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You're definitely a shady character wearing shorts, Dr John. I've done that most of the summer and anyone who claims I'm not 'shady' is immediately sent to the career naughty step.

Thing is, shady characters like us are beginning to seem like sane alternatives to warmongers like Harris, Blinken, Sullivan, Nuland, Cheney, Graham etc etc etc.

Interesting map of where all the mineral wealth in Ukraine is. No wonder Zelensky et al can't tolerate Donetsk and Luhansk 'becoming autonomous'. I tend to suspec t that the value of the 'black earth' agricultural lands will reside in the less mineral-rich oblasts of Western Ukraine, though.

Healthy eating is a drug-free way to cure obesity - I guess from a government's point of view, it depends on what it costs to get people to eat healthy, when they know the cost of prescribing pills. Not to mention the nice £25-250k 'donations' to electoral funds that their party will get from Ozempic producers. Thing is, healthy eating does more than just help you lose weight. It keeps your gut ecology healthy, which popping Ozempic certainly won't. It supplies daily vitamins, which Ozempic certainly won't. It provides protein, which Ozempic doesn't. At some point or other, Ozempic or not, people have to start eating healthily. So Ozempic is just a variable cost addition, whereas healthy nutrition is an immovable fixed cost.

As for Ukraine 'joining NATO', we'll see about that. NATO is a busted flush, anyway. A tyrant and a bunch of supine cowering colonies in Europe. NATO lost its raison d'etre in 1991, but like plenty of big unaccountable klunky organisations, it refused to be euthanased. We now live the consequences of that refusal. I can see five or six European nations holding referenda to leave NATO within the next 16 years. And I can forsee three to five of them giving a 'YES' vote.

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Be a healthy human critter by emulating older human patterns of life and seeing how they differ from the "junk" lifestyle now on offer. It is a path of realization...

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