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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 17, 2023

Arrest Warrant For Putin Issued Over War Crimes Allegations

This is a sign that American style “deep divisions” are spreading around the world. A farmers’ party has stunned Dutch politics, and is set to be the biggest party in the upper house of parliament after provincial elections.

French President Emmanuel Macron is trying to push through a pension reform without a parliamentary vote. That has triggered a political crisis

Strike grips Sri Lanka as unions protest IMF bailout Related: Sri Lanka’s Energy Crisis Is Weighing On its Economy

Berlin Seeks to Recruit Skilled Labor from Africa

For nearly 2 months, a short seller was warning on Twitter that Silicon Valley Bank was about to blow up. ‘It was sitting there in plain sight.’

Big Banks Agree To Historic $30 Billion Unsecured Deposit Injection In First Republic Bank. Related: What’s Going on with First Republic Bank?

Multiple Banks Curb Trading With Credit Suisse As Deposit Run Continues Despite SNB Rescue

When did New York start building slowly?

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 7, 2023

Belarus Admits Russian A-50 Radar Jet Damaged In Drone Attack

US Intelligence Now Says Pro-Ukraine, Possibly Government-Trained Mystery Forces Destroyed Nord Stream Pipelines

Taiwan’s defense minister on Monday said a sharp increase in Chinese military spending for 2023 indicated Beijing was “preparing for the use of force if necessary” to potentially retake the self-ruled island.

France braces for strikes that could bring the country ‘to a standstill’ for days on end

Iran arrests school poisoning suspects as cases top 5,000

Several other types of commercial aircraft also use floppy disks, including newer variants of the 747 and the 767, older Airbus A320s

Lynching the Deplorables Related: footage of police helping protestors was hidden for two years

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, DECEMBER 13

Ukrainian Military Is Targeting Russian Fuel Supply Lines As Winter Approaches

Russia, which is running out of fresh ammunition, is increasingly relying on rockets and artillery shells made 40 years ago, the Pentagon says.

Chinese, Indian Troops Injured in Fresh Border ‘Face-Off’

Late-Year Stumble for Microchip Supply

Flu is ‘eclipsing COVID as the biggest threat,’ Bay Area health officer says

Look more like sheep pens to me but what do I know. Mysterious Patterns Span The Arabian Desert, And We May Finally Know Why

Before we get to visions of fusion power plants dotting the landscape, however, there’s the uncomfortable fact that producing the 2 megajoules of laser power that started the fusion reaction took about 300 megajoules of grid power, so the overall process is nowhere near the break-even point. So, while this was a real sign of progress in getting this form of fusion to work, we’re still left with major questions about whether laser-driven fusion can be optimized enough to be useful.

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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