RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MAY 21, 2023

‘In a lot of the world, the clock has hit midnight’: China is calling in loans to dozens of countries from Pakistan to Kenya

Is software eating Japan?

The ‘Impossible’ Task of Refilling America’s Oil Reserves

For about 7 years, I lived with no fixed address. For 5 of those years, I was constantly traveling. Where the hell did I sleep?

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MAY 20, 2023

Russia Gains In Bakhmut, Talk Of Imminent Fall Swirls

France is fighting to save your iPhone from an early death

U.S. At Risk Of Blackouts This Summer

Car Dealerships Finally Have Inventory, Potentially Leading To “More Pricing Pressures”

FDA Says Telling People Not to Take Ivermectin for COVID-19 Was Just a Recommendation

It took 48 hours, but the mystery of the mass Asus router outage is solved

Blood vessel damage could be an Alzheimer’s driver

A family went viral 3 years ago for building a tiny-house village. Their college-age kids live on the property in their own tiny houses

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MAY 19, 2023

Ukraine Situation Report: F-16 Coalition Begins To Take Shape

Morality aside, what do they think they are accomplishing? Spy chief reveals Ukraine has been assassinating Russian pro-war propagandists far from the frontlines

South Africa: half the country without electricity, plans power cuts 32 hours long

Where is the State?’: Mass looting engulfs Sudanese capital and Sudan war locks depositors out of savings

Hochul Inches Toward Health Insurance for Undocumented Immigrants

Mississippi Learning

Wild ‘super pigs’ are rooting toward Minnesota. The state wants to keep them out.

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MAY 18, 2023

Vladimir Putin’s secret Black Sea bunker

Pakistan’s Imran Khan fears rearrest

‘We don’t need a baby, we have a cat’: Hong Kong women say no to kids as experts ponder baby shortage

New details about the Pentagon Leak

New California Program Wants All Hate “Incidents” Reported to the State

Truckers are caught on the front lines of California’s EV push. By 2024, trucks bought for use in the state’s ports and rail yards must be zero-emission.

Target CEO: We’re seeing ‘violent’ incidents in our stores, and it’s costing us millions

New York Town Declares State Of Emergency Banning Hotels, Facilities From Housing Immigrants

Diesel Price Plummets by $1.58 Per Gallon in a Single Year

Epic Collapse Of Egg Prices Shown In One Chart

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MAY 17, 2023

Russia, Ukraine extend grain deal despite fierce fighting

Azerbaijan Makes Arrests Over Fresh Coup Plot Blamed on Iran

Is Colombia On The Brink Of A Coup D’Etat?

Google is going to wipe out old accounts, but not ones with YouTube videos?

US Now Spends More Servicing Its Debt Than On National Defense

Framework Laptop’s 13th-gen Intel upgrade helps fix its battery problem

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MAY 16, 2023

The French move to provide SCALP-EG air-launched cruise missiles comes after the U.K. delivered essentially identical missiles to Kyiv.

This lacks context in that numbers are not inflation adjusted or expressed as a ratio to income. Still, the huge rise in absolute terms does indicate that something is going on. American Consumer Debt Hits Record Level, Rises Nearly $3 Trillion Since Lockdowns

Eric Adams Wants ‘Revisit’ Sanctuary City Status for NYC

IRS removes investigative team from Hunter Biden probe in move whistleblower calls ‘clearly retaliatory’ Related: The blackout on Biden corruption is truly ‘Pulitzer-level stuff’

Like Germany, The US Is Greening Its Grid Towards Catastrophe

The U.S. is undergoing its worst bird flu outbreak ever. Is a poultry vaccine the answer?

Vitamin D: Everything You Need to Know

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MAY 15, 2023

After decades of watching Kremlin-backed hackers, the FBI ID’d weaknesses and pounced.

NEGOTIATING SAUDI ARABIA’S DEFEAT AND THE HOUTHI VICTORY IN YEMEN

Pakistan’s Supreme Court Orders Release of Former PM Imran Khan

Netanyahu’s Popularity Soars After Gaza Operation

The superfungus was first detected in New York City. The new species may start making its way through the homeless population soon.

U.S.A. fact of the day

Honda Won’t Sell Gasoline Mowers in the US Anymore

The Religious Landscape is Undergoing Massive Change. It Could Decide the 2024 Election.

Spiraling in San Francisco’s Doom Loop Related: New York, San Francisco Office Buildings Are Absolute Ghost Towns.

The Biden administration is proposing a rule that would require most fossil fuel power plants to cut their greenhouse gas emissions 90 percent between 2035 and 2040 — or shut down.

‘I think we’re to the Dust Bowl.’ Oklahoma farmers say wheat crop is worst in decades

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MAY 5, 2023

Ukraine Isn’t Buying Wagner Boss’s Tirade About Pulling Out Of Bakhmut

HIMARS become less effective in Ukraine due to Russia’s jamming

Technically, the farmer can immigrate outside the EU but this does make you understand why the farmers are mad enough to go to extreme measures. EU ensures Dutch farmers booted FOREVER from farming

TikTok spied on me. Why?

Global rice shortage is set to be the biggest in 20 years

Germany’s economic time bomb: the labor crisis

Pressure grows for regulatory intervention as US bank rout deepens

Comments on April Employment Report

Tropical Milkweed Harmful to Monarch Butterflies?

Leon Pinsker (1821-1891): Herzl’s harbinger