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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, NOVEMBER 17

China’s Zero-Covid Lockdowns Sparking Protests in Guangzhou

US blames Iran for Tuesday’s drone attack on Eastern Pacific product tanker

Amazon employees will be in layoff limbo into 2023

U.S. Diesel Inventories Hit Historic Lows At The Worst Possible Time

Gavin Newsom’s $98 Billion Surplus Went Bye-Bye

That review has not found any apparent business advantage to the types of classified information in Trump’s possession, these people said. FBI interviews with witnesses so far, they said, also do not point to any nefarious effort by Trump to leverage, sell or use the government secrets. Instead, the former president seemed motivated by a more basic desire not to give up what he believed was his property, these people said.

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, SEPTEMBER 24

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen warned late thursday that Europe had “the tools” to deal with Italy if things go in a “difficult direction”

I think this story is silly but it is making the rounds so here it is for what it is worth. China has steadily trimmed its holdings of US government debt this year and moved some bonds to offshore tax havens where they could be protected from any future sanctions, according to a report from Nikkei Asia. I will just note two things. It is small percentage of total holdings and if you where the Chinse would you really think that small Islands far from China and closer to the US where safe if the US decided to go after them? Plus, if US is trying to lock you out of its system, what good are dollars going to do you anyway?

“It is pretty devastating. The sad reality is the people who need information are unable to hear it. Their phones are not working, they don’t have power or access to the internet,” Houston said.

My latest study, published in The Lancet’s eClinicalMedicine journal, shows that our dreams can reveal a surprising amount of information about our brain health.

Why House Fly Barf Is an Overlooked Potential Vector of Disease

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Things are moving so fast this is already majorly out of date in terms of what Ukraine has taken. RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, SEPTEMBER 9

How the Russian invasion is changing Ukrainian farmers’ crops

Shipping lines and container owners in North America (majorly in the US) are finding it difficult to return containers to China. To add to the present challenges, the US is also facing major trucking issues that are making cargo movement within the country difficult.

In Face of Rising Domestic Prices, India Restricts Rice Exports

The World Is Not Ready For The Next Super-Eruption, Scientists Warn

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 29

Kherson Counteroffensive Finally Begins

Submarine Cables and Container Shipments: Two Immediate Risks to the US Economy if China Invades Taiwan

Turns Out, It’s Illegal for People Under 21 to Buy Canisters of Whipped Cream in NY

Türkiye and Israel are now “normalizing” relations. What has changed?

Top FBI agent resigns amid claims he shielded Hunter Biden from probe: report

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 14

Time to assume that health research is fraudulent until proven otherwise?

A Deeper Dive Into the CDC Reversal

Iran at the crossroads of history

The Chinese government has signaled that it will not tolerate Russian meddling with Kazakh oil exports.

Federal Court Upholds Onerous Education Requirements for D.C. Day Care Workers

Inside the Massive Effort to Change the Way Kids Are Taught to Read

Doctors from USC, UCLA say mask mandates for COVID-19 not effective, as debate goes on

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 6

Give it up for this French physicist who posted a photo of a sausage and had people believing it was a main sequence red dwarf star

When War Knocks on Your Door

Radical farmers pledge ‘hardest action ever’ after nitrogen talks

Alarming drop in testosterone levels in young men

The TB Vaccine Mysteriously Protects Against Lots of Things. Now We Know Why

The mystery virus that protects against monkeypox

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JUNE 28

Could Wolves Save Rome From Its Feral Pig Problem?

Quote from Beijing official on ‘5 years’ of COVID-19 restrictions causes stir

Turkey lifts its objections to Sweden, Finland joining NATO

Here’s your daily reminder that you can threaten SCOTUS justices but The Babylon Bee has been banned since March for misgendering someone

Here’s What Life Looks Like in a Country That’s Run Out of Fuel

Oil shippers are hiding Russian cargoes by paying in Chinese yuan, exchanging weapons for crude, and ‘going dark’

New York Supreme Court Strikes Down NYC Law Allowing Non-Citizens to Vote in Local Elections

Executive teams in U.S. firms are becoming increasingly partisan.

The BA.5 story

Remember when The West could afford electricity 24 hours a day?

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JUNE 23

Poliovirus may be spreading in London; virus detected in sewage for months

A Large-Scale Experiment Used Human Pee to Fertilize Crops. Here’s What Happened

China officials who abused health codes to stop bank protests punished

Sri Lankan prime minister says that the nation’s economy has collapsed

How Should Courts Evaluate Gun Regulations After Bruen?

Germany can last 2.5 months without Russian gas, official says