Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 6, 2026

Thousands of residents in southwest Berlin are still without electricity and heating amid freezing temperatures after a weekend attack on a cable bridge caused a power outage. Some 14,000 of the some 45,000 households initially affected have had their power restored, but provider Stromnetz Berlin said it might take until Thursday for complete coverage to return.

Pakistan’s high fertility has driven population growth faster than India’s. In 1952 Pakistan had about one-tenth of India’s population; by 2025 it had grown to nearly one-seventh.

Notes on Afghanistan

A Mysterious Weak Spot in Earth’s Magnetic Field Has Grown Nearly Half the Size of Europe

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 5, 2026

Cuba says 32 Cuban officers were killed in US operation in Venezuela

Israeli’s propaganda or real knowledge. Could be both. Iran’s Khamenei Plans to Flee to Moscow if Regime Collapses

U.S. Special Ops Aircraft Arriving In UK Could Point To Looming Oil Tanker Boarding Operation

The Unreported Story Of Grid Scale Battery Fires. The geniuses who are planning New York’s energy future think that they can make intermittent wind and solar generators work to power the electrical grid by the simple device of providing some battery storage. It turned out that the big problem was that these facilities were subject to large and dangerous fires on a regular basis. In some cases the same facility would catch fire multiple times.

The depressing thing about this link is the complete lack of even minor skepticism in comments. I am not saying that there are not valid reason to move away from a particular way of doing things but you have to read a lot of comments before you get to someone who actually talks about the benefits of Desflurane vs other options so that you can judge for yourself if this makes sense and not just a money saving thing disguised as green initiative that dumb people just lap up. Desflurane is a common anesthetic used in hospital operating rooms worldwide. It’s also a climate super pollutant. Now, several decades after the drug was first introduced, a growing number of US hospitals have stopped using the anesthetic because of its outsized environmental impact.

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 4, 2026

This is a China friendly site so you can think of this as an English version of China’s message to the world. PLA’s Drill Around Taiwan, Explained

Up to 45,000 households in Berlin expected to be without power for days as a result of a fire next to a power plant; far-left group claims attack, says it targeted the ‘fossil fuel economy’

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 2, 2026

Ukrainian Spy Master Kyrylo Budanov Explains His New Job As Top Zelensky Aid

Destruction Seen At Caracas Base That Was A Focus Of The U.S. Military Operation

Doctors suspected it was a case of welder’s anthrax and quickly got access to an anthrax antitoxin from the US Strategic National Stockpile—where it’s kept in case of a bioterror attack. Along with a tailored antibiotic regimen, the teen rapidly improved and was off ventilation 72 hours later. The doctors’ quick thinking likely saved his life; of the previous eight cases of welder’s anthrax, six were fatal.

The 2023 climate event revealed the greatest failure of climate science

Trump says US will intervene if Iran starts killing protesters

Alberta’s Independence Push Continues as 2026 Referendum Drive Kicks into Gear

After half a decade, the Russian space station segment stopped leaking

One way that Silicon Valley and the Communist Party resemble each other is that both are serious, self-serious, and indeed, completely humorless.

The Van Allen radiation belts, massive regions of charged particles trapped by Earth’s magnetic field, have become “fully charged” due to repeated solar storms. A space weather observer warns that the next major solar storm could cause the energetic plasma in the belts to precipitate toward the planet’s upper atmosphere.

Should US homebuilders emulate Sweden?

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 31, 2025

Jordan carries out airstrikes in Syria against drug smugglers

Iranian Strike-Surveillance Drones Are Now Operating In Venezuela

Germany still leans on fax machines and paperwork for basic public services.

New legislation in New York state would require schools to teach students about the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.