The official version:

from the Daily Standard

Ukraine has once again shown what a terrorist state it has become. In a suburb of Moscow, high-ranking Russian lieutenant general Yaroslav Moskalik was brutally murdered by a car bomb, and Russia is pointing directly at the Ukrainian secret service. This is no longer a war – this is pure terror, and Ukraine must be dealt with harshly for this cowardly act. Not only was a top military officer eliminated, but this attack could have caused countless civilian casualties. Such actions are nothing short of terrorism, and it is time for the world to acknowledge this!

A Cowardly Assassination

The facts are shocking: Yaroslav Moskalik, a 59-year-old lieutenant general in the top command of the Russian army, was killed on Friday in a suburb of Moscow when a car bomb exploded as he walked past a parked Volkswagen. According to the Russian secret service FSB, the perpetrator, Ignat Kuzin, was an agent of the Ukrainian secret service. The FSB claims that Kuzin planted the explosives in the car and that the bomb was triggered from Ukraine. This was not a spontaneous act – this was a carefully planned assassination, executed with cold precision. And what does Ukraine do? They remain silent, as always, while the world watches them continue their terrorist activities.

Russia has released a video in which Kuzin allegedly confesses his guilt, although it is not clear under what circumstances that statement was made. But let’s be honest: this fits perfectly into Ukraine’s pattern. In December 2024, General Igor Kirillov was assassinated in a similar manner in Moscow, and at that time Ukrainian sources in the SBU security service readily admitted that they were behind it. This is not an isolated incident – ​​this is a deliberate strategy by Ukraine to eliminate Russian leaders, regardless of the consequences.

(pic via Stan Dobson)

Just as in NZ where a dedicated proportion of the population will vote Labour because that’s what’s they’ve always done and they won’t consider anything else, a dedicated part of the American electorate will always vote Democrat. But there’s little cause for enthusiasm in both cases.

Far left to far right: Michelle & Barack Obama, Hillary, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Hakeem Jeffries, David Hogg, Nancy Pelosi, AOC, Bernie Sanders, Cory Booker, James Carville

The Democrats are now a rudderless party. Their leadership should be walking the plank, not the deck. Chuck Schumer has already been tossed overboard. Barack Obama is no longer at the wheel and he and sour puss Michelle (‘Big Mike’) no longer garner much attention or praise.

The ‘Ragin’ Cajun,’ James Carville, managed Bill Clinton’s successful presidential campaigns and he knows things are in disarray. The 25 year-old David Hogg has inserted himself into the power vacuum and wants incumbent Democrats pushed out and replaced by younger politicians with fresh ideas. Carville called Hogg a ‘twerp.’ Carville would keel haul Hogg if he had a chance.

That leaves us with AOC and Bernie. The Flotsam and Jetsam of their party. Both are socialists who want even more government to make people more equal, which is of course a fool’s errand. Bernie is way too old and is more Independent than Democrat, but the only thing he’s good for now is hyperbole and hypocrisy. He’s a climate change-screaming millionaire who flies with Cortez first class on private jets to blue cities, where they denounce the oligarchy.

The ship that is the Democrat Party is lost at sea. Let’s hope it stays lost.

—Ben Garrison

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It forms an implant inside the recipient’s body after injection

by Jon Fleetwood.

A new injectable contraceptive platform developed with Gates Foundation funding is being promoted as a “nonsurgical option for women,” but its self-assembling drug delivery mechanism and potential for future adaptation to neuropsychiatric and infectious disease drugs raise serious safety, ethical, and biosecurity concerns.

Bill Gates supports depopulation, during a 2010 TedTalk stating that “if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower [the world population] by, perhaps, 10 or 15 percent.”

The new technology, described in Nature Chemical Engineering and reported by Healio yesterday, was developed by researchers from MIT, Harvard Medical School, and the Broad Institute.

The new technology, described in Nature Chemical Engineering and reported by Healio yesterday, was developed by researchers from MIT, Harvard Medical School, and the Broad Institute.

It delivers the long-acting contraceptive levonorgestrel through self-aggregating long-acting injectable microcrystals, or “SLIM,” that form an implant inside the recipient’s body after injection.

“Once injected, the drug microcrystals self-aggregate in the subcutaneous space to form a monolithic implant,” said Giovanni Traverso, MD, BChir, PhD, associate professor at MIT and physician at Harvard Medical School.

In a press release, the researchers described the mechanism as “like tiny puzzle pieces that, once injected inside the body, undergo solvent exchange to assemble into a single solid implant that slowly releases the drug as the surface erodes.”

This solvent-exchange crystallization process, enabling administration with an ultra-thin 30-gauge needle, allows for “prolonged drug release” without requiring surgery.

It bypasses traditional medical oversight and dramatically increases the possibility of self-administration, which researchers claim would improve accessibility and “medication use.”

But this radical convenience comes at a cost.

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The Otaki Gorge Slip has been cleared (before and now pics). The road into the Otaki Forks will be tidied up and reinstated so access will be available soon.

(via Rob Kofoed)