RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, NOVEMBER 10

A Different Take On Russia

Europe in trouble. More French nuclear power out for winter, and prices hit €1,000/MW

3D-printed guns are on the rise in Australia. How can we prevent them being made?

Iran Warns Saudi Arabia ‘Our Strategic Patience’ May Run Out

With no vaccine or treatment available for a strain of Ebola that is circulating in Uganda, the country’s latest outbreak is shaping up to be the third largest on record.

Dentists’ water lines linked to rare bacterial infections, CDC warns

The loss of glaciers from Glacier National Park is one of the most visible manifestations of climate change in the U.S. Signs were posted all around the park, proclaiming that the glaciers would be gone by 2020. In 2017, the Park started taking these signs down. What happened, beyond the obvious fact that the glaciers hadn’t disappeared by 2020?

Hensley says that this is because the population “is more immunologically naive than what we would expect in most years”. Normally, children get infected by their second birthday. Now, “you’re going to end up having kids that are three, four years of age right now who have never seen RSV”.

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, NOVEMBER 9

Russia Traded Captured Western Weapons for Iranian Drones

Top Russian Security Official Arrives in Tehran in Fresh Sign of Deepening Ties With Iranian Regime

A New Concern: Falling US Treasury Demand

Vermont Woman Mauled by Bear in Her Backyard While Letting Dog Out

CNN National House Exit Poll 65 and older R +13 45 to 64 R +1130 to 44. D +218 to 29. D+28

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, NOVEMBER 8

Ukraine plunges into darkness after wave of Russian attacks

Sweden Wins! Country That Refused Lockdown and Kept Schools Open Has Lowest Pandemic Mortality in the World

Despot Times, Despot Measures

Cacophonocracy

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, NOVEMBER 7

The wounded Khan, worried Generals and political chaos

Japan’s population problem forces changes to social security

Oil Prices Slide As China Reaffirms Covid Containment Strategy

Elsewhere in COVID news, a report suggests that in China’s first- and second-tier cities, the total cost of implementing normalized nucleic acid testing has reached about RMB1.7 trillion per year – accounting for around 1.3% of China’s GDP.

Japan’s Ruling Government in Crisis Over Unification Church Scandals

New York’s Energy Transition Plans Are Not Feasible

If the Senate got its way — and the bill they passed in March became law — today would have been the last-ever “fall back.” But instead, the bill for permanent daylight saving quietly died in the House. I got curious how that happened.

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, NOVEMBER 6

Why So Many Jails Are in a ‘State of Complete Meltdown’

The State Department is giving law enforcement and intelligence agencies unrestricted access to the personal data of more than 145 million Americans, through information from passport applications that is shared without legal process or any apparent oversight

Facebook parent Meta is preparing large-scale layoffs this week

The one who created Stand Still Be Silent: One comic artist’s journey through atheism and nihilism to Christ.

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, NOVEMBER 4

More Questions about Spring 2020 Covid in New York City Hospitals

Paintballs to be shot at Dutch wolves in bid to make them less tame

To reach the Biden administration’s goal of a zero-carbon grid by 2035, U.S. generation capacity would have to triple compared to its 2020 level and power line capacity would have to double or triple, according to a report from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

It is a misleading headline but too good not to post. Mouse Study Suggests a Surprising Link Between Nose-Picking And Alzheimer’s

Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan ‘doing fine and stable’ in hospital after assassination bid

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, NOVEMBER 3

Bulgaria Parliament Approves Sending Military Aid to Ukraine

Turkey holds off on Finland and Sweden in NATO

Commentary from someone in Israel. Ignore the short section on the US. Israel returns Netanyahu to office

Can you guess the country based just on the headline? Underwater cables keep the internet online. When they congregate in one place, things get tricky.

‘Excellent News’: World Hails Ethiopia Truce

FDA reports shortages of amoxicillin

LAPD worked with CBS to hide Moonves sex scandal

Social Sciences are not science. Observing many researchers using the same data and hypothesis reveals a hidden universe of uncertainty

China’s mystery spaceplane releases object into orbit

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, NOVEMBER 1

Russia’s Leadership Is In Trouble As Inevitable Economic Mobilization Looms

Escape and evasion, the new required skill for your ordinary person. Shanghai Disney: Visitors unable to leave without negative Covid test as park shuts Related: More on people trying to escape the Foxcon lockdowns.

I am not sure I understand why this is a big deal, but critics of the story I posted earlier are making it out to be so for the sake of balance…ProPublica scrambles to check translation in COVID origin story

American and Saudi officials have warned of an imminent Iranian attack on Saudi Arabia and possibly Erbil, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The U.S. Diesel Shortage Is Worsening

It’s time to play “find the falling Chinese rocket” once again