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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JUNE 22, 2023

Ukraine Strikes Key Bridge To Crimea,

Turkey hikes interest rates by 6.5 percentage points to 15%. The move by the central bank marks a dramatic departure from President Erdogan’s years long policy of low rates.

The US Coast Guard said they recovered debris from a missing submersible that was en route to the Titanic wreck, and that there are no survivors. The vessel is believed to have “imploded.”

Pennsylvania Trucking Industry Sues After State Regulatory Agency Adopts California Emissions Standards

Vehicles from Toyota, Honda, Ford, and more can collect huge volumes of data. Here’s what the companies can access.

I think the best way to answer that question is to talk about the cultural shift that happened in 2020, because transgender ideology and Covid are inextricably linked. Normally, doctors operate by the authority of the professional societies that govern our specific practice. That worked because the individuals in those institutions were reliable, intelligent, and thoughtful. But with Covid in 2020, we started getting medical decrees without peer review or evidence—you saw this with masks, social distancing, and emergency-use authorizations. These decrees were expressed as something that everyone had to do, without justification based on sound science. The other thing was censorship. If you were to ask questions or express doubt about these medical decrees, you would be ostracized within your department, and you stood a good chance of being publicly humiliated, severely reprimanded, or fired. That’s when transgender ideology really took off.

Washington unseated California this week as the state with the most expensive gasoline.

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JUNE 21, 2023

Ukraine Situation Report: Counteroffensive Slowed By 77,000 Square Miles Of Mines

British leader Rishi Sunak confirmed the inquiry into UK universities’ cooperation with Iran in the House of Commons on Wednesday.

Auckland surgeons must now consider ethnicity in prioritising patients for operations

Teamsters strike with UPS could snarl commerce as labor flexes muscle

Two common chemotherapy in short supply

Scientists Think They’ve Found The Cause of Morning Sickness

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JUNE 20, 2023

Britain recently started burning coal to generate electricity after a heat wave made solar panels too hot to work efficiently.

South African taps run dry after power shortages

Nigerian engineering students’ favorite teachers are Indian YouTubers

The Biden administration won’t say “Iran Deal,” apparently because they fear Congress. They’re negotiating “the deal that must not be named.”

America’s most widely consumed cooking oil causes genetic changes in the brain Hopefully you can avoid this by using olive oil but there is always this to think about.

Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepad for steering

The Cheese Caves of the United States

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JUNE 19, 2023

Russian and Ukrainian sources both agree that Moscow’s forces are on the move in the Donbas, a possible challenge to Kyiv’s counteroffensive.

Why did two young Jews spit at a disabled priest upon leaving the Greek Orthodox monastery in Jerusalem’s Old City? Why did they threaten another priest who was trying to help their victim with pepper spray? What caused a young Jew to enter the Tomb of the Virgin Mary on Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives with an iron bar and to threaten worshippers with it?

Meet the typical Japanese millennial: Victims of the country’s ‘Lost Decade,’ they are trapped in dead-end jobs and are adamant about never having kids

Do Wuhan Institute of Virology Scientists Often Fall from the Building’s Roof?

NHTSA Instructs Automakers to Ignore Massachusetts Data Access Law

A dose of hookworms could help patients manage inflammatory bowel disease

Disney Pixar Movie With Non-Binary Character And Woke Themes Bombs

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JUNE 18, 2023

Understanding the NHS Crisis

The situation therefore is extremely delicate and if not controlled may lead to a civil war like situation which China is ever ready to exploit.

Collapsed I-95 Bridge To Be Repaired “Within Next Two Weeks,” Pennsylvania Gov. Says

Research Team Sets New Standard In Aluminum Ion Battery Chemistry

If The Findings Detract, You Must Retract

Those who got 20% or more of their daily calories from ultraprocessed foods had a 28% faster rate of cognitive decline, and a 25% faster rate of executive-function decline, compared with the subjects in the study who ate the least processed foods.

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JUNE 17, 2023

Waning Flood Waters Could Provide Opportunity For Kyiv’s Forces

The US Navy, NATO, and NASA are using a shady Chinese company’s encryption chips

70,000 new cars are stuck at factories waiting to be shipped due to a shortage of rail cars.

Korean convenience stores selling gold bars in vending machines

I normally would not waste time posting links about what Marvel does, but this was too funny not to share: In typical woke fashion Frank Castle is captured by progressive heroes, chained up and forced to go through a struggle session in which he is admonished as a murderer and a terrorist. Marvel even brings the Punisher’s wife back from the dead, only so that she can divorce him and take his money and property, and then inform him that his lifelong crusade against the criminal underworld was all for nothing.

Speaking of funny: ‘A sense of betrayal’: liberal dismay as Muslim-led US city bans Pride flags

Space Force Three-Star General Sacrifices National Security on Transgender Altar