RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MAY 15, 2024

Russia’s Belbek Airbase In Crimea Hammered By Ukrainian Long-Range Strike

Ukraine’s power grid operator Ukrenergo is introducing controlled emergency shutdowns in all regions of Ukraine.

Russian lieutenant general arrested amid Putin’s defense ministry purge

Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico is in a “life-threatening condition” in hospital after being shot five times in what his office has called an “assassination attempt.”

New Caledonia: France declares state of emergency amid riots

Over 8,000 Christians killed in 13 months in Nigeria.

Landlord Legislators Carved Themselves Out of Good Cause Eviction

IER Report Details North America’s Vast Energy Resources

Congress is Preparing to Restore Quotas in College Admissions

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MAY 13, 2024

Ukraine Situation Report: “Fierce Battles” Rage In Kharkiv Region

A Ukrainian recon commander in Kharkiv said its first line of defense was missing, in a ‘betrayal’ that allowed Russian troops to just walk in

Ukraine’s air defenses are struggling and shot down just 30% of Russian missiles last month, report says

Russian Elites Recruited Far From Frontline to Be Safe From War

UN revises Gaza women and children death tolls down by 50%

Powerful interests are fanning the flames of a Sudanese civil war that will likely plunge the country into famine in a few weeks.

Who Had Chinese Ebola Hamsters on Their 2024 Bingo Card?

The top two will not surprise you, but the others might. Where the US spends the most on foreign aid

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MAY 12, 2024

Putin in Cabinet shakeup moves to replace defense minister as he starts his 5th term in office

Biden Offers Israel Intel on Hamas Leaders’ Location in Bid to Avert Rafah Offensive

Body camera video reveals shock, disbelief after Key Bridge collapse

My questions is “cause or effect?”. In other words, did the guns cause the issue or where they trying to treat an issue that got worse. And I do understand that the vertigo stopped after at least one of them stopped using the guns but given the other treatment going on I am not sure that was definitive. On the other hand, it could be related and that is why I pass on the link Massage Guns the Likely Culprit in Two Cases of Acute Vertigo

According to new research, 23 percent of bachelor’s degree programs and 43 percent of master’s degree programs have a negative ROI.

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MAY 11, 2024

Lebanon: Hezbollah Escalates Rocket Fire on Israel After Biden’s Weapons Embargo Threat

Fish Farming in Iceland

Ford explains it will have to stop selling petrol cars to poor people so it can meet government EV rules

IRS Now Targeting People Who Threaten Washington’s “Ability to Govern”

After once claiming on air that people taking ivermectin should be “shamed”, Chris Cuomo has done an about face on the drug, admitting on the PBD Podcast this week that he is taking a regular dose of it to deal with long Covid.

This is not the end of the story as higher courts could overturn this. Court Throws DEI Amendment to NY Constitution, Opposed By Equal Protection Project, Off November Ballot

More children gain hearing as gene therapy for profound deafness advances

NOAA says ‘extreme’ Solar storm will persist through the weekend

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MAY 10, 2024

Ukraine Situation Report: Russia Launches Offensive In Kharkiv Region

Day Before Biden Admin Announced It Would Withhold Weapons From Israel, It Issued Sanctions Waiver To Allow Arms Sales to Qatar and Lebanon

Pentagon orders all US combat troops to withdraw from Niger

The beginning of this article is old hat but the later part I found interesting. I wish the article had led with the information and on the current structure and economics of Al-Qaeda instead. Down but Not Out: Why Al-Qaeda Remains a Major Threat

I remember when people were projecting that Japan would be bigger then the US in terms of economic power. Japanese angst as India set to become 4th largest economy

Oil companies may soon have to pay for Vermont’s climate recovery

The business of wallets

Cats, dogs, rabbits, geese and frogs lived in the high Arctic during a hotter era 9,000 years ago

Bird flu keeps rewriting the textbooks. It’s why scientists are unsettled by the U.S. dairy cattle outbreak

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MAY 9, 2024

‘My fingers can’t feel the trigger but no one cares’ How Ukraine’s ‘partially fit’ soldiers ended up in ‘purgatory’

Ukraine lawmakers just passed a bill that’ll allow the country to mimic Russia’s tactic of drafting convicts to fight in the war

Why Ukraine Should Keep Striking Russian Oil Refineries

Biden Commits To Saving Hamas, Will Cut Off Offensive Weapons To Israel If It Enters Rafah

Israel and Iran bombed each other like three weeks ago and now oil prices are low enough that the SPR [Strategic Petroleum Reserve] is looking at buying

China is in the middle of its own retirement crisis as many older people cannot afford to stop working

There is a not so hidden lesson in this chart that remains unspoken in the blog post. The US has some of the lowest electricity prices in the world.

California city declares a public health emergency after tuberculosis sickens 14