Anomaly of the East

Remember asteroid mining? AI will sound like that in a few years.

I'm hesitant to decide whether I should say something about Jillian Kay Melchior who wrote another trash article about NATO not ready against drone operators (w/ starlink), her last hit piece was in Nov. This time, she ran out of content, so she used the Hedgehog 2025 exercise back in May 2025.

If NATO is to fight like Russia, then yes, UWA-UAVs are the future. Might as well disable all network centric capabilities to mimic Russia and win the red herring argument that NATO can get wrecked by Ukrainian UAV operators.
OWA-UAV will never be effective on a strategic level.

YouTube video by Lockheed Martin Introducing LampreyMMAUV™: The Next-Generation of Undersea Autonomy

Lockheed lost their NGAD contract, so they turned to UUV. youtu.be/3y0RAwJlAxs

...Smith said... that her gov supports a strong and sovereign AB within a united Canada, "but citizen-initiated referenda allow for ppl to express views that might be different than that." She said she has been working w/ Carney to address frictions between AB & the federal gov."

...Jeff Rath,... spokesman for the Alberta Prosperity Project group that supports independence, says the separatist movement is gaining pace. He confirmed he & other activists met w/...State Department officials in Washington Jan to get a sense of how the U.S... would respond to an independent AB...

Alberta separatists step up efforts to leave Canada after meeting with Trump officials Separatists in Alberta are ramping up a petition campaign aimed at triggering an independence vote in the western province that has long complained its economy is being held back by the rest of Canada...

Pesantry rhymes w/ foreign influence?

"Rath said he floated the idea of a new oil pipeline from Alberta to the United States - which he said U.S. officials responded to positively, noting their concerns on Ottawa's plans to sell more energy to China."

www.reuters.com/world/albert...

... Chinese companies including Huawei and ZTE have given material and technical support to Iran since at least 2010 to enhance its surveillance and censorship capabilities, said Article 19, a digital rights group."

...In 2023, Citizen Lab, a watchdog organization affiliated with the University of Toronto, reported that an Iranian telecom company, Ariantel, had consulted with a Russian tech provider, Protei, about tools for monitoring internet traffic and blocking access to certain websites. ...

...More recently, apps posing as providers of Starlink internet service were also found to include spyware, according to cybersecurity researchers. ... Iranian authorities have collaborated with other authoritarian governments, researchers found. ...

...In 2023, cybersecurity researchers identified fake virtual private networking apps, which disguise a person’s location. These apps contained spyware that could be used to log a person’s keystrokes and gain access to files stored on a device. ..

...Spyware can be inserted on phones to record private messages and copy files. Security cameras that were installed across the country, including those owned by private property owners, share a live feed with the government. Other systems to evaluate people’s “lifestyle patterns” were also built...

... Since about 2018, the Iranian government has also added a long menu of surveillance abilities such as “targeted spying, tracking and communication interception,” according to Holistic Resilience. ...

...But as authorities slowly restore some online access, they have detained people who were believed to have attended protests and subjected them to hours of interrogation based on facial recognition & phone data, according to accounts from Iranians & a government security official in the country...

Iran Turns to Digital Surveillance Tools to Track Down Protesters

"These digital surveillance abilities have received less attention than the internet blackouts that the government imposed during the violent crackdown to end the protests last month. ...

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

... The commerce department last offered US companies an opportunity to nominate foreign suppliers to be hit with tariffs in October, but blew past its own 60-day deadline to greenlight new levies."

... One European business leader, who declined to be named, said they knew of a company that had sent four identical containers of machinery to the US and was charged different rates for each one. ...

Donald Trump plans to roll back tariffs on metal and aluminium goods Latest softening of levies comes amid persistent voter anxiety about affordability in the US

Self imposed sanctions?

"Trump’s tariff blitz has pushed US duties to their highest level since before the second world war. But the president has repeatedly walked back some of his stiffest levies amid voter anger at the US’s affordability crisis. ...

www.ft.com/content/f2ef...

In 1935 this book was published, the US has an appetite for fascism and tyranny, if you are rediscovering it, you don't know the US at all.

Cold War Battlescruiser, Modern Price: Russia's Costly Admiral Nakhimov Upgrade - Naval News At around 28,000 tons Russia’s Kirov Class is the largest and most heavily armed surface combatant in the World. Admiral Nakhimov, has recently emerged from a decade-long and hugely expensive moderniz...

New article: a Soviet-era steel titan, Admiral Nakhimov, has recently emerged from a hugely expensive modernization. Yet in the meantime drone warfare, like we are seeing the Black Sea, is challenging this investment.

Complete with MS Paint/Gimp artwork…

www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...

It's been four years already, I remember four years ago, LiveUAMap was down due to high traffic when Russia invaded.

"The idea that Canada is strengthening its resilience to US supply chains and regulations by opting for the Gripen platform is, therefore, a myth. Not only does the Gripen still depend heavily on the US...still depend almost entirely on American infrastructure."

www.19fortyfive.com/2026/02/cana...

@danstanton.bsky.social we need something more than this.

...Meawhile, in November BBC News reported how a campaign of harassment and intimidation took place at Sheffield Hallam University in an attempt to shut down an academic's research into allegations of forced labour among Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang region of China."

...A report published last August said Chinese students in the UK were being pressured to spy on their classmates...

Universities told to report foreign interference on campus to MI5 Ministers say UK universities have become a "prime target for foreign states and hostile actors".

"It comes after senior leaders at 70 universities attended a briefing with MI5 director general Sir Ken McCallum to discuss what interference might look like, such as censoring research and intimidating staff...

www.bbc.com/news/article...

McPherson is so passionate about regulating US politics on Canadian soil, maybe she should run for Congress. Cashing in at the perfect time, not sooner, not later, she's well versed in seizing opportunities.

If you can't beat them, don't join them. Whoever thought joining them is the right thing to do, probably wanted power to begin with.

You need to suggest a healthier diet to people.

When will you be knighted? Asking for your fans.