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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 28

U.S. GDP fell at a 1.4% pace to start the year as pandemic recovery takes a hit

Is Russia gearing up to go to war with NATO?

The brutal lockdown in Shanghai is wreaking havoc on China’s largest city.

A New York City pediatrician spent the COVID-19 pandemic complaining online about her grueling 12-hour days in full PPE on the frontlines — only to be revealed as a school doctor with a plum 9-to-5 job, according to an explosive report.

Moldova Fears Russia Is Looking To Expand Its War Beyond Ukraine

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 27

Four Buyers In Europe Have Paid In Rubles For Russia’s Gas

Shanghai’s plan to reboot the supply chain will hit workers the hardest

Amazon Employees Hold Secret Zoom Meeting Plotting to Ban Conservative Children’s Book

A perspective from India. How Indonesia’s palm oil export ban will impact your everyday life

Chemical Dynamics gets their potash from Canada, but a shortage in delivery trucks due to border vaccine mandates has raised costs by nearly 40%, according to a letter from the The Fertilizer Institute to US legislatures in April.

Range anxiety is bad enough. But even when they find a station, drivers often have to deal with broken equipment.

NATO member Turkey said it was still talking to Russia about procuring a second batch of one of its most advanced missile defense systems despite the war in Ukraine.

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 26

Bank of America sounding the alarm on collapsing freight demand

The ban, which comes into effect on Wednesday, will add further upward pressure to the global price of cooking oil.

Raytheon Will Not Resume Mass Production of Stinger Missiles Until 2023

Poland’s One.pl online news channel reported that Russia had suspended gas supplies to Poland under the Yamal contract, citing off-the-record sources claiming that the Ministry of Climate has now gathered its crisis team to deal with the situation.

Russian Energy Tycoons & Families Found Dead In Suspicious Circumstances

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 25

One of Beijing’s largest districts saw 11 new cases in a single day, prompting residents to make a run on supplies in case of a lockdown there, CNN reported. The authorities also announced mass testing for all people in the district, further adding to the sense of panic, with more districts being added to the plan by early Monday afternoon EST. More pictures and whatnot of the panic buying here.

Shanghai Surprise: China Mulls Locking Down Workers Inside Factories

Authorities now fencing in buildings in Shanghai to stop people from leaving

This may be recent footage out of Lviv.

I would have bet money that this would not happen but it did.

Leftists Worried Elon Musk Will Turn Twitter Into A Place Where Terrible People Post Bad Opinions And Fight With Each Other All The Time

Orwell’s Bad Republicans

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 24

Main thing that I trust that I got out of this is that Toxoplasmosis mostly comes from undercooked beef. Endemic Pathogens Are Making You Crazy And Then Killing You: Toxoplasmosis Spotlight

Pfizer COVID-19 third dose vaccine protection against hospitalization from omicron wanes after 3 months

5G is a joke and the iPhone is the well-timed punchline

This is the latest thing going around but it don’t make sense to me. What do fires have to do with ransomware attacks? FBI Warns of Targeted Cyber Attacks On Food Plants After Mysterious Rash Of Fires I think there might be a little bit of cherry picking going on. After all, “there are over 34,000 food processing plants in the United States.” But since this stuff is starting to trend, I figured I would throw it out there.

A little bit amazed that it still has not broke. The Webb Telescope Is Almost Fully Aligned

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 23

Shanghai’s new cases rebound after five-day decline, with no end in sight for lockdown

Pakistan’s new PM desperately needs external financial assistance to avoid an inherited impending default

Have People Been Given the Wrong Vaccine?

LEARNING FROM OUR DEFEAT: THE MADRASSAS AND THE MODERN

These hackers showed just how easy it is to target critical infrastructure

Tetanus vaccines work so well we may not need the ten year boosters, only a 30 year one…

Inside Nebraska’s Surprisingly Effective Covid Strategy

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 22
Rumors Of War

“The way that Starlink was able to upgrade when a threat showed up, we need to be able to have that ability,” said Dave Tremper, the Pentagon’s director of electronic warfare. “We have to be able to change our electromagnetic posture, to be able to change very dynamically what we’re trying to do without losing capability along the way.”

Russian General Says Moscow Aims to Capture Southern Ukraine

Shanghai further tightens Covid restrictions after weeks of strict lockdown

Court Rules That New York’s Rabidly Partisan Redistricting Map Was Improperly Gerrymandered

China’s March coal imports from Russia plunge 30% yr/yr

Treasury Bond Massacre, Mortgage Rates Hit 5.35%, Highest since 2009, and it’s Only April

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 21

The Mask Studies You Should Know

It’s planting season in Ukraine, and that means problems for global food supply

Antidepressants may not improve overall well-being in depressed people

Two mystery fires.

Biden admin to rescind Trump ‘conscience’ rule for health workers

Gaza-Based Militants Fire Rockets for Second Night in a Row

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 20

Flu Is Making A Comeback.

It’s probably worse than Wuhan’: Experts warn China’s COVID-19 lockdowns will once again cripple global supply chains

Slovakia Mulls Delivery Of MiG-29s To Ukraine

Iran needs $80 bil gas investment to avoid becoming an importer

Trudeau invents license for “journalists” so readers know which ones are Government Approved

In China Kids Aren’t Learning About Pimping In Math Class

the total supplies in American storage facilities at the end of January were 17% lower than the previous five-year average for that time of year. In that one month, we withdrew 991 billion cubic feet of gas from those reserves. That’s the most natural gas we have withdrawn from storage in the month of January since 2012.

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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 18

China Censors Its Own National Anthem amid Growing Unrest with Coronavirus Lockdowns

Loose Nuke Talk

Second British soldier captured in Mariupol paraded on Russian TV

Australian electricity price doubles

Tumors partially destroyed with sound don’t come back

Federal judge strikes down CDC mask mandate for travel

US firm on nuclear accord as Iran casts blame

Analysis: Hamas-Led Militant Groups Create Strife at Al-Aqsa Mosque