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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 14, 2024

Emergency THAAD Deployment To Israel Heightens Concerns On Strain To U.S. Air Defenses

IDF Discovers Expansive Hezbollah Underground Compound Stocked With Weapons

Over 86% of surveyed health care providers are short on IV fluids

‘Mystery Drones’ Penetrate Restricted U.S. Air Space in Virginia, Pentagon Stumped Related: Five Chinese graduates of UMich were caught spying on US military base

Routine dental X-rays are not backed by evidence—experts want it to stop

Scientists cast doubt on claims Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Spain

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 13, 2024

US sending air defense systems, troops to Israel

Is divorce coming to the Philippines?

The Missing Dockworkers

SpaceX Starship Launch and Historic Catch Was Good

Link above has more media, this is just straight up reporting. SpaceX catches returning rocket in mid-air, turning a fanciful idea into reality

Study finds Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe

Possible trigger of Crohn’s disease discovered: Dysfunctional mitochondria disrupt the gut microbiome

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 10, 2024

The Russian army is increasingly relying on older recruits — but frontline soldiers say ‘grandpas’ aren’t fit for war

Zelenskiy sets up Ministry of Unity to save Ukraine from demographic disaster

North Korea Wading Deeper Into Russia’s War Against Ukraine

In first public comments on Wildberries shooting, Kadyrov declares ‘blood feud’ against federal lawmakers who he claims ordered his murder

Esmail Qaani under guard and questioned as Iran probes Nasrallah killing. Head of Revolutionary Guard’s Quds Force not wounded but swept up in major investigation into Iranian security breaches, sources tell Middle East Eye

Who is Germany’s far-right AfD leader Alice Weidel?

China hacked Verizon and AT&T, may have accessed US wiretap systems

More educational for me then I would have thought. Do U.S. Ports Need More Automation?

Student Association Congress at Binghamton U. Rescinds BDS Resolution From the Spring

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North Korean soldiers are likely dying for Putin in Ukraine, Seoul says

Israel to refrain from attacking Iran’s nuclear sites, focus on military targets

A year of war saps Israel’s borrowing strength, while costs balloon

Houthis Receive Weapons From Russian Arms Dealer We Traded for Brittney Griner

Brazil Reinstates X After Musk Meets Demands

Ports Restricted, Oil Facilities Shut as Milton Approaches Florida

The man-made disaster that is FEMA: Whistleblower details ‘waste’ of taxpayer funds and staff waiting in hotels.

NY Equal Rights Amendment Ballot Initiative “sets up … racial retribution and favoritism under the guise of ‘dismantling discrimination’”

‘Sensational breakthrough’ marks step toward revealing hidden structure of prime numbers

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 7, 2024

Israel Expands Ground Operation In Lebanon As World Braces For Retaliation Against Iran

China Enters the Economic Doom-Loop

Our country is so fragile. Helene ravaged the NC plant that makes 60% of the country’s IV fluid supply

Who Is Harold Daggett? The Man Behind The Longshoremen Union

Hurricane Milton becomes second-fastest storm to reach Category 5 status

SpaceX and @TMobile have been given emergency special temporary authority by the @FCC to enable @Starlink satellites with direct-to-cell capability to provide coverage for cell phones in the affected areas of Hurricane Helene.

Surviving Helene

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 4, 2024

However, even if approximately 180 Arrow missiles were used, utilizing both types, the interception cost would be about $450 million—more than double the cost of the Iranian missile barrage.

Longshoremen Union Suspends Strike Until January 15

What Does Turkey Want From Eric Adams?

Thousands of Linux systems infected by stealthy malware since 2021

Profs at Elite Colleges Shocked to Learn Students ‘Don’t Know How’ to Read Books

NASA is worse the you think. SLS is still a national disgrace

Researchers Discover Aspirin’s Surprising Ability To Combat Hormonal Deficiency

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 3, 2024

Iranian Oil Tankers Bolting From Major Export Island Ahead Of Possible Israeli Strikes

Claims Swirl Around Israeli Strikes Very Near Russia’s Air Base In Syria

Surreal Missile Battle In The Sky Seen In Astonishing Video Of Iran’s Ballistic Missile Barrage

“If that’s what you want us to do, we’ll leave no issue. And I explained to him that I left my son on the side of the mountain, and I left another victim. I was going to go back and bring them, it was already set up for the landing spot and then I would get out of his area. He told me I wasn’t going to go back up the mountain to get them, I was going to leave them there.”

People are panic-buying toilet paper because of the port strike.

Tentative Agreement Reached to End U.S. Port Strike

FEMA Is Out of Money After Helene, and You’ll Never Guess Where It Went

Popular gut probiotic completely craps out in randomized controlled trial

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 2, 2024

The fall of Vuhledar: How Ukraine lost the ‘fortress town’ and what its capture could mean for the war’s future

World Braces For Israel’s Retaliation To Iran’s Ballistic Missile Barrage

How Israel might respond to the Iranian ballistic missile attack

In first fatalities of Lebanon ground op, 8 IDF soldiers killed in battles with Hezbollah

The Lebanese truth about Nasrallah An anti-Israeli publications hints at the same thing. “Ankara still remembers the vast amount of crimes and atrocities committed by Hezbollah and Hasan Nasrallah in Syria that pushed millions of refugees into Turkey,” Ozkizilcik said.

Ex-Iranian president Ahmedinejad claims Mossad infiltrated Iranian intelligence

Helene takes ultrapure quartz mines offline, threatens tech supply chains.

Bank of America is down: Users report their accounts showing empty balance during widespread outage