Gaza Needs Over $71BN In Next Decade If Enclave Hopes To Recover: New UN Report

Spy Cams On UK Navy Drones Secretly Transmitted Data To China An investigation into surveillance equipment fitted to Royal Navy unmanned vessels has raised concerns over military supply-chain security after cameras containing Chinese-made components were found communicating with an internet address in China. The camera on top of a K3 Scout uncrewed vessel, used by the Royal Navy in Portsmouth harbour. Parts of the camera were made in China. Via The Telegraph The cameras were installed on K3 Scout unmanned surface vessels used by Royal Marines and other specialist British forces, according...

Ukraine Flexes With Much Deeper Drone Reach Targeting Russia's Refineries  Ukraine has been demonstrating deeper targeting reach inside Russia, as several key oil sites have come under direct drone attack this week, resulting in significant destruction. This as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday announced "a new stage in the use of Ukrainian weapons to limit the potential of Russia's war." Satellite image of Perm attack aftermath, via Reuters. The massive Tuapse complex on Russia's Black Sea coast has been hit no less than three times in under a month, sparking a series of...

We Want One Solution, But One Solution Can't Solve Our Polycrisis Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via Substack, Whatever the problem, our minds seek one solution--preferably a simple one--to escape the trackless wilderness of complex, inter-connected problems. Problem-solving boils down to identifying the key problem and finding a fix that’s easy to understand and straightforward to apply. Our minds rebel when confronted with polycrisis, a knotted mess of inter-connected problems, and so we apply solutions we already have in hand. As I explained in previous Musings, this leads us to modify our...