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'..In the meantime, everything focuses on those 7-10km advances from Robotyne and other frontline areas. As always, the fighting and the dying will be done by Ukrainians, but the West absolutely must ensure that there are sufficient rocket artillery systems, ammunition, and support to do the job.'
- Jan Kallberg, Ukraine — Victory Is Closer Than You Think, August 23, 2023
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Archive 'Its amazing that Mykola’s clear and logical analyses are rarely quoted in the major western press, whereas failed analysts who have consistently overrated Russian capabilities and damned Ukrainian ones, get mentioned all the time.'
'The one good story to come out of this desperate need to claim credit in Washington and London is that there is now a real awareness that the Ukrai
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Archive 'This reality has been opaque to most American military and civilian strategists. For over three decades, the common view of war, for them, has been that war is a rapid, decisive operation, as exemplified in the Panama Invasion (December 1989-January 1990) and the First Gulf War (August 1990-February 1991). Both operations were done quickly and decisively and with minimum casualties. These o
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Archive 'UPS workers ratified a massive five-year labor deal that includes big wage increases and other improvements to work rules and schedules, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters said Tuesday.'
- UPS workers approve massive new labor deal with big raises, August 22, 2023
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UK’s Fast-Growing Wages Put Another Jumbo Rate Hike on the Cards, August 15, 2023
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Archive Something of a kerfuffle has broken out over the issue of China’s economic angst. On one side is Adam Posen, who in a Foreign Affairs article attributes China’s current predicament to the reluctance of private firms to invest, which he in turn attributes to their fears that an authoritarian regime like Xi’s will not respect their property rights and may expropriate them. On the other side, Adam T
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Archive '(Bloomberg) -- China’s state-owned property developers are warning of widespread losses, fueling concerns that the housing crisis is expanding from the private sector to companies with government backing.'
- China’s State Developers Warn of Losses as Crisis Spreads, August 18, 2023
'(Bloomberg) -- Only a week ago, Zhongzhi Enterprise Group Co. attracted little notice withi
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Archive 'But despite the fall in CPI, the figure is still historically high and needs to be seen in the context of stubborn core inflation, record wage inflation..'
- Record wage growth and sticky inflation could push Bank of England base rate beyond 5.5 per cent, August 16, 2023
'..to offset severe impact of inflation..'
'The United Auto Workers is seeking a 46% wage
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Archive 'It gets worse. Kirkpatrick volunteered that many of the reports involving “metallic orbs” are based “very much” on “multi-sensor observations.”
Multi-source, corroborative data, as described by Kirkpatrick, are among the most valuable to scientists. Yet not one member of the NASA panel followed up on Kirkpatrick’s second intriguing revelation of the morning. Indeed, the chair of the NASA
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Archive 'I can tell you anything I like..'
- 'Now U Do', August 3, 2023
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(Project C - Phase II 2022 - 2032) - Eye Opener, To Heal in The Electric Universe
'..LPPFusion's Focus Fusion will not be having issues competing for rare critical minerals..'
Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross
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Archive 'The Atlanta Fed compiles an index of core sticky consumer prices - goods or services for which the cost changes far more slowly. In June, the index showed a rise of 5.6%. This was up from last June's 5.4% rate..'
- ..A sticky inflation situation, August 10, 2023
Context (Banking Reform - English/Dutch) '..a truly stable financial and monetary system for the twenty-f
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Archive '..we refuse to declare that we want Ukraine to win and we stop short of providing what’s really needed…long-range precision weapons to make Crimea untenable for Russian forces and air power to support ground operations.'
- Ben Hodges (Source, August 10, 2023)
'Helping Ukraine 'as long as it takes' is the right approach. But helping Ukraine 'as quick as it ta
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Archive '..The Biden Administration has some internal tensions over this issue, even after the U.K. and France provided the cruise missiles. The Department of Defense (DoD) is the main source of resistance to this supply, and its senior analysts, in their best tradition, have convinced the Secretary of Defense (SECDEF) to oppose the supply. Even when the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or the Nati
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Archive 'The Ukrainians are now fighting a slow, patient war in which they are dismantling Russian artillery, ammunition depots, and command posts without weapons such as American ATACMS and German Taurus missiles that would make this sensible approach faster and more effective. They know far more about fighting Russians than anyone in any Western military knows, and they are experiencing a combat e
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Archive 'The colonel accused politicians of counting coins over lives and considering only the value of weapons provided rather than weighing it against the cost of storing, maintaining or destroying weapons approaching obsoletion.
“We received Nasams rockets produced in 1994. In 2024, they will reach their service life limit. The disposal of an Amraam AIM-120B missile is $26,000 to $28,000. It’s
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Archive '“Powerful lessons from Ukraine’s own past, as well as its neighbors’ history and present, have taught Ukrainians that Moscow can’t be trusted,” Andreas Umland, an analyst at the Stockholm Center for Eastern European Studies at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, wrote in Politico.'
'In remarks since the invasion, has said more of the same, giving no indication that
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Archive 'The Biden administration has said it wants to deliver more weapons to Ukraine as quickly as possible..'
- U.S. expects to begin delivering Abrams tanks to Ukraine in September, July 27, 2023
'The Hollywood-tailored excitement of the Battles of Kyiv and Kharkiv may have unduly raised the bar for what Ukraine can accomplish in short order. Yet the Battle of Kherson, begun in
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Archive 'So-called core inflation rose 0.2% in June and was tracking at a 4.8% annual rate, much higher than the Fed would like.
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Inflation has inflicted much pain
Fed officials have pledged not to be complacent about inflation, repeatedly expressing concern over the impact on lower-income families and workers.
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“The reality is that current inflation rates still hold a negative im
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Archive 'Once again, the Federal Reserve has underestimated inflation for basically the eighth quarter in a row. They've been surprised on what's happened to inflation, and because they're surprised on what's happening with inflation and the strength of the economy, they're gonna be surprised by what they have to do to interest rates.'
- Summers (Source, July 9, 2023
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Archive '..help reinvigorate Turkey’s application to enter the European Union..'
'Mr. Stoltenberg said that Mr. Erdogan had lifted his objections to Sweden’s entry into the alliance and would take the country’s bid to his Parliament for ratification as soon as possible.
In return, Sweden and Turkey would continue to work bilaterally against terrorism, Sweden would help reinvigorate T
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Archive '(CNN) — Ukraine deserves to have NATO membership, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, following talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that Russia said it was closely watching.
Zelensky spent this week visiting NATO countries, courting support ahead of a NATO summit in Lithuania next week where members are expected to reaffirm that Ukraine will eventually join.
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Archive '..Many now consider themselves deists—people who believe in a divine being but don’t adhere to the tenets of Islam..'
'..With half of the country’s population below the age of 32 .. religious schools are underperforming and have little appeal among Turkish youth. A recent poll found that religiosity is much lower in the younger generation, with far fewer describing themselves a
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Archive 'Prof Carsten Welsch, a physicist at the University of Liverpool who lost leadership of a £2.6m research project on a novel plasma generator that could be used in cancer treatment when the UK lost membership, said it would be “absolutely fantastic news” to return to Horizon Europe.
“It would be a gigantic relief. It would mean that the politicians would have thankfully listened to the sci
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Archive 'In Vilnius, the alliance should launch a roadmap that will lead clearly to Ukraine’s membership in NATO at the earliest achievable date. As with Finland and Sweden, the process can bypass the Membership Action Plan in light of the close and ongoing interactions between NATO and Ukraine..'
Opinion | Ukraine Needs a Roadmap to NATO Membership ASAP
Any further delay will only invite
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Archive 'Imagine how much more damage to Russian logistics Ukraine could do if they had ATACMS and Gray Eagle Drones...no Russian ammunition storage site anywhere inside Ukraine would be safe. Russian bases and the Black Sea Fleet would not be safe. @SecDef Sir, what are we waiting for?'
- Ben Hodges (Source, July 5, 2023)
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(Ukraine needs ATACMs) - Ukraine's Top Genera
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Archive 'German industry on Tuesday warned that Europe must become more self-reliant in the hunt for raw materials .. The BDI's Niedermark said that agreement to recycle and process raw materials sent an important signal but called for a similar push to establish domestic mining in Europe.'
- German industry urges reduced dependency after China export controls, July 4, 2023
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Archive '..Army Tactical Missile System (ATACM) .. allow Ukraine to strike at Russian targets behind the lines. These systems, in particular, can hit Russian positions in their supply lines all the way down into the Crimean Peninsula, a crucial aspect to the Ukrainian offensive.'
- A muddled U.S. strategy is making it harder for Kyiv to win, June 14, 2023
'Ukraine's counteroff
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Archive 'More useful than the concept of a great power is that of a full-spectrum power, which takes into account the diverse factors that create military might, not just its outward manifestation in weapons. Few countries have ever achieved all the fundamentals on which superior military power is built and sustained; most that have been described as great powers were in fact midranking Potemkin sta
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Archive '..Another critical characteristic of the earlier inflation era was frequent temporary reversals in inflation, only to be followed by new peaks..'
- (Global Stagflation)(Inflation out of control) - Inflationary Psychology Has Set In. Dislodging It Won’t Be Easy.
' “The real danger comes from encouraging or inadvertently tolerating rising inflation and its close cousin of e
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Archive '..The time to gear up for this enormous mission is not after the war ends, but now..'
'The United States needs to take a more active part in this diplomatic game. An American special envoy should not only shadow Li’s steps in Europe to press U.S. positions, but also travel to countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East to explain why Russian President Vladimir
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Archive 'The fight is now on. This is now a civil war.'
- Michael McFaul (Source, June 24, 2023)
'June 24, 2023: The Russian Civil War has officially started.'
- Tendar (Source, June 24, 2023)
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(WARNING TO RUSSIA) - '..if Russia or Belarus .. explodes a nuclear device in Ukraine .. expect a massive response from NATO..'
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