RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, NOVEMBER 16

Household debt soars at fastest pace in 15 years as credit card use surges, Fed report says

Feds Had Informants In Proud Boys and Oath Keepers for J6

I remain dubious about this. Until people make more of an effort to deal with criticisms that this is just a measurement artifact (see end of article) I will not be convinced. Sperm count is declining at accelerating rate worldwide

Inventing the Crypto King

Container Glut Growing As Global Trade Slips

Israel-Lebanon gas deal proceeds with TotalEnergies, Eni agreement

OPEC Oil Production Fell In October As Members Missed Targets

What happened at Alameda Research

DEA’s most corrupt agent

My views get me pilloried. Self-described anti-racists bombard me with the view that I am “white adjacent”, “honorary white”, “white passing”, and part of the “dominant culture”.

Fentanyl vaccine potential ‘game changer’ for opioid epidemic

So the fragile grid teeters on. But the first thing the renewable energy star state had to do was dump their solar power because it threatened to push the system over. The highest risk moment they are worried about now is midday Thursday, because it looks like being a sunny day. Oh, the woe!

In Horrific Move, Iran’s Parliament Votes to Execute 15,000 Protestors to Teach ‘Hard Lesson’ This Iranian sympathizing newspaper says that this story is not true and they are probably right. But note that the truth is that the legislators only signed a letter calling for for the executions and not actually passing a law. I am not sure that is the defense they think it is.

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, NOVEMBER 14

US, Russian spy chiefs meet in Turkey over Ukraine war

Kinburn – the Indirect Approach

Potential Ban On Russian Metals Pushes Aluminum Prices Higher

Amazon To Fire 10,000 Employees, Largest Layoff In Company History

A Remedy for the Federally Funded Physician Shortage

Canada will soon allow medically assisted dying for mental illness.

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, NOVEMBER 11

Further To Fall: Russia’s Grinding Mobilization

The Email Caste’s Last Stand

If You Don’t Get Enough Sleep, Your Brain Literally Eats Itself

The Positive Effect of Walking on Creative Thinking

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, NOVEMBER 10

A Different Take On Russia

Europe in trouble. More French nuclear power out for winter, and prices hit €1,000/MW

3D-printed guns are on the rise in Australia. How can we prevent them being made?

Iran Warns Saudi Arabia ‘Our Strategic Patience’ May Run Out

With no vaccine or treatment available for a strain of Ebola that is circulating in Uganda, the country’s latest outbreak is shaping up to be the third largest on record.

Dentists’ water lines linked to rare bacterial infections, CDC warns

The loss of glaciers from Glacier National Park is one of the most visible manifestations of climate change in the U.S. Signs were posted all around the park, proclaiming that the glaciers would be gone by 2020. In 2017, the Park started taking these signs down. What happened, beyond the obvious fact that the glaciers hadn’t disappeared by 2020?

Hensley says that this is because the population “is more immunologically naive than what we would expect in most years”. Normally, children get infected by their second birthday. Now, “you’re going to end up having kids that are three, four years of age right now who have never seen RSV”.

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, NOVEMBER 9

Russia Traded Captured Western Weapons for Iranian Drones

Top Russian Security Official Arrives in Tehran in Fresh Sign of Deepening Ties With Iranian Regime

A New Concern: Falling US Treasury Demand

Vermont Woman Mauled by Bear in Her Backyard While Letting Dog Out

CNN National House Exit Poll 65 and older R +13 45 to 64 R +1130 to 44. D +218 to 29. D+28

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, NOVEMBER 8

Ukraine plunges into darkness after wave of Russian attacks

Sweden Wins! Country That Refused Lockdown and Kept Schools Open Has Lowest Pandemic Mortality in the World

Despot Times, Despot Measures

Cacophonocracy

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, NOVEMBER 7

The wounded Khan, worried Generals and political chaos

Japan’s population problem forces changes to social security

Oil Prices Slide As China Reaffirms Covid Containment Strategy

Elsewhere in COVID news, a report suggests that in China’s first- and second-tier cities, the total cost of implementing normalized nucleic acid testing has reached about RMB1.7 trillion per year – accounting for around 1.3% of China’s GDP.

Japan’s Ruling Government in Crisis Over Unification Church Scandals

New York’s Energy Transition Plans Are Not Feasible

If the Senate got its way — and the bill they passed in March became law — today would have been the last-ever “fall back.” But instead, the bill for permanent daylight saving quietly died in the House. I got curious how that happened.

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, NOVEMBER 6

Why So Many Jails Are in a ‘State of Complete Meltdown’

The State Department is giving law enforcement and intelligence agencies unrestricted access to the personal data of more than 145 million Americans, through information from passport applications that is shared without legal process or any apparent oversight

Facebook parent Meta is preparing large-scale layoffs this week

The one who created Stand Still Be Silent: One comic artist’s journey through atheism and nihilism to Christ.