Welcome to Saturday's Potluck - 3-26-2022

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
Pablo Picasso

Identifying and keeping track of all the potential challenges to prepare for in the near future keeps getting more difficult. Rising prices, growing shortages, state medicaid programs can soon stating dropping people from their programs, homeless will not stay out of sight and rents keep rising.

So what are we going to do about the 4th of July? It is less than four months from now.

If sanctions on Russia are expanded to include China will both The 1812 Overture and fireworks be banned at 4th of July Celebrations?

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How the 1812 Overture Became Music for the Fourth of July KUSC Sept 16, 2021

To get to the answer we have to think back to the mid 1970s. The country was gearing up for the bicentennial—for those of us who remember that it was a really really big deal. Two years before that in 1974, Arthur Fiedler who worked with the Boston Pops did a televised concert for the 4th of July and he was the person who did the 1812 Overture with cannons and with church bells. Naturally, everyone was watching this show and musical directors around the country thought “well I have to do something for the bicentennial” and immediately it was the right piece at the right now.

In 1976, we see symphonies all over the country programming the 1812 Overture, and it has become so popular and so standardized that it really has become the Independence Day piece for the United States.

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Why now is no time for Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture The Guardian March 13, 2022

The cannon effects in Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture – a bombastic adornment to a piece of music written for the 70th anniversary, in 1882, of the Battle of Borodino – are sending a wrong message in the light of the tragedy now unfolding in Ukraine
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Theodor Adorno may have had a point that ethnic nationalism in music poisons it both socially and aesthetically, and in that regard the Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra was right to remove The 1812 Overture from its programme. As one of the pieces replacing it, John Williams’s The Cowboy Overture sends a wrong message of a different kind. The piece may be good as film music, but in a concert hall its cliches become too obvious and reveal it as being no more than an example of mass-produced consumer music.

The movement has spread to Japan
A World Where Music can be Performed With No Reservation Japan Forward March 25,2022

The Akashi Philharmonic Orchestra was scheduled to perform the piece at its regular concert on March 21, 2022, but it announced on its website and Twitter page that the performance had been canceled in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The orchestra admitted that some within the group believed that cancellation was unnecessary because “the music is not to blame,” while expressing hope for “the day when the piece can be performed unreservedly.”

The Chubu Philharmonic Orchestra decided to replace the 1812 Overture with Sibelius’ symphonic poem Finlandia for the finale of its special concert on March 26. Finlandia portrays the struggles of Finland as it attempted to gain freedom and independence from the oppressive rule of Imperial Russia.
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At the same time, Chubu Philharmonic Orchestra has emphasized that it is not denying Russian music and culture altogether. For example, it added Trepak, a Russian dance from Tchaikovsky’s famous ballet The Nutcracker, to its program.

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So how about a laser light display with The Cowboy Overture?

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Definitely no lab grown meat. I just have the carrot sticks.

The Bloody Secret Behind Lab-Grown Meat Mother Jones March-April 2022

Once a staple only of science fiction, the stuff is poised to land on your dinner plate this year, at least according to boosters of the cultivated-meat industry (to use its preferred name). In Singapore—the only nation to approve lab meat for sale—you can already go to the JW Marriott South Beach hotel and order steamed chicken dumplings made with “real meat without slaughter” in the form of chicken cells grown by a US-based company called Eat Just. And other cell-meat startups vow to bring product to market in 2022, pending regulatory approval.

Yet several obstacles hold back a new era of widely available animal-free burgers, nuggets, and carnitas. The biggest involves something much less appetizing than chicken dumplings: the blood of unborn cow fetuses, extracted from their mothers after slaughter.

The use of fetal bovine serum (FBS) in labs isn’t new. Scientists have had the ability to biopsy animal cells and keep them alive outside the body since the 1950s. These test-tube cells need food to flourish, and researchers found that fetal bovine serum provided the special sauce—the right combination of hormones to make cells hum. In the 1980s, FBS technology gave rise to tissue engineering—growing cells in vitro to replace small amounts of damaged or diseased tissue in people. Extending the same techniques into a new realm, today’s cell-based meat companies have relied largely on FBS to develop their products.

But a substance that works great for medical purposes (it’s also widely used in vaccine development) creates two huge problems for an industry seeking to mass-produce slaughter-free meat.

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What is on your mind today? (Responses to Covid questions and dialog to be conducted at The Dose diary)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Chinese_sentiment

When it comes to who’s the most unpopular, Tom Lehrer seems to have been wrong.

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@lotlizard of hatred which can rise and be directed at a new target fairly rapidly. The Chinese have been the target repeatedly in the history of our country.

It is ironic the existence of the America's were discovered trying to find a route to China not already controlled by another European power. The two continent's aboriginal cultures destroyed, populations enslaved or killed, mass migration of Europeans aristocracy lessor born and peasants. Add the importation of labors (slaves) from Europe, Africa and Asia over a few hundred years and now migration north from Central and South America.
Hawaii, Guam and The Philippines were the right spacing across the Pacific to fuel the coal burning ships of the 1800's for travel to China. So they were added to the list to conquer and colonize.

China remains a target for conquering by the powers in military, diplomatic, corporate and religious ruling class. They thought China was in their grasp so many times in the past. In order to continue to spend the financial and human resource to conquer China hate or fear needs to be maintained or increased in the masses.

The bridges of tolerance, acceptance and appreciation of our similarities and differences seem to be breaking down. My sphere of influence as an individual is limited, but will keep working on maintaining and building the bridges. A little irony today, maybe some more education on another. Sorry I hit a nerve.

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@studentofearth  
I’m trying not to succumb to the influence of the aggressive, paranoid ethno-cultural tribalism / chauvinism / jingoism suddenly flooding in all around us as the world switches to War Time, but it’s hard and I do have bad stretches when I fail.

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@lotlizard It is the problem of what is becoming visible in the world surrounding us. At the moment intruding in too many parts of our lives.

Always appreciate your stopping by and contributing.

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What is on your mind today?

Nothing. There is nothing left to be is on. Thank you, have a great weekend.

In a press release, the FDA explained that IGAs are “alterations made using molecular technologies that introduce changes to the genome of an animal.” According to Successful Farming, a “precision breeding” company called Acceligen in Minnesota is responsible for utilizing the CRISPR technique to produce the slick-coat cattle. It’s not the first to use the technology on cows, however. In 2020, researchers at UC Davis used CRISPR technology to breed a cow, named Cosmo, designed to produce 75-percent male offspring.

"to breed a cow, named Cosmo," sounds poetic. The FDA cracks me up, PU they stink!

The FDA reviewed genomic data and other information provided by the developer to reach its safety determination.

Steven Solomon, director of the FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine, said in the press release that the decision will likely pave the way for future gene editing. “We expect that our decision will encourage other developers to bring animal biotechnology products forward for the FDA’s risk determination in this rapidly developing field, paving the way for animals containing low-risk IGAs to more efficiently reach the marketplace.”

Farmers that plan to use the PRLR-SLICK cattle will not have to register with the administration.

https://modernfarmer.com/2022/03/fda-crispr-cows-for-beef/

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Last week had two days over 90F on the deck, now nice 80s but so very dry a half inch rain disappears quick no help. Hopland is first podunk north from here, in Mendocino.
Grass fire in Hopland Tuesday was ‘burning like it’s July’

... “It was burning very well.”

Franklin said crews were dispatched to the fire in the 10000 block of Old River Road around 2:30 p.m. March 22, a day when the temperature reached 90 degrees in Hopland.

“It’s scary,” Franklin said of the mix of heat and dry vegetation.

Yah. Speaking of fireworks, Cloverdale is last city council to ban the sale of, so they punted of course. Too divisive, so "All Glory to the Hypnotoad!" of course. LOL
Cloverdale council supports sending fireworks to the ballot

“We had 84 homeless fires in two years on our own river just within the Cloverdale area. If we are so afraid of fires, why aren’t we combatting that this hard to where we want to actually do something more for them? It would be the same with things like outdoor fire pits, outdoor barbecues. If those are really truly a problem and we’re truly afraid of fire, why aren’t we combatting those and trying to get rid of those?” Lands said.

Palla said that, while Cloverdale hasn’t seen any fires caused by fireworks, the National Fire Protection Association has calculated an estimated 19,500 fires started by fireworks in 2018, causing five deaths, 46 injuries and $105 million in property damage throughout the United States.

In 2020, the Cloverdale Police Department had 34 calls related to fireworks and in 2021, it received 43 firework-related calls.

Twelve steppers call dysfunctional priorities "stinkin' thinkin'". Too bad wine cave leadership never ever points their Behaviorial Health cannons at their own fine colleagues, and themselves. Behavioral Health Selfies For All
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Rockets red glare? Bombs bursting in air?
PTSD!
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Fuck that shit, I have always hated The Star Spangled Banner song, war glorification.
Thanks, two minutes are up. Ding!

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@eyo Thanks for stopping by.

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Thanks for the OT soe!
Always intriguing.

Ol' 55 Tom Waits

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....basic Human Rights for the American people — adequate nutrition, freedom from hunger, affordable shelter, the right to stay alive, health care on demand, and a complete education that can produce earnings that are sufficient to purchase those human rights denied to the people by the US government.

But, just to put a fine point on the matter, the US has consistently voted against most of the international Human Rights proclamations and treaties that have been passed at the UN during the past half century — even if the US must "go it alone" to demonstrate to the world its core Christian values (with American characteristics).

If the American people had enough consciousness to become aware of the terrible contradictions that mock their well-being, heads might explode coast to coast ..... a potential improvement.

The Mormons have long possessed the prophetic knowledge that Jesus will come to the Earth to rule over humankind from a home they have built for him in Independence, Missouri. Jesus plans to arrive with his three wives, and the home has been built with sufficient rooms to accommodate the entire entourage. 'The three wives' was a nice touch — it lends the prophesy just enough banality to confer upon it, the ring of truth.

And, really, where else could they go?

American mysticism has been the driving force behind the US, all along.

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@Pluto's Republic of our culture. Shared history and culture is non-existent and mysticism and mythology takes its place

Another group to watch is the Christian Dominion movement. First came to my attention when Sarah Palin ran for national office. Others using christian connections to rise to power Ted Cruz, Mike Pence and possibly Hillary Clinton (per Mother Jones 2007)

Add to the list potential Republican Candidate in 2024 Mike Pompeo.

Pompeo’s Ugly Christian Dominionist Dogma Infects Global Relations Strategic Culture Foundation Dec 17, 2020.

The most tarnished legacy of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will be his introduction to U.S. foreign policy the racist dogma of the Christian Reconstructionist/Dominionist Evangelical Presbyterian Church, which, along with its sister Presbyterian denominations – the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (ARPC) and the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC) – are rife with warnings of a “yellow peril” endangering Western Christian “civilization.”

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Apropo, maybe we could coin a new, vernacularized variant of et.al., like, perhaps, et y'all.

First up - Borodino & 1812. 1812 overture is great precisely because of Borodino. Petty runt quasi-diktator desires to unite: first - all Europe, then the entire world, under his banner. An obvious step, but serious overreach, was to go take on the Bear, a nation that owes much of its founding to the Rus, and winds up, in due time, neck deep in the dustbin of history. What could be more perfect for today and today's Uncle Stupid's behavior vis-a-vis NATO and suchwhat silliness?

Second: Cowboy overture has a certain scope and beauty and all, but speaks to the cowboy culture, history, mythos and genocide of the original population and many species of plants and animals. It is best left out of the picture and replaced by the following medley submitted as more appropriate to our time.

segue to

and then

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

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@enhydra lutris

A BIG problem with the Cowboys Overture is that there are too damn many cowboys in govt as it is, especially State & DoD.

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

@enhydra lutris works for this Texan.

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

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@on the cusp

be well and have a good one

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

to be disappeared by Christmas.
Ballerinas can skip Sleeping Beauty and Dying Swan while they are finding some music to accompany them.
What a stupid world!

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@on the cusp

It's by Saint-Saens (from "Carnival of the Animals") - and the original swans weren't dying, just gliding by on the water.

Anna Pavlova made a personal tour de force out of it, hence the name most people know it by. (She was born in St Petersburg, Russia, but moved to London permanently in 1912 - so don't blame her for anything.)

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There is no justice. There can be no peace.

@TheOtherMaven I associated Dying Swan with Pavlova and goofed that up.
Well, pianists who excel in their Rachmaninoff are gonna go down hard.

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@on the cusp

has already been done:

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@enhydra lutris

As I pointed out above, "(Dying) Swan" isn't by Tchaikovsky at all.

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There is no justice. There can be no peace.

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It depends on who gets to run the show. Biden and the pentagon are trying to keep NATO out of Ukraine. Congress and the deep state neocons are trying to make sure that they go in. Biden has come late to the party since it was his and Obama’s decision to regime change Ukraine and put in a friendly puppet government. Democrats have been doing all they can to make sure that there will be troops in Ukraine. Of course they are doing their donors bidding as have many republicans. More weapons sold, more kickbacks to congress.

NATO wants a ground war

These are the three strategic policies that are fueling the war. They only relate to Ukraine inasmuch as Ukraine is the unfortunate staging-ground for the “Great Power Conflict” which is steadily gaining momentum. Tuesday’s recommendation, by Polish political leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynsk, that he would recommend that peacekeepers be sent to Ukraine shows that NATO is planning a major escalation of the conflict in the very near future. According to Reuters, Kaczynsk, will propose that:

“An international peacekeeping mission should be sent to Ukraine and be given the means to defend itself….

“I think that it is necessary to have a peace mission – NATO, possibly some wider international structure – but a mission that will be able to defend itself, which will operate on Ukrainian territory,” Kaczynski told a news conference.”

“It will be a mission that will strive for peace, to give humanitarian aid, but at the same time it will also be protected by appropriate forces, armed forces,” said Kaczynski, who is seen as the main decision-maker in Poland.” (“Top Polish politician calls for peacekeeping mission in Ukraine”, Reuters)

Think about that for a minute. Think about what it would mean. The peacekeeping mission:

“will operate on Ukrainian territory (where Russia is carrying out its military operation)
will be able to defend itself. (which means they will be armed.)
will be (protected by) “some wider international structure” (NATO)
Does anyone think this sounds like a good idea? Won’t this will force Russia to treat the NATO personnel as enemy belligerents that are interfering with their military operation?

Of course, it will. So, what are they trying to achieve; WW3? Is that the point? And what does this tell us about Washington’s strategy for Ukraine?

It also tells us that NATO is preparing to engage Russia militarily within Ukraine. That’s what it tells us. Until today, most people had assumed that NATO would not engage Russia militarily because they believed that would greatly increase the prospects of a nuclear exchange. But that is not how the foreign policy establishment sees things. After dealing with Putin for over 20 years, they see Putin as a rational actor who will not escalate unless Russia faces an imminent existence-threat. (A nuclear attack) In other words, the foreign policy mandarins have made the calculation that they can engage Putin in a bloody and protracted ground-war– that will drain Russia’s resources and destroy its economy– without Putin using his nuclear arsenal. It is a risky strategy but not entirely unreasonable given Putin’s behavior in the past. Putin has always been extremely cautious and never impulsive. The foreign policy wonks think they can use that against him. Like we said, it is a high-risk strategy.

Naturally, Russia is appalled by the ‘peacekeeper idea’ as it makes a clash between the two nuclear-armed superpowers almost unavoidable. Here’s what Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in response to the news:

“Our Polish colleagues have already stated that there will be a NATO summit now, and peacekeepers should be deployed. I hope they understand what is at stake. This will be a direct clash between the Russian and NATO armed forces, which everyone not only wanted to avoid but said that it should never take place in principle.”

Is Lavrov is being overly courteous?

Yes, he is. If the United States had issued the warning, they would have said something much more ominous, like this:

“Any armed formations will be treated as legitimate enemy targets and destroyed. Full stop.”

That’s how you deliver a warning. You don’t try to ingratiate yourself with the person who wants to kill your soldiers and erase your country from the map. That doesn’t make any sense at all. If there was ever a time for straight talk, this is it. Lives are at stake.

The “peacekeeper” incident suggests something I’ve suspected for quite a while; that Washington is itching for a land-war in Ukraine, and to some extent, it makes sense. It further polarizes and weakens Russia, it unites the allies around a common cause, and it reinforces NATO’s role as guarantor of regional security. The downside, of course, is that the conflict could quickly escalate leading to a full-blown nuclear war. I believe the neocons at the State Department do not see that as a plausible scenario, so they are pushing as hard as they can to intensify the fighting. Here’s a short clip from the piece by veteran Jacob Dreizin who appears to see things the same way:

“I am confident that, out of impotent rage if nothing else, NATO forces will move into western Ukraine from Poland by mid-April at the latest, if the war is still on by then. The heavy equipment is already there near the border; bringing in the personnel to link up with it is the easy part. With the recent Russian bombing of the U.S./UK “Ho Chi Minh trail” hub at the Yavorov base near the Polish border, they will get in on the ground … to make a statement like, “Not again, because we’re here openly now.”

No, Brandon doesn’t want to do it, but the hawks in Congress and the MSM are running the show now. There will be escalation. It is baked into the cake. In fact, I predicted before the invasion that Poland would take advantage of the war to create a protectorate in western Ukraine, and I stand by my prediction…” (“Dreizin Report–Poland prepares to intervene, Ukraine slides into dictatorship”, Jacob Dreizin, The Son of a New American Revolution)

Worth a full read. Links left out.

This is what I thought too when the Times confirmed that the Hunter story was true after all.

I think Dreizin is onto something here. Brandon is not on board with the planned escalation, but it might not matter, because the State Department is a hotbed of neocons that are doing whatever they can to grease the skids for a scorched earth, no-holds-barred cage-match with their most-reviled rival, Vladimir Putin. It’s the State Department, the Intel agencies, the Congress and the media that are steering the ship of state now, not Biden. Perhaps, you wondered why the NY Times suddenly decided to ‘come clean’ on the Hunter Biden laptop story? You probably know that it’s not because the Times editors had a change-of-heart and wanted to inform the public or “speak truth to power”. Of course, not. The Times trotted out the laptop dossier to let Biden know that they “got him by the shorthairs” and if he doesn’t play ball, he’s toast.

From the comments m

“Start a nuclear war, kill billions, and destroy civilization—or we’ll plaster Hunter’s kiddie porn selfies on the front page of the New York Times!” Poor Brandon. That’s a real Sophie’s Choice.

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Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.

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Just when you think it can't get more absurd...it does.
Oligarchs want the blood plasma of the young to enable eternal life? Yeah right?
Russell explains...
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82pOL361zUk&t=62s]
Blood has become big business in the United States and there is no shortage of big pharma corporations ready to exploit America’s young and most vulnerable.

While TPTB are at it, may as well ban Tolstoy and all the Russian writers too. We want war and war...not War and Peace. Thanks for the OT!

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

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@Lookout students took advantage of while attending college in the 80's. The downside one had to be able to travel to Portland or Eugene, Oregon. It is so much easier now, many more locations around the country and multiple websites to direct one to the closest location

Such as MagnifyMoney's Plasma Page
the fine print

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It has grown into a big international business market.

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The global blood preparation market size was valued at USD 36.7 billion in 2018 and is projected to expand at a CAGR of 5.6% from 2019 to 2026. Growing demand for blood and its components in surgical procedures is expected to be a key factor driving the market. According to the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Statistical Briefs, blood transfusion was the most common procedure performed during hospitalizations for the period from 2006 to 2015 in the U.S.

Some of the more common medical uses are listed at the Red Cross site.

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Dixie Chicks moment?

https://goodwordnews.com/german-states-outlaw-display-russias-z-war-symbol/

Two German states said on Saturday they had banned the public display of the “Z” symbol used by the Russian military during its invasion of Ukraine.

Anyone who waves the symbol at protests or paints it on cars or buildings as a sign of support for Vladimir Putin’s war faces up to three years in prison or a fine in Lower Saxony or Bavaria.

“It is incomprehensible to me that this symbol ‘Z’ can be used in our country to condone this crime,” Lower Saxony Interior Minister Boris Pistorius said.

“Z”, a letter that is in the Latin alphabet but not Cyrillic, first appeared on military vehicles driving into Ukraine, possibly to distinguish them from Ukrainian forces and avoid friendly fire.

But the sign has since become ubiquitous on cars on the streets of Moscow, clothing and social media profiles on the Russian internet. — a trend that the Russian authorities are keen to encourage.

In the German state of Lower Saxony, too, there had been instances of such displays, the state’s interior ministry said.

Bavarian Justice Minister Georg Eisenreich noted that freedom of opinion is a “great asset” but that it “stops where criminal law begins”

Could it eventually lead to the banning of this group?

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@humphrey crazy fool meant? Seems every time he is able to complete a sentence, his handlers have to correct him.

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@on the cusp is mental status can be highly variable. Makes for awkward and unpredictable social interactions.

At one stage the filter to suppress the literal truth for socially acceptable phrases is not always functioning and eventually becomes non-existent. Not unusual for the family skeletons to be revealed and dismissed as confused babbling. In this case Biden is a person who spent most of his adult life involved in United States international policy and classified information. When his filters are not working he blurts out opinions and conversations held behind closed doors.

There are multiple coping mechanisms to avoid these situation and appear normal. But in various types of progressive dementia they eventually fail. The dementia may progress to the mixing of reality and fantasy eventually. His handlers still need him to perform in public places. They keep providing him with less complex sentences. Almost child like logic at times to keep him on message, but leave us the audience a bit bewildered. At the moment I think he is blurting out truths occasionally. Not sure how long it will be tolerated Biden not staying on script.

Physical changes in body movement are progressing at a similar rate. So I do not think it is an act or body double as suggested in some dialog on other sites.

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is worth repeating.

Julian Assange marries former lawyer Stella Morris in UK prison

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