RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MAY 16, 2023

The French move to provide SCALP-EG air-launched cruise missiles comes after the U.K. delivered essentially identical missiles to Kyiv.

This lacks context in that numbers are not inflation adjusted or expressed as a ratio to income. Still, the huge rise in absolute terms does indicate that something is going on. American Consumer Debt Hits Record Level, Rises Nearly $3 Trillion Since Lockdowns

Eric Adams Wants ‘Revisit’ Sanctuary City Status for NYC

IRS removes investigative team from Hunter Biden probe in move whistleblower calls ‘clearly retaliatory’ Related: The blackout on Biden corruption is truly ‘Pulitzer-level stuff’

Like Germany, The US Is Greening Its Grid Towards Catastrophe

The U.S. is undergoing its worst bird flu outbreak ever. Is a poultry vaccine the answer?

Vitamin D: Everything You Need to Know

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MAY 15, 2023

After decades of watching Kremlin-backed hackers, the FBI ID’d weaknesses and pounced.

NEGOTIATING SAUDI ARABIA’S DEFEAT AND THE HOUTHI VICTORY IN YEMEN

Pakistan’s Supreme Court Orders Release of Former PM Imran Khan

Netanyahu’s Popularity Soars After Gaza Operation

The superfungus was first detected in New York City. The new species may start making its way through the homeless population soon.

U.S.A. fact of the day

Honda Won’t Sell Gasoline Mowers in the US Anymore

The Religious Landscape is Undergoing Massive Change. It Could Decide the 2024 Election.

Spiraling in San Francisco’s Doom Loop Related: New York, San Francisco Office Buildings Are Absolute Ghost Towns.

The Biden administration is proposing a rule that would require most fossil fuel power plants to cut their greenhouse gas emissions 90 percent between 2035 and 2040 — or shut down.

‘I think we’re to the Dust Bowl.’ Oklahoma farmers say wheat crop is worst in decades

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MAY 5, 2023

Ukraine Isn’t Buying Wagner Boss’s Tirade About Pulling Out Of Bakhmut

HIMARS become less effective in Ukraine due to Russia’s jamming

Technically, the farmer can immigrate outside the EU but this does make you understand why the farmers are mad enough to go to extreme measures. EU ensures Dutch farmers booted FOREVER from farming

TikTok spied on me. Why?

Global rice shortage is set to be the biggest in 20 years

Germany’s economic time bomb: the labor crisis

Pressure grows for regulatory intervention as US bank rout deepens

Comments on April Employment Report

Tropical Milkweed Harmful to Monarch Butterflies?

Leon Pinsker (1821-1891): Herzl’s harbinger

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MAY 4, 2023

Multiple Russian Fuel Depots Hit By Suspected Drone Attacks, Tempo Increasing

What New York’s Ban On Natural Gas Stoves And Heaters Means For The Country

When You Don’t Police Crime, Civilians Will

Initial Jobless Claims Jump Near 18 Month High

I met Venezuelans who are scamming the asylum system en masse to get into the US

HDDs typically failed in under 3 years in Backblaze study of 17,155 failed drives

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MAY 3, 2023

HIMARS Shown Being Stashed In ‘Soviet Bunker’

Depending on how you perceive today’s events, this might be ironic but it is interesting nonetheless. What Ukrainian drones need to finally reach Moscow

China Updates Conscription Law, Eyeing ‘High-Tech Regional Conflict’ Over Taiwan

Ireland Set To Pass Far-Reaching Hate Speech Laws

Saudi Arabia Needs Oil Prices At $80.90 To Balance Budget

$1 billion for asylum seekers to New York City alone! To put that in context, that is equal to the amount that is supposed to go to beef up “mental health” to create 3500 new beds for long term patients. $17 dollar an hour minimum wage (34 thousand a year full time) Your One-Stop Guide to the 2023 New York State Budget

New York on cusp of being first state in nation to ban natural gas under new budget Needless to say, it did pass.

Starlink nixes plan to impose 1TB data cap and per-gigabyte overage fees

Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from non-invasive brain recordings

Evidence of conscious-like activity in the dying brain