RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, FEBRUARY 11, 2023

If you don’t have time to read down to the end, it seems like the reason that the US is suddenly seeing these things and shooting them down is because they have tweaked their radars in response to some intel to stop screening out slow flying objects. A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor has shot down an object over Canada’s Yukon Territory, per a Tweet from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.The shootdown is the second such incident in two days and the F-22’s third ‘kill’ ever, after the shooting down of a Chinese high-altitude balloon a week ago. Trudeau tweeted he spoke with President Joe Biden on Saturday afternoon about the incident, and that Canadian forces will recover the object’s wreckage.

Insulated from war, quake brings ‘first catastrophe’ to Syria city

Saudi Arabia And Russia Face Off Over Chinese Oil Market Share

Piece of sun breaks off, stuns scientists: ‘Very curious’

A Black Professor Trapped in Anti-Racist Hell

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Dut’s analysis suggests that Ukraine is bracing for an attack on or around Feb. 15, depending on the weather, and that the western Donbas and/or Zaporizhzhia Oblast are the most likely locations.

Hersh is very unreliable and he has been fooled in the past. But he has also been right in the past. Regardless, this is going to be the “truth” for a lot of people for a long time to come. Seymour Hersh: Navy Divers + Spooks + Norway Took Out Nordstream 2 on Biden’s Orders, Using Timer

A comparison the the war in Ukraine. BREAKING THE MANNERHEIM LINE: SOVIET STRATEGIC AND TACTICAL ADAPTATION IN THE FINNISH-SOVIET WINTER WAR

Chinese surveillance balloon part of massive program over 5 continents: Blinken

Turkish quake survivors face big freeze in cars, tents

Disney Cutting 7,000 Jobs, or 3% of Workforce, Eyes $5.5 Billion in Total Cost Reductions

I admit it, I am linking to this just because of the headline. Portland anarchists attack goat refuge as revenge over homeless encampment removal

Their Alzheimer’s Disease Didn’t Worsen. Why?

Horrific 3Y Auction Sours Post-Powell Bond Rally

Forgot to hit publish on this one.

The Last Undertakers of Bakhmut

Turkey-Syria quake toll tops 7,800 as rescuers battle cold

Medicaid rolls swell as 8 million New Yorkers get coverage at expected record- price of almost $35B

I asked ChatGPT to write a WordPress plugin I needed. It did, in less than 5 minutes

Eric Adams lifts COVID vax mandate for NYC workers — but what of the 1,780 fired?

‘Affront to democracy’: NY Assembly move to snuff out GOP voices in Albany

Ohio crews release toxic chemicals from derailed train

Oil Break Below $80 May Test OPEC’s Resolve

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Russia reported another attempted Tu-141 drone attack deep inside its borders, the latest in a series of such incidents.

Ukraine army discipline crackdown sparks fear and fury on the front

MIDDLE EAST EARTHQUAKE: ‘An Emergency Within an Emergency’

Can Beijing halt China’s housing avalanche? The most important economic-policy question for 2023?

A Wall Street Time Bomb

Migrants abandon NYC for Canada with taxpayer-funded bus tickets

They planned on “conducting critical infrastructure attacks, including statements about sniper attacks against substations, and how conducting a small number of attacks on electrical substations could cause a ‘cascading failure.’”