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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 21, 2023

Russia’s Spies Say Putin Faces More Coups

U.S. Now Pushing To Deliver F-16s “As Fast As Possible”

Why Belgium may be about to break up

Japan’s digital ID program is a complicated mess

80 Million Americans To Face 105 Degree Heat This Weekend: National Weather Service

A total of 1,380 people involved in the lawsuit were “arrested and/or subjected to force by NYPD officers.” Each will walk away with roughly $10,000 for their actions in the riots that rocked Brooklyn and Manhattan.

Relocating To Austin Can Save High-Income New Yorkers $250,000

Computer chip with built-in human brain tissue gets military funding

Landmark Trial Suggests Hearing Aids Help Reduce Cognitive Decline

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 20, 2023

The White House and Pentagon say Ukraine is now using donated cluster munitions and they are already making a difference.

A Sobering Analysis Of Ukraine’s Counteroffensive From The Front

What happened to China’s missing foreign minister?

Public releases the Proximal Origin documents. What they show, and why they’re historic

This Blood Type Could Make You More Vulnerable to COVID-19

A Cracked Piece of Metal Healed Itself in an Experiment That Stunned Scientists

Extracting a Clean Fuel From Water – A Groundbreaking Low-Cost Catalyst

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 19, 2023
The Truth About Russia’s Mysterious Winged Glide Bombs

Russia’s Counter-Battery Radar Shortage Worsening

Morocco and Western Sahara: A new conflict brewing?

NY has been closing peaker plants down without replacing them.

Florida malaria outbreak still going with local cases now at 7

“Like A Bomb Went Off”: Pfizer Plant In North Carolina Destroyed By Tornado

New York to distribute flyers telling migrants at U.S.-Mexico border to ‘consider another city’

Top Scientists Misled Congress About Covid Origins, Newly Released Emails And Messages Show Related: “In Their Labs”: Fifteen Illuminating Passages in The Proximal Origin Chats and Emails

I bet you thought this had already happened: Biden administration suspends funds to Wuhan lab over failure to provide COVID-related info

Study shows dogs can detect COVID-19 faster, better than most PCR tests

It doesn’t matter if you exercise every day or squeeze it all into the weekend. If you do the recommended 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity a week, you’ll get heart benefits, a new study finds.

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 18, 2023

With Ukrainian personnel and equipment losses mounting, the U.S. defense secretary has promised more Bradleys and Strykers will be delivered.

In June 2023, Russia’s expert community descended into a public debate about the wisdom of preemptive nuclear use. The exchange occurred against the backdrop of Ukraine’s counteroffensive and betrayed a fear that Russia might lose the war — if not imminently, then over time. The debate about nuclear use marked a qualitative shift compared to previous Russian debates in that select voices flirted expressly with nuclear strikes against European countries, expressing considerable confidence that the United States would not retaliate in kind.

Russia tightens health protocols on flights from Egypt after reports of unidentified disease. Symptoms include body aches, fever, and, in some cases, vomiting and nausea.

Mounting Deficits Force Euro Minsters To Cut Energy Support Measures

U.S. soldier crossed into North Korea ‘willfully and without authorization,’ Austin says

Homes evacuated after train carrying hazardous materials derails in Pennsylvania

Aging infrastructure poses additional challenges. The Gulf Coast salt caverns that make up the reserve were initially designed with a 25-year lifespan. As such, the risk of cavern dissolution increases with each drawdown and refill. Maintenance issues, along with the ballooning costs of the $1.4 billion modernization program, add further strain to the already troubled reserve. Related: As a result, onshore oil inventories estimated at 980 million barrels at the end of June are just 20 million barrels below an all-time record in August 2020. Thus, China’s oil inventories are much larger than that of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) which President Biden depleted to keep gasoline prices in check before the mid-term election last year. The SPR stands at 347 million barrels from a capacity of more than double that amount—the lowest level since 1983.

eGenesis has started transplanting gene-edited pigs’ hearts into infant baboons—and humans may be next.

AI writing detectors are flagging the U.S. Constitution, one of America’s most significant legal documents, as a piece of AI-generated text.

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 17, 2023

Kyiv Claims Massive Russian Buildup Near Kharkiv

Russia’s Kerch Strait Bridge Has Been Badly Damaged

Ships no longer safe in Black Sea, Russia says after quitting grain deal

Israel Military Using New AI System in Combat Operations

Netanyahu had more than a little sun stroke — and no chain of succession has been established

European Natural Gas Prices Plunge As Norwegian Supply Rises

Evacuations Ordered in Pennsylvania After 40-Car Train Derails

Teamsters president says he’s asked the White House not to intervene if UPS workers go on strike

The authors were able to reproduce this phenomenon in response to a four-week treadmill training protocol in an animal model of early-stage Parkinson’s disease, and to demonstrate, for the first time, how this neurotrophic factor determines the beneficial effects of physical activity in the brain.

Our universe could be twice as old as current estimates, according to a new study that challenges the dominant cosmological model and sheds new light on the so-called “impossible early galaxy problem.”

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 15, 2023

Ukraine Situation Report: Kyiv’s Growing Counter-Battery Advantage

Erdogan Claims Putin Agreed to Renew Black Sea Grain Deal

Auto Insurers Hit By Worst Crisis In “30 Years,” Sends Premiums Skyrocketing

Union talk to be sure, but would you do the job for $15 an hour? How about $13 that the pay will revert to if congress does nothing “We are hearing from our firefighting union that we could lose 30 to 50 percent of our firefighting workforce in the Forest Service. That would be devastating.”

I was spreading “misinformation” today

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I told people that the “Cricket” (the bolt action single shot 22 LR) cost about $300 new. Turns out I was remembering the MSRP for a brand new “Cricket” with a scope. A base model with no scope (such as was being fired today) has an MSRP of $169. Real world price seems to be $159.

The below video shows what one of the modern options looks like (you can have all kinds of stocks and other options). The one in below video has different sights then one we were using today. I don’t know if you can still get the old style sights.

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 14, 2023

Wagner fighters are now in Belarus and training its military as originally planned, and Prigozhin may be tent-bound among his fighters.

Dollar value of China’s exports plunged 12.4% in June from a year ago, a far bigger drop than expectations for a 9.5% decline in a Reuters poll and the 7.5% annual decline in May.

FDA clears more chemotherapy imports from China’s Qilu amid shortage of key cancer meds

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A Transatlantic Trend: Banks in UK and US Are Closing Customer Accounts With Little to No Warning Or Explanation