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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 18

News you can use. Guessing C For Every Answer Is Now Enough To Pass The New York State Algebra Exam

According to the South China Morning Post, the government’s planned electricity cuts will only last a few hours and focus on industrial areas so that residential power is maintained. However several cities in the area (e.g. Dazhou) have already announced rolling blackouts for a couple of days. Related: China’s Power Crisis Worsens As More Factories Suspend Operations

New AFBF Survey Shows Drought’s Increasing Toll on Farmers and Ranchers A lot of really bad quotes in this article such as “Similarly, 33% of respondents reported destroying and removing orchard trees and other multiyear crops as prevalent or higher, up from only 17% last year.”

Oklahoma Ranchers Predict Beef To Rise To $50 per Pound

France’s fruit and vegetable crops have fallen by nearly 35% due to the extreme drought this summer, Jacques Rouchausse, president of the French national association of vegetable producers, Legumes de France, said on Tuesday. And Italy, and the UK.

The Formula Shortage Isn’t Likely to End Anytime Soon

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 17

Scientists Have Re-Created The Deadly 1918 Flu Virus. Why?

To know how bad this really is, you would need to know the expected base rate of the people being study (i.e. if the study had a lot of older pregnant woman in it, you would expect an increased miscarriage rate just from that fact alone). Report: 44 Percent of Pregnant Women in Pfizer Trial Lost Their Babies; FDA and CDC Recommended Jabs For Expectant Mothers Anyway

Germany Faces Power Grid Collapse as Demand for Electric Heaters Soar

RAF ‘pauses job offers for white men’ to meet ‘impossible’ diversity targets

Shipping Halted On Rhine Near Kaub Chokepoint Due To Distressed Barge Blocking Waterway

Will Catastrophic Crop Losses In 2022 Lead To Unprecedented Shortages In 2023?

US picks up pace of airstrikes in Somalia

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 16

Argentina’s black market for cash is embracing crypto — but it’s not what crypto proponents expected.

Trump Accused of Lying Over FBI-Seized Passports, Then He Dropped the Receipts It is being reported that it will take them two weeks to give back the documents they admit they should not have taken in the first place.

U.S. Missiles Sent to Ukraine Aren’t Easily Replaced

California to consider keeping last nuclear plant open

The Drought Is Crippling Tomato Production In California

Rent Is Becoming A Crisis In The U.S.

Wait a minute. A potato shortage? In Idaho? Here’s why.

For the first time, ultra-Orthodox families established yesterday an illegal West Bank outpost.

Shanghai Covid: Ikea shoppers flee attempt to lock down store

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 14

Time to assume that health research is fraudulent until proven otherwise?

A Deeper Dive Into the CDC Reversal

Iran at the crossroads of history

The Chinese government has signaled that it will not tolerate Russian meddling with Kazakh oil exports.

Federal Court Upholds Onerous Education Requirements for D.C. Day Care Workers

Inside the Massive Effort to Change the Way Kids Are Taught to Read

Doctors from USC, UCLA say mask mandates for COVID-19 not effective, as debate goes on

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 13

No smooth sailing for grain via the Black Sea

In the last few weeks, health officials in New York identified the first person in nearly a decade in the U.S. to be diagnosed with polio. The person suffered paralysis.

A major breakthrough in nuclear fusion has been confirmed a year after it was achieved at a laboratory in California.

‘We Couldn’t Do Anything’: Family Drowns in Seoul Basement During Floods. Hundreds of thousands of poor people live in semi-underground homes around the city. The death of a family of three showed ​how vulnerable they are to flooding. More pictures here.

Low Rhine water levels are a massive challenge for Germany, given that around 80% of inland waterway goods transport relies on the river.

More than 100 French towns without drinking water amid ‘historic drought’

The US consulate in Tijuana told employees to “shelter in place” amid deadly violence which reportedly included gang members shooting at bystanders and starting fires.

Researchers discover new approach to healing skin infections and wounds

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 12

UN Warns Of Disaster As Russia, Ukraine Face Off In Zaporizhia

CDC Quietly Ends Differentiation on Covid Vaccination Status

Denmark outlaws the COVID vaccines for children

Top Taliban Cleric Killed in Kabul Suicide Blast Claimed by IS

Novelist Salman Rushdie was stabbed on stage preparing to give a speech in Chautauqua, New York

Local governments in New York could lower speed limit to 25 mph under new law

You don’t have to have a lot of sympathy for the pharmaceutical industry to worry about more complicated and arbitrary rules being added to our health care system. on the new health care provisions

France battles extremely violent wildfire, officials warn additional flare-ups could cause it to spread further

The Term ‘Inmate’ Can No Longer Be Used In NY State Law

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Novofedorivka – Saki Air base attack satellite imagery – The aftermath

Amnesty International, Ukraine, and the Illusion of NGO Fact-Finding Expertise.

A neuroscience image sleuth finds signs of fabrication in scores of Alzheimer’s articles, threatening a reigning theory of the disease

Climate policy numbers

FCC Cancels Starlink Funding for Rural Broadband Program

OBSERVATIONS ON THE MAR-A-LAGO RAID

Here’s how the rule of law applied to a former FBI lawyer who pleaded guilty to forgery

Welcome to the Third World

FBI, R.I.P.?

Saudi Arabia secures funding for electricity interconnection with Egypt

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 10

Russian Airbase In Crimea Goes Boom

Notable only because it is the editorial board. If Merrick Garland doesn’t give a solid, fast reason for raiding Trump’s home, he’s probably just re-elected him

White House Claims Biden Was Not Briefed on FBI Raid at Mar-a-Lago

Locusts Can Smell Cancer, And It Could Give Us a Brilliant New Way to Save Lives

Fish Oil Is Good! No, Bad! No, Good! No, Wait

How big is the housing shortage?

Urgent polio boosters for London children

China graft probes stem from anger over failed chip plans

Gas Prices See Fastest Decline in over a Decade, Down 83 Cents Since Mid-June

Think 9% Inflation Is Bad? Try 90%.

The Global Diesel Crunch Is Going To Get Worse