Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 25, 2025

Russia announces plan to muster reservists to combat Ukrainian drones

Trump’s bearhug leaves Netanyahu with little room to move. The PM has thrown in his lot with the US president, and reaped great benefits, notably on Gaza and Iran. But he has given up control over much of what happens between now and when Israel heads to the polls

Jeep Issues Emergency Recall for OTA-Bricked Wrangler 4xes

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 23, 2025

Trump goes there Lukoil and Rosneft account for half of Russia’s oil exports. Now both are under U.S. sanctions.

B-1 Bombers Fly Off Venezuela’s Coast

Trump Authorizes Strategic Reserve Refill as Oil Prices Dip

It Didn’t Start With Trump

NY Jews hit the streets for Mamdani ahead of election

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 22, 2025

Inside Russia’s 2026–2036 Tank Fleet Modernization and Buildup Plans

Dutch seek solution to stand-off with China over chipmaker Nexperia, while carmakers fret

Top analyst says China is playing a ‘key role’ in the price of gold going through the roof, and he’s got the data to prove it

Jaguar Land Rover looking at $2.5 billion price tag from crippling cyberattack

Japanese convenience stores are hiring robots run by workers in the Philippines

How a ‘Dark Fleet’ of Tankers Helped a Mexican Cartel Build a Fuel-Smuggling Empire

Glock Discontinues Multiple Models

Biblical tax notice: 1st-ever Assyrian inscription found near Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. 2,700-year-old fragment of pottery suggests Judeans delayed paying their tributes to the empire, echoing the events described in the book of II Kings

Brainwave study sheds light on cause of ‘hearing voices’

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment October 21, 2025

The battle for Pokrovsk Russia is closing in on a key city in the Donetsk region.

In two more Presidential elections after the current President the kick the can down the road approach will be done even in the absence of any other fiscal crisis. Social Security is rapidly approaching insolvency. The retirement trust fund is seven years from exhaustion, and the theoretically combined trust funds are nine years from running out. Without legislative action, retirees will face an estimated 24 percent across-the-board benefit cut in late 2032.

Kohler Just Unveiled a Toilet Camera

The metabolic ceiling represents the maximum number of calories that a body can actually burn. For humans, it is believed to be roughly 4,000 kilocalories. When competing in multi-day races, some of the athletes burned six to seven times their basal metabolic rate, or about 7,000 to 8,000 calories per day. However, when the team calculated the athletes’ caloric burn over longer periods—30 and 52 weeks—they saw that the burn rates returned right to that predicted ceiling. They could not surpass the average metabolic ceiling of 2.5 times their basal metabolic rate in energy expenditure.

It wasn’t space debris that struck a United Airlines plane—it was a weather balloon

Parkinson’s Discovery Suggests We May Have an FDA-Approved Treatment Already

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment October 20, 2025

Sites that serve users in the UK are expected to bend the knee to this repressive regime, and this is where a ‘failure to communicate’ has arisen. Elon Musk’s X and Ofcom have been in a running battle. Another site, Discord, having given Ofcom everything required, suffered a massive data breach earlier this month, and Ofcom is being pilloried for being the vehicle that enabled the damage.

To date, Bishara told The Drive that consumers haven’t truly felt the ripple effects of tariffs on automotive parts—but that’s about to change just in time for the holidays. Catalytic converters that cost $1,200 or $1,500 are about to cost over $2,500 thanks to tariffs

Massive Amazon outage takes down Venmo, Snapchat, Alexa, Reddit and much of the internet

Politicized distribution of hurricane aid money before the 2024 election was no “isolated incident

Jeep Wrangler 4xe Owners Still Waiting for Answers a Week after an Update Bricked Their Cars

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 19, 2025

After Attack on Troops, Israel Hits Hamas Terror Targets in Gaza

Europe’s Aging Grids Buckle Under Renewable Energy Demands

Chainsaw-wielding thieves use basket lift to steal ‘priceless’ jewelry from Louvre

Something from “space” may have just struck a United Airlines flight over Utah

Short version is that if AI does not work it is your fault. Human-Machine Planning: AI Lessons from the Marine Command and General Staff College

Young people dying is always going to be more newsworthy then old people dying. Mortality in the news vs. what we usually die from

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 18, 2025

France downgraded by S&P as budget uncertainty ‘remains elevated’

China Arrests 30 Pastors as Crackdown on Christians Grows

U.S., China Open New Front in Trade War with Tit-for-Tat Port Fees

The Great Feminization

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 17, 2025

The company is looking to have at least 100 stores nationwide designated as “disaster relief convenience stores” by fiscal 2030. The move by Lawson comes amid longstanding concerns about the potential for a Nankai Trough megaquake. According to the most recent projection by the government, the probability of a huge quake occurring within the next 30 years along the Nankai Trough is thought to be between 60% and 94.5% or higher.

Pakistan and Afghanistan agreed on Friday to extend their 48-hour ceasefire until the conclusion of talks in Doha, according to three Pakistani security officials and one Afghan Taliban source.

Thousands of networks—many of them operated by the US government and Fortune 500 companies—face an “imminent threat” of being breached by a nation-state hacking group following the breach of a major maker of software, the federal government warned Wednesday.

Poland Has No Income Tax to Parents to 2 or More Children

Before 2020, the FBI and Bureau of Justice Statistics trends generally moved in tandem. Since then, they’ve diverged sharply: The federal government tracks crime in two main ways. The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports count the number of offenses reported to police each year. The Bureau of Justice Statistics’ National Crime Victimization Survey, by contrast, annually asks about 240,000 people living in the United States whether they were crime victims. The latter method captures both reported and unreported incidents.

Ibuprofen is a household name – the go-to remedy for everything from headaches to period pain. But recent research suggests this everyday drug might be doing more than easing discomfort. It could also have anti- cancer properties.

More on US Pedestrian Deaths

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 16, 2025

Like the government office, the hospital was left only with patchy microwave access to the internet, Wang said, and its bandwidth was limited. Doctors could run a Google search and sometimes even search for patient records, but if they wanted to upload X-ray files to data servers in Taiwan, that wasn’t possible.

Doctors Without Borders permanently closes its emergency center in Haiti’s capital

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 15, 2025

“They’re Dragging People Away”: Hamas Begins Mass Executions as Israeli Military Withdraws From Gaza

Six Killed After US Strikes Boat Off Venezuela In 5th Such Operation

B-52 Bombers Just Flew For Hours Off Venezuela’s Coast

US Army prepares for grid collapse.

Newsom Signs Law Authorizing “Reparations” for Black People