RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 2, 2023

Ukraine Is Using Guided Rockets With More Range Than HIMARS-Launched Ones

Russia’s Latest Output Cut Shows Its Oil Weapon Is Weakening

Argentina’s Power Restored After Blackout Plunged Half Of Country Into Darkness

CTP assesses with moderate confidence that the Iranian regime is tolerating a country-wide, coordinated campaign to poison Iranian school girls.

“Mortgage Rates Now Back Above 7%”

Colon cancer surges among people younger than 55

I thought this headline was from the Bee but I was wrong: Roald Dahl books were neutered by woke consultants aged eight to 30 – led by ‘non-binary, asexual, polyamorous relationship anarchist who is on the autism spectrum’

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 1, 2023

Coming soon to a country near you? ‘Stockpile food and water’: South Africa faces ‘civil war’ conditions if power grid collapses As Adam Smith said, “there is a great deal of ruin in a nation.” More depressing stuff along these same lines in this twitter thread.

Related to the above. The Build-Nothing Country

Rice and sugar seem to have launched a competition in Cuba to see which increases the most in price on the informal market. While rice already exceeds 200 pesos ($8.30) a pound in several areas of the Island, sugar, once the national emblem, is on its heels and also sells for around that number and, in some provinces, even exceeds it.

South Korea’s current fertility per woman, for example, is a dismal 0.81, and those are extinction-level numbers. At that rate of reproduction, for every 1 million Koreans of childbearing age today, there will only be 66,000 great-grandchildren. South Korea is on track to disappear in less than a century.

Roald Dahl ebooks ‘force censored versions on readers’ despite backlash

Are We Medicating Millions of ADHD Children without Scientific Justification?

Gov. Newsom Finally Ending California’s COVID State of Emergency After Three Years

ChatGPT and Whisper APIs debut, allowing devs to integrate them into apps

At least 36 people died in the collision of a freight train and a passenger train carrying hundreds of people and in the ensuing fire near the Greek city of Larissa late Tuesday. More than 80 people were injured, according to Greek authorities. The accident prompted the resignation of Greece’s transport minister.

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Drone Tour Of Bakhmut Shows Brutal Devastation

Concerns grow that the breakaway pro-Russian republic of Transnistria could be the next regional flashpoint.

Zelensky fires a top Ukrainian military commander, no reason given

Pharmaceutical blockbusters: the past, present, and future(?)

Japan moves toward approving abortion pill in major shift

The Premature Use Of Mechanical Ventilation in the First Wave of the Covid Pandemic

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Ukraine’s Never-Ending Day

China has doubts on ability to invade Taiwan, CIA chief says

“We Are Looking to Kill Trump”: Iran’s Islamic Guard Commander Admits Regime’s Plans to Assassinate Trump, Pompeo

Time running out to save Istanbul from major earthquake

As I mentioned earlier, the way he would essentially do this is he would openly tout the donations he made to Democratic Party causes to Democratic Party entities like state parties and Democratic politicians and all kinds of left liberal activist causes but then he would hide the donations he was making to Republicans because, as he himself said, in an interview he gave, once it was clear that he was about to be extradited, everybody knows that the way you curry media’s favor is by showing them that you’re a Democrat.

Want to know what a “baby bust” looks like? It looks like this in the United States, with a sharp divide between the Baby Boomers and what came after.

New Biden ‘efficiency’ rule would ban half of gas stoves on the U.S. market

France was once Europe’s superpower, thanks above all to its enormous population. Its decline coincided with a collapse in its birth rate – now we know why.

Too little salt could be risky for heart failure patients

University of South Australia researchers are calling for exercise to be a mainstay approach for managing depression as a new study shows that physical activity is 1.5 times more effective than counseling or the leading medications.

Improving how credit cards work under the covers