In a rare glimpse of internal dissent, Ukrainian President Zelensky announces he has sacked two generals as they were "traitors"

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-60949706

 A challenge to God is likely to be punished. However I suspect there may be dare-devils who will put their life at risk by drinking Atomik.

A company that produces Atomik - a vodka made in Chernobyl's exclusion zone - is releasing two more premium drinks and donating profits to Ukraine's refugees.

The move comes as Russian troops occupy the land where the fruit is grown and harvested to make the drinks.

Scientists who set up the Atomik project have studied crops grown in the Chernobyl exclusion zone for 30 years.

Their work has enabled people living on contaminated land to distil slightly radioactive fruit down to a spirit that is no more radioactive than any other.

Sallie Tisdale. Talk dirty to ma: an intimate philosophy of sex. - New York, Anchor Books, 2014. - 340 p.

The author is an award-winning essayist. 

“Perversity, like obscenity, is a relative condition; we define it for ourselves… What about the secret things most of us most of us do now and then, or wish we could do, but never speak about? Like algolagnia, otherwise painful sensations that turn into sexual pleasure, like the getting and giving of hickeys, scratches, love bites, and pinches. Like spanking, whipping, slapping. What about begging, please, talk dirty to me, dear?” [Tisdale, 2014: 104, 108 - 109]

Since 1945, the United States has had an active foreign policy, with its military frequently involved abroad. While these would not be considered “new wars” for the scope of this fact check, they are worth mentioning.

A comprehensive list of instances of all uses of U.S. armed forces abroad can be seen in a Congressional Research Service report.

Among the most prominent military interventions abroad during the Cold War are the Bay of Pigs invasion during Kennedy’s administration, Reagan’s deployment of U.S. Marines to Beirut during the Lebanese civil war, the invasion of Grenada and the bombing of Tripoli in Libya, both also under Reagan..

Under George H. W. Bush, thousands of U.S. troops invaded Panama in an attempt to overthrow dictator Manuel Noriega and thousands of troops were sent to Somalia on a peacekeeping mission.

Under President Bill Clinton, U.S. troops were sent to Haiti as well as to the Balkans as part of a larger NATO deployment.

Under President Obama, the United States and U.S. allies conducted months-long air strikes in Libya and military operations against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

Trump held U.S. military operations attacking Syrian government targets and most recently presided over the killing of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani via U.S. drone strike.

АИТ: These are the children from the coloring books come to life, the children they mean on the signs we pass in Union, New Jersey, that say CHILDREN AT PLAY and DRIVE CAREFULLY, WE LOVE OUR CHILDREN- these are the girls and boys who live next door, the lads who are always asking for the jalopy and getting into jams and then out of them again in time for the final commercial- the kids whose neighbors aren't the Silversteins and the Landaus, but Fibber McCee and Molly, and Ozzie and Harriet, and Ethel and Albert, and Lorenzo Jones and his wife Belle, and Jack Armstrong! Jack Armstrong, the All-American Goy!- and Jack as in John, not Jack as in Jake, like my father . . .

РПТ: Деток с такими носиками рисуют в книжках, про таких написано на дорожном указателе перед Юньоном, в штате Нью-Джерси: «Осторожно, играют дети! Учти, водитель, мы любим наших детей!» Это девочки и мальчики, которые «вокруг нас», которые убеждают своих прижимистых родителей сменить уже наконец старую развалину, пока не кончилась рекламная пауза, но соседи у них не Сильверштейны и Ландау, и если там попадается какой-то Джек, то это сокращенное от Джона, а не от Якова, как зовут моего папашу!

Linguists try to steer away from Default thinking unlike other people.

Default thinking is technically the way to describe immediately telling someone something that came to mind first. 

If you don't mean to be critical of your advice you could call it "commonsense" or "intuitive"; if you do mean to criticize it, you could characterize it as being offered "on autopilot." –

Confronting Your Default Thinking 

For many years we have known that the brain is a great pattern maker. In fact, the only way for it to process all the data it receives is to drop information into pre-prepared pathways or patterns. It needs a ‘default’ method for processing information to cope. Our best guess is that the brain handles around 11 million bits of data per second and that we are capable of consciously processing only around 50 of these. Our default processes handle the rest. This can be regarded as our default thinking, even though most of it happens unconsciously.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has told the BBC that he is convinced Ukraine can win its war with Russia.

He could not say how long the conflict would last, but insisted that Ukraine's defeat was not inevitable.

Mr Blinken praised the "extraordinary resilience" of the Ukrainian people.

"If it's the intention of Moscow to try somehow to topple the government and install its own puppet regime, 45 million Ukrainians are going to reject that one way or the other," he said.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60626921

So what are Russian TV viewers seeing of the war? What messages are they hearing over the airwaves? Below is a snapshot of what ordinary Russians would have picked up, on Tuesday 1 March, while channel-hopping across the country's key TV stations, which are controlled by the Kremlin and its corporate allies.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60571737 

channel-hopping ['ʧæn(ə)lˌhɔpɪŋ] ; ; channel-surfing быстрое переключение телевизионных каналов (в поисках чего-л. интересного) channel-hopping N-UNCOUNT Channel-hopping means switching quickly between different television channels because you are looking for something interesting to watch. [BRIT] (in AM, use channel-surfing)

The implications of the first sentence covers a manipulation aimed at putting pressure on Ukraine: 1) Ukraine is stupid not to attack "a sitting duck". 2) Russians are stupid to turn their convoys into sitting ducks.

Everyone is baffled as to why Ukraine has not done more to attack the Russian convoy as it is a sitting duck for drone and airstrikes.

There are several possible explanations, Ukraine may be running out of armed drones and its small, outnumbered air force may be wary of being shot down by Russian air defence batteries.

Ben Barry from the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) suggests the Ukrainians may well be safeguarding what resources they do have in readiness to counter-attack when the Russians get closer to Kyiv.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-60617145

So what are Russian TV viewers seeing of the war? What messages are they hearing over the airwaves? Below is a snapshot of what ordinary Russians would have picked up, on Tuesday 1 March, while channel-hopping across the country's key TV stations, which are controlled by the Kremlin and its corporate allies.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60571737 

channel-hopping ['ʧæn(ə)lˌhɔpɪŋ] ; ; channel-surfing быстрое переключение телевизионных каналов (в поисках чего-л. интересного) channel-hopping N-UNCOUNT Channel-hopping means switching quickly between different television channels because you are looking for something interesting to watch. [BRIT] (in AM, use channel-surfing)