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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, SEPTEMBER 17

Ukraine’s Counteroffensives in Kharkiv and Kherson and the Road Ahead

A US Rail Strike Was Averted—but the Crisis Is Far From Over

Why It’s Time to Declassify the Documents From Trump’s Basement

China Signs Major Railroad Deal With Uzbekistan And Kyrgyzstan, Bypassing Russia

Facebook spied on private messages of Americans who questioned 2020 election

U.S. drug shortages put people with life-threatening illness at risk

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They posted today’s in time for me to link to it. RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, SEPTEMBER 16 That means that yesterday’s (found here) has been skipped over but it did not have anything particularly noteworthy in it.

The critical moment behind Ukraine’s rapid advance

FedEx issues ominous warning about the global economy, shares tumble

Fodder dries up for Pakistan’s livestock as floodwaters stay high

Five bank ‘heists’ in a day as Lebanese seek back frozen savings

Mysterious increase in deaths across Europe

An oil spill has forced a shutdown of all crude oil exports from Iraq’s Basra Port, oil sector sources said on Friday, cited by Reuters.

Israel’s Defense Minister Reveals Syrian Military Sites Used to Produce Advanced Weapons for Iran

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, SEPTEMBER 14

Wegmans discontinues its in-store scan-and-go mobile app, citing high losses

The first German companies have begun throwing in the towel and consumption is collapsing in response to the fallout from exploding energy prices. The economy is sliding almost uncontrolled into a crisis that could permanently weaken the country.

Election Interference: DOJ/FBI Carpet-Bombed Subpoenas An Attempt To Freeze Political Opposition In Runup To Midterms

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, SEPTEMBER 13

More interesting then it sounds but you have to get to the part where they talk about the quality of the study. A daily multivitamin could keep your memory sharp as you age

Mortgage demand from homebuyers falls 29% since last year, as interest rates surge past 6%

Actually, it is starting to make the news now but a little late. The Biggest Looming Crisis You’ve Heard Almost Nothing About

Always seems like that when the standard model ever goes into conflict with general relativity, general relativity wins (not that this conflict happens all that often). The energy of the vacuum should have a gravitational effect on large atoms. But physicists’ attempts to measure it have puzzlingly come up empty.

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, SEPTEMBER 12

Russian retreats continue as emboldened Ukrainians push on, shoot down drone

Switzerland looks at jailing people for heating their homes “excessively”

Inflation rose 0.1% in August even with sharp drop in gas prices

Plastic Might Be Making You Fat

Border conflict breaks out between Armenia, Azerbaijan as Russia distracted by Ukraine

Pakistan floods threaten food security as critical crops destroyed

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, SEPTEMBER 11

Ukraine Strikes Multiple Targets INSIDE Russia, More Deputies Call for Putin’s Ouster

Why Europe Won’t Exploit Its Huge Gas Reserves

China loan fact of the day

This should be the absolute peak of hurricane season—but it’s dead quiet out there

Unions blast rail move to delay shipments before deadline

The Pentagon has furnished some 800,000 155-mm artillery rounds to Ukraine, while the US has just one factory making them, the General Dynamics plant in Scranton, Pennsylvania that produces only 14,000 rounds a month.

NY Gov. Hochul’s Law Claims Its First Victims: Historical Battle Reenactors

NY Times Hit Piece On Hasidic Education Published On Eve Of NY Regents Vote To Undermine All Religious Schools

Sanctuary City DC Declares State Of Emergency Over “Flood” Of Illegal Migrants Bused From Border States

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, SEPTEMBER 10

This shut off the power to a lot of people in Ukraine. ‘Daily attacks’ Putin targets natural gas thermal power plant in Kharkiv in missile strike

The fall of Los Angeles Related in a funny way.

‘A necessity’: Lebanon’s forced conversion to solar

Cancers in Adults Under 50 Have Increased Dramatically Around The Globe

What is to become of Memphis?

Visa, Mastercard, AmEx to start categorizing gun shop sales

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Things are moving so fast this is already majorly out of date in terms of what Ukraine has taken. RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, SEPTEMBER 9

How the Russian invasion is changing Ukrainian farmers’ crops

Shipping lines and container owners in North America (majorly in the US) are finding it difficult to return containers to China. To add to the present challenges, the US is also facing major trucking issues that are making cargo movement within the country difficult.

In Face of Rising Domestic Prices, India Restricts Rice Exports

The World Is Not Ready For The Next Super-Eruption, Scientists Warn

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, SEPTEMBER 7

‘We got too comfortable’: the race to build an LNG terminal in north Germany

An Era Ends

Pietrucha’s fixation on China’s unlikely invasion of Taiwan today is similarly flawed because it fixates on the military fleet but ignores industrial capacity. The armada for a major amphibious assault, like that against Sicily or Taiwan, is built for the occasion and scrapped shortly thereafter, not maintained in readiness for decades.

Turkey, Greece escalate war of words as they drag in EU, NATO

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A day behind but they are putting them out to late at night these days to stay current. RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, SEPTEMBER 6

What the Natural Gas Shortage Means for Germany

D’Agostino chided the New York officials because they tried to press the same argument despite a prior appeals court ruling that made clear they were quite simply wrong;

Special Master Order Reveals Biden’s Direct Involvement In Trump Raid And Six Other Bombshells

UK quietly bans Covid vaccines for children under 11