RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Israel-Gaza Situation Report: Hamas ‘Lost Control In The North’

You have to read to the end to find out it has been confirmed. The Houthis in Yemen reportedly shot down the MQ-9 drone off its shores amid a huge buildup of American naval power in the region.

Brazil nabs suspected Hezbollah operatives said planning attacks on Jewish targets

Toxic toddler fruit pouches: “Extremely high” lead levels sicken 7 in 5 states

CDC sounds alarm on newborn syphilis ‘epidemic’

County and municipal economic development agencies play a key role in New York’s wind and solar buildout — but some say it’s not their job.

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Ukraine Situation Report: This May Be Our First Image Of An M1 Abrams In-Country

CCP Defense Spending May Exceed America’s on a purchasing power parity basis.

Microsoft Discovers Chinese Cyber Group Spying on Guam, Other US Locations

U.S. diplomats slam Israel policy in leaked memo

SpaceX selling ‘Starshield’ will be a gamechanger

Treasury Borrowing Running At Crisis-Era Levels

Healthcare minimum wage expected to cost $4 billion in first year as California budget deficit looms

Midtown, Lower Manhattan foot traffic down 33% — one of worst post-COVID rates in US: survey

Free speech is in trouble

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, NOVEMBER 4, 2023

How a Telegram channel created to tell the truth about the war in Ukraine ended up fomenting anti-Semitic riots in Dagestan

Horrific video purportedly shows Gaza street strewn with at least a dozen bodies gunned down by Hamas

Nepal earthquake kills at least 128, toll could rise, officials say

The stakes are high as Supreme Court considers this obscure, unconstitutional tax

US banks hit by deposit delays

How The U.S. Is Pumping More Oil With Fewer Rigs

Common dietary nutrient blasts blood vessel plaques in study

Some benefits of exercise stem from the immune system, suggests new study

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Ukraine Situation Report: 1M North Korean Artillery Rounds Sent To Russia, Seoul Says

MODERN POSITIONAL WARFARE AND HOW TO WIN IN IT, Valerii Zaluzhnyi Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

Drone Fragment Offers Clue About Russia’s Shahed-136 Production Rate

Israel-Gaza Situation Report: Sa’ar 5 Corvettes Moved To Red Sea

Israel Abandoned My Son Out of Fear

Will Europe freeze? Questions remain about the continent’s energy supplies amidst volatile markets and reduced gas imports from Russia

France’s Nightmare Is Yours Now

Germany Passing Japan Aging Population as Third Largest World Economy

The combination of significant borrowing during the pandemic, together with the rise in interest rates means that debt interest payments have been rising fast for the US government. Annual interest payments look like they will soon hit $1 trillion, and likely rise even further as maturing debt will need to be refinanced at higher rates. Just for comparison, total US Defense Spending was 877 billion dollars in 2022.

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, OCTOBER 31, 2023

Israel-Gaza Situation Report: Arrow Interceptor Downs Ballistic Missile Over Red Sea (Updated)

On Sunday, following US pressure, Israel restored communications and internet access to the Gaza Strip. Residents believe that Israel was forced to restore communications under international pressure to allow Gazans to call ambulances and civil defense.

Just in case you did not know that this was a thing.

Treasury to borrow $776 billion in the final three months of the year

Cornell University Jewish threats prove how deep campus rot runs

The video at the bottom of this report is impressive (not the first once which is a boring news report). Semi Hits Pickup Carrying $100,000 in Fireworks, Hour-Long Show Ensues

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, OCTOBER 30, 2023

Ukraine Situation Report: Russian Air Defense System Struck In Crimea

Georgia DA Offers ‘Nothingburger’ Plea Deals To Build Parade Of Witnesses For Later Show Trials

‘It could have all ended with us getting killed’ Passenger on flight from Israel to Russia’s Dagestan recounts anti-Semitic riot at airport It might have been stirred up by someone in Ukraine.

Israel-Gaza Situation Report: IDF Moving To Cut Off Gaza City From South

Inadequate U.S. Patriot Missile Force Size Highlighted By Middle East Crisis

French Suburb Thrives After Ditching Ugly Commie Architecture

US to Build New, ‘Highly Destructive’ Nuclear Gravity Bomb

Fed Admits Banks Suffered Massive Deposit Outflows Last Week

Suicide Rates Are up for Gen Z Across the Anglosphere, Especially for Girls

CAFE Compliance Will be Harder with DOE Proposed Rule Change

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, OCTOBER 29, 2023

Israel-Gaza Update: Merkava Tanks Roll Down Gaza Beach. This line from today’s update was was noteworthy: Meanwhile, it is circulating that Hezbollah’s leadership is calling out Iran for inaction, including questioning why Iran has stockpiled weapons under Hezbollah’s banner if they do not use them now. We are trying to confirm the authenticity of this video, but this would be a bizarre fracture in this incredibly tight relationship if true.

Despite incendiary rhetoric, Iran walks tightrope to avoid direct Israel war

“Pro-Palestinian” Mobs Shouting “Allahu Akbar” Hunt Jews At Makhachkala, Dagestan (Russia) Airport. Related: ‘We’re not touching non-Jews today’. If I was a Russian, I would wonder what was meant by “today”.

China’s debt-saddled regions owe far more than they can pay back without Beijing’s help

Pakistan gives last warning to undocumented immigrants, many Afghan refugees, to leave

Hurricane Otis smashed into Mexico and broke records. Why did no one see it coming?

‘Pharmageddon’ is coming: Thousands of pharmacists plot next walkout over work conditions

Monstrous ‘zombie catfish’ are appearing in US waterways. What’s causing it?

Harvard’s Double Standard on Free Speech

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, OCTOBER 27, 2023

Ukraine Situation Report: Signs Longer-Range ATACMS Will Be Sent Grow

As Bakhmut counteroffensive lags, soldiers burnt out from horrors of war

Israel-Gaza Situation Report: Major Expansion Of Ground Operation Into Gaza Underway

A New Wave of Anti-Semitism Sweeps Across Germany

EPA’s Proposed Refinery Regulation Could Shutter More U.S. Refineries and Significantly Increase Gasoline Costs

Maine mass killing suspect has been found dead, ending search that put entire state on edge

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, OCTOBER 26, 2023

Israel-Gaza Situation Report: Israeli Armor Rolls Into Gaza For “Targeted Raid”

Gantz’s speech reveals the most of Israel’s grand strategy for Gaza to date

They do seemed to be focused on destroying fuel in Gaza lately. Israel is not allowing fuel deliveries into Gaza. When the fuel for generators is depleted, Hamas fighters will have to leave their tunnels and face Israeli armor and air strikes.

US strikes sites used by Iran militias in Syria after repeated attacks on its troops

The United Kingdom is experiencing a dramatic outbreak—unprecedented in scale and magnitude—of diarrheal illnesses from the intestinal parasite, Cryptosporidium, aka Crypto.

A closely watched jury trial underway in Kansas City, Mo., could upend a contentious cornerstone of the U.S. real estate market — broker fees.