The John Batchelor Show

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• 1534: #PacificWatch: The Undead Bullet Train @JCBliss #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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  Jul 25 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #PacificWatch: The Undead Bullet Train @JCBliss #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety Dianne Feinstein, Alex Padilla urge California Democrats to spend on high-speed rail -- California Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Alex Padilla this week urged Democratic leaders in the Legislature to get behind Gov. Gavin Newsom’s request to release $4.2 billion for the state’s beleaguered high-speed rail project, wading into a dispute over how to use the money. Sacramento Bee ...more

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• 1534: #PacificWatch: The natural burdens of California. @JCBliss #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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  Jul 25 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #PacificWatch: The natural burdens of California.  @JCBliss #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety Anatomy of a monster: How the Dixie fire became California’s biggest of the year -- When the first sparks ignited in the dense forest of Plumas County, the conditions were primed for a monster. Los Angeles Times  Newsom declares state of emergency as Dixie Fire explodes to 167,000 acres -- The fast-moving Dixie Fire, the largest of seven wildfires blazing in California, prompted more evacuations on Friday amid hot, breezy conditions and low humidity, authorities said. The blaze, which is burning near the scar of the deadly 2018 Camp Fire, saw extreme fire behavior on Thursday and had scorched 167,430 acres by Friday evening, fire officials said. San Francisco Chronicle Folsom Fire Department asks city to declare a local emergency to help lessen wildfire dangers -- The Folsom Fire Department has asked the City Council to declare a local emergency, allowing the department to close public lands where there is danger of fire. Sacramento Bee  Technology has growing role in corralling US West wildfires -- As drought- and wind-driven wildfires have become more dangerous across the American West in recent years, firefighters have tried to become smarter in how they prepare. Associated Press ...more

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• 1534: Adrian Wooldridge #UNBOUND. The complete eighty-minute interview. July 10, 2016

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  Jul 25 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Adrian Wooldridge #UNBOUND. The complete eighty-minute interview. July 10, 2016 The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World Hardcover – July 13, 2021 by Adrian Wooldridge  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Aristocracy-Talent-Meritocracy-Modern-World-ebook/dp/B08HGJTP1F 'The Aristocracy of Talent provides an important and needed corrective to contemporary critiques of meritocracy. It puts meritocracy in an illuminating historical and cross-cultural perspective that shows how crucial the judgment of people by their talents rather than their bloodlines or connections has been to creating the modern world. Highly recommended' Francis Fukuyama Meritocracy: the idea that people should be advanced according to their talents rather than their status at birth. For much of history this was a revolutionary thought, but by the end of the twentieth century it had become the world's ruling ideology. How did this happen, and why is meritocracy now under attack from both right and left?  Adrian Wooldridge traces the history of meritocracy forged by the politicians and officials who introduced the revolutionary principle of open competition, the psychologists who devised methods for measuring natural mental abilities and the educationalists who built ladders of educational opportunity. He looks outside western cultures and shows what transformative effects it has had everywhere it has been adopted, especially once women were brought into the meritocractic system. Wooldridge also shows how meritocracy has now become corrupted and argues that the recent stalling of social mobility is the result of failure to complete the meritocratic revolution. Rather than abandoning meritocracy, he says, we should call for its renewal....more

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• 1516: Josh Rogin #Unbound: the complete, eighty-minute interview, March 21, 2021

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  Jul 25 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Josh Rogin #Unbound: the complete, eighty-minute interview, March 21, 2021 Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century, Kindle Edition by Josh Rogin   Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08B364SKG/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0 The explosive, behind-the-scenes story of Donald Trump’s high-stakes confrontation with Beijing, from an award-winning Washington Post columnist and peerless observer of the U.S.–China relationship There was no calm before the storm. Donald Trump’s surprise electoral victory shattered the fragile understanding between Washington and Beijing, putting the most important relationship of the twenty-first century in the hands of a novice who had bitterly attacked China from the campaign trail. Almost as soon as he entered office, Trump brought to a boil the long-simmering rivalry between the two countries, while also striking up a “friendship” with Chinese president Xi Jinping — whose manipulations of his American counterpart would undermine the White House’s already disjointed response to the historic challenge of a rising China. All the while, Trump’s own officials fought to steer U.S. policy from within. By the time the COVID-19 pandemic erupted in Wuhan, Trump’s love-hate relationship with Xi had sparked a trade war, while Xi’s aggression had pushed the world to the brink of a new Cold War. But their quarrel had also forced a long-overdue reckoning within the United States over China’s audacious foreign-influence operations, horrific human rights abuses, and creeping digital despotism. Ironically, this awakening was one of the biggest foreign-policy victories of Trump’s fractious term in office. ​Filled with shocking revelations drawn from Josh Rogin’s unparalleled access to top U.S. officials from the White House and deep within the country’s foreign policy machine, Chaos Under Heaven reveals an administration at war with itself during perhaps our most urgent hour....more

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• 1533: William Damon #UNBOUND: The complete forty-minute interview. July 3, 2021.

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  Jul 25 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow William Damon #UNBOUND: The complete forty-minute interview. July 3, 2021.  A Round of Golf with My Father, by William Damon.    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Round-Golf-Father-Psychology-Exploring/dp/1599475634 Viewing our past through the eyes of maturity can reveal insights that our younger selves could not see. Lessons that eluded us become apparent. Encounters that once felt like misfortunes now become understood as valued parts of who we are. We realize what we’ve learned and what we have to teach. And we’re encouraged to chart a future that is rich with purpose.  In A Round of Golf with My Father, William Damon introduces us to the “life review.” This is a process of looking with clarity and curiosity at the paths we’ve traveled, examining our pasts in a frank yet positive manner, and using what we’ve learned to write purposeful next chapters for our lives....more

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• 1532: #GreatMigration: Iraq human traffickers sending the disabled and ill to Lithuania via Belarus, charging $15,000.00 per plane ticket. Michael Yon Locals.com/YON #FriendsoftheHistoryDebatingSociety

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  Jul 25 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #GreatMigration: Iraq human traffickers sending the disabled and ill to Lithuania via Belarus, charging $15,000.00 per plane ticket.  Michael Yon Locals.com/YON #FriendsoftheHistoryDebatingSociety https://news.yahoo.com/lithuanias-plea-iraq-probe-human-143556705.html

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• 1532: #Great Migration: Forty yards from the KGB HQ in Vilnius, watching for Russia to invade again. Michael Yon Locals.com/YON #FriendsoftheHistoryDebatingSociety

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  Jul 25 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #Great Migration: Forty yards from the KGB HQ in Vilnius, watching for Russia to invade again. Michael Yon Locals.com/YON #FriendsoftheHistoryDebatingSociety https://coldwarsites.net/country/lithuania/the-kgb-building-prison-and-memorials-vilnius/

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• 1531: #Londinium90AD: Gaius & Germanicus philosophize about violent Emperor succession episodes. Michael Vlahos. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety GLXXG

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  Jul 24 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #Londinium90AD: Gaius & Germanicus philosophize about violent Emperor succession episodes. Michael Vlahos. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety GLXXG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Days_in_May

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• 1530: 2/2. Nuclear weapons and Tehran. Andrea Stricker, @StrickerNonpro, @FDD

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  Jul 24 2021

  Photo: Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Old Waste Calcining Facility, Scoville, Butte County, Idaho. 2/2. Nuclear weapons and Tehran.  Andrea Stricker, @StrickerNonpro, @FDD   https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2021/06/30/international-atomic-energy-agency/

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• 1530: 1/2. Chemical weapons and the Kremlin. Andrea Stricker, @StrickerNonpro, @FDD

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  Jul 24 2021

  Photo: Japanese used a chemical weapon in Hebei in 1937 1/2. Chemical weapons and the Kremlin.  Andrea Stricker, @StrickerNonpro, @FDD   https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2021/06/30/organization-for-the-prohibition-of-chemical-weapons/

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• 1529: Gathering Ransomware Summiteers in August. @FRoseDC @WJLA GLXXG

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  Jul 24 2021

  Photo: A Reveton payload, fraudulently claiming that the user must pay a fine to the Metropolitan Police Service. [Fair use] CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Gathering Ransomware Summiteers in August. @FRoseDC @WJLA GLXXG https://govmatters.tv/possible-revolution-underway-for-fighting-ransomware-says-cybersecurity-expert/

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• 1529: #PacificWatch: Earlier, hotter, bigger: the wildfires of Siberia and Pacific Northwest @JCBliss GLXXG

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  Jul 24 2021

  Photo: Hundreds of wildfires have broken out in Siberia, some of which can be seen in this image captured from space on 28 July 2019. Almost three million hectares of land are estimated to have been affected, according to Russia’s Federal Forestry Agency.             This Copernicus Sentinel-3 image shows a number of fires, producing plumes of smoke. The smoke has carried air pollution into the Kemerovo, Tomsk, Novosibirsk, and Altai regions. An unprecedented amount of wildfires have been raging in various regions of the Arctic, including Greenland and Alaska in the US. They have been caused by record-breaking temperatures and lightning, fuelled by strong winds. Wildfires release harmful pollutants and toxic gases into the atmosphere. According to the World Meteorological Organization, fires in the Arctic released around 50 megatonnes of carbon dioxide in June alone – equivalent to Sweden’s total annual emissions. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #PacificWatch: Earlier, hotter, bigger: the wildfires of Siberia and Pacific Northwest @JCBliss GLXXG https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Next-3-days-are-critical-in-battle-against-16334290.php Permissions: This media [sic; "image"] was created by the European Space Agency (ESA). Where expressly so stated, images or videos are covered by the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO (CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO) licence, ESA being an Intergovernmental Organisation (IGO), as defined by the CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO licence. The user is allowed under the terms and conditions of the CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO license to Reproduce, Distribute and Publicly Perform the ESA images and videos released under CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO licence and the Adaptations thereof, without further explicit permission being necessary, for as long as the user complies with the conditions and restrictions set forth in the CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO licence,...more

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• 1528: 4/4 Révolution Française, by Sophie Pedder. @PedderSophie

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  Jul 23 2021

  Photo: France: Castle of Combourg. 4/4   La Révolution Française, by Sophie Pedder.  @PedderSophie    https://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Française-Emmanuel-Macron-reinvent/dp/1472948602 The extraordinary story of how an outsider candidate—an unknown technocrat and economics minister on the fringes of French politics—made his way to the Élysée palace, with expert analysis of his first year in office. Two years after Emmanuel Macron came from nowhere to seize the French presidency, Sophie Pedder, The Economist's Paris bureau chief, tells the story of his remarkable rise and time in office so far. In this paperback edition, published with a new foreword by the author, Pedder reflects on Macron's troubles and triumphs: his dwindling popularity; the 'gilets jaunes' protests and resulting civil unrest; his efforts to transform France and lead the global fight against climate change; the Benalla affair; his erratic relationships with Angela Merkel, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Theresa May, and the future of the European project.  On the eve of important European elections, and with nationalist and populist forces rising across the continent, she considers whether Macron can hold the centre ground and defend the multilateral liberal order against the axis of such figures as Italy's Matteo Salvini and Hungary's Viktor Orbán. Pedder also analyses the domestic situation in France, the evolution of En Marche, and the fall-out from Macron's controversial reforms. Meticulously researched and written in Pedder's gripping and immensely readable style, this is the essential, authoritative account for anyone wishing to understand Macron and the future of France in the world. ..  ..  ..     . . . Contre nous de la tyrannie, L’étendard sanglant est levé ...more

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• 1528: 3/4 Révolution Française, by Sophie Pedder. @PedderSophie

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  Jul 23 2021

  Photo:   Lit de justice held by Louis XIII in the Parliament of Paris the day after the death of Henri IV his father. May 15, 1610 {Lit de justice tenu par Louis XIII au Parlement de Paris le lendemain de la mort de Henri IV son père. 15 mai 1610) In France under the Ancien Régime, the lit de justice "bed of justice") was a particular formal session of the Parliament of Paris, under the presidency of the king, for the compulsory registration of the royal edicts. It was named thus because the king would sit on a throne, under a baldachin. 3/4   La Révolution Française, by Sophie Pedder.  @PedderSophie    https://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Française-Emmanuel-Macron-reinvent/dp/1472948602 The extraordinary story of how an outsider candidate—an unknown technocrat and economics minister on the fringes of French politics—made his way to the Élysée palace, with expert analysis of his first year in office. Two years after Emmanuel Macron came from nowhere to seize the French presidency, Sophie Pedder, The Economist's Paris bureau chief, tells the story of his remarkable rise and time in office so far. In this paperback edition, published with a new foreword by the author, Pedder reflects on Macron's troubles and triumphs: his dwindling popularity; the 'gilets jaunes' protests and resulting civil unrest; his efforts to transform France and lead the global fight against climate change; the Benalla affair; his erratic relationships with Angela Merkel, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Theresa May, and the future of the European project.  On the eve of important European elections, and with nationalist and populist forces rising across the continent, she considers whether Macron can hold the centre ground and defend the multilateral liberal order against the axis of such figures as Italy's Matteo Salvini and Hungary's Viktor Orbán. Pedder also analyses the domestic situation in France, the evolution of En Marche, and the fall-out from Macron's controversial reforms. Meticulously researched and written in Pedder's gripping and immensely readable style, this is the essential, authoritative account for anyone wishing to understand Macron and the future of France in the world. ..  ..  ..     . . . Contre nous de la tyrannie, L’étendard sanglant est levé ...more

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• 1528: 2/4 Révolution Française, by Sophie Pedder. @PedderSophie

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  Jul 23 2021

  Photo: Women get the vote. Auclert - Le vote des femmes, 1908 2/4  La Révolution Française, by Sophie Pedder.  @PedderSophie    https://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Française-Emmanuel-Macron-reinvent/dp/1472948602 The extraordinary story of how an outsider candidate—an unknown technocrat and economics minister on the fringes of French politics—made his way to the Élysée palace, with expert analysis of his first year in office. Two years after Emmanuel Macron came from nowhere to seize the French presidency, Sophie Pedder, The Economist's Paris bureau chief, tells the story of his remarkable rise and time in office so far. In this paperback edition, published with a new foreword by the author, Pedder reflects on Macron's troubles and triumphs: his dwindling popularity; the 'gilets jaunes' protests and resulting civil unrest; his efforts to transform France and lead the global fight against climate change; the Benalla affair; his erratic relationships with Angela Merkel, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Theresa May, and the future of the European project.  On the eve of important European elections, and with nationalist and populist forces rising across the continent, she considers whether Macron can hold the centre ground and defend the multilateral liberal order against the axis of such figures as Italy's Matteo Salvini and Hungary's Viktor Orbán. Pedder also analyses the domestic situation in France, the evolution of En Marche, and the fall-out from Macron's controversial reforms. Meticulously researched and written in Pedder's gripping and immensely readable style, this is the essential, authoritative account for anyone wishing to understand Macron and the future of France in the world. ..  ..  ..     . . . Contre nous de la tyrannie, L’étendard sanglant est levé    ...more

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• 1528: 1/4 Révolution Française, by Sophie Pedder. @PedderSophie

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  Jul 23 2021

  Photo:  Engraving of the National Assembly, c. 4 February 1790 Gravure Assemblée nationale, époque du 4 février 1790 1 - Archives Nationales 1/4  Révolution Française, by Sophie Pedder.  @PedderSophie    https://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Française-Emmanuel-Macron-reinvent/dp/1472948602 The extraordinary story of how an outsider candidate—an unknown technocrat and economics minister on the fringes of French politics—made his way to the Élysée palace, with expert analysis of his first year in office. Two years after Emmanuel Macron came from nowhere to seize the French presidency, Sophie Pedder, The Economist's Paris bureau chief, tells the story of his remarkable rise and time in office so far. In this paperback edition, published with a new foreword by the author, Pedder reflects on Macron's troubles and triumphs: his dwindling popularity; the 'gilets jaunes' protests and resulting civil unrest; his efforts to transform France and lead the global fight against climate change; the Benalla affair; his erratic relationships with Angela Merkel, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Theresa May, and the future of the European project.  On the eve of important European elections, and with nationalist and populist forces rising across the continent, she considers whether Macron can hold the centre ground and defend the multilateral liberal order against the axis of such figures as Italy's Matteo Salvini and Hungary's Viktor Orbán. Pedder also analyses the domestic situation in France, the evolution of En Marche, and the fall-out from Macron's controversial reforms. Meticulously researched and written in Pedder's gripping and immensely readable style, this is the essential, authoritative account for anyone wishing to understand Macron and the future of France in the world. ..  ..  ..     . . . Contre nous de la tyrannie, L’étendard sanglant est levé  ...more

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• 1528: Geoengineering for Real. Oliver Morton @TheEconomist

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  Jul 23 2021

  Photo:  Microbubbles (MBs) are bubbles smaller than one hundredth of a millimetre in diameter, but larger than one micrometre. They have widespread application in industry, life science, and medicine.              Concerning global warming: "The latest geoengineering scheme involves turning the world's oceans into a giant bubble bath, with hundreds of millions of tiny bubbles pumped into the seas. This would increase the water's reflectivity and bring down ocean temperatures, according to the Harvard University physicist Russell Seitz. As the creative physicist said to the assembled crowd at an international meeting on geoengineering research: 'Since water covers most of the earth, don't dim the sun.  . . .  Brighten the water.' " Geoengineering for Real.  Oliver Morton @TheEconomist    https://econ.st/3xZecy8 ...more

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• 1528: The Green Shape of Post-Pandemic Cities to Come. ScalaReport: Chris Riegel

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  Jul 23 2021

  Photo:  The Hawkmen's floating metropolis Sky City depicted in Flash Gordon (1936) [public domain] The Green Shape of Post-Pandemic Cities to Come.  ScalaReport: Chris Riegel https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-delays-office-return-as-covid-19-delta-variant-spreads-11626803578

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• 1528: The UN no-show in Havana and Port-au-Prince. Cliff May, FDD

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  Jul 23 2021

  Photo: The UN no-show in Havana and Port-au-Prince.  Cliff May, FDD   https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jul/20/problems-with-world-peacekeeping-un-does-it-incomp/ Addendum:  "Halfway through his first five-year term, U.N. Secretary General António Guterres is becoming defined by his silence on human rights — even as serious rights abuses proliferate." https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/04/25/why-un-chiefs-silence-human-rights-deeply-troubling# Permissions: 19 February 2010, 09:40 / Source | Three Wise Monkeys / Author | Simon James from Darlington, UK This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.  You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. ...more

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• 1528: The spat that veils the critical question of virus origin. @JoshRogin @WashingtonPost

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  Jul 23 2021

  Photo: The Institute Waltz The spat that veils the critical question of virus origin.  @JoshRogin @WashingtonPost   https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/22/what-the-fight-between-anthony-fauci-and-rand-paul-is-really-about/

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• 1528: Lunar Crater-Hopping for Water Ice. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com GLXXG

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  Jul 23 2021

  Photo:  The image shows the distribution of surface ice at the Moon’s south pole (left) and north pole (right), detected by NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument. Blue represents the ice locations, plotted over an image of the lunar surface, where the gray scale corresponds to surface temperature (darker representing colder areas and lighter shades indicating warmer zones). The ice is concentrated at the darkest and coldest locations, in the shadows of craters. This is the first time scientists have directly observed definitive evidence of water ice on the Moon’s surface.   Credits: NASA Lunar Crater-Hopping for Water Ice.  Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com GLXXG https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-funds-hopper-to-jump-into-shadowed-lunar-craters-and-find-ice/...more

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• 1528: NAUKA FIXED! Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com GLXXG

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  Jul 23 2021

  Photo: A Proton rocket launched a multipurpose laboratory module named Nauka to the International Space Station on Wednesday from Kazakhstan. Photo: NASA.  NAUKA FIXED! Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com GLXXG https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nauka-issues-apparently-resolved/

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• 1528: 2/2 Kiev and Warsaw doubt the US-Germany-Russia deal on Nordstream2. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute, @LievenAnatol

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  Jul 23 2021

  Photo:  A piece of Nord Stream pipe on public display in Kotka, Finland. 2/2  Kiev and Warsaw doubt the US-Germany-Russia deal on Nordstream2. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute, @LievenAnatol   https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-germany-deal-nord-stream-2-pipeline-draws-ire-lawmakers-both-countries-2021-07-21/ Permissions: 21 October 2017, 16:53:59 / Source | Own work  /  Author | Vuo I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license: w:en:Creative Commons attribution share alike  This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.          You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use....more

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• 1528: 1/2 Kiev and Warsaw doubt the US-Germany-Russia deal on Nordstream2. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute, @LievenAnatol

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  Jul 23 2021

  Photo:  A station on a natural gas pipeline used for the loading and unloading of pipeline inspection gauges, commonly known as "pigs". A.  In pipeline transportation, pigging is the practice of using pipeline inspection gauges, devices generally referred to as pigs or scrapers, to perform various maintenance operations. This is done without stopping the flow of the product in the pipeline B.  Additional annotations from the English Wikipedia by users Cadmium, Mannings, and BrutonD:   This is station for loading or unloading pigs, the pigs are used for cleaning out or inspecting pipelines. This station is designed to receive pigs from the upstream section and launch pigs into the downstream section, with a cross-over for the fluid to flow from one section to the next. The pre-installed thrust blocks (those empty concrete rectangles in front of the blank flanges) are to support a (temporary) pig-trap which is bolted on to the pipeline in place of the blind flange. The pig-trap normally includes a section of larger diameter pipe to allow the pig to come to a gentle stop with flow passing around the pig. After closing the valves for isolation, the pig can be removed via a quick opening closure (like a flange) on the end of the pig-trap. The fact the pig-traps are not present means that this pipeline is not pigged regularly. 1/2  Kiev and Warsaw doubt the US-Germany-Russia deal on Nordstream2. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute, @LievenAnatol   https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-germany-deal-nord-stream-2-pipeline-draws-ire-lawmakers-both-countries-2021-07-21/ Permissions: Own work — Author | Audriusa (Audrius Meskauskas) I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following licenses: GNU head Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.  A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License. w:en:Creative Commons attribution share alike This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license....more

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• 1527: Italy reopens discreetly. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation

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  Jul 23 2021

  Photo: Italian Theater Company Italy reopens discreetly.  Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation   https://eturbonews.com/2998183/italy-tourism-relaunch-emerging-post-pandemic-hope/

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• 1527: The youth of Cuba take lifespan risks. @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion

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  Jul 23 2021

  Photo: The prison "Presidio Modelo" on the island Isla de la Juventud  [Island of Youth] (Cuba) where Fidel Castro was held prisoner in 1953. Picture taken by Friman, December 1st 2005, with a very special Cuban re-cycled camera. --Friman 23:09, 21 April 2006 (UTC) The youth of Cuba take lifespan risks.  @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion https://www.wsj.com/articles/resistance-cuba-protests-coronavirus-san-antonio-de-los-banos-diaz-canel-11626638849

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• 1527: Russian weapons system rollouts. Bradley Bowman, @Brad_L_Bowman, FDD

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  Jul 23 2021

  Photo:  S-400 Triumf air defense missile system manufactured by Almaz-Antey Russian weapons system rollouts.  Bradley Bowman, @Brad_L_Bowman,  FDD   https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/07/19/russia-test-fires-tsirkon-hypersonic-cruise-missile-a74551.   Also:  https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/07/20/russia-unveils-stealth-fighter-jet-to-compete-with-f-35s-a74568   and https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/07/20/russia-shows-advanced-s-500-live-fire-test-a74564

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• 1527: The Founding Father of Canada John MacDonald and the Native Canadian population. @ConradMBlack @TheNationalPost

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  Jul 23 2021

  Photo:  Photograph of Macdonald circa 1875 by George Lancefield. The Founding Father of Canada John MacDonald and the Native Canadian population. @ConradMBlack @TheNationalPost   https://nationalpost.com/opinion/conrad-black-centuries-of-failed-policy-does-not-equal-evil-intent

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• 1527: Cybercrime has no sharp lines between spying and robbing. Georgianna Shea, @FDD Press

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  Jul 23 2021

  Photo:  The Capture.  Soldiers stand behind Christ ready to take him along. T Cybercrime has no sharp lines between spying and robbing. Georgianna Shea, @FDD Press  "The Biden administration on Monday formally accused the Chinese government of breaching Microsoft email systems used by many of the world’s largest companies, governments and military contractors, as the United States joined a broad group of allies, including all NATO members, to condemn Beijing for cyberattacks around the world. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said in a statement on Monday that China’s Ministry of State Security “has fostered an ecosystem of criminal contract hackers who carry out both state-sponsored activities and cybercrime for their own financial gain.” ...more

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• 1527: Remembering the early days of an unnamed pneumonia in China. Jonathan Lambert @ScienceNews

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  Jul 23 2021

  Photo: Streptococcus pneumoniae Remembering the early days of an unnamed pneumonia in China. Jonathan Lambert @ScienceNews   https://www.sciencenews.org/author/jonathan-lambert?utm_source=Coronavirus_Update&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cvupdate072121

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• 1527: Commodities suffer the drought. Simon Constable @RealConstable

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  Jul 23 2021

  Photo:  Part of commodity relief line, San Antonio, Texas Commodities suffer the drought. Simon Constable @RealConstable https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-57903066.amp   https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-57903174

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• 1527: Scotland unaltered by Freedom Day. Simon Constable @RealConstable

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  Photo:  A treatise of union of the two realmes of England and Scotland by the English historian Sir John Hayward, 1604 Scotland unaltered by Freedom Day. Simon Constable @RealConstable https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-57903066

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• 1526: What is the status of the JCPOA negotiation?. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres, @mhoenlein1

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  Photo: Souvenir signatures of lead negotiators on the cover page of the JCPOA document. The Persian handwriting on top left side is an homage by Javad Zarif to his counterparts' efforts in the negotiations: "[I am] Sincere to Mr. Abbas [Araghchi] and Mr. Majid [Takht-Ravanchi]" CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow What is the status of the JCPOA negotiation?. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres ,@mhoenlein1 https://news.yahoo.com/irans-security-council-rejects-draft-141650412.html ...more

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• 1526: Hamas fired the rockets from Lebanon. Sarit Zehavi, @Israel_Alma_org; Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1

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  Photo: .Hamas anti-tank rockets, captured by Israel Defense Forces during Operation Protective Edge CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Hamas fired the rockets from Lebanon. Sarit Zehavi, @Israel_Alma_org;  Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1   Lieutenant Colonel (Res.) Sarit Zehavi is the CEO and founder of Alma – a nonprofit and an independent research and education center specialized in Israel’s security challenges on its northern border. Sarit has briefed hundreds of groups and forums, ranging from US Senators, Congressmen/women and politicians to senior journalists and visiting VIP groups in Israel and overseas. Sarit scripts numerous position papers and updates focusing on Lebanon, Syria and Israel’s national security challenges. She served for 15 years in the Israeli Defense Forces, specializing in Military Intelligence. Sarit holds an M.A. in Middle East Studies from Ben-Gurion University.   Related articles https://www.timesofisrael.com/rocket-warning-sirens-sound-in-northern-israel/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/07/16/no-prime-minister-and-no-more-hope-for-lebanon/  ...more

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• 1526: Search for justice in the Jerusalem pizzeria bombing 2001. Arnold Roth @arnoldroth @ThisOngoingWar @FrimetRoth; Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1

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  Photo: A bombing in Jerusalem CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Search for justice in the Jerusalem pizzeria bombing 2001. Arnold Roth @arnoldroth @ThisOngoingWar @FrimetRoth Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1   Arnold Roth, an attorney and technology business manager, serves as honorary chair of the Malki Foundation which he and his wife Frimet established in 2001. Its work honors the memory of their daughter Malki, murdered in a terrorist attack on the Sbarro pizza shop in the center of Jerusalem. You can follow the Roth’s pursuit of justice on Twitter @ThisOngoingWar   Related articles http://thisongoingwar.blogspot.com/2021/07/21-jul-21-after-jordans-king-visited.html https://www.state.gov/briefings/department-press-briefing-july-20-2021/ https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/will-joe-biden-grant-my-daughter https://www.wsj.com/articles/ahlam-tamimi-joe-biden-hamas-king-abdullah-ii-terrorism-israel-11626639150 https://www.foxnews.com/politics/family-15-year-old-terrorist-attack-victim-biden-justice-daughter ...more

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• 1526: The unacceptable BDS Ben & Jerry's; & What is to be done? Congressman Ritchie Torres, @RitchieTorres, #NY15, @RepRitchie; Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1

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  Photo: Nameplate of Dr. Werner Liebenthal, Notary& Advocate. The plate was hung outside his office on Martin Luther Str, Schöneberg, Berlin. In 1933, following the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, the plate was painted black by the Nazis, who boycotted Jewish owned offices. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow The unacceptable BDS Ben & Jerry's; & What is to be done?   Congressman Ritchie Torres, @RitchieTorres, #NY15, @RepRitchie;  Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 Ritchie Torres currently lives in the South Bronx and represents NY-15 in the South Bronx. He is a member of the Committee on Financial Services and serves as the Vice Chair of the Committee on Homeland Security. Related articles  https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/06/15/fact-sheet-national-strategy-for-countering-domestic-terrorism/ https://www.conferenceofpresidents.org/news/press/2021/jun30/jewish-leaders-condemn-representative-omars-antisemitic-accusations   Permissions:  This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution- I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following licenses: Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. 14 December 2014 Source | Own work Author | Etan J. Tal Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License ...more

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• 1525: Lessons from the Vietnam War 2021. @WJMcGurn @WSJOpinion GLXXG

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  Photo: Vietnam war. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Lessons from the Vietnam War 2021. @WJMcGurn @WSJOpinion GLXXG https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-biden-vietnam-war-afghanistan-withdrawal-george-w-bush-11626729633?st=a8l97358guft3su&reflink=article_copyURL_share

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• 1525: Tehran bypasses the sanctions regime. Behnam ben Taleblu @FDD

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  Photo: .Courtyard of the French Mission to Teheran in 1848 CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Tehran bypasses the sanctions regime. Behnam ben Taleblu @FDD https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/22/iran-opens-new-oil-terminal-in-bid-to-bypass-crucial-strait-of-hormuz-for-exports.html

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• 1525: The drought comes to Tehran. Behnam Ben Talablu @FDD

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  Photo: Drought at Si-o-se Pol, Isfahan, Iran CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow The drought comes to Tehran. Behnam Ben Talablu @FDD https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/iran-protests-water-shortage-khuzestan/2021/07/21/4f2c1fba-ea23-11eb-a2ba-3be31d349258_story.html Permissions: I, Diego Delso, have published this media under the terms of the license CC BY-SA which allows you to: Freely use and distribute it for non-commercial or for commercial purposes Create derivative works of it Under this condition: Credit me as the original author and use the same license. To do so add "Diego Delso, delso.photo, License CC-BY-SA" legibly next to the image Please, use this work legally fulfilling the terms of the license! Please, let me know if you use this work outside Wikimedia Commons sending me an email on Poco a poco or to diego(at)delso.photo with reference to the URL in the case of a website or to the ISBN/author/title in the case of a printed work or eBook. ...more

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• 1525: Supply Chain Inflation & What is to be done? @VeroDeRugy @Mercatus GLXXG

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  Photo:. Supply and demand. The supplier and the demander come to an (implicit) agreement, on things like price, quality, delivery time, etc. Supplier 1, 2, 3 and 4 can be different companies. In larger companies the suppliers can be internal. Supply and demand can be stacked like in these similar images:1, 3, 4. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Supply Chain Inflation & What is to be done? @VeroDeRugy @Mercatus GLXXG https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-inflation-threatens-the-recovery-11626876000?st=lkceu3btpm7xkdm&reflink=article_copyURL_share Permissions: November 2020.   Source | Own work    Author | FlippyFlink I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:  This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. ...more

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• 1523: The Nordstream2 deal is a win for the Kremlin. @Felix_Light @CBSNews.

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  Photo: Nordstream 1 (blue) & Nordstream 2 (red) CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow The Nordstream2 deal is a win for the Kremlin. @Felix_Light @CBSNews. https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/07/21/putin-merkel-satisfied-with-near-completion-of-nord-stream-2-a74580  

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• 1523: Is the Kremlin turning to accept climate change as a driver for wildfires and extremes? @Felix_Light CBSNews

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  Photo: Siberian territory: in Yakutia . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Is the Kremlin turning to accept climate change as a driver for wildfires and extremes? @Felix_Light CBSNews https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/07/21/worst-ever-air-pollution-event-hits-wildfire-plagued-siberia-a74571 Permissions: Sakha (Yakutia). Tukulans (sand dunes) Date | 26 September 2013, 08:35 Source | Саха (Якутия). Поля тукуланов (песчаные дюны). Author | Pavel Kazachkov from Moscow, Russia This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. ...more

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• 1523: Ben & Jerry's BDS antisemitism, & what is to be done? @AaronKleinShow Aaron Klein. Senior adviser to Former PM Netanyahu. In Jerusalem.

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  Photo: Unilever's rascally stepchild CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Ben & Jerry's BDS antisemitism & What is to be done? @AaronKleinShow Aaron Klein. Senior adviser to Former PM Netanyahu. In Jerusalem. https://www.wsj.com/articles/ben-jerrys-boycott-unilever-israel-palestine-11626895917

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• 1524: Major Chinese land purchases in the US. Christian Whiton, Center for the National Interest, @TheNatlInterest; @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill.

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  Photo: Barn and silos on a farm in western Wisconsin Major Chinese land purchases in the US.  Christian Whiton, Center for the National Interest, @TheNatlInterest; @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill.     China Owns Us: How the Chinese Are Buying Up America https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/19/china-buying-us-farms-foreign-purchase-499893 By the start of 2020, Chinese owners controlled about 192,000 agricultural acres in the U.S., worth $1.9 billion, including land used for farming, ranching and forestry, according to the Agriculture Department. ...more

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• 1523: Tehran orders Hezbollah Lebanon to rocket Israel; & What is to be done? @AaronKleinShow Aaron Klein, senior adviser to Former PM Netanyahu. In Jerusalem

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  Photo: Historical picture: A Qassam rocket fired from a civilian area in Gaza towards civilian areas in Southern Israel.  CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Tehran orders Hezbollah Lebanon to rocket Israel & What is to be done? @AaronKleinShow Aaron Klein, senior adviser to Former PM Netanyahu. In Jerusalem https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/20/world/middleeast/israel-lebanon-rockets.html Permissions: A w:Qassam rocket fired from a w:civilian area in w:Gaza towards w:civilian areas in Southern w:Israel. العربية: صاروخ قسام أطلقته حماس من قطاع غزة صوب المستوطنات الإسرائيلية جنوب إسرائيل. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.  12 December 2008 Source | https://www.flickr.com/photos/36313307@N06/3350293196/sizes/l/ Author | paffairs_sanfrancisco ...more

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• 1524: China bluffs about hacking. Charles Burton, Senior Fellow, Macdonald-Laurier Institute; @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill.

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  Photo: US Government Accountability Office diagram showing the identity theft risk associated with social security numbers on Medicare cards China bluffs about hacking. Charles Burton, Senior Fellow, Macdonald-Laurier Institute; @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill.     China says Microsoft hacking accusations fabricated by US and allies https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/canada-joins-allies-blaming-chinese-backed-groups-for-microsoft-email-attack-1.5514638   https://www.theglobeandmail.com/featured-reports/article-canada-has-a-5g-security-issue-heres-how-to-solve-it/...more

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• 1524: China has a yen for North Korea. Greg Scarlatoiu, @GregScarlatoiu, @committeehrnk; @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill.

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  Photo: A mural in the Hermit Kingdom.   China has a yen for North Korea. Greg Scarlatoiu, @GregScarlatoiu, @committeehrnk; @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill.  China, N Korea pledge cooperation ‘in face of foreign hostility’ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/leaders-of-north-korea-china-vow-to-strengthen-ties/2021/07/11/b455e7a0-e1fd-11eb-a27f-8b294930e95b_story.html,    . .  .and the armistice anniversary on July 27 https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20210625002500325

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• 1524: China angles for fish and ocean territory. @CleoPaskal, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill.

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  Photo: Hoisting a net of fish, ca 1920  China angles for fish and ocean territory. @CleoPaskal, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill.     France, South Pacific nations to combat 'predatory' fishing as China extends reach https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/20/asia/france-south-pacific-fishing-china-intl-hnk/index.html

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• 1523: #PacificWatch: @JCBliss Wildfire Drought Siberia Wildfire Drought Oregon.

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  Photo: SIberia — eight time zones of magnificent forest (taiga) — is suffering vast, widespread, nightmare fires. Here: Screen grab. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #PacificWatch:Wildfire Drought Siberia Wildfire Drought Oregon.  @JCBliss https://gizmodo.com/6-photos-show-siberia-s-horror-wildfire-season-1847330799

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• 1524: Kiev was not at the table for the Nordstream2 deal. James Brooke, Ukraine Business News.

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  Photo:   The Cathedral of the Ascension of the Virgin, Pecherskoi Monastery, Kief, Russia. Kiev was not at the table for the Nordstream2 deal. James Brooke, Ukraine Business News.      U.S., Germany strike Nord Stream 2 pipeline deal to push back on Russian 'aggression' https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-germany-deal-nord-stream-2-pipeline-draws-ire-lawmakers-both-countries-2021-07-21/

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• 1524: Along the Russian frontier Michael Yon, Locals.com/MichaelYon, @Michael_Yon.

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  Photo:  December 969, a complicated journey to the imperial throne; Russia and present-day Lithuania. Radziwill's Chronicle Svyatoslav's Negotiations with John I Tsimishi Along the Russian frontier  Michael Yon, Locals.com/MichaelYon, @Michael_Yon.     Lithuania expels two Belarusian diplomats, says foreign ministry https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/lithuania-expels-two-belarusian-diplomats-says-foreign-ministry-2021-05-28/

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• 1523: Rocketing the Kabul palace; & What is to be done? Jeff McCausland @CBSNews

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  Photo: Tajbeg Palace in 1987.             Tapa-e-Tajbeg (Palace of the Large Crown), also inaccurately called the Queen's Palace, is one of the palaces in the popular Darulaman area of Kabul, Afghanistan. The stately mansion is located about 10 miles (16 km) south-west from the city's center. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Rocketing the Kabul Palace & What is to be done? Jeff McCausland @CBSNews https://www.cbsnews.com/news/eid-al-adha-2021-holiday-afghan-president-prays-as-rockets-near-presidential-palace/ Permissions Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.  English: The headquarters of the Soviet 40th army in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1987.العربية: المقر الرئيسي لمبنى الجيش السوفيتي الأربعون في العاصمة الأفغانية كابول سنة 1987م. Date | 1987 Source | Uploaded as en:Image:Evstafiev-40th army HQ-Amin-palace-Kabul.jpg by en:User:Evstafiev Author | Русский: Фото: Михаил ЕвстафьевEnglish: Photo: Mikhail Evstafiev ...more

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• 1524: 2/2 Now surrounding the wolf warrior. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs.

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  Jul 22 2021

  Photo: Chinese embassy in Ireland tweeted this picture, from Aesop's Fables.  Screen grab. 2/2   Now surrounding the wolf warrior..  Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs.     The Indian Army is on alert in the central sector after around 40 soldiers of the People's Liberation Army were seen patrolling the area along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) near Barahoti area in Uttarakhand. https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/china-activity-lac-uttarakhand-indian-army-alert-barahoti-1830868-2021-07-21...more

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• 1524: 1/2 Now surrounding the wolf warrior. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs.

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  Photo: The Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi prepares for a cheerless discussion on China's growing powe,. 1/2 Now surrounding the wolf warrior. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs.     Japanese envoy says Tokyo ‘struggles every day’ with China https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-health-china-japan-tokyo-ce5d5bde2554031a5ae81ff85d6a42e1 "There is a new brand of diplomacy taking hold in Beijing and its chief architects have a suitably fierce nickname to match their aggressive style -- they are the wolf warriors."...more

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• 1523: Hubble Returns for a Last Hurrah. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com GLXXG

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  Photo:  This image taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is of the nearby dwarf galaxy NGC 1569. This galaxy is a hotbed of vigorous star birth activity which blows huge bubbles that riddle its main body. The bubble structure is sculpted by the galactic super-winds and outflows caused by a colossal input of energy from collective supernova explosions that are linked with a massive episode of star birth. . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Hubble Returns for a Last Hurrah. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com GLXXG https://behindtheblack.com/?s=Hubble ...more

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• 1523: Prepping SuperHeavy for Starship orbital. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com GLXXG

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  Photo: 2017 artist's concept of BFR with payload bay door open. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Prepping SuperHeavy for Starship orbital. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com GLXXG https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-completes-first-static-fire-test-of-superheavy-prototype-3/

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• 1522: South Africa: the calm after the storm. John McDermott @TheEconomist South Africa

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  Photo:  Vaal River South Africa: the calm after the storm  John McDermott @TheEconomist South Africa https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2021/07/15/south-africa-reels-from-the-worst-violence-since-apartheid

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• 1522: Jeff Flake to Ankara; and what is to be done? Aykan Erdemir, @ FDD

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  Photo: Ankara:  Ulus Square in the night, 1940s Jeff Flake to Ankara; and what is to be done?  Aykan Erdemir, @ FDD  "Jeff Flake as ambassador to Turkey is a chance for my home country to heal," Aykan Erdemir, FDD Policy Brief https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2021/07/16/jeff-flake-to-turkey-chance-to-heal/

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• 1522: 2/2 Biden Administration vs China.

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  Photo: This film covers China's political history including Mao Tse-tung, the Boxer Rebellion, and the Nationalist - Communist victory. National Security Council. Central Intelligence Agency. (09/18/1947 - 12/04/1981) 2/2  Biden Administration vs China.   https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/07/17/bidens-new-china-doctrine

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• 1522: 1/2 Biden Administration vs China. Gady Epstein @TheEconomist

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  Jul 21 2021

  Photo:  A Chinese nationalist party propaganda poster depicting a foreign imperialist and a local warlord torturing a Chinese patriot in the aftermath of the May 30th Movement in China. 1/2  Biden Administration vs China.  Gady Epstein @TheEconomist   https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/07/17/bidens-new-china-doctrine

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• 1522: Waiting for the FDA. @PacificResearch @HenryIMiller

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  Jul 21 2021

  Photo:  A Moderna COVID-19 vaccine vial is shown before distribution Waiting for the FDA.   @PacificResearch  @HenryIMiller www.HenryMillerMD.org https://www.wsj.com/articles/unvaccinated-covid-19-hospitalizations-11626528110?st=u691hl8et7kdl8x&reflink=article_gmail_share

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• 1522: The unvaccinated. Henry Miller @HenryIMiller

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  Jul 21 2021

  Photo:  A Moderna COVID-19 vaccine vial is shown before distribution The unvaccinated.  Henry Miller @HenryIMiller https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/we-need-full-approval-of-covid-19-vaccines-but-only-after-careful-evaluation

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• 1522: Pay for green @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinions

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  Jul 21 2021

  Photo:  Ecology flag Pay for green  @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinions https://www.wsj.com/articles/climate-change-summit-cop26-cost-esg-carbon-11626297240

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• 1522: Pingdemic in London @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinions

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  Jul 21 2021

  Photo:  A separate room outdoors, isolation unit for tuberculosis patient in the backyard of her family's home on La Delta project. Thomastown, Louisiana Pingdemic in London @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinions https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/pingdemic-chaos-as-ministers-muddle-self-isolation-messages-s7fsv7h69 England's car plants, railways, supermarkets and pubs warned the government on Monday that a COVID-19 tracing app, which has told hundreds of thousands of workers to isolate, was wrecking the recovery and pushing supply chains to the brink of collapse.--Reuters ...more

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• 1521: Did the French Laundry fiasco educate Gavin Newsom in governance? Bill Whalen @HooverWhalen @HooverInst

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  Photo:  French Laundry Soap CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Did the French Laundry fiasco educate Gavin Newsom in governance? Bill Whalen @HooverWhalen @HooverInst https://www.hoover.org/research/recall-field-takes-shape-will-hollywood-avoid-sacramento

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• 1521: The failed state of Lebanon is under occupation by the Tehran tyranny. Russell Berman @HooverInst

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  Jul 21 2021

  Photo: Mullah, arms under abaye, instructing revolutionaries CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow The failed state of Lebanon is under occupation by the Tehran tyranny. Russell Berman @HooverInst https://thehill.com/opinion/international/562888-the-us-should-assist-lebanon-to-push-back-against-irans-ambitions?rnd=1626225848&utm_source=Hoover+Daily+Report&utm_campaign=ec2f1d9cc9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_09_05_04_36_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_21b1edff3c-ec2f1d9cc9-72527561 ...more

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• 1521: The five million Ahwazi Arabs of Iran vs the Tehran tyranny. Brenda Shaffer @ProfBShaffer @FDD GLXXG

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  Jul 21 2021

  Photo: Seal of the National Liberation Movement of Ahwaz. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow The five million Ahwazi Arabs of Iran vs the Tehran tyranny. Brenda Shaffer @ProfBShaffer @FDD GLXXG https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2021/07/18/the-impact-of-the-ahwaz-protests-in-iran/

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• 1521: Ransomware is state-sponsored thievery of successful enterprise; & what is to be done to protect digital communications? Alain Ghiai, CEO,Globex Data Ltd.

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  Jul 21 2021

  Photo: Cumulus clouds  (over Dooars, West Bengal, India). CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Ransomware is state-sponsored thievery of successful enterprise; & what is to be done to protect digital communications? Alain Ghiai, CEO,Globex Data Ltd. Trading in the US Market: SWISF https://globexdatagroup.com https://globexdatagroup.com/solutions/sekur/ GlobeX Data Ltd. engages in the management and communication of cloud data such as secure cloud data storage, secure file sharing, and secure electronic communications. It designs, distributes, and develops a suite of secure cloud-based storage, document management and collaboration, encrypted e-mails, and secure communication tools. The company was founded by Alain Mehdi Ghiai-Chamlou on March 1, 2017, and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada. ...more

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• 1520: What can the US do for the Cuban protesters? Roseann Lake @TheEconomist

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  Jul 20 2021

  Photo: Union and confederate soldiers shaking hands in front of young female personification of Cuba with broken shackles; large flag in background.. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow What can the US do for the Cuban protesters? Roseann Lake @TheEconomist https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/07/15/the-causes-of-cubas-uprising-lie-at-home

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• 1520: The Cuban regime shows fear of the Cuban protesters. Roseann Lake, @TheEconomist

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  Jul 20 2021

  Photo: La libertad de Cuba (The Liberty of Cuba) . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow The Cuban regime shows fear of the Cuban protesters. Roseann Lake, @TheEconomist https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/07/15/the-causes-of-cubas-uprising-lie-at-home

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• 1520: Spending lots of money in a pandemic-dominated recovery. @LizPeek @TheHill

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  Photo: [from World War II]  Don't Take the Squander Bug When You Go Shopping The four images are positioned in the upper three-quarters.  image: Four separate images illustrating a female factory worker going shopping. In the first image, the woman tells a fellow worker that she is going shopping. In the second image, a cartoon character called the Squander Bug - a grotesque bug-like creature with swastika markings on its fur - persuades her to go into a shop. In the third image, the woman leaves the shop with her purchases. In the final image, the Squander Bug laughs at having deceived the woman into spending too much money.. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Spending lots of money in a pandemic-dominated recovery. @LizPeek @TheHill https://www.wsj.com/articles/global-stock-markets-dow-update-07-20-2021-11626768165?mod=hp_lead_pos1 ...more

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• 1520: The unresolved Hayek vs Keynes, Friedman vs Samuelson, dispute in 2021 Biden Administration policies. @LizPeek @TheHill

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  Photo: Professor Dahrendorf presenting Professor F. A Hayek with a Commemorative Plate, 1981  . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow The unresolved Hayek vs Keynes, Friedman vs Samuelson, dispute in 2021 Biden Administration policies. @LizPeek @TheHill https://www.wsj.com/articles/money-supply-inflation-friedman-biden-federal-reserve-11626816746

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• 1519: The Biden Administration accuses China of attacking Microsoft. Stephen Yates @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

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  Photo: Dutch attack on the Chinese city of Chittat (Chi'ta), November 16, 1662. In connection with the expeditions of the VOC of 1662-1668 led by Balthasar Bort against the Chinese warlord Coxinga.                [Ths may be the Chita currently in southeast Russia?] The Biden Administration accuses China of attacking Microsoft.   Stephen Yates @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill  Stephen Yates, former deputy national security advisor to Vice President Cheney and currently CEO of DC International Advisory, in re: https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-allies-accuse-china-global-cyber-hacking-campaign-2021-07-19/ https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-exchange-hack-biden-china-d533f5361cbc3374fdea58d3fb059f35  ...more

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• 1519: The Cultural Revolution in 1966 when she was seven. Xi Van Fleet, and Gordon Chang @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

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  Photo:  The Chinese leader Mao Zedong inaugurated the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in August, 1966. It was was intended as a means of restoring the spirit of the Chinese Revolution. Mao's own personality cult took on a religious character during the movement. Valtman parodies this aspect of it by  showing Mao as a Buddha-like figure borne under a canopy in a procession.  Smiling followers carrying the famed "little red book" (The Thoughts of Chairman Mao) are preceded by figures bearing incense.  The joyful expressions of Mao and his followers belie the widespread disorder and damage to China's educational system that resulted from the Cultural Revolution. The Cultural Revolution in 1966 when she was seven.   Xi Van Fleet, and Gordon Chang @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill Xi Van Fleet explains she is a Chinese immigrant and a private citizen who has never before been involved politically. Compelled by her personal experience during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. https://www.foxnews.com/us/virginia-xi-van-fleet-critical-race-theory-china-cultural-revolution-loudoun. ...more

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• 1519: 2/2 The Supreme Court, Facebook, and the White House.@RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Photo: Portrait of Robert Gallahan, White House Plumber 2/2  The Supreme Court, Facebook, and the White House.@RichardAEpstein @HooverInst  https://www.hoover.org/research/trump-v-big-tech

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• 1519: 1/2 The Supreme Court, Facebook, and the White House. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Photo: 1/2  The Supreme Court, Facebook, and the White House.  @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst  https://www.hoover.org/research/trump-v-big-tech

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• 1518: 4/4 Afghanistan — Reawakening of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. @ThomasJoscelyn @FDD

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  Photo: Afghan Girl Scouts 1950s 4/4   Afghanistan — Reawakening of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.  @ThomasJoscelyn  @FDD https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56747158 The Map https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/07/nearly-half-of-afghanistans-provincial-capitals-under-threat-from-taliban.php

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• 1518: 3/4 Afghanistan — Al Qaeda takes a victory lap. @ThomasJoscelyn @FDD

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  Photo: Arabic document found in an Al Qaeda safehouse - 3/4   Afghanistan — Al Qaeda takes a victory lap. @ThomasJoscelyn  @FDD  https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57738731 The Map https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/07/nearly-half-of-afghanistans-provincial-capitals-under-threat-from-taliban.php

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• 1517: 2/4 Afghanistan — Moscow, Delhi and Beijing: watching. @ThomasJoscelyn @FDD

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  Jul 20 2021

  Photo: Afghan embassy in Moscow: 42 Povarskaya Street. Ponizovsky House by Lev Kekushev (Author:  NVO.   I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license.) 2/4   Afghanistan — Moscow, Delhi and Beijing: watching.  @ThomasJoscelyn  @FDD https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/pakistan-isi-taliban-afghanistan-war-indian-assets-target-1829582-2021-07-18 The Map https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/07/nearly-half-of-afghanistans-provincial-capitals-under-threat-from-taliban.php ...more

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• 1517: 1/4 Afghanistan — The ring of fire closes in on Kabul City. @ThomasJoscelyn @FDD

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  Photo: Nighttime commerce, Kabul—before the current crisis. 1/4   Afghanistan — The ring of fire closes in on Kabul City.  @ThomasJoscelyn  @FDD https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/07/07/afghanistan-taliban-surge/ The Map https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/07/nearly-half-of-afghanistans-provincial-capitals-under-threat-from-taliban.php

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• 1516: AI defense as critical as AI offense. Patrick Tucker @DefPatTech @DefenseOne

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  Photo:  Artificial intelligence defense: The figure shows two chaotic systems starting in very different places in their orbits, but soon synchronize and do a "dance" much like synchronized swimmers. Despite the complicated orbits, they come to follow each other almost exactly. Stopping after a short time shows they are both in the same state. This will never happen with two chaotic systems, which unconnected will have motions completely uncorrelated with each other. Note the systems can be remotely located from each other and signals connecting them the right way will cause synchronization. (Figure provided by U.S. Naval Research Laboratory) . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow AI defense as critical as AI offense.  Patrick Tucker @DefPatTech @DefenseOne https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2021/06/its-time-wargame-against-ai-enabled-china/174922/ https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2021/06/us-needs-defend-its-artificial-intelligence-better-says-pentagon-no-2/174876/ ...more

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• 1516: The Data Wars vs Russia and China. Patrick Tucker @DefPatTech @DefenseOn

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  Photo:   A room in Montreal City Hall littered with magazines, parcels and various documents of Communist allegiance confiscated under the law of the padlock, in particular The Moscow Review, La Clarté, Soviet Russia Today. Three men in civilian clothes examine the contents.. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow The Data Wars vs Russia and China. Patrick Tucker @DefPatTech @DefenseOne https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2021/07/information-warfare-looms-larger-russias-new-security-strategy/183717/ https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2021/07/biden-urges-putin-give-russian-ransomware-gangsters-threatens-unspecified-consequences/183652/ https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2021/07/chinas-aggressive-data-push-worries-military-intel-officials/183645/ ...more

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• 1516: Fretful, puzzling Freedom Day in the UK. Vicki Barker @CBSNews London

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  Photo: Britannia carrying a staff topped with a liberty cap and followed by attendants from a temple in the background on the right, advancing over weapons and a shield decorated with fleur-de-lis and a paper labeled "Treaty of Alliance with France"; in the background on the left are American soldiers engaged in battle.. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Fretful, puzzling Freedom Day in the UK.  Vicki Barker @CBSNews London https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/07/19/nightclubs-legally-forced-adopt-covid-passports-end-september/  ...more

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• 1516: Everyone grabs a mop and boots for the clean-up. Chris Livesay @CBSNews Germany

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  Photo: Floodwaters in Germany. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Everyone grabs a mobp and boots for the clean-up. Chris Livesay @CBSNews Germany https://news.yahoo.com/residents-flood-hit-germany-return-190856578.html

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• 1516: #NewWorldReport: Latin America learns to deal with a China that is not trustworthy. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal. Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc

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  Jul 20 2021

  Photo: Architecture from, China to Peru, over the Andes: A journey through South America ... With Reports and Letters on British Interests ... by Col. Howard Vincent, etc. . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #NewWorldReport: Latin America learns to deal with a China that is not trustworthy. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal. Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/perus-castillo-strengthens-ties-with-china-asks-faster-vaccine-supply-2021-07-16/ ...more

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• 1516: #NewWorldReport: Colombia's Independence Day and the bad actors who plan to attack. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal. Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc

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  Jul 20 2021

  Photo: El Tiempo de Colombia, 1928 . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #NewWorldReport: Colombia's Independence Day and the bad actors who plan to attack.  Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal. Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org https://www.heritage.org/americas/event/why-colombias-violent-protests-matter-the-united-states

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• 1516: #NewWorldReport: Cuba is the nexus for Moscow, Managua, Caracas, Tehran. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org

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  Jul 20 2021

  Photo: Painting, "The Effects of Good and Bad Government," at the William Kenzo Nakamura U.S. Courthouse, Seattle, Washington CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #NewWorldReport: Cuba is the nexus for Moscow, Managua, Caracas, Tehran. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/cuba-gripped-by-unrest-battles-highest-covid-caseload-in-the-americas/ar-AAMjBcn ...more

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• 1516: #NewWorldReport: Is AMLO using corruption charges against former ministers to fend off corruption charges at AMLO? Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc

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  Jul 20 2021

  Photo: Mexican officers . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #NewWorldReport: Is AMLO using corruption charges against former ministers to fend off corruption charges at AMLO? Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org https://www.theyucatantimes.com/2021/07/video-of-amlos-brother-accepting-cash-goes-viral-watch-video/

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• 1516: #PodcastExtra: The case to save Diablo Canyon. @DevinNunes #FriendsoftheHistoryDebatingSociety

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  Photo: In Diablo Canyon, a nuclear power plant near Avila Beach in San Luis Obispo County, California. . @Batchelorshow #PodcastExtra: The case to continue Diablo Canyon. @DevinNunes #FriendsoftheHistoryDebatingSociety https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/dont-let-california-nuke-affordable-energy https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/devin-nunes-wants-to-keep-diablo-canyon-open-pg-26e-says-its-plans-havent-changed/ar-AAMfygW

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• 1516: #PodcastExtra: #PacificWatch: The masking, unmasking, of LA County; & What is to be done? @JCBliss #FriendsoftheHistoryDebatingSociety

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  Jul 19 2021

  Photo: .Barbers in California wearing masks during [an earlier] epidemic. @Batchelorshow #PodcastExtra: #PacificWatch: The masking, unmasking, of LA County; & What is to be done? @JCBliss #FriendsoftheHistoryDebatingSociety https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-07-18/la-county-indoor-masks-will-people-follow-rule .

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• 1516: Moscow losing control of its 62-year-old Cuba colony. H. J. Mackinder, International Relations

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  Jul 19 2021

  Photo: CIA reference photograph of a Soviet medium-range ballistic missile in Red Square, Moscow.   Ref: Soviet-Cuban missile crisis @Batchelorshow #PodcastExtra: Moscow losing control of its 62-year-old Cuba colony. H. J. Mackinder, International Relations #FriendsoftheHistoryDebatingSociety https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/17/us/cuba-protests-miami-florida.html

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• 1515: Roya Hakakian #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. May 29, 2021

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  Jul 19 2021

  Photo: Émigration CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Roya Hakakian #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. May 29, 2021 A Beginner's Guide to America: For the Immigrant and the Curious. Hardcover – Deckle Edge, March 16, 2021. by Roya Hakakian https://www.amazon.com/Beginners-Guide-America-Immigrant-Curious/dp/0525656065/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1622853677&sr=1-1 A stirring, witty, and poignant glimpse into the bewildering American immigrant experience from someone who has lived it. Also, a mirror held up to America. Into the maelstrom of unprecedented contemporary debates about immigrants in the United States, this perfectly timed book gives us a portrait of what the new immigrant experience in America is really like. Written as a "guide" for the newly arrived, and providing "practical information and advice," Roya Hakakian, an immigrant herself, reveals what those who settle here love about the country, what they miss about their homes, the cruelty of some Americans, and the unceasing generosity of others. She captures the texture of life in a new place in all its complexity, laying bare both its beauty and its darkness as she discusses race, sex, love, death, consumerism, and what it is like to be from a country that is in America's crosshairs. Her tenderly perceptive and surprisingly humorous account invites us to see ourselves as we appear to others, making it possible for us to rediscover our many American gifts through the perspective of the outsider. In shattering myths and embracing painful contradictions that are unique to this place, A Beginner's Guide to America is Hakakian's candid love letter to America....more

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• 1515: Jeff McCausland #Unbound. The complete forty-minute interview. May 21, 2021.

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  Photo: Gettysburg Battlefield lithograph map showing Union and Confederate positions. (John B. Bachelder). CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Jeff McCausland #Unbound. The complete forty-minute interview. May 21, 2021. Battle Tested! : Gettysburg Leadership Lessons for 21st Century Leaders, by Jeffrey D. McCausland (Author), Tom Vossler(Author), Walter Dixon (Narrator), Gildan Media (Publisher). Audible Audiobook– Unabridged https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Tested-Gettysburg-Leadership-Lessons/dp/1642934534 In order to be a truly effective leader, it is necessary to learn as much as possible from the examples of history—the disasters as well as the triumphs. At Gettysburg, Union and Confederate commanders faced a series of critical leadership challenges under the enormous stress of combat. The fate of the nation hung in the balance. Each of these leaders  responded in different ways, but the concepts and principles they applied during those traumatic three days contain critical lessons for today’s leaders that are both useful and applicable—whether those leaders manage operations at a large corporation, supervise a public institution, lead an athletic team, or govern a state or municipality.   In the twenty-first century, leadership is the indispensable quality that separates successful organizations from failures. Successful leaders communicate vision, motivate team members, and inspire trust. One must move both people and the collective organization into the future while, at the same time, dealing with the past. A leader must learn to master the dynamic requirements of decision-making and change...more

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• 1515: J. H. Gelernter #Unbound. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 3, 2021. LXX

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  Jul 19 2021

  Photo: Cartoon on Napoleon's invasion o9f England, showing a tunnel under the Channel and a fleet of balloons. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow J. H. Gelernter #Unbound. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 3, 2021. LXX Hold Fast: A Novel.   Hardcover – May 4, 2021, by J. H. Gelernter  https://www.amazon.com/Hold-Fast-J-H-Gelernter/dp/0393867048 It’s 1803. The Napoleonic Wars are raging, Britain is on her heels, and His Majesty’s Secret Service has just lost its best agent, Thomas Grey. Deeply depressed by his wife’s untimely death, Grey resigns from the service and accepts an offer to join a lumber firm in Boston. But when a sea battle with a privateer forces the ship carrying him west to make port in neutral Portugal, Grey is approached with a counteroffer: become a wealthy man by selling out Britain’s spy network to France. The French take Grey for a disgruntled ex–naval officer, blithely unaware that Grey had lost his wife to an unlucky shot from a French cannon. Now, after many years serving King and Country, Grey seizes the opportunity to fight a covert war of his own. He travels to Paris, and―playing the part of the invaluable turncoat the French believe him to be―proceeds to infiltrate the highest levels of Napoleon’s government. If he can outwit his handlers, outmatch his French counterparts, and outrun Napoleon’s secret police, Grey may just avenge his wife’s death and turn the tide of war in England’s favor. Bursting with action and intrigue, Hold Fast sends readers headlong into an unrelenting spy thriller...more

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• 1515: C. J. Carey #UNBOUND: The complete, 20-minute interview, June 26, 2021

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  Jul 19 2021

  Photo: The Duke and Duchess with Adolf Hitler, 1937. Edward VIII (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David; 23 June 1894 – 28 May 1972) was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire and Emperor of India from 20 January 1936 until his abdication in December of the same year CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow C. J. Carey #UNBOUND: The complete, 20-minute interview, June 26, 2021 #LitCrit:  Widowland by C .J. Carey.  Paperback https://www.amazon.com/Widowland/dp/1529411998/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Widowland&qid=1625274350&s=books&sr=1-1 London, 1953, the Coronation of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson.  Attended by the Leader of the German-Britain Alliance. ...more

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• 1515: John Tamny #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. March 28, 2021.

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  Jul 19 2021

  Photo: Illustration shows a vignette cartoon of various incidents where a person refuses to perform a task because he or she is a specialist in some other field; the series concludes with two men speaking to each other over the caption "The only specialists from whom nothing else is expected." Illus. in: Puck, v. 53, no. 1355 (1903 February 18). CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow John Tamny #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. March 28, 2021. When Politicians Panicked: The New Coronavirus, Expert Opinion, and a Tragic Lapse of Reason. Hardcover – March 30, 2021 by John Tamny  (Author), George Gilder (Foreword) https://www.amazon.com/When-Politicians-Panicked-Coronavirus-Opinion/dp/1642938378/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= When Politicians Panicked tells the tragic story of how, in response to a spreading virus, global politicians mindlessly pursued economic desperation, starvation, and death as the cure. The global economy was booming as 2020 dawned, but within a few short months wreckage, death, and desperation borne of economic contraction were the new normal. What happened? In When Politicians Panicked, economic commentator John Tamny tells the heart-wrenching story of a time when politicians were tragically relieved of basic common sense in their response to the new coronavirus. In March of 2020, the virus quickly became a major news item as political panic about it traveled around the world. Even though anecdotal and market-based evidence from the virus’s epicenter indicated very low lethality, politicians quickly imposed economy-crushing lockdowns on the rather specious assumption that unemployment, bankruptcy, and starvation would somehow halt the virus’s spread. Tamny methodically dismantles the political consensus by showing how economic growth has long been the first and last answer to death and disease. He then shows how politicians, having mindlessly crushed a growing economy, proceeded to double down on their mistakes by throwing taxpayer money at their shocking errors. Throughout When Politicians Panicked, Tamny makes a relentless case that free people don’t just produce the wealth that renders today’s killers yesterday’s news. They also produce crucial information about health threats that shine a light on that which threatens us. Lockdowns suffocate economic progress, but they also blind us to how we can progress—as Tamny makes plain in what will go down as an essential history for anyone seeking to understand the coronavirus panic of 2020....more

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• 1515: Michael Auslin #Unbound. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 12, 2021. LXX

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  Photo: A junk from Through Unexplored Asia ... Illustrated by L. J. Bridgman. . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Michael Auslin #Unbound. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 12, 2021. LXX Asia's New Geopolitics: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific,  by Michael R. Auslin   Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08563RW9H/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0 The Indo-Pacific is fast becoming the world's dominant region. Now, as it grows in power and wealth, geopolitical competition has reemerged, threatening future stability not merely in Asia but around the globe. China is aggressive and uncooperative, and increasingly expects the world to bend to its wishes. The focus on Sino-US competition for global power has obscured "Asia's other great game": the rivalry between Japan and China. A modernizing India risks missing out on the energies and talents of millions of its women, potentially hampering the broader role it can play in the world. And in North Korea, the most frightening question raised by Kim Jong-un's pursuit of the ultimate weapon is also the simplest: Can he control his nukes? In Asia's New Geopolitics: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific, Michael R. Auslin examines these and other key issues transforming the Indo-Pacific and the broader world. He also explores the history of American strategy in Asia, from the 18th century through today. Taken together, Auslin's essays convey the richness and diversity of the region: with more than three billion people, the Indo-Pacific contains over half of the global population, including the world's two most populous nations, India and China. In a riveting final chapter, Auslin imagines a war between America and China in a bid for regional hegemony and what this conflict might look like...more

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• 1515: Russell Shorto #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, April 22, 2021.

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  Jul 19 2021

  Photo: Dolmen, East Sicily. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Russell Shorto #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, April 22, 2021. Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob. Hardcover – February 2, 2021, by Russell Shorto   (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Smalltime-Story-My-Family-Mob/dp/0393245586/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Family secrets emerge as a best-selling author dives into the history of the mob in small-town America. The best-selling author Russell Shorto, praised for his incisive works of narrative history, never thought to write about his own past. He grew up knowing his grandfather and namesake was a small-town mob boss but maintained an unspoken family vow of silence. Then an elderly relative prodded: You’re a writer―what are you gonna do about the story? Smalltime is a mob story straight out of central casting―but with a difference, for the small-town mob, which stretched from Schenectady to Fresno, is a mostly unknown world. The location is the brawny postwar factory town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The setting is City Cigar, a storefront next to City Hall, behind which Russ and his brother-in-law, “Little Joe,” operate a gambling empire and effectively run the town. Smalltime is a riveting American immigrant story that travels back to Risorgimento Sicily, to the ancient, dusty, hill-town home of Antonino Sciotto, the author’s great-grandfather, who leaves his wife and children in grinding poverty for a new life―and wife―in a Pennsylvania mining town. It’s a tale of Italian Americans living in squalor and prejudice, and of the rise of Russ, who, like thousands of other young men, created a copy of the American establishment that excluded him. Smalltimedraws an intimate portrait of a mobster and his wife, sudden riches, and the toll a lawless life takes on one family. But Smalltime is something more. The author enlists his ailing father―Tony, the mobster’s son―as his partner in the search for their troubled patriarch. As secrets are revealed and Tony’s health deteriorates, the book becomes an urgent and intimate exploration of three generations of the American immigrant experience. Moving, wryly funny, and richly detailed, Smalltime is an irresistible memoir by a masterful writer of historical narrative. 8 black-and-white illustrations Update Description...more

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• 1515: "In the Tunnel of Love" #Unbound. A story from the collection, Gordon Liddy Is My Muse, by John Calvin Batchelor. The complete eighty-five minutes. Read by John Batchelor.

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  Jul 19 2021

  Photo: The author at work. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow "In the Tunnel of Love" #Unbound.  A story from the collection, Gordon Liddy Is My Muse, by John Calvin Batchelor. The complete, eighty-five minutes. Read by John Batchelor. Gordon Liddy Is My Muse, Hardcover;  by John Calvin Batchelor  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Gordon-Liddy-My-Muse-Tommy/dp/080503790X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= In nine darkly comic episodes that range from Moscow to Hollywood, the conservative spy novelist Tommy "Tip" Paine offers this postmodern, picaresque chase across our contemporary oral landscape....more

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• 1515: Angel Iscovich #Unbound: the complete, twenty-minute interview, June 19, 2021.

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  Jul 19 2021

  Photo:  Cost Scheduling Practices Contribute to Success CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Angel Iscovich #Unbound: the complete, twenty-minute interview, June 19, 2021. The Art of Routine: Discover How Routineology Can Transform Your Life.  Hardcover – June 1, 2021 by Angel Iscovich MD  (Author), Joe Garner  (Contributor), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/Art-Routine-Discover-Routineology-Transform/dp/1510764550 Conventional wisdom suggests that the best way to navigate our noisy new world is to accept change. Open up to novelty. Go with the flow. Live in the moment. Embrace the relentless pelting of content minute by minute. But routine experts Angel Iscovich, MD, Joe Garner, and Michael Ashley are here to say that’s a bad idea. Humans don’t just benefit from structure; they require it. Years of observation and practice led to their breakthrough concept of routineology, the key to optimize your life and the cure for crisis. Routineology’s fundamental prescriptive is to look inside and live your life in a “time bubble” to find purpose, meaning, and joy. Offering insights from top performers and stories of triumph over adversity, this book demonstrates that routine isn’t just a good idea—it’s imperative for surviving and thriving today. Live a life of deeper meaning and navigate toward a better world with The Art of Routine ...more

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• 1515: Nick Lloyd #Unbound. The complete, eighty-minute interview. June 5, 2021.

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  Jul 19 2021

  Photo: i was there with the yanks on the western front. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Nick Lloyd #Unbound. The complete, eighty-minute interview. June 5, 2021. Nick Lloyd, The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918 – March 30, 2021. Hardcover.   A panoramic history of the savage combat on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918 that came to define modern warfare. The Western Front evokes images of mud-spattered men in waterlogged trenches, shielded from artillery blasts and machine-gun fire by a few feet of dirt. This iconic setting was the most critical arena of the Great War, a 400-mile combat zone stretching from Belgium to Switzerland where more than three million Allied and German soldiers struggled during four years of almost continuous combat. It has persisted in our collective memory as a tragic waste of human life and a symbol of the horrors of industrialized warfare. In this epic narrative history, the first volume in a groundbreaking trilogy on the Great War, the acclaimed military historian Nick Lloyd captures the horrific fighting on the Western Front beginning with the surprise German invasion of Belgium in August 1914 and taking us to the Armistice of November 1918. Drawing on French, British, German, and American sources, Lloyd weaves a kaleidoscopic chronicle of the Marne, Passchendaele, the Meuse-Argonne, and other critical battles, which reverberated across Europe and the wider war. From the trenches, where men as young as 17 suffered and died, to the headquarters behind the lines where Generals Haig, Joffre, Hindenburg, and Pershing developed their plans for battle, Lloyd gives us a view of the war both intimate and strategic, putting us amid the mud and smoke while at the same time depicting the larger stakes of every encounter. He shows us a dejected Kaiser Wilhelm II―soon to be eclipsed in power by his own generals―lamenting the botched Schlieffen Plan; French soldiers piling atop one another in the trenches of Verdun; British infantryman wandering through the frozen wilderness in the days after the Battle of the Somme; and General Erich Ludendorff pursuing a ruthless policy of total war, leading an eleventh-hour attack on Reims even as his men succumbed to the Spanish Flu. As Lloyd reveals, far from being a site of attrition and stalemate, the Western Front was a simmering, dynamic “cauldron of war” defined by extraordinary scientific and tactical innovation. It was on the Western Front that the modern technologies―machine guns, mortars, grenades, and howitzers―were refined and developed into effective killing machines. It was on the Western Front that chemical warfare, in the form of poison gas, was first unleashed. And it was on the Western Front that tanks and aircraft were introduced, causing a dramatic shift away from nineteenth-century bayonet tactics toward modern combined arms, reinforced by heavy artillery, that forever changed the face of war. Brimming with vivid detail and insight, The Western Front is a work in the tradition of Barbara Tuchman and John Keegan, Rick Atkinson and Antony Beevor: an authoritative portrait of modern warfare and its far-reaching human and historical consequences. 35 black-and-white illustrations, 8 maps...more

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• 1515: Patrick O'Donnell. #Unbound. The complete, eighty-minute interview, June 6, 2021. LXX.

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  Jul 19 2021

  Photo: George Washington in 1772 . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Patrick O'Donnell. #Unbound. The complete, eighty-minute interview, June 6, 2021. LXX. The Indispensables: The Diverse Soldier-Mariners Who Shaped the Country, Formed the Navy, and Rowed Washington Across the Delaware. Kindle Edition. by Patrick K. O'Donnell  https://www.amazon.com/Indispensables-Diverse-Soldier-Mariners-Washington-Delaware-ebook/dp/B08M12FQ85 On the stormy night of August 29, 1776, the Continental Army faced annihilation after losing the Battle of Brooklyn. The British had trapped George Washington’s army against the East River, and the fate of the Revolution rested upon the soldier-mariners from Marblehead, Massachusetts. One of the country’s first diverse units, they pulled off an “American Dunkirk” and saved the army by navigating the treacherous river to Manhattan. At the right time in the right place, the Marbleheaders, a group of white, black, Hispanic, and Native American soldiers, repeatedly altered the course of events, and their story shines new light on our understanding of the American Revolution. As the historian Patrick K. O’Donnell recounts, beginning nearly a decade before the war started, Marbleheaders such as Elbridge Gerry and Azor Orne spearheaded the break with Britain and helped shape the United States through governing, building alliances, seizing British ships, forging critical supply lines, and establishing the origins of the US Navy. The Marblehead Regiment, led by John Glover, became truly indispensable. Marbleheaders battled at Lexington and on Bunker Hill and formed the elite Guard that protected George Washington, foreshadowing today’s Secret Service. Then the special operations–like regiment, against all odds, conveyed 2,400 of Washington’s men across the ice-filled Delaware River on Christmas night of 1776, delivering the surprise attack on Trenton that changed the course of history . . . The Marbleheaders’ story, never fully told before now, makes The Indispensables a vital addition to the literature of the American Revolution....more

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• 1515: James Tooley #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview. May 14, 2021.

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  Jul 19 2021

  Photo:.Burning of the 'Tin School' January 5, 1945 This photo in the Bolton Family album shows the fire on January 5th, 1945.. This school came to a sad end when it burned to the ground on Jan. 5 1945. The fire was caused by a torch used to thaw frozen water pipes. Within three days classes commenced in the community hall across the road.'. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow James Tooley #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview. May 14, 2021.  Really Good Schools: Global Lessons for High-Caliber, Low-Cost Education -  Hardcover – April 12, 2021.by James Tooley (Author) “James Tooley has taken his argument about the transformative power of low-cost private education to a new and revelatory level in Really Good Schools. This is a bold and inspiring manifesto for a global revolution in education.” —Niall C. Ferguson, Milbank Family Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University Almost overnight a virus has brought into question America’s nearly 200-year-old government-run K-12 school-system—and prompted an urgent search for alternatives. But where should we turn to find them?  Enter James Tooley’s Really Good Schools. A distinguished scholar of education and the world’s foremost expert on private, low-cost innovative education, Tooley takes readers to some of the world’s most impoverished communities located in some of the world’s most dangerous places—including such war-torn countries as Sierra Leone, Liberia, and South Sudan.  And there, in places where education “experts” fear to tread, Tooley finds thriving private schools that government, multinational NGOs, and even international charity officials deny exist.  Why?  Because the very existence of low-cost, high-quality private schools shatters the prevailing myth in the U.S., U.K., and western Europe that, absent government, affordable, high-quality schools for the poor could not exist. But they do. And they are ubiquitous and in high demand. Founded by unheralded, local educational entrepreneurs, these schools are proving that self-organized education is not just possible but flourishing—often enrolling far more students than “free” government schools do at prices within reach of even the most impoverished families. In the course of his analysis Tooley asks the key questions: ■ What proportion of poor children is served? ■ How good are the private schools?  ■ What are the business models for these schools?  ■ And can they be replicated and improved?  The evidence is in. In poor urban and rural areas around the world, children in low-cost private schools outperform those in government schools. And the schools do so for a fraction of the per-pupil cost. Thanks to the pandemic, parents in America and Europe are discovering that the education of their children is indeed possible—and likely far better—without government meddlingwith rigid seat-time mandates, outdated school calendars, absurd age-driven grade levels, and worse testing regimes. And having experienced the first fruits of educational freedom, parents will be increasingly open to the possibilities of ever greater educational entrepreneurship and innovation.  Thankfully, they have Really Good Schools to show the way...more

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• 1515: David Grantham #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview, April 5, 2021.

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  Jul 19 2021

  Photo: Spc. Anil Parshad, criminal investigation special agent, 2nd Special Troops Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, cuts a rug with Spc. Lucy O'Dell, health care specialist, Company C, 204th Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd BCT, during the Army Birthday Ball at the Fort Carson Special Events Center, June 16, 2012. The soldiers of 4th Infantry and Division celebrated the Army's 237th birthday with a traditional Army ball in honor of the men and women in uniform who are serving in countries around the world to protect and defend freedom and the American way of life. Since its birth June 14, 1775 - more than a year before the signing of the Declaration of Independence - the United States Army has played a vital role in the growth and development of the nation.. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow David Grantham #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview, April 5, 2021. Consequences: An Intelligence Officer's War; Paperback – November 11, 2020. by David Grantham  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Consequences-Intelligence-Officers-David-Grantham/dp/098440631X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= “Very little has been written on the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations efforts in the global war on terror. Consequences by David Grantham provides a unique and fascinating window into the nuts and bolts of OSI counterintelligence operations. You won’t be disappointed.”– Fred Burton, author of Beirut Rules: The Murder of a CIA Station Chief and Hezbollah’s War Against America   In 2020, ISIS followers are being encouraged to use COVID-19 to sicken Westerners. An ISIS supporter attacked a Naval base in Corpus Christi, Texas. Iran and the United States exchanged blows in Iraq. We are still living in the long shadow of the Iraq War. In 2006, David Grantham was fresh out of college and serving as a counterintelligence officer with the elite and secretive Air Force Office of Special Investigations. Iraq was veering toward civil war. The U.S. military desperately needed better on-the-ground intelligence to turn the tide. Grantham found himself in Kuwait and Afghanistan, then at Iraq’s infamous American prison, Camp Bucca. Not only was Bucca the breeding ground for the Islamic State, it was in southern Iraq, where America’s deadly fight with Iran was an open secret. Consequences is both a riveting, behind-the-scenes look at intelligence operations at the height of the Iraq war, and a charming and sobering story of one man’s journey through the pleasures and consequences that come with wartime intelligence. ...more

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• 1515: Terry Anderson #Unbound. The complete forty-minute interview. April 6, 2021 LXX

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  Jul 19 2021

  Photo: Terminal moraine, Exit Glacier, AK. Exit Glacier has retreated over 1.25 miles from its 1815 maximum. September, 2006.  Date Picture Taken: 2006-09-17 @Batchelorshow Terry Anderson #Unbound. The complete forty-minute interview. April 6, 2021 LXX Adapt and Be Adept: Market Responses to Climate Change    Paperback – April 1, 2021. by Terry Anderson . (Editor) https://www.amazon.com/Adapt-Be-Adept-Responses-Climate/dp/0817924558/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1619395663&refinements=p_27%3ATerry+Anderson&s=books&sr=1-1 How can markets help us adapt to the challenges of climate change? Editor Terry L. Anderson brings together this collection of essays featuring the work of nine leading policy analysts, who argue that market forces are just as important as government regulation in shaping climate policy—and should be at the heart of our response to helping societies adapt to climate change. Anderson notes in his introduction that most current climate policies such as the Paris Agreement require hard-to-enforce collective action and focus on reducing or mitigating greenhouse gases rather than adapting to their negative effects. Adaptive actions can typically deliver much more, faster and more cheaply than any realistic climate policy. The authors tackle a range of issues: the hidden costs of renewable energy sources, the political obstacles surrounding climate change policy, insurance and financial instruments for pricing risk of exposure to the effects of climate change, and more. Reliance on emerging renewable energies and a carbon tax are not enough to prevent the effects of global warming, they argue. We must encourage more private action and market incentives to adapt to a rapidly changing climate. ....more

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• 1515: Jerry Hendrix #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, March 23, 2021

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  Jul 19 2021

  Photo: The Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Chosin (CG 65) and the Russian Navy Udaloy-class destroyer Marshal Shaposhnikov (DDGHM 543) sail in formation during a joint Russian-U.S. Navy exercise. . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Jerry Hendrix #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, March 23, 2021 To Provide and Maintain a Navy: Why Naval Primacy Is America's First, Best Strategy, Hardcover – December 19, 2020 by Henry J Hendrix (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Provide-Maintain-Navy-Americas-Strategy/dp/0960039198 The national conversation regarding the United States Navy has, for far too long, been focused on the popular question of how many ships does the service need? To Provide and Maintain a Navy, a succinct but encompassing treatise on sea power by Dr. Henry J "Jerry" Hendrix, goes beyond the numbers to reveal the crucial importance of Mare Liberum (Free Sea) to the development of the Western thought and the rules-based order that currently governs the global commons that is the high seas. Proceeding from this philosophical basis, Hendrix explores how a "free sea" gave way to free trade and the central role sea-borne commercial trade has played in the overall rise in global living standards. This is followed by analysis of how the relative naval balance of power has played out in naval battles and wars over the centuries and how the dominance of the United States Navy following World War II has resulted in seven decades of unprecedented peace on the world's oceans. He further considers how, in the years that followed the demise of the Soviet Union, both China and Russia began laying the groundwork to challenge the United States's maritime leadership and upend five centuries of naval precedents in order to establish a new approach to sovereignty over the world's seas. It is only at this point that Dr. Hendrix approaches the question of the number of ships required for the United States Navy, the industrial base required to build them, and the importance of once again aligning the nation's strategic outlook to that of a "seapower" in order effectively and efficiently to address the rising threat. To Provide and Maintain a Navy is brief enough to be read in a weekend but deep enough to inform the reader as to the numerous complexities surrounding what promises to be the most important strategic conversation facing the United States as it enters a new age of great power competition with not one, but two, nations who seek nothing less than to close and control the world's seas....more

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• 1515: Holly Fretwell #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. April 12, 2021. LXX

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  Jul 19 2021

  Photo: Forest (photo LM) @Batchelorshow Holly Fretwell  #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview.  April 12, 2021. LXX Fix America’s Forests: Reforms to Restore National Forests and Tackle the Wildfire Crisis. Holly Fretwell , Jonathan Wood April 12, 2021   https://www.perc.org/2021/04/12/fix-americas-forests-reforms-to-restore-national-forests-and-tackle-the-wildfire-crisis/ In 2020, the largest wildfire in California history scorched six counties in the northern part of the state. The August Complex Fire burned more than one million acres across three national forests and destroyed hundreds of structures. But devastating fires are not limited to California. Across the West, more than 10 million acres burned in 2020—a record in modern history. These fires consumed more than 17,500 structures and more than $3.5 billion in firefighting costs.Tragically, dozens of lives were lost, and many more people were displaced by evacuation orders. Fires released smoke that degraded air quality nearby and hundreds of miles away. They also destroyed wildlife habitat, including for imperiled species, and the fires’ aftereffects will soon lead to erosion that harms water quality in local watersheds...more

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• 1515: Charlie Pellegrino #Unbound: the complete, twenty-minute interview, June 18, 2021. LXX

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  Jul 19 2021

  Photo: Eruption of the volcano Vesuvius, 1631. @Batchelorshow Charlie Pellegrino #Unbound: the complete, twenty-minute interview, June 18, 2021. LXX Finding the Hero of Herculaneum two thousand years later. Charles Pellegrino https://news.yahoo.com/2-000-old-skeleton-roman-135559332.html Ghosts of Vesuvius: A New Look at the Last Days of Pompeii, How Towers Fall, and Other Strange Connections    Paperback – August 9, 2005 by Charles R Pellegrino https://www.amazon.com/Ghosts-Vesuvius-Pompeii-Strange-Connections/dp/0060751002 A fascinating look at Pompeii, Herculaneum and the Vesuvius eruption in comparison with other historically significant volcanic eruptions, including the World Trade Center disaster.  The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, which obliterated the Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum, was a disaster that resounds to this day. Now, the palaeontologist Charles Pellegrino presents a wealth of new knowledge about the doomed towns—and brings to vivid life the people, their last moments, and the aftermath.  The lessons learned from modern scrutiny of that ancient eruption produce disturbing echoes in the present. Dr Pellegrino, who worked at Ground Zero in the aftermath of the 9/11 attack, shares his unique knowledge of the strange physics of volcanic 'downblast' and 'collapse column', drawing a direct link from past to present, and providing readers with a poignant glimpse into the last moments of the 'American Vesuvius'....more

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• 1514: #PodcastExtra: #PacificWatch: Opening Day at Del Mar and no mask in sight. @JCBliss #FriendsoftheHistoryDebatingSociety

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  Jul 18 2021

  Photo:  Huge crowd of baseball fans watching baseball scoreboard during World Series game in New York City @Batchelorshow #PodcastExtra: #PacificWatch: Opening Day at Del Mar and no mask in sight.  @JCBliss #FriendsoftheHistoryDebatingSociety https://www.dmtc.com/media/news/stable-notes-july-17-2021-1812

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• 1514: #PodcastExtra: The Communist Cuba regime is the entire problem. @ThadMcCotter #FriendsoftheHistoryDebatingSociety

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  Jul 18 2021

  Photo: Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev make their way in the midst of a crowd / World Telegram & Sun photo by Herman Hiller. . @Batchelorshow #PodcastExtra: The Communist Cuba regime is the entire problem. @ThadMcCotter #FriendsoftheHistoryDebatingSociety https://amgreatness.com/2021/07/16/the-american-left-needs-a-communist-cuba/

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• 1513: #PodcastExtra: #TheGreatMigration: In Vilnius, the Lithuanians engage in an escalating information war with the Russian Federation. Michael Yon, Locals.com/YON #FriendsoftheHistoryDebatingSociety

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  Jul 18 2021

  Photo: Office of War Information poster (OWI). Poster distributed by the OWI to manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, banks, liquor stores, taprooms, hotels, bars, beauty parlors, barber shops, war plants, American Legion posts, railways, bus and airline terminals, and government agencies. . @Batchelorshow #PodcastExtra: #TheGreatMigration: In Vilnius, the Lithuanians engage in an escalating information war with the Russian Federation. Michael Yon, Locals.com/YON #FriendsoftheHistoryDebatingSociety ...more

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• 1513: #PodcastExtra: #TheGreatMigration: In Vilnius, the Pakistani migrant is headed for London; the African migrant is headed for Germany. @Michael Yon, Locals.com/YON #FriendsoftheHistoryDebatingSociety

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  Jul 18 2021

  Photo: Vilnius, Nicolas Cathedral Vilʹna. Nikolaevskīĭ kaḟedralʹnyĭ sobor @Batchelorshow #PodcastExtra: #TheGreatMigration: In Vilnius, the Pakistani migrant is headed for London; the African migrant is headed for Germany. @Michael Yon, Locals.com/YON #FriendsoftheHistoryDebatingSociety

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• 1513: #PodcastExtra: 2/2: #Londinium90AD: General Milley's reported remark: "We're the guys with the guns." Michael Vlahos. #FriendsoftheHistoryDebatingSociety

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  Jul 18 2021

  Photo: Group of men with guns dressed for hunting? @Batchelorshow #PodcastExtra: 2/2: #Londinium90AD: General Milley's reported remark: "We're the guys with the guns." Michael Vlahos. #FriendsoftheHistoryDebatingSociety https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/15/mark-milley-feared-coup-after-trump-lost-to-biden-book.html

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• 1513: #PodcastExtra: 1/2: #Londinium90AD: Gaius & Germanicus remember with foreboding the Year of Four Emperors. Michael Vlahos. #FriendsoftheHistoryDebatingSociety

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  Jul 18 2021

  Photo:  Otho, one of the four emperors @Batchelorshow #PodcastExtra: 1/2: #Londinium90AD: Gaius & Germanicus remember with foreboding the Year of Four Emperors.   Michael Vlahos. #FriendsoftheHistoryDebatingSociety https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_of_the_Four_Emperors

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• 1511: #SmallBusinessAmerica: Our pets, our pandemic devotion.@GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer

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  Jul 17 2021

  Photo: Theodore Roosevelt's pet one-legged rooster . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #SmallBusinessAmerica: Our pets, our pandemic devotion.@GeneMarks  @Guardian @PhillyInquirer https://www.wired.com/story/pet-startups-are-having-field-day/ 

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• 1511: #SmallBusinessAmerica: Rise of the Right to Repair Cadres, led by Wozniak. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer

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  Jul 17 2021

  Photo:Blue Box at the Computer History Museum CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #SmallBusinessAmerica: Rise of the Right to Repair Cadres, led by Wozniak.  @GeneMarks  @Guardian @PhillyInquirer ttps://www.vice.com/en/article/y3d597/watch-apples-co-founder-declare-his-support-for-right-to-repair https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-13/u-s-small-business-optimism-index-climbs-to-an-eight-month-high Permissions: w:en:Image:Blue box in museum,-cropped.jpg Photo taken by RaD man. Cropped by David Remahl 2004. RaD man released it under GFDL attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use ...more

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• 1511: #GuestPodcast: Four Star Forum with Gen. David L. Goldfein, USAF (ret.), former chief of staff of the United States Air Force. @FRoseDC

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  Jul 17 2021

  Photo: .Artificial intelligence for the coming data-driven war.   Русский:  Кибермозг @Batchelorshow #GuestPodcast: Four Star Forum with Gen. David L. Goldfein, USAF (ret.), former chief of staff of the United States Air Force. @FRoseDC Goal is deterrence; if that fails engage in the next war.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L._Goldfein https://anchor.fm/francis-rose The Biden administration will release its National Defense Strategy in 2022, along with a series of other strategy documents that detail the war—or wars—the defense department is preparing for, and expecting to fight. One of the leaders who focused on the wars of the future during his time in uniform is Gen. David Goldfein (USAF ret.). He was the 21st Chief of Staff of the Air Force (2016-2020). The Space Force, and the concepts behind Joint All Domain Command and Control, took hold under his tenure. Gen. Goldfein discusses what the data-driven fight of the future will look like. Gen. Goldfein also draws on his time in command in Afghanistan to assess the exit of the military from that country. "Rapid Innovation Requires Risk" ...more

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• 1511: #Londinium90AD: Gaius & Germanicus philosophize of the two-thousand-year-old tradition of the violent endings of emperors. Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Jul 17 2021

  Photo: The rediscovery of Tacitus's works revived English interest in Boudica, particularly during the 19th century, when she was used as a symbol for Queen Victoria and the British Empire. (Boadicea and Her Daughters by Thomas Thornycroft, 1860s, cast by his sonin 1902.) Here:  An engraving by William Sharp published in 1793, based on Boadicea Haranguing the Britons (called Boudicca, or Boadicea) by John Opie (died 1807).  CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #Londinium90AD: Gaius & Germanicus philosophize of the two-thousand-year-old tradition of the violent endings of emperors.  Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis Boadicea was a Celtic queen who led a revolt against Roman rule in ancient Britain in A.D. 60 or 61. ... Like other ancient Celtic women, Boudica had trained as a warrior, including fighting techniques and the use of weapons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero ...more

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• 1512: Fintech Start-Up Planet. Matthieu Favas @TheEconomist

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  Jul 17 2021

  Photo:  Mme Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, addressing in 2018 at the Singapore FinTech Festival, the largest FinTech festival in the world. Fintech Start-Up Planet.  Matthieu Favas @TheEconomist Financial technology is the technology and innovation that aims to compete with traditional financial methods in the delivery of financial services. https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2021/07/12/investment-in-fintech-booms-as-upstarts-go-mainstream...more

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• 1512: China bills the UN. @JoshRogin @WashingtonPost

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  Jul 17 2021

  Photo:  Chinese money changer on a street of Kansu*, a crossroads of the big commercial roads linking China, Tibet, interior Mongolia, Kokonor, Turkestan, and the Sinkiang**. China's cynical vaccine diplomacy; & What is to be done? @JoshRogin @WashingtonPost https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/15/china-charging-un-for-vaccine-when-us-is-donating/ *, ** These two use Wade-GIles transliteration; modern usage is Gansu and Xinjiang (or perhaps Hsin jiang).

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• 1512: The Buckeye State prospers while Washington squabbles. Dan Henninger @WSJOpinion

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  Jul 17 2021

  Photo: Mule Deet on hind legs to reach green Buckeye leaves. Dan Henninger @WSJOpinion The Buckeye State prospers while Washington squabbles.. https://www.wsj.com/articles/dont-you-just-love-congress-11626299938   https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/ohio-compete-business-investment-tax-rates

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• 1512: California drought: La Niña will not bring relief. Jeff Bliss @JCBliss #PacificWatch

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  Jul 17 2021

  Photo:  La Niña, the counterpart to El Nino, alters rainfall patterns over the Pacific and Indian Ocean basins. La Nina develops when stronger-than-average trade winds push the warm surface waters of the equatorial Pacific west.  Since cold water rises to replace the warm water, La Nina leaves the eastern and central Pacific Ocean much cooler than normal, while the western Pacific is much warmer than normal.  These anomalies in sea surface temperature are mirrored in rainfall patterns, with warmer-than-normal temperatures resulting in enhanced rainfall.  In general, La Nina brings unusually heavy rain to the West Pacific, Indonesia, parts of Southeast Asia, and northern Australia. Jeff Bliss @JCBliss #PacificWatch  La Niña will not bring relief. Jeff Bliss @JCBliss #PacificWatch  California drought: La Niña could dash hopes of desperately needed rain this winter -- The punishing drought conditions afflicting most of California are expected to endure for months, climate experts with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association said Thursday. There is a 60% chance, NOAA experts said, of a La Niña event this winter — conditions that would likely bring about a cool and very dry winter. San Francisco Chronicle ...more

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• 1511: The last best hope for fixing Hubble remotely. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com LXX

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  Jul 17 2021

  Photo: Hubble View of a Dying Star . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow The last best hope for fixing Hubble remotely.  Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com LXX https://behindtheblack.com/?s=Hubble

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• 1511: 21st Century Regulating a Texas spaceport. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com LXX

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  Jul 17 2021

  Photo: Federal Aviation Administration Records Center, 300 West King Street, Martinsburg, Berkeley County, W . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 21st Century Regulating a Texas spaceport. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com LXX https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/faa-threatens-shutdown-of-spacexs-starship-program-at-boca-chica/

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• 1510: 8/8 Adrian Wooldridge, author: The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World, PART 2

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  Jul 17 2021

  Photo: Medal 8/8  Adrian Wooldridge, author: The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World, PART 2 https://www.amazon.com/Aristocracy-Talent-Meritocracy-Modern-World-ebook/dp/B08HGJTP1F

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• 1510: 7/8 Adrian Wooldridge, author: The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World, PART 2

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  Jul 17 2021

  Photo:  Fame 7/8  Adrian Wooldridge, author: The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World, PART 2 https://www.amazon.com/Aristocracy-Talent-Meritocracy-Modern-World-ebook/dp/B08HGJTP1F

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• 1510: 6/8 Adrian Wooldridge, author: The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World, PART 2

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  Jul 17 2021

  Photo: Justice 6/8  Adrian Wooldridge, author: The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World, PART 2 https://www.amazon.com/Aristocracy-Talent-Meritocracy-Modern-World-ebook/dp/B08HGJTP1F

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• 1510: 5/8 Adrian Wooldridge, author: The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World, PART 2

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  Jul 17 2021

  Photo:  Scholarship Medal 5/8  Adrian Wooldridge, author: The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World, PART 2 https://www.amazon.com/Aristocracy-Talent-Meritocracy-Modern-World-ebook/dp/B08HGJTP1F

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• 1510: 4/8 Adrian Wooldridge, author: The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World, PART 1

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  Jul 17 2021

  Photo:  Nobility.  Fragment of a ceiling painting (possibly a dome decoration) depicting the personification of nobility with a crown in her hand on a cloud. She is surrounded by angels, two of whom wear a large crown.   4/8 Adrian Wooldridge, author: The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World, PART 1 https://www.amazon.com/Aristocracy-Talent-Meritocracy-Modern-World-ebook/dp/B08HGJTP1F

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• 1510: 3/8 Adrian Wooldridge, author: The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World, PART 1

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  Photo: "Il vero merito" -- True merit. Dance in Europe: from Middle Ages to 18th Century. 3/8  Adrian Wooldridge, author: The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World, PART 1 https://www.amazon.com/Aristocracy-Talent-Meritocracy-Modern-World-ebook/dp/B08HGJTP1F

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• 1510: 2/8 Adrian Wooldridge, author: The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World, PART 1

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  Jul 17 2021

  Photo: Reward of Merit   2/8  Adrian Wooldridge, author: The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World, PART 1 https://www.amazon.com/Aristocracy-Talent-Meritocracy-Modern-World-ebook/dp/B08HGJTP1F

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• 1510: 1/8 Adrian Wooldridge, author: The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World, PART 1

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  Jul 17 2021

  Photo:  Reward of Merit 1/8  Adrian Wooldridge, author: The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World, PART 1 https://www.amazon.com/Aristocracy-Talent-Meritocracy-Modern-World-ebook/dp/B08HGJTP1F Adrian Wooldridge traces the history of meritocracy forged by the politicians and officials who introduced the revolutionary principle of open competition, the psychologists who devised methods for measuring natural mental abilities and the educationalists who built ladders of educational opportunity. He looks outside western cultures and shows what transformative effects it has had everywhere it has been adopted, especially once women were brought into the meritocractic system....more

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• 1509: #HotelMars: Helping to build a moon colony in 3-D online. Kim Holder, Moonwards.com. David Livingston. moonwards.com

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  Jul 16 2021

  Photo: Mountain ranges on the moon . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #HotelMars: Helping to build a moon colony in 3-D online. Kim Holder, Moonwards.com. David Livingston. moonwards.com https://www.moonwards.com/gameplay/

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• 1509: #TheScalaReport: Ohio reforms taxes on enterprise to attract investment; & What is to be done? Chris Riegel, CEO @ScalaInc @STRATACACHE

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  Jul 16 2021

  Photo:  Marietta, Ohio. Elder lawyer, veteran of Spanish-American War, registering for civilian defense in basement of the courthouse. . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #TheScalaReport: Ohio reforms taxes on enterprise to attract investment; & What is to be done? Chris Riegel, CEO @ScalaInc @STRATACACHE https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/ohio-compete-business-investment-tax-rates Municipal Stadium and Union Terminal Tower From Boat Landing (NBY 6530) ...more

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• 1509: Azzurri: A silence at the moment of victory, and then an explosion of joy. Lorenzo Fiori. Ansaldo Foundation, Genoa and Milano.

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  Jul 16 2021

  Photo: Italian football team at Arena Civica in Milan, 15 May 1910, before the match against France. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Azzurri: A silence at the moment of victory, and then an explosion of joy.  Lorenzo Fiori. Ansaldo Foundation, Genoa and Milano. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/11/sports/soccer/italy-wins-european-championship.html

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• 1509: Lagarde of the ECB follows exactly the monetary uncertainty of Jerome Powell of Federal Reserve. @VerodeRugy @Mercatus

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  Jul 16 2021

  Photo: Frankfurt am Main, office building (die Europäische Zentralbank) from der Alte Mainbrücke. 11 August 2016.  Source | Own work:  Michielverbeek. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Lagarde of the ECB follows exactly the monetary uncertainty of Jerome Powell of Federal Reserve. @VerodeRugy @Mercatus https://www.msn.com/en-ca/finance/topstories/persistent-ecb-wont-tighten-too-early-lagarde-says/ar-AAM5lxX ...more

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• 1509: Tehran threatens 90% enrichment unless. Benham ben Taleblu @FDD

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  Jul 16 2021

  Photo:  Drawing of [civilian] nuclear reactor uranium "pile." Photograph taken January 27, 1950 CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Tehran threatens 90% enrichment unless. Benham ben Taleblu @FDD https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/rouhani-says-iran-can-enrich-uranium-90-purity-if-needed-mehr-2021-07-14/

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• 1509: Tehran agents plot to abduct an American citizen from Manhattan. Benham ben Taleblu @FDD

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  Jul 16 2021

  Photo:  Hades abducting Persephone, fresco in the small royal tomb at Vergina, Macedonia, Greece.. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Tehran agents plot to abduct an American citizen from Manhattan. Benham ben Taleblu @FDD https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/us-news/2021/07/13/us-charges-four-iranians-in-plot-to-kidnap-journalist-in-new-york/ https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/25014-Iran-tells-Iraqi-militias-to-attack-US,-while-Pentagon-affirms-right-of-self-defense  ...more

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• 1509: Will Erin O'Toole challenge Justin Trudeau on the sluggish double vaccination protocols? @ConradMBlack @NationalPost

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  Jul 16 2021

  Photo: Graphic from part two in a series of explainers on vaccine development and distribution. Originally published on the World Health Organization, Newsroom, Feature stories, How are vaccines developed?. © World Health Organization 2021, available for use under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike IGO 3.0 license. The WHO has released these items under this license in order to ensure as wide a distribution as possible in the interest of public health. They ask that you respect the spirit of this donation, and not use it for advertising or to promote commercial products or services. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Will Erin O'Toole challenge Justin Trudeau on the sluggish double vaccination protocols? @ConradMBlack @NationalPost https://nationalpost.com/opinion/conrad-black-justin-trudeau-should-be-wary-of-calling-a-narcissistic-election ...more

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• 1509: Cuban healthcare is falsehood; & What is to be done? @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion

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  Jul 15 2021

  Photo: The Hospital de San Felipe in Havana (in 1900), a healthcare educational facility built by the religious order San Juan de Dios in the mid-19th century. . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Cuban healthcare is falsehood & What is to be done? @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion https://www.wsj.com/articles/behind-cubas-covid-uprising-11626042703?st=a524sle364cx5pb&reflink=article_copyURL_share

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• 1508: 4/4 Preparing for the worst-case Taiwan. Admiral Gary Roughead,USN (ret) @Adm_GaryR ; and Professor Joe Felter, @HooverInst

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  Jul 15 2021

  Photo:   The Soviet Volunteer Group, in the name of the Republic of China, took off from Hankou, China, and bombed Songshan, Taipei. Afterwards, China claimed to have destroyed 40 military planes in Taiwan. Taiwan claimed that civilian houses were destroyed and civilians were killed. 4/4  Preparing for the worst-case Taiwan. Admiral Gary Roughead,USN (ret) @Adm_GaryR ; and Professor Joe Felter, @HooverInst  https://www.hoover.org/research/realism-and-deterrence-cross-strait-relations   https://www.hoover.org/research/taiwan-time-real-discussion  ...more

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• 1508: 3/4 Preparing for the worst-case Taiwan. Admiral Gary Roughead,USN (ret) @Adm_GaryR ; and Professor Joe Felter, @HooverInst

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  Jul 15 2021

  Photo:  The Self-Sacrifice of Pastor Hambroeck on Formosa, 1661 3/4  Preparing for the worst-case Taiwan. Admiral Gary Roughead,USN (ret) @Adm_GaryR ; and Professor Joe Felter, @HooverInst https://www.hoover.org/research/realism-and-deterrence-cross-strait-relations   https://www.hoover.org/research/taiwan-time-real-discussion  

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• 1508: 2/4 Preparing for the worst-case Taiwan. Admiral Gary Roughead,USN (ret) @Adm_GaryR ; and Professor Joe Felter, @HooverInst

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  Jul 15 2021

  Photo:  Anti-communism in Taiwan, 1953 2/4  Preparing for the worst-case Taiwan. Admiral Gary Roughead,USN (ret) @Adm_GaryR ; and Professor Joe Felter, @HooverInst   https://www.hoover.org/research/realism-and-deterrence-cross-strait-relations   https://www.hoover.org/research/taiwan-time-real-discussion   https://www.hoover.org/research/realism-and-deterrence-cross-strait-relations   https://www.hoover.org/research/taiwan-time-real-discussion

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• 1508: 1/4 Preparing for the worst-case Taiwan. Admiral Gary Roughead,USN (ret) @Adm_GaryR ; and Professor Joe Felter, @HooverInst

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  Jul 15 2021

  Photo:  Preface by Arthur W. Hummel reads: An album on the aborigines in Taiwan (Formosa).  The album depicts vividly the conditions of Formosa of about a century ago [close to two centuries today].  There are twelve paintings in this folded album, showing life and customs on the island. First: boys learning how to pound the grain and boys in school engaging in recitation;  1/4  Preparing for the worst-case Taiwan. Admiral Gary Roughead,USN (ret) @Adm_GaryR ; and Professor Joe Felter, @HooverInst   https://www.hoover.org/research/realism-and-deterrence-cross-strait-relations   https://www.hoover.org/research/taiwan-time-real-discussion...more

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• 1508: 2/2 The birth of the Lithium Ion Battery in an Exxon lab. Vijay Vaitheeswaran @TheEconomist

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  Jul 15 2021

  Photo: A nanoforest of nanowire lithium-ion batteries. See also www.nist.gov/mml/msed/microscopic_batteries092614.cfm 2/2  The birth of the Lithium Ion Battery in an Exxon lab. Vijay Vaitheeswaran @TheEconomist https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2021/06/21/the-battery-that-powers-the-world

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• 1508: 1/2 The birth of the Lithium Ion Battery in an Exxon lab. Vijay Vaitheeswaran @TheEconomist

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  Jul 15 2021

  Photo: A nanoforest of nanowire lithium-ion batteries. See also www.nist.gov/mml/msed/microscopic_batteries092614.cfm 1/2  The birth of the Lithium Ion Battery in an Exxon lab. Vijay Vaitheeswaran @TheEconomist https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2021/06/21/the-battery-that-powers-the-world

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• 1508: 2/2 Iran's Zarif claims the U.S. is willing to lift nearly all Iran sanctions for return to dangerous 2015 nuclear deal. Aaron Klein @aaronkleinshow

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  Jul 15 2021

  Photo: Mirza Abolhassan Khan Ilchi, Persian foreign mister under the Qajars.  He served from 1824 to 1834, and then again from 1838 until his death in 1846. He also served as the ambassador to Russia and the United Kingdom, and was the main Iranian delegate at the signing of the notorious Treaty of Gulistan (1813)        Exhibit in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. 2/2   Iran's Zarif claims the U.S. is willing to lift nearly all Iran sanctions for return to dangerous 2015 nuclear deal.  Aaron Klein @aaronkleinshow  ...more

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• 1508: 1/2 Iran's Zarif claims the U.S. is willing to lift nearly all Iran sanctions for return to dangerous 2015 nuclear deal. Aaron Klein @aaronkleinshow

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  Jul 15 2021

  Photo:   The Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif meeting with UK foreign minister Boris Johnson in Tehran 2017-12-09 01   Tasnim News Agency 1/2   Iran's Zarif claims the U.S. is willing to lift nearly all Iran sanctions for return to dangerous 2015 nuclear deal.  Aaron Klein @aaronkleinshow  

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• 1507: 2/2 The Chinese plan to take over the global telecommunication rule book; & What is to be done? Emily de la Bruyere & Nathan Picarsi, @FDD https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2021/06/30/international-telecommunication-union/

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  Jul 15 2021

  Photo:  FlightConnections.com provides an overview of all flight routes worldwide.   https://www.flightconnections.com 2/2  The Chinese plan to take over the global telecommunication rule book; & What is to be done?   Emily de la Bruyere & Nathan Picarsi, @FDD https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2021/06/30/international-telecommunication-union/

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• 1507: 1/2 The Chinese plan to take over the global telecommunication rule book; & What is to be done? Emily de la Bruyere & Nathan Picarsi, @FDD https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2021/06/30/international-telecommunication-union/

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  Jul 15 2021

  Photo:  A female pilot at Dr. E. Thulin's flight school, Fucker Ruth Bergman and Mr. C.A. Werstman (Sweden's youngest pilot, 17 years). The picture was published in Hvar 8 Day XVIII: 42, July 1917. 1/2  The Chinese plan to take over the global telecommunication rule book; & What is to be done?   Emily de la Bruyere & Nathan Picarsi, @FDD https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2021/06/30/international-telecommunication-union/

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• 1506: Brave little Ingenuity is the delight of the mission. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Jul 15 2021

  Photo: NInfgenuoity's cousin Curiosity.             This engineering drawing shows the location of the arm on NASA Curiosity rover, in addition to the arm turret, which holds two instruments and three tools. The arm places and holds turret-mounted tools on rock and soil targets. NASA/JPL-Caltech . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Brave little Ingenuity is the delight of the mission. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com https://behindtheblack.com/?s=Ingenuity ...more

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• 1506: Market-makers not quite in orbit. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Jul 15 2021

  Photo: VAN HORN, Texas – Blue Origin’s New Shepard crew capsule touched down 1,630 feet from the its simulated propulsion module launch pad at the company's West Texas launch site, completing a successful test of its New Shepard crew capsule escape system. . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Market-makers not quite in orbit. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/faa-approves-blue-origins-license-for-commercial-suborbital-passenger-flights/ ...more

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• 1505: Readiness in East Asia and the Surface Warfare Officer class of the US Navy, 2021. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. James Holmes @TheNavalWarCollege

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  Jul 15 2021

  Photo: A surrogate missile is launched from a water-piercing missile launcher at Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane during proof of concept testing. . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Readiness in East Asia and the Surface Warfare Officer class of the US Navy, 2021.@GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. James Holmes @TheNavalWarCollege  Blogger at The Naval Diplomat (https://navaldiplomat.com/), on these:  https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-says-drove-away-us-warship-schina-sea-2021-07-12/ https://news.usni.org/2021/07/12/lawmakers-survey-94-of-sailors-say-damaging-operational-failures-related-to-navy-culture-leadership-problems   ...more

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• 1505: PLA Air Force provokes Taiwan with 1960s antique; & What is to be done? @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

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  Jul 15 2021

  Photo: A Pakistani F-7 conducts a training mission during a multinational exercise, Dec. 9, 2009, in Southwest Asia. Aircrews from France, Jordan, Pakistan, the U.K., and the U.S. trained together in the Air Forces Central area of responsibility in fighting a large-scale air war. Last month, a Chinese "island encirclement exercise" featured four J-7 fighter jets. The J-7 dates back to the 1960s and can be turned into an unmanned aerial vehicle. Retired warplanes turned into drones can be used to confuse air-defense systems, and China has embraced them as a low-cost, no-casualty option. @Batchelorshow PLA Air Force provokes Taiwan with 1960s antique & What is to be done? @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill Rick Fisher, senior Fellow on Asian Military Affairs at the International Assessment and Strategy Center, in re:   https://eurasiantimes.com/china-conducts-attack-drills-with-1960-era-j-7-fighter-jets-taiwan-perplexed-experts-decode-the-strategy/  ...more

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• 1505: Delta variant sweeps Russia from the Moscow metro to the black earth of Tambov. Felix_Light @CBSNews

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  Jul 15 2021

  Photo: Market day in the country: at the gates of Lysino, an estate in the province of Tambov (Zeno Photography). CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Delta variant sweeps Russia from the Moscow metro to the black earth of Tambov.  Felix_Light @CBSNews https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/07/14/russia-marks-highest-ever-covid-19-death-toll-for-second-day-a74517

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• 1505: Ninety-seven percent of India believes in God: Hindu, Moslem and Christian. Sadanand @Dhume @WSJOpinion

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  Jul 15 2021

  Photo: God creates the sun and the moon.             Fourth day of creation, in which the sun, moon and stars are created. God the Father hovers over the Earth and places the sun and moon in the sky.  CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Ninety-seven percent of India believes in God: Hindu, Moslem and Christian. Sadanand @Dhume @WSJOpinion https://www.wsj.com/articles/southern-india-leads-the-way-to-tolerance-11625782002?st=k84khjboqadwspg&reflink=article_copyURL_share ...more

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• 1504: "If you ignore the parts of the data you don't like, you're going to make a mistake." @Henry Curr @TheEconomist London

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  Jul 15 2021

  Photo: The Inflation Waltz, music. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow "If you ignore the parts of the data you don't like, you're going to make a mistake." @Henry Curr @TheEconomist London https://www.economist.com/briefing/2021/07/10/surprising-levels-of-inflation-are-increasingly-being-driven-by-wages-not-goods

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• 1504: What can go wrong and why in the global recovery? Henry Curr @TheEconomist

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  Jul 15 2021

  Photo: On the road to economic recovery: Highway 37 repaired . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow What can go wrong and why in the global recovery? Henry Curr @TheEconomist London https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/07/10/the-new-fault-lines-on-which-the-world-economy-rests?utm_medium=pr&utm_source=us-e

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• 1504: #KabulDiary: Siege tactics in a warlord war. Jeff McCausland @CBSNews

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  Photo: An Afghan and coalition security force member arrested a Taliban . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #KabulDiary: Siege tactics in a warlord war. Jeff McCausland @CBSNews https://www.wsj.com/articles/turkey-u-s-make-progress-in-kabul-airport-talks-prompting-taliban-threat-11626206375

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• 1504: #KabulDiary: Turkey at the airport. Jeff McCausland @CBSNews

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  Jul 15 2021

  Photo: Two Afghan men load bags of flour onto the back of an open truck at Kabul International Airport . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #KabulDiary: Turkey at the airport.  Jeff McCausland @CBSNews https://www.wsj.com/articles/turkey-u-s-make-progress-in-kabul-airport-talks-prompting-taliban-threat-11626206375

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• 1504: Scotland masks until Christmas. Simon Constable Edinburgh, Scotland. @TheRealConstable

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  Jul 15 2021

  Photo: Deer stalkers on Glenfeshie Estate spying with monoculars, ca. 1858. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Scotland masks until Christmas. Simon Constable Edinburgh, Scotland. @TheRealConstable https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-57829591

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• 1504: Food security and petrol supply at risk in Johannesburg and Durban disorder. @Debora_Patta @CBSNews

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  Jul 15 2021

  Photo: Durban, South Africa. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Food security and petrol supply at risk in Johannesburg and Durban disorder. @Debora_Patta @CBSNews https://twitter.com/Debora_Patta/status/1415291588587278338?s=20 https://www.wsj.com/articles/south-africa-riots-whats-happening-11626280457

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• 1504: 2/2: The middle three of the Roberts Court @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Jul 14 2021

  Photo: SUPREME COURT, U.S. TAFT COURT . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 2/2: The middle three of the Roberts Court @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst https://www.usatoday.com/restricted/?return=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2F2021%2F07%2F10%2Fchief-justice-john-roberts-influence-still-felt-supreme-court%2F7873768002%2F

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• 1504: 1/2: The middle three of the Roberts Court @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Jul 14 2021

  Photo: Supreme Court of the United States - Roberts Court 2018 . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 1/2: The middle three of the Roberts Court @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst https://www.usatoday.com/restricted/?return=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2F2021%2F07%2F10%2Fchief-justice-john-roberts-influence-still-felt-supreme-court%2F7873768002%2F

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• 1504: 2/2: The discovered joys of Route 20 Small Town America? SalenaZito.com. @DCExaminer

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  Photo: Bob's Yankee Diner, Route 20, Charlton, Worcester County, MA . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 2/2: The discovered joys of Route 20 Small Town America? SalenaZito.com. @DCExaminer https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/seeing-america-from-the-ground

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• 1504: 1/2: The discovered joys of Route 20 Small Town America? SalenaZito.com. @DCExaminer

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  Jul 14 2021

  Photo: Sign for US 20 along with the sign for State Route 7 in Conneaut, Ohio. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 1/2: The discovered joys of Route 20 Small Town America? SalenaZito.com. @DCExaminer https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/seeing-america-from-the-ground

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• 1503: 2/2. Ukraine has the largest lithium deposit in Europe. Jim Brooke, Ukraine Business News.

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  Jul 14 2021

  Photo: Lithium under paraffin oil  Photographer: Tomihahndorf 2/2.  Ukraine has the largest lithium deposit in Europe. Jim Brooke, Ukraine Business News.

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• 1503: 1/2. Ukraine begs Germany to turn off Nordstream2 Jim Brooke, Ukraine Business News.

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  Jul 14 2021

  Photo:   Fair (Little Rus), 1885 oil on canvas painting by Vladimir Egorovich Makovsky. 1/2.  Ukraine begs Germany to turn off Nordstream2 Jim Brooke, Ukraine Business News.

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• 1503: 2/2. Who gave manpads to the Tigray Popular Liberation Front, and why? Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

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  Jul 14 2021

  Photo:  Hand Cross (mäsqäl qǝddase or yäǝṭan). Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2/2.  Who gave manpads to the Tigray Popular Liberation Front, and why?  Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

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• 1503: 1/2. China lacks water, food and security, and Xi knows it. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

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  Jul 14 2021

  Photo: Grain. A home mill. Women and children take the place of the donkey in all but prosperous homes             Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: L.M. Mead, China famine relie 1/2.  China lacks water, food and security, and Xi knows it.  Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

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• 1503: 4/4. #NewWorldReport What are the patterns of street protests in South America? Ecuador, Chile, Colombia, Brazil. Buenos Aires, Caracas, Managua, Bogota. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal. Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://

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  Jul 14 2021

  Photo:  Conscripted soldiers of the Nicaraguan Army, Managua, Nicaragua, C.A. 4/4. #NewWorldReport  What are the patterns of street protests in South America?  Ecuador, Chile, Colombia, Brazil. Buenos Aires, Caracas, Managua, Bogota. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal. Joseph Humire @JMHumire  @SecureFreeSoc    https://www.securefreesociety.org    

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• 1503: 3/4. #NewWorldReport The most powerful unions in South America are the teachers’s unions. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal. Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org

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  Jul 14 2021

  Photo: Guatemala, carved stone 3/4. #NewWorldReport  The most powerful unions in South America are the teachers’s unions. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal. Joseph Humire @JMHumire  @SecureFreeSoc    https://www.securefreesociety.org     ". . . The demands made by the teachers—better salaries, more resources, a rejection of school privatization—in many ways mirror the seminal issues raised by teachers’ unions in the United States. But the aggressive, confrontational public acts embraced by many labor organizations in Central and South America as a way to sway government policies reveals a type of militancy rarely seen in teachers’ unions in the States. Some experts, in fact, believe that teachers in Latin America are becoming more radical." ". . . Last year in Guatemala, about 60,000 public school teachers went on strike for more than a month, calling for salary increases, as well as more textbooks and repairs to crumbling school buildings. At the height of the walkout, students, families, and indigenous groups joined teachers in shutting down the main airport and border crossings for several days.        "The frequent teachers’ strikes and level of populist anger against some governments in Latin America is being driven in part, some observers say, by a broader convergence of social movements resisting “neoliberal” economic policies."  ...more

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• 1503: 2/4. #NewWorldReport Haiti is the poorest country in the New World; and what is to be done? Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal. Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org

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  Jul 14 2021

  Photo: A free, naturopathic health clinic among the poorest Haitian villagers, set up in Haiti by a Tibetan Buddhist nun and a Vajrayana monk.  Here:  Robinson takes Marie Lucie to treat a person struggling to breathe https://haitinaturalclinic.org/in-times-of-corona/ 2/4. #NewWorldReport   Haiti is the poorest country in the New World; and what is to be done? Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal. Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org

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• 1503: 1/4. #NewWorldReport Cuba is the second-poorest country in the New World. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal. Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org

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  Photo: 1/4. #NewWorldReport   Cuba is the second-poorest country in the New World. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal. Joseph Humire @JMHumire  @SecureFreeSoc    https://www.securefreesociety.org    

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• 1502: #LondonCalling: London Parks become London Lakes after the deluge of football hooligans and rain @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

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  Photo: Kew Gardens, with bridge over lake; London, England "Come down to Kew in lilac-time" The British Contralto Carmen Hill-Peel:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y03OIPgcANE Lyrics:  Come down to Kew in lilac-time, in lilac-time, in lilac-time; Come down to Kew in lilac-time (it isn't far from London!) And you shall wander hand in hand with love in summer's wonderland; Come down to Kew in lilac-time (it isn't far from London!) CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #LondonCalling:  London Parks become London Lakes after the deluge of football hooligans and rain @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/13/uk-weather-london-southern-england-hit-torrential-rain-floods/ London flooding: Tube and rail networks suspended after month's worth of rain falls in a day Euston Station lines had to be shut down after the intense downpours on Monday evening, with people unable to travel in or out of the city https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/fans-tell-of-drunken-wembley-violence-at-euro-2020-final-and-accuse-stewards-of-taking-bribes-05f23lgrp Known hooligans and gang members were among crowds of troublemakers who overwhelmed Wembley security to force their way into the stadium on Sunday, The Times understands. One ticket holder reported seeing a knife in the stands and another said that Italian fans were beaten up. ...more

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• 1502: #LondonCalling: Boris Johnson hesitates on what can happen after July 19 @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

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  Photo: Prime Minister of Great Britain from The Popular History of England CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #LondonCalling:  Boris Johnson  hesitates on what can happen after July 19 @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hospital-admissions-will-soar-if-we-rush-to-lift-covid-19-restrictions-say-scientists-kvndjhwxl England's new wave of coronavirus could put 2,000 people in hospital every day for six weeks, the government’s chief scientific modeller has said. Professor Graham Medley, chairman of the Sage modelling subgroup Spi-M, said that the latest spike in cases threatened to place a “considerable... https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/coronavirus-news-covid-vaccine-passport-certificate-cases-restrictions/ Johnson urges use of Covid vaccine passports  Covid-related pupil absence hits new record high since return to class in March Analysis: How rising admissions panicked the PM Deaths set to hit 200 a day this summer What you can and can't do from July 19 Sherelle Jacobs: We are condemned to a Covid no-man’s land ...more

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• 1502: #LondonCalling: Transitory inflation continues to rise from groceries to used cars. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

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  Photo: Used car lot. . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #LondonCalling:  Transitory inflation continues to rise from groceries to used cars.  @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion https://www.wsj.com/articles/us-inflation-consumer-price-index-june-2021-11626125947?mod=hp_lead_pos1 Rising prices reflect robust consumer demand boosted by widespread vaccinations, the ending of many business restrictions, trillions of dollars in federal pandemic relief and ample household savings. Stronger demand also has pushed employers to seek more workers and pay higher wages, as they struggle to hire. https://www.wsj.com/articles/global-stock-markets-dow-update-07-13-2021-11626162017 U.S. consumer prices rose 5.4% in June from a year earlier, meaning inflation remains at its highest annual rate in 13 years. Economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal had been forecasting a 5% rise. In early trading, JPMorgan Chase shares fell 1.4% as the bank kicked off earnings season by saying second-quarter profit more than doubled, while markets revenue fell. Goldman Sachs ticked down 0.4% after the bank reported profits that beat analysts’ expectations. ...more

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• 1502: #LondonCalling: The ECB is changing its thinking about inflation; & What is to be done? @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion.

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  Photo: Bank note. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #LondonCalling:  The ECB is changing its thinking about inflation;b & What is to be done? @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2021-07-11/ecb-s-lagarde-on-inflation-target-climate-change-digital-euro  

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• 1502: International Criminal Court: ". . . while it ignores real crimes, both by dictators and its own employees." Orde Kittrie @FDD LXX

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  Jul 14 2021

  Photo: ICC typical courtroom (rendering). CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow International Criminal Court: ". . . while it ignores real crimes, both by dictators and its own employees." Orde Kittrie @FDD LXX  https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2021/06/30/international-criminal-court/

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• 1502: Free Trade, says Macron, is for the worker, not for the job; & What is to be done?. David Henderson @HooverInst LXX

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  Jul 14 2021

  Photo: Free trade: Storck Harbour scene. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Free Trade, says Macron, is for the worker, not for the job; & What is to be done?. David Henderson @HooverInst LXX https://www.hoover.org/research/dispelling-two-objections-free-trade

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• 1502: Tehran orders its proxies to attack the process of normalization in the Abraham Accords. Tony Badran @FDD

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  Jul 14 2021

  Photo:  The former Parliament Building in 1956.. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Tehran orders its proxies to attack the process of normalization in the Abraham Accords. Tony Badran @FDD https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2021/06/01/who-started-the-gaza-war/

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• 1502: The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) is long out of date. Tony Badran, @FDD

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  Jul 14 2021

  Photo: UNIFIL Sisu Pasi in the snow, close to the Israeli border in South-Lebanon, 1998 CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) is long out of date. Tony Badran, @FDD https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2021/06/30/united-nations-interim-force-in-lebanon/

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• 1501: 2/2 The Birth of the Amazon Forest. Carlos Jaramillo, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. @ScienceMagazine

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  Jul 13 2021

  Photo:  The banks of the Amazon forest 2/2  The Birth of the Amazon Forest.  Carlos Jaramillo, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. @ScienceMagazine Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute: Panamá The Birth of the Amazon Forest. Extinction at the end-Cretaceous and the origin of modern, neotropical rainforests https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6537/63  

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• 1501: 1/2 The Birth of the Amazon Forest. Carlos Jaramillo, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. @ScienceMagazine

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  Photo: Workers Making Their Meals in Front of a Shack in Palmeiras - 508, USP Paulista Museum Collection 1/2  The Birth of the Amazon Forest..  Carlos Jaramillo, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. @ScienceMagazine Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute: Panamá The Birth of the Amazon Forest. Extinction at the end-Cretaceous and the origin of modern, neotropical rainforests https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6537/63  

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• 1501: 2/2 Eric Adams aims to be the big, prosperous, practical-ideas mayor. @Siegel, Harry, @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNews

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  Jul 13 2021

  Photo: The three mares/mayors, New York course, spring races, 1838 2/2  Eric Adams aims to be the big, prosperous, practical-ideas mayor. @Siegel, Harry, @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNews    https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-eric-steal-these-ideas-20210710-klmpvwkconfrrba53j226hcrn4-story.html?utm_source=siegeltown&utm_medium=email  

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• 1501: 1/2 Eric Adams aims to be the big, prosperous, practical-ideas mayor. @Siegel, Harry, @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNews

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  Jul 13 2021

  Photo: "New York's new solar system": Tammany Hall revolves around Boss Croker in this 1899 cartoon in Puck. 1/2  Eric Adams aims to be the big, prosperous, practical-ideas mayor. @Siegel, Harry, @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNews    https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-eric-steal-these-ideas-20210710-klmpvwkconfrrba53j226hcrn4-story.html?utm_source=siegeltown&utm_medium=email  

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• 1501: Fraser Howie (co-author, Red Capitalism) and @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

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  Jul 13 2021

  Photo: The truth behind the rise of China and whether or not it will be able to maintain it.  How did China transform itself so quickly? In Red Capitalism: The Fragile Financial Foundation of China's Extraordinary Rise, Revised Edition Carl Walter and Fraser Howie go deep inside the Chinese financial machine to illuminate the social and political consequences of the unique business model that propelled China to economic powerhouse status, and question whether this rapid ascension really lives up to its reputation. Fraser Howie (co-author, Red Capitalism) and @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill...more

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• 1501: Huawei; and Hostage Diplomacy Fails Again in Canada Charles Burton and @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

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  Jul 13 2021

  Photo: Belgian soldier posing in front of dead hostages, November 1964, in Stanleyville, Congo. Belgian paratroopers freed over 1,800 European hostages held by Congolese rebels during the Congo Crisis. Huawei; and Hostage Diplomacy Fails Again in Canada Charles Burton and @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

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• 1501: 2/2 The longtime tragedy of Haiti; & What is to be done? Amy Wilentz @TheNation, University of California Irvine

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  Jul 13 2021

  Photo: Toussaint Louverture. François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture was a Haitian general and the most prominent leader of the Haitian revolution. A  former Haitian slave who led the only successful slave revolt in modern history, he fought to end slavery and gain Haiti’s independence from the European powers France and Spain. Forming an army of former slaves and deserters from the French and Spanish armies, he trained his followers in guerrilla warfare and successfully ended slavery in Hispaniola by 1795 2/2  The longtime tragedy of Haiti; & What is to be done? Amy Wilentz @TheNation, University of California Irvine https://www.thenation.com/article/world/haiti-antoinette-duclaire-murder/ ...more

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• 1500: 1/2 The longtime tragedy of Haiti; & What is to be done? Amy Wilentz @TheNation, University of California Irvine

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  Photo: Haiti, Port-au-Prince, Market Square 1/2  The longtime tragedy of Haiti; & What is to be done? Amy Wilentz @TheNation, University of California Irvine https://www.thenation.com/article/world/haiti-antoinette-duclaire-murder/

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• 1499: The fresh growth of Christina Lake cannabis in the burgeoning THC and CBD oils marketplace. Joel Dumaresq, CEO & Director, Christina Lake Cannabis, British Columbia, Canada.

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  Jul 13 2021

  Photo: Marijuana leaf, sand sculpture contest, Canonchet Beach, Rhode Island @Batchelorshow The fresh growth of Christina Lake cannabis in the burgeoning THC and CBD oils marketplace. Joel Dumaresq, CEO & Director, Christina Lake Cannabis, British Columbia, Canada. IN USA trading symbol: C-L-C-F-F   In Canada trading symbol: C-L-C https://christinalakecannabis.com https://christinalakecannabis.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/CLC_Investor-Presentation_May-2021.pdf June 29, 2021 in Press Releases Christina Lake Cannabis Increases Average THC Concentration of Distillate Oils to 90.4% June 15, 2021 in Press Releases To Start the 2021 Growing Season, Christina Lake Cannabis Begins Transferring Over 45,000 Plants from the Greenhouse to the Field May 19, 2021 in Press Releases Christina Lake Cannabis Provides Q2 2021 Update Including R&D Milestones, Personnel Expansion, and Field Preparation for Upcoming Growing Season Christina Lake sits in the heart of two intersecting valleys in British Columbia, Canada. The unique geographic positioning creates a fertile delta and is one of the hottest parts of Canada making it one of the most desirable locations in North America for an outdoor cultivator. The location provides several benefits: Low Elevation At 500m above sea level, our valley is one of the lowest in the Kootenay Boundary region and as such, it lends itself to an extended growing season that typically spans up to 8 months of the year. Consistent Breezes We receive a consistent breeze from the southern-facing valley that aids in the structural development of our plants as well as their respiration cycles and pest control. Low Precipitation With a low average rainfall of 500mm, 54% of which takes place over the winter, our outdoor crops are less susceptible to water damage, mildew and rot. Ample Sunshine Thanks to the characteristics of our latitudinal valley, our location is exposed to a prolonged abundance of full-spectrum sunshine. Protective Valleys Nestled in a lush private setting, our 32-acre starting property is protected from the influences of outside industries. ...more

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• 1499: 4/4: The Long War Journal map of Afghanistan tells the story of the decline and fall of Resolute Support; and the rise of the Taliban and its Al Qaeda brethren. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD

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  Jul 13 2021

  Photo: The Second Afghan War 1878-1880 . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 4/4: The Long War Journal map of Afghanistan tells the story of the decline and fall of Resolute Support; and the rise of the Taliban and its Al Qaeda brethren. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/07/taliban-advances-as-u-s-completes-withdrawal.php

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• 1499: 3/4: The Long War Journal map of Afghanistan tells the story of the decline and fall of Resolute Support; and the rise of the Taliban and its Al Qaeda brethren. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD LXX

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  Jul 13 2021

  Photo: Afghan National Army commando recruits secure an overwatch . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 3/4: The Long War Journal map of Afghanistan tells the story of the decline and fall of Resolute Support; and the rise of the Taliban and its Al Qaeda brethren. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD LXX https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/07/taliban-advances-as-u-s-completes-withdrawal.php

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• 1499: 2/4: The Long War Journal map of Afghanistan tells the story of the decline and fall of Resolute Support; and the rise of the Taliban and its Al Qaeda brethren. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD

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  Jul 13 2021

  Photo: Senior leaders of the Afghan National Security Forces display their inked fingers after voting in the elections at the conclusion of their press conference at Forward Operating Base Thunder, Paktia province, Afghanistan, April 5, 2014. The security forces were responsible for ensuring the safety of the polling sites. (U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Dixie Rae Liwanag/ Released) . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 2/4: The Long War Journal map of Afghanistan tells the story of the decline and fall of Resolute Support; and the rise of the Taliban and its Al Qaeda brethren. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/07/taliban-advances-as-u-s-completes-withdrawal.php ...more

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• 1499: 1/4: The Long War Journal map of Afghanistan tells the story of the decline and fall of Resolute Support; and the rise of the Taliban and its Al Qaeda brethren. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD

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  Jul 13 2021

  Photo:   Sultan Alauddin Khalji.  Copied from old school textbook of Afghanistan. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 1/4: The Long War Journal map of Afghanistan tells the story of the decline and fall of Resolute Support; and the rise of the Taliban and its Al Qaeda brethren. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/07/taliban-advances-as-u-s-completes-withdrawal.php

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• 1499: The PRC moves to command a myriad of 20th-century utopian international bodies; & What is to be done? @CliffordDMay @FDD LXX

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  Jul 13 2021

  Photo:  A promotional poster of D'Oyly Carte's Opera Co. in Utopia, Limited, Gilbert & Sullivan's opera. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow The PRC moves to command a myriad of 20th-century utopian international bodies; & What is to be done? @CliffordDMay @FDD LXX https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jul/6/russia-and-chinas-conquest-of-the-united-nations/.     

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• 1499: The Biden Administration accepts big risks in departing Afghanistan. Katrina vanden Heuvel @KatNation @TheNation @WashingtonPost

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  Jul 13 2021

  Photo: Afghan children pose for a picture during a visit to the Shamal Bridge project by Provincial Reconstruction Team Khost, Sept. 22.. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow The Biden Administration accepts big risks in departing Afghanistan. Katrina vanden Heuvel @KatNation @TheNation @WashingtonPost https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/12/17/those-who-ran-afghanistan-war-lied-they-must-be-held-account/

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• 1499: Nobody much likes big social media; & What is to be done? @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews

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  Jul 13 2021

  Photo: ARPANET logical map circa 1977. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Nobody much likes big social media; & What is to be done? @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews 

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• 1499: China discards investors in order to corral Didi and Tik-Tok. @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews

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  Jul 13 2021

  Photo: Text to the picture: "Greetings from Uddevalla". Didi Chuxing Technology Co. is a Chinese vehicle for hire company headquartered in Beijing with over 550 million users and tens of millions of drivers. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow China discards investors in order to corral Didi and Tik-Tok.  @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews https://www.wsj.com/articles/bytedance-shelvedipo-intentions-after-chinese-regulators-warned-about-data-security-11626078000?mod=hp_lead_pos1 ...more

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• 1498: C. J. Carey #UNBOUND: The complete, 20-minute interview, June 26, 2021

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  Jul 12 2021

  Photo: Book burning at Ephesus. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow C. J. Carey #UNBOUND: The complete, 20-minute interview, June 26, 2021 #LitCrit:  Widowland by C .J. Carey.  Paperback https://www.amazon.com/Widowland/dp/1529411998/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Widowland&qid=1625274350&s=books&sr=1-1 London, 1953, the Coronation of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson.  Attended by the Leader of the German-Britain Alliance.

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• 1498: Josh Rogin #Unbound: the complete, eighty-minute interview, March 21, 2021

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  Jul 12 2021

  Photo: Paradise Lost. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Josh Rogin #Unbound: the complete, eighty-minute interview, March 21, 2021 Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century, Kindle Edition by Josh Rogin   Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08B364SKG/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0 The explosive, behind-the-scenes story of Donald Trump’s high-stakes confrontation with Beijing, from an award-winning Washington Post columnist and peerless observer of the U.S.–China relationship There was no calm before the storm. Donald Trump’s surprise electoral victory shattered the fragile understanding between Washington and Beijing, putting the most important relationship of the twenty-first century in the hands of a novice who had bitterly attacked China from the campaign trail. Almost as soon as he entered office, Trump brought to a boil the long-simmering rivalry between the two countries, while also striking up a “friendship” with Chinese president Xi Jinping — whose manipulations of his American counterpart would undermine the White House’s already disjointed response to the historic challenge of a rising China. All the while, Trump’s own officials fought to steer U.S. policy from within. By the time the COVID-19 pandemic erupted in Wuhan, Trump’s love-hate relationship with Xi had sparked a trade war, while Xi’s aggression had pushed the world to the brink of a new Cold War. But their quarrel had also forced a long-overdue reckoning within the United States over China’s audacious foreign-influence operations, horrific human rights abuses, and creeping digital despotism. Ironically, this awakening was one of the biggest foreign-policy victories of Trump’s fractious term in office. ​Filled with shocking revelations drawn from Josh Rogin’s unparalleled access to top U.S. officials from the White House and deep within the country’s foreign policy machine, Chaos Under Heaven reveals an administration at war with itself during perhaps our most urgent hour...more

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• 1498: Holly Fretwell #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. April 12, 2021.

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  Photo: Trees.  (Personal photo, LM) CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Holly Fretwell  #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview.  April 12, 2021. Fix America’s Forests: Reforms to Restore National Forests and Tackle the Wildfire Crisis. Holly Fretwell , Jonathan Wood April 12, 2021   https://www.perc.org/2021/04/12/fix-americas-forests-reforms-to-restore-national-forests-and-tackle-the-wildfire-crisis/ In 2020, the largest wildfire in California history scorched six counties in the northern part of the state. The August Complex Fire burned more than one million acres across three national forests and destroyed hundreds of structures. But devastating fires are not limited to California. Across the West, more than 10 million acres burned in 2020—a record in modern history. These fires consumed more than 17,500 structures and more than $3.5 billion in firefighting costs.Tragically, dozens of lives were lost, and many more people were displaced by evacuation orders. Fires released smoke that degraded air quality nearby and hundreds of miles away. They also destroyed wildlife habitat, including for imperiled species, and the fires’ aftereffects will soon lead to erosion that harms water quality in local watersheds...more

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• 1498: John Tamny #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. March 28, 2021.

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  Jul 12 2021

  Photo: Norwegian coronavirus pandemic information for travelers. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow John Tamny #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. March 28, 2021. When Politicians Panicked: The New Coronavirus, Expert Opinion, and a Tragic Lapse of Reason. Hardcover – March 30, 2021 by John Tamny  (Author), George Gilder (Foreword) https://www.amazon.com/When-Politicians-Panicked-Coronavirus-Opinion/dp/1642938378/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= When Politicians Panicked tells the tragic story of how, in response to a spreading virus, global politicians mindlessly pursued economic desperation, starvation, and death as the cure. The global economy was booming as 2020 dawned, but within a few short months wreckage, death, and desperation borne of economic contraction were the new normal. What happened? In When Politicians Panicked, economic commentator John Tamny tells the heart-wrenching story of a time when politicians were tragically relieved of basic common sense in their response to the new coronavirus. In March of 2020, the virus quickly became a major news item as political panic about it traveled around the world. Even though anecdotal and market-based evidence from the virus’s epicenter indicated very low lethality, politicians quickly imposed economy-crushing lockdowns on the rather specious assumption that unemployment, bankruptcy, and starvation would somehow halt the virus’s spread. Tamny methodically dismantles the political consensus by showing how economic growth has long been the first and last answer to death and disease. He then shows how politicians, having mindlessly crushed a growing economy, proceeded to double down on their mistakes by throwing taxpayer money at their shocking errors. Throughout When Politicians Panicked, Tamny makes a relentless case that free people don’t just produce the wealth that renders today’s killers yesterday’s news. They also produce crucial information about health threats that shine a light on that which threatens us. Lockdowns suffocate economic progress, but they also blind us to how we can progress—as Tamny makes plain in what will go down as an essential history for anyone seeking to understand the coronavirus panic of 2020....more

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• 1498: "In the Tunnel of Love" #Unbound. A story from the collection, _Gordon Liddy Is My Muse,_ by John Calvin Batchelor. The complete 85 minutes. Read by John Batchelor.

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  Jul 12 2021

  Photo: Love strife . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow "In the Tunnel of Love" #Unbound.  A story from the collection, Gordon Liddy Is My Muse, by John Calvin Batchelor. The complete 85 minutes. Read by John Batchelor. Gordon Liddy Is My Muse, Hardcover;  by John Calvin Batchelor   https://www.amazon.com/Gordon-Liddy-My-Muse-Tommy/dp/080503790X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= In nine darkly comic episodes that range from Moscow to Hollywood, the conservative spy novelist Tommy "Tip" Paine offers this postmodern, picaresque chase across our contemporary oral landscape...more

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• 1498: Russell Shorto #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, April 22, 2021.

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  Jul 12 2021

  Photo: Procession of the Sacred Heart. Processione del Sacro Cuore, foto del 1958, Nizza di Sicilia . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Russell Shorto #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, April 22, 2021. Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob. Hardcover – February 2, 2021, by Russell Shorto   (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Smalltime-Story-My-Family-Mob/dp/0393245586/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Family secrets emerge as a best-selling author dives into the history of the mob in small-town America. The best-selling author Russell Shorto, praised for his incisive works of narrative history, never thought to write about his own past. He grew up knowing his grandfather and namesake was a small-town mob boss but maintained an unspoken family vow of silence. Then an elderly relative prodded: You’re a writer―what are you gonna do about the story? Smalltime is a mob story straight out of central casting―but with a difference, for the small-town mob, which stretched from Schenectady to Fresno, is a mostly unknown world. The location is the brawny postwar factory town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The setting is City Cigar, a storefront next to City Hall, behind which Russ and his brother-in-law, “Little Joe,” operate a gambling empire and effectively run the town. Smalltime is a riveting American immigrant story that travels back to Risorgimento Sicily, to the ancient, dusty, hill-town home of Antonino Sciotto, the author’s great-grandfather, who leaves his wife and children in grinding poverty for a new life―and wife―in a Pennsylvania mining town. It’s a tale of Italian Americans living in squalor and prejudice, and of the rise of Russ, who, like thousands of other young men, created a copy of the American establishment that excluded him. Smalltimedraws an intimate portrait of a mobster and his wife, sudden riches, and the toll a lawless life takes on one family. But Smalltime is something more. The author enlists his ailing father―Tony, the mobster’s son―as his partner in the search for their troubled patriarch. As secrets are revealed and Tony’s health deteriorates, the book becomes an urgent and intimate exploration of three generations of the American immigrant experience. Moving, wryly funny, and richly detailed, Smalltime is an irresistible memoir by a masterful writer of historical narrative. 8 black-and-white illustrations Update Description...more

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• 1498: Terry Anderson #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. April 6, 2021

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  Photo: 1893 Maule's seed catalogue. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Terry Anderson #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. April 6, 2021 Adapt and Be Adept: Market Responses to Climate Change.   Paperback – April 1, 2021. by Terry Anderson . (Editor) https://www.amazon.com/Adapt-Be-Adept-Responses-Climate/dp/0817924558/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1619395663&refinements=p_27%3ATerry+Anderson&s=books&sr=1-1 How can markets help us adapt to the challenges of climate change? The editor Terry L. Anderson brings together this collection of essays featuring the work of nine leading policy analysts, who argue that market forces are just as important as government regulation in shaping climate policy—and should be at the heart of our response to helping societies adapt to climate change. Anderson notes in his introduction that most current climate policies such as the Paris Agreement require hard-to-enforce collective action and focus on reducing or mitigating greenhouse gases rather than adapting to their negative effects. Adaptive actions can typically deliver much more, faster and more cheaply than any realistic climate policy. The authors tackle a range of issues: the hidden costs of renewable energy sources, the political obstacles surrounding climate change policy, insurance and financial instruments for pricing risk of exposure to the effects of climate change, and more. Reliance on emerging renewable energies and a carbon tax are not enough to prevent the effects of global warming, they argue. We must encourage more private action and market incentives to adapt to a rapidly changing climate....more

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• 1498: Angel Iscovich #Unbound: the complete, twenty-minute interview, June 19, 2021.

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  Photo: Routine: "1. Try to get enough sleep.". Here:  War alarm clocks. 1,700,000 of them will be produced this year to meet demand that was normally 12,000,000. Will be distributed by all pre-war alarm clock manufacturers. War alarms are of the hand-wound type, not nearly as durable as pre-war models. The case, about 6 x 6 x 2 1/2 inches, is of molded pressed wood and paper pulp. Mechanism contains only about 1/10 ounce brass and 6 1/2 ounce of steel, compared to pre-war average use in the low-priced alarm clocks of 6 and 13 ounces respectively. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Angel Iscovich #Unbound: the complete, twenty-minute interview, June 19, 2021. The Art of Routine: Discover How Routineology Can Transform Your Life.  Hardcover – June 1, 2021 by Angel Iscovich MD  (Author), Joe Garner  (Contributor), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/Art-Routine-Discover-Routineology-Transform/dp/1510764550 Conventional wisdom suggests that the best way to navigate our noisy new world is to accept change. Open up to novelty. Go with the flow. Live in the moment. Embrace the relentless pelting of content minute by minute. But routine experts Angel Iscovich, MD, Joe Garner, and Michael Ashley are here to say that’s a bad idea. Humans don’t just benefit from structure; they require it. Years of observation and practice led to their breakthrough concept of routineology, the key to optimize your life and the cure for crisis. Routineology’s fundamental prescriptive is to look inside and live your life in a “time bubble” to find purpose, meaning, and joy. Offering insights from top performers and stories of triumph over adversity, this book demonstrates that routine isn’t just a good idea—it’s imperative for surviving and thriving today. Live a life of deeper meaning and navigate toward a better world with The Art of Routine ...more

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• 1498: Charlie Pellegrino #Unbound: the complete, twenty-minute interview, June 18, 2021.

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  Photo: A marble tablet from Herculaneum showing women playing knucklebones, depicting Phoebe, Leto, Niobe, Hilearia, and Agle, painted and signed by an artist named "Alexander of Athens", now in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale (Naples). CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Charlie Pellegrino #Unbound: the complete, twenty-minute interview, June 18, 2021. Finding the Hero of Herculaneum two thousand years later. Charles Pellegrino https://news.yahoo.com/2-000-old-skeleton-roman-135559332.html Ghosts of Vesuvius: A New Look at the Last Days of Pompeii, How Towers Fall, and Other Strange Connections Paperback – August 9, 2005 by Charles R Pellegrino https://www.amazon.com/Ghosts-Vesuvius-Pompeii-Strange-Connections/dp/0060751002 A fascinating look at Pompeii, Herculaneum and the Vesuvius eruption in comparison with other historically significant volcanic eruptions, including the World Trade Center disaster.  The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, which obliterated the Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum, was a disaster that resounds to this day. Now, the palaeontologist Charles Pellegrino presents a wealth of new knowledge about the doomed towns—and brings to vivid life the people, their last moments, and the aftermath.  The lessons learned from modern scrutiny of that ancient eruption produce disturbing echoes in the present. Dr Pellegrino, who worked at Ground Zero in the aftermath of the 9/11 attack, shares his unique knowledge of the strange physics of volcanic 'downblast' and 'collapse column', drawing a direct link from past to present, and providing readers with a poignant glimpse into the last moments of the 'American Vesuvius'....more

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• 1497: Russian cyberattacks continue; & What is to be done? Professor H. J. Mackinder, International Relations LXX

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  Photo: Intrusion kill chain for information security. @Batchelorshow Russian cyberattacks continue; & What is to be done? Professor H. J. Mackinder, International Relations LXX https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2021/jul/09/joe-biden-washington-us-politics-covid-coronavirus-live-latest?page=with:block-60e881148f08fa158fe1ec93

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• 1497: #Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus accept that the rise of Christianity signifies the end of empire; and what this means for the 21st Century. Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis LXX

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  Photo: The Rylands Papyrus is the oldest known New Testament fragment, dated to about 125 AD. @Batchelorshow #Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus accept that the rise of Christianity signifies the end of empire; and what this means for the 21st Century.  Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis LXX

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• 1498: Jeff McCausland #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. May 21, 2021.

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  Jul 12 2021

  Photo: The battle of Gettysburg . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Jeff McCausland #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. May 21, 2021. Battle Tested! : Gettysburg Leadership Lessons for 21st Century Leaders, by Jeffrey D. McCausland (Author), Tom Vossler(Author), Walter Dixon (Narrator), Gildan Media (Publisher). Audible Audiobook– Unabridged https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Tested-Gettysburg-Leadership-Lessons/dp/1642934534 In order to be a truly effective leader, it is necessary to learn as much as possible from the examples of history—the disasters as well as the triumphs. At Gettysburg, Union and Confederate commanders faced a series of critical leadership challenges under the enormous stress of combat. The fate of the nation hung in the balance. Each of these leaders  responded in different ways, but the concepts and principles they applied during those traumatic three days contain critical lessons for today’s leaders that are both useful and applicable—whether those leaders manage operations at a large corporation, supervise a public institution, lead an athletic team, or govern a state or municipality.   In the twenty-first century, leadership is the indispensable quality that separates successful organizations from failures. Successful leaders communicate vision, motivate team members, and inspire trust. One must move both people and the collective organization into the future while, at the same time, dealing with the past. A leader must learn to master the dynamic requirements of decision-making and change...more

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• 1498: Nick Lloyd #Unbound. The complete, eighty-minute interview. June 5, 2021.

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  Photo: he British Advance in the West. Huge mountain of empty shell casings. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Nick Lloyd #Unbound. The complete, eighty-minute interview. June 5, 2021. Nick Lloyd, The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918 – March 30, 2021. Hardcover.   A panoramic history of the savage combat on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918 that came to define modern warfare. The Western Front evokes images of mud-spattered men in waterlogged trenches, shielded from artillery blasts and machine-gun fire by a few feet of dirt. This iconic setting was the most critical arena of the Great War, a 400-mile combat zone stretching from Belgium to Switzerland where more than three million Allied and German soldiers struggled during four years of almost continuous combat. It has persisted in our collective memory as a tragic waste of human life and a symbol of the horrors of industrialized warfare. In this epic narrative history, the first volume in a groundbreaking trilogy on the Great War, the acclaimed military historian Nick Lloyd captures the horrific fighting on the Western Front beginning with the surprise German invasion of Belgium in August 1914 and taking us to the Armistice of November 1918. Drawing on French, British, German, and American sources, Lloyd weaves a kaleidoscopic chronicle of the Marne, Passchendaele, the Meuse-Argonne, and other critical battles, which reverberated across Europe and the wider war. From the trenches, where men as young as 17 suffered and died, to the headquarters behind the lines where Generals Haig, Joffre, Hindenburg, and Pershing developed their plans for battle, Lloyd gives us a view of the war both intimate and strategic, putting us amid the mud and smoke while at the same time depicting the larger stakes of every encounter. He shows us a dejected Kaiser Wilhelm II―soon to be eclipsed in power by his own generals―lamenting the botched Schlieffen Plan; French soldiers piling atop one another in the trenches of Verdun; British infantryman wandering through the frozen wilderness in the days after the Battle of the Somme; and General Erich Ludendorff pursuing a ruthless policy of total war, leading an eleventh-hour attack on Reims even as his men succumbed to the Spanish Flu. As Lloyd reveals, far from being a site of attrition and stalemate, the Western Front was a simmering, dynamic “cauldron of war” defined by extraordinary scientific and tactical innovation. It was on the Western Front that the modern technologies―machine guns, mortars, grenades, and howitzers―were refined and developed into effective killing machines. It was on the Western Front that chemical warfare, in the form of poison gas, was first unleashed. And it was on the Western Front that tanks and aircraft were introduced, causing a dramatic shift away from nineteenth-century bayonet tactics toward modern combined arms, reinforced by heavy artillery, that forever changed the face of war. Brimming with vivid detail and insight, The Western Front is a work in the tradition of Barbara Tuchman and John Keegan, Rick Atkinson and Antony Beevor: an authoritative portrait of modern warfare and its far-reaching human and historical consequences. 35 black-and-white illustrations, 8 maps...more

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• 1498: Roya Hakakian #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. May 29, 2021

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  Photo: Photograph shows two emigrants on a dock facing water, Ellis Island, New York. . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Roya Hakakian #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. May 29, 2021 A Beginner's Guide to America: For the Immigrant and the Curious. Hardcover – Deckle Edge, March 16, 2021. by Roya Hakakian https://www.amazon.com/Beginners-Guide-America-Immigrant-Curious/dp/0525656065/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1622853677&sr=1-1 A stirring, witty, and poignant glimpse into the bewildering American immigrant experience from someone who has lived it. Also, a mirror held up to America. Into the maelstrom of unprecedented contemporary debates about immigrants in the United States, this perfectly timed book gives us a portrait of what the new immigrant experience in America is really like. Written as a "guide" for the newly arrived, and providing "practical information and advice," Roya Hakakian, an immigrant herself, reveals what those who settle here love about the country, what they miss about their homes, the cruelty of some Americans, and the unceasing generosity of others. She captures the texture of life in a new place in all its complexity, laying bare both its beauty and its darkness as she discusses race, sex, love, death, consumerism, and what it is like to be from a country that is in America's crosshairs. Her tenderly perceptive and surprisingly humorous account invites us to see ourselves as we appear to others, making it possible for us to rediscover our many American gifts through the perspective of the outsider. In shattering myths and embracing painful contradictions that are unique to this place, A Beginner's Guide to America is Hakakian's candid love letter to America....more

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• 1498: David Grantham #Unbound. The complete forty-minute interview, April 5, 2021.

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  Photo: U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations Special Agent Michael J. Costello, Detachment 307 investigator, uses a black light during a training exercise, Aug. 14, 2017. When a case begins, OSI has to determine whom to call to coordinate with, depending on the location, jurisdiction and whether or not the suspects and or victims involved are civilian, contractor or a member of a different branch of the military.  (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Jessica Blair) [https://picryl.com/media/us-air-force-office-of-special-investigations-special-120535?zoom=true] CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow David Grantham #Unbound. The complete forty-minute interview, April 5, 2021. Consequences: An Intelligence Officer's War Paperback – November 11, 2020. by David Grantham  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Consequences-Intelligence-Officers-David-Grantham/dp/098440631X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= “Very little has been written on the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations efforts in the global war on terror. Consequences by David Grantham provides a unique and fascinating window into the nuts and bolts of OSI counterintelligence operations. You won’t be disappointed.”– Fred Burton, author of Beirut Rules: The Murder of a CIA Station Chief and Hezbollah’s War Against America   In 2020, ISIS followers are being encouraged to use COVID-19 to sicken Westerners. An ISIS supporter attacked a Naval base in Corpus Christi, Texas. Iran and the United States exchanged blows in Iraq. We are still living in the long shadow of the Iraq War. In 2006, David Grantham was fresh out of college and serving as a counterintelligence officer with the elite and secretive Air Force Office of Special Investigations. Iraq was veering toward civil war. The U.S. military desperately needed better on-the-ground intelligence to turn the tide. Grantham found himself in Kuwait and Afghanistan, then at Iraq’s infamous American prison, Camp Bucca. Not only was Bucca the breeding ground for the Islamic State, it was in southern Iraq, where America’s deadly fight with Iran was an open secret. Consequences is both a riveting, behind-the-scenes look at intelligence operations at the height of the Iraq war, and a charming and sobering story of one man’s journey through the pleasures and consequences that come with wartime intelligence....more

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• 1498: Jerry Hendrix #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, March 23, 2021

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  Photo: Marine. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Jerry Hendrix #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, March 23, 2021 To Provide and Maintain a Navy: Why Naval Primacy Is America's First, Best Strategy, Hardcover – December 19, 2020 by Henry J Hendrix (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Provide-Maintain-Navy-Americas-Strategy/dp/0960039198 The national conversation regarding the United States Navy has, for far too long, been focused on the popular question of how many ships does the service need? To Provide and Maintain a Navy, a succinct but encompassing treatise on sea power by Dr. Henry J "Jerry" Hendrix, goes beyond the numbers to reveal the crucial importance of Mare Liberum (Free Sea) to the development of the Western thought and the rules-based order that currently govern the global commons that is the high seas. Proceeding from this philosophical basis, Hendrix explores how a "free sea" gave way to free trade and the central role sea-borne commercial trade has played in the overall rise in global living standards. This is followed by analysis of how the relative naval balance of power has played out in naval battles and wars over the centuries and how the dominance of the United States Navy following World War II has resulted in seven decades of unprecedented peace on the world's oceans. He further considers how, in the years that followed the demise of the Soviet Union, both China and Russia began laying the groundwork to challenge the United States's maritime leadership and upend five centuries of naval precedents in order to establish a new approach to sovereignty over the world's seas. It is only at this point that Dr. Hendrix approaches the question of the number of ships required for the United States Navy, the industrial base required to build them, and the importance of once again aligning the nation's strategic outlook to that of a "seapower" in order effectively and efficiently to address the rising threat. To Provide and Maintain a Navy is brief enough to be read in a weekend but deep enough to inform the reader as to the numerous complexities surrounding what promises to be the most important strategic conversation facing the United States as it enters a new age of great power competition with not one, but two, nations who seek nothing less than to close and control the world's seas...more

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• 1498: James Tooley #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview. May 14, 2021. LXX.

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  Photo: After moving to Worcester, MA, the Kelleys sent their daughters to the best private girls’ schools in Worcester, where Abby proved to be a top student. No high school for girls was available in the city, so Abby attended the New England Friends Boarding School, now called the Moses Brown School, in Providence, RI. This co-educational school was the highest form of education available for middle class girls. However, classrooms and the playground were segregated by gender. While boys learned to become merchants, doctors, and professors, the girls were taught to become teachers at less prestigious schools.. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow  James Tooley #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview. May 14, 2021. LXX. Really Good Schools: Global Lessons for High-Caliber, Low-Cost Education -  Hardcover – April 12, 2021.by James Tooley (Author) “James Tooley has taken his argument about the transformative power of low-cost private education to a new and revelatory level in Really Good Schools. This is a bold and inspiring manifesto for a global revolution in education.” —Niall C. Ferguson, Milbank Family Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University Almost overnight a virus has brought into question America’s nearly 200-year-old government-run K-12 school-system—and prompted an urgent search for alternatives. But where should we turn to find them?  Enter James Tooley’s Really Good Schools. A distinguished scholar of education and the world’s foremost expert on private, low-cost innovative education, Tooley takes readers to some of the world’s most impoverished communities located in some of the world’s most dangerous places—including such war-torn countries as Sierra Leone, Liberia, and South Sudan.  And there, in places where education “experts” fear to tread, Tooley finds thriving private schools that government, multinational NGOs, and even international charity officials deny exist.  Why?  Because the very existence of low-cost, high-quality private schools shatters the prevailing myth in the U.S., U.K., and western Europe that, absent government, affordable, high-quality schools for the poor could not exist. But they do. And they are ubiquitous and in high demand. Founded by unheralded, local educational entrepreneurs, these schools are proving that self-organized education is not just possible but flourishing—often enrolling far more students than “free” government schools do at prices within reach of even the most impoverished families. In the course of his analysis Tooley asks the key questions: ■ What proportion of poor children is served? ■ How good are the private schools?  ■ What are the business models for these schools?  ■ And can they be replicated and improved?  The evidence is in. In poor urban and rural areas around the world, children in low-cost private schools outperform those in government schools. And the schools do so for a fraction of the per-pupil cost. Thanks to the pandemic, parents in America and Europe are discovering that the education of their children is indeed possible—and likely far better—without government meddlingwith rigid seat-time mandates, outdated school calendars, absurd age-driven grade levels, and worse testing regimes. And having experienced the first fruits of educational freedom, parents will be increasingly open to the possibilities of ever greater educational entrepreneurship and innovation.  Thankfully, they have Really Good Schools to show the way....more

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• 1498: J. H. Gelernter #Unbound. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 3, 2021. LXX

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  Photo: Napoleonic wars. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow J. H. Gelernter #Unbound. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 3, 2021. LXX Hold Fast: A Novel.   Hardcover – May 4, 2021, by J. H. Gelernter  https://www.amazon.com/Hold-Fast-J-H-Gelernter/dp/0393867048 It’s 1803. The Napoleonic Wars are raging, Britain is on her heels, and His Majesty’s Secret Service has just lost its best agent, Thomas Grey. Deeply depressed by his wife’s untimely death, Grey resigns from the service and accepts an offer to join a lumber firm in Boston. But when a sea battle with a privateer forces the ship carrying him west to make port in neutral Portugal, Grey is approached with a counteroffer: become a wealthy man by selling out Britain’s spy network to France. The French take Grey for a disgruntled ex–naval officer, blithely unaware that Grey had lost his wife to an unlucky shot from a French cannon. Now, after many years serving King and Country, Grey seizes the opportunity to fight a covert war of his own. He travels to Paris, and―playing the part of the invaluable turncoat the French believe him to be―proceeds to infiltrate the highest levels of Napoleon’s government. If he can outwit his handlers, outmatch his French counterparts, and outrun Napoleon’s secret police, Grey may just avenge his wife’s death and turn the tide of war in England’s favor. Bursting with action and intrigue, Hold Fast sends readers headlong into an unrelenting spy thriller...more

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• 1498: Michael Auslin #Unbound. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 12, 2021. LXX

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  Photo: Russian poster of the era of the Russo-Japanese war. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Michael Auslin #Unbound. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 12, 2021. LXX Asia's New Geopolitics: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific,  by Michael R. Auslin   Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08563RW9H/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0 The Indo-Pacific is fast becoming the world's dominant region. Now, as it grows in power and wealth, geopolitical competition has reemerged, threatening future stability not merely in Asia but around the globe. China is aggressive and uncooperative, and increasingly expects the world to bend to its wishes. The focus on Sino-US competition for global power has obscured "Asia's other great game": the rivalry between Japan and China. A modernizing India risks missing out on the energies and talents of millions of its women, potentially hampering the broader role it can play in the world. And in North Korea, the most frightening question raised by Kim Jong-un's pursuit of the ultimate weapon is also the simplest: Can he control his nukes? In Asia's New Geopolitics: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific, Michael R. Auslin examines these and other key issues transforming the Indo-Pacific and the broader world. He also explores the history of American strategy in Asia, from the 18th century through today. Taken together, Auslin's essays convey the richness and diversity of the region: with more than three billion people, the Indo-Pacific contains over half of the global population, including the world's two most populous nations, India and China. In a riveting final chapter, Auslin imagines a war between America and China in a bid for regional hegemony and what this conflict might look like...more

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• 1498: Patrick O'Donnell. #Unbound. The complete, eighty-minute interview, June 6, 2021. LXX.

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  Photo: Brooklyn Museum - Battle Pass Vally Grove - Hayward and Lepine CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Patrick O'Donnell. #Unbound. The complete, eighty-minute interview, June 6, 2021. LXX. The Indispensables: The Diverse Soldier-Mariners Who Shaped the Country, Formed the Navy, and Rowed Washington Across the Delaware. Kindle Edition. by Patrick K. O'Donnell  https://www.amazon.com/Indispensables-Diverse-Soldier-Mariners-Washington-Delaware-ebook/dp/B08M12FQ85 On the stormy night of August 29, 1776, the Continental Army faced annihilation after losing the Battle of Brooklyn. The British had trapped George Washington’s army against the East River, and the fate of the Revolution rested upon the soldier-mariners from Marblehead, Massachusetts. One of the country’s first diverse units, they pulled off an “American Dunkirk” and saved the army by navigating the treacherous river to Manhattan. At the right time in the right place, the Marbleheaders, a group of white, black, Hispanic, and Native American soldiers, repeatedly altered the course of events, and their story shines new light on our understanding of the American Revolution. As the historian Patrick K. O’Donnell recounts, beginning nearly a decade before the war started, Marbleheaders such as Elbridge Gerry and Azor Orne spearheaded the break with Britain and helped shape the United States through governing, building alliances, seizing British ships, forging critical supply lines, and establishing the origins of the US Navy. The Marblehead Regiment, led by John Glover, became truly indispensable. Marbleheaders battled at Lexington and on Bunker Hill and formed the elite Guard that protected George Washington, foreshadowing today’s Secret Service. Then the special operations–like regiment, against all odds, conveyed 2,400 of Washington’s men across the ice-filled Delaware River on Christmas night of 1776, delivering the surprise attack on Trenton that changed the course of history . . . The Marbleheaders’ story, never fully told before now, makes The Indispensables a vital addition to the literature of the American Revolution....more

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• 1496: #PacificWatch: Pausing the Venice Beach homeless camp clean-up; and Mayor Garcetti departing for Delhi. @JCBliss

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  Photo: A predecessor to Gavin Newsom's visit:  the stern Lord Curzon in his robes as viceroy of India, a post he held from 1899 to 1905.. @Batchelorshow #PacificWatch: Pausing the Venice Beach homeless camp clean-up; and Mayor Garcetti departing for Delhi. @JCBliss https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2021-07-09/la-begins-last-phase-of-removing-homeless-from-venice-boardwalk

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• 1496: #PacificWatch: Lightning in the Beckwourth Complex Fire; and cooler in Death Valley at 126° F. @JCBliss

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  Photo: Lightning over trees, by Theodor Horydczak, approximately 1890-1971, photographer  "California wildfire generates its own lightning as it more than doubles in size"—L.A. Times . @Batchelorshow #PacificWatch: Lightning in the Beckwourth Complex Fire; and cooler in Death Valley at 126° F. @JCBliss https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/07/10/photos-firefighters-battle-explosive-growth-of-beckwourth-complex-fire/

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• 1496: #GuestPodcast: Four-star forum: Admiral James Stavridis (USN ret.) is former NATO Supreme Allied Commander. Francis Rose, @FRoseDC ; @FRoseDC ; @FrancisRoseDC, WJLA-TV,

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  Photo: India-China war of 1962: Indian soldiers surrender to Chinese forces. "India was attacked on October 20, 1962 in what famously came to be known as Sino-India war of 1962. The belief of not ever being attacked by China did not let the Indian army prepare and the result was the standoff between 10,000-20,000 Indian troops and 80,000 Chinese troops. The war continued for about a month and ended on November 21, after China declared a ceasefire." @Batchelorshow #GuestPodcast: Four-star forum: Admiral James Stavridis (USN ret.) is former NATO Supreme Allied Commander.  Francis Rose, @FRoseDC ; @FRoseDC ;   @FrancisRoseDC, WJLA-TV, "The politicization of the military is one of the most controversial in the national security community right now. Because of that, I’ve encountered a number of military leaders of all backgrounds and services who are reluctant to share their views on national security and geopolitical issues, for many different reasons. My guest on this episode is definitely not in that camp. Admiral James Stavridis (USN ret.) is former NATO Supreme Allied Commander. He’s an Operating Executive of The Carlyle Group, and Chair of the Board of Counselors of McLarty Associates. He’s a columnist for TIME Magazine and Chief International Security Analyst for NBC News.  His new book is 2034: A Novel of the Next World War, along with Elliot Ackerman. Adm. Stavridis discusses why officers should, and indeed have a responsibility to, engage in the marketplace of ideas; and why his book's timeline for war with China might be too long." https://anchor.fm/francis-rose ....more

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• 1496: #TheGreatMigration: Recalling the one-way mission to harass the first Cold War Soviet invasion of NATO. Michael Yon. Locals.com/MichaelYon

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  Photo: NATO Council Meeting, December 1952 . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #TheGreatMigration: Recalling the one-way mission to harass the first Cold War Soviet invasion of NATO. Michael Yon. Locals.com/MichaelYon

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• 1496: #TheGreatMigration: Hong-Kongers have an open invitation to emigrate to Lithuania. Michael Yon. Locals.com/MichaelYon.

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  Photo: Vilʹna, Lithuania. Zamkovai︠a︡  mountain . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #TheGreatMigration: Hong-Kongers have an open invitation to emigrate to Lithuania. Michael Yon. Locals.com/MichaelYon.

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• 1493: 2/2: #TheGreatMigration: Belarus weaponizes the Lithuanian border with migrants from Baghdad. Locals.com/MichaelYon, Vilnius, Lithuania,

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  Jul 10 2021

  Photo: Church in Lithuania, by Ferdynand Ruszczyc. . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 2/2: #TheGreatMigration: Belarus weaponizes the Lithuanian border with migrants from Baghdad. Locals.com/MichaelYon, Vilnius, Lithuania,

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• 1493: 1/2: #TheGreatMigration: Belarus weaponizes the Lithuanian border with migrants from Baghdad. Locals.com/MichaelYon, Vilnius, Lithuania,

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  Photo: Grand Duke of Lithuania from "The Last of the Valois (Henry III.), and accession of Henry of Navarre. 1559-1589" . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 1/2: #TheGreatMigration: Belarus weaponizes the Lithuanian border with migrants from Baghdad. Locals.com/MichaelYon, Vilnius, Lithuania,

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• 1493: #Londinium: What follows the end of empire? Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Jul 10 2021

  Photo: Ancient Roman Pavement . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #Londinium: What follows the end of empire? Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis

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• 1495: The PRC fails IPO Didi. @JohnTamny @RealClearMarkets

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  Jul 10 2021

  Photo: Logo of Chinese company Didi Chuxing Technology Co., Ltd.. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow The PRC fails IPO Didi. @JohnTamny @RealClearMarkets https://www.forbes.com/sites/johntamny/2021/07/04/didi-chuxings-ipo-crackdowns-in-hong-kong-and-a-china-at-odds-with-itself/?sh=3d4489bf1707

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• 1495: #TheScalaReport: Concern for the "Lockdown Cohort" and the missing year of office mentorship and sociability. Chris Riegel, CEO @ScalaInc @STRATACACHE

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  Jul 10 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication. Officers Party, Lt Rudick, Capt. Schoeny, Capt Cadwallader, Col Cartinelle (or Cartmelle), Major Bryan, Stamp says: U.S. Army Air Forces Photo Watch Your Credit" CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #TheScalaReport: Concern for the "Lockdown Cohort" and the missing year of office mentorship and sociability. Chris Riegel, CEO @ScalaInc @STRATACACHE

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• 1495: The Biden Administration economic plan back to the future, 1936, 1965. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion

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  Jul 10 2021

  Photo: Anders Chydenius (1729-1803) was known his the 1765 pamphlet called The National Gain (Den nationnale winsten), in which he proposes ideas of free trade and industry, explores the relationship between economy and society, and lays out the principles for liberalism, capitalism, and modern democracy. In the book Chydenius published theories closely corresponding to Adam Smith's invisible hand, eleven years before Smith published his book, The Wealth of Nations. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow The Biden Administration economic plan back to the future, 1936, 1965.  @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion https://www.wsj.com/articles/welcome-to-the-equity-war-11625696029 ...more

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• 1495: PRC influence operations to sow disorder in the US. @WeifengZhong @Mercatus

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  Photo: Stewart Castle, Chinese Legation, Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C.. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow PRC influence operations to sow disorder in the US. @WeifengZhong @Mercatus https://thedispatch.com/p/how-our-culture-wars-make-us-more

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• 1495: Ingenuity on patrol. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Jul 10 2021

  Photo:  A robotic helicopter on the Mars surface in 2021. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Ingenuity on patrol. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/ingenuitys-view-of-jezero-crater-during-its-9th-flight/

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• 1495: Hubble in doubt. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Jul 10 2021

  Photo: .The dramatic improvement in Hubble's imaging capabilities after corrective optics were installed encouraged attempts to obtain very deep images of distant galaxies CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Hubble in doubt. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/engineers-successful-complete-simulation-of-hubble-repair/

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• 1495: Return to Global Normalcy in patches. James Fransham @TheEconomis

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  Jul 10 2021

  Photo: The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet title card. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Return to Global Normalcy in patches.  James Fransham @TheEconomist https://econ.st/2Tokw2Y

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• 1495: September Showdown for the Iran Deal and the IAEA. Anthony Ruggiero @FDD

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  Jul 10 2021

  Photo: Fifth Annual IAEA (International Conference on the Safe and Secure Transport of Radioactive Material). Takahashi (alternate from Japan), Chairman Glenn Seaborg, Miki (delegate from Japan), A.A. Wells (U.S). Principal Investigator/Project: Analog Conversion Project . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow September Showdown for the Iran Dea and the IAEA. Anthony Ruggiero @FDD https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2021/07/08/irans-latest-nuclear-escalation/

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• 1494: 4/4 A Round of Golf with My Father, by William Damon.

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  Photo:  Grand golf tournament by professional players on Leith Links, 17th May 1867 4/4  A Round of Golf with My Father, by William Damon.    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Round-Golf-Father-Psychology-Exploring/dp/1599475634

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• 1494: 3/4 A Round of Golf with My Father, by William Damon.

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  Photo: Danseuse — a French ballerina. 3/4  A Round of Golf with My Father, by William Damon.    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Round-Golf-Father-Psychology-Exploring/dp/1599475634

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• 1494: 2/4 A Round of Golf with My Father, by William Damon.

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  Photo: Jim's face told them no more -- 2/4  A Round of Golf with My Father, by William Damon.    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Round-Golf-Father-Psychology-Exploring/dp/1599475634

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• 1494: 1/4 A Round of Golf with My Father, by William Damon.

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  Photo:   Granny Clark's Wynd (road) in the foreground on the 18th hole on the Old Course, 18th (Tom Morris) Hole, St Andrews. The Old Course at St Andrews, also known as the Old Lady or the Grand Old Lady, is considered the oldest golf course in the world.  The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews clubhouse sits adjacent to the first tee 1/4  A Round of Golf with My Father, by William Damon.    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Round-Golf-Father-Psychology-Exploring/dp/1599475634 Viewing our past through the eyes of maturity can reveal insights that our younger selves could not see. Lessons that eluded us become apparent. Encounters that once felt like misfortunes now become understood as valued parts of who we are. We realize what we’ve learned and what we have to teach. And we’re encouraged to chart a future that is rich with purpose.  In A Round of Golf with My Father, William Damon introduces us to the “life review.” This is a process of looking with clarity and curiosity at the paths we’ve traveled, examining our pasts in a frank yet positive manner, and using what we’ve learned to write purposeful next chapters for our lives. , Permissions: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. | Attribution: Scott Cormie You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work  to remix – to adapt the workUnder the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use....more

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• 1494: 2/2 #Smallbusinessamerica: The SBA does have cash for those asking. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer #SmallBusinessAmerica

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  Photo: VISIT TO KELLY NASA BY WILLIAM D LEWIS, SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION/SBA; COLUMBUS, OHIO 2/2  #Smallbusinessamerica: The SBA does have cash for those asking.   @GeneMarks  @Guardian @PhillyInquirer  #SmallBusinessAmerica   

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• 1494: 1/2 #SmallBusinessAmerica: Fresh concern for the mental health of the returning workforce. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer #SmallBusinessAmerica

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  Photo: Melancholia    1/2      #SmallBusinessAmerica:  Fresh concern for the mental health of the returning workforce. @GeneMarks  @Guardian @PhillyInquirer  #SmallBusinessAmerica 

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• 1493: Marine Corps tries 3-D printing in the field. Francis Rose, @FRoseDC @WJLA

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  Photo:  3-D printing (screen grab) Marine Corps tries 3-D printing in the field.   Francis Rose, @FRoseDC @WJLA 

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• 1493: Much hotter, much thirstier, much wildfire. Jeff Bliss @JCBliss #PacificWatch

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  Photo: Berryman Political Cartoon Collection:  Sweltering Heat. Much hotter, much thirstier, much wildfire.    Jeff Bliss @JCBliss #PacificWatch

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• 1492: 2/2 SCOTUS secures the Takings Clause, 6-3. @RichardAEpstein

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  Jul 09 2021

  Photo:  U.S. Supreme Court, woman in foreground 2/2  SCOTUS secures the Takings Clause, 6-3.  @RichardAEpstein SCOTUS secures the Takings Clause, 6-3.   https://www.hoover.org/research/bombshell-decision-property-takings

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• 1492: 1/2 SCOTUS secures the Takings Clause, 6-3. @RichardAEpstein

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  Photo: U.S. Supreme Court exteriors. Statue of Contemplation of Law at U.S. Supreme Court,    1/2  SCOTUS secures the Takings Clause, 6-3.  @RichardAEpstein   https://www.hoover.org/research/bombshell-decision-property-takings

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• 1492: 2/2 UNWRA is not honest; & What is to be done? Richard Goldberg @FDD Press

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  Jul 09 2021

  Photo:  Northern Palestinian territory 2/2  UNWRA is not honest; & What is to be done?   Richard Goldberg @FDD Press     https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2021/06/30/united-nations-relief-and-works-agency/ Richard Goldberg

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• 1490: 4/4: "Peopling of the Americas as inferred from ancient genomics." David J. Meltzer, SMU. @NatureMagazine

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  Photo: Julius Popper with a killed Ona. In the late 19th century some estancieros and gold prospectors launched a campaign of extermination against the indigenous peoples of Tierra del Fuego.  Not the first arrivals, but later Europeans were incomprehensibly cruel. Tierra del Fuego is considered the southernmost town in South America. Four native peoples were there in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: two lived on land, two lived almost exclusive in canoes on the water.            The name "Tierra del Fuego" may refer to the fact that both Selk'nam and Yamana had their fires burn in front of their huts (or in the hut). In Magellan's time Fuegians were more numerous, and the light and smoke of their fires presented an impressive sight if seen from a ship or another island. Yamanas also used fire to send messages by smoke signals, for instance if a whale drifted ashore. The large amount of meat required notification of many people, so that it would not decay.They might also have used smoke signals on other occasions, but it is possible that Magellan saw the smokes or lights of natural phenomena. Both Selk'nams and Yámanas were almost obliterated by diseases brought in by colonization,[2][51] and probably made more vulnerable to disease by the crash of their main meat supplies (whales and seals) due to the actions of European and American fleets.[2] CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 4/4: "Peopling of the Americas as inferred from ancient genomics." David J. Meltzer, SMU. @NatureMagazine https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03499-y "In less than a decade, analyses of ancient genomes have transformed our understanding of the Indigenous peopling and population history of the Americas. These studies have shown that this history, which began in the late Pleistocene epoch and continued episodically into the Holocene epoch, was far more complex than previously thought. It is now evident that the initial dispersal involved the movement from northeast Asia of distinct and previously unknown populations, including some for whom there are no currently known descendants. The first peoples, once south of the continental ice sheets, spread widely, expanded rapidly and branched into multiple populations. Their descendants—over the next fifteen millennia—experienced varying degrees of isolation, admixture, continuity and replacement, and their genomes help to illuminate the relationships among major subgroups of Native American populations. Notably, all ancient individuals in the Americas, save for later-arriving Arctic peoples, are more closely related to contemporary Indigenous American individuals than to any other population elsewhere, which challenges the claim—which is based on anatomical evidence—that there was an early, non-Native American population in the Americas. Here we review the patterns revealed by ancient genomics that help to shed light on the past peoples who created the archaeological landscape, and together lead to deeper insights into the population and cultural history of the Americas....more

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• 1490: 3/4: "Peopling of the Americas as inferred from ancient genomics." David J. Meltzer, SMU. @NatureMagazine

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  Photo: Engraving after Jacques le Moyne, showing the burial of a Timucua chief. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 3/4: "Peopling of the Americas as inferred from ancient genomics." David J. Meltzer, SMU. @NatureMagazine https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03499-y "In less than a decade, analyses of ancient genomes have transformed our understanding of the Indigenous peopling and population history of the Americas. These studies have shown that this history, which began in the late Pleistocene epoch and continued episodically into the Holocene epoch, was far more complex than previously thought. It is now evident that the initial dispersal involved the movement from northeast Asia of distinct and previously unknown populations, including some for whom there are no currently known descendants. The first peoples, once south of the continental ice sheets, spread widely, expanded rapidly and branched into multiple populations. Their descendants—over the next fifteen millennia—experienced varying degrees of isolation, admixture, continuity and replacement, and their genomes help to illuminate the relationships among major subgroups of Native American populations. Notably, all ancient individuals in the Americas, save for later-arriving Arctic peoples, are more closely related to contemporary Indigenous American individuals than to any other population elsewhere, which challenges the claim—which is based on anatomical evidence—that there was an early, non-Native American population in the Americas. Here we review the patterns revealed by ancient genomics that help to shed light on the past peoples who created the archaeological landscape, and together lead to deeper insights into the population and cultural history of the Americas."...more

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• 1490: 2/4: "Peopling of the Americas as inferred from ancient genomics." David J. Meltzer, SMU. @NatureMagazine

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  Jul 09 2021

  Photo: A depiction of the Serpent Moundin southern Ohio—Marietta—as published in the magazine The Century, April 1890 . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 2/4: "Peopling of the Americas as inferred from ancient genomics." David J. Meltzer, SMU. @NatureMagazine https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03499-y "In less than a decade, analyses of ancient genomes have transformed our understanding of the Indigenous peopling and population history of the Americas. These studies have shown that this history, which began in the late Pleistocene epoch and continued episodically into the Holocene epoch, was far more complex than previously thought. It is now evident that the initial dispersal involved the movement from northeast Asia of distinct and previously unknown populations, including some for whom there are no currently known descendants. The first peoples, once south of the continental ice sheets, spread widely, expanded rapidly and branched into multiple populations. Their descendants—over the next fifteen millennia—experienced varying degrees of isolation, admixture, continuity and replacement, and their genomes help to illuminate the relationships among major subgroups of Native American populations. Notably, all ancient individuals in the Americas, save for later-arriving Arctic peoples, are more closely related to contemporary Indigenous American individuals than to any other population elsewhere, which challenges the claim—which is based on anatomical evidence—that there was an early, non-Native American population in the Americas. Here we review the patterns revealed by ancient genomics that help to shed light on the past peoples who created the archaeological landscape, and together lead to deeper insights into the population and cultural history of the Americas."...more

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• 1490: 1/4: "Peopling of the Americas as inferred from ancient genomics." David J. Meltzer, SMU. @NatureMagazine

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  Photo: An Olmec colossal head at the Xalapa Museum of Anthropology, in Veracruz, Mexico Note that Dr Ivan van Sertima points to the similarity between Olmec faces and some African physiognomies. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 1/4: "Peopling of the Americas as inferred from ancient genomics." David J. Meltzer, SMU. @NatureMagazine https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03499-y "In less than a decade, analyses of ancient genomes have transformed our understanding of the Indigenous peopling and population history of the Americas. These studies have shown that this history, which began in the late Pleistocene epoch and continued episodically into the Holocene epoch, was far more complex than previously thought. It is now evident that the initial dispersal involved the movement from northeast Asia of distinct and previously unknown populations, including some for whom there are no currently known descendants. The first peoples, once south of the continental ice sheets, spread widely, expanded rapidly and branched into multiple populations. Their descendants—over the next fifteen millennia—experienced varying degrees of isolation, admixture, continuity and replacement, and their genomes help to illuminate the relationships among major subgroups of Native American populations. Notably, all ancient individuals in the Americas, save for later-arriving Arctic peoples, are more closely related to contemporary Indigenous American individuals than to any other population elsewhere, which challenges the claim—which is based on anatomical evidence—that there was an early, non-Native American population in the Americas. Here we review the patterns revealed by ancient genomics that help to shed light on the past peoples who created the archaeological landscape, and together lead to deeper insights into the population and cultural history of the Americas."...more

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• 1491: 1/2 UNWRA is not honest; & What is to be done? Richard Goldberg @FDD Press

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  Jul 09 2021

  Photo: UNWRA top nongovernmental donors: Islamic Relief; Welfare Association; UNWRA US & UNWRA EspanaA 1/2  UNWRA is not honest; & What is to be done?   Richard Goldberg @FDD Press     https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2021/06/30/united-nations-relief-and-works-agency/ Richard Goldberg

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• 1490: The long-term security crisis of Haiti; & What is to be done? @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion

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  Jul 09 2021

  Photo: The French Army takes Cap Francais.   Prise du Cap Français par l'armée française (1802) CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow The long-term security crisis of Haiti; & What is to be done? @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-murder-of-haitis-president-11625696299?st=uwk44l59t5j45lk&reflink=article_copyURL_share

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• 1490: Port-au-Prince lacks food security in the emergency shelter-in-place. Magilie Noel Dresse, Port-au-Prince.

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  Photo: Slums in the area of Bas-Ravine, in the northern part of Cap-Haïtien. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Port-au-Prince lacks food security in the emergency shelter-in-place. Magilie Noel Dresse, Port-au-Prince. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/two-haitian-americans-arrested-in-connection-with-assassination-of-haiti-e2-80-99s-president/ar-AALVQzM

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• 1490: Canada investigates the unmarked graves of Indigenous Peoples church-sponsored schools. @NationalPost @ConradMBlack

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  Jul 09 2021

  Photo: Inuk in a kayak, c. 1908–1914. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Canada investigates the unmarked graves of Indigenous Peoples church-sponsored schools. @NationalPost @ConradMBlack https://nationalpost.com/opinion/conrad-black-celebrate-canada-but-not-its-political-leaders-or-its-propensity-for-self-flagellation  

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• 1490: Is space tourism a fad or a market? Hotel Mars: David Livingston, SpaceShow.com; Leonard David, LeonardDavid.com

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  Jul 09 2021

  Photo: The Virgin Galactic founder Sir Richard Branson (second from right) will launch on the company's first fully crewed flight on July 11, 2021 as part of a six-person crew. They are (from left): Pilot Dave Mackay; Coplin Bennet, lead operations engineer; Beth Moses, chief astronaut instructor; Branson; Sirisha Bandla, vice president of government affairs and research operations; and pilot Michael Masucci. (Image credit: Virgin Galactic—fair use; see:  https://www.space.com/will-richard-branson-reach-space-virgin-galactic) Is space tourism a fad or a market?  Hotel Mars: David Livingston, SpaceShow.com; Leonard David, LeonardDavid.com https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/02/branson-vs-bezos-how-the-two-space-bound-billionaires-stack-up.html ...more

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• 1490: Azzurri vs Three Lions. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation, Genoa

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  Photo:  The Azzurri face England at Wembley on Sunday after beating Spain in the semi-finals on Tuesday.  (Here: The squad celebrating its first FIFA World Cup in 1934) It completes a remarkable journey for the Italians, who are now unbeaten in their past 33 games, after failing to qualify for the 2018 World Cup. Mancini was appointed in the wake of that failed qualifying campaign and Bernardeschi says the 56-year-old never doubted he could rebuild Italy. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation, Genoa.  Azzurri vs Three Lions. https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/england-vs-italy-only-madman-113107448.html...more

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• 1490: The new normal for Hollywood is streaming. Tom Wainwright @TheEconomist.

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  Photo:  Festival Hall from a theatrical scene Tom Wainwright @TheEconomist. The new normal for Hollywood is streaming. In re: Cannes this year— https://www.economist.com/business/2021/07/01/cannes-kicks-off-a-brighter-blockbuster-season?utm_medium=pr&utm_source=us-e The changing institution of the movie palace: https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2021/05/14/the-joy-of-cinema-going-as-depicted-on-screen?itm_source=parsely-api

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• 1490: The Biden Administration quietly welcomes the "unacceptable" Kingdom @JoshRogin

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  Photo: Secretary of Defense Ash Carter greets the Saudi Arabian Minister of Defense Mohammad bin Salman as they meet at NATO headquarters in Brussels to discuss matters of mutual importance Feb. 11, 2016.. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow The Biden Administration quietly welcomes the "unacceptable" Kingdom @JoshRogin https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/07/biden-administration-khalid-bin-salman-khashoggi/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=wp_opinions ...more

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• 1490: The Central Bankers reconsider the rapid recovery. Veronique de Rugy, @veroderugy @Mercatus.

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  Photo:  The club of Manchuria central bank Veronique de Rugy, @veroderugy @Mercatus.  The Central Bankers reconsider the rapid recovery.  https://www.wsj.com/articles/feds-bostic-says-time-to-taper-is-growing-nearer-but-wont-put-date-on-it-11625692534

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• 1489: Xi Jinping says he can conquer the world. Charles Burton McDonald Laurier Institute; and @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

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  Jul 08 2021

  Photo:  A Sabine man wanted to offer his exceptionally big and beautiful cow to Diana to procure world domination for the Sabines in accordance with the prediction of an oracle/.  The Roman priest tells him that he has to wash himself in the water of the Tiber before killing the animal; while the Sabine man washes himself, the priest quickly immolates the cow, safeguarding Rome's world domination     Xi Jinping says he can conquer the world. Charles Burton McDonald Laurier Institute; and @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill  ...more

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• 1489: Japan warns China: hands off Taiwan. @ScottHarold @RAND @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill.

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  Jul 08 2021

   Photo: Japan–Taiwan Exchange Association in Taipei   Japan warns China: hands off Taiwan.  @ScottHarold @RAND @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill.  

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• 1489: Beijing flunks the modern business plan IPO Didi. Charles Ortel and @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

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  Jul 08 2021

  Photo:  The Chinese ride-sharing behemoth DiDi Chuxing filed for its U.S. IPO on Thursday, June 10, leaving it poised to become one of the biggest tech public offerings of 2021. DiDi successfully listed and began trading on the NYSE under the ticker "DIDI" on June 30, raising $4.4 billion. In its filing with the SEC, DiDi details its ambition to expand globally and its plans to invest in technologies for electric vehicles and autonomous driving solutions.  Here:  DiDi in China.     Beijing flunks the modern business plan IPO Didi. Charles Ortel and @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill...more

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• 1489: India watches China and Pakistan move into Afghanistan. @CleoPaskal @FDD Press and Gordon Chang @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

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  Jul 08 2021

  Photo:  Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the North-West Frontier Province along the Afghanistan–Pakistan border. Here:  Aerial view of flood damage taken during humanitarian relief efforts in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan.     India watches China and Pakistan move into Afghanistan.  @CleoPaskal @FDD Press and Gordon Chang @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill    

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• 1488: Solar Flare X1.5 Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com

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  Jul 08 2021

  Photo:  Solar Flare.  Scanogram of solar flares shot from Skylab. NASA Identifier: S74-17573     Solar Flare X1.5     Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com   https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/sun-unleashes-strongest-solar-flare-since-last-solar-maximum/    

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• 1488: Branson vs Bezos suborbital showdown. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com

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  Jul 08 2021

   Photo:  An illustration of Newton's cannon, which describes how gravity connects motion of everyday objects on Earth to motion of celestial objects such as the Moon.   Branson vs Bezos suborbital showdown.  Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com   https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/bezos-vs-branson-virgin-galactic-to-do-suborbital-flight-on-july-11th-carrying-richard-branson/    | Own work Author | user:Brian Brondel   This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. |  You are free:to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the workto remix – to adapt the workUnder the following conditions:attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.    ...more

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• 1488: Russian Orthodox Church declares nonvaccination a sin. Felix Light, @MoscowNews

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  Photo:  Chapel, Valaam Monastery, in the madly beautiful Karelia, northern Russia   Russian Orthodox Church declares nonvaccination a sin. Felix Light, @MoscowNews   https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/07/06/coronavirus-in-russia-the-latest-news-july-6-a69117

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• 1487: Russia and Cozy Bear check NATO, Washington and the Taliban. @ Felix_Light @CBSNews

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  Jul 08 2021

   Photo:  A soldier stands guard over the ancient city built by Alexander the Great at Khujand, Tajikistan.     Russia and Cozy Bear check NATO, Washington and the Taliban. @ Felix_Light @CBSNews   (Reuters) - Tajikistan on Wednesday called on members of a Russian-led military bloc to help it deal with security challenges emerging from Afghanistan, hours after Moscow pledged to defend its regional allies affected by the unrest.     https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/07/07/russia-says-ready-to-activate-tajik-military-base-amid-us-pullout-taliban-advance-in-afghanistan-a74450 Permissions: 13 June 2008, 09:25 Source | Tajikistan Author | Steve Evans from Citizen of the World This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. |  You are free:to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work   Under the following conditions:attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.  ...more

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• 1486: Afghanistan National Army units fleeing into Tajikistan; & What is to be done? Jeff McCausland @CBSNews

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  Jul 08 2021

  Photo: Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Tajiks, Dzhakhri Sect  . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Afghanistan National Army units fleeing into Tajikistan; & What is to be done? Jeff McCausland @CBSNews https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/more-than-1000-afghan-soldiers-flee-into-tajikistan-as-taliban-extends-control-tajik-officials-say/ar-AALNvYg

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• 1486: Awakened by gunshots and assassination reports in Port-au-Prince. Magalie Noel Dresse, Port-au-Prince.

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  Jul 08 2021

  Photo: This landscape view provides an elevated perspective of the harbor of Port-au-Prince, the capital city of Haiti. The view is from south to north, with the bulk of the developed town on the northern side of the harbor. In the background at the left is Fort Joseph, later known as Fort Dauphin or Fort Liberte. In the foreground is the palatial residence of the marine commissar, one Monsieur Mardssaux.  . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Awakened by gunshots and assassination reports in Port-au-Prince. Magalie Noel Dresse, Port-au-Prince. https://apnews.com/article/haiti-president-jovenel-moise-killed-b56a0f8fec0832028bdc51e8d59c6af2 ...more

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• 1486: The sudden price of wheat in a global drought. Simon Constable @TheRealConstable

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  Photo: Winter wheat. Whitman County, Washington . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow The sudden price of wheat in a global drought. Simon Constable @TheRealConstable https://www.barrons.com/articles/wheat-and-corn-prices-could-head-higher-soon-1458970109

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• 1486: Remembering Donald Rumsfeld and the spilled ink incident, August 2006. SalenaZito.com @DCExaminer

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  Photo: Inkwell . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Remembering Donald  Rumsfeld and the spilled ink incident, August, 2006. SalenaZito.com @DCExaminer 'https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/the-one-with-donald-rumsfeld-and-the-exploding-white-pen

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• 1486: Donald Rumsfeld (1932-2021) did not believe in the Pottery Barn rule. @AmbJohnBolton

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  Jul 08 2021

  Photo: Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld testifying at a Senate hearing on the Defense Department budget WKL . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Donald Rumsfeld (1932-2021) did not believe in the Pottery Barn ule. @AmbJohnBolton https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/03/donald-rumsfeld-right-middle-east/ 

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• 1486: Jacob Zuma and his Zulu supporters defy the court. @johnpmcdermott @TheEconomist

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  Jul 08 2021

  Photo: Logo for Umkhonto we Sizwe*, Spear of the Nation: an organization co-founded by Nelson Mandela in the wake of the Sharpeville massacre. Its mission was to fight against the South African government because it was adamant in maintaining the utterly cruel Apartheid. *(pronounced:  mm'konto weh seez-weh) CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Jacob Zuma and his Zulu supporters defy the court. @johnpmcdermott @TheEconomist https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2021/07/01/the-meaning-of-jacob-zumas-15-month-prison-sentence?utm_medium=pr&utm_source=us-e ...more

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• 1486: New York City needs everything. @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNews.

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  Photo: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow New York City needs everything. @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNews. https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-apocalypse-soon-20210703-aiirmkf4qrckdipqgd4voavj6i-story.html

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• 1486: Eric Adams from Brooklyn and Queens to City Hall 2022. @HarrySiegel@NYDaily News.

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  Jul 08 2021

  Photo: Classic New York City brownstone apartment building in the Boro Park (often spelled Borough Park) neighborhood in New York City's Brooklyn borough. Brownstone, a brown Triassic-Jurassic sandstone, was an immensely popular building material in cities across Americain the second half of the 19th Century . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Eric Adams from Brooklyn and Queens to City Hall 2022. @HarrySiegel @NYDaily News. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/07/nyregion/eric-adams-mayor-nyc.html ...more

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• 1476: 2/2: Happy Birthday Nation Magazine, 156 years of sober, unpopular, compelling anti-imperialism. Katrina vanden Heuvel, Publisher @TheNation @katnation

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  Jul 07 2021

  Photo:   The Nation magazine. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 2/2: Happy Birthday Nation Magazine, 156 years of sober, unpopular, compelling anti-imperialism. Katrina vanden Heuvel, Publisher @TheNation @katnation https://www.thenation.com/article/world/china-xinjiang-genocide-denial/ 

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• 1476: 1/2: Happy Birthday Nation Magazine, 156 years of sober, unpopular, compelling anti-imperialism. Katrina vanden Heuvel, Publisher @TheNation @katnation

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  Jul 07 2021

  Photo: The Evening Post and The Nation, 210 Broadway, Manhattan, New York. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 1/2: Happy Birthday Nation Magazine, 156 years of sober, unpopular, compelling anti-imperialism. Katrina vanden Heuvel, Publisher @TheNation @katnation https://www.thenation.com/article/world/china-xinjiang-genocide-denial/ 

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• 1485: 2/2 Ceuta is the promised land. #TheGreatMigration ; locals.com/MichaelYon and Chuck Holton ; locals.com/ChuckHolton.

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  Jul 07 2021

  Photo:  Ceuta (Spanish Morocco) 1928- 2/2   Ceuta is the promised land.  #TheGreatMigration  locals.com/MichaelYon and Chuck Holton locals.com/ChuckHolton.  Now travelling in the Mediterranean Basin and Mahgreb. Tracking migrants from farther south in Africa as they head for Greece or, more directly, to the EU via Italy—except Melilla and Ceuta, which are formally in Spain.  How Morocco sees the flood of humans. 

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• 1476: Back-to-work tall bank buildings; & What is to be done? @LizPeek @TheHill

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  Jul 07 2021

  Photo:  Bank of America Corporate Center. Public domain. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Back-to-work tall bank buildings & What is to be done? @LizPeek @TheHill https://www.ft.com/content/5e7761ee-b7a2-48f2-9226-fe20277c2498

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• 1485: 1/2 Ceuta is the promised land. #TheGreatMigration ; locals.com/MichaelYon and Chuck Holton; locals.com/ChuckHolton.

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  Jul 07 2021

  Photo:  Ceuta from "The Story of Africa and its Explorers. 1/2   Ceuta is the promised land.  #TheGreatMigration ;  locals.com/MichaelYon and Chuck Holton locals.com/ChuckHolton.  Now travelling in the Mediterranean Basin and Mahgreb. Tracking migrants from farther south in Africa as they head for Greece or, more directly, to the EU via Italy—except Melilla and Ceuta, which are formally in Spain.  How Morocco sees the flood of humans. 

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• 1485: 2/2 War Drums on the Blue Nile Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs.

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  Jul 07 2021

  Photo:  1719 Mallet Map of the Source of the Nile, Ethiopia (Abyssinia) - Geographicus 2/2  War Drums on the Blue Nile   Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs.   UN asks Ethiopia and Egypt to confer on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which began as a request from Sudan to provide power. Now, Egypt is building toward a war to invade Ethiopia to take the dam.  Washington is supporting Egypt. Control of the Upper Nile.

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• 1476: Even the EU is in recovery thanks to the vaccines. @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews

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  Jul 07 2021

  Photo: NATIONAL VACCINE & ANTITOXIN INST. . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Even the EU is in recovery thanks to the vaccines. @LizPeek  @TheHill @FoxNews https://www.reuters.com/business/with-european-recovery-sight-property-investors-bank-office-2021-07-06/

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• 1485: 1/2 War Drums on the Blue Nile Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs.

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  Jul 07 2021

  Photo:  Sudan. Khartoum. Bridge across Blue Nile from Khartoum to Khartoum north 1/2  War Drums on the Blue Nile   Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs.   UN asks Ethiopia and Egypt to confer on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: began as a request from Sudan to provide power. Now, Egypt is building toward a war to invade Ethiopia to take the dam.  Washington is supporting Egypt. Control of the Upper Nile.

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• 1484: 4/4. Romeo and Juliet in Lockdown. Joseph Sternberg, WSJ London, @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinions

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  Photo: Romeo and Juliet 4/4.  Romeo and Juliet in Lockdown.  Joseph Sternberg, WSJ London, @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinions   UK football mania ignores virus https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/euro-2020-england-fans-turn-to-black-market-after-tickets-for-denmark-semi-final-are-snapped-up-zkdjjj87r   Virus knocks out England vs Pakistan https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/england-forced-to-pick-second-squad-after-eoin-morgans-side-hit-by-covid-19-63tfftwk9   Romeo and Juliet Woke! https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2021/07/05/woke-romeo-juliet-proves-even-shakespeare-not-safe-revisionists/...more

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• 1483: #NewWorldReport: Panama seeks to exit the Gray List. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal ; Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc

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  Jul 07 2021

  Photo: Diagram of triangular arbitrage in the foreign exchange market. I, the copyright holder of this work,      Own work.  Author | John Shandy` hereby publish it under the following license: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. | You are free:to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the workto remix – to adapt the workUnder the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. "A gray list is a list of stocks that are ineligible for trade by an investment bank's risk arbitrage division." Arbitage: the simultaneous buying and selling of securities, currency, or commodities in different markets or in derivative forms in order to take advantage of differing prices for the same asset. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #NewWorldReport: Panama seeks to exit the Gray List. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org "Panama has been removed from an international money laundering watch list, a major step towards cleaning up the Central American nation's reputation as a safe haven for illicit financial transactions." http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2021-06-27/blogs-opinions/Grey-listing-after-years-of-zero-enforcement-on-money-laundering-6736234707 ...more

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• 1483: #NewWorldReport: Failing food security in Cuba. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc

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  Jul 07 2021

  Photo: Waiting for distribution of food before Consul Brice's office; Cuba. . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #NewWorldReport: Failing food security in Cuba. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/food-scarce-in-cuba-but-they-have-5-vaccines-in-the-pipeline/articleshow/83623110.cms

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• 1484: 3/4. Inflation and its kindred; EU and Brexit and EU recovery. Joseph Sternberg, WSJ London, @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinions

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  Jul 07 2021

  Photo: The City of London is a separate ceremonial county, being an enclave surrounded by Greater London.  Here:  The Bank of England, on Threadneedle Street, is the central bank of the United Kingdom 3/4.  Inflation and its kindred; EU and Brexit and EU recovery.  Joseph Sternberg, WSJ London, @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinions   https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/opecplus-squabble-sends-oil-prices-to-6-year-high-threatening-to-dampen-recovery-and-juice-inflation/ar-AALPFh8   https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/metals-copper-touches-3-week-high-on-renewed-worries-about-inflation-2021-07-06   https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/07/06/europes-fourth-covid-wave-freighted-political-consequences/   [The EU plot to destroy the City of London] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/07/05/eu-plot-destroy-city-has-catastrophic-failure/?li_source=LI&li_medium=li-recommendation-widget   https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/terrorism-fear-as-uk-troops-forced-to-leave-afghanistan-pt9kztbx7   https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/06/will-priti-patels-new-immigration-proposals-make-difference/  ...more

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• 1484: 2/4. The New Rules of London Virus. Joseph Sternberg, WSJ London, @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinions

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  Photo:  1665 London plague:  Two men discovering a dead woman in the street. 2/4.  The New Rules of London Virus.  Joseph Sternberg, WSJ London, @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinions UK National Health Service and rules of London https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/07/06/lockdown-end-news-school-bubbles-rules-gavin-williamson/   https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/07/06/europes-fourth-covid-wave-freighted-political-consequences/

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• 1483: #NewWorldReport: Undermining Bolsonaro in the time of the virus. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc

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  Jul 07 2021

  Photo: Jair Bolsonaro and two of his sons, Eduardo and Flávio, in the late 1980s. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #NewWorldReport: Undermining Bolsonaro in the time of the virus.  Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org https://news.yahoo.com/brazilians-protest-bolsonaro-slow-vaccination-023851215.html

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• 1484: 1/4. China's many weaknesses. Joseph Sternberg, WSJ London, @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinions

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  Jul 07 2021

  Photo: Chinese girl.   Photo form Peking (1906) by Sanshichiro Yamamoto. 1/4. China's many weaknesses.  Joseph Sternberg, WSJ London, @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinions China and Recovery https://www.wsj.com/articles/beijings-century-of-dodging-danger-is-no-guarantee-of-stability-11625164332   https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-to-revise-rules-and-strengthen-supervision-of-overseas-listings-11625572533?mod=hp_lead_pos1   https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-oil-prices-hit-six-year-high-after-opec-standoff-11625564609?mod=hp_lead_pos2   https://www.wsj.com/articles/global-stock-markets-dow-update-07-05-2021-11625472321?st=4645rro16efmgqy&reflink=article_email_share ...more

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• 1483: #NewWorldReport: Colombia crackdown on disorder Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc

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  Jul 07 2021

  Photo: Capitolio nacional Colombia 1893 . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #NewWorldReport: Colombia crackdown on disorder Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/colombias-duque-looks-get-tough-vandalism-critics-decry-attack-protests-2021-07-01/

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• 1482: #GuestPodcast: Four Star Forum with Gen. Norton Schwartz, USAF (ret.), former chief-of-staff United States Air Force. @FRoseDC

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  Jul 06 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1930  Viewed from cockpit of plane, Army Air Corps planes doing aerial maneuvers over California, circa 1930 @Batchelorshow #GuestPodcast: Four Star Forum with Gen. Norton Schwartz, USAF (ret.), former chief-of-staff United States Air Force. @FRoseDC https://anchor.fm/francis-rose/episodes/8-Gen--Norton-Schwartz--USAF-ret--on-strengthening-the-US-national-security-apparatus-e13ra9n   “The debate is starting in Washington over appropriations and authorizations for the national security community in the coming fiscal year. That debate includes the Defense Department, but it also includes Congress, think tanks, and other stakeholders who contribute to the process of making U-S national security decisions. General Norton Schwartz (USAF ret.) is President and CEO of the Institute for Defense Analyses. He’s former Chief of Staff of the US Air Force. He has a different take on the national security landscape, and what it needs to sustain itself into the future.” Four Star Forum By Francis Rose "Four Star Forum" features one-on-one conversations with award-winning broadcaster Francis Rose and the men and women who have achieved the highest ranks in today's military. It provides America’s four-stars, both retired and active-duty, with a platform to talk about national security, defense, and geopolitical issues of the day, in a non-partisan, non-confrontational, thoughtful environment....more

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• 1482: 2/2: #HotelMars: A ten-thousand-year-long transit of Earth as seen from the 100 parsecs neighborhood POV; & What is to be done? J. K Faherty, @jfaherty jackiefaherty.com. AMNH. David Livingston SpaceShow.com

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  Jul 06 2021

  Photo:  A solar transit of the Mooncaptured during calibration of the STEREO B spacecraft's ultraviolet imaging. The Moon appears much smaller than it does when seen from Earth, because the spacecraft–Moon separation was several times greater than the Earth–Moon distance. . Video of movement at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_(astronomy) CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 2/2: #HotelMars: A ten-thousand-year-long transit of Earth as seen from the 100 parsecs neighborhood POV; & What is to be done? J.K Faherty, @jfaherty jackiefaherty.com. AMNH. David Livingston SpaceShow.com https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03596-y ...more

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• 1482: 1/2: #HotelMars: A ten-thousand-year-long transit of Earth as seen from the 100 parsecs neighborhood POV; & What is to be done? J. K Faherty, @jfaherty jackiefaherty.com. AMNH. David Livingston SpaceShow.com

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  Jul 06 2021

  Photo Earth and Moon from Mars, as photographed by the Mars Global Surveyor. In astronomy, a transit (or astronomical transit) is a phenomenon that occurs when a celestial body passes directly between a larger body and the observer. As viewed from a particular vantage point, the transiting body appears to move across the face of the larger body, covering a small portion of it. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 1/2: #HotelMars: A ten-thousand-year-long transit of Earth as seen from the 100 parsecs neighborhood POV; & What is to be done? J. K Faherty, @jfaherty jackiefaherty.com. AMNH. David Livingston SpaceShow.com https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03596-y ...more

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• 1481: Charlie Pellegrino #Unbound: the complete, twenty-minute interview, June 18, 2021.

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  Jul 06 2021

  Photo: Casa di Argo in Herculaneum. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Charlie Pellegrino #Unbound: the complete, twenty-minute interview, June 18, 2021. Finding the Hero of Herculaneum two thousand years later. Charles Pellegrino https://news.yahoo.com/2-000-old-skeleton-roman-135559332.html Ghosts of Vesuvius: A New Look at the Last Days of Pompeii, How Towers Fall, and Other Strange Connections Paperback – August 9, 2005 by Charles R Pellegrino https://www.amazon.com/Ghosts-Vesuvius-Pompeii-Strange-Connections/dp/0060751002 A fascinating look at Pompeii, Herculaneum and the Vesuvius eruption in comparison with other historically significant volcanic eruptions, including the World Trade Center disaster.  The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, which obliterated the Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum, was a disaster that resounds to this day. Now, the palaeontologist Charles Pellegrino presents a wealth of new knowledge about the doomed towns—and brings to vivid life the people, their last moments, and the aftermath.  The lessons learned from modern scrutiny of that ancient eruption produce disturbing echoes in the present. Dr Pellegrino, who worked at Ground Zero in the aftermath of the 9/11 attack, shares his unique knowledge of the strange physics of volcanic 'downblast' and 'collapse column', drawing a direct link from past to present, and providing readers with a poignant glimpse into the last moments of the 'American Vesuvius'....more

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• 1480: Patrick O'Donnell. #Unbound. The complete, eighty-minute interview, June 6, 2021.

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  Jul 06 2021

  Photo: The official Navy officer uniform of 1776 had red lapels and a red waistcoat. The unofficial uniform of 1777, worn by many officers, had white lapels and a white waistcoat, and in addition non-regulation epaulets. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Patrick O'Donnell. #Unbound. The complete, eighty-minute interview, June 6, 2021. The Indispensables: The Diverse Soldier-Mariners Who Shaped the Country, Formed the Navy, and Rowed Washington Across the Delaware. Kindle Edition. by Patrick K. O'Donnell  https://www.amazon.com/Indispensables-Diverse-Soldier-Mariners-Washington-Delaware-ebook/dp/B08M12FQ85 On the stormy night of August 29, 1776, the Continental Army faced annihilation after losing the Battle of Brooklyn. The British had trapped George Washington’s army against the East River, and the fate of the Revolution rested upon the soldier-mariners from Marblehead, Massachusetts. One of the country’s first diverse units, they pulled off an “American Dunkirk” and saved the army by navigating the treacherous river to Manhattan. At the right time in the right place, the Marbleheaders, a group of white, black, Hispanic, and Native American soldiers, repeatedly altered the course of events, and their story shines new light on our understanding of the American Revolution. As the historian Patrick K. O’Donnell recounts, beginning nearly a decade before the war started, Marbleheaders such as Elbridge Gerry and Azor Orne spearheaded the break with Britain and helped shape the United States through governing, building alliances, seizing British ships, forging critical supply lines, and establishing the origins of the US Navy. The Marblehead Regiment, led by John Glover, became truly indispensable. Marbleheaders battled at Lexington and on Bunker Hill and formed the elite Guard that protected George Washington, foreshadowing today’s Secret Service. Then the special operations–like regiment, against all odds, conveyed 2,400 of Washington’s men across the ice-filled Delaware River on Christmas night of 1776, delivering the surprise attack on Trenton that changed the course of history . . . The Marbleheaders’ story, never fully told before now, makes The Indispensables a vital addition to the literature of the American Revolution....more

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• 1480: Nick Lloyd #Unbound. The complete, eighty-minute interview. June 5, 2021.

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  Photo: Indian soldiers of the 2nd Rajput Light Infantry on the Western Front, winter of 1914–15. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Nick Lloyd #Unbound. The complete, eighty-minute interview. June 5, 2021. Nick Lloyd, The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918 – March 30, 2021. Hardcover.   A panoramic history of the savage combat on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918 that came to define modern warfare. The Western Front evokes images of mud-spattered men in waterlogged trenches, shielded from artillery blasts and machine-gun fire by a few feet of dirt. This iconic setting was the most critical arena of the Great War, a 400-mile combat zone stretching from Belgium to Switzerland where more than three million Allied and German soldiers struggled during four years of almost continuous combat. It has persisted in our collective memory as a tragic waste of human life and a symbol of the horrors of industrialized warfare. In this epic narrative history, the first volume in a groundbreaking trilogy on the Great War, the acclaimed military historian Nick Lloyd captures the horrific fighting on the Western Front beginning with the surprise German invasion of Belgium in August 1914 and taking us to the Armistice of November 1918. Drawing on French, British, German, and American sources, Lloyd weaves a kaleidoscopic chronicle of the Marne, Passchendaele, the Meuse-Argonne, and other critical battles, which reverberated across Europe and the wider war. From the trenches, where men as young as 17 suffered and died, to the headquarters behind the lines where Generals Haig, Joffre, Hindenburg, and Pershing developed their plans for battle, Lloyd gives us a view of the war both intimate and strategic, putting us amid the mud and smoke while at the same time depicting the larger stakes of every encounter. He shows us a dejected Kaiser Wilhelm II―soon to be eclipsed in power by his own generals―lamenting the botched Schlieffen Plan; French soldiers piling atop one another in the trenches of Verdun; British infantryman wandering through the frozen wilderness in the days after the Battle of the Somme; and General Erich Ludendorff pursuing a ruthless policy of total war, leading an eleventh-hour attack on Reims even as his men succumbed to the Spanish Flu. As Lloyd reveals, far from being a site of attrition and stalemate, the Western Front was a simmering, dynamic “cauldron of war” defined by extraordinary scientific and tactical innovation. It was on the Western Front that the modern technologies―machine guns, mortars, grenades, and howitzers―were refined and developed into effective killing machines. It was on the Western Front that chemical warfare, in the form of poison gas, was first unleashed. And it was on the Western Front that tanks and aircraft were introduced, causing a dramatic shift away from nineteenth-century bayonet tactics toward modern combined arms, reinforced by heavy artillery, that forever changed the face of war. Brimming with vivid detail and insight, The Western Front is a work in the tradition of Barbara Tuchman and John Keegan, Rick Atkinson and Antony Beevor: an authoritative portrait of modern warfare and its far-reaching human and historical consequences. 35 black-and-white illustrations, 8 maps...more

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• 1480: 2/2: #HeartlandNation: Is Putin a Russian version of Plato's Philosopher King? H. J. Mackinder, Professor of International Relations

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  Jul 06 2021

  Photo: President George H. W. Bush and President George W. Bush Give a Boat Tour to the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, at Walker's Point in Kennebunkport, Maine  . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 2/2: #HeartlandNation: Is Putin a Russian version of Plato's Philosopher King?  H. J. Mackinder, Professor of International Relations https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/07/01/putin-the-man-with-all-the-answers-a74396

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• 1480: 1/2: #HeartlandNation: Is Putin a Russian version of Plato's Philosopher King? H. J. Mackinder, Professor of International Relations

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  Jul 06 2021

  Photo: .Alexander, considered to be a philosopher king, as he entered Babylon CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 1/2: #HeartlandNation: Is Putin a Russian version of Plato's Philosopher King?  H. J. Mackinder, Professor of International Relations https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/07/01/putin-the-man-with-all-the-answers-a74396

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• 1481: Angel Iscovich #Unbound: the complete, twenty-minute interview, June 19, 2021.

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  Jul 05 2021

  Photo: Words to the wise on routines in our  lives. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Angel Iscovich #Unbound: the complete, twenty-minute interview, June 19, 2021. The Art of Routine: Discover How Routineology Can Transform Your Life.  Hardcover – June 1, 2021 by Angel Iscovich MD  (Author), Joe Garner  (Contributor), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/Art-Routine-Discover-Routineology-Transform/dp/1510764550 Conventional wisdom suggests that the best way to navigate our noisy new world is to accept change. Open up to novelty. Go with the flow. Live in the moment. Embrace the relentless pelting of content minute by minute. But routine experts Angel Iscovich, MD, Joe Garner, and Michael Ashley are here to say that’s a bad idea. Humans don’t just benefit from structure; they require it. Years of observation and practice led to their breakthrough concept of routineology, the key to optimize your life and the cure for crisis. Routineology’s fundamental prescriptive is to look inside and live your life in a “time bubble” to find purpose, meaning, and joy. Offering insights from top performers and stories of triumph over adversity, this book demonstrates that routine isn’t just a good idea—it’s imperative for surviving and thriving today. Live a life of deeper meaning and navigate toward a better world with The Art of Routine ...more

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• 1480: Terry Anderson #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. April 6, 2021

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  Jul 05 2021

  Photo: Adaptation, by Darwin's finches, or Galapagos finches. Darwin, 1845. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world, under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Terry Anderson #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. April 6, 2021 Adapt and Be Adept: Market Responses to Climate Change; Paperback – April 1, 2021. by Terry Anderson . (Editor) https://www.amazon.com/Adapt-Be-Adept-Responses-Climate/dp/0817924558/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1619395663&refinements=p_27%3ATerry+Anderson&s=books&sr=1-1 How can markets help us adapt to the challenges of climate change? The editor Terry L. Anderson brings together this collection of essays featuring the work of nine leading policy analysts, who argue that market forces are just as important as government regulation in shaping climate policy—and should be at the heart of our response to helping societies adapt to climate change. Anderson notes in his introduction that most current climate policies such as the Paris Agreement require hard-to-enforce collective action and focus on reducing or mitigating greenhouse gases rather than adapting to their negative effects. Adaptive actions can typically deliver much more, faster and more cheaply, than any realistic climate policy. The authors tackle a range of issues: the hidden costs of renewable energy sources, the political obstacles surrounding climate change policy, insurance and financial instruments for pricing risk of exposure to the effects of climate change, and more. Reliance on emerging renewable energies and a carbon tax are not enough to prevent the effects of global warming, they argue. We must encourage more private action and market incentives to adapt to a rapidly changing climate...more

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• 1480: Russell Shorto #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, April 22, 2021.

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  Photo: Getting out the newspaper published by and for Sicilians . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Russell Shorto #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, April 22, 2021. Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob. Hardcover – February 2, 2021, by Russell Shorto   (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Smalltime-Story-My-Family-Mob/dp/0393245586/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Family secrets emerge as a best-selling author dives into the history of the mob in small-town America. The best-selling author Russell Shorto, praised for his incisive works of narrative history, never thought to write about his own past. He grew up knowing his grandfather and namesake was a small-town mob boss but maintained an unspoken family vow of silence. Then an elderly relative prodded: You’re a writer―what are you gonna do about the story? Smalltime is a mob story straight out of central casting―but with a difference, for the small-town mob, which stretched from Schenectady to Fresno, is a mostly unknown world. The location is the brawny postwar factory town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The setting is City Cigar, a storefront next to City Hall, behind which Russ and his brother-in-law, “Little Joe,” operate a gambling empire and effectively run the town. Smalltime is a riveting American immigrant story that travels back to Risorgimento Sicily, to the ancient, dusty, hill-town home of Antonino Sciotto, the author’s great-grandfather, who leaves his wife and children in grinding poverty for a new life―and wife―in a Pennsylvania mining town. It’s a tale of Italian Americans living in squalor and prejudice, and of the rise of Russ, who, like thousands of other young men, created a copy of the American establishment that excluded him. Smalltimedraws an intimate portrait of a mobster and his wife, sudden riches, and the toll a lawless life takes on one family. But Smalltime is something more. The author enlists his ailing father―Tony, the mobster’s son―as his partner in the search for their troubled patriarch. As secrets are revealed and Tony’s health deteriorates, the book becomes an urgent and intimate exploration of three generations of the American immigrant experience. Moving, wryly funny, and richly detailed, Smalltime is an irresistible memoir by a masterful writer of historical narrative. 8 black-and-white illustrations Update Description...more

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• 1480: Roya Hakakian #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. May 29, 2021

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  Photo: Certificate of residence for Lu Mai, farmer, age 38 years, of Santa Clara, California . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Roya Hakakian #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. May 29, 2021 A Beginner's Guide to America: For the Immigrant and the Curious. Hardcover – Deckle Edge, March 16, 2021. by Roya Hakakian https://www.amazon.com/Beginners-Guide-America-Immigrant-Curious/dp/0525656065/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1622853677&sr=1-1 A stirring, witty, and poignant glimpse into the bewildering American immigrant experience from someone who has lived it. Also, a mirror held up to America. Into the maelstrom of unprecedented contemporary debates about immigrants in the United States, this perfectly timed book gives us a portrait of what the new immigrant experience in America is really like. Written as a "guide" for the newly arrived, and providing "practical information and advice," Roya Hakakian, an immigrant herself, reveals what those who settle here love about the country, what they miss about their homes, the cruelty of some Americans, and the unceasing generosity of others. She captures the texture of life in a new place in all its complexity, laying bare both its beauty and its darkness as she discusses race, sex, love, death, consumerism, and what it is like to be from a country that is in America's crosshairs. Her tenderly perceptive and surprisingly humorous account invites us to see ourselves as we appear to others, making it possible for us to rediscover our many American gifts through the perspective of the outsider. In shattering myths and embracing painful contradictions that are unique to this place, A Beginner's Guide to America is Hakakian's candid love letter to America....more

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• 1480: John Tamny #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. March 28, 2021.

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  Jul 05 2021

  Photo: Adolf von Becker: The Art Expert. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow John Tamny #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. March 28, 2021. When Politicians Panicked: The New Coronavirus, Expert Opinion, and a Tragic Lapse of Reason. Hardcover – March 30, 2021 by John Tamny  (Author), George Gilder (Foreword) https://www.amazon.com/When-Politicians-Panicked-Coronavirus-Opinion/dp/1642938378/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= When Politicians Panicked tells the tragic story of how, in response to a spreading virus, global politicians mindlessly pursued economic desperation, starvation, and death as the cure. The global economy was booming as 2020 dawned but, within a few short months, wreckage, death, and desperation born of economic contraction were the new normal. What happened? In When Politicians Panicked, the economic commentator John Tamny tells the heart-wrenching story of a time when politicians were tragically relieved of basic common sense in their response to the new coronavirus. In March of 2020, the virus quickly became a major news item as political panic about it traveled around the world. Even though anecdotal and market-based evidence from the virus’s epicenter indicated very low lethality, politicians quickly imposed economy-crushing lockdowns on the rather specious assumption that unemployment, bankruptcy, and starvation would somehow halt the virus’s spread. Tamny methodically dismantles the political consensus by showing how economic growth has long been the first and last answer to death and disease. He then shows how politicians, having mindlessly crushed a growing economy, proceeded to double down on their mistakes by throwing taxpayer money at their shocking errors. Throughout When Politicians Panicked, Tamny makes a relentless case that free people don’t just produce the wealth that renders today’s killers yesterday’s news. They also produce crucial information about health threats that shines a light on that which threatens us. Lockdowns suffocate economic progress, but they also blind us to how we can progress—as Tamny makes plain in what will go down as an essential history for anyone seeking to understand the coronavirus panic of 2020 ...more

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• 1480: J. H. Gelernter #Unbound. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 3, 2021.

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  Photo: L'Espion [The Spy] d'Alphonse de Neuville, 1880. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow J. H. Gelernter #Unbound. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 3, 2021. Hold Fast: A Novel Hardcover – May 4, 2021, by J. H. Gelernter  https://www.amazon.com/Hold-Fast-J-H-Gelernter/dp/0393867048 It’s 1803. The Napoleonic Wars are raging, Britain is on her heels, and His Majesty’s Secret Service has just lost its best agent, Thomas Grey. Deeply depressed by his wife’s untimely death, Grey resigns from the service and accepts an offer to join a lumber firm in Boston. But when a sea battle with a privateer forces the ship carrying him west to make port in neutral Portugal, Grey is approached with a counteroffer: become a wealthy man by selling out Britain’s spy network to France. The French take Grey for a disgruntled ex–naval officer, blithely unaware that Grey had lost his wife to an unlucky shot from a French cannon. Now, after many years serving King and Country, Grey seizes the opportunity to fight a covert war of his own. He travels to Paris, and―playing the part of the invaluable turncoat the French believe him to be―proceeds to infiltrate the highest levels of Napoleon’s government. If he can outwit his handlers, outmatch his French counterparts, and outrun Napoleon’s secret police, Grey may just avenge his wife’s death and turn the tide of war in England’s favor. Bursting with action and intrigue, Hold Fast sends readers headlong into an unrelenting spy thriller...more

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• 1480: Jerry Hendrix #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, March 23, 2021

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  Jul 05 2021

  Photo: USS United States, the first of the original six frigates of the United States Navy, seen here defeating HMS Macedonian in battle, before taking her as a prize during the War of 1812. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Jerry Hendrix #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, March 23, 2021 To Provide and Maintain a Navy: Why Naval Primacy Is America's First, Best Strategy, Hardcover – December 19, 2020 by Henry J Hendrix (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Provide-Maintain-Navy-Americas-Strategy/dp/0960039198 The national conversation regarding the United States Navy has, for far too long, been focused on the popular question of how many ships does the service need? To Provide and Maintain a Navy, a succinct but encompassing treatise on sea power by Dr. Henry J "Jerry" Hendrix, goes beyond the numbers to reveal the crucial importance of Mare Liberum (Free Sea) to the development of the Western thought and the rules-based order that currently govern the global commons that is the high seas. Proceeding from this philosophical basis, Hendrix explores how a "free sea" gave way to free trade and the central role sea-borne commercial trade has played in the overall rise in global living standards. This is followed by analysis of how the relative naval balance of power has played out in naval battles and wars over the centuries and how the dominance of the United States Navy following World War II has resulted in seven decades of unprecedented peace on the world's oceans. He further considers how, in the years that followed the demise of the Soviet Union, both China and Russia began laying the groundwork to challenge the United States's maritime leadership and upend five centuries of naval precedents in order to establish a new approach to sovereignty over the world's seas. It is only at this point that Dr. Hendrix approaches the question of the number of ships required for the United States Navy, the industrial base required to build them, and the importance of once again aligning the nation's strategic outlook to that of a "seapower" in order effectively and efficiently to address the rising threat. To Provide and Maintain a Navy is brief enough to be read in a weekend but deep enough to inform the reader as to the numerous complexities surrounding what promises to be the most important strategic conversation facing the United States as it enters a new age of great power competition with not one, but two, nations who seek nothing less than to close and control the world's seas...more

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• 1480: Jeff McCausland #Unbound. The complete forty-minute interview. May 21, 2021.

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  Photo: Sickles spurs ahead of his staff to inspect the front lines of his threatened III Corps at the tip of the Peach Orchard salient. Confederates can be seen massing for an attack by the fringe of trees in the distance. Painting (The Battle of Gettysburg) by Edwin Forbes. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Jeff McCausland #Unbound. The complete forty-minute interview. May 21, 2021. Battle Tested! : Gettysburg Leadership Lessons for 21st Century Leaders, by Jeffrey D. McCausland (Author), Tom Vossler(Author), Walter Dixon (Narrator), Gildan Media (Publisher). Audible Audiobook– Unabridged https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Tested-Gettysburg-Leadership-Lessons/dp/1642934534 In order to be a truly effective leader, it is necessary to learn as much as possible from the examples of history—the disasters as well as the triumphs. At Gettysburg, Union and Confederate commanders faced a series of critical leadership challenges under the enormous stress of combat. The fate of the nation hung in the balance. These leaders each responded in different ways, but the concepts and principles they applied during those traumatic three days contain critical lessons for today’s leaders that are both useful and applicable—whether those leaders manage operations at a large corporation, supervise a public institution, lead an athletic team, or govern a state or municipality.   In the twenty-first century, leadership is the indispensable quality that separates successful organizations from failures. Successful leaders communicate vision, motivate team members, and inspire trust. One must move both people and the collective organization into the future while, at the same time, dealing with the past. A leader must learn to master the dynamic requirements of decision-making and change...more

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• 1480: James Tooley #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview. May 14, 2021.

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  Jul 05 2021

  Photo: Plato's academy, mosaic from Pompeii . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow James Tooley #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview. May 14, 2021.  Really Good Schools: Global Lessons for High-Caliber, Low-Cost Education -  Hardcover – April 12, 2021.by James Tooley (Author) “James Tooley has taken his argument about the transformative power of low-cost private education to a new and revelatory level in Really Good Schools. This is a bold and inspiring manifesto for a global revolution in education.” —Niall C. Ferguson, Milbank Family Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University Almost overnight a virus has brought into question America’s nearly 200-year-old government-run K-12 school-system—and prompted an urgent search for alternatives. But where should we turn to find them?  Enter James Tooley’s Really Good Schools. A distinguished scholar of education and the world’s foremost expert on private, low-cost innovative education, Tooley takes readers to some of the world’s most impoverished communities located in some of the world’s most dangerous places—including such war-torn countries as Sierra Leone, Liberia, and South Sudan.  And there, in places where education “experts” fear to tread, Tooley finds thriving private schools that government, multinational NGOs, and even international charity officials deny exist.  Why?  Because the very existence of low-cost, high-quality private schools shatters the prevailing myth in the U.S., U.K., and western Europe that, absent government, affordable, high-quality schools for the poor could not exist. But they do. And they are ubiquitous and in high demand. Founded by unheralded, local educational entrepreneurs, these schools are proving that self-organized education is not just possible but flourishing—often enrolling far more students than “free” government schools do at prices within reach of even the most impoverished families. In the course of his analysis Tooley asks the key questions: ■ What proportion of poor children is served? ■ How good are the private schools?  ■ What are the business models for these schools?  ■ And can they be replicated and improved?  The evidence is in. In poor urban and rural areas around the world, children in low-cost private schools outperform those in government schools. And the schools do so for a fraction of the per-pupil cost. Thanks to the pandemic, parents in America and Europe are discovering that the education of their children is indeed possible—and likely far better—without government meddlingwith rigid seat-time mandates, outdated school calendars, absurd age-driven grade levels, and worse testing regimes. And having experienced the first fruits of educational freedom, parents will be increasingly open to the possibilities of ever greater educational entrepreneurship and innovation.  Thankfully, they have Really Good Schools to show the way...more

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• 1480: Holly Fretwell #Unbound. The complete forty-minute interview. April 12, 2021.

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  Photo: Redwood tree in northern California redwood forest, where many redwood trees are managed for preservation and longevity, rather than being harvested for wood production. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Holly Fretwell  #Unbound. The complete forty-minute interview.  April 12, 2021. Fix America’s Forests: Reforms to Restore National Forests and Tackle the Wildfire Crisis. Holly Fretwell , Jonathan Wood April 12, 2021   https://www.perc.org/2021/04/12/fix-americas-forests-reforms-to-restore-national-forests-and-tackle-the-wildfire-crisis/ In 2020, the largest wildfire in California history scorched six counties in the northern part of the state. The August Complex Fire burned more than one million acres across three national forests and destroyed hundreds of structures. But devastating fires are not limited to California. Across the West, more than 10 million acres burned in 2020—a record in modern history. These fires consumed more than 17,500 structures and more than $3.5 billion in firefighting costs.Tragically, dozens of lives were lost, and many more people were displaced by evacuation orders. Fires released smoke that degraded air quality nearby and hundreds of miles away. They also destroyed wildlife habitat, including for imperiled species, and the fires’ aftereffects will soon lead to erosion that harms water quality in local watersheds....more

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• 1480: David Grantham #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview, April 5, 2021.

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  Photo: Air Force Office of Special Investigations. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow David Grantham #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview, April 5, 2021. Consequences: An Intelligence Officer's War; Paperback – November 11, 2020. by David Grantham  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Consequences-Intelligence-Officers-David-Grantham/dp/098440631X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= “Very little has been written on the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations efforts in the global war on terror. Consequences by David Grantham provides a unique and fascinating window into the nuts and bolts of OSI counterintelligence operations. You won’t be disappointed.”– Fred Burton, author of Beirut Rules: The Murder of a CIA Station Chief and Hezbollah’s War Against America   In 2020, ISIS followers are being encouraged to use COVID-19 to sicken Westerners. An ISIS supporter attacked a Naval base in Corpus Christi, Texas. Iran and the United States exchanged blows in Iraq. We are still living in the long shadow of the Iraq War. In 2006, David Grantham was fresh out of college and serving as a counterintelligence officer with the elite and secretive Air Force Office of Special Investigations. Iraq was veering toward civil war. The U.S. military desperately needed better on-the-ground intelligence to turn the tide. Grantham found himself in Kuwait and Afghanistan, then at Iraq’s infamous American prison, Camp Bucca. Not only was Bucca the breeding ground for the Islamic State, it was in southern Iraq, where America’s deadly fight with Iran was an open secret. Consequences is both a riveting, behind-the-scenes look at intelligence operations at the height of the Iraq war, and a charming and sobering story of one man’s journey through the pleasures and consequences that come with wartime intelligence....more

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• 1480: Michael Auslin #Unbound. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 12, 2021.

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  Photo: Indo-Pacific map, US CIA. https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/static/07a6b0c94e4f668ee608b598c48b13e6/asia_phy.pdf Free and Open Indo-Pacific is an umbrella term that encompasses Indo-Pacific specific strategies of countries with similar interests in the region. The concept has been developed through Japanese and American cooperation. Japan introduced the FOIP concept and formally put it down as a strategy in 2016. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Michael Auslin #Unbound. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 12, 2021. Asia's New Geopolitics: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific,  by Michael R. Auslin   Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08563RW9H/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0 The Indo-Pacific is fast becoming the world's dominant region. Now, as it grows in power and wealth, geopolitical competition has reemerged, threatening future stability not merely in Asia but around the globe. China is aggressive and uncooperative, and increasingly expects the world to bend to its wishes. The focus on Sino-US competition for global power has obscured "Asia's other great game": the rivalry between Japan and China. A modernizing India risks missing out on the energies and talents of millions of its women, potentially hampering the broader role it can play in the world. And in North Korea, the most frightening question raised by Kim Jong-un's pursuit of the ultimate weapon is also the simplest: Can he control his nukes? In Asia's New Geopolitics: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific, Michael R. Auslin examines these and other key issues transforming the Indo-Pacific and the broader world. He also explores the history of American strategy in Asia, from the 18th century through today. Taken together, Auslin's essays convey the richness and diversity of the region: with more than three billion people, the Indo-Pacific contains over half of the global population, including the world's two most populous nations, India and China. In a riveting final chapter, Auslin imagines a war between America and China in a bid for regional hegemony and what this conflict might look like....more

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• 1480: Josh Rogin #Unbound: the complete, eighty-minute interview, March 21, 2021

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  Photo: Sun-tse, Preface/Table of Contents    LOC.gov  CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Josh Rogin #Unbound: the complete, eighty-minute interview, March 21, 2021 Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century, Kindle Edition by Josh Rogin   Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08B364SKG/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0 The explosive, behind-the-scenes story of Donald Trump’s high-stakes confrontation with Beijing, from an award-winning Washington Post columnist and peerless observer of the U.S.–China relationship There was no calm before the storm. Donald Trump’s surprise electoral victory shattered the fragile understanding between Washington and Beijing, putting the most important relationship of the twenty-first century in the hands of a novice who had bitterly attacked China from the campaign trail. Almost as soon as he entered office, Trump brought to a boil the long-simmering rivalry between the two countries, while also striking up a “friendship” with Chinese president Xi Jinping — whose manipulations of his American counterpart would undermine the White House’s already disjointed response to the historic challenge of a rising China. All the while, Trump’s own officials fought to steer U.S. policy from within. By the time the COVID-19 pandemic erupted in Wuhan, Trump’s love-hate relationship with Xi had sparked a trade war, while Xi’s aggression had pushed the world to the brink of a new Cold War. But their quarrel had also forced a long-overdue reckoning within the United States over China’s audacious foreign-influence operations, horrific human rights abuses, and creeping digital despotism. Ironically, this awakening was one of the biggest foreign-policy victories of Trump’s fractious term in office. ​Filled with shocking revelations drawn from Josh Rogin’s unparalleled access to top U.S. officials from the White House and deep within the country’s foreign policy machine, Chaos Under Heaven reveals an administration at war with itself during perhaps our most urgent hour....more

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• 1480: Gordon Liddy Is My Muse, Hardcover; by John Calvin Batchelor (Author)

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  Photo:  Liddy discussing how the Watergate burglars were caught (screen grab). CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow "In the Tunnel of Love" #Unbound.  A story from the collection, Gordon Liddy Is My Muse, by John Calvin Batchelor. The complete eighty-five minutes. Read by John Batchelor. Gordon Liddy Is My Muse, Hardcover;  by John Calvin Batchelor  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Gordon-Liddy-My-Muse-Tommy/dp/080503790X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= In nine darkly comic episodes that range from Moscow to Hollywood, the conservative spy novelist Tommy "Tip" Paine offers this postmodern, picaresque chase across our contemporary oral landscape....more

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• 1479: #PacificWatch: LA accidentally blows up confiscated fireworks with Baghdad-style damage.@JCBliss

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  Jul 04 2021

  Photo: Iraqi firefighters extinguish the flames on the remains of cars destroyed after a car bomb explosion, in South Baghdad during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. The target was the local Iraqi police force causing eighteen casualties, of whom only two were police officers . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #PacificWatch: LA accidentally blows up confiscated fireworks with Baghdad-style damage.@JCBliss LAPD investigates why $1 million truck couldn’t contain fireworks explosion that injured 17 -- Federal authorities and Los Angeles police continued investigating on Thursday, July 1, why a specially outfitted truck failed to handle a planned detonation of seized explosives the night before in South Los Angeles – with a blast instead rocking the neighborhood and leaving 17 people injured and several buildings and vehicles damaged. Los Angeles Daily News ...more

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• 1479: #PacificWatch: The Battle of Venice Beach. @JCBliss

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  Jul 04 2021

  Photo: Saint Mark's Hotel on Windward Avenue in Venice Beach, ca.1906 . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #PacificWatch: The Battle of Venice Beach.  @JCBliss Push to clear homeless camps from Venice Beach gears up -- Outreach workers on Friday wrapped up the first — and easiest — phase of the Venice Beach cleanup, persuading dozens of homeless people camped on the boardwalk to move into shelters. Los Angeles Times

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• 1478: 3/3: #Londinium: Gaius and Germanicus philosophize on the limits of empires; the Church of Woke; and Climate Change. Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Jul 04 2021

  Photo: Empire quick-step . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 3/3: #Londinium: Gaius and Germanicus philosophize on the limits of empires; the Church of Woke; and Climate Change.  Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis

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• 1478: 2/3: #Londinium: Gaius and Germanicus philosophize on the limits of empires; the Church of Woke; and Climate Change. Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Jul 04 2021

  Photo: Roman Empire. . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 2/3: #Londinium: Gaius and Germanicus philosophize on the limits of empires; the Church of Woke; and Climate Change.  Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis

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• 1476: 1/3: #Londinium: Gaius and Germanicus philosophize on the limits of empires; the Church of Woke; and Climate Change. Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Jul 04 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1867. Scene from Antony and Cleopatra, at the Princess’s Theatre, from the "Illustrated London News" CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 1/3: #Londinium: Gaius and Germanicus philosophize on the limits of empires; the Church of Woke; and Climate Change.  Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Londinium

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• 1478: #GreatMigration: At the Greece/Bulgaria border: funding gambling dens and not much virus concern. Michael Yon, Locals.com

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  Jul 04 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1912. Български:  Машинна фабрика и железолеярница „Напредък“ на Бр. К. Станоеви & С-ие в Дебелец, Търновско. Основана в 1895 г. с основен капитал 2 000 лева, с 5 работници. През 1912 г. е с основен капитал 76 800 лева и 50 работници. Фотоалбум с фотографии на български индустриални предприятия от периода 1887-1912 г., подарен от Съюза на българските индустриалци на цар Фердинанд І по случай 25-годишнината от възшествието му на българския престол. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #GreatMigration: At the Greece/Bulgaria border: funding gambling dens and not much virus concern. Michael Yon, Locals.com ...more

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• 1478: #GreatMigration: At the Greece/Turkey weaponized border fence. Michael Yon, Locals.com

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  Jul 04 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1850. Entrance to Acropolis. Propyleum. Temple of Athene Nike CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #GreatMigration: At the Greece/Turkey weaponized border fence. Michael Yon, Locals.com

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• 1477: 2/2 Adversaries, by Ned Ryun

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  Jul 03 2021

  Photo: Dr Warren's statue in front of the Roxbury Latin School 2/2  Ned Ryun, author, Adversaries https://www.amazon.com/Adversaries-Story-Boston-Bunker-Hill/dp/B096WJZLHN

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• 1477: 1/2 Adversaries, by Ned Ryun

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  Jul 03 2021

  Photo:  Dr Joseph Warren (right) offering to serve General Israel Putnam as a private before the Battle of Bunker Hill. Ned Ryun, author, Adversaries https://www.amazon.com/Adversaries-Story-Boston-Bunker-Hill/dp/B096WJZLHN “The Adversaries is the story of Dr. Joseph Warren and his American comrades who with inspiring courage and heartbreaking sacrifice spark the greatest endeavor in human history: the founding of the free American Republic. Boston, September 1774.”  

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• 1477: WTO and UNHRC. The Dictators's Club. Craig Singleton, @FDD Press:

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  Jul 03 2021

  Photo:  DICTATOR, Clipper ship sailing card WTO and UNHRC.  The Dictators's Club.  Craig Singleton, @FDD Press:  

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• 1477: Craig Singleton, @FDD Press WHO cannot self-enforce.

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  Jul 03 2021

  PhotoWashington conversations on international organization, Dumbarton Oaks, August 1944 Craig Singleton, @FDD Press   WHO cannot self-enforce. https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2021/06/30/a-better-blueprint-for-international-organizations/

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• 1476: 1/2: #LitCrit: Widowland by C .J. Carey. Paperback

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  Jul 03 2021

  Photo: Firemen at work in bomb-damaged street in London, after Saturday night raid, circa 1941 CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 1/2: #LitCrit:  Widowland by C .J. Carey.  Paperback https://www.amazon.com/Widowland/dp/1529411998/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Widowland&qid=1625274350&s=books&sr=1-1 London, 1953, the Coronation of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson.  Attended by the Leader of the German-Britain Alliance.

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• 1476: 2/2: #LitCrit: Widowland by C. J. Carey. Paperback

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  Photo:  Edward VIII surrounded by heralds of the College of Arms prior to his only State Opening of Parliament, 3 November 1936. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 2/2: #LitCrit:  Widowland by C .J. Carey.  Paperback : https://www.amazon.com/Widowland/dp/1529411998/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Widowland&qid=1625274350&s=books&sr=1-1 London, 1953, the Coronation of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson.  Attended by the Leader of the German-Britain Alliance....more

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• 1476: #100: The PRC cannot figure the Biden Administration; & What is to be done? @Weifengzhong @Mercatus

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  Jul 03 2021

  Photo: 3月18-19日，中共中央政治局委员、中央外事工作委员会办公室主任杨洁篪，国务委员兼外长王毅在安克雷奇同美国国务卿布林肯、总统国家安全事务助理沙利文举行中美高层战略对话。双方共举行了3场会谈。这是美国拜登政府执政以来的中美首次面对面会晤，也是中美元首除夕通话后的首.    On March 18-19, Yang Jiechi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and director of the Office of the Central Committee for Foreign Affairs, and State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi held a China-US high-level strategy in Anchorage with U.S. Secretary of State Blincoln and Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Sullivan dialogue. The two sides held a total of 3 talks. This is the first face-to-face meeting between China and the United States since the Biden administration took office. (Screen grab) Addendum:  "[Chinese] no longer are in awe. China’s top diplomat, Yang Jiechi, in the Anchorage meeting in the middle of March, told Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in no uncertain terms that the U.S. could no longer talk to China 'from a position of strength.' ” Gordon G Chang, https://www.hoover.org/research/taiwan-deterrence-china-failing CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #100: The PRC cannot figure the Biden Administration; & What is to be done? @Weifengzhong @Mercatus https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beijing-cant-make-sense-of-bidens-china-strategy-can-biden ...more

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• 1476: NASA is regarded as the 2020 best federal place to work. @FRoseDC

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  Jul 03 2021

  Photo: NASA Headquarters . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow NASA is regarded as the 2020 best federal place to work. @FRoseDC https://govmatters.tv/data-show-federal-leaders-more-than-rose-to-the-challenge-of-covid-19/

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• 1476: #SmallBusinessAmerica: The confidence of the recovery. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer

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  Jul 03 2021

  Photo:   Grand Portage National Monument CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #SmallBusinessAmerica: The confidence of the recovery.  @GeneMarks  @Guardian @PhillyInquirer ttps://thehill.com/opinion/finance/558847-as-market-frets-over-inflation-small-businesses-are-already-adapting https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/559930-did-the-small-business-administration-discriminate-against-white https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jun/24/i-dont-care-if-my-employees-get-a-covid-19-vaccina/ https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jun/20/small-business-administration-isabella-guzman https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/558470-rand-paul-does-not-support-a-national-minimum-wage-increase-and-its-important https://www.geekwire.com/2021/amazon-says-prime-day-biggest-two-day-period-ever-third-party-sellers/ ...more

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• 1476: #SmallBusinessAmerica: Hotels rising and travel surging. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer

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  Jul 03 2021

  Photo: . Mt. Washington hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #SmallBusinessAmerica: Hotels rising and travel surging. @GeneMarks  @Guardian @PhillyInquirer https://www.nfib.com/foundations/research-center/monthly-reports/jobs-report/  https://www.costar.com/article/699543907/str-weekly-us-hotel-occupancy-inches-closer-to-70 https://www.ismworld.org/supply-management-news-and-reports/reports/ism-report-on-business/pmi/june/ https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2021/06/update-framing-lumber-prices-down.html https://www.inquirer.com/business/vacation-benefits-unlimited-workers-20210629.html ...more

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• 1476: The return of Ulysses Grant and Francis Scott Key. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion

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  Photo: The Francis Scott Key mansion CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow The return of Ulysses Grant and Francis Scott Key. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion https://www.wsj.com/articles/who-owns-the-fourth-of-july-11625090599

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• 1476: #PacificWatch: Summer season wildfires, droughts, heat and brownouts. @JCBliss

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  Jul 03 2021

  Photo: U.S. Marines with Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron (HMM) 364 and Marine Medium Helicopter Training Squadron (HMMT) 164, Marine Aircraft Group 39, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (MAW) from Marine Corps Base (MCB) Camp Pendleton assist in the efforts to combat the Tomahawk fires on MCB Camp Pendleton, Calif., May 16, 2014. 3rd MAW partnered with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to conduct aerial firefighting against several wildfires ablaze in San Diego County. (U.S. Marine Corps photograph by Sgt. Keonaona C. Paulo, 3rd MAW COMCAM/RELEASED) . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #PacificWatch: Summer season wildfires, droughts, heat and brownouts.  @JCBliss As Lava fire grows, another fire in Northern California explodes overnight -- As the lightning-sparked Lava fire in Northern California continues to grow, another blaze is spreading in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest amid bone-dry vegetation, scorching temperatures and gusty winds. Los Angeles Times Grocery stores are pulling perishable food, covering aisles in plastic sheets, and running sprinklers on their roofs as they battle a record heat wave - Grocery stores in Washington have been forced to pull perishable goods from shelves and turn off entire refrigerated sections as the state experiences record-shattering temperatures. On Monday, several areas in Oregon and Washington broke records as temperatures rose to as high as 116 degrees. The heat has caused several power outages throughout the region and taken a toll on local businesses. Business Insider Intense heat from Northern California fires have created multiple pyrocumulus clouds -- Plumes of superheated air rising from some of the major wildfires burning across Northern California — including the Lava and Tennant fires — formed multiple pyrocumulus clouds this week, formations that can help fires spread more rapidly. San Francisco Chronicle  California pleads for more power as summer blackout threat grows, hydro supplies fade - Acknowledging the increasing threat of rolling blackouts this summer, managers of California’s electricity grid issued a rare call for additional power supplies Thursday. Sacramento Bee Fire season in Northern California: Here are the major blazes burning now -- Three significant wildfires are collectively burning across nearly 32,000 acres of Northern California. Fueled by billowing wind, hot weather and dangerously dry conditions, the blazes are among a constellation of fires that have sprouted up and down the state in recent days. San Francisco Chronicle Bracing for wildfires, California’s inmate firefighters still denied visitors -- Hundreds of California inmates will charge to the front lines of rapidly spreading wildfires this summer, risking injury and death in exchange for shorter sentences and a few dollars a day. inewsource  Evacuations being ordered for new wildfire burning in Northern California north of Redding -- The blaze, burning north of Redding, is being called the Salt Fire. U.S. Forest Service officials said the fire is burning east of Interstate 5 near the Salt Creek exit south of Lakehead. Sacramento Bee Fires: Biden raises firefighters’ pay, Newsom slams Trump’s wildfire management -- With California and much of the West facing serious drought, record heat and wildfire risk, President Biden on Wednesday announced he is raising the pay of federal firefighters, expanding the use of the National Guard to help fight fires and broadening efforts to use federal satellites to detect fires as soon as they start so crews can more quickly limit their spread. San Jose Mercury California's rain year just ended - and the data shows we're in trouble -- Data shows that for many of the major regions of California, the July 2020-June 2021 rain year was one of the top 10 driest ever. Even more troubling is that the extreme dry spells are starting to stack up, especially in the Sierra Nevada watersheds that supply so much of the state’s water. San Francisco Chronicle ...more

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• 1476: Scrambling commercial space booster builders. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com

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  Jul 03 2021

  Photo:  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, Falcon 9 rocket is in position for a wet dress rehearsal at Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. During the rehearsal, the rocket will be fully fueled and launch controllers will perform a countdown demonstration. The rehearsal is in preparation for the company's first Commercial Resupply Services, or CRS, mission to the International Space Station aboard the Dragon capsule.  . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Scrambling commercial space booster builders. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/relativity-signs-deal-to-expand-rocket-facility/ ...more

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• 1476: Hubble troubles continue. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com

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  Jul 03 2021

  Photo: Hubble Views Ancient Storm in the Atmosphere of Jupiter - February, 1995 CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Hubble troubles continue. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/hubble-update-engineers-narrow-possible-failed-hardware-to-one-of-two-units/

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• 1476: 2/2: Crimea is not negotiable; & What is to be done? Anatole Lieven @QuincyInst

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  Jul 03 2021

  Photo: Crimea: Karaite cemetery CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 2/2: Crimea is not negotiable; & What is to be done? Anatole Lieven @QuincyInst https://www.reuters.com/world/putin-says-uk-warship-near-crimea-wanted-test-russias-military-response-2021-06-30/

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• 1476: 1/2: Crimea is not negotiable; & What is to be done? Anatole Lieven @QuincyInst

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  Jul 03 2021

  Photo: Crimea.  Карло Боссоли. Русское кладбище.   . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 1/2: Crimea is not negotiable; & What is to be done? Anatole Lieven @QuincyInst https://www.reuters.com/world/putin-says-uk-warship-near-crimea-wanted-test-russias-military-response-2021-06-30/

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• 1475: The Delta Variant vs the Euro 2021 Championship. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation.

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  Jul 02 2021

  Photo: Europe Sirani, Elisabetta, 1638-1665, Printmaker Cantarini, Simone, 1612-1648, Artist CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow The Delta aVriant vs the Euro 2021 Championship. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation.  https://www.ibtimes.com/who-sounds-alarm-over-euro-2020-covid-cases-soar-3240727

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• 1475: 2/2: Lee's Gettysburg mission was to win the war. Meade's Gettysburg mission was to outlast Lee. Jeff McCausland, @CBSNews author, Battle Tested!

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  Jul 02 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication. 1893.  CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 2/2: Lee's Gettysburg mission was to win the war. Meade's Gettysburg mission was to outlast Lee. Jeff McCausland, @CBSNews author, Battle Tested! Battle Tested!: Gettysburg Leadership Lessons for 21st Century LeadersHardcover – September 1, 2020. by Jeffrey D. McCausland  (Author), Tom Vossler  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Tested-Gettysburg-Leadership-Lessons/dp/1642934534/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=  ...more

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• 1475: 1/2: Lee's Gettysburg mission was to win the war. Meade's Gettysburg mission was to outlast Lee. Jeff McCausland, @CBSNews author, Battle Tested!

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  Jul 02 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1922 [Warren Harding at reenactment of Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg. Pennsylvania] CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 1/2: Lee's Gettysburg mission was to win the war. Meade's Gettysburg mission was to outlast Lee. Jeff McCausland, @CBSNews author, Battle Tested! Battle Tested!: Gettysburg Leadership Lessons for 21st Century LeadersHardcover – September 1, 2020. by Jeffrey D. McCausland  (Author), Tom Vossler  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Tested-Gettysburg-Leadership-Lessons/dp/1642934534/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=  ...more

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• 1475: The Biden Administration blames bigness for the price of cable TV, chicken and baggage; & What is to be done? @VerodeRugy @Mercatus

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  Jul 02 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1936.  Else Marie Stai f. 1933 forer høner i hønsegården på Raknerud nordre, Helgøya. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow The Biden Administration blames bigness for the price of cable TV, chicken and baggage & What is to be done? @VerodeRugy @Mercatus https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-weighs-new-executive-order-restraining-big-business-11625007804?mod=hp_lead_pos1

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• 1474: Rivlin, Biden, Blinken, Lapid and Bennett talk Iran. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1

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  Jul 02 2021

  Photo: Map of Asian Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan, Baluchistan and Greater Bocharia, with parts of neighboring states. . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Rivlin, Biden, Blinken, Lapid and Bennett talk Iran. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1

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• 1474: What we can know of the Vienna negotiations. Dennis Ross @AmbDennisRoss. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1

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  Jul 02 2021

  Photo: Opening of the city railroad, Vienna 1898 . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow What we can know of the Vienna negotiations. Dennis Ross @AmbDennisRoss ; Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1   Amb. Dennis Ross is a former special assistant to President Barack Obama and is the counselor and William Davidson Distinguished Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.   Related Articles https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/06/iran-nuclear-deal-middle-east/61930 https://www.fdd.org/in_the_news/2021/06/17/faq-issues-ahead-on-irans-nuclear-program https://www.timesofisrael.com/pa-president-abbas-meets-king-abdullah-in-amman-as-west-bank-tensions-rise/ ...more

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• 1474: Lebanon failed state. David Schenker, WashInstitute. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1

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  Jul 02 2021

  Photo:  Temple of Bacchus in Baalbek, Lebanon. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Lebanon failed state. David Schenker, WashInstitute. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 David Schenker @WashInstitute   David Schenker is the Taube Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute. From 2019 to January 2021, he served as assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs.   Related articles https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/what-role-will-hezbollah-play-in-lebanons-future-government-670314 https://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-leader-haniyeh-meets-hezbollah-chief-nasrallah-in-beirut/ https://www.timesofisrael.com/moroccan-pm-congratulates-hamas-on-victory-over-israel-in-recent-fighting/ https://jewishinsider.com/2021/06/luria-zeldin-pursue-crackdown-on-hezbollah-in-lebanon/ https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/preserving-lebanese-armed-forces-amid-state-decline https://jewishinsider.com/2021/07/house-foreign-aid-palestinians/   ...more

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• 1474: #TammanyHallNeverSleeps: The NYC count surprises. @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNews

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  Jul 02 2021

  Photo: Cartoon concerning the Republican defeat of Tammany Hall candidates in the 1875 elections: "Tammany's Waterloo" trumpeting elephant standing on crushed remnants of "Reformed Tammany Hall," Thomas Nast. . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #TammanyHallNeverSleeps: The NYC count surprises. @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNews https://www.newsweek.com/de-blasio-calls-complete-recanvass-vote-count-after-nyc-mayor-election-errors-1605626

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• 1474: #TheScalaReport: IPads replace wait staff, self-service is the new new, and Bigness alert. Chris Riegel, CEO @ScalaInc @STRATACACHE

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  Jul 02 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1913.  Striking waiters meet CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #TheScalaReport: IPads replace wait staff, self-service is the new new, and Bigness alert. Chris Riegel, CEO @ScalaInc @STRATACACHE https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-weighs-new-executive-order-restraining-big-business-11625007804?mod=hp_lead_pos1

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• 1474: Canada National Day and the lessons of North American history. @ConradMBlack @TheNationalPost.

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  Jul 02 2021

  Photo: A celebration in Canada, 1834. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Canada National Day and the lessons of North American  history. @ConradMBlack @TheNationalPost. https://nationalpost.com/opinion/conrad-black-celebrate-canada-but-not-its-political-leaders-or-its-propensity-for-self-flagellation

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• 1474: #KabulDiary: The Embassy and the Airport. Charlie D'Agata @CBSNews

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  Jul 02 2021

  Photo: Kabul—compound site. . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #KabulDiary: The Embassy and the Airport. Charlie D'Agata @CBSNews https://taskandpurpose.com/news/us-leaving-afghanistan-taliban-control/

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• 1474: #100Years: Succession Unknown. The challenge by Bo Xilai. James Miles @TheEconomist.

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  Jul 02 2021

  Photo: Cultural Revolution. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #100Years: Succession Unknown. The challenge by Bo Xilai. James Miles @TheEconomist. https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/06/26/chinas-communist-party-at-100-the-secret-of-its-longevity?utm_medium=pr&utm_source=us-e

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• 1474: #100Years: Recruiting. James Miles @TheEconomist.

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  Jul 02 2021

  Photo:   1952 Chinese stamp: 800 soldiers marching past peasants . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #100Years: Recruiting. James Miles @TheEconomist. https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/06/26/chinas-communist-party-at-100-the-secret-of-its-longevity?utm_medium=pr&utm_source=us-e

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• 1474: #100Years: The challenge by Bo Xilai. James Miles @TheEconomist.

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  Jul 02 2021

  Photo: The US Secretary Gutierrez meets with the Chinese Minister Bo Xilai . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #100Years: The challenge by Bo Xilai. James Miles @TheEconomist. https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/06/26/chinas-communist-party-at-100-the-secret-of-its-longevity?utm_medium=pr&utm_source=us-e

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• 1474: #100Years: Shanghai was the birth of the China Communist Party. James Miles @TheEconomist.

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  Jul 02 2021

  Photo: Mao Tse-Tung, leader of China's Communists, addresses some of his followers (photo taken somewhere between 1933-1945). . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #100Years: Shanghai was the birth of the China Communist Party. James Miles @TheEconomist. https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/06/26/chinas-communist-party-at-100-the-secret-of-its-longevity?utm_medium=pr&utm_source=us-e

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• 1473: The PRC vs Canada in the time of the virus. Charles Burton. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

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  Jul 01 2021

  Photo: Chinese Empire Reform Association of Canada member portraits. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow The PRC vs Canada in the time of the virus. Charles Burton,. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill Charles Burton, senior fellow at the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, on this: https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/30/china/ccp-100-china-beijing-xi-mic-intl-hnk/index.html

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• 1473: No worthy choices for the PRC at the Communist Party's 100th anniversary. Stephen Yates. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

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  Jul 01 2021

  Photo: Chairman Mao delivering his opening speech for 6th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow No worthy choices for the PRC at the Communist Party's 100th anniversary. Stephen Yates. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill Stephen Yates, former deputy national security advisor to Vice President Cheney and currently CEO of DC International Advisory, on this: https://www.wsj.com/articles/former-chinese-party-insider-calls-u-s-hopes-of-engagement-naive-11624969800 ...more

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• 1473: Hong Kong liberty failing. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. Mark Clifford, director of Next Digital, the publisher of Apple Daily.

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  Jul 01 2021

  Photo: Protesters carry a flag with the slogan during a demonstration at Harbour City mall on Christmas Eve 2019.. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Hong Kong liberty failing. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. Mark Clifford, director of Next Digital, the publisher of Apple Daily. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hong-kong-china-national-security-law-1-year-more-dangerous-than-beijing/ https://nypost.com/2021/06/28/apple-daily-editorial-writer-arrested-at-hong-kongs-airport/...more

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• 1473: 100 years of flexibility and deception by the Chinese Communist Party. Helen Raleigh, author. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

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  Jul 01 2021

  Photo: Chinese Soviet Republic. In 1934, the Chinese Soviet second meeting of delegates. . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 100 years of flexibility and deception by the Chinese Communist Party. Helen Raleigh, author. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill Helen Raleigh, author of Confucius Never Said and Backlash: How China's Aggression Has Backfired. https://www.city-journal.org/chinese-communist-party-at-100

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• 1473: #KabulDiary: South Vietnam collapsed unpredictably swiftly, 1975. @CBSNews Jeff McCausland

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  Jul 01 2021

  Photo: A National Front soldier in South Viet Nam. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #KabulDiary: South Vietnam collapsed unpredictably swiftly, 1975. @CBSNews Jeff McCausland https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/270108883/afghanistan-may-collapse-in-civil-war-after-us-withdrawal

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• 1474: Raptor arrives. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com

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  Jul 01 2021

  Photo: Raptor engine delivery, Boca Chica. Screen grab. Raptor arrives.  Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/first-orbital-raptor-engine-delivered-to-boca-chica/

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• 1473: Vladimir Putin takes call-ins about the virus and the food prices. @Felix_Light @CBSNews @MoscowTimes

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  Jul 01 2021

  Photo: Russian phone booth. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Vladimir Putin takes call-ins about the virus and the food prices.  @Felix_Light @CBSNews @MoscowTimes https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/06/30/putin-takes-russians-questions-at-annual-marathon-call-in-a74368 Permissions: You are free to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use....more

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• 1473: The United Steelworkers Union District 10 on strike yet not hearing from the Biden Administration. SalenaZito.com

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  Jul 01 2021

  Photo: Steelworkers reading the newspaper, Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. The United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union, commonly known as the United Steelworkers (USW), is a general trade union with members across North America. . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow The United Steelworkers Union District 10 on strike yet not hearing from the Biden Administration. SalenaZito.com https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/a-labor-dispute-in-which-no-one-can-win ...more

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• 1474: Hubble at risk. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Jul 01 2021

  Photo: Hubble Spies Spectacular Sombrero.  Hubble at risk.  Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/hubble-update-still-no-solution/

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• 1474: Cryptocurrency Bandits. Simon Constable, WSJ, Forbes

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  Jul 01 2021

  Photo: The crypto of the ancient kingdom of Commagene, a Greco-Iranian kingdom ruled by a Hellenized branch of the Iranian Orontid dynast. Cryptocurrency Bandits.  Simon Constable, WSJ, Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/simonconstable/2021/06/29/us-saw-more-than-80000-cryptocurrency-frauds-in-2020-report/   https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/bitcoin-price-live-crypto-recovery-feels-very-2013-leading-analyst-says/ar-AALx5gZ

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• 1473: On the road to Gettysburg's 50th Reunion, 1913. SalenaZito.com @DCExaminer

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  Jul 01 2021

  Photo: The Gettysburg Reunion (the Great Reunion) of July 1913, which commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg.            The reunion at "Bloody Angle" - Pickett's men in foreground; Union men lined against wall. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow On the road to Gettysburg's 50th Reunion, 1913.  SalenaZito.com @DCExaminer https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/the-american-general-store-is-a-symbol-of-enterprise-and-exceptionalism ...more

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• 1473: Searching for unknown memories of Father. Bill Damon, @HooverInst

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  Jul 01 2021

  Photo: The Pleasures of Fatherhood.  Louis Philibert Debucourt (French, Paris 1755–1832 Paris) . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Searching for unknown memories of Father. Bill Damon, @HooverInst https://www.wsj.com/articles/golfing-with-the-father-i-never-knew-11624075260

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• 1474: Delta variant in Scotland. Simon Constable, WSJ, Forbes

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  Jul 01 2021

  Photo:  Scottish suffragettes, c.1906-1914. Delta variant in Scotland. Simon Constable, WSJ, Forbes https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/scottish-news/7327695/coronavirus-scotland-cases-spike-death-stats/   https://www.business-live.co.uk/regional-development/scotland-travel-ban-lifting-welcomed-20929495

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• 1473: Credit without borders. @JohnTamny @RealClearMarkets

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  Jul 01 2021

  Photo:  New York scenes in a Chinese gambling-house:A game of Fan-Tan in progress. . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Credit without borders. @JohnTamny @RealClearMarkets https://www.forbes.com/sites/johntamny/2021/06/27/illegal-gambling-mocks-the-economics-professions-fed-obsession/?sh=3653312015d7

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• 1473: The Surfside Tragedy and the North Tower. Charles Pellegrino, author, Ghosts of Vesuvius: A New Look at the Last Days of Pompeii, How Towers Fall, and Other Strange Connections.

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  Jul 01 2021

  Photo: Vesuvius eruption, 1944 . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow The Surfside Tragedy and the North Tower. Charles Pellegrino, author,  Ghosts of Vesuvius: A New Look at the Last Days of Pompeii, How Towers Fall, and Other Strange Connections. https://www.amazon.com/Ghosts-Vesuvius-Pompeii-Strange-Connections/dp/0060751002

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• 1473: Pausing Iran. @AmbJohnBolton

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  Jul 01 2021

  Photo: The Qajar prince Abbas Mirza Farman Farmaian. From the 'Takie-e Muien El Molk' in Western Iran ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  His relative Mohammad Vali Mirza (1891–1983) was the third son of Persian Qajar nobleman Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma and his wife Princess Ezzat-Dowleh. Anecdote: At the end of World War I, when the Russian Communists seized many properties in Azerbaijan, Mohammad Vali Mirza travelled to Moscow to settle accounts. Disguised as a beggar, he crossed the mountain passes of Turkey on his way north but was captured by a Venezuelan general named Rafael de Nogales, who was fighting on the German side and almost shot him as a spy. Mohammad Vali Mirza escaped only at the last minute because he spoke to the general in French, prompting the general to realize, as Nogales wrote in his memoirs, "that he was a prince of the lineage of Farman Farma." Afterward the two became friends, and Mohammad Vali Mirza later bestowed a medal on Nogales in gratitude. After the 1979 revolution he left Iran for Geneva, Switzerland, with his family and not to return to Iran until he died at the age of 92. Permissions: Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2  Databot(talk | contribs); 9 April 2008; Qajar prince Abbas Mirza Farman Farmaian. From the 'Takie-e Muien El Molk' in Western Iran See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Takie-e_Muien_El_Molk_-_Abbas_Mirza_Tile.jpg ..  ..  ..  CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Pausing Iran. @AmbJohnBolton https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-bidens-opening-on-iran-20210629-ol55vwrnbvgwfjqztigjwk5tbe-story.html ...more

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• 1471: Grumpy Marine Le Pen and Not-Unpopular Emmanuel Macron, with Center-Right Rivals for 2022. Sophie Pedder @PedderSophie @TheEconomist

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  Jun 30 2021

  Photo: Bodleian Libraries, Cri de Paris (French political cartoon) CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Grumpy Marine Le Pen and Not-Unpopular Emmanuel Macron, with Center-Right Rivals for 2022. Sophie Pedder @PedderSophie @TheEconomist https://www.economist.com/europe/2021/06/24/french-voters-punish-presidential-poll-favourites

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• 1471: The French vote not much in a pandemic recovery. Sophie Pedder @PedderSophie @TheEconomist.

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  Jun 30 2021

  Photo: L'hôpital.  Label on the cardboard below the image, with the handwritten title in black ink: "Hospice des Incurables (Porte de la Chapelle)" as well as the number of the Marville collection. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow The French vote not much in a pandemic recovery. Sophie Pedder @PedderSophie @TheEconomist. https://www.economist.com/europe/2021/06/24/french-voters-punish-presidential-poll-favourites?utm_medium=pr&utm_source=us-e ....more

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• 1472: 2/2 Biden's Syrian message. Andrea Stricker, @FDD @StrickerNonpro

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  Jun 30 2021

  Photo: Damascus. General view. Tomb of Saladin / Bonfils. 2/2   Biden's Syrian messages.  Andrea Stricker, @FDD @StrickerNonpro

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• 1472: 1/2 Never nukes in Iran, and what of the JCPOA? ? Andrea Stricker, @FDD @StrickerNonpro

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  Jun 30 2021

  Photo: Persepolis, in Iran. 1/2   Never nukes in Iran, and what of the JCPOA? ?  Andrea Stricker, @FDD @StrickerNonpro https://news.yahoo.com/biden-iran-never-nuclear-weapons-010629193.html

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• 1472: 2/2 UK/NATO vs Russia. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

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  Jun 30 2021

  Photo:  HMS Defender, Acheron-class destroyer (not the current version) 2/2   UK/NATO vs Russiar.  Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs HMS Defender versus the Russian Military: The Danger of Believing Your Own Propaganda HMS Defender is the fifth of the Type 45 or Daring-class air-defence destroyers built for the Royal Navy. https://mises.org/power-market/hms-defender-versus-russian-military-danger-believing-your-own-propaganda

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• 1472: 1/2 Tigray vs Ethiopia. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

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  Jun 30 2021

  Photo:  Tigray, Processional Cross 1/2  Tigray vs Ethiopia.  Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/world/africa/Tigray-Ethiopia.html

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• 1471: The paradox of entitlements in a market-rollicking recovery. @LizPeek @TheHill @FixNews

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  Jun 30 2021

  Photo:  Economic Geyser[its real name}.  Part of series: Wonders of the Yellowstone, as Mirrored in the Camera, Views of the National Park. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow The paradox of Entitlements in a market-rollicking recovery. @LizPeek @TheHill @FixNews https://www.wsj.com/articles/its-the-entitlements-stupid-11624920486

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• 1471: Rosy recovery scenario with premium-priced roses from the US to the EU & What is to be done? @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews

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  Jun 30 2021

  Photo: Rose on porcelain..Den Kongelige porcelain factory - Hallwylska museet. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Rosy recovery scenario with premium-priced roses from the US to the EU & What is to be done? @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews https://www.ft.com/content/88b4102f-a6d1-473a-8920-5e98b45661ae

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• 1471: #LondonCalling: Wimbledon without masks or obvious distancing @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

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  Jun 30 2021

  Photo: Gentlemen's Doubles final at the 1897 Wimbledon Championships. Players shown are, at the near side, Reginald Doherty (left) and Laurence Doherty(right) and at the far side Herbert Baddeley (left) and Wilfred Baddeley (right).. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #LondonCalling: Wimbledon without masks or obvious distancing  @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion n pictures: Wimbledon’s opening day 2021. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/46642bc0-d8c1-11eb-b92f-5fe539a30c29?shareToken=beaaf5fa1dd3a5d6c4db28ad36b858dc Quentin Letts: Great Liberator? Don’t sing his praises just yet. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/307a2ac2-d848-11eb-8f14-0bb645f59db0?shareToken=eb575932fc9534669127ef23dc05ac37 John Constable paintings hidden inside old poetry book. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/4b6bc8d2-d833-11eb-8f14-0bb645f59db0?shareToken=091f2b370024d69e41e1a769100c91cd ...more

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• 1471: #LondonCalling: Unsolved Fed: "Talking about talking about tapering."@JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

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  Jun 30 2021

  Photo: Federal Reserve Board, 1917 . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #LondonCalling:  Unsolved Fed: "Talking about talking about tapering."@JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-there-a-central-banker-in-the-house-11623969000 https://www.wsj.com/articles/its-the-entitlements-stupid-11624920486

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• 1471: #LondonCalling: Brexit always ready for a spat. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

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  Jun 30 2021

  Photo: Coat of arms of the United Kingdom, bearing the motto of the Order of the Garter. Above the coat of arms in letterpress the title of the book, below the imprint. (Book in Dutch.) CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #LondonCalling: Brexit always ready for a spat. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/06/28/lame-duck-macron-still-threat-brexit-britain/ EU offers Brexit olive branch on trade with Northern Ireland. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/6286c2e4-d84a-11eb-8f14-0bb645f59db0?shareToken=731c0ed0604c10b9ca9a0d3cab7a8c44 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/06/28/brussels-vows-take-revenge-uk-ditches-data-regime/?li_source=LI&li_medium=liftigniter-rhr .....more

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• 1471: Pandemic, scandal, resignations, lockdown, romance—Boris Johnson sails onward. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinions

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  Jun 30 2021

  Photo:  The School for Scandal, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.   Here: Robert Baddeley as Moses. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #LondonCalling: Pandemic, scandal, resignations, lockdown, romance—Boris Johnson sails onward. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinions Offices are free from cameras, Speaker tells MPs and ministers after Hancock leak. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/3de24078-d843-11eb-8f14-0bb645f59db0?shareToken=46566cdc33896e170153b1e53cab3d35 Dominic Cummings mocks Boris Johnson over claim he ‘sacked’ Matt Hancock. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/e05c5e28-d83f-11eb-8f14-0bb645f59db0?shareToken=b49dc7dca3aa5d12ba964dff26245cfd  ...more

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• 1471: #PacificWatch: 116° F in British Columbia, 115° F in Portland. @JCBliss

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  Jun 30 2021

  Photo: Congressional Weather Forecast: Long Hot Summe.  Jim Berryman cartoon. . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #PacificWatch: 116° F in British Columbia, 115° F in Portland. @JCBliss https://www.oregonlive.com/weather/2021/06/portlands-record-breaking-heat-wave-by-the-numbers.html

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• 1471: Hamas meets with Hizbollah in Beirut; & What is to be done? Aaron Klein @Aaron JKleinShow senior adviser to Bibi Netanyahu.

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  Jun 30 2021

  Photo: The Beirut explosion occurred behind the grain silos in this view.. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Hamas meets with Hizbollah in Beirut; & What is to be done? Aaron Klein @Aaron JKleinShow senior adviser to Bibi Netanyahu. https://apnews.com/article/hezbollah-hamas-beirut-lebanon-middle-east-571e48b66229683666d657acd1e54f44

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• 1471: Xi rules until succession. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

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  Jun 30 2021

  Photo: .Xi Jinping's signature CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Xi rules until succession.  @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/xi-jinpings-prolonged-tenure-could-spell-trouble-for-communist-partys-future-say-experts/articleshow/83890126.cms

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• 1471: 100 years of Communist China rule leads to Bo Xilai vs Xi Jinping. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

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  Jun 30 2021

  Photo: Slogan for the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China in Tianxin District of Changsha, Hunan, China.  湖南省长沙市天心区万家丽南路的中国共产党成立100周年标语。 Permissions: see below. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 100 years of Communist China rule leads to Bo Xilai vs Xi Jinping. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://thediplomat.com/2012/01/the-case-for-bo-xilai/ .. Slogan for the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China in Tianxin District of Changsha, Hunan, China. 中文（简体）: 湖南省长沙市天心区万家丽南路的中国共产党成立100周年标语。 Date 11 June 2021, 16:21:31 Source Own work Author Huangdan2060 Camera location 28° 04′ 09.6″ N, 113° 01′ 05.51″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap. The reproduction of this artistic, architectural, or applied artwork, is covered under the Copyright Law of the People's Republic of China, which allows reproduction of works in public place if the author and the name of the original work is attributed.Copyright Law of the People's Republic of China, Article 24: In the following cases, a work may be used without permission from, and without payment of remuneration to, the copyright owner, provided that the name of the author and the title of the work shall be indicated, the normal use of the work shall not be affected, and the legitimate rights and interests of the copyright owner shall not be infringed unreasonably:(10) copying, drawing, photographing, or video recording of an artistic work located or on display in a public place;...more

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• 1470: 4/4 Thomas Joscelyn, FDD, @ThomasJoscelyn, @LongWarJournal ; @BillRoggio @FDD @LongWarJournal

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  Jun 29 2021

  Photo: The first victim of a child soldier—childhood Qassam Brigades announces military training camp for children and teenagers from Gaza.  . . .  The children, often referred to as ‘Qassam cubs,’ are trained in the use of firearms, educated in Hamas doctrine and learn guerrilla warfare. Permissions:  2008.  Source http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/01/389381.html    Author | Rafaela Tasca and Carlos Latuff ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..   4/4 Thomas Joscelyn, FDD, @ThomasJoscelyn, @LongWarJournal ; @BillRoggio @FDD @LongWarJournal ....more

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• 1470: 3/4 Thomas Joscelyn, FDD, @ThomasJoscelyn, @LongWarJournal ; @BillRoggio @FDD @LongWarJournal

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  Jun 29 2021

  Photo: The hosts Bill Roggio and Tom Joscelyn discuss the Taliban’s massive offensive in Afghanistan. The campaign demonstrates, once again, that the “peace process” is a Western delusion. They also discuss how Bill’s map of the Taliban’s gains has evolved over time.   3/4 Thomas Joscelyn, FDD, @ThomasJoscelyn, @LongWarJournal ; @BillRoggio @FDD @LongWarJournal

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• 1470: 2/4 Thomas Joscelyn, FDD, @ThomasJoscelyn, @LongWarJournal ; @BillRoggio @FDD @LongWarJournal

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  Jun 29 2021

  Photo: Taliban control in  Afghanistan. "In the six weeks since the May 1 deadline for U.S. troops to withdraw from Afghanistan, the Taliban has seized control of 32 additional districts, their reach spanning half of the country’s 34 provinces. The Afghan government has been unable to regain control in any of the 32 districts." Taliban takes control of 30 districts in past six weeks 2/4  Thomas Joscelyn, FDD, @ThomasJoscelyn, @LongWarJournal ; @BillRoggio @FDD @LongWarJournal

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• 1470: 1/4 Thomas Joscelyn, FDD, @ThomasJoscelyn, @LongWarJournal ; @BillRoggio @FDD @LongWarJournal

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  Jun 29 2021

  Photo: Ivory Coast, Mosquée de Kong-1892 Ivory Coast witnesses surge in jihadist activity 1/4 Thomas Joscelyn, FDD, @ThomasJoscelyn, @LongWarJournal ; @BillRoggio @FDD @LongWarJournal longwarjournal.org

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• 1469: 2/2: SEC Regulatory Power and Climate Change. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Jun 29 2021

  Photo: The continental climate in Russia extends (irregularly) from Moscow to Vladivostok.  This includes Kazan, the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia: it lies at the confluence of the Volga and the Kazanka rivers. Here:  Kazan Cathedral - Vyazniki of Vladimir Gubernia - market . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 2/2: SEC regulatory power and Climate Change. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst ttps://www.hoover.org/research/climate-disclosures-and-their-stealth-mission ...more

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• 1469: 1/2: SEC Regulatory Power and Climate Change. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Jun 29 2021

  Photo: Regulations . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 1/2: SEC Regulatory Power and Climate Change. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst ttps://www.hoover.org/research/climate-disclosures-and-their-stealth-mission

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• 1469: "Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Neshar Ramla archaic human unearthed in an Israeli quarry. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1

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  Jun 29 2021

  Photo: Ramla, 1487, by Conrad Grünenberg. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow "Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Neshar Ramla archaic human unearthed in an Israeli quarry. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/neanderthal-human-fossils-israel/

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• 1469: Biden Administration strikes Iraq and Syria in order to intimidate Iran. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1

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  Jun 29 2021

  Photo:  Earlier strikes in Syria: 9 PM EDT, 13 April 2018 (4 AM, 14 April in Syria); three sites were targeted: a scientific research center in Damascus, a chemical weapons storage facility west of Homs, and an equipment storage facility and command post also near Homs.  Here:  Map of 2018 bombing of Damascus and Homs released by the US Department of Defense CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Biden Administration strikes Iraq and Syria in order to intimidate Iran. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/bidens-airstrikes-send-a-clear-message-amid-iran-deal-talks-e2-80-94-but-are-unlikely-to-derail-them-analysts-say/ar-AALxMs9 ...more

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• 1469: #NewWorldReport: Russia shouts out Managua, Havana and Caracas as allies. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org

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  Jun 29 2021

  Photo: Sociaiist-realist Soveitskii architecture with a slight Frank Gehry gloss:  Embassy of the Russia Federation in Havana “Russia only has two allies; its army and its navy,” Emperor Alexander III used to say. This 19th-century quote remains very popular when people emphasize that in the international arena, especially during hard times, Russia can rely only on itself. But does this mean Russia has no countries to call friends? Even President Vladimir Putin cited Alexander III when answering the question about Russia’s allies in 2015, though quickly clarified that he was joking and Russia definitely has foreign allies. ..  ..  ..  CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #NewWorldReport:  Russia shouts out Managua, Havana and Caracas as allies.  Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org https://en.mercopress.com/2021/06/25/russia-to-the-world-cuba-venezuela-and-nicaragua-are-our-latin-american-allies ...more

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• 1469: #NewWorldReport: Haitian migrants aiming for South America and the USA. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org

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  Jun 29 2021

  Photo: Haitian emigration. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow   #NewWorldReport: Haitian migrants aiming for South America and the USA. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org https://miami.cbslocal.com/2021/06/10/haiti-crisis-election-unrest-covid-pandemic/

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• 1469: #NewWorldReport: Maduro demands that the US lift sanctions. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org

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  Jun 29 2021

  Photo: Efraín Antonio Campo Flores and Francisco Flores de Freitas after their arrest by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration on 10 November 2015. . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #NewWorldReport:  Maduro demands that the US lift sanctions. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-eu-canada-willing-to-review-venezuela-sanctions-based-on-negotiations/ar-AALrZcM ...more

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• 1469: #NewWorldReport: Shots fired Colombia. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc

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  Jun 29 2021

  Photo: .What might have been helpfuL              An Apache Attack helicopter of the Army Air Corps in Afghanistan fires rockets at insurgents during a patrol in 2008. Designed to hunt and destroy tanks, the Apache attack helicopter has significantly improved the Army's operational capability.The Apache attack helicopter can operate in all weathers, day or night and detect, classify and prioritise up to 256 potential targets in a matter of seconds. It carries a mix of weapons including rockets, Hellfire missiles and a 30mm chain gun, as well as a state of the art fully integrated defensive aid suite.In addition to the distinctive Longbow radar located above the rotor blades, this aircraft is equipped with a day TV system, thermal imaging sight and direct view optics. ..  ..  ..   . 18 June 2008 / Photo http://www.defenceimagery.mod.uk/fotoweb/fwbin/download.dll/45153802.jpg Metadata source: http://www.defenceimagery.mod.uk/fotoweb/fwbin/fotoweb_isapi.dll/ArchiveAgent/5042/Search?FileInfo=1&MetaData=1&Search=45154922.jpg Author | Staff Sergeant Mike Harvey le) | Images are downloadable at high resolution, made available at http://www.defenceimagery.mod.uk for reuse under the OGL (Open Government License).When reusing, credit the photo as "Photo: Staff Sergeant Mike Harvey/MOD" CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #NewWorldReport: Shots fired Colombia. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/25/world/americas/colombia-ivan-duque-helicopter-attack.html ...more

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• 1469: India reinforces the Line of Acual Control, High Himalayas.@CleoPaskal @FDD @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

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  Jun 29 2021

  Photo: The Line of Actual Control (LAC) is a notional demarcation line that separates Indian-controlled territory from Chinese-controlled territory in the Sino-Indian border dispute. Here;  Founding of the Sino-Indian Friendship Association on 16 May 1952 in Beijing. . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow   India reinforces the Line of Acual Control, High Himalayas.@CleoPaskal @FDD @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/india-shifts-50-000-troops-to-china-border-in-historic-move/ar-AALwO6b...more

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• 1469: Nike embraces the Gulag of the PRC. @AlanTonelson @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

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  Jun 29 2021

  Photo: North Korean and Chinese Communist prisoners assembled at the United Nations' prisoner-of-war camp at Pusan during the Korean War in 1951. ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..   Haaretz: A Million People Are Jailed at China's Gulags. "I Managed to Escape. Here's What Really Goes on Inside " Rape, torture and human experiments. Sayragul Sauytbay offers firsthand testimony from a Xinjiang 'reeducation' camp . . . Torture – metal nails, fingernails pulled out, electric shocks – takes place in the “black room.” Punishment is a constant. The prisoners are forced to take pills and get injections. It’s for disease prevention, the staff tell them, but in reality they are the human subjects of medical experiments. Many of the inmates suffer from cognitive decline. Some of the men become sterile. Women are routinely raped. ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..   CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Nike embraces the Gulag of the PRC. @AlanTonelson @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill Alan Tonelson, independent economic policy analyst who blogs at RealityChek and tweets at @AlanTonelson, on this:  https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/nike-brand-of-china-ceo-says...more

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• 1469: The unknowns of the Lambda variant; & What is to be done? @HenryIMiller @PacificReasearch HenryMillerMD.org

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  Jun 29 2021

  Photo: Phoenician kylix with Greek alphabet. The Lambda variant was first originally discovered in Peru and the WHO has classified it as a 'Variant of Interest' Permissions:  National Archaeological Museum of Athens, Department of Ceramics.   Accession number 9146.  Source/PhotographerMarsyas (2007) . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow The unknowns of the Lambda variant; & What is to be done? @HenryIMiller @PacificReasearch HenryMillerMD.org https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/new-covid-19-variant-called-lambda-being-investigated-what-we-know-so-far/articleshow/83917599.cms...more

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• 1469: The Delta variant; & What is to be done? @HenryIMiller @PacificReasearch HenryMillerMD.org

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  Jun 29 2021

  Photo: . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow The Delta variant; & What is to be done? @HenryIMiller @PacificReasearch HenryMillerMD.org https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/us-coronavirus-the-delta-variant-will-cause-very-dense-outbreaks-in-these-five-states-expert-says/ar-AALwpv0

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• 1468: The Kremlin launches the gigantic submarine Belgorod; & What is to be done? H. J. Mackinder, Professor of International Relations.

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  Jun 28 2021

  Photo: View of the city Belgorod (on the Seversky Donets River 40 kilometers [25 mi] north of the border with Ukraine) in 1912. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow The Kremlin launches the gigantic submarine Belgorod; & What is to be done?  H. J. Mackinder, Professor of International Relations. https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2021/06/russias-gigantic-submarine-belgorod-sails-for-the-first-time/

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