Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 17, 2024

Russian General Accused Of Using Chemical Weapons Assassinated By Ukraine

UN monitor says reviving Iran deal now irrelevant, since Tehran on cusp of nuke

Iran Extends School Closures In Tehran Amid Fuel Shortages

Satellite Imagery Shows Ramp-Up In Russian Forces Massing At Bases In Syria For Withdrawal

China’s November retail sales miss expectations as real estate slump deepens

North Carolina Straining to Fund Hurricane Relief Efforts Over Two Months After Helene

Multiple Drone Incursions Confirmed Over Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton

The Media is Ignoring Some of Biden’s Most Horrific Pardons

The Supreme Court yesterday rejected the broadband industry’s challenge to a New York law that requires Internet providers to offer $15- or $20-per-month service to people with low incomes.

A claim that the earliest alphabet was found in Syria sparks a media maelstrom – finally

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 16, 2024

North Korean Troops Launched Large-Scale Combat Operations In Kursk

Future Of Russia’s Bases In Syria Remains In Flux, Libya Possible Alternative

Mass layoffs hit Russian IT workers as businesses try to conceal cutbacks amid claims of a robust economy

In a striking development in Russia’s housing loan market, banks have reportedly begun offering mortgage products with rates as high as 100%

Taiwan Leaders Shocked By Size Of Chinese Military Drills, US Remains Mute

Two years on, Chinese carry ‘painful’ memories of COVID lockdowns

Drones Shut Down NY Airport Runway, Even Hochul Says ‘This Has Gone Too Far’

How to Stage a Coup

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 15, 2024

Two Russian tankers wreck in Kerch Strait storm, killing one sailor and risking ‘one of largest environmental disasters’ ever in Black Sea

The number of job openings in the United States has been “falling off a cliff”

Drone Incursions Closed Wright Patterson Air Force Base’s Airspace Friday Night

From Yemen to France, research reveals spread of highly drug-resistant cholera strain

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 14, 2024

Unidentified Drones Spotted Over German Military, Industrial Sites

Israeli Airstrikes Hit Former Assad Regime’s Military Sites, Including Deep Underground Missile Depots
US government officials said last week that major telecom companies have been unable to fully evict the Chinese state-sponsored hackers from their networks.

Scientists Turn Their Focus to WA’s Mount Adams After Volcano Begins Rumbling

Hochul Weighs Warehouse Safety Bill as Injuries Continue to Climb

OpenAI whistleblower found dead at 26 in San Francisco apartment

ABC, Stephanopoulos Must Apologize to Trump, Pay $15 Million to Settle Defamation Suit

The Emerging Breast-Cancer Treatment: No Surgery Required

An “AI” generated short story. It kind of highlights how bad human writers don’t really understand the themes they are touching on.

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 13, 2024

Russian Forces Appear To Be Pulling Out Of Prized Syrian Air Base

Syrian Druze call to be annexed to Israel

DOJ IG: Dozens of FBI Confidential Sources at Capitol on January 6

The sun may spit out giant solar flares more often than we thought

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 12, 2024

Engineer behind Russian Kh-69 cruise missile reportedly killed in Moscow region as part of Ukrainian intelligence operation

Britain, France, Germany Urge Iran to Halt ‘Nuclear Escalation’

Russia urged Assad to leave after determining he’d lost the war. Assad fled Damascus without telling any advisors out of fear that they would betray him.

Alois Brunner: The Nazi who helped the Assads torture Syrians

Not only did wholesale inflation for Nov come in red hot, but the last 3 months were also revised higher; headline exploded 0.4% M/M, pushing Y/Y to 3.0% while core (pictured here) jumped to 3.4% Y/Y and continues rising much faster than the pre-Jan ’21 average:

This is bad: after just two months into fiscal 2025, the US has already raked in a $624BN budget deficit.

Insurance companies aren’t the main villain of the U.S. health system

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 11, 2024

Satellite Imagery Shows Russian Navy Ships Anchored Off Syrian Coast

A good rule of thumb is that if it has flashing lights it is not something scary and secret. Though the concern about drones flying over military installations and other sensitive locations is legitimate, nearly all of the videos and imagery TWZ has reviewed are of private and commercial aircraft.

Educators Sound Alarm as College Enrollment Drops by ‘Very Large and Very Discouraging’ Amount

New York State Cancels Critical Transmission Project for “Clean Energy.” New York City could face energy shortfalls as early as the summer of 2026 if an additional transmission line is not built bringing hydroelectric power from Canada.

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 9, 2024

Syria’s Suddenly Permissive Airspace Prompts Flurry Of Foreign Airstrikes

Syrian rescue teams were still trying desperately to reach prisoners trapped in the underground labyrinth of jails deep inside the city of Sednaya on Monday.

Descend Into The Depths Of The Assad Regime’s Massive Bunker

The Assad Family’s Darkest Moment

Fate Of Russia’s Prized Syria Bases: What We Know

Daniel Penny: NOT GUILTY

No, the bank cannot explain why SARs triggered a debanking, because disclosing the existence of a SAR is illegal. 12 CFR 21.11(k) Yes, it is the law in the United States that a private non-court, in possession of a memo written by a non-intelligence analyst, cannot describe the nature of the non-accusation the memo makes. Nor can it confirm or deny the existence of the memo. This is not a James Bond film. This is not a farce about the security state. This is not a right-wing conspiracy. This is very much the law.

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 8, 2024

For what it is worth Russia says he is safe and sound in Russia. The Assad Regime Has Fallen, Claims Swirl Around Possible Crash Of His Escape Jet

From other sources I have read that they are still trying get some of them out because the guards ran away with the codes and they are struggling with the electronic locks in cells deep underground. Bewildered, elated prisoners pour out as Assad’s jails flung open

You can skip over the part about the Cathedral to get to overview of defense spending of America’s allies. The west is losing all interest or ability in maintaining military power.

New York’s Court of Appeals — Who’s on It and What Do They Do?