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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT JULY 27, 2023

Calling it a city is a a little misleading. Ukraine Situation Report: Key Donetsk City Liberated

Lack of Western Weapons Slows Progress in Ukraine Counteroffensive

I always thought stories about a government just giving up was really stupid prepper fiction. To be fair, Hezbollah still functions. Lebanon void expands as Central Bank, security, presidential posts go vacant

Japan’s population drops by nearly 800,000 with falls in every prefecture for the first time

Yellow freight looks like it’s going under

Hawaii Gov Takes Dramatic Action To Solve Housing Crisis. But Is He Going Too Far?

Hunter Biden’s Hearing Transcript Shows How Defense, Prosecution Tried to Slip In ‘Blanket Immunity’

“NLRP11 is present in humans and other primates but absent in mice, likely explaining why it has been missed previously, as most screens looking for innate immune signaling molecules have been carried out in mice”

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 26, 2023

Pentagon officials told the New York Times that the full weight of the Ukrainian counteroffensive is now underway.

Hunter Biden Plea Deal Implosion Links. More drama then I was expecting. Not entirely surprised that a judge was reluctant to sign off on it but was surprised by the drama between the legal teams.

The rush is on for rice

Over 230 people get puzzling neurological disorder in Peru; emergency declared

Vitamin D may ease severity of psoriasis

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 25, 2023

Kyiv’s Noose Around Bakhmut Tightens

Ukraine says unit 4 at Zaporizhzhia NPP put into ‘hot shutdown’ state, claims it could lead to accident

Russian lawmakers on Tuesday backed legislation increasing the maximum age limit to 30 for compulsory military service

China secretly sends enough gear to Russia to equip an army

The disappearance of Chinese foreign minister Qin Gang and the recent fate of senior Chinese officers in the country’s strategic missile command suggests all is not well in China.

Prescribed burns are banned in New York’s largest tracts of forest, but some rangers say they need to torch the brush to save the trees.

More info then last link on this subject New Biden Administration Rule Targets Portable Gas Generators and Water Heaters

The education of Nate Silver (means more if you know who Nate Silver is and what he is famous for).

Medieval “climate change” was filled with heatwaves, droughts, and crop failures

A description of advanced tips and tricks for effective Internet research of papers/books, with real-world examples.

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 24, 2023

Fierce fighting has resumed near Kupiansk, in an area Ukraine had liberated last Fall and around a river that’s considered a barrier.

Israel’s Knesset adopts first judicial overhaul bill despite US warnings

Brazil’s 2023 soybean crushing set for record highs driven by oil, meal demand

Oil Prices Climb To Multi-Month High As Market Eyes Tightening

Google’s newest proposed web standard is… DRM?

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 23, 2023

Russia and Iran’s ‘unprecedented’ military ties worried the US, but it’s starting to look like Russia can’t hold up its end of the deal

Israeli Pilots’ Letter Sends Shockwaves Across Military and Political Arenas

All eyes on Türkiye as olive, olive oil production in Europe threatened by drought

East African economies are staring at a fresh spike in food prices and a further deterioration in inflation outlook in the wake of adverse weather conditions that have heavily impacted the region, compounded by the collapse of a crucial grain export deal between Russia and Ukraine last week.

Biden Administration Rule Would Ban Nearly All Portable Gas-Powered Generators

“Like, I’ve lost count of the number of times that somebody has said to me of a specific organization that has been turned upside down on this, “Oh, the deputy director has a trans child.” Or, oh, the journalist on that paper who does special investigations has a trans child. Or whatever. The entire organization gets paralyzed by that one person. And it may not even be widely known at that organization that they have a trans child. But it will come out, people will have sort of said quietly, and now you can’t talk truth in front of that person, and you know you can’t, because what you’re saying is: “You as a parent have done a truly, like, a human rights abuse level of awful thing to your own child that can not be fixed.

Spiral brain-computer interface slips into ear canal with no loss of hearing

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 21, 2023

Russia’s Spies Say Putin Faces More Coups

U.S. Now Pushing To Deliver F-16s “As Fast As Possible”

Why Belgium may be about to break up

Japan’s digital ID program is a complicated mess

80 Million Americans To Face 105 Degree Heat This Weekend: National Weather Service

A total of 1,380 people involved in the lawsuit were “arrested and/or subjected to force by NYPD officers.” Each will walk away with roughly $10,000 for their actions in the riots that rocked Brooklyn and Manhattan.

Relocating To Austin Can Save High-Income New Yorkers $250,000

Computer chip with built-in human brain tissue gets military funding

Landmark Trial Suggests Hearing Aids Help Reduce Cognitive Decline

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 20, 2023

The White House and Pentagon say Ukraine is now using donated cluster munitions and they are already making a difference.

A Sobering Analysis Of Ukraine’s Counteroffensive From The Front

What happened to China’s missing foreign minister?

Public releases the Proximal Origin documents. What they show, and why they’re historic

This Blood Type Could Make You More Vulnerable to COVID-19

A Cracked Piece of Metal Healed Itself in an Experiment That Stunned Scientists

Extracting a Clean Fuel From Water – A Groundbreaking Low-Cost Catalyst

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 19, 2023
The Truth About Russia’s Mysterious Winged Glide Bombs

Russia’s Counter-Battery Radar Shortage Worsening

Morocco and Western Sahara: A new conflict brewing?

NY has been closing peaker plants down without replacing them.

Florida malaria outbreak still going with local cases now at 7

“Like A Bomb Went Off”: Pfizer Plant In North Carolina Destroyed By Tornado

New York to distribute flyers telling migrants at U.S.-Mexico border to ‘consider another city’

Top Scientists Misled Congress About Covid Origins, Newly Released Emails And Messages Show Related: “In Their Labs”: Fifteen Illuminating Passages in The Proximal Origin Chats and Emails

I bet you thought this had already happened: Biden administration suspends funds to Wuhan lab over failure to provide COVID-related info

Study shows dogs can detect COVID-19 faster, better than most PCR tests

It doesn’t matter if you exercise every day or squeeze it all into the weekend. If you do the recommended 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity a week, you’ll get heart benefits, a new study finds.