🚨 Now I’ve seen everything… – August 29 2024

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Lead: Ukraine’s Whinging

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Ukraine is complaining that they are being leashed by the U.S. government.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said that their biggest problem is that the West does not want an escalation with Russia. You would think that their biggest problem would be all of the needless death for a pointless war and their inability to replenish a dwindling military. Instead, they see it as a problem that they can’t keep all of that going.

“Ever since the beginning of the large-scale invasion, the biggest problem Ukraine has been facing is the domination of the concept of escalation in the decision-making processes among our partners,” Kuleba said, according to Reuters.

Who in their right minds would want escalation? President Biden has repeatedly promised the American people that this would not happen!

The Associated Press says that “Ukraine’s daring ground offensive has taken the fight to Russia, but not nearly as much as its leaders would like because, they say, the United States won’t let them.”

There is nothing daring about it. It is reckless escalation for a war they should not fight. They have lost the ability to attack that region without consequence, which they’ve been doing since 2014. The daring thing would be to admit that and negotiate for peace but they are war criminals so they won’t. Russia has reiterated that it was willing to go to peace talks before this recent incursion.

Brown University Can’t Even Vote

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Why can’t Brown University divest itself from Israel if it wants to? The university is considering a proposal to do just that but now it is being threatened by 24 state attorneys general who say that if they do that, they may run afoul of anti-boycott, divestment and sanction (BDS) laws.

The letter says that not doing business with Israel is antisemitic and would be akin to supporting terrorist organizations. Which is a false perversion of the truth. So a private university MUST do business with Israel? They have no freedom to even vote!?

The university has a plan to consider a proposal called “Brown Divest Now,” despite University President Christina Paxson having rejected this effort since at least 2012. The proposal will be held for a vote and it is this very notion that triggered 24 state’s to spring to action. Why would U.S. State Attorneys jump to action to protect Israel’s financial interest? Is that their job?

Anti-BDS laws never became federal law, despite Congress trying for that, but it is a part of several state laws. Brown is located in Rhode Island so it is not clear why so many states would get involved in protecting Israel. Do you have any guesses why they would do that?

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Plastic “Pollution”

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A new study shows that replacing plastics with alternatives would be “worse for greenhouse gas emissions in most cases.”

Replacing plastic straws, bags and containers has been all the rage but have we stopped to think about whether or not the alternatives are better? In most cases they’re not. California saw emissions go up when they switched to paper bags because…trees. Studies show that paper straws have FAR more harmful chemicals than plastic straws. Do we do these things without thinking? Apparently we do.

In the plastic alternative study, researchers considered the emissions from “production, transportation, use, and end-of-life disposal, including landfilling, incineration, recycling, and reuse. Calculating the product life cycles, plastic products release 10 percent to 90 percent fewer emissions than do plausible alternatives—often because it takes less energy to make and transport them,” according to Reason.com.

Maybe we should have done this math before making such major social changes!?

News By The Numbers

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25 hours. That is how long two NASA astronauts expected to be in space. NASA announced that they will instead be there for at least 8 months because the Boeing craft that they went on is not safe to use for a return. NASA will instead use a SpaceX mission to bring them home. We hope!

$7.95 million. That is how much the city of Denver claims is being spent on homelessness services from the money they make on taxing marijuana. They also claim that they are spending that weed money on affordable housing, the Herman Malone Fund for “diverse-owned business” and youth education programs.

3 months. That is how long an around-the-world cruise has been stuck in Belfast due to a series of delays.

Parenting Is A “Health Hazard”

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The Biden administration’s Surgeon General is warning that parenting is a health hazard. They say that this is a major problem because parents have 13% more stress than non-parents.

Is this a problem? Isn’t stress part of the job?

The surgeon general says that today’s world presents “new challenges like navigating technology and social media, a youth mental health crisis, an epidemic of loneliness that has hit young people the hardest.” These unprecedented stressors call for “shift in culture, policies, and programs to ensure all parents and caregivers can thrive.” These programs include more paid family leave, better childcare and “historic investments in mental health care.”

This rings to me like the therapeutic state. Since the 1960s, psychiatrist Thomas Szasz warned about the rise of “no-fault diseases” that would lead to “coercive powers of medicine as an arm of the state.” He said that “no person can be free without shouldering his responsibilities.”

But the Surgeon General is saying that the stress of parenting is not your responsibility. It is the government’s to solve for you. That scares me. How does it sit with you?

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