Putin has looted trillions from Russia

When Bill Browder showed up on CBC recently, I thought Brodie Fenlon’s CBC News must be the last news network to give this charlatan any cred. I was wrong. Here he is on MSNBC; Putin's a mafia boss trying to hold on to power. Bullshittin’ Bill has a whole new take on the Ukraine war, not to mention a new book to flog. Apparently this war isn’t about NATO expansion or any of that stuff, not at all. Instead, it’s about Putin the mafia boss desperately trying to stay in power. Hmm… Well, Bill should know a thing or two about mafia bosses. “His” Hermitage Capital was the wunderkind of a couple of Israeli mafia bosses. If you drew a venn diagram of Israeli and Russian mafia bosses you’d see an extraordinary overlap. They had a decade of salad days looting post-Soviet Russia. They originally supported Putin on the mistaken assumption that he would allow the party to continue. He didn’t. Bill got most of his ill-gotten loot out of Russia in the nick of time, and reinvented himself as a human rights crusader, a discredited schtick that apparently still has traction at CBC and MSNBC. Here’s a NYT story about the much-suppressed doc about Browder, The Magninsky Act; Behind the Scenes. You can still find it online if you make the effort. My favorite scene is near the end, where the pudgy middle-age Jew leaps out of his limo and sprints a hundred yards in nine seconds flat to avoid a guy trying to serve a subpoena! Bullshittin’ Bill still bills himself Putin’s enemy #1. If that’s the case, Putin doesn’t have much to worry about.

Fraudster Bill Browder still a "Putin expert" at CBC

Bill Browder was one of the hyenas who swooped in on Russia in the '90s to teach the locals the ins and outs of the capitalist system. He was the front man for a couple of Israeli billionaires of shady repute, whose "Heritage Capital" took the struggling Russian treasury for billions.

Once Putin came to power, Browder was originally a fan. That changed when Putin began reining in the oligarchs and the foreign carpet-baggers. 

Things got a little too warm for the likes of Browder, and he soon enough skedaddled out of the country under a cloud of scandal.

Wanting to fluff up his PR profile, Browder retained highly-regarded Russian film-maker Andrei Nekrasov to make a documentary about how he had been hounded out of Russia by corrupt officials because he had exposed their corruption. Nekrasov, a well-know Putin critic, agreed.

Somewhere along the line, the PR project went off the rails. The Putin critic gradually came to the conclusion that Bill Browder was full of shit.

The doc that resulted, The Magnitsky Act - behind the scenes, has caused Browder no end of grief. His reputation in Europe has more or less gone down the shitter. No reputable news outlet there would call on him as a Russia expert.

But there he was on the CBC this morning, still being passed off as Putin's number one enemy.

Brodie Fenlon's team at CBC needs to take a few dollars out of the DEI training budget and put it into fact checking.

Putin prepared to pounce?

Media are chock-full of speculation that Bad Vlad is about to annex the Ukraine.

This strikes me as dubious. Ukraine is for all intents and purposes a failed state. The US-managed "Revolution of Dignity" didn't deliver much in the way of dignity, or anything else.

Why would Putin want to take on that mess?

There's a larger agenda in play. America is an empire in decline. It gets harder over time to play world hegemon when you haven't won a war since 1945. Many nations in the "Western" bloc continue to take instructions from Washington, but the obvious rot within the "City on a Hill" makes it an increasingly unappealing role model.

Contrast that to our adversaries, ie those nations not willing to take directions from DC. 

China's momentum is going in the opposite direction from America's. Unless we do something drastic soon, China is bound to prevail.

Russia has been a threat to American interests in looting Russia ever since Putin came in and put the run to hyenas like Bill Browder. Unfortunately, Russia also, by all accounts, is a decade ahead of us in hypersonic missile technology. Russia's trajectory also seems to be going in the opposite direction.

When a failing empire is gasping for breath, bad shit is bound to happen.

If we can just goad the Russians and/or the Chinese into reacting to one of our provocations, we'll be fully justified to hit 'em hard with all we got.

The freedom of the world depends on it...

Armageddon is coming sooner than you think.

From journalism to propaganda

Whatever happened to the journalism tradition of pretending to present a balanced perspective? 

I say "pretending" because everybody always knew there were 101 ways to rig the final product, but it was the principle of the thing. Appearances matter. We were better than those totalitarian states where the government dictates the news and it's all propaganda. We in the Nations of Virtue believe in a free press, and our free press gave you the news, not propaganda.

Those days are long gone.  The CBC will have Bill Browder on and defer to him as a world expert on Russia with impeccable credentials, without ever hinting that there exists an opposing school of thought about the man. He is widely considered a fraud in Europe today.

Same with Eliot Higgins, the savant supposedly behind Bellingcat. I heard Matt Galloway interview him recently, and maybe international geopolitics isn't his bag, but he brought a level of credulity to the interview that would be more appropriate for a fan club president than a journalist.

Bellingcat is financed by the NATO countries and staffed primarily by veterans of the UK security establishment. At the very least, an interview should put that fact on the table. Instead, it's treated as Russian disinformation - just like Chrystia Freeland's Nazi Grampa.

You see this lack of balance all the time in the pages of The Globe and Mail as well. Today those stalwarts of the Yellow Peril file at the Globe, Robert Fife and Steven Chase, managed to wring a quarter page of anti-China propaganda out of a report from ACHK, the Alliance Canada Hong Kong. We are told this "is an umbrella group for pro-democracy advocates in this country."

Which it is. What we're not told is ACHK was founded in Vancouver in January last year, by pro-democracy activists who had already been kicked out of HK for their efforts or were getting out while the getting was good.

The folks who organized this crowd.

These pro-democracy activists have been lavishly funded by the US government via the National Endowment for Democracy for many years, and presumably that's who's funding ACHK now. If this organization issued a "report," what would you expect it to say?

I would expect it to say pretty much what Fife and Chase reported. But, if Fife and Chase were actual journalists, we would have seen a little more in the way of context.

Context doesn't matter. Balance doesn't matter. Nothing matters except maintaining the official narrative.

Doesn't that sound exactly like what the "journalists" used to do in those totalitarian states?

Anti-Putin fabulists at Globe and Mail still shilling for Navalny

The Globe's Senior Internet Correspondent Mark MacKinnon has a news flash for us; Alexei Navalny is now Putin's "No.1 political threat - and a symbol of hope for many in the country."

I guess the good news is the narrative managers have quietly deposed Bullshittin' Bill Browder from that role, and not a moment too soon! The main problem with Browder's shtick is that, aside from being risibly self-serving, it failed to get any traction whatsoever inside Russia.

MacKinnon's fluff piece paints a glowing picture of Navalny's rise to imaginary influence. "Comparison's have been made between Mr. Navalny and Nelson Mandela..." 

Really? The only people making such an asinine comparison are the aficionados of Washington's ceaseless regime change machinations. A more apt comparison would be to Juan Guaido, the US-sponsored stooge being passed off by the Americans and a handful of lackey states as the "legitimate" leader of Venezuela.  

As a professional journo who does his homework, MacKinnon must have seen this story at Reuters. It discusses the latest Levada Center polling on trust in Russian political figures. Putin doesn't have much to worry about, at least from Navalny, who rings in at No. 6 on the list of leaders Russians trust the most. 

Sure, the polls may call Navalny No. 6, but once you apply the secret Globe and Mail anti-Putin math formula, he mysteriously becomes No. 1. That's because their mission here is not to inform us of what's actually going on in Russian politics, but to reinforce the anti-Putin narrative that corporate media have been cultivating for the past twenty years.

Someday the curtain will come down on Putin's political career, but it's not likely the Russian people will ever choose a leader whose puppet strings are as obvious as Alexei Navalny's.

Switzerland goes full anti-semite

 Who can even imagine such a thing? A court in Switzerland, still considered in mainstream circles a "civilized" nation, has ordered the detention of famed Israeli philanthropist Beny Steinmetz. This is the most odious attack yet in this most recent wave of anti-semitism that has been rolling over Europe.

Beny has given so many hundreds of millions to charity, (primarily his Agnes and Beny Steinmetz Foundation) that a mere 50 to 80 millions remain in his personal accounts. The authorities have not specified whether those sums are in shekels, USD, or British Pounds.

To say nothing of his mentoring role in the careers of so many freedom fighters and social justice warriors. Beny was the juice behind Bill Browder's civilizing mission to Russia back in the '90s. Likewise, he helped springboard Dan Gertler's ambitions to bring light unto the deepest darkest heart of the Dark Continent.

Such a man, who has done so much for so many, they want to eliminate in Switzerland. To silence him for five years. Well, not "silence" silence; he's still got Twitter, but you know what I mean. And not only that, but also pluck clean his remaining accounts, just to rub salt in the wounds.

I will be arranging a GoFundMe account to assist in Beny's defence. You can fight anti-Semitism in Switzerland and help out a great philanthropist in his time of need.

Details coming soon.

German Press Council tosses complaint brought by Bill Browder after his Magnitsky fable debunked

The German Press Council today rejected Bill Browder's complaint against newsmagazine Der Spiegel. Browder had brought the complaint in December after the magazine published a story largely debunking Browder's version of what happened in the case of Sergei Magnitsky, a former Browder employee who died in a Moscow prison in 2009.

According to Browder, Magnitsky had unearthed a $300million tax fraud being perpetrated by a couple of crooked cops, who had him killed in prison to shut him up. It's a yarn that fell on receptive ears in Western capitals, where politicians will eagerly swallow any nonsense they can use to smear Putin.



That's our former Foreign Minister with her "old friend" Bullshittin' Bill Browder in 2016. Meanwhile, Browder has been found guilty of tax evasion and fraud in Russia, which he claims was a politically motivated hoax intended to intimidate him. Freeland was one of many who should have looked into Browder's story more closely before falling for it hook, line, and sinker.

What's so deep about the "Deep State?"

The other night I watched the Nekrasov docu-drama, "The Magnitsky Act - Behind the Scenes." It's not easy to find, but it's still out there.

For the most part, I found the "drama" to be on the cheesy side, but the most compelling viewing is when you watch Bill Browder testifying towards the end. That's not a dramatic reenactment; that's Bill Browder testifying under oath.

Bill Browder is one of those guys who seems to have the keys to the kingdom. If Bill wants an op-ed in the Globe and Mail or the New York Times, it's his for the writing. His shtick, namely being Putin's "Public Enemy #1," is popular fare here in the Nations of Virtue.

That guy testifying under oath doesn't seem too rattled. His denials, evasions, and obfuscations, as blatant as they are, he knows will never be challenged. Bill could, I suppose, tell you all about the "Deep State," but why should he have to? After all, everything is pretty much out in the open.

We choose not to see it.

The great Ai Weiwei is another wonder. How many other contemporary artists have you met on the website of the Council on Foreign Relations? None, I'll bet.

But Ai Weiwei is a reliable spewer of anti-China hyperbole, and that, not his keen insights into the human condition, is why he's a favorite of the not-so-deep state. Again, there's nothing deep about how we're manipulated. It's right there in the open.

With regard to our current crisis, ie a flu epidemic that forced us to destroy the world economy, it's not hard to connect the dots either...

"Objective" journalism and the OCCRP

There's an old folk proverb to the effect that "he who pays the piper calls the tune." There's a lot of truth in that.

Mark MacKinnon's byline appears above a story in yesterday's Globe and Mail that was passed along by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, with perhaps a little help from Bill Browder. The story attempts to link Canada's Bombardier to payments allegedly made by shady organized crime figures supposedly in Putin's orbit, a topic on which Browder regards himself the world's leading expert.

The OCCRP home page includes the logos of its sponsors; USAID, Open Society Foundations, ICFJ, and the Global Investigative Journalism Network.

USAID is the "humanitarian" arm of the US government and as such, is used as a tool to advance US interests world-wide.

Open Society Foundations is a George Soros philanthropy. Soros' "philanthropic" interests tend to overlap to a remarkable degree with the interests of the US State Department.

The International Center For Journalists is funded by US government "ngo" National Endowment for Democracy as well as Soros' Open Society Institute, among other foundations.

The Global Investigative Journalism Network gets its money from Google and the Open Society Foundations, among others.

With respect to paying the piper, I think it's rather obvious why the OCCRP fights corruption primarily where and when said corruption can be pinned on America's "adversaries," such as Russia and Venezuela.

I'm not claiming the corruption being investigated by OCCRP isn't real. What I am saying is OCCRP is first and foremost a political tool deployed against perceived enemies of the US ruling class.


That's why they'll never investigate American corruption... or Bill Browder.

Orwell lives!

I see where Chrystia Freeland's never-ending Vixen of Virtue tour is scheduling a "Press Freedom Summit" in London this summer, but I'm not sure why. After all, Canada ranks 18th world-wide in press freedoms, according to Reporters Without Borders, while the UK ranks 40th. Isn't that a bit like Angola and Cuba co-hosting a World Hockey Summit?

I've a hunch that as we lurch towards our autumn election the media will be ramping up the booga-booga about Russian meddling. Maybe our recently announced Critical Election Protocol Group can get some pointers on sniffing out Ruskie monkey business from the pros at Britain's "Integrity Initiative."

Unfortunately, when you get to their website you find a message saying all content has been removed pending an investigation into data theft that was intended to undermine their work in defending the free world from disinformation.

The good news is that their stolen stuff is now readily available on Russian websites RT and Sputnik! Sure makes for some interesting reading. The guardians of democracy seem to be long on initiative but dangerously short on integrity. They've been busy beavers planting their chosen "experts" (Bill Browder tops one such list) in major media across all platforms and smearing the government's political enemies!

In short, it's basically an anti-Russian propaganda outfit, funded by the British government and NATO, and one thing it certainly is not about is press freedom.

Why our state broadcaster is trustworthy and theirs isn't

We made a day of it visiting my dear daughter's new house in Oshawa. It's the first brush with house ownership for any of our kids. She bought into the real estate market a few months before GM announced they were shutting down their Oshawa operations. Looks like she's got her father's knack for timing the markets!

I think Oshawa's going to be OK because of its proximity to Toronto. She's a 45 minute commuter train ride from downtown, where you might get a 400 foot no-bedroom condo for the same money she paid for a thousand square foot semi with two baths and a yard. As long as our leadership in Ottawa can't figure out that they need a housing policy to match their immigration policy, housing prices are bound to continue rising.

Had the state broadcaster on the car radio for a good part of the trip. We don't think of the CBC as a "state broadcaster" of course. "Regimes" have state broadcasters. We have a free press instead. The discussion at our state broadcaster was about the arrest of American Paul Whelan in Moscow on espionage charges. The fact that Whelan was born in Canada gives the story an Canadian angle. So far so good.

Then the CBC brought in a couple of experts. First expert; Bill Browder. Bill needs no introduction for anyone who follows current events. His story, as enthusiastically presented by mainstream media outlets across the West, surely disqualifies him as an objective commentator on anything Russia related. He's got a major axe to grind with Bad Vlad, and he's readily handed a platform anytime he wants to air his grievances. The fact that he may be a little less than the freedom loving truth-teller he presents himself as is never brought up.

So Browder gets ten minutes or so to rehash his tale of woe, and then our CBC brings in another "expert" who is given another ten minutes to agree with everything he said. This second expert is Julia Davis, who has made quite the career for herself as a leading academic Putin basher. She is currently affiliated with the Atlantic Council, which is essentially the PR arm of NATO.

Then the on-air voices talk about something else.

This is exactly the format that "regimes" use to inculcate their subjects with official state propaganda. Tell only one side of the story over and over again. Ignore any counter-stories.

So how is our state broadcaster different than the propaganda organs of the "regimes?"


We're the good guys! Our propagandists only tell truths... theirs are all liars.

Errors, omissions, and bullshit

I'm not sure the bean-counters at the Globe and Mail are getting full value for whatever they pay Mark MacKinnon to traipse around the world digging up his "scoops." Take today's boffo epic, "Searching for Boris," wherein "a curious tip about Trump Tower sends Mark MacKinnon travelling across the globe" to get the low-down on international man of mystery Boris Birshtein.

I've read the entire four page feature several times and there's little of consequence in the story that you can't find on the internet in a matter of minutes, so why does this take months of international sleuthing on Mackinnon's part?

That was his modus operandi a couple of years ago with his scoop about the the graffiti artists who sparked the Syrian civil war. Mark claimed to have spent years tracking down a story that was readily available on the internet the whole time.

Anyway, about half way through today's effort it becomes clear that what we're after is the elusive Trump-Russia link. Maybe Birshtein is the missing link that Mueller's been looking for for the past two years?

As everybody supposedly knows, Trump was forced to cosy up to dodgy Russian financiers because he couldn't find conventional financing for the Trump Tower in Toronto. The only problem with this theory is that Trump hasn't built any Trump Towers in years, and he therefore does not require financing. He just gets paid for the use of the Trump name, which apparently some people are or were willing to pay millions for.

Go figure!

What the Russian emigres behind the Trump Tower in Toronto didn't realize is that the Trump brand was never going to fly in Canada.

Here's a year old story from the Toronto Star spelling out how Trump made millions on the Toronto tower even as it went bankrupt. Incidentally, the Star had numerous stories about mystery man Birshtein as long as fifteen years ago!

Post Soviet Russia was a veritable gold-rush for opportunists of all stripes attracted by the smell of easy money. Birshtein was one of them. So was Bill Browder. Both of them had connections to organized crime networks in Russia and Israel, as well as the intelligence services of various countries.

Elsewhere in the Globe we've got the obligatory good-news story about how the White Helmets we brought to Canada are faring. Ironically enough, there was a hearing about those folks at the UN this month, but you won't hear about it in Canada's newspaper of record. They'll stick to the official narrative; Israel, Canada, and a few other Nations of Virtue heroically saved these heroes from the clutches of the evil Assad.

Anything else is Putinist propaganda.

Putin's plans for world domination suffer setback

The free world breathed a sigh of relief this week when Russian Alexander Prokopchuk was narrowly defeated in a vote to elect a new Interpol president.  After a last minute deluge of behind the scenes arm-twisting, a candidate from the US satrapy of South Korea was elected instead.

The campaign against Prokopchuk was lead by erstwhile freedom fighters Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Bill Browder, two men who enriched themselves immensely back in the Yeltsin era by swindling the Russian people out of billions in state assets, and who have long-standing and impeccable ties to America's deep state.

So, the forces of freedom and democracy have prevailed again! Take that, Bad Vlad!

Elsewhere in the battle between Good and Evil, I see where a couple of radicals from the communist fringe of the Democratic Party are again floating the Stalinist idea of a "basic income" for poor people. That's where you give poor people free money for no good reason other than they're poor. As any patriotic American knows, such an idea turns on its head the very value system that made America great.

Critics of Harris and Booker's loony leftist plan correctly point out that such a socialist scheme would not only rob the national treasury, it would rob the recipients themselves of any incentive to take one of the millions of jobs readily available at the US official minimum wage of $7.25/hr.


That's just un-American!

Canada to lead Nations of Virtue in seizing assets of despots and dictators

Perennial do-gooder Lloyd Axworthy has come up with a great idea; lets help ourselves to the frozen bank accounts of dictators and despots and use the money to address the global refugee crisis! Lloyd figures we should be able to raise ten to twenty billion a year from the bad guys on our shit list.

Whose bank accounts we seize is of course a question of politics rather than morality. You'll notice that it tends to be leaders Washington doesn't like who have their assets seized. Maduro and Putin are despots, but MBS and Erdogan get a pass.

As for the refugees themselves, what are they fleeing? In the great European refugee crisis of 2015-16, 75% of the arrivals came from only three countries; Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. What do those countries have in common? They've all been targeted for regime change by those same Nations of Virtue now wringing their hands over the refugee crisis, Canada included. How ironic to read such nonsense on the very day that we're remembering those 158 Canadians who gave their lives in the noble mission to bring freedom and democracy to Afghanistan.

This is not a fact that the Axworthys of the world address or even acknowledge. So long as disinterested experts like Ahmed Chalabi or Bill Browder can be trotted out to spin scary stories, that's good enough for Lloyd.

Here's an alternative funding source for staunching the refugee crisis; a modest tax on international weapons sales. Since eight out of ten of the top weapons purveyors are in the Nations of Virtue club, reaching a consensus on such a tax would be a snap!

Refugee crisis solved!

Even better, although "thought leaders" like Axworthy can't seem to get their heads around the concept, we in the virtuous West could end most refugee crises simply by minding our own business and giving up the idea that it's our right to meddle in other countries.

The Browder script

You gotta admit it's a compelling story line. Can-do Yankee hedge-fund sharpie goes to Russia to teach the locals the ins and outs of capitalism. As he was looting, stuffing his pockets, plundering investing billions of dollars in post-Soviet Russia, he became alarmed at the strong-arm tactics Putin was using to extort hard-earned cash from well-meaning foreigners like himself.

Unlucky for Putin, Bill Browder wasn't just going to put up with that nonsense. No, Browder is a rule-of-law kinda guy. Luckily, Browder has all kinds of friends in all kinds of really high places, and thanks to his valiant and selfless efforts, "Magnitsky Act" legislation is sprouting up across the verdant democratic meadows throughout the Nations of Virtue.

Andrei Nekrasov is a well-regarded Russian film-maker who was an outspoken Putin critic. He was hired to direct the script Browder had written about his adventures in Russia.

That would seem a marriage made in heaven; a Putin critic of long standing with an impeccable reputation paired with a virtuous American hedge-fund manager with super-deep pockets to produce the ultimate anti-Putin opus.

Alas, it didn't take Nekrasov long to deviate from the script. The more he delved into the "facts" of the matter the more he had doubts about the script he was supposed to be working from. Browder and Nekrasov had an acrimonious falling out.

They're still at loggerheads to this day. On the one side, an internationally esteemed anti-Putin film-maker, and on the other side, a guy who siphoned billions out of Russia while the country was suffering an apocalyptic economic collapse.

I know whose integrity I'd be banking with, but I'm an outlier.

The Nekrasov documentary got finished, but good luck trying to watch it. Yes, it's available on YouTube, but for some reason I've not been able to find a version in which the sound actually works, so unless you're highly adept at lip-reading Russian speakers, it's pretty much useless.

Hmm... you don't think that could be censorship, do you?

Of course not!

We, after all, are the Nations of Virtue, and even though Browder had to renounce his US citizenship for tax reasons, he's one of ours.

And Nekrasov obviously found his way into Putin's pockets.

That's the Browder script, and I for one am sticking to it.

What I learned from my Globe and Mail today

Jeremy Freed informs me that I can spend $2,300 plus applicable taxes on a baseball cap!

I had no idea! But it's true; Stefano Ricci has opened up a boutique in Vancouver. Great! You'll just have to step over the homeless addicts on the sidewalk, and you too can put down $2,300 plus tax for a baseball cap!

Is this a great country or what!?

Elsewhere, Kelly's got an interesting profile of Tim Bezbatchenko. Even though I don't give a fig for football, a good writer can find the human interest angle in any story. But the best part of the sports section was the obit for Gregory Baum.

I've always been fascinated by obviously intelligent and well-educated people who manage to hold on to their religious convictions in spite of their intelligence and education, and Baum was such a man. It is somehow reassuring that such a thing is possible.

On A21 Lee Berthiaume tells the sorry tale of Canadian Special Forces who have been training the Kurdish Peshmerga and the Iraqi army for a couple of years. Yup, we trained them both and now they're fighting each other!

Good job, Canada! That was an obvious waste of resources, and underlines once again the folly of doing something just to be seen as doing something, even as you have no clue as to what you're doing.

Berthiaume completely misses the bigger story; most of the nominally independent Kurdish area in Iraq was retaken by Iraqi forces this past week in an operation so swift and seamless that it must have had the connivance of the American overlords.

Thanks for your help with ISIS, now forget about that Kurdish homeland nonsense and do as you're told.

Also on A21 we're treated to a Canadian Press story about a chap in Gatineau who inflicted a year's worth of violence on his teenage daughter for "removing her hijab when she was away from the family home." Hmm... wonder what culture that family hails from?

What a pity the Globe brain trust couldn't find room to place that story on A5, where Ingrid Peritz gets an entire half page to bemoan the fate of niqab-wearing women who are being bullied by Quebec's Bill 62. It would have made for great juxtaposing.

Frankly, I think Bill 62 is a pretty big hammer with which to thwart the scourge of a few dozen Muslim women choosing (or being coerced) to cover themselves. Is this really a "problem?" Don't they have bigger fish to fry?

No edition of the Globe is complete without at least some token Putin-bashing, and that's what you'll find on A6. Between hosting the latest Ukrainian PM and passing our version of a Browder Bill, we're still sticking it to Putin big time.

Finally, Renzetti uses her A2 slot for something other than professing her love for Hillary or contempt for Trump. She dumps on Amazon instead! How refreshing! There really needs to be more questioning of Amazon and Big Tech in major media, and it's a welcome thing to see at least a hint of it.

There you go. Was it worth $6.30?