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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 9

Sunspot Activity on The Sun Is Seriously Exceeding Official Predictions

New Bayraktar UAVs Spotted In Ukraine

Prosecutors Fail to Secure a Single Guilty Verdict in Alleged Whitmer Kidnapping Plot

California food waste law proves heavy lift in small towns as fuel costs spike

Pets Slaughtered in Shanghai Because of Covid

These 5 States Will Have Highest Tax Burdens in 2022

A Few Remarks on the W Boson Mass Measurement

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 8

What’s Going on in Shanghai?

Wait, the Russians really did dig trenches near Chernobyl?

Explaining the LGBT Explosion

Walmart will train scores of warehouse workers as truckers, starting at up to $110,000

More than a dozen tornadoes have struck Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina on Tuesday

U.S. court reinstates Biden federal employee COVID vaccine mandate

US Senate Revives Lend-Lease Act

Chinese tests show nuclear bunkers are not what they used to be, with earth-penetrating weapons on the rise

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 7

SpaceX’s Starship: America’s Secret Weapon

Why is the U.S. inflation rate especially high?

Israel reaches out to China, again

U.S. says it secretly removed malware worldwide, preempting Russian cyberattacks

German Intelligence Intercepts Radio Traffic Discussing the Murder of Civilians

Israel’s Yair Lapid battered by security, coalition crises

Russia Sees Steepest Oil Production Decline Since May 2020 In Early April

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 5

German Industry Prepares for Worst-Case Scenario

The cost of zero Covid in Shanghai

Satellite Images Show Bodies in Bucha for Weeks, Rebutting Moscow Claim

New York jet fuel hits $7.59/gal, or $318.62/b, likely a refined products market record

The stuff recounted here is not good, but compared to many other conflicts I could name, it is actually kind of tame. At the Scene of the War Crimes

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 4

Defeated in Kyiv, Russia Downsizes War Aims to Donbas and Southern Ukraine

Russia cannot afford to lose, so we need a kind of a victory

The horrific crimes committed by Russian soldiers in Vladimir Putin’s war of extermination shows that a return to the old status quo will not be possible with this Russia.

Vladimir Putin’s 20-Year March to War in Ukraine—and How the West Mishandled It

People of Shanghai Forced Into Hard Lockdown

HOW’S THAT ZERO COVID STRATEGY WORKING OUT?

Are plastic bag bans backfiring?

Feral pigs are biological time bombs. Can California stem their ‘exponential’ damage?

Everyone is worried about gas prices, but diesel is driving inflation more than you think

Will Yemen’s latest truce hold?

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 3

From Beirut to Baghdad: Lebanese flee crisis seeking jobs in Iraq

A Perfect Inflationary Storm is Brewing at the Intersection of India’s Coal and Power Sectors

Ukrainian MiG-29 Pilot’s Front-Line Account Of The Air War Against Russia

“This Shouldn’t Happen”: Inside the Virus-Hunting Nonprofit at the Center of the Lab-Leak Controversy

Ukrainian oil refining and fuel storage infrastructure hit by Russian attacks

Biden to invoke Defense Production Act for electric vehicle battery materials

Germany and Austria take step towards gas rationing

Fiery multi-vehicle crash closes part of I-81 in Pennsylvania

Get off the road. Carry a flashlight with you so you can signal. Walk (well off the road) towards the direction that traffic is coming from and try to signal. Use your phone if you have nothing better. Don’t know how I would do in this situation but this is what I hope I would do. And I do normally have a flashlight in my pocket.