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

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, OCTOBER 30

In the grips of war, Ukraine faces bleak demographic future

Threat of Nationwide Railroad Strike Grows after 2nd Union Rejects Proposed Deal

75% Of US Winter Wheat Suffers From Drought

Flu season in the US hasn’t been this bad this early in more than a decade. Related: Second child to die from flu this season reported in Texas

Debate over possible acetaminophen-autism link heads to court

New Technique For Decoding People’s Thoughts Can Now Be Done From a Distance

Even Greenpeace now admits the obvious: recycling doesn’t work.