw

    1. Consider who’s now the mayor of Edmonton and I think you have have part of the answer. Armyjeep Soapy was a failed Prinz Dummkopf cabinet minister, so supporting the convoy means disparaging his former boss.

        1. I certainly didn’t.

          I know a lot of lefties did, though. I have the shame of living in Red Rachel’s riding and, a few months ago, there were a lot of lawn signs supporting him in the surrounding neighbourhood.

    2. Windsor police are hunting out the deplorables in their ranks. No word from the police unions telling administrators to back off

  5. Interesting (and very long thread) about Russia and Ukraine:

    https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1498080538397220872

    He points out that Russia do not have follow-on forces, and their Service and Supply convoys are getting chopped up by Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces and bypassed Ukrainian Regulars. This is different than 2014, where nothing worked for the Ukrainians, the supplies in the warehouses were junk, and the Ukrainians essentially gave up.

    Putin thought it is 2014 again, and assumed the Ukrainians would fall apart. So did a lot of Western Experts too. So far Ukrainian cities have been surrounded, but none have surrendered. Will they continue to fight back?
    ———————
    Others have said only about a third of the Russian’s 175,000 were committed so far, and the other 2/3 will be committed this week in an unstoppable wave. But how many of those 2/3rds are Service, Supply, and other various Non-Combat REMFs and Fobbits?

    How many other Russian Army Units will be sent to Ukraine? How long will it take? Will Putin send in his strategic reserve formations like the Airborne Forces?

    1. When I worked in the old USSR I got the impression that the Russian forces would be tough and effective until they needed fuel and ammo, then the trucks bringing all that in would be broken down and the communist bureaucratic stupidity would tangle things up even worse.
      Just an impression from 20 years ago.

  6. The Gnomes of Zurich continue to refuse to return untold billions looted by the Nazis from Jews murdered in the Holocaust, and held in Swiss bank accounts to this day.

    Today, the Gnomes of Zurich are poised to “freeze” (read: steal) Russian assets in Switzerland, finally giving up the pretense of being neutral, above geopolitics or of being anything, really, but the financial underwriters of genocidal warfare against the Russian people.

    The Gnomes are not the geniuses they pretend to be. They got away with stealing Jewish gold because in 1933, the Jews didn’t have atomic weapons they could use to level Zurich and Geneva. They won’t get away with stealing Russia’s wealth so easily.

    https://english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2022/02/28/-Very-probable-that-Switzerland-will-freeze-Russian-assets-President

    1. *
      Hey Awful… how long will you shill for the bully
      who is threatening the world with nuclear war?

      So sad.

      *

      1. Putin has only made clear that the Empire cannot win a war with Russia, and will almost certainly destroy itself trying.

        His job is to guarantee that Russia continues to exist. In the end, unfortunately, that may mean using nuclear weapons against her enemies.

      1. Globalism is in the interest of absolutely no one. Anybody who does something concrete to hasten its end is doing God’s work.

        1. TAT, you are taking a lot of flack for your position. Dare I say it is as valid as anyone else’s. I haven’t seen very many brilliant prognostications from very many people during the past 80 years. What ever happens, there will be winners and losers, death and destruction. It has been the way of man and will continue to be so.

      2. Question, why would it be necessary to put nukes on any border when they can be launched with precision at any city in the world from a submarine a thousand, two thousand miles away?

        1. Because it is posturing and propaganda, all of it. Pootin owns Belarus. There is nothing Belarus can do without Pootin’s blessing. Belarus is about as independent of Kremlin as Manchukuo was from Japan. It is a puppet buffer zone and Pootin decided that it would be convenient for him to station some intermediate and short range missiles there as a a bargaining chip.

        2. Multiple redundancy. The Empire can sink submarines. It’s much tougher to be sure you’ve destroyed all the nukes on the ground—and only a small fraction have to get through to level London, Frankfurt and Zurich.

  8. The RBC ATM in our very small town was empty tonight.

    I also went to Toronto Dominion’s website to check out silver and gold. They are SOLD OUT of almost everything. That’s crazy. We’ll see what tomorrow brings. But shortages of precious metals has to be a sign.

    1. But shortages of precious metals has to be a sign.

      A sign of an irrational panic.

      I’ve been an investor long enough (starting before Black Monday 1987) to know that there isn’t much that I can do except hold my nose and ride things out as best I can. By the time I have a chance to act, the big money’s already been made and is safely tucked away in somebody else’s account. There’s little profit in fighting the masses for whatever crumbs are left over.

      1. Absolutely agree B.
        BTW I have watched Destination Inner Space yesterday. Sheree North was probably the most attractive feature of the film. Also it was fun to watch what was envisioned as the cutting edge submarine/underwater technology of the 1960s.

        1. I remembered that movie for two reasons: Scott Brady, perhaps best known for playing the sheriff in Gremlins, and Robert Hong, a recognizable character actor, playing the cook.

          Others than that, I don’t recall much of the film.

          BTW, Brady was the brother of Lawrence Tierney (Reservoir Dogs). Brady adopted his name because Tierney’s reputation for brawling and being in jail was so embarrassing.

          1. Yes, now I remember the Tierney story. Coincidently I am not proud to admit that the reason I remember Sheree North is because it was her dancing topless in front of Gene Hackman in The Gypsy Moths. I will not be linking this scene here because too many people may need to service their pacemakers after watching…

          2. her dancing topless in front of Gene Hackman in The Gypsy Moths

            The Gypsy Moths, eh? I might have to watch that movie again the next time TCM shows it.

            As for Lawrence Tierney, I remember Eddie Muller telling a personal story about him in one episode of his TCM show Noir Alley. He accompanied Tierney to a showing of one of his earlier movies some time after his appearance in Reservoir Dogs. LT had lost none of his vitriolic personality, even though he was well into his senior years.

      2. I agree BA. I am about to reduce my circumstances once again, maybe for the last time. I have found that while I have been considered well off in the scheme of things I have never had the wealth that could be considered “big money”. We just work with what we got and hope the terminally stupid don’t manage to destroy everything.

        1. I started as an investor about a year before Black Monday. My father gave me a few shares as a birthday present (my reaction being “Gee, thanks….. What do I do now?”).

          I slowly added to my holdings after that and then things went cockeyed on October 19, 1987, even though there were hints that something was going to happen a few days earlier. Everything was happening quite quickly that day and there wasn’t much point in freaking out.

          For one thing, I couldn’t do anything to stop what the market was doing. Second, my broker was probably backlogged as it was, so any orders from me would have been postponed because of the heavy trading. By the time they would have gone through, the damage to my portfolio would have been quite severe–and permanent.

          As it turned out, many of my stocks slowly recovered over the next few months, some, because of the sudden drop in prices, becoming attractive takeover candidates.

          That’s not to say that the market won’t collapse soon and, if it does, that it won’t be worse than it was nearly 35 years ago. (If it turns out that way, then we’re all screwed.) It’s just that there’s not a whole lot any one individual can do about it and, by the time one does manage to get a bit of money out of one’s account, it might not have been worth the effort.

  9. Before Selleck was in that TV episode, he made a number of movies. Two in particular were stinkers: Terminal Island and Daughters of Satan, the latter made in the Philippines. I can safely say they were stinkers because I saw them both on TCM Underground several years ago.

    1. He was also in Coma, which included Michael Douglas and Geneviève Bujold. Selleck’s character went in for a broken leg and was next seen room temperature with most of his parts removed.

      1. He also had a small part in Midway. Watch for him in a foxhole during the Japanese attack on the island.

      1. Same here. Very efficient writing. Why did they include all those following sentences I will never bother to learn.

    2. That woman is a professional engineer.
      And she’s insane.
      Her article proves that even a ‘highly trained professional engineer’ can’t come up with any rebuttal to the Freedom movement other than calling it racist.

      1. I can confirm that there’s someone with that name registered as a P. Eng. in Alberta. And people wonder why I retired from practicing…..

    3. Herald and Journal presstitutes simply call the Lieberals and Dippers for the talking points. Then call it news or op-ed, whichever is convenient.

  12. “Get Your Program! Can’t Tell The Globalist Players Without A Program!”

    Chiefio’s form guide to players in “The Great Reset” that should be on your “vote no” list

    https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2022/02/27/get-your-program-cant-tell-the-globalist-players-without-a-program/

    And IMO this complements

    “Mark Dolan: Those who run our society need to wake up, not woke up”

    https://www.gbnews.uk/gb-views/mark-dolan-those-who-run-our-society-need-to-wake-up-not-woke-up/235969

    Remember – “If you don’t trust the government you are no longer a conspiracy theorist – you are a history buff”

  13. Just a reminder to maintain social distancing I’m the event of a nuclear attack.
    “Stay away from the outer walls and roof. Try to maintain a distance of at least six feet between yourself and people who are not part of your household. If possible, wear a mask if you’re sheltering with people who are not a part of your household. Children under two years old, people who have trouble breathing, and those who are unable to remove masks on their own should not wear them”
    https://www.ready.gov/nuclear-explosion

  14. Assholes of Ottawa Update:

    https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/vaccine-passports-ditching-it-keeping-it-or-requiring-3-doses/ar-AAUp4hP?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531

    Elsbeth Vaino, the owner of local gym Custom Strength, is pumping things up further.
    When her gym reopened in late January after its fifth pandemic shutdown, Vaino began requiring all staff and customers to provide proof of three doses of COVID-19 vaccine. Everyone must also mask up, even though the province does not require it at gyms.
    Besides wanting users to feel comfortable, “I personally feel that this most recent closure is entirely the fault of people that are not vaccinated,” Vaino said.
    “I think if people had been getting their vaccines, we would not have had to close all January. And so I have a hard time inviting people in who basically just [bring] that much harm [to] me and my staff.”

    1. I hope her gym goes bankrupt and she ends up flipping burgers under a 19yo pimply-faced shift manager.

    2. Now you know why I hate living here. The people around here are… let’s just say “of a different mindset,” and leave it well enough alone. After all, I’m still a Christian, last time I checked.

    3. My sister in law ran classes at a gym for 3 or 4 hours a week.

      A healthy nurse teaching a class dropped dead during a class for some mysterious reason.

  16. And the latest fear mongering from the IPCC on climate change.

    “I have seen many scientific reports in my time, but nothing like this,” U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said on Monday.

    John Kerry said the report “paints a dire picture of the impacts already occurring because of a warmer world and the terrible risks to our planet if we continue to ignore science.”

    “This report is a dire warning about the consequences of inaction,” Hoesung Lee, chair of the IPCC.

    “Failing to adapt to this crisis will cost lives. Failing to provide fair, accessible climate finance will cost lives. Continued dependence on fossil fuels will cost lives,” Tina Stege, climate envoy for the Republic of the Marshall Islands, said.

    “The scientific evidence is unequivocal,” the IPCC’s Pörtner said. “Any further delay in concerted global action will miss a brief and rapidly closing window to secure a liveable future.”

    https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/28/climate-un-report-on-adaptation-warns-of-grave-and-mounting-threat.html

    But don’t worry. All we have to do is replace fossil fuels with wind and solar and we’ll be fine.

  17. Surprisingly, over the weekend the world has begun to announce sanctions against Russia, sanctions with some teeth. So this morning the EU markets and US futures markets are down. Corporations want Neville Chamberlain.

    The EU still wants Russian oil and gas though.

    1. There are a lot of red numbers in my portfolio today. Both Toronto and New York are down. Then again, it’s tax season and that, traditionally, has been a time of market unrest.

      1. There are some other reasons for the market’s behaviour today, none of which have anything to do with the war in Europe.

        It’s the end of a month and that often means a lot of trading, particularly since a number of stocks pay out their dividends around this time. It’s also the deadline for RRSP contributions and there are likely some investors who’re re-aligning their retirement plans accordingly.

        Concerned? Yes, I am. Worried? No.

  18. Want a tip? Dump the youtube vids. They take too long to be evaluated to be bothered with. So I don’t both with them.

  19. Just throwing this rhetorical question out to ponder and consider.

    If after the midterm elections the republicans actually do take control of both houses, do they really need to impeach the asterisk or allow him to stay on and fight with his own party to retain the nomination and run again in 2024?

    Let me add this to get the brain matter stirred a bit.
    Biden and Her fighting over the democrat nomination.

    1. They would have to impeach both Biden and Kamala to have any effect. You have to hand it to the democrats, thy made Biden unimpeachable by placing Harris in the VP spot. Unelected, unlikable, and totally feckless.

    2. The loser party never loses a chance to squander a golden opportunity. So many things that they can undo and won’t do it.

  20. Has Germany finally seen the light and started a turn away from the lunacy of green energy? On Sunday, the new Chancellor of Germany made a momentous speech.

    “Germany would completely reverse the nonconfrontational, trade-based relationship it has almost continuously held toward Moscow since 1969; use an extraordinary fund of €100-billion to modernize and arm up its military to levels not seen since the peak of the Cold War; raise military spending to more than 2 per cent of its national economy for the first time; quickly retool its energy infrastructure to end its use of Russian gas as its main source of heating; and sidestep its constitutional ban on major government debt to finance these mammoth changes.”

    https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-in-30-minutes-germany-ended-decades-of-policy-on-military-energy-debt/

    1. No. The German globalists are panicking.

      They have provoked Russia. Again.

      They will pay. Again.

      Russia is self-sufficient in energy. Germany barely has an army. Even the Nazis thought to research alternatives to Russian oil that were at all practical. Unicorn farts won’t get then out of this.

      There’s a good possibility Russian boys will be skinny-dipping in the Rhine this autumn. How quickly do the Germans expect to re-tool their energy infrastructure anyway? They remind me of a lazy child who shovels all his toys under the bed and tells his mother he cleaned his room.

      Even if they were serious about finding other sources of energy, and not just stealing Russia’s oil, this is too little far too late.

  22. Blacklock reports that one of Blackie’s cabinet ministers stated that Freedom Convoy participants are rapists.

    1. Exactly what the President of the U.S. should be asking the European NATO members.

      Exactly what the majority of the American population wants their President to ask the Europeans.

      Exactly what the Dear Leader should be asking the Europeans (although Canada’s contribution to European defence is miniscule).

      And add this to the list of what you will never see on CBC, CTV and Global in Canada, and CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS and NBC in the U.S.

    1. I’m gonna get the Long Pig version for the post-apocalyptic world that’s a-coming.
      Buddy’s Pop-up BBQ is just my short term business plan.

    1. “The Charter gives Canadians a bundle of rights and freedoms.”
      Beyond belief!
      No you F**king Stunned ****, we are BORN with our rights and freedoms!
      And this “person” was a judge. What a disgrace. She exemplifies everything that is wretched and rotten in this country.

      1. Worse is that she’s a graduate of my alma mater, the University of Alberta. Fortunately, that disgrace is offset by the fact that Dr. Richard Taylor, Nobel laureate in physics, earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees there.

        1. She is originally from Ft. Macleod, AB. Same as Joni Mitchell. It is safe to say that nothing good ever come from Ft. McLeod.

  30. When will we be required to erect shrines to Prinz Dummkopf in our homes? Will this be an appropriate theme (changing the name, of course):

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqm7lvdRFIs

    (Sing along with me: “Plaaaaaastic Justin, Plaaaaaastic Justin, sitting in the bathroom of my house…..”)

  31. Plaaa… ssstic, ahem, ……”Plaaaaaastic Justin, Plaaaaaastic Justin, sitting in the bathroom”… of B A’s house…..

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