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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 6, 2024

Hostage killings and new demands cast doubt in White House that Hamas wants a deal

China’s Rare Earth Restrictions Shake Up Global Markets

France’s hunt for Telegram CEO Pavel Durov: The inside story

First Sweden, Now Brazil: Digital Crime is Exploding in Two of the World’s Most Cashless Economies

Verizon to buy Frontier for $9.6 billion, says it will expand fiber network. Verizon once sold part of its network to Frontier; now it’s buying the company.

First China and now Turkey. Why do so many foreign governments want to bribe people in New York State? FBI Raids Homes of Two Top Aides of NYC Mayor Eric Adams

Goldman Reveals Shocking Collapse In Visits To Chat-GPT Website

Slow Burn: How Starliner’s crewed test flight went awry

Archaeologists uncover 6th century BC astronomical observatory in Egypt

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 5, 2024

Russia is rolling out an unprecedented military enlistment ad campaign amid Ukraine’s offensive in the Kursk region

A Christian Town Trapped between Hezbollah and Israel

Hezbollah Hit Israel’s North 1,300 Times in August, Most in One Month Since Oct. 7

China’s Connected Car Collapse Is a Warning for the American Market

“We were stunned by the government’s response to the protest,” Ahmed, whose company handles nearly half of Bangladesh’s $5 million daily digital transactions and processes up to 200,000 packages a day, told Rest of World. “No amount of business continuity planning could have fully prepared an internet-dependent mobility and logistics company for a total shutdown of mobility, internet, and social media.”

There is Dysfunction, and then there’s USS Manchester (LCS 14) Gold Crews in 2023

Hundreds of Child Victims Act cases have been filed against New York schools, some over accused serial offenders that could leave districts with tens of millions of dollars in liability.

Nashville Shooter’s Journal Reveals Dark Side of Transgender Orthodoxy

30 miles south of Los Angeles The crisis comes because landslides in the area, which have been shifting the earth slowly for decades, have suddenly accelerated, moving as much as a foot a week recently. Among the causes, officials have said, are the epic rains of the last two winters. Roads have buckled. Homes have crumbled.

Study puts understanding of long COVID and vaccination into question

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 4, 2024

Zelenskyy suffers huge backlash as reshuffle triggers power-grab accusations

Thermite-Spewing ‘Dragon’ Drones Are Ukraine’s Newest Battlefield Innovation

Iran pays millions in ransom to end massive cyberattack on banks, officials say

Starlink relents to Brazil, agrees to block Elon Musk’s X platform

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation confirmed that four people died at Apalachee High School in Barrow County, Georgia. Authorities Identify Georgia School Shooter as 14-Year-Old Student.

Earlier today, the U.S. Department of Justice filed Charges against Two Russian Nationals working for RT News that are accused for Funneling over $10 Million to a Tennessee-Based Media Company known as Tenet Media, which Hosts several Right-Wing Media Personalities including Dave Rubin, Tim Pool, and Benny Johnson.

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 3, 2024

Above All Else JASSM Would Give Ukraine A Steady Supply Of Cruise Missiles

‘All systems have vulnerabilities’ Russian officials are still using civilian messaging apps for state business

Inside the Russian authorities’ plan to develop anti-aging technology

Salvagers abandon effort to tow burning oil tanker in Red Sea attacked by Houthis. EU mission says rescue attempt is ‘not safe to proceed,’ as US warns that a spill from the Sounion could be ‘four times the size of the Exxon Valdez disaster’ in 1989

UK Announces Partial Suspension of Arms Exports to Israel

‘3,000 operatives’: Hamas regains capabilities in northern Gaza

The far-right AfD won big in the state elections in Saxony and Thuringia ― a disaster for the parties that make up Germany’s coalition government.

Ireland ranks as the loneliest country in Europe, with almost a fifth of people lonely most or all of the time and nearly two-thirds of people suffer from anxiety or depression

The former high-ranking aide to Gov. Kathy Hochul and Andrew Cuomo accused of working as a Chinese agent reaped luxurious gifts and rewards from her clandestine double life, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

A Review Of The US Fiscal Situation

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In all the fuss and bother about the coming presidential election, there has been remarkably little talk about skyrocketing US deficit and the resulting skyrocketing interest’s payments. Regardless of who is president, these are going to be the things that govern what the ruling class can do. But these concerns still don’t factor into the political discourse although they are starting to come up with increasing frequency in the financial press. So I want to take step back from all the political drama and review the essay “Why you should panic about the US Deficit” that I wrote in September of last year.

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 2, 2024

As Ukrainian defenses falter under simultaneous Russian attacks, the Kursk offensive risks plunging Ukraine into a strategic crisis

As tanker keeps burning in Red Sea, projectiles hit two other ships off Yemen coast

Africa’s Top Refinery Could Soon Upend Global Gasoline Markets

Coming soon to a country near you? Indian Insurgents in Manipur Launch Deadly Drone Attack

“We discovered that an antibiotic commonly prescribed to aged care residents was strongly associated with an increase in resistance to other antibiotics the resident had not been prescribed,” Miller said. Alarmingly, nearly all the seniors carried these resistant genes without displaying any symptoms of infection, researchers noted.

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 31, 2024

Ukraine Pushing Slowly West In Russia Towards Key Kursk City

Operation To Tow Stricken Oil Tanker To Start Sunday

It is for that reason that hundreds of takias, as the soup kitchens are called, are distributing meals in the ravaged sister cities on the Nile. They are financed by donations from both at home and abroad. Many of them were only opened in recent months. And almost everyone needs help. Doctors, lab technicians, teachers, lawyers, students, businesspeople: All of them show up several times a day to pick up three ladles-full of rice stew or lentil soup.