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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

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 29

Cuomo Set Out to ‘Transform’ Mental Health Care for Kids. Now They Can’t Get Treatment.

NY Nursing Home Case Involving COVID Death Will Move Forward

Ukraine to probe after videos show alleged Russian POWs shot, abused

Fertiliser prices hit new highs as multiple problems affect global supplies

The reward for lockdowns is more lockdowns. Shanghai is on lockdown under China’s ‘zero COVID’ policy Also note how long this has been going on and people are still panic buying every time it is announced. You would think by now people would know to have reserves.

The phones of Ukrainian president Zelensky

Unsold Oil Forces Russian Operator To Cap Pipeline Flows and someone is benefitting Saudi Arabia May Raise Its Oil Prices For Asia To Record Premiums

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 28

Rationing Looms As Diesel Crisis Goes Global

Armenia Seeks Russian Action Over Azerbaijani ‘Incursion’

Why well-qualified medical school graduates can’t get jobs — despite doctor shortages

China’s gasoline, gasoil exports to continue as COVID-19 hits domestic demand

Mortgage rate soars closer to 5% in its second huge jump this week

Ukraine captures one of Russia’s most advanced electronic warfare systems

We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 25

Huge fire near Saudi F1 track as Yemen rebels attack oil facilities

China Sees ‘Unprecedented’ Capital Outflow Since War, IIF Says

Australia alarm over China security deal with Solomon Islands

The coming federal weaponization of banking

“Mega Emergency” Unfolds For World’s Top Coffee Growers As Fertilizer Costs Spike

US, Nato prepare for Russian nuclear incident

Disney Launching Task Force to Make More LGBTQ+ Content for Children and Families

As the NRA first noted, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has started revoking licenses of gun dealers for the most minor paperwork errors – errors that never led to license revocations until Biden took office.

A novel class of bed net that kills mosquitoes resistant to traditional insecticides by making them unable to move or fly, significantly reduces malaria infection in children

Inside Ukraine’s army of misfits, veterans, and war tourists in the fight against Russia

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 23

How One Bad Teacher Almost Destroyed a New Mexico Family Using the State as a Weapon

“Critical” Damage At CPC Terminal Could Take 1 Million Bpd Offline

Ukraine Says Russia Accidentally Bombed Its Own Rosneft Refinery

Dozens of foreign Protestant missionaries have been forced to leave Turkey based on intelligence reports classifying them as security risks.

Did the true number of Russian troop deaths in Ukraine just leak?

Lebanon’s wheat importers have not placed any new orders on the global market since Russia invaded Ukraine three weeks ago and have started rationing what they sell to supermarkets amid widespread panic-buying, millers told The National on Wednesday.

Bird Flu Case Forces Killing of 5.3 Million Chickens in Iowa

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 22

Discussions of the spread of the war in the Ukraine into greater Europe creating a Third World War miss the point of the nature of modern warfare in the post-globalisation age: the war already encompasses the world in terms of the global economic system.

China’s Shifting Stance on Ukraine

James Webb teams successfully align mirror, commissioning continues

Russia Cuts Refinery Output As Diesel Shortage Worsens

Mostly noteworthy because of who is saying it. Alcohol Killed More Under-65 Americans Than COVID in 2020

New York City Prosecutors Quitting In Droves

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 21

The stock market liked the Fed’s plan to raise interest rates. It’s wrong.

Is Zelensky’s party crackdown his first mistake?

The Resilience of the Internet in Ukraine

Russia not sending Syrians to Ukraine just yet, top US general says

American Airlines pilots want customers to know how bad things have gotten

SAN FRANCISCO’S OUT OF CONTROL CRIME NO LONGER DENIABLE

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 18

Is something up in Russia?

The neon shortage is a bad sign

Looming food shortages is the next ‘slow-moving disaster’ to hit world

Parts of Spanish Economy Grind to a Halt After Five Day Nationwide Truckers’ Strike

New Hampshire Votes for Pharmaceutical Freedom

Restrictions aimed at containing a COVID-19 outbreak in northeast China have impacted crude discharging and land transportation at Yingkou port, slowing feedstock deliveries to at least one refinery in the area,

Deadly form of skin cancer ‘overdiagnosed’ in some patients

Maryland Takes a Stand Against the College Credential

Another campus sexual assault cover-up in Virginia

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 15

Oil prices and inflation

Even moderate light exposure during sleep harms heart health and increases insulin resistance

The Last Party in Davos 2019

Greenpeace France and the local chapter of Friends of the Earth have threatened TotalEnergies with a lawsuit if the supermajor does not pull out from Russia, Reuters has reported, citing a letter by the two non-governmental organizations to TotalEnergies’ chief executive.

A group of techies-turned-hackers called the Cyber Partisans are targeting railways carrying Russian troops

Russia drafting thousands in Syria for Ukraine war

Russia Says It Received Guarantees From US on Iran Nuclear Deal

KRAINE, CHINA, AND THE SHADOW OF THE ’90S

China locks down province of 24m as new Covid infections rise

Is Congress about to make Daylight Saving Time permanent?