Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 4, 2024

Russia Massing For Possible Cross-River Offensive In South Ukraine

Cuba’s electrical grid suffers another complete collapse, plunges entire nation into darkness

Calls to Boycott Dairy Products From Cows Given Anti-Methane Supplement Grow in UK

Early this morning United Healthcare insurance company CEO Brian Thompson was walking on a New York street headed for the Hilton Hotel in midtown. As security video makes clear, a man in a hoodie then walked up behind him and opened fire. What’s is unusual — and something most corporate media accounts have missed — is the fact that the shooter used a suppressed pistol in the attack. Watch the video in the tweet embedded above. The killer racks the slide of the handgun after each round is fired. At one point the killer has to knock the slide back into battery with the heel of his support hand. That seems to be the result of the use of either a home-made (3D printed?) silencer or something like a “solvent trap” like the kind sold through sketchy outlets like wish.com.

The Navy’s Amphibious Fleet Is In Really Bad Shape

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 3, 2024

Russia’s Prized Bases Along The Mediterranean In Syria Could Be At Risk

Claims Swirl Around U.S. Strikes In Eastern Syria

Surprise Martial Law Declaration Throws South Korea Into Turmoil. It was crazy and I still don’t understand it but it is over now. South Korean lawmakers call to impeach President Yoon after back-track on martial law.

China hits US with ban on critical minerals used in tech manufacturing

For Want of an Oiler: The Fragile State of America’s Afloat Logistics Fleet

Many other studies have shown similar things but this is a new one. Infants exposed to animals on farms are less likely to develop allergies

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 2, 2024

Ukrainian troops ordered to hold Kursk territory until Trump takes office

Over 100,000 Soldiers Have Deserted Ukrainian Army

Airstrikes Slow Advance Of Anti-Assad Forces In Syria

Israel Gears Up for Military Response as Hezbollah Violates Ceasefire

French government faces collapse in no-confidence vote. As the crisis intensified last week, investors briefly declared France a worse credit risk than Greece, whose debt almost brought the eurozone to its knees just over a decade ago. France is the currency bloc’s second largest economy and the chaos is likely to send shock waves well beyond its borders.

Blizzard’s pulling of Warcraft I & II tests GOG’s new Preservation Program

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 1, 2024

Aleppo Has Fallen, Assad’s Forces Regrouping As Rebels Blitz South

Syrian War, 1 December 2024

Biden Pardons Hunter on All Charges and Anything Else He Might Have Committed Since 2014

Upstate NY could get up to 6 feet of snow as NYC braces for cold snap

Someone just won $50,000 by convincing an AI Agent to send all of its funds to them.

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 30, 2024

This is a big deal. Not so much China’s rates falling as Japan’s rising. Japan is even more indebted then the US. For them to start facing rising interest rates is the start of a major crisis for Japan. China (Japan) fact of the day

Norway Shrugged

Denmark paralyzed: nationwide mobile network failure halts trains and emergency services

Cuba decrees contingency plan, new restrictions as energy crisis deepens

‘Everything is expensive!’ Bolivia faces a shocking economic collapse

Europe’s Gas Storage Empties At Fastest Rate Since 2016

Seoul blanketed by heaviest November snow on record

As the Great Lakes basin hits record-warm temperatures, it reminds us of what’s coming: Intense, lake-effect snow.

Snowpocalypse Strands Drivers Along I-90 In Lake Erie Area

Nationwide IV fluid shortage could change how hospitals manage patient hydration

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 29, 2024

‘Absolutely no reason for panic’: As ruble falls, Putin says situation is ‘under control’

This is a count of publicly acknowledge deaths and so should be seen as setting a lower floor. More than 80,000 Russian servicemen confirmed killed in Ukraine

Best I can tell from pictures coming out, Aleppo has truly fallen but it is hard to get good link because the most recent stuff is on Telegram and X. This is the most recent update that I could find from the linkable web. Rebel Forces Enter Syria’s Second Largest City Of Aleppo

Pakistan’s surprise solar surge shocks experts and grid

California Gasoline Prices Will Skyrocket

Repeat: How ‘Bout Making Sure Troops Get Some %#$*ing Food?!

U.S. pressuring Ukraine to lower draft age to 18 amid troop shortage

Increasingly flexible Hamas said open to temporary IDF presence at Gaza-Egypt border

AI is making Philippine call center work more efficient, for better and worse

Feds Shrug Off Carmakers’ Objection to Mandatory Automatic Emergency Braking

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 27, 2024

Hezbollah believes the number of its fighters killed during 14 months of hostilities could reach several thousand. One source said the Iran-backed group may have lost up to 4,000 people – well over 10 times the number killed in its month-long 2006 war with Israel.

Drone Incursions Over USAF Bases In UK Enter Second Week

I have been following demographic issues for a long time and I still find it shocking how fast their birth rate is collapsing. At this rate nobody in the country will be having kids in a couple of more years. 2/3 of Korea will disappear every generation

US Navy to Sideline 17 Vessels Due to Workforce Shortage

Leaky Pipes Are Costing New York Billions of Gallons of Water per Year

How to Build a Flying Ebola Hospital

Trump Nominees Targeted in Attacks Ranging From ‘Bomb Threats to Swatting’

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 26, 2024

Ukraine’s Top Commander Wants New Counteroffensive, Says It’s The Only Path To Victory

Russia Launched The Largest Drone Attack On Ukraine Of The War

Israel Agrees to U.S.-Backed Cease-Fire in War against Hezbollah in Lebanon

Not even summer, with one warm week, and the Australian grid is on the verge of blackouts

Library at Binghamton U. Gets DEI Award for ‘Decolonizing Collections’

New York Isn’t Ready to Fight More Wildfires

Since the spring of 2022, more than 223,000 migrants and asylum seekers have arrived in New York City – roughly half the population of Albany.

On Tuesday, the Biden-Harris administration finalized a CHIPS award of up to $7.865 billion to help fund the expansion of Intel’s commercial fabs in the US.

I ate like Trump for a week. I don’t understand how the man is still alive

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 25, 2024

ATACMS Hit Airfield In Russia For The First Time

Russia fires commander for false claims about progress of war in Ukraine

Israel Reportedly Considering U.S. Proposal for Lebanon Ceasefire

Mysterious Drones Have Descended Again On U.S. Air Bases In The United Kingdom

The Amish came to Western NC and built 100+ tiny homes to shelter Helene victims from the cold mountain weather. Local and state authorities kicked the victims out of their houses, saying they didn’t pass code.

Blindly Following GPS Got 20 Cars Stuck on a Remote Snowy Mountain Road