RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 9, 2023

Russian troops are now less than five miles from Kupiansk, a city in Kharkiv Oblast that Ukraine recaptured last September.

Russian officer “Colonel Shuvalov” described on Telegram how it is encouraged to fabricate reports about destroyed Ukrainian equipment by filming strikes on different days using various weapons and equipment. This is done to please the upper leadership since everyone benefits from positive reports and inflated numbers. It’s a long post but worth reading

Massive Blast Rocks Town Outside Of Moscow

Chinese Troops Pledge To Die In Alarming Docuseries On ‘Liberating’ Taiwan

Israel vows to ‘return Lebanon to Stone Age’ if Hezbollah starts war

Natural gas prices are soaring as energy workers in Australia look poised to strike, threatening global supply

Credit card balances jumped in the second quarter and are above $1 trillion for the first time

“It happened so fast,” she told CNN. “I heard the first explosions of the gas stations exploding and then I saw the black smoke a couple streets away and within half an hour we were out the door.” Photos of all the damage on Maui in Hawaii here but it is still ongoing.

Massachusetts Declares a State of Emergency Over Immigration

Emails Show New York Times Collaborating with State Government to Target Orthodox Jews

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 8, 2023

Ukraine Situation Report: Claims Swirl Around River Landing By Kyiv’s Forces

The author tooting his own horn at the start of this is in part because he was accused of profit seeking by another article on the same site that he is responding to. After you get past the tooting, he starts laying out the issues as he sees them. WHY UKRAINIAN SOLDIERS HAVE TO LEARN TO FIGHT ON YOUTUBE AND HOW TO CHANGE THAT

China’s July exports contracted the most since the start of the pandemic.

Public Anger Grows After Floodwaters Deliberately Diverted To Save China’s Capital

Taiwan Heading for Era of Paralyzed Politics

NYC Will Use In-Road Sensors to Automatically Fine Overweight Trucks

What to know about the dominant Covid-19 EG.5 variant, nicknamed ‘Eris’

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 7, 2023

Ukraine Situation Report: M1A1 Abrams Tanks Approved For Shipment

You only need to read half of this article to get an understanding, everything else is pure lecture. But better written sources are hard to come by as nobody else is governing in detail why the west cares about this. AFRICAUS/France threaten intervention in resource-rich Niger You can get a little bit of a taste of what his article covers from a more conventional source here.

Why Canada Is Criminalizing Dissent?

Why are UAE, Saudi, other Gulf countries issuing Lebanon travel warnings?

California’s Teacher Shortage Is Dire

Wells Fargo customers scramble after deposits disappear from their accounts

Los Angeles Has a Growing Typhus Problem, Thanks to the Fleas

Revolutionary Treatment Emerges in the Battle Against Deadly Fungi

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 4, 2023

Ukrainian Drone Boat Scores Direct Hit On Russian Warship

On Ukraine’s landmine-strewn front, even the corpses can kill

Saudi Arabia’s Budget Deficit Jumps By 80% Due To Lower Oil Revenues

India’s ‘lost tribe’ of Israel hit hard by deadly violence

Chase Shuts Down Bank Accounts of Mercola and Key Employees

The true nature of American polarization

Dianne Feinstein, 90, cedes power of attorney to daughter — but still serves in Congress

Voyager 2: NASA restores contact with spacecraft

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 3, 2023

Slaughter of Nigerian Christians Warrants International Attention

Biden Proposes to Tighten Vehicle Fuel Efficiency Standards

XQ-58 Valkyrie Solves Air Combat ‘Challenge Problem’ While Under AI Control