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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 29, 2025

Hezbollah Chief Threatens Israel After Top Commander Killed in Beirut Strike

Vital Khor Mor gas field attacked in Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq

Pakistan’s social media has been abuzz for the past two days with conflicting reports about former Prime Minister Imran Khan.

“Intense Solar Radiation” Corrupted A320 Flight Systems, Airbus Rushes Emergency Update

Study anchors obscure pharaoh in time, opening research path into dating the Exodus

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Ukrainian anti-corruption agents search home of Zelensky’s chief of staff Andriy Yermak

Indeed, the available evidence that has emerged since the mutiny suggests that, back in November 1975, only a few minutes may have stood between the Soviet Navy launching a nuclear strike against one of its own vessels. Ultimately, perhaps, Colonel Arkhip Savinkov, as commander of what appears to have been a nuclear-armed Tu-16, might have been the one responsible for preventing what could have been a catastrophe. Ironically, the fact that he didn’t launch his missile, for whatever reason, meant that he would be viewed with suspicion by the Soviet military leadership for the rest of his career.

Airbus grounds 6,000 planes for urgent software update after jet suddenly lost altitude mid-flight

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 24, 2025

Chinese researchers simulate large-scale electronic warfare against Elon Musk’s Starlink. Findings suggest jamming Starlink across area matching Taiwan is technically feasible, but only at huge scale needing 1,000 drones or more.

A story from early this year that I recently came across: ‘I learnt to fire an RPG with YouTube’: How one Sudanese village fought the RSF

Britain’s Plan to Abolish Most Jury Trials

Should the Feds Bail Out Chicago?

Every so often, a scientific claim becomes so widely repeated that it hardens into “fact,” even when the evidence beneath it consists of… well… let’s just call it creative meteorology

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 23, 2025

New Twist In Effort To End The War In Ukraine

Japanese Automakers Invest Billions in India’s Auto Market

U.S. Pressure Campaign Against Venezuela Has Entered A New Phase

Trump Set To Propose Framework To Halt “Surprise” Obamacare Price Hikes

Are U.S. Crop Yields Declining?

Future War Will Be Fought with Sticks and Stones

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Japan suffered deadliest month of bear attacks in history, with 7 deaths and 88 maulings in October

The Collapse of Western Power in Francophone Africa

Foreign Rage Farmers Exposed by X in Major Update. X just revealed the location of every user on the platform, triggering chaos among foreign rage farmers and slop peddlers — the massive ranks of which have shaped our culture now for years

More on the above story collected here. And here as well “Foreign Fake MAGA Anti-Israel Accounts Exposed In X “Location” Disclosure”.

Scientists Say Garlic Mouthwash Works As Well as Popular Antiseptics

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 22, 2025

‘Total nonsense’: A former Russian military cartographer on how the army cooks its maps to exaggerate gains

Report: IDF Eliminates Senior Hamas Commander Amid Repeated Ceasefire Violations in Gaza

Research published in 2022 revealed the bacterium that causes typhoid fever is evolving extensive drug resistance, and is rapidly replacing strains that aren’t resistant.

A Trillion-Dollar “Advantage”: How Private Insurers Are Bilking Medicare and Taxpayers

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 21, 2025

Kyiv Under Pressure as Trump Sets One-Week Deadline for Peace Deal

Reuters Investigation Reveals China’s Civilian Shadow Navy Practices for Invasion of Taiwan

Impact Of Selling F-35s To Saudi Arabia On The Region

“The Largest Funder of Al-Shabaab Is the Minnesota Taxpayer”

The Harvard Endowment’s Biggest Public Investment is Now Bitcoin

Infant botulism outbreak doubles; ByHeart confirms bacteria in formula

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 18, 2025

Ukraine’s Claimed ATACMS Strike In Russia Signals Major Shift In U.S. Policy

What The U.S.-Saudi Nuclear Deal Means for the American Nuclear Industry

Oil Tanker Seized by Iran Is Released With Cargo Missing

China’s Demographics Problem Grows

China underground church pastors arrested, face up to three years in jail

Norway Pauses Use of Fart-Reducing Cattle Feed in Wake of Danish Cow-Tastrophe

Single Loose Wire Caused Dali’s Catastrophic Bridge Strike, NTSB Concludes

Low Vitamin D Levels Strongly Linked to Depression