RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 18
China Censors Its Own National Anthem amid Growing Unrest with Coronavirus Lockdowns
Second British soldier captured in Mariupol paraded on Russian TV
Australian electricity price doubles
Tumors partially destroyed with sound don’t come back
Federal judge strikes down CDC mask mandate for travel
US firm on nuclear accord as Iran casts blame
Analysis: Hamas-Led Militant Groups Create Strife at Al-Aqsa Mosque
RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 17
H5N1 Bird Flu Detections across the United States (Backyard and Commercial)
Get ready for the next supply chain shockwave
Now truckers are blocking the Mexico border over inspections ordered by Texas governor
Libya firm forced to close major oil field
One of the delusions I had when I was younger was that when reality hit people would change their minds. Seattle’s transit system struggles as riders refuse to pay
I saw this pop up in my feeds this and thought that some people going to a certain doctor might find it worth checking out.
RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 16
White House restarting federal oil, gas lease sales next week
Why Elon Musk has rattled them
‘Ripe for explosion’: Israel-Palestine tensions rise in Ramadan
Comments are more interesting then the article on this one. They sound all to familiar to those of us in State Service. Watching the mass exodus of our operational knowledge is one of the saddest evolutions I have witnessed. Many of my fire assignments have transformed from operationally focused suppression tactics to exercises in preserving human life. We do not have the tacit knowledge, operational competence, or resource capacity to be effective with the scale of wildfire complexity we are facing.
Americans Gon’ Wild: Gonorrhea and Syphilis at Record Highs in 2020
RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 15
The YouTube that goes along with this has some shocking statistics. I am going to have look into this a little more. Is China Screwed?
Neptune’s Wrath: The Flagship Moskva’s Demise
‘Censorship is free speech’ is the establishment’s Orwellian line on Elon Musk’s Twitter crusade
RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 14
New US Military Aid for Ukraine Includes Helicopters, Howitzers
Last month, members of Russia’s Federal Security Service, or FSB, began to disappear
Sri Lanka declares bankruptcy Commentary to be found here.
UPDATE: IT SANK If you want a more technical overview read this.
Why Germany Won’t Keep Its Nuclear Plants Open Related: “We’re out,” Trump announced to his distraught advisers, adding: “We’re not going to fight someone they’re paying.”
About 31% of grocery products consumers browsed were out of stock in the first week of April
RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 13
Headline is terrible, article is good. America has captured France
China food security: farmers in Jilin leave fields fallow as lockdown threatens corn supply
Consumer prices rose 8.5% in March, slightly hotter than expected and the highest since 1981
Exxon Bets Another $10 Billion On Guyana’s Oil Boom
Shooting in Brooklyn subway station leaves multiple victims, authorities find undetonated explosives
UPDATE 1-U.S. wheat supply outlook rises as exports fall – government