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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, NOVEMBER 4

More Questions about Spring 2020 Covid in New York City Hospitals

Paintballs to be shot at Dutch wolves in bid to make them less tame

To reach the Biden administration’s goal of a zero-carbon grid by 2035, U.S. generation capacity would have to triple compared to its 2020 level and power line capacity would have to double or triple, according to a report from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

It is a misleading headline but too good not to post. Mouse Study Suggests a Surprising Link Between Nose-Picking And Alzheimer’s

Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan ‘doing fine and stable’ in hospital after assassination bid

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, NOVEMBER 3

Bulgaria Parliament Approves Sending Military Aid to Ukraine

Turkey holds off on Finland and Sweden in NATO

Commentary from someone in Israel. Ignore the short section on the US. Israel returns Netanyahu to office

Can you guess the country based just on the headline? Underwater cables keep the internet online. When they congregate in one place, things get tricky.

‘Excellent News’: World Hails Ethiopia Truce

FDA reports shortages of amoxicillin

LAPD worked with CBS to hide Moonves sex scandal

Social Sciences are not science. Observing many researchers using the same data and hypothesis reveals a hidden universe of uncertainty

China’s mystery spaceplane releases object into orbit

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, NOVEMBER 2

US military now doing onsite weapons inspections in Ukraine

Russia returns to Ukraine grain deal, easing food crisis fears

Why Workers Are Fleeing China’s ‘IPhone’ City

Chinese authorities race to contain new waves of ‘dire and complicated’ outbreaks

Why is India’s single-use plastic ban failing?

Nearly 15,000 Delta Air Lines pilots have voted to authorize a strike after contract negotiations stalled.

Natural Gas Pipeline Capacity Insufficient in West Texas

“Possibility Of Additional Outbreaks:” Bird Flu Strikes Iowa Egg Farm With Million Hens

Bloated College Administration Is Making Education Unaffordable

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, NOVEMBER 1

Russia’s Leadership Is In Trouble As Inevitable Economic Mobilization Looms

Escape and evasion, the new required skill for your ordinary person. Shanghai Disney: Visitors unable to leave without negative Covid test as park shuts Related: More on people trying to escape the Foxcon lockdowns.

I am not sure I understand why this is a big deal, but critics of the story I posted earlier are making it out to be so for the sake of balance…ProPublica scrambles to check translation in COVID origin story

American and Saudi officials have warned of an imminent Iranian attack on Saudi Arabia and possibly Erbil, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The U.S. Diesel Shortage Is Worsening

It’s time to play “find the falling Chinese rocket” once again

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, OCTOBER 31

Reading between the lines, Hezbollah (which the Cradle is affiliated with) is not happy about this which is a little odd. Guess who is going to be hardest hit if this grain don’t go through? Maybe they think they can make hay off of the resulting problems? Turkey to press on with Ukraine grain deal despite Russia’s withdrawal

East Coast Diesel Prices Are Soaring

Years of internal DHS memos, emails, and documents — obtained via leaks and an ongoing lawsuit, as well as public documents — illustrate an expansive effort by the agency to influence tech platforms.

For once the headline undersells the story. This is more like escape and evasion type fleeing. Not the type where everyone gets in their car and drives because they are worried about a storm. China Braces For Covid Wave As Foxconn Staff Flee Zhengzhou

Twilight of the Tigris: Iraq’s mighty river drying up

Lula Wins Brazilian Election, but Bolsonaro Does Not Concede

Looming Copper Shortage Could Slow The Global Energy Transition

The Bee don’t only mock liberals. Report: Jesus Is Aware That Your ‘Harvest Festival’ Is Really A Halloween Party

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, OCTOBER 30

In the grips of war, Ukraine faces bleak demographic future

Threat of Nationwide Railroad Strike Grows after 2nd Union Rejects Proposed Deal

75% Of US Winter Wheat Suffers From Drought

Flu season in the US hasn’t been this bad this early in more than a decade. Related: Second child to die from flu this season reported in Texas

Debate over possible acetaminophen-autism link heads to court

New Technique For Decoding People’s Thoughts Can Now Be Done From a Distance

Even Greenpeace now admits the obvious: recycling doesn’t work.

How nuclear weapons work

I did not learn anything from the below video but most of what I already to know about the effects nuclear weapons is in this report. So if you watch it and retain it, you will pretty much know as much as me about the effects of nuclear weapons for what that is worth (other areas of the video are a little weaker, at least compared to what I know).

I think the most important thing to learn from this video (if you don’t already know it) is why all your standard Covid PPE gear actually makes sense to use if faced with the fallout from the dreaded bomb. Keep this in mind when you are going through the boring (at least to me) physics at the start of the video. If you don’t have some understanding of that, you will not understand why a dust mask and some kind of eye protection is worth wearing if you have to deal with a post bomb environment. You will also not understand why it is fairly easy to guard yourself against significant portions of the radiation produced by the bomb. These things used to be discussed more but nowadays people only know radiation=panic.