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SIPRI, an international institute that focuses on research into conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament, noted that Russia is a major supplier of raw materials used in arms production.

Significant Trans-Atlantic Divides Emerge in Global Chip War

What a loosening of restrictions! Beijing is now allowing those who test positive for COVID-19 to quarantine at home rather than at isolation centers. Authorities in the capital on Saturday, canceled the testing requirement to ride public transport, alongside the cities of Tianjin, Shenzhen and Chengdu. Beijing is no longer restricting sales of cough and sore throat medicines, which were imposed because people were using the medication to hide COVID infections.

The Mysterious Case of Zika-Microcephaly’s Disappearance

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, DECEMBER 3

The Boy Who Lost His Family But Not His Hope

Never-before-seen malware is nuking data in Russia’s courts and mayors’ offices

Power Prices Scream Higher In Europe As Wind Power Slumps

Germany: RSV infection wave overloads children’s hospitals

The Numbers Are Screaming That A Giant Tsunami Of U.S. Layoffs Has Now Begun

Not something I expected big brother to do. Meet the S.H.A.R.T. machine, a device helping AI analyze toilet activities.

Tesla finally delivers first electric Semi to Pepsi after years of delay

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, DECEMBER 2

Today, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression sued New York Attorney General Letitia James, challenging a new state law that forces websites and apps to address online speech that someone, somewhere finds humiliating or vilifying.

Wild New Hypothesis Suggests IBS Could Be a Form of ‘Gravity Intolerance’

Credit cards as a legacy system

Fire Them All; God Will Know His Own

The Biden administration is again considering tapping additional emergency energy reserves; this time of heating fuel and oil as winter nears and uncertainty over market prices grows.

Thousands of California’s Convicted Pedophiles Released after Serving Less Than a Year

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, DECEMBER 1

Fears of Chinese Aggression Grow in Taiwan

A Chinese view of the history of Taiwan’s last conquest.

How Magazines’ Advice to Parents Has Changed Over a Century

Senate Passes Measures to Avert Oncoming Railroad Strike

Rooftop solar in South Australia Causes Grid Issues

Not Even N95 Masks Work To Stop Covid

EPA quietly quadruples regulatory cost of carbon emissions in new war on fossil fuels

Explaining and fixing bugs in code.

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, NOVEMBER 30

The global balance of payments only adds up if the G-7’s geopolitical rivals are also its bankers.

Liubov Yarosh survived Soviet dispossession, the Holodomor famine and World War II. At 102, she is living through war once again, supporting Ukrainian troops in their fight against Russia’s war of aggression.

China’s nuclear arsenal is likely to more than triple to 1,500 warheads by 2035

Apple Turned Off Protest Communication Tool Right Before Anti-Lockdown Uprising in China

Building Fast and Slow Part II – The World Trade Center

‘A gentle calm’: France’s streets once again echo to sound of working horses

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, NOVEMBER 29

Europe Remains Russia’s Biggest Diesel Buyer

Context for the link yesterday. Quebec Retailer Simons Tries to Normalize Assisted Suicide in Latest Ad Campaign

A Looming Rail Strike Would Affect Energy Supplies

Biden Begs Congress to Help Halt Pre-Christmas Rail Strike

South Korean president orders cement truckers back to work

Taliban ends ceasefire with Pakistani government, vows ‘revenge attacks’ across the country

The power problems of the British people. The drop in electricity production is equal to switching off 14 nuclear power stations.

On the Diplomacy AI

At present, both India and China have 1.43 billion people. The difference is that while China will depopulate and age over the next forty years, during the same time, India will add the same number of people China loses, over a quarter of a billion.

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, NOVEMBER 28

A Canadian Commercial For Assisted Suicide.

Bird flu prompts slaughter of 1.8M chickens in Nebraska

In a statement, it said it had not received an official explanation or apology from China, “beyond a claim by the officials who later released him that they had arrested him for his own good in case he caught Covid from the crowd”. And some more on protest signs.

Indian Intelligence Official Anand Arni on Pakistan’s New Army Chief Gen Asim Munir

Another long hotel siege ends in Mogadishu

We Just Got The Most Detailed View of an Exoplanet Atmosphere Yet

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, NOVEMBER 27 If you want a more in-depth look at the defensive fortifications that this update talks about, you can watch this.

1 in 4 Young Russians Haven’t Heard of the Fall of the Berlin Wall – Poll

Here’s what it’s like when your kids get sick in Québec right now – a long thread.

Where is this chip embargo now?

An Urumqi apartment fire is the latest test of China’s zero-Covid strategy

Side-hustlers who get paid via Cash App and Venmo risk being audited if they don’t report their earnings, IRS warns

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Fifteen regions in Ukraine were struggling with water supply problems after repeated Russian strikes against civilian and energy infrastructure.

Iran Protests Continue Despite Brutal Repression

The Diesel Crunch Is Finally Causing Demand Destruction

Flu hospitalization rate highest in over a decade

Flu variant that hits kids and seniors harder than other strains is dominant in U.S. right now