Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 6, 2026

Thousands of residents in southwest Berlin are still without electricity and heating amid freezing temperatures after a weekend attack on a cable bridge caused a power outage. Some 14,000 of the some 45,000 households initially affected have had their power restored, but provider Stromnetz Berlin said it might take until Thursday for complete coverage to return.

Pakistan’s high fertility has driven population growth faster than India’s. In 1952 Pakistan had about one-tenth of India’s population; by 2025 it had grown to nearly one-seventh.

Notes on Afghanistan

A Mysterious Weak Spot in Earth’s Magnetic Field Has Grown Nearly Half the Size of Europe

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 5, 2026

Cuba says 32 Cuban officers were killed in US operation in Venezuela

Israeli’s propaganda or real knowledge. Could be both. Iran’s Khamenei Plans to Flee to Moscow if Regime Collapses

U.S. Special Ops Aircraft Arriving In UK Could Point To Looming Oil Tanker Boarding Operation

The Unreported Story Of Grid Scale Battery Fires. The geniuses who are planning New York’s energy future think that they can make intermittent wind and solar generators work to power the electrical grid by the simple device of providing some battery storage. It turned out that the big problem was that these facilities were subject to large and dangerous fires on a regular basis. In some cases the same facility would catch fire multiple times.

The depressing thing about this link is the complete lack of even minor skepticism in comments. I am not saying that there are not valid reason to move away from a particular way of doing things but you have to read a lot of comments before you get to someone who actually talks about the benefits of Desflurane vs other options so that you can judge for yourself if this makes sense and not just a money saving thing disguised as green initiative that dumb people just lap up. Desflurane is a common anesthetic used in hospital operating rooms worldwide. It’s also a climate super pollutant. Now, several decades after the drug was first introduced, a growing number of US hospitals have stopped using the anesthetic because of its outsized environmental impact.

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 4, 2026

This is a China friendly site so you can think of this as an English version of China’s message to the world. PLA’s Drill Around Taiwan, Explained

Up to 45,000 households in Berlin expected to be without power for days as a result of a fire next to a power plant; far-left group claims attack, says it targeted the ‘fossil fuel economy’

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 2, 2026

Ukrainian Spy Master Kyrylo Budanov Explains His New Job As Top Zelensky Aid

Destruction Seen At Caracas Base That Was A Focus Of The U.S. Military Operation

Doctors suspected it was a case of welder’s anthrax and quickly got access to an anthrax antitoxin from the US Strategic National Stockpile—where it’s kept in case of a bioterror attack. Along with a tailored antibiotic regimen, the teen rapidly improved and was off ventilation 72 hours later. The doctors’ quick thinking likely saved his life; of the previous eight cases of welder’s anthrax, six were fatal.

The 2023 climate event revealed the greatest failure of climate science

Trump says US will intervene if Iran starts killing protesters

Alberta’s Independence Push Continues as 2026 Referendum Drive Kicks into Gear

After half a decade, the Russian space station segment stopped leaking

One way that Silicon Valley and the Communist Party resemble each other is that both are serious, self-serious, and indeed, completely humorless.

The Van Allen radiation belts, massive regions of charged particles trapped by Earth’s magnetic field, have become “fully charged” due to repeated solar storms. A space weather observer warns that the next major solar storm could cause the energetic plasma in the belts to precipitate toward the planet’s upper atmosphere.

Should US homebuilders emulate Sweden?

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 31, 2025

Jordan carries out airstrikes in Syria against drug smugglers

Iranian Strike-Surveillance Drones Are Now Operating In Venezuela

Germany still leans on fax machines and paperwork for basic public services.

New legislation in New York state would require schools to teach students about the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 30, 2025

First Ship Seized For Undersea Cable Cutting Since NATO’s Baltic Sentry Began

Special Report: Surprise PRC Military Exercise Around Taiwan

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 29, 2025

Israeli operations in Lebanon against Hezbollah: December 22–28, 2025

China Launches Snap “Warning” Drills Around Taiwan Simulating A Total Blockade

Sunken Russian Ship Allegedly Carried Nuclear Submarine Reactors Destined For North Korea

Anti-regime protests intensified in Iran as students joined demonstrators in cities across the country. “Protests over Iran’s soaring cost of living spread to several universities on Tuesday, with students joining shopkeepers and bazaar merchants, semi-official media reported.”

India has pushed ahead of Japan as the world’s fourth-biggest economy after sustained high growth, New Delhi says. Economic pace has apparently picked up more quickly than expected and India may soon claim third place.

Japanese town reeling from year of record bear encounters

Alzheimer’s Fully Reversed in Mice, Scientists Say

Oral bacterium tied to disability severity in multiple sclerosis

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 27, 2025

Russian ultranationalism, inflamed by the killing of the hooligan commander ‘Spaniard’

Somalia Set to Lead UN Security Council in January

Defense Ministry hands IDF first combat-ready Iron Beam laser interception system

High-Pressure NatGas Line Ruptures Outside Los Angeles, Forcing Major Highway Shutdown

“Where Are the Children?” Minnesota Daycare Fraud Caught on Video. 99 children paid $1.9 million this year in CCAP funding. Where are the children? Were they kidnapped? Did they run away? This is the State of Minnesota.

How gut bacteria could help to diagnose depression. The team observed a lower balance of bacteria in the gut of teens with depression, as well as a prevalence of a bacterium known as Collinsella, which was linked to inflammation and changes in the gut’s barrier.

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 26, 2025

Why bomb Sokoto? Trump’s strikes baffle Nigerians

7.0-magnitude earthquake rattles Taiwan

China eyes mastery of EUV lithography, bolstering AI chip ambitions, analysts say

A year under water: Record floods sweep Vietnam from megacities to tourist hubs in 2025

Why Britain has a deer problem – leaving damage that costs millions

‘Super flu’ sends NYC cases to highest level in a decade — and ‘we haven’t hit the peak yet’

Wild hogs wreak economic havoc for Mississippi agriculture. “Farmers have enough stress as it is. They don’t need this modern-day locust.”