RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 17, 2023

Russia aims to improve on dated Iranian manufacturing practices and increase the Shahed 136’s range and flexibility while building thousands.

Post here from Russian Colonel Shuvalov discussing the effect of the Ukrainian cluster munitions

Israel judicial “reform” update: ultra-Orthodox coalition party rebels, Netanyahu and Levin said weighing 1-year moratorium

Pakistan: Mobs Torch Churches, Houses of Christians Over Blasphemy Allegations

Thick smoke blanketed the northern city of Yellowknife, as residents fled the regional capital.

A State Official Refused To Release Water For West Maui Fires Until It Was Too Late

Montana Judge Sides With Activists In ‘Children’s Climate Trial’

YOU GO TO WAR WITH THE INDUSTRIAL BASE YOU HAVE, NOT THE INDUSTRIAL BASE YOU WANT

US Army Base Fort Cavazos Soldiers Have Been Without Proper Access to Food for Months

More Young People Are Getting Cancer, And We Don’t Know Why

‘Useless’ Organ That Doctors Often Remove May Actually Fight Cancer

Putting Down The Pen: Reflecting On Oryx’s Journey

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 14, 2023

Ukraine Situation Report: Spring Counteroffensive May Be Needed

Iran close to testing nuclear weapons for first time – European intel

The Real Story of That Chinese EV Graveyard Isn’t What You Were Told

In deadly Maui wildfires, communication failed. Chaos overtook Lahaina along with the flames

Maui wildfires: “climate change” or land mismanagement? Expert: “I warned about this years ago”

Montana loses fight against youth climate activists in landmark ruling

Erie, N.Y., Halts Migrants Entering the County After Two Sexual Assaults in Two Weeks

Rockstar Games acquires modding team that it previously banned

Dell fined $6.5M after admitting it made overpriced monitors look discounted

Real estate markets scramble following cyberattack on listings provider

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 13, 2023

Ukraine Situation Report: Russians Board Ukraine-Bound Ship

THE BATTLE OF HOSTOMEL AIRPORT: A KEY MOMENT IN RUSSIA’S DEFEAT IN KYIV

Do we really have no hangover after the largest economic orgy in history – more than $10 trillion in fiscal and monetary stimulus in 2020 and 2021? The charts below suggest we’re still just drunk.

In a surprising admission Thursday, NBC’s Chuck Todd said that Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was “right” when he said bussing migrants to blue cities would turn Democratic politicians against the Biden administration and pressure the White House to get control over the border.

Death toll from Maui wildfire reaches 93, making it the deadliest in the US in more than 100 years

Hospitals struggling to find chemotherapy drugs, antibiotics as drug shortage crisis escalates

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 12, 2023

Ukraine Situation Report: F-16 Pilot Training May Be Delayed Until January

In Sri Lanka, Economic Crisis Alters the Taste of Tea

California Moves to Confiscate Power from Your Electric Car Battery

Shortest Workout Ever: 3 Seconds of Exercise 3 Times a Week Grows Muscle

Alleged Superconductor LK-99 Might Need ‘Doping’ to Work

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 11, 2023

FRANCE’S POLICY SHIFT ON UKRAINE’S NATO MEMBERSHIP

U.S. Boosting Artillery Shell Production To Over 80k A Month

Russia says it will halt foreign currency purchases and launch a digital ruble to keep the currency from spiraling further This is sort of related. Some Russians have problems with cause and effect.

Anger Against France Grows in Africa’s “Coup Belt”

Anti-Christian violence in Israel spreads from Jerusalem to Haifa

Hezbollah’s Multi-Faceted Approach to Destabilizing Israel’s Northern Border

Credit card debt collection

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 9, 2023

Russian troops are now less than five miles from Kupiansk, a city in Kharkiv Oblast that Ukraine recaptured last September.

Russian officer “Colonel Shuvalov” described on Telegram how it is encouraged to fabricate reports about destroyed Ukrainian equipment by filming strikes on different days using various weapons and equipment. This is done to please the upper leadership since everyone benefits from positive reports and inflated numbers. It’s a long post but worth reading

Massive Blast Rocks Town Outside Of Moscow

Chinese Troops Pledge To Die In Alarming Docuseries On ‘Liberating’ Taiwan

Israel vows to ‘return Lebanon to Stone Age’ if Hezbollah starts war

Natural gas prices are soaring as energy workers in Australia look poised to strike, threatening global supply

Credit card balances jumped in the second quarter and are above $1 trillion for the first time

“It happened so fast,” she told CNN. “I heard the first explosions of the gas stations exploding and then I saw the black smoke a couple streets away and within half an hour we were out the door.” Photos of all the damage on Maui in Hawaii here but it is still ongoing.

Massachusetts Declares a State of Emergency Over Immigration

Emails Show New York Times Collaborating with State Government to Target Orthodox Jews

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 8, 2023

Ukraine Situation Report: Claims Swirl Around River Landing By Kyiv’s Forces

The author tooting his own horn at the start of this is in part because he was accused of profit seeking by another article on the same site that he is responding to. After you get past the tooting, he starts laying out the issues as he sees them. WHY UKRAINIAN SOLDIERS HAVE TO LEARN TO FIGHT ON YOUTUBE AND HOW TO CHANGE THAT

China’s July exports contracted the most since the start of the pandemic.

Public Anger Grows After Floodwaters Deliberately Diverted To Save China’s Capital

Taiwan Heading for Era of Paralyzed Politics

NYC Will Use In-Road Sensors to Automatically Fine Overweight Trucks

What to know about the dominant Covid-19 EG.5 variant, nicknamed ‘Eris’

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 7, 2023

Ukraine Situation Report: M1A1 Abrams Tanks Approved For Shipment

You only need to read half of this article to get an understanding, everything else is pure lecture. But better written sources are hard to come by as nobody else is governing in detail why the west cares about this. AFRICAUS/France threaten intervention in resource-rich Niger You can get a little bit of a taste of what his article covers from a more conventional source here.

Why Canada Is Criminalizing Dissent?

Why are UAE, Saudi, other Gulf countries issuing Lebanon travel warnings?

California’s Teacher Shortage Is Dire

Wells Fargo customers scramble after deposits disappear from their accounts

Los Angeles Has a Growing Typhus Problem, Thanks to the Fleas

Revolutionary Treatment Emerges in the Battle Against Deadly Fungi