*Australia to allow prescription of MDMA and psilocybin for treatment-resistant mental illnesses.*

*British Columbia now allows possession of 2.5g of illegal drugs in measure to mitigate opioid crisis.*

Senator Manchin, together with Republicans, intend to try once again to undermine the environmental review now required for large and potentially dangerous industrial projects.

*Pentagon says it is monitoring Chinese spy balloon spotted flying over US.*

• If it can't get any information that China's satellites cannot get, why did China bother to send it? I suspect it is doing something useful against the US.

• I wonder if there is any way to snag that balloon and bring it down to the ground, so as to study it. That would be better in two ways than shooting it and destroying it.

Memphis thugs took training from Israeli thugs, who are likely to have taught how to apply the practices they apply to Palestinians.