Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 1, 2024

Russian Pushes Deeper Into Key City In Eastern Ukraine

Iranian Ballistic Missiles Rain Down On Israel

Israel Waits For Possible Iranian Strikes As Commando Raids Into Lebanon Continue

Explosive-Packed Drone Boat Strikes Oil Tanker in Red Sea

Storm Warnings in the West Pacific

Major Port Shutdown: ILA Dockworkers Hit the Picket Lines, Halting Operations on Atlantic and Gulf Coasts

Held Hostage Overseas? The IRS Wants Your Back Taxes.

The average cost of childcare chart in this article is crazy. New York Child Care Providers Are Bleeding Workers as Federal Money Dries Up

The amicus brief outlines in detail that “without additional modification, the compliance timelines and related provisions of the Rule are not workable and are destined to trigger an acceleration in the pace of premature retirements of electric generation units that possess critical reliability attributes at the very time when such generation is needed to support ever-increasing electricity demand because of the growth of the digital economy and the need to ensure adequate back-up generation to support an increasing amount of intermittent renewable generation.”

Face masks and protection against COVID-19 and other viral respiratory infections: Assessment of benefits and harms in children

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 30, 2024

Israeli Ground Operation In Lebanon Has Begun

Israeli 707 Tanker’s Secretive Remote Vision System Revealed In Long-Range Yemen Raid

We’re only beginning to understand the historic nature of Helene’s flooding

Really? The modern economy rests on a single road in Spruce Pine, North Carolina. The road runs to the two mines that is the sole supplier of the quartz required to make the crucibles needed to refine silicon wafers.

A small sample of what you are seeing on social media regarding the floods down south.

Appalachia And Helping Via Charities

In England and Wales you must register if you keep poultry or other captive birds by 1 October 2024. This includes any birds you keep as pets. You’re breaking the law if you do not register.

Port Strike Countdown: Bananas, Medicine, and $5 Billion Daily at Stake

Gut Bacteria Form Communities To Outsmart Medications

Massive Verizon outage

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 29, 2024

US Defense Sec. Austin furious with Gallant over lack-of-notice on Nasrallah strike

Dozens of Israeli planes strike port, power plants in Yemen after Houthi missile attacks

Catastrophe in my Geographical Homeland. Reports from the western Carolinas

Helene Death Toll Hits 57 as Catastrophic Flooding Continues in Southeast

Devastating Footage Emerges From US South Amid Severe Flooding & Potential Dam Failures

Hackers Found Millions of Kias Could Be Tracked, Controlled With Just a Plate Number. Kia updated its web portal after the hackers informed them of the security issue, which was similar to a past vulnerability with Lexus and Toyota vehicles.

Ports Brace for Shutdown as U.S. Dockworker Strike Deadline Nears

IBS Relief: Cutting Sugar and Starch Rivals FODMAP Diet in Effectiveness

Steam doesn’t want to pay arbitration fees, tells gamers to sue instead

Once again: Imports do not subtract from GDP

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 28, 2024

Iran Update, September 28, 2024

Saudi Arabia is willing to endure short-term oil price and revenue pain as it is making a U-turn in policy and going to take back market share and ditching its unofficial $100 oil price target.

India shuts down the internet far more than any other country

Did Sabotage Stall the Navy’s Newest Nuclear Aircraft Carrier?

How California plans to stop you from speeding 10 MPH over the limit

Multiple surgeries could contribute to cognitive decline in older people

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 27, 2024

Russians Advancing On Kharkiv Region City Ukraine Liberated In 2022

Israel targets Nasrallah in bombing of Hezbollah HQ; increasingly believes it killed him

Israel Executes Massive Bunker Buster Strike On Hezbollah Command Headquarters In Beirut

Israel Confirms Deaths of Hezbollah Commander and Deputy of Missile Unit, Nasrallah Fate Unknown

Norway issues global search request for man linked to exploding Hezbollah pagers

Scores of Ships Headed for US East Coast Face Delays as Strike Looms

It’s Time to Talk About America’s Disorder Problem

Tim Walz did show up, a little later, accompanied by the Secret Service. Howe observed that once they arrived, the Secret Service agents began wanding those who entered the church. But they never did anything about the 75 to 100 who were already inside the church when they showed up. No effort whatsoever was made to assure security with respect to those people. This was particularly striking to Senator Howe because he was carrying at the time. Given the location, it is likely that others who attended the funeral, and were already inside the church when the Secret Service arrived, were also armed. This is the kind of absurd failure of security that typified the Secret Service’s actions in Butler, Pennsylvania: the most obvious security precautions were not taken. This time, the protectee was a Democrat.

The selective prosecution of Eric Adams

EPA must address health concerns about fluoride in water, judge rules

West Point Needs a Reset

Coyote-fearing locals are putting vests with spikes on their tiny dogs in San Francisco

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 26, 2024

Biden Surging $8B In Aid To Ukraine That Includes AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapons For F-16s

China’s New Nuclear Submarine Sank During Mysterious Incident In Wuhan: Report

NYC Mayor Eric Adams Faces 5 Federal Charges, Including Bribery

In the first half of this year, U.S. energy producers revealed plans to expand gas-fired capacity, surpassing the total announced for all of 2020. This surge is largely driven by growing demand from data centers supporting artificial intelligence (AI), new manufacturing projects spurred by the Inflation Reduction Act, and electric vehicle mandates introduced by the Biden-Harris administration.

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 25, 2024

Putin proposes changing Russia’s nuclear doctrine to allow attacks on non-nuclear states

When the Russian invasion drove hundreds of thousands of people out of Ukraine to Germany, Tegel became a shelter for refugees. It was supposed to be a temporary arrangement in tents and in parts of the terminals, a place where people could rest for a couple of days, do the necessary paperwork and then continue on their way to other parts of Germany or to real lodgings elsewhere in Berlin. But the days turned into weeks, weeks into months – and, for some, the months have turned into years.

Israel’s Potential Invasion Of Southern Lebanon Looms Larger

Inside the break between the US and Israel over how to handle Hezbollah

Hezbollah Announces Death of Top Commander After Strike on South Beirut

Walking Mongolia beyond Ulaanbaatar

Avian flu outbreak devastates Michigan dairy

Spread of deadly EEE virus explodes 5-fold in New York

Hurricane Helene’s Massive Size is Alarming Forecasters

Case-Shiller: National House Price Index Up 5.0% year-over-year in July

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 24, 2024

Satellite Images Show Massive Devastation At Russian Ammo Storage Sites Struck By Ukrainian Drones

Power games over Ukraine’s electrical grid spark rule-of-law fears

Russia Poised To Capture Key Eastern Ukraine City

Trump briefed by US intel on Iranian threats to assassinate him

US Navy Oiler Runs Aground, Forcing Carrier Strike Group to Scramble for Fuel

Visualizing The Expected Growth In Working Age Populations Around The World Over The Next 10 Years

The National Council of Teachers of English declared: “The time has come to decenter book reading and essay-writing as the pinnacles of English language arts education.” Instead, teachers are urged to focus on “media literacy” and short texts that students feel are “relevant.”

Varma is just the latest government official exposed for violating the deadly lockdown regimes imposed on the public four years ago. The list includes other prominent New York authorities. Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo planned a Thanksgiving that violated his own limits on gatherings, and former New York City Mayor de Blasio broke social distancing measures to celebrate Democrats’ 2020 win.

Hacker plants false memories in ChatGPT to steal user data in perpetuity

A story about the dangers of confined space.

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 23, 2024

Hezbollah Converted Soviet Tu-143 Jet Recon Drone Into Cruise Missile Says IDF, Just Like Ukraine

Israel hits 1,600 targets in strikes on Hezbollah as panicked Lebanese flee

Iran’s Guards ban communication devices after Hezbollah device explosions

Who is Sri Lanka’s new president Anura Kumara Dissanayake?

The biggest fracture within the Sinaloa Cartel in more than a decade is causing panic in the state

“Shippers should think through the ripple effects,” Sea-Intelligence advised in its latest weekly report. “A strike will trap vessels off the US coast, as there are limited options for diversions. This will lead to export capacity shortages on the Atlantic trade in Europe after 2-3 weeks, and in Asia after 5-7 weeks. Additionally, this will reduce the inflow of empty equipment into Asia, also with a 5-7 week time lag, meaning a potential shortage of equipment and space, on all Asian export trades from 2nd half of November.”

Illegal Car Meetups Lead to Attacks on Philadelphia Police, Causing Major Damage

When the Mismanagerial Class Destroys Great Companies

The recently shut down PS5 shooter Concord reportedly cost $400 million to make, according to Sacred Symbols podcast host Colin Moriarty.

Soldiers Set to Get New Deployment Bonus as High Operations Tempos Strain the Army

Senate Democrats Want Women to Enter the Draft, but Republican Representatives Are Fighting Back

USA religion fact of the day

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 22, 2024

Defense establishment in disagreement on Sinwar’s possible death

An old news story but one that has the possibility of becoming very relevant to a city near you. The secret backstory of how Obama let Hezbollah off the hook

Lebanon’s private medical facilities, which house 85% of all hospital beds in the country, are at full capacity following last week’s attacks on communication devices held by Hezbollah members

I think it would be wise to be skeptical of how this is being framed but I am sure they were planning something. Hezbollah Commanders Eliminated in Beirut Strike Were Plotting October 7-Style Invasion of Israel

Hezbollah launches revenge rocket attack against Israeli airbase

CDC: U.S. whooping cough cases rising, especially in teens

The Long Road to Fiber Optics