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This started a week or so ago. The Russian forces are making incremental gains but it is costing them some 500-600 casualties per hundred meters and that number is climbing as new weapons arrive for the Ukrainian army. The Ukrainian military tactics seem to be deplete the Russian forces. At this point, the Russians have lost almost all their fighter jets and between 80-90% of their armoured vehicles. For about 4% of the American military budget, about 80-90% of Russian military capability has been destroyed. Reports of mutiny and desertion are almost daily.

The Ukrainian army can retreat from Bakhmut and still survive- Putin cannot. The Wagner group has cleaned out every prison in Russia and Belarus as well as every one they can access- murderers, rapists and so forth and apparently are now clearing out psychiatric wards and registering 16 year old boys for military service.

Safe injection sites as stand-alone facilities work to an extent. They work best in conjunction with "registered addict programs", safe housing and ongoing healthcare. Several countries have very successful programs-- Switzerland and Portugal for two. There programs have been very successful in reducing medical crises among addict/users, reducing drug-related crime and prevalence of dealers, demands on demands on healthcare, police and courts/jails, and overall reduction in active chemical dependents.

Narcotics Anonymous

Als a lot of BS.

As former President Donald Trump pursues the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, he continues to face a variety of federal and state investigations — some criminal and some civil. Simultaneously, Trump is being probed by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and special counsel Jack Smith, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, New York State Attorney General Letitia James and Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis. Former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks has, more than once, pointed out that even President Richard Nixon during the 1970s didn't have as much legal baggage as Trump. Smith and James' Trump-related investigations intersect in some areas. Both of them are probing Trump's post-election activities of late 2020 and early 2021, but Smith is doing so at the federal level while Willis is doing so at the state level. And Smith's investigation is broader; Willis is zeroing in on Trump's efforts to overturn the presidential election results in Georgia. In an article published by Above the Law on March 6, Baltimore-based reporter Liz Dye emphasizes that Georgia is among the states where Republicans are "proposing bills to impose statewide oversight on local prosecutors and even remove them from office if they fall out of favor with the ruling party." Their vehicle in the Peach State is Georgia Senate Bill 92, and Dye finds the bill's timing suspicious in light of DA Willis' Trump-related investigation.

We're talking about human beings who often cling to dreams which are really fantasies in the face of all evidence to the contrary. We are driven by emotion, not reality.

Russia orders 21 mobile crematories from China to hide the truth about own losses as well as the deaths of Ukraine civilians. "Ashes are easier to move than bodies".

Why did this cop turn up dead? A heroic police officer rescued at least three people after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. A year later, he was found shot in the head By Thomas Lake, CNN OKLAHOMA CITY — The bombing memorial is a somber and beautiful place, framed by two monuments called the Gates of Time. The 9:01 Gate commemorates the innocence before the explosion, which happened at 9:02 a.m. and became known as the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history. The 9:03 Gate represents “the moment healing began.” But some survivors never healed. With time, their suffering only got worse. This story is about one of those people. His name was Terry Yeakey. He was an Oklahoma City police officer and a military veteran. Yeakey saved at least three people from the ruins of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995, the day a terrorist attack killed 168 people and injured hundreds of others. Something happened to Yeakey in those hours in the wreckage. He was badly shaken, and his worldview seemed to change. In time, he grew suspicious and afraid. He ran afoul of his supervisors. He went on secret missions, withholding his motives and plans from fellow officers. He seemed to be conducting his own investigation. And then, 385 days after the bombing, his body was found near some trees in a field off a country road. His wrists were cut. His neck was cut. He’d been shot through the head. The authorities said it was suicide. But among those who knew Terry Yeakey, not many believed he had killed himself. In a recent interview, his sister Lashon Hargrove said this: “I think they murdered Terry because he knew too much.”

Do not underestimate the power of hope. In one experiment, rats were put into containers of water with no chance of escape. In about two hours, they began to stop swimming and started to drown. They were fished out, allowed to rest overnight and then placed back into the same containers of water. They continued to swim for two days. The difference? The rats now believed that they had hope that they would be saved. Similar events have been recorded for humans.

Considering the politics out here, can you blame them?

Sometimes its about ego more than money. Then things get nutty.

Considering the differences in salaries, I can understand him hoping his NFL dream will come true. We all live in hope.

Its all a facade to sell newspapers. In Alberta, the Sun papers hype how poorly Alberta is treated by the rest of Canada along with railings against the preferential treatment given to Quebec. In Quebec, they portray Quebec as a victim of a Canada that does not understand or care about the province's unique status.

Apparently as part of the deliberations about charging Trump will all manner of criminal offences, the prosecutors had to consider if he was non compos mentis, or if his attorneys would use that as a defence.

Understandable- it was the worst game the Bombers played all season but it happened to be the the Cup game.

I still disagree. The very rich got that way by putting the accumulation of wealth ahead of politics and almost everything else. The sociopaths among them don't care how their choices affect anyone else.

You are correct in that Einstein saw quantum mechanics as " spooky action at a distance" and tried his best to ignore it. However it has persisted and has been repeatedly proven by such experiments as they have been able to design. Quantum mechanics are used to design all current electronics, so it is tangible and even has theological implications. For example, it is a tenet of quantum mechanics that nothing can exist without being aware of by an conscious being. It also supports the propositions of "The Holographic Universe"- a book that I have treasured for a long time. Bohr famously said, " If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you are wrong. If you think you do not understand quantum mechanics, you are right".

Disagree. Peladeau is doubtless aware that if somehow Quebec were to separate from the rest of Canada, Quebec would instantly become a third-world country and his net worth would plummet. He is smart enough to woo the separatists in Quebec and fan the flames of discontent in Alberta with much the same rhetoric as his papers use in Quebec. Its the same tactic as Faux News uses to bilk the suckers in the US (and a bit in Canada) where what is being stated as fact is well known as BS but its what the mouth-breathers want to hear and will pay for.

Agreed. This sort of crap will continue to exist until aboriginals, Semites, Asians, TGBT people, Slavs, Muslims, Jews, Blacks and so forth realize that what diminishes one diminishes all and when one is attacked, or belittled, that ultimately affects all.

It occurs to wonder if MTG and her ilk in the GOP are being allowed to babble stuff in order to make Trump look like a viable alternative by comparison.

At CPAC, A Call For Trans People To Be 'Eradicated' Gets Big Cheers. The conservative movement’s annual confab was creepily obsessed with trans kids and showcased the GOP’s alarming and intensifying anti-trans rhetoric. NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Thousands of conservatives, including prominent Republican lawmakers and presidential hopefuls, flocked to a suburban Washington, D.C., convention center this week to discuss children’s genitals. They were there for the 2023 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the preeminent annual gathering of America’s conservative movement, where speaker after speaker held forth on the urgent need for the Republican Party — an institution ostensibly dedicated to limited government — to criminalize the act of doctors and parents providing minors with gender-affirming care. Sebastian Gorka, an alleged member of a Nazi-collaborating political order in Hungary who served as an advisor to former President Donald Trump, kicked off proceedings Friday morning from the main stage inside the Gaylord Convention Center. Democrats, he warned the crowd, are “mutilating boys and girls” and “sacrificing them on the altar of their transgender insanity.” A short time later, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) — a featured speaker at a white supremacist conference last year, where her fellow speakers praised Adolf Hitler and cheered on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — took to the stage to make a big announcement. “So last Congress, I did something radical and extreme because remember Marjorie Taylor Greene, ‘she’s so extreme,’” she joked. “I introduced a bill called the Protect Children’s Innocence Act. And let me tell you my great news this morning, ladies and gentlemen: It couldn’t pass last Congress because Nancy Pelosi was the speaker of the House. She doesn’t believe in gender at all, but we have a new speaker in our Republican majority… and I’m going to be re-introducing my bill… that will make it a felony to perform anything to do with gender!” The crowd roared. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cpac-trans-kids-eradicated-transgender-michael-knowles_n_64038d23e4b0c78bb7430b1c