In January 2022 the UK government was exposed as allegedly throwing parties during the lockdown when gatherings were legally banned. Shortly after that there was a giant under water volcanic erruption on the Tonga shelf in the middle of the month, the eruption was very brief but very powerful and caused a Tsunami to hit the Island nation of Tonga, no one seemed to notice because they were distracted by the sleaze in government. Then the Tennis player Novak Djocovik was blocked from entering Australia because they thought he was being careless with Pandemic safety, I was amazed that more people knew about the blocked tennis player than the Tsunami. It was like the peril of a whole nation was blotted out of people's minds.
Russia was angered by Ukraine aligning itself to the west, they are preparing to join the EU and NATO. Russia sent thousands of troops and tanks close to the Ukraine Border, the Eastern border of Ukraine is lined with weapons and trained soldiers and they have enough for an invasion. There was an exchange of threats but right now there is a standoff. There is a lot of tension and no one knows what will happen.
Throughout January, the James Webb Telescope was unfolding itself as it was heading to a place called L2, where Earth's gravity balances out with other forces, it is very far from Earth and takes a rocket one month to get there. When the James Webb telescope arrived, it was fully unfolded, now all that is left is the mirrors and lenses to be adjusted, that will take about 3 months.
Joe Rogan invited vaccine skeptic doctors onto his podcast talkshow to discuss vaccines, the musician Neil Young boycotted the platform, he removed his music from Spotify. He said he won't share a platform with Joe Rogan, In my view he was trying to topple his podcast talkshow and I didn't like that. I understand why he did it though, if you convince a group of people not to get vaccinated and some of them die from the disease, you are partly responsible for their death. I have nothing against Joe or Neil myself.
Happy February ?
