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Bullet Points:

** The Trump vs. DeSantis fight feels like a distraction from the fight to stop the election from being rigged. Until we can have clean and fair elections everything is moot.

** The New State Media – We previously discussed the movement in journalism schools to get rid of principles of objectivity in journalism. Advocacy journalism is the new touchstone in the media even as polls show that trust in the media is plummeting. Now, former executive editor for The Washington Post Leonard Downie Jr. and former CBS News President Andrew Heyward have released the results of their interviews with over 75 media leaders and concluded that objectivity is now considered reactionary and even harmful. Emilio Garcia-Ruiz, editor-in-chief at the San Francisco Chronicle said it plainly: “Objectivity has got to go.” 

** A Look at the darker side of music. “boy sopranos”

** An Iranian illegal immigrant whose name is listed on the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB) was caught and arrested at the southern border where he was found smuggled in the trunk of a vehicle.

Alireza Heidari, 29, was arrested last week in Val Verde, Texas, as part of the state’s Operation Lone Star run by the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS); four other illegal immigrants accompanied him in the car, Fox News reported.

** In Saudi Arabia…

Saudi Arabia will consider trading in currencies other than the US dollar, the country’s finance minister said on Tuesday, in one of the clearest signs yet that the oil-rich kingdom is open to diversifying away from the greenback.

“There are no issues with discussing how we settle our trade arrangements, whether it is in the US dollar, whether it is the euro, whether it is the Saudi riyal,” the kingdom’s finance minister, Mohammed al-Jadaan, told Bloomberg TV on Tuesday, in an interview in Davos, Switzerland.

Jadaan’s comments are likely to spark speculation about Riyadh’s willingness to conduct oil sales in Chinese yuan.

** Obama will not consent to a search for classified documents among his papers. How interesting! Can you imagine what they’d find? Kenyan birth records. Falsified college transcripts. Tranny documents for Big Mike/Mooch. Emails saying take out Joan Rivers. A subscription to Teen Beat. Oh and of course classified material and coordinating treasonous activity.

** The Pentagon has selected two teams to further develop their designs for a full-scale demonstrator of the Liberty Lifter X-plane. Aurora Flight Sciences (working with Gibbs & Cox and ReconCraft) and General Atomics (working with Maritime Applied Physics Corporation) are pursuing two very different designs for phase 1 of the project, as a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) press release distributed on February 1 shows.

** The New King of Florida? Beans – do you want the job?

** Claudio commented in the e-mail chain that he sends out to some of you, “Good Lord. The UK is defenseless…” They have been for some time. They brigade up with the US to try and look meaningful but the Empire is long gone and prioritized spending goes to social programs.  With the near collapse of the National Healthcare System there, one could say that social spending isn’t working out the way that they hoped. PM Thatcher predicted that they’re run out of other people’s money. In order to remain relevant they fully endorsed the New World Order and while they hope it will give them leverage, they’re just hanging on by their fingernails. You’re right, Claudio. They’re hiring police officers who are illiterate to meet racial quotas. (as discussed)

** (h/t) Claudio – There are problems with the tanks – Russia reported that they had 2,600 tanks available at the time of the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. There was visible evidence that nearly 1,600 were lost during the first few months of the invasion. While 924 were destroyed, another 664 were damaged and abandoned. Most of these tanks were undamaged and captured intact after their crews abandoned them. These were repainted to identify them as Ukrainian and used against the Russians. Many of these tanks eventually became unusable because Ukraine did not have replacement parts for them. Ukraine used similar tanks but not all of the replacement parts for Ukrainian tanks were suitable for the captured Russian ones.

Russia had a similar problem with the thousand tanks that survived the invasion and over a thousand more that were brought in as replacements. The replacement parts problem was even more acute for the Russians because they changed their tank tactics in the face of the numerous Western top-attack ATGMs (Anti-Tank Guided Missiles) that quickly destroy Russian tanks because of the way these tanks use their autoloaders, which puts many exposed shells and their propellant charges in the turret. If the turret is hit by a top attack ATGM, all those propellant charges explode, killing the three-man crew and often blowing the turret off the tank…continued here.

** There are a lot of lessons to be learned from the Russia-Ukraine War and the big question is whether everyone is paying attention or not. The MASSIVE Russian strategic war reserve turned out to be a junkyard not unlike a pick-a-part. Their advantage in aircraft can’t be exploited because of the horrible, brutal losses they’ve experienced. Russia should have been able to walk through Ukraine and both sides are in a stalemate.