Shut up! You're wrong! A quiet morning

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The "shut up" argument has been offered constantly by the establishment media: CNN, NYT, WaPo and many others.  They have been consistently wrong.  There is a pattern here.  They tell you what the people in power want you to believe, which is often the very opposite of the truth.

We aren't buying it anymore.  Better try, "I think the facts will show you are wrong," or "History will tell."  Don't tell us not to ask questions.  It is insulting, condescending, inappropriate and dangerous to us.

The biolabs story isn't going away. There is another post here. They might be wrong, but it merits investigation.  Maybe they exist and maybe they don't. The proper approach is to agree with me that we ought to find out. Not simply "Shut up, you're wrong!"

This Wednesday morning is very quiet. There are no helicopters in the sky. Yesterday I saw a video of a fleet of 13 Russian helicopters over the Kyiv Sea.  One was shot down, presumably with a javelin or stinger missile. Homans reports that airplanes from the West have been able to land on roads to deliver ammunition. The venerable C-130 we had in Vietnam would work well for this. It doesn't need much space for takeoff and landing, and it has a huge cargo door from which the plane can be emptied in a hurry. Reports are that the West has delivered a lot of exactly the sort of anti-helicopter munitions.

Still no word on the movement of that 40 mile long convoy. More evidence that I might be right – either it can't move, or the soldiers simply don't want it to move. In case you didn't follow it, Homans has a good link on Russian logistics.

Axis of Easy, a cybersecurity blog I follow, had this to say:
2) In a sign of things to come, (and in the future it won't just be "over there") the Moscow subway system ground to a halt after Google and Apple pulled the plug on their payment systems in Russia. This is the early innings of The Balkanization of Everything. I'm writing a piece up on that now over on Bombthrower.  Until then, 

That's enough of a wake up on Wednesday morning. I just read Zoriana a wonderful German picture book on two bird families in a reed bordered lake.  Swans and a reed warbler parasitized by a cuckoo. With typical German thoroughness they have excellent illustrations and more science than I can imagine giving children in any other language.

That's the news from Lake WeBeGone, where the strong men are still wondering if and when war will come, marveling that the lights and Internet haven't gone out at all; the good looking women are in constant touch with the world via the Internet, Zoriana is playing well with her baby sister and Eddie has stern instructions that war or not he had better do his math homework and write something today.

Probably will be more posts throughout the day. Stay tuned for comments.

Graham