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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 9

Sunspot Activity on The Sun Is Seriously Exceeding Official Predictions

New Bayraktar UAVs Spotted In Ukraine

Prosecutors Fail to Secure a Single Guilty Verdict in Alleged Whitmer Kidnapping Plot

California food waste law proves heavy lift in small towns as fuel costs spike

Pets Slaughtered in Shanghai Because of Covid

These 5 States Will Have Highest Tax Burdens in 2022

A Few Remarks on the W Boson Mass Measurement

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 8

What’s Going on in Shanghai?

Wait, the Russians really did dig trenches near Chernobyl?

Explaining the LGBT Explosion

Walmart will train scores of warehouse workers as truckers, starting at up to $110,000

More than a dozen tornadoes have struck Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina on Tuesday

U.S. court reinstates Biden federal employee COVID vaccine mandate

US Senate Revives Lend-Lease Act

Chinese tests show nuclear bunkers are not what they used to be, with earth-penetrating weapons on the rise

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 7

SpaceX’s Starship: America’s Secret Weapon

Why is the U.S. inflation rate especially high?

Israel reaches out to China, again

U.S. says it secretly removed malware worldwide, preempting Russian cyberattacks

German Intelligence Intercepts Radio Traffic Discussing the Murder of Civilians

Israel’s Yair Lapid battered by security, coalition crises

Russia Sees Steepest Oil Production Decline Since May 2020 In Early April

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 5

German Industry Prepares for Worst-Case Scenario

The cost of zero Covid in Shanghai

Satellite Images Show Bodies in Bucha for Weeks, Rebutting Moscow Claim

New York jet fuel hits $7.59/gal, or $318.62/b, likely a refined products market record

The stuff recounted here is not good, but compared to many other conflicts I could name, it is actually kind of tame. At the Scene of the War Crimes

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 4

Defeated in Kyiv, Russia Downsizes War Aims to Donbas and Southern Ukraine

Russia cannot afford to lose, so we need a kind of a victory

The horrific crimes committed by Russian soldiers in Vladimir Putin’s war of extermination shows that a return to the old status quo will not be possible with this Russia.

Vladimir Putin’s 20-Year March to War in Ukraine—and How the West Mishandled It

People of Shanghai Forced Into Hard Lockdown

HOW’S THAT ZERO COVID STRATEGY WORKING OUT?

Are plastic bag bans backfiring?

Feral pigs are biological time bombs. Can California stem their ‘exponential’ damage?

Everyone is worried about gas prices, but diesel is driving inflation more than you think

Will Yemen’s latest truce hold?

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 3

From Beirut to Baghdad: Lebanese flee crisis seeking jobs in Iraq

A Perfect Inflationary Storm is Brewing at the Intersection of India’s Coal and Power Sectors

Ukrainian MiG-29 Pilot’s Front-Line Account Of The Air War Against Russia

“This Shouldn’t Happen”: Inside the Virus-Hunting Nonprofit at the Center of the Lab-Leak Controversy

Ukrainian oil refining and fuel storage infrastructure hit by Russian attacks

Biden to invoke Defense Production Act for electric vehicle battery materials

Germany and Austria take step towards gas rationing

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 2

THE HELICOPTER STRIKE IN BELGOROD

The Return of the Third Horseman

Google Search Is Dying

The violence in Kharkiv has been brutal and the shelling relentless.

Sri Lanka plunges into darkness amid fuel crisis

Russia’s Gazprom exits German business amid crisis in energy ties

If Biden Continues Massive Oil Release, How Long Would Reserves Last?

Court Declares Unconstitutional California’s Racial, Ethnic, LGBT Quota for Corporate Boards

US carves out mechanism for insulating Russian fertilizer exports from sanctions

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 1

Ukrainian Mi-24 Attack Helicopters Destroy Fuel Depot In Russia

A House bill could create an experiment on digital US cash

Nuclear-Armed Russian Fighters Breached Swedish Airspace

The Scottish Government Just Prosecuted a Man for Sending a Rude Tweet

100% of excessive inflation is due to bad monetary policy

Germany Could Nationalize Parts Of Russian Oil And Gas Giants

Biden’s SPR Release Sends Oil Prices Below $100

Steel Shortage Adds To U.S. Shale Drillers’ Woes

When you send a 93 year old to jail for being crazy you are the bad guy. 93-year-old Holocaust denier sent back to jail

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky fires two ‘traitor’ generals

New York Harbor jet fuel differential, outright price reach record highs

Russian forces leave Chernobyl after radiation exposure

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 31

The Problem with the Donbas

Zinc Is Facing A Massive Supply Squeeze

Bergstrom Airport Running Out Of Jet Fuel?

With the World’s Attention on Ukraine, Suffering Is Rising Elsewhere

China’s factories were hit harder this quarter than last year as Covid drags on

The elite view on a utopia.

Automakers, Suppliers Battle Shanghai Shutdown

Arizona faces a reckoning over water

US introduces gender-neutral ‘X’ passports

Disney’s general entertainment content president Karey Burke vowed at the meeting to make at least half the characters in the company’s productions LGBTQIA and racial minorities by year’s end