I wish this was written out as an article, but it is insightful enough to be worth a watch even it if would have been better written out.

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 20

Russian fighter jet ‘released missile’ near RAF plane due to malfunction, MPs hear

More to Ukraine’s recent grain export success than meets the eye

Health Officials Dumped Stocks in January 2020, Before COVID Was Declared an Emergency

San Francisco to Spend $1.7 Million to Build a Single Public Toilet

Oil prices climbed on Thursday morning as China signaled that it would ease its Covid policy, a policy that has destroyed domestic oil demand.

The great semiconductor drought may be about to break

Space Force briefing on military space race catches Jeff Bezos’ attention

If you are a mosquito magnet, there is not much you can do. “Mosquito magnets seem to remain mosquito magnets,” an expert at Florida University said.

Made me think of Grandpa: Coffee: Just as Healthy as Vegetables

@VW
told us that they supported our right to protest, but they refused our request to provide us with a bowl to urinate and defecate in a decent manner while we are glued, and have turned off the heating. People in support can’t get out of the building

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, OCTOBER 19

Putin’s War Escalation Is Hastening Demographic Crash for Russia

China dumps dud chips on Russia, Moscow media moans

DoD eyeing options to provide satcom in Ukraine as it continues talks with SpaceX

More than a million Americans ration insulin as prices skyrocket

Ebola Is Back—and Vaccines Don’t Work Against It

German Cabinet approves nuclear plant lifespan extension

China’s armed forces recruiting dozens of British ex military pilots in ‘threat to UK interests’

Fabled star catalogue by ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus had been feared lost.

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, OCTOBER 18

Social crises in Europe face escalation this winter.

Mobilized Russian soldiers dying in droves after going to war with no training

Iranian Shahed-136 Drones Increase Russian Strike Capacity and Lethality in Ukraine

Researchers at Boston U. Supposedly Claim They Developed a COVID Strain With ‘80% Kill Rate’

Global diesel and other distillate fuel stocks have been on the decline for a while now, and there is no reversal of this trend in sight. Demand, on the other hand, has been growing, leading to a widening shortage.

Biden admin pressured Dem El Paso mayor not to declare state of emergency over city’s migrant crisis

Supreme Court Decided to Keep Torture A Secret

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, OCTOBER 16

Russian Angara rocket launches mysterious military satellite

Europe shutting down its largest gas field, which could replace Russian gas and provide essential energy supplies

Ebola hits Ugandan capital as president blames victim for ‘poisoning’ others

St. Louis preparing to sue Hyundai and Kia over rampant car thefts in the city

US will support sending ‘multinational rapid action force’ to Haiti

That they did think about it, and they missed it anyway is even more damning for the regulate-risks project.

NY governor’s race between Hochul-Zeldin now considered toss-up

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, OCTOBER 15

Company Sized Assault Captured On Film Near Kherson

In recent weeks, there have been numerous drone sightings near Norway’s offshore oil and gas platforms.

Crimea bridge: Russia ‘to repair blast damage by July 2023’

Ukraine’s neighbor Moldova is under increasing pressure as the war next door wears on. Amid energy shortages and a violation of airspace by Russian missiles, protestors are being paid to sow unrest in the capital.

A very interesting interview but I think he is leaving demographics out of his calculations and I think that weakens his analysis. Market strategist and historian Russell Napier warns of a 15- to 20-year phase of structurally elevated inflation and financial repression.

Could the EU’s Code of Practice on Disinformation and its Digital Services Act (DSA) have something to do with PayPal’s skittish forays into “combatting disinformation?”

Why India is arming Armenia against Azerbaijan

The Konnech Election Systems Bombshell:

In 1987, the NIH found a paper contained fake data. It was just retracted

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, OCTOBER 14

HHS Purchases Drug for Use in Radiological and Nuclear Emergencies

What do you do when you discover your son has made an appointment for his death?

Massive Bean Piles Spotted Up And Down Mississippi River As Barges Can’t Meet Harvest Demand

The Bank of England has expanded its emergency purchases of government bonds to calm financial markets riled by a government plan to cut taxes.

U.S. Experts Weigh In on Colonoscopy Status in Wake of European Trial

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, OCTOBER 10

Kerch Strait Bridge Update

Here is an argument that it was a truck bomb.

US Ammunition Supplies Dwindle as Ukraine War Drains Stockpiles

Mistrust Abounds Among the Liberated Residents of Ukrainian Village

A Distracted Russia Is Losing Its Grip on Its Old Soviet Sphere

Florida Surgeon General warns of 84% increase heart attack deaths 18-39 men

Remarkable reversal’: President Biden just (quietly) scaled back student loan forgiveness — and the change could impact up to 1.5M borrowers. Are you one of them?

France’s Fuel Supply Problems Worsen As Refinery Strikes Continue

Europe’s Race To Ensure Gas Supply Comes At A Cost

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, OCTOBER 9

If your read the article, you find that it is killing skunks and such as well. I bring this up because my crew at work found a skunk whose cause of death we could not identify just laying peacefully in a courtyard. This year’s avian flu epidemic — the first in North America since 2015 — is caused by a version of this virus unlike any that virologists and wildlife managers have ever seen. “It’s behaving by a different set of rules,” said Bryan Richards, emerging disease coordinator at the National Wildlife Health Center. For the first time, it’s spreading widely among wild birds, which has far-reaching implications for wildlife and human health.

PayPal Still Threatens $2500 Fines for Promoting “Discriminatory” “Intolerance” (Even if Not “Misinformation”)

Amazon “suicide kits” have led to teen deaths, according to new lawsuit

U.S. barge backlog swells on parched Mississippi River

Major companies including Starbucks – which attacked GOP ad on crime – are abandoning Seattle, D.C., more due to GUESS what?

European Energy Market Spooked By $1.5 Trillion Liquidity Crisis

The Navy Accused Him of Arson. Its Own Investigation Showed Widespread Safety Failures. More commentary here.

German authorities said there were no signs of foreign interference in the suspected sabotage of the national railway system. The incident has renewed fears of attacks on Germany’s critical infrastructure.