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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 3, 2023

Ukraine Situation Report: Patriot Kill Marks Hint That It Downed Aircraft Inside Russia

UK Looking to Buy Cheaper Israeli Alternative to Storm Shadow

The current round of rioting caused more destruction than the 2005 riots, which lasted for weeks. “According to several sources, five nights and as many days of violence have exceeded the severity of the riots in the fall of 2005, which lasted three weeks.

Large-scale Israeli army raid kills 8 in West Bank

The upcoming “Barbie” movie will not appear in Vietnamese cinemas because it depicts a map showing China’s claims to the South China Sea, state media reported.

China Stockpiling Cobalt Reserves Amid Price Crash

US Manufacturing “Took Sharp Turn For The Worse” In June

Housing Inventory and Demographics: The Next Big Shift

Whole Brain Emulation: No Progress on C. elegans After 10 Years

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 2, 2023

“Intifada in Heart of France” – Mobs Torch Cities, Desecrate Holocaust and WWII Memorial

EU hails discovery of massive phosphate rock deposit in Norway

Big families wanted, but they can’t be homeschoolers.

Lumber Prices Down About 35% YoY

Researchers discover new weapon against antibiotic resistance—it also fights malaria

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JULY 1, 2023

Ukraine Situation Report: Russian SAMs Can’t Stop This Storm Shadow

Chaos Engulfs France: Highlight Reel

An “Adolescent” (Surely a Gentle Giant) Is Killed by Police During His 13th Brush with the Law in France, And BLM-Style Rioting, Arson, and Looting Engulfs the Nation

Workers at Canada’s busiest port in Vancouver and at harbors up and down the nation’s west coast stopped work Saturday in a labor dispute that is likely to disrupt global freight transport.

Europe Set To Reach Natural Gas Storage Target Ahead Of Schedule

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JUNE 30, 2023

Ukraine Situation Report: Counteroffensive Criticism “Pisses Me Off” Says Top General

Alarming antibiotic resistance discovered in war-torn Ukraine

IN PICTURES: FRANCE BURNS

The Ultimate Bubble

New UPS Trucks Will Get Air Conditioning After Years of Driver Demands

SCOTUS “gave universities a narrow opening, and Harvard just announced it’s going to drive an affirmative action truck right through it”

5 Megawatt solar plant destroyed by hail

A long and very informative read on the problems facing the Grid. The predictability of power generation is slowly going out the window. Predictable, firm sources of electricity (such as coal plants) are being removed from the grid, and being replaced by sources of electricity generation such as wind and solar, which fluctuate in their output based on whether the wind is blowing or the sun is shining. Between 2011 and 2020, roughly 1/3rd of US coal plants were shut down. By 2030, that’s expected to fall by another 25%. By contrast, of the 150 gigawatts of new electrical generation projects being tracked by the EIA, 2/3rds of them are wind or solar projects.

Texas Endures Another Heat Wave

For the first time, six fast-growing states in the South — Florida, Texas, Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee — are contributing more to the national GDP than the Northeast, with its Washington-New York-Boston corridor

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JUNE 29, 2023

The Biden administration appears to be closer to sending Ukraine two weapons it has long-sought, ATACMS and cluster munitions.

China’s Demographics: Even Worse Than You Think

CBO projects federal debt to soar over next 20 years

Teamsters warn of ‘imminent’ UPS strike affecting ‘nearly all Americans’
Many young women, girls in U.S. are iron deficient

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JUNE 28, 2023

Ukraine could be in line to receive the Kongsberg Naval Strike Missile, or NSM, from Polish stocks, with reports in the Polish media suggesting that talks between the two countries about a possible transfer of these coastal defense systems are underway.

Thread on Sergei Shoigu

Purges Underway In Russian Security Apparatus After Prigozhin’s Mutiny

The Bureaucratic And Logistical Issues Encountered By Russian Drone Developers

The West Bank is undergoing a period of major instability due to the significant allocation of resources by various armed groups, namely Islamic Jihad, al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, and Hamas.

Chinese Coal Stocks Reach Record High As Seaborne Imports Surge 73%

Avoid NYC airports for your layovers if you can. If you can connect out of ORD or IAD you should try.

After merger with Google Maps division, Waze gets hit with layoffs

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JUNE 27, 2023

Ukraine Situation Report: U.S. Replenishes Kyiv’s Bradley Fighting Vehicle Force

Belarus Wants Prigozhin’s ‘Wagnerites’ To Train Its Army

Destabilizing Africa: Iranian Drones Menace Morocco

Cattle, farmland short of water in northern China

The Netherlands’ intelligence community determined that Iran is “ignoring the agreements” it made as part of the original nuclear deal, including by “deploying increasingly more sophisticated uranium enrichment centrifuges [and] enlarging its enrichment capacity.”

Giant Food president says thieves are stealing ‘everything’ from shrimp to deodorant — and warns some grocery stores could close

Malaria spreading in Texas and Florida; first US-based cases in two decades

Court: NY Attorney General Attempt to Force Section 8 on Landlords Unconstitutional