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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Ukrainian Drone Gets Within 70 Miles Of Moscow

Japan’s Hometown Tax

When China began to require Western corporations to establish Chinese Communist Party (CCP) cells, businesses brushed off the move as benign.

In Lebanon, police join ‘robbers’, storm bank to get their own money

S.O.S for the U.S. Electric Grid

Syracuse, N.Y. – Micron Technology’s planned semiconductor fabrication plant in Clay would consume more electricity than the entire state of Vermont.

Physically Demanding Work Tied to Male Fertility

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Drone Tour Of Bakhmut Shows Brutal Devastation

Concerns grow that the breakaway pro-Russian republic of Transnistria could be the next regional flashpoint.

Zelensky fires a top Ukrainian military commander, no reason given

Pharmaceutical blockbusters: the past, present, and future(?)

Japan moves toward approving abortion pill in major shift

The Premature Use Of Mechanical Ventilation in the First Wave of the Covid Pandemic

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Ukraine’s Never-Ending Day

China has doubts on ability to invade Taiwan, CIA chief says

“We Are Looking to Kill Trump”: Iran’s Islamic Guard Commander Admits Regime’s Plans to Assassinate Trump, Pompeo

Time running out to save Istanbul from major earthquake

As I mentioned earlier, the way he would essentially do this is he would openly tout the donations he made to Democratic Party causes to Democratic Party entities like state parties and Democratic politicians and all kinds of left liberal activist causes but then he would hide the donations he was making to Republicans because, as he himself said, in an interview he gave, once it was clear that he was about to be extradited, everybody knows that the way you curry media’s favor is by showing them that you’re a Democrat.

Want to know what a “baby bust” looks like? It looks like this in the United States, with a sharp divide between the Baby Boomers and what came after.

New Biden ‘efficiency’ rule would ban half of gas stoves on the U.S. market

France was once Europe’s superpower, thanks above all to its enormous population. Its decline coincided with a collapse in its birth rate – now we know why.

Too little salt could be risky for heart failure patients

University of South Australia researchers are calling for exercise to be a mainstay approach for managing depression as a new study shows that physical activity is 1.5 times more effective than counseling or the leading medications.

Improving how credit cards work under the covers

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Ukraine’s Verdun

Russian Tanks Reverting To Cold War Thermal Sights

The West Lives On in the Taliban’s Afghanistan

A new report reveals the US’ largest power grid is shuttering power generation units faster than new supply can be brought online, threatening electric reliability in 13 states that stretch from Illinois to New Jersey with over 65 million customers.

How I Broke Into a Bank Account With an AI-Generated Voice

Someone had similar tastes to grumpy. Residue analysis evidence for wine enriched with vanilla consumed in Jerusalem on the eve of the Babylonian destruction in 586 BCE

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Mariupol Strikes Raise Questions About Possible New Ukrainian Long-Range Weapons

The number of babies expected per woman in South Korea dropped to 0.78 last year, down from 0.81 a year earlier.

California Budget Deficit is Even Worse than Gov. Newsom Initially Projected

Webb telescope discovery was so shocking astronomers thought it was a mistake

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The Historic High-Stakes Operation That Brought Biden To Kyiv

A 6.4-magnitude earthquake on Monday rocked Turkey’s southern province of Hatay and northern Syria, killing three people and sparking fresh panic after a February 6 tremor that left nearly 45,000 dead in both countries.

The chief of Spain’s state rail operator Renfe and the country’s secretary of state for transport resigned on Monday following an outcry over the procurement of trains too wide to fit through tunnels.

James O’Keefe Out at Project Veritas, Updated with Video More at “I don’t build to have donors, I have donors to build”

Public Pension Funding Average Now Below 50%, Yet Beneficiaries and Press Stay Mum

The Cameras Worked Fine. Their Maker Said They Had Reached Their End of Life.

Report: Israeli Airstrike Hits Iranian Military and Hezbollah Terror Base in Syria

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, FEBRUARY 19, 2023

As cash runs out, Pakistan introduces bill to unlock IMF funds

A human player has comprehensively defeated a top-ranked AI system at the board game Go, in a surprise reversal of the 2016 computer victory that was seen as a milestone in the rise of artificial intelligence.

Internal review found ‘falsified data’ in Stanford President’s Alzheimer’s research, colleagues allege

GoDaddy says a multi-year breach hijacked customer websites and accounts

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, FEBRUARY 18, 2023

UK To Give Kyiv “Longer-Range Weapons”

The FBI’s Balkan scandal keeps spreading

Israeli strike hits heart of Syria’s security elite

Iranian drone hit Israeli-owned tanker in Arabian Sea

Is Your Baby ‘Nonbinary’? Social Workers in Pennsylvania Are Now Required To Say

A very dark experiment is under way in Nigeria, with deadly consequences. Since October 2021, 99.5% of Nigerians have refused to use the central bank’s digital currency, the so-called e-Naira, preferring to continue using cash. So what did the central bank do? It doubled down. Related: Social Credit Brazilian Style: All UBI Recipients Must Be Vaxxed

Just to be clear, it is the publisher that is doing this. You can no longer buy the man’s books brand new. A group of self-important woke lefties is “fixing” the works of Roald Dahl for a “modern audience.”

Microsoft “lobotomized” AI-powered Bing Chat, and its fans aren’t happy

Astrophysicists Discover a Mysterious Perfect Explosion in Space – “It Makes No Sense”

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Large groups of mostly older people gathered in the cities of Wuhan and Dalian, in the latest sign of the economic fallout of China’s “zero-Covid” policies.

The bad news for California starts out with “California tax revenues, a bellwether for the country, declined 42% year-over-year in January, led by a 50% decline in income tax revenues.”

Ukrainians Defend Trench From Russian Assault

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