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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 8, 2023

Ukraine Situation Report: Claims Swirl Around River Landing By Kyiv’s Forces

The author tooting his own horn at the start of this is in part because he was accused of profit seeking by another article on the same site that he is responding to. After you get past the tooting, he starts laying out the issues as he sees them. WHY UKRAINIAN SOLDIERS HAVE TO LEARN TO FIGHT ON YOUTUBE AND HOW TO CHANGE THAT

China’s July exports contracted the most since the start of the pandemic.

Public Anger Grows After Floodwaters Deliberately Diverted To Save China’s Capital

Taiwan Heading for Era of Paralyzed Politics

NYC Will Use In-Road Sensors to Automatically Fine Overweight Trucks

What to know about the dominant Covid-19 EG.5 variant, nicknamed ‘Eris’

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 7, 2023

Ukraine Situation Report: M1A1 Abrams Tanks Approved For Shipment

You only need to read half of this article to get an understanding, everything else is pure lecture. But better written sources are hard to come by as nobody else is governing in detail why the west cares about this. AFRICAUS/France threaten intervention in resource-rich Niger You can get a little bit of a taste of what his article covers from a more conventional source here.

Why Canada Is Criminalizing Dissent?

Why are UAE, Saudi, other Gulf countries issuing Lebanon travel warnings?

California’s Teacher Shortage Is Dire

Wells Fargo customers scramble after deposits disappear from their accounts

Los Angeles Has a Growing Typhus Problem, Thanks to the Fleas

Revolutionary Treatment Emerges in the Battle Against Deadly Fungi

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 5, 2023

Ukraine Situation Report: Photos Show Damage To Russian Tanker After Drone Boat Strike

In a desperate 15 minutes on December 16, Ukraine fired dozens of missiles from its Soviet-era S-300, American Nasams and German Iris-T systems to save the city from total blackout in freezing temperatures.“If we had allowed this strike to succeed, Kyiv would have had to be evacuated. And it is very difficult to evacuate two and a half million people,” the colonel said.

Ethiopia Declares ‘State of Emergency’ Over Amhara Violence

The Biden administration is retreating from its promises to stop funding oil and gas projects overseas, triggering a split among senior officials over whether to prioritize climate change or the diplomatic alliances the White House has deemed critical to counter Russia and China.

Sri Lanka is back in business

The transmission capacity for connecting upstate regions to New York City is limited and renewable facilities in some upstate regions are already being forced to curtail generation due to transmission constraints.

Cyberattack Slams Hospitals, Ambulances, and Health Care Facilities in Several States

MIT Engineers Develop Groundbreaking Concrete Supercapacitor

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 4, 2023

Ukrainian Drone Boat Scores Direct Hit On Russian Warship

On Ukraine’s landmine-strewn front, even the corpses can kill

Saudi Arabia’s Budget Deficit Jumps By 80% Due To Lower Oil Revenues

India’s ‘lost tribe’ of Israel hit hard by deadly violence

Chase Shuts Down Bank Accounts of Mercola and Key Employees

The true nature of American polarization

Dianne Feinstein, 90, cedes power of attorney to daughter — but still serves in Congress

Voyager 2: NASA restores contact with spacecraft

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 1, 2023

At least a half dozen ships have ignored Russian warnings and appear to be headed to a Ukrainian port on the Danube River.

Ukrainian assault commander reveals horrific encounter with one of Russia’s fake trench traps

Saudi Arabia borrowing rate hits new high

Oil Prices Balloon On Largest Single-Week Crude Inventory Crash In Years

Flesh-rotting tranq infects cocaine supply, takes aim at new, unsuspecting victims

It’s 3am. Paul, the head of PayPal database administration carefully enters his elaborate passphrase at a keyboard in a darkened cubicle of 1840 Embarcadero Road in East Palo Alto, for the fifth time. He hits Return. The green-on-black console window instantly displays one line of text: “Sorry, one or more wrong passphrases. Can’t reconstruct the key. Goodbye.” There is nerd pandemonium all around us. James, our recently promoted VP of Engineering, just climbed the desk at a nearby cubicle, screaming: “Guys, if we can’t get this key the right way, we gotta start brute-forcing it ASAP!”

Blood clots in a fossil that is supposed to be 270-300 million years old

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 31, 2023

Ukraine Situation Report: Key Crimean Railway Bridge Targeted In Missile Strike

Officials found suspected Chinese malware hidden in various US military systems. Its intended use is disruption rather than surveillance, a ‘disturbing’ change in intent, experts say.

Chinese Ex-Foreign Minister Disappears in Apparent Power Struggle

Top Israeli official says country won’t block Saudi civil nuclear program

Niger coup sparks concerns about French, EU uranium dependency

Google Unveils Multimodal Generative AI Model Med-PaLM M for Healthcare

America Flips Switch On First New Nuclear Reactor in 7 Years

Instead of obtaining a warrant, the NSA would like to keep buying your data

What NASA and the European Space Agency are admitting but the media are failing to report about our current heat wave

CDC Warns Red Meat Allergy Caused By Ticks An ‘Emerging Public Health Concern

Public Health Officials Identify 20 Infectious Agents Found at Unlicensed California Laboratory

Just a sign of how little people think about these things.

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 28, 2023

Main Thrust of Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Has Begun

Ukraine Situation Report: S-200 Missile Slams Into Russian Town

North Korea’s New Nuclear Underwater Drone-Torpedo Follows Russia’s Playbook

Israel’s Judicial Reckoning

In a major reshuffle, the Turkish president has dismissed all three deputy Central Bank governors as his government ramps up efforts to regain the confidence of Western investors.

Gasoline prices have gained around 20% year-to-date.

Can This Medication Reverse Multiple Sclerosis? Brain Biomarker Shows It Can

A growing body of research indicates there are potentially large health benefits to improving indoor air quality.

Let Me Repeat Myself: The SAT’s Predictive Power for College Grades is Systematically Underestimated Because of Range Restriction