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Introducing the X-65! The #xplane we're developing to fly without traditional, exterior-moving flight controls received its official designation. CRANE aims to build an experimental uncrewed aircraft that maneuvers by controlling the air flow around it.

I've heard that to make customers happier, they have on staff a fungi.

It is not hyperbole when you consider the attacks on LGBTQ people, natives, and Asians by the right wingers as well as their tacit and sometimes overt promotion of "Christian" values as well as their alleged adherence to Biblical rules. Even in Canada, the right-wingers have sought to muzzle independent media, conduct their governance in secret and even engage in election-fixing. Hatred ultimately creates violence as evinced by the increases in explicit threats and physical attacks on abortion clinics and staff, mosques and offices of progressives. This rhetoric created Donald Trump and Pierre Poilievre. The FBI in 2020 called right-wing extremism the greatest threat to America. Ignore the obvious much?

I am properly chastised.

That will not save his butt.

And three FBI agents and one supervisor have been suspended for colluding with Jan. 6 rioters, being at the Capitol that day as part of the crowd or reporting to the Trump organization. They are also accused of providing privileged information to, among others, the Jim Jeffries committee.

Kremlin’s ‘Presidential Academy’ Gets Hit With a Mass Purge A prestigious Kremlin-funded university that trains up Russia's top civil servants is about to fire all of its employees living abroad, according to current and former employees, in what appears to be Moscow’s latest wartime attempt to secure a vice-like grip around possible dissent. The Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of Russia (RANEPA) is targeting employees who left during Russia’s war in Ukraine in 2022 and 2023, in addition to those who have been living elsewhere for longer, according to a report from Agentsvo, or The Agency. Sources told the outlet that “the order came from above,” without specifying further. The firing spree follows a series of crackdowns on liberal elements of the university. Yulia Galyamina, a former professor in the Department of the Theory and Practice of Media Communications at RANEPA, was fired in recent months after she called for protests against the war last year. Russia alleged she was a foreign agent. The school’s former rector, economist Vladimir Mau, left the university after being accused of embezzlement and being interrogated for several days. Although he had signed a letter in support of Russia’s war, he had reportedly stopped trying to fit into the system, Meduza reported. Instead, he had tried to reform the system from within, according to the Financial Times. Authorities have also recently searched the homes of Mau and Maxim Dulinova, the head of RANEPA’s Federal Education Development Institute. The moves comes as the Kremlin is searching for alternative ways to clamp down on any appearance of disintegrating support for the war in Ukraine. According to a new intelligence assessment released this week, the Kremlin is likely banning senior officials from leaving their posts—an apparent effort save face as Russian forces fail to make significant gains in the war. https://www.thedailybeast.com/kremlin-purges-russian-presidential-academy-after-major-crackdowns-on-dissent?ref=home?ref=home

Which makes me wonder about Winston Rose.

Anyone who detests these movies and criticizes the actors should remember, the dictum:" Let he who is without sin stone the cast first">

For those who have not been following Russian war effort/politics, these men were primarily responsible for developing the Kinzal (dagger) missiles which were promised to be hypersonic and so fast that defending against them would be impossible. Turns out that they were fast but not fast enough to avoid being shot down by conventional anti-aircraft missile systems- like the US Patriot system. Apparently massive amounts of rubles have disappeared from R&D programs in Russia, but these clowns were somehow not smart enough to get the hell out of Russia before bring discovered.

For some, their depravity is an abyss- a bottomless pit.

Teacher Appreciation Day in America:

Curling or chess, perhaps.

About freaking time. I hope he gets the max.

A lawyer friend once told me something that applies to right-wing politics and seems particularly apt with the looming elections in Manitoba and Alberta. She was told that there are two ways to approach trying a case in court: If you have a sound case, you "pound the law". If you do not, you "pound the table". The right-wingers are so bereft of any cogent policies for governing that all they have left is to try to inflame their base by flailing away with grotesque attacks on anyone or anything they think might resonate with the fears and hatreds of their flock. All we can do is vote with our consciences and hope some of the undecided voters will become revulsed with the Cons' policies and utterances and throw the miscreants out.

Cue the accusations, counter-accusations and lawsuit threats.

YUM!!!

The wave of treason cases that swept Russia after the start of the war in Ukraine has reached the largest center of the domestic defense industry.

I was hoping to see better of Adams- sounded good on paper but was meh when he was on the field. He should have been better, but he wasn't. Onwards. This does not bode well for Rose.

The media is also complicit in this by not calling out the racism, homophobia, fascism, gynophobia and intolerance when these rear their ugly heads. What's worse, is that these cretins are a symptom of a creeping disease that seems to be taking over at least Alberta politics but is also present in many other parts of Canada. The federal liberal party is trying to come to grips about how to stop this without infringing on freedom of speech. A tough call.

Bernier, like several other Canadian politicians, are copying the Trumpian model of trying to gain power by appealing to the mouth-breathers. Fools, one and all, who get laughed at behind closed doors by those who they support.

She has also been bedridden, but no one is talking about that.

WHAT. AN. IDIOT.

Galbraith was deemed to be a dangerous radical and was actually investigated by the FBI in the 70's.