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I thought Wicca and Satanism were totally disjoint. I am aware of at least one self-identified Satanist on this site maybe they have some input.

Are all or most of the British media saying this sort of thing, or just the right wing media?

Some good & not great happening right here locally in Canada to help with teenaged Ukrainian refugees fleeing solo to Canada: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/u ... -1.6630566

Good they're coming & can get a 3 year visa to stay For Now. (Hopefully they're able to then parlay that into Permanent Resident status and then citizenship if they want to stay.)

Not so great that some are falling through the cracks with no one knowing where they are if they leave a host family's house and there's no system in place to track them.

Not so great that the government of Canada only offers a one time $1500 support payment to host families to help cover expenses. Basically, you have to be able to afford to take on a dependent and house/clothe/feed them. Hopefully there are enough hosts willing and able, but there'd be a lot more with a bedroom to offer if Canada would chip in to help cover regular recurring expenses. Life is very costly here.. if someone's paying full current market price for housing + food/clothing/medicine etc that could easily cost $1500-1800/mo for each dependent. But if the space is being paid for anyways Or was bought/rented long ago for cheap, then it may only be ~$500-800/mo in variable expenses of food/clothing/medicine etc. But still, wtf Canada ? Irks me that this is the way it is in part because if I end up with an extra bedroom available in a house I may rent IF I move, I'd consider doing something like this.. but Especially if some/all of the hard costs of doing so were covered vs. coming directly out of my pocket. Still, never know, if I have the space and numbers jive and there are other financial supports, it is Possible that I'd consider doing something like this. I mean, I'd already be vetted and background checked by our own local government to take on a kid that isn't mine.

Blah blah blah, even if Canada is in large part dropping the ball on this, it's rather nice to read that people with deep pockets and big hearts are opening up their homes to kids fleeing the war. Even if they have to take it upon themselves to have Facebook groups and "informal," vetting processes etc it's rather moving that locals right here where I am are taking this on and making it happen.

Apparently North Korea has been supplying ammo to Russia and now the USA is trying to decide what to do about it: https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/w ... y-shells-4

I smell another World War brewing...

What does it smell like?

Profit? Profiteering? Exorbitant gross margins? Massive government contracts? Increased shareholder value? Diminishing quality of life for the working class complete with higher taxation to line the pockets of the military industrial complex? Teen spirit?

What does it smell like?

Profit? Profiteering? Exorbitant gross margins? Massive government contracts? Increased shareholder value? Diminishing quality of life for the working class complete with higher taxation to line the pockets of the military industrial complex? Teen spirit?

Smoke, blood, decaying corpses.

That's what the two previous World Wars smelled like. Why should this one be different?

And I know perfectly well that if another World War spawns, the frontlines will be here. That's where they've always been so far.

But I actually see Western countries interested in Ukraine war staying in Ukraine. The industry profits with less risk and problems this way. However, what becomes of Russia, Iran and North Korea after current events are big unknowns.

Very emotional video (that was its idea), but
1. the catchphrase "war never changes" is historically very inaccurate;
2. the "reason" for the next war from this video - shortages of nearly every resource as a result of overconsumption - is neither the reality of the current world nor the reason for current wars.

So, let's keep it where it belongs - a very emotional intro to a game.

I smell another World War brewing...

Difference is that Iraq was ruled by a dictator who had invaded two neighbouring countries, repressed multiple minority groups within his own country, and had a track record of using weapons of mass destruction (he used chemical weapons both against Iran and against his own people). Meanwhile, Ukraine is a democracy that doesn't have a track record of invading neighbouring countries, where ethnic minorities are not subject to genocide, and where there are no WMDs (with those inherited from the collapse of the USSR given to Russia). They're very different. All they have in common is that they are both wars.