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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

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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?

Fiery multi-vehicle crash closes part of I-81 in Pennsylvania

Get off the road. Carry a flashlight with you so you can signal. Walk (well off the road) towards the direction that traffic is coming from and try to signal. Use your phone if you have nothing better. Don’t know how I would do in this situation but this is what I hope I would do. And I do normally have a flashlight in my pocket.

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 1

Ukrainian Mi-24 Attack Helicopters Destroy Fuel Depot In Russia

A House bill could create an experiment on digital US cash

Nuclear-Armed Russian Fighters Breached Swedish Airspace

The Scottish Government Just Prosecuted a Man for Sending a Rude Tweet

100% of excessive inflation is due to bad monetary policy

Germany Could Nationalize Parts Of Russian Oil And Gas Giants

Biden’s SPR Release Sends Oil Prices Below $100

Steel Shortage Adds To U.S. Shale Drillers’ Woes

When you send a 93 year old to jail for being crazy you are the bad guy. 93-year-old Holocaust denier sent back to jail

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky fires two ‘traitor’ generals

New York Harbor jet fuel differential, outright price reach record highs

Russian forces leave Chernobyl after radiation exposure

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 31

The Problem with the Donbas

Zinc Is Facing A Massive Supply Squeeze

Bergstrom Airport Running Out Of Jet Fuel?

With the World’s Attention on Ukraine, Suffering Is Rising Elsewhere

China’s factories were hit harder this quarter than last year as Covid drags on

The elite view on a utopia.

Automakers, Suppliers Battle Shanghai Shutdown

Arizona faces a reckoning over water

US introduces gender-neutral ‘X’ passports

Disney’s general entertainment content president Karey Burke vowed at the meeting to make at least half the characters in the company’s productions LGBTQIA and racial minorities by year’s end

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 30

Northern lights may glow over United States on Wednesday night

A Visit to Trostyanets After the End of the Occupation

It is has become clear that Israel is on the brink of a new wave of terrorism and a trend of copycat attacks appears to be emerging.

Is the Salton Sea hiding enough lithium to power America?

North Korea faked launch of ‘monster’ missile, says Seoul

Researchers discover source of super-fast electron rain

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 27

The fall of Seattle

The White House is Now Your Doctor!

Spread of COVID-19 to animals raises concern for further mutations

More on the Students’ Disruption of the Yale Law School Event

Many baffled by Taliban reneging pledge on girls’ education

Free Printable USGS PDF TOPO! Maps

Nuclear Expert Comment on Samotsvety Nuclear Risk Forecast

Yemen faces ‘extremely troubling outlook’, says UNDP chief

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 25

Huge fire near Saudi F1 track as Yemen rebels attack oil facilities

China Sees ‘Unprecedented’ Capital Outflow Since War, IIF Says

Australia alarm over China security deal with Solomon Islands

The coming federal weaponization of banking

“Mega Emergency” Unfolds For World’s Top Coffee Growers As Fertilizer Costs Spike

US, Nato prepare for Russian nuclear incident

Disney Launching Task Force to Make More LGBTQ+ Content for Children and Families

As the NRA first noted, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has started revoking licenses of gun dealers for the most minor paperwork errors – errors that never led to license revocations until Biden took office.

A novel class of bed net that kills mosquitoes resistant to traditional insecticides by making them unable to move or fly, significantly reduces malaria infection in children

Inside Ukraine’s army of misfits, veterans, and war tourists in the fight against Russia