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Ukraine Has Lost & A Negotiated Peace Is The Only Sane & Humane Solution

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Ukraine Has Lost & A Negotiated Peace Is The Only Sane & Humane Solution

OK, I’m on the record from the start saying Ukraine would lose the war militarily. The counteroffensive has failed. NATO equipped and trained an entire army for Ukraine and it didn’t even get to the main defensive lines.

The Americans told the Ukrainians to charge entrenched, mined positions without air superiority and in the face of an enemy with more artillery than them.

That went about as you’d expect.

The Ukrainians are not taking back the territory they have lost, let alone Crimea, which was always a ludicrous fantasy.

Team Trump sells dead parrot

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Mon, 07/08/2023 - 23:00
Warping reality or just warped? Donald Trump faces a series of civil and criminal trials in the coming years that will tax both his Roy Cohn-ish practice of denying, deflecting and distracting and his Norman Vincent Peale-inspired approach to bending reality to his will. Not that he won’t send out his bargain-basement attorneys to sell us a dead parrot (New York Times): Appearing on five television networks Sunday morning, a lawyer for former President Donald J. Trump argued that his actions in the effort to overturn the 2020 election fell short of crimes and were merely “aspirational.” The remarks from his lawyer, John F. Lauro, came as Mr. Trump was blanketing his social media platform, Truth Social, with posts suggesting that his legal team was going to seek the recusal of Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, the federal judge overseeing the case, and try to move his trial out of Washington. Trump’s efforts to pressure his vice president and state elections officials into overturning the 2020 election results were merely aspirational. And the “Norwegian Blue” is just resting.

Railroaded: Bring Back Thatcher and Reagan

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Mon, 07/08/2023 - 22:51
One of my recurring fantasies is to reanimate Maggie Thatcher and Ronald Reagan on UK and Dutch trains, to tell them the year, and then ask them where they think they are—with only the ownership information and the performance and quality of the carriages to go on. The UK has privatised its rail system, the … Continue reading "Railroaded: Bring Back Thatcher and Reagan"

Lindsay Lister’s Op-Ed to the Stars Hollow Gazette

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Mon, 07/08/2023 - 22:00

Dear Townspeople of Stars Hollow,

You know me, Lindsay. While not the town’s prodigal daughter, I am also a young woman who was born and raised in this town (there are actually a lot of us, though we don’t get our own table at Luke’s or automatically become the town’s Ice Cream Queen just for existing), and I’d like to set the record straight about something that happened twenty years ago.

If Dean and I hadn’t broken up ten months after our wedding, this fall would’ve been our twentieth anniversary. Sure, it’s easy to point fingers at who’s to blame (Rory Gilmore, Rory Gilmore, Rory Gilmore), but few people have heard my side of things.

Causal inference

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Mon, 07/08/2023 - 21:54
Causal effects are comparisons of what did happen with what would have happened if people had received different treatments. Randomized treatment assignment has reduced this problem to the minor technical problem of drawing an inference about a finite population of people on the basis of a probability sample from that population. Expressed differently, if we […]

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Sawtell Rotary’s trivia night for school books is back next month. Teams are welcome to enter.

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ON Friday September 1, the Rotary Club of Sawtell’s famous trivia fundraiser is back and set to test your knowledge and question your wits in the good cause of bringing in dollars for projects close to the club’s heart. Monies raised go towards the Rotary Club of Sawtell’s schools program to buy books for local...

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Peggy Zephyr STILL finalist shines a beacon on female artists

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Mon, 07/08/2023 - 14:02

STILL National Still Life Award, the biennial art prize to be exhibited in Yarrila Gallery Coffs Harbour later this year, has announced its finalists for 2023. Korora Bay artist Peggy Zephyr is amongst them. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone us – (02) 4981 8882....

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US labour market – ‘steady as she goes’

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Mon, 07/08/2023 - 11:03
Last Friday (August 4, 2023), the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released their latest labour market data – Employment Situation Summary – July 2023 – indicated a rather ‘steady as she goes’ outcome. A slightly weaker employment outlook compared to the beginning of 2023 but overall a very stable situation. There is no sign…

Korora Landcare plants forty trees on restoration site

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Mon, 07/08/2023 - 07:58

TENDER loving care was the order of the day on Sunday 30 July as Korora Landcare marked National Tree Day planting about forty coastal acacias and callistemons, allocasuarinas and acacias on a site it has been restoring. “This year we met at one of our newer worksites, Hills Beach Coffs Coastal Regional Park,” Simon Proust,...

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Artists in the Garden go all in for Basquiat theme

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Mon, 07/08/2023 - 07:54

ARTISTS in the Garden this Sunday 6 August, is all about Basquiat. “For this month’s meeting the focus is on the gifted American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat,” Artists in the Garden director Tammy Mills-Thom told News Of The Area. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone us...

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