Open Thread #6 - Airport Lounge Ideology (but really: events in Ukraine and Canada)

Sitting in airport lounge bar with black AMEX on display, leafing through important articles in The Economist and Monocle, like the absolute shit that I am

This is where I meet Second City Bureaucrat to discuss important regulatory business (long table not shown)

Around a decade and a half ago, I made a few people laugh when I described The Economist as the magazine of “Airport Lounge Ideology”. You’re transiting through countries on the fly, and you’re reading about the wider world while you’re doing it, in easy to digest bite-size pieces. Monocle magazine is a bit thicker, and heavier on the lifestyle side, yet serves as a nice complement to the old red and white standard.

As mentioned, I am booting around the continent for the foreseeable future and don’t want to leave gaps in the schedule here at Fisted by Foucault. Open threads serve as a nice way to keep people’s interest alive and allows for a bit of community building. Therefore, and without much further ado, let’s hear your thoughts and predictions on two big issues in the news:

1. Canada: crowdsourced funding of protests is now pretty much a terrorist offence. What will happen to the demonstrators in Ottawa? Can they attract huge crowds? What does the near future hold for Canada in terms of governance and politics? Can they at

2. Ukraine: Russia says that it is stepping back. NATO and CIA are engaged in a hilarious information war/psyops campaign to get Russia to invade. Where is this ‘crisis’ headed?

Or you can use this open thread to share good links to stuff that readers want to read, make requests of me, and bring up anything that pops into your mind. This is community day in Foucault’s Dungeon.