The morning post. To be followed by noontime post. Now to the real issue.

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We heard two missile explosions this morning. Not enough to do anything but rile the people up. Ukrainian TV showed a bread factory hit by a one yesterday, 13 killed. No military objective. Certainly has Oksana upset, as it should.  Russia needs a palace coup. How you do that in the 21st century with a man as isolated is Putin?

An advisor with a Derringer could never get close. My armchair proposal would be a twenty-first century solution.  Find out who installed the communications in Putin's bunker, and the communications between that bunker and the real world, and simply cut him off. Let him blather on all to himself. Once his underlings realize they are not getting instruction, they will probably have the common sense to do the right thing.

Edward Slavsquat weighs in again, today on denazification, or the constant stream of changes in Putin's rhetoric. He always seems to be one short of what it would take to end this thing. At this point I do not expect Russia to be able to hang onto either the Donbass or Crimea. Probably not their military hardware either.

We should be close to the point at which Ukrainians invite the demoralized soldiers to walk back home, leaving their equipment behind them. Ukraine will have the best army in Europe. That in itself would be kind of a millstone – armies are expensive to maintain – except that without an enemy they could be simply left to rust. That is, until the neocons appoint the world a new enemy.

This war is a distraction from the real issues of the day. I am sure it is not totally unintentional. I will continue writing on what I consider to be the pressing concerns in a day or two when this thing wraps up. Meanwhile, here are a couple of teasers about the disease.  Here and here.

Many of you fervently believe that the biolabs are something that Putin made up out of whole cloth. I am sure that I had been reading about them for several months before the war. I'm going to take a while this morning to search through my files and see what I can find.

Have any of you been watching the WEF material?  Particular the stuff by Yuval Noah Harari?  His book Sapiens was at the top of the bestseller lists for ages. Considering who liked it, I instinctively did not. Nonetheless somebody gave me a copy which sits collecting dust on my shelf.  The many recent talks he has given about bioengineering human beings scare the hell out of me. Robert Malone, who has risen to become the man of the hour, posted this wonderful but frightening video by JP Sears on that topic.

Ukraine is (almost) over. They needed a distraction from the real agenda. When you look at that real agenda, that should really scare you. The press will not tell you about it, of course. They are the real agenda.

That's the news from Lake WeBeGone, where the strong man slept in late, the good-looking woman was contentedly in his arms, and Grandma got the children breakfast. An above average breakfast, of course.

Graham