RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN UPDATE, FEBRUARY 5, 2023
California Snowpack At 40 Year Highs…And Rising
SUNY to require DEI and social justice courses in fall 2023
No one can stay in the quietest room in the world for more than an hour
How Elon Musk’s Satellites Have Saved Ukraine And Changed Warfare
California Halts Plans to Force Children to Get the Coronavirus Vaccine to Attend Schools
RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, FEBRUARY 4, 2023
After days spent floating over the U.S., the Chinese spy balloon was shot down and a collection operation is now underway off the Carolinas. Judging by the close up video in this article, I don’t think there is going to be much to recover.
Fears of Russian nuclear weapons use have diminished, but could re-emerge
An anthropological expedition into a Portland anarchist newsletter
The first ferro rod I ever bought was the GobSpark Armageddon with an attached magnesium rod. At the time I was just starting to think about the need to have something that I could start fires with beyond the lighters I had always used. My goal was to have a fire starting system that could…..
1. Be stored in rough conditions without any care to taken to avoid breaking it or to maintain it.
2. Be used to start fires by even an amateur who had little experience starting fires.
3. Be used to reliably start a fire even in awful conditions.
The fact that it was a Ferro rod with a hard plastic case is what I pinned my hopes of meeting the criteria number #1 on and I can say I have carried it many places without it taking the least damage. So that part worked at least.
But for goals number #2 and #3 I was relying on the attached magnesium rod to magically make everything work. I knew even when I bought this thing (this was before I had ever used a Ferro rod myself) that a Ferro rod can take some skill to use effectively and I knew that they had trouble if you did not have good tinder or were trying to use them in rough conditions. But I also knew that if you made shavings of magnesium and then ignited them, they burned really hot. It was this that I was relying on to make it useable even for those with little skill in bad conditions.
In theory this sounds good. But I never tested it. So for this fire starting test I decided to see how it would work.
RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, FEBRUARY 3, 2023
Kyiv Officially Getting Long-Range Rocket-Boosted Bomb
Joe Biden Offered Vladimir Putin 20 Percent of Ukraine to End War: Report
An excellent interview that started of seeming like it was going to talk about things I already knew and then went into stuff that was all new to me. Inside the global battle over chip manufacturing.
Pfizer Director of mRNA Research Raises Fertility Worries Over COVID-19 Vaccine More info here.
Biden Administration Blocks Development of Alaska’s Pebble Mine
RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, FEBRUARY 2, 2023
After Netanyahu talks, Macron warns of Iran nuclear ‘consequences’
Where would they find 700 million people even if they did make themselves attractive to immigrants? The United Nations has estimated that if China’s birth rate remains at its super-low level and the country fails to position itself as an attractive destination for migrants, the country will lose nearly half of its population by the end of this century, a contraction of roughly 700 million people.
Chinese intelligence-gathering balloon seen over Montana
“Significant Threat To National Security”: US Air Force Warns Over Chinese Corn Mill In North Dakota
Japan’s 2022 National Security Strategy concludes with a dramatic pronouncement
British workers unite in largest strike in a generation
Extremely drug-resistant germ found in eye drops infects 55 in 12 states; 1 dead
RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, FEBRUARY 1, 2023
Russia Says It’s Relocating Citizens Near Border Due To Attacks
Russia’s Economy Shrinks 2.7% Due To Western Sanctions
Lebanese villagers try to stem illegal logging scourge
PayPal to cut 7% of its workforce
The computer errors from outer space