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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MAY 5, 2023

Ukraine Isn’t Buying Wagner Boss’s Tirade About Pulling Out Of Bakhmut

HIMARS become less effective in Ukraine due to Russia’s jamming

Technically, the farmer can immigrate outside the EU but this does make you understand why the farmers are mad enough to go to extreme measures. EU ensures Dutch farmers booted FOREVER from farming

TikTok spied on me. Why?

Global rice shortage is set to be the biggest in 20 years

Germany’s economic time bomb: the labor crisis

Pressure grows for regulatory intervention as US bank rout deepens

Comments on April Employment Report

Tropical Milkweed Harmful to Monarch Butterflies?

Leon Pinsker (1821-1891): Herzl’s harbinger

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MAY 4, 2023

Multiple Russian Fuel Depots Hit By Suspected Drone Attacks, Tempo Increasing

What New York’s Ban On Natural Gas Stoves And Heaters Means For The Country

When You Don’t Police Crime, Civilians Will

Initial Jobless Claims Jump Near 18 Month High

I met Venezuelans who are scamming the asylum system en masse to get into the US

HDDs typically failed in under 3 years in Backblaze study of 17,155 failed drives

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MAY 3, 2023

HIMARS Shown Being Stashed In ‘Soviet Bunker’

Depending on how you perceive today’s events, this might be ironic but it is interesting nonetheless. What Ukrainian drones need to finally reach Moscow

China Updates Conscription Law, Eyeing ‘High-Tech Regional Conflict’ Over Taiwan

Ireland Set To Pass Far-Reaching Hate Speech Laws

Saudi Arabia Needs Oil Prices At $80.90 To Balance Budget

$1 billion for asylum seekers to New York City alone! To put that in context, that is equal to the amount that is supposed to go to beef up “mental health” to create 3500 new beds for long term patients. $17 dollar an hour minimum wage (34 thousand a year full time) Your One-Stop Guide to the 2023 New York State Budget

New York on cusp of being first state in nation to ban natural gas under new budget Needless to say, it did pass.

Starlink nixes plan to impose 1TB data cap and per-gigabyte overage fees

Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from non-invasive brain recordings

Evidence of conscious-like activity in the dying brain

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MAY 2, 2023

Russian Guided Bombs A Growing Threat

Half the evidence – full scaremongering

Apocalyptic Drive Into Bakhmut

US Stocks Market Sinks as Bank Shares Plunge

“I want to say the first two weeks of April, we were averaging about maybe 1,700 Venezuelan nationals entering illegally into the country through that particular area in Brownsville,” said Gloria Chavez, Border Patrol Chief for the Rio Grande Valley Sector. “And then two weeks later, towards the end, here the last eight days, we saw an uptick of over 15,000 Venezuelans.”

NYPD urges citizens to buy AirTags to fight surge in car thefts

It also mentions “crisis stabilization centers” — a new type of facility administered by the Office of Mental Health and Office of Addiction Services and Supports where courts can send people for temporary 24-hour mental health and substance abuse care.

Earthquake Swarms Rattle Southern California

AI’s chaotic rollout in big US hospitals detailed in anonymous quotes

APRS becomes a more useful expedition messaging service with the addition of SMS and email gateways.

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Biden Admin Depletes Reserve U.S. Stockpile in Israel in Bid to Replenish Ukraine

Tanker Wars Are Back: Iran Releases Footage Of Commandos Landing On US-Bound Vessel

The announcement came shortly after rival Sudanese forces announced the extension of a truce they have largely violated, as warplanes roared overhead and fighting continued on the ground in Sudan’s capital.

Largest Supply Glut In A Decade Crashes Nickel Prices

Lessons emerge as scientists unravel a new understanding of sleep

Wastewater study finds 18 new psychoactive drugs

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 29, 2023

Drone Strike Puts Russian Fuel Depot In Crimea Up In Smoke

Ukraine Ground Forces commander outlines five reasons to keep defending Bakhmut

Erdogan returns to election trail after illness
Who knew black powder was so important in this day and age? Only U.S. Factory Making Key Explosive for Artillery Rounds and Tomahawk Missiles Still Offline After It Blew Up in 2021

A liberal trying to square the circle. That said, based on what I observe brothers who go through STEM I would say that innate talent is way more important then Noah says, I do agree the teaching methods could use a lot of improvement.

We are currently expending about 220 kcal/d less for males and 122 kcal/d less for females than people of our age and body composition were in the late 1980s. These changes are sufficient to explain the obesity epidemic in the USA.

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 28, 2023

Kyiv “More Than Ready” For Offensive

WHY THE FRENCH ARMY WILL CONTINUE TO PRIORITIZE QUALITY OVER MASS

Haiti descends further into chaos after mass lynching

Brazil Record Soybean Crop Could Add Fuel to the Dry Bulk Market

China pushes largest-ever expansion of nuclear arsenal
Turkey’s Erdogan makes video appearance following health scare

A Torrent Of Layoffs! Here Are 16 Large Companies That Have Just Announced Mass Terminations

Intel loses $2.8 billion in another not-great quarter, down 36% year over year

Demand for in-home healthcare outpaces availability of workers

Researchers Point to the Source of Serious Side Effects in Widely-Used Painkiller

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 27, 2023

Russia Beefed Up Defenses At Zaporizhzhia Nuke Plant

‘Abusing scripture’: The rise of Kenya’s Christian cults This is related: Kenyan man looks for wife, six children among Shakahola corpses

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Population Grew by 509% Since 1979

Trying to keep the South Koreans from making their own. US, South Korea sign deal to deter nuclear attacks from North Korea

This is bad politics and bad economics (I know of no economic theory that would support this form of reasoning from either the right or the left. Britons ‘need to accept’ they’re poorer, says Bank of England economist

The EU Just Made Emissions Even More Expensive

One Of The Largest Banks In The United States Is On The Verge Of Going Under

Now They’re Trying Censor Your Text Messages

Air Force Suspends Leaders of Unit Involved in Classified Document Leak

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 26, 2023

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner mercenary group, says Russians are dying needlessly in Bakhmut because of the lack of ammunition.

There were no cameras on the president as the moment unfolded, causing many Turks to speculate on social media about whether Erdogan had a heart attack or an epileptic crisis.

Kenya seeks relief in new Eurobond as debt trap crisis deepens

A 93-Year-Old Woman Couldn’t Pay Her $2,300 Tax Bill. The Government Sold Her Home and Kept the Money.

Biden cheat sheet shows he had advance knowledge of journalist’s question

Review suggests fecal transplant more effective than antibiotics for recurrent C diff

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 25, 2023

Explosive Drones Are Getting Very Close To Moscow

WHO Cites “Huge Biological Risk” As Sudan Fighters Seize Lab Containing Deadly Pathogens

Credit Suisse Reports Alarming Magnitude Of Losses And Outflows

First Republic Bank Expected to be Seized by US Government

The Biden EPA Will Drive Energy Bills Even Higher With Yet Another Legally Dubious Regulation

San Francisco Target puts entire department on lockdown amid shoplifting crisis

Kathy Hochul and the legislators are closing in on a final state budget.

Gastrointestinal anatomy varies widely among people, study shows

Cranberries Can Reduce Risk of UTI by 50% in Certain People

Melatonin in sleep-aid gummies can be off by up to 350%, study finds