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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, OCTOBER 9

If your read the article, you find that it is killing skunks and such as well. I bring this up because my crew at work found a skunk whose cause of death we could not identify just laying peacefully in a courtyard. This year’s avian flu epidemic — the first in North America since 2015 — is caused by a version of this virus unlike any that virologists and wildlife managers have ever seen. “It’s behaving by a different set of rules,” said Bryan Richards, emerging disease coordinator at the National Wildlife Health Center. For the first time, it’s spreading widely among wild birds, which has far-reaching implications for wildlife and human health.

PayPal Still Threatens $2500 Fines for Promoting “Discriminatory” “Intolerance” (Even if Not “Misinformation”)

Amazon “suicide kits” have led to teen deaths, according to new lawsuit

U.S. barge backlog swells on parched Mississippi River

Major companies including Starbucks – which attacked GOP ad on crime – are abandoning Seattle, D.C., more due to GUESS what?

European Energy Market Spooked By $1.5 Trillion Liquidity Crisis

The Navy Accused Him of Arson. Its Own Investigation Showed Widespread Safety Failures. More commentary here.

German authorities said there were no signs of foreign interference in the suspected sabotage of the national railway system. The incident has renewed fears of attacks on Germany’s critical infrastructure.

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, OCTOBER 8

Kerch bridge attack – initial analysis. See this for more details and note the comment section.

A Pro-Russian View. Ukraine SitRep – Recent Incidents Of Concern For All Sides

The $2500 fine (read it and weep). Of course, after all the criticism they reversed course but it still lets you know where their heart is at.

Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, The World’s Largest Volcano, Is Starting To Rumble

Did California Just Ban Medical Misinformation? What We Know

New York’s emergency: getting what they asked for

Haiti requests foreign security assistance amid growing unrest

Sabotage cause of massive train disruption in northern Germany, rail operator says

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, OCTOBER 7

Berlin and Washington Play Out Nuclear Scenarios

Leader of Russia-annexed region calls for Russia’s Military Chief to ‘shoot himself’

WH walks back Joe Biden’s warning that we’re on the verge of nuclear Armageddon

Electric vehicles catching fire in Florida after Hurricane Ian

I don’t normally do sports news but this is to bizarre to pass up. Choice of Saudi for Winter Games reflects worsening environment for major events

Grief-stricken parents laid white roses on the steps of a Thai nursery where an ex-police officer began his shooting rampage. The majority of the 36 victims were children, who were slain while taking afternoon naps.

Bank of England says pension funds were hours from disaster before it intervened

Automakers Are Struggling To Secure Steel Supply

Haiti black market gasoline at $40 a gallon.

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, OCTOBER 6

President Joe Biden says the risk of nuclear “Armageddon” is at the highest level since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, as Russian officials speak of the possibility of using tactical nuclear weapons after suffering massive setbacks in the eight-month invasion of Ukraine.

Putin Makes Chechnya’s Kadyrov Army General

Ukraine could retake Crimea if it continues to recapture territory from fleeing Russian forces at its current rate, senior US military officials believe.

Armed and Beltway-ish: More Federal Bureaucrats Than U.S. Marines Are Authorized to Pack Heat

Joe Biden Plans to Tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Yet Again

It comes just nine months after the last milestone of $30 trillion, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, and only five years after reaching $20 trillion.

The Federal Network Agency, Bundesnetzagentur is once again warning that the country needs to reduce its natural gas consumption by 20%.

New Discovery Means Parkinson’s Could Be Diagnosed With a Swab in Just 3 Minutes

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, OCTOBER 5

Ukraine’s Capital Distributes Anti-radiation Pills In Case Of Possible Russian Nuke Attack

Sintchenko is willing to admit that the Russians are superior to the Ukrainians in two areas: “In electronic warfare and in military engineering.”

Manufacturing growth in the United States slowed in September to its lowest rate since the pandemic recovery started

Study: Decreased proteins, not amyloid plaques, are tied to Alzheimer’s disease

In a round about way, this study proves how unimportant diet is to heart health compared to other factors. White rice is as bad as candy when it comes to heart health

AAA Study Finds Automated Emergency Braking Systems Have Flaws

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, OCTOBER 4

In case you were wondering if the Russians were panicking. “Our artillery and fighter jets are hitting enemy forces that enter the sovereign territory of Russia,” said Kirill Stremousov, the Moscow-appointed deputy head of the Kherson region. “There is no reason to panic,” he added in his message to residents of the Black Sea region on social media. My main pro-Russian source describes it as “Russian Defense COLLPASE”

Problems equipping Russian troops with “nationally developed drones” leave Russia’s military primarily operating Iranian drones. A video example of a captured one here.

Is Russia Sending Prison Inmates To The Slaughter In Ukraine?

Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened to use nukes and US officials have too, yet it has garnered little more than light chatter in the media. Have we gone completely mad?

Israel Can No Longer Ignore Hezbollah’s Force Build-Up

Central Banks Are Stocking Up On Gold

Asrock sabotages its own motherboards with RAM slot sticker

97.7 Million Birds Are Already Dead As The Worst Bird Flu Outbreak Ever Sweeps Across North America And Europe