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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Ukraine Situation Report: New Ground-Based Air Defense Coalition Announced

AL-QAEDA: A DEFEATED THREAT? THINK AGAIN

American lawmakers have expressed concern that much-awaited deliveries of F-16 fighter jets to Taiwan could face further delays due to current geopolitical concerns.

Dutch Politician Geert Wilders’ Freedom Party Wins Most Seats in General Election

Air cargo’s anemic peak season nothing to celebrate

USB worm unleashed by Russian state hackers spreads worldwide

How County Jails Sidestep Solitary Confinement Law

Sources: Deadly crash at US-Canadian border bridge involved man and wife in a Bentley, investigators believe

Jetpack Features Glock Autopistol Aimed By Moving Your Head

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Israel-Gaza Situation Report: Ceasefire Deal May Be Imminent (Updated)

Israel Agrees To Trade 150 Imprisoned Terrorists For 50 of 240 Hostages, Plus Multi-Day Ceasefire

Inside the ‘excruciating’ 5 weeks that led to the Israel-Hamas deal

So, Red Sea Pirates it is

Biden Uses War Powers to Manufacture More Electric Heat Pumps

Courts Pave Way for New York Quarantine Camps

Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Ukraine Situation Report: The Muddy Season Has Arrived

Israel-Gaza Situation Report: Deal To Release Hostages “Closer Than Ever”

Shifa Hospital “Civilian” Charade Over: Videos Show Hostages and Long Tunnel With Blast Door

Houthi Helicopter Raid On Ship In Red Sea Seen In New Video

Layoffs and bankruptcies pile up in logistics amid shocking downturn

In New York City, Consolidated Edison declared an emergency because it faced a system collapse that would have taken “many months” to restore service in the middle of the winter, a potentially deadly outcome since so many more people die of cold than of heat.

Framework Laptop prices go as low as $639 thanks to refurbs and “factory seconds”

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Western air defenses turn Kyiv into a rare safe spot in war-torn Ukraine

Gaza War Updates: Iran-Backed Houthis Seize British-Owned, Japanese-Operated Cargo Ship Connected To Israeli Businessman

I am surprised. Argentina elects ‘shock therapy’ libertarian Javier Milei as president

Philippines earthquake death toll rises

The U.S. Army is ‘Begging’ Unvaccinated Soldiers to Return

Transforming the future of music creation

Sam Altman Could Return as OpenAI CEO

Children’s brains shaped by their time on tech devices, research to-date shows

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Ukraine Situation Report: First Person Video Drone Relentlessly Hunts Down A Russian Van

Gaza communications down as Israel searches main hospital

If this keeps up, one day they are going to hit something that causes a number of deaths.

NYC Mayor Adams Cuts School and NYPD Budgets Due to Migrant Crisis

You Can Buy an Entire Hyundai on Amazon Starting in 2024

Walmart Crashes On Disappointing Guidance, Warns That Consumer Spending Is Deteriorating

TikTok Influencers Encouraging People to Read, Embrace Osama bin Laden’s ‘Letter to America’

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Israel-Gaza Situation Report: Claims Swirl Over Gaza Hospital Raid

Shifa Hospital anticlimax – 200 Hamas forces evaporate into thin air? – analysis Related: *UPDATE* IDF Discovers ‘Several Stockpiles of Weapons and Munitions’ Inside Shifa Hospital

USPS leaders forecast it would break even this year. It just lost $6.5 billion.

The average hamburger in Colorado now costs $15. Here’s how that price breaks down.

We Now Know What Caused That Devastating LA Freeway Fire

To be fair, I think most forms of metal illness are higher in intelligent people so I guess you could argue this one both ways. Using data from a large nationally representative U.K. sample our claim is that optimism bias is partly a consequence of low cognition

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Ukraine Situation Report: Advance Across Dnipro River Deepens

Israeli Raid On Gaza’s Largest Hospital Underway

Teens with “digital bazookas” are winning the ransomware war, researcher laments

Amid Billing Fiasco, Hudson Valley Utility Pushes for Steep Gas and Electric Rate Hike

The U.S. Just Recorded Its Highest Oil Production Month In History

Private Aerial Refueling Tankers Are Now Gassing Up USAF Fighters

About 900 Jewish people headed to DC Israel rally left stranded by bus drivers staging ‘deliberate and malicious’ walkout

Qualcomm kills its copy of Apple’s satellite SOS after ten months

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Israel-Gaza Situation Report: No Decision Yet To Storm Gaza’s Largest Hospital

The effectiveness of 10 out of 24 Hamas battalions has been broken, according to the IDF.

Stubborn Core Inflation Helps Explain Some Fed Restlessness

Are fires that take out highway overpasses a new thing or am I just now hearing about them? This is the second major one this year albeit for a different reason then the one down in PA but I don’t ever remember a highway overpass being taken out by fire during any other year of my life. I am sure it has happened, I just don’t remember it. What—or Who—Caused That Devastating Freeway Fire in Los Angeles?

Crime, and carjackings specifically, is so out of control in Washington, D.C. that this wouldn’t even be a story if there was not a connection to the president’s granddaughter.

This dude is not real grounded in reality, but these are all legitimate news stories he is linking to that I have also been keeping an eye one.

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Even if the US were to provide Ukraine with all the weapons it promised, a Zelenskyy aide told Time, Ukraine simply doesn’t “have the men to use them.”

The Strategic Calculations of Israel’s Enemies

The U.S. State Department renewed a warning that Washington is obligated to defend the Philippines under a 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty if Filipino forces, public vessels or aircraft, including those of its coast guard ”face an armed attack “anywhere in the South China Sea.”

Sand Mafias Battle for the New Gold

How US banks can wiggle out of the $650 billion balance-sheet bomb hanging over them

ICBC Hack ‘Blamed’ For Poor Treasury Liquidity; Higher Vol Will Keep Rallies Short-Lived

Where’s the Beef? No, Seriously – Where Did It GO?

Age of Invention: Outdoing the Ancients

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, NOVEMBER 10, 2023

With U.S. military aid funding for Ukraine is about to run out, the Pentagon is imploring Congress to pass a spending bill.

Israel-Gaza Situation Report: Calls For Ceasefire Grow

Moody’s on Friday lowered its outlook on the U.S. credit rating to “negative” from “stable” citing large fiscal deficits and a decline in debt affordability, a move that drew immediate criticism from President Joe Biden’s administration.

The FBI is investigating whether New York mayor Eric Adams’ 2021 campaign conspired with Turkey to receive foreign donations. His attorney says that his team discovered that one individual had acted improperly.

Apple discriminated against US citizens in hiring, DOJ says