RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 13

No smooth sailing for grain via the Black Sea

In the last few weeks, health officials in New York identified the first person in nearly a decade in the U.S. to be diagnosed with polio. The person suffered paralysis.

A major breakthrough in nuclear fusion has been confirmed a year after it was achieved at a laboratory in California.

‘We Couldn’t Do Anything’: Family Drowns in Seoul Basement During Floods. Hundreds of thousands of poor people live in semi-underground homes around the city. The death of a family of three showed ​how vulnerable they are to flooding. More pictures here.

Low Rhine water levels are a massive challenge for Germany, given that around 80% of inland waterway goods transport relies on the river.

More than 100 French towns without drinking water amid ‘historic drought’

The US consulate in Tijuana told employees to “shelter in place” amid deadly violence which reportedly included gang members shooting at bystanders and starting fires.

Researchers discover new approach to healing skin infections and wounds

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 12

UN Warns Of Disaster As Russia, Ukraine Face Off In Zaporizhia

CDC Quietly Ends Differentiation on Covid Vaccination Status

Denmark outlaws the COVID vaccines for children

Top Taliban Cleric Killed in Kabul Suicide Blast Claimed by IS

Novelist Salman Rushdie was stabbed on stage preparing to give a speech in Chautauqua, New York

Local governments in New York could lower speed limit to 25 mph under new law

You don’t have to have a lot of sympathy for the pharmaceutical industry to worry about more complicated and arbitrary rules being added to our health care system. on the new health care provisions

France battles extremely violent wildfire, officials warn additional flare-ups could cause it to spread further

The Term ‘Inmate’ Can No Longer Be Used In NY State Law

Novofedorivka – Saki Air base attack satellite imagery – The aftermath

Amnesty International, Ukraine, and the Illusion of NGO Fact-Finding Expertise.

A neuroscience image sleuth finds signs of fabrication in scores of Alzheimer’s articles, threatening a reigning theory of the disease

Climate policy numbers

FCC Cancels Starlink Funding for Rural Broadband Program

OBSERVATIONS ON THE MAR-A-LAGO RAID

Here’s how the rule of law applied to a former FBI lawyer who pleaded guilty to forgery

Welcome to the Third World

FBI, R.I.P.?

Saudi Arabia secures funding for electricity interconnection with Egypt

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 10

Russian Airbase In Crimea Goes Boom

Notable only because it is the editorial board. If Merrick Garland doesn’t give a solid, fast reason for raiding Trump’s home, he’s probably just re-elected him

White House Claims Biden Was Not Briefed on FBI Raid at Mar-a-Lago

Locusts Can Smell Cancer, And It Could Give Us a Brilliant New Way to Save Lives

Fish Oil Is Good! No, Bad! No, Good! No, Wait

How big is the housing shortage?

Urgent polio boosters for London children

China graft probes stem from anger over failed chip plans

Gas Prices See Fastest Decline in over a Decade, Down 83 Cents Since Mid-June

Think 9% Inflation Is Bad? Try 90%.

The Global Diesel Crunch Is Going To Get Worse

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 9

Russian Defence Research Expert on AFU performance, the effect of Western weapon supplies

Wagner Group on HIMARS

Mysterious Jets of Upside-Down Lightning Are Real, And We Just Got Our Best Look Yet

Inside the War Between Trump and His Generals

Judge who OK’d Mar-a-Lago raid Obama donor once linked to Jeffrey Epstein and Trump raid sparked by boxes of materials including Kim Jong Un letters, cocktail napkin

The Democrats’ New Inflation Bill Includes Tax Credits for Electric Vehicles That Don’t Exist

New IIHS Side-Impact Crash Test Shows Troubling Sedan, Wagon Results

Major test of first possible Lyme vaccine in 20 years begins

Basically, it looks like Hamas sat back and let Israel kills some of its rivals. Israel-Hamas understanding key to quick end to Gaza fighting

Netherlands to SHUT DOWN 11 200 farms to meet climate goals

“This is horrific,” New York City mayor says of Greg Abbott’s policy as second busload of migrants from Texas arrives

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 8

Donald Trump says FBI carried out ‘unannounced raid’ on Mar-a-Lago property

Corruption is sending shock waves through China’s chipmaking industry

The system of rolling holidays for different industrial areas is expected to reduce pressure on electricity demand as well as fuel oils for public transport, Hamid said. The South Asian nation, also the world’s No. 2 garments exporter after China, has resorted to power cuts to preserve fuel reserves amid war-induced energy price shocks, and separately approached multilateral lenders including the International Monetary Fund for loans to shore up its foreign reserves as import bills balloon.

The world’s least understood ignition source is causing devastating wildfires across Montana’s Powder River Basin.

One of the biggest textbook publishers is tired of not making any money when you buy a used textbook — and wants to explore using NFTs to get a cut

China builds watchtowers inside India-claimed lines

Wasted and not properly tracked are two separate things and this site is over hyping this a little bit. But it is a reminder that self censorship is alive and well on this subject. CBS News Censors Its Own Documentary Exposing How 70% of US Funding of Ukraine is Wasted

Maybe this seemed more consistent in the original German? Kevin Short, a professor who specializes in environmental education at the Tokyo University of Information Sciences, agrees that the loss of habitat is a major reason for increasing numbers of wild animal intrusions into urban areas.He also pointed out that due to Japan’s shrinking rural populations, there are fewer hunters to cull wildlife, resulting in an explosion in the number of bears, boars and monkeys in recent years.