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• Why Science Does Not Disprove God: 4 of 4: Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Amir Aczel (Author), Grover Gardner (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher)

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  Feb 27 2020

  Photo: xpulsion from Paradise, painting by James Tissot (c. 1896-1902) James Jacques Joseph Tissot (1836 - 1902) (French) Details of artist on Google Art Project - igGZ-wF6_0XnlQ at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level Public Domain File:James Jacques Joseph Tissot - Adam and Eve Driven From Paradise - Google Art Project.jpg Created: c. 1896-1902 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Why Science Does Not Disprove God: 4 of 4:  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Amir Aczel (Author), Grover Gardner (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Why-Science-Does-Not-Disprove-dp-B00IA68UCG/dp/B00IA68UCG/ref=mt_audio_download?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= The renowned science writer, mathematician, and best-selling author of Fermat's Last Theoremmasterfully refutes the overreaching claims of the "New Atheists," providing millions of educated believers with a clear, engaging explanation of what science really says, how there's still much space for the Divine in the universe, and why faith in both God and empirical science are not mutually exclusive.  A highly publicized coterie of scientists and thinkers, including Richard Dawkins, the late Christopher Hitchens, and Lawrence Krauss, have vehemently contended that breakthroughs in modern science have disproven the existence of God, asserting that we must accept that the creation of the universe came out of nothing, that religion is evil, that evolution fully explains the dazzling complexity of life, and more. In this much-needed audiobook, science journalist Amir Aczel profoundly disagrees and conclusively demonstrates that science has not, as yet, provided any definitive proof refuting the existence of God.  Why Science Does Not Disprove God is his brilliant and incisive analyses of the theories and findings of such titans as Albert Einstein, Roger Penrose, Alan Guth, and Charles Darwin, all of whose major breakthroughs leave open the possibility - and even the strong likelihood - of a Creator. Bolstering his argument, Aczel lucidly discourses on arcane aspects of physics to reveal how quantum theory, the anthropic principle, the fine-tuned dance of protons and quarks, the existence of anti-matter, and the theory of parallel universes, also fail to disprove God....more

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• Why Science Does Not Disprove God: 3 of 4: Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Amir Aczel (Author), Grover Gardner (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher)

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  Feb 27 2020

  Photo:The Expulsion illustrated in the English Caedmon manuscript, c. 1000 CEView author information Public Domain File:CaedmonManuscriptPage46Illust.jpg  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Why Science Does Not Disprove God: 3 of 4:  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Amir Aczel (Author), Grover Gardner (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Why-Science-Does-Not-Disprove-dp-B00IA68UCG/dp/B00IA68UCG/ref=mt_audio_download?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= The renowned science writer, mathematician, and best-selling author of Fermat's Last Theoremmasterfully refutes the overreaching claims of the "New Atheists," providing millions of educated believers with a clear, engaging explanation of what science really says, how there's still much space for the Divine in the universe, and why faith in both God and empirical science are not mutually exclusive.  A highly publicized coterie of scientists and thinkers, including Richard Dawkins, the late Christopher Hitchens, and Lawrence Krauss, have vehemently contended that breakthroughs in modern science have disproven the existence of God, asserting that we must accept that the creation of the universe came out of nothing, that religion is evil, that evolution fully explains the dazzling complexity of life, and more. In this much-needed audiobook, science journalist Amir Aczel profoundly disagrees and conclusively demonstrates that science has not, as yet, provided any definitive proof refuting the existence of God.  Why Science Does Not Disprove God is his brilliant and incisive analyses of the theories and findings of such titans as Albert Einstein, Roger Penrose, Alan Guth, and Charles Darwin, all of whose major breakthroughs leave open the possibility - and even the strong likelihood - of a Creator. Bolstering his argument, Aczel lucidly discourses on arcane aspects of physics to reveal how quantum theory, the anthropic principle, the fine-tuned dance of protons and quarks, the existence of anti-matter, and the theory of parallel universes, also fail to disprove God....more

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• Why Science Does Not Disprove God: 2 of 4: Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Amir Aczel (Author), Grover Gardner (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher)

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  Feb 27 2020

  Photo: The Garden of Eden by Lucas Cranach der Ältere, a 16th-century German depiction of Eden Lucas Cranach the Elder - The Yorck Project (2002) 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (DVD-ROM), distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH. ISBN: 3936122202.  Public Domain File:Lucas Cranach d. Ä. 035.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Why Science Does Not Disprove God: 2 of 4:  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Amir Aczel (Author), Grover Gardner (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Why-Science-Does-Not-Disprove-dp-B00IA68UCG/dp/B00IA68UCG/ref=mt_audio_download?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= The renowned science writer, mathematician, and best-selling author of Fermat's Last Theoremmasterfully refutes the overreaching claims of the "New Atheists," providing millions of educated believers with a clear, engaging explanation of what science really says, how there's still much space for the Divine in the universe, and why faith in both God and empirical science are not mutually exclusive.  A highly publicized coterie of scientists and thinkers, including Richard Dawkins, the late Christopher Hitchens, and Lawrence Krauss, have vehemently contended that breakthroughs in modern science have disproven the existence of God, asserting that we must accept that the creation of the universe came out of nothing, that religion is evil, that evolution fully explains the dazzling complexity of life, and more. In this much-needed audiobook, science journalist Amir Aczel profoundly disagrees and conclusively demonstrates that science has not, as yet, provided any definitive proof refuting the existence of God.  Why Science Does Not Disprove God is his brilliant and incisive analyses of the theories and findings of such titans as Albert Einstein, Roger Penrose, Alan Guth, and Charles Darwin, all of whose major breakthroughs leave open the possibility - and even the strong likelihood - of a Creator. Bolstering his argument, Aczel lucidly discourses on arcane aspects of physics to reveal how quantum theory, the anthropic principle, the fine-tuned dance of protons and quarks, the existence of anti-matter, and the theory of parallel universes, also fail to disprove God....more

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• Why Science Does Not Disprove God: 1 of 4: Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Amir Aczel (Author), Grover Gardner (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher)

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  Feb 27 2020

  Photo: The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Pieter Paul Rubens, depicting both domesticand exotic wild animals such as tigers, parrots and ostriches co-existing in the garden Peter Paul Rubens - www.geheugenvannederland.nl : Home : Info : Pic Public Domain File:Jan Brueghel de Oude en Peter Paul Rubens - Het aards paradijs met de zondeval van Adam en Eva.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Why Science Does Not Disprove God: 1 of 4:  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Amir Aczel (Author), Grover Gardner (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Why-Science-Does-Not-Disprove-dp-B00IA68UCG/dp/B00IA68UCG/ref=mt_audio_download?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= The renowned science writer, mathematician, and best-selling author of Fermat's Last Theoremmasterfully refutes the overreaching claims of the "New Atheists," providing millions of educated believers with a clear, engaging explanation of what science really says, how there's still much space for the Divine in the universe, and why faith in both God and empirical science are not mutually exclusive.  A highly publicized coterie of scientists and thinkers, including Richard Dawkins, the late Christopher Hitchens, and Lawrence Krauss, have vehemently contended that breakthroughs in modern science have disproven the existence of God, asserting that we must accept that the creation of the universe came out of nothing, that religion is evil, that evolution fully explains the dazzling complexity of life, and more. In this much-needed audiobook, science journalist Amir Aczel profoundly disagrees and conclusively demonstrates that science has not, as yet, provided any definitive proof refuting the existence of God.  Why Science Does Not Disprove God is his brilliant and incisive analyses of the theories and findings of such titans as Albert Einstein, Roger Penrose, Alan Guth, and Charles Darwin, all of whose major breakthroughs leave open the possibility - and even the strong likelihood - of a Creator. Bolstering his argument, Aczel lucidly discourses on arcane aspects of physics to reveal how quantum theory, the anthropic principle, the fine-tuned dance of protons and quarks, the existence of anti-matter, and the theory of parallel universes, also fail to disprove God....more

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• The Swamp Fox:4 of 4: Lessons in Leadership from the Partisan Campaigns of Francis Marion Hardcover – November 15, 2012 by Scott D. Aiken (Author)

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  Feb 27 2020

  Photo: General Horatio Gates, portrait by Gilbert Stuart Gilbert Stuart - Downloaded from The Athenaeum original is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Oil painting of Continental Army general Horatio Gates. Public Domain File:HoratioGatesByStuart.jpeg Created: between 1793 and 1794 date QS:P,+1793-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1793-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1794-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Swamp Fox:4 of 4:  Lessons in Leadership from the Partisan Campaigns of Francis Marion Hardcover – November 15, 2012 by Scott D. Aiken (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Swamp-Fox-Leadership-Partisan-Campaigns/dp/1612511139/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=As one of the Patriot leaders in the Carolinas, the partisan campaign conducted by Brigadier General Francis Marion and his irregular force during the American Revolution prevented South Carolina from completely succumbing to British control during the period between the capture of Charleston in May 1780 and the start of Major General Nathanael Greene's campaign to recover the Southern Colonies in December 1780. During substantial segments of this period he alone held eastern South Carolina from the British and became known as "The Swamp Fox" for his exploits and elusiveness in harassing the British with his guerilla tactics. Upon the arrival of Greene's Continental Army of the Southern Department, Marion's forces then reverted in part to an important supporting role in South Carolina for the duration of the war. He later assisted in the establishment of the authority of the State of South Carolina and contributed to its post-conflict termination. If General Marion had not taken action during the American Revolution, there is a good possibility that eastern South Carolina would have succumbed to British intent. That, coupled with the British occupation of Charleston, may have provided the British with the requisite momentum needed to conquer the South. Thankfully, General Marion's call to action both militarily and politically prevented such momentum from existing.  The multifaceted aspect of the American Revolution serves as an excellent case study for the conflicts of the twenty-first century: joint and combined operations, civil war, insurgency/counterinsurgency, global superpowers, civil-military relations, this conflict's got it all! Many of Marion's partisan actions were forerunners of today's tactics, showing his great innovativeness and foresight as a military leader. His incessant activities diverted British and Loyalist forces, inflicted British and Loyalist casualties, supported operations of the Continental Army during its Southern Campaign, and sustained the American Revolution in South Carolina. He was extremely effective across the range of military operations, from guerilla warfare to storming forts. He was equally inept in what today would be considered information operations and even participating in the linear tactics of the day in pitched battles. Such similarity makes Marion's partisan campaign worth study by current military and political leaders. Aiken's portrayal of Brigadier General Marion's partisan actions describes the forerunners of tactics common of today's global security environment, tactics used by, and against, United States forces....more

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• The Swamp Fox:3 of 4: Lessons in Leadership from the Partisan Campaigns of Francis Marion Hardcover – November 15, 2012 by Scott D. Aiken (Author)

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  Feb 27 2020

  Photo: Battle of Camden initial dispositions and movements, 16 August 1780History Department, United States Military Academy - http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/web03/atlases/american%20revolution/ARGIFS/CamdenBattle.gif Battle of Camden http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Swamp Fox:3 of 4:  Lessons in Leadership from the Partisan Campaigns of Francis Marion Hardcover – November 15, 2012 by Scott D. Aiken (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Swamp-Fox-Leadership-Partisan-Campaigns/dp/1612511139/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=As one of the Patriot leaders in the Carolinas, the partisan campaign conducted by Brigadier General Francis Marion and his irregular force during the American Revolution prevented South Carolina from completely succumbing to British control during the period between the capture of Charleston in May 1780 and the start of Major General Nathanael Greene's campaign to recover the Southern Colonies in December 1780. During substantial segments of this period he alone held eastern South Carolina from the British and became known as "The Swamp Fox" for his exploits and elusiveness in harassing the British with his guerilla tactics. Upon the arrival of Greene's Continental Army of the Southern Department, Marion's forces then reverted in part to an important supporting role in South Carolina for the duration of the war. He later assisted in the establishment of the authority of the State of South Carolina and contributed to its post-conflict termination. If General Marion had not taken action during the American Revolution, there is a good possibility that eastern South Carolina would have succumbed to British intent. That, coupled with the British occupation of Charleston, may have provided the British with the requisite momentum needed to conquer the South. Thankfully, General Marion's call to action both militarily and politically prevented such momentum from existing.  The multifaceted aspect of the American Revolution serves as an excellent case study for the conflicts of the twenty-first century: joint and combined operations, civil war, insurgency/counterinsurgency, global superpowers, civil-military relations, this conflict's got it all! Many of Marion's partisan actions were forerunners of today's tactics, showing his great innovativeness and foresight as a military leader. His incessant activities diverted British and Loyalist forces, inflicted British and Loyalist casualties, supported operations of the Continental Army during its Southern Campaign, and sustained the American Revolution in South Carolina. He was extremely effective across the range of military operations, from guerilla warfare to storming forts. He was equally inept in what today would be considered information operations and even participating in the linear tactics of the day in pitched battles. Such similarity makes Marion's partisan campaign worth study by current military and political leaders. Aiken's portrayal of Brigadier General Marion's partisan actions describes the forerunners of tactics common of today's global security environment, tactics used by, and against, United States forces....more

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• The Swamp Fox: 2 of 4: Lessons in Leadership from the Partisan Campaigns of Francis Marion Hardcover – November 15, 2012 by Scott D. Aiken (Author)

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  Feb 27 2020

  Photo: General Marion Inviting a British Officer to Share His Meal by John Blake White; his slave Oscar Marion kneels at the left of the group. John Blake White - http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/art/common/image/Painting_33_00002.htm "General Marion Inviting a British Officer to Share His Meal", John Blake White Public Domain File:General Marion.jpg Created: between 1830 and 1837 date QS:P571,+1830-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1830-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1837-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Swamp Fox: 2 of 4:  Lessons in Leadership from the Partisan Campaigns of Francis Marion Hardcover – November 15, 2012 by Scott D. Aiken (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Swamp-Fox-Leadership-Partisan-Campaigns/dp/1612511139/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=As one of the Patriot leaders in the Carolinas, the partisan campaign conducted by Brigadier General Francis Marion and his irregular force during the American Revolution prevented South Carolina from completely succumbing to British control during the period between the capture of Charleston in May 1780 and the start of Major General Nathanael Greene's campaign to recover the Southern Colonies in December 1780. During substantial segments of this period he alone held eastern South Carolina from the British and became known as "The Swamp Fox" for his exploits and elusiveness in harassing the British with his guerilla tactics. Upon the arrival of Greene's Continental Army of the Southern Department, Marion's forces then reverted in part to an important supporting role in South Carolina for the duration of the war. He later assisted in the establishment of the authority of the State of South Carolina and contributed to its post-conflict termination. If General Marion had not taken action during the American Revolution, there is a good possibility that eastern South Carolina would have succumbed to British intent. That, coupled with the British occupation of Charleston, may have provided the British with the requisite momentum needed to conquer the South. Thankfully, General Marion's call to action both militarily and politically prevented such momentum from existing.  The multifaceted aspect of the American Revolution serves as an excellent case study for the conflicts of the twenty-first century: joint and combined operations, civil war, insurgency/counterinsurgency, global superpowers, civil-military relations, this conflict's got it all! Many of Marion's partisan actions were forerunners of today's tactics, showing his great innovativeness and foresight as a military leader. His incessant activities diverted British and Loyalist forces, inflicted British and Loyalist casualties, supported operations of the Continental Army during its Southern Campaign, and sustained the American Revolution in South Carolina. He was extremely effective across the range of military operations, from guerilla warfare to storming forts. He was equally inept in what today would be considered information operations and even participating in the linear tactics of the day in pitched battles. Such similarity makes Marion's partisan campaign worth study by current military and political leaders. Aiken's portrayal of Brigadier General Marion's partisan actions describes the forerunners of tactics common of today's global security environment, tactics used by, and against, United States forces....more

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• The Swamp Fox:1 of 4: Lessons in Leadership from the Partisan Campaigns of Francis Marion Hardcover – November 15, 2012 by Scott D. Aiken (Author)

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  Feb 27 2020

  Photo: Francis Marion (c. 1732 – February 27, 1795) was a military officer who served in the American Revolutionary War.Anonymous - James Dabney McCabe (1876) The Centennial Book of American Biography, P. W. Ziegler & Company, Philadelphia Public Domain File:Francis Marion 001.jpg Created: 31 December 1875 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Swamp Fox:1 of 4:  Lessons in Leadership from the Partisan Campaigns of Francis Marion Hardcover – November 15, 2012 by Scott D. Aiken (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Swamp-Fox-Leadership-Partisan-Campaigns/dp/1612511139/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=As one of the Patriot leaders in the Carolinas, the partisan campaign conducted by Brigadier General Francis Marion and his irregular force during the American Revolution prevented South Carolina from completely succumbing to British control during the period between the capture of Charleston in May 1780 and the start of Major General Nathanael Greene's campaign to recover the Southern Colonies in December 1780. During substantial segments of this period he alone held eastern South Carolina from the British and became known as "The Swamp Fox" for his exploits and elusiveness in harassing the British with his guerilla tactics. Upon the arrival of Greene's Continental Army of the Southern Department, Marion's forces then reverted in part to an important supporting role in South Carolina for the duration of the war. He later assisted in the establishment of the authority of the State of South Carolina and contributed to its post-conflict termination. If General Marion had not taken action during the American Revolution, there is a good possibility that eastern South Carolina would have succumbed to British intent. That, coupled with the British occupation of Charleston, may have provided the British with the requisite momentum needed to conquer the South. Thankfully, General Marion's call to action both militarily and politically prevented such momentum from existing.  The multifaceted aspect of the American Revolution serves as an excellent case study for the conflicts of the twenty-first century: joint and combined operations, civil war, insurgency/counterinsurgency, global superpowers, civil-military relations, this conflict's got it all! Many of Marion's partisan actions were forerunners of today's tactics, showing his great innovativeness and foresight as a military leader. His incessant activities diverted British and Loyalist forces, inflicted British and Loyalist casualties, supported operations of the Continental Army during its Southern Campaign, and sustained the American Revolution in South Carolina. He was extremely effective across the range of military operations, from guerilla warfare to storming forts. He was equally inept in what today would be considered information operations and even participating in the linear tactics of the day in pitched battles. Such similarity makes Marion's partisan campaign worth study by current military and political leaders. Aiken's portrayal of Brigadier General Marion's partisan actions describes the forerunners of tactics common of today's global security environment, tactics used by, and against, United States forces....more

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• The economics of an epidemic. @ChristineMcDaniels @Mercatus

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  Feb 27 2020

  Photo: Four Horsemen of the ApocalypseObject typepaintingDescriptionРусский: Воины АпокалипсисаEnglish: Four Horsemen of Apocalypse, by Viktor Vasnetsov. Painted in 1887.Українська: Віктор Васнецов, «Чотири вершники Апокаліпсиса», 1887 рік.Date1887MediumХолст, маслоDimensions72 x 136 смCollectionГосударственный центральный музей музыкальной культуры им. М.И.Глинки, МоскваAccession numberНомер по ГИК (КП): КП-10525Инвентарный номер: 3413/IISource/Photographerhttp://lj.rossia.org/users/john_petrov/166993.htmlhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe economics of an epidemic. @ChristineMcDaniels @Mercatus...more

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• SpaceX capitalizes. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Feb 27 2020

  Photo: English: Fifth Avenue, New York 1900Date | 21 January 2013, 05:41:56Source | http://www.pinterest.com/pin/399905641881859169/Author | Unknown | This media file is in the public domain  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowSpaceX capitalizes. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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• Prince Harry aims to make lots of money & What is to be done? @JosephnSternberg @WSJOpinion

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  Feb 27 2020

  Photo: Capture of Chusan, July 1840Thomas Allom, from a sketch by Lt. White, Royal Marines. Engraved by E. Brandard. - Thomas Allom; G. N. Wright (1843). China, in a Series of Views, Displaying the Scenery, Architecture, and Social Habits of That Ancient Empire. Volume 1. London: Fisher, Son, & Co. p. 91. Capture of Ting-hai, Chusan. Public Domain File:Capture of Ting-hai.jpg Created: Published 1843 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowPrince Harry aims to make lots of money & What is to be done? @JosephnSternberg @WSJOpinion...more

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• Mars quakes alive. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Feb 27 2020

  Photo:  Target: Mars Views: 472 Full-Res TIFF: PIA23515.tif Full-Res JPG: PIA23515.jpg Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowMars quakes alive. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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• PRC prestige fails at the Covid-19 fail. 2 of 2: Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs.

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  Feb 26 2020

  Photo: 1741personContributorsDu Halde, J.-B. (Jean-Baptiste), 1674-1743, AuthorVan der Gucht, Gerard, 1696-1776, EngraverNew York Public Libraryhttp://digitalcollections.nypl.org/copyrightCopyright infoPublic Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowPRC prestige fails at the Covid-19 fail. 2 of 2: Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs.Global Event: Managing the PRC Implosion   Analysis. By Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs.What are the ramifications of the economic collapse which reached tipping point in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) by early 2020?   Several questions arise. How quickly and how deeply was the economic decline occurring? Could it be halted and remedied? What are the potential stages of progression of economic/strategic implosion? What impact would it have — within the options of slow or rapid decline, or potential remediation — on the PRC’s domestic and international actions?   What impact would it have on the global economy, and could a global recession or depression result? Would the transformation trigger a coup against Pres. Xi Jinping from within the Communist Party of China (CPC)? Would the CPC be able, in the medium term, to retain control of mainland China? Would Xi attempt either a reversal of some of his unproductive policies? Would be seek a strategic distraction?  ...more

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• PRC prestige fails at the Covid-19 fail. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs.

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  Feb 26 2020

  Photo: English: "Chinese Money-changers": Various people milling around a money changer's in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, c. 1840.Date | 1851Source | Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China during the Years 1844–5–6.Author | Anonymous | This work is in the public domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowPRC prestige fails at the Covid-19 fail. 1 of 2: Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs.Global Event: Managing the PRC Implosion   Analysis. By Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs.What are the ramifications of the economic collapse which reached tipping point in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) by early 2020?   Several questions arise. How quickly and how deeply was the economic decline occurring? Could it be halted and remedied? What are the potential stages of progression of economic/strategic implosion? What impact would it have — within the options of slow or rapid decline, or potential remediation — on the PRC’s domestic and international actions?   What impact would it have on the global economy, and could a global recession or depression result? Would the transformation trigger a coup against Pres. Xi Jinping from within the Communist Party of China (CPC)? Would the CPC be able, in the medium term, to retain control of mainland China? Would Xi attempt either a reversal of some of his unproductive policies? Would be seek a strategic distraction?   ...more

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• Iran and China suffer Covid-19 because of bad governance. @JedBabbin @WashingtonTimes

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  Feb 26 2020

  Photo: Authors:  Wright, G. Frederick (George Frederick), 1838-1921Subjects:  Bible and sciencePublisher:  Oberlin, O. : Bibliotheca Sacra CompanyContributing Library:  Princeton Theological Seminary LibraryDigitizing Sponsor:  Princeton Theological Seminary LibraryView Book Page: Book ViewerAbout This Book: Catalog EntryView All Images: All Images From BookClick here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image:d nowhere isloess so conspicuously absent as over those regionstowards which the winds of the Sahara blow. But, whatever doubts might be raised respecting sucha recent depression of land as we have supposed inChina, they cannot well exist concerning a correspond-ing depression on the other side of the great CentralAsiatic plateau, facing Siberia and Turkestan. At thefoot of the lofty Ala-tau Mountains, which border thisplateau on the northwest, the Russian military roadruns for five hundred miles along a terrace of loess,from two thousand to three thousand feet above ocean-level, whose constitution is precisely like that ofNorthern China. To the south the mountains rise insuccessive peaks to a height of from fifteen thousand totwenty-three thousand feet; while to the north a rap-idly descending plain stretches almost without a breakmore than two thousand miles to the Arctic Ocean.To one who travels this region with open eyes, therecan scarcely be any question, that, at a comparativelyhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowIran and China suffer Covid-19 because of bad governance. @JedBabbin @WashingtonTimes ...more

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• #TheScalaReport: What is the Covid-19 damage to the global tech supply chain & What is to be done? Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHE

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  Feb 26 2020

  Photo: Русский: Борис Константинович Билинский ...Deutsch: Von Boris Bilinsky gestaltetes Plakat für den UFA-Film Metropolis von Fritz Lang, hier in einer französisch-sprachigen VarianteDate | 1927Source | InternetAuthor | Boris Konstantinowitsch Bilinski | This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow#TheScalaReport: What is the Covid-19 damage to the global tech supply chain & What is to be done?  Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com  #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHE ...more

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• In Iran, two holy cities infected; regime refuses to release statistics. @AhmadObali , @Obali_Duman , #GunazTv

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  Feb 26 2020

  Image: A carpet from the holy city of Mashhad Ahmad Obali, founder of Gunaz TV in Chicago; broadcasts two hours a day to Iran, is now an enemy of the state; in re: In Azeri Iran, three people passing through to Turkey tested positive; that border then closed.  More important, what’s happening in Qom, where it looks as though the deaths could be many more than the regime is letting out. A parliamentary deputy said 50 people have died in Qom, alone.  The regime so far has accepted 15 deaths; no information at all on numbers infected. Iraq, Armenia, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Afghanistan, have all closed border, so the Iranian nation is effectively quarantined.  A tragedy unfolding, under pressure from outside as the [mullahs] refuse to give out any information. Seems likely that thousands have been infected. With the borders closed, Iranians no longer have enough food and especially not enough foreign exchange. Under sanctions, Iran depends on selling to its neighbors, including Russia and Georgia and Eastern Europe.  Iran is becoming he second-highest Covid-19–infected population after China.  Tomorrow [Wednesday], we’ll have a Coronavirus show where Iranians will call in and give us [new, better] information. Recently, they've objected to leaving Iranian airports open to China. Hard to believe that Iran has two main cities where people go for pilgrimage, Qom and Mashhad; govt refused to close them. One of them is now deeply affected. Gunaz TV from Guni Azerbaijan = South Azerbaijan ...more

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• Whoever is the focus of a “Stop ___” campaign is the winner. Bill Whalen @Hooverwhalen

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  Image: Bill Whalen, Hoover Area 45 podcasts; in re:.  “Bernie will lose to Trump; then, between gerrymandering and appointing judges, we’ll live with this catastrophe for the next twenty or thirty years.”—M Bloomberg.  This is where the GOP was in 2016, when most of them wanted to stop Trump.  Buttigieg said the same things, as did Amy Klobuchar. People who support Sanders will just tune it all out.  Whoever is the focus of a “Stop ____” campaign is the winner. Need 15% or above in each of the Cali districts to get the nomination.  Bernie could get 350 delegates in one night—one-sixth of the 1991 he needs for the national nomination. Bloomberg is famous for being a good and straightforward boss, but he’s been repudiating his good deeds. He tried to crack a joke tonight and was awful.  Then you get to his comments about women and it all unravels; although he does have the money. Biden will not stay in. Warren’s mission: Bernie, plus the female preponderance of the vote. ...more

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• Bloomberg unable to speak well of the 100,00-plus jobs he’s created. @LizPeek

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  Feb 26 2020

  Image:  Bloomberg with President George W. Bush in 2003 Elizabeth Peek, TheHill and Fox News; in re:  The real Mike Bloomberg is pragmatic about solving problems; however, he’s done U-turns on stop/question/and frisk; he used to speak openly about how you can’t raise taxes on the rich in New York City as they’d leave—and they have.  He’s also turned tail on labor laws as thy crush businesses and thereby lose jobs.   Everyone was shocked by his responses in the first debate, and was completely unprepared to speak of the success he’s achieved, also of the 100,000 jobs he’s created.  Were Bernie Sanders to win, that’d be a disaster for the country. ...more

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• Covid-19 sell-off in the market @LizPeek

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  Feb 26 2020

  Image: Scanning electron microscope image of SARS-CoV-2 (yellow)Elizabeth Peek, TheHill and Fox News; in re:  Covid-19 sell-off in the market. Democrats tried to claim that the root of the problem is Trump.

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• Why not prosecute Andrew McCabe? @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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  Feb 26 2020

  Photo: ate_rangeDate1907createSourceThe Metropolitan Museum of ArtlinkLinkhttp://www.metmuseum.org/copyrightCopyright infoPublic Domain Dedication (CC0) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWhy not prosecute Andrew McCabe? @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJRhttps://www.nationalreview.com/2020/02/why-wasnt-andrew-mccabe-charged/

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• Two thousand petitioners attack Bill Barr & What is to be done? @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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  Feb 26 2020

  Photo: A Session of the Painting Jury, c. 1883. This painting was used as the cover art for the 1999 recording of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, recorded by Philharmonia Orchestra. Henri Gervex - aQFrdhyvb8udNw at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level Public Domain File:Henri Gervex - A Session of the Painting Jury - Google Art Project.jpg Created: before 1885 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTwo thousand petitioners attack Bill Barr & What is to be done? @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR...more

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• The Democrats accuse Bernie Sanders of Russian intrigue. @ChristianWhiton, @NationalInterest

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  Feb 26 2020

  Photo: Русский: Ресторан гостиницы «Савой», 1930-е годыDate | 1930s Source | https://russiainphoto.ru/search/photo/?year_to=1941&year_from=1918&author_ids=524&page=1&index=5Author | Михаил Григорьевич Прехнер (1911, Варшава — 1941, Таллин) |  | This work is in the public domain in Russia http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Democrats accuse Bernie Sanders of Russian intrigue. @ChristianWhiton, @NationalInterest

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• Covid-19 in flu season: the search for a universal vaccine. @HenryIMiller @PacificResearch

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  Feb 26 2020

  Photo:  Kitchen of the No. 4 Field Hospital at Frere (20 km north of Estcourt, KwaZulu-Natal) during the Second Boer War. Photograph by Frederick Treves from his book The Tale of a Field Hospital (1900). Description under the photograph reads:THE KITCHEN OF THE FIELD HOSPITAL.The cross-shaped ditch cut in the ground takes the kettles according to the way of the wind. The ambulance train has drawn up.Русский: Кухня 4-го полевого госпиталя, расположенного на станции Фрир (20 км севернее Эсткорта), во время Англо-бурской войны (1899—1902). В крестообразную канаву ставятся котелки в зависимости от направления ветра. На заднем плане — санитарный поезд. Фотография Фредерика Тривза из его книги «Рассказ о полевом госпитале» (1900, «The Tale of a Field Hospital»).Date | between 1899 and 1900 Source | Frederick Treves (1900)  The Tale of a Field Hospital (First Edition October 1900. Reprinted November 1900, December 1900. ed.), London, Paris, New York & Melbourne: Cassell and Company, Limited, pp. Face p.4  Retrieved from the Internet Archive: link (extracted from taleoffieldhospi00trev_orig_jp2.tar) Modifications by the uploader: rotated, cropped, some dust & scratches removed (the uncleaned version is available in the file history), levels, converted to grayscale.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowCovid-19 in flu season: the search for a universal vaccine. @HenryIMiller @PacificResearch...more

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• "Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Egyptian anchor. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotter

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  Photo: Replica of a ship that may have been similar to the sort whose ancient stone anchor has just been found.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow"Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Egyptian anchor. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres..  ..  ..  *Permissions:  ספינת הרפליקה של הספינה העתיקה במעגן מיכאל בהפלגה ראשונה במפרץ חיפה .Date | 28 December 2016, 12:16:35Source | אלכס יפרמוב חיפהAuthor | אלכס יפרמוב חיפהPermission(Reusing this file) | This work is free and may be used by anyone for any purpose. If you wish to use this content, you do not need to request permission as long as you follow any licensing requirements mentioned on this page.Wikimedia Foundation has received an e-mail confirming that the copyright holder has approved publication under the terms mentioned on this page. This correspondence has been reviewed by an OTRS member and stored in our permission archive. The correspondence is available to trusted volunteers as ticket #2017011810011001.If you have questions about the archived correspondence, please use the OTRS noticeboard.Ticket link: https://ticket.wikimedia.org/otrs/index.pl?Action=AgentTicketZoom&TicketNumber=2017011810011001 ...more

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• The attack tunnels of Lebanon. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres@ThadMcCotter

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  Photo: Smuggling tunnel in Rafah, 2009: extremely primitive compared to what has just been found on the Lebanon-Israel borderhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe attack tunnels of Lebanon. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres@ThadMcCotter..*Permissions:   | Description | English: Smuggling Tunnel, Rafah, Gaza Strip | Date | 2009   Source | https://www.flickr.com/photos/anarkistix/3464809713 | Author | Marius Arnesen  Licensing:  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. •       share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.| This image was originally posted to Flickr by Marius Arnesen at https://www.flickr.com/photos/56046647@N00/3464809713. It was reviewed on 23 April 2009 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-sa-2.0....more

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• The dangers of an uneducated young electorate. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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  Feb 25 2020

  Photo:  Hercules Protects Painting from Ignorance and Envy by Andries Cornelis Lens (1739–1822)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe dangers of an uneducated young electorate. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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• What can Bloomberg say to stop Bernie? @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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  Feb 25 2020

  Image:  Bernie is the mirror-image of Trumphttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWhat can Bloomberg say to stop Bernie? @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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• Hong Kong demands Aussie journalist’s password; fails. @Michael_Yon

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  Feb 25 2020

  Image: ". . . when one police officer was infected, some insurgents went to his Mong Kok station house and drank Champagne and Corona beer."  D: Michael Yon, East Asia reporter now in Chang Mai, in re:  Thailand also is covering up the numbers of those afflicted with Covid-19. Hong Kong visitors are much focussed on buying enough (or perhaps too much) toilet paper. Abuse there by the Carrie Lam administration.  Weeks ago, a taxi driver with zero connection to Mainland was positive for the virus.. Thailand claims 35 patients for at least ten days.   Closing a border slightly is like shutting one window in a 20-window home to keep the smoke out.  I’m self-quarantining myself in my own office; I go out for a brief time to look around, while wearing a mask. Thai people sometimes wear, and often do not wear, masks. In Hong Kong, protests are smaller in size; when one police officer was infected, some insurgents went to his station house and drank Champagne and Corona beer. Mong Kok is the most densely-populated place in the world.  Hong Kong hotels are in single-digit occupancy; their whole economy is collapsing.  Michael was prevented from entering HK on 5 Feb; they've tried to control the narrative by blocking international journalists.  Tried to force an Australian journalist to give his password for all his camera chips, which he refused to do and a Hong Kong court upheld his position.     ...more

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• Standing Committee political hacks disdain protecting Chinese people. @GordonGChang

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  Feb 25 2020

  Image: Great Hall of the People, where the Chinese National People's Congress convenes Production in China: sending people back to work early will prolong the epidemic. Xi admits an obvious failure of governance. On the day after our broadcast on the flu, a Standing Committee meeting that didn’t even mention the virus at all. Party unwilling to talk about it—Communist Party secrecy.  Not a positive,  Xi Jinping will face a lot of problems in the future. His number one priority is to control the narrative to protect the Party, not to protect the people. The whole Standing Committee is made up of political hacks. .. *Permissions:  Description | Great Hall of the People, where the National People's Congress (NPC) of China convenes | Date | Photo taken January 18, 2003   Source | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:National_People%27s_Congress.JPG | Author | Allen Timothy Chang | Permission (Reusing this file) | GFDL | Other versions | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:National_People%27s_Congress.JPG   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. | 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 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. •       share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original. | This licensing tag was added to this file as part of the GFDL licensing update.   ...more

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• State Dept grovels: “reduction in violence” in Afghanistan. Tom Joscelyn @thomasjoscelyn ; @BillRoggio

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  Feb 25 2020

  Image:  Old State Department building in Washington, D.C., c. 1865Tom Joscelyn, Long War Journal and FDD; and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD; in re:  AQAP.  Knuckled under to accept this “Reduction in violence,” a State Dept trope: meaningless. Taliban say they’d quit doing major attacks or killing too many Americans at once,  No extant metric to measure. Frankly, you either have a cease-fire, or don’t.   Taliban refused a cease-fire, so State knuckled under to accepting this meaningless phrase.  US is supposed to withdraw every American.  Taliban consider every American to be an occupier and will kill him. AQAP has just announced a new leader of operations in Yemen.  State is grovelling to Taliban to prevent the president from going on twitter to point out another American death.  US has stopped all combat operations in Afghanistan. ...more

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• New York Times honors Taliban. Tom Joscelyn @thomasjoscelyn ; @BillRoggio

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  Image: New York Times honors Taliban.  Tom Joscelyn @thomasjoscelyn ; @BillRoggio Tom Joscelyn, Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies; & Senior Editor for FDD's Long War Journal; and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD; in re: Sirajuddin Haqqani: father and relatives are notorious in Taliban and al Qaeda. New York Times published an op-ed by him; it’s almost certainly disinformation. He blames the US for 9/11, for the Afghan fighting, and everything that’s occurred since 9/11. It was his father who incubated al Qaeda. Their fundamental goal is advancing jihadist society. The Haqqanis are sort of the premier jihadist op in Afghanistan, There’s no rational basis for thinking this man is anything but a bloodthirsty warlord. The author of the op-ed blames America for the war in Afghanistan, writing: “We did not choose our war with the foreign coalition led by the United States.” This ignores the Taliban’s role in harboring and assisting al-Qaeda in the years leading up to the 9/11 hijackings and thereafter. In fact, al-Qaeda is not named in the op-ed at all. It’s a telling omission: Sirajuddin’s own father helped cement the close relationship between the Taliban and Osama bin Laden’s outfit. A large body of evidence shows that Sirajuddin has continued in his father’s footsteps.        > Jalaluddin Haqqani, Sirajuddin’s father, was one of Osama bin Laden’s most important mentors and allies. Al-Qaeda’s leaders eulogized Jalaluddin when his death was announced in 2018, describing Sirajuddin as one of their “emirs.”  As Taliban are feeding us this propaganda for war, aided by the New York Times.  US intell should easily be able to say, These people are training in the following locations, and we should send drones and take them out, but we won't. In the photos, they're in fatigue with faces hidden; materiel stolen from the Afghan army, or else bought from it. The balaclavas are intimidating, unidentifiable.  Also, they may not all be Afghan...  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..   What you won’t learn from the NYT op-ed by the Taliban’s deputy leader This morning, the New York Times published an op-ed attributed to Sirajuddin Haqqani. Although Haqqani is described as the “deputy leader of the Taliban,” he is actually the deputy emir of the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. The importance of that observation will become apparent below. [https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2020/02/what-you-wont-learn-from-the-nyt-op-ed-by-the-talibans-deputy-leader.php ] ...more

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• 4/4 All the Great Prizes: The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt, by John Taliaferro. Joe Barrett (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) Audible Audiobook–Unabridged

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  Image: Political cartoon on the Perdicaris affairAll the Great Prizes: The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt, by John Taliaferro.  Joe Barrett (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) Audible Audiobook–Unabridged   https://www.amazon.com/All-Great-Prizes-Lincoln-Roosevelt/dp/B00DL1F6P4/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=    From secretary to Abraham Lincoln to secretary of state for Theodore Roosevelt, John Hay remained a major figure in American history for more than half a century. His private life was as glamorous and romantic as it was privileged. This first full-scale biography since 1934 is a reflection of American history from the Civil War to the emergence of the nation as a world power as Woodrow Wilson was about to take office. Much of what we know about Lincoln’s years in the White House is drawn from the writings of the young John Hay, the president’s secretary, who was with Lincoln at the Gettysburg Address and at his bedside when he died. Afterward, Hay successfully worked to elect his fellow Ohioans James Garfield, Rutherford B. Hayes, and William McKinley for president. As McKinley’s Secretary of State, he plotted the nation’s emergence as a world power after the Spanish-American War. Hay arranged the annexation of the Philippines, the treaty for a canal across Panama, and the Open Door policy for China. After McKinley’s assassination, Theodore Roosevelt persuaded the aging Hay to stay on. The relationship between Hay and Roosevelt, which has not been explored, is of lasting interest. If Lincoln was a second father to Hay, Hay was a second father to TR—Roosevelt the bully wielder of the big stick; Hay the polished, urbane diplomat who walked softly, carried out TR’s policies, and helped him win the Nobel Peace Prize. Hay is one of the most pivotal figures in American public life. However, as Taliaferro writes, that is only half the story. He knew everybody from Mark Twain to Henry James, and every president and world leader. He was best friends with Henry Adams, and the two were in love with the same married woman, Lizzie Cameron, the Madame X of Washington Society. Both wrote her voluminous letters. All the Great Prizes chronicles a life that reflects the story of America from the devastation of the Civil War to its emergence as a world leader and power. ...more

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• 3/4 All the Great Prizes: The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt, by John Taliaferro. Joe Barrett (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) Audible Audiobook–Unabridged

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  Feb 25 2020

  Image: Caricature of Hay in Vanity Fair 1897  All the Great Prizes: The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt, by John Taliaferro.  Joe Barrett (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) Audible Audiobook–Unabridged   https://www.amazon.com/All-Great-Prizes-Lincoln-Roosevelt/dp/B00DL1F6P4/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=    From secretary to Abraham Lincoln to secretary of state for Theodore Roosevelt, John Hay remained a major figure in American history for more than half a century. His private life was as glamorous and romantic as it was privileged. This first full-scale biography since 1934 is a reflection of American history from the Civil War to the emergence of the nation as a world power as Woodrow Wilson was about to take office. Much of what we know about Lincoln’s years in the White House is drawn from the writings of the young John Hay, the president’s secretary, who was with Lincoln at the Gettysburg Address and at his bedside when he died. Afterward, Hay successfully worked to elect his fellow Ohioans James Garfield, Rutherford B. Hayes, and William McKinley for president. As McKinley’s Secretary of State, he plotted the nation’s emergence as a world power after the Spanish-American War. Hay arranged the annexation of the Philippines, the treaty for a canal across Panama, and the Open Door policy for China. After McKinley’s assassination, Theodore Roosevelt persuaded the aging Hay to stay on. The relationship between Hay and Roosevelt, which has not been explored, is of lasting interest. If Lincoln was a second father to Hay, Hay was a second father to TR—Roosevelt the bully wielder of the big stick; Hay the polished, urbane diplomat who walked softly, carried out TR’s policies, and helped him win the Nobel Peace Prize. Hay is one of the most pivotal figures in American public life. However, as Taliaferro writes, that is only half the story. He knew everybody from Mark Twain to Henry James, and every president and world leader. He was best friends with Henry Adams, and the two were in love with the same married woman, Lizzie Cameron, the Madame X of Washington Society. Both wrote her voluminous letters. All the Great Prizes chronicles a life that reflects the story of America from the devastation of the Civil War to its emergence as a world leader and power. ...more

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• 2/4 All the Great Prizes: The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt, by John Taliaferro. Joe Barrett (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) Audible Audiobook–Unabridged

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  Feb 25 2020

  Image:  "Putting his foot down" Uncle Sam in 1899 demands Open Door while major powers plan to cut up China for themselves; Germany, Italy, England, Austria, Russia & France are represented by Wilhelm II, Umberto I, John Bull, Franz Joseph I (in rear), Uncle Sam, Nicholas II, and Emile Loubet. Punch (London) Aug 23, 1899 by J. S. Pughe  All the Great Prizes: The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt, by John Taliaferro.  Joe Barrett (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) Audible Audiobook–Unabridged   https://www.amazon.com/All-Great-Prizes-Lincoln-Roosevelt/dp/B00DL1F6P4/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=    From secretary to Abraham Lincoln to secretary of state for Theodore Roosevelt, John Hay remained a major figure in American history for more than half a century. His private life was as glamorous and romantic as it was privileged. This first full-scale biography since 1934 is a reflection of American history from the Civil War to the emergence of the nation as a world power as Woodrow Wilson was about to take office. Much of what we know about Lincoln’s years in the White House is drawn from the writings of the young John Hay, the president’s secretary, who was with Lincoln at the Gettysburg Address and at his bedside when he died. Afterward, Hay successfully worked to elect his fellow Ohioans James Garfield, Rutherford B. Hayes, and William McKinley for president. As McKinley’s Secretary of State, he plotted the nation’s emergence as a world power after the Spanish-American War. Hay arranged the annexation of the Philippines, the treaty for a canal across Panama, and the Open Door policy for China. After McKinley’s assassination, Theodore Roosevelt persuaded the aging Hay to stay on. The relationship between Hay and Roosevelt, which has not been explored, is of lasting interest. If Lincoln was a second father to Hay, Hay was a second father to TR—Roosevelt the bully wielder of the big stick; Hay the polished, urbane diplomat who walked softly, carried out TR’s policies, and helped him win the Nobel Peace Prize. Hay is one of the most pivotal figures in American public life. However, as Taliaferro writes, that is only half the story. He knew everybody from Mark Twain to Henry James, and every president and world leader. He was best friends with Henry Adams, and the two were in love with the same married woman, Lizzie Cameron, the Madame X of Washington Society. Both wrote her voluminous letters. All the Great Prizes chronicles a life that reflects the story of America from the devastation of the Civil War to its emergence as a world leader and power. ...more

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• 1/4 All the Great Prizes: The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt, by John Taliaferro. Joe Barrett (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) Audible Audiobook–Unabridged

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  Image: John Hay in portrait by John Singer SargentAll the Great Prizes: The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt, by John Taliaferro.  Joe Barrett (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) Audible Audiobook–Unabridged   https://www.amazon.com/All-Great-Prizes-Lincoln-Roosevelt/dp/B00DL1F6P4/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=    From secretary to Abraham Lincoln to secretary of state for Theodore Roosevelt, John Hay remained a major figure in American history for more than half a century. His private life was as glamorous and romantic as it was privileged. This first full-scale biography since 1934 is a reflection of American history from the Civil War to the emergence of the nation as a world power as Woodrow Wilson was about to take office. Much of what we know about Lincoln’s years in the White House is drawn from the writings of the young John Hay, the president’s secretary, who was with Lincoln at the Gettysburg Address and at his bedside when he died. Afterward, Hay successfully worked to elect his fellow Ohioans James Garfield, Rutherford B. Hayes, and William McKinley for president. As McKinley’s Secretary of State, he plotted the nation’s emergence as a world power after the Spanish-American War. Hay arranged the annexation of the Philippines, the treaty for a canal across Panama, and the Open Door policy for China. After McKinley’s assassination, Theodore Roosevelt persuaded the aging Hay to stay on. The relationship between Hay and Roosevelt, which has not been explored, is of lasting interest. If Lincoln was a second father to Hay, Hay was a second father to TR—Roosevelt the bully wielder of the big stick; Hay the polished, urbane diplomat who walked softly, carried out TR’s policies, and helped him win the Nobel Peace Prize. Hay is one of the most pivotal figures in American public life. However, as Taliaferro writes, that is only half the story. He knew everybody from Mark Twain to Henry James, and every president and world leader. He was best friends with Henry Adams, and the two were in love with the same married woman, Lizzie Cameron, the Madame X of Washington Society. Both wrote her voluminous letters. All the Great Prizes chronicles a life that reflects the story of America from the devastation of the Civil War to its emergence as a world leader and power. ...more

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• 4/4 All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s, by Robert O. Self (@RobertSelfNotes)

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  Feb 24 2020

  Image: Levitating the Pentagon by prayer and will:  Members of the military police keep back protesters during their sit-in at the Pentagon. (U.S. Military/NARA/Wikimedia Commons)All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s, by Robert O. Self.  Paperback – September 17, 2013 In the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty promised an array of federal programs to assist working-class families. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan declared the GOP the party of "family values" and promised to keep government out of Americans' lives. Again and again, historians have sought to explain the nation's profound political realignment from the 1960s to the 2000s, five decades that witnessed the fracturing of liberalism and the rise of the conservative right. The award-winning historian Robert O. Self is the first to argue that the separate threads of that realignment―from civil rights to women's rights, from the antiwar movement to Nixon's "silent majority," from the abortion wars to gay marriage, from the welfare state to neoliberal economic policies―all ran through the politicized American family. Based on an astonishing range of sources, All in the Family rethinks an entire era. Self opens his narrative with the Great Society and its assumption of a white, patriotic, heterosexual man at the head of each family. Soon enough, civil rights activists, feminists, and gay rights activists, animated by broader visions of citizenship, began to fight for equal rights, protections, and opportunities. Led by Pauli Murray, Gloria Steinem, Harvey Milk, and Shirley Chisholm, among many others, they achieved lasting successes, including Roe v. Wade, antidiscrimination protections in the workplace, and a more inclusive idea of the American family. Yet the establishment of new rights and the visibility of alternative families provoked, beginning in the 1970s, a furious conservative backlash. Politicians and activists on the right, most notably George Wallace, Phyllis Schlafly, Anita Bryant, and Jerry Falwell, built a political movement based on the perceived moral threat to the traditional family. Self writes that "family values" conservatives in fact "paved the way" for fiscal conservatives, who shared a belief in liberalism's invasiveness but lacked a populist message. Reagan's presidency united the two constituencies, which remain, even in these tumultuous times, the base of the Republican Party. All in the Family, an erudite, passionate, and persuasive explanation of our current political situation and how we arrived in it, will allow us to think anew about the last fifty years of American politics.       ...more

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• 3/4 All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s, by Robert O. Self (@RobertSelfNotes)

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  Image: Phyllis Schlafly with Ronald Reagan in 1987All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy since the 1960s, by Robert O. Self.  Paperback – September 17, 2013 In the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty promised an array of federal programs to assist working-class families. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan declared the GOP the party of "family values" and promised to keep government out of Americans' lives. Again and again, historians have sought to explain the nation's profound political realignment from the 1960s to the 2000s, five decades that witnessed the fracturing of liberalism and the rise of the conservative right. The award-winning historian Robert O. Self is the first to argue that the separate threads of that realignment―from civil rights to women's rights, from the antiwar movement to Nixon's "silent majority," from the abortion wars to gay marriage, from the welfare state to neoliberal economic policies―all ran through the politicized American family. Based on an astonishing range of sources, All in the Family rethinks an entire era. Self opens his narrative with the Great Society and its assumption of a white, patriotic, heterosexual man at the head of each family. Soon enough, civil rights activists, feminists, and gay rights activists, animated by broader visions of citizenship, began to fight for equal rights, protections, and opportunities. Led by Pauli Murray, Gloria Steinem, Harvey Milk, and Shirley Chisholm, among many others, they achieved lasting successes, including Roe v. Wade, antidiscrimination protections in the workplace, and a more inclusive idea of the American family. Yet the establishment of new rights and the visibility of alternative families provoked, beginning in the 1970s, a furious conservative backlash. Politicians and activists on the right, most notably George Wallace, Phyllis Schlafly, Anita Bryant, and Jerry Falwell, built a political movement based on the perceived moral threat to the traditional family. Self writes that "family values" conservatives in fact "paved the way" for fiscal conservatives, who shared a belief in liberalism's invasiveness but lacked a populist message. Reagan's presidency united the two constituencies, which remain, even in these tumultuous times, the base of the Republican Party. All in the Family, an erudite, passionate, and persuasive explanation of our current political situation and how we arrived in it, will allow us to think anew about the last fifty years of American politics. ...more

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• 2/4 All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy since the 1960s, by Robert O. Self (@RobertSelfNotes)

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  Image: Shirley Chisholm, future member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-NY), announcing her candidacy. All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s, by Robert O. Self.  Paperback – September 17, 2013 In the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty promised an array of federal programs to assist working-class families. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan declared the GOP the party of "family values" and promised to keep government out of Americans' lives. Again and again, historians have sought to explain the nation's profound political realignment from the 1960s to the 2000s, five decades that witnessed the fracturing of liberalism and the rise of the conservative right. The award-winning historian Robert O. Self is the first to argue that the separate threads of that realignment―from civil rights to women's rights, from the antiwar movement to Nixon's "silent majority," from the abortion wars to gay marriage, from the welfare state to neoliberal economic policies―all ran through the politicized American family. Based on an astonishing range of sources, All in the Family rethinks an entire era. Self opens his narrative with the Great Society and its assumption of a white, patriotic, heterosexual man at the head of each family. Soon enough, civil rights activists, feminists, and gay rights activists, animated by broader visions of citizenship, began to fight for equal rights, protections, and opportunities. Led by Pauli Murray, Gloria Steinem, Harvey Milk, and Shirley Chisholm, among many others, they achieved lasting successes, including Roe v. Wade, antidiscrimination protections in the workplace, and a more inclusive idea of the American family. Yet the establishment of new rights and the visibility of alternative families provoked, beginning in the 1970s, a furious conservative backlash. Politicians and activists on the right, most notably George Wallace, Phyllis Schlafly, Anita Bryant, and Jerry Falwell, built a political movement based on the perceived moral threat to the traditional family. Self writes that "family values" conservatives in fact "paved the way" for fiscal conservatives, who shared a belief in liberalism's invasiveness but lacked a populist message. Reagan's presidency united the two constituencies, which remain, even in these tumultuous times, the base of the Republican Party. All in the Family, an erudite, passionate, and persuasive explanation of our current political situation and how we arrived in it, will allow us to think anew about the last fifty years of American politics.   ...more

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• 1/4 All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s, by Robert O. Self

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  IImage: President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s, by Robert O. Self.  Paperback – September 17, 2013 In the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty promised an array of federal programs to assist working-class families. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan declared the GOP the party of "family values" and promised to keep government out of Americans' lives. Again and again, historians have sought to explain the nation's profound political realignment from the 1960s to the 2000s, five decades that witnessed the fracturing of liberalism and the rise of the conservative right. The award-winning historian Robert O. Self is the first to argue that the separate threads of that realignment―from civil rights to women's rights, from the antiwar movement to Nixon's "silent majority," from the abortion wars to gay marriage, from the welfare state to neoliberal economic policies―all ran through the politicized American family. Based on an astonishing range of sources, All in the Family rethinks an entire era. Self opens his narrative with the Great Society and its assumption of a white, patriotic, heterosexual man at the head of each family. Soon enough, civil rights activists, feminists, and gay rights activists, animated by broader visions of citizenship, began to fight for equal rights, protections, and opportunities. Led by Pauli Murray, Gloria Steinem, Harvey Milk, and Shirley Chisholm, among many others, they achieved lasting successes, including Roe v. Wade, antidiscrimination protections in the workplace, and a more inclusive idea of the American family. Yet the establishment of new rights and the visibility of alternative families provoked, beginning in the 1970s, a furious conservative backlash. Politicians and activists on the right, most notably George Wallace, Phyllis Schlafly, Anita Bryant, and Jerry Falwell, built a political movement based on the perceived moral threat to the traditional family. Self writes that "family values" conservatives in fact "paved the way" for fiscal conservatives, who shared a belief in liberalism's invasiveness but lacked a populist message. Reagan's presidency united the two constituencies, which remain, even in these tumultuous times, the base of the Republican Party. All in the Family, an erudite, passionate, and persuasive explanation of our current political situation and how we arrived in it, will allow us to think anew about the last fifty years of American politics.   ...more

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• 4/4 The New Deal: A Modern History, by Michael Hiltzik @hiltzikm.

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  Image: Works Progress Administration (WPA) poster promoting the LaGuardia Airport project (1937)The New Deal: A Modern History, by Michael Hiltzik.  Traber Burns (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher). Audible Audiobook – Unabridged https://www.amazon.com/New-Deal-Modern-History/dp/B005QXF6Q4/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= New York Times best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael Hiltzik tells the epic story of the New Deal through the outsized personalities of the people who fought for it, opposed it, and benefited from it, rendering vital lessons for our own time. As America struggles with an economic debacle akin to the Great Depression, nothing could be timelier than an authoritative account of the New Deal, masterfully written by Michael Hiltzik, author of the acclaimed history of the Hoover Dam, Colossus. In this richly peopled, vividly rendered narrative, Hiltzik describes how the urgent short-term relief measures of Franklin Roosevelt's Hundred Days evolved into a transformative concept of the federal role in American life. Rather than being the product of a single ideology, the New Deal emerged from the clash of ideas held by advisors from very different backgrounds. With historical and psychological insight, Hiltzik sheds light on the lives of the gargantuan characters who fought for and against it: Herbert Hoover, whose own administration gave birth to many of the programs that would become part of the New Deal; General Hugh Johnson, the West Pointer whose pugnacious leadership of the National Recovery Administration symbolized the New Deal for millions of Americans; Harry Hopkins, whose closeness to Roosevelt earned him the moniker "deputy president"; and many other fascinating figures. What emerges is a saga of how FDR managed to recast the federal government into something that still inspires: a unifying structure with the concept of social justice at its heart. ...more

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• 3/4 The New Deal: A Modern History, by Michael Hiltzik @hiltzikm.

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  Image:  Of 1933,  Walter Lippmann famously noted:  “At the end of February we were a congeries of disorderly panic-stricken mobs and factions. In the hundred days from March to June we became again an organized nation confident of our power to provide for our own security and to control our own destiny.” Here: Rexford G Tugwell (“Rex”), a major figure in the New Deal.The New Deal: A Modern History, by Michael Hiltzik.  Traber Burns (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher). Audible Audiobook – Unabridged https://www.amazon.com/New-Deal-Modern-History/dp/B005QXF6Q4/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= New York Times best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael Hiltzik tells the epic story of the New Deal through the outsized personalities of the people who fought for it, opposed it, and benefited from it, rendering vital lessons for our own time. As America struggles with an economic debacle akin to the Great Depression, nothing could be timelier than an authoritative account of the New Deal, masterfully written by Michael Hiltzik, author of the acclaimed history of the Hoover Dam, Colossus. In this richly peopled, vividly rendered narrative, Hiltzik describes how the urgent short-term relief measures of Franklin Roosevelt's Hundred Days evolved into a transformative concept of the federal role in American life. Rather than being the product of a single ideology, the New Deal emerged from the clash of ideas held by advisors from very different backgrounds. With historical and psychological insight, Hiltzik sheds light on the lives of the gargantuan characters who fought for and against it: Herbert Hoover, whose own administration gave birth to many of the programs that would become part of the New Deal; General Hugh Johnson, the West Pointer whose pugnacious leadership of the National Recovery Administration symbolized the New Deal for millions of Americans; Harry Hopkins, whose closeness to Roosevelt earned him the moniker "deputy president"; and many other fascinating figures. What emerges is a saga of how FDR managed to recast the federal government into something that still inspires: a unifying structure with the concept of social justice at its heart.   ...more

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• 2/4 The New Deal: A Modern History, by Michael Hiltzik @hiltzikm.

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  Image:  Harry Hopkins talks with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at Saki before setting out to Yalta.  The New Deal: A Modern History, by Michael Hiltzik.  Traber Burns (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher). Audible Audiobook – Unabridged https://www.amazon.com/New-Deal-Modern-History/dp/B005QXF6Q4/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= New York Times best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael Hiltzik tells the epic story of the New Deal through the outsized personalities of the people who fought for it, opposed it, and benefited from it, rendering vital lessons for our own time. As America struggles with an economic debacle akin to the Great Depression, nothing could be timelier than an authoritative account of the New Deal, masterfully written by Michael Hiltzik, author of the acclaimed history of the Hoover Dam, Colossus. In this richly peopled, vividly rendered narrative, Hiltzik describes how the urgent short-term relief measures of Franklin Roosevelt's Hundred Days evolved into a transformative concept of the federal role in American life. Rather than being the product of a single ideology, the New Deal emerged from the clash of ideas held by advisors from very different backgrounds. With historical and psychological insight, Hiltzik sheds light on the lives of the gargantuan characters who fought for and against it: Herbert Hoover, whose own administration gave birth to many of the programs that would become part of the New Deal; General Hugh Johnson, the West Pointer whose pugnacious leadership of the National Recovery Administration symbolized the New Deal for millions of Americans; Harry Hopkins, whose closeness to Roosevelt earned him the moniker "deputy president"; and many other fascinating figures. What emerges is a saga of how FDR managed to recast the federal government into something that still inspires: a unifying structure with the concept of social justice at its heart...*PermissionsEnglish: Harry Hopkins talks with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at Saki before setting out to Yalta.Date | February 1945    Source | Own work   Author | GoShow Licensing   ‪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 3.0 Unported 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. •       ‪share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original....more

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• 1/4 The New Deal: A Modern History, by Michael Hiltzik @hiltzikm.

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  Image: Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt with their first two children, 1908The New Deal: A Modern History, by Michael Hiltzik.  Traber Burns (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher). Audible Audiobook – Unabridgedhttps://www.amazon.com/New-Deal-Modern-History/dp/B005QXF6Q4/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= New York Times best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael Hiltzik tells the epic story of the New Deal through the outsized personalities of the people who fought for it, opposed it, and benefited from it, rendering vital lessons for our own time. As America struggles with an economic debacle akin to the Great Depression, nothing could be timelier than an authoritative account of the New Deal, masterfully written by Michael Hiltzik, author of the acclaimed history of the Hoover Dam, Colossus. In this richly peopled, vividly rendered narrative, Hiltzik describes how the urgent short-term relief measures of Franklin Roosevelt's Hundred Days evolved into a transformative concept of the federal role in American life. Rather than being the product of a single ideology, the New Deal emerged from the clash of ideas held by advisors from very different backgrounds. With historical and psychological insight, Hiltzik sheds light on the lives of the gargantuan characters who fought for and against it: Herbert Hoover, whose own administration gave birth to many of the programs that would become part of the New Deal; General Hugh Johnson, the West Pointer whose pugnacious leadership of the National Recovery Administration symbolized the New Deal for millions of Americans; Harry Hopkins, whose closeness to Roosevelt earned him the moniker "deputy president"; and many other fascinating figures. What emerges is a saga of how FDR managed to recast the federal government into something that still inspires: a unifying structure with the concept of social justice at its heart. ...more

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• The War Below: 4 of 4: The Story of Three Submarines That Battled Japan Audible Audiobook – Unabridged James Scott (Author), Donald Corren (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher)

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  Photo: USS Bowfin (SS-287) is a fleet attack submarine that fought in the Pacific during WWII, and helped to make famous the term, “Silent Service.” Bowfin was launched on 7 December 1942, exactly one year to the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor. She was nicknamed the Pearl Harbor Avenger, so it is fitting that she is permanently homeported at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.Date11 November 2013, 10:09SourceUSS Bowfin Submarine.AuthorBernard Spragg. NZ from Christchurch, New ZealandCamera location21° 22′ 08.28″ N, 157° 56′ 23.81″ W View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap - Google EarthLicensing[edit] This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The War Below: 4 of 4: The Story of Three Submarines That Battled Japan Audible Audiobook – Unabridged James Scott (Author), Donald Corren (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/War-Below-Story-Submarines-Battled/dp/B00CLFDN7E/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1582498846&sr=1-1The riveting story of the submarine force that helped win World War II by ravaging Japan's merchant fleet and destroying its economy.  The War Below is a dramatic account of extraordinary heroism, ingenuity, and perseverance-and the vital role American submarines played in winning the Pacific War. Focusing on the unique stories of the submarines Silversides, Drum, and Tang-and the men who skippered and crewed them-James Scott takes readers beneath the waves to experience the thrill of a direct hit on a merchant ship and the terror of depth charge attacks. It's a story filled with incredible feats of courage, including an emergency appendectomy performed with spoons by an inexperienced medic and the desperate struggle of sailors to escape from a flooded submarine stuck on the bottom, as well as tragic moments such as American submarines sinking an unmarked enemy ship carrying some 1,800 American POWs.  The casualty rate among submariners topped that of all military branches, a staggering six times higher than the surface navy. The war claimed almost one out of every five boats. But Japan was so ravaged by the loss of precious fuel and supplies that by war's end, Japanese warships lay at anchor while hungry civilians ate sawdust. Scott paints an unforgettable picture of the dangerous life submariners endured, including the atrocious prison camps where the Japanese beat, tortured, and starved captured Allied troops. Based on more than one hundred interviews with submarine veterans and a review of more than three thousand pages of previously unpublished letters, diaries, and personal writings, The War Below allows readers to experience the Pacific War as never before....more

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• The War Below: 3 of 4: The Story of Three Submarines That Battled Japan Audible Audiobook – Unabridged James Scott (Author), Donald Corren (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher)

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  Photo: Photograph of Makin Island taken from USS Nautilus during the raid on the island in August 1942.View author information Public Domain File:MakinRaidPeriscope.jpg Uploaded: 2007-04-03 01:23:14 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The War Below: 3 of 4: The Story of Three Submarines That Battled Japan Audible Audiobook – Unabridged James Scott (Author), Donald Corren (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/War-Below-Story-Submarines-Battled/dp/B00CLFDN7E/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1582498846&sr=1-1The riveting story of the submarine force that helped win World War II by ravaging Japan's merchant fleet and destroying its economy.  The War Below is a dramatic account of extraordinary heroism, ingenuity, and perseverance-and the vital role American submarines played in winning the Pacific War. Focusing on the unique stories of the submarines Silversides, Drum, and Tang-and the men who skippered and crewed them-James Scott takes readers beneath the waves to experience the thrill of a direct hit on a merchant ship and the terror of depth charge attacks. It's a story filled with incredible feats of courage, including an emergency appendectomy performed with spoons by an inexperienced medic and the desperate struggle of sailors to escape from a flooded submarine stuck on the bottom, as well as tragic moments such as American submarines sinking an unmarked enemy ship carrying some 1,800 American POWs.  The casualty rate among submariners topped that of all military branches, a staggering six times higher than the surface navy. The war claimed almost one out of every five boats. But Japan was so ravaged by the loss of precious fuel and supplies that by war's end, Japanese warships lay at anchor while hungry civilians ate sawdust. Scott paints an unforgettable picture of the dangerous life submariners endured, including the atrocious prison camps where the Japanese beat, tortured, and starved captured Allied troops. Based on more than one hundred interviews with submarine veterans and a review of more than three thousand pages of previously unpublished letters, diaries, and personal writings, The War Below allows readers to experience the Pacific War as never before....more

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• The War Below: 2 of 4: The Story of Three Submarines That Battled Japan Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. James Scott (Author), Donald Corren (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher)

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  Photo: Torpedoed Japanese destroyer Yamakaze photographed through the periscope of American submarine USS Nautilus on 25 June 1942.U.S. Navy - This media is available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 520769. Sinking of the Japanese destroyer Yamakaze on 25 June 1942 approximately 110 km southeast of Yokosuku, Japan, photographed through the periscope of the U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus (SS-168). This position is given in The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II by Robert Cressman. NH 111751 says 75 miles southwest of Yokahama Harbor. Yokahama is near Yokosuku. Public Domain File:Torpedoed Japanese destroyer Yamakaze sinking on 25 June 1942.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The War Below: 2 of 4: The Story of Three Submarines That Battled Japan Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. James Scott (Author), Donald Corren (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/War-Below-Story-Submarines-Battled/dp/B00CLFDN7E/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1582498846&sr=1-1The riveting story of the submarine force that helped win World War II by ravaging Japan's merchant fleet and destroying its economy.  The War Below is a dramatic account of extraordinary heroism, ingenuity, and perseverance-and the vital role American submarines played in winning the Pacific War. Focusing on the unique stories of the submarines Silversides, Drum, and Tang-and the men who skippered and crewed them-James Scott takes readers beneath the waves to experience the thrill of a direct hit on a merchant ship and the terror of depth charge attacks. It's a story filled with incredible feats of courage, including an emergency appendectomy performed with spoons by an inexperienced medic and the desperate struggle of sailors to escape from a flooded submarine stuck on the bottom, as well as tragic moments such as American submarines sinking an unmarked enemy ship carrying some 1,800 American POWs.  The casualty rate among submariners topped that of all military branches, a staggering six times higher than the surface navy. The war claimed almost one out of every five boats. But Japan was so ravaged by the loss of precious fuel and supplies that by war's end, Japanese warships lay at anchor while hungry civilians ate sawdust. Scott paints an unforgettable picture of the dangerous life submariners endured, including the atrocious prison camps where the Japanese beat, tortured, and starved captured Allied troops. Based on more than one hundred interviews with submarine veterans and a review of more than three thousand pages of previously unpublished letters, diaries, and personal writings, The War Below allows readers to experience the Pacific War as never before....more

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• The War Below: 1 of 4: The Story of Three Submarines That Battled Japan Audible Audiobook – Unabridged James Scott (Author), Donald Corren (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher)

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  Photo: Japanese freighter Nittsu Maru sinks after being torpedoed by USS Wahoo on 21 March 1943.View author information Public Domain File:Wahoo-periscope-view.jpg Uploaded: 2007-10-14 23:22:35 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The War Below: 1 of 4: The Story of Three Submarines That Battled Japan Audible Audiobook – Unabridged James Scott (Author), Donald Corren (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/War-Below-Story-Submarines-Battled/dp/B00CLFDN7E/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1582498846&sr=1-1The riveting story of the submarine force that helped win World War II by ravaging Japan's merchant fleet and destroying its economy.  The War Below is a dramatic account of extraordinary heroism, ingenuity, and perseverance-and the vital role American submarines played in winning the Pacific War. Focusing on the unique stories of the submarines Silversides, Drum, and Tang-and the men who skippered and crewed them-James Scott takes readers beneath the waves to experience the thrill of a direct hit on a merchant ship and the terror of depth charge attacks. It's a story filled with incredible feats of courage, including an emergency appendectomy performed with spoons by an inexperienced medic and the desperate struggle of sailors to escape from a flooded submarine stuck on the bottom, as well as tragic moments such as American submarines sinking an unmarked enemy ship carrying some 1,800 American POWs.  The casualty rate among submariners topped that of all military branches, a staggering six times higher than the surface navy. The war claimed almost one out of every five boats. But Japan was so ravaged by the loss of precious fuel and supplies that by war's end, Japanese warships lay at anchor while hungry civilians ate sawdust. Scott paints an unforgettable picture of the dangerous life submariners endured, including the atrocious prison camps where the Japanese beat, tortured, and starved captured Allied troops. Based on more than one hundred interviews with submarine veterans and a review of more than three thousand pages of previously unpublished letters, diaries, and personal writings, The War Below allows readers to experience the Pacific War as never before....more

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• Treasures of the low-carbon future: 2 of 2: & What is to be done? Saleem Ali, Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Energy and the Environment, University of Delaware, Dept. of Geography & Joseph R. Biden Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration

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  Feb 23 2020

  Photo: Henry M. Sarvant  (1860–1940)  TitleEnglish: Mining operation showing miner and equipment, Yukon Territory, 1900DescriptionEnglish: Caption with image: Stafford-Williams- Clark Shaft, 1900 PH Coll 35.557 Klondike Gold RushSubjects (LCTGM): Gold miners--Yukon; Gold mining--Yukon; Gold mining equipment--YukonSubjects (LCSH): Gold mines and mining--YukonDepicted placeYukonDate1900http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTreasures of the low-carbon future: 2 of 2:  & What is to be done? Saleem Ali, Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Energy and the Environment, University of Delaware, Dept. of Geography & Joseph R. Biden Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200102143405.htm ...more

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• Treasures of the low-carbon future: 1 of 2: & What is to be done? Saleem Ali, Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Energy and the Environment, University of Delaware, Dept. of Geography & Joseph R. Biden Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration

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  Photo: Placer gold-mining, Korea, c1900; /355. The passing of Korea (book)Date27 July 2010, 13:59 (UTC)SourceThe_passing_of_Korea.djvuAuthorThe_passing_of_Korea.djvu: Homer Hulbert.Original uploader was Ryuch at en.wikisourcederivative work:  — billinghurst sDrewthPermission(Reusing this file)This work is in the public domainhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTreasures of the low-carbon future: 1 of 2:  & What is to be done? Saleem Ali, Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Energy and the Environment, University of Delaware, Dept. of Geography & Joseph R. Biden Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200102143405.htm ...more

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• Atlantic: 2 of 2: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Simon Winchester (Author, Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher)

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  Feb 23 2020

  Photo: The Fra Mauro map, "considered the greatest memorial of medieval cartography" according to Roberto Almagià[26] is a map made between 1457 and 1459 by the Venetian monk Fra Mauro. It is a circular planisphere drawn on parchment and set in a wooden frame, about two meters in diameter.View author information Public Domain File:FraMauroDetailedMapInverted.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Atlantic: 2 of 2: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Simon Winchester (Author, Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Atlantic-Battles-Discoveries-Titanic-Million/dp/B004ADOH8E/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Atlantic+simon+winchester&qid=1582427923&s=books&sr=1-1From best-selling author Simon Winchester comes the immense and thrilling story of the world's most mysterious and breathtaking natural wonder: the Atlantic Ocean.  Atlantic is a biography of a tremendous space that has been central to the ambitions of explorers, scientists, and warriors, and continues to affect profoundly our character, attitudes, and dreams. Spanning the ocean's story, from its geological origins to the age of exploration, from World War II battles to today's struggles with pollution and over-fishing, Winchester's narrative is epic, intimate, and awe inspiring.  Until a thousand years ago, few humans ventured into the Atlantic or imagined traversing its vast infinity. But once the first daring mariners successfully navigated to its far shores - whether they were Vikings, the Irish, the Basques, John Cabot, or Christopher Columbus in the north, or the Portuguese and the Spanish in the south - the Atlantic swiftly evolved in the world's growing consciousness of itself as an enclosed body of water. Soon it became the fulcrum of Western civilization. More than a mere history, Atlantic is an unforgettable journey of unprecedented scope by one of the most gifted writers in the English language. ...more

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• Atlantic: 1 of 2: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Simon Winchester (Author, Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher)

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  Feb 23 2020

  Photo: Map of the world produced in 1689 by Gerard van Schagen. en:Gerard van Schagen - This image is made up of six separate images downloaded from Helmink.com and stitched together. World map - Produced in Amsterdam First edition : 1689. Original size : 48.3 x 56.0 cm. Produced using copper engraving. Extremely rare set of maps, only known in one other example in the Amsterdam University. No copies in American libraries. In original hand color. Permission details Public DomainView more Public Domainview terms File:World Map 1689.JPG Created: This edition 1689 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Atlantic: 1 of 2: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Simon Winchester (Author, Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Atlantic-Battles-Discoveries-Titanic-Million/dp/B004ADOH8E/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Atlantic+simon+winchester&qid=1582427923&s=books&sr=1-1From best-selling author Simon Winchester comes the immense and thrilling story of the world's most mysterious and breathtaking natural wonder: the Atlantic Ocean.  Atlantic is a biography of a tremendous space that has been central to the ambitions of explorers, scientists, and warriors, and continues to affect profoundly our character, attitudes, and dreams. Spanning the ocean's story, from its geological origins to the age of exploration, from World War II battles to today's struggles with pollution and over-fishing, Winchester's narrative is epic, intimate, and awe inspiring.  Until a thousand years ago, few humans ventured into the Atlantic or imagined traversing its vast infinity. But once the first daring mariners successfully navigated to its far shores - whether they were Vikings, the Irish, the Basques, John Cabot, or Christopher Columbus in the north, or the Portuguese and the Spanish in the south - the Atlantic swiftly evolved in the world's growing consciousness of itself as an enclosed body of water. Soon it became the fulcrum of Western civilization. More than a mere history, Atlantic is an unforgettable journey of unprecedented scope by one of the most gifted writers in the English language. ...more

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• 4/4 Rothstein, by David Pietrusza @DPietrusza

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  Feb 23 2020

  Image:  Contemporary photo of the Park Central Hotel (Seventh Avenue and 55 St), where, on November 4, 1928, Rothstein was shot and mortally wounded during a business meeting.Rothstein, by David Pietrusza. Grover Gardner (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher).  Paperback – September 13, 2011 https://www.amazon.com/Rothstein/dp/B0002P0D0K/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=   The model for The Great Gatsby's Meyer Wolfsheim and Nathan Detroit from Guys and Dolls, Arnold Rothstein was an underworld genius, racketeer, rumrunner, and mastermind who, as F. Scott Fitzgerald observed, played "with the faith of 15 million people with the single-mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe."  Jazz Age Broadway, with its thugs, speakeasies, showgirls, political movers and shakers and sports heroes comes to life in this vibrant biography of the man who reigned supreme when the fast buck ruled and violence stalked the streets of Gotham. ...more

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• 3/4 Rothstein, by David Pietrusza @DPietrusza

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  Feb 23 2020

  Image:  Rothstein became the first to illegally import Scotch whiskey in his own fleet of trans-Atlantic freighters. Legend here: "Who does not love wine, wife and song, will be a fool for his lifelong!"Rothstein, by David Pietrusza. Grover Gardner (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher).  Paperback – September 13, 2011 https://www.amazon.com/Rothstein/dp/B0002P0D0K/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=   The model for The Great Gatsby's Meyer Wolfsheim and Nathan Detroit from Guys and Dolls, Arnold Rothstein was an underworld genius, racketeer, rumrunner, and mastermind who, as F. Scott Fitzgerald observed, played "with the faith of 15 million people with the single-mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe."  Jazz Age Broadway, with its thugs, speakeasies, showgirls, political movers and shakers and sports heroes comes to life in this vibrant biography of the man who reigned supreme when the fast buck ruled and violence stalked the streets of Gotham. ...more

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• 2/4 Rothstein, by David Pietrusza @DPietrusza

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  Feb 23 2020

  Image:  Rothstein owned a racehorse named Sporting Blood, which won the 1921 Travers Stakes under suspicious circumstances.  Here: the main Saratoga race track in 1907.Rothstein, by David Pietrusza. Grover Gardner (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher).  Paperback – September 13, 2011 https://www.amazon.com/Rothstein/dp/B0002P0D0K/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=   The model for The Great Gatsby's Meyer Wolfsheim and Nathan Detroit from Guys and Dolls, Arnold Rothstein was an underworld genius, racketeer, rumrunner, and mastermind who, as F. Scott Fitzgerald observed, played "with the faith of 15 million people with the single-mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe."  Jazz Age Broadway, with its thugs, speakeasies, showgirls, political movers and shakers and sports heroes comes to life in this vibrant biography of the man who reigned supreme when the fast buck ruled and violence stalked the streets of Gotham. ...more

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• 1/4 Rothstein, by David Pietrusza @DPietrusza

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  Feb 23 2020

  Image:  Arnold Rothstein (January 17, 1882 – November 5, 1928), New York businessman and gambler who became a famous kingpin of the Jewish mafiaRothstein, by David Pietrusza. Grover Gardner (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher).  Paperback – September 13, 2011 https://www.amazon.com/Rothstein/dp/B0002P0D0K/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=   The model for The Great Gatsby's Meyer Wolfsheim and Nathan Detroit from Guys and Dolls, Arnold Rothstein was an underworld genius, racketeer, rumrunner, and mastermind who, as F. Scott Fitzgerald observed, played "with the faith of 15 million people with the single-mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe."  Jazz Age Broadway, with its thugs, speakeasies, showgirls, political movers and shakers and sports heroes comes to life in this vibrant biography of the man who reigned supreme when the fast buck ruled and violence stalked the streets of Gotham. ...more

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• Water on Jupiter; Robert Zimmerman

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  Feb 23 2020

  Image:  Artist's impression of a class II planet with water vapor clouds, as seen from a hypothetical large moon with surface liquid water Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com, in re: Water on Jupiter.Permissions:   Description | English: Extrasolar planet Upsilon Andromedae d lies in the habitable zone and if it has moons large enough, they may be able to support liquid water, as the image shows. On the horizon of this hypothetical earth-like moon can be seen Upsilon Andromedae d, possibly a class II planet (Sudarsky classification): since it is too warm to form ammonia clouds, the visible top ones are mostly made up of water vapor, white in colour instead of the characteristic yellow-reddish clouds of Jupiter and Saturn, and with some bluish hue due to the rayleigh scatterig. | Date | 11 February 2011 | Source | Own work | Author | Lucianomendez | Other versions | File:Planeta extrasolar y satelite similar a la tierra.jpg Licensing   I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following licenses:| ‪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 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. •       ‪share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.    ‪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. ...more

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• China gambles on the Long March 5 ; Robert Zimmerman

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  Feb 23 2020

  Image:  Long March 3B launch Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com, in re: China gambles on the Long March 5

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• LA is a homeless mental ward; a massive healthcare crisis;

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  Feb 23 2020

  Image:  LA, San Julian Street south of 5th Street. Permissions*: see below. Jeff Bliss, Pacific Watch, in re:  LA is a homeless mental ward; a massive healthcare crisis. *Permissions:  Description | Skid Row, Los Angeles Date | 3 September 2006 (original upload date) Source | Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons. Author | Jorobeq at English Wikipedia Licensing / ‪Jorobeq‪ at English Wikipedia, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publishes it under the following license:  This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic license.    ‪Attribution: Jorobeq at English Wikipedia | ‪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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• Barr is the integrity of the Republic; @DanHenninger

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  Feb 23 2020

  Image:  Barr is sworn in as Attorney General by Chief Justice John Roberts in 2019.  Dan Henninger, WSJ Wonder Land column & editorial board, in re: Barr is the integrity of the Republic

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• A Copernican castle on Venus or Saturn—perhaps @Rand_Simberg @Simberg_Space & Dr. David Livingston @SpaceShow

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  Feb 22 2020

  Image:  Pink skies and mysterious liquid for a moat. (Here: Bodiam Castle in East Sussex, England, is surrounded by a water-filled moat.)Hotel Mars, episode n. Rand Simberg, aerospace engineer and author of Safe Is Not an Option: Overcoming the Futile Obsession with ‘Getting Everyone Back Alive’ That Is Killing Our Expansion into Space; & David Livingston, the Space Show; in re: Space law.  Conflict  between the 1967 Outer Space Treaty and the 1979 Moon treaty.  Can you own property in space? “By the end of the Middle Ages, the common opinion in Europe was that celestial bodies were moved by external intelligences, identified with the angels of revelation. . . .  Each of the lower spheres was moved by a subordinate spiritual mover (a replacement for Aristotle's multiple divine movers), called an intelligence.”..*Permissions: Bodiam Castle East Sussex England UKDate | 10 May 2008  ;  Source | Own work  ;  Author | Antony McCallumPermission | This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unportedlicense. ;  Attribution: WyrdLight.comYou 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.share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original. ...more

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• Real estate market in outer space? @Rand_Simberg @Simberg_Space & Dr. David Livingston @SpaceShow

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  Feb 22 2020

  Image: Location, location, location.  Part of the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field image showing a typical section of space containing galaxies interspersed by deep vacuum. Given the finite speed of light, this view covers the past 13 billion years of the history of outer space. Hotel Mars, episode n. Rand Simberg & David Livingston, in re: Space law.  Conflict  between the 1967 Outer Space Treaty and the 1979 Moon treaty.  Can you own property in space?  The Outer Space Treaty indirectly suggests that commercial space companies don't own the rights to any resources they find in outer space. The treaty states that no “celestial body” is subject to “national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means.” —Washington Post ...more

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• “Venezuela Puts the Crypt in Cryptocurrency” Mary O’Grady @MaryAnastasiaOG

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  Feb 22 2020

  Image:  A Venezuelan palafito like the ones seen by Amerigo Vespucci.  Stilt houses are houses raised on piles over the surface of the soil or a body of water. They’re built primarily as protection against flooding, and also keep out vermin. The shady space under the house can be used for work or storage. (Venezuela means “little Venice.)Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, Americas column, in re: Venezuela, the failed state.

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• Busting up Puerto Rico’s political racket with good governance; with Mary O’Grady @MaryAnastasiaOG

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  Feb 22 2020

  Image:  Map of the departments of Puerto Rico during Spanish provincial times (1886). Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, Americas column, in re: Puerto Rico

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• Rescuing the Electoral College from the Demos: 2 of 2: @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Feb 22 2020

  Photo: The Plague of Athens (c. 1652–1654) by Michiel SweertsMichiel Sweerts - Image: http://collections.lacma.org/sites/default/files/remote_images/piction/ma-31770455-O3.jpg Gallery: http://collections.lacma.org/node/183358 archive copyHolland Paintings Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation (AC1997.10.1) European Painting Currently on public view: Ahmanson Building, floor 3 The painting is believed to be referring to the plague of Athens or have elements from it (i.e. as per Plague in an Ancient City, by Michael Sweerts, circa 1652, represents the Plague of Athens, Thucicydes and the Plague of Athens),Public DomainFile:Plague in an Ancient City LACMA AC1997.10.1 (1 of 2).jpgCreated: between circa 1652 and circa 1654 date QS:P571,+1652-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1652-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1654-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowRescuing the Electoral College from the Demos: 2 of 2: @RichardAEpstein @HooverInsthttps://www.hoover.org/research/beware-faithless-electors ...more

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• Rescuing the Electoral College from the Demos. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Feb 22 2020

  Photo: Phidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon to Pericles, Aspasia, Alcibiades and Friends, by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1868, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery Lawrence Alma-Tadema - Unknown Permission details This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: This work is in the public domainin its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1925. This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain". This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details.View more Public Domainview terms File:1868 Lawrence Alma-Tadema - Phidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon to his Friends.jpg Created: 1868date QS:P571,+1868-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowRescuing the Electoral College from the Demos: 1 of 2: @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst https://www.hoover.org/research/beware-faithless-electors ...more

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• #NewAmericanCivilWar: 2 of 2: Regicide murders sleep. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Feb 22 2020

  Photo: Charles (in the dock with his back to the viewer) facing the High Court of Justice, 1649[262]Uncredited engraver - "The Phelps Family of America and their English Ancestors" by Judge Oliver Seymour Phelps and Andrew T. Servin (Eagle Publishing Company of Pittsfield, Massachusetts) 1899. Volume 1. Between pages 54 and 55. [1]Engraving from "Nalson's Record of the Trial of Charles I" in the British Museum. Plate 2 from A True copy of the journal of the High Court of Justice for the tryal of K. Charles I as it was read in the House of Commons and attested under the hand of Phelps, clerk to that infamous court / taken by J. Nalson Jan. 4, 1683 : with a large introduction. London: Printed by H.C. for Thomas Dring at the Harrow at the corner of Chancery Lane and Fleet Street, 1684.Public DomainFile:Court-charles-I-sm.jpgCreated: Original 1680s; this reproduction published 1899http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowPhoto: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow#NewAmericanCivilWar: 2 of 2: Regicide murders sleep. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis...more

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• #NewAmericanCivilWar: 1 of 2: Regicide murders sleep. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Feb 22 2020

  Engraving: Lady Macbeth, Macbeth and the Murder of Duncan (Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act II, Scene II)1825–40;  by Charles Rolls (see below)  #NewAmericanCivilWar: 1 of 2: Regicide murders sleep. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis..Photo:  Photo: Henry Corbould  (1787–1844)  William Shakespeare  (–1616)    Creator:Charles RollsTitleLady Macbeth, Macbeth and the Murder of Duncan (Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act II, Scene II)DescriptionPrint; PrintsDate1825–40MediumEtching and engravingDimensionsSheet: 3 7/16 × 2 9/16 in. (8.8 × 6.5 cm)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow...more

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• Eureka! Molecular oxygen at 560 millón light years. Ken Croswell @ScienceNews

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  Feb 22 2020

  Photo: The extraordinary galaxy UGC 8058, also known as Markarian 231, was discovered in 1969 as part of a survey searching for galaxies with strong ultraviolet radiation. It has long tidal tails and a disturbed shape. Results from the first spectrum showed clear signs of the presence of a powerful quasar in the center that made Markarian 231 unique in the Markarian sample. Markarian 231 has maintained its reputation as an exceptional object since those early observations and continues to be a favorite target in all wavelength regimes. Its infrared luminosity is similar to that of quasars, making it one of the most luminous and powerful known ultra-luminous infrared galaxies. Although the emission of many ultra-luminous infrared galaxies appears to be dominated by energetic starbursts, Markarian 231 has been repeatedly identified as an exception and many pieces of evidence point toward an accreting black hole as the major power source behind the enormous infrared luminosity. Although the primary power source behind the incredible far-infrared luminosity of Markarian 231 is almost certainly an active nucleus, the galaxy is also undergoing an energetic starburst. Most dramatically a nuclear ring of active star formation with a rate estimated to be greater than 100 solar masses per year has been found in the center. UGC 8058 is located about 600 million light-years away from Earth. This image is part of a large collection of 59 images of merging galaxies taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and released on the occasion of its 18th anniversary on 24th April 2008. About the object Object name UGC 8058, Mrk 0231, VII Zw 490, QSO B1254+571 Object description Interacting Galaxies Position (J2000) 12 56 13.96 +56 52 27.3 Constellation Ursa Major Distance 550 million light-years (150 million parsecs) About the data Data description The Hubble image was created using HST data from proposal 10592: A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University) Instrument ACS/WFC Exposure date(s) May 10, 2002 Exposure time 38 minutes Filters F435W (B) and F814W (I)NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University) - http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2008/16/image/cd/(direct link) Permission details This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA and ESA. NASA Hubble material (and ESA Hubble material prior to 2009) is copyright-free and may be freely used as in the public domain without fee, on the condition that only NASA, STScI, and/or ESA is credited as the source of the material. This license does not apply if ESA material created after 2008 or source material from other organizations is in use. The material was created for NASA by Space Telescope Science Institute under Contract NAS5-26555, or for ESA by the Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre. Copyright statement at hubblesite.org or 2008 copyright statement at spacetelescope.org. For material created by the European Space Agency on the spacetelescope.org site since 2009, use the {{ESA-Hubble}} tag.View more Public Domainview terms File:Hubble Interacting Galaxy UGC 8058 (2008-04-24).jpg Created: 23 April 2008 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowEureka!  Molecular oxygen at 560 millón light years. Ken Croswell @ScienceNews https://www.sciencenews.org/article/molecular-oxygen-spotted-beyond-milky-way-first-time ....more

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• #TheScalaReport: Who owns Huawei & What is to be done? Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHE

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  Feb 22 2020

  Photo:  Photo of Mao Zedong, ca. 1910s, from Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung,Date | circa 1910sSource | Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung ("The Little Red Book")Author | The people's Republic of China Printing OfficePermission(Reusing this file) | Public Domain | This image is now in the public domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow#TheScalaReport: Who owns Huawei & What is to be done?  Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com  #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHEhttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/technology/who-owns-huawei.html https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3372669...more

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• POTUS polls surge & What is to be done? @DevinNunes

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  Feb 22 2020

  Photo: Conservatives in 1900 ridiculed Bryan's eclectic platform.William Allen Rogers (1854-1931) - Harpers Weekly magazine cover USA 1900 Harpers Weekly magazine cover USA 1900 Political cartoon shows William Jennings Bryan stands with a hammer and pot of glue beside a bizarre hybrid animal on a poorly constructed wheeled platform (labeled "The Fierce DEMOPOPTAM of Kansas City"), representing the Democratic Party platform in the 1900 election, as Uncle Sam looks on. Caption: "He Made It All By Himself". Permission details PD-US.View more Public Domainview terms File:Rogers cartoon about William Jennings Bryan reconstructing the Democratic Party platform.jpg Created: 31 December 1899 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowPOTUS polls surge & What is to be done? @DevinNuneshttps://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/ ...more

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• Water returns to the San Joaquin Valley. @DevinNunes

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  Feb 22 2020

  Photo: Maynard DixonDescription | English: San Joaquin Valley, California-Erosion by Maynard Dixon, 1921, oil on board, 10 1/8 x 13 ½ inchesDate | 1921Source/Photographer | ArtDaily.comPermission(Reusing this file) |  | This work was never published prior to January 1, 2003, and is currently in the public domain in the United States because it meets one of the following conditions:http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWater returns to the San Joaquin Valley.  @DevinNuneshttps://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2019/02/26/water-and-the-future-of-the-san-joaquin-valley-overview/https://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/article240434781.html ...more

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• The rebuilding of the Clapper-damaged DNI. @SebGorka

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  Feb 21 2020

  Photo: Richard Grenell, incumbent; acting DNIhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe rebuilding of the Clapper damaged DNI. @SebGorka https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/19/politics/trump-grennell-acting-dni/index.html

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• Bloomberg pummeled. @SebGorka

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  Feb 21 2020

  Photo: From a ceiling in Mike Bloomberg's London home.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowBloomberg pummeled. @SebGorka

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• What about the ending of the power of the Commerce Clause? John Yoo, Hoover, Berkeley, @NRO

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  Feb 21 2020

  Photo: Howard Chandler Christy's Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United StatesThe Commerce Clause describes an enumerated power listed in the United States Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Clause 3). The clause states that the United States Congress shall have power "[t]o regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWhat about the ending of the power of the Commerce Clause?  John Yoo, Hoover, Berkeley, @NRO ...more

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• Can the Roberts Court reawaken Federalism? John Yoo, Hoover, Berkeley, @NRO

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  Feb 21 2020

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowCan the Roberts Court reawaken Federalism? John Yoo, Hoover, Berkeley, @NRO

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• Rage against Carrie Lam; & Wuhan virus: Eurasia is closing down. @GordonGChang

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  Feb 21 2020

  Image:  Quarantine operations deployed by mainland Chinese border control. Gordon Chang, Daily Beast, in re: Covid-19: Chinese reporting is spotty to nonexistent.  WHO is inadequate.  Xi remains cloistered in Beijing along with the rest of the leadership. One or more members of the Hong Kong police force is stricken with the virus, and the HK protestors are rejoicing. I read this as anarchy. Rather, across society there’s opposition to Carrie Lam for bowing to Beijing, and for keeping open the entry ports from Mainland to Hong Kong —real anger, united against their own government. Uzbek president’s conference cancelled; also major meetings in Amsterdam and elsewhere; we’ve been thinking the problem is behind us when in fact it’s ahead of us. We know that China’s economy is contracting; oil demand down 20%; cars demand down 30%. We see neighboring nations disconnecting from China. In the last hours: 70,500 infections and 2,200 deaths. Massive lack of confidence in the Chinese state-issued numbers.  Absent reliable information, people go to ground. Eurasia is closing down. Tokyo cancelling major events for at least the next three weeks..English: The emblem of the China Inspection and Quarantine at the Beijing International Airport. Date | 25 October 2012, 02:41:40 Source | Own work Author | Cookie Nguyen Licensing   /  ‪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. |  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. •        ‪share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original. ...more

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• Bloomberg’s most brazen acquisition of votes in the history of the world. @ConradMBlack

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  Feb 21 2020

  Image: Much cash.     Permissions*: see below. Conrad Black, author and publisher; NRO; in re: Bloomberg rents democracy.  The Gallup numbers for the president of the US: best ever.  “Long time coming.” We can doff our hats to the Dems for having disguised this president’s success; unprecedented efforts to block and obstruct him in ways I’m confident will be found unconstitutional.  Polls say, “63% rate the economy as excellent.”   Bloomberg’s one fine moment yesterday was calling the others’s economic notions as “ridiculous.”  He must have known the difficult questions were coming. He’s a very able man, and I’m shocked that he wasn’t better prepared. Bloomberg’s most brazen acquisition of votes in the history of the world.  He was the least impressive of all the candidates.   Joe Biden: he made a real effort to show he was alert and bright; to show that his supporters hadn't made a terrible mistake He did fairly well for the first half; then he became hesitant and shambling—and then had a strong, punchy ending despite some odd heckling. Looks now as though Sanders will have 1,500 of the 1901 votes he’ll need.  Bloomberg impressed only those who are totally focussed on taxes and economics; he [didn’t notice that the president isn't just a manager, he’s “the leader of the America people,” as FDR said...*Permissions:Description: Many dollar banknotes.Date | 19 February 2009 Source | http://2bgr8stock.deviantart.com/art/Money-Cash-113445826 Author | Jericho Licensing | This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported 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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• China’s bind: no culture of transparency or clarity. Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson

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  Feb 21 2020

  Image:  Gold stars on a red ground Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover and NRO, in re: The existential threat of the Chinese Communist Party.  China has ejected three Wall Street Journal reporters who’ve been doing very careful and accurate reports. A first-generation,  post-industrial revolution without culture or regulations of audit or transparency;  Members of the HK police are now ill with Covid-19—and the populace are actually rejoicing in that. Xi Jinping has ordered most people to go back to work, but they won’t get an ordinary product. Trump’s is now the orthodox opinion on China. Chernobyl was the countdown to the end of the USSR: Chinese Netizens are calling the virus “Chernobyl.” The pre-fab hospital: has bars on the windows. Why? Because it’s from Xinjiang, where Uyghurs are held in concentration camps. ...more

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• Bloomberg as not a brash New York wolf, but a sheep. Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson

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  Feb 21 2020

  Image:  Bloomberg as not a brash New York wolf, but a sheep.   Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover and NRO, in re: Last night’s Democratic gathering; Bloomberg’s rather unusual attitudes. Bidenesque?  The party is ready to go down in woke flames.  Everyone on stage but Bloomberg seemed to demonstrating id.  The latter was pleased to remind us that he’s a billionaire; but instead of being a brash and brassy New York wolf, he was a sheep. Was on an apology tour all night.  Warren attacked him strongly, not to her advantage but redounding to the benefit of the other candidates. Apparently, Bloomberg hadn't read what a modern Democratic politician is and does; the others were all on woke script.  He’s spent$350 million in ads; you’d think he’d be aware of what’s up.  He wasn’t ready for Elizabeth Warren’s allegations of his alleged treatment of woman employees. No secret that there have been troubles at his company all these years. Bernie can destroy the party if he’s the nominee; can lose the House.   Democratic pundits still regard Bloomberg as the best [alternative] to Bernie.  . . .  We’ve given too much emphasis to the squad—less than 20% of the general electorate.  Out in the shadows, politicos who’ve run Democratic campaigns and are in and out of govt and corporations. The want Bernie and Warren out.  It's about power: they want to be running government again. They detest Trump to such an extent that they’ll [waive] any principles to get power back.   ...more

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• 2/2 John Prideaux: What makes Pete Buttigieg run and run and run.

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  Feb 21 2020

  Image: John Prideaux, The Economist US political correspondent, @JohnPrideaux,  in re: Buttigieg in America

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• 1/2 John Prideaux: What makes Pete Buttigieg run and run and run.

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  Feb 21 2020

  Image: John Prideaux, The Economist US political correspondent, @JohnPrideaux,  in re: Buttigieg in America

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• Wisconsin: Why the dairy farmers vote for Trump. @SalenaZito

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  Feb 21 2020

  Image:   Salena Zito,  Washington Examiner, New York Post, in re: Bellwether Wisconsin, 2020

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• Pittsburgh: The most important election in 2020 @SalenaZito

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  Feb 21 2020

  Image:  Salena Zito, Washington Examiner, New York Post, in re: Bellwether Pittsburgh, 2020

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• The bull market ignores Covid-19. @BrettArends @Marketwatch

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  Feb 20 2020

  Photo: An aurochs bull in a cave painting in Lascaux, Francehttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe bull market ignores Covid-19. @BrettArends @Marketwatch

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• Court of world opinion of the fragile PRC. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast Jonathan Ward, author, "China's Vision of Victory."

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  Feb 20 2020

  Photo: Picture of a young George Seldes for a Chicago Tribune filecard. Seldes was an American investigative journalist, foreign correspondent, editor, author, and media critic best known for the publication of the newsletter In Fact from 1940 to 1950. He used his journalism to fight injustice and justify reform. In 1922, he interviewed Vladimir Lenin, and in 1923 he was expelled from the Soviet Union, along with three colleagues, for disguising news reports as personal letters; a letter his publisher wrote for the Soviets only facilitated his expulsion.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowCourt of world opinion of the fragile PRC. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast Jonathan Ward, author, China's Vision of Victory.https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-expels-three-wall-street-journal-reporters-11582100355?mod=hp_lead_pos2 ...more

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• The PRC fails the supply chain. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast Curtis Ellis @AmericaFirstPolicies.org https://www.wsj.com/articles/commentary-supply-chain-risks-from-the-coronavirus-demand-immediate-action-11582054704

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  Feb 20 2020

  Image:  Some (additional) descriptions for the supply chainhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe PRC fails the supply chain. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast Curits Ellis @AmericaFirstPolicies.org https://www.wsj.com/articles/commentary-supply-chain-risks-from-the-coronavirus-demand-immediate-action-11582054704

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• Wealth tax beggars the nation. @VerodeRugy Veronique de Rugy

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  Feb 20 2020

  Image: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWealth tax beggars the nation. @VerodeRugyhttps://www.mercatus.org/publications/government-spending/revisiting-proposal-wealth-tax

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• Complete conversation with the newly elected MP from Nagorno-Karabakh. Tural Ganjaliyev. Christopher Nixon Cox.

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  Feb 20 2020

  Photo: The building of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan Original architectural work: unknown Depiction: Interfase - Own photo of uploader The building of National Assembly of Azerbaijan in Baku. Public Domain File:The building of National Assembly of Azerbaijan.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Baku: Complete conversation with the newly elected MP from Nagorno-Karabakh.  Tural Ganjaliyev. Christopher Nixon Cox....more

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• Hong Kong hotels are in failure because of Covid-19. Michael_Yon

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  Feb 20 2020

  Image:  Traditional Chinese medicine Michael Yon, Michael_Yon, East Asian reporter; in re:  Hong Kong hotels are in single-digit occupancy; travellers down over 90%. Sending staff home on unpaid, extended leave.  Not all will be able to survive in this environment; and certainly cannot service their highly-leveraged debt. Scattered small businesses won't survive.  Many of the pharmacies have been hurting since the fall, since many of their customers have been Mainlanders.  Here  in Thailand, the govt ins in a sort of denial about the virus; it controls information: someone in Phuket said he was forbidden to speak on the virus. The schools are still open. Local officials not wearing masks or glove: Teflon Thailand, but leaves the country unprepared. Back in Hong Kong, the insurgency is still very much active. And even the bureaucrats ...more

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• Five Eyes at risk. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

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  Feb 20 2020

  Image:  The nations of the Five Eyes    Gregory Copley, Defense and Foreign Affairs, in Perth, Australia; in re:  Anent the Five Eyes: Australia has emphatically said NO to Huawei; probably also New Zealand, and definitely the US has also rejected Huawei; Canada is wobbly because Trudeau is so warmly amiable to China and Xi Jinping; Boris Johnson is ambivalent.   Five Eyes have been in trouble for some time and not known it.  The agreement has been allowed to atrophy because of the massive intell flow around the countries. However, it's become largely commodified.  BoJo has tried to hedge by saying that he wouldn’t let Huawei anywhere near the UK information infrastructure – but  . . .  PRC has been threatening Australia, which is responding aggressively. Australia needed to start the process of developing bilateral intell-sharing.  In Canada, Telus says it will put Huawei in to its 5G, so we may be on our way to Three Eyes. Trudeau is unlikely to survive the next elections. The threat itself, the PRC might implode before that. Could see a rapid inflation in China; a lot of prestige is about to evaporate in the vaunted Huawel technology, as well as the emergence of other 5G providers. Arctic region:  not only economic development, but military: Russia and China are most interested. Polar regions include the Antarctic, in which, of course, Australia and New Zealand are most interested.PRC has been trying to insert itself as a “near-Arctic Power.”  Also been bullying their way into the Antarctic. The Trudeau govt is fragile; and he wouldn't attend the Canada-Australia Forum because of a personal antipathy to one of the attendees. ...more

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• Will the PLA navy put a base in the Philippines? James Holmes @NavalWarCollege

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  Feb 20 2020

  Image:  Philippines     James Holmes, first holder of the Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College and blogger at The Naval Diplomat (https://navaldiplomat.com/), in re:  https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/us-philippines-alliance-dying-123841  Xi Jinping thinks he can simply buy off the Filipino elite, and then in effect dismantle the Philippines; 

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• Taiwan unsure of the damage done by Covid-19. Stephen Yates, 葉望輝, @YatesDCIA , @dciadvisory

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  Feb 20 2020

  Image:  中華民國衛生福利部，Ministry of Health and Welfare, ROC， Stephen Yates, former deputy national security advisor to Vice President Cheney and currently CEO of DC International Advisory, in re:  Taiwan and the coronavirus epidemic. The current virus news in Taiwan about the virus: Taiwanese are vigilant, and indignant for having been excluded from international fora on the virus. However, they’ve successfully contained the spread, and their numbers seem to have plateaued.  Taiwan is economically very integrated into China. China is in contraction, oil demand down 20% year on year. Tsai Ing-wen keeps pointing out that Taiwan needs to [be doing major business] with other nations; rebalance investment and mfrg; new supply chains.  China is run by bullies and men who deny information; is Taiwan discussing that?  The population does, but the businesses are taking longer.  Xi Jinping’s narrative is that the virus matter is largely resolved and it’s time to go back to work.  Chinese people disagree, as does much of the rest of the world. The KuoMinTang has been massively in favor of Mainland; right now, it’s in the throes of a competition to fill a vacant chairmanship position; this is a proxy [fight].   The tone of the discussion is different from recently, being a little more pro-Taiwan. ...more

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• There are no vaccines imminent or even likely for Covid-19; Dr Henry Miller @henryimiller

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  Feb 20 2020

  Image:  Dr Jenner performing his first vaccination on James Phipps, a boy of age 8. May 14th, 1796. Painting by Ernest Board (early 20th century).There are no vaccines imminent or even likely for Covid-19;   Dr Henry Miller @henryimiller Dr Henry Miller, Pacific Research Institute; in re: Anti-malarial drug, or stem cell medicine?  The corona virus has spikes around its edges, so needs a protein around it. Need to distinguish between drugs to treat ill people, and vaccines.  Vaccines go to huge numbers of people, so the regulatory bar is very high.  Drugs have a different risk/benefit evaluation.  If an already-approved drug was found to be effective in treating another malady, it’s manufacture could be increased.  There exists a SARS vaccine, but . . .   Testing a vaccine takes so long that it’s considered more efficacious to see if an extant drug can be used. ...more

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• Russia manipulates the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict; Brenda Shaffer (@ProfBShaffer)

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  Feb 20 2020

  Image:  Coat of Arms of the Russian FederationRussia manipulates the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict; Brenda Shaffer (@ProfBShaffer) Brenda Shaffer, Georgetown University, in re:  Armenia and Azerbaijan have been consistenltly in confrontation over Nagorno-Karabakh since Christmas 1991, when Armenia invaded it. Twenty-nine years.  At the Munich Security Conference, Pashinyian and Aliyev sat on the same stage with a coordinator between them to discuss matters, including Nagorno-Karabakh. Does Armenia want a resolution? In Azerbaijan, many people whose homes were invaded and parents were killed; all still remembered as though it was yesterday. The Armenian expulsion of inhabitants, over 700,000 people were displaced and dishomed. Largest such population in Europe since WWII.  Azerbaijan rather naively believed that the “international system” would clear it up. Meanwhile, the status quo is good for Russia, which currently has leverage over both countries; and the conflict is too small for the US to intervene actively. If Armenia had regional options, such as trade with Turkey or Azerbaijan, then Armenia could somewhat lighten Russian control over it. The Caucasus (Georgia, Armenia), Ukraine and Moldova are the only states neither in nor out of Russian control; the only ones sort of up for grabs by Russia or the West.  Even if Armenia wanted to resolve it, it's not clear how much Russia would allow. Even in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, there’s never been a taboo of the two sides’ meeting each other. Tural Ganjaliyev, Member of Parliament representing Khankendi District of Nagorno-Karabakh   ...more

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• China picks a Mars landing ; Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com

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  Feb 20 2020

  Image:  A Mars map.  This map, color-coded for minerals (CRISM) and annotated, shows a rover's traverse up to about 2010 with some nearby features noted.

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• Bezos builds a rocket factory; Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com

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  Feb 20 2020

  Image:  Rocket is from Italian rocchetto, "bobbin". Early rocketry:  A British battalion was defeated during the Battle of Guntur by the forces of Hyder Ali, who effectively utilized Mysorean rockets and rocket artillery against the closely-massed British forces. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com

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• Tales of the New Cold War: 2 of 2: Putin's Russia aims to modernize. Stephen F. Cohen @NYUniversity @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.

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  Feb 19 2020

  photo: Русский: Спасо-Преображенский (Староярмарочный) соборDate | 1900s Source | http://www.museum.ru/Author | М. Дмитриев.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTales of the New Cold War: 2 of 2: Putin's Russia aims to modernize. Stephen F. Cohen @NYUniversity @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/02/04/putin-has-a-multibillion-dollar-plan-to-modernize-russian-cities-a64384

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• Tales of the New Cold War: 1 of 2: Putin's Russia aims to modernize. Stephen F. Cohen @NYUniversity @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.

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  Feb 19 2020

  Photo: Main road in Nizhny Novgorod, about 1900. Hauptstraße von Nischny NowgorodDate | 1905/2008Source | Aus: Hanns von Zobeltitz: Rauchware. Ein Kapitel von Pelzen und dem Pelzhandel. Velhagen & Klasings Monatshefte, XX. Jahrgang 1905/1906 1. Bd., S. 403 (from own possession)Author | unknown/--Kuerschner 20:07, 2. February 2008 (UTC)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTales of the New Cold War: 1 of 2: Putin's Russia aims to modernize. Stephen F. Cohen @NYUniversity @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.photo: Русский: Спасо-Преображенский (Староярмарочный) соборDate | 1900s Source | http://www.museum.ru/Author | М. Дмитриев.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTales of the New Cold War: 1 of 2: Putin's Russia aims to modernize. Stephen F. Cohen @NYUniversity @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/02/04/putin-has-a-multibillion-dollar-plan-to-modernize-russian-cities-a64384 ...more

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• The Zimmermann Telegram: 4 of 4: Intelligence, Diplomacy, and America’s Entry into World War I Hardcover – October 15, 2012 by Thomas Boghardt (Author)

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  Feb 19 2020

  Photo: 1917 political cartoon about the Zimmermann Telegramhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Zimmermann Telegram: 4 of 4: Intelligence, Diplomacy, and America’s Entry into World War I Hardcover – October 15, 2012 by Thomas Boghardt  (Author)

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• The Zimmermann Telegram: 3 of 4: Intelligence, Diplomacy, and America’s Entry into World War I Hardcover – October 15, 2012 by Thomas Boghardt (Author)

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  Feb 19 2020

  Photo: "Exploding in his Hands"http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Zimmermann Telegram: 3 of 4: Intelligence, Diplomacy, and America’s Entry into World War I Hardcover – October 15, 2012 by Thomas Boghardt  (Author)

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• The Zimmermann Telegram: 2 of 4: Intelligence, Diplomacy, and America’s Entry into World War I Hardcover – October 15, 2012 by Thomas Boghardt (Author)

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  Feb 19 2020

  Photo: A portion of the Telegram as decrypted by British Naval Intelligence codebreakers. The word Arizona was not in the German codebook and thus had to be split into phonetic syllables.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Zimmermann Telegram: 2 of 4: Intelligence, Diplomacy, and America’s Entry into World War I Hardcover – October 15, 2012 by Thomas Boghardt  (Author)

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• The Zimmermann Telegram: 1 of 4: Intelligence, Diplomacy, and America’s Entry into World War I Hardcover – October 15, 2012 by Thomas Boghardt (Author)

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  Feb 19 2020

  Photo: The Zimmermann Telegram as it was sent from Washington to Ambassador Heinrich von Eckardt (who was the German ambassador to Mexico)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Zimmermann Telegram: 1 of 4: Intelligence, Diplomacy, and America’s Entry into World War I Hardcover – October 15, 2012 by Thomas Boghardt  (Author)

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• Judy Shelton; & Fed cringes at, “Why do we need a central bank?” @josephsternberg @WSJOpinion

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  Feb 19 2020

  Image: Image: Frankfurt, financial capital of Germany. Joseph Sternberg, author, The Theft of a Decade: How the Baby Boomers Stole the Millennials' Economic Future; and WSJ editorial board; in re: Judy Shelton’s nomination to the Federal Reserve Board in the Senate is under abeyance.   Where’s productivity?  Why does Judy Shelton think that even if we work as hard as we can, we can’t match the productivity of our parents’s (or grandparents’s) generation: because we need to return to some form of the gold standard, which would put the Fed out of business is several matters. This is because of the Fed, which has been unable to keep up. Price signals are going wild because the dollar and other currencies are unmoored; when central banks try to manipulate value, productivity cannot be maintained...Judy Shelton was director of the Sound Money Project at the Atlas Network; in 2012 she joined TheGoldStandardNow.Org as a senior advisor.  In March 2018, she was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the United States director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.  Shelton is known as a critic of the Federal Reserve. She has called for a 0% inflation target, contradicting the bank's current 2% target. She has written that a "fundamental question" of economics is, "Why do we need a central bank?"..  .  .. *Permissions:| English: Frankfurt, financial capital of Germany. | Date | 17 April 2014, 21:25:27 | Source | http://www.sz-photography.de/frankfurt-17-4-14/ | Author | Stefan ZinsmeisterLicensing 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 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. •       share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original. ...more

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• Can Obama help Biden? Bill Whalen @Hooverwhalen

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  Feb 19 2020

  Image:  For $350,000,000,  you can build a China­­–North Korea bridge (here, the New Yalu River Bridge; or build the Glomar Explorer (now worth billions); or the New York Marriott Marquis hotel; or film Star Wars: the Last Jedi.   *Permissions: see below    Bill Whalen, Hoover Area 45 Nuclear podcast; in re:  Pres Obama hasn't said a syllable in favor of any candidate. He won’t go down the path for his former running-mate.  1. Obama could decide that Biden is the likely candidate, so can endorse him  2. Could get involved in April, when the field has narrowed.  3. He can stay out till a Democrat wins in Milwaukee.   It's a matter of buoyancy; Biden is very very low on funds.  Bernie may be able to get 35%, but that’s only one-third of the vote.  Bloomberg: money ($350 mil) has been very effective so far.  On Wednesday, he’s before the American people, where presumably he’ll get hit from all angles.    ..  ..  ..   *Permissions:   中文（中国大陆）: 中朝鸭绿江界河公路大桥 |  20 September 2016, 12:48:10 | Own work | Ajew |  Camera location | 40° 01′ 33.62″ N, 124° 21′ 48.75″ E  ‪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.  ‪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. •       ‪share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original....more

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• Bernie is “authentic,” while DNC is in quicksand. @LizPeek

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  Feb 19 2020

  Image:  Acoustic telephone ad, The Consolidated Telephone Co., Jersey City, New Jersey, 1886. Finally—reliable vote-counting. The National Political Report, sponsored by Scala.comIn Nevada, Plan B is to distribute iPads with a phone inside so the voters can communicate directly with the DNC. To distribute all this on such short notice is [improvident]. Their back-up plan, Plan C, is the telephone—which, in Iowa, led to many-hours’-long delays when the phone lines were overwhelmed and totally jammed. Some time during the evening or the week, we’ll learn that Bernie Sanders is ahead.  Mike Bloomberg having an identity crisis?   The Mike Bloomberg who was mayor of NYC is no more; now we have Bloomberg the progressive leftist.  Audiences have been tumbling.  Sanders is pulling away from everyone,  not only in Nevada but nationally.  Were it anyone but Bernie Sanders, it’d be over. Will it be a brokered convention? If Sanders is the nominee, he can't [garner enough of the voters]; if he’s not, a lot of Bernie voters will be unhappy and stay at home.  As for Bernie, a lot of people don't like all his prescriptions for the economy, but they like his “authenticity,” ...more

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• China in Q1: zero growth; 90% of Americans say they're happy @LizPeek

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  Feb 19 2020

  Image:  Burning tons of ren min bi against Covid-19? The National Economic Report, sponsored by Scala.comElizabeth Peek, Fox News & Fox Business, and TheHill, in re:  Apple is 5% of the S&P, so I thought because of Covid-19 the market would go down 400 points — but it was barely affected. China’s economy in Q1 will probably have zero growth; and if you throw in Hong Kong, China is really in trouble. Regime said it will round up many RMB bank notes in Wuhan and burn them.  Ninety per cent of Americans are happy with their personal life, incl financial. Homebuilders are working at full steam. The coronavirus is a hiccup.  The Chinese nontransparent tyranny.  The US economy has become over-reliant on a nontransparent and unpredictable regime. Currently, this is an unexpected result of the Trump Administration’s challenge to the secrecy and overt theft of the regime. It's reckless to buy iPhones from a man who’s brutalizing his own people. It was so overdue—America’s corporate leaders were turning a blind eye to all the misdeeds, the massive theft and illegality and immorality. Companies that were inching toward expanding their supply chains are now racing for the exits.  . . .  A profound change for China and a very, very welcome change for the US. Similar to Europe’s becoming wholly dependent on Russian gas when Moscow openly shut gas off for retribution.The hospitals supposed to have been built in one week in Wuhan: the windows have bars on them—because the hospitals copy the Xinjiang concentration camps.  And the roofs leak!China under Xi Jinping is a criminal enterprise on so may rfonts.  It's their army doing the hacking. ...more

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• 2/2 Arctic Mission: 90 North by Airship and Submarine, by William F. Althoff

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  Feb 19 2020

  Image:  Navigator's report: Nautilus, 90°N, 19:15U, 3 August 1958, zero to North Pole. Arctic Mission: 90 North by Airship and Submarine, by William F. Althoff https://www.amazon.com/Arctic-Mission-North-Airship-Submarine/dp/1612510108   Artic Mission recounts two concurrent Navy Department penetrations of the Arctic, in 1958: one an unclassified project, the other absolutely secret. The Cold War posed alarm and threat; amid its urgencies, the International Geophysical Year of 1957-58 was under way. Sputnik had opened the Space Age—for Americans, a national humiliation. The White House needed a success. Sailing under the direct orders of the Commander in Chief, the nuclear submarine Nautilus (SSN-571) would—if successful—reaffirm U.S. technological prowess with a stupendous demonstration: an under-ice transit of the Arctic Basin via the North Pole.  The airship's unclassified mission was an Office of Naval Research project. Objective: to assess the suitability of non-rigid airships (blimps) for support of field parties deployed throughout the North, ashore and afloat. That IGY August, BUNO 126719 crossed the Arctic Circle—the sole military airship ever to do so—en route to rendezvous with a U.S. Air Force ice-rafted camp (drifting station) in the Arctic Ocean. As "719" (delayed) pressed north, Nautilus pierced the geographic pole, then, without changing course, logged the first-ever transit of the deep-ocean Arctic, Pacific to Atlantic.  Based on interviews and correspondence with dozens of participants, and on Navy Department reports, the work presents first-hand material throughout—a distinct contribution to the naval literature. Indeed, Arctic Mission may be the first in-depth (non-popular) account of the boat's epic cruise to 90° N. Further, the ONR expedition across Arctic Canada to IGY BRAVO (ice island T-3) is a singular unknown, even to naval aviators. ...more

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• 1/2 Arctic Mission: 90 North by Airship and Submarine, by William F. Althoff

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  Feb 19 2020

  Image:  The book, itself   Arctic Mission: 90 North by Airship and Submarine, by William F. Althoff https://www.amazon.com/Arctic-Mission-North-Airship-Submarine/dp/1612510108   Artic Mission recounts two concurrent Navy Department penetrations of the Arctic, in 1958: one an unclassified project, the other absolutely secret. The Cold War posed alarm and threat; amid its urgencies, the International Geophysical Year of 1957-58 was under way. Sputnik had opened the Space Age—for Americans, a national humiliation. The White House needed a success. Sailing under the direct orders of the Commander in Chief, the nuclear submarine Nautilus (SSN-571) would—if successful—reaffirm U.S. technological prowess with a stupendous demonstration: an under-ice transit of the Arctic Basin via the North Pole.  The airship's unclassified mission was an Office of Naval Research project. Objective: to assess the suitability of non-rigid airships (blimps) for support of field parties deployed throughout the North, ashore and afloat. That IGY August, BUNO 126719 crossed the Arctic Circle—the sole military airship ever to do so—en route to rendezvous with a U.S. Air Force ice-rafted camp (drifting station) in the Arctic Ocean. As "719" (delayed) pressed north, Nautilus pierced the geographic pole, then, without changing course, logged the first-ever transit of the deep-ocean Arctic, Pacific to Atlantic.  Based on interviews and correspondence with dozens of participants, and on Navy Department reports, the work presents first-hand material throughout—a distinct contribution to the naval literature. Indeed, Arctic Mission may be the first in-depth (non-popular) account of the boat's epic cruise to 90° N. Further, the ONR expedition across Arctic Canada to IGY BRAVO (ice island T-3) is a singular unknown, even to naval aviators. ...more

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• 8/8 A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849, by Sidney Blumenthal. Arthur Morey (Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher). Audible Audiobook; Unabridged. #SidBlumenthal

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  Image:  Lincoln met with his Cabinet for the first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation draft on July 22, 1862. (L-R: Edwin M. Stanton, Salmon P. Chase, Abraham Lincoln, Gideon Welles, Caleb Smith, William H. Seward, Montgomery Blair and Edward Bates) https://www.amazon.com/Self-Made-Man-Political-Abraham-1809-1849/dp/B01E0HQIX6/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=    The first of a multivolume history of Lincoln as a political genius—from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, his assassination, and the overthrow of his post–Civil War dreams of Reconstruction. This first volume traces Lincoln from his painful youth, describing himself as "a slave," to his emergence as the man we recognize as Abraham Lincoln.  From his youth as a "newsboy," a voracious newspaper reader, Lincoln became a freethinker, reading Tom Paine as well as Shakespeare and the Bible and studying Euclid to sharpen his arguments as a lawyer.  Lincoln's antislavery thinking began in his childhood amid the primitive Baptist antislavery dissidents in backwoods Kentucky and Indiana, the roots of his repudiation of Southern Christian proslavery theology. Intensely ambitious, he held political aspirations from his earliest years. Obsessed with Stephen Douglas, his political rival, he battled him for decades. Successful as a circuit lawyer, Lincoln built his team of loyalists. Blumenthal reveals how Douglas and Jefferson Davis, acting together, made possible Lincoln's rise.  Blumenthal describes a socially awkward suitor who had a nervous breakdown over his inability to deal with the opposite sex. His marriage to the upper-class Mary Todd was crucial to his social aspirations and his political career. Blumenthal portrays Mary as an asset to her husband, a rare woman of her day, with strong political opinions. He discloses the impact on Lincoln's antislavery convictions when handling his wife's legal case to recover her father's fortune, in which he discovered her cousin was a slave.  Blumenthal's robust portrayal is based on prodigious research of Lincoln's record and of the period and its main players. It reflects both Lincoln's time and the struggle that consumes our own political debate. ...more

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• 7/8 A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849, by Sidney Blumenthal. Arthur Morey (Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher). Audible Audiobook; Unabridged. #SidBlumenthal

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  Feb 18 2020

  Image: Lincoln and Johnson campaign poster https://www.amazon.com/Self-Made-Man-Political-Abraham-1809-1849/dp/B01E0HQIX6/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=    The first of a multivolume history of Lincoln as a political genius—from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, his assassination, and the overthrow of his post–Civil War dreams of Reconstruction. This first volume traces Lincoln from his painful youth, describing himself as "a slave," to his emergence as the man we recognize as Abraham Lincoln.  From his youth as a "newsboy," a voracious newspaper reader, Lincoln became a freethinker, reading Tom Paine as well as Shakespeare and the Bible and studying Euclid to sharpen his arguments as a lawyer.  Lincoln's antislavery thinking began in his childhood amid the primitive Baptist antislavery dissidents in backwoods Kentucky and Indiana, the roots of his repudiation of Southern Christian proslavery theology. Intensely ambitious, he held political aspirations from his earliest years. Obsessed with Stephen Douglas, his political rival, he battled him for decades. Successful as a circuit lawyer, Lincoln built his team of loyalists. Blumenthal reveals how Douglas and Jefferson Davis, acting together, made possible Lincoln's rise.  Blumenthal describes a socially awkward suitor who had a nervous breakdown over his inability to deal with the opposite sex. His marriage to the upper-class Mary Todd was crucial to his social aspirations and his political career. Blumenthal portrays Mary as an asset to her husband, a rare woman of her day, with strong political opinions. He discloses the impact on Lincoln's antislavery convictions when handling his wife's legal case to recover her father's fortune, in which he discovered her cousin was a slave.  Blumenthal's robust portrayal is based on prodigious research of Lincoln's record and of the period and its main players. It reflects both Lincoln's time and the struggle that consumes our own political debate. ...more

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• 6/8 A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849, by Sidney Blumenthal. Arthur Morey (Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher). Audible Audiobook; Unabridged. #SidBlumenthal

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  Feb 18 2020

  Image:  Lincoln and George McClellan after the Battle of Antietam in 1862 https://www.amazon.com/Self-Made-Man-Political-Abraham-1809-1849/dp/B01E0HQIX6/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=    The first of a multivolume history of Lincoln as a political genius—from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, his assassination, and the overthrow of his post–Civil War dreams of Reconstruction. This first volume traces Lincoln from his painful youth, describing himself as "a slave," to his emergence as the man we recognize as Abraham Lincoln.  From his youth as a "newsboy," a voracious newspaper reader, Lincoln became a freethinker, reading Tom Paine as well as Shakespeare and the Bible and studying Euclid to sharpen his arguments as a lawyer.  Lincoln's antislavery thinking began in his childhood amid the primitive Baptist antislavery dissidents in backwoods Kentucky and Indiana, the roots of his repudiation of Southern Christian proslavery theology. Intensely ambitious, he held political aspirations from his earliest years. Obsessed with Stephen Douglas, his political rival, he battled him for decades. Successful as a circuit lawyer, Lincoln built his team of loyalists. Blumenthal reveals how Douglas and Jefferson Davis, acting together, made possible Lincoln's rise.  Blumenthal describes a socially awkward suitor who had a nervous breakdown over his inability to deal with the opposite sex. His marriage to the upper-class Mary Todd was crucial to his social aspirations and his political career. Blumenthal portrays Mary as an asset to her husband, a rare woman of her day, with strong political opinions. He discloses the impact on Lincoln's antislavery convictions when handling his wife's legal case to recover her father's fortune, in which he discovered her cousin was a slave.  Blumenthal's robust portrayal is based on prodigious research of Lincoln's record and of the period and its main players. It reflects both Lincoln's time and the struggle that consumes our own political debate. ...more

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• 5/8 A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849, by Sidney Blumenthal. Arthur Morey (Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher). Audible Audiobook; Unabridged. #SidBlumenthal

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  Feb 18 2020

  Image:  "The Rail Candidate"—Lincoln's 1860 candidacy is depicted as held up by the slavery issue—a slave on the left and party organization on the right. https://www.amazon.com/Self-Made-Man-Political-Abraham-1809-1849/dp/B01E0HQIX6/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=    The first of a multivolume history of Lincoln as a political genius—from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, his assassination, and the overthrow of his post–Civil War dreams of Reconstruction. This first volume traces Lincoln from his painful youth, describing himself as "a slave," to his emergence as the man we recognize as Abraham Lincoln.  From his youth as a "newsboy," a voracious newspaper reader, Lincoln became a freethinker, reading Tom Paine as well as Shakespeare and the Bible and studying Euclid to sharpen his arguments as a lawyer.  Lincoln's antislavery thinking began in his childhood amid the primitive Baptist antislavery dissidents in backwoods Kentucky and Indiana, the roots of his repudiation of Southern Christian proslavery theology. Intensely ambitious, he held political aspirations from his earliest years. Obsessed with Stephen Douglas, his political rival, he battled him for decades. Successful as a circuit lawyer, Lincoln built his team of loyalists. Blumenthal reveals how Douglas and Jefferson Davis, acting together, made possible Lincoln's rise.  Blumenthal describes a socially awkward suitor who had a nervous breakdown over his inability to deal with the opposite sex. His marriage to the upper-class Mary Todd was crucial to his social aspirations and his political career. Blumenthal portrays Mary as an asset to her husband, a rare woman of her day, with strong political opinions. He discloses the impact on Lincoln's antislavery convictions when handling his wife's legal case to recover her father's fortune, in which he discovered her cousin was a slave.  Blumenthal's robust portrayal is based on prodigious research of Lincoln's record and of the period and its main players. It reflects both Lincoln's time and the struggle that consumes our own political debate.   ...more

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• 4/8 A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849, by Sidney Blumenthal. Arthur Morey (Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher). Audible Audiobook; Unabridged. #SidBlumenthal

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  Feb 18 2020

  Image:  Abraham Lincoln: Oil Painting 1869 Restored https://www.amazon.com/Self-Made-Man-Political-Abraham-1809-1849/dp/B01E0HQIX6/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=    The first of a multivolume history of Lincoln as a political genius—from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, his assassination, and the overthrow of his post–Civil War dreams of Reconstruction. This first volume traces Lincoln from his painful youth, describing himself as "a slave," to his emergence as the man we recognize as Abraham Lincoln.  From his youth as a "newsboy," a voracious newspaper reader, Lincoln became a freethinker, reading Tom Paine as well as Shakespeare and the Bible and studying Euclid to sharpen his arguments as a lawyer.  Lincoln's antislavery thinking began in his childhood amid the primitive Baptist antislavery dissidents in backwoods Kentucky and Indiana, the roots of his repudiation of Southern Christian proslavery theology. Intensely ambitious, he held political aspirations from his earliest years. Obsessed with Stephen Douglas, his political rival, he battled him for decades. Successful as a circuit lawyer, Lincoln built his team of loyalists. Blumenthal reveals how Douglas and Jefferson Davis, acting together, made possible Lincoln's rise.  Blumenthal describes a socially awkward suitor who had a nervous breakdown over his inability to deal with the opposite sex. His marriage to the upper-class Mary Todd was crucial to his social aspirations and his political career. Blumenthal portrays Mary as an asset to her husband, a rare woman of her day, with strong political opinions. He discloses the impact on Lincoln's antislavery convictions when handling his wife's legal case to recover her father's fortune, in which he discovered her cousin was a slave.  Blumenthal's robust portrayal is based on prodigious research of Lincoln's record and of the period and its main players. It reflects both Lincoln's time and the struggle that consumes our own political debate. ...more

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• 3/8 A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849, by Sidney Blumenthal. Arthur Morey (Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher). Audible Audiobook; Unabridged. #SidBlumenthal

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  Image: In the 1920s, historical markers were placed at the county lines along the route Lincoln traveled in the eighth judicial district. This example is on the border of Piatt and DeWitt counties.  Permissions*: see below. https://www.amazon.com/Self-Made-Man-Political-Abraham-1809-1849/dp/B01E0HQIX6/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=    The first of a multivolume history of Lincoln as a political genius—from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, his assassination, and the overthrow of his post–Civil War dreams of Reconstruction. This first volume traces Lincoln from his painful youth, describing himself as "a slave," to his emergence as the man we recognize as Abraham Lincoln.  From his youth as a "newsboy," a voracious newspaper reader, Lincoln became a freethinker, reading Tom Paine as well as Shakespeare and the Bible and studying Euclid to sharpen his arguments as a lawyer.  Lincoln's antislavery thinking began in his childhood amid the primitive Baptist antislavery dissidents in backwoods Kentucky and Indiana, the roots of his repudiation of Southern Christian proslavery theology. Intensely ambitious, he held political aspirations from his earliest years. Obsessed with Stephen Douglas, his political rival, he battled him for decades. Successful as a circuit lawyer, Lincoln built his team of loyalists. Blumenthal reveals how Douglas and Jefferson Davis, acting together, made possible Lincoln's rise.  Blumenthal describes a socially awkward suitor who had a nervous breakdown over his inability to deal with the opposite sex. His marriage to the upper-class Mary Todd was crucial to his social aspirations and his political career. Blumenthal portrays Mary as an asset to her husband, a rare woman of her day, with strong political opinions. He discloses the impact on Lincoln's antislavery convictions when handling his wife's legal case to recover her father's fortune, in which he discovered her cousin was a slave.  Blumenthal's robust portrayal is based on prodigious research of Lincoln's record and of the period and its main players. It reflects both Lincoln's time and the struggle that consumes our own political debate...  ..  ..  *Permissions:  Piatt and DeWitt County Lincoln historical marker wide angle view. Looking north east at the marker. The marker reads: "Abraham Lincoln traveled this way as he rode the circuit of the Eighth Judicial District, 1847-1859. Erected 1922." At its base there is two placards one on the left reads "DEWITT COUNTY" and the one on the right reads "PIATT COUNTY". The marker is at the southeast corner of DeWitt County, intersection of roads 300 North and 2400 East, next to Piatt County intersection of roads 2100 North and 300 East, 1 mile south of the DeLand-Weldon school campus. | Date | 2007 | Source | Own work | Author | Dual Freq | Other versions | A zoomed version is Image:Piatt and Dewitt County Lincoln marker.jpg | Camera location | 40° 05′ 54.7″ N, 88° 04′ 17.2″ W   View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth |  ‪I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it  |  ‪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.under the following licenses: 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 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. ‪share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original. |  This licensing tag was added to this file as part of the GFDL licensing update. |   ‪This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 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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• 2/8 A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849, by Sidney Blumenthal. Arthur Morey (Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher). Audible Audiobook; Unabridged. #SidBlumenthal

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  Image:    Sarah Lincoln, Lincoln's stepmother, after the death of Nancy Lincoln https://www.amazon.com/Self-Made-Man-Political-Abraham-1809-1849/dp/B01E0HQIX6/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=    The first of a multivolume history of Lincoln as a political genius—from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, his assassination, and the overthrow of his post–Civil War dreams of Reconstruction. This first volume traces Lincoln from his painful youth, describing himself as "a slave," to his emergence as the man we recognize as Abraham Lincoln.  From his youth as a "newsboy," a voracious newspaper reader, Lincoln became a freethinker, reading Tom Paine as well as Shakespeare and the Bible and studying Euclid to sharpen his arguments as a lawyer.  Lincoln's antislavery thinking began in his childhood amid the primitive Baptist antislavery dissidents in backwoods Kentucky and Indiana, the roots of his repudiation of Southern Christian proslavery theology. Intensely ambitious, he held political aspirations from his earliest years. Obsessed with Stephen Douglas, his political rival, he battled him for decades. Successful as a circuit lawyer, Lincoln built his team of loyalists. Blumenthal reveals how Douglas and Jefferson Davis, acting together, made possible Lincoln's rise.  Blumenthal describes a socially awkward suitor who had a nervous breakdown over his inability to deal with the opposite sex. His marriage to the upper-class Mary Todd was crucial to his social aspirations and his political career. Blumenthal portrays Mary as an asset to her husband, a rare woman of her day, with strong political opinions. He discloses the impact on Lincoln's antislavery convictions when handling his wife's legal case to recover her father's fortune, in which he discovered her cousin was a slave.  Blumenthal's robust portrayal is based on prodigious research of Lincoln's record and of the period and its main players. It reflects both Lincoln's time and the struggle that consumes our own political debate.   ...more

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• 1/8 A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849, by Sidney Blumenthal. Arthur Morey (Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher). Audible Audiobook; Unabridged. #SidBlumenthal

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  Image:  Lincoln as a boy, reading by firelight https://www.amazon.com/Self-Made-Man-Political-Abraham-1809-1849/dp/B01E0HQIX6/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=The first of a multivolume history of Lincoln as a political genius—from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, his assassination, and the overthrow of his post–Civil War dreams of Reconstruction. This first volume traces Lincoln from his painful youth, describing himself as "a slave," to his emergence as the man we recognize as Abraham Lincoln.  From his youth as a "newsboy," a voracious newspaper reader, Lincoln became a freethinker, reading Tom Paine as well as Shakespeare and the Bible and studying Euclid to sharpen his arguments as a lawyer.  Lincoln's antislavery thinking began in his childhood amid the primitive Baptist antislavery dissidents in backwoods Kentucky and Indiana, the roots of his repudiation of Southern Christian proslavery theology. Intensely ambitious, he held political aspirations from his earliest years. Obsessed with Stephen Douglas, his political rival, he battled him for decades. Successful as a circuit lawyer, Lincoln built his team of loyalists. Blumenthal reveals how Douglas and Jefferson Davis, acting together, made possible Lincoln's rise.  Blumenthal describes a socially awkward suitor who had a nervous breakdown over his inability to deal with the opposite sex. His marriage to the upper-class Mary Todd was crucial to his social aspirations and his political career. Blumenthal portrays Mary as an asset to her husband, a rare woman of her day, with strong political opinions. He discloses the impact on Lincoln's antislavery convictions when handling his wife's legal case to recover her father's fortune, in which he discovered her cousin was a slave.  Blumenthal's robust portrayal is based on prodigious research of Lincoln's record and of the period and its main players. It reflects both Lincoln's time and the struggle that consumes our own political debate. ...more

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• When Britain Burned the White House: 4 of 4: The 1814 Invasion of Washington Hardcover – August 19, 2014. by Peter Snow (Author)

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  Feb 18 2020

  Photo: Hoban's amended elevation of the White House (late-1793 or early-1794).James Hoban - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:HobanWHProgressDrawing.jpghttp://www.mdhs.org/explore/museum/collections/1793.html Elevation of the north side of the White House, by James Hoban, c. 1793. Progress drawing after having won the competition for architect of the White House. Collection of the Maryland Historical Society. Permission details This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code. Note: This only applies to original works of the Federal Government and not to the work of any individual U.S. state, territory, commonwealth, county, municipality, or any other subdivision. This template also does not apply to postage stamp designs published by the United States Postal Service since 1978. (See § 313.6(C)(1) of Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices). It also does not apply to certain US coins; see The US Mint Terms of Use.View more Public Domainview terms File:James Hoban White House Progress Drawing.jpg Created: 31 December 1792 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow When Britain Burned the White House: 4 of 4: The 1814 Invasion of Washington Hardcover – August 19, 2014.  by Peter Snow  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/When-Britain-Burned-White-House/dp/1250048281/ref=sr_1_11?keywords=white+house+snow&qid=1581988415&s=books&sr=1-11In August 1814, the United States army was defeated just outside Washington, D.C., by the world's greatest military power. President James Madison and his wife had just enough time to flee the White House before the British invaders entered. British troops stopped to feast on the meal still sitting on the Madisons' dining-room table before setting the White House on fire. The extent of the destruction was massive; finished in wood rather than marble, everything inside the mansion was combustible. Only the outer stone walls would withstand the fire. The tide of the War of 1812 would quickly turn, however. Less than a month later, American troops would stand victorious at the Battle of Fort McHenry. Poet Francis Scott Key, struck by the sight of the American flag waving over Fort McHenry, jotted down the beginnings of a poem that would be set to music and become the U.S. national anthem, "The Star Spangled Banner." In his compelling narrative style, Peter Snow recounts the fast-changing fortunes of that summer's extraordinary confrontations. Drawing from a wealth of material, including eyewitness accounts, Snow describes the colorful personalities on both sides of those spectacular events: including the beleaguered President James Madison and First Lady Dolley, American heroes such as Joshua Barney and Sam Smith, and flawed military leaders like Army Chief William Winder and War Secretary John Armstrong. On the British side, Snow re-creates the fiery Admiral George Cockburn, the cautious but immensely popular Major General Robert Ross, and sharp-eyed diarists James Scott and George Gleig. When Britain Burned the White House highlights this unparalleled moment in British and American history, the courageous, successful defense of Fort McHenry and the American triumph that would follow, and America's and Britain's decision to never again fight each other....more

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• When Britain Burned the White House: 3 of 4: The 1814 Invasion of Washington Hardcover – August 19, 2014. by Peter Snow (Author)

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  Feb 18 2020

  Photo: Title: The White House ("President's House") Washington, D.C. East front elevation] / B H Latrobe 1807. S.P.B.U States Abstract/medium: 1 drawing on paper : watercolor, ink, and wash ; 39 x 51 cm.Date1807SourceLibrary of CongressCatalog: https://lccn.loc.gov/97505109Image download: https://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/ppmsca/23600/23683v.jpgOriginal url: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/97505109/AuthorLatrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architectPermission(Reusing this file)N; o; ; k; n; o; w; n; ; r; e; s; t; r; i; c; t; i; o; n; s; ; o; n; ; p; u; b; l; i; c; a; t; i; o; n; .This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs divisionunder the digital ID ppmsca.23683.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow When Britain Burned the White House: 3 of 4: The 1814 Invasion of Washington Hardcover – August 19, 2014.  by Peter Snow  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/When-Britain-Burned-White-House/dp/1250048281/ref=sr_1_11?keywords=white+house+snow&qid=1581988415&s=books&sr=1-11In August 1814, the United States army was defeated just outside Washington, D.C., by the world's greatest military power. President James Madison and his wife had just enough time to flee the White House before the British invaders entered. British troops stopped to feast on the meal still sitting on the Madisons' dining-room table before setting the White House on fire. The extent of the destruction was massive; finished in wood rather than marble, everything inside the mansion was combustible. Only the outer stone walls would withstand the fire. The tide of the War of 1812 would quickly turn, however. Less than a month later, American troops would stand victorious at the Battle of Fort McHenry. Poet Francis Scott Key, struck by the sight of the American flag waving over Fort McHenry, jotted down the beginnings of a poem that would be set to music and become the U.S. national anthem, "The Star Spangled Banner." In his compelling narrative style, Peter Snow recounts the fast-changing fortunes of that summer's extraordinary confrontations. Drawing from a wealth of material, including eyewitness accounts, Snow describes the colorful personalities on both sides of those spectacular events: including the beleaguered President James Madison and First Lady Dolley, American heroes such as Joshua Barney and Sam Smith, and flawed military leaders like Army Chief William Winder and War Secretary John Armstrong. On the British side, Snow re-creates the fiery Admiral George Cockburn, the cautious but immensely popular Major General Robert Ross, and sharp-eyed diarists James Scott and George Gleig. When Britain Burned the White House highlights this unparalleled moment in British and American history, the courageous, successful defense of Fort McHenry and the American triumph that would follow, and America's and Britain's decision to never again fight each other....more

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• When Britain Burned the White House: 2 of 4: The 1814 Invasion of Washington Hardcover – August 19, 2014. by Peter Snow (Author)

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  Feb 18 2020

  Photo: Plan of the city of Washington.Weld, Isaac, 1774-1856.Stockdale, John, 1749?-1814.Library of Congresshttp://www.loc.gov/copyrightCopyright infoPublic Domainhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow When Britain Burned the White House: 2 of 4: The 1814 Invasion of Washington Hardcover – August 19, 2014.  by Peter Snow  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/When-Britain-Burned-White-House/dp/1250048281/ref=sr_1_11?keywords=white+house+snow&qid=1581988415&s=books&sr=1-11In August 1814, the United States army was defeated just outside Washington, D.C., by the world's greatest military power. President James Madison and his wife had just enough time to flee the White House before the British invaders entered. British troops stopped to feast on the meal still sitting on the Madisons' dining-room table before setting the White House on fire. The extent of the destruction was massive; finished in wood rather than marble, everything inside the mansion was combustible. Only the outer stone walls would withstand the fire. The tide of the War of 1812 would quickly turn, however. Less than a month later, American troops would stand victorious at the Battle of Fort McHenry. Poet Francis Scott Key, struck by the sight of the American flag waving over Fort McHenry, jotted down the beginnings of a poem that would be set to music and become the U.S. national anthem, "The Star Spangled Banner." In his compelling narrative style, Peter Snow recounts the fast-changing fortunes of that summer's extraordinary confrontations. Drawing from a wealth of material, including eyewitness accounts, Snow describes the colorful personalities on both sides of those spectacular events: including the beleaguered President James Madison and First Lady Dolley, American heroes such as Joshua Barney and Sam Smith, and flawed military leaders like Army Chief William Winder and War Secretary John Armstrong. On the British side, Snow re-creates the fiery Admiral George Cockburn, the cautious but immensely popular Major General Robert Ross, and sharp-eyed diarists James Scott and George Gleig. When Britain Burned the White House highlights this unparalleled moment in British and American history, the courageous, successful defense of Fort McHenry and the American triumph that would follow, and America's and Britain's decision to never again fight each other....more

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• When Britain Burned the White House: 1 of 4: The 1814 Invasion of Washington Hardcover – August 19, 2014. by Peter Snow (Author)

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  Feb 18 2020

  Photo: Title: Washington in 1800 Abstract/medium: 1 photographic print.Date1800SourceLibrary of CongressCatalog: https://lccn.loc.gov/90716106Image download: https://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3c00000/3c02000/3c02000/3c02054v.jpgOriginal url: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/90716106/AuthorMiscellaneous Items in High Demand, PPOC, Library of CongressPermission(Reusing this file)No known restrictions on publication.This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs divisionunder the digital ID cph.3c02054.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow When Britain Burned the White House: 1 of 4: The 1814 Invasion of Washington Hardcover – August 19, 2014.  by Peter Snow  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/When-Britain-Burned-White-House/dp/1250048281/ref=sr_1_11?keywords=white+house+snow&qid=1581988415&s=books&sr=1-11In August 1814, the United States army was defeated just outside Washington, D.C., by the world's greatest military power. President James Madison and his wife had just enough time to flee the White House before the British invaders entered. British troops stopped to feast on the meal still sitting on the Madisons' dining-room table before setting the White House on fire. The extent of the destruction was massive; finished in wood rather than marble, everything inside the mansion was combustible. Only the outer stone walls would withstand the fire. The tide of the War of 1812 would quickly turn, however. Less than a month later, American troops would stand victorious at the Battle of Fort McHenry. Poet Francis Scott Key, struck by the sight of the American flag waving over Fort McHenry, jotted down the beginnings of a poem that would be set to music and become the U.S. national anthem, "The Star Spangled Banner." In his compelling narrative style, Peter Snow recounts the fast-changing fortunes of that summer's extraordinary confrontations. Drawing from a wealth of material, including eyewitness accounts, Snow describes the colorful personalities on both sides of those spectacular events: including the beleaguered President James Madison and First Lady Dolley, American heroes such as Joshua Barney and Sam Smith, and flawed military leaders like Army Chief William Winder and War Secretary John Armstrong. On the British side, Snow re-creates the fiery Admiral George Cockburn, the cautious but immensely popular Major General Robert Ross, and sharp-eyed diarists James Scott and George Gleig. When Britain Burned the White House highlights this unparalleled moment in British and American history, the courageous, successful defense of Fort McHenry and the American triumph that would follow, and America's and Britain's decision to never again fight each other. ...more

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• The Washingtons: 8 of 8: George and Martha, "Join'd by Friendship, Crown'd by Love" Hardcover – Deckle Edge, November 3, 2015 by Flora Fraser (Author)

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  Feb 17 2020

  Photo: Mount Vernon, the seat of the late President Washington1800Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate)Washington, George, 1732-1799President George Washington, 1789 – 1797New York Public Libraryhttp://digitalcollections.nypl.org/copyrightPublic Domainhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Washingtons: 8 of 8: George and Martha, "Join'd by Friendship, Crown'd by Love" Hardcover – Deckle Edge, November 3, 2015 by Flora Fraser  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Washingtons-George-Martha-Friendship-Crownd/dp/0307272788/ref=sr_1_2?qid=1581902912&refinements=p_27%3AFlora+Fraser&s=books&sr=1-2 A full-scale portrait of the marriage of the father and mother of our country—and of the struggle for independence that he led The Washingtons’ long union begins in colonial Virginia in 1759, when George Washington woos and weds Martha Dandridge Parke Custis, a pretty, charming, and very rich young widow. The calm early years of their marriage as plantation owners at Mount Vernon and as parents to Martha’s two children, Jacky and Patsy—both of whom present difficult challenges—yield to harsher times. Washington has been prominent among Virginians in opposing British government measures, and at the outbreak of fighting in 1775 he is elected commander-in-chief of the Continental army. The war sees Martha resolutely supporting her husband, sharing in the hardships at Valley Forge and other wretched winter headquarters. Essential to George’s personal well-being, she is known as “Lady Washington”—a redoubtable and vastly admired figure in her own right. Flora Fraser provides us with a brilliant account of the public Washington and of the war he waged, and gives us, as well, the domestic Washingtons, whether at Mount Vernon before and during the war or in New York and Philadelphia during his presidency. Even in wartime, Martha manages to scour Philadelphia to find a doll for her newest granddaughter and keeps careful control of her Virginia inheritance. George grapples with a formidable enemy, without proper troops and often without basic supplies—his soldiers frequently lack rations, blankets, even shoes—while always fearful for his wife’s welfare and safety, given the constant worry that the British might descend on Mount Vernon. Even so, a true Virginian, he manages to dance for more than three hours with Alexander Hamilton’s pretty young wife at a makeshift ball. With victory and the arrival of peace in 1783, the Washingtons hope to remain at home, a hope dashed when, in 1789, George is elected our first president and Martha becomes a faultless first First Lady. During the presidency, they together negotiate the many pitfalls of establishing republican entertainment—the weekly “Congress dinner,” levées, and drawing rooms—before, finally free of official responsibilities after Washington’s second term, they are at last able to retreat to their beloved Mount Vernon. This is a remarkable story of a remarkable pair as well as a gripping narrative of the birth of a nation—a major, and vastly appealing, contribution to the literature of our founding fathers . . . and founding mother. ...more

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• The Washingtons: 7 of 8: George and Martha, "Join'd by Friendship, Crown'd by Love" Hardcover – Deckle Edge, November 3, 2015 by Flora Fraser (Author)

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  Photo: 1804–1887)  Autres nomsVictor De Grailly; Victor DeGrailly; Victor deGraillyEnglish: Tomb at Mount VernonType d'objetpeintureGenrepaysageDescriptionMay have been wrongly attributed to William Henry Bartlett.Datevers 1840-1850 sTechnique/matériauxhuile sur toileDimensionsHauteur : 40,6 cm ; Largeur : 54,6 cmhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Washingtons: 7 of 8: George and Martha, "Join'd by Friendship, Crown'd by Love" Hardcover – Deckle Edge, November 3, 2015 by Flora Fraser  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Washingtons-George-Martha-Friendship-Crownd/dp/0307272788/ref=sr_1_2?qid=1581902912&refinements=p_27%3AFlora+Fraser&s=books&sr=1-2 A full-scale portrait of the marriage of the father and mother of our country—and of the struggle for independence that he led The Washingtons’ long union begins in colonial Virginia in 1759, when George Washington woos and weds Martha Dandridge Parke Custis, a pretty, charming, and very rich young widow. The calm early years of their marriage as plantation owners at Mount Vernon and as parents to Martha’s two children, Jacky and Patsy—both of whom present difficult challenges—yield to harsher times. Washington has been prominent among Virginians in opposing British government measures, and at the outbreak of fighting in 1775 he is elected commander-in-chief of the Continental army. The war sees Martha resolutely supporting her husband, sharing in the hardships at Valley Forge and other wretched winter headquarters. Essential to George’s personal well-being, she is known as “Lady Washington”—a redoubtable and vastly admired figure in her own right. Flora Fraser provides us with a brilliant account of the public Washington and of the war he waged, and gives us, as well, the domestic Washingtons, whether at Mount Vernon before and during the war or in New York and Philadelphia during his presidency. Even in wartime, Martha manages to scour Philadelphia to find a doll for her newest granddaughter and keeps careful control of her Virginia inheritance. George grapples with a formidable enemy, without proper troops and often without basic supplies—his soldiers frequently lack rations, blankets, even shoes—while always fearful for his wife’s welfare and safety, given the constant worry that the British might descend on Mount Vernon. Even so, a true Virginian, he manages to dance for more than three hours with Alexander Hamilton’s pretty young wife at a makeshift ball. With victory and the arrival of peace in 1783, the Washingtons hope to remain at home, a hope dashed when, in 1789, George is elected our first president and Martha becomes a faultless first First Lady. During the presidency, they together negotiate the many pitfalls of establishing republican entertainment—the weekly “Congress dinner,” levées, and drawing rooms—before, finally free of official responsibilities after Washington’s second term, they are at last able to retreat to their beloved Mount Vernon. This is a remarkable story of a remarkable pair as well as a gripping narrative of the birth of a nation—a major, and vastly appealing, contribution to the literature of our founding fathers . . . and founding mother....more

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• The Washingtons: 6 of 8: George and Martha, "Join'd by Friendship, Crown'd by Love" Hardcover – Deckle Edge, November 3, 2015 by Flora Fraser (Author)

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  Feb 17 2020

  Photo: The sacred shrine of America: the tomb of Washington, Mt. Vernon, Virginia, U.S.A.1858 - 1900Washington, George, 1732-1799placeNew York Public Libraryhttp://digitalcollections.nypl.org/Public Domainhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Washingtons: 6 of 8: George and Martha, "Join'd by Friendship, Crown'd by Love" Hardcover – Deckle Edge, November 3, 2015 by Flora Fraser  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Washingtons-George-Martha-Friendship-Crownd/dp/0307272788/ref=sr_1_2?qid=1581902912&refinements=p_27%3AFlora+Fraser&s=books&sr=1-2 A full-scale portrait of the marriage of the father and mother of our country—and of the struggle for independence that he led The Washingtons’ long union begins in colonial Virginia in 1759, when George Washington woos and weds Martha Dandridge Parke Custis, a pretty, charming, and very rich young widow. The calm early years of their marriage as plantation owners at Mount Vernon and as parents to Martha’s two children, Jacky and Patsy—both of whom present difficult challenges—yield to harsher times. Washington has been prominent among Virginians in opposing British government measures, and at the outbreak of fighting in 1775 he is elected commander-in-chief of the Continental army. The war sees Martha resolutely supporting her husband, sharing in the hardships at Valley Forge and other wretched winter headquarters. Essential to George’s personal well-being, she is known as “Lady Washington”—a redoubtable and vastly admired figure in her own right. Flora Fraser provides us with a brilliant account of the public Washington and of the war he waged, and gives us, as well, the domestic Washingtons, whether at Mount Vernon before and during the war or in New York and Philadelphia during his presidency. Even in wartime, Martha manages to scour Philadelphia to find a doll for her newest granddaughter and keeps careful control of her Virginia inheritance. George grapples with a formidable enemy, without proper troops and often without basic supplies—his soldiers frequently lack rations, blankets, even shoes—while always fearful for his wife’s welfare and safety, given the constant worry that the British might descend on Mount Vernon. Even so, a true Virginian, he manages to dance for more than three hours with Alexander Hamilton’s pretty young wife at a makeshift ball. With victory and the arrival of peace in 1783, the Washingtons hope to remain at home, a hope dashed when, in 1789, George is elected our first president and Martha becomes a faultless first First Lady. During the presidency, they together negotiate the many pitfalls of establishing republican entertainment—the weekly “Congress dinner,” levées, and drawing rooms—before, finally free of official responsibilities after Washington’s second term, they are at last able to retreat to their beloved Mount Vernon. This is a remarkable story of a remarkable pair as well as a gripping narrative of the birth of a nation—a major, and vastly appealing, contribution to the literature of our founding fathers . . . and founding mother....more

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• The Washingtons: 5 of 8: George and Martha, "Join'd by Friendship, Crown'd by Love" Hardcover – Deckle Edge, November 3, 2015 by Flora Fraser (Author)

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  Photo: Washington's Tomb, Mt. Vernon, Va.Date 1902Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate)Washington, George, 1732-1799New York Public Libraryhttp://digitalcollections.nypl.org/Public Domainhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Washingtons: 5 of 8: George and Martha, "Join'd by Friendship, Crown'd by Love" Hardcover – Deckle Edge, November 3, 2015 by Flora Fraser  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Washingtons-George-Martha-Friendship-Crownd/dp/0307272788/ref=sr_1_2?qid=1581902912&refinements=p_27%3AFlora+Fraser&s=books&sr=1-2 A full-scale portrait of the marriage of the father and mother of our country—and of the struggle for independence that he led The Washingtons’ long union begins in colonial Virginia in 1759, when George Washington woos and weds Martha Dandridge Parke Custis, a pretty, charming, and very rich young widow. The calm early years of their marriage as plantation owners at Mount Vernon and as parents to Martha’s two children, Jacky and Patsy—both of whom present difficult challenges—yield to harsher times. Washington has been prominent among Virginians in opposing British government measures, and at the outbreak of fighting in 1775 he is elected commander-in-chief of the Continental army. The war sees Martha resolutely supporting her husband, sharing in the hardships at Valley Forge and other wretched winter headquarters. Essential to George’s personal well-being, she is known as “Lady Washington”—a redoubtable and vastly admired figure in her own right. Flora Fraser provides us with a brilliant account of the public Washington and of the war he waged, and gives us, as well, the domestic Washingtons, whether at Mount Vernon before and during the war or in New York and Philadelphia during his presidency. Even in wartime, Martha manages to scour Philadelphia to find a doll for her newest granddaughter and keeps careful control of her Virginia inheritance. George grapples with a formidable enemy, without proper troops and often without basic supplies—his soldiers frequently lack rations, blankets, even shoes—while always fearful for his wife’s welfare and safety, given the constant worry that the British might descend on Mount Vernon. Even so, a true Virginian, he manages to dance for more than three hours with Alexander Hamilton’s pretty young wife at a makeshift ball. With victory and the arrival of peace in 1783, the Washingtons hope to remain at home, a hope dashed when, in 1789, George is elected our first president and Martha becomes a faultless first First Lady. During the presidency, they together negotiate the many pitfalls of establishing republican entertainment—the weekly “Congress dinner,” levées, and drawing rooms—before, finally free of official responsibilities after Washington’s second term, they are at last able to retreat to their beloved Mount Vernon. This is a remarkable story of a remarkable pair as well as a gripping narrative of the birth of a nation—a major, and vastly appealing, contribution to the literature of our founding fathers . . . and founding mother....more

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• The Washingtons: 4 of 8: George and Martha, "Join'd by Friendship, Crown'd by Love" Hardcover – Deckle Edge, November 3, 2015 by Flora Fraser (Author)

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  Feb 17 2020

  Photo: Servant's Quarters and Garden, Mt. Vernon, Va.1898 - 1930placePublic Domainhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Washingtons: 4 of 8: George and Martha, "Join'd by Friendship, Crown'd by Love" Hardcover – Deckle Edge, November 3, 2015 by Flora Fraser  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Washingtons-George-Martha-Friendship-Crownd/dp/0307272788/ref=sr_1_2?qid=1581902912&refinements=p_27%3AFlora+Fraser&s=books&sr=1-2 A full-scale portrait of the marriage of the father and mother of our country—and of the struggle for independence that he led The Washingtons’ long union begins in colonial Virginia in 1759, when George Washington woos and weds Martha Dandridge Parke Custis, a pretty, charming, and very rich young widow. The calm early years of their marriage as plantation owners at Mount Vernon and as parents to Martha’s two children, Jacky and Patsy—both of whom present difficult challenges—yield to harsher times. Washington has been prominent among Virginians in opposing British government measures, and at the outbreak of fighting in 1775 he is elected commander-in-chief of the Continental army. The war sees Martha resolutely supporting her husband, sharing in the hardships at Valley Forge and other wretched winter headquarters. Essential to George’s personal well-being, she is known as “Lady Washington”—a redoubtable and vastly admired figure in her own right. Flora Fraser provides us with a brilliant account of the public Washington and of the war he waged, and gives us, as well, the domestic Washingtons, whether at Mount Vernon before and during the war or in New York and Philadelphia during his presidency. Even in wartime, Martha manages to scour Philadelphia to find a doll for her newest granddaughter and keeps careful control of her Virginia inheritance. George grapples with a formidable enemy, without proper troops and often without basic supplies—his soldiers frequently lack rations, blankets, even shoes—while always fearful for his wife’s welfare and safety, given the constant worry that the British might descend on Mount Vernon. Even so, a true Virginian, he manages to dance for more than three hours with Alexander Hamilton’s pretty young wife at a makeshift ball. With victory and the arrival of peace in 1783, the Washingtons hope to remain at home, a hope dashed when, in 1789, George is elected our first president and Martha becomes a faultless first First Lady. During the presidency, they together negotiate the many pitfalls of establishing republican entertainment—the weekly “Congress dinner,” levées, and drawing rooms—before, finally free of official responsibilities after Washington’s second term, they are at last able to retreat to their beloved Mount Vernon. This is a remarkable story of a remarkable pair as well as a gripping narrative of the birth of a nation—a major, and vastly appealing, contribution to the literature of our founding fathers . . . and founding mother....more

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• The Washingtons: 3 of 8: George and Martha, "Join'd by Friendship, Crown'd by Love" Hardcover – Deckle Edge, November 3, 2015 by Flora Fraser (Author)

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  Feb 17 2020

  Photo: N.W. view of the mansion of George Washington, Mount Vernon1775 - 1889Washington, George, 1732-1799collectionsIn CollectionsPresident George WashingtonPresident George Washington, 1789 – 1797New York Public Libraryhttp://digitalcollections.nypl.org/copyright Copyright info Public Domainhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Washingtons: 3 of 8: George and Martha, "Join'd by Friendship, Crown'd by Love" Hardcover – Deckle Edge, November 3, 2015 by Flora Fraser  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Washingtons-George-Martha-Friendship-Crownd/dp/0307272788/ref=sr_1_2?qid=1581902912&refinements=p_27%3AFlora+Fraser&s=books&sr=1-2 A full-scale portrait of the marriage of the father and mother of our country—and of the struggle for independence that he led The Washingtons’ long union begins in colonial Virginia in 1759, when George Washington woos and weds Martha Dandridge Parke Custis, a pretty, charming, and very rich young widow. The calm early years of their marriage as plantation owners at Mount Vernon and as parents to Martha’s two children, Jacky and Patsy—both of whom present difficult challenges—yield to harsher times. Washington has been prominent among Virginians in opposing British government measures, and at the outbreak of fighting in 1775 he is elected commander-in-chief of the Continental army. The war sees Martha resolutely supporting her husband, sharing in the hardships at Valley Forge and other wretched winter headquarters. Essential to George’s personal well-being, she is known as “Lady Washington”—a redoubtable and vastly admired figure in her own right. Flora Fraser provides us with a brilliant account of the public Washington and of the war he waged, and gives us, as well, the domestic Washingtons, whether at Mount Vernon before and during the war or in New York and Philadelphia during his presidency. Even in wartime, Martha manages to scour Philadelphia to find a doll for her newest granddaughter and keeps careful control of her Virginia inheritance. George grapples with a formidable enemy, without proper troops and often without basic supplies—his soldiers frequently lack rations, blankets, even shoes—while always fearful for his wife’s welfare and safety, given the constant worry that the British might descend on Mount Vernon. Even so, a true Virginian, he manages to dance for more than three hours with Alexander Hamilton’s pretty young wife at a makeshift ball. With victory and the arrival of peace in 1783, the Washingtons hope to remain at home, a hope dashed when, in 1789, George is elected our first president and Martha becomes a faultless first First Lady. During the presidency, they together negotiate the many pitfalls of establishing republican entertainment—the weekly “Congress dinner,” levées, and drawing rooms—before, finally free of official responsibilities after Washington’s second term, they are at last able to retreat to their beloved Mount Vernon. This is a remarkable story of a remarkable pair as well as a gripping narrative of the birth of a nation—a major, and vastly appealing, contribution to the literature of our founding fathers . . . and founding mother....more

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• The Washingtons: 2 of 8: George and Martha, "Join'd by Friendship, Crown'd by Love" Hardcover – Deckle Edge, November 3, 2015 by Flora Fraser (Author)

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  Feb 17 2020

  Photo: Gen. Washington's old homestead, Mt. Vernon, Va.1858 - 1900personContributors Jarvis, J. F. (John F.) (b. 1850), PhotographerWashington, George, 1732-1799placeWashington, D.C.New York Public Libraryhttp://digitalcollections.nypl.org/copyrightCopyright infoPublic Domainhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Washingtons: 2 of 8: George and Martha, "Join'd by Friendship, Crown'd by Love" Hardcover – Deckle Edge, November 3, 2015 by Flora Fraser  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Washingtons-George-Martha-Friendship-Crownd/dp/0307272788/ref=sr_1_2?qid=1581902912&refinements=p_27%3AFlora+Fraser&s=books&sr=1-2 A full-scale portrait of the marriage of the father and mother of our country—and of the struggle for independence that he led The Washingtons’ long union begins in colonial Virginia in 1759, when George Washington woos and weds Martha Dandridge Parke Custis, a pretty, charming, and very rich young widow. The calm early years of their marriage as plantation owners at Mount Vernon and as parents to Martha’s two children, Jacky and Patsy—both of whom present difficult challenges—yield to harsher times. Washington has been prominent among Virginians in opposing British government measures, and at the outbreak of fighting in 1775 he is elected commander-in-chief of the Continental army. The war sees Martha resolutely supporting her husband, sharing in the hardships at Valley Forge and other wretched winter headquarters. Essential to George’s personal well-being, she is known as “Lady Washington”—a redoubtable and vastly admired figure in her own right. Flora Fraser provides us with a brilliant account of the public Washington and of the war he waged, and gives us, as well, the domestic Washingtons, whether at Mount Vernon before and during the war or in New York and Philadelphia during his presidency. Even in wartime, Martha manages to scour Philadelphia to find a doll for her newest granddaughter and keeps careful control of her Virginia inheritance. George grapples with a formidable enemy, without proper troops and often without basic supplies—his soldiers frequently lack rations, blankets, even shoes—while always fearful for his wife’s welfare and safety, given the constant worry that the British might descend on Mount Vernon. Even so, a true Virginian, he manages to dance for more than three hours with Alexander Hamilton’s pretty young wife at a makeshift ball. With victory and the arrival of peace in 1783, the Washingtons hope to remain at home, a hope dashed when, in 1789, George is elected our first president and Martha becomes a faultless first First Lady. During the presidency, they together negotiate the many pitfalls of establishing republican entertainment—the weekly “Congress dinner,” levées, and drawing rooms—before, finally free of official responsibilities after Washington’s second term, they are at last able to retreat to their beloved Mount Vernon. This is a remarkable story of a remarkable pair as well as a gripping narrative of the birth of a nation—a major, and vastly appealing, contribution to the literature of our founding fathers . . . and founding mother....more

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• The Washingtons: 1 of 8: George and Martha, "Join'd by Friendship, Crown'd by Love" Hardcover – Deckle Edge, November 3, 2015 by Flora Fraser (Author)

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  Feb 17 2020

  Photo: UnknownPhotographer | unknownTitle | English: Mount VernonDescription | English: Mount VernonDate | [1850s]Medium | 1 photographic print.Collection | Clements Library, University MichiganSource | [1] This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: | This work is in the public domain  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Washingtons: 1 of 8: George and Martha, "Join'd by Friendship, Crown'd by Love" Hardcover – Deckle Edge, November 3, 2015 by Flora Fraser  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Washingtons-George-Martha-Friendship-Crownd/dp/0307272788/ref=sr_1_2?qid=1581902912&refinements=p_27%3AFlora+Fraser&s=books&sr=1-2 A full-scale portrait of the marriage of the father and mother of our country—and of the struggle for independence that he led The Washingtons’ long union begins in colonial Virginia in 1759, when George Washington woos and weds Martha Dandridge Parke Custis, a pretty, charming, and very rich young widow. The calm early years of their marriage as plantation owners at Mount Vernon and as parents to Martha’s two children, Jacky and Patsy—both of whom present difficult challenges—yield to harsher times. Washington has been prominent among Virginians in opposing British government measures, and at the outbreak of fighting in 1775 he is elected commander-in-chief of the Continental army. The war sees Martha resolutely supporting her husband, sharing in the hardships at Valley Forge and other wretched winter headquarters. Essential to George’s personal well-being, she is known as “Lady Washington”—a redoubtable and vastly admired figure in her own right. Flora Fraser provides us with a brilliant account of the public Washington and of the war he waged, and gives us, as well, the domestic Washingtons, whether at Mount Vernon before and during the war or in New York and Philadelphia during his presidency. Even in wartime, Martha manages to scour Philadelphia to find a doll for her newest granddaughter and keeps careful control of her Virginia inheritance. George grapples with a formidable enemy, without proper troops and often without basic supplies—his soldiers frequently lack rations, blankets, even shoes—while always fearful for his wife’s welfare and safety, given the constant worry that the British might descend on Mount Vernon. Even so, a true Virginian, he manages to dance for more than three hours with Alexander Hamilton’s pretty young wife at a makeshift ball. With victory and the arrival of peace in 1783, the Washingtons hope to remain at home, a hope dashed when, in 1789, George is elected our first president and Martha becomes a faultless first First Lady. During the presidency, they together negotiate the many pitfalls of establishing republican entertainment—the weekly “Congress dinner,” levées, and drawing rooms—before, finally free of official responsibilities after Washington’s second term, they are at last able to retreat to their beloved Mount Vernon. This is a remarkable story of a remarkable pair as well as a gripping narrative of the birth of a nation—a major, and vastly appealing, contribution to the literature of our founding fathers . . . and founding mother....more

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• LIFE LINCOLN: 4 of 4: An Intimate Portrait Hardcover – October 14, 2014. by The Editors of LIFE (Author). #AllenGuelzo.

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  Feb 17 2020

  Photo: English: "Lincoln's Last warning: 'Now, if you don't come down, I'll cut the tree from under you.'" Cartoon on President Lincoln's provisional Emancipation Proclamation, threatening the Southern states with the abolition of slavery on January 1, 1863 in case they don't rejoin the Union by then; published in Harper's Weekly, October 11, 1862Date | 11 October 1862Source | Library of Congress website at www.loc.gov; reproduction number LC-USZ62-48218, Digital ID: cph 3a48359https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/99614200/Author | Frank Bellew | This media file is in the public domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow LIFE LINCOLN: 4 of 4:  An Intimate Portrait Hardcover – October 14, 2014.  by The Editors of LIFE (Author).  #AllenGuelzo. On the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, the editors of LIFE bring readers everything that has been left to us from the life of one of history's most iconic figures. His pictures, actions, words in his speeches and his private letters are analyzed and pointed inward toward the person, to help us understand the man: the heart and soul of the man. This book is about the artifacts that are left us all these years later (letters, speeches and particularly pictures) — things that LIFE can show that allow us to know this man more intimately. And so we, with help from experts and several famous commentators, will show them in our pages, and lead the reader to the clues about Lincoln's essence.Includes chapters such as: "Lincoln Pictured," an introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. A narrative by Allen C. Guelzo, explaining the man and his image — how the image reflects the true man "Who Was Mathew Brady?" — the famous photographer, his life and times, his truths and deceptions (before and after shots from the Gettysburg battlefield, detailing how he moved things around — even bodies — for dramatic impact) The words of Lincoln, in an artifact presentation with removable letters and speeches on archival paper that bring the reader back to the times "The Camera and the White House" — A fascinating chapter on American Presidents and their visual image — Thomas McAvoy's secret snaps of FDR, FDR hiding his legs, JFK's manipulation of photography taken of him, etc. The "book within a book" — the likes of David McCullough, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Richard Norton Smith, Walter Isaacson, Jon Meachem, Macklemore, Brad Pitt, Maya Angelou, Zadie Smith, Gay Talese, Tom Wolf and more in answer to the question "When you see Lincoln's face, what do you see? ...more

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• LIFE LINCOLN: 3 of 4: An Intimate Portrait Hardcover – October 14, 2014. by The Editors of LIFE (Author). #AllenGuelzo.

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  Feb 17 2020

  Photo: burying-union-dead-on-the-antietam-battlefield-1862-civil-war (42/63) To view or save this photo in High resolution, just click the photo to see the full image(the full image is much higher quality and not pixelated).All free photos on this site are public domain. Please consider giving a credit hyperlink to https://www.goodfreephotos.com if you use the photos on this site using the attribution code in the below box. It is not required but it'd be much appreciated. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow LIFE LINCOLN: 3 of 4:  An Intimate Portrait Hardcover – October 14, 2014.  by The Editors of LIFE (Author).  #AllenGuelzo. On the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, the editors of LIFE bring readers everything that has been left to us from the life of one of history's most iconic figures. His pictures, actions, words in his speeches and his private letters are analyzed and pointed inward toward the person, to help us understand the man: the heart and soul of the man. This book is about the artifacts that are left us all these years later (letters, speeches and particularly pictures) — things that LIFE can show that allow us to know this man more intimately. And so we, with help from experts and several famous commentators, will show them in our pages, and lead the reader to the clues about Lincoln's essence.Includes chapters such as: "Lincoln Pictured," an introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. A narrative by Allen C. Guelzo, explaining the man and his image — how the image reflects the true man "Who Was Mathew Brady?" — the famous photographer, his life and times, his truths and deceptions (before and after shots from the Gettysburg battlefield, detailing how he moved things around — even bodies — for dramatic impact) The words of Lincoln, in an artifact presentation with removable letters and speeches on archival paper that bring the reader back to the times "The Camera and the White House" — A fascinating chapter on American Presidents and their visual image — Thomas McAvoy's secret snaps of FDR, FDR hiding his legs, JFK's manipulation of photography taken of him, etc. The "book within a book" — the likes of David McCullough, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Richard Norton Smith, Walter Isaacson, Jon Meachem, Macklemore, Brad Pitt, Maya Angelou, Zadie Smith, Gay Talese, Tom Wolf and more in answer to the question "When you see Lincoln's face, what do you see? ...more

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• LIFE LINCOLN: 2 of 4: An Intimate Portrait Hardcover – October 14, 2014. by The Editors of LIFE (Author). #AllenGuelzo.

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  Photo: English: "The President's Visit to the Army of the Potomac--Arrival at the Station at Frederick." Address by President Abraham Lincoln on October 4, 1862, next to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Station, South Market St., Frederick, Maryland. Station built 1855.Date | 25 October 1862Source | Harper's Weekly Magazine, Vol. VI, No. 304, p. 684, via University of Georgia LibrariesAuthor | Hamilton | This media file is in the public domain  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow LIFE LINCOLN: 2 of 4:  An Intimate Portrait Hardcover – October 14, 2014.  by The Editors of LIFE (Author).  #AllenGuelzo. On the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, the editors of LIFE bring readers everything that has been left to us from the life of one of history's most iconic figures. His pictures, actions, words in his speeches and his private letters are analyzed and pointed inward toward the person, to help us understand the man: the heart and soul of the man. This book is about the artifacts that are left us all these years later (letters, speeches and particularly pictures) — things that LIFE can show that allow us to know this man more intimately. And so we, with help from experts and several famous commentators, will show them in our pages, and lead the reader to the clues about Lincoln's essence.Includes chapters such as: "Lincoln Pictured," an introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. A narrative by Allen C. Guelzo, explaining the man and his image — how the image reflects the true man "Who Was Mathew Brady?" — the famous photographer, his life and times, his truths and deceptions (before and after shots from the Gettysburg battlefield, detailing how he moved things around — even bodies — for dramatic impact) The words of Lincoln, in an artifact presentation with removable letters and speeches on archival paper that bring the reader back to the times "The Camera and the White House" — A fascinating chapter on American Presidents and their visual image — Thomas McAvoy's secret snaps of FDR, FDR hiding his legs, JFK's manipulation of photography taken of him, etc. The "book within a book" — the likes of David McCullough, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Richard Norton Smith, Walter Isaacson, Jon Meachem, Macklemore, Brad Pitt, Maya Angelou, Zadie Smith, Gay Talese, Tom Wolf and more in answer to the question "When you see Lincoln's face, what do you see? ...more

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• LIFE LINCOLN: 1 of 4: An Intimate Portrait Hardcover – October 14, 2014. by The Editors of LIFE (Author). #AllenGuelzo.

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  Photo: English: 1862 cartoon about Abraham LincolnDate | 1862Source | https://www.loc.gov/resource/lprbscsm.scsm0384/  http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/lprbscsm.scsm0384Author | Unknown | This media file is in the public domain  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow LIFE LINCOLN: 1 of 4:  An Intimate Portrait Hardcover – October 14, 2014.  by The Editors of LIFE (Author).  #AllenGuelzo. On the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, the editors of LIFE bring readers everything that has been left to us from the life of one of history's most iconic figures. His pictures, actions, words in his speeches and his private letters are analyzed and pointed inward toward the person, to help us understand the man: the heart and soul of the man. This book is about the artifacts that are left us all these years later (letters, speeches and particularly pictures) — things that LIFE can show that allow us to know this man more intimately. And so we, with help from experts and several famous commentators, will show them in our pages, and lead the reader to the clues about Lincoln's essence.Includes chapters such as: "Lincoln Pictured," an introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. A narrative by Allen C. Guelzo, explaining the man and his image — how the image reflects the true man "Who Was Mathew Brady?" — the famous photographer, his life and times, his truths and deceptions (before and after shots from the Gettysburg battlefield, detailing how he moved things around — even bodies — for dramatic impact) The words of Lincoln, in an artifact presentation with removable letters and speeches on archival paper that bring the reader back to the times "The Camera and the White House" — A fascinating chapter on American Presidents and their visual image — Thomas McAvoy's secret snaps of FDR, FDR hiding his legs, JFK's manipulation of photography taken of him, etc. The "book within a book" — the likes of David McCullough, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Richard Norton Smith, Walter Isaacson, Jon Meachem, Macklemore, Brad Pitt, Maya Angelou, Zadie Smith, Gay Talese, Tom Wolf and more in answer to the question "When you see Lincoln's face, what do you see? ...more

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• From Orbit, Nellis AFB at Red Flag time. Tyler Rogoway @thewarzone

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  Feb 16 2020

  Photo: F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets assigned to the 335th Fighter Squadron, Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina, prepare for takeoff during Red Flag 18-1, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, Jan. 30, 2018. Red Flag gives mission commanders the opportunity to lead in a contested, degraded and operationally limited environment with multi-domain assets. (U.S Air Force photo by Lawrence Crespo)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowFrom Orbit, Nellis AFB at Red Flag time. Tyler Rogoway @thewarzonehttps://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/32058/this-is-what-nellis-air-force-bases-ongoing-red-flag-exercise-looks-like-from-space ...more

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• Not quite retiring the First Cold War. Tyler Rogoway @thewarzone.

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  Feb 16 2020

  Photo: USAF B-1B 85-084Date22 September 2002, 18:11SourceUSAF B-1B 85-084AuthorBob Adams from Amanzimtoti, South AfricaCamera location25° 48′ 50.86″ S, 28° 13′ 10.04″ E View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap - Google EarthLicensingThis 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 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.share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowNot quite retiring the First Cold War. Tyler Rogoway @thewarzone.https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/32182/satellite-imagery-doesnt-support-conclusion-that-new-cambodian-airfield-is-a-chinese-base https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/32148/the-navy-now-wants-to-retire-the-first-four-of-its-troublesome-littoral-combat-ships ...more

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• End of the Solar Minimal Minimum. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Feb 16 2020

  Photo: Corona sketched by José Joaquín de Ferrer during the solar eclipse of June 16, 1806 in Kinderhook, New York.From public domain book - Googlebook, Total eclipses of the sun By Mabel Loomis Todd Solar eclipse of June 16 Public Domain File:Solar eclipse 1806Jun16-Corona-Ferrer.png Created: 6 January 2010 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowEnd of the Solar Minimal Minimum. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/sunspot-update-a-tiny-burst-of-activity-that-might-mean-something/ ...more

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• Long March 5 and Covid-19 quarantine PRC. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Feb 16 2020

  Photo: CZ Chinese rocketsSourcehttp://www.gpo.gov/congress/house/hr105851-html/images/4ph200.jpeAuthorThis file is lacking author information.Permission(Reusing this file)This work is in the public domainhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowLong March 5 and Covid-19 quarantine PRC. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-impact-of-coronavirus-on-chinas-space-industry/

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• NASA Budget Busting for the Moon Landing, 2024. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Feb 16 2020

  Photo: The view through the window of the Lunar Module Orion shortly after Apollo 16's landing.NASA/John Young - Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station (full resolution) NASA photo AS16-113-18296 The view through the window of the Lunar Module Orion shortly after Apollo 16's landing on the surface of the Moon. Public Domain File:Lunar surface shortly after landing, Apollo 16.jpg Created: 31 March 1972 Location: 8° 58′ 22.84″ S, 15° 30′ 0.68″ E http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowNASA Budget Busting for the Moon Landing, 2024. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-get-boost-in-trump-proposed-budget-for-2021/ ...more

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• Normandy '44: 8 of 8: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. James Holland (Author), John Sackville (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Feb 16 2020

  Photo:English: The British Army in Normandy 1944Priest infantry carriers move up to the front, 9 August 1944.Date | Taken on 9 August 1944Source | http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//49/media-49197/large.jpg | This is photograph B 8908 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums. | Author | No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit, Wilkes (Sgt)Permission(Reusing this file) | This image was created and released by the Imperial War Museum on the IWM Non Commercial Licence. Photographs taken, or artworks created, by a member of the forces during their active service duties are covered by Crown Copyright provisions. Faithful reproductions may be reused under that licence, which is considered expired 50 years after their creation. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Normandy '44: 8 of 8: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  James Holland (Author), John Sackville (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Normandy-44-77-Day-Battle-France/dp/B07Z3YCG76/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the 76 days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the west - the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries. Yet as familiar as it is, as James Holland makes clear in his definitive history, many parts of the OVERLORD campaign, as it was known, are still shrouded in myth and assumed knowledge.   Drawing freshly on widespread archives and on the testimonies of eye-witnesses, Holland relates the extraordinary planning that made Allied victory in France possible; indeed, the story of how hundreds of thousands of men, and mountains of materiel, were transported across the English Channel, is as dramatic a human achievement as any battlefield exploit. The brutal landings on the five beaches and subsequent battles across the plains and through the lanes and hedgerows of Normandy - a campaign that, in terms of daily casualties, was worse than any in World War I - come vividly to life in conferences where the strategic decisions of Eisenhower, Rommel, Montgomery, and other commanders were made, and through the memories of paratrooper Lieutenant Dick Winters of Easy Company, British corporal and tanker Reg Spittles, Thunderbolt pilot Archie Maltbie, German ordnance officer Hans Heinze, French resistance leader Robert Leblanc, and many others. For both sides, the challenges were enormous. The Allies confronted a disciplined German army stretched to its limit, which nonetheless caused tactics to be adjusted on the fly. Ultimately ingenuity, determination, and immense materiel strength - delivered with operational brilliance - made the difference. A stirring narrative by a pre-eminent historian, Normandy '44 offers important new perspective on one of history's most dramatic military engagements and is an invaluable addition to the literature of war....more

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• Normandy '44: 7 of 8: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. James Holland (Author), John Sackville (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Feb 16 2020

  Photo: DescriptionEnglish: The British Army in Normandy 1944Achilles 17-pdr tank destroyers passing through Cahagnes during the advance towards Aunay-sur-Odon, 2 August 1944.Date | 1944Source | http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//49/media-49162/large.jpg | This is photograph B 8507 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums. | Author | Gee (Sgt), No 5 Army Film & Photographic UnitPermission(Reusing this file) | This image was created and released by the Imperial War Museum on the IWM Non Commercial Licence. Photographs taken, or artworks created, by a member of the forces during their active service duties are covered by Crown Copyright provisions. Faithful reproductions may be reused under that licence, which is considered expired 50 years after their creation.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Normandy '44: 7 of 8: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  James Holland (Author), John Sackville (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Normandy-44-77-Day-Battle-France/dp/B07Z3YCG76/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the 76 days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the west - the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries. Yet as familiar as it is, as James Holland makes clear in his definitive history, many parts of the OVERLORD campaign, as it was known, are still shrouded in myth and assumed knowledge.   Drawing freshly on widespread archives and on the testimonies of eye-witnesses, Holland relates the extraordinary planning that made Allied victory in France possible; indeed, the story of how hundreds of thousands of men, and mountains of materiel, were transported across the English Channel, is as dramatic a human achievement as any battlefield exploit. The brutal landings on the five beaches and subsequent battles across the plains and through the lanes and hedgerows of Normandy - a campaign that, in terms of daily casualties, was worse than any in World War I - come vividly to life in conferences where the strategic decisions of Eisenhower, Rommel, Montgomery, and other commanders were made, and through the memories of paratrooper Lieutenant Dick Winters of Easy Company, British corporal and tanker Reg Spittles, Thunderbolt pilot Archie Maltbie, German ordnance officer Hans Heinze, French resistance leader Robert Leblanc, and many others. For both sides, the challenges were enormous. The Allies confronted a disciplined German army stretched to its limit, which nonetheless caused tactics to be adjusted on the fly. Ultimately ingenuity, determination, and immense materiel strength - delivered with operational brilliance - made the difference. A stirring narrative by a pre-eminent historian, Normandy '44 offers important new perspective on one of history's most dramatic military engagements and is an invaluable addition to the literature of war....more

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• Normandy '44: 6 of 8: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. James Holland (Author), John Sackville (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Feb 16 2020

  Photo: P-47 Thunderbolts of the 368th Fighter Group, Cardonville Airfield (A-3) France, Summer 1944.United States Army Air Forces - "History and Units of the United States Air Forces In Europe", CD-ROM compiled by GHJ Scharringa, European Aviation Histoical Society, 2004. Image source listed as United States Air Force Historical Research Agency P-47 Thunderbolts of the 368th Fighter Group, Cardonville Airfield (A-3) France, Summer 1944 Permission details USGOV-PDView more Public Domainview terms File:368th Fighter Group - P-47 Thunderbolts.jpg Created: 31 December 1943 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Normandy '44: 6 of 8: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  James Holland (Author), John Sackville (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Normandy-44-77-Day-Battle-France/dp/B07Z3YCG76/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the 76 days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the west - the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries. Yet as familiar as it is, as James Holland makes clear in his definitive history, many parts of the OVERLORD campaign, as it was known, are still shrouded in myth and assumed knowledge.   Drawing freshly on widespread archives and on the testimonies of eye-witnesses, Holland relates the extraordinary planning that made Allied victory in France possible; indeed, the story of how hundreds of thousands of men, and mountains of materiel, were transported across the English Channel, is as dramatic a human achievement as any battlefield exploit. The brutal landings on the five beaches and subsequent battles across the plains and through the lanes and hedgerows of Normandy - a campaign that, in terms of daily casualties, was worse than any in World War I - come vividly to life in conferences where the strategic decisions of Eisenhower, Rommel, Montgomery, and other commanders were made, and through the memories of paratrooper Lieutenant Dick Winters of Easy Company, British corporal and tanker Reg Spittles, Thunderbolt pilot Archie Maltbie, German ordnance officer Hans Heinze, French resistance leader Robert Leblanc, and many others. For both sides, the challenges were enormous. The Allies confronted a disciplined German army stretched to its limit, which nonetheless caused tactics to be adjusted on the fly. Ultimately ingenuity, determination, and immense materiel strength - delivered with operational brilliance - made the difference. A stirring narrative by a pre-eminent historian, Normandy '44 offers important new perspective on one of history's most dramatic military engagements and is an invaluable addition to the literature of war....more

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• Normandy '44: 5 of 8: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. James Holland (Author), John Sackville (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Feb 16 2020

  Photo: English: The British Army in Normandy 1944Men of 10th Highland Light Infantry, 15th (Scottish) Division, move forward during Operation 'Epsom', 26 June 1944.Date | Taken on 26 June 1944Source | http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//48/media-48901/large.jpg | This is photograph B 5986 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums. | Author | Laing (Sgt), No 5 Army Film & Photographic UnitPermission(Reusing this file) | This image was created and released by the Imperial War Museum on the IWM Non Commercial Licence. Photographs taken, or artworks created, by a member of the forces during their active service duties are covered by Crown Copyright provisions. Faithful reproductions may be reused under that licence, which is considered expired 50 years after their creation.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Normandy '44: 5 of 8: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  James Holland (Author), John Sackville (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Normandy-44-77-Day-Battle-France/dp/B07Z3YCG76/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the 76 days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the west - the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries. Yet as familiar as it is, as James Holland makes clear in his definitive history, many parts of the OVERLORD campaign, as it was known, are still shrouded in myth and assumed knowledge.   Drawing freshly on widespread archives and on the testimonies of eye-witnesses, Holland relates the extraordinary planning that made Allied victory in France possible; indeed, the story of how hundreds of thousands of men, and mountains of materiel, were transported across the English Channel, is as dramatic a human achievement as any battlefield exploit. The brutal landings on the five beaches and subsequent battles across the plains and through the lanes and hedgerows of Normandy - a campaign that, in terms of daily casualties, was worse than any in World War I - come vividly to life in conferences where the strategic decisions of Eisenhower, Rommel, Montgomery, and other commanders were made, and through the memories of paratrooper Lieutenant Dick Winters of Easy Company, British corporal and tanker Reg Spittles, Thunderbolt pilot Archie Maltbie, German ordnance officer Hans Heinze, French resistance leader Robert Leblanc, and many others. For both sides, the challenges were enormous. The Allies confronted a disciplined German army stretched to its limit, which nonetheless caused tactics to be adjusted on the fly. Ultimately ingenuity, determination, and immense materiel strength - delivered with operational brilliance - made the difference. A stirring narrative by a pre-eminent historian, Normandy '44 offers important new perspective on one of history's most dramatic military engagements and is an invaluable addition to the literature of war....more

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• Normandy '44: 4 of 8: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. James Holland (Author), John Sackville (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Feb 16 2020

  Photo: English: The British Army in Normandy 1944An abandoned German SdKfz 250/9 half-track in Le Bourg, 30 July 1944.Date1944Sourcehttp://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//49/media-49085/large.jpgThis is photograph B 8252 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums.AuthorNo 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit, Palmer (Sgt)Permission(Reusing this file)This image was created and released by the Imperial War Museum on the IWM Non Commercial Licence. Photographs taken, or artworks created, by a member of the forces during their active service duties are covered by Crown Copyright provisions. Faithful reproductions may be reused under that licence, which is considered expired 50 years after their creation.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Normandy '44: 4 of 8: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  James Holland (Author), John Sackville (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Normandy-44-77-Day-Battle-France/dp/B07Z3YCG76/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the 76 days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the west - the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries. Yet as familiar as it is, as James Holland makes clear in his definitive history, many parts of the OVERLORD campaign, as it was known, are still shrouded in myth and assumed knowledge.   Drawing freshly on widespread archives and on the testimonies of eye-witnesses, Holland relates the extraordinary planning that made Allied victory in France possible; indeed, the story of how hundreds of thousands of men, and mountains of materiel, were transported across the English Channel, is as dramatic a human achievement as any battlefield exploit. The brutal landings on the five beaches and subsequent battles across the plains and through the lanes and hedgerows of Normandy - a campaign that, in terms of daily casualties, was worse than any in World War I - come vividly to life in conferences where the strategic decisions of Eisenhower, Rommel, Montgomery, and other commanders were made, and through the memories of paratrooper Lieutenant Dick Winters of Easy Company, British corporal and tanker Reg Spittles, Thunderbolt pilot Archie Maltbie, German ordnance officer Hans Heinze, French resistance leader Robert Leblanc, and many others. For both sides, the challenges were enormous. The Allies confronted a disciplined German army stretched to its limit, which nonetheless caused tactics to be adjusted on the fly. Ultimately ingenuity, determination, and immense materiel strength - delivered with operational brilliance - made the difference. A stirring narrative by a pre-eminent historian, Normandy '44 offers important new perspective on one of history's most dramatic military engagements and is an invaluable addition to the literature of war....more

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• Normandy '44: 3 of 8: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. James Holland (Author), John Sackville (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Feb 16 2020

  Photo: English: The British Army in Normandy 1944Troops of 1 Kings Own Scottish Borderers (KOSB), 9th Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, firing a captured Hotchkiss machine gun during street fighting in Caen, 10 July 1944.Date1944Sourcehttp://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//39/media-39106/large.jpgThis is photograph B 6918 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums.AuthorNo 5 Army Film & Photographic UnitPermission(Reusing this file)This image was created and released by the Imperial War Museum on the IWM Non Commercial Licence. Photographs taken, or artworks created, by a member of the forces during their active service duties are covered by Crown Copyright provisions. Faithful reproductions may be reused under that licence, which is considered expired 50 years after their creationhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Normandy '44: 3 of 8: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  James Holland (Author), John Sackville (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Normandy-44-77-Day-Battle-France/dp/B07Z3YCG76/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the 76 days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the west - the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries. Yet as familiar as it is, as James Holland makes clear in his definitive history, many parts of the OVERLORD campaign, as it was known, are still shrouded in myth and assumed knowledge.   Drawing freshly on widespread archives and on the testimonies of eye-witnesses, Holland relates the extraordinary planning that made Allied victory in France possible; indeed, the story of how hundreds of thousands of men, and mountains of materiel, were transported across the English Channel, is as dramatic a human achievement as any battlefield exploit. The brutal landings on the five beaches and subsequent battles across the plains and through the lanes and hedgerows of Normandy - a campaign that, in terms of daily casualties, was worse than any in World War I - come vividly to life in conferences where the strategic decisions of Eisenhower, Rommel, Montgomery, and other commanders were made, and through the memories of paratrooper Lieutenant Dick Winters of Easy Company, British corporal and tanker Reg Spittles, Thunderbolt pilot Archie Maltbie, German ordnance officer Hans Heinze, French resistance leader Robert Leblanc, and many others. For both sides, the challenges were enormous. The Allies confronted a disciplined German army stretched to its limit, which nonetheless caused tactics to be adjusted on the fly. Ultimately ingenuity, determination, and immense materiel strength - delivered with operational brilliance - made the difference. A stirring narrative by a pre-eminent historian, Normandy '44 offers important new perspective on one of history's most dramatic military engagements and is an invaluable addition to the literature of war....more

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• Normandy '44: 2 of 8: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. James Holland (Author), John Sackville (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Feb 16 2020

  Photo: English: The British Army in Normandy 1944A wrecked German SdKfz 250 half-track in the village of Christot, 17 June 1944.Date1944Sourcehttp://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//48/media-48835/large.jpgThis is photograph B 5653 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums.AuthorMidgley (Sgt), No 5 Army Film & Photographic UnitPermission(Reusing this file)This image was created and released by the Imperial War Museum on the IWM Non Commercial Licence. Photographs taken, or artworks created, by a member of the forces during their active service duties are covered by Crown Copyright provisions. Faithful reproductions may be reused under that licence, which is considered expired 50 years after their creation.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Normandy '44: 2 of 8: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  James Holland (Author), John Sackville (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Normandy-44-77-Day-Battle-France/dp/B07Z3YCG76/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the 76 days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the west - the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries. Yet as familiar as it is, as James Holland makes clear in his definitive history, many parts of the OVERLORD campaign, as it was known, are still shrouded in myth and assumed knowledge.   Drawing freshly on widespread archives and on the testimonies of eye-witnesses, Holland relates the extraordinary planning that made Allied victory in France possible; indeed, the story of how hundreds of thousands of men, and mountains of materiel, were transported across the English Channel, is as dramatic a human achievement as any battlefield exploit. The brutal landings on the five beaches and subsequent battles across the plains and through the lanes and hedgerows of Normandy - a campaign that, in terms of daily casualties, was worse than any in World War I - come vividly to life in conferences where the strategic decisions of Eisenhower, Rommel, Montgomery, and other commanders were made, and through the memories of paratrooper Lieutenant Dick Winters of Easy Company, British corporal and tanker Reg Spittles, Thunderbolt pilot Archie Maltbie, German ordnance officer Hans Heinze, French resistance leader Robert Leblanc, and many others. For both sides, the challenges were enormous. The Allies confronted a disciplined German army stretched to its limit, which nonetheless caused tactics to be adjusted on the fly. Ultimately ingenuity, determination, and immense materiel strength - delivered with operational brilliance - made the difference. A stirring narrative by a pre-eminent historian, Normandy '44 offers important new perspective on one of history's most dramatic military engagements and is an invaluable addition to the literature of war....more

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• Normandy '44: 1 of 8: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. James Holland (Author), John Sackville (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Feb 16 2020

  Photo: Caption: Normandy Invasion, June 1944. American troops “dug in” near beach of Normandy, France. Photograph released November 7, 1944. U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/03/15).http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Normandy '44: 1 of 8: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  James Holland (Author), John Sackville (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Normandy-44-77-Day-Battle-France/dp/B07Z3YCG76/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the 76 days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the west - the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries. Yet as familiar as it is, as James Holland makes clear in his definitive history, many parts of the OVERLORD campaign, as it was known, are still shrouded in myth and assumed knowledge.   Drawing freshly on widespread archives and on the testimonies of eye-witnesses, Holland relates the extraordinary planning that made Allied victory in France possible; indeed, the story of how hundreds of thousands of men, and mountains of materiel, were transported across the English Channel, is as dramatic a human achievement as any battlefield exploit. The brutal landings on the five beaches and subsequent battles across the plains and through the lanes and hedgerows of Normandy - a campaign that, in terms of daily casualties, was worse than any in World War I - come vividly to life in conferences where the strategic decisions of Eisenhower, Rommel, Montgomery, and other commanders were made, and through the memories of paratrooper Lieutenant Dick Winters of Easy Company, British corporal and tanker Reg Spittles, Thunderbolt pilot Archie Maltbie, German ordnance officer Hans Heinze, French resistance leader Robert Leblanc, and many others. For both sides, the challenges were enormous. The Allies confronted a disciplined German army stretched to its limit, which nonetheless caused tactics to be adjusted on the fly. Ultimately ingenuity, determination, and immense materiel strength - delivered with operational brilliance - made the difference. A stirring narrative by a pre-eminent historian, Normandy '44 offers important new perspective on one of history's most dramatic military engagements and is an invaluable addition to the literature of war....more

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• Spillover: 4 of 4: Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. David Quammen (Author), Jonathan Yen (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Feb 15 2020

  Photo: An electron micrograph showing recreated 1918 influenza virions Photo Credit: Cynthia Goldsmith Content Providers(s): CDC/ Dr. Terrence Tumpey/ Cynthia Goldsmith - This media comes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Public Health Image Library (PHIL), with identification number #8243. Note: Not all PHIL images are public domain; be sure to check copyright status and credit authors and content providers. This negative stained transmission electron micrograph (TEM) showed recreated 1918 influenza virions that were collected from the supernatant of a 1918-infected Madin-Darby Canine Kidney (MDCK) cell culture 18 hours after infection. In order to sequester these virions, the MDCK cells were spun down (centrifugation), and the 1918 virus present in the fluid was immediately fixed for negative staining. Dr. Terrence Tumpey, one of the organization’s staff microbiologists and a member of the National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID), recreated the 1918 influenza virus in order to identify the characteristics that made this organism such a deadly pathogen. Research efforts such as this, enables researchers to develop new vaccines and treatments for future pandemic influenza viruses. The 1918 Spanish flu epidemic was caused by an influenza A (H1N1) virus, killing more than 500,000 people in the United States, and up to 50 million worldwide. The possible source was a newly emerged virus from a swine or an avian host of a mutated H1N1 virus. Many people died within the first few days after infection, and others died of complications later. Nearly half of those who died were young, healthy adults. Influenza A (H1N1) viruses still circulate today after being introduced again into the human population in the 1970s. Permission details None - This image is in the public domain and thus free of any copyright restrictions. As a matter of courtesy we request that the content provider be credited and notified in any public or private usage of this image.View more Public Domainview terms File:Reconstructed Spanish Flu Virus.jpg Created: 31 December 2004 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Spillover: 4 of 4:   Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  David Quammen (Author), Jonathan Yen (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Spillover-dp-B00CTWW7BM/dp/B00CTWW7BM/ref=mt_audio_download?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1581734570 A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases.  The emergence of strange new diseases is a frightening problem that seems to be getting worse. In this age of speedy travel, it threatens a worldwide pandemic. We hear news reports of Ebola, SARS, AIDS, and something called Hendra killing horses and people in Australia - but those reports miss the big truth that such phenomena are part of a single pattern. The bugs that transmit these diseases share one thing: they originate in wild animals and pass to humans by a process called spillover. David Quammen tracks this subject around the world. He recounts adventures in the field - netting bats in China, trapping monkeys in Bangladesh, stalking gorillas in the Congo - with the world's leading disease scientists. In Spillover, Quammen takes the listener along on this astonishing quest to learn how, where from, and why these diseases emerge, and he asks the terrifying question: What might the next big one be?...more

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• Spillover: 3 of 4: Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. David Quammen (Author), Jonathan Yen (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Feb 15 2020

  Photo: American Red Cross nurses tend to flu patients in temporary wards set up inside Oakland Municipal Auditorium, 1918.Edward A. "Doc" Rogers, 1873-1960 - Photo by Edward A. "Doc" Rogers. From the Joseph R. Knowland collection at the Oakland History Room, Oakland Public Library. Digital copy via [1] 1918 flu epidemic: the Oakland Municipal Auditorium in use as a temporary hospital. The photograph depicts volunteer nurses from the American Red Cross tending influenza sufferers in the Oakland Auditorium, Oakland, California, during the influenza pandemic of 1918. Permission details This image might not be in the public domain outside of the United States; this especially applies in the countries and areas that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works, such as Canada, Mainland China (not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany, Mexico, and Switzerland. The creator and year of publication are essential information and must be provided. See Wikipedia:Public domain and Wikipedia:Copyrights for more details.View more Public Domainview terms File:1918 flu in Oakland.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Spillover: 3 of 4:   Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  David Quammen (Author), Jonathan Yen (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Spillover-dp-B00CTWW7BM/dp/B00CTWW7BM/ref=mt_audio_download?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1581734570 A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases.  The emergence of strange new diseases is a frightening problem that seems to be getting worse. In this age of speedy travel, it threatens a worldwide pandemic. We hear news reports of Ebola, SARS, AIDS, and something called Hendra killing horses and people in Australia - but those reports miss the big truth that such phenomena are part of a single pattern. The bugs that transmit these diseases share one thing: they originate in wild animals and pass to humans by a process called spillover. David Quammen tracks this subject around the world. He recounts adventures in the field - netting bats in China, trapping monkeys in Bangladesh, stalking gorillas in the Congo - with the world's leading disease scientists. In Spillover, Quammen takes the listener along on this astonishing quest to learn how, where from, and why these diseases emerge, and he asks the terrifying question: What might the next big one be?...more

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• Spillover: 2 of 4: Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. David Quammen (Author), Jonathan Yen (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Feb 15 2020

  Photo: American Expeditionary Force victims of the Spanish flu at U.S. Army Camp Hospital no. 45 in Aix-les-Bains, France, in 1918Uncredited U.S. Army photographer - U.S. Army Medical Corps photo via National Museum of Health & Medicine website at [U.S. Army Camp Hospital No. 45, Aix-Les-Bains, France, Influenza Ward No. 1.], Reeve 14682 U.S. Army Camp Hospital No. 45, Aix-Les-Bains, France, Influenza Ward No. 1. Influenza pandemic ward during World War I. Permission details This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code. Note: This only applies to original works of the Federal Government and not to the work of any individual U.S. state, territory, commonwealth, county, municipality, or any other subdivision. This template also does not apply to postage stamp designs published by the United States Postal Service since 1978. (See § 313.6(C)(1) of Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices). It also does not apply to certain US coins; see The US Mint Terms of Use.View more Public Domainview terms File:USCampHospital45InfluenzaWard.jpg Created: circa 1918 date QS:P,+1918-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Spillover: 2 of 4:   Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  David Quammen (Author), Jonathan Yen (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Spillover-dp-B00CTWW7BM/dp/B00CTWW7BM/ref=mt_audio_download?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1581734570 A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases.  The emergence of strange new diseases is a frightening problem that seems to be getting worse. In this age of speedy travel, it threatens a worldwide pandemic. We hear news reports of Ebola, SARS, AIDS, and something called Hendra killing horses and people in Australia - but those reports miss the big truth that such phenomena are part of a single pattern. The bugs that transmit these diseases share one thing: they originate in wild animals and pass to humans by a process called spillover. David Quammen tracks this subject around the world. He recounts adventures in the field - netting bats in China, trapping monkeys in Bangladesh, stalking gorillas in the Congo - with the world's leading disease scientists. In Spillover, Quammen takes the listener along on this astonishing quest to learn how, where from, and why these diseases emerge, and he asks the terrifying question: What might the next big one be?...more

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• Spillover: 1 of 4: Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. David Quammen (Author), Jonathan Yen (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Feb 15 2020

  Photo: Soldiers from Fort Riley, Kansas, ill with Spanish flu at a hospital ward at Camp Funston Otis Historical Archives, National Museum of Health and Medicine - Emergency hospital during influenza epidemic (NCP 1603), National Museum of Health and Medicine. Emergency hospital during influenza epidemic, Camp Funston, Kansas. Emergency hospital during influenza epidemic (NCP 1603), National Museum of Health and Medicine. Description: Beds with patients in an emergency hospital in Camp Funston, Kansas, in the midst of the influenza epidemic. Date: circa 1918 Photo ID: NCP 1603 Source Collection: OHA 250: New Contributed Photographs Collection, Otis Historical Archives, National Museum of Health and Medicine. Rights: No known restrictions upon publication, physical copy retained by the National Museum of Health and Medicine. Publication and high resolution requests should be directed to NMHM (www.medicalmuseum.mil). This is our most-requested flu photograph. It may be on another or our Flickr pages. CC BY 2.0 File:Emergency hospital during Influenza epidemic, Camp Funston, Kansas - NCP 1603.jpg Created: c. 1918 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Spillover: 1 of 4:   Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  David Quammen (Author), Jonathan Yen (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Spillover-dp-B00CTWW7BM/dp/B00CTWW7BM/ref=mt_audio_download?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1581734570 A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases.  The emergence of strange new diseases is a frightening problem that seems to be getting worse. In this age of speedy travel, it threatens a worldwide pandemic. We hear news reports of Ebola, SARS, AIDS, and something called Hendra killing horses and people in Australia - but those reports miss the big truth that such phenomena are part of a single pattern. The bugs that transmit these diseases share one thing: they originate in wild animals and pass to humans by a process called spillover. David Quammen tracks this subject around the world. He recounts adventures in the field - netting bats in China, trapping monkeys in Bangladesh, stalking gorillas in the Congo - with the world's leading disease scientists. In Spillover, Quammen takes the listener along on this astonishing quest to learn how, where from, and why these diseases emerge, and he asks the terrifying question: What might the next big one be?...more

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• (2 of 2) Rent Control Laws Are Unconstitutional @RichardAEpstein

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  Image:  Christopher Wren's plan for redevelopment after the Great Fire of London in 1666 was never put into effect because people were unwilling to give up their pre-fire property boundaries, even despite the quick settlement procedure under the Fire of London Disputes Act 1666. Richard Epstein, Chicago Law, NYU Law, Hoover; in re:  Rent control, esp in California and New York. In New York, as of recently the rent-control laws, enacted after World War II to protect returning soldiers from suddenly-mushrooming rents, are now established as permanent.  (2 of 2) https://www.hoover.org/research/rent-control-laws-are-unconstitutional ...more

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• (1 of 2) Rent Control Laws Are Unconstitutional @RichardAEpstein

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  Feb 15 2020

  Image:  The history of rent control in England and Wales is a part of English land law concerning the development of rent regulation in England and Wales. Controlling the prices that landlords could make their tenants pay formed the main element of rent regulation, and was in place from 1915 until its abolition (excluding some council houses) by the Housing Act 1988.  Land in English law is said to have "four dimensions", of area, into the sky and below the surface, and through time. [Text: CC BY-SA 3.0] Richard Epstein, Chicago Law, NYU Law, Hoover; in re:  Rent control, esp in California and New York. In New York, as of recently the rent-control laws, enacted after World War II to protect returning soldiers from suddenly-mushrooming rents, are now established as permanent. (1 of 2) https://www.hoover.org/research/rent-control-laws-are-unconstitutional..Permissions:  Widecombe in the Moor, England.  Widecombe in the Moor, England   Taken on 5 April 2009Source | Flickr / Author | dennisredfield Permission   This image, originally posted to Flickr, was reviewed on 13 October 2009 by the administrator or reviewer Leoboudv, who confirmed that it was available on Flickr under the stated license on that date. | CC-BY-2.0 |   |  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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• Civil war starts nonviolently; several steps later, you’re shooting. Michael Vlahos: @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Feb 15 2020

  Image:  Assassination of King D. Carlos I of Portugal and the Prince Royal D. Luís Filipe, Duke of Braganza Michael E Vlahos, Johns Hopkins, in re: Lawfare as a legal regicide. Impeachment has been tried several times in the US and always failed.  “Cancel culture” is a form of violence.  A constant, daily undercurrent of political violence.  It’s not just killing the king, it’s killing the spirit of the entire system.  Bernie Sanders, favoring large taxes; were he president, that’d [probably] mean a large shift in the Senate; would the blues then settle down and become moderate? No, they have to implement their agenda. England, Seventeenth Century. Our nation was founded by people fleeing that civil war. Armed clashes between federal forces and militia groups. Ukraine civil war video feed: started with nothing violent; at the beginning of the civil war you can’t imagine violence; at the end, you're shooting.   ...more

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• Regicide: pick off the counselors first (e.g., AG Barr) Michael Vlahos: @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Feb 15 2020

  Image: Illustration in a satirical book from the 1660s. The devil sits with eleven men: nine regicides and two chaplains who supported the execution of Charles I.Michael E Vlahos, Johns Hopkins, in re: Regicide and civil war.  Charles I.   If you don’t get the king at first, pick off his counselors then get the king.  . . . The dynamics of a country headed toward an irrevocable split are here.  Regicide isn't simply the killing of a king you don't like; it's the destruction of [all] that you don’t like, including the legitimacy of the state.  In the US, blue has committed itself, used extrajudicial means to defenestrate him;  willing to do almost anything to get rid of this man, but what they’re getting rid of is the ability of a constitutional republic to function.  Were looking at ways to garrote him even before the election. Refusal to accept the terms of the Constitution, itself. The ten commandments of a civil war, according to Michael Vlahos. . . .  In Pelosi single act of ripping of he speech, she declared him an illegitimate president. Unable to impeach him, they’re going after his counselors, here: the Attorney-General.   ...more

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• Harvard chemistry head busted by Feds @MichaelLedeen

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  Feb 15 2020

  Image:  Larry Wu-Tai Chin, the retired analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency convicted of spying for the Chinese for 30 years, was found dead this morning in his jail cell, suffocated.  Michael Ledeen, FDD, Epoch Times, in re:  Chinese invasion of IP; but, equally important, China is carefully turning—that is, threatening and propagandizing—ethnically Chinese people in the US to spy for Beijing.  Meanwhile, US universities are happily selling space to China in exchange for cash. The U.S. Government’s China Crackdown Comes to Harvard.  Leading nanoscientist Charles Lieber is charged with lying about his work with the Thousand Talents program in a widening crackdown on dealings with Beijing. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-12/the-u-s-government-s-china-crackdown-comes-to-harvard Charles Lieber, who until recently was chairman of the Harvard chemistry department, is under investigation for selling important information to the Chinese government. He spent years working for the Wuhan Institute of Technology. From 2012-2017, he worked as a major technology scientist—chemistry? Bioweapons? Wuhan.   A Mr Zhao arrested and [convicted?]. Beth Israel thinks it’s all about sharing, that sharing is wonderful; when Zhao was caught trying to smuggle research out of the country in socks . . .  Lee Bollinger, president of Columbia University, has published an op-ed* saying it’s important for the US to maintain control.   Eke pres of CIT, & other universities. If your children are attending Harvard, Yale, Columbia, they’re being targetted by the Chinese Communist Party. *"No, I won’t start spying on my foreign-born students", by the Columbia president, Lee C. Bollinger [— he who invited Pres Ahmadinejad to speak at SIPA in Columbia; then, finding himself under national attack, received Ahmadinejad at the event and introduced him to the audience with rude and vulgar criticism. Bollinger thereby disgraced himself in two fundamental ways: he abjectly invited a ghastly little tyrant to be welcome at a major US university, then violated an immutable law of hospitality. Perhaps expected conduct from a person with the second-worst haircut in the nation.] ...more

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• California surfing: over needles-covered pavements. Jeff Bliss.

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  Feb 15 2020

  Image:  Long-term effects of intravenous usage, including – and indeed primarily because of – the effects of the contaminants common in illegal heroin and contaminated needles Jeff Bliss, Pacific Watch, in re: San Francisco: “Mr Clean,” the fellow responsible for physically cleaning the city, the Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru, had to resign before being arrested by the Feds for accepting a bribe relating to a restaurant in the airport.  The mayor has just admitted to having had “a relationship” with him.  The streets of Los Angeles: whole blocks covered by detritus, including used needles. This is now spreading to suburbs exurbs, rural areas.  Koreatown: a homeless person from another city was shocked at what’s become of Koreatown,  Gavin Newsom wants $1 billion to devise a plan for homeless people — but nothing to curb homelessness. No plan in the governor’s office to change things structurally ...more

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• Former Soviet states: “Americans favor socialism??” @DanHenninger

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  Feb 15 2020

  Image:   Soviet Union Administrative Divisions  Dan Henninger, WSJ Wonder Land column, in re:  Are the Democrats competent or incompetent?  It’s not just the Party; it’s socialism.   In Europe, where socialism was installed soon after WWII, socialists have for some years been losing favor among voters.  The [shocking] events in Iowa. Voters there just flipping a coin to pick whom to vote for.   Sanders proposes to nationalize the health-care system we’ve already got and other functions, and massively to increase taxes to cover all this.  People I met in Azerbaijan, who not that long ago [managed to get the Soviet boot off their neck], are incredulous that Americans are entertaining the thought of socialism. ...more

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• #TheScalaReport: The EU softens on facial recognition; and Huawei is a RICO case. Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHE

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  Feb 15 2020

  Photo: A liquor raid in 1925, in Elk Lake, Ontario Archives of Ontario, C.H.J. Snider fonds, Reference Code F 1194 S 15000, I0015265. - ville.montreal.qc.ca - archives de l' Ontario A police raid at Elk Lake, Canada, 1925 Blind pigs raided, 160 kegs destroyed, Elk Lake, OntarioPublic Domain File:Raid at elk lake.jpg Created: circa 1925 date QS:P,+1925-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow#TheScalaReport: The EU softens on facial recognition; and Huawei is a RICO case.  Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com  #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHEhttps://techcrunch.com/2020/02/13/the-u-s-is-charging-huawei-with-racketeering/ ...more

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• Trump added $11 trillion to the economy @SebGorka

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  Feb 14 2020

  Image: $11 trillion . . .  Sebastian Gorka, America First radio; in re: Not implausible that the Chinese economy will collapse under the Wuhan scandal.  It’d take time to impact on the US, so President Trump is not likely to be able to blamed for it. He’s added $11 trillion to the economy; has amazingly small unemployment, very high actual employment. Trump has created the jobs economy.

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• Bernie’s the one @SebGorka

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  Feb 14 2020

  Image:  Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, advocates for a specific dictatorship, that of the proletariat. Sebastian Gorka, America First radio; in re: As the child of someone who fled the Soviet Union, it’s hard for me to understand why Americans are ready to embrace a Socialist/Communist. There’s something inherently deeply corrupt in the way the DNC selects candidates.  The company that created the app—“Shadow”—is owned by Clintonistas. Buttigieg: he’s a Rudolph Valentino heartthrob but in no way credible.  Liz Warren, Mass Senator, demands the impeachment of William Barr; this is the rhetoric of someone who understands that her candidacy is troubled.  Biden campaign is a dead man walking; and rule out Warren.  How much love can Bloomberg buy with his billions? A journalist asked, “Will we see two billionaires fighting for the presidency?”  “Who’s the other one?” responded Bloomberg. ...more

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• The impeaching of Bill Barr. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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  Feb 14 2020

  Photo: Poster for the Lincoln and Johnson ticket by Currier and Ives Currier and Ives - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppmsca.17562. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. United States Republican presidential ticket, 1864. Print shows a campaign banner for 1864 Republican presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln and running mate Andrew Johnson. A drawn curtain reveals bust portraits of the two candidates in roundels framed in oak leaves. Above the portraits is a "Temple of Liberty," within which stands a female figure holding a staff and liberty cap. Four American flags flank the temple. Perched on the temple's dome is an eagle with spread wings holding a banderole in his mouth and arrows in his talons. Rays of light ending in stars emanate from the temple. A vignette below the portraits shows a man plowing with a team of horses in front of farm buildings. The peace and prosperity to come with Lincoln's reelection, evoked by this bucolic scene, are emphasized by cornucopias on either side spilling over with fruit. 1 print on wove paper : lithograph with watercolor ; image 32.2 x 22.4 cm. Permission details See belowView more Public Domainview terms File:Republican presidential ticket 1864b.jpg Created: 31 December 1863 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe impeaching of Bill Barr. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJRhttps://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/02/13/warren_if_barr_wont_resign_house_should_start_impeachment_proceedings_against_him_and_defund_probes.html#! ...more

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• The Carceral State & What is to be done? @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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  Feb 14 2020

  Photo: King's Bench Prison in London: This engraving was published as Plate 9 of Microcosm of London (1809) (see File:Microcosm of London Plate 046 - King's Bench Prison.jpg).Date | 1809Source | see aboveAuthor | Thomas Rowlandson (1756–1827) and Augustus Charles Pugin (1762–1832) (after) John Bluck (fl. 1791–1819), Joseph Constantine Stadler (fl. 1780–1812), Thomas Sutherland (1785–1838), J. Hill, and Harraden (aquatint engravers)Permission(Reusing this file) |  | This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Carceral State & What is to be done? @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJRhttps://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-progressive-prosecutor-project/ ...more

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• Uzbekistan goes to market; hastening to IPOs in Q3. Atabek Nazirov #Uzbekistan

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  Feb 14 2020

  Image:  Host converses with Atabek Nazirov, Director of Capital Markets of Uzbekistan. Atabek Nazirov, Director, Capital Markets of Uzbekistan [Capital Markets Development Agency = the Uzbek SEC]; in re:  Uzbekistan goes to market. Planning for the state-owned enterprises to go private in the near future, starting with banks and insurance companies.  Washington has committed to help Uzbekistan develop capital markets, including the SEC and Treasury and Commerce Departments.  We’re improving our legal system in this realm.  We want to raise at least 10% of GDP, being $5 billion, in the next few years. First IPO, which we want to do yesterday, will probably be in place by Q3 of this year. ...more

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• Dems on suicide watch; Warren to impeach Barr? @ConradMBlack

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  Feb 14 2020

  Image:  Image:  Madwoman of Chaillot Conrad Black, NRO & author; in re: Liz Warren and cohort are trying to impeach AG Bill Barr.  Biden has collapsed but Sanders hasn't [gained enough purchase].  Buttigieg has no chance of winning.  Will Klobuchar become the stop-Bloomberg candidate and inherit some of Bernie’s vote; or will the Party have to choose between an overt Marxist and a fifty-billionaire?  Bernie’s come back from a coronary; doesn't disguise his convictions. Michael Bloomberg is quite able and nice, but is a convert to Democrats—and no one has ever bought votes on this scale; he’s prepared to spend $2 billion. Piketty—an imposter, a charlatan and a crackpot.  He’s on the front page of the Financial Times, of course.  Will Bloomberg come out for a wealth tax?  Liz Warren and cohort are trying to impeach AG Bill Barr: are the Democrats capable of going down that road again?  No, I don't think so. The Dems are sometimes on suicide watch, but I don’t think they’ll go that far. Mr Durham of Connecticut will present his report between now and summer.   (Sanders vs The Democrats.  America tempted by the Left?)   ...more

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• Carville: “Y’all are crazy, destroying the Party.” Victor Davis Hanson: @VDHanson

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  Feb 14 2020

  1837 cartoon shows the Democratic Party as donkey Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover, in re:  CNN’s Anderson Cooper: Mass Senator says, “We demand the resignation of the Attorney General.”  Same crew that ran the impeachment. You’d think someone in the House would notice that during the impeachment melodrama, Trump’s favorable rating went up six points. Bernie merely wants to make a statement; if he goes down in flames, doesn’t mind if the Democratic Party (which is not his) joins him.  Scares the daylights out of the actual Democrats. James Carville just said, in effect, “Y’all are crazy, you’re destroying the Party.”  Had Pelosi calmed down AOC and her group, she wouldn’t be in the pinch she’s in today. ...more

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• Pelosi outsourced to incompetents such as Nadler & Schiff . Victor Davis Hanson: @VDHanson

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  Feb 14 2020

  Image:  The GOP has a good week. Here:  Theodore Roosevelt leads his party to a landslide win in 1904 Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover, in re:  Pelosi had little choice but to go along with AOC and her crew; then Pelosi outsourced her future to incompetents such as Nadler and Schiff. Trump has had the best week of his presidency (and the Democrats one of their worst):  by Friday, the acquittal. The Democratic debate, with almost no one watching. New Hampshire; the leading Democratic contender is not a Democrat, not in favor of North American capitalism, is in weak health, has never had a job outside government, goes on and on about the charms of the Soviet Union. Fifty-fifty chance he could be the nominee.  If he has an opponent, the opponent would do well to say, “I’m a Democratic contender, not in a suicide pact.” Trump might pick up 30 per cent of the Latino vote, possibly 25 per cent of the Black vote. ...more

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• On the Road to Baku: SOCAR looks to market as it expands its energy diversity portfolio. Elshad Nassirov, Vice-president Marketing and Investments

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  Photo: First oil fields in Bibiheybət in the outskirts of BakuБериинг и Рааб - Self-scanned Old Baku. Public Domain File:Oldbaku2.jpg Created: 18 February 2009 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Baku: SOCAR looks to market as it expands its energy diversity portfolio. Elshad Nassirov, Vice-president Marketing and Investmentshttps://www.reuters.com/article/energy-azerbaijan/azerbaijans-socar-plans-ipo-of-turkish-subsidiary-in-2021-official-idUSL8N2373RR ...more

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• On the Road to Baku: Tax reform leads to small business prosperity. Mikayil Jabbarov, Minister of the Economy, Republic of Azerbaijan. Christopher Nixon Cox.

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  Photo: The Palace of the Khan of Baku, by Grigory Gagarinhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Baku: Tax reform leads to small business prosperity. Mikayil Jabbarov, Minister of the Economy, Republic of Azerbaijan. Christopher Nixon Cox.

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• The smearing of Bill Barr. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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  Feb 14 2020

  Photo: r'er Fox and Br'er Bear from Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation, by Joel Chandler Harris, p. 101. Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881.Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser - Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Permission details This image might not be in the public domain outside of the United States; this especially applies in the countries and areas that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works, such as Canada, Mainland China (not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany, Mexico, and Switzerland. The creator and year of publication are essential information and must be provided. See Wikipedia:Public domain and Wikipedia:Copyrights for more details.View more Public Domainview terms File:Brer Bear and Brer Fox, 1881.jpg Created: 31 December 1880 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe smearing of Bill Barr.  @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR...more

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• Roger Stone tells Uncle Remus scale whoppers. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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  Photo: "Old Plantation Play Song", from Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation, 1881Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser - Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Old Plantation Play Song", from Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation, by Joel Chandler Harris, p. 164a. Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881. Permission details This image might not be in the public domain outside of the United States; this especially applies in the countries and areas that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works, such as Canada, Mainland China (not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany, Mexico, and Switzerland. The creator and year of publication are essential information and must be provided. See Wikipedia:Public domain and Wikipedia:Copyrights for more details.View more Public Domainview terms File:Old Plantation Play Song, 1881.jpg Created: 31 December 1880 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowRoger Stone tells Uncle Remus scale whoppers. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR...more

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• The hunting of the Tesla Bears. @GZuckerman @WSJ

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  Feb 13 2020

  Photo: English: Ursa Minor and Ursa MajorDate | 19 November 2017, 04:04:56Source | Own workAuthor | Panda~thwiki I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:  | This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe hunting of the Tesla Bears. @GZuckerman @WSJ  https://www.wsj.com/articles/investors-bet-against-teslaand-lost-8-4-billion-in-five-weeks-11581284236?emailToken=246fc29196814943a0380463f8cf6373UA1tE5m1vwab5qh8alaMogJfInPu2BwasfPemjgB2k1XQcwQO+BaYwFQvooGpUq14ukhBFOAljmW2bp4eZXYPawnVJnEbK+f3ZzvFy3Zlyly55EwTenZoUD7IjGExdkO&reflink=article_copyURL_share ...more

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• Hotel Mars: USA manned space, as soon as May 2020. William Harwood CBS_spacenews David Livingston, SpaceShow.com

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  Photo: The Mercury Seven in front of an F-106 Delta Dart NASA - http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/mercury/mercury_ov/html/s61_01250.html The Mercury Seven astronauts with a Convair F-106B Delta Dart aircraft at Langley Air Force Base. From left to right: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton. Permission details Use of NASA logos, insignia and emblems is restricted per U.S. law 14 CFR 1221. The NASA website hosts a large number of images from the Soviet/Russian space agency, and other non-American space agencies. These are not necessarily in the public domain. Materials based on Hubble Space Telescope data may be copyrighted if they are not explicitly produced by the STScI.[1] See also {{PD-Hubble}} and {{Cc-Hubble}}. The SOHO (ESA & NASA) joint project implies that all materials created by its probe are copyrighted and require permission for commercial non-educational use. [2] Images featured on the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) web site may be copyrighted. [3] The National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) site has been known to host copyrighted content. Its photo gallery FAQ states that all of the images in the photo gallery are in the public domain "Unless otherwise noted."View more Public Domainview terms File:Mercury Seven astronauts with aircraft.jpg Created: 19 January 1961 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowHotel Mars: USA manned space, as soon as May 2020. William Harwood CBS_spacenews David Livingston, SpaceShow.com ...more

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• With few hospitals, North Korea closes Chinese border @DavidMaxwell161

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  Feb 13 2020

  Image:  Norbert Vollertsen is a German doctor and human rights activist; he practiced medicine in North Korea from 1999 to 2001 with the Cap Anamur Committee, and was lauded and given perquisites never before afforded to any non-North Korean. Then he was released from the constant care of Party handlers and discovered how the country in fact was run.. Horrified, he decided to devote the rest of his life to revealing to the world the incomprehensibly enormous villainy of the Kim regime, which he has done.  He daren’t stay more than one or two nights in the same place anywhere in the world as the regime tries constantly to find him and is determined to kill  him. David Maxwell, senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, in re: North Korea's response to the coronavirus, and the leak of the UN Panel of Experts Report: Chinese have bought $370 million of coal in violation of UN sanctions; also sold a lot of oil (there’s a cap on oil sales). Ship-to-ship transfers.  North Korea’s medical provision is dreadful.  Border with China seems to be closed out of fear of the virus.   . . .  Xi has failed to have the sanctions lifted, which is most significant.  http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20200211000094 ...more

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• The dead gecko in Chinese-owned Tongan bottled water @CleoPaskal

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  Feb 13 2020

  Image:  Gold Dust Day Gecko. Original photo taken 3 November 2006 in Holualoa, Hawai'i. Cleo Paskal, non-resident senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, currently in Tonga, in re: Preventing four ships from docking out of fear of Wuhan virus.  Dead gecko found in Chinese-run Tongan bottled water; the end of trust n Chinese products. Samoans are preventing guests from landing without a fourteen-day quarantine.  Tonga has refused entry to four cruise ships, which constitutes a massive loss of income.  Samoa had a recent tragic event with measles: ran out of vaccine, and antivaxers infected some Samoans, with the result of [half a dozen?] deaths.  Engagement between Chinese and Tongans is almost always among the elites.   The disease will eke out in the summer; in future, Tongans will accept Chinese scholarships if necessary but would prefer to go elsewhere. https://matangitonga.to/print/23432.  ...more

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• Masks, food, toilet paper, mostly sold out. @Michael_Yon

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  Feb 13 2020

  Image:   A fire-fighter wearing an N95 dust mask Michael Yon, Hong Kong reporter, in re: Trying to get two containers of masks, 34,000 boxes, and can't get them.  Masks, food, toilet paper, all seem to be sold out.  . . .  Rugby Sevens tournament, the annual social event, has been cancelled, which is major. Schools closed, parents need to be at home for child care.  People growing furious; this may explode when it’s over, as they see the government being only a proxy for Beijing, not for the benefit of the citizenry.  Thailand’s borders are open, Chinese people streaming in; dangerous. ...more

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• Mandate of Heaven 天命 withdrawn? @GordonGChang

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  Feb 13 2020

  Image:   C: Gordon Chang, in re: There are fresh doubt about Xi Jinping based on the withdrawal of the Mandate of Heaven, which depends on signs, such as a comet, or a good harvest, or victory in battle— or negative, such as stumbles win negotiations with Trump; and the Great Wall of Sand and he US Navy; and Taiwan’s electing Tsai Ing-wen; and the protests in HK; and the Xinjiang concentration camps for Uyghurs; and the ten-day hospitals built in Wuhan and Hong Kong: they have prison bars on the windows; and now Wuhan coronavirus, starting in 2019. Mandate of Heaven,  T’ian ming  天命,  gave signs that Heaven gave its mandate to the emperor. Ma Tse-tung, the 1976 earthquake, caused Chinese people to think he had lost the mandate.  Several days ago, Xi appeared with a surgical mask to visit afflicted people in Beijing, not in Wuhan.   When the young physician died, people ran to their balconies and sang, ”Do you hear the people sing?” from Les Miserables. T'ian hsia (  天下)   Mencius pointed out that "Heaven does not create people for the sake of the sovereign. Heaven made the sovereign for the sake of the people"  ...more

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• Four PLA hackers indicted in US. Brandon Weichert @WeTheBrandon

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  Feb 13 2020

  Image:  Attorney General William P. Barr Announces Indictment of Four Members of China’s Military for Hacking into Equifax. Here:  Emblem of the People's Liberation Army Brandon Weichert, editor of the Weichert Report and a national security policy analyst specializing in emerging technology, in re:  Nine-count  indictment filed in Atlanta: four members of PLA hacked into Equifax and store massive data on millions of Americans.  PLA is sworn to fealty not to a nation but specifically to the Chinese Communist Party.   Meanwhile, Boris Johnson’s govt has decided to let Huawei’s 5G network in to some extent to the UK [basic data transmission structure]. The US under this Administration has decided to prevent that. The Trump Adm is agitated over some matters related to China, which is stealing information like crazy. The president has proven that under some circumstances, he’ll pounce.  https://www.marketwatch.com/story/if-china-hacked-equifax-in-2017-some-americans-may-have-more-reason-to-be-vigilant-than-others-2020-02-12 ...more

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• 15,000-case spike in pandemic Covid19. Arthur Waldron @PennSAS, #China

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  Feb 13 2020

  Image: The 1918–1919 "Spanish flu" pandemic resulted in dramatic mortality worldwide Arthur Waldron, Lauder Professor of International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania, in re:  Chinese air travel internationally is reduced to almost nil.  Appears to be part of the Wuhan coronavirus, now Covid19, pandemic.  It seems to affect especially males, and more so those over age 55. Today is a turning point: —In a leading Chinese paper today, there briefly appeared a story about the P4 viral lab in Wuhan: Beijing's response to the epidemic.         SARS began organically, but was fuelled by three releases from the P4 lab in Wuhan. The article was removed from the Net within maybe fifteen minutes, and then permanently expunged by the government. Looks as though the regime is complicit: the govt leading them may also be infecting them. Also, looks as though the origin of the pandemic may simply be the [regime’s] Wuhan P4 lab.— Within the last six hours, a 15,000-case spike.  SCMP:  Health authorities reported on Thursday 14,840 new confirmed cases, ten times the number of a day earlier. Either we’ve just recognized the immensity of the disease, or else it’s exploded [beyond being in any way controllable].  It’s getting worse very, very, very fast. Two divergent groups within the Party: one wanting to release accurate information and the other refusing to. Only a thorough massacre of all the people responsible for this crime will restore stability. As for trust, much too late. ...more

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• The Great and Holy War: 4 of 4: How World War I Became a Religious Crusade Hardcover – April 29, 2014. by Philip Jenkins (Author)

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  Feb 13 2020

  Photo: The city after the German bombardment, 1916. Internet Archive Book Images - https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14578428098/ Source book page: https://archive.org/stream/thegreatwar04alle/thegreatwar04alle#page/n375/mode/1up World War I: Verdun after German bombardment Identifier: thegreatwar04alle (find matches) Title: The Great war Year: 1916 (1910s) Authors: Allen, George Henry, 1876- Whitehead, Henry C., 1873- Chadwick, French Ensor, 1844-1919 Sims, William Sowden, 1858-1936 McAndrew, James William, 1862-1922 Wiley, Edwin, 1872- Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 Publisher: Philadelphia : G. Barrie's Sons Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ints avail-able for the French, would be constantly exposed to bom-bardment by the hostile long range artillery. The German plan comprised an initial attack of un-precedented fury from the north and northeast against theFrench positions on the right bank of the Meuse, supple-mented by a turning movement from the east; and as soonas the first maneuver had succeeded, and the defenders ofthe east bank were retreating in disorder, choking thebridges and the war-torn streets of Verdun, a culminatingoperation on the west bank for sweeping up the wholeFrench army. Allusion has been made to the wonderful foresight withwhich the Germans, even when engaged in the mostgigantic operations, found time for the systematic prepara-tion of subsequent performances. Preparatory measuresfor the attack on Verdun, which was not launched until February 21, 1916, went back at least as far as the previousOctober, when the moral and physical training of thespecial striking force was started. The Fifteenth Corps Text Appearing After Image: A street in Verdun after tlie German bombardment. Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. Permission details At the time of upload, the image license was automatically confirmed using the Flickr API. For more information see Flickr API detail.View more No restrictionsview terms File:The Great war (1915) (14578428098).jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Great and Holy War: 4 of 4: How World War I Became a Religious Crusade Hardcover – April 29, 2014.  by Philip Jenkins  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Great-Holy-War-Religious-Crusade/dp/0062105094The Great and Holy War offers the first look at how religion created and prolonged the First World War. At the one-hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the war, historian Philip Jenkins reveals the powerful religious dimensions of this modern-day crusade, a period that marked a traumatic crisis for Western civilization, with effects that echoed throughout the rest of the twentieth century. The war was fought by the world's leading Christian nations, who presented the conflict as a holy war. Thanks to the emergence of modern media, a steady stream of patriotic and militaristic rhetoric was given to an unprecedented audience, using language that spoke of holy war and crusade, of apocalypse and Armageddon. But this rhetoric was not mere state propaganda. Jenkins reveals how the widespread belief in angels and apparitions, visions and the supernatural was a driving force throughout the war and shaped all three of the major religions—Christianity, Judaism and Islam—paving the way for modern views of religion and violence. The disappointed hopes and moral compromises that followed the war also shaped the political climate of the rest of the century, giving rise to such phenomena as Nazism, totalitarianism, and communism. Connecting numerous remarkable incidents and characters—from Karl Barth to Carl Jung, the Christmas Truce to the Armenian Genocide—Jenkins creates a powerful and persuasive narrative that brings together global politics, history, and spiritual crisis as never before and shows how religion informed and motivated circumstances on all sides of the war....more

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• The Great and Holy War: 3 of 4: How World War I Became a Religious Crusade Hardcover – April 29, 2014. by Philip Jenkins (Author)

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  Feb 13 2020

  Photo: Men of the French 87th Infantry Regiment during the Battle of Verdun, 1916.View author information Public Domain File:French 87th Regiment Cote 34 Verdun 1916.jpg Uploaded: 2006-02-27 07:24:52 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Great and Holy War: 3 of 4: How World War I Became a Religious Crusade Hardcover – April 29, 2014.  by Philip Jenkins  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Great-Holy-War-Religious-Crusade/dp/0062105094The Great and Holy War offers the first look at how religion created and prolonged the First World War. At the one-hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the war, historian Philip Jenkins reveals the powerful religious dimensions of this modern-day crusade, a period that marked a traumatic crisis for Western civilization, with effects that echoed throughout the rest of the twentieth century. The war was fought by the world's leading Christian nations, who presented the conflict as a holy war. Thanks to the emergence of modern media, a steady stream of patriotic and militaristic rhetoric was given to an unprecedented audience, using language that spoke of holy war and crusade, of apocalypse and Armageddon. But this rhetoric was not mere state propaganda. Jenkins reveals how the widespread belief in angels and apparitions, visions and the supernatural was a driving force throughout the war and shaped all three of the major religions—Christianity, Judaism and Islam—paving the way for modern views of religion and violence. The disappointed hopes and moral compromises that followed the war also shaped the political climate of the rest of the century, giving rise to such phenomena as Nazism, totalitarianism, and communism. Connecting numerous remarkable incidents and characters—from Karl Barth to Carl Jung, the Christmas Truce to the Armenian Genocide—Jenkins creates a powerful and persuasive narrative that brings together global politics, history, and spiritual crisis as never before and shows how religion informed and motivated circumstances on all sides of the war....more

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• The Great and Holy War: 2 of 4: How World War I Became a Religious Crusade Hardcover – April 29, 2014. by Philip Jenkins (Author)

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  Feb 13 2020

  Photo: Russian prisoners at the Battle of Tannenberg, where the Russian Second Army was annihilated by German forceswebsite: Ray Mentzer (atominfo@aol.com); photographer unknown - Photos of the Great War Russian prisoners and guns captured at Tannenberg Permission details website: Image use policy and Source Information here; PD in the US due to being published before 1923View more Public Domainview terms File:Russian prisoners tannenberg.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Great and Holy War: 2 of 4: How World War I Became a Religious Crusade Hardcover – April 29, 2014.  by Philip Jenkins  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Great-Holy-War-Religious-Crusade/dp/0062105094The Great and Holy War offers the first look at how religion created and prolonged the First World War. At the one-hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the war, historian Philip Jenkins reveals the powerful religious dimensions of this modern-day crusade, a period that marked a traumatic crisis for Western civilization, with effects that echoed throughout the rest of the twentieth century. The war was fought by the world's leading Christian nations, who presented the conflict as a holy war. Thanks to the emergence of modern media, a steady stream of patriotic and militaristic rhetoric was given to an unprecedented audience, using language that spoke of holy war and crusade, of apocalypse and Armageddon. But this rhetoric was not mere state propaganda. Jenkins reveals how the widespread belief in angels and apparitions, visions and the supernatural was a driving force throughout the war and shaped all three of the major religions—Christianity, Judaism and Islam—paving the way for modern views of religion and violence. The disappointed hopes and moral compromises that followed the war also shaped the political climate of the rest of the century, giving rise to such phenomena as Nazism, totalitarianism, and communism. Connecting numerous remarkable incidents and characters—from Karl Barth to Carl Jung, the Christmas Truce to the Armenian Genocide—Jenkins creates a powerful and persuasive narrative that brings together global politics, history, and spiritual crisis as never before and shows how religion informed and motivated circumstances on all sides of the war....more

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• The Great and Holy War: 1 of 4: How World War I Became a Religious Crusade Hardcover – April 29, 2014. by Philip Jenkins (Author)

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  Feb 13 2020

  Photo: Russian recruiting poster; caption reads 'World on fire; Second Patriotic War. 1900's'неизвестный художник / unknown artist - Бабурина Н. И. Русский плакат первой мировой войны. М., 1992 World War I poster from Russia. Top: World fire. Bottom: Second Patriotic War (Russian name for the Eastern Front during WWI.) Permission details This work is in the public domain in Russia according to article 1256 of Book IV of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation No. 230-FZ of December 18, 2006 (details). It was published on territory of the Russian Empire (Russian Republic) except for territories of the Grand Duchy of Finland and Congress Poland before 7 November 1917 and wasn't re-published for 30 days following initial publications on the territory of Soviet Russia or any other states. The Russian Federation (early RSFSR, Soviet Russia) is the historical heir but not legal successor of the Russian Empire. If applying, {{PD-Russia-1996}} or {{PD-Russia-expired}} should be used instead of this tag. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1925.View more Public Domainview terms File:Russian poster WWI 083.jpg Created: 31 December 1916 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Great and Holy War: 1 of 4: How World War I Became a Religious Crusade Hardcover – April 29, 2014.  by Philip Jenkins  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Great-Holy-War-Religious-Crusade/dp/0062105094The Great and Holy War offers the first look at how religion created and prolonged the First World War. At the one-hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the war, historian Philip Jenkins reveals the powerful religious dimensions of this modern-day crusade, a period that marked a traumatic crisis for Western civilization, with effects that echoed throughout the rest of the twentieth century. The war was fought by the world's leading Christian nations, who presented the conflict as a holy war. Thanks to the emergence of modern media, a steady stream of patriotic and militaristic rhetoric was given to an unprecedented audience, using language that spoke of holy war and crusade, of apocalypse and Armageddon. But this rhetoric was not mere state propaganda. Jenkins reveals how the widespread belief in angels and apparitions, visions and the supernatural was a driving force throughout the war and shaped all three of the major religions—Christianity, Judaism and Islam—paving the way for modern views of religion and violence. The disappointed hopes and moral compromises that followed the war also shaped the political climate of the rest of the century, giving rise to such phenomena as Nazism, totalitarianism, and communism. Connecting numerous remarkable incidents and characters—from Karl Barth to Carl Jung, the Christmas Truce to the Armenian Genocide—Jenkins creates a powerful and persuasive narrative that brings together global politics, history, and spiritual crisis as never before and shows how religion informed and motivated circumstances on all sides of the war....more

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• 12/12 Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency. by Andrew C. McCarthy

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  Photo: J Edgar Hoover (this time, in a suit).  Public domain.Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency,by Andrew C. McCarthy   Hardcover – August 13, 2019.  https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Collusion-Election-Destroy-Presidency/dp/1641770252/ref=zg_bs_16023061_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=YG809JWMG2RY7NC4X4EW         The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration.          The media–Democrat “collusion narrative,” which paints Donald Trump as cat’s paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted illusion.          Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced “dossier,” secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy. Though acknowledged to be “salacious and unverified” at the FBI’s highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump’s campaign.          Miraculously, Trump won anyway. But his political opponents refused to accept the voters’ decision. Their collusion narrative was now peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents, Justice Department officials, and media ideologues―the vanguard of the “Trump Resistance.” Through secret surveillance, high-level intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was led to believe that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the election.          Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head when he fired his FBI director, who had given explosive House testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite his having privately assured Trump otherwise. The resulting firestorm of partisan protest cowed the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation bedeviled the administration for two years.          Yet as months passed, concrete evidence of collusion failed to materialize. Was the collusion narrative an elaborate fraud? And if so, choreographed by whom? Against media-Democrat caterwauling, a doughty group of lawmakers forced a shift in the spotlight from Trump to his investigators and accusers. This has exposed the depth of politicization within American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is now clear that the institutions on which our nation depends for objective policing and clear-eyed analysis injected themselves scandalously into the divisive politics of the 2016 election.          They failed to forge a new Clinton administration. Will they succeed in bringing down President Trump? ...more

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• 11/12 Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency. by Andrew C. McCarthy

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  Feb 12 2020

  Image:  Redacted policy guide for the Counterterrorism Division (part of the FBI National Security Branch). Public domain.Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency,by Andrew C. McCarthy  Hardcover – August 13, 2019.  https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Collusion-Election-Destroy-Presidency/dp/1641770252/ref=zg_bs_16023061_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=YG809JWMG2RY7NC4X4EW         The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration.          The media–Democrat “collusion narrative,” which paints Donald Trump as cat’s paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted illusion.          Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced “dossier,” secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy. Though acknowledged to be “salacious and unverified” at the FBI’s highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump’s campaign.          Miraculously, Trump won anyway. But his political opponents refused to accept the voters’ decision. Their collusion narrative was now peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents, Justice Department officials, and media ideologues―the vanguard of the “Trump Resistance.” Through secret surveillance, high-level intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was led to believe that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the election.          Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head when he fired his FBI director, who had given explosive House testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite his having privately assured Trump otherwise. The resulting firestorm of partisan protest cowed the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation bedeviled the administration for two years.          Yet as months passed, concrete evidence of collusion failed to materialize. Was the collusion narrative an elaborate fraud? And if so, choreographed by whom? Against media-Democrat caterwauling, a doughty group of lawmakers forced a shift in the spotlight from Trump to his investigators and accusers. This has exposed the depth of politicization within American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is now clear that the institutions on which our nation depends for objective policing and clear-eyed analysis injected themselves scandalously into the divisive politics of the 2016 election.          They failed to forge a new Clinton administration. Will they succeed in bringing down President Trump? ...more

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• 10/12 Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency. by Andrew C. McCarthy

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  mage:   Ex-FBI Director James Comey’s memo.   This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties.Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency,by Andrew C. McCarthy   Hardcover – August 13, 2019.  https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Collusion-Election-Destroy-Presidency/dp/1641770252/ref=zg_bs_16023061_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=YG809JWMG2RY7NC4X4EW         The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration.          The media–Democrat “collusion narrative,” which paints Donald Trump as cat’s paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted illusion.          Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced “dossier,” secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy. Though acknowledged to be “salacious and unverified” at the FBI’s highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump’s campaign.          Miraculously, Trump won anyway. But his political opponents refused to accept the voters’ decision. Their collusion narrative was now peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents, Justice Department officials, and media ideologues―the vanguard of the “Trump Resistance.” Through secret surveillance, high-level intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was led to believe that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the election.          Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head when he fired his FBI director, who had given explosive House testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite his having privately assured Trump otherwise. The resulting firestorm of partisan protest cowed the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation bedeviled the administration for two years.          Yet as months passed, concrete evidence of collusion failed to materialize. Was the collusion narrative an elaborate fraud? And if so, choreographed by whom? Against media-Democrat caterwauling, a doughty group of lawmakers forced a shift in the spotlight from Trump to his investigators and accusers. This has exposed the depth of politicization within American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is now clear that the institutions on which our nation depends for objective policing and clear-eyed analysis injected themselves scandalously into the divisive politics of the 2016 election.          They failed to forge a new Clinton administration. Will they succeed in bringing down President Trump? ...more

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• 9/12 Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency. by Andrew C. McCarthy

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  Image:  The modern coat of arms of Moscow (adopted 1993) shows Saint George and the Dragon, based on a heraldic tradition originating in the 11th century with Yaroslav I of Kiev and adopted by the rulers of Vladimir-Suzdal in the 12th century (Alexander Nevsky) and eventually by Muscovy in the 14th century (Dmitry Donskoy). Public domain.Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency,by Andrew C. McCarthy   Hardcover – August 13, 2019.  https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Collusion-Election-Destroy-Presidency/dp/1641770252/ref=zg_bs_16023061_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=YG809JWMG2RY7NC4X4EW         The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration.          The media–Democrat “collusion narrative,” which paints Donald Trump as cat’s paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted illusion.          Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced “dossier,” secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy. Though acknowledged to be “salacious and unverified” at the FBI’s highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump’s campaign.          Miraculously, Trump won anyway. But his political opponents refused to accept the voters’ decision. Their collusion narrative was now peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents, Justice Department officials, and media ideologues―the vanguard of the “Trump Resistance.” Through secret surveillance, high-level intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was led to believe that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the election.          Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head when he fired his FBI director, who had given explosive House testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite his having privately assured Trump otherwise. The resulting firestorm of partisan protest cowed the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation bedeviled the administration for two years.          Yet as months passed, concrete evidence of collusion failed to materialize. Was the collusion narrative an elaborate fraud? And if so, choreographed by whom? Against media-Democrat caterwauling, a doughty group of lawmakers forced a shift in the spotlight from Trump to his investigators and accusers. This has exposed the depth of politicization within American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is now clear that the institutions on which our nation depends for objective policing and clear-eyed analysis injected themselves scandalously into the divisive politics of the 2016 election.          They failed to forge a new Clinton administration. Will they succeed in bringing down President Trump? ...more

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• 8/12 Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency. by Andrew C. McCarthy

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  Image: This is a logo for Secret Intelligence Service, MI6.Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency,by Andrew C. McCarthy  Hardcover – August 13, 2019.  https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Collusion-Election-Destroy-Presidency/dp/1641770252/ref=zg_bs_16023061_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=YG809JWMG2RY7NC4X4EW         The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration.          The media–Democrat “collusion narrative,” which paints Donald Trump as cat’s paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted illusion.          Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced “dossier,” secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy. Though acknowledged to be “salacious and unverified” at the FBI’s highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump’s campaign.          Miraculously, Trump won anyway. But his political opponents refused to accept the voters’ decision. Their collusion narrative was now peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents, Justice Department officials, and media ideologues―the vanguard of the “Trump Resistance.” Through secret surveillance, high-level intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was led to believe that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the election.          Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head when he fired his FBI director, who had given explosive House testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite his having privately assured Trump otherwise. The resulting firestorm of partisan protest cowed the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation bedeviled the administration for two years.          Yet as months passed, concrete evidence of collusion failed to materialize. Was the collusion narrative an elaborate fraud? And if so, choreographed by whom? Against media-Democrat caterwauling, a doughty group of lawmakers forced a shift in the spotlight from Trump to his investigators and accusers. This has exposed the depth of politicization within American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is now clear that the institutions on which our nation depends for objective policing and clear-eyed analysis injected themselves scandalously into the divisive politics of the 2016 election.          They failed to forge a new Clinton administration. Will they succeed in bringing down President Trump? ...more

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• 7/12 Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency. by Andrew C. McCarthy

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  Image:  The Houses of Parliament from old Westminster Bridge in the early 1890s. Public domainBall of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency,by Andrew C. McCarthy   Hardcover – August 13, 2019.  https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Collusion-Election-Destroy-Presidency/dp/1641770252/ref=zg_bs_16023061_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=YG809JWMG2RY7NC4X4EW         The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration.          The media–Democrat “collusion narrative,” which paints Donald Trump as cat’s paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted illusion.          Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced “dossier,” secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy. Though acknowledged to be “salacious and unverified” at the FBI’s highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump’s campaign.          Miraculously, Trump won anyway. But his political opponents refused to accept the voters’ decision. Their collusion narrative was now peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents, Justice Department officials, and media ideologues―the vanguard of the “Trump Resistance.” Through secret surveillance, high-level intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was led to believe that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the election.          Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head when he fired his FBI director, who had given explosive House testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite his having privately assured Trump otherwise. The resulting firestorm of partisan protest cowed the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation bedeviled the administration for two years.          Yet as months passed, concrete evidence of collusion failed to materialize. Was the collusion narrative an elaborate fraud? And if so, choreographed by whom? Against media-Democrat caterwauling, a doughty group of lawmakers forced a shift in the spotlight from Trump to his investigators and accusers. This has exposed the depth of politicization within American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is now clear that the institutions on which our nation depends for objective policing and clear-eyed analysis injected themselves scandalously into the divisive politics of the 2016 election.          They failed to forge a new Clinton administration. Will they succeed in bringing down President Trump? ...more

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• 6/12 Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency. by Andrew C. McCarthy

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  Image: Rep Devin Nunes, Ranking Member of the House Intelligence Committee; 2015 to 2019: Chair of the House Intelligence Committee. In February 2018, Nunes publicly released the Nunes memo, a four-page memorandum alleging a Federal Bureau of Investigation conspiracy against Donald Trump. Public domain.Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency,by Andrew C. McCarthy   Hardcover – August 13, 2019.  https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Collusion-Election-Destroy-Presidency/dp/1641770252/ref=zg_bs_16023061_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=YG809JWMG2RY7NC4X4EW         The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration.          The media–Democrat “collusion narrative,” which paints Donald Trump as cat’s paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted illusion.          Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced “dossier,” secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy. Though acknowledged to be “salacious and unverified” at the FBI’s highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump’s campaign.          Miraculously, Trump won anyway. But his political opponents refused to accept the voters’ decision. Their collusion narrative was now peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents, Justice Department officials, and media ideologues―the vanguard of the “Trump Resistance.” Through secret surveillance, high-level intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was led to believe that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the election.          Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head when he fired his FBI director, who had given explosive House testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite his having privately assured Trump otherwise. The resulting firestorm of partisan protest cowed the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation bedeviled the administration for two years.          Yet as months passed, concrete evidence of collusion failed to materialize. Was the collusion narrative an elaborate fraud? And if so, choreographed by whom? Against media-Democrat caterwauling, a doughty group of lawmakers forced a shift in the spotlight from Trump to his investigators and accusers. This has exposed the depth of politicization within American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is now clear that the institutions on which our nation depends for objective policing and clear-eyed analysis injected themselves scandalously into the divisive politics of the 2016 election.          They failed to forge a new Clinton administration. Will they succeed in bringing down President Trump? ...more

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• 5/12 Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency. by Andrew C. McCarthy

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  Feb 12 2020

  Image:  Flag of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), which contains the Department's seal, as follows: "the . . . flag shall consist of a rectangular base background of ultramarine blue, bearing an eagle on a shield, a scroll and the inscription 'Department of Justice.' The eagle faces to the left, with its left claw holding 13 arrows with the tips facing down. Its right claw holds an olive branch. The shield consists of a white base, a blue chief and six scarlet stripes. The scroll shall read in bold blue letters, 'QUI PRO DOMINA JUSTITIA SEQUITUR'”Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency,by Andrew C. McCarthy   Hardcover – August 13, 2019.  https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Collusion-Election-Destroy-Presidency/dp/1641770252/ref=zg_bs_16023061_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=YG809JWMG2RY7NC4X4EW         The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration.          The media–Democrat “collusion narrative,” which paints Donald Trump as cat’s paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted illusion.          Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced “dossier,” secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy. Though acknowledged to be “salacious and unverified” at the FBI’s highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump’s campaign.          Miraculously, Trump won anyway. But his political opponents refused to accept the voters’ decision. Their collusion narrative was now peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents, Justice Department officials, and media ideologues―the vanguard of the “Trump Resistance.” Through secret surveillance, high-level intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was led to believe that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the election.          Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head when he fired his FBI director, who had given explosive House testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite his having privately assured Trump otherwise. The resulting firestorm of partisan protest cowed the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation bedeviled the administration for two years.          Yet as months passed, concrete evidence of collusion failed to materialize. Was the collusion narrative an elaborate fraud? And if so, choreographed by whom? Against media-Democrat caterwauling, a doughty group of lawmakers forced a shift in the spotlight from Trump to his investigators and accusers. This has exposed the depth of politicization within American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is now clear that the institutions on which our nation depends for objective policing and clear-eyed analysis injected themselves scandalously into the divisive politics of the 2016 election.          They failed to forge a new Clinton administration. Will they succeed in bringing down President Trump? ...more

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• 4/12 Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency. by Andrew C. McCarthy

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  Image:  The White House as it looked following the fire of August 24, 1814. Public domain.Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency,by Andrew C. McCarthy  Hardcover – August 13, 2019.  https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Collusion-Election-Destroy-Presidency/dp/1641770252/ref=zg_bs_16023061_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=YG809JWMG2RY7NC4X4EW         The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration.          The media–Democrat “collusion narrative,” which paints Donald Trump as cat’s paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted illusion.          Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced “dossier,” secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy. Though acknowledged to be “salacious and unverified” at the FBI’s highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump’s campaign.          Miraculously, Trump won anyway. But his political opponents refused to accept the voters’ decision. Their collusion narrative was now peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents, Justice Department officials, and media ideologues―the vanguard of the “Trump Resistance.” Through secret surveillance, high-level intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was led to believe that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the election.          Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head when he fired his FBI director, who had given explosive House testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite his having privately assured Trump otherwise. The resulting firestorm of partisan protest cowed the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation bedeviled the administration for two years.          Yet as months passed, concrete evidence of collusion failed to materialize. Was the collusion narrative an elaborate fraud? And if so, choreographed by whom? Against media-Democrat caterwauling, a doughty group of lawmakers forced a shift in the spotlight from Trump to his investigators and accusers. This has exposed the depth of politicization within American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is now clear that the institutions on which our nation depends for objective policing and clear-eyed analysis injected themselves scandalously into the divisive politics of the 2016 election.          They failed to forge a new Clinton administration. Will they succeed in bringing down President Trump? ...more

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• 3/12 Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency. by Andrew C. McCarthy

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  Feb 12 2020

  Image:  Red Square in Moscow, 1801Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency,by Andrew C. McCarthy   Hardcover – August 13, 2019.  https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Collusion-Election-Destroy-Presidency/dp/1641770252/ref=zg_bs_16023061_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=YG809JWMG2RY7NC4X4EW         The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration.          The media–Democrat “collusion narrative,” which paints Donald Trump as cat’s paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted illusion.          Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced “dossier,” secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy. Though acknowledged to be “salacious and unverified” at the FBI’s highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump’s campaign.          Miraculously, Trump won anyway. But his political opponents refused to accept the voters’ decision. Their collusion narrative was now peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents, Justice Department officials, and media ideologues―the vanguard of the “Trump Resistance.” Through secret surveillance, high-level intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was led to believe that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the election.          Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head when he fired his FBI director, who had given explosive House testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite his having privately assured Trump otherwise. The resulting firestorm of partisan protest cowed the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation bedeviled the administration for two years.          Yet as months passed, concrete evidence of collusion failed to materialize. Was the collusion narrative an elaborate fraud? And if so, choreographed by whom? Against media-Democrat caterwauling, a doughty group of lawmakers forced a shift in the spotlight from Trump to his investigators and accusers. This has exposed the depth of politicization within American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is now clear that the institutions on which our nation depends for objective policing and clear-eyed analysis injected themselves scandalously into the divisive politics of the 2016 election.          They failed to forge a new Clinton administration. Will they succeed in bringing down President Trump? ...more

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• 2/12 Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency. by Andrew C. McCarthy

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  Image:  The badge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).  Public domain.Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency,by Andrew C. McCarthy   Hardcover – August 13, 2019.  https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Collusion-Election-Destroy-Presidency/dp/1641770252/ref=zg_bs_16023061_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=YG809JWMG2RY7NC4X4EW         The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration.          The media–Democrat “collusion narrative,” which paints Donald Trump as cat’s paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted illusion.          Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced “dossier,” secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy. Though acknowledged to be “salacious and unverified” at the FBI’s highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump’s campaign.          Miraculously, Trump won anyway. But his political opponents refused to accept the voters’ decision. Their collusion narrative was now peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents, Justice Department officials, and media ideologues―the vanguard of the “Trump Resistance.” Through secret surveillance, high-level intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was led to believe that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the election.          Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head when he fired his FBI director, who had given explosive House testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite his having privately assured Trump otherwise. The resulting firestorm of partisan protest cowed the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation bedeviled the administration for two years.          Yet as months passed, concrete evidence of collusion failed to materialize. Was the collusion narrative an elaborate fraud? And if so, choreographed by whom? Against media-Democrat caterwauling, a doughty group of lawmakers forced a shift in the spotlight from Trump to his investigators and accusers. This has exposed the depth of politicization within American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is now clear that the institutions on which our nation depends for objective policing and clear-eyed analysis injected themselves scandalously into the divisive politics of the 2016 election.          They failed to forge a new Clinton administration. Will they succeed in bringing down President Trump? ...more

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• 1/12 Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency. by Andrew C. McCarthy

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  Image: Donald J Trump is sworn in as president by Chief Justice John Roberts on January 20, 2017.  Public domain (White House photographer - Official White House Facebook page).Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency,by Andrew C. McCarthy   Hardcover – August 13, 2019.  https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Collusion-Election-Destroy-Presidency/dp/1641770252/ref=zg_bs_16023061_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=YG809JWMG2RY7NC4X4EW         The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration.          The media–Democrat “collusion narrative,” which paints Donald Trump as cat’s paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted illusion.          Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced “dossier,” secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy. Though acknowledged to be “salacious and unverified” at the FBI’s highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump’s campaign.          Miraculously, Trump won anyway. But his political opponents refused to accept the voters’ decision. Their collusion narrative was now peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents, Justice Department officials, and media ideologues―the vanguard of the “Trump Resistance.” Through secret surveillance, high-level intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was led to believe that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the election.          Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head when he fired his FBI director, who had given explosive House testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite his having privately assured Trump otherwise. The resulting firestorm of partisan protest cowed the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation bedeviled the administration for two years.          Yet as months passed, concrete evidence of collusion failed to materialize. Was the collusion narrative an elaborate fraud? And if so, choreographed by whom? Against media-Democrat caterwauling, a doughty group of lawmakers forced a shift in the spotlight from Trump to his investigators and accusers. This has exposed the depth of politicization within American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is now clear that the institutions on which our nation depends for objective policing and clear-eyed analysis injected themselves scandalously into the divisive politics of the 2016 election.          They failed to forge a new Clinton administration. Will they succeed in bringing down President Trump?   ...more

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• 'Mr. President': 4 of 4: George Washington and the Making of the Nation's Highest Office Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Harlow Giles Unger (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher)

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  Image:  A View of Mount Vernon with Washington Family on the Terrace Artist: Latrobe 1796http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow 'Mr. President': 4 of 4:  George Washington and the Making of the Nation's Highest Office  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged  Harlow Giles Unger (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Mr-President-Washington-Nations-Highest/dp/B00FX6DXI2/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Although the framers gave the president little authority, Washington knew whatever he did would set precedents for generations of his successors. To ensure their ability to defend the nation, he simply ignored the Constitution when he thought it necessary and reshaped the presidency into what James Madison called a "monarchical presidency." Modern scholars call it the "imperial presidency."  A revealing new look at the birth of American government, "Mr.President" describes George Washington's assumption of office in a time of continual crisis, as riots, rebellion, internecine warfare, and attacks by foreign enemies threatened to destroy the new nation. Drawing on rare documents and letters, Unger shows how Washington combined political cunning, daring, and sheer genius to seize ever-widening powers to solve each crisis.  In a series of brilliant but unconstitutional maneuvers, Washington forced Congress to cede control of the four pillars of executive power: war, finance, foreign affairs, and law enforcement. Then, in the absence of Congress, he sent troops to fight Indian wars, crush tax revolts, and put down threats of secession by three states.  Constantly weighing preservation of the Union against preservation of individual liberties and states' rights, Washington assumedmore power with each crisis. Often only a breath away from reestablishing the tyranny he pledged to destroy in the Revolutionary War, he imposed law andorder across the land while ensuring individual freedom and self-government....more

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• 'Mr. President': 3 of 4: George Washington and the Making of the Nation's Highest Office Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Harlow Giles Unger (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher)

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  Feb 12 2020

  Image:  Battle of Long Island Alonzo Chappel (1858)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow 'Mr. President': 3 of 4:  George Washington and the Making of the Nation's Highest Office  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged  Harlow Giles Unger (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Mr-President-Washington-Nations-Highest/dp/B00FX6DXI2/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Although the framers gave the president little authority, Washington knew whatever he did would set precedents for generations of his successors. To ensure their ability to defend the nation, he simply ignored the Constitution when he thought it necessary and reshaped the presidency into what James Madison called a "monarchical presidency." Modern scholars call it the "imperial presidency."  A revealing new look at the birth of American government, "Mr.President" describes George Washington's assumption of office in a time of continual crisis, as riots, rebellion, internecine warfare, and attacks by foreign enemies threatened to destroy the new nation. Drawing on rare documents and letters, Unger shows how Washington combined political cunning, daring, and sheer genius to seize ever-widening powers to solve each crisis.  In a series of brilliant but unconstitutional maneuvers, Washington forced Congress to cede control of the four pillars of executive power: war, finance, foreign affairs, and law enforcement. Then, in the absence of Congress, he sent troops to fight Indian wars, crush tax revolts, and put down threats of secession by three states.  Constantly weighing preservation of the Union against preservation of individual liberties and states' rights, Washington assumedmore power with each crisis. Often only a breath away from reestablishing the tyranny he pledged to destroy in the Revolutionary War, he imposed law andorder across the land while ensuring individual freedom and self-government....more

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• 'Mr. President': 2 of 4: George Washington and the Making of the Nation's Highest Office Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Harlow Giles Unger (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher)

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  Image:  Colonel George Washington, by Charles Willson Peale, 1772http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow 'Mr. President': 2 of 4:  George Washington and the Making of the Nation's Highest Office  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged  Harlow Giles Unger (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Mr-President-Washington-Nations-Highest/dp/B00FX6DXI2/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Although the framers gave the president little authority, Washington knew whatever he did would set precedents for generations of his successors. To ensure their ability to defend the nation, he simply ignored the Constitution when he thought it necessary and reshaped the presidency into what James Madison called a "monarchical presidency." Modern scholars call it the "imperial presidency."  A revealing new look at the birth of American government, "Mr.President" describes George Washington's assumption of office in a time of continual crisis, as riots, rebellion, internecine warfare, and attacks by foreign enemies threatened to destroy the new nation. Drawing on rare documents and letters, Unger shows how Washington combined political cunning, daring, and sheer genius to seize ever-widening powers to solve each crisis.  In a series of brilliant but unconstitutional maneuvers, Washington forced Congress to cede control of the four pillars of executive power: war, finance, foreign affairs, and law enforcement. Then, in the absence of Congress, he sent troops to fight Indian wars, crush tax revolts, and put down threats of secession by three states.  Constantly weighing preservation of the Union against preservation of individual liberties and states' rights, Washington assumedmore power with each crisis. Often only a breath away from reestablishing the tyranny he pledged to destroy in the Revolutionary War, he imposed law andorder across the land while ensuring individual freedom and self-government....more

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• 'Mr. President': 1 of 4: George Washington and the Making of the Nation's Highest Office Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Harlow Giles Unger (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher)

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  Image:  Washington the Soldier Lieutenant Colonel Washington on horseback during the Battle of the Monongahela (oil, Reǵnier, 1834http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow 'Mr. President': 1 of 4:  George Washington and the Making of the Nation's Highest Office  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged  Harlow Giles Unger (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Mr-President-Washington-Nations-Highest/dp/B00FX6DXI2/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Although the framers gave the president little authority, Washington knew whatever he did would set precedents for generations of his successors. To ensure their ability to defend the nation, he simply ignored the Constitution when he thought it necessary and reshaped the presidency into what James Madison called a "monarchical presidency." Modern scholars call it the "imperial presidency."  A revealing new look at the birth of American government, "Mr.President" describes George Washington's assumption of office in a time of continual crisis, as riots, rebellion, internecine warfare, and attacks by foreign enemies threatened to destroy the new nation. Drawing on rare documents and letters, Unger shows how Washington combined political cunning, daring, and sheer genius to seize ever-widening powers to solve each crisis.  In a series of brilliant but unconstitutional maneuvers, Washington forced Congress to cede control of the four pillars of executive power: war, finance, foreign affairs, and law enforcement. Then, in the absence of Congress, he sent troops to fight Indian wars, crush tax revolts, and put down threats of secession by three states.  Constantly weighing preservation of the Union against preservation of individual liberties and states' rights, Washington assumedmore power with each crisis. Often only a breath away from reestablishing the tyranny he pledged to destroy in the Revolutionary War, he imposed law andorder across the land while ensuring individual freedom and self-government....more

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• On the Road to Baku: The unsolved crime of the invaded occupied lands of Nagorno-Karabakh. @HikmetHajiyev Christopher Nixon Cox.

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  Postcard: Palace of the former ruler (khan) of Shusha. Taken from a postcard from the late 19th–early 20th centuryhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Baku: The unsolved crime of the invaded occupied lands of Nagorno-Karabakh.  @HikmetHajiyev Christopher Nixon Cox.

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• On the Road to Baku: The newly elected MP from Khankendi District in the occupied and ransacked Nagorno-Karabakh: 1 of 2. Tural Ganjaliyev

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  Photo: Digital rendering of the satellite view of the Caspian Sea. This globe rendering has been made using Globe Master game from Google Play Store. For the globe texture, Whole world - land and oceans composite image was used, created by NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (public domain).Date | 24 November 2015Source | https://globalquiz.org/en/quiz-image/caspian-sea-from-space/Author | Przemek Pietrak This image has been originally created as an illustration to Russia Quiz on globalquiz.org and shared under the CC-BY 3.0 license. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Baku: The newly elected MP from Khankendi District in the occupied and ransacked Nagorno-Karabakh: 1 of 2. Tural Ganjaliyev. Christopher Nixon Cox....more

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• On the Road to Baku: Maintaining good neighborliness in a rough neighborhood. @HikmetHajiyev Christopher Nixon Cox.

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  Photo: The snow-covered Lesser Caucasus seen south of the Greater Caucasus. Around the year 1800 the Karabagh Khanate was based in the southeast corner of the Lesser Caucasus. It extended east into the lowlands, hence the name Nagorno- or "Highland-" Karabagh for the western part.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Baku: Maintaining good neighborliness in a rough neighborhood. @HikmetHajiyev Christopher Nixon Cox.

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• On the Road to Baku. Baku Grand Prix: angst on Turn 10. Arif Rahimov, Baku_GP (@baku_gp)

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  Image:    Panorama of Baku by Engelbert Kaempfer. 1683 Arif Rahimov of FormulaOne Azerbaijani Grand Prix in June 2020, in re: Tightest turn in all of formula one, at speed; Turn 10, the worst, is less than eight meters at 70mph.  Straightaways were at 370 km/hr. Co-hosts: Christopher Nixon Cox; and Thaddeus McCotter, American Greatness

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• On the Road to Baku. “Not a medical emergency,” although unreliable CCP data @henryimiller

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  Image: A chalet in Mont Blanc became the source of all Wuhan virus cases in the UK.  Here, Mont Blanc in Switzerland Henry Miller, Pacific Research Institute, in re: UK cases all stem from a single person who was in Singapore, then went to an Alpine ski chalet at Mont Blanc and infected Britons. No new evidence to pin down the incubation period, 3 to 24 days. Mortality rate is around 2-2.5%, significantly lower than that in people hospitalized with flu. No reports from Africa—because it’s going undetected?  Penetration  in population in Hubei province is much larger than we know – not enough diagnostic kits, for one thing.  If a lot of people have been infected sub-clinically, they’ll have antibodies, and the virus will have a harder time [getting people ill].  Is this a medical emergency or a public health failure?  It’s the former in China; in fact, a damaged economy is a health risk. Not a medical emergency elsewhere. Co-hosts: Christopher Nixon Cox; and Thaddeus McCotter, American Greatness ...more

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• On the Road to Baku. Bloomberg? Once a Republican, now a billionaire @johnfund @DavidMDrucker

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  Image:  The number of billionaires who, with assets combined, would own as much money as half the world population, and what transport they would fit on, between years 2010 and 2016 B:  John Fund, NRO, & David M Drucker, Washington Examiner, in re: The richest person ever to run for sovereign leader of a democracy, Michael Bloomberg.  How will he translate to Detroit?  Not much to the blue-collar population, as he’s anti-gun and  . . . He was once a Republican and now is a billionaire; neither helps here.  However, compared to Bernie Sanders, he doesn't look so bad.  Doug Schoen says the political picture has changed so much, why not Bloomberg? He’s attracting small-business owners. We’ll see if it’s possible simply to buy an election. Every downticket Dem running knows that this is the election that’ll draw line for the next decade.  Co-hosts: Christopher Nixon Cox; and Thaddeus McCotter, American Greatness ...more

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• On the Road to Baku. Analysis of the Klobosurge @johnfund @DavidMDrucker

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  Image:  Dxville Notch, site of New Hampshire's first vote at 12:01 AM Tuesday. David M Drucker, Washington Examiner, & John Fund, NRO, in re: New Hampshire. Coronavirus and economic risk to November. Amy Klobuchar (“call me Amy”), a Klobosurge– is it real? Pete Buttigieg, who claims to be the centrist candidate of the leftists.  Biden will come in fourth or fifth; will Warren come in well, or fourth or fifth?  Dixville Notch. . . .  “Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?”  Co-hosts: Christopher Nixon Cox; and Thaddeus McCotter, American Greatness ...more

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• On the Road to Baku. Hong Kong expels reporters @Michael_Yon @GordonGChang

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  Image:  People's Daily on 1 October 1949, the day of the establishment of China, People’s Republic Michael Yon, veteran war correspondent who’s been covering the Hong Kong protests, in re, in re:  Targetting journos in HK, demanding all data, especially videos and photo. On Saturday, 61 people, including reporters, were arrested. I’ve had to advise all HK journos to encrypt all their data with a strong password. With the Wuhan virus, it's an economic meltdown in China, an existential threat. Michael was turned away from Hong Kong and it wasn't a result of his assertiveness; rather, its become clear that pretty much all reporters hate the CCP, and those turned away have included the meek. Concern that having no reporter in town would allow the CCP to crack down heavily, parallel to T`ien An Men. Co-hosts: Christopher Nixon Cox, Thaddeus McCotter, American Greatness. ...more

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• On the Road to Baku. China under the pandemic: “Substantial diminution in production and consumption” @GordonGChang

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  Image: Hubei province, next to Anhui, whence the earliest Chinese language. Jingzhou City has been a transportation hub and commodity distribution center for 6,000 years. Situated in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, this has been a strategic location of military importance since ancient times. Here:  Guan Yu, from that region, captures Pang De, as depicted in a Ming dynasty painting by Shang Xi, c. 1430 SPONSORED BY SCALA.COM Gordon Chang, Daily Beast, in re: Coronavirus.  Economy.  SCMP, owned by TenCent/AliBaba/the CCP.   Hubei province medical authorities have been dismissed. China integrated with the global supply chain.  Meetings suddenly cancelled in Asia, in Europe.  Many of the cases in Europe came from one meeting of executives in Singapore.  For China, it will be a two-quarter phenomenon, as the virus'll die off in summer.  Foxconn, which assembles iPhones, has permission to continue production, but . . .  This will disrupt Walmart for a while.  We’ll know the extent of paralysis in the Chinese market in several days; we know there’ll be substantial diminution in production and consumption. Coming: regime meetings usually in the first week of March in Beijing. The fragility of and danger to supply chains coming from China. Also, China has started to use its position as factory floor to the world to gain geopolitical powers.  Companies will have to diversify their supply chains —faster than intended. AP estimates that coronavirus; GDP in China, according to the regime, has gone from  5.7 to 5 – and those numbers are twice to three times what’s accurate.  “My view is that the economy is contracting; oil consumption is down 20% year on year.” It probably grew abt 2% last year, and [in view of the exigencies] has to be contracting this year; and continuous delivery of prosperity is what’s kept the CCP in power.  Desperation.  Note: lower gas prices constitute an automatic tax cut. Co-hosts: Christopher Nixon Cox; Thaddeus McCotter, American Greatness. ...more

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• On the Road to Baku. Americans killed in Nangarhar, Afghanistan @thomasjoscelyn

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  Image: Tom Joscelyn, Long War Journal and FDD;; in re: Across the Caspian is Afghanistan, where anther green-on-blue killing took place, in Nangahar Province:  “Two U.S. soldiers were killed and six wounded in a so-called insider attack in eastern Afghanistan's Nangarhar province late Saturday when an Afghan dressed in an Afghan army uniform opened fire, the U.S. military said.”  Teeming with jihadist groups; al Q is deeply embedded there.  Co-host: Christopher Nixon Cox

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• On the Road to Baku. The Gobustan petroglyphs. Al Qaeda nabob targeted and killed. @thomasjoscelyn

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  Image:  The Gobustan petroglyphs, with John Batchelor. Tom Joscelyn, Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies; & Senior Editor for FDD's Long War Journal  in re: Snow this morning in Baku; that is, in parts of Baku and not in others. John Batchelor and Chris Cox visited the the Gobustan petroglyphs, limestone caves next to the Caspian that have been occupied for 20,000 years—with rock carvings, including pictures of animals from 15,000 years ago: similar to oxen, goats, and perhaps cheetahs.       LongWarJournal.com:  The White House has confirmed that AQAP's leader, Qasim al-Rimi, was killed in a counterterrorism operation. Rimi served as a "deputy" to Ayman al-Zawahiri, meaning that he was likely part of al Qaeda's global management team.   CNC: Trump Adm is doing a very effective job in taking out terrorists. TJ: There ‘s a whole intell program to do this; DoD carries it through as pols come and go. Co-host: Christopher Nixon Cox ...more

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• Such Troops as These: 4 of 4: The Genius and Leadership of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson Hardcover – September 2, 2014 by Bevin Alexander (Author)

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  Photo: Ruins of Judith Henry's house, "Spring Hill", after the battleUnknown - The Photographic History of The Civil War in Ten Volumes: Volume Five, Forts and Artillery. The Review of Reviews Co., New York. 1911. p. 19.  The ruins of the Henry House after the First Battle of Bull Run on July 21, 1861 Public Domain File:HenryHouseBullRun1861.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Such Troops as These: 4 of 4: The Genius and Leadership of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson Hardcover – September 2, 2014 by Bevin Alexander  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Such-Troops-These-Leadership-Confederate/dp/0425271293/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=The Civil War of 1861–65 pitted the industrial North against the agricultural South, and remains the most catastrophic conflict in terms of loss of life in American history. With triple the population and eleven times the industry, the Union had a decided advantage over the Confederacy in terms of direct conflict and conventional warfare. One general had the vision of an alternative approach that could win the War for the South—his name was Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson.It was Jackson’s strategy to always strike at the Union’s vulnerabilities, not to challenge its power directly. He won a campaign against the North with a force only a quarter of the size of the Union army, and he was the first commander to recognize the overwhelming defensive power of the new rifles and cannons. With most of its military forces on the offensive in the South, the North was left virtually undefended on its own turf. Jackson believed invading the eastern states along the great industrial corridor from Baltimore to Maine could divide and cripple the Union, forcing surrender. But he failed to convince Confederate president Jefferson Davis or General Robert E. Lee of the viability of his plan.In Such Troops as These, Bevin Alexander presents a compelling case for Stonewall Jackson as a supreme military strategist and the greatest general in American history. Fiercely dedicated to the cause of Southern independence, Jackson would not live to see the end of the War. But his military legacy lives on and finds fitting tribute in this book....more

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• Such Troops as These: 3 of 4: The Genius and Leadership of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson Hardcover – September 2, 2014 by Bevin Alexander (Author)

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  Photo: U.S. cavalry at Sudley Spring Ford Barnard, George N., 1819-1902, photographer - https://www.loc.gov/resource/cwp.4a39448/ Photo of Federal Cavalry at Sudley Springs after the First Battle of Bull Run. Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html Public Domain File:Federal cavalry Sudley Springs.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Such Troops as These: 3 of 4: The Genius and Leadership of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson Hardcover – September 2, 2014 by Bevin Alexander  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Such-Troops-These-Leadership-Confederate/dp/0425271293/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=The Civil War of 1861–65 pitted the industrial North against the agricultural South, and remains the most catastrophic conflict in terms of loss of life in American history. With triple the population and eleven times the industry, the Union had a decided advantage over the Confederacy in terms of direct conflict and conventional warfare. One general had the vision of an alternative approach that could win the War for the South—his name was Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson.It was Jackson’s strategy to always strike at the Union’s vulnerabilities, not to challenge its power directly. He won a campaign against the North with a force only a quarter of the size of the Union army, and he was the first commander to recognize the overwhelming defensive power of the new rifles and cannons. With most of its military forces on the offensive in the South, the North was left virtually undefended on its own turf. Jackson believed invading the eastern states along the great industrial corridor from Baltimore to Maine could divide and cripple the Union, forcing surrender. But he failed to convince Confederate president Jefferson Davis or General Robert E. Lee of the viability of his plan.In Such Troops as These, Bevin Alexander presents a compelling case for Stonewall Jackson as a supreme military strategist and the greatest general in American history. Fiercely dedicated to the cause of Southern independence, Jackson would not live to see the end of the War. But his military legacy lives on and finds fitting tribute in this book....more

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• Such Troops as These: 2 of 4: The Genius and Leadership of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson Hardcover – September 2, 2014 by Bevin Alexander (Author)

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  Photo: Situation morning, July 21Map by Hal Jespersen, www.CWmaps.com Partial map of the First Battle of Bull Run of the American Civil War. Drawn by Hal Jespersen in Adobe Illustrator CS5. Graphic source file is available at http://www.CWmaps.com/ CC BY 3.0 File:First Bull Run July21am.png http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Such Troops as These: 2 of 4: The Genius and Leadership of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson Hardcover – September 2, 2014 by Bevin Alexander  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Such-Troops-These-Leadership-Confederate/dp/0425271293/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=The Civil War of 1861–65 pitted the industrial North against the agricultural South, and remains the most catastrophic conflict in terms of loss of life in American history. With triple the population and eleven times the industry, the Union had a decided advantage over the Confederacy in terms of direct conflict and conventional warfare. One general had the vision of an alternative approach that could win the War for the South—his name was Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson.It was Jackson’s strategy to always strike at the Union’s vulnerabilities, not to challenge its power directly. He won a campaign against the North with a force only a quarter of the size of the Union army, and he was the first commander to recognize the overwhelming defensive power of the new rifles and cannons. With most of its military forces on the offensive in the South, the North was left virtually undefended on its own turf. Jackson believed invading the eastern states along the great industrial corridor from Baltimore to Maine could divide and cripple the Union, forcing surrender. But he failed to convince Confederate president Jefferson Davis or General Robert E. Lee of the viability of his plan.In Such Troops as These, Bevin Alexander presents a compelling case for Stonewall Jackson as a supreme military strategist and the greatest general in American history. Fiercely dedicated to the cause of Southern independence, Jackson would not live to see the end of the War. But his military legacy lives on and finds fitting tribute in this book....more

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• Such Troops as These: 1 of 4: The Genius and Leadership of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson Hardcover – September 2, 2014 by Bevin Alexander (Author)

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  Photo: First Battle of Bull Run, chromolithograph by Kurz & AllisonKurz & Allison - Library of Congress Permission details Public domain, published more than 70 years ago.View more Public Domainview terms File:First Battle of Bull Run Kurz & Allison.jpg Created: 31 December 1888 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Such Troops as These: 1 of 4: The Genius and Leadership of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson Hardcover – September 2, 2014 by Bevin Alexander  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Such-Troops-These-Leadership-Confederate/dp/0425271293/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=The Civil War of 1861–65 pitted the industrial North against the agricultural South, and remains the most catastrophic conflict in terms of loss of life in American history. With triple the population and eleven times the industry, the Union had a decided advantage over the Confederacy in terms of direct conflict and conventional warfare. One general had the vision of an alternative approach that could win the War for the South—his name was Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson.It was Jackson’s strategy to always strike at the Union’s vulnerabilities, not to challenge its power directly. He won a campaign against the North with a force only a quarter of the size of the Union army, and he was the first commander to recognize the overwhelming defensive power of the new rifles and cannons. With most of its military forces on the offensive in the South, the North was left virtually undefended on its own turf. Jackson believed invading the eastern states along the great industrial corridor from Baltimore to Maine could divide and cripple the Union, forcing surrender. But he failed to convince Confederate president Jefferson Davis or General Robert E. Lee of the viability of his plan.In Such Troops as These, Bevin Alexander presents a compelling case for Stonewall Jackson as a supreme military strategist and the greatest general in American history. Fiercely dedicated to the cause of Southern independence, Jackson would not live to see the end of the War. But his military legacy lives on and finds fitting tribute in this book....more

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• One the Road to Baku: The Battle of Cape Henry that frustrated George Washington. James Nelson

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  Photo: Tactical diagram of the battle by Alfred Thayer Mahan. The British ships are in black, the French ships in white. The positions of the fleets at various points in the battle are labelled as follows: * A: fleets sight each other * B: first tack * C: second tack * D: disengagement Alfred Thayer Mahan - Major operations of the royal navy, 1762-1783: https://books.google.com/books?id=hpI_AAAAYAAJ&dq=mahan%20arbuthnot%201781&pg=PA491#v=onepage&q&f=false Graphic depicting ship movements in the naval Battle of Cape Henry, March 16, 1781. Positions: A: When the fleets sight each other B: First tacking maneuver C: Second tacking maneuver D: Disengagement British ships are black, French ships are white. Public Domain File:MahanCapeHenry.jpg Created: Published 1898 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOne the Road to Baku: The Battle of Cape Henry that frustrated George Washington. James Nelson...more

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• The Master Switch: 2 of 2: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Tim Wu (Author), Marc Vietor (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Image:  Attractor Poisson Saturne. Described by Professor Julien Sprott's in his book Strange Attractors: Creating Patterns in Chaos under its scientific name, "three dimensional quadratic map. See Sprott, Julien C. (1993)  Strange Attractors: Creating Patterns in Chaos, M&T Books, p. 50. Archived from the original on 18 January 2016.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Master Switch: 2 of 2:  The Rise and Fall of Information Empires  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Tim Wu (Author), Marc Vietor (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Master-Switch-Rise-Information-Empires-dp-B004ADM0AG/dp/B004ADM0AG/ref=mt_audio_download?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1581256412A secret history of the industrial wars behind the rise and fall of the 20th century's great information empires - Hollywood, the broadcast networks, and AT&T - asking one big question: Could history repeat itself, with one giant entity taking control of American information?  Most consider the Internet Age to be a moment of unprecedented freedom in communications and culture. But as Tim Wu shows, each major new medium, from telephone to cable, arrived on a similar wave of idealistic optimism only to become, eventually, the object of industrial consolidation profoundly affecting how Americans communicate. Every once-free and open technology was in time centralized and closed, a huge corporate power taking control of the master switch. Today, as a similar struggle looms over the Internet, increasingly the pipeline of all other media, the stakes have never been higher. To be decided: who gets heard, and what kind of country we live in. Part industrial exposé, part meditation on the nature of freedom of expression, part battle cry to save the Internet's best features, The Master Switch brings to light a crucial drama rife with indelible characters and stories, heretofore played out over decades in the shadows of our national life...Permissions:  Description | English: Attractor Poisson Saturne. Described by Professor Julien Sprott's in his book Strange Attractors: Creating Patterns in Chaos under its scientific name, "three dimensional quadratic map. See Sprott, Julien C. (1993)  Strange Attractors: Creating Patterns in Chaos, M&T Books, p. 50. Archived from the original on 18 January 2016.  ISBN:  978-1-55851-298-6. (5.9 MB) See also Dr. Sprott's webpage at University of Wisconsin.Date | 5 March 2007Source | http://www.chaoscope.org/gallery.htmAuthor | Nicolas DesprezLicensingI, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following 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.share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.This work is free and may be used by anyone for any purpose. If you wish to use this content, you do not need to request permission as long as you follow any licensing requirements mentioned on this page.Wikimedia Foundation has received an e-mail confirming that the copyright holder has approved publication under the terms mentioned on this page. This correspondence has been reviewed by an OTRS member and stored in our permission archive. The correspondence is available to trusted volunteers as ticket #2010041110013251. ...more

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• The Master Switch: 1 of 2: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Tim Wu (Author), Marc Vietor (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Photo: Partial map of the Internet, with nodes representing IP addresseshttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Master Switch: 1 of 2:  The Rise and Fall of Information Empires  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Tim Wu (Author), Marc Vietor (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Master-Switch-Rise-Information-Empires-dp-B004ADM0AG/dp/B004ADM0AG/ref=mt_audio_download?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1581256412A secret history of the industrial wars behind the rise and fall of the 20th century's great information empires - Hollywood, the broadcast networks, and AT&T - asking one big question: Could history repeat itself, with one giant entity taking control of American information?  Most consider the Internet Age to be a moment of unprecedented freedom in communications and culture. But as Tim Wu shows, each major new medium, from telephone to cable, arrived on a similar wave of idealistic optimism only to become, eventually, the object of industrial consolidation profoundly affecting how Americans communicate. Every once-free and open technology was in time centralized and closed, a huge corporate power taking control of the master switch. Today, as a similar struggle looms over the Internet, increasingly the pipeline of all other media, the stakes have never been higher. To be decided: who gets heard, and what kind of country we live in. Part industrial exposé, part meditation on the nature of freedom of expression, part battle cry to save the Internet's best features, The Master Switch brings to light a crucial drama rife with indelible characters and stories, heretofore played out over decades in the shadows of our national life...Permissions:Partial map of the Internet based on the January 15, 2005 data found on opte.org. Each line is drawn between two nodes, representing two IP addresses. The length of the lines are indicative of the delay between those two nodes. This graph represents less than 30% of the Class C networks reachable by the data collection program in early 2005. Lines are color-coded according to their corresponding RFC 1918 allocation as follows:Dark blue: net, ca, usGreen: com, orgRed: mil, gov, eduYellow: jp, cn, tw, au, deMagenta: uk, it, pl, frGold: br, kr, nlWhite: unknownDate | Original upload: December 1, 2006Source | Originally from the English Wikipedia; description page is/was here.Author | The Opte ProjectPermission This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic 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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• The Girls of Atomic City: 4 of 4: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Denise Kiernan (Author), Cassandra Campbell (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Photo: Y-12 Tennessee Eastman Plant Oak Ridge 19463283-6b DOE photo Ed Westcott 1946 Oak Ridge Tennessee http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Girls of Atomic City: 4 of 4: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Denise Kiernan (Author), Cassandra Campbell (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Girls-Atomic-City-Untold-Helped/dp/B00G3EBIY4/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=At the height of World War II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was home to 75,000 residents, consuming more electricity than New York City. But to most of the world, the town did not exist. Thousands of civilians - many of them young women from small towns across the South - were recruited to this secret city, enticed by solid wages and the promise of war-ending work. Kept very much in the dark, few would ever guess the true nature of the tasks they performed each day in the hulking factories in the middle of the Appalachian Mountains. That is, until the end of the war - when Oak Ridge's secret was revealed.  Drawing on the voices of the women who lived it - women who are now in their eighties and nineties - The Girls of Atomic City rescues a remarkable, forgotten chapter of American history from obscurity. Denise Kiernan captures the spirit of the times through these women: their pluck, their desire to contribute, and their enduring courage. Combining the grand-scale human drama of The Worst Hard Time with the intimate biography and often troubling science of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The Girls of Atomic City is a lasting and important addition to our country's history....more

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• The Girls of Atomic City: 3 of 4: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Denise Kiernan (Author), Cassandra Campbell (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Photo: This work, identified by PublicDomainFiles.com, is free of known copyright restrictions.Pine Valley School Oak Ridge 1947Description:3457-4c DOE photo Ed Westcott 5-13-1947 Oak Ridge TennesseeCreator:US Department of EnergySource:US Department of Energy (Flickr Photostream) Vision:clouds=051, Vision:mountain=0561, Vision:ocean=0544, Vision:outdoor=0988, Vision:sky=0772 Date Added:March 29, 2014 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Girls of Atomic City: 3 of 4: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Denise Kiernan (Author), Cassandra Campbell (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Girls-Atomic-City-Untold-Helped/dp/B00G3EBIY4/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=At the height of World War II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was home to 75,000 residents, consuming more electricity than New York City. But to most of the world, the town did not exist. Thousands of civilians - many of them young women from small towns across the South - were recruited to this secret city, enticed by solid wages and the promise of war-ending work. Kept very much in the dark, few would ever guess the true nature of the tasks they performed each day in the hulking factories in the middle of the Appalachian Mountains. That is, until the end of the war - when Oak Ridge's secret was revealed.  Drawing on the voices of the women who lived it - women who are now in their eighties and nineties - The Girls of Atomic City rescues a remarkable, forgotten chapter of American history from obscurity. Denise Kiernan captures the spirit of the times through these women: their pluck, their desire to contribute, and their enduring courage. Combining the grand-scale human drama of The Worst Hard Time with the intimate biography and often troubling science of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The Girls of Atomic City is a lasting and important addition to our country's history....more

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• The Girls of Atomic City: 2 of 4: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Denise Kiernan (Author), Cassandra Campbell (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Photo: Produced by United States GovernmentThe file available on this page is a work of the United States government. A work of the United States government, as defined by United States copyright law, is "a work prepared by an officer or employee of the U.S. government as part of that person's official duties." In general, under section 105 of the Copyright Act, such works are not entitled to domestic copyright protection under U.S. law http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Girls of Atomic City: 2 of 4: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Denise Kiernan (Author), Cassandra Campbell (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Girls-Atomic-City-Untold-Helped/dp/B00G3EBIY4/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=At the height of World War II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was home to 75,000 residents, consuming more electricity than New York City. But to most of the world, the town did not exist. Thousands of civilians - many of them young women from small towns across the South - were recruited to this secret city, enticed by solid wages and the promise of war-ending work. Kept very much in the dark, few would ever guess the true nature of the tasks they performed each day in the hulking factories in the middle of the Appalachian Mountains. That is, until the end of the war - when Oak Ridge's secret was revealed.  Drawing on the voices of the women who lived it - women who are now in their eighties and nineties - The Girls of Atomic City rescues a remarkable, forgotten chapter of American history from obscurity. Denise Kiernan captures the spirit of the times through these women: their pluck, their desire to contribute, and their enduring courage. Combining the grand-scale human drama of The Worst Hard Time with the intimate biography and often troubling science of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The Girls of Atomic City is a lasting and important addition to our country's history....more

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• The Girls of Atomic City: 1 of 4: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Denise Kiernan (Author), Cassandra Campbell (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Photo: Billboard Oak Ridge During World War IIROLL97-22 DOE photo Ed Westcott Billboard Oak Ridge Tennessee 10/12/43 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Girls of Atomic City: 1 of 4: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Denise Kiernan (Author), Cassandra Campbell (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Girls-Atomic-City-Untold-Helped/dp/B00G3EBIY4/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=At the height of World War II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was home to 75,000 residents, consuming more electricity than New York City. But to most of the world, the town did not exist. Thousands of civilians - many of them young women from small towns across the South - were recruited to this secret city, enticed by solid wages and the promise of war-ending work. Kept very much in the dark, few would ever guess the true nature of the tasks they performed each day in the hulking factories in the middle of the Appalachian Mountains. That is, until the end of the war - when Oak Ridge's secret was revealed.  Drawing on the voices of the women who lived it - women who are now in their eighties and nineties - The Girls of Atomic City rescues a remarkable, forgotten chapter of American history from obscurity. Denise Kiernan captures the spirit of the times through these women: their pluck, their desire to contribute, and their enduring courage. Combining the grand-scale human drama of The Worst Hard Time with the intimate biography and often troubling science of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The Girls of Atomic City is a lasting and important addition to our country's history....more

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• The Eve of Destruction: 4 of 4: How 1965 Transformed AmericaHardcover – November 27, 2012 by James T. Patterson (Author)

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  Photo: U.S. Marine Corps LVTP-5s from the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines cross the Cu De River.Date1965SourceU.S. Marine Corps publication U.S. Marines in Vietnam: The Landing and the Buildup 1965, p. 45.AuthorU.S. Department of Defense photo (USMC) A184622This image or file is in the public domainhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Eve of Destruction: 4 of 4:  How 1965 Transformed AmericaHardcover – November 27, 2012 by James T. Patterson  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Eve-Destruction-1965-Transformed-America/dp/0465013589At the beginning of 1965, the U.S. seemed on the cusp of a golden age. Although Americans had been shocked by the assassination in 1963 of President Kennedy, they exuded a sense of consensus and optimism that showed no signs of abating. Indeed, political liberalism and interracial civil rights activism made it appear as if 1965 would find America more progressive and unified than it had ever been before. In January 1965, President Lyndon Johnson proclaimed that the country had “no irreconcilable conflicts.”Johnson, who was an extraordinarily skillful manager of Congress, succeeded in securing an avalanche of Great Society legislation in 1965, including Medicare, immigration reform, and a powerful Voting Rights Act. But as esteemed historian James T. Patterson reveals in The Eve of Destruction, that sense of harmony dissipated over the course of the year. As Patterson shows, 1965 marked the birth of the tumultuous era we now know as “The Sixties,” when American society and culture underwent a major transformation. Turmoil erupted in the American South early in the year, when police attacked civil rights demonstrators in Selma, Alabama. Many black leaders, outraged, began to lose faith in nonviolent and interracial strategies of protest. Meanwhile, the U.S. rushed into a deadly war in Vietnam, inciting rebelliousness at home. On August 11th, five days after Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, racial violence exploded in the Watts area of Los Angeles. The six days of looting and arson that followed shocked many Americans and cooled their enthusiasm for the president's remaining initiatives. As the national mood darkened, the country became deeply divided. By the end of 1965, a conservative resurgence was beginning to redefine the political scene even as developments in popular music were enlivening the Left.In The Eve of Destruction, Patterson traces the events of this transformative year, showing how they dramatically reshaped the nation and reset the course of American life....more

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• The Eve of Destruction: 3 of 4: How 1965 Transformed AmericaHardcover – November 27, 2012 by James T. Patterson (Author)

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  Photo: The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CVS-12) on 19 December 1965. The Hornet with Carrier Anti-Submarine Air Group 57 (CVSG-57) was deployed to Vietnam from 12 August 1965 to 23 March 1966. Note the depth charge rack on the fantail.Date19 December 1965SourceThis image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs divisionunder the digital ID HAER WASH,18-BREM,3-127.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Eve of Destruction: 3 of 4:  How 1965 Transformed AmericaHardcover – November 27, 2012 by James T. Patterson  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Eve-Destruction-1965-Transformed-America/dp/0465013589At the beginning of 1965, the U.S. seemed on the cusp of a golden age. Although Americans had been shocked by the assassination in 1963 of President Kennedy, they exuded a sense of consensus and optimism that showed no signs of abating. Indeed, political liberalism and interracial civil rights activism made it appear as if 1965 would find America more progressive and unified than it had ever been before. In January 1965, President Lyndon Johnson proclaimed that the country had “no irreconcilable conflicts.”Johnson, who was an extraordinarily skillful manager of Congress, succeeded in securing an avalanche of Great Society legislation in 1965, including Medicare, immigration reform, and a powerful Voting Rights Act. But as esteemed historian James T. Patterson reveals in The Eve of Destruction, that sense of harmony dissipated over the course of the year. As Patterson shows, 1965 marked the birth of the tumultuous era we now know as “The Sixties,” when American society and culture underwent a major transformation. Turmoil erupted in the American South early in the year, when police attacked civil rights demonstrators in Selma, Alabama. Many black leaders, outraged, began to lose faith in nonviolent and interracial strategies of protest. Meanwhile, the U.S. rushed into a deadly war in Vietnam, inciting rebelliousness at home. On August 11th, five days after Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, racial violence exploded in the Watts area of Los Angeles. The six days of looting and arson that followed shocked many Americans and cooled their enthusiasm for the president's remaining initiatives. As the national mood darkened, the country became deeply divided. By the end of 1965, a conservative resurgence was beginning to redefine the political scene even as developments in popular music were enlivening the Left.In The Eve of Destruction, Patterson traces the events of this transformative year, showing how they dramatically reshaped the nation and reset the course of American life....more

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• The Eve of Destruction: 2 of 4: How 1965 Transformed AmericaHardcover – November 27, 2012 by James T. Patterson (Author)

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  Photo: Aerial view of the U.S. Navy Market Time Base Site, Cam Ranh Bay (Vietnam) in November 1965.SourceOfficial U.S. Navy photo NH 74203 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage CommandAuthorU.S. NavyThis file is a work of a sailor or employee of the U.S. Navy, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, it is in the public domain in the United States.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Eve of Destruction: 2 of 4:  How 1965 Transformed AmericaHardcover – November 27, 2012 by James T. Patterson  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Eve-Destruction-1965-Transformed-America/dp/0465013589At the beginning of 1965, the U.S. seemed on the cusp of a golden age. Although Americans had been shocked by the assassination in 1963 of President Kennedy, they exuded a sense of consensus and optimism that showed no signs of abating. Indeed, political liberalism and interracial civil rights activism made it appear as if 1965 would find America more progressive and unified than it had ever been before. In January 1965, President Lyndon Johnson proclaimed that the country had “no irreconcilable conflicts.”Johnson, who was an extraordinarily skillful manager of Congress, succeeded in securing an avalanche of Great Society legislation in 1965, including Medicare, immigration reform, and a powerful Voting Rights Act. But as esteemed historian James T. Patterson reveals in The Eve of Destruction, that sense of harmony dissipated over the course of the year. As Patterson shows, 1965 marked the birth of the tumultuous era we now know as “The Sixties,” when American society and culture underwent a major transformation. Turmoil erupted in the American South early in the year, when police attacked civil rights demonstrators in Selma, Alabama. Many black leaders, outraged, began to lose faith in nonviolent and interracial strategies of protest. Meanwhile, the U.S. rushed into a deadly war in Vietnam, inciting rebelliousness at home. On August 11th, five days after Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, racial violence exploded in the Watts area of Los Angeles. The six days of looting and arson that followed shocked many Americans and cooled their enthusiasm for the president's remaining initiatives. As the national mood darkened, the country became deeply divided. By the end of 1965, a conservative resurgence was beginning to redefine the political scene even as developments in popular music were enlivening the Left.In The Eve of Destruction, Patterson traces the events of this transformative year, showing how they dramatically reshaped the nation and reset the course of American life....more

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• The Eve of Destruction: 1 of 4: How 1965 Transformed AmericaHardcover – November 27, 2012 by James T. Patterson (Author)

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  Photo: A U.S. Navy Vought F-8D Crusader (BuNo 147056) of Fighter Squadron VF-111 "Sundowners" makes its attack run over South Vietnam. VF-111 was assigned to Carrier Air Wing 2 (CVW-2) aboard the aircraft carrier USS Midway (CVA-41) for a deployment to Vietnam from 6 March to 23 November 1965.Date10 March 1965SourceU.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No. 1996.253.7348.009AuthorU.S. NavyThis file is a work of a sailor or employee of the U.S. Navy, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, it is in the public domain in the United States.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Eve of Destruction: 1 of 4:  How 1965 Transformed AmericaHardcover – November 27, 2012 by James T. Patterson  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Eve-Destruction-1965-Transformed-America/dp/0465013589At the beginning of 1965, the U.S. seemed on the cusp of a golden age. Although Americans had been shocked by the assassination in 1963 of President Kennedy, they exuded a sense of consensus and optimism that showed no signs of abating. Indeed, political liberalism and interracial civil rights activism made it appear as if 1965 would find America more progressive and unified than it had ever been before. In January 1965, President Lyndon Johnson proclaimed that the country had “no irreconcilable conflicts.”Johnson, who was an extraordinarily skillful manager of Congress, succeeded in securing an avalanche of Great Society legislation in 1965, including Medicare, immigration reform, and a powerful Voting Rights Act. But as esteemed historian James T. Patterson reveals in The Eve of Destruction, that sense of harmony dissipated over the course of the year. As Patterson shows, 1965 marked the birth of the tumultuous era we now know as “The Sixties,” when American society and culture underwent a major transformation. Turmoil erupted in the American South early in the year, when police attacked civil rights demonstrators in Selma, Alabama. Many black leaders, outraged, began to lose faith in nonviolent and interracial strategies of protest. Meanwhile, the U.S. rushed into a deadly war in Vietnam, inciting rebelliousness at home. On August 11th, five days after Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, racial violence exploded in the Watts area of Los Angeles. The six days of looting and arson that followed shocked many Americans and cooled their enthusiasm for the president's remaining initiatives. As the national mood darkened, the country became deeply divided. By the end of 1965, a conservative resurgence was beginning to redefine the political scene even as developments in popular music were enlivening the Left.In The Eve of Destruction, Patterson traces the events of this transformative year, showing how they dramatically reshaped the nation and reset the course of American life....more

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• Axis Sally: 2 of 2: The American Voice of Nazi Germany Hardcover – November 5, 2010. by Richard Lucas (Author)

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  Photo: UnknownOriginal captionFor documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Berlin, Aufräumungsarbeiten nach LuftangriffZentralbild II.Weltkrieg 1939 -45 Britischer Luftangriff am 11.10.1940 auf Berlin.Die Bevölkerung bei Aufräumungsarbeiten im Norden der Stadt.Depicted placeBerlinDate11 October 1940CollectionGerman Federal Archives   Current locationAllgemeiner Deutscher Nachrichtendienst - Zentralbild (Bild 183)Accession numberBild 183-L09712 SourceThis image was provided to Wikimedia Commons by the German Federal Archive (Deutsches Bundesarchiv) as part of a cooperation project. The German Federal Archive guarantees an authentic representation only using the originals (negative and/or positive), resp. the digitalization of the originals as provided by the Digital Image Archive.This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany license.Attribution: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-L09712 / CC-BY-SA 3.0http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Axis Sally: 2 of 2: The American Voice of Nazi Germany Hardcover – November 5, 2010.  by Richard Lucas  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Axis-Sally-American-Voice-Germany/dp/1935149431One of the most notorious Americans of the twentieth century was a failed Broadway actress turned radio announcer named Mildred Gillars (1900–1988), better known to American GIs as “Axis Sally.” Despite the richness of her life story, there has never been a full-length biography of the ambitious, star-struck Ohio girl who evolved into a reviled disseminator of Nazi propaganda.At the outbreak of war in September 1939, Mildred had been living in Germany for five years. Hoping to marry, she chose to remain in the Nazi-run state even as the last Americans departed for home. In 1940, she was hired by the German overseas radio, where she evolved from a simple disc jockey and announcer to a master propagandist. Under the tutelage of her married lover, Max Otto Koischwitz, Gillars became the personification of Nazi propaganda to the American GI.Spicing her broadcasts with music, Mildred used her soothing voice to taunt Allied troops about the supposed infidelities of their wives and girlfriends back home, as well as the horrible deaths they were likely to meet on the battlefield. Supported by German military intelligence, she was able to convey personal greetings to individual US units, creating an eerie foreboding among troops who realized the Germans knew who and where they were.After broadcasting for Berlin up to the very end of the war, Gillars tried but failed to pose as a refugee, but was captured by US authorities. Her 1949 trial for treason captured the attention and raw emotion of a nation fresh from the horrors of the Second World War. Gillars’s twelve-year imprisonment and life on parole, including a stay in a convent, is a remarkable story of a woman who attempts to rebuild her life in the country she betrayed.Written by Richard Lucas, a freelance writer and lifelong shortwave radio enthusiast, Axis Sally: The American Voice of Nazi Germany is the first thoroughly documented look at this mythologized figure of World War II....more

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• Axis Sally: 1 of 2: The American Voice of Nazi Germany Hardcover – November 5, 2010. by Richard Lucas (Author)

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  Photo: UnknownOriginal captionFor documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Berlin, Dönhoffplatz, Sonnenbad in MittagspauseADN-ZB-Archiv Berliner Werktätige der umliegenden Betriebe genießen in ihrer Mittagspause die ersten warmen Sonnenstrahlen auf dem Dönhoffplatz, Ende April 1940. 3410-40[Scherl Bilderdienst]Depicted placeBerlinDateApril 1940CollectionGerman Federal Archives   Current locationAllgemeiner Deutscher Nachrichtendienst - Zentralbild (Bild 183)Accession numberBild 183-L03657 SourceThis image was provided to Wikimedia Commons by the German Federal Archive (Deutsches Bundesarchiv) as part of a cooperation project. The German Federal Archive guarantees an authentic representation only using the originals (negative and/or positive), resp. the digitalization of the originals as provided by the Digital Image Archive.This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany license.Attribution: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-L03657 / CC-BY-SA 3.0You 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.share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Axis Sally: 1 of 2: The American Voice of Nazi Germany Hardcover – November 5, 2010.  by Richard Lucas  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Axis-Sally-American-Voice-Germany/dp/1935149431One of the most notorious Americans of the twentieth century was a failed Broadway actress turned radio announcer named Mildred Gillars (1900–1988), better known to American GIs as “Axis Sally.” Despite the richness of her life story, there has never been a full-length biography of the ambitious, star-struck Ohio girl who evolved into a reviled disseminator of Nazi propaganda.At the outbreak of war in September 1939, Mildred had been living in Germany for five years. Hoping to marry, she chose to remain in the Nazi-run state even as the last Americans departed for home. In 1940, she was hired by the German overseas radio, where she evolved from a simple disc jockey and announcer to a master propagandist. Under the tutelage of her married lover, Max Otto Koischwitz, Gillars became the personification of Nazi propaganda to the American GI.Spicing her broadcasts with music, Mildred used her soothing voice to taunt Allied troops about the supposed infidelities of their wives and girlfriends back home, as well as the horrible deaths they were likely to meet on the battlefield. Supported by German military intelligence, she was able to convey personal greetings to individual US units, creating an eerie foreboding among troops who realized the Germans knew who and where they were.After broadcasting for Berlin up to the very end of the war, Gillars tried but failed to pose as a refugee, but was captured by US authorities. Her 1949 trial for treason captured the attention and raw emotion of a nation fresh from the horrors of the Second World War. Gillars’s twelve-year imprisonment and life on parole, including a stay in a convent, is a remarkable story of a woman who attempts to rebuild her life in the country she betrayed.Written by Richard Lucas, a freelance writer and lifelong shortwave radio enthusiast, Axis Sally: The American Voice of Nazi Germany is the first thoroughly documented look at this mythologized figure of World War II....more

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• On the Road to Baku: Labor shortages and labor law in quickly growing Baku: 2 of 2: Anar Karimov, Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Population.

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  Photo: Drilling and refining petroleum would become major industries.Note: Image is available at [1] on the Paleontological Research Institution web site. The site credits the American Petroleum Institute; however, a Texas roadside historical marker credits John Trost (June 24, 1868 - August 4, 1944) [2] [3] - Original photo by John Trost. w:en:Image:Lucas_gusher.jpg by Nv8200p, 4/12/2006 16:29 (UTC) The Lucas Gusher at Spindletop Hill, South of Beaumont, Texas, United States Public Domain File:Lucas gusher.jpg Created: 9 January 1901 Location: 30° 1′ 12″ N, 94° 4′ 31″ W http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Baku: Labor shortages and labor law in quickly growing Baku: 2 of 2:  Anar Karimov, Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Population....more

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• On the Road to Baku: Labor shortages and labor law in quickly growing Baku: 1 of 2: Anar Karimov, Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Population.

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  Photo: Gyula Derkovits  (1894–1934)  TitleWorkers in the FieldDate1920This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Baku: Labor shortages and labor law in quickly growing Baku: 1 of 2:  Anar Karimov, Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Population.

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• On the Road to Baku: Women candidates double to 21% of the total for the parliamentary elections. Layla Abdullayeva, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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  Photo: Русский: Кун, Александр Людвигович, 1840—1888 гг.Français : Kun, Aleksandr L., 1840-1888English: Kun, Aleksandr L., 1840-1888中文: 亚历山大·L·坤，1840-1888 年Português: Kun, Aleksandr L., 1840-1888العربية: كُن، ألكسندر ل.، 1840-1888Español: Kun, Aleksandr L., 1840-1888Title | Русский: Уличные типы среднеазиатских городов. Женщина и мальчик верхом на лошадиFrançais : Les rues des villes d'Asie centrale. Une femme et un garçon à chevalEnglish: Street Types of Central Asian Cities. A Woman and Boy Astride a Horse中文: 中亚城市的各类街道。一名女子和男孩跨坐在马上Português: Tipos de ruas de cidades centro-asiáticas. Uma mulher e um garoto montam um cavaloالعربية: أنواع الشوارع في مدن وسط آسيا. امرأة وصبي يمتطيان جواداًEspañol: Diferentes tipos de personas en las calles de las ciudades centroasiáticas. Una mujer y un niño a horcajadas en un caballoDescription | Русский: Эта фотография входит в этнографическую часть "Туркестанского альбома" — всестороннего исследования Центральной Азии, предпринятого после того, как в 1860-х годах в регионе установилось господство Российской империи. Альбом, созданный по распоряжению генерала Константина Петровича фон Кауфмана (1818–1882 годы), первого генерал-губернатора российского Туркестана, состоит из четырех частей в шести томах: «Часть археологическая» (два тома), «Часть этнографическая» (два тома), «Часть промысловая» (один том) и «Часть историческая» (один том). Основным составителем альбома был российский востоковед Александр Людвигович Кун, работавший совместно с Николаем Венедиктовичем Богаевским. В альбоме представлено около 1200 фотографий, а также архитектурные планы, акварельные рисунки и карты. «Часть этнографическая» включает в себя 491отдельную  фотографию на 163 листах. На фотографиях изображены представители различных народов региона (листы 1–33), повседневная жизнь и ритуалы (листы 34–91), а также виды деревень и городов, уличные торговцы и коммерческая деятельность (листы 92–163). Одежда и платье; Этнографические фотографии; Верховая езда; Лошади; Фотографические исследования; Тюркские народы; ПокрывалаFrançais : Cette photographie est extraite de la partie ethnographique de l'Album du Turkestan, étude visuelle complète de l'Asie centrale entreprise après que l'Empire russe prit le contrôle de la région dans les années 1860. Commandé par le général Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufman (1818–1882), premier gouverneur général du Turkestan russe, l'album est composé de six volumes en quatre parties : la partie archéologique (deux volumes), la partie ethnologique (deux volumes), la partie sur les métiers (un volume) et la partie historique (un volume). L'album fut essentiellement compilé par l'orientaliste russe Aleksandr L. Kun, assisté de Nikolai V. Bogaevskii. Il comporte près de 1200 photographies et inclut également des plans architecturaux, des dessins à l'aquarelle et des cartes. La partie ethnographique compte 491 photographies sur 163 planches, montrant des individus des différentes peuplades de la région (planches 1 à 33), des scènes de la vie quotidienne et des rites (planches 34 à 91), ainsi que des vues de villages et de villes, de vendeurs ambulants et d'activités commerciales (planches 92 à 163). http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Baku: Women candidates double to 21% of the total for the parliamentary elections. Layla Abdullayeva, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.https://en.trend.az/azerbaijan/politics/3187747.html ...more

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• On the Road to Baku: The fresh gathering of Turkic speaking peoples, including Hungary. Layla Abdullayeva, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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  Feb 09 2020

  Photo: The Second of May 1808: The Charge of the Mamluks by Francisco de Goya (1814) Francisco Goya - Museo del Prado, Madrid Public Domain File:El dos de mayo de 1808 en Madrid.jpg Created: 1814date QS:P571,+1814-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Baku: The fresh gathering of Turkic speaking peoples, including Hungary. Layla Abdullayeva, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.https://azertag.az/en/xeber/President_Ilham_Aliyev_received_delegation_led_by_Turkish_Foreign_Minister_VIDEO-1405727 ...more

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• On the Road to Baku: Securing the borders of Azerbaijan in a rough neighborhood: 2 of 2: & What is to be done?

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  Feb 09 2020

  Photo:  Петровская пристань Бакинского портаДата | 1900 г.(15 октября 2008 (original upload date))Источник | Transferred from ru.wikipedia(Original text : www.bakupages.com)Автор | неизвестенOriginal uploader was Thalys at ru.wikipediaПрава(Повторное использование этого файла) | This image is in the public domain; PD-OLD. Это изображение является точной фотографической репродукцией оригинального двумерного произведения изобразительного искусства. Данное произведение изобразительного искусства само по себе находится в общественном достоянии по следующей причине: | Это произведение находится в общественном достоянии в тех странах, где срок охраны авторского права равен жизни автора плюс 70 лет и менее. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Baku: Securing the borders of Azerbaijan in a rough neighborhood: 2 of 2: & What is to be done? https://reliefweb.int/report/azerbaijan/non-citizens-receive-right-travel-documents-azeri-state-migration-services ...more

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• On the Road to Baku: Securing the borders of Azerbaijan in a rough neighborhood: 1 of 2: & What is to be done?

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  Feb 09 2020

  Photo: English: Train station of Baku.Date | 1900Source | ourbaku.comAuthor | Unknown | This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer. You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Baku: Securing the borders of Azerbaijan in a rough neighborhood: 1 of 2: & What is to be done? https://reliefweb.int/report/azerbaijan/non-citizens-receive-right-travel-documents-azeri-state-migration-services ...more

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• On the Road to Baku. Azercosmos, first Central Asian space firm. Rashad Nabiyev, Azercosmos CEO @Azercosmos1

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  Feb 08 2020

  Image:  AzerSky, an Azerbaijani satellite. Rashad Nabiyev, Azercosmos CEO, in re: Azercosmos. Azerbaijan is a democracy, and having developed its oil industry is now developing human strengths. Now, commercial space, where there’s monetizing, recruiting, esp of youth. He’s now successfully had his colleagues agree to attend a 2022 global IAC conference on space.  IAC is [large]; brings together more than 400 members from 68 countries; include multiple high technologies, Annually, over 6,000 representatives meet to discuss the space industry and its horizons.    The industry is leading to lower costs (even Roscosmos has had to lower its fees); our goal is to create an ecosystem and develop, inter al., a new strategy: partner with establish actors in the space industry, become part of global production.  Saving and monetization: we’re thinking first  how to create bigger value.  Dvp software everyone will use.  Public-private partnership.  In the next five years, we envisage to have people think of Azerbaijan in space. We currently have three satellites. We want to build capacity in the country; already have shared our experience with other Central Asian countries and outside, including down into the Indian Ocean.  We have more than three teleports in African countries, and infrastructural projects.  Now, using space-enabled technologies for a better life on Earth. ...more

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• On the Road to Baku. #TheScalaReport: DARPA “changed the world”— Does Brexit Britain need a DARPA? Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHE

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  Feb 08 2020

  Image:  Governmental and private extreme development of bright new ideas.  Here: Comparison of geostationary, GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, Compass (MEO), International Space Station, Hubble Space Telescope and Iridium constellation orbits, with the Van Allen radiation belts and the Earth to scale. (source: Wikipedia + https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Comparison_satellite_navigation_orbits.svg)#TheScalaReport: Does Brexit Britain need a DARPA? Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com  #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHEChris Riegel, CEO, Scala.com & STRATACACHE, in re:  DARPA, the gathering of geeks, established when Ike saw that Sputnik had to be answered, was initially ARPA. That led to ARPAnet, and thence the Internet.  A nonconventional way to fund valid new and sometimes strange ideas.  UK wants to get in the same game; claims it’ll all be civilian, not defense, but . . . In France, we [Scala.com] acquired a research company from the French equivalent of DARPA; we retasked its project for a civilian comms project.  The AI wave.  Gillian Tett [of the FT] reports that a study used China, Britain, and a US school: found that cultures have prejudices and dispositions.  dotOrg, run by the Internet Society, under ICANN.  dotOrg to be bought by the Ethos nonprofit for over a billion dollars. It earns $90 million a year!  Ester Dyson.   Scala Report. ...more

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• On the Road to Baku. #TheNewAmericanCivilWar: A Red victory in 2020 could buy us time. Michael Vlahos: @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Image:  Seeking a political even keel in the US.  Here: Illustration of the sinking of the Lusitania by Norman Wilkinson.On the Road to Baku.  #TheNewAmericanCivilWar: A Red victory in 2020 could buy us time. Michael Vlahos: @JHUWorldCrisis Michael E Vlahos, JHU, in re:  How does all this end—will China be the threat that unites the US?  A short-term path revealed in the debacle of Iowa, cf. the elections of 1982 and ‘94: see an establishment that’s shown its incapacity and is at the end of its legitimacy; and billionaire ___  in the form of Bloomberg, the lie that Blue is somehow the party of the people when it's [like] the ancien regime; a Red victory in 2020 will buy us space where the temperature could go down for four years. Maybe the Dems could get back on to an even keel; this happened with Bill Clinton.   Coronavirus similar to Chernobyl.  The rending of the State of the Union in half tells me there’s no going back. Like the rending of the cloth in Judaic funerary rites.  It's like burning your ships on the beach. But, there was a desperation about it; smarter Democrats may see that they suffered a desperate loss.  Adam Schiff said he’d permit Russia to take over the power of the United States. ...more

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• On the Road to Baku. #TheNewAmericanCivilWar: US civil war? EU breaking, China weak, Russia insecure. Michael Vlahos: @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Feb 08 2020

  Image:  Pelosi destroys the State of the Union. Michael E Vlahos, JHU, in re: A soft winter day on the Caspian shore; national parliamentary elections this coming Sunday—with paper ballots, and all results in by the night.On the Road to Baku. #TheNewAmericanCivilWar:  US civil war? EU breaking, China weak, Russia insecure.  Michael Vlahos: @JHUWorldCrisis    Is there a civil war in the US?  Struggle between Pompey and Crassus, and Caesar. Result was a catastrophe for the republic, and the rise of the empire. Pelosi tearing State of the Union in half?  A ritual of renunciation: the frustration she embodied after many months of trying to deal with the [edges] of the party, and seeing failure [across the board]. She basically puled the final card available to her: she substituted a ritual of denunciation place of an actual act that would have forced the ouster of the president. In doing so, she highlighted the way ahead: conflict. Violence and rancor. The caning of Charles Sumner — the EU is breaking apart; China has fissures; Russia post-Putin ins not secure; and in the US the form of govt could change.  It's a global phenomenon.  We’re already functionally an empire, not so different from the Romans’s, although they kept all the republican institutions in place.  I’m concerned: the uprising regular people against the elites, the empire is coming apart – we may be in a late phase of the American empire. Sadly we may enter a period of conflict in which the hardest thing to do is preserve American autonomy, legacy, security. ...more

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• On the Road to Baku. Excellent jobs number; market unhappy but trade looks good. Jim McTague @Mctaguej

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  Image:  Free trade areas worldwide. to see the full map, go to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_bloc#/media/File:Free_Trade_Areas.PNG Jim McTague, author, Murder and Mayhem on Capitol Hill, and longtime Barron’s Washington editor; in re: Jobs report, for manufacturing.  Recession?  China supply chain?  Home-building added 44,000 well-paying jobs; strongest housing mkt since 2006.  Although mfrg didn't spike up, it didn’t go down by much so it’s a good report.  Coronavirus: hard to gauge what’s happening going forward.   The Assn of American Railroads: commodities transported are off in rail shipments, but pick-up in ten categories so we may have bottomed.  The USMCA should increase trade.  China’s demand for US mfrg probably will increase after the virus [slows down].  Fed probably won't cut interest rates because the jobs umber is strong; were the rates to lower, it’d make the US look more attractive for investment. The market doesn't like a strong jobs number. ...more

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• On the Road to Baku. If Sanders is the nominee, Trump’ll take every state (but not the District of Columbia). @ConradMBlack

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  Feb 08 2020

  Image:  Painting: Bolshevik, Boris Kustodiev, 1920 Conrad Black, author, Flight of the Eagle: A Strategic History of the United States; in re: Lord Black wrote a biography of Chris’s grandfather.  Acquittal: photo of the president doing his best Truman holding up the WaPo front page. The Democrats will now have to live without the Damoclean sword held over his head; they’ll have to run against his formidable record, which ranks with those of Nixon and Franklin Roosevelt.  Special Counsel Durham.  The “highly-energized left” ran flat in Iowa; if Sanders becomes the nominee, Trump will take every state and not the District of Columbia. If they can’t elevate Bloomberg, they’ll have a terrible disaster, which they’ve invited.  Rep Devin Nunes: Yes, we can re-take the House; looking for 50 seats.  The RNC and Pres Trump will not be short of funds. The mediocrity of the Dem candidates, the collusion fraud, this ridiculous impeachment—what was alleged wasn’t impeachable and he wasn’t at all guilty of any of it—this was worse that the impeachments of Nixon, Johnson.  Eighty per cent of illegal immigration has been stopped; the US is the only nation in the world where the widening disparity is being addressed, and others—every American will be aware of these, and they’ll be rewarded.  (On a plane, JB sat next to a German engineer living in Bahrain: “Are you really going to elect Bernie Sanders?? Do they want a Socialist in America?”)  Dems put Podesta back on the national committee. ...more

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• On the Road to Baku. Turkic-speaking peoples across a vast area, with most ancient roots; Turkish proper is recent. Gregory Copley

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  Feb 08 2020

  Image:  An accurate representation of the areas in which Turkic languages are spoken. To see the full map, go tohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_bloc#/media/File:Free_Trade_Areas.PNGPermissions*: see below.  Gregory Copley, Defense and Foreign Affairs,  in re: Central Asia.  The Seventh Summit of the Council of Turkic-Speaking States now in Baku ((Five “-stans” plus Azerbaijan, Turkey and Hungary).   Many Turkic-speaking peoples scattered across Central Asia, Russia, Iran, Western China.  Turkey is seen as the younger brother, since its language came from the early Kyrgyz culture. When Turkey tried to get Central Asians to work together on the problem of Uyghur mistreatment by China, the smaller nations refused.  “Common language from the Mediterranean to Siberia”—Chris Cox.  Azerbaijan was a key linchpin in the old Silk Road and remains so; this is no longer the One Belt-One Road initiative; rather, it’s a critical north-south transit hub. ...more

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• On the Road to Baku. Washington to help create a pan-Central Asian trading bloc. Gregory R Copley.

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  Feb 08 2020

  Image: The distinguished Askar Akayev on a Kyrgyz stamp Gregory Copley, Defense and Foreign Affairs,  in re: Central Asia.  On Feb 3, Mike Pompeo visited Tashkent and raised the matter of Uyghurs in Xinjiang (perhaps not as well-advised as one might wish, because it created a bit of a sandpaper with China).   Rumsfeld asked President Askar Akaev to let the US run AWACS [out of? over?] Kyrgyzstan; when Akaev was obliged to decline for major geopolitical reasons, Rummy was so angry that he then had Akaev deposed—Akaev was the best supporter of the US that anyone could wish for.  US is trying to resolve the matter in Afghanistan, calm enough for goods to be transshipped to the ocean.  This would add Afghanistan and Pakistan to the “-stans.” On this coming Sunday, Azerbaijani parliamentary elections.  ...more

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• On the Road to Baku: Democracy on the Caspian Sea : 2 of 2: & What is to be done?

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  Feb 08 2020

  Photo: The first automobile in Baku. 1907.View author information Fair use File:Baku first automobile.jpg Uploaded: 2006-07-05 15:03:00 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Baku: Democracy on the Caspian Sea : 2 of 2: & What is to be done?https://azertag.az/en/xeber/TURKPA_mission_to_observe_parliamentary_elections_in_Azerbaijan-1407429

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• On the Road to Baku: Democracy on the Caspian Sea : 1 of 2: & What is to be done?

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  Feb 08 2020

  Photo: Panorama of Baku by Engelbert Kaempfer. 1683.I.B.Homann (atlas)/Engelbert Kaempfer (picture) - from atlas of Johann Baptist Homann Gravure "Baccu. eine Stadt in Meden, an der Caspischen See" Public Domain File:Baccu 1734.jpg Created: 31 December 1733 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Baku: Democracy on the Caspian Sea : 1 of 2: & What is to be done?https://azertag.az/en/xeber/TURKPA_mission_to_observe_parliamentary_elections_in_Azerbaijan-1407429 ...more

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• The Divide: 4 of 4: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Matt Taibbi (Author), Ray Porter (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Feb 08 2020

  Photo: Phoenix in May 1972, with South Mountain in the background. Keyes, Cornelius M. (Cornelius Michael), 1944-, Photographer (NARA record: 8463989) - U.S. National Archives and Records Administration General notes: Aerial view of Phoenix, Arizona in 1972. Towers are in the Central City Villagedistrict, in downtown Phoenix, Arizona. With other Urban Villages of the City of Phoenix, in 1972 stages of development. Public Domain File:AERIAL OF PHOENIX, ARIZONA. (FROM THE DOCUMERICA-1 EXHIBITION FOR OTHER IMAGES IN THIS ASSIGNMENT, SEE FICHE NUMBERS... - NARA - 553060.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Divide: 4 of 4: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Matt Taibbi (Author), Ray Porter (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/081299342X/ref=tmm_hrd_new_olp_0?ie=UTF8&condition=new&qid=&sr=A scathing portrait of an urgent new American crisis.  Over the last two decades, America has been falling deeper and deeper into a statistical mystery:  Poverty goes up. Crime goes down. The prison population doubles. Fraud by the rich wipes out 40 percent of the world's wealth. The rich get massively richer. No one goes to jail.  In search of a solution, journalist Matt Taibbi discovered the Divide, the seam in American life where our two most troubling trends - growing wealth inequality and mass incarceration - come together, driven by a dramatic shift in American citizenship: Our basic rights are now determined by our wealth or poverty. The Divide is what allows massively destructive fraud by the hyperwealthy to go unpunished, while turning poverty itself into a crime - but it's impossible to see until you look at these two alarming trends side by side.  In The Divide, Matt Taibbi takes readers on a galvanizing journey through both sides of our new system of justice - the fun-house-mirror worlds of the untouchably wealthy and the criminalized poor. He uncovers the startling looting that preceded the financial collapse; a wild conspiracy of billionaire hedge fund managers to destroy a company through dirty tricks; and the story of a whistleblower who gets in the way of the largest banks in America, only to find herself in the crosshairs. On the other side of the Divide, Taibbi takes us to the front lines of the immigrant dragnet; into the newly punitive welfare system which treats its beneficiaries as thieves; and deep inside the stop-and-frisk world, where standing in front of your own home has become an arrestable offense. As he narrates these incredible stories, he draws out and analyzes their common source: a perverse new standard of justice, based on a radical, disturbing new vision of civil rights.  Through astonishing - and enraging - accounts of the high-stakes capers of the wealthy and nightmare stories of regular people caught in the Divide's punishing logic, Taibbi lays bare one of the greatest challenges we face in contemporary American life: surviving a system that devours the lives of the poor, turns a blind eye to the destructive crimes of the wealthy, and implicates us all....more

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• The Divide: 3 of 4: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Matt Taibbi (Author), Ray Porter (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Feb 08 2020

  Photo: Aerial lithograph of Phoenix from 1885C. J. Dyer - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g4334p.pm000110 An 1885 lithograph of a bird's-eye view of the city of Phoenix, Arizona, created by C. J. Dyer and published by Schmidt Label & Lithograph Company. Permission details This image might not be in the public domain outside of the United States; this especially applies in the countries and areas that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works, such as Canada, Mainland China (not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany, Mexico, and Switzerland. The creator and year of publication are essential information and must be provided. See Wikipedia:Public domain and Wikipedia:Copyrights for more details.View more Public Domainview terms File:Phoenix1885-AerialMap HiRes.jpg Created: circa 1885 date QS:P,+1885-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Divide: 3 of 4: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Matt Taibbi (Author), Ray Porter (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/081299342X/ref=tmm_hrd_new_olp_0?ie=UTF8&condition=new&qid=&sr=A scathing portrait of an urgent new American crisis.  Over the last two decades, America has been falling deeper and deeper into a statistical mystery:  Poverty goes up. Crime goes down. The prison population doubles. Fraud by the rich wipes out 40 percent of the world's wealth. The rich get massively richer. No one goes to jail.  In search of a solution, journalist Matt Taibbi discovered the Divide, the seam in American life where our two most troubling trends - growing wealth inequality and mass incarceration - come together, driven by a dramatic shift in American citizenship: Our basic rights are now determined by our wealth or poverty. The Divide is what allows massively destructive fraud by the hyperwealthy to go unpunished, while turning poverty itself into a crime - but it's impossible to see until you look at these two alarming trends side by side.  In The Divide, Matt Taibbi takes readers on a galvanizing journey through both sides of our new system of justice - the fun-house-mirror worlds of the untouchably wealthy and the criminalized poor. He uncovers the startling looting that preceded the financial collapse; a wild conspiracy of billionaire hedge fund managers to destroy a company through dirty tricks; and the story of a whistleblower who gets in the way of the largest banks in America, only to find herself in the crosshairs. On the other side of the Divide, Taibbi takes us to the front lines of the immigrant dragnet; into the newly punitive welfare system which treats its beneficiaries as thieves; and deep inside the stop-and-frisk world, where standing in front of your own home has become an arrestable offense. As he narrates these incredible stories, he draws out and analyzes their common source: a perverse new standard of justice, based on a radical, disturbing new vision of civil rights.  Through astonishing - and enraging - accounts of the high-stakes capers of the wealthy and nightmare stories of regular people caught in the Divide's punishing logic, Taibbi lays bare one of the greatest challenges we face in contemporary American life: surviving a system that devours the lives of the poor, turns a blind eye to the destructive crimes of the wealthy, and implicates us all....more

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• The Divide: 2 of 4: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Matt Taibbi (Author), Ray Porter (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Feb 08 2020

  Photo: Central Avenue, Phoenix, 1908 California Panorama Company - US Library of Congress Central Avenue, Phoenix Arizona Permission details Public Domain - Published in 1908View more PD-USview terms File:Phoenix1908.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Divide: 2 of 4: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Matt Taibbi (Author), Ray Porter (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/081299342X/ref=tmm_hrd_new_olp_0?ie=UTF8&condition=new&qid=&sr=A scathing portrait of an urgent new American crisis.  Over the last two decades, America has been falling deeper and deeper into a statistical mystery:  Poverty goes up. Crime goes down. The prison population doubles. Fraud by the rich wipes out 40 percent of the world's wealth. The rich get massively richer. No one goes to jail.  In search of a solution, journalist Matt Taibbi discovered the Divide, the seam in American life where our two most troubling trends - growing wealth inequality and mass incarceration - come together, driven by a dramatic shift in American citizenship: Our basic rights are now determined by our wealth or poverty. The Divide is what allows massively destructive fraud by the hyperwealthy to go unpunished, while turning poverty itself into a crime - but it's impossible to see until you look at these two alarming trends side by side.  In The Divide, Matt Taibbi takes readers on a galvanizing journey through both sides of our new system of justice - the fun-house-mirror worlds of the untouchably wealthy and the criminalized poor. He uncovers the startling looting that preceded the financial collapse; a wild conspiracy of billionaire hedge fund managers to destroy a company through dirty tricks; and the story of a whistleblower who gets in the way of the largest banks in America, only to find herself in the crosshairs. On the other side of the Divide, Taibbi takes us to the front lines of the immigrant dragnet; into the newly punitive welfare system which treats its beneficiaries as thieves; and deep inside the stop-and-frisk world, where standing in front of your own home has become an arrestable offense. As he narrates these incredible stories, he draws out and analyzes their common source: a perverse new standard of justice, based on a radical, disturbing new vision of civil rights.  Through astonishing - and enraging - accounts of the high-stakes capers of the wealthy and nightmare stories of regular people caught in the Divide's punishing logic, Taibbi lays bare one of the greatest challenges we face in contemporary American life: surviving a system that devours the lives of the poor, turns a blind eye to the destructive crimes of the wealthy, and implicates us all....more

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• The Divide: 1 of 4: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Matt Taibbi (Author), Ray Porter (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Feb 08 2020

  Photo: Phoenix skyline – ca. 1940Unknown - http://stilledlives.wikispaces.com/Museums+of+Phoenix,AZ+1959 Phoenix Skyline - ca. 1940 CC BY-SA 3.0 File:Phoenix downtown03.ca1940s.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Divide: 1 of 4: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Matt Taibbi (Author), Ray Porter (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/081299342X/ref=tmm_hrd_new_olp_0?ie=UTF8&condition=new&qid=&sr=A scathing portrait of an urgent new American crisis.  Over the last two decades, America has been falling deeper and deeper into a statistical mystery:  Poverty goes up. Crime goes down. The prison population doubles. Fraud by the rich wipes out 40 percent of the world's wealth. The rich get massively richer. No one goes to jail.  In search of a solution, journalist Matt Taibbi discovered the Divide, the seam in American life where our two most troubling trends - growing wealth inequality and mass incarceration - come together, driven by a dramatic shift in American citizenship: Our basic rights are now determined by our wealth or poverty. The Divide is what allows massively destructive fraud by the hyperwealthy to go unpunished, while turning poverty itself into a crime - but it's impossible to see until you look at these two alarming trends side by side.  In The Divide, Matt Taibbi takes readers on a galvanizing journey through both sides of our new system of justice - the fun-house-mirror worlds of the untouchably wealthy and the criminalized poor. He uncovers the startling looting that preceded the financial collapse; a wild conspiracy of billionaire hedge fund managers to destroy a company through dirty tricks; and the story of a whistleblower who gets in the way of the largest banks in America, only to find herself in the crosshairs. On the other side of the Divide, Taibbi takes us to the front lines of the immigrant dragnet; into the newly punitive welfare system which treats its beneficiaries as thieves; and deep inside the stop-and-frisk world, where standing in front of your own home has become an arrestable offense. As he narrates these incredible stories, he draws out and analyzes their common source: a perverse new standard of justice, based on a radical, disturbing new vision of civil rights.  Through astonishing - and enraging - accounts of the high-stakes capers of the wealthy and nightmare stories of regular people caught in the Divide's punishing logic, Taibbi lays bare one of the greatest challenges we face in contemporary American life: surviving a system that devours the lives of the poor, turns a blind eye to the destructive crimes of the wealthy, and implicates us all....more

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• Such Troops as These: 3 of 4: The Genius and Leadership of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson Hardcover – September 2, 2014 by Bevin Alexander (Author)

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  Feb 08 2020

  Photo: U.S. cavalry at Sudley Spring Ford Barnard, George N., 1819-1902, photographer - https://www.loc.gov/resource/cwp.4a39448/ Photo of Federal Cavalry at Sudley Springs after the First Battle of Bull Run. Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html Public Domain File:Federal cavalry Sudley Springs.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Such Troops as These: 3 of 4: The Genius and Leadership of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson Hardcover – September 2, 2014 by Bevin Alexander  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Such-Troops-These-Leadership-Confederate/dp/0425271293/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=The Civil War of 1861–65 pitted the industrial North against the agricultural South, and remains the most catastrophic conflict in terms of loss of life in American history. With triple the population and eleven times the industry, the Union had a decided advantage over the Confederacy in terms of direct conflict and conventional warfare. One general had the vision of an alternative approach that could win the War for the South—his name was Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson.It was Jackson’s strategy to always strike at the Union’s vulnerabilities, not to challenge its power directly. He won a campaign against the North with a force only a quarter of the size of the Union army, and he was the first commander to recognize the overwhelming defensive power of the new rifles and cannons. With most of its military forces on the offensive in the South, the North was left virtually undefended on its own turf. Jackson believed invading the eastern states along the great industrial corridor from Baltimore to Maine could divide and cripple the Union, forcing surrender. But he failed to convince Confederate president Jefferson Davis or General Robert E. Lee of the viability of his plan.In Such Troops as These, Bevin Alexander presents a compelling case for Stonewall Jackson as a supreme military strategist and the greatest general in American history. Fiercely dedicated to the cause of Southern independence, Jackson would not live to see the end of the War. But his military legacy lives on and finds fitting tribute in this book....more

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• On the Road to Baku: Hollywood on the Caspian Sea: 2 of 2: Shamkhal Hasanli @xezertv

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  Feb 07 2020

  Photo: PosterUnknown - Here Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Sailko using CommonsHelper. DW Griffith's Intolerance (1916) movie poster Public Domain File:Intolerance (film).jpg Created: 31 December 1915 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Baku: Hollywood on the Caspian Sea: 2 of 2: Shamkhal Hasanli @xezertv 

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• On the Road to Baku: Hollywood on the Caspian Sea: 1 of 2: Shamkhal Hasanli @xezertv

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  Feb 07 2020

  Photo: Belshazzar's feast scene from Intolerance Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research - http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullRecord.asp?id=68698 Scene still of Belshazzar's feast in the central courtyard of Babylon from D. W. Griffith's 1916 silent film Intolerance. Public Domain File:Griffith intolerance.jpg Created: 2009-09-23 08:08:52 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Baku: Hollywood on the Caspian Sea: 1 of 2: Shamkhal Hasanli @xezertv ...more

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• On the Road to Baku: Mars avalanches are seasonal and weird. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Feb 07 2020

  Photo: NASA/JPL/UArizonahttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Baku: Mars avalanches are seasonal and weird. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/a-martian-avalanche-before-and-after/

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• On the Road to Baku: Astronaut-training goes private. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Feb 07 2020

  Photo: Another image of Edward White during Gemini 4 performing EVA NASA - Great Images in NASA Description Astronaut Edward H. White II, pilot for the Gemini-Titan 4 space flight, floats in space during America's first spacewalk. The extravehicular activity (EVA) was performed during the Gemini 4 mission on June 3, 1965. White spent 23 minutes maneuvering around his spacecraft as Jim McDivitt remained inside the spacecraft. White is attached to the spacecraft by a 25-ft. umbilical line and a 23-ft. tether line, both wrapped in gold tape to form one cord. In his right hand, White carries a Hand-Held Self Maneuvering Unit (HHSMU), which he used to help move him around the weightless environment of space. The visor of his helmet is gold plated to protect him from the unfiltered rays of the sun. The spacewalk started at 3:45 p.m. EDT on the third orbit when White opened the hatch and used the hand-held manuevering oxygen-jet gun to push himself out of the capsule. The EVA started over the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii and lasted 23 minutes, ending over the Gulf of Mexico. Initially, White propelled himself to the end of the 8-meter tether and back to the spacecraft three times using the hand-held gun. After the first three minutes the fuel ran out and White maneuvered by twisting his body and pulling on the tether. In a photograph taken by Commander James McDivitt taken early in the EVA over a cloud-covered Pacific Ocean, the maneuvering gun is visible in White's right hand. Permission details Use of NASA logos, insignia and emblems is restricted per U.S. law 14 CFR 1221. The NASA website hosts a large number of images from the Soviet/Russian space agency, and other non-American space agencies. These are not necessarily in the public domain. Materials based on Hubble Space Telescope data may be copyrighted if they are not explicitly produced by the STScI.[1] See also {{PD-Hubble}} and {{Cc-Hubble}}. The SOHO (ESA & NASA) joint project implies that all materials created by its probe are copyrighted and require permission for commercial non-educational use. [2] Images featured on the Astronomy Picture of the Day(APOD) web site may be copyrighted. [3] The National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) site has been known to host copyrighted content. Its photo gallery FAQ states that all of the images in the photo gallery are in the public domain "Unless otherwise noted."View more Public Domainview terms File:Ed White performs first U.S. spacewalk - GPN-2006-000025.jpg Created: 2 June 1965 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Baku: Astronaut-training goes private. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com  https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-signs-agreement-with-private-company-to-train-private-astronauts/ ...more

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• On the Road to Baku: Israel meets and greets Sudan. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Feb 07 2020

  Photo: Five years in the SudanYear: 1911 (1910s)Authors:  Fothergill, EdwardSubjects:  Sudan -- Description and travelPublisher:  New York : D. AppletonContributing Library:  University of California LibrariesDigitizing Sponsor:  MSNText Appearing Before Image:equahty with the whiteman ; more, that he is entitled to privileges such asthe white man cannot obtain. The long and theshort of it is that they are spoiling the native, andthis is in my opinion little less than criminal, and Icannot understand the apathy of the Governmentwhich permits it. I have visited the Sobat RiverMission Station with ladies, and we had to enter thehouse of the missionaries over the prostrate bodiesof stark naked natives who were lying on the step,and who might not be disturbed or awakened. Ihave sat at the table inside the house, with a row ofblack heads straining in to watch what was going on ;and I have listened to the eulogies of the mistakenhosts, who pointed to the spectators with pride asexamples of the trust and confidence with which theyregarded their tutors. What do they expect to make out of a savage racelike this, if they deUberately spoil them at the verybeginning ? When do they propose to attempt toimbue them with the respect which is due to a whitehttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Baku: Israel meets and greets Sudan. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_preshttps://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israel-sudan-secret-explosive-history-mossad-iran-saudi-arabia-khashoggi-1.8499125 ...more

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• On the Road to Baku. Young Dr Li Wenliang, tragic enemy of the state in China; Xi as a thug @SebGorka,

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  Feb 07 2020

  Image:  Letter of admonition issued by the Wuhan Police Department ordering Li to stop "spreading rumors" about "SARS", signed by Li and two officers. Li uploaded it to his Sina Weibo account. Note that Dr Li was arrested for speaking of the imminent danger. When he died on Thursday as an enemy f the state, it wasn't clear that his death was in fact from the Wuhan coronavirus.   Seb Gorka, America First radio, in re: “Dr Li Wenliang, coronavirus whistleblower, confirmed dead at 34“ – he was one of eight to brought the virus to the world’s attention, and he was arrested and persecuted by the regime for that.   It both represents a real danger to all of us, and is antithetical to everything we stand for.  We don't even know for sure that he died of the virus; he may have been a simple enemy of the state as he continued his social media information flow. This constitutes a very serious challenge to the tyranny of China. Meanwhile, the US has integrated its economy into the same supply chain. The world economy, supply chain, and China untrustworthy. Low expectations that Xi and his mafiya cliques will ever be transparent. They still have labor camps.  Al Qaeda: it’s tough being a [honcho], dangerous with Trump as president.  Recall the days when they attacked all the time under a different Administration?  ...more

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• On the Road to Baku: The Arab League rejects the Trump Peace Plan & What is to be done? @David_Pollock @WashInstitute Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Feb 07 2020

  Photo:Title: Egypt. Village and pyramids during the flood-time. ca. 189-Abstract: Photo shows men on camels and one man standing next to a camel in shallow flood water, with pyramids in the background, in Egypt.Physical description: 1 photographic print.Notes: Title from caption card and item.; LOT subdivision subject: Egypt.; Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress).Date | between 1890 and 1900 Source | Library of CongressCatalog: http://lccn.loc.gov/2001705532Image download: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3a30000/3a38000/3a38600/3a38699v.jpgOriginal url: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a38699Author | Frank and Frances Carpenter CollectionPermission(Reusing this file) | No known restrictions on publication. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Baku: The Arab League rejects the Trump Peace Plan & What is to be done? @David_Pollock @WashInstitute Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_presDavid Pollock, the Bernstein fellow at The Washington Institute, focuses on the political dynamics of Middle East countries. He is the director of Project Fikra, a program of research, publication, and network-building designed to generate policy ideas for promoting positive change and countering the spread of extremism in the Middle East. Related articles●        https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/fikraforum/view/egypts-public-backs-israeli-palestinian-compromise-wants-good-ties-with-uni ●        https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/fikraforum/view/arab-reactions-to-trumps-peace-plan-an-analysis-and-recommendation ●        https://en.radiofarda.com/a/in-rare-move-iran-s-zarif-calls-palestinian-leader-abbas/30418362.html ●        https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-iran/iran-will-back-palestinian-armed-groups-as-much-as-it-can-leader-idUSKBN1ZZ17R ●        https://www.state.gov/escalation-of-violence-in-idlib/  ...more

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• On the Road to Baku. The celebratory speech and today’s prayer breakfast. @SebGorka

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  Feb 07 2020

  Image:  President John F. Kennedy addresses the National Prayer Breakfast in 1961. Seb Gorka, America First radio, in re:   The president’s remarks at the White House and the prayer breakfast on the acquittal. State of the Union speech.  The Iowa vote.

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• On the Road to Baku. Physician who first identified coronavirus is dead. Not even clear why. @henryimiller

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  Feb 07 2020

  Image:  Dr Li Wenliang, about to die in hosptal, having been given emergency aid only shortly before his death; his early effort to warn about the virus, plus his continuing information flow on social netweorks, made him an enemy of the state. Permissions: video screen grab. Dr Henry Miller, Pacific Research Institute, in re: South China Morning Post headlines on the coronavirus. “After chaos, Dr Li Wenliang, coronavirus whistleblower, confirmed dead at 34.“ Also, factories to stay closed many extra days.  Survival can depend on “co-morbidities,” such as other maladies, compromised immune system, pulmonary problems, et al.   We have tens of thousands at risk. Have we learned the transmissibility, the mortality rate?  We’ve learned nothing new yet.  This virus doesn't mutate as rapidly or radically as influenza virus does; incubation, from several days to two weeks.  The fatalities are disproportionately in Hubei Province, where Wuhan City is. Outside there, 1.7%, which is low. ...more

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• On the Road to Baku. President’s celebratory speech; Devin singled out; bizarre claim in a hearing. @DevinNunes

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  Feb 07 2020

  Image:  Congressman Devin Nunes, CA-22, Congressman Devin Nunes, CA-22, Ranking in House Intell Committee; in re:   The president spoke to Devin by name during his speech this morning, One of the components of the speech’s success was that he listed the election promises he’d made and those he’d already delivered. The other success was that the president spotlighted the hundred-year-old Tuskegee airman and his young great-grandson, and the little girl who’ll get to attend the school of her choice, and the Afghanistan hero who returned at the president’s request and happily surprised his wife and children during the speech. During a hearing today, one of the Democratic Congressmen said that the Russians may have destroyed the Iowa app.   ...more

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• On the Road to Baku. Turkish troops invade Syria, complain about resistance. @aykan_erdemir

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  Feb 07 2020

  Image:  Map of Syria's ethno-religious composition in 1976 Aykan Erdemir, in re: Escalations in Idlib-Turkey; update. The new Istanbul airport is spectacular.  Erdogan threatens retaliation against Syria because of the “murder” of Turkish soldiers by Syrians — on Syrian soil. Assad forces move further into Idlib, sending waves of refugees into Turkey.  Putin tries to defuse tensions, but it’s really a test of tensions between Russia and Turkey in their new alliance. In Nov 2015, Turkey downed a Russian jet; now, the biggest such crisis since then. Only Russia can stay Assad; and hundreds of thousands of Idlib residents continue to escape toward the Turkish border. Balancing acts.  Mike Pompeo’s “wayward ally, Turkey.”   ●        https://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-usa-idUSKBN1ZZ2QY?taid=5e3b6276ecb7110001ba46d9&utm ●        http://info.washingtoninstitute.org/acton/rif/19961/s-0aad-2002/-/l-0085:2dee/l-0085/showPreparedMessage?sid=TV2:09nbbGJ2v ●        http://www.aymennjawad.org/2020/02/sarmin-in-idlib-interview ●        https://www.fdd.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/fdd-report-trump-midterm-assessment.pdf ●        https://www.state.gov/ambassador-james-jeffrey-on-the-situation-in-syria/ ●        https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/02/russia-syria-turkey-idlib-choice.html ●        https://www.voanews.com/europe/turkish-russian-tension-over-syria-opens-door-washington Dr. Aykan Erdemir, senior Fellow at FDD, is a former member of the Turkish Parliament (2011 to 2015) who served in the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee, EU Harmonization Committee, and the Ad Hoc Parliamentary Committee on the IT Sector and the Internet. As an outspoken defender of pluralism, minority rights, and religious freedoms in the Middle East, Aykan has been at the forefront of the struggle against religious persecution, hate crimes, and hate speech in Turkey.    ...more

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• On the Road to Baku. Priority one: freedom of religious practice in the US. @RepLeeZeldin

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  Feb 07 2020

  Image: The First Amendment to the Constitution. Lee Zeldin, in re: Legislation: Never Again Education Act; and multiple other bills passing though with bipartisan support. . . . Pastor Brunson. Religious freedom in Iraq and around the world—and, as a first priority, freedom of religious practice in the US. https://zeldin.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/house-passes-never-again-education-acthttps://www.jns.org/us-house-passes-never-again-education-act-on-international-holocaust-remembrance-day/ https://zeldin.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/zeldin-meng-deutch-introduce-bipartisan-resolution-commemorating-75https://zeldin.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/reps-zeldin-cicilline-mast-sherman-lead-104-members-urging-un-implement https://zeldin.house.gov/sites/zeldin.house.gov/files/01.27.20_FINAL%20Letter%20to%20UN%20Secretary%20General%20re%20Anti-Semitism%20Envoy-1.pdf https://zeldin.house.gov/sites/zeldin.house.gov/files/Israel%20Anti%20Boycott%20Act.pdf Congressman Lee Zeldin has represented New York’s First Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2015. Currently, Congressman Zeldin serves on two House Committees: Financial Services and Foreign Affairs, where he serves as Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. Additionally, Congressman Zeldin serves as co-chair of the Long Island Sound Caucus and founding member of the National Estuary Program Caucus and as one of two Jewish Republicans in Congress, also serves as co-chairman of the House Republican Israel Caucus, which has over 100 members.     ...more

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• On the Road to Baku. 2/2 Silicon Valley on the Caspian Sea

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  Feb 07 2020

  Image:  Silicon Valley in its recent. rural history; similar to parts of Azerbaijan Tural Karimli, Innovation Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan, in re: Our ambition is to become the regional Silicon Valley in Azerbaijan.  We were the first country to have an oil tanker, an oil pipeline, an oil drill.  We've been a font of innovation for well over a century. “Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has signed a decree on the establishment of the Innovation Agency under the Ministry of Transport, Communications & High Technologies. The decree says that the Agency will be set up on the basis of the State IT Development Fund and Hi-Tech Park LLC. “The Agency will become a legal entity of public law to render assistance to local business entities in acquisition of modern technologies and technological solutions and organizing their transfer, supporting scientific research of innovative orientation, encouraging innovative projects (including startups), financing them through grants, subsidized loans and investments in authorized capital (including venture financing), promoting innovation initiative.”   2/2   https://www.strategeast.org/azerbaijan-launching-innovation-agency-to-support-all-participants-in-countrys-innovation-sector/ http://abc.az/mobile/view.php?id=19575&lng=en  ...more

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• On the Road to Baku. 1/2 Silicon Valley on the Caspian Sea

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  Feb 07 2020

  Image:  "The Palace of the Khan of Baku" by Grigory Gagarin Tural Karimli, Innovation Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan, in re: Our ambition is to become the regional Silicon Valley in Azerbaijan.  We were the first country to have an oil tanker, an oil pipeline, an oil drill.  We've been a font of innovation for well over a century. “Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has signed a decree on the establishment of the Innovation Agency under the Ministry of Transport, Communications & High Technologies. The decree says that the Agency will be set up on the basis of the State IT Development Fund and Hi-Tech Park LLC. “The Agency will become a legal entity of public law to render assistance to local business entities in acquisition of modern technologies and technological solutions and organizing their transfer, supporting scientific research of innovative orientation, encouraging innovative projects (including startups), financing them through grants, subsidized loans and investments in authorized capital (including venture financing), promoting innovation initiative.”   1 /2   https://www.strategeast.org/azerbaijan-launching-innovation-agency-to-support-all-participants-in-countrys-innovation-sector/ http://abc.az/mobile/view.php?id=19575&lng=en  ...more

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• Hell and Good Company: 4 of 4: The Spanish Civil War and the World It Made Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Richard Rhodes (Author), Christian Coulson (Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher)

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  Feb 07 2020

  Photo:  Condor Legion marching during the Spanish Civil War, most likely in LeónDatebetween 1936 and 1939 SourceUnited States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Photograph #734682AuthorUnknownThis work has been released into the public domain by its author, the USHMM. This applies worldwide.In some countries this may not be legally possible; if so:the USHMM grants anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Hell and Good Company: 4 of 4: The Spanish Civil War and the World It Made Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Richard Rhodes (Author), Christian Coulson (Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Hell-Good-Company-Spanish-Civil/dp/B00SC1DXYY/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, the remarkable story of the Spanish Civil War through the eyes of the reporters, writers, artists, doctors, and nurses who witnessed it.  The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) inspired and haunted an extraordinary number of exceptional artists and writers, including Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Martha Gellhorn, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, and John Dos Passos. The idealism of the cause--defending democracy from fascism at a time when Europe was darkening toward another world war--and the brutality of the conflict drew from them some of their best work: Guernica, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Homage to Catalonia, The Spanish Earth.  The war spurred breakthroughs in military and medical technology as well. New aircraft, new weapons, new tactics and strategy all emerged in the intense Spanish conflict. Indiscriminate destruction raining from the sky became a dreaded reality for the first time. Progress also arose from the horror: The doctors and nurses who volunteered to serve with the Spanish defenders devised major advances in battlefield surgery and front-line blood transfusion. In those ways, and in many others, the Spanish Civil War served as a test bed for World War II and for the entire twentieth century.  From the life of John James Audubon to the invention of the atomic bomb, listeners have long relied on Richard Rhodes to explain, distill, and dramatize crucial moments in history. Now he takes us onto battlefields and into bomb shelters, into the studios of artists, into the crowded wards of war hospitals, and into the hearts and minds of a rich cast of characters to show how the ideological, aesthetic, and technological developments that emerged in Spain changed the world forever....more

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• Hell and Good Company: 3 of 4: The Spanish Civil War and the World It Made Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Richard Rhodes (Author), Christian Coulson (Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher)

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  Feb 07 2020

  Photo:  Review of Soviet armored fighting vehicles used to equip the Republican Populist Army during the Spanish Civil WarDateUnknown dateSourceOwn workAuthorTextidorI, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license: This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.The person who associated a work with this deed has dedicated the work to the public domain by waiving all of their rights to the work worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Hell and Good Company: 3 of 4: The Spanish Civil War and the World It Made Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Richard Rhodes (Author), Christian Coulson (Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Hell-Good-Company-Spanish-Civil/dp/B00SC1DXYY/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, the remarkable story of the Spanish Civil War through the eyes of the reporters, writers, artists, doctors, and nurses who witnessed it.  The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) inspired and haunted an extraordinary number of exceptional artists and writers, including Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Martha Gellhorn, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, and John Dos Passos. The idealism of the cause--defending democracy from fascism at a time when Europe was darkening toward another world war--and the brutality of the conflict drew from them some of their best work: Guernica, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Homage to Catalonia, The Spanish Earth.  The war spurred breakthroughs in military and medical technology as well. New aircraft, new weapons, new tactics and strategy all emerged in the intense Spanish conflict. Indiscriminate destruction raining from the sky became a dreaded reality for the first time. Progress also arose from the horror: The doctors and nurses who volunteered to serve with the Spanish defenders devised major advances in battlefield surgery and front-line blood transfusion. In those ways, and in many others, the Spanish Civil War served as a test bed for World War II and for the entire twentieth century.  From the life of John James Audubon to the invention of the atomic bomb, listeners have long relied on Richard Rhodes to explain, distill, and dramatize crucial moments in history. Now he takes us onto battlefields and into bomb shelters, into the studios of artists, into the crowded wards of war hospitals, and into the hearts and minds of a rich cast of characters to show how the ideological, aesthetic, and technological developments that emerged in Spain changed the world forever....more

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• Hell and Good Company: 2 of 4: The Spanish Civil War and the World It Made Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Richard Rhodes (Author), Christian Coulson (Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher)

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  Feb 07 2020

  Photo: Children evacuated during the Spanish Civil War, line up for bread Date: [ca. 1936-1939]Creator: Alexander MacLeod fondsReference Code: F 126-4-0-7Archives of Ontario, I0013278 "Children evacuated during the Spanish Civil War, line up for bread"Date : [vers 1936-1939]Crée par : Photographe inconnu. Fonds Alexander Albert MacLeod.Code de référence : F 126-4-0-7Archives publiques de l'Ontario, I0013272 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Hell and Good Company: 2 of 4: The Spanish Civil War and the World It Made Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Richard Rhodes (Author), Christian Coulson (Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Hell-Good-Company-Spanish-Civil/dp/B00SC1DXYY/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, the remarkable story of the Spanish Civil War through the eyes of the reporters, writers, artists, doctors, and nurses who witnessed it.  The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) inspired and haunted an extraordinary number of exceptional artists and writers, including Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Martha Gellhorn, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, and John Dos Passos. The idealism of the cause--defending democracy from fascism at a time when Europe was darkening toward another world war--and the brutality of the conflict drew from them some of their best work: Guernica, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Homage to Catalonia, The Spanish Earth.  The war spurred breakthroughs in military and medical technology as well. New aircraft, new weapons, new tactics and strategy all emerged in the intense Spanish conflict. Indiscriminate destruction raining from the sky became a dreaded reality for the first time. Progress also arose from the horror: The doctors and nurses who volunteered to serve with the Spanish defenders devised major advances in battlefield surgery and front-line blood transfusion. In those ways, and in many others, the Spanish Civil War served as a test bed for World War II and for the entire twentieth century.  From the life of John James Audubon to the invention of the atomic bomb, listeners have long relied on Richard Rhodes to explain, distill, and dramatize crucial moments in history. Now he takes us onto battlefields and into bomb shelters, into the studios of artists, into the crowded wards of war hospitals, and into the hearts and minds of a rich cast of characters to show how the ideological, aesthetic, and technological developments that emerged in Spain changed the world forever....more

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• Hell and Good Company: 1 of 4: The Spanish Civil War and the World It Made Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Richard Rhodes (Author), Christian Coulson (Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo: English: The photograph shows children preparing for evacuation from Spain, during the Spanish Civil War, some giving the Republican salute. It is donated to Wikipedia Commons by the estate of Olga Brocca Smith, and is dedicated to all innocent victims of war.Español: Fotografía que muestra a varios niños saludando con el puño en alto poco antes de ser evacuados de España durante la Guerra Civil.Datebetween 1936 and 1939 SourceEnglish: This photograph was owned by the late Olga Teresa Brocca Smith (daughter of José Brocca). The original is currently in the possession of Dr. Charles Smith (grandson of José Brocca). The identity of the original photographer is unknown. Any information on the photographer or the children pictured in the photograph would be very welcome.AuthorLocospotterOther versionsThis is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: used the GIMP's "Heal selection" plugin to remove scratches, creases, and waterspots. Other missing portions of the image were filled in using the clone stamp, and finally the contrast was increased by a factor of 10 and a 5px Gaussian blur was applied to the entire image to correct for graininess. The finished product was saved as a PNG file to minimize file size and prevent further degradation. I claim no copyright over my changes.. Modifications made by Remember the dot.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.share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.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.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Hell and Good Company: 1 of 4: The Spanish Civil War and the World It Made Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Richard Rhodes (Author), Christian Coulson (Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Hell-Good-Company-Spanish-Civil/dp/B00SC1DXYY/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, the remarkable story of the Spanish Civil War through the eyes of the reporters, writers, artists, doctors, and nurses who witnessed it.  The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) inspired and haunted an extraordinary number of exceptional artists and writers, including Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Martha Gellhorn, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, and John Dos Passos. The idealism of the cause--defending democracy from fascism at a time when Europe was darkening toward another world war--and the brutality of the conflict drew from them some of their best work: Guernica, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Homage to Catalonia, The Spanish Earth.  The war spurred breakthroughs in military and medical technology as well. New aircraft, new weapons, new tactics and strategy all emerged in the intense Spanish conflict. Indiscriminate destruction raining from the sky became a dreaded reality for the first time. Progress also arose from the horror: The doctors and nurses who volunteered to serve with the Spanish defenders devised major advances in battlefield surgery and front-line blood transfusion. In those ways, and in many others, the Spanish Civil War served as a test bed for World War II and for the entire twentieth century.  From the life of John James Audubon to the invention of the atomic bomb, listeners have long relied on Richard Rhodes to explain, distill, and dramatize crucial moments in history. Now he takes us onto battlefields and into bomb shelters, into the studios of artists, into the crowded wards of war hospitals, and into the hearts and minds of a rich cast of characters to show how the ideological, aesthetic, and technological developments that emerged in Spain changed the world forever....more

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• On the Road to Baku: Buttigieg is the big loser from the Iowa fail. @HooverWhalen @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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  Feb 06 2020

  Photo: : 30th annual catalogueIdentifier: CAT31284754 (find matches)Year: 1900 (1900s)Authors: Iowa Seed Co. (Des Moines, Iowa); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog CollectionSubjects: Nursery stock Iowa Des Moines Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies CatalogsPublisher: Des Moines, Iowa : Iowa Seed CompanyContributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural LibraryDigitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural LibraryView Book Page: Book ViewerAbout This Book: Catalog EntryView All Images: All Images From BookClick here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Baku: Buttigieg is the big loser from the Iowa fail. @HooverWhalen @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter...more

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• On the Road to Baku: The Speaker tears up the State of the Union. @HooverWhalen @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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  Feb 06 2020

  Photo: William Pennington, Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives. Note: William Pennington’s portrait was acquired in 1911 as part of the House’s initiative to acquire oil portraits of each former Speaker. Joseph Lauber, a German-born artist who studied with William Merritt Chase at the Art Students League in New York, completed the commission. As an artist, Lauber was better known for his murals and decorative work. He collaborated with John LaFarge on Cornelius Vanderbilt’s residence, and on the stained glass windows of New York’s Appellate Court. Joseph Lauber (American, 1855-1948) - http://history.house.gov/Collection/Detail/29681?ret=True Public Domain File:William Pennington portrait.jpg Created: 1911date QS:P571,+1911-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Baku: The Speaker tears up the State of the Union. @HooverWhalen @JohnFund @ThadMcCotterhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/us/politics/trump-pelosi.html ...more

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• On the Road to Baku. Azeri Iranians crave real elections, such as right across the border. Ahmad Obali, Güney Azərbaycan TV (@GunAzTV)

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  Feb 06 2020

  Image:  A 1730 map of the Middle East showing the province of "Irac Agemi" (Persian Iraq) Ahmad Obali, founder of Gunaz TV, a TV studio in Chicago; broadcasts two hours a day to Iran, is now an enemy of the state; in re: Upcoming elections in Azerbaijan, and how excited the citizens are to vote for their future—and how happy Iranians would be to be able to, also.  Without US pressure, the current Iranian govt would stay for years and year.  In Tabriz, everyone knows what’s  happening in Azerbaijan. Gunaz TV =  (South Azerbaijan) Guni Azerbaijan   ...more

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• On the Road to Baku. Moon Jae-in invites in virus, restricts speech @DrTaraO

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  Feb 06 2020

  Image:  Korean Bronze Age sword. Seoul, National Museum of Korea.   Moon Jae-in: stab self to kowtow to China Tara O of the East Asia Research Center eastasiaresearch.org/ and Fellow at the Institute for Corean-American Studies in re: Her recent research trip to Seoul. In South Korea: 19 coronavirus patients.  People are very, very concerned; even Korean physicians want the border with China to be closed, although Moon Jae-in so far has refused. Ten thousand Chinese tourists enter South Korea daily. China asked not to have the borders closed so the collaborationist Moon has complied.  Moon is paying tribute fees to China as a vassal state. North Korea said it closed its border with China. Moon sent a million masks to China despite a shortage in South Korea.  Moon:  You’re not allowed to say “Wuhan virus” or China virus”; must say, “New kind of coronavirus.” Also: https://eastasiaresearch.org/2020/02/02/4-years-jail-for-libel-regarding-5-18-gwangju-incident-freedom-of-speech-to-be-set-back-again-in-south-korea/ ...more

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• On the Road to Baku. Virus halts auto supply chain—& no more TP. Andrew Collier @acollier

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  Feb 06 2020

  Image:  Army truck manufacture (Dodge). In final assembly operation water is put in the radiator, gasoline in the fuel tank, so that each Dodge Army truck leaves the assembly line under its own powerDate01/01/1940personContributorsPalmer, Alfred T., photographerUnited States. Office for Emergency Management.placeLocationDetroit (Mich.), 42.33139, -83.04583 Andrew Collier, managing director of Orient Capital Research in Hong Kong and author of Shadow Banking and the Rise of Capitalism in China, in re:  The effect of the coronavirus epidemic on Hong Kong: shares in mainland toilet-paper factories fell as  surgical masks, hand sanitizer, toilet paper and even rice became scarce. Trade wars, protests, now the virus. Mild panic because no one knows where this is headed Many people are not leaving home much; activities curtailed.  As usual, Carrie Lam fails to rise to the challenge of the virus.  S&P global: disrupt automobile supply chain. Mainland committee of nine has exactly one health-care practitioner. Bad virus reporting on Mainland; good or questionable numbers of the ill in Hong Kong.     ...more

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• On the Road to Baku. Azerbaijan: former Soviet state blooms into a real democracy @ElinSuleymanov

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  Feb 06 2020

  Image:  Coat of arms of Azerbaijan Elin Suleymanov, Ambassador of Azerbaijan to the United States; in re: The significance of the upcoming federal parliamentary elections: a demonstration of the transformation of a badly-abused Soviet client state into a democratic nation.  Much dynamism in Azerbaijan. Snap election; things changing rapidly; building up success making this a successful country. Young Western-educated candidates; hot debates for the 125 seats with 1,300-plus candidates. International an local observers.  Strong participation from both the cities and the villages.  Tural Karimli has applications from Russia, Israel, elsewhere, to open start-ups, especially tech. “We need to change the black gold [i.e., oil and gas] into human gold.” —Pres. Ilham Aliyev.   Baku has become a gem of a city regionally; is the capital the Caspian region as a whole.  Credit and financing programs.  The Central Election Commission ...more

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• On the Road to Baku. The govt “national team” in China buys stocks when no one else will. Fraser Howie @NAS

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  Feb 06 2020

  Image:  The surreptitious bailout by "the national team."  Here:  renminbi banknotes 100, 50, 20, 10, 5, and 1 yuan (2005 series). Fraser Howie, co-author of Red Capitalism: The Fragile Financial Foundation of China's Extraordinary Rise, on China's currency war on the U.S.. The Chinese national team basically jumps in and buys what’s needed when the market starts to tank. You’ve got to think that the effect of all this in the market will be quite severe.  The emergency purchases constitute a free-market move of buying into private companies.   . . . It’ll be at least another month before we can have a decent picture of this; perhaps a longer and deeper malaise. ...more

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• On the Road to Baku. Hong Kong quickly deports Michael Yon, the truthful observer. @MichaelYon

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  Feb 06 2020

  Image:  The American author and blogger Michael Yon Michael Yon, Hong Kong reporter, in re:  Michael landed in Hong Kong to return to his job, was kicked out (“deported”) for no evident reason; is back in Thailand. In the airport, he was taken to a private room, interviewed extensively, refused information on why he was being deported.  After all the other matters, only truth-telling and transparency will help the Chinese people.   Behind all this, the govt intends to remove anyone who can broadcast truth to the world: it's in meltdown from coronavirus, the other illnesses, the Taiwan elections, the Hong Kong rebellion — a perfect storm showing the vast incompetence and opacity of Beijing.  The officials demanded Michael sign documents, which he declined to do, and that he cease recording, although he had other machines running so the story instantly went viral.  Michael will immediately head to Taiwan.  The authorities are moving against those who tell the truth; it’s dangerous.  The concentration camps with tents are a perfect breeding-ground for the virus.   ...more

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• On the Road to Baku. Actual Chinese concentration (quarantine) camps (with tents) of returning migrant Chinese workers Arthur Waldron: @PennSAS, #China @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Feb 06 2020

  Image:  said to be Ningbo:https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=lv7FbQ9_ISU&app=desktop Arthur Waldron, Lauder Professor of International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania, on the cause of the coronavirus outbreak and the breakdown of trust and social cohesion. China is establishing vast concentration camps for workers who may possibly have contracted Wuhan coronavirus; everyone sent to tents in fields with drainage ditches for sanitary functions. Everyone held for two weeks; anyone with no symptoms than allowed to go back tot his factory; if ill, sent on to ”a different place.”  So far: 54,000 sick, 25,000 deaths.  Like the terrible plagues of the T`ang Dynasty in the 700s. ...more

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• On the Road to Baku. China won’t let Canadians leave Wuhan. Charles Burton @cburton001

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  Feb 06 2020

  Image:  The Deserted Hankow Bund, China, 1911 Black and white lantern slide showing Hankow (Hankou) Bund with few pedestrians, and boats on the Yangtze (Changjiang) river. After Hankou was opened up to foreign trade in 1862, foreign concessions lined up along the Yangtze on Hankou Bund, and this strip would have been a bustling business area in more peaceful times. This slide comes from a collection held by the Church of Scotland and generated by the medical missionary Charles Somerville, who worked for the London Missionary Society in Hankou from 1904 to 1914. Photographer: Unknown Filename: IMP-CSWC47-LS1-45.tif Coverage date: 1911 Subject (unesco): Revolutions; Political movements Part of collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960 Part of subcollection: Photographs from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh, U.K., ca.1900-ca.1940s Repository name: Centre for the Study of World Christianity Archival file: Volume4/IMP-CSWC47-LS1-45.tif Geographic subject (city or populated place): Wuhan Repository address: The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom Geographic subject (country): China Format (aacr2): lantern slides 8.2 x 8.2cm Geographic subject (continent): Asia Rights: Contact the repository for details. Part of series: Church of Scotland Slide and Visual Collection; Charles Somerville (CSWC47-LS1) Charles Burton, senior Fellow at the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, in re: The coronavirus outbreak. Canada hasn't been able to evacuate her citizens from Wuhan because of complicated political relations — probably in order to get Meng back to China. Canadians are being rated poorly in Wuhan. Chinese people’s traditional understanding is that natural [disasters] are harbingers of the end of a dynasty, her, an end to the Xi dynasty. Chinese govt is now cracking down on citizens.   Also: bird flu, swine flue, and other maladies emanating from live annual markets, which the government has not controlled. Also: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/feb/3/fighting-the-coronavirus-outbreak-china-has-gone-i/ ...more

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• Ancient Chinese Warfare: 2 of 2: by Ralph D. Sawyer.

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  Feb 06 2020

  Photo: "Receiving the surrender of the Ili". Marching during the spring, the Chinese army reaches Kouldja on the Ili river without opposition, 1755.Jean Damascene / 安德義 (A collaboration between Chinese and European painters. The Jesuit missionaries involved in producing the drawings in China were Giuseppe Castiglione, Jean-Denis Attiret, Ignace Sichelbart and Jean Damascene. The engravings were executed in Paris under the direction of Charles-Nicolas Cochin of the Académie Royal at the Court of Louis XVI and the individual engravers include Le Bas, Aliamet, Prevot, Saint-Aubin, Masquelier, Choffard, and Launay.) - http://www.battle-of-qurman.com.cn/e/hist.htm Permission details This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer. You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States. This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.View more Public Domainview terms File:Receiving the surrender of the Yili.jpg Created: between 1765 and 1769 date QS:P,+1765-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1765-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1769-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowAncient Chinese Warfare: 2 of 2: by Ralph D. Sawyer. http://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Chinese-Warfare-Ralph-Sawyer/dp/046502145X/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8Nicola Di Cosmo, Henry Luce Foundation Professor of East Asian History at the Institute for Advanced Study: “Ancient Chinese Warfare is an important, informative, and exciting book. Written with panache, brimming with new ideas, and based on a level of knowledge that would challenge any expert, Sawyer’s work has transformed single-handedly our understanding of ancient Chinese military history. Readers will find in this book a solidly informed and vivid account of China’s ways of warfare from the Shang dynasty to the mid-first millennium BC. Only few of them will appreciate the massive effort of synthesis and analysis that this book represents, and it is to Sawyer’s credit that he has succeeded in bringing an extremely difficult topic to a level that everyone can understand, learn from, and enjoy.” Edward N. Luttwak, author of The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire “Not unexpectedly, this book enhances Ralph D. Sawyer’s reputation as the premier interpreter of Chinese strategy and warfare. The surprise is that with the aid of a flowing style he has written a highly readable, indeed very enjoyable book on a seemingly abstruse subject. In a manner fascinating in itself, Sawyer brilliantly reconstructs the fragmentary archaeological evidence.” http://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Chinese-Warfare-Ralph-Sawyer/dp/046502145X/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8...more

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• Ancient Chinese Warfare: 1 of 2: by Ralph D. Sawyer.

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  Feb 06 2020

  Photo: The Battle of Oroi-Jalatu,1756. Chinese general Zhao Hui attacked the Zunghars at night in present Wusu, Xinjiang.A collaboration between Chinese and European painters. The Jesuit missionaries involved in producing the drawings in China were Giuseppe Castiglione, Jean-Denis Attiret, Ignace Sichelbart and Jean Damascene. The engravings were executed in Paris under the direction of Charles-Nicolas Cochin of the Académie Royal at the Court of Louis XVI and the individual engravers include Le Bas, Aliamet, Prevot, Saint-Aubin, Masquelier, Choffard, and Launay. - http://www.battle-of-qurman.com.cn/e/hist.htm Permission details This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: This work is in the public domainin its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer. You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States. This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain". This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details.View more Public Domainview terms File:Battle of Oroi-Jalatu.jpg Created: between 1765 and 1769 date QS:P,+1765-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1765-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1769-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowAncient Chinese Warfare: 1 of 2: by Ralph D. Sawyer. http://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Chinese-Warfare-Ralph-Sawyer/dp/046502145X/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8Nicola Di Cosmo, Henry Luce Foundation Professor of East Asian History at the Institute for Advanced Study: “Ancient Chinese Warfare is an important, informative, and exciting book. Written with panache, brimming with new ideas, and based on a level of knowledge that would challenge any expert, Sawyer’s work has transformed single-handedly our understanding of ancient Chinese military history. Readers will find in this book a solidly informed and vivid account of China’s ways of warfare from the Shang dynasty to the mid-first millennium BC. Only few of them will appreciate the massive effort of synthesis and analysis that this book represents, and it is to Sawyer’s credit that he has succeeded in bringing an extremely difficult topic to a level that everyone can understand, learn from, and enjoy.” Edward N. Luttwak, author of The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire “Not unexpectedly, this book enhances Ralph D. Sawyer’s reputation as the premier interpreter of Chinese strategy and warfare. The surprise is that with the aid of a flowing style he has written a highly readable, indeed very enjoyable book on a seemingly abstruse subject. In a manner fascinating in itself, Sawyer brilliantly reconstructs the fragmentary archaeological evidence.” http://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Chinese-Warfare-Ralph-Sawyer/dp/046502145X/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8 ...more

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• 12/12 Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid that Avenged Pearl Harbor, by James M. Scott

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  Feb 05 2020

  Image:  Doolittle received the Medal of Honor in 1942 from President Roosevelt in a ceremony attended by (standing, L–R) Lt. Gen. H.H. Arnold, Josephine Doolittle, and Gen. George C. Marshall. On April 18, 1942, sixteen U.S. Army bombers under the command of the daredevil pilot Jimmy Doolittle lifted off from the deck of the USS Hornet on a one-way mission to pummel Japan’s factories, refineries, and dockyards in retaliation for their attack on Pearl Harbor. The raid buoyed America’s morale, and prompted an ill-fated Japanese attempt to seize Midway that turned the tide of the war. But it came at a horrific cost: an estimated 250,000 Chinese died in retaliation by the Japanese. Deeply researched and brilliantly written, Target Tokyo has been hailed as the definitive account of one of America’s most daring military operations. ...more

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• 11/12 Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid that Avenged Pearl Harbor, by James M. Scott

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  Image:  U.S. Army Air Force Lt. Robert L. Hite, blindfolded by his captors, is led from a Japanese transport plane after he and the other seven flyers were flown from Shanghai to Tokyo. Hite was co-pilot of crew 16 (B-25B s/n 40-2268 Bat out of Hell, 34th Bomb Squadron) of the "Doolittle Raiders". After about 45 days in Japan, all eight were taken back to China by ship and imprisoned in Shanghai. On 15 October 1942 three were executed, one died in captivity. The four others, including Hite, were liberated on 20 August 1945. On April 18, 1942, sixteen U.S. Army bombers under the command of the daredevil pilot Jimmy Doolittle lifted off from the deck of the USS Hornet on a one-way mission to pummel Japan’s factories, refineries, and dockyards in retaliation for their attack on Pearl Harbor. The raid buoyed America’s morale, and prompted an ill-fated Japanese attempt to seize Midway that turned the tide of the war. But it came at a horrific cost: an estimated 250,000 Chinese died in retaliation by the Japanese. Deeply researched and brilliantly written, Target Tokyo has been hailed as the definitive account of one of America’s most daring military operations. ...more

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• 10/12 Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid that Avenged Pearl Harbor, by James M. Scott

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  Feb 05 2020

  Image:  No.23 Nittō Maru sinking by USS Nashville On April 18, 1942, sixteen U.S. Army bombers under the command of the daredevil pilot Jimmy Doolittle lifted off from the deck of the USS Hornet on a one-way mission to pummel Japan’s factories, refineries, and dockyards in retaliation for their attack on Pearl Harbor. The raid buoyed America’s morale, and prompted an ill-fated Japanese attempt to seize Midway that turned the tide of the war. But it came at a horrific cost: an estimated 250,000 Chinese died in retaliation by the Japanese. Deeply researched and brilliantly written, Target Tokyo has been hailed as the definitive account of one of America’s most daring military operations. ...more

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• 9/12 Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid that Avenged Pearl Harbor, by James M. Scott

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  Feb 05 2020

  Image:  President Reagan and Barry Goldwater pin medals on Jimmy Doolittle. On April 18, 1942, sixteen U.S. Army bombers under the command of the daredevil pilot Jimmy Doolittle lifted off from the deck of the USS Hornet on a one-way mission to pummel Japan’s factories, refineries, and dockyards in retaliation for their attack on Pearl Harbor. The raid buoyed America’s morale, and prompted an ill-fated Japanese attempt to seize Midway that turned the tide of the war. But it came at a horrific cost: an estimated 250,000 Chinese died in retaliation by the Japanese. Deeply researched and brilliantly written, Target Tokyo has been hailed as the definitive account of one of America’s most daring military operations. ...more

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• 8/12 Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid that Avenged Pearl Harbor, by James M. Scott

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  Feb 05 2020

  Image:  Orders in hand, Navy Captain Marc A. Mitscher, skipper of USS Hornet, chats with Lt. Col. James Doolittle. On April 18, 1942, sixteen U.S. Army bombers under the command of the daredevil pilot Jimmy Doolittle lifted off from the deck of the USS Hornet on a one-way mission to pummel Japan’s factories, refineries, and dockyards in retaliation for their attack on Pearl Harbor. The raid buoyed America’s morale, and prompted an ill-fated Japanese attempt to seize Midway that turned the tide of the war. But it came at a horrific cost: an estimated 250,000 Chinese died in retaliation by the Japanese. Deeply researched and brilliantly written, Target Tokyo has been hailed as the definitive account of one of America’s most daring military operations. ...more

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• 7/12 Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid that Avenged Pearl Harbor, by James M. Scott

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  Feb 05 2020

  Image:  Nose art of "Hari Kari-er" On April 18, 1942, sixteen U.S. Army bombers under the command of the daredevil pilot Jimmy Doolittle lifted off from the deck of the USS Hornet on a one-way mission to pummel Japan’s factories, refineries, and dockyards in retaliation for their attack on Pearl Harbor. The raid buoyed America’s morale, and prompted an ill-fated Japanese attempt to seize Midway that turned the tide of the war. But it came at a horrific cost: an estimated 250,000 Chinese died in retaliation by the Japanese. Deeply researched and brilliantly written, Target Tokyo has been hailed as the definitive account of one of America’s most daring military operations. ...more

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• 6/12 Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid that Avenged Pearl Harbor, by James M. Scott

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  Feb 05 2020

  Image:  B-25 Mitchells aboard USS Hornet On April 18, 1942, sixteen U.S. Army bombers under the command of the daredevil pilot Jimmy Doolittle lifted off from the deck of the USS Hornet on a one-way mission to pummel Japan’s factories, refineries, and dockyards in retaliation for their attack on Pearl Harbor. The raid buoyed America’s morale, and prompted an ill-fated Japanese attempt to seize Midway that turned the tide of the war. But it came at a horrific cost: an estimated 250,000 Chinese died in retaliation by the Japanese. Deeply researched and brilliantly written, Target Tokyo has been hailed as the definitive account of one of America’s most daring military operations. ...more

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• 5/12 Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid that Avenged Pearl Harbor, by James M. Scott

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  Image:  Lieutenant Colonel Doolittle wires a Japanese medal to a bomb, for "return" to its originators. On April 18, 1942, sixteen U.S. Army bombers under the command of the daredevil pilot Jimmy Doolittle lifted off from the deck of the USS Hornet on a one-way mission to pummel Japan’s factories, refineries, and dockyards in retaliation for their attack on Pearl Harbor. The raid buoyed America’s morale, and prompted an ill-fated Japanese attempt to seize Midway that turned the tide of the war. But it came at a horrific cost: an estimated 250,000 Chinese died in retaliation by the Japanese. Deeply researched and brilliantly written, Target Tokyo has been hailed as the definitive account of one of America’s most daring military operations. ...more

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• 4/12 Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid that Avenged Pearl Harbor, by James M. Scott

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  Image:  A U.S. Army Air Forces North American B-25B Mitchell bomber takes off from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8) during the "Doolittle Raid". Original description: "Take-off from the deck of the USS HORNET of an Army B-25 on its way to take part in first U.S. air raid on Japan. Doolittle Raid, April 1942." On April 18, 1942, sixteen U.S. Army bombers under the command of the daredevil pilot Jimmy Doolittle lifted off from the deck of the USS Hornet on a one-way mission to pummel Japan’s factories, refineries, and dockyards in retaliation for their attack on Pearl Harbor. The raid buoyed America’s morale, and prompted an ill-fated Japanese attempt to seize Midway that turned the tide of the war. But it came at a horrific cost: an estimated 250,000 Chinese died in retaliation by the Japanese. Deeply researched and brilliantly written, Target Tokyo has been hailed as the definitive account of one of America’s most daring military operations. ...more

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• 3/12 Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid that Avenged Pearl Harbor, by James M. Scott

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  Image:  Doolittle (center) with members of his crew and Chinese officials following their bailout near Quzhou, China. On 18 April 1942, airmen of the US Army Air Forces, led by Lt. Col. James H. (Jimmy) Doolittle, carried the Battle of the Pacific to the heart of the Japanese empire with a surprising and daring raid on military targets at Tokyo, Yokohama, Yokosuka, Nagoya, and Kobe. This heroic attack against these major cities was the result of coordination between the Army Air Forces and the US Navy, which carried the sixteen North American B-25 medium bombers aboard the carrier USS Hornet to within take-off distance of the Japanese Islands. Here, a pair of alert escorts follow the USS Hornet to protect her lethal cargo of B-25 bombers. On April 18, 1942, sixteen U.S. Army bombers under the command of the daredevil pilot Jimmy Doolittle lifted off from the deck of the USS Hornet on a one-way mission to pummel Japan’s factories, refineries, and dockyards in retaliation for their attack on Pearl Harbor. The raid buoyed America’s morale, and prompted an ill-fated Japanese attempt to seize Midway that turned the tide of the war. But it came at a horrific cost: an estimated 250,000 Chinese died in retaliation by the Japanese. Deeply researched and brilliantly written, Target Tokyo has been hailed as the definitive account of one of America’s most daring military operations. ...more

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• 2/12 Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid that Avenged Pearl Harbor, by James M. Scott

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  Image:  Doolittle in a pre-World War II photo On April 18, 1942, sixteen U.S. Army bombers under the command of the daredevil pilot Jimmy Doolittle lifted off from the deck of the USS Hornet on a one-way mission to pummel Japan’s factories, refineries, and dockyards in retaliation for their attack on Pearl Harbor. The raid buoyed America’s morale, and prompted an ill-fated Japanese attempt to seize Midway that turned the tide of the war. But it came at a horrific cost: an estimated 250,000 Chinese died in retaliation by the Japanese. Deeply researched and brilliantly written, Target Tokyo has been hailed as the definitive account of one of America’s most daring military operations. ...more

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• 1/12 Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid that Avenged Pearl Harbor, by James M. Scott

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  Feb 05 2020

  Image:  (book cover) On April 18, 1942, sixteen U.S. Army bombers under the command of the daredevil pilot Jimmy Doolittle lifted off from the deck of the USS Hornet on a one-way mission to pummel Japan’s factories, refineries, and dockyards in retaliation for their attack on Pearl Harbor. The raid buoyed America’s morale, and prompted an ill-fated Japanese attempt to seize Midway that turned the tide of the war. But it came at a horrific cost: an estimated 250,000 Chinese died in retaliation by the Japanese. Deeply researched and brilliantly written, Target Tokyo has been hailed as the definitive account of one of America’s most daring military operations. ...more

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• 2/2 The Food Police: A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your Plate, by Jayson Lusk

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  Feb 05 2020

  Image:  Carts selling frankfurters, the predecessor to hotdogs, in New York City circa 1906. The price is listed as "3 cents each or 2 for 5 cents". A rollicking indictment of the liberal elite's hypocrisy when it comes to food.Ban trans-fats? Outlaw Happy Meals? Tax Twinkies? What's next? Affirmative action for cows?          A catastrophe is looming. Farmers are raping the land and torturing animals. Food is riddled with deadly pesticides, hormones and foreign DNA. Corporate farms are wallowing in government subsidies. Meat packers and fast food restaurants are exploiting workers and tainting the food supply. And Paula Deen has diabetes!      Something must be done. So says an emerging elite in this country who think they know exactly what we should grow, cook and eat. They are the food police.      Taking on the commandments and condescension the likes of Michael Pollan, Alice Waters, and Mark Bittman, The Food Police casts long-overdue scepticism on fascist food snobbery, debunking the myths propagated by the food elite.  You'll learn: -   Organic food is not necessarily healthier or tastier (and is certainly more expensive). -   Genetically modified foods haven't sickened a single person but they have made farmers more profitable, and they do hold the promise of feeding impoverished Africans. -   Farm policies aren't making us fat. -   Voguish locavorism is not greener or better for the economy. -   Fat taxes won't slim our waists and "fixing" school lunch programs won't make our kids any smarter. -   Why the food police hypocritically believe an iPad is a technological marvel but food technology is an industrial evil So before Big Brother and Animal Farm merge into a socialist nightmare, read The Food Police and let us as Americans celebrate what’s good about our food system and take back our forks and foie gras before it's too late! ...more

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• 1/2 The Food Police: A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your Plate, by Jayson Lusk

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  Image:  Apple pie (and baseball) A rollicking indictment of the liberal elite's hypocrisy when it comes to food.Ban trans-fats? Outlaw Happy Meals? Tax Twinkies? What's next? Affirmative action for cows?          A catastrophe is looming. Farmers are raping the land and torturing animals. Food is riddled with deadly pesticides, hormones and foreign DNA. Corporate farms are wallowing in government subsidies. Meat packers and fast food restaurants are exploiting workers and tainting the food supply. And Paula Deen has diabetes!      Something must be done. So says an emerging elite in this country who think they know exactly what we should grow, cook and eat. They are the food police.      Taking on the commandments and condescension the likes of Michael Pollan, Alice Waters, and Mark Bittman, The Food Police casts long-overdue scepticism on fascist food snobbery, debunking the myths propagated by the food elite.  You'll learn: -   Organic food is not necessarily healthier or tastier (and is certainly more expensive). -   Genetically modified foods haven't sickened a single person but they have made farmers more profitable, and they do hold the promise of feeding impoverished Africans. -   Farm policies aren't making us fat. -   Voguish locavorism is not greener or better for the economy. -   Fat taxes won't slim our waists and "fixing" school lunch programs won't make our kids any smarter. -   Why the food police hypocritically believe an iPad is a technological marvel but food technology is an industrial evil So before Big Brother and Animal Farm merge into a socialist nightmare, read The Food Police and let us as Americans celebrate what’s good about our food system and take back our forks and foie gras before it's too late!   ...more

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• Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court disgraces itself. @JedBabbin

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  Feb 05 2020

  Image:  Official seal of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Jed Babbin, American Spectator, in re:  FISA warrant was part of FISC, a Congressional invention, to surveille American in all directions as well as protect the United States.  Feb 2018:  Congressman Devin Nunes issued the Nunes Memo: the FISA warrant against Carter page was baseless and an abuse.  

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• Christianity to Iraq in the First Century by two of the Twelve Apostles. Michael Pregent @MPPregent

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  Feb 05 2020

  Image:  A postcard by the Cappucin mission in Mesopotemia of two Chaldean men from the villages surrounding the town of Mardin in South East Turkey, along the Syrian border. Chaldean Christians recognize the Pope as the head of the Universal Church. They split from the Assyrian (Nestorian) Church in the sixteenth century. Chaldean Christians are found in largest concentrations in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, the United States (Detroit), Europe, and Australia. The head of the Church, the Patriarch, resides in Baghdad with the title of "the Patriarch of Babylon". He has the rank of a Cardinal in the Catholic church. Their liturgy is in Aramaic. Michael Pregent, Hudson Institute, in re:  Eighty per cent of Iraq’s Christians have fled in fear.  “Baghdad is resistant to doing the right thing.” In post-ISIS Iraq, militias have taken over the Nineveh Plains and other places; the US is powerless, has asked the central govt to let Christians back in, and Baghdad has refused.  The militias have primacy, and Baghdad is under the boot of Iran.  The new PM, Allawi, a compromise candidate, is weak, a pushover. ...more

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• President as a Kremlin hireling? @AndrewCMcCarthy, @ThadMcCotter

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  Feb 05 2020

  Image:  The Moscow kremlin,, with thanks to A.Savin See permissions below* The American president as a hireling of the Kremlin?  . . . The Russia investigation [is perhaps heading toward the Democrats] in a criminal inquiry into the abuse of power in 2016. The FISA court has twice come out with scathing findings.  ..  ..  ..  *Permissions:  Description English: Moscow, Russia. Grand Kremlin Palace. Date13 September 2013 SourceOwn work AuthorA.Savin (Wikimedia Commons · WikiPhotoSpace) This photo can be used for free and without asking for permission.* *Expand text to learn more about the terms. |  | This photo is taken by me, A.Savin. If you want to reuse it outside Wikimedia Foundation projects, please choose between two options: •    Credit me as photographer: place the notice «© A.Savin, WikiCommons» either below the photo, or the way it is visible after clicking on the photo •    Contact me to purchase an individual license of your preference If you choose the first option, it is not mandatory to inform me about the usage. As a courtesy, however, please let me know about any usage of this photo in a printed medium. Thanks in advance. It is not allowed to use this photo on Facebook without permission by the author. For additional information, please visit us on WikiPhoto.Space | Русский: Москва. Большой Кремлёвский дворец. | Эта фотография сделана мной, участником A.Savin. Если Вы хотите использовать её вне проектов фонда Викимедиа, то Вам необходимо выбрать один из следующих двух вариантов: •    Упомяните меня в качестве фотографа: проставьте подпись «© A.Savin, WikiCommons» под фотографией или так, чтобы она была видна после нажатия на фотографию •    Свяжитесь со мной, чтобы приобрести индивидуальную лицензию согласно Вашим пожеланиям При соблюдении первого из вышеуказанных условий информировать меня о факте использования фотографии не обязательно, но в случае использования Вами этой фотографии в печатном издании я буду признателен, если Вы всё же сообщите мне об этом. Использование этой фотографии на Facebook без согласия автора не разрешается. Для получения дополнительной информации посетите нас на сайте WikiPhoto.Space |     ...more

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• The impeachment impairment. @AndrewCMcCarthy, @ThadMcCotter

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  Feb 05 2020

  Image:   Anent his “soaring” speech:  Mr Schiff is living in an alternative universe.   Perhaps the president’s conversation with Ukrainians was inappropriate, but there’s not a shred of evidence that American—or, for that matter, even Ukrainian—security was threatened by anything the president did.

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• "Stop Bernie" starts with failed Iowa. @LizPeek @HooverWhalen @ThadMcCotter

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  Feb 04 2020

  Photo: Bernie Sanders speaking at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, on July 25, 2016http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow"Stop Bernie" starts with failed Iowa. @LizPeek @HooverWhalen @ThadMcCotter

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• Iowa reports 0-0-0-0-0: @LizPeek @HooverWhalen @ThadMcCotter

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  Feb 04 2020

  Photo: Iowa farm, 1875http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowIowa reports 0-0-0-0-0. @LizPeek @HooverWhalen @ThadMcCotter

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• Schiff and the Congressional Democrats appear to believe that Trump has betrayed and ruined democracy. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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  Feb 04 2020

  Photo: Engraving of Bedlam (Bethlehem Hospital) in the 1700s.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowSchiff and the Congressional Democrats appear to believe  that Trump has betrayed and ruined democracy. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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• "Stop Bernie" is a bigger thing after Iowa. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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  Feb 04 2020

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow"Stop Bernie" is a bigger thing after Iowa. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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• Turkey and the Neo-Ottomans build an aircraft carrier and an arsenal. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotter

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  Feb 04 2020

  Photo: Ottoman bellicosity. Here: Murat IV.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTurkey and the Neo-Ottomans build an aircraft carrier and an arsenal. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotterhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F980_b8Qp6w

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• "Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Temple of Tel Motsa. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotter

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  Feb 04 2020

  Photo: Permissions*: see below.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow"Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Temple of Tel Motsa. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotterhttps://www.timesofisrael.com/in-first-temple-era-judah-another-massive-temple-was-in-use-outside-jerusalem/..*Permissions:  Description The Israelite Temple at Tel MotzaDate | 12 May 2019Source | Own workAuthor | Natritmeyer 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. | 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.share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original....more

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• 2/2 UnCivilization: Urban Geopolitics in a Time of Chaos, by Gregory R. Copley

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  Image:  A flat land area in the Greater Los Angeles Area in the U.S. state of California with houses, buildings, roads, and freeways. Areas constructed to capacity contribute to urban expansion. Remarks on the book by its author   It is impossible to formulate the answers to the complex strategic uncertainties we now face unless we first ask the appropriate questions. This is what I have attempted to do in my new book, UnCivilization: Urban Geopolitics in a Time of Chaos:1 to frame questions. And to postulate paths to the answers. When, for example, will the modern world abandon its obsessive - and self-destructive - preoccupation with the tactical threat of terrorism, and begin to focus on the greater strategic context? How do we deal with the fragility of our now-profound dependence on energy, and the attendant long logistical lines to supply it, for every function of civilization, progress, and survival? How and when will the lights of the great urban spread of mankind begin to flicker and falter? Will they shine brightly into the night in new places, or be sustained still in the cities which we have burnished with our familiarity? What follows when the ships and their cargoes of oil and goods come with less frequency? What happens when the surge in population peaks and suddenly goes into rapid decline? What happens to the balanced nation-state when the preponderance of the world's population lives in cities? Will all or some of this happen soon? Will it happen at all? And what will be the result of all of this? Is transformational change already upon us? Have we, in the midst of our striving for greater "democracy", emerged into a situation where - in most of our modern societies - the greater populations are subjects to their governments, rather than the intended goal that governments should be subject to the people? Is this part of the sclerosis of accumulated laws and entitlements? Change for the most part occurs inexorably over the seemingly gentle sea of history; grinding, like the mills of God, slowly, but exceeding fine. What makes change tolerable - and strategic affairs manageable - is that this evolution usually appears to occur imperceptibly and with the calmness of moss growing on old logs. Sudden change causes disorientation and panic, both to individuals and societies. The period into which we are now embarking will involve much sudden change. The familiarity of old routines, established forms, and familiar hierarchies will, in many respects, disappear. It is, indeed, already happening. And it has happened before. It is how societies, cultures, and civilizations emerge or evaporate. Individuals and societies can, however, adapt to new realities, both good and bad. In the process, they often forget the paths and triggers which led to the dramatic watersheds thrust upon them. Most people, and most societies, do not have a conscious view of their past or their future; they merely react. They are swept in a storm of reaction, and have no control over it, no understanding of it. They are the last leaves of autumn swept by blustering air, whose movement was dictated by the pull of a distant moon, the heat of a distant sun. Like the leaves, they question not the cause of their present situation, even if they bemoan their fate. I wrote this new book, UnCivilization, to gain a measure of our present shape, as a human society, and to understand whence the gale has its origins, and whither it will dispatch us. The book refers to "UnCivilization" because I contend that modern civilization - that state in which the entire world finds itself, not just the West - is at a transformative moment in its life-cycle. I say that the entire world is now "Western civilization" because this was the real outcome of World War II: we created a United Nations of new-model, pseudo-Westphalian and urban dominated states. Arguably, this life cycle of modern civilization had its origins in the first great globalization of Genghis Khan, who eliminated many of the borders of Eurasia; borders or fiefdoms which had grown up around clan, tribal, and ethnic groups. … http://www.amazon.com/UnCivilization-Urban-Geopolitics-Time-Chaos/dp/1892998181/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1462753831&sr=1-1&keywords=GREGORY+COPLEY+UNCIVILIZATION   ...more

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• 1/2 UnCivilization: Urban Geopolitics in a Time of Chaos, by Gregory R. Copley

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  Feb 04 2020

  Image:  The Ratification of the Treaty of Münster, 15 May 1648 (1648) by Gerard ter Borch Remarks on the book by its author   It is impossible to formulate the answers to the complex strategic uncertainties we now face unless we first ask the appropriate questions. This is what I have attempted to do in my new book, UnCivilization: Urban Geopolitics in a Time of Chaos:1 to frame questions. And to postulate paths to the answers. When, for example, will the modern world abandon its obsessive - and self-destructive - preoccupation with the tactical threat of terrorism, and begin to focus on the greater strategic context? How do we deal with the fragility of our now-profound dependence on energy, and the attendant long logistical lines to supply it, for every function of civilization, progress, and survival? How and when will the lights of the great urban spread of mankind begin to flicker and falter? Will they shine brightly into the night in new places, or be sustained still in the cities which we have burnished with our familiarity? What follows when the ships and their cargoes of oil and goods come with less frequency? What happens when the surge in population peaks and suddenly goes into rapid decline? What happens to the balanced nation-state when the preponderance of the world's population lives in cities? Will all or some of this happen soon? Will it happen at all? And what will be the result of all of this? Is transformational change already upon us? Have we, in the midst of our striving for greater "democracy", emerged into a situation where - in most of our modern societies - the greater populations are subjects to their governments, rather than the intended goal that governments should be subject to the people? Is this part of the sclerosis of accumulated laws and entitlements? Change for the most part occurs inexorably over the seemingly gentle sea of history; grinding, like the mills of God, slowly, but exceeding fine. What makes change tolerable - and strategic affairs manageable - is that this evolution usually appears to occur imperceptibly and with the calmness of moss growing on old logs. Sudden change causes disorientation and panic, both to individuals and societies. The period into which we are now embarking will involve much sudden change. The familiarity of old routines, established forms, and familiar hierarchies will, in many respects, disappear. It is, indeed, already happening. And it has happened before. It is how societies, cultures, and civilizations emerge or evaporate. Individuals and societies can, however, adapt to new realities, both good and bad. In the process, they often forget the paths and triggers which led to the dramatic watersheds thrust upon them. Most people, and most societies, do not have a conscious view of their past or their future; they merely react. They are swept in a storm of reaction, and have no control over it, no understanding of it. They are the last leaves of autumn swept by blustering air, whose movement was dictated by the pull of a distant moon, the heat of a distant sun. Like the leaves, they question not the cause of their present situation, even if they bemoan their fate. I wrote this new book, UnCivilization, to gain a measure of our present shape, as a human society, and to understand whence the gale has its origins, and whither it will dispatch us. The book refers to "UnCivilization" because I contend that modern civilization - that state in which the entire world finds itself, not just the West - is at a transformative moment in its life-cycle. I say that the entire world is now "Western civilization" because this was the real outcome of World War II: we created a United Nations of new-model, pseudo-Westphalian and urban dominated states. Arguably, this life cycle of modern civilization had its origins in the first great globalization of Genghis Khan, who eliminated many of the borders of Eurasia; borders or fiefdoms which had grown up around clan, tribal, and ethnic groups. …..Gregory Copley, an Australian, born in Perth, Western Australia, has served as an adviser on strategic issues to a number of governments and leaders. He is Editor-in-Chief of Defense & Foreign Affairs publications, and Director of Intelligence at the Global Information System (GIS), an on-line, encrypted-access, global intelligence service which provides strategic current intelligence to governments. He is President of the International Strategic Studies Association (ISSA), based near Washington, DC. He has authored or co-authored more than 30 books, and several thousand articles, papers, and lectures on strategic issues, history, and other topics. He has written two books of poetry. His recent books include The Art of Victory, and Energy 2.0. He has owned shipyards, developed airlines, and owned other heavy engineering, and design companies. As a journalist, he has covered many wars, reporting his analysis from all sides of the conflicts. Gregory has received a number of orders and decorations from governments, including, in 2007, being made a Member of the Order of Australia for his contributions to the international community in the field of strategic analysis. In 2010 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. He is an avid yachtsman, flyer, and racing car enthusiast. http://www.amazon.com/UnCivilization-Urban-Geopolitics-Time-Chaos/dp/1892998181/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1462753831&sr=1-1&keywords=GREGORY+COPLEY+UNCIVILIZATION   ...more

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• Coronavirus afflicts Hong Kongers. Beijing usurps hospital beds. @Michael_Yon, @ThadMcCotter, @GordonGChang,

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  Feb 04 2020

  Image:  Life-cycle of a typical virus (left to right); following infection of a cell by a single virus, hundreds of offspring are released. Michael Yon, veteran war correspondent who’s been covering the Hong Kong protests, in re: The protests; the coronavirus. I’ll enter Hong Kong tomorrow, if they let me in past the medical scan; and go to my hotel room, sterilize it, and go right out to interview people on video. Will send that to you as soon as possible.  Everybody increasingly angry that Beijing is allowing a flood of Mainlanders into Hong Kong, where they take up hospital beds urgently needed by locals, and despite Hong Kong’s pleas Beijing refuses to close the border. ...more

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• Tien An Men, Hong Kong insurgency, coronavirus: Communist Party effluents @ThadMcCotter, @GordonGChang, @CRosett

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  Feb 04 2020

  Image:  Tian An Men, in a panorama photograph (2009). Public domain. Gordon Chang, Daily Beast, and Claudia Rosett, Foreign Policy Fellow at the Women’s Independent Forum; in re: The Wuhan coronavirus crisis.   There’s not-good reporting coming from China.  What do Tien An Men in 1989, and the Hong Kong rebellion for the last months, and today’s coronavirus, have in common?  All occurred under the Chinese Communist Party. Chinese people know that the Party is a nightmare. A video has just come out of Wuhan of a young man saying, “We’re not brainwashed! but what can we do?” Be wary of the notion of Xi being toppled.  Is this China’s Chernobyl (1986)?  That was one of the earthquakes that shook the USSR, but then it was five years before the Soviet Union ceased existing. Most world leaders don't much understand the burden of the Party, and certainly are too eager to get money from it. Both NYT and WaPo published articles saying that Chinese physicians who early on tried to warn people were arrested by—the Party.  China is atrociously run; it’s unpardonable, inexcusable, at this stage of the world. Now all of us are in danger from the physical manifestation of the virulence with which China threatens civilization. In the US, we need to have academics and others to quit proselytizing for the Chinese Communist Party. Messages coming out of China in profusion: “Please help us.” ...more

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• Taliban & alQ: BFF; & forever enemies of the West. @thomasjoscelyn

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  Feb 04 2020

  Image:  View of Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where he was killed on May 1, 2011. Permissions*: see below. Tom Joscelyn, Long War Journal and FDD; in re:  The UN recognizes that Taliban and al Qaeda continue to be joined at the hip.  . . .   The US government and military keep getting it wrong.  Now that the US is trying to leave, the main initiative is that the State Department is in talks, while it pretends that Taliban could be some sort of colleague of the US. Disgraceful! State legitimizes Taliban.  . . . They have safe zones now.  https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2020/01/un-al-qaeda-maintains-close-ties-to-taliban-despite-talks-with-u-s.php..*Permissions: | Compound Italiano: Il complesso di Osama Bin Laden | Date | 4 May 2011 | Source | Flickr | Author | Sajjad Ali Qureshi | Object location | 34° 10′ 09.45″ N, 73° 14′ 33.28″ E  | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth |  LicensingThis 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. •       share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.  This image was originally posted to Flickr by Sajjad Ali Qureshi at https://www.flickr.com/photos/34015932@N00/5708716953. It was reviewed on 11 May 2011 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-sa-2.0.    ...more

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• Al Q sleeper agent with guns firing; how many here now? @thomasjoscelyn

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  Feb 04 2020

  Image:  Naval Air Station Pensacola, flyover with sailors in formation Tom Joscelyn, Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies; & Senior Editor for FDD's Long War Journal; in re: Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani (Al-Shamrani), seen in a new AQAP video claiming responsibility for his Dec 2019 shooting up the Naval Air Station Pensacola; apparently sent by AQAP as a sleeper agent. His handler may have died in a recent drone strike.  AQAP released a special video dedicated to the shooting earlier today. The production features AQAP’s emir, Qasim al-Raymi, who was reportedly killed in a U.S. air strike last month. Raymi’s demise has not been officially confirmed by either the Americans or AQAP. The video was recorded prior to the bombing.    https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2020/02/aqap-claims-full-responsibility-for-shooting-at-naval-air-station-pensacola.php The London shooting.  Press reports quickly identified the stabber as Sudesh Amman, a 20-year-old whose radical beliefs were well known to authorities. Amman had been imprisoned for terror-related offenses and was slated to serve three years. But he was released early in late January after doing only about half that time behind bars.   . . .  In the UK, in particular, someone known to be a jihadi is often released and allowed to proceed with his malign efforts.  Steady drumbeat of small-scale attacks.  https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2020/02/london-terrorist-was-being-followed-by-authorities-when-he-attacked.php AQAP and ISIS put out messages saying individuals can to this on their own.  Told that these are holy acts.  ...more

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• 4/4 A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich, by Christopher B. Krebs.

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  Feb 03 2020

  Image:  Arno Breker's 1939 neoclassical sculpture Die Partei (The Party), which flanked one of the entrances to the Albert Speer-designed Reich Chancellery in Berlin. The sculpture emphasizes what the Nazis considered to be desirable "Nordic" racial characteristics. Permissons:  see below A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich, by Christopher B. Krebs.  Mark Ashby (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher). Audible Audiobook – Unabridged      The Idea of Germany, from Tacitus to Hitler; by Cullen Murphy                         Why is there a Germany? Part of the answer goes back to a battle fought in A.D. 9 in the treacherous marshes and dense thickets of Teutoburg Forest, near modern Osnabrück. As described by the Roman historian Tacitus, three Roman legions led by Quinctilius Varus had crossed the Rhine from Gaul, intent on incorporating the vast area known as Germania into the empire. They were ambushed and annihilated by German tribes under the command of a warrior named Arminius. It was one of the worst military disasters the Romans ever suffered. Some years ago, archaeologists discovered the site of the battle; the debris field was a mile wide and 15 miles long. Caesar Augustus, it is said, roamed the hallways of his palace, crying, “Quinctilius Varus, give me back my legions!” Henceforth, the Romans pretty much wrote off the area east of the Rhine and north of the Alps. The line of demarcation survives to this day as a cultural divide— beer versus wine, butter versus oil, Germanic versus Romance. So the victory of Arminius established certain facts on the ground. In his fascinating new study, A Most Dangerous Book, Christopher B. Krebs draws attention to another part of the explanation for Germany’s existence: the role played by Tacitus himself, through the influence of a small volume called Germania. Think of it as an ancient exercise in social anthropology. The Romans had been bedeviled for years by the motley tribes they lumped together as Germans. Tacitus set out to describe them. In his telling, the Germans possessed “fierce blue eyes, tawny hair, huge bodies.” They prized freedom, scorned luxury and esteemed military courage above all else. They were a people of sturdy values for whom “good laws” were no substitute for “good habits.” In the land of the Germans, Tacitus writes, “nobody laughs off vice; and to corrupt and to be corrupted is not called ‘modern times.’ ” Pointedly, he observed that the Germans were “not tainted by intermarriage with any other nations” but rather existed “as a distinct, unadulterated people that resembles only itself.” Fast forward 14 centuries. Central Europe is a mosaic of fractious principalities, united by Christianity and a Germanic language, but little else. The literate elites, looking abroad to the advanced kingdoms of England and France, have begun to wonder: who are we? They know that a book called Germania once existed, but the text itself has been lost since antiquity. Suddenly, in the mid-15th century, book collectors pick up vague rumors: a copy may have surfaced in a distant monastery. And yes, it’s true! Krebs, a classicist who teaches at Harvard, lays out the recovery of Germania in 1455, like a detective story. But that is just the beginning. Tacitus’s book was exactly what nationalists had been waiting for. It tells a story of origins. It describes a proud, brave and virtuous people. In truth, its portrait was complex. The Germans were not one nation—Tacitus lists 50 tribes. They manifested plenty of appalling qualities. And Tacitus, who probably never set foot in Germany, clearly had an agenda: to provoke his own soft and decadent society. All this proved easy enough to ignore. Germania was received as the “golden booklet.” It was published and republished. An adviser to Frederick the Great, citing Tacitus, called the German people “still the same aboriginal and indigenous nation which has preserved its independence, its name and its language from its origin to this day.” Fichte, Herder, Grimm—they and many others repeated the main Tacitean tropes. In hindsight, it’s clear where this is heading. Phrases from Tacitus like “not tainted” and “unadulterated” are picked up by 19th-century German theorists of race and superiority. The most popular German textbook of the time would refer to “the unmixed German blood which flows in our veins.” In a newly unified Germany, Germania was high on every reading list. Clubs sprang up to celebrate peasant virtues, physical prowess and Aryan superiority. The Nazis would leverage all this for their own purposes. In 1924, the young Heinrich Himmler read Germania while on a train trip. In his diary he evoked “the glorious image of the loftiness, purity and nobility of our ancestors.” He vowed, “Thus shall we be again,” adding the ominous note, “or at least some among us.” The Nazi Party convention held in Nuremberg in 1936 featured a “Germanic Room” with Tacitean quotations. In 1943, Himmler sent troops to a palazzo in Italy where he believed the oldest manuscript of Germania was preserved. They didn’t find it. The manuscript made its way to Germany eventually, in 2009, for an exhibition marking the two-thousandth anniversary of Arminius’ victory. Krebs’s quick march through a wealth of material hits a few boggy academic patches but becomes increasingly sure-footed. He has a light touch and a dry sense of humor. And despite the title of his book, he does not hold Germania responsible for acts committed in its name. “Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book,” he concludes. “His readers made it so.”https://www.amazon.com/Most-Dangerous-Book-Tacituss-Germania/dp/B00CX1QX96/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Krebs+most+dangerous+book&qid=1580685650&s=audible&sr=1-1..  ..  ..•       Deutsch: Arno Breker, The Great Torchbearer (1939). Von (Benutzer:Viborg 1997 im Hof des Breker-Museums Nörvenich (öffentlicher Raum) fotografiert. Die Skulptur stand zusammen mit der Skulptur "Die Wehrmacht" bis 1945 im Hof der Neuen Reichskanzlei in Berlin und befindet sich heute im Besitz des Breker-Museums•       English: Arno Breker, The Great Torchbearer (1939). Photographed by User:Viborg in 1997 in the public courtyard of the Breker-Museum Nörvenich. 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• 3/4 A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich, by Christopher B. Krebs.

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  Feb 03 2020

  Image:  The gilded side of the Trundholm sun chariot.  Permissions*: see below. A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich, by Christopher B. Krebs.  Mark Ashby (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher). Audible Audiobook – Unabridged       The Idea of Germany, from Tacitus to Hitler; by Cullen Murphy                         Why is there a Germany? Part of the answer goes back to a battle fought in A.D. 9 in the treacherous marshes and dense thickets of Teutoburg Forest, near modern Osnabrück. As described by the Roman historian Tacitus, three Roman legions led by Quinctilius Varus had crossed the Rhine from Gaul, intent on incorporating the vast area known as Germania into the empire. They were ambushed and annihilated by German tribes under the command of a warrior named Arminius. It was one of the worst military disasters the Romans ever suffered. Some years ago, archaeologists discovered the site of the battle; the debris field was a mile wide and 15 miles long. Caesar Augustus, it is said, roamed the hallways of his palace, crying, “Quinctilius Varus, give me back my legions!” Henceforth, the Romans pretty much wrote off the area east of the Rhine and north of the Alps. The line of demarcation survives to this day as a cultural divide— beer versus wine, butter versus oil, Germanic versus Romance. So the victory of Arminius established certain facts on the ground. In his fascinating new study, A Most Dangerous Book, Christopher B. Krebs draws attention to another part of the explanation for Germany’s existence: the role played by Tacitus himself, through the influence of a small volume called Germania. Think of it as an ancient exercise in social anthropology. The Romans had been bedeviled for years by the motley tribes they lumped together as Germans. Tacitus set out to describe them. In his telling, the Germans possessed “fierce blue eyes, tawny hair, huge bodies.” They prized freedom, scorned luxury and esteemed military courage above all else. They were a people of sturdy values for whom “good laws” were no substitute for “good habits.” In the land of the Germans, Tacitus writes, “nobody laughs off vice; and to corrupt and to be corrupted is not called ‘modern times.’ ” Pointedly, he observed that the Germans were “not tainted by intermarriage with any other nations” but rather existed “as a distinct, unadulterated people that resembles only itself.” Fast forward 14 centuries. Central Europe is a mosaic of fractious principalities, united by Christianity and a Germanic language, but little else. The literate elites, looking abroad to the advanced kingdoms of England and France, have begun to wonder: who are we? They know that a book called Germania once existed, but the text itself has been lost since antiquity. Suddenly, in the mid-15th century, book collectors pick up vague rumors: a copy may have surfaced in a distant monastery. And yes, it’s true! Krebs, a classicist who teaches at Harvard, lays out the recovery of Germania in 1455, like a detective story. But that is just the beginning. Tacitus’s book was exactly what nationalists had been waiting for. It tells a story of origins. It describes a proud, brave and virtuous people. In truth, its portrait was complex. The Germans were not one nation—Tacitus lists 50 tribes. They manifested plenty of appalling qualities. And Tacitus, who probably never set foot in Germany, clearly had an agenda: to provoke his own soft and decadent society. All this proved easy enough to ignore. Germania was received as the “golden booklet.” It was published and republished. An adviser to Frederick the Great, citing Tacitus, called the German people “still the same aboriginal and indigenous nation which has preserved its independence, its name and its language from its origin to this day.” Fichte, Herder, Grimm—they and many others repeated the main Tacitean tropes. In hindsight, it’s clear where this is heading. Phrases from Tacitus like “not tainted” and “unadulterated” are picked up by 19th-century German theorists of race and superiority. The most popular German textbook of the time would refer to “the unmixed German blood which flows in our veins.” In a newly unified Germany, Germania was high on every reading list. Clubs sprang up to celebrate peasant virtues, physical prowess and Aryan superiority. The Nazis would leverage all this for their own purposes. In 1924, the young Heinrich Himmler read Germania while on a train trip. In his diary he evoked “the glorious image of the loftiness, purity and nobility of our ancestors.” He vowed, “Thus shall we be again,” adding the ominous note, “or at least some among us.” The Nazi Party convention held in Nuremberg in 1936 featured a “Germanic Room” with Tacitean quotations. In 1943, Himmler sent troops to a palazzo in Italy where he believed the oldest manuscript of Germania was preserved. They didn’t find it. The manuscript made its way to Germany eventually, in 2009, for an exhibition marking the two-thousandth anniversary of Arminius’ victory. Krebs’s quick march through a wealth of material hits a few boggy academic patches but becomes increasingly sure-footed. He has a light touch and a dry sense of humor. And despite the title of his book, he does not hold Germania responsible for acts committed in its name. “Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book,” he concludes. “His readers made it so.”https://www.amazon.com/Most-Dangerous-Book-Tacituss-Germania/dp/B00CX1QX96/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Krebs+most+dangerous+book&qid=1580685650&s=audible&sr=1-1..  ..  ..   *Permissions: Description | Dansk: Solvognen, sort baggrund. Bronzealder, votiv/depot. Date | 1 January 2006Source | http://samlinger.natmus.dk/DO/6780 Author | Nationalmuseet, John LeeThis file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.    This image was provided to Wikimedia Commons by Nationalmuseet as part of an ongoing cooperative project. 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• 2/4 A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich, by Christopher B. Krebs.

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  Feb 03 2020

  Image:  Imperium Romanum Germania.   The Roman Empire in 116 AD and Germania Magna, with some Germanic tribes mentioned by Tacitus in CE 98 (quick sketch). Permissions*: see below. A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich, by Christopher B. Krebs.  Mark Ashby (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher). Audible Audiobook – Unabridged      The Idea of Germany, from Tacitus to Hitler; by Cullen Murphy                   Why is there a Germany? Part of the answer goes back to a battle fought in A.D. 9 in the treacherous marshes and dense thickets of Teutoburg Forest, near modern Osnabrück. As described by the Roman historian Tacitus, three Roman legions led by Quinctilius Varus had crossed the Rhine from Gaul, intent on incorporating the vast area known as Germania into the empire. They were ambushed and annihilated by German tribes under the command of a warrior named Arminius. It was one of the worst military disasters the Romans ever suffered. Some years ago, archaeologists discovered the site of the battle; the debris field was a mile wide and 15 miles long. Caesar Augustus, it is said, roamed the hallways of his palace, crying, “Quinctilius Varus, give me back my legions!” Henceforth, the Romans pretty much wrote off the area east of the Rhine and north of the Alps. The line of demarcation survives to this day as a cultural divide— beer versus wine, butter versus oil, Germanic versus Romance. So the victory of Arminius established certain facts on the ground. In his fascinating new study, A Most Dangerous Book, Christopher B. Krebs draws attention to another part of the explanation for Germany’s existence: the role played by Tacitus himself, through the influence of a small volume called Germania. Think of it as an ancient exercise in social anthropology. The Romans had been bedeviled for years by the motley tribes they lumped together as Germans. Tacitus set out to describe them. In his telling, the Germans possessed “fierce blue eyes, tawny hair, huge bodies.” They prized freedom, scorned luxury and esteemed military courage above all else. They were a people of sturdy values for whom “good laws” were no substitute for “good habits.” In the land of the Germans, Tacitus writes, “nobody laughs off vice; and to corrupt and to be corrupted is not called ‘modern times.’ ” Pointedly, he observed that the Germans were “not tainted by intermarriage with any other nations” but rather existed “as a distinct, unadulterated people that resembles only itself.” Fast forward 14 centuries. Central Europe is a mosaic of fractious principalities, united by Christianity and a Germanic language, but little else. The literate elites, looking abroad to the advanced kingdoms of England and France, have begun to wonder: who are we? They know that a book called Germania once existed, but the text itself has been lost since antiquity. Suddenly, in the mid-15th century, book collectors pick up vague rumors: a copy may have surfaced in a distant monastery. And yes, it’s true! Krebs, a classicist who teaches at Harvard, lays out the recovery of Germania in 1455, like a detective story. But that is just the beginning. Tacitus’s book was exactly what nationalists had been waiting for. It tells a story of origins. It describes a proud, brave and virtuous people. In truth, its portrait was complex. The Germans were not one nation—Tacitus lists 50 tribes. They manifested plenty of appalling qualities. And Tacitus, who probably never set foot in Germany, clearly had an agenda: to provoke his own soft and decadent society. All this proved easy enough to ignore. Germania was received as the “golden booklet.” It was published and republished. An adviser to Frederick the Great, citing Tacitus, called the German people “still the same aboriginal and indigenous nation which has preserved its independence, its name and its language from its origin to this day.” Fichte, Herder, Grimm—they and many others repeated the main Tacitean tropes. In hindsight, it’s clear where this is heading. Phrases from Tacitus like “not tainted” and “unadulterated” are picked up by 19th-century German theorists of race and superiority. The most popular German textbook of the time would refer to “the unmixed German blood which flows in our veins.” In a newly unified Germany, Germania was high on every reading list. Clubs sprang up to celebrate peasant virtues, physical prowess and Aryan superiority. The Nazis would leverage all this for their own purposes. In 1924, the young Heinrich Himmler read Germania while on a train trip. In his diary he evoked “the glorious image of the loftiness, purity and nobility of our ancestors.” He vowed, “Thus shall we be again,” adding the ominous note, “or at least some among us.” The Nazi Party convention held in Nuremberg in 1936 featured a “Germanic Room” with Tacitean quotations. In 1943, Himmler sent troops to a palazzo in Italy where he believed the oldest manuscript of Germania was preserved. They didn’t find it. The manuscript made its way to Germany eventually, in 2009, for an exhibition marking the two-thousandth anniversary of Arminius’ victory. Krebs’s quick march through a wealth of material hits a few boggy academic patches but becomes increasingly sure-footed. He has a light touch and a dry sense of humor. And despite the title of his book, he does not hold Germania responsible for acts committed in its name. “Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book,” he concludes. “His readers made it so.”  https://www.amazon.com/Most-Dangerous-Book-Tacituss-Germania/dp/B00CX1QX96/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Krebs+most+dangerous+book&qid=1580685650&s=audible&sr=1-1 ..  ..  .. *Permissions:  Summary Description | English: The Roman Empire in 116 AD and Germania Magna, with some Germanic tribes mentioned by Tacitus in CE 98 (quick sketch, could be updated with greater accuracy).Source | File:Romia Imperio.png, originally by Jani Niemenmaa.Author | Modification · Bearbeitung · Prilaboro: D. BachmannPermission 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. 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• 1/4 A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich, by Christopher B. Krebs.

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  Feb 03 2020

  Image:  Modern statue representing Tacitus outside the Austrian Parliament Building A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich, by Christopher B. Krebs.  Mark Ashby (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher). Audible Audiobook – Unabridged    The Idea of Germany, from Tacitus to Hitler; by Cullen Murphy                         Why is there a Germany? Part of the answer goes back to a battle fought in A.D. 9 in the treacherous marshes and dense thickets of Teutoburg Forest, near modern Osnabrück. As described by the Roman historian Tacitus, three Roman legions led by Quinctilius Varus had crossed the Rhine from Gaul, intent on incorporating the vast area known as Germania into the empire. They were ambushed and annihilated by German tribes under the command of a warrior named Arminius. It was one of the worst military disasters the Romans ever suffered. Some years ago, archaeologists discovered the site of the battle; the debris field was a mile wide and 15 miles long. Caesar Augustus, it is said, roamed the hallways of his palace, crying, “Quinctilius Varus, give me back my legions!” Henceforth, the Romans pretty much wrote off the area east of the Rhine and north of the Alps. The line of demarcation survives to this day as a cultural divide— beer versus wine, butter versus oil, Germanic versus Romance. So the victory of Arminius established certain facts on the ground. In his fascinating new study, A Most Dangerous Book, Christopher B. Krebs draws attention to another part of the explanation for Germany’s existence: the role played by Tacitus himself, through the influence of a small volume called Germania. Think of it as an ancient exercise in social anthropology. The Romans had been bedeviled for years by the motley tribes they lumped together as Germans. Tacitus set out to describe them. In his telling, the Germans possessed “fierce blue eyes, tawny hair, huge bodies.” They prized freedom, scorned luxury and esteemed military courage above all else. They were a people of sturdy values for whom “good laws” were no substitute for “good habits.” In the land of the Germans, Tacitus writes, “nobody laughs off vice; and to corrupt and to be corrupted is not called ‘modern times.’ ” Pointedly, he observed that the Germans were “not tainted by intermarriage with any other nations” but rather existed “as a distinct, unadulterated people that resembles only itself.” Fast forward 14 centuries. Central Europe is a mosaic of fractious principalities, united by Christianity and a Germanic language, but little else. The literate elites, looking abroad to the advanced kingdoms of England and France, have begun to wonder: who are we? They know that a book called Germania once existed, but the text itself has been lost since antiquity. Suddenly, in the mid-15th century, book collectors pick up vague rumors: a copy may have surfaced in a distant monastery. And yes, it’s true! Krebs, a classicist who teaches at Harvard, lays out the recovery of Germania in 1455, like a detective story. But that is just the beginning. Tacitus’s book was exactly what nationalists had been waiting for. It tells a story of origins. It describes a proud, brave and virtuous people. In truth, its portrait was complex. The Germans were not one nation—Tacitus lists 50 tribes. They manifested plenty of appalling qualities. And Tacitus, who probably never set foot in Germany, clearly had an agenda: to provoke his own soft and decadent society. All this proved easy enough to ignore. Germania was received as the “golden booklet.” It was published and republished. An adviser to Frederick the Great, citing Tacitus, called the German people “still the same aboriginal and indigenous nation which has preserved its independence, its name and its language from its origin to this day.” Fichte, Herder, Grimm—they and many others repeated the main Tacitean tropes. In hindsight, it’s clear where this is heading. Phrases from Tacitus like “not tainted” and “unadulterated” are picked up by 19th-century German theorists of race and superiority. The most popular German textbook of the time would refer to “the unmixed German blood which flows in our veins.” In a newly unified Germany, Germania was high on every reading list. Clubs sprang up to celebrate peasant virtues, physical prowess and Aryan superiority. The Nazis would leverage all this for their own purposes. In 1924, the young Heinrich Himmler read Germania while on a train trip. In his diary he evoked “the glorious image of the loftiness, purity and nobility of our ancestors.” He vowed, “Thus shall we be again,” adding the ominous note, “or at least some among us.” The Nazi Party convention held in Nuremberg in 1936 featured a “Germanic Room” with Tacitean quotations. In 1943, Himmler sent troops to a palazzo in Italy where he believed the oldest manuscript of Germania was preserved. They didn’t find it. The manuscript made its way to Germany eventually, in 2009, for an exhibition marking the two-thousandth anniversary of Arminius’ victory. Krebs’s quick march through a wealth of material hits a few boggy academic patches but becomes increasingly sure-footed. He has a light touch and a dry sense of humor. And despite the title of his book, he does not hold Germania responsible for acts committed in its name. “Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book,” he concludes. “His readers made it so.” https://www.amazon.com/Most-Dangerous-Book-Tacituss-Germania/dp/B00CX1QX96/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Krebs+most+dangerous+book&qid=1580685650&s=audible&sr=1-1   ...more

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• Hyde: 2 of 2: Audible Audiobook – Unabridged..Daniel Levine (Author), John Curless (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher)

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  Feb 03 2020

  Photo: Poster from the 1880sUnknown, published by the National Printing & Engraving Company, Chicago Modifications by Papa Lima Whiskey - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs divisionunder the digital ID cph.3g08267. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. Poster for a theatrical adaptation of Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Converted losslessly from .tif to .png by uploader. Public Domain File:Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde poster edit2.jpg Created: 188_ http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Hyde: 2 of 2:  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged..Daniel Levine (Author), John Curless (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ICPMAJ4/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taud_p1_i0An authentic, gothic reimagining of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, told from the villain' s perspective, that takes listeners deep into the seedy side of Victorian London and explores the nature of personality and of the subconscious. Mr. Hyde is trapped in Dr. Jekyll' s surgical cabinet, counting the days until he will face capture and be forced to make the ultimate choice about survival. Over the course of four days, he thinks back on what brought him to this moment, and he finally has the chance to tell the story of his brief but marvelous life. In liberating Mr. Hyde from the omniscient perspective of the original story, the author takes us inside the mind Hyde shares with Jekyll as he awakens after many years of dormancy, wide-eyed at being able to explore the world on his own. We feel the potions take effect. We tromp through the streets of London, drink gin in seedy pubs, we visit doll shops and menace the men who take advantage of the women there, and we attempt to rescue lost girls. We feel the strange distance of watching Jekyll' s high-class life through a membrane of consciousness. And then we feel the helplessness of someone being framed for serious crimes. The evidence all points to Hyde. Even if he didn' t intend to commit these crimes, is it possible that they have been perpetrated, without his knowledge, by his own hand?...more

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• Hyde: 1 of 2: Audible Audiobook – Unabridged..Daniel Levine (Author), John Curless (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher)

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  Photo: Richard Mansfield was mostly known for his dual role depicted in this double exposure. The stage adaptation opened in Boston in 1887, a year after the publication of the novella. (Picture 1895) Photo by Henry Van der Weyde (1838-1924; London, England) - http://www.photography-museum.com/jekyll.html / Originally uploaded to en.wikipedia; description page was here. Richard Mansfield was best known for the dual role depicted in this double exposure: he starred in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in both New York and London. The stage adaptation opened in New York in 1887 and London in 1888. Public Domain File:Jekyll-mansfield.jpg Created: circa 1895 date QS:P,+1895-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 for the cabinet card per source page; British Library says "Published: 1887" in its description of the image) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Hyde: 1 of 2:  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged..Daniel Levine (Author), John Curless (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ICPMAJ4/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taud_p1_i0An authentic, gothic reimagining of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, told from the villain' s perspective, that takes listeners deep into the seedy side of Victorian London and explores the nature of personality and of the subconscious. Mr. Hyde is trapped in Dr. Jekyll' s surgical cabinet, counting the days until he will face capture and be forced to make the ultimate choice about survival. Over the course of four days, he thinks back on what brought him to this moment, and he finally has the chance to tell the story of his brief but marvelous life. In liberating Mr. Hyde from the omniscient perspective of the original story, the author takes us inside the mind Hyde shares with Jekyll as he awakens after many years of dormancy, wide-eyed at being able to explore the world on his own. We feel the potions take effect. We tromp through the streets of London, drink gin in seedy pubs, we visit doll shops and menace the men who take advantage of the women there, and we attempt to rescue lost girls. We feel the strange distance of watching Jekyll' s high-class life through a membrane of consciousness. And then we feel the helplessness of someone being framed for serious crimes. The evidence all points to Hyde. Even if he didn' t intend to commit these crimes, is it possible that they have been perpetrated, without his knowledge, by his own hand?...more

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• Boeing may be failing manned space also. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Feb 03 2020

  Photo: English: The Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft lands in White Sands, New Mexico, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019. The landing completes an abbreviated Orbital Flight Test for the company that still meets several mission objectives for NASA’s Commercial Crew program. The Starliner spacecraft launched on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at 6:36 a.m. Friday, Dec. 20 from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.Date | Taken on 22 December 2019Source | https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/49257983738/Author | NASA/Aubrey Gemignani | This image or video was catalogued by NASA Headquarters of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID:NHQ201912220007. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyrigh http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowBoeing may be failing manned space also.  Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/boeing-budgets-for-extra-unmanned-starliner-test/ ...more

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• 4/4 The Castaway's War: One Man's Battle Against Imperial Japan, by Stephen Harding

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  Feb 02 2020

  Image: Map of the Solomon Islands showing the Allied advance during 1943 and key air and naval bases The Castaway's War: One Man's Battle Against Imperial Japan, by Stephen Harding.    Ian Harding (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher). Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Shipwrecked on a South Pacific island, a young US Navy lieutenant waged a one-man war against the Japanese.  In the early hours of July 5, 1943, the destroyer USS Strong was hit by a Japanese torpedo. The powerful weapon broke the destroyer's back, killed dozens of sailors, and sparked raging fires. While accompanying ships were able to take off most of Strong's surviving crewmembers, scores went into the ocean as the once-proud warship sank beneath the waves—and a young officer's harrowing story of survival began. Lieutenant Hugh Barr Miller, a pre-war football star at the University of Alabama, went into the water as the vessel sank. Severely injured, Miller and several others survived three days at sea and eventually landed on a Japanese-occupied island. The survivors found fresh water and a few coconuts, but Miller, suffering from internal injuries and believing he was on the verge of death, ordered the others to go on without him. They reluctantly did do, believing, as Miller did, that he would be dead within hours. But Miller didn't die, and his health improved enough for him to begin searching for food. He also found the enemy—Japanese forces patrolling the island. Miller was determined to survive, and so launched a one-man war against the island's occupiers. Based on official American and Japanese histories, personal memoirs, and the author's exclusive interviews with many of the story's key participants, The Castaway's War is a rousing story of naval combat, bravery, and determination.  https://www.amazon.com/Castaways-War-Battle-Against-Imperial/dp/B01F2JJUL8/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= ...more

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• 3/4 The Castaway's War: One Man's Battle Against Imperial Japan, by Stephen Harding

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  Image:  Operations against the Japanese on Arundel and Sagekarsa Islands by John Bushemi, 1943. The Castaway's War: One Man's Battle Against Imperial Japan, by Stephen Harding.    Ian Harding (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher). Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Shipwrecked on a South Pacific island, a young US Navy lieutenant waged a one-man war against the Japanese.  In the early hours of July 5, 1943, the destroyer USS Strong was hit by a Japanese torpedo. The powerful weapon broke the destroyer's back, killed dozens of sailors, and sparked raging fires. While accompanying ships were able to take off most of Strong's surviving crewmembers, scores went into the ocean as the once-proud warship sank beneath the waves—and a young officer's harrowing story of survival began. Lieutenant Hugh Barr Miller, a pre-war football star at the University of Alabama, went into the water as the vessel sank. Severely injured, Miller and several others survived three days at sea and eventually landed on a Japanese-occupied island. The survivors found fresh water and a few coconuts, but Miller, suffering from internal injuries and believing he was on the verge of death, ordered the others to go on without him. They reluctantly did do, believing, as Miller did, that he would be dead within hours. But Miller didn't die, and his health improved enough for him to begin searching for food. He also found the enemy—Japanese forces patrolling the island. Miller was determined to survive, and so launched a one-man war against the island's occupiers. Based on official American and Japanese histories, personal memoirs, and the author's exclusive interviews with many of the story's key participants, The Castaway's War is a rousing story of naval combat, bravery, and determination.  https://www.amazon.com/Castaways-War-Battle-Against-Imperial/dp/B01F2JJUL8/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=   ...more

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• 2/4 The Castaway's War: One Man's Battle Against Imperial Japan, by Stephen Harding

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  Image:  Solomon Island warriors, armed with spears, on board an ornamented war canoe (1895) The Castaway's War: One Man's Battle Against Imperial Japan, by Stephen Harding.    Ian Harding (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher). Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Shipwrecked on a South Pacific island, a young US Navy lieutenant waged a one-man war against the Japanese.  In the early hours of July 5, 1943, the destroyer USS Strong was hit by a Japanese torpedo. The powerful weapon broke the destroyer's back, killed dozens of sailors, and sparked raging fires. While accompanying ships were able to take off most of Strong's surviving crewmembers, scores went into the ocean as the once-proud warship sank beneath the waves—and a young officer's harrowing story of survival began. Lieutenant Hugh Barr Miller, a pre-war football star at the University of Alabama, went into the water as the vessel sank. Severely injured, Miller and several others survived three days at sea and eventually landed on a Japanese-occupied island. The survivors found fresh water and a few coconuts, but Miller, suffering from internal injuries and believing he was on the verge of death, ordered the others to go on without him. They reluctantly did do, believing, as Miller did, that he would be dead within hours. But Miller didn't die, and his health improved enough for him to begin searching for food. He also found the enemy—Japanese forces patrolling the island. Miller was determined to survive, and so launched a one-man war against the island's occupiers. Based on official American and Japanese histories, personal memoirs, and the author's exclusive interviews with many of the story's key participants, The Castaway's War is a rousing story of naval combat, bravery, and determination.   https://www.amazon.com/Castaways-War-Battle-Against-Imperial/dp/B01F2JJUL8/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=   ...more

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• 1/4 The Castaway's War: One Man's Battle Against Imperial Japan, by Stephen Harding

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  Image: Lt “Rose Bowl” Miller.  DoD photo. The Castaway's War: One Man's Battle Against Imperial Japan, by Stephen Harding.    Ian Harding (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher). Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Shipwrecked on a South Pacific island, a young US Navy lieutenant waged a one-man war against the Japanese.  In the early hours of July 5, 1943, the destroyer USS Strong was hit by a Japanese torpedo. The powerful weapon broke the destroyer's back, killed dozens of sailors, and sparked raging fires. While accompanying ships were able to take off most of Strong's surviving crewmembers, scores went into the ocean as the once-proud warship sank beneath the waves—and a young officer's harrowing story of survival began. Lieutenant Hugh Barr Miller, a pre-war football star at the University of Alabama, went into the water as the vessel sank. Severely injured, Miller and several others survived three days at sea and eventually landed on a Japanese-occupied island. The survivors found fresh water and a few coconuts, but Miller, suffering from internal injuries and believing he was on the verge of death, ordered the others to go on without him. They reluctantly did do, believing, as Miller did, that he would be dead within hours. But Miller didn't die, and his health improved enough for him to begin searching for food. He also found the enemy—Japanese forces patrolling the island. Miller was determined to survive, and so launched a one-man war against the island's occupiers. Based on official American and Japanese histories, personal memoirs, and the author's exclusive interviews with many of the story's key participants, The Castaway's War is a rousing story of naval combat, bravery, and determination.  https://www.amazon.com/Castaways-War-Battle-Against-Imperial/dp/B01F2JJUL8/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= ...more

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• More ancient mysteries on the surface of Mars. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Feb 02 2020

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowMore ancient mysteries on the surface of Mars. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/more-martian-pimples/https://www.uahirise.org/ESP_062943_2230

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• When satellites don't collide. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Feb 02 2020

  Photo: The logo of United States Space Command United States Space Command - https://www.spacecom.mil/Media/Seal/ Public Domain File:United States Space Command emblem 2019.png Created: 28 August 2019 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWhen satellites don't collide. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/two-defunct-satellites-barely-miss-each-other/

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• Cuba and Brazil enslave doctors in the Amazon. What is to be done? @MaryOG @WsjOpinion

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  Feb 02 2020

  Image:  In Manaus, Brazil, the Bridge Benjamin Constant built between 1892 and 1895 with parts imported from England.  Public domain. Mary Anastasia O’Grady in Brazil: Cuba and Brazil enslave doctors in the Amazon.  Pan American Health Organization cleans up with the vig.  https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-u-n-and-human-trafficking-11580071750

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• Critical and rare minerals and metals for the 21st Century: 2 of 2: & What is to be done? Benjamin Sovacool, University of Sussex.

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  Feb 02 2020

  Photo: William Hyde Wollaston John Jackson (1778–1831) - the artist - Scan from Platinum Metals Review, 2003, page 176 Painting of William Hyde Wollaston, the scientist Public Domain File:Wollaston William Hyde Jackson color.jpg Created: Painted before 1829 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowCritical and rare minerals and metals for the 21st Century: 2 of 2:  & What is to be done? Benjamin Sovacool, University of Sussex.https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6473/30https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200102143405.htm The global low-carbon revolution could be at risk unless new international agreements and governance mechanisms are put in place to ensure a sustainable supply of rare minerals and metals, a new academic study has warned....more

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• Critical and rare minerals and metals for the 21st Century: 1 of 2: & What is to be done? Benjamin Sovacool, University of Sussex.

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  Feb 02 2020

  Photo: English: Cobalt blueDeutsch: CobaltblauDate | 24 March 2010Source | Own workAuthor | FK1954 PB 28 (Lichtblau 2R, Bayer) | I, the copyright holder of this work, release this work into the public domain. This applies worldwide.In some countries this may not be legally possible; if so:I grant anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowCritical and rare minerals and metals for the 21st Century: 1 of 2:  & What is to be done? Benjamin Sovacool, University of Sussex.https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6473/30https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200102143405.htm The global low-carbon revolution could be at risk unless new international agreements and governance mechanisms are put in place to ensure a sustainable supply of rare minerals and metals, a new academic study has warned. ...more

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• 2/2 Decline of union power in a gangbusters economy. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Feb 02 2020

  Image: BLS logo @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst . . . It is even less clear that the proposals of progressives like Sanders, Warren, and Buttigieg to revamp the labor rules would reverse the decline of unions. Not only is the American labor market more competitive, but the work place is no longer dominated by large industrial assembly lines where workers remain in their same position for years. Today, workforces are far more heterogeneous and labor turnover is far higher. It is therefore much more difficult for a union to organize a common front among workers with divergent interests . . .  https://www.hoover.org/research/decline-unions-good-news?utm_source=Hoover+Daily+Report&utm_campaign=87b1127fa7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_01_28_05_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_21b1edff3c-87b1127fa7-72527561 ...more

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• 1/2 Decline of union power in a gangbusters economy. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Feb 02 2020

  Image:  Early 19th century workplace militancy manifested in the Luddite riots, when unemployed workers destroyed labor-saving machines @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst    . . . the decline of union power is good news, not bad. That conclusion is driven not by some insidious effort to stifle the welfare of workers, but by the simple and profound point that the greatest protection for workers lies in a competitive economy that opens up more doors than it closes. The only way to achieve that result is by slashing the various restrictions that prevent job formation, as Justin Haskins of the Heartland Institute notes in a recent article at The Hill. The central economic insight is that jobs get created only when there is the prospect of gains from trade. Those gains in turn are maximized by cutting the multitude of regulations and taxes that do nothing more than shrink overall wealth by directing social resources to less productive ends. https://www.hoover.org/research/decline-unions-good-news?utm_source=Hoover+Daily+Report&utm_campaign=87b1127fa7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_01_28_05_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_21b1edff3c-87b1127fa7-72527561 ...more

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• San Francisco, rich in scandals. Jeff Bliss, Pacific Watch.

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  Feb 02 2020

  Image:  The political boss Abe Ruef of San Francisco on his way to San Quentin State Prison after he was convicted in the San Francisco Graft Trial of 1907–1908.  PacificWatch: Jeff Bliss.  Calls for the disgraced Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru’s ouster from city government are intensifying amid the widening fallout from the public corruption scandal he’s been accused of orchestrating. Despite the details the Justice Department laid out in its criminal complaint against Nuru this week, the expected end of his decades-long career as a public employee depends on the outcome of a meticulous personnel investigation now under way. That process will also provide the answer to another central question: Will Nuru get to keep his city pension, despite accusations of corruption and fraud? San Francisco Chronicle:   https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/SF-corruption-probe-How-long-will-Nuru-hang-onto-15018126.php   ...more

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• NASA shops for commercial space station modules. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Feb 02 2020

  Photo:  The International Space Station photographed by Expedition 56 crew members from a Soyuz spacecraft after undocking. NASA astronauts Andrew Feustel and Ricky Arnold and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev executed a fly around of the orbiting laboratory to take pictures of the station before returning home after spending 197 days in space. The station will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the launch of the first element Zarya in November 2018.Date | Taken on 4 October 2018, 08:16:16 UTCSource | https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/43818390400/Author | NASA/Roscosmos | This image or video was catalogued by Johnson Space Center of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: ISS056-E-201302.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowNASA shops for commercial space station modules. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/why-bigelow-passed-on-nasa-bid-for-new-iss-module/ ...more

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• Hawaii vs Big Astronomy. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Feb 02 2020

  Photo:English: Charles W. Bartlett's watercolor and ink Hana Maui Coast, 1920Date | 1920Medium | Watercolor and bodycolor on paperDimensions | 13 x 30 1/4 inchesSource/Photographer | Frazier Fine Art http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowHawaii vs Big Astronomy. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/first-images-from-inouye-solar-telescope/

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• #TheNewAmericanCivilWar: 2 of 2: Lessons learned from the regicide of Charles I, 1649. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis.

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  Feb 02 2020

  Photo: Charles depicted as a victorious and chivalrous Saint George in an English landscape by Rubens, 1629–30.[c] Peter Paul Rubens - Web Gallery of Art:   Image  Info about artwork Permission details This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer. This work is in the public domain in the United Statesbecause it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1925.This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain". This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details.View more Public Domainview terms File:Peter Paul Rubens - Landscape with Saint George and the Dragon - WGA20401.jpg Created: circa 1630 date QS:P,+1630-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow#TheNewAmericanCivilWar: 2 of 2:  Lessons learned from the regicide of Charles I, 1649. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis....more

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• #TheNewAmericanCivilWar: 1 of 2: Lessons learned from the regicide of Charles I, 1649. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis.

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  Feb 02 2020

  Photo: Engraving by Simon de Passe of Charles and his parents, King James and Queen Anne, c. 1612 Simon van de Passe - one or more third parties have made copyright claims against Wikimedia Commons in relation to the work from which this is sourced or a purely mechanical reproduction thereof.This may be due to recognition of the "sweat of the brow" doctrine, allowing works to be eligible for protection through skill and labour, and not purely by originality as is the case in the United States (where this website is hosted). These claims may or may not be valid in all jurisdictions. As such, use of this image in the jurisdiction of the claimant or other countries may be regarded as copyright infringement. Please see Commons:When to use  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow#TheNewAmericanCivilWar: 1 of 2:  Lessons learned from the regicide of Charles I, 1649. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis....more

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• High Morality Picard vs Transactional Morality Kirk, a tale of two generations. Tyler Rogoway @TheWarZone

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  Feb 01 2020

  Photo: Publicity photo of William Shatner as Captain Kirk from the television program Star Trek.NBC Television - eBay item photo front publicity release Permission details PD-PRE1978. The photo has no copyright markings on it as can be seen in the links above.United States Copyright Office page 2 "Visually Perceptible Copies The notice for visually perceptible copies should contain all three elements described below. They should appear together or in close proximity on the copies. 1 The symbol © (letter C in a circle); the word “Copyright”; or the abbreviation “Copr.” 2 The year of first publication. If the work is a derivative work or a compilation incorporating previously published material, the year date of first publication of the derivative work or compilation is sufficient. Examples of derivative works are translations or dramatizations; an example of a compilation is an anthology. The year may be omitted when a pictorial, graphic, or sculptural work, with accompanying textual matter, if any, is reproduced in or on greeting cards, postcards, stationery, jewelry, dolls, toys, or useful articles. 3 The name of the copyright owner, an abbreviation by which the name can be recognized, or a generally known alternative designation of owner.1 Example © 2007 Jane Doe.") Because I couldn't view the back of this photo, I conducted various copyright searches on the UPenn site to try determining if any copyrights had been registered. I searched the complete volumes for film and artwork for the years 1965 to 1969. Desilu Productions registered only w:The Lucy Show and w:Yours, Mine and Ours (1968 film) in conjunction with Walden Films. NBC registered only one still image-a color slide from Bonanza of Ben Cartwright on a horse. Nothing turned up when I searched Star Trek for the years 1965 through 1969 in either film or artwork. There's no evidence of copyright for this time frame from either production company.View more Public Domainview terms File:Star Trek William Shatner.JPG Created: The publicity release is not dated. The program was on NBC from 1966 to 1969. The type of logo used on the NBC Press Release is the "second peacock", which was used by the network during the years 1962 to 1975. This would be in keeping with the timeframe the show aired on the network and also within the pre-1978 guidelines. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowHigh Morality Picard vs Transactional Morality Kirk, a tale of two generations. Tyler Rogoway @TheWarZonehttps://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/31890/star-trek-picard-is-the-long-overdue-show-we-desperately-need-right-now ...more

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• RQ-170 Over North Korea. Tyler Rogoway @TheWarZone

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  Feb 01 2020

  Photo: US Army recognition drawings of the RQ-170Headquarters Department of the Army - US Army manual TC 3-01.80 Visual Aircraft Recognition May 2017, available via https://fas.org/irp/doddir/army/tc3-01-80.pdf Images of the RQ-170 Sentinel taken from a US Army recognition manual Public Domain File:RQ-170 from US Army recognition manual.jpg Created: 30 April 2017 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowRQ-170 Over North Korea. Tyler Rogoway @TheWarZonehttps://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/31992/exclusive-details-on-the-secretive-rq-170-stealth-drones-first-trip-to-korea https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/31876/the-pentagon-may-finally-get-the-fighter-sized-stealth-aerial-target-drone-it-badly-needs...more

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• USAF E-11A Down. Tyler Rogoway @TheWarZone

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  Feb 01 2020

  Photo: A Bombardier E-11A at Kandahar International Airport in April 2019. Capt. Anna-Marie Wyant - This Image was released by the United States Air Force with the ID 190404-F-TQ740-105 (next). This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing. العربية | বাংলা | Deutsch | English | español | euskara | فارسی | français | italiano | 日本語 | 한국어 | македонски | മലയാളം | Plattdüütsch | Nederlands | polski | پښتو | português | svenska | Türkçe | українська | 中文 | 中文（简体）‎ | +/− A 430th Expeditionary Electronic Combat Squadron E-11A aircraft outfitted with a Battlefield Airborne Communications Node sits on the runway at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, April 4, 2019. The 430th EECS is the only unit that operates these aircraft with the BACN payload. (U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. Anna-Marie Wyant) (Photo ID: 5253493)Public Domain File:BACN of the U.S. Air Force at Kandahar International Airport in 2019.jpg Created: 3 April 2019 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowUSAF E-11A Down. Tyler Rogoway @TheWarZonehttps://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/31969/highly-specialized-air-force-e-11a-communications-aircraft-crashes-and-burns-in-afghanistan ...more

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• Gem of the Indian Ocean Basin most open for American business. Geerish Bucktowonsing, Economic Development Board, Republic of Mauritius.

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  Feb 01 2020

  Photo: Port Louis, the capital city of Mauritius,20° 10′ 28.16″ S, 57° 30′ 13.39″ E View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap - Google EarthDescription: English—Port Louis, the capital city of Mauritius, is winding down in the evening. People are going for after work drinks or going home for a well deserved break. This image was taken from Mount Signal, to the south of the city. In this image you can see among other things financial district, Caudan waterfront, and the large square unmistakable police compound. In the distance, the northern shores of the island are visible with a shape of Point aux Cannonier barely discernible. Permissions*: see below.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowGem of the Indian Ocean Basin most open for American business. Geerish Bucktowonsing, Economic Development Board, Republic of Mauritius. www.edbmauritius.org https://www.gfmag.com/magazine/december-2019/mauritius-africas-offshore-haven"The election also cemented Mauritius’s position as a haven of political stability and democratic process compared with its neighbors in sub-Saharan Africa. “Mauritius is a gem of the Indian Ocean,” says Gavin Butchart, operations director at Brent Wealth Management (Mauritius), arguing that the country’s next focus must be on economic development.  "Mauritius wants to join the league of high-income countries; already, its per-capita income of $10,500 is 'way ahead of the region’s average of $4,000 . . . "..  ..  ..  * Date 30 April 2011 / Source Own work / AuthorPeter Kuchar (pkuchar)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 3.0 Unported license.You are free:  to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work. Under the following conditions:a ttribution – 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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• 21st Century: too late for Communism. @DanHenninger

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  Feb 01 2020

  Image: Hitler killed 6 million; Stalin, 20 million.  Mao killed, apparently, around 70 million Chinese people.  Daniel Henninger, WSJ Wonder Land column; in re:  Threat to the planet. Look back to 1949 when the PRC under Mao Tse-tung came into being; since then, all succeeding generations have been under the Communist Party and its ideology.  Today, 1.4 billion people is a lot. Incompatible with the modern world.  Everybody travels globally, as do ideas and data, uncontainably; and control gets harder and harder. Think, “going viral.”!  ...more

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• Congressional hearings: “We’re in a [political] spiral.” @DevinNunes

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  Feb 01 2020

  Image: Here, Fraser spiral illusion. Devin Nunes, CA-22 (San Joaquin Valley), and House Intell Ranking member; in re:   . .  . When Adam Schiff became head of the Intell committee, who brought on not professionals but [ideologues].  This should not even have started in the Intelligence Committee. This anonymous whistleblower came forward, then it came out that Schiff’s staff had [collaborate with the “whistleblower”; then eventually the House had a sham trial, then complained that the Senate didn't bring in witnesses desired by the House.  This is a spiral; we’re by no means finished with the whole thing.  When you see the Democrats crying foul, the evidence clearly doesn't bear that out. ...more

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• North American trade: rocket docket & ice cream @DevinNunes

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  Feb 01 2020

  Image: Eastern Townships of Quebec, Scotstown: villages along the Canada-US border. Devin Nunes, CA-22 (San Joaquin Valley), and House Intell Ranking member; in re: Dr Douglas Holtz-Eakin, economist, of the American Action Forum, on the US-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement (USMCA), esp the digital chapter. Also agriculture with Canada (which formerly was quite inequitable), and Mexico: “non-tariff barriers to trade”: when fresh fruit got to the Mexican border, corrupt entities claimed there was something wrong with it and rejected it.  Now, there’s a swift dispute mechanism, a sort of rocket docket.   The US-China agreement: China has notoriously been stealing US defense secrets. This may be the most important trade agreement in history because it’s between the two largest trading nations in history.  . . .  ...more

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• 2/2 Elizabeth Warren: How Her Presidency Would Destroy the Middle Class and the American Dream, by David L. Bahnsen and Sally C. Pipes

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  Feb 01 2020

  Image:  Sequoyah, inventor of the Cherokee syllabary.Cherokee—more properly spelled Tsalagi—is an Iroquoian language* with an innovative written syllabary invented by Sequoyah in the late 1810s and early 1820s to write the Cherokee language. Twenty-two thousand people speak the Cherokee language today, primarily in Oklahoma and North Carolina. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_language Elizabeth Warren: How Her Presidency Would Destroy the Middle Class and the American Dream, by David L. Bahnsen and Sally C. Pipes Elizabeth Warren is a progressive radical explicitly running on the most anti-American concepts and policies any candidate has ever run on—and may very well be the next President of the United States.   Extreme candidates are nothing new in American politics, but very rarely do candidates as extreme as Elizabeth Warren have such a talent for presenting radically dangerous policy ideas as if they are compatible with the American experiment. An increasing number of far-left progressives have worked their way into the upper echelons of Democratic Party leadership, but none have generated the college campus enthusiasm and media coddling that Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren has created. Yet what belies this Harvard professor’s quirky but compelling presentation style are ideas that, as recently as the Obama presidency, were considered far too radical for American life. Worse, the essence of Warren’s platform undermines the economic groups she most claims to want to aid—the frustrated middle class often on the outside of American prosperity looking in. Far from offering the middle class a life line, an Elizabeth Warren presidency represents the greatest threat to the American dream our nation has ever faced.https://www.amazon.com/Elizabeth-Warren-Presidency-Destroy-American/dp/B0824X9KWB*The only Southern Iroquoian language ...more

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• 1/2 Elizabeth Warren: How Her Presidency Would Destroy the Middle Class and the American Dream, by David L. Bahnsen and Sally C. Pipes

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  Image:  Elizabeth Warren at a campaign rally in Auburn, Massachusetts, Nov 2, 2012. Elizabeth Warren: How Her Presidency Would Destroy the Middle Class and the American Dream, by David L. Bahnsen and Sally C. Pipes  Elizabeth Warren is a progressive radical explicitly running on the most anti-American concepts and policies any candidate has ever run on—and may very well be the next President of the United States.  Extreme candidates are nothing new in American politics, but very rarely do candidates as extreme as Elizabeth Warren have such a talent for presenting radically dangerous policy ideas as if they are compatible with the American experiment. An increasing number of far-left progressives have worked their way into the upper echelons of Democratic Party leadership, but none have generated the college campus enthusiasm and media coddling that Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren has created. Yet what belies this Harvard professor’s quirky but compelling presentation style are ideas that, as recently as the Obama presidency, were considered far too radical for American life. Worse, the essence of Warren’s platform undermines the economic groups she most claims to want to aid—the frustrated middle class often on the outside of American prosperity looking in. Far from offering the middle class a life line, an Elizabeth Warren presidency represents the greatest threat to the American dream our nation has ever faced.https://www.amazon.com/Elizabeth-Warren-Presidency-Destroy-American/dp/B0824X9KWB ..  ..  ..   | Description | English: Elizabeth Warren at a campaign rally in Auburn, Massachusetts, Nov 2, 2012. | Date | 3 November 2012, 12:17:18 | Source | Own work | Author | Tim Pierce Licensing[edit] ‪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 3.0 Unported 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. •    ‪share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.    ...more

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• Goldman Sachs loses the magic of greed & What is to be done? @JohnTamny @RealClearMarkets

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  Feb 01 2020

  Photo: Marcus Goldman (1821-1904)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowGoldman Sachs loses the magic of greed & What is to be done? @JohnTamny @RealClearMarketshttps://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2020/01/28/goldman_sachs_should_ditch_the_virtue_signaling_and_re-emphasize_long-term_greedy_104055.html

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• Do Millennial Palestinians want change? Eran Lerman. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Feb 01 2020

  Photo: A Palestinian youth serving Falafel in Ramallahhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowDo the Millennial Palestinians want change? Eran Lerman. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_presDr. Lerman was deputy director for foreign policy and international affairs at the National Security Council in the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office. He held senior posts in IDF Military Intelligence for over 20 years. He also served for eight years as director of the Israel and Middle East office of the American Jewish Committee. He teaches in the Middle East studies program at Shalem College in Jerusalem, and in post-graduate programs at Tel Aviv University and the National Defense College. He is an expert on Israel’s foreign relations, and on the Middle East. A third-generation Sabra, he holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, and a mid-career MPA from Harvard University. Related articles●        https://www.wsj.com/articles/arab-leaders-support-for-mideast-peace-plan-marks-a-regional-shift-11580325868 ●        https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-arabs/arabs-prioritize-key-ties-with-us-against-iran-in-reacting-to-trump-peace-plan-idUSKBN1ZS2L6 ●        https://www.timesofisrael.com/keen-on-ties-most-of-uss-arab-allies-choose-not-to-directly-rebuke-peace-plan/ ...more

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• The missing Palestinians in the Trump peace plan. @YossiKupperwasser Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Photo: Maps of Ottoman Palestine showing the Kaza subdivisions.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe missing Palestinians in the Trump peace plan. @YossiKupperwasser Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_presBrig.-Gen. Yossi Kuperwasser is an Israeli intelligence and security expert. Formerly, Kuperwasser served as the head of the research division in the Israel Defence Force Military Intelligence division and Director General of the Israel Ministry of Strategic Affairs.Related articles·         https://jcpa.org/the-jerusalem-centers-role-on-the-road-to-the-vision-for-peace/ ·         https://jcpa.org/the-american-peace-plan-to-be-released/ ·         https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/The-security-significance-of-annexing-the-Jordan-Valley-615350 ·         https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Ten-things-about-the-borders-bridges-and-tunnels-of-the-Trump-peace-plan-615738 ·         https://www.timesofisrael.com/arab-league-to-hold-urgent-meeting-on-trump-peace-plan/  ...more

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• Three giant risks to letting Huawei into the house.. @MichaelAuslin @HooverInst

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  Photo: Judge releases video of Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou being searched at airport before arrest.  The multibillionaire Meng is the daughter of the founder of Huawei and a senior officer (including CFO) of the firm. She and her company are widely accused of theft of intellectual property and complete collusion with the Peoples Liberation Army. She currently is in Canada, under arrest. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThree giant risks to letting Huawei into the house..  @MichaelAuslin @HooverInsthttps://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2020/01/the-west-can-only-blame-itself-for-failing-to-prepare-for-huawei/?utm_source=Hoover+Daily+Report&utm_campaign=87b1127fa7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_01_28_05_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_21b1edff3c-87b1127fa7-72839649 ...more

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• PRC despotism fails healthcare. @SebGorka #AmericaFirst

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  Jan 31 2020

  Photo: "Butterworth & Sons, Undertakers," from brochure Seattle and the Orient (1900). The Butterworth firm (1892–1997) was, at that time, located at 1426–1428 Third Avenue: the numbers can be seen in the exterior photo. It soon relocated to a new building at 1921 First Avenue.Date | 1900Source | p. 151 of Seattle and the Orient (more properly, Seattle …and the… Orient), a 1900 "souvenir" pamphlet edited and compiled by Alfred D. Bowen and published by The Times Printing Company (that is, the Seattle Times).Scanned at 300 dpi; images cleaned up using Picture Publisher's "remove pattern" feature.Author | Book edited and compiled by Alfred D. Bowen. The photo is uncredited.Permission(Reusing this file) | PD-USOther versions | Image:Seattle_and_the_Orient_p151.jpg is the full page. The individual pictures are available as Image:Seattle - Butterworth funeral home - 1900.jpg and Image:Seattle - Butterworth funeral home chapel - 1900.jpg.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowPRC despotism fails healthcare. @SebGorka #AmericaFirst...more

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• The last of the impeachers. @SebGorka #AmericaFirst

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  Jan 31 2020

  Photo: Unknown or not providedRecord creator | Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer. (09/18/1947 - 02/28/1964)Title | "Judge Roy Bean, the `Law West of the Pecos,' holding court at the old town of Langtry, Texas in 1900, trying a horse thief. This building was courthouse and saloon. No other peace officers in the locality at that time."This work is in the public domain in the United Stateshttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe last of the impeachers. @SebGorka #AmericaFirst...more

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• Who launched the cyber attack on the Israeli power station? @AFixler @FDD Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Photo: Electric Power Plant, Norfolk Navy YardDate9 January 1900MediumphotographCollectionNational Archives and Records Administration   Sourcehttps://catalog.archives.gov/search?q=*:*&f.parentNaId=40038183&f.level=item&sort=naIdSort%20ascThis file is a work of a sailor or employee of the U.S. Navy, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, it is in the public domain in the United States.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWho launched the cyber attack on the Israeli power station? @AFixler @FDD Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_presAnnie Fixler is the deputy director of FDD’s Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation, contributing to the cyber-enabled economic warfare project and the Transformative Cyber Innovation Lab. She works on issues related to the national security implications of cyberattacks on economic targets, adversarial strategies and capabilities, and U.S. cyber resilience. She also contributes to the work of FDD’s Center on Economic and Financial Power on offensive and defensive tools of economic coercion. Related articles:●        https://www.timesofisrael.com/energy-minister-says-israel-foiled-serious-attack-on-power-station/ ●        https://www.timesofisrael.com/world-leaders-planes-faced-cyberattacks-as-they-landed-in-israel-last-week/ ●        https://www.recordedfuture.com/iran-hacker-hierarchy/ ●        https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2020/01/23/explainer-how-irans-military-outsources-its-cyberwarfare-forces/ ●        https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/477795-congress-struggles-on-rules-for-cyber-warfare-with-iran https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/tehran-suspected-of-sending-fake-text-message-telling-americans-they-have-been-drafted-for-war-with-iran...more

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• The Trump administration peace plan & What is to be done? Jason Greenblatt. former Assistant to the President and the White House Special Envoy to the Middle East. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Jan 31 2020

  Photo:  jordanvalleype02libb (find matches)Title: The Jordan valley and PetraYear: 1905 (1900s)Authors:  Libbey, William, 1855- Hoskins, Franklin Evans, joint authorSubjects: Publisher:  New York London, G. P. Putnam's sonsContributing Library:  Princeton Theological Seminary LibraryDigitizing Sponsor:  Princeton Theological Seminary LibraryView Book Page: Book ViewerAbout This Book: Catalog EntryView All Images: All Images From BookClick here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image:enderhands, dressed in desert costume with sword andMowing garments. The Zabit was as good a typeof a brutal Roman soldier, and his chief pleasureseemed to be that of gloating over Deeb andhis followers. He used his tongue like a whip-lash, told us the story of their ineffectual attemptsto hold the castle against the government, anc(ended each paragraph with an invitation to Deebto say : Allah Yansur es Sultan — May Godmake the Sultan victorious. For reasons thatneed no explication here Deeb would make theproper response, and the Zabit would then cursehim, and tell him that it came from his lips onlyand not from his heart. It recalled another Arabsaying that no Anglo-Saxon can fully understand, Kiss the hand that you cannot break and bideyour time. We had difficulty in securing barley at Shobek.The Mecca caravan had passed southward sometwenty days before us, and all these highland townshad been scoured for provisions of all kinds. Thiswas one reason, but a far more powerful one washttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Trump administration peace plan & What is to be done? Jason Greenblatt. @GreenblattJD former Assistant to the President and the White House Special Envoy to the Middle East. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_presAmong his first acts, President Trump appointed his long-time advisor and then-chief Legal Officer Jason Greenblatt as an Assistant to the President and the White House Special Envoy to the Middle East. In this role, Greenblatt served as the chief architect of the vision for peace between Israel and the Palestinians and between Israel and its Arab neighbors. Related articles·         https://www.jewishpress.com/news/eye-on-palestine/unwilling-to-act-rationally-professionally-jason-greenblatt-criticizes-pa-leadership-for-rejecting-the-unreleased-deal-of-the-century/2020/01/26/ ·         https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/30/opinion/middle-east-peace-plan.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share ·         https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-envoy-tells-jewish-leaders-a-palestinian-state-wont-happen-in-near-future/ ·         https://www.dailywire.com/news/historic-arab-states-welcome-trumps-israeli-palestinian-peace-plan ·         https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-trump-s-peace-plan-means-settlements-are-permanent-democrats-get-used-to-it-1.8448558 ·         https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-trump-s-peace-plan-means-settlements-are-permanent-democrats-get-used-to-it-1.8448558 ·         https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Why-the-Palestinian-leadership-should-not-reject-Trumps-peace-plan-615537 ...more

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• Departing Auschwitz for Buchenwald at 15. Irving Roth. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Photo: Prisoner of KZ Buchenwald with member of SS personnel after entry of U.S. Army 1945."Illustrations are from Department of Defense files, with the exception of photographs on pages 199 and 229 which are reproduced by courtesy of the National Archives." [1] - THE U.S. ARMY IN THE OCCUPATION OF GERMANY, 1944-1946 Russian survivor liberated 14.04.1945 by U.S. Army in Buchenwald camp in Germany identified a former guard from SS who was brutally beating prisoners and was probably involved in the crime of the Holocaust. Permission details This image is a work of a U.S. Army soldier or employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.View more Public Domainview terms File:Concentration camp SS.jpg Created: 4 June 1945 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowDeparting Auschwitz for Buchenwald at 15.  Irving Roth. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_presIrving Roth was born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia on September 2, 1929 he survived the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. He immigrated to the US in 1947. The memories of the Nazi death camps never faded and he devotes his time and efforts to educating young and old on the horrors of the Holocaust and the evils of prejudice and anti-Semitism. Related articles:https://haitiholocaustsurvivors.wordpress.com/anti-semitism/the-story-of-irving-roth/...more

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• Liberating Gunskirchen at 18 and attending the Nuremberg Trial at 19. Alan Moskin. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Photo: Defendants in the dock at the Nuremberg trials. The main target of the prosecution was Hermann Göring (at the left edge on the first row of benches), considered to be the most important surviving official in the Third Reich after Hitler's death.Work of the United States Government - Nuremberg-1-.jpg Nuremberg Trials. Defendants in their dock, circa 1945-1946. (in front row, from left to right): Hermann Göring, Rudolf Heß, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel (in second row, from left to right): Karl Dönitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach, Fritz Sauckel Public Domain File:Nuremberg Trials retouched.jpg Created: 2010-12-25 14:54 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowLiberating Gunskirchen at 18 and attending the Nuremberg Trial at 19. Alan Moskin. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_presAlan Moskin was born in Englewood, New Jersey on May 30, 1926. Alan was drafted into the military service at the age of 18 and served in the United States Army during World War II from 1944 until 1946. He was a member of the 66th Infantry, 71st Division, part of General George Patton’s 3rd Army. At the beginning of May, 1945, his Company participated in the liberation of the Gunskirchen Concentration Camp, a subcamp of Mauthausen. After the war ended, Alan remained in Europe as a member of the U.S. Army of Occupation during which time he attended the Nuremberg Trials of top Nazi officials. ●        https://time.com/5118749/liberation-soldier-holocaust-remembrance/ ...more

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• #TheScalaReport: The supply chain also appears to be in coronavirus quarantine. Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHE

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  Jan 31 2020

  Image: An early supply chain: the Dutch East India Company (Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie)—De zeeslag bij Goa in 1638 tussen de VOC en een Portugese vloot (Johannes Vingboons, 1665). #TheScalaReport:  The supply chain also appears to be in coronavirus quarantine. Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com  #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHEChris Riegel, Scala.com, in re: The coronavirus. Most of the consumer electronics supply chain in China is shut down; Chinese mfrg juggernaut is on hold. We get msgs from suppliers that everything is on hold through March, with similar impact in Japan and Korea. Supply chain of good wool to mills to Italy is stopped, interrupting Italian commerce. Shock waves apply all around the world.  ...more

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• Motives unrelated to accusations: inculpable. @ConradMBlack

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  Jan 31 2020

  Image: Cul-de-sac/dead end. Conrad Black,   , in re:  Justice Roberts didn't want to disappoint Rand Paul, nor read the whistleblower’s name, although everyone knows it.  Schiff and Nadler have been under-recognized as deadpan comics.  What the president is accused of is neither illegal nor impeachable.  . . . At least part of his motive had nothing to do with what he’s accused of.  Pelosi: “You can’t be acquitted if you don't have a trial” — she’s telling the Senate what to do, which the House has no Constitutional right to do. Caught in a cul de sac of her own making. Hunter Biden: $83,000 a month for being on the board of a company of which he knows nothing at all.  Schiff claimed his office had had no contract with the whistleblower, which demonstrably is false and the New York Times wrote it up as such. . .  . If Bloomberg doesn't make it, they're doomed.    Bernie Sanders: “An insane old Menshevik in the attic” – Peggy Noonan  ...more

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• 100,000 Wuhan-flu sickbay. Governance weakening? Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson

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  Jan 31 2020

  Image: The sickbay of the Enterprise-D from Star Trek: The Next Generation, alongside Dr Crusher's uniform used from season three onwards.  Permissoins:  see below. Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover, & National Review Online, in re: Excellent source in Guangdong says that the number of afflicted cases of Wuhan coronavirus is more like 100,000. It's staggering. The bargain hitherto was: “You give us a good economy, we’ll give you loyalty.”  But that’s breaking. We don't have fixed numbers of lethality for transmissiblity.  How are Chinese people responding to millions of their compatriots’ being locked into their homes? With humor. The most common phrase on the Net yesterday was, “Where is Trump?”— that’s their way of saying, “Where is Xi?” since they dasn’t use the hallowed name of their leader-for life. The combination of the trade deal, and he sinking economy, and he million-plus Uyghurs in Xinjang concentration camps, it looks as though the Chinese [governance] is collapsing. The Chinese leadership is rotten, dishonest. ..  ..  ..  Permissions:    SummaryDescription | The sickbay of the Enterprise-D from Star Trek: The Next Generation, alongside Dr Crusher's uniform used from season three onwards. Date | 9 February 2008, 11:35 Source | Star Trek 017 Author | Derek Springer from Los Angeles, CA, USA Camera location | 33° 45′ 04.68″ N, 118° 11′ 20.22″ W 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. •        share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.  This image, originally posted to Flickr, was reviewed on October 14, 2008 by the administrator or reviewer File Upload Bot (Magnus Manske), who confirmed that it was available on Flickr under the stated license on that date.  ...more

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• Athenians feared their enemies’s revenge; do Democrats, also? Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson

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  Image:  Battle of Potidaea (432 BC): Athenians against Corinthians. Scene of Socrates saving Alcibiades. 18th century engraving.  Public domain. Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover, & National Review Online, in re: The Athenians were alarmed to think that victors over them would treat Athenians as badly, as cruelly, as Athenians treated their enemies.    Democrats start with three states in the bag; but their conduct in he Senate is puzzling. There’s a regicide atmosphere around the Senate trial.  Do the Democrats recognize that they’ve tried.  But, like Wiley Coyote, they seem not to learn. Given the Green New deal, the wealth tax, etc., I don't think they have confidence in winning. Comey, Brennan, McCabe and Clapper all seem worried that they’re much exposed.  Something happened in 2016, in the last year of the Obama Adm – unmasking, moles inserted to trap Trump minor campaign officials, et al., on the premise that Hillary would win.  CNN is still going down the deplorable/irredeemable route; to paraphrase Tallyrand,  . . .   The same train going over the same cliff, but they can't stop themselves, almost like an end-state addict, where their drug is hatred of Trump.  https://www.nationalreview.com/author/victor-davis-hanson/ ...more

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• Ethan Allen: 2 of 2: His Life and Times Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Willard Sterne Randall (Author), Mark Whitten (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Jan 31 2020

  Photo: Image from page 238 of "The tourist's guide through the Empire state. Embracing all cities, towns and watering places, by Hudson river and New York central route" (1871) Identifier: touristsguidethr00colt Title: The tourist's guide through the Empire state. Embracing all cities, towns and watering places, by Hudson river and New York central route Year: 1871 (1870s) Authors:  Colt, S. S Subjects:  New York Central and Hudson River Railroad New York (State) -- Guidebooks Publisher:  Albany, N.Y., Ed. and pub. by Mrs. S. S. Colt Contributing Library:  New York Public Library Digitizing Sponsor:  MSN    View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book  Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Ethan Allen: 2 of 2: His Life and Times  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Willard Sterne Randall (Author), Mark Whitten (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Ethan-Allen-His-Life-Times/dp/B00D9BKADE/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=The long-awaited biography of the frontier Founding Father whose heroic actions and neglected writings inspired an entire generation, from Paine to Madison.  On May 10, 1775, in the storm-tossed hours after midnight, Ethan Allen, the Revolutionary firebrand, was poised for attack. With only two boatloads of his scraggly band of Vermont volunteers having made it across the wind-whipped waters of Lake Champlain, he was waiting for the rest of his Green Mountain boys to arrive. But with the protective darkness quickly fading, Allen determined that he could hold off no longer. While Ethan Allen, a canonical hero of the American Revolution, has always been defined by his daring, predawn attack on the British-controlled Fort Ticonderoga, Willard Sterne Randall, the author of Benedict Arnold, now challenges our conventional understanding of this largely unexamined Founding Father.  Widening the scope of his inquiry beyond the Revolutionary War, Randall traces Allen's beginning back to his modest origins in Connecticut, where he was born in 1738. Largely self-educated, emerging from a relatively impoverished background, Allen demonstrated his deeply rebellious nature early on through his attraction to Deism, his dramatic defense of smallpox vaccinations, and his early support of separation of church and state....more

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• Ethan Allen: 1 of 2: His Life and Times Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Willard Sterne Randall (Author), Mark Whitten (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Jan 31 2020

  Photo: New England Country Road, Burlington, Vt. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Ethan Allen: 1 of 2: His Life and Times  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Willard Sterne Randall (Author), Mark Whitten (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Ethan-Allen-His-Life-Times/dp/B00D9BKADE/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=The long-awaited biography of the frontier Founding Father whose heroic actions and neglected writings inspired an entire generation, from Paine to Madison.  On May 10, 1775, in the storm-tossed hours after midnight, Ethan Allen, the Revolutionary firebrand, was poised for attack. With only two boatloads of his scraggly band of Vermont volunteers having made it across the wind-whipped waters of Lake Champlain, he was waiting for the rest of his Green Mountain boys to arrive. But with the protective darkness quickly fading, Allen determined that he could hold off no longer. While Ethan Allen, a canonical hero of the American Revolution, has always been defined by his daring, predawn attack on the British-controlled Fort Ticonderoga, Willard Sterne Randall, the author of Benedict Arnold, now challenges our conventional understanding of this largely unexamined Founding Father.  Widening the scope of his inquiry beyond the Revolutionary War, Randall traces Allen's beginning back to his modest origins in Connecticut, where he was born in 1738. Largely self-educated, emerging from a relatively impoverished background, Allen demonstrated his deeply rebellious nature early on through his attraction to Deism, his dramatic defense of smallpox vaccinations, and his early support of separation of church and state....more

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• Hotel Mars: Boeing cancels Phantom Express & What is to be done? Douglas Messier Parabolic Arc @spacecome David Livingston SpaceShow.com

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  Jan 31 2020

  Photo: Jean-Marie Le Bris and his flying machine, Albatros II, 1868.Pépin fils from Brest - own archive Le Bris' Albatros. Public Domain File:LeBris1868.jpg Created: 31 December 1867 Location: 48° 23′ 25.42″ N, 4° 29′ 9.87″ W http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowHotel Mars: Boeing cancels Phantom Express & What is to be done? Douglas Messier Parabolic Arc @spacecome David Livingston SpaceShow.com

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• After Brexit: Scotland Forever EU! @TheRealConstable

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  Jan 31 2020

  Photo:  Holyrood, its palace and its abbey; an historical appreciationYear: 1914 (1910s)Authors:  Bryce, William MoirSubjects:  Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587 Holyrood Abbey Palace of Holyroodhouse (Edinburgh, Scotland)Publisher:  Edinburgh : O. Schulze and companyContributing Library:  University of California LibrariesDigitizing Sponsor:  Internet ArchiveView Book Page: Book ViewerAbout This Book: Catalog EntryView All Images: All Images From BookClick here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image:s fall the clerestory, the roof of the northern aisle, andmost of the flying arches. The Bourbons of France gave shelter tothe last of the Stewart kings, and, in return, Comte dArtois, after-wards Charles X., found a place of refuge in the Palace of the Stewartsin 1795, and again in 1831. Under the inspiring influence of Sir WalterScott, the visit in 1822 of George IV. to Scotland, and in particular hislevees at Holyrood, roused intense enthusiasm among all classes of thecommunity. Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort visited Edinburghin 1842, and in 1850 for the first time dwelt within the walls of theancient Palace. The refined taste of Prince Albert brought aboutmany changes in the surroundings and in the approaches to the Palace.King Edward VII. held a levee there in 1903, and his son andsuccessor George V., accompanied by Queen Mary—the second of thatname to live in Holyrood—resided in the Palace on the occasion oftheir state entry into their ancient Scottish capital. xliv IText Appearing After Image:http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowAfter Brexit: Scotland Forever EU! @RealConstable https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-51294445https://www.forbes.com/sites/simonconstable/2020/01/29/coronavirus-could--send-stocks-down-another-10-or-more-history-shows/#38a5006b653bhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/simonconstable/2020/01/24/why-you-should-buy-microsoft-in-the-wake-of-the-data-breach-news/#289074ea7b80https://www.forbes.com/sites/simonconstable/2020/01/23/stocks-to-crash-unless-trump-reelected-market-analyst-says/#2a7932a47d2a ...more

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• Three questions for the Impeachers and one for the defenders: 2 of 2: @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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  Jan 30 2020

  Photo: Identifier: pictureofdesolat00trow (find matches)Title: A picture of the desolated states; and the work of restoration. 1865-1868Year: 1868 (1860s)Authors:  Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend), 1827-1916Subjects:  Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885 Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) Southern States -- Description and travel United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 AnecdotesPublisher:  Hartford, Conn., L. StebbinsContributing Library:  New York Public LibraryDigitizing Sponsor:  MSNView Book Page: Book ViewerAbout This Book: Catalog EntryView All Images: All Images From BookClick here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image:in any, are pecuUarly indecent and unbecoming ui the Chief Magistrate of theUnited States, by means whereof said Andrew Johnson has brought the highoffice of President of the United States into contempt, ridicule, and disgrace, tothe great scandal of all good citizens, whereby said Andrew Johnson, Presi-dent of the United States, did commit, and was then and there guilty of highmisdemeanor in office. The Senate having adopted rules for the trial, reported by-its committee, proceeded on Thursday, March 5th, to organizeas a Court of Impeachment, Chief Justice Chase presiding.On Saturday, March 7th, the summons requiring the Pres-ident to api)ear and answer the Articles of Impeachment wasserved on him, with a copy of the articles. On Friday, ^larch13th, the President appeared by his counsel before the Senateand requested forty days time in which to prepare and servehis answers to the articles. His counsel, as first named, con-sisted of Messrs. Evarts, Stanbery, Curtis, Nelson, and Blackhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThree questions for the Impeachers and one for the defenders: 2 of 2:  @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJRhttps://www.nationalreview.com/2020/01/impeachment-questions-that-need-answering/ ...more

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• Three questions for the Impeachers and one for the defenders: 1 of 2: @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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  Photo: Collection: Cornell University Collection of Political Americana, Cornell University Library  Repository: Susan H. Douglas Political Americana Collection, #2214Rare & Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Cornell University  Title: The High Court of Impeachment  Political Party: Democratic  Date Made: 1868  Measurement: Sheet: 22 x 32 in.; 55.88 x 81.28 cm  Classification: Publications  Persistent URI: hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5zqj  There are no known U.S. copyright restrictions on this image. The digital file is owned by the Cornell University Library which is making it freely available with the request that, when possible, the Library be credited as its source. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThree questions for the Impeachers and one for the defenders: 1 of 2:  @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJRhttps://www.nationalreview.com/2020/01/impeachment-questions-that-need-answering/ ...more

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• Azeris of Iran want the same as the Azeris of Azerbaijan: peace, prosperity, transparency. Ahmad Obali

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  Jan 30 2020

  Photo: Typical traditional Tabriz style "Afshan carpet", Azerbaijan Carpet Museum Urek Meniashvili - Own work Afshan rug, Tabriz school Azerbaijani carpets, XVIII c. CC BY-SA 3.0 File:Azerbaijani Afshan rug.jpg Created: 2013-07-13 15:24:49 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowAzeris of Iran want the same as the Azeris of Azerbaijan: peace, prosperity, transparency.  Ahmad Obali https://www.gunaz.tvhttps://www.gunaz.tv

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• Swamp creature in a white hat. @WJMcGurn @WSJOpinion.

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  Jan 30 2020

  Photo: Identifier: saintlawrencebas00daws (find matches)Title: The Saint Lawrence basin and its border-lands; being the story of their discovery, exploration and occupationYear: 1900 (1900s)Authors:  Dawson, Samuel Edward, 1833-1916Subjects:  Canada -- History To 1763 (New France) Saint Lawrence River Valley -- History New France -- Discovery and explorationPublisher:  Toronto : Musson Book Co.Contributing Library:  University of California LibrariesDigitizing Sponsor:  MSNView Book Page: Book ViewerAbout This Book: Catalog EntryView All Images: All Images From BookClick here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image:r earliest home the people who,under Donnacona, first greeted the French under Cartier.In the West the work of destruction went on. Thepowerful Neutral nation was scattered. The Erie na-tion was annihilated. Tradition tells of more than athousand fires alight at one time and in each fire a staketo which was bound a writhing Erie. The picture maybe somewhat overdrawn as to the number at one time, butit is in the main true, and there is nothing in DantesInferno more horrible. The Ilurons and their near rela-tives, the Tobacco nation, long wandered in search of asafe retreat. A large band of them lied to the ManitcjulinIslands and from thence to Michilimackinac, but IroquiMSwar parties sought them out. They went to the islandsat the mouth of Green Bay of Lake Michigan, but foundno safety. Hunted thence they fled to the territories ofthe Illinois and the Sioux, upon the Mississippi, andfrom thence they retired up the St. Croix and lilackrivers. At last they found refuge at Chequamegon BayText Appearing After Image:EXPLORATION RESUMED 315 in the southwest corner of Lake Superior, There, withinreach of the head-waters of the Mississippi, they dweltuntil their renewed arrogance provoked the Sioux todrive them out. In 1653, when the whole colony of New France was indespair from the incursions of the Iroquois, to the sur-prise of all the Onondagas made proposals of peace, andthe exploration of the western country recommenced withthe reviving fur trade. In 1654 two young French-men left for the far West and the Relation of 1656chronicles their return with fifty loaded canoes and twohundred and fifty savages. Their names have not beenrecorded, nor the localities they visited; but from thenames of the tribes mentioned, it is clear that they hadbeen on Lake Alichigan, on the Fox River, and probablyon Lake Superior. They brought messages from distantnations asking for missionaries. Thirty young French-men started thttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowSwamp creature in a white hat. @WJMcGurn @WSJOpinion. https://www.wsj.com/articles/mitch-derangement-syndrome-11580169265  ...more

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• What do we know about PLA biological warfare? Rick Fisher, International Assessment and Strategy Center. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Jan 30 2020

  Photo: Shiro Ishii, commander of Unit 731, which performed live human vivisections and other biological experimentation.Masao Takezawa - Bulletin of Unit 731(an article not for sale) Shiro Ishii Permission details Copyright expired.View more Public Domainview terms File:Shiro-ishii.jpg Created: 31 December 1931 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWhat do we know about PLA biological warfare? Rick Fisher,  International Assessment and Strategy Center. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast ...more

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• Taiwan prepares defenses from the coronavirus tragedy. @DCYates @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Jan 30 2020

  Photo: Taiwan Governor Palace in 1937 during the Japanese rule. Many high school girls stood in front of the palace. Camera location | 25° 02′ 23.91″ N, 121° 30′ 44.94″ E | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth |  | This image is now in the public domain  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTaiwan prepares defenses from the coronavirus tragedy. @DCYates @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast 

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• Foreign nationals stuck in China; homesick for Nuku’alofa, capital of Tonga. @CleoPaskal

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  Jan 30 2020

  Image: Downtown Nukuʻalofa in 1887.  Permissions: see below. Cleo Paskal, non-resident senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, in re:  Cleo in Nuku’alofa, capital of Tonga. Tongan athletes stuck in China at present.  Much traffic from Chinese Mainland; concern about virus. Lots of Chinese training of academics and, especially, of sports teams.  Official estimates of Chinese in Tonga is 2-3,000; but, realistically, probably 7,000, in a total population of 100,000. Three basic ethnic groups:  the overt dipl corps, associated with embassy or on missions; then, a group of very rich Chinese people who own many small local shops manned by overseas Chinese poor people (who either save money to return home, or apply for Tongan citizenship in order to get to Australia); and _____.  https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/407723/claim-china-speaks-for-tonga-at-un-criticised. Cleo is in Tonga...*Permissions:  Description | This photograph was taken by Auckland photographer George Dobson Valentine, and sent to the Patent and Copyright Office for trademarking. It was stored folded in an envelope (hence the fold marks). Archives Reference: PC4 Box 2/ 87/48 Material from Archives New Zealand | Date | 2 October 2015, 11:47 | Source | Nukualofa, Tonga, 1887 | Author | Archives New Zealand from New ZealandLicensing[edit]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. •        share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original. This image was originally posted to Flickr by Archives New Zealand at https://flickr.com/photos/35759981@N08/21685269618. It was reviewed on 8 September 2016 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-sa-2.0.  ...more

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• Worried Hong Kong medics demand border closing; CCP refuses. @Michael_Yon

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  Jan 30 2020

  Image: Nurses, 1943.  Public domain.   Michael Yon (@Michael_Yon), Hong Kong reporter, in re:  The Hong Kong protestors are not backing off despite the flu, and the health workers, especially nurses, are continuing their protest  because no one believes Carrie Lam and the HK health profession demands that the border between HK and Mainland be closed.

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• Wuhan City [military] Inst of Virology: Level 4 pathogens. @BillGertz

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  Jan 30 2020

  Image: The biohazard symbol.  Public domain. Bill Gertz (@BillGertz),  in re:  The source of the Wuhan coronavirus: now clearly (according to The Lancet) not the wet market, so where?  The Chinese governmental biolab smack in the middle of Wuhan city?  And the first documented sick person seems not to have been in December, but in October. The Wuhan Institute of Virology is the only lab in China that has the capacity to deal with Level 4 pathogens. A retired Israeli miliitary intell officer says: “Their mil labs are integrally linked to civilian.”  Also, a study by 29 Chinese scientists says: the first victim was on 1 Dec, and naught to do with the seafood market. Most of these viruses have originated in Guangdong; why is this one from the middle of the country? The Communist regime is steeped in deception; rumors were circulating on the Chinese Net that the US was the origin! Beijing preparing a battlespace. It’d be good if an inspection team went in to study. The Director-General of WHO had a presser in Geneva today:  “I will not allow any Americans in with the team” [even though US researchers are perhaps the best].  Symptoms appear between seven and fourteen days, a long asymptomatic presentation, meaning a lot of spread. It's now going from Hebei to Xinjiang. God help the million-plus Uyghurs and Kazakhs being held in concentration camps there.  Unknown currently how lethal this is, but said to be at least as lethal as the 1919 pandemic. Satellite photos of the lab have been posted on twitter...more

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• Xi is in hiding surrounded by armed men. Arthur Waldron @PennSAS, #China

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  Jan 30 2020

  Image: Winnie-the-Xi wonders about his safety. [Of course, Winnie-the-Pooh is a wonderful creature of whom President Xi is irrationally afraid because a billion Chinese people mock him with that image.] Arthur Waldron, Lauder Professor of International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania, on the effect of the epidemic on the Chinese political system. Chinese participants in the Internet keeps demanding, “Where is Trump?”—meaning: Where the heck is Xi?  Xi and the CCP have disgraced themselves in the matter of the Wuhan virus. Chinese people call the coronavirus: ”Xi’s disease.”  https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-01-27/xi-jinping-reputation-china-authoritarian-system-outbreak-coronavirus. ...more

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• Water on Mars. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Jan 30 2020

  Photo:English: PIA22077: Underground Martian Ice Deposit Exposed at Scarp https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA22077A cross-section of underground ice is exposed at the steep slope that appears bright blue in this enhanced-color view from the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The scene is about 550 yards wide. The scarp drops about 140 yards from the level ground in the upper third of the image.DETAILS:A cross-section of a thick sheet of underground ice is exposed at the steep slope (or scarp) that appears bright blue in this enhanced-color view from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.The view covers an area about 550 yards (500 meters) wide. Figure 1 includes a 100-meter (109-yard) scale bar. North is toward the top. The upper third of the image shows level ground that is about 140 yards (130 meters) higher in elevation than the ground in the bottom third. In between, the scarp descends sharply, exposing about 260 vertical feet (80 vertical meters) of water ice.Color is exaggerated to make differences in surface materials easier to see. The presence of exposed water ice at this site was confirmed by observation with the same orbiter's Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM).In January 2018, in the journal Science, researchers reported finding and studying eight such ice-exposing scarps in the middle latitudes of Mars. The presence of vast underground ice deposits in Mars' middle latitudes was known previously. The report of unusual sites where they are exposed provides new information about their depth and layering. It also identifies potential water resources for future Mars missions and possibilities for studying Martian climate history by examining the ice layers holding a record of past climate cycles. The ice may have been deposited as snow when the tilt of Mars' rotation axis was greater than it is now.A zoomed-out view showing more context of this site is at PIA22078. Both views are products from HiRISE observation ESP_022389_1230, made on May 7, 2011, at 56.6 degrees south latitude, 114.1 degrees east longitude.The University of Arizona, Tucson, operates HiRISE, which was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colorado. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington.DateTaken on 7 May 2011Sourcehttps://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA22077.jpg / NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7038AuthorNASA/JPL-Caltech/UA/USGS / NASA News ReleaseOther versionsOverall areaThis image or video was catalogued by Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: PIA22077. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWater on Mars. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/more-evidence-of-ample-shallow-ice-in-martian-mid-latitudes/ ...more

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• NASA hires commercial space. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Jan 30 2020

  Photo: 10 March 2001 – The Leonardo Multi-Purpose Logistics Module rests in Space Shuttle Discovery's payload bay during STS-102.NASA - http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-102/html/s102e5095.html The Leonardo Multi Purpose Logistics Module rests in Discovery's payload bay in this view taken from the International Space Station by a crew member using a digital still camera. To the left of the MPLM you can see a glimpse of External Stowage Platform-1. Public Domain File:Mplm in shuttle.jpg Created: 9 March 2001 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowNASA hires commercial space. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-picks-axiom-to-build-three-private-commercial-modules-on-iss/ ...more

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• Is impeachment a buy? @Cgasparino @FoxBusiness

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  Jan 30 2020

  Photo: : Title: "The Boss of the market" Abstract/medium: 1 print : lithograph.Date | 1880Source | Library of CongressCatalog: http://lccn.loc.gov/90712006Image download: http://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/pga/06200/06211v.jpgOriginal url: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/90712006/Author | Currier & Ives.http://J