Are you smarter than Vladimir Putin? Well, let me ask you this: DO YOU KNOW: I’ll bet you do! These are all things that you can readily find out by watching normal news and reading plain old on-line info channels. Most of this isn’t really ‘news’ any more. If you know these things, you know more than Vladdy P! WHAT? How can this be? How can The Guy, the modern Czar of Russia, know less than I do? Simple: he’s…
Like everyone else, I’m always looking for a few good sources: news, analysis, stuff I can trust. Since I don’t buy the product of any media or information outlet totally, I’m on the hunt for proven reliable sites. Once Drudge was my go-to. but those days are done. Over the course of the Russ-Uke War, I’ve found three blogs to be particularly valuable. FIRST: I’ve found the Institute for the Study of War website has been the best source for…
This is an interesting article about Open Source Intelligence. A whole world of amateur analysis are using public data to survey and report on the Russian-Ukraine War. Digital sleuths are changing the course of the Ukraine war (thenextweb.com) Every person his own mini-CIA? Check it out. Also: “Army of Davids” is the title of Professor Glenn Reynold’s book on the same subject. An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and…
In World War 1, everything German got so unpopular in America that folks renamed sauerkraut “liberty cabbage.” Today, folks are so mad at Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, that they’re taking out their anger by pouring out bottles of Stoli as Bad ‘Russian’ Vodka. However, mistakes are being made! Stolnichaya isn’t Russian. It’s Latvian. If you feel the urge to join in pouring it out, don’t! Send it to me instead. LIBERTY VODKAS: Good non-Russian spirits. –Ketel One: Product of Holland….