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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 12

UN Warns Of Disaster As Russia, Ukraine Face Off In Zaporizhia

CDC Quietly Ends Differentiation on Covid Vaccination Status

Denmark outlaws the COVID vaccines for children

Top Taliban Cleric Killed in Kabul Suicide Blast Claimed by IS

Novelist Salman Rushdie was stabbed on stage preparing to give a speech in Chautauqua, New York

Local governments in New York could lower speed limit to 25 mph under new law

You don’t have to have a lot of sympathy for the pharmaceutical industry to worry about more complicated and arbitrary rules being added to our health care system. on the new health care provisions

France battles extremely violent wildfire, officials warn additional flare-ups could cause it to spread further

The Term ‘Inmate’ Can No Longer Be Used In NY State Law

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Novofedorivka – Saki Air base attack satellite imagery – The aftermath

Amnesty International, Ukraine, and the Illusion of NGO Fact-Finding Expertise.

A neuroscience image sleuth finds signs of fabrication in scores of Alzheimer’s articles, threatening a reigning theory of the disease

Climate policy numbers

FCC Cancels Starlink Funding for Rural Broadband Program

OBSERVATIONS ON THE MAR-A-LAGO RAID

Here’s how the rule of law applied to a former FBI lawyer who pleaded guilty to forgery

Welcome to the Third World

FBI, R.I.P.?

Saudi Arabia secures funding for electricity interconnection with Egypt

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 10

Russian Airbase In Crimea Goes Boom

Notable only because it is the editorial board. If Merrick Garland doesn’t give a solid, fast reason for raiding Trump’s home, he’s probably just re-elected him

White House Claims Biden Was Not Briefed on FBI Raid at Mar-a-Lago

Locusts Can Smell Cancer, And It Could Give Us a Brilliant New Way to Save Lives

Fish Oil Is Good! No, Bad! No, Good! No, Wait

How big is the housing shortage?

Urgent polio boosters for London children

China graft probes stem from anger over failed chip plans

Gas Prices See Fastest Decline in over a Decade, Down 83 Cents Since Mid-June

Think 9% Inflation Is Bad? Try 90%.

The Global Diesel Crunch Is Going To Get Worse

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 9

Russian Defence Research Expert on AFU performance, the effect of Western weapon supplies

Wagner Group on HIMARS

Mysterious Jets of Upside-Down Lightning Are Real, And We Just Got Our Best Look Yet

Inside the War Between Trump and His Generals

Judge who OK’d Mar-a-Lago raid Obama donor once linked to Jeffrey Epstein and Trump raid sparked by boxes of materials including Kim Jong Un letters, cocktail napkin

The Democrats’ New Inflation Bill Includes Tax Credits for Electric Vehicles That Don’t Exist

New IIHS Side-Impact Crash Test Shows Troubling Sedan, Wagon Results

Major test of first possible Lyme vaccine in 20 years begins

Basically, it looks like Hamas sat back and let Israel kills some of its rivals. Israel-Hamas understanding key to quick end to Gaza fighting

Netherlands to SHUT DOWN 11 200 farms to meet climate goals

“This is horrific,” New York City mayor says of Greg Abbott’s policy as second busload of migrants from Texas arrives

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 8

Donald Trump says FBI carried out ‘unannounced raid’ on Mar-a-Lago property

Corruption is sending shock waves through China’s chipmaking industry

The system of rolling holidays for different industrial areas is expected to reduce pressure on electricity demand as well as fuel oils for public transport, Hamid said. The South Asian nation, also the world’s No. 2 garments exporter after China, has resorted to power cuts to preserve fuel reserves amid war-induced energy price shocks, and separately approached multilateral lenders including the International Monetary Fund for loans to shore up its foreign reserves as import bills balloon.

The world’s least understood ignition source is causing devastating wildfires across Montana’s Powder River Basin.

One of the biggest textbook publishers is tired of not making any money when you buy a used textbook — and wants to explore using NFTs to get a cut

China builds watchtowers inside India-claimed lines

Wasted and not properly tracked are two separate things and this site is over hyping this a little bit. But it is a reminder that self censorship is alive and well on this subject. CBS News Censors Its Own Documentary Exposing How 70% of US Funding of Ukraine is Wasted

Maybe this seemed more consistent in the original German? Kevin Short, a professor who specializes in environmental education at the Tokyo University of Information Sciences, agrees that the loss of habitat is a major reason for increasing numbers of wild animal intrusions into urban areas.He also pointed out that due to Japan’s shrinking rural populations, there are fewer hunters to cull wildlife, resulting in an explosion in the number of bears, boars and monkeys in recent years.

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 7

To be more precise, the bill as it currently stands is going to more then double the IRS headcount. Dems Poised To Make IRS Larger Than Pentagon, State Department, FBI, and Border Patrol Combined

French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne warned that France is facing the “most severe drought” ever recorded in the country and announced the activation of a government crisis unit.

Hu Xijin faced some blowback after Pelosi landed safely in Taiwan

BRINGING THE HAVOC HOME

WTI crude oil prices fell to their lowest point since early February on Thursday, giving up virtually all gains since Russia invaded Ukraine.

Putting Ukraine’s Grain Export Deal Into Context

I think the deal was more about giving the western powers a fig leaf to letting Russian wheat go to market (and the Russians are on track to have a great harvest). Also, Ukraine has been destroyed by war and oppressions many times in the last 100 years alone and it keeps bouncing back as a bread basket. But in the short term I think the clip below is pretty spot on.

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 3

Taiwan’s Defense Ministry described the latest PLA actions as essentially a “maritime and aerial blockade.”

Germany’s Natural Gas Crunch Could Cause Supply Chains To Collapse

To be precise, the headline should have said Pentecostal churches. Spiritual union: why Gulf migrants are turning to evangelical Christianity

While the infrastructure act authorizes a pilot program to test collecting the personal information needed to charge drivers for their use of roads and highways, it doesn’t answer the far thornier questions about how to protect that data. Will only the feds track drivers? Will each state and locality that currently depends on fuel taxes also monitor drivers? If so, will the data be pooled? Will destinations be tracked along with mileage?

Four dead in South Africa protests over high power costs

IRANIAN PROXIES MAY ATTACK US IN RESPONSE TO IRAQI POLITICAL CRISIS

Kansans vote to uphold abortion rights in their state

Mauna Loa is the largest shield volcano on Earth (above water, at least) – and scientific data reveals more about what might be enough to set off future eruptions.

Newly Discovered Emails Confirm Joe Biden Obstructed Justice For His Son’s Foreign Business Deal

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 2

There is a third possibility that is not mentioned. He might have legitimate issues that are not being covered. Why Is the White House Quietly Griping about Zelensky Now?

A Vicious Smear

Canada’s government is now coming for the farmers

Get the Lead Out of Turmeric!

Surprise: Misleadingly-Named “Inflation Reduction Act” Will Raise Taxes Even On The Middle Class

Iran vows to build nukes if provoked, turn NY into ‘hellish ruins’

Earth Is Spinning Faster Than Usual, Leading to the Shortest Day Ever Recorded

China’s 7nm chip surprise reveals more than Beijing might like

HAS TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS STALLED?

US House Speaker Pelosi Lands in Taiwan; Chinese Warplanes Take to Skies