RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, FEBRUARY 9, 2023
U.K. Commits To Training Ukrainian Fighter Pilots, Many Questions Remain
For what it is worth, here is the original Hersh article. How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline
Japan Considering US Missile Deployment to Counter China: Report
Earthquake deaths top 20,000 as survivors face cholera, other health threats
Still going on. More than 750,000 protest against pension reform across France
RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Hersh is very unreliable and he has been fooled in the past. But he has also been right in the past. Regardless, this is going to be the “truth” for a lot of people for a long time to come. Seymour Hersh: Navy Divers + Spooks + Norway Took Out Nordstream 2 on Biden’s Orders, Using Timer
A comparison the the war in Ukraine. BREAKING THE MANNERHEIM LINE: SOVIET STRATEGIC AND TACTICAL ADAPTATION IN THE FINNISH-SOVIET WINTER WAR
Chinese surveillance balloon part of massive program over 5 continents: Blinken
Turkish quake survivors face big freeze in cars, tents
Disney Cutting 7,000 Jobs, or 3% of Workforce, Eyes $5.5 Billion in Total Cost Reductions
I admit it, I am linking to this just because of the headline. Portland anarchists attack goat refuge as revenge over homeless encampment removal
Forgot to hit publish on this one.
The Last Undertakers of Bakhmut
Turkey-Syria quake toll tops 7,800 as rescuers battle cold
Medicaid rolls swell as 8 million New Yorkers get coverage at expected record- price of almost $35B
I asked ChatGPT to write a WordPress plugin I needed. It did, in less than 5 minutes
Eric Adams lifts COVID vax mandate for NYC workers — but what of the 1,780 fired?
‘Affront to democracy’: NY Assembly move to snuff out GOP voices in Albany
RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, FEBRUARY 6, 2023
Ukraine army discipline crackdown sparks fear and fury on the front
MIDDLE EAST EARTHQUAKE: ‘An Emergency Within an Emergency’
Can Beijing halt China’s housing avalanche? The most important economic-policy question for 2023?
Migrants abandon NYC for Canada with taxpayer-funded bus tickets
Needless to say, he is pro-Russia stomping on Ukraine. But he has said many times that he believes that Russian needs to go to a total war footing to make this happen. In the clip below, he expresses his bitterness that the same old same old is still going on. Right or wrong, you can tell he is a professional solider based on the things that he focuses on.
RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN UPDATE, FEBRUARY 5, 2023
California Snowpack At 40 Year Highs…And Rising
SUNY to require DEI and social justice courses in fall 2023
No one can stay in the quietest room in the world for more than an hour
How Elon Musk’s Satellites Have Saved Ukraine And Changed Warfare
California Halts Plans to Force Children to Get the Coronavirus Vaccine to Attend Schools
RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, FEBRUARY 4, 2023
After days spent floating over the U.S., the Chinese spy balloon was shot down and a collection operation is now underway off the Carolinas. Judging by the close up video in this article, I don’t think there is going to be much to recover.
Fears of Russian nuclear weapons use have diminished, but could re-emerge
An anthropological expedition into a Portland anarchist newsletter
The first ferro rod I ever bought was the GobSpark Armageddon with an attached magnesium rod. At the time I was just starting to think about the need to have something that I could start fires with beyond the lighters I had always used. My goal was to have a fire starting system that could…..
1. Be stored in rough conditions without any care to taken to avoid breaking it or to maintain it.
2. Be used to start fires by even an amateur who had little experience starting fires.
3. Be used to reliably start a fire even in awful conditions.
The fact that it was a Ferro rod with a hard plastic case is what I pinned my hopes of meeting the criteria number #1 on and I can say I have carried it many places without it taking the least damage. So that part worked at least.
But for goals number #2 and #3 I was relying on the attached magnesium rod to magically make everything work. I knew even when I bought this thing (this was before I had ever used a Ferro rod myself) that a Ferro rod can take some skill to use effectively and I knew that they had trouble if you did not have good tinder or were trying to use them in rough conditions. But I also knew that if you made shavings of magnesium and then ignited them, they burned really hot. It was this that I was relying on to make it useable even for those with little skill in bad conditions.
In theory this sounds good. But I never tested it. So for this fire starting test I decided to see how it would work.
RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, FEBRUARY 3, 2023
Kyiv Officially Getting Long-Range Rocket-Boosted Bomb
Joe Biden Offered Vladimir Putin 20 Percent of Ukraine to End War: Report
An excellent interview that started of seeming like it was going to talk about things I already knew and then went into stuff that was all new to me. Inside the global battle over chip manufacturing.
Pfizer Director of mRNA Research Raises Fertility Worries Over COVID-19 Vaccine More info here.
Biden Administration Blocks Development of Alaska’s Pebble Mine