RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 21

The Mask Studies You Should Know

It’s planting season in Ukraine, and that means problems for global food supply

Antidepressants may not improve overall well-being in depressed people

Two mystery fires.

Biden admin to rescind Trump ‘conscience’ rule for health workers

Gaza-Based Militants Fire Rockets for Second Night in a Row

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 20

Flu Is Making A Comeback.

It’s probably worse than Wuhan’: Experts warn China’s COVID-19 lockdowns will once again cripple global supply chains

Slovakia Mulls Delivery Of MiG-29s To Ukraine

Iran needs $80 bil gas investment to avoid becoming an importer

Trudeau invents license for “journalists” so readers know which ones are Government Approved

In China Kids Aren’t Learning About Pimping In Math Class

the total supplies in American storage facilities at the end of January were 17% lower than the previous five-year average for that time of year. In that one month, we withdrew 991 billion cubic feet of gas from those reserves. That’s the most natural gas we have withdrawn from storage in the month of January since 2012.

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 18

China Censors Its Own National Anthem amid Growing Unrest with Coronavirus Lockdowns

Loose Nuke Talk

Second British soldier captured in Mariupol paraded on Russian TV

Australian electricity price doubles

Tumors partially destroyed with sound don’t come back

Federal judge strikes down CDC mask mandate for travel

US firm on nuclear accord as Iran casts blame

Analysis: Hamas-Led Militant Groups Create Strife at Al-Aqsa Mosque

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 16

White House restarting federal oil, gas lease sales next week

Why Elon Musk has rattled them

‘Ripe for explosion’: Israel-Palestine tensions rise in Ramadan

Comments are more interesting then the article on this one. They sound all to familiar to those of us in State Service. Watching the mass exodus of our operational knowledge is one of the saddest evolutions I have witnessed. Many of my fire assignments have transformed from operationally focused suppression tactics to exercises in preserving human life. We do not have the tacit knowledge, operational competence, or resource capacity to be effective with the scale of wildfire complexity we are facing.

Americans Gon’ Wild: Gonorrhea and Syphilis at Record Highs in 2020

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 15

Approaching Famine?

The YouTube that goes along with this has some shocking statistics. I am going to have look into this a little more. Is China Screwed?

A map of political blogs.

Neptune’s Wrath: The Flagship Moskva’s Demise

‘Censorship is free speech’ is the establishment’s Orwellian line on Elon Musk’s Twitter crusade

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 13

Headline is terrible, article is good. America has captured France

Inflation Hits Annualized Rate of 16.8%

Inflation forcing retirees back into jobs

China food security: farmers in Jilin leave fields fallow as lockdown threatens corn supply

A new California bill threatens to strip doctors of their medical licenses for saying things the state doesn’t like

Consumer prices rose 8.5% in March, slightly hotter than expected and the highest since 1981

Exxon Bets Another $10 Billion On Guyana’s Oil Boom

Shooting in Brooklyn subway station leaves multiple victims, authorities find undetonated explosives

UPDATE 1-U.S. wheat supply outlook rises as exports fall – government

The Oregon State Treasury is moving into a newly constructed structure designed to withstand every disaster the designers could conjure.

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 9

Sunspot Activity on The Sun Is Seriously Exceeding Official Predictions

New Bayraktar UAVs Spotted In Ukraine

Prosecutors Fail to Secure a Single Guilty Verdict in Alleged Whitmer Kidnapping Plot

California food waste law proves heavy lift in small towns as fuel costs spike

Pets Slaughtered in Shanghai Because of Covid

These 5 States Will Have Highest Tax Burdens in 2022

A Few Remarks on the W Boson Mass Measurement

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 8

What’s Going on in Shanghai?

Wait, the Russians really did dig trenches near Chernobyl?

Explaining the LGBT Explosion

Walmart will train scores of warehouse workers as truckers, starting at up to $110,000

More than a dozen tornadoes have struck Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina on Tuesday

U.S. court reinstates Biden federal employee COVID vaccine mandate

US Senate Revives Lend-Lease Act

Chinese tests show nuclear bunkers are not what they used to be, with earth-penetrating weapons on the rise

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 4

Defeated in Kyiv, Russia Downsizes War Aims to Donbas and Southern Ukraine

Russia cannot afford to lose, so we need a kind of a victory

The horrific crimes committed by Russian soldiers in Vladimir Putin’s war of extermination shows that a return to the old status quo will not be possible with this Russia.

Vladimir Putin’s 20-Year March to War in Ukraine—and How the West Mishandled It

People of Shanghai Forced Into Hard Lockdown

HOW’S THAT ZERO COVID STRATEGY WORKING OUT?

Are plastic bag bans backfiring?

Feral pigs are biological time bombs. Can California stem their ‘exponential’ damage?

Everyone is worried about gas prices, but diesel is driving inflation more than you think

Will Yemen’s latest truce hold?