IN TROUBLED TIMES, IT'S GOOD TO KNOW WHAT THE 'SMART MONEY' IS UP TO...

-- "PayPal co-founder and billionaire investor Peter Thiel has moved his family from the US to Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires as a refuge from high taxes, political turmoil and potential catastrophes like nuclear war and an AI meltdown." --

IT GETS BETTER...

-- "Other members of the global elite, like Thiel buddy Martin Varsavsky, are of the same mind, according to the article. ‘The moment China takes Taiwan or Russia takes Lithuania, I’m in Buenos Aires. It’s good to have a Plan B for civilization.'" --

AND BETTER...

-- "Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is building a massive, highly secure 5,000-square-foot underground bunker as part of a $270+ million compound on the island of Kauai, Hawaii." --

NOBODY'S LAUGHING AT PREPPERS ANYMORE...

-- "I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own bunker, who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves.   And he didn't seem to be joking." --

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR...

-- "But here is a simple truth that many of us seem to resist: living too long is also a loss. It renders many of us, if not disabled, then faltering and declining, a state that may not be worse than death but is nonetheless deprived." --

MAYBE IT IS TIME FOR HUMANITY TO GO EXTINCT...

-- "A pair of ruby red slippers worn by actress Judy Garland in the classic movie The Wizard of Oz have been sold for $28m (£22m) at a US-based auction on Saturday." --

I THINK I'VE SEEN THIS MOVIE... AND THERE'S NO HAPPY ENDING

SURE DOESN'T LOOK LIKE A JAMES TO ME...

-- "James Mousaly, a former Nuclear Operator at Ontario Power Generation has been arrested and charged after allegedly leaking 'safeguarded' information to a foreign entity or terrorist group. Police allege Mousaly acted with intent to put critical infrastructure at risk. Mousaly is scheduled to make his first appearance at the Oshawa Superior Court of Justice on Feb. 27." --

Mousaly, Mousaly... that sounds like a regional surname. 

Hey... didn't the same thing happen with confidential data at Service Ontario? But wait... it gets better...

-- "Last week, the RCMP alleged that Alberta Const. Eli Ndatuje 'accessed non-top secret RCMP records systems in order to assist a foreign actor', to wit the Republic of Rwanda." --

Funny thing... its Justin's 'post-national state' that appears to be causing all the problems nowadays.

AN UNCOMFORTABLE SUSPICION I'VE ALREADY SEEN THIS MOVIE

-- "The progressive brainiacs of Silicon Valley have created a metric called 'p(doom)' to define the chance AI destroys humanity." --

MAD VLAD HAS ANOTHER VERY BAD WEEK

-- “After the attack on the Russian Black Sea Fleet headquarters, 34 officers, including the Commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, lost their lives, with an additional 105 occupants sustaining injuries. The headquarters building is beyond repair.” --

BREAKING: GERMANY CAVES... LEOPARD 2 TANKS WILL BE SENT TO UKRAINE

BAD NEWS FOR MAD VLAD...

-- "German news magazine Der Spiegel and others published stories on Tuesday evening saying that the government in Berlin had decided to send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine." --

PRESIDENT GRANDAD IS WAVERING AS WELL...

WASHINGTON -- "In what would be a reversal, the Biden administration is poised to approve sending M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, U.S. officials said Tuesday." --

AND RUSSIA THREATENS TO GO 'FULL MONTY'...

-- "In other news, State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin has said countries that offer offensive weapons to Ukraine risk their own destruction, saying it could lead to a 'global catastrophe.'" --

DON'T TAKE MY WORD FOR IT

-- "The Doomsday Clock, a symbolic timepiece showing how close the world is to ending, has been moved forward to 90 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been to the theoretical point of annihilation." --

IF WE WERE INVADED, WOULD 'POST-NATIONAL' CANADA STAND UP?

-- "The head of the Russian Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has said his fighters have sometimes spent weeks attempting to capture a single house in the key contested Donbas city of Bakhmut, in the latest evidence of how the Kremlin’s efforts there have stalled." --

NOT JUST FOR SHITS AND GIGGLES

THERE'S A REAL THREAT OUT THERE, FOLKS!

-- "In a few weeks, Nasa controllers will deliberately crash their $330m Dart robot spacecraft into an asteroid. The half-tonne probe will be travelling at more than four miles a second when it strikes its target, Dimorphos, and will be destroyed." --

MEANWHILE BACK AT THE RANCH

-- "Lisa Cormier, a PEI school teacher has made the discovery of a lifetime in Cape Egmont after stumbling upon a fossil that could be 300 million years old." --

NOBODYS LAUGHING AT PREPPERS NOW

-- "Dmitry Rogozin, Head of Russia’s Space Agency Roscosmos and former Deputy Prime Minister, said Sunday that in the event of a nuclear war, 'NATO countries will be destroyed by Russia in half-an-hour.'" --

AND WHERE IS THE LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD?

-- "Sixteen months into his term, President Joe Biden has delivered fewer than half as many public remarks from the Oval Office as his predecessor. The reason: The office is too small to accommodate the geriatric president's teleprompter." --

A SENTENCE YOU DON'T HEAR EVERY DAY

-- "The Bomb Shelter Elevator Project" --

NOBODY'S LAUGHING AT PREPPERS NOW

-- "Russia’s Defense Ministry announced Wednesday that it has conducted the first test launch of its new Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile – a nuclear weapon that President Vladimir Putin says will 'provide food for thought for those who... try to threaten our country.' --

"Putin and his officials said it's capable of penetrating any prospective missile defense." --

More genius war-gaming from the guy who ordered the attack on Chernobyl.

WHILE BIDEN IS NAPPING:

The Battle for Mariupol is the Ukraine's Alamo.

WAITING FOR THE END OF THE WORLD

-- "Dmitry Medvedev, a former Russian president, who now serves as deputy chairman of the country's security council, listed several justifications for the nation to use nuclear weapons as the war in Ukraine continues into its fifth week." --

RELAX EVERYBODY... PRESIDENT GRANDAD IS ON IT

-- "President Biden on Saturday called Russian President Vladimir Putin 'a butcher' after he met with displaced Ukrainian mothers and their children in Warsaw, Poland. It's the latest name that Biden has used for Putin. He previously called Putin a 'war criminal,' and in 2021 called him a 'killer.'" --

WHITEHOUSE, ONCE AGAIN, 'CLARIFIES' BIDEN REMARKS

-- "Shortly after Biden's address however, the White House denied that Biden was calling for regime change." --

I dunno, seems like Joe's got a plan...

-- "Biden tells the 82nd Airborne they're going to Ukraine." --

PRESIDENT GRANDAD AND THE END OF THE WORLD

-- "President Joe Biden warned Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday that any attack against NATO could spark World War III. 'Granted, if we respond, it is World War III , but we have a sacred obligation.'" --

IT GETS BETTER, BY WHICH I MEAN WORSE

-- "See that angry old man shouting at you?

 That’s the President of the United States." --