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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 7, 2023

U.S. Sending ‘Hundreds Of Thousands’ Of Cluster Munitions

The EU’s Mass Censorship Regime Is Almost Fully Operational. Will It Go Global?

China’s abrupt announcement of controls from Aug. 1 on exports of some gallium and germanium products, also used in electric vehicles (EVs) and fibre optic cables, has sent companies scrambling to secure supplies and bumped up prices. and Pentagon has strategic germanium stockpile but no gallium reserves

Graphite, Dominated by China, Requires the Largest Production Increase of Any Battery Mineral

Rare case of green hairy tongue is pure nightmare fuel

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 6, 2023

What DPICM Cluster Munitions Are And Why Ukraine Wants Them So Bad

France’s Macron Refuses to Address Migrant Violence, Seeks Powers to ‘Cut Off’ Social Media and Add More Electronic Surveillance

“Gig reviewers” are endorsing fake products for quick cash in Brazil

We can topple the PM and form a government, say leaders of Dutch farmers party

In Syracuse, the I-81 viaduct has two groups at war. One wants to tear it down, one wants to leave it up — all in the name of environmental justice.

Office Mortgage Delinquency Rate Has Biggest Six-Month Spike Ever. It’s just the Beginning

99% of humans about to experience sunlight at same time

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 4, 2023

Russian Jamming Reducing Accuracy of US Guided Weapons in Ukraine

Ukraine ‘Preparing For Nuclear Explosion’ As Russia Reduces Zaporizhzhia Plant Presence

In Remarkable Statement, French Police Unions Condemn ‘Savage Hordes;’ Say France is in a Civil War

Iran’s ballistic missile capabilities are a growing threat to Europe

‘Hot Money’ Is Piling Up at Banks and It’s Starting to Take a Toll

Ten blue states are planning to sue the EPA for failing to crack down on wood-burning stoves

The multibillion-dollar lawsuits that could radically reshape how we buy and sell homes forever

The Sun Just Unleashed a Huge Solar Flare, Triggers Radio Blackout in US

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 3, 2023

Ukraine Situation Report: Patriot Kill Marks Hint That It Downed Aircraft Inside Russia

UK Looking to Buy Cheaper Israeli Alternative to Storm Shadow

The current round of rioting caused more destruction than the 2005 riots, which lasted for weeks. “According to several sources, five nights and as many days of violence have exceeded the severity of the riots in the fall of 2005, which lasted three weeks.

Large-scale Israeli army raid kills 8 in West Bank

The upcoming “Barbie” movie will not appear in Vietnamese cinemas because it depicts a map showing China’s claims to the South China Sea, state media reported.

China Stockpiling Cobalt Reserves Amid Price Crash

US Manufacturing “Took Sharp Turn For The Worse” In June

Housing Inventory and Demographics: The Next Big Shift

Whole Brain Emulation: No Progress on C. elegans After 10 Years

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 2, 2023

“Intifada in Heart of France” – Mobs Torch Cities, Desecrate Holocaust and WWII Memorial

EU hails discovery of massive phosphate rock deposit in Norway

Big families wanted, but they can’t be homeschoolers.

Lumber Prices Down About 35% YoY

Researchers discover new weapon against antibiotic resistance—it also fights malaria

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 1, 2023

Ukraine Situation Report: Russian SAMs Can’t Stop This Storm Shadow

Chaos Engulfs France: Highlight Reel

An “Adolescent” (Surely a Gentle Giant) Is Killed by Police During His 13th Brush with the Law in France, And BLM-Style Rioting, Arson, and Looting Engulfs the Nation

Workers at Canada’s busiest port in Vancouver and at harbors up and down the nation’s west coast stopped work Saturday in a labor dispute that is likely to disrupt global freight transport.

Europe Set To Reach Natural Gas Storage Target Ahead Of Schedule

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JUNE 30, 2023

Ukraine Situation Report: Counteroffensive Criticism “Pisses Me Off” Says Top General

Alarming antibiotic resistance discovered in war-torn Ukraine

IN PICTURES: FRANCE BURNS

The Ultimate Bubble

New UPS Trucks Will Get Air Conditioning After Years of Driver Demands

SCOTUS “gave universities a narrow opening, and Harvard just announced it’s going to drive an affirmative action truck right through it”

5 Megawatt solar plant destroyed by hail

A long and very informative read on the problems facing the Grid. The predictability of power generation is slowly going out the window. Predictable, firm sources of electricity (such as coal plants) are being removed from the grid, and being replaced by sources of electricity generation such as wind and solar, which fluctuate in their output based on whether the wind is blowing or the sun is shining. Between 2011 and 2020, roughly 1/3rd of US coal plants were shut down. By 2030, that’s expected to fall by another 25%. By contrast, of the 150 gigawatts of new electrical generation projects being tracked by the EIA, 2/3rds of them are wind or solar projects.

Texas Endures Another Heat Wave

For the first time, six fast-growing states in the South — Florida, Texas, Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee — are contributing more to the national GDP than the Northeast, with its Washington-New York-Boston corridor

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JUNE 29, 2023

The Biden administration appears to be closer to sending Ukraine two weapons it has long-sought, ATACMS and cluster munitions.

China’s Demographics: Even Worse Than You Think

CBO projects federal debt to soar over next 20 years

Teamsters warn of ‘imminent’ UPS strike affecting ‘nearly all Americans’
Many young women, girls in U.S. are iron deficient