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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 10, 2024

New Syrian Prime Minister Assumes Power Amid Airstrikes, Continued Fighting

Israel Lays Waste To Syria’s Missile Boats

Russian z-bloggers process their shock and outrage over Assad’s overthrow in Syria

Who liberated Damascus? Unpacking the Southern Operations Room’s emergence

Rescuers end search operations inside Assad’s Sednaya prison

It takes a special kind of educated person to write an article about how Voodoo is being persecuted when it is voodoo priests instigating the killing according to the very same article. Terror, massacre and voodoo in the latest episode of gang violence in Haiti

UK Government ‘Commits’ to Forcing Cattle to Consume Anti-Flatulence Feed Additive

Judiciary Committee: FBI Using Banks to Surveil Bank Accounts Without Warrants

Avian flu cases are on the upswing at big dairy farms

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 18, 2024

Ukraine Situation Report: Trump’s team is clearly mad about Biden’s move, but Kursk remains a key bargaining chip for Ukraine.

Kursk: Russia Prepares Airfields for the Impact. Unfortunately, given that the permission to strike was leaked and publicly announced, it is likely to limit the potential damage Ukrainian forces can inflict.

Two undersea fiber-optic communications cables in the Baltic Sea, including one linking Finland and Germany, were severed, raising suspicions of sabotage by bad actors, countries and companies involved said on Monday.

UN says nearly 100 Gaza aid trucks looted, the war’s worst theft ‘in terms of volume’

Eight killed and 17 wounded in second mass attack in China in a week

Jet-Setting Thieves Are Stealing Millions Worth of Cars From Airport Parking Lots Nationwide

PA Supreme Court Orders Counties to Stop Counting Illegal Ballots

World’s Largest Battery Maker Says Elon Musk ‘Doesn’t Know How To Make Batteries’. The 4680 battery was supposed to make EVs cheaper and better, but so far has proven to be more problematic than promising.

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 3, 2024

Unspecified military officials told Elaph that Israel and the United States have been using satellites to monitor Iranian attempts to transfer ballistic missiles and other unspecified but related equipment from Iran to Iraqi territory. Iran began supplying Iranian-backed Iraqi militias with short-range ballistic missiles, including Zelzal, Fateh-110, and Zolfaghar missiles, in 2018, but the militias have not used ballistic missiles to attack Israel in the October 7 War thus far.

I have decided to talk to you about a dead rodent.

Despite the market still expecting five Fed cuts over the coming 12 months, long rates are moving higher. And despite oil prices falling, long rates are moving higher. This suggests that long rates are rising because of emerging worries about fiscal sustainability.

Unexpected Link Between Menthol And Alzheimer’s Discovered in Mice

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 11, 2024

Russia launches counterattack in Kursk region, reportedly seizing over 14 square miles in a day and threatening to surround Ukrainian troops

Iran Interrogating Top General Over Israeli Strikes That Dismantled Hezbollah Leadership

A visual guide to the damage caused by Hurricane Milton

New York Is on the Hook for Billions to Replace Lead Pipes

Some of those donations then earned Adams’s campaign even more money through the city’s generous public financing program, which uses taxpayer funds to match eligible donations at a rate of $8 to $1.

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 9, 2024

Israel’s Oct. 7 Early Warning Failure: Who Is to Blame?

Analysis: Iran threatens Israeli civil and nuclear infrastructure on October 7 anniversary

Navy Says 26 Ships Affected by Faulty Welds at Newport News Shipyard in Virginia

It was revealed this weekend that Chinese hackers managed to access systems run by three of the largest internet service providers (ISPs) in the US. What’s notable about the attack is that it compromised security backdoors deliberately created to allow for wiretaps by US law enforcement.

Net interest payments are projected to eat over 20% of federal revenues in 2025, unprecedented for the US in modern history. The future could be much worse.

Wisconsin Supreme Court grapples with governor’s 400-year veto

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 21, 2024

As Russian forces continue their advance in the Pokrovsk front, long-standing systemic issues within the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to aid Russians with that.

Israeli Eliminates Entire Hezbollah Special Forces Command in Beirut Airstrike

Experts debate the urgency of striking Iran: Is time running out for Israel?

South Africa: Heavy snowfall forces road closures

LA County Reports ‘Unprecedented Cluster’ of Locally Acquired Dengue Fever

Born Sleeping: A personal post about the loss of our son

In 2012, a team led by Fusa Miyake, at Nagoya University in Japan, discovered that extreme solar storms could produce abrupt changes in the radiocarbon concentrations found within tree rings. Before this, radiocarbon production rates were not thought to vary substantially over short time periods and so annual measurements of past radiocarbon were unlikely to be of particular interest. They identified the massive spike in radiocarbon production in the atmosphere associated with the AD774 extreme storm. Other extreme events have since been confirmed to have occurred in AD993, 660BC, 5259BC and 7176BC.

New approach to defibrillation may improve cardiac arrest outcomes

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 20, 2024

Ammunition from India enters Ukraine, raising Russian ire

Israeli Airstrikes In Lebanon Intensify

As World Watches Explosions Elsewhere, the Boomsday Ship Gets Towed Past Norway

Cuomo personally altered report that lowballed COVID nursing-home deaths, emails show – contradicting his claim to Congress

Using GPT-4 to generate 100 words consumes up to 3 bottles of water

Re-opened Three Mile Island will power AI data centers under new deal

Dairy farmer profits sink as industry continues to consolidate

Study suggests hypertensive people can lower risk of developing dementia by drinking coffee regularly

How long has Sin Nombre hantavirus lived in North America?

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 27, 2024

Pace of Ukraine Advance Slowing As Kursk Invasion Hits Three-Week Mark

Ukraine conscripts ‘refusing to shoot at Russians and abandoning battlefield’

Ukraine Says It Has Tested A New Domestically-Designed Ballistic Missile

Tanker SOUNION Appears to Be Leaking Oil in Red Sea

Iran Nuclear Deal ‘Off the Table,’ U.S. Affirms

Almost 70,000 Japanese people will die alone this year and with the population rapidly aging it could become much worse

Solid 2Y Treasury Auction Prices At Lowest Yield In Two Years

California Votes To Approve $150K In Taxpayer-Funded Home Loans For Illegal Aliens

Mark Zuckerberg regrets not pushing back on Biden’s COVID “pressure” campaign

NYC public hospital doctors ordered to shorten appointments to see more patients

Free Speech Victory for New York Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 7, 2024

Israel shouldn’t attack Hezbollah until after US elections – opinion

France Elections: Left-Wing Alliance Surpasses Le Pen’s National Rally

Panic buttons demanded as violence surges in New York

Hunter Biden’s the real point person in Joe’s White House — don’t underestimate the first son

Colorado dairy farm worker infected with bird flu