Saturday, February 11th, 2023

Time	Event
6:17a	War on drugs, fentanyl Biden plans to escalate the War on Drugs, specifically about fentanyl and substances "related to" fentanyl. In addition to the usual harm to society of prohibition of any drug, this would ban a range of chemicals, whose effects (harmful or useful) have not been tested. Fentanyl is dangerous, but a war that's on fentanyl is even more dangerous. (Comment on this)
6:32a	Nord Stream pipeline explosions Seymour Hersh reported that an insider told him that the US used explosives to wreck the Nord Stream pipelines. I did not believe that Putin did so. He got more power by shutting the pipelines and keeping the option to open them again, than by shutting them irrevocably. This can be compared to burning the bridges or boats which your army could have used to retreat. An undamaged Nord Stream pipeline would have offered the EU a way to retreat from its boycott of Russian fossil fuel. (Comment on this)

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