And the Rest of It

So, when does Russia actually move into Poland?:

Russian airstrikes on the Yavoriv military training area in Ukraine have left at least 35 people dead, according to the Lviv regional administration in a statement on Sunday.

About 30 missiles were fired from warplanes over the Black and Azov and hit the military base, said Lviv regional military administration chief Maksym Kozytsky in a Facebook statement. Another 134 people were hospitalized in the incident, his office said.

The Yavoriv military site is about 12 miles away from the Polish border and is some 25 miles from Lviv, located in western Ukraine.

 

 

Horses were once used for glue:

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is facing a popularity crisis after a poll shows the National has rated higher than Labour.

In the latest 1News-Kantar poll, the National has increased seven points to 39 percent, taking the lead.

This marks the first time in over two years that Labour has been beaten by the National, which could potentially form a Government with Act if the Māori Party does not secure an electorate seat.

Labour has decreased three points to 37 percent.

 

 

Those pesky people and their freedoms!:

Collins said evangelicals, in particular, over-emphasize notions of personal liberty when it comes to mandates, saying they have so “wrapped themselves in the flag and wrapped themselves in this concept of personal freedom, that public health just grates on them.”

“[Evangelicals] have forgotten many times that freedom is not just about rights,” Collins contended. He then employed a mocking caricature of a Southern accent, asking the students, “How many times have you heard, ‘Muh freedom means I got rights’? Well, okay, you also have that other R-word: responsibilities. That’s what freedom is supposed to incorporate.”

 

Like the responsibility to tell people about the nine pages of side-effects? Like those responsibilities? 

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The IPCC’s preferred solution to the conservative problem (at least the one that it’s willing to put in print) is more media censorship. The report complains about the "journalistic norm of balance” that give "equal weight to climate scientists and contrarians" and are "unevenly amplifying certain messages that are not supported by science".

I don’t know which planet the IPCC is reporting from, where the media provides equal weight to both the establishment and its critics, but it isn’t this one. But the one thing we know about the IPCC from all its reports on the state of the planet is that it doesn’t know much about Earth.