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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 20

Flu Is Making A Comeback.

It’s probably worse than Wuhan’: Experts warn China’s COVID-19 lockdowns will once again cripple global supply chains

Slovakia Mulls Delivery Of MiG-29s To Ukraine

Iran needs $80 bil gas investment to avoid becoming an importer

Trudeau invents license for “journalists” so readers know which ones are Government Approved

In China Kids Aren’t Learning About Pimping In Math Class

the total supplies in American storage facilities at the end of January were 17% lower than the previous five-year average for that time of year. In that one month, we withdrew 991 billion cubic feet of gas from those reserves. That’s the most natural gas we have withdrawn from storage in the month of January since 2012.

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 18

China Censors Its Own National Anthem amid Growing Unrest with Coronavirus Lockdowns

Loose Nuke Talk

Second British soldier captured in Mariupol paraded on Russian TV

Australian electricity price doubles

Tumors partially destroyed with sound don’t come back

Federal judge strikes down CDC mask mandate for travel

US firm on nuclear accord as Iran casts blame

Analysis: Hamas-Led Militant Groups Create Strife at Al-Aqsa Mosque

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 17

H5N1 Bird Flu Detections across the United States (Backyard and Commercial)

Get ready for the next supply chain shockwave

Now truckers are blocking the Mexico border over inspections ordered by Texas governor

Libya firm forced to close major oil field

One of the delusions I had when I was younger was that when reality hit people would change their minds. Seattle’s transit system struggles as riders refuse to pay

Swedish police shoot 3 during fresh riots

The real cost of firming intermittent power in the grid

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 16

White House restarting federal oil, gas lease sales next week

Why Elon Musk has rattled them

‘Ripe for explosion’: Israel-Palestine tensions rise in Ramadan

Comments are more interesting then the article on this one. They sound all to familiar to those of us in State Service. Watching the mass exodus of our operational knowledge is one of the saddest evolutions I have witnessed. Many of my fire assignments have transformed from operationally focused suppression tactics to exercises in preserving human life. We do not have the tacit knowledge, operational competence, or resource capacity to be effective with the scale of wildfire complexity we are facing.

Americans Gon’ Wild: Gonorrhea and Syphilis at Record Highs in 2020

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 15

Approaching Famine?

The YouTube that goes along with this has some shocking statistics. I am going to have look into this a little more. Is China Screwed?

A map of political blogs.

Neptune’s Wrath: The Flagship Moskva’s Demise

‘Censorship is free speech’ is the establishment’s Orwellian line on Elon Musk’s Twitter crusade

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 14

New US Military Aid for Ukraine Includes Helicopters, Howitzers

Last month, members of Russia’s Federal Security Service, or FSB, began to disappear

Sri Lanka declares bankruptcy Commentary to be found here.

UPDATE: IT SANK If you want a more technical overview read this.

Why Germany Won’t Keep Its Nuclear Plants Open Related: “We’re out,” Trump announced to his distraught advisers, adding: “We’re not going to fight someone they’re paying.”

This self-described “control deficiency” is actually an outrageous breach of ethics—and possibly law—by SEC that illustrates why the Constitution forbids housing prosecutorial functions and adjudicatory functions in a single agency.

About 31% of grocery products consumers browsed were out of stock in the first week of April

Elon Musk’s Big Move on Twitter

Forgot to hit publish on this yesterday

China food security: farmers in Jilin leave fields fallow as lockdown threatens corn supply

A new California bill threatens to strip doctors of their medical licenses for saying things the state doesn’t like

Consumer prices rose 8.5% in March, slightly hotter than expected and the highest since 1981

Exxon Bets Another $10 Billion On Guyana’s Oil Boom

Shooting in Brooklyn subway station leaves multiple victims, authorities find undetonated explosives

UPDATE 1-U.S. wheat supply outlook rises as exports fall – government

The Oregon State Treasury is moving into a newly constructed structure designed to withstand every disaster the designers could conjure.

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 11

Democrats are sleepwalking into a Senate disaster

The marines complained over a lack of support from Ukraine’s military leadership: “No one wants to communicate with us anymore because we’ve been written off.”

Five Democrats — but not Cuomo — have filed to run for New York governor

Now New York bond yields are higher than Florida’s just as the Empire State’s rich-resident tax base has significantly thinned.

Shanghai Lockdown Horror: Starvation And Suicide

How Marine Le Pen conquered Normandy

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 10

Secret Service agents in Biden detail reportedly part of bribery scheme

Covidians and the Coin Shortage

Fourth dose booster honeymoon all over in just 8 weeks

Russian Mass-Casualty Attack on Civilians at Kramatorsk Train Station

COVID-19 cases rise rapidly in New York City, DC

‘Unbearable’: Over 800K customers in Puerto Rico without power for second day

Why, in spite of my preferences, I am stockpiling rice instead of wheat. I don’t think this will last. Rice prices, meanwhile, were mostly unchanged compared to February.

Survivors Describe the Russian Atrocities in Bucha

The United States and Europe need to toughen up on the spoilers in their own ranks.

3 Shanghai officials sacked over COVID-19 response

New Details Emerge on Downtown Sacramento Massacre that Killed Six

The Post Millennial reported that the concept emerged from Good Shepard Lutheran Church in Fayetteville, Arkansas, to help children experiment with transgenderism without their parents’ knowledge.