Water & the Kremlin

I stayed up way too late last night and didn't wake up until 12:30 today.

To my surprise, when it was time to flush the toilet, there was no water. Usually, when there is going to be a water turn-off, there is a notice in the elevator. I didn't see one yesterday, so I went to see if there was a new one. There wasn't. I called Renata, our landlady, informed her about the problem, and she said she would call me right back. Within a few minutes, she returned my call and told me there was a notice on the internet on the Aquanet website. It said there was a breakage in the water line and it would be fixed sometime this afternoon. By 4:30 P.M., we had water again.

After a breakfast smoothie, we watched highlights of the final week of NFL football games before the playoffs begin, Unfortunately our Chicago Bears team lost the last game in the last minute. However, they will still be in the playoffs because they won their conference Championship.

On YouTube, we watched an old Jimmy Stewart movie with way too many commercials.

When the movie was over, I assembled the ingredients for tonight's dinner: meatloaf, potatoes, and green beans.

Tomorrow is January 6th, and it will be a day filled with protests and comments about the insurrection that happened 5 years ago. All 1600 insurrectionists who took part in that event were pardoned by Donald J Trump.

Meanwhile:

The strike would most likely take place within the Russian Federation or in a Ukrainian territory occupied by Russia with a Christian Orthodox community. A “site of high symbolic significance” might be targeted instead of a church, the statement said.

The Kremlin is preparing to massacre civilians then use fake news messaging in state-run and co-opted international media to pin blame for the mass casualty event on Ukraine, Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine (SZRU) said on Friday in a rare public statement.

The Russian operation is likely to take the form of an “armed provocation” against an Orthodox Christian church (or another location where civilians gather peacefully) and may take place overnight on Jan. 6-7, according to the statement – the date of Christmas in the Julian calendar and a major religious holiday for the Christian faithful in Russia.

Aside from citing “credible sources,” the SZRU statement offered no proof to confirm these allegations, noting, however, that terrorism and false flag operations are common practice for Russian intelligence agencies, and calling on independent media to be critical of Kremlin-produced content. Source-Kyiv Post