Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 25, 2024

Israel Launches Preemptive Strikes In Lebanon Just Before Hezbollah Carried Out Retribution Barrage

Iran Update, August 25, 2024

‘Nasrallah the chicken hunter’: Arab world mocks Hezbollah over foiled attack

Red Sea Oil Tanker Blaze Threatens Environmental Catastrophe

Canadian Union Poised to Strike against Freight Railroads Hours after Trains Resume Service after Shutdown. Canada’s freight rail shutdown threatens U.S. supply chains.

Note to Philip Bump

Navy Could Sideline 17 Support Ships Due to Manpower Issues

This is not from a conspiracy website. But on the other hand, give enough of anything to a kid and it will be bad for him. US government report says fluoride at twice the recommended limit is linked to lower IQ in kids

Even More Car Insurance Cost Hikes Are Coming

Electric vehicle battery fires—what to know and how to react

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 24, 2024

The Official Statement by Hezbollah announcing the beginning of their Retaliation against Israel. Over 150 Rockets and several Drones have been launched against Northern Israel in the last hour. But at the time of this writing it is too early for any news sources to have much.

Crazy Footage from earlier showing Interceptions by the Iron Dome over Northwestern Israel.

IDF launches pre-emptive strike on Hezbollah, 200 rockets launched into Israel

Chinese Weakness is the Real “China Shock”

They would do this to Elon Musk too if they got a chance. Pavel Durov, billionaire founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested at the Bourget airport outside Paris on Saturday evening. TF1 and BFM both said the investigation was focused on a lack of moderators on Telegram, and that police considered that this situation allowed criminal activity to go on undeterred on the messaging app.

Boeing Starliner returning empty as NASA turns to SpaceX to bring astronauts back from ISS

Town urges curfew over mosquito-spread disease that kills up to 50% of people. In 2019, there was a multi-state outbreak of EEE, leading to a high of 38 cases. Twelve of the cases occurred in Massachusetts, and six died.

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 23, 2024

Fuel Supplies To Russian Troops, Crimea Strangled By Destruction Of Ship

As Ukraine expands its foothold in the Kursk region (despite Russian reinforcements), Moscow’s offensive in Donbas picks up speed

After losing hundreds of square miles of territory to Ukraine, Russia is facing a collapse of railroad systems in regions bordering Ukraine and Belarus

Palestinian sources told Israeli media that Hamas has decided to begin targeting Israeli civilians abroad

Sabotage Confirmed At Norwegian Air Base

Biden Approves New Strategy Related to Nuclear Confrontations with Russia, China, and North Korea

From a leftest site sympathetic to Kennedy. Kennedy Suspends Campaign, Endorses Trump

This is the biggest negative revision to payrolls since the global financial crisis.

ICE Lost Track of 320,000 Illegal Alien Kids Between 2019-2023

Countdown To Escape: NASA and Boeing To Decide Starliner’s Fate

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 22, 2024

Ship Full Of Fuel Train Cars Detonates In Russian Port, Ukrainian Neptune Missile Suspected

Russian Jets Damaged In Ukrainian Long-Range Drone Attack On Air Base

Iran Update, August 22, 2024

IT’S ALL FUN AND GAMES UNTIL YOU RETURN HOME TO XI’S CHINA

Germany analysis of the day

Headline not quite right. This looks to me more like the problem that Nate was talking about in the US. Australia is running out of electricity to charge electric cars, and they’re only 0.9% of cars on the road

The Worm Turns: House, Senate Investigate TSA Surveillance of Tulsi Gabbard

My Board Certifications Have Been Revoked

The FBI has also scrambled to deal with security concerns related to the United States’ southern border, with officials revealing in June that eight people from Tajikistan with suspected ties to ISIS were arrested and were being held on immigration violations.

Starlink Now Being Deployed On U.S. Navy Warships

How to Build a 50,000 Ton Forging Press

Forgot to post.

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 21, 2024

‘Heads will roll’ Sources say Russian officials’ corruption and negligence made Ukraine’s incursion possible — and now they fear the consequences

Ukraine Testing Advance In Kursk Toward Russian Troops Trapped By Blown Bridges

Commercial ship ‘not under command’ after suspected Houthi attack in Red Sea

U.S. births continue decline, falling 17% since 2007

On Car Seats as Contraception: Against Car Seat Laws At Least Beyond Age 2

“Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after Microsoft update. Microsoft said its update wouldn’t install on Linux devices. It did anyway.

Hazmat Crews Fight Electric Truck Battery Fire That Closes California’s I-80

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 20, 2024

‘The worst decision you can make’ How Russia lured hundreds of men from Nepal to fight in Ukraine, leaving many of their families in financial ruin

Biden says Hamas ‘backing away’ from hostage-ceasefire deal, as Blinken heads to Egypt

It is hard to spend your way to replacement level of fertility.

Massive looming Canadian rail shutdown could have economic ripple effects throughout America

The goal of this project is to put all of those campsites in one place so that you can easily find them, and enable cyclists to verify them from the road.

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 19, 2024

Ukraine Pushing Westward In Kursk To Create A “Buffer Zone”

Western allies were also deliberately left in the dark, claims the source. “Syrsky had two previous operations undermined by the West. One was leaked to the Russians, and on another occasion, we were instructed to abort.”

The Long Shadow of Soviet Sabotage Doctrine?

Still waiting for the big one. Volcano erupts in Russia after 7.0-magnitude earthquake, sending ash column 5 miles high

South Koreans hit the brakes on EVs after battery fires

Officials Confirm Iran Responsible for Hack of Trump Campaign

Why toilet paper keeps getting smaller and smaller

Biden-Harris Department of Energy Finalizes Gas Stove Rule

The banana apocalypse is coming. Can we stop it this time?