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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 4, 2025

Two Russian Su-30 Flankers Downed By AIM-9s Fired From Drone Boats

Houthi Ballistic Missile Hits Israel’s Main Ben Gurion Airport

Netanyahu privately voicing frustration with Trump’s Mideast policies

‘It could be among such cards’: Japan signals US Treasury holdings could be trade bargaining chip with Donald Trump

The Indoor Plumbing Test. What can AI enable you to do that you couldn’t already do by other means?

“Unprecedented Recovery” – Gene Therapy Reverses Heart Failure in Breakthrough Study

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 27, 2025

Kadyrov’s relations with Kremlin have soured over the Chechen leader’s unsanctioned negotiations with Middle Eastern countries

The Signal I Was Waiting For

Boeing Has Confessed to Committing Its Deadly Crime … and Should Now Plead Guilty

Planned US Auto Tariffs Shake Global Industry as Price Hikes, Job Losses Loom

Education Department Downsizing (or Elimination) Begs the Question: Is Spending Improving Outcomes?

“If you don’t have R&D in the US, you will not have semiconductor leadership in the US,” Gelsinger said. “All of the R&D work of TSMC is in Taiwan, and they haven’t made any announcements to move that.”

Drug For Rare Disease Turns Human Blood Into Mosquito Poison

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 27, 2025

‘All means are kosher’: A look at the IDF’s controversial Hannibal Directive

“Current Policy Baseline” Gimmick Could Explode the Debt

Greece gripped by massive strikes as suspicion and anger boil over

Human Bird Flu Hospitalizations Now Reported in Wyoming and Ohio

Doctors report upticks in severe brain dysfunction among kids with flu

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has revoked a waiver granted post-election by the Biden administration that allowed New York Governor Kathy Hochul to impose a “congestion fee” toll on roads built and maintained with federal funds in Manhattan.

Study: Hot Vesuvian ash cloud really did turn a brain to glass

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 20, 2025

Trump may keep pursuing Ukrainian minerals deal, seeking ‘simplified’ agreement first and details later

Ecuador Says Will Ask Allied Countries for Special Forces to Fight Drug Gangs

70 Christians Decapitated in Church in Democratic Republic of Congo

NY prison ‘riot’ erupts, all visits canceled at 42 state prisons as union strikes rage

The Biggest Issue Behind the New York Prison Guard Strike

LA Tow Truck Crime Ring That Held Crashed Cars Hostage Busted by Police

Senate Confirms Kash Patel as FBI Director

The Civil Service’s Partisanship Problem

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 18, 2025

Zelensky Decries Peace Talks Without Ukraine, Trump Says He Had His Shot For Years

For a certain value of debunking. Imagine this logic being applied to black live protesters and you will understand that Germans just don’t understand what free speech means (this is a German Newspaper). Fact check: JD Vance’s free speech claims debunked

Germany’s Shocking War on Online Speech: Armed Police Raids for Online “Insults,” “Hate Speech,” and “Misinformation”

Germany facts of the day

CIA drone flights over Mexico reportedly began under Biden, but have greatly expanded under Trump amid talk of direct action against the cartels.

NYC Deputy Mayors Deserting Eric Adams Over His Willingness to Work With Trump on Illegal Immigration

Federal Prosecutors Routinely Use Carrots and Sticks to “Induce” Defendants to “Support [DOJ] Policy Objectives”

The US Demographic Outlook: 2024 to 2054

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 17, 2025

Russia’s Fuel Shipments Slumped by 9% in 2024

Europe Faces a Natural Gas Supply Challenge This Year

Israel’s Security Cabinet Approves Hostages-For-Terrorists Deal

“This Is A Disaster”: Fire Erupts At California Battery Storage Plant

Chinese hackers accessed Yellen’s computer in US Treasury breach, Bloomberg News reports

Nine Months And GM Can’t Supply A Bumper

Camera owner asks Canon, skies: Why is it $5/month for webcam software?

Jury Finds CNN Liable for Defamation of Navy Vet

How to Win an Election Against the Communists

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 3, 2025

Ukraine Probes Reports Hundreds Went AWOL From France-Trained Army Unit

Russian officials say Kerch Strait spill is world’s first accident involving ‘heavy’ fuel oil. This particular type of oil solidifies at temperatures below +25℃ (77°F) and is roughly as dense as water. Unlike other petroleum products, it sinks or remains suspended when leaked into the sea.

The image of a weakened leader, forced to plead with his other coalition partners for loyalty, offers a stark reminder of Netanyahu’s growing political vulnerability.

Massive Data Breach at VW Raises Questions about Vehicle Privacy. Because movements of vehicles in Ukraine and Israel were also documented, the data could even be of military interest – depending on whether a potential target was behind the wheel.

Bird flu is so bad that Japan is running out of land to bury chickens

South Korean presidential guards prevent arrest of impeached Yoon after tense stand-off

The central, southern and eastern United States are bracing for the coldest, most persistent frigid Arctic air in years that will come in waves and last through mid-January. Storms packing snow and ice will join in.

NASA Is Watching a Vast, Growing Anomaly in Earth’s Magnetic Field

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 27, 2024

Russian-Linked Oil Tanker Suspected Of Sabotage Was Brimming With Spy Equipment:

U.S. Army’s First Combat Use Of THAAD Missile Defense System Just Occurred In Israel

The government describes it as “shameful” that Cuba has to import sugar

The Spies Who Hate Us

New York To Charge Fossil Fuel Companies Billions For Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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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