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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 15, 2023

Criticism of disaster response rises as floods hit Turkey’s quake-ravaged southeast

Treasury Yields Collapse After First Republic Downgrade To ‘Junk’

Credit Suisse To Borrow $54BN From SNB To “Pre-emptively Strengthen Liquidity”

Governor Hochul Files Appeal in Quarantine Camp Lawsuit

Another atmospheric river pounds California, 27K to evacuate

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 14, 2023

Poland Could Give Ukraine MiG-29s “Within Four To Six Weeks”

Pakistani Taliban Using US Weapons to Attack Armed Forces: Report

Best disclaimer ever. Banking in very uncertain times Related:Rapid Deterioration’: Major Rating Service Downgrades U.S. Banking System

How Biden’s New Washing Machine Regulations Could Ruin Laundry Day

In FBI Case, the First Amendment Takes Another Bizarre Hit

Why Are the Chickens So Sick?

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN UPDATE, MARCH 13, 2023

‘Little fissures’: The U.S.-Ukraine war unity is slowly cracking apart

Russia Sending Captured US Weapons to Iran to ‘Reverse-Engineer’

Seoul mayor calls for South Korean nuclear weapons to counter threat from North. Related: North Korea fires ballistic missile

Fed Panics: Signature Bank Closed By Regulators; Fed, TSY, FDIC Announce Another Banking System Bailout

Why regulators seized Signature Bank in third-biggest bank failure in U.S. history

Significant Drop In Oil And Gas Price May Have Saved The Global Economy

“It underscores the fact that still in the 21st century, we truly do not know what is possible in biology,”

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 12, 2023

Notable because this is a pro-Ukraine source. Ukrainian soldiers in Bakhmut: ‘Our troops are not being protected’

Hundreds of Startups Face Massive Cash Crunch in Wake of Silicon Valley Bank Collapse

In my last startup (RIP food trucks-as-a-service, we barely knew ya) we raised $5.8 million on a deck and were immediately offered more than a million dollars from SVB at extremely favorable terms.

New study challenges our understanding of the immune system

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 8, 2023

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg today warned that Bakhmut could fall into Russian hands in the next few days.

A supermajority of South Koreans want nukes: polls

Fed may need to accelerate rate hikes, Jerome Powell says

Consumers Hit A Brick Wall: January Credit Growth Craters As Interest Rates Soar

DHS has a program gathering domestic intelligence — and virtually no one knows about it

New Orleans residents warned ‘don’t sit in your car and play’ as carjackings skyrocket 165%

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 7, 2023

Belarus Admits Russian A-50 Radar Jet Damaged In Drone Attack

US Intelligence Now Says Pro-Ukraine, Possibly Government-Trained Mystery Forces Destroyed Nord Stream Pipelines

Taiwan’s defense minister on Monday said a sharp increase in Chinese military spending for 2023 indicated Beijing was “preparing for the use of force if necessary” to potentially retake the self-ruled island.

France braces for strikes that could bring the country ‘to a standstill’ for days on end

Iran arrests school poisoning suspects as cases top 5,000

Several other types of commercial aircraft also use floppy disks, including newer variants of the 747 and the 767, older Airbus A320s

Lynching the Deplorables Related: footage of police helping protestors was hidden for two years

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Bakhmut On The Brink

WHEN DO WE DEPLOY THE NEW VARIANT?

These concerning trends prompted a warning in January from Prime Minister Fumio Kishida that Japan is “on the brink of not being able to maintain social functions.”

Farmers’ Protests Erupt in the Netherlands and Belgium Against EU Climate Change Restrictions

Italy Goes against EU’s Fossil Fuel Car Ban

French Strikes Over Pension Reform Hit Power Utility, Trucking

What? Robert Stange, 73, who describes himself as a “survivalist,” said he has three months’ worth of food on hand, although he had run out of coffee as well as lighter fluid for his wood-burning stove. Friday, he went to a store and emerged with a bottle of what he said was fine wine. That is not even the worst quote. This one is also in the running: “I used to work in construction, and it’s harder digging snow than dirt. Snow is heavier”. You can tell someone has never dug a basement out in hardpan country.

Antibody-Drug Conjugates Take Breast Cancer Field by Storm

Biden: “I was diagnosed with having a uh, anyway, they had to take the top of my head off a couple times to see if I had a brain.”