RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JUNE 3

Someone apparently leaked classified Chinese tank schematics to win an online argument

Ukraine’s Agriculture Minister on Wheat Exports

The Depp Trial and the Demise of the ACLU: How a Celebrity Trial Exposed the Collapse of a Once Celebrated Group

The Myth of the Disease-Ridden Red States

Chinese students stage rare COVID protests ahead of Tiananmen anniversary

Switzerland Risks Power Shortages Next Winter

2 monkeypox strains in US suggest possible undetected spread

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JUNE 1

Libya grapples with mounting food costs, diminishing oil revenues

Paper Trail of Terror

Greatly overstates the lack of effectiveness of strategic bombing but the general point is right on the money. OF SANCTIONS AND STRATEGIC BOMBERS

New Lancet Study Destroys the CDC’s Justification for School Mask Mandates

‘Furious’ Biden Reminded Staff ‘He’s the One Who Is President’ after Gaffe Clean-Ups

Ukraine Losing up to 100 Soldiers a Day

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MAY 30

US-Made Microchips Found in Captured Russian Weapons: Report

Wild animals evolving much faster than previously thought

Time is ticking to replace the Pentagon’s 1970s-era Doomsday planes

Ottawa set to introduce new firearms legislation that could revive mandatory assault-rifle buyback program

Updated Johns Hopkins Study on Lockdowns Debunks the Fact Checkers

Another La Nina? Climate models just flummoxed.

Geopolitical risks fueled by Iran and US tensions reasserted itself after the former seized two Greek tankers, unsettling an already volatile oil market that has seen oil prices rise to two-month highs.

Mexico’s Spend On Fuel Subsidy Is Double Its Oil Exports Revenue

The bloc has overcome objections to a long-stalled plan to impose an oil embargo on Russia. The EU has also agreed to remove Sberbank from the SWIFT payment system.

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MAY 29

Here’s where dangerous ticks are spreading across the US

DuckDuckGo faces widespread backlash over tracking deal with Microsoft

Germany’s Scholz wobbles on tanks for Ukraine

the New York legislature is deliberating two extended producer responsibility bills as its session nears its June 2 close. Lobbying by business and environmental groups has been particularly intense around details such as what recycling goals must be met and who sets them. Industry and environmentalists alike believe that when a state as big as New York adopts a law, it creates a template or standard that other states might adopt too.

Container shipping situation worsens due to congestion, delays, and empty containers

USDA Raises Food Price Forecast to Highest Level in 42 Years, Third Wave of U.S. Food Inflation Will Dwarf Prior Price Increases

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MAY 28

Institutional/Authority Collapse

I’m looking at the history of school shootings. Mind-blowing, kids brought guns to school until the 70s. Only 3 school mass shootings between 1903-1966. I’m looking at the history of school shootings. Mind-blowing, kids brought guns to school until the 70s.

PRACTICAL POWER BEAMING GETS REAL

Short term, that might drive meat prices down. Long term, they will skyrocket.

Open With Care: That Next Power Bill Could Shock You

India, the world’s largest producer of sugar, is restricting exports

Solar Microgrids Are Keeping Ukraine’s Hospitals Running

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MAY 24

Take the theory with a big grain of salt but the facts are bad enough. The Economic Doom Loop Has Begun

The Search for Long Covid

Why is Xi Jinping doubling down on a ‘zero-Covid’ policy that is causing massive economic distress and public anger in China?

Washington considers tapping emergency diesel reserves.

Energy Crisis picks up speed Downunder

Why we can’t do anything: State’s $100M program to convert hotels into housing drew just one applicant

South Ossetian soldiers who left the fight in Ukraine describe dysfunction of the Russian military campaign

IRGC Colonel Assassinated in Tehran, Mossad Suspected of Being Behind Hit

Turkish president reveals intentions to launch new military campaign in Syria

Texas school shooting: 18 children killed, senator says

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MAY 23

This Is the Southern Baptist Apocalypse

Will There Be Enough Diesel, Jet Fuel, and Gasoline This Summer?

Had to have been a black bear. A grizzly bear doing the same thing would not have had as a happy ending. A Wisconsin couple say they killed a bear who attacked them inside their home after they spotted it eating from their bird feeder.

In one such new study, researchers found that men and women infected by Toxoplasma gondii ended up being rated as more attractive and healthier-looking than non-infected individuals.

Young children who grow up with a dog or in a large family may have some protection later in life from a common inflammatory bowel disease known as Crohn’s disease

Did Biden Just Provoke Another International Crisis?