RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MAY 16, 2023

The French move to provide SCALP-EG air-launched cruise missiles comes after the U.K. delivered essentially identical missiles to Kyiv.

This lacks context in that numbers are not inflation adjusted or expressed as a ratio to income. Still, the huge rise in absolute terms does indicate that something is going on. American Consumer Debt Hits Record Level, Rises Nearly $3 Trillion Since Lockdowns

Eric Adams Wants ‘Revisit’ Sanctuary City Status for NYC

IRS removes investigative team from Hunter Biden probe in move whistleblower calls ‘clearly retaliatory’ Related: The blackout on Biden corruption is truly ‘Pulitzer-level stuff’

Like Germany, The US Is Greening Its Grid Towards Catastrophe

The U.S. is undergoing its worst bird flu outbreak ever. Is a poultry vaccine the answer?

Vitamin D: Everything You Need to Know

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MAY 15, 2023

After decades of watching Kremlin-backed hackers, the FBI ID’d weaknesses and pounced.

NEGOTIATING SAUDI ARABIA’S DEFEAT AND THE HOUTHI VICTORY IN YEMEN

Pakistan’s Supreme Court Orders Release of Former PM Imran Khan

Netanyahu’s Popularity Soars After Gaza Operation

The superfungus was first detected in New York City. The new species may start making its way through the homeless population soon.

U.S.A. fact of the day

Honda Won’t Sell Gasoline Mowers in the US Anymore

The Religious Landscape is Undergoing Massive Change. It Could Decide the 2024 Election.

Spiraling in San Francisco’s Doom Loop Related: New York, San Francisco Office Buildings Are Absolute Ghost Towns.

The Biden administration is proposing a rule that would require most fossil fuel power plants to cut their greenhouse gas emissions 90 percent between 2035 and 2040 — or shut down.

‘I think we’re to the Dust Bowl.’ Oklahoma farmers say wheat crop is worst in decades

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MAY 5, 2023

Ukraine Isn’t Buying Wagner Boss’s Tirade About Pulling Out Of Bakhmut

HIMARS become less effective in Ukraine due to Russia’s jamming

Technically, the farmer can immigrate outside the EU but this does make you understand why the farmers are mad enough to go to extreme measures. EU ensures Dutch farmers booted FOREVER from farming

TikTok spied on me. Why?

Global rice shortage is set to be the biggest in 20 years

Germany’s economic time bomb: the labor crisis

Pressure grows for regulatory intervention as US bank rout deepens

Comments on April Employment Report

Tropical Milkweed Harmful to Monarch Butterflies?

Leon Pinsker (1821-1891): Herzl’s harbinger

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MAY 4, 2023

Multiple Russian Fuel Depots Hit By Suspected Drone Attacks, Tempo Increasing

What New York’s Ban On Natural Gas Stoves And Heaters Means For The Country

When You Don’t Police Crime, Civilians Will

Initial Jobless Claims Jump Near 18 Month High

I met Venezuelans who are scamming the asylum system en masse to get into the US

HDDs typically failed in under 3 years in Backblaze study of 17,155 failed drives

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MAY 3, 2023

HIMARS Shown Being Stashed In ‘Soviet Bunker’

Depending on how you perceive today’s events, this might be ironic but it is interesting nonetheless. What Ukrainian drones need to finally reach Moscow

China Updates Conscription Law, Eyeing ‘High-Tech Regional Conflict’ Over Taiwan

Ireland Set To Pass Far-Reaching Hate Speech Laws

Saudi Arabia Needs Oil Prices At $80.90 To Balance Budget

$1 billion for asylum seekers to New York City alone! To put that in context, that is equal to the amount that is supposed to go to beef up “mental health” to create 3500 new beds for long term patients. $17 dollar an hour minimum wage (34 thousand a year full time) Your One-Stop Guide to the 2023 New York State Budget

New York on cusp of being first state in nation to ban natural gas under new budget Needless to say, it did pass.

Starlink nixes plan to impose 1TB data cap and per-gigabyte overage fees

Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from non-invasive brain recordings

Evidence of conscious-like activity in the dying brain

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MAY 2, 2023

Russian Guided Bombs A Growing Threat

Half the evidence – full scaremongering

Apocalyptic Drive Into Bakhmut

US Stocks Market Sinks as Bank Shares Plunge

“I want to say the first two weeks of April, we were averaging about maybe 1,700 Venezuelan nationals entering illegally into the country through that particular area in Brownsville,” said Gloria Chavez, Border Patrol Chief for the Rio Grande Valley Sector. “And then two weeks later, towards the end, here the last eight days, we saw an uptick of over 15,000 Venezuelans.”

NYPD urges citizens to buy AirTags to fight surge in car thefts

It also mentions “crisis stabilization centers” — a new type of facility administered by the Office of Mental Health and Office of Addiction Services and Supports where courts can send people for temporary 24-hour mental health and substance abuse care.

Earthquake Swarms Rattle Southern California

AI’s chaotic rollout in big US hospitals detailed in anonymous quotes

APRS becomes a more useful expedition messaging service with the addition of SMS and email gateways.

Biden Admin Depletes Reserve U.S. Stockpile in Israel in Bid to Replenish Ukraine

Tanker Wars Are Back: Iran Releases Footage Of Commandos Landing On US-Bound Vessel

The announcement came shortly after rival Sudanese forces announced the extension of a truce they have largely violated, as warplanes roared overhead and fighting continued on the ground in Sudan’s capital.

Largest Supply Glut In A Decade Crashes Nickel Prices

Lessons emerge as scientists unravel a new understanding of sleep

Wastewater study finds 18 new psychoactive drugs

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 29, 2023

Drone Strike Puts Russian Fuel Depot In Crimea Up In Smoke

Ukraine Ground Forces commander outlines five reasons to keep defending Bakhmut

Erdogan returns to election trail after illness
Who knew black powder was so important in this day and age? Only U.S. Factory Making Key Explosive for Artillery Rounds and Tomahawk Missiles Still Offline After It Blew Up in 2021

A liberal trying to square the circle. That said, based on what I observe brothers who go through STEM I would say that innate talent is way more important then Noah says, I do agree the teaching methods could use a lot of improvement.

We are currently expending about 220 kcal/d less for males and 122 kcal/d less for females than people of our age and body composition were in the late 1980s. These changes are sufficient to explain the obesity epidemic in the USA.