RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 28, 2023

Main Thrust of Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Has Begun

Ukraine Situation Report: S-200 Missile Slams Into Russian Town

North Korea’s New Nuclear Underwater Drone-Torpedo Follows Russia’s Playbook

Israel’s Judicial Reckoning

In a major reshuffle, the Turkish president has dismissed all three deputy Central Bank governors as his government ramps up efforts to regain the confidence of Western investors.

Gasoline prices have gained around 20% year-to-date.

Can This Medication Reverse Multiple Sclerosis? Brain Biomarker Shows It Can

A growing body of research indicates there are potentially large health benefits to improving indoor air quality.

Let Me Repeat Myself: The SAT’s Predictive Power for College Grades is Systematically Underestimated Because of Range Restriction

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT JULY 27, 2023

Calling it a city is a a little misleading. Ukraine Situation Report: Key Donetsk City Liberated

Lack of Western Weapons Slows Progress in Ukraine Counteroffensive

I always thought stories about a government just giving up was really stupid prepper fiction. To be fair, Hezbollah still functions. Lebanon void expands as Central Bank, security, presidential posts go vacant

Japan’s population drops by nearly 800,000 with falls in every prefecture for the first time

Yellow freight looks like it’s going under

Hawaii Gov Takes Dramatic Action To Solve Housing Crisis. But Is He Going Too Far?

Hunter Biden’s Hearing Transcript Shows How Defense, Prosecution Tried to Slip In ‘Blanket Immunity’

“NLRP11 is present in humans and other primates but absent in mice, likely explaining why it has been missed previously, as most screens looking for innate immune signaling molecules have been carried out in mice”

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 26, 2023

Pentagon officials told the New York Times that the full weight of the Ukrainian counteroffensive is now underway.

Hunter Biden Plea Deal Implosion Links. More drama then I was expecting. Not entirely surprised that a judge was reluctant to sign off on it but was surprised by the drama between the legal teams.

The rush is on for rice

Over 230 people get puzzling neurological disorder in Peru; emergency declared

Vitamin D may ease severity of psoriasis

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 24, 2023

Fierce fighting has resumed near Kupiansk, in an area Ukraine had liberated last Fall and around a river that’s considered a barrier.

Israel’s Knesset adopts first judicial overhaul bill despite US warnings

Brazil’s 2023 soybean crushing set for record highs driven by oil, meal demand

Oil Prices Climb To Multi-Month High As Market Eyes Tightening

Google’s newest proposed web standard is… DRM?

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 23, 2023

Russia and Iran’s ‘unprecedented’ military ties worried the US, but it’s starting to look like Russia can’t hold up its end of the deal

Israeli Pilots’ Letter Sends Shockwaves Across Military and Political Arenas

All eyes on Türkiye as olive, olive oil production in Europe threatened by drought

East African economies are staring at a fresh spike in food prices and a further deterioration in inflation outlook in the wake of adverse weather conditions that have heavily impacted the region, compounded by the collapse of a crucial grain export deal between Russia and Ukraine last week.

Biden Administration Rule Would Ban Nearly All Portable Gas-Powered Generators

“Like, I’ve lost count of the number of times that somebody has said to me of a specific organization that has been turned upside down on this, “Oh, the deputy director has a trans child.” Or, oh, the journalist on that paper who does special investigations has a trans child. Or whatever. The entire organization gets paralyzed by that one person. And it may not even be widely known at that organization that they have a trans child. But it will come out, people will have sort of said quietly, and now you can’t talk truth in front of that person, and you know you can’t, because what you’re saying is: “You as a parent have done a truly, like, a human rights abuse level of awful thing to your own child that can not be fixed.

Spiral brain-computer interface slips into ear canal with no loss of hearing