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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, June 2, 2025

What We Know About Ukraine’s Mass Drone Assault On Russian Bombers

Russia’s ‘Pearl Harbor’ How pro-war Telegram channels are reacting to Ukraine’s drone attack on Russian air bases

A supporter of Russia offers his take on what happened.

What Ukraine’s Unprecedented Drone Attack Means For Russia’s Bomber Force

Poland’s Tusk gets Trumped

Tourists Flee As Mount Etna Erupts In Italy

Smoke from Canadian wildfires triggers air quality alerts in Midwest and Plains

Colorado Terror Attack: Authorities Identify 4 More Injured Victims, Totaling 12

The Case of the One Cut Stop

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Russian Strategic Bombers Destroyed In Unprecedented Wide-Scale Drone Attack

It appears that the interim deal that American and PRC trade negotiators worked out in Geneva on May 12, has collapsed.

I wrote before about the terrible fiscal implications of an ageing society. If you go back 20 years and apply today’s spending and tax rates to the demographics of 2004 – changing nothing else, that would give the Chancellor an extra £84 billion a year to play with, enough to cut the basic rate of tax by about 13p in the pound. Roll forward 20 years and we will see the same, but in reverse – creating a huge hole to fill.

Lack of sugar throws Cuba’s rum industry into crisis

Huge landslide causes whole village to disappear in Switzerland

How the BLM riots broke America

Residents of Richmond, Virginia can safely drink the city’s water again after a city-wide boil water advisory was lifted late Thursday. It’s the third significant failure to impact the city’s drinking water this year.

The Next Car Production Crisis Could Be Caused by Magnet Shortage

Lumber Prices Up 17% YoY

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 20, 2025

US President Donald Trump’s business trip to the Middle East presents a new strategic reality: The American president has, for now, chosen to sideline Israel and its considerations in his foreign policy.

UK, Canada, France Gang Up On Israel, Demand Ending IDF Operation as Hamas Stalls Hostage Talks

80% Of French Women Want The Army Deployed In French Cities To Protect Them

By 2039, approximately 43% of Spain’s workforce — over one in four working-age individuals — will be either first or second-generation immigrants.

A Chinese perspective. Parsing U.S.-China Trade Talks

Trump to House Republicans: ‘Don’t F— Around With Medicaid’

Ray Dalio says the risk to U.S. Treasurys is even greater than what Moody’s is saying

Different cities use different water treatments, and this can affect how filters work on your water.

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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