RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MAY 8

Beware the ‘Sure Thing’

U.S. Spooks Can’t Keep Their Mouths Shut About Helping Ukraine Kill Russians

Target Transnistria: Russia’s Maskirovka and Pathways to Escalation

Rising Oil Prices Buying Iran Time in Nuclear Talks

Russia’s military-industrial complex in panic over low salaries, mass layoffs

If California’s cumulative rate of excess mortality equaled Florida’s, about 5,000 fewer Californians would have died during the pandemic. And if California’s unemployment rate equaled Florida’s last year, 500,000 fewer Californians would have been out of work.

Ephemeral car software and the Internet of Things are killing the ‘car you own forever’ era.

Take note: “They constantly send messages saying they will offer rewards and remove certain sanctions if we give up seeking revenge for Soleimani,” IRGC Navy Admiral Ali Reza Tangsiri said on 21 April. “But this is wishful thinking. The leader of the Islamic Revolution insists on taking revenge, and the IRGC commander has said that revenge is inevitable.”

Between searing drought and Ukraine war, Iraq watchful over wheat

President Biden’s $6 billion nuclear bailout aims to patch up an industry damaged by bad energy policies.

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MAY 3

Media is Slowly Coming Around to Idea that Covid Vaccines Aren’t as Effective as Advertised

Shanghai reports 58 new cases in unguarded, low-risk zones in setback for city’s ‘societal zero-Covid’ push

Beijing to conduct three more rounds of testing in three days to stamp out latest flare-up

Justice Alito meticulously dissects, and forcefully responds to, every conceivable position in favor of retaining Roe and Casey.

The Shocking Supreme Court Leak

Coming soon to a country near you. Scorching electricity price spikes in NSW and Queensland

Taiwan Considering Alternative Weapons Amid US Howitzer Delay

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 30

I think the subtext is that Chinese collages are failing to impart skills that have any use. China has a youth unemployment problem

‘Maladaptive Daydreaming’ Could Be a Distinct Psychiatric Disorder, Scientists Claim

The Countless Failures of Big Bureaucracy

This will be so unpopular that I have to wonder what kind of drugs they are smoking. They would have been better off just putting more money in the budget for this instead of taking from the VA. Mayorkas looks to divert VA funding to illegal immigrants

Colorado inmate is first American to test positive for bird flu

Millions of bees used in pollination die in airline shipping

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 29

Latam soybean oil prices skyrocket above historical $1,900/mt

Brazil’s Drought: The Trigger that Could Take Corn Prices Higher?

Heat wave scorches India’s wheat crop

Half of France’s nuclear reactors taken offline, adding to electricity demand on European grid

Political stakes high as Beijing responds to virus outbreak

James Webb Space Telescope completes alignment in huge milestone

Cases Of Mysterious Liver Damage In Children Spread To Japan And China