Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 24, 2023

A reminder of what has happened in the past: While Williams’ exploits on November 18, 1952, were very clearly extraordinary, the delicate political position at the time meant that there would be very little fanfare. Since Moscow was not officially involved as a Korean War combatant, having a U.S. fighter jet shoot down Soviet fighters flying from a Soviet airbase, killing Soviet airmen in the process, was strictly taboo.

Pentagon Planning GOP House Speaker McCarthy Visit To Taiwan This Spring

Excess Deaths in Finland and Norway in 2022 Were Higher Than in Sweden in 2020

Seattle Is Running Out of Morgue Space Due to the Fentanyl Crisis

2022 is the only year with negative bond and stock yields.

Spotify cuts 6% of its workforce amid revenue crunch

As egg prices soar, the deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history drags on

Alaska and Pennsylvania Set New Record Series Low Unemployment rates in December

Former FBI Official Who Worked on Trump-Russia Probe ‘Charged With Violating U.S. Sanctions on Russia’

Today’s blacklisted American: Game publisher fires employee for expressing mildly conservative opinions

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JANUARY 23, 2023

Why Capturing The Small Town Of Kreminna Matters

China’s Xi Tells Border Troops To Be ‘Ready For Combat’ Amid Rising Tensions With India

Power outage plunges Pakistan into darkness

Netherlands To Shut Down Europe’s Largest Gas Field

What Can We Learn from Barnes & Noble’s Surprising Turnaround?

Many people are vaguely aware that financial institutions have a responsibility to Know Your Customer (KYC) and have anti-moneylaundering (AML) programs, but what do those actually mean?

The New York Times is publishing this stuff?

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JANUARY 22, 2023

Eggs Now Hottest Item to be Smuggled into U.S. from Mexico

Rentokil pilots facial recognition system as way to exterminate rats

Police Arrest 6 After Fiery Atlanta Riots, Mayor Confirms Antifa Used Explosives

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JANUARY 21, 2023

French government plays down cost of strikes after huge turnout against pension reform “The interior ministry put the total number of protesters at 1.2 million – in what the government conceded was a large turnout.”

Most of this is pure speculation from Hezbolla’s English newspaper. But it is an interesting question. What prompted the urgent, secretive summit in Abu Dhabi?

The Domestic Terror Attacks You Haven’t Heard About

Linking just because it is so hard to find follow up stories on how things are working out over there. Sri Lanka has since shown some signs of progress with shortages reduced and day-to-day functions restored. However, daily power cuts continue due to the fuel shortage and the government is struggling to find money to pay government employees’ salaries and conduct other administrative functions. It announced this month it is cutting 6 percent from budgets for each ministry this year and plans to downsize its military, which had swelled to more than 200,000 personnel due to a long civil war. The government plans to cut the military’s size by nearly half by 2030.

The world has never been more vulnerable to a virus that focused on domesticated corn plants. Additionally, China is importing at times huge quantities of corn from the United States – the world’s biggest producer – in order to supply its massive livestock industry. In the U.S., corn is now making up 85 percent of primary cereal production, up from 62 percent in 1981. Another country with a prolific lifestock industry, Brazil, has seen an increase from 66 percent to 79 percent over the same time period.

Is the NHS the UK’s biggest problem?

Vox Media Lays Off About 130 Employees, 7% of Workforce

Most New Cars Are Now Being Purchased Under Sticker

What we know about how COVID-19 vaccines may affect menstrual cycles

A new super-strain of gonorrhea that is resistant to 5 antibiotics has been detected in US patients, health officials say

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JANUARY 20, 2023

“The foreign intelligence service informed security politicians in the Bundestag in a secret meeting this week that the Ukrainian Army is currently losing a three-digit number of soldiers every day in battles with the Russian invaders” in Bakhmut, according to Der Spiegel.

PEOPLE FORCED TO “GO TO WORK” IN THE METAVERSE SAY IT’S A COMPLETE NIGHTMARE

Coming soon to a city near you. Just a matter of time. Inside America’s Zombieland: Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood looks like a scene from the WALKING DEAD as grim photos show ‘tranq’ addicts shooting up in broad daylight on sidewalks

The Re-education of Dr Sally Price

Google will slash 12,000 jobs, or about 6 percent of the company.

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JANUARY 19, 2023

Pantsir Air Defense Systems Appear On Moscow Rooftops

Medvedev Warns Russia’s Defeat In Ukraine Would Mean Nuclear War

Europe still buying over quarter of diesel imports from Russia ahead of new curbs

Al Qaeda’s JNIM pushes closer to Malian capital

US begins ‘extraordinary measures’ to avert debt default

Apple Has Begun Scanning Your Local Image Files Without Consent

In a bombshell 10-1 ruling, Israel Supreme Court nixes interior and health minister appointment of Aryeh Deri

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JANUARY 17, 2023

The Urban Hellscape That Is Maryinka

The grain-size for sand in shooting ranges is specified, for example, while limits for the exposure to gunshot gas in the combat compartment of infantry fighting vehicles are bickered over so that the threat of “amniotic fluid damage to the female Puma crew” can be strictly ruled out.

LOSING TAIWAN MEANS LOSING JAPAN

Natural Gas Futures in Europe Plunge 15% Today, Down 84% from Crazy Spike

Health officials in New York City are saying that those who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 may be at a higher risk of contracting the new omicron subvariant XBB.1.5.

CYBERCRIMINALS STARTING TO USE CHATGPT

With $1.5 billion bill due at month-end, Elon Musk’s options aren’t great

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JANUARY 16, 2023

Russia Has Built Its First Production Batch Of Poseidon Nuclear Torpedoes: Report

Russia’s Wagner Group commander requests Norway asylum

Iran to Receive Russian Fighter Jets by March in Latest Sign of Growing Military Ties: Iranian Media

HOW POLICE EXPLOITED THE CAPITOL RIOT’S DIGITAL RECORDS

The U.S. Can’t Make Enough Plutonium Triggers for Its Nuclear Warheads

FBI Counterintelligence Raided Chinese Police Station in New York:

“A Historic Turning Point”: China Reports Blowout Q4 Economic Data As Population Falls For First Time In Decades

How the Onion Became the Symbol of Inflation in the Philippines

Japan’s Experts Baffled By High ‘COVID Deaths’ Despite High Vaccination Rate

Fluke Discovery of Ancient Farming Technique Could Stabilize Crop Yields