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• 1/8 The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World; by Andrea Wulf

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  Oct 20 2019

  Image:  Frederic Edwin Church, The Heart of the Andes (1859). Church was the most famous landscape painter in the U.S. in the nineteenth century. His paintings of Andean volcanoes that Humboldt climbed helped make Church's reputation. His 5 foot by 10 foot painting entitled The Heart of the Andes "caused a sensation" when it was completed. Church had hoped to ship the painting to Berlin to show the painting to Humboldt, but Humboldt died a few days after Church's letter was written.  Public domain.. The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World;  Andrea Wulf (Author), David Drummond (Narrator), & 1 more. Audible Audiobook – Unabridgedhttps://www.amazon.com/Invention-Nature-Alexander-Humboldts-World/dp/B016V5CSGQ/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1571533974&sr=1-1Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His restless life was packed with adventure and discovery, whether climbing the highest volcanoes in the world or racing through anthrax-infested Siberia. He came up with a radical vision of nature, that it was a complex and interconnected global force and did not exist for Man's use alone. Ironically, his ideas have become so accepted and widespread that he has been nearly forgotten.        Now Andrea Wulf brings the man and his achievements back into focus: his investigation of wild environments around the world; his discoveries of similarities between climate zones on different continents; his prediction of human-induced climate change; his remarkable ability to fashion poetic narrative out of scientific observation; and his relationships with iconic figures such as Simón Bolívar and Thomas Jefferson. Wulf examines how his writings inspired other naturalists and poets such as Wordsworth, Darwin, and Goethe, and she makes the compelling case that it was Humboldt's influence on John Muir that led him to his ideas of preservation and that shaped Thoreau's Walden.        Humboldt was the most interdisciplinary of scientists and is the forgotten father of environmentalism. With this brilliantly researched and compellingly written audiobook, she makes clear the myriad, fundamental ways that Humboldt created our understanding of the natural world.   ...more

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• 2/8 The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World; by Andrea Wulf

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  Oct 20 2019

  Image:  Humboldt's depiction of an Andean condor, an example of his detailed drawing. Public domain. . The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World;  Andrea Wulf (Author), David Drummond (Narrator), & 1 more. Audible Audiobook – Unabridgedhttps://www.amazon.com/Invention-Nature-Alexander-Humboldts-World/dp/B016V5CSGQ/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1571533974&sr=1-1Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His restless life was packed with adventure and discovery, whether climbing the highest volcanoes in the world or racing through anthrax-infested Siberia. He came up with a radical vision of nature, that it was a complex and interconnected global force and did not exist for Man's use alone. Ironically, his ideas have become so accepted and widespread that he has been nearly forgotten.        Now Andrea Wulf brings the man and his achievements back into focus: his investigation of wild environments around the world; his discoveries of similarities between climate zones on different continents; his prediction of human-induced climate change; his remarkable ability to fashion poetic narrative out of scientific observation; and his relationships with iconic figures such as Simón Bolívar and Thomas Jefferson. Wulf examines how his writings inspired other naturalists and poets such as Wordsworth, Darwin, and Goethe, and she makes the compelling case that it was Humboldt's influence on John Muir that led him to his ideas of preservation and that shaped Thoreau's Walden.        Humboldt was the most interdisciplinary of scientists and is the forgotten father of environmentalism. With this brilliantly researched and compellingly written audiobook, she makes clear the myriad, fundamental ways that Humboldt created our understanding of the natural world.   ...more

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• 3/8 The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World; by Andrea Wulf

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  Oct 20 2019

  Image:  Dresden Codex, later identified as a Maya manuscript, published in part by Humboldt in 1810.  Public domain.. The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World;  Andrea Wulf (Author), David Drummond (Narrator), & 1 more. Audible Audiobook – Unabridgedhttps://www.amazon.com/Invention-Nature-Alexander-Humboldts-World/dp/B016V5CSGQ/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1571533974&sr=1-1Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His restless life was packed with adventure and discovery, whether climbing the highest volcanoes in the world or racing through anthrax-infested Siberia. He came up with a radical vision of nature, that it was a complex and interconnected global force and did not exist for Man's use alone. Ironically, his ideas have become so accepted and widespread that he has been nearly forgotten.         Now Andrea Wulf brings the man and his achievements back into focus: his investigation of wild environments around the world; his discoveries of similarities between climate zones on different continents; his prediction of human-induced climate change; his remarkable ability to fashion poetic narrative out of scientific observation; and his relationships with iconic figures such as Simón Bolívar and Thomas Jefferson. Wulf examines how his writings inspired other naturalists and poets such as Wordsworth, Darwin, and Goethe, and she makes the compelling case that it was Humboldt's influence on John Muir that led him to his ideas of preservation and that shaped Thoreau's Walden.         Humboldt was the most interdisciplinary of scientists and is the forgotten father of environmentalism. With this brilliantly researched and compellingly written audiobook, she makes clear the myriad, fundamental ways that Humboldt created our understanding of the natural world. ...more

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• 4/8 The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World; by Andrea Wulf

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  Oct 20 2019

  Image:  Humboldt and his fellow scientist Aimé Bonpland near the foot of the Chimborazo volcano, painting by Friedrich Georg Weitsch (1810).  Public domain.. The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World;  Andrea Wulf (Author), David Drummond (Narrator), & 1 more. Audible Audiobook – Unabridgedhttps://www.amazon.com/Invention-Nature-Alexander-Humboldts-World/dp/B016V5CSGQ/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1571533974&sr=1-1Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His restless life was packed with adventure and discovery, whether climbing the highest volcanoes in the world or racing through anthrax-infested Siberia. He came up with a radical vision of nature, that it was a complex and interconnected global force and did not exist for Man's use alone. Ironically, his ideas have become so accepted and widespread that he has been nearly forgotten.         Now Andrea Wulf brings the man and his achievements back into focus: his investigation of wild environments around the world; his discoveries of similarities between climate zones on different continents; his prediction of human-induced climate change; his remarkable ability to fashion poetic narrative out of scientific observation; and his relationships with iconic figures such as Simón Bolívar and Thomas Jefferson. Wulf examines how his writings inspired other naturalists and poets such as Wordsworth, Darwin, and Goethe, and she makes the compelling case that it was Humboldt's influence on John Muir that led him to his ideas of preservation and that shaped Thoreau's Walden.         Humboldt was the most interdisciplinary of scientists and is the forgotten father of environmentalism. With this brilliantly researched and compellingly written audiobook, she makes clear the myriad, fundamental ways that Humboldt created our understanding of the natural world.   ...more

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• 5/8 The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World; by Andrea Wulf

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  Oct 20 2019

  Image:  Humboldt botanical drawing published in his work on Cuba. Public domain.. The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World;  Andrea Wulf (Author), David Drummond (Narrator), & 1 more. Audible Audiobook – Unabridgedhttps://www.amazon.com/Invention-Nature-Alexander-Humboldts-World/dp/B016V5CSGQ/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1571533974&sr=1-1Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His restless life was packed with adventure and discovery, whether climbing the highest volcanoes in the world or racing through anthrax-infested Siberia. He came up with a radical vision of nature, that it was a complex and interconnected global force and did not exist for Man's use alone. Ironically, his ideas have become so accepted and widespread that he has been nearly forgotten.         Now Andrea Wulf brings the man and his achievements back into focus: his investigation of wild environments around the world; his discoveries of similarities between climate zones on different continents; his prediction of human-induced climate change; his remarkable ability to fashion poetic narrative out of scientific observation; and his relationships with iconic figures such as Simón Bolívar and Thomas Jefferson. Wulf examines how his writings inspired other naturalists and poets such as Wordsworth, Darwin, and Goethe, and she makes the compelling case that it was Humboldt's influence on John Muir that led him to his ideas of preservation and that shaped Thoreau's Walden.         Humboldt was the most interdisciplinary of scientists and is the forgotten father of environmentalism. With this brilliantly researched and compellingly written audiobook, she makes clear the myriad, fundamental ways that Humboldt created our understanding of the natural world.   ...more

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• 6/8 The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World; by Andrea Wulf

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  Oct 20 2019

  Image:  Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland were in the Amazon rainforest by the Casiquiare River, with their scientific instruments, which enabled them to take many types of accurate measurements throughout their five-year journey. Oil painting by Eduard Ender, 1856. Public domain.. The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World;  Andrea Wulf (Author), David Drummond (Narrator), & 1 more. Audible Audiobook – Unabridged https://www.amazon.com/Invention-Nature-Alexander-Humboldts-World/dp/B016V5CSGQ/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1571533974&sr=1-1Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His restless life was packed with adventure and discovery, whether climbing the highest volcanoes in the world or racing through anthrax-infested Siberia. He came up with a radical vision of nature, that it was a complex and interconnected global force and did not exist for Man's use alone. Ironically, his ideas have become so accepted and widespread that he has been nearly forgotten.        Now Andrea Wulf brings the man and his achievements back into focus: his investigation of wild environments around the world; his discoveries of similarities between climate zones on different continents; his prediction of human-induced climate change; his remarkable ability to fashion poetic narrative out of scientific observation; and his relationships with iconic figures such as Simón Bolívar and Thomas Jefferson. Wulf examines how his writings inspired other naturalists and poets such as Wordsworth, Darwin, and Goethe, and she makes the compelling case that it was Humboldt's influence on John Muir that led him to his ideas of preservation and that shaped Thoreau's Walden.        Humboldt was the most interdisciplinary of scientists and is the forgotten father of environmentalism. With this brilliantly researched and compellingly written audiobook, she makes clear the myriad, fundamental ways that Humboldt created our understanding of the natural world. ...more

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• 7/8 The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World; by Andrea Wulf

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  Oct 20 2019

  Image:  Schiller, Wilhelm, and Alexander von Humboldt with Goethe in Jena, c. 1797. Public domain. . The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World;  Andrea Wulf (Author), David Drummond (Narrator), & 1 more. Audible Audiobook – Unabridged https://www.amazon.com/Invention-Nature-Alexander-Humboldts-World/dp/B016V5CSGQ/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1571533974&sr=1-1Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His restless life was packed with adventure and discovery, whether climbing the highest volcanoes in the world or racing through anthrax-infested Siberia. He came up with a radical vision of nature, that it was a complex and interconnected global force and did not exist for Man's use alone. Ironically, his ideas have become so accepted and widespread that he has been nearly forgotten.         Now Andrea Wulf brings the man and his achievements back into focus: his investigation of wild environments around the world; his discoveries of similarities between climate zones on different continents; his prediction of human-induced climate change; his remarkable ability to fashion poetic narrative out of scientific observation; and his relationships with iconic figures such as Simón Bolívar and Thomas Jefferson. Wulf examines how his writings inspired other naturalists and poets such as Wordsworth, Darwin, and Goethe, and she makes the compelling case that it was Humboldt's influence on John Muir that led him to his ideas of preservation and that shaped Thoreau's Walden.        Humboldt was the most interdisciplinary of scientists and is the forgotten father of environmentalism. With this brilliantly researched and compellingly written audiobook, she makes clear the myriad, fundamental ways that Humboldt created our understanding of the natural world. ...more

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• 8/8 The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World; by Andrea Wulf

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  Oct 20 2019

  Image:  Alexander von Humboldt, painting by Joseph Stieler, 1843.  Public domain.. The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World;  Andrea Wulf (Author), David Drummond (Narrator), & 1 more. Audible Audiobook – Unabridgedhttps://www.amazon.com/Invention-Nature-Alexander-Humboldts-World/dp/B016V5CSGQ/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1571533974&sr=1-1Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His restless life was packed with adventure and discovery, whether climbing the highest volcanoes in the world or racing through anthrax-infested Siberia. He came up with a radical vision of nature, that it was a complex and interconnected global force and did not exist for Man's use alone. Ironically, his ideas have become so accepted and widespread that he has been nearly forgotten.        Now Andrea Wulf brings the man and his achievements back into focus: his investigation of wild environments around the world; his discoveries of similarities between climate zones on different continents; his prediction of human-induced climate change; his remarkable ability to fashion poetic narrative out of scientific observation; and his relationships with iconic figures such as Simón Bolívar and Thomas Jefferson. Wulf examines how his writings inspired other naturalists and poets such as Wordsworth, Darwin, and Goethe, and she makes the compelling case that it was Humboldt's influence on John Muir that led him to his ideas of preservation and that shaped Thoreau's Walden.        Humboldt was the most interdisciplinary of scientists and is the forgotten father of environmentalism. With this brilliantly researched and compellingly written audiobook, she makes clear the myriad, fundamental ways that Humboldt created our understanding of the natural world. ...more

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• Best of Berkowitz: "The fact that we lost to Trump tells us something about us, about the Left." 1 of 2: @BerkowitzPeter @HooverInst

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  Oct 20 2019

  Photo: nglish: The Observatory and Esther Baker Physics Building, Syracuse University - 1920Date | 1920Source | Post Card from Onondaga County Public Library collectionAuthor | The Syracuse News Co. | This media file is in the public domain in the United States. This applies to U.S. works where the copyright has expired, often because its first publication occurred prior to January 1, 1924, and i http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowBest of Berkowitz: "The fact that we lost to Trump tells us something about us, about the Left." 1 of 2: @BerkowitzPeter @HooverInst https://www.hoover.org/research/whats-point-liberal-education-dont-ask-ivy-league-0 ...more

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• Best of Berkowitz: "The fact that we lost to Trump tells us something about us, about the Left." 2 of 2: @BerkowitzPeter @HooverInst

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  Oct 20 2019

  Photo: Drawing of the exterior front of the Elizabethan Club, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1920.Date | 1920Source | Yale University Manuscripts and Archives Digital Images Database [1]Author | Theodore Diedrickson | 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: @BatchelorShowBest of Berkowitz: "The fact that we lost to Trump tells us something about us, about the Left." 2 of 2: @BerkowitzPeter @HooverInst https://www.hoover.org/research/whats-point-liberal-education-dont-ask-ivy-league-0 ...more

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• Full-length Conversation: Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria Hardcover – May 28, 2019. by Sam Dagher (Author)

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  Oct 19 2019

  Photo: President Hafez al-Asad with his family in the early 1970s. From left to right: Bashar, Maher, Mrs Anisa Makhlouf (then the new First Lady of Syria), Majd, Bushra, and Basil (not in the frame).Date | early 1970sSource | http://www.syrianhistory.com/content/president-hafez-al-asad-his-family-early-1970sAuthor | Unknown | This work was created in Syria and is now in the public domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Full-length Conversation: Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria Hardcover – May 28, 2019. by Sam Dagher  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Assad-We-Burn-Country-Destroyed/dp/0316556726/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=From a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist specializing in the Middle East, this groundbreaking account of the Syrian Civil War reveals the never-before-published true story of a 21st-century humanitarian disaster.  In spring 2011, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad turned to his friend and army commander, Manaf Tlass, for advice about how to respond to Arab Spring-inspired protests. Tlass pushed for conciliation but Assad decided to crush the uprising - an act which would catapult the country into an eight-year long war, killing almost half a million and fueling terrorism and a global refugee crisis.  Assad or We Burn the Country examines Syria's tragedy through the generational saga of the Assad and Tlass families, once deeply intertwined and now estranged in Bashar's bloody quest to preserve his father's inheritance. By drawing on his own reporting experience in Damascus and exclusive interviews with Tlass, Dagher takes listeners within palace walls to reveal the family behind the destruction of a country and the chaos of an entire region.  Dagher shows how one of the world's most vicious police states came to be and explains how a regional conflict extended globally, engulfing the Middle East and pitting the United States and Russia against one another.   Timely, propulsive, and expertly reported, Assad or We Burn the Country is the definitive account of this global crisis, going far beyond the news story that has dominated headlines for years.  ...more

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• Comet Borisov entered the Solar System from the direction of Cassiopeia near the border with Perseus, and originates from the galactic plane. Dr Karen Meech, Institute for Astronomy, Honolulu, & Dr David Livingston, The Space Show

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  Oct 19 2019

  Image:  A comparison of two interstellar objects passing through our solar system, including Comet Borisov (yellow line)..Hotel Mars, episode n, with Dr Karen Meech, Institute for Astronomy, Honolulu, and Dr David Livingston, The Space Show.  They discuss interstellar visitors.   ‘Omuamua, a cigar-shaped asteroid, and Comet Borisov.           2I/Borisov, originally designated C/2019 Q4 (Borisov), is the first observed interstellar comet and the second observed interstellar interloper after ʻOumuamua. 2I/Borisov has a heliocentric orbital eccentricity of 3.3 and is not bound to the Sun. The comet will pass through the ecliptic of the Solar System in December 2019, with the closest approach to the Sun at just under 2 au on 8 December 2019..*Permissions:   Author - Tony873004   I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:w:en:Creative Commonsattribution share alike    This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. You are free:  to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the workto 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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• 1/2 ʻOumuamua, the first known interstellar object detected passing through the Solar System, with Dr Karen Meech & Dr David Livingston

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  Oct 19 2019

  Image:  Artist's impression of ʻOumuamua, the first known interstellar object detected passing through the Solar System. Permissions*: see below..Hotel Mars, episode n, with Dr Karen Meech, Institute for Astronomy, Honolulu, and Dr David Livingston, The Space Show.  They discuss interstellar visitors.   ‘Omuamua, a cigar-shaped asteroid, and Comet Borisov.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ʻOumuamua.*Permissions:   Author, Original - ESO/M. Kornmesser Derivative: nagualdesign.   I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:w:en:Creative Commonsattribution share alike.  This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work - Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.  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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• A national impeachment puzzle: fair? due process? with John Yoo. @HooverInst

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  Oct 19 2019

  Image:  Donald Trump with Pelosi in January 2017.  Public domain. DoD photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Marianique Santos  . https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/nancy-pelosi-doesnt-have-to-make-impeachment-fair-but-it-still-should-be/2019/10/13/b09ce182-ec44-11e9-85c0-85a098e47b37_story.html?utm_source=Hoover+Daily+Report&utm_campaign=7e1f0a2bab-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_14_05_25&utm_medium=email The House Doesn't Have to Be 'Fair' in Its Probe, but It Should Give Trump Due Process.    by John Yoo via The Washington Post | Even as they rush headlong into their unavoidable constitutional crash, President Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) may yet agree on the procedures for the impeachment inquiry. Contrary to Trump’s claims, the Constitution does not require the House to be “fair” in its probe. But House leaders should still furnish the president with due process, because the Senate will not hold a serious trial that can reveal the truth.....more

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• AG Bill Barr at Notre Dame on Tocqueville’s “soft despotism” of government dependency, with @WJMcGurn @WSJOpinion

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  Oct 19 2019

  Image:   The Basilica of the Sacred Heart, which is located in the center of the University of Notre Dame's campus.  Permissions*: see below.https://www.wsj.com/articles/bill-barr-gets-religion-11571094063Bill Barr ‘Gets’ ReligionThe attorney general gives a speech on secularism, and the left goes bananas.For Notre Dame fans, this football weekend was a twofer. Not only did the Irish beat a longtime rival, the University of Southern California, on Saturday, the campus was treated to a sight it had never before seen: the attorney general of the United States, at a pregame tailgater, serenading faculty, students and fans with his bagpipes.       Turns out that was William Barr’s second performance on campus. The first came at the law school Friday, when he delivered a bracing speech on the role of religion in the American story of freedom.       The attorney general advanced two broad propositions. First, the waning of religion’s influence in American life has left more of her citizens vulnerable to what Tocqueville called the “soft despotism” of government dependency. Second, today’s secularists are decidedly not of the live-and-let-live variety.  . . . .*Permissions:  Author - Michael Fernandes.  I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:w:en:Creative Commonsattribution share alike.  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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• House Democrats cancel the Trump Moon-landing. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Oct 19 2019

  Photo: Crater photographed by Apollo 11 crew near landing site 20/07/1969collectionsIn CollectionsApollo 11The first spaceflight that landed humans on the MooncreateSourceNASAlinkLinkhttps://images.nasa.gov/copyrightCopyright infoPublic Domain Dedication (CC0) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowHouse Democrats cancel the Trump Moon-landing. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/house-committee-rejects-extra-funding-for-2024-moon-landing/ ...more

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• Stratolaunch saved by Anonymous Ruptured Goose Fan. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Oct 19 2019

  Photo: H-4 Hercules "Spruce Goose" image http://www.alaska.faa.gov/fai/afss/AcftPhoto-List.htmhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/49487266@N07/7881222436 Permission details This image or file is a work of a Federal Aviation Administration 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 in the United States.View more Public Domainview terms File:H-4 Hercules 2.jpg Created: 2012-08-24 12:14:28 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowStratolaunch saved by Anonymous Ruptured Goose Fan. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/new-owners-for-stratolaunch/ ...more

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• 500 climate scholars unuseful to 1 climate scholar named Michael Mann. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Oct 19 2019

  Photo: UnknownTitle | Polar bear (Ursus maritimus), Zoo, Lincoln Park, Chicago.Date | Created: 1911?.Coverage: 1865?-1900?. Source Imprint: 1865?-1900?.Digital item published 6-15-2005; updated 2-12-2009.Medium | albumen printStephen A. Schwarzman Building / Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and PhotographsAccession number | Catalog Call Number: MFY Dennis Coll 90-F174Record ID: 653380Digital ID: G90F174_014FNotes | Item/Page/Plate: 14Source | Original source: Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views. / United States. / States / Illinois. / Stereoscopic views of parks and cemeteries in Chicago. (Approx. 72,000 stereoscopic views : 10 x 18 cm. or smaller.) digital record | This image is available from the New York Public Library's Digital Library under the digital ID G90F174_014F: digitalgallery.nypl.org → digitalcollections.nypl.orghttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow500 climate scholars unuseful to 1 climate scholar named Michael Mann. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/500-climate-scientists-challenge-the-un-on-global-warming/ ...more

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• The cave colonies of Mars. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Oct 19 2019

  Photo:Possibly Connected Lava Tube Skylight Pair in Tharsis Region USAGE POLICYAll of the images produced by HiRISE and accessible on this site are within the public domain: there are no restrictions on their usage by anyone in the public, including news or science organizations. We do ask for a credit line where possible: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona POSTSCRIPT NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The HiRISE camera was built by Ball Aerospace and Technology Corporation and is operated by the University of Arizona.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe cave colonies of Mars. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/a-discontinuous-martian-channel/ ...more

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• Long-expected visitors from another star system: 1 of 2: Comets Oumuamua & Borisov. Karen Meech, University of Hawaii. David Livingston, Spaceshow.com

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  Oct 19 2019

  Photo: 1I/ʻOumuamua, imaged with the 4.2 meter William Herschel Telescope in the Canary Islands on 28 October 2017, is seen as a stationary light source in the centre of the image. Background stars appear streaked because the telescope is tracking the rapidly moving asteroid.Original: NASA; Alan Fitzsimmons (ARC, Queen's University Belfast), Isaac Newton Group Derivative: nagualdesign - https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap171103.html Public Domain File:A2017U1 5gsmoothWHT enhanced.jpg Created: 27 October 2017 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowLong-expected visitors from another star system: 1 of 2: Comets Oumuamua & Borisov. Karen Meech, University of Hawaii. David Livingston, Spaceshow.comhttps://www.iau.org/administration/membership/individual/8021/https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/hubble-observes-1st-confirmed-interstellar-comet ...more

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• Long-expected visitors from another star system: 2 of 2: Comets Oumuamua & Borisov. Karen Meech, University of Hawaii. David Livingston, Spaceshow.com

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  Oct 19 2019

  Photo: Banner image: Hubble photographed comet 2I/Borisov at a distance of 260 million miles from Earth. This Hubble image, taken on Oct. 12, 2019, is the sharpest view to date of the comet. Hubble reveals a central concentration of dust around the nucleus (which is too small to be seen by Hubble). The comet is falling toward the Sun and will make its closest approach on Dec. 7, 2019, when it will be twice as far from the Sun as Earth. The comet is following a hyperbolic path around the Sun and will exit back into interstellar space. Credit: NASA, ESA and D. Jewitt (UCLA) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowLong-expected visitors from another star system: 2 of 2: Comets Oumuamua & Borisov. Karen Meech, University of Hawaii. David Livingston, Spaceshow.comhttps://www.iau.org/administration/membership/individual/8021/https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/hubble-observes-1st-confirmed-interstellar-comet ...more

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• Seal Team Nagorno-Karabakh and America's only ally in the Caspian Sea Basin. @ProfBShaffer @Georgetown #Azerbaijan #Armenia #Nagorno-Karabakh

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  Oct 19 2019

  Photo:  030806-F-7823A-006.Naval Air Station Fallon, Nev. (Aug. 6, 2003) -- U.S. Navy SEAL (Sea, Air and Land) Team members secure a landing zone as part of a downed pilot scenario during Desert Rescue XI at Naval Air Station (NAS) Fallon, Nev. The exercise simulates the rescue of downed aircrew behind enemy lines enabling other aircrews to perform Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR) related missions as well as experiment with new techniques in realistic scenarios. Desert Rescue XI is a joint service CSAR training exercise hosted by the Naval Strike and Warfare Center. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Aaron D. Allmon II. (RELEASED).Date | 14 August 2003Source |  | This Image was released by the United States Navy with the ID 030806-F-7823A-006 (next).http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowSeal Team Nagorno-Karabakh and America's only ally in the Caspian Sea Basin. @ProfBShaffer @Georgetown #Azerbaijan #Armenia #Nagorno-Karabakhhttps://eurasianet.org/armenia-azerbaijan-conflict-makes-it-to-prime-time ...more

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• #TheScalaReport: WeWork failure and the unintended consequences of bulge-bracket banks promoting exaggerated IPOs. Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHE

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  Oct 19 2019

  Photo: Huge crowds surround the All Night And Day Bank on the corner of Spring Street and Sixth Street, April, 1910Photograph (streetscape) of huge crowds surrounding the All Night And Day Bank on the corner of Spring Street and Sixth Street, April, 1910. Throngs of people are bunched up in front of the bank overflowing down the sidewalks, into the streets, and on sidewalks across the streets. Vehicle traffic such as horse-drawn carriages, early-model cars and bicyclists manage to whittle their way through the commotion. The bank "closed Oct. 10, 1910 and reopened again later in the month." Picture file card reads: "run on All Night and Day Bank".; Legible signs include: "Security building, Security Savings Bank", "Ral[...] grocer[...]", "Lissner bldg.", "for rent", "Library Bureau, originators of the card system", "Adolf Frese Optical Co.", "here is Frese Optical Co., we make your eyes smile!, eyes tested, glasses fitted, 546 S. Spring", "R.D. Bronson Desk Co., two top floors, something new in desk", "entrance 542 S. Spring", "Howe Bro's, we moved to our new building, 117-119 West 6th Street when completed, about April 20th", "All Night and Day Bank, bank open all night and day, 6th and Spring, ", "shoes". "Pierce + Co. Kodaks" has been edited into the image to make it look like a store sign on the third building to the left of the bank. "Pierce & Co., Kodaks, 127" has been edited into the image to make it look like a store sign on the adjacent building to the right of the bank.Call number: CHS-5768Legacy record ID: chs-m781; USC-1-1-1-782Filename: CHS-5768Coverage date: 1910-04Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960Type: imagesGeographic subject (city or populated place): Downtown Los Angeles; Los AngelesRepository name: USC Libraries Special CollectionsAccession number: 5768Microfiche number: 1-9-70Archival file: chs_Volume56/CHS-5768.tiffPart of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189Geographic subject (country): USAFormat (aacr2): 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 17 x 25 cm.Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern CaliforniaSubject (adlf): roadwaysProject: USCRepository email: specol@usc.eduIdentifying number: isla id: S-62Contributing entity: California Historical SocietyDate created: 1910-04Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. LibrariesFormat (aat): negatives (photographic); photographsGeographic subject (state): CaliforniaSubject (file heading): Los Angeles -- Streets -- Spring Street -- 5th to 6thGeographic coordinates: -118.24867,34.04725; -118.24849,34.04498; -118.25015,34.04582; -118.25025,34.04615; -118.24867,34.04725Format: glass plate negativesAccess conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.Geographic subject (county): Los AngelesGeographic subject (roadway): South Spring Street & West Sixth StreetSubject (lcsh): Buildings; Streets; Automobiles; Banks and banking; Carriages and cartsDate | April 1910 (date created)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow#TheScalaReport:  WeWork failure and the unintended consequences of bulge-bracket banks promoting exaggerated IPOs.  Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com  #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHEhttps://www.ft.com/content/a9254a70-f1a8-11e9-bfa4-b25f11f42901 ...more

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• Mulvaney is a head-scratcher. @SebGorka #AmericaFirst

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  Oct 18 2019

  Photo: Overseas Guests by Nicholas Roerich, 1899 Nicholas Roerich - Myseum by name of Nicolas Roerich the last upload: Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow Nicholas Roerich "Guests from Overseas". From the series "Beginnings of Russia. The Slavs." 1901 Public Domain File:Nicholas Roerich, Guests from Overseas.jpg Created: 1901date QS:P571,+1901-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowMulvaney is a head-scratcher.  @SebGorka #AmericaFirst...more

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• Blameful Europe blames Trump for Syria. @SebGorka

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  Oct 18 2019

  Photo: Turkey in Asia and the Caucasian Provinces of RussiaDescription | العربية: خريطة جميلة لِإيالات الدولة العُثمانيَّة في آسيا وتظهر فيها المُقاطعات القوقازيَّة التي تُسيطر عليها روسيا. تعود هذه الخريطة لِلطبعة الأولى لِأطلس كولتون الصادر سنة 1855م. غطَّت الأراضي العُثمانيَّة المنطقة المُمتدة من القرم شمالًا إلى دلتا النيل جنوبًا، وغربًا وُصولًا إلى بحر إيجة، ثُمَّ شرقًا وُصولًا إلى بحر قزوين والخليج العربي.تشتملُ على البلاد التي كانت تُشكِّلُ جُزءًا من الدولة العُثمانيَّة واليوم تتفرَّع إلى كُلٍ من تُركيَّا، والعراق، والكُويت، وسوريا، والأُردُن، وإسرائيل والأراضي الفلسطينيَّة، وأرمينيا، وجورجيا، وأذربيجان، مع أقسامٍ من إيران المُجاورة، واليونان، ومصر، وأوكرانيا.في هذه الخريطة، حدَّد كولتون عدَّة مُدن، وبلدات، وحُصُون، وأنهار، وواحات صحراويَّة، ومجموعة من المعالم الطوبوغرافيَّة. أُحيطت الخريطة بِالإطار اللولبي النمطي الذي يُميِّزُ أعمال كولتون.عادت حُقوق التأليف والنشر إلى المُؤلِّف جوزيف هاتشينز كولتون، ونُشرت سنة 1855. مكان النشر هو مكتب كولتون الذي كان قائمًا في شارع وليم رقم 172 بِمدينة نيويورك. أُدرجت الخريطة في الصفحة رقم 25 من المُجلَّد الثاني لِلطبعة الأولى من أطلس جورج واشنطن العالمي لِكولتون.English: A beautiful 1855 first edition example of Colton's map of the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) in Asia and the Caucuses. Covers from the Crimea south to the Nile Delta, west as far as the Aegean, and east to the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf.Basically covers the mid 19th century claims of the Ottoman Empire, however, includes the modern nations of Turkey, Iraq, Kuwait, Syria, Jordan, Israel or Palestine, Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan, with parts of adjacent Iran, Greece, Egypt and Ukraine.Throughout the map, Colton identifies various cities, towns, forts, rivers, desert oases, and an assortment of additional topographical details. Surrounded by Colton's typical spiral motif border.Dated and copyrighted to J. H. Colton, 1855. Published from Colton's 172 William Street Office in New York City. Issued as page no. 25 in volume 2 of the first edition of George Washington Colton's 1855 Atlas of the World http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowBlameful Europe blames Trump for Syria. @SebGorkahttps://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/10/10/donald-trump-suddenly-withdraws-from-northern-syria  ...more

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• Trump Administration answers the failed Obamacare and the pipe dream of Medicare-for-All. @StephenMoore @Heritage

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  Oct 18 2019

  Photo: A horse-drawn ambulance outside Bellevue Hospital in New York City, 1895Unknown - The Byron Collection / Museum of the City of New York / The New York Times, via The Times online store, here A horse-drawn ambulance outside Bellevue Hospital in New York City, 1895. Permission details Public DomainView more Public Domainview terms File:Bellevue Hospital Ambulance, New York Times, 1895.JPG Created: 31 December 1894 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTrump Administration answers the failed Obamacare and the pipe dream of Medicare-for-All. @StephenMoore @Heritage...more

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• Warren's unexplainable confiscation and nationalization of private enterprise. @StephenMoore @Heritage

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  Oct 18 2019

  Photo: Bacchus honoreert de wens van koning MidascreateSourceRijksmuseumlinkLinkhttp://europeana.eu/copyrightCopyright infoPublic Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWarren's unexplainable confiscation and nationalization of private enterprise. @StephenMoore @Heritagehttps://medium.com/@teamwarren/heres-how-we-can-break-up-big-tech-9ad9e0da324c

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• Mirabile dictu: BoJo seals a Brexit deal few thought he could. Juncker: “I’m happy about the deal.” —Dan Griswold

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  Oct 18 2019

  Image:  A bilingual traffic sign in County Louth, in the Republic of Ireland, warning drivers travelling south across the border that metric speed limits are used in ROI, whereas the UK uses imperial units in driving. Kmh warning sign.  * Pemissions: see below..Dan Griswold, Mercatus, explains the peculiarities of Brexit. Boris Johnson (BoJo) got the EU to budge – a feat, in itself. Everyone wants an open border between Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland; under the current (last) proposal, there’ll be only a check of goods being transferred.  This must be approved by the British parliament, with an uncertain outcome; high drama on Saturday.        The Backstop: as long as a real border exists, could not come to an agreement with the EU. If it all works out, then on Oct 31, Britain will leave the EU.        If the US signs a bilateral agreement with Britain, we’ll circumvent the overregulated EU market.  .*Permissions:  Author, User:Dantadd. I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:w:en:Creative Commonsattribution share alike.  This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 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;  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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• The notorious Ukrainian Burisma is Atlantic Council’s chief funder; merging financially with Schiff’s committee? Aaron Klein

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  Oct 18 2019

  Image Burisma Holdings logo: Hunter Biden’s Board seat with substantial honoraria. And then — the Atlantic Council.  Aaron Klein..Aaron Klein, Breitbart & KleinOnline & Aaron Klein Investigative Radio describes in some detail the small circle of friends.  The oddities of the Schiff closed-door hearings.   On 25 July 2019, Pres Trump spoke with the president of Ukraine. Whistleblower complaint as of 12 Aug.  Then an Atlantic Council staffer, Thomas Eager, travelled to Ukraine. He now is a staffer to Schiff’s House Committee on Intelligence.       Burisma, known as the firm that handsomely paid Hunter Biden, is the major funder of the Atlantic Council.  The current US ambassador to Ukraine, Bill Taylor, assigned a few months ago, is en route to the US to testify before Schiff’s committee.         The day that Thomas Eager landed, his first meeting was with Bill Taylor.   (Schiff had approved the trip and its expenses, paid for by Atlantic Council and Burisma.)      Aaron specifically asked Schiff’s spokesman if the staffer had discussed any issue related to Biden and Burisma; no reply to date.  . . .  Many Capitol Hill people were stunned by Aaron’s article.  ...more

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• Russian trolls prep for 2020. @DefTechPat @DefenseOne

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  Oct 18 2019

  Photo: Still from the Soviet movie Devyatoe Yanvarya ("9th of January") (1925) showing a line of armed soldiers facing demonstrators at the approaches to the Winter Palace in St Petersburg View author information Public Domain File:BloodySunday1905.jpg Uploaded: 2005-04-18 15:40:14 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowRussian trolls prep for 2020. @DefTechPat @DefenseOnehttps://www.defenseone.com/technology/2019/10/senate-intel-committee-russia-already-trying-influence-2020-election/160467/?oref=d-river ...more

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• Manufacturing slowly adapts to the PRC downturn. @AlanTonelson @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Oct 18 2019

  Photo: The assembly plant of the Bell Aircraft Corporation in 1944. Note parts of overhead crane at both sides of photo near top. Unknown - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs divisionunder the digital ID fsa.8e02902. 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. The assembly plant of the Bell Aircraft Corporation at Wheatfield, New York (directly East of Niagara Falls, USA). The aircraft in the photo are Bell P-39Q-30-BE Airacobra fighters (USAAF serials 44-71105/44-71504), and Bell P-63A-8-BE Kingcobra fighters (USAAF serials 42-69211/42-69410). While externally very similar, the P-39 had a smaller and more rounded tail section and a three-bladed propeller. The two lines at left are P-39Qs, followed by three lines of P-63As. Then are two lines of almost completed P-39Qs (serials clearly visible), and a last line of P-63As. Note the absence of any workers and tools. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowManufacturing slowly adapts to the PRC downturn. @AlanTonelson @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast  https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/us-china-trade-ag-purchases-50b-may-take-2-years ...more

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• Hong Kong celebrates the US House Hong Kong Human Rights Act against Carrie Lam's governance. Mark Clifford, former editor South China Morning Post. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Oct 18 2019

  Photo: Identifier: mysticflowerylan00halcuoft Title: The mystic flowery land; a personal narrative Year: 1896 (1890s) Authors:Halcombe, Charles J. H Subjects: China -- Description and travel Publisher: London Luzac Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto 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: r removed from the care and tumult of the busy Westernworld. Regarding the Chinese, I have never allowed caste, family,prejudice, or advice to interfere with my feelings. I have alwaysand shall ever continue to love them; not nationally but individu-ally ; and am honoured to say that I hold their respect andconfidence, and count among them some of my dearest and mostreliable friends who would follow me anywhere and stand by meto the last, as I have more than once proved. But to know andappreciate these people they require to be carefully studied, asthey keenly study you before giving or even accepting friendship. One afternoon, at Seou Jaes request, I paid a visit with herto her aunt, or guardian, who lived near the east gate of theChinese city. On entering the ill-kept house of her relative, the old woman,much to the annoyance and dismay of Seou Jae, gave us a verycool reception. I at once entertained grave doubts as to thehonesty of this aunt, whom I did not at all like the look of. Text Appearing After Image:CANTONESE WOMEN. •celestial LAIiir.S. Seeing tliat our comimny was not (lesiral)Ie, wt* heat a soinewliatluisty retreat. Not wishing to further -trouble or unnecessarily alarm iMi.irSeou Jae, wlio seemed very downcast and worried, I did notimpart to her the forebodings which begun to crowd inU> njy niin«l. Strange to say, when we met again that evening, Seou Jae, wIm»lived in a very nice house, with her two female attendant«, inthe Nankin Road, seemed very dispirited, and like myself, fore-shadowed calamity. But I thought it was merely her nervoti.sfancy when she said that two or three rejuilsive-looking old hagshad been watching the house. She seemed quite frightened at first,but after a time I allayed her fears and forgot all abt>ut it. We both tried to cheer one another, but it was a most dismalfailure. And when we said good night, neither of us could speak,for anguish has no expression, only most elocpient silence. Thus we parted, very likely for ever, for years have pa 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. Internet Archive Book Images - https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14775236851/ No restrictions File:The mystic flowery land; a personal narrative (1896) (14775236851).jpg Created: 31 December 1895 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowHong Kong celebrates the US House Hong Kong Human Rights Act against Carrie Lam's governance.  Mark Clifford, former editor South China Morning Post. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast https://fortune.com/2019/10/15/hong-kong-human-rights-democracy-act-china/ ...more

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• Unearthing Carter's Little Liver Pills in Erie Pennsylvania. @SalenaZito @WashingtonExaminer

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  Oct 18 2019

  Photo: Advert for Carter's Little Liver PillsDescription | Advert for Carter's Little Liver Pills: A Positive Cure for Sick Headaches. Small card advertising Carter's Little Liver Pills, printed in black and red on white card. The front shows a black bird sitting on a branch of a tree with a red banner in its beak, the product's name in white letters. Beneath the bird is a lake scene with a castle, trees and mountains in the distance. The reverse explains that the pills cure "headache, biliousness, constipation, etc." and are "strictly vegetable".General CollectionsKeywords: Constipation; Dyspepsia; Advertisement; Headaches; Carter's Little Liver Pills.; Headachehttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowUnearthing Carter's Little Liver Pills in Erie Pennsylvania. @SalenaZito @WashingtonExaminer ...more

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• Elizabeth Warren's war on wealth. 1 of 2: @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Oct 18 2019

  Photo: Simon FloquetTitleApollo and King MidasDatecirca 1634 Mediumoil on  copperDimensionsHeight: 35.6 cm (14 ″); Width: 52.5 cm (20.6 ″) Source/PhotographerSotheby'sThis 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: @BatchelorShowElizabeth Warren's war on wealth. 1 of 2: @RichardAEpstein @HooverInsthttps://www.hoover.org/research/elizabeth-warren-corporate-bully?utm_source=Hoover+Daily+Report&utm_campaign=e93ddc39cb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_15_05_35&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_21b1edff3c-e93ddc39cb-72527561 ...more

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• Elizabeth Warren's war on wealth. 2 of 2: @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Oct 18 2019

  Photo: Two satyrs leading Silenus to King Midas, who stands at left with two male attendants, a mule trails behind the satyrs1550 - 1579createSourceThe Metropolitan Museum of ArtlinkLinkhttp://www.metmuseum.org/copyrightCopyright infoPublic Domain Dedication (CC0) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowElizabeth Warren's war on wealth. 2 of 2: @RichardAEpstein @HooverInsthttps://www.hoover.org/research/elizabeth-warren-corporate-bully?utm_source=Hoover+Daily+Report&utm_campaign=e93ddc39cb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_15_05_35&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_21b1edff3c-e93ddc39cb-72527561 ...more

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• The out-of-date ethanol game. Bud Weinstein, Maguire Energy Institute

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  Oct 18 2019

  Photo: Unknown or not providedRecord creator | Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Aberdeen Area Office. Fort Berthold Agency. (1949)Title | A group in the 4-H cornfieldDescription | Scope and content: A farm agent, home economics teacher, and students.Date | 1941http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe out-of-date ethanol game. Bud Weinstein, Maguire Energy InstituteBernard L. Weinstein is associate director of the Maguire Energy Institute and an adjunct professor of business economics in the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.https://www.insidesources.com/dont-increase-the-ethanol-mandate-get-rid-of-it/ ...more

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• #TheScalaReport: Warren and Vestager condemn Big American Tech. Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHE

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  Oct 17 2019

  Photo: 1873: given to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, by the Vereeniging van Voorstanders der Schoone Kunst, RotterdamExhibition history | Jan en Johan Hendrik Weissenbruch. Schilderijen, aquarellen, grafiek. Catalogus, Singer Museum, Laren, 11 December 1960–29 January 1961, cat.no. 58.Meesters van de Haagse School, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, 18 June 1965–15 August 1965, cat.no. 117.Meesters en molens. Van Rembrandt tot Mondriaan, Noordbrabants Museum, 's-Hertogenbosch, 27 January 2007–28 May 2007, ISBN 9789040082917, cat.no. 115.Inscriptions | Signature and date bottom left:  J. Hendrik Weissenbruch f. 73on the frame:  GESCHENK van VOORSTANDERS der SCHOONE KUNSTEN te ROTTERDAM in 1873on the frame:  JAN HENDRIK WEISSENBRUCHNotes | More info at museum siteReferences | Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen collection online, as Landscape with windmill near Schiedam.RKDimages, Art-work number 31131, as Landschap met molen bij Schiedam.Source/Photographer | IQHyVBLm0U2vIQ at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom levelhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow#TheScalaReport:  Warren and Vestager condemn Big American Tech.  Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com  #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHEhttps://medium.com/@teamwarren/heres-how-we-can-break-up-big-tech-9ad9e0da324chttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/business/-big-tech-europe-antitrust.html ...more

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• Young Hong Kong rebukes the NBA and celebrates the USA. @Michael_Yon @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Oct 17 2019

  Photo: The East India Company iron steam ship Nemesis, commanded by Lieutenant W. H. Hall, with boats from the Sulphur, Calliope, Larne and Starling, destroying the Chinese war junks in Anson's Bay, on 7 January 1841. An engagement in the First Opium War (1839-42), showing the ‘Nemesis’ (right background, in starboard broadside view) attacking a fleet of Chinese war junks in the middle ground. The war junk third from the left is shown being destroyed with splinters flying up into the air. Two rowing boats with Chinese passengers watch from the left foreground. Various men can be seen overboard and clinging on to debris throughout the scene. The lettering below includes lists of dimensions. PAH8193 and PAH8893 are additional copies, both hand-coloured, and the print is from an oil painting by Duncan presented to the Williamson Art Gallery at Birkenhead in 1925, with another showing Prince Albert visiting iron ships off Woolwich Dockyard. They were a gift from Alderman J.W.P. Laird, one of the Birkenhead shipbuilding family who built the 'Nemesis' and others of the vessels shown in them. On 7 January 1841, the 'Nemesis' of the Bombay Marine (the East India Company's naval service), commanded by William Hutcheon Hall, with boats from the ‘Sulphur’, ‘Calliope’, ‘Larne’ and ‘Starling’, destroyed Chinese war junks in Anson's Bay, Chuenpee, near the Bocca Tigris forts guarding the mouth of the Pearl River up to Canton. British forces then captured the forts themselves. Hall was a Royal Naval master at the time. He had steam experience and had been privately engaged by John Laird to command the 'Nemesis', which the latter had built experimentally as the first fully iron warship, and was so successful in it in China that in 1841 he was specially commissioned as a Naval lieutenant. He went on to later Royal Naval service as a captain in the Crimean War and was a retired admiral at his death in 1875. His portrait (BHC2733) and papers are also in the Museum collection. Edward Duncan - http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/opium_wars_01/ow1_gallery/pages/1841_0792_nemesis_jm_nmm.htm Public Domain File:Destroying Chinese war junks, by E. Duncan (1843).jpg Created: 29 May 1843 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowYoung Hong Kong rebukes the NBA and celebrates the USA. @Michael_Yon @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast ...more

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• Engaging China fails, now containment. Arthur Waldron, University of Pennsylvania. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Oct 17 2019

  Photo: Commissioner Lin Zexu, dubbed "Lin of Clear Skies" for his moral integrity.From a drawing by a native artist in the possession of Lady Strange - This file is from the Mechanical Curator collection, a set of over 1 million images scanned from out-of-copyright books and released to Flickr Commons by the British Library.  View image on Flickr   View all images from book   View catalogue entry for book.  Commissioner Lin Zexu Public Domain File:Commissioner Lin Zexu.jpg Created: Published 1843 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowEngaging China fails, now containment. Arthur Waldron, University of Pennsylvania. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast ...more

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• PRC State Security aspiration to steal everything. Brandon Weichert, the Weichert Report. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Oct 17 2019

  Photo: Opium ships at Lintin, China, 1824 William John Huggins - Sotheby's Public Domain File:William John Huggins - The opium ships at Lintin, China, 1824.jpg Created: after 1824 date QS:P571,+1824-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1824-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowPRC State Security aspiration to steal everything. Brandon Weichert, the Weichert Report. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast https://www.chinalawblog.com/2019/09/chinas-new-cybersecurity-program-no-place-to-hide.html ...more

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• Canada's elections feed the alligator of China. Charles Burton, Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Photo: View of the European factories in Canton William Daniell - http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/explore/object.cfm?ID=ZBA1291 Canton City (Guangzhou) — with the Pearl River and the several of the Thirteen Factories of the Europeans. Public Domain File:View of Canton factories 2.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowCanada's elections feed the alligator of China. Charles Burton, Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast ...more

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• 1 /4 Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria, by Sam Dagher

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  Image: Book cover..Assad or We Burn the Country by Sam Dagher review – scoop-filled history of Syria’s downfall The Wall Street Journal writer gives a compelling insider account of the deadly ambition of the Assads Ian Black   @ian_black  In the summer of 2012, news broke that Manaf Tlass, a general in Syria’s elite Republican Guard and a confidante of Bashar al-Assad, had defected and was en route to exile in France. Tlass was not just the tennis partner of the shy ophthalmologist who was presiding over the greatest crisis of the Arab spring; they were close, indeed intimate, family friends.  Tlass had been alarmed by Assad’s brutal crackdown since protests erupted in the southern city of Daraa in March 2011: young people inspired by the historic changes taking place in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya called for dignity, freedom and the overthrow of their own oppressive regime. Syria, however, seemed destined from the start to be a different story – and a far bloodier one.  Sam Dagher’s grim and impressively detailed account of the destruction of a country rests on two closely related factors: first, he was the only journalist for a major western newspaper based permanently in Damascus from 2012-2014, before being detained and thrown out. Second, his work is impeccably sourced – his access to Tlass and others provides rich insights into Assad and his inner circle, as well as into leading opposition activists.  Dagher’s sympathies are clear from his title (though he missed a trick by not explaining that the menacing slogan, daubed on walls, rhymes neatly in Arabic) and from his even more explicit subtitle (How One Family’s Lust for Power Destroyed Syria). “There is no way to govern our society except with the shoe over people’s heads,” he quotes the Syrian leader as saying both before and after the unrest began.  Assad’s reaction to Daraa, advised by his younger brother Maher and cousin Hafez Makhlouf, was to double down on repression. Crucially, he also released hundreds of Islamists who had previously been encouraged to fight the post-Saddam Hussein US occupation of Iraq, but were imprisoned when they returned home. The result was that the slogan “selmiya” (peacefully) was drowned out by the blast of jihadist suicide bombings (some faked by the regime) and barrel bomb attacks.  In the early days, there was debate in western capitals about how Assad would respond: one clue was that his accession in 2000 had been followed by a short-lived “Damascus spring”. Talk of reform was in the air then, though it was largely about economic liberalisation for the privileged and did not impinge on the “barrier of fear” maintained by different branches of the ubiquitous mukhabarat secret police.  His glamorous anglophone wife Asma (AKA Emma from Acton) was an invaluable asset even when Syria was in the doghouse over the assassination of the Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri. The opportunities for positive spin were a publicist’s fantasy. In 2008, the presidential couple were feted by Nicolas Sarkozy on Bastille Day; the following year they hosted Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in Damascus.  International and regional responses are an important part of this bleak and continuing story. In August 2011, Barack Obama called for Assad to step down. Britain and other EU countries followed suit. By the end of that year Syria’s death toll had already exceeded 5,000. The slim prospects for western intervention – always overshadowed by the Iraq war – had peaked by the time Tlass made it to Paris with the help of French intelligence agents.  The big picture is that half-hearted western responses never matched the strategic determination displayed by Iran, backing both Assad and Lebanon’s Hezbollah, and Russia, angered by Nato’s role in toppling Muammar Gaddafi. Uncoordinated regional support for Syrian rebel groups – Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey all competing for influence – helped transform both the military landscape and the official narrative. What Dagher saw as a moving struggle for freedom – as did I when I reported from Damascus and a nearby rebel-held area in January 2012 – was transformed into a war on terror. “It was in keeping with a long-established regime tradition of nurturing the beast and then presenting itself to the west as the only one capable of slaying it – but subject to preconditions,” he writes.  The Tlass connection is an excellent way to sketch out the historical context (though it is fair to assume an element of self-justification in what Tlass chose to reveal). His father Mustafa served loyally as defence minister under Assad senior, Hafez, who ruled from 1971 until his death in 2000. The Tlass family were from Syria’s majority Sunni Muslim community, many of them co-opted by the Assads, who belonged to the minority Alawite sect. Mustafa was in office during the Hama massacre of 1982, when thousands died in the wake of an uprising by the Muslim Brotherhood. Hama remained a byword for official ruthlessness.  Dagher, a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, does not just make do with putting together this complicated tale, linking developments in an accessible way for a non-expert audience. Significant scoops are scattered throughout his account, many underlining the cynical cruelty of a regime that was fighting,   The deaths of Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin and a French colleague in Homs were described as “justifiable” by a Syrian general he spoke to, he writes. He also shows beyond reasonable doubt that Assad arranged the killing of his own brother-in-law, Assef Shawkat, and other senior security figures – in what state media reported as a terrorist attack. Dagher quotes “regime insiders” as saying that Assad ordered baffled army commanders to abandon outposts on the Iraqi border just as Isis was emerging. Tlass, he reveals, advised the CIA’s covert Syrian programme and was supported by the UK government (committed only to proving “non-lethal support”) in organising meetings with other potential defectors.  Dagher devotes a lot of space to the stories of Mazen Darwish, an Alawite lawyer and human rights activist who was tortured in the notorious Saydnaya prison (where Amnesty reports that up to 13,000 people were executed), and of Sally Masalmeh, a young woman from Daraa. Both ended up fleeing to Germany – part of the wave of Syrian refugees that helped determine Europe’s non-response to the crisis on its doorstep. It would have been instructive to read more, nevertheless, about those Syrians who, despite everything, stayed put and continued to support their president.  Dagher’s judgment is that Obama’s acquiescence in Assad’s use of chemical weapons, killing an estimated 1,400 people in Ghouta in August 2013, was a crucial turning point. “No single event in the history of the Syrian conflict helped Islamist extremists justify their terror and message of hate more than the … attack and the way the international community handled its aftermath,” he concludes.  Another significant moment was Vladimir Putin’s military intervention in September 2015. Since then, Assad has regained control of most of the country apart from Idlib province, where what looks like the final act in Syria’s tragedy is now being played out. In recent months, the regime has been publishing the death certificates of people who it disappeared, tortured and killed – blaming heart attacks or strokes – while statues of Hafez al-Assad destroyed since 2011 are being rebuilt in Daraa and elsewhere. On balance, the subtitle seems spot-on.  Ian Black is a former Middle East editor of the Guardian.  This review is from the Observer   ...more

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• 2/4 Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria, by Sam Dagher

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  Oct 17 2019

    Image:  Defense Companies shoulder sleeve insignia.  The Defense Companies (سرايا الدفاع‎; Saraya ad-Difa) were a paramilitary force in Syria that were commanded by Rifaat al-Assad. Their task was to defend the Assad government, and Damascus, from internal and external attack. Public domain. . Assad or We Burn the Country by Sam Dagher review – scoop-filled history of Syria’s downfall The Wall Street Journal writer gives a compelling insider account of the deadly ambition of the Assads Ian Black   @ian_black  In the summer of 2012, news broke that Manaf Tlass, a general in Syria’s elite Republican Guard and a confidante of Bashar al-Assad, had defected and was en route to exile in France. Tlass was not just the tennis partner of the shy ophthalmologist who was presiding over the greatest crisis of the Arab spring; they were close, indeed intimate, family friends.  Tlass had been alarmed by Assad’s brutal crackdown since protests erupted in the southern city of Daraa in March 2011: young people inspired by the historic changes taking place in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya called for dignity, freedom and the overthrow of their own oppressive regime. Syria, however, seemed destined from the start to be a different story – and a far bloodier one.  Sam Dagher’s grim and impressively detailed account of the destruction of a country rests on two closely related factors: first, he was the only journalist for a major western newspaper based permanently in Damascus from 2012-2014, before being detained and thrown out. Second, his work is impeccably sourced – his access to Tlass and others provides rich insights into Assad and his inner circle, as well as into leading opposition activists.  Dagher’s sympathies are clear from his title (though he missed a trick by not explaining that the menacing slogan, daubed on walls, rhymes neatly in Arabic) and from his even more explicit subtitle (How One Family’s Lust for Power Destroyed Syria). “There is no way to govern our society except with the shoe over people’s heads,” he quotes the Syrian leader as saying both before and after the unrest began.  Assad’s reaction to Daraa, advised by his younger brother Maher and cousin Hafez Makhlouf, was to double down on repression. Crucially, he also released hundreds of Islamists who had previously been encouraged to fight the post-Saddam Hussein US occupation of Iraq, but were imprisoned when they returned home. The result was that the slogan “selmiya” (peacefully) was drowned out by the blast of jihadist suicide bombings (some faked by the regime) and barrel bomb attacks.  In the early days, there was debate in western capitals about how Assad would respond: one clue was that his accession in 2000 had been followed by a short-lived “Damascus spring”. Talk of reform was in the air then, though it was largely about economic liberalisation for the privileged and did not impinge on the “barrier of fear” maintained by different branches of the ubiquitous mukhabarat secret police.  His glamorous anglophone wife Asma (AKA Emma from Acton) was an invaluable asset even when Syria was in the doghouse over the assassination of the Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri. The opportunities for positive spin were a publicist’s fantasy. In 2008, the presidential couple were feted by Nicolas Sarkozy on Bastille Day; the following year they hosted Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in Damascus.  International and regional responses are an important part of this bleak and continuing story. In August 2011, Barack Obama called for Assad to step down. Britain and other EU countries followed suit. By the end of that year Syria’s death toll had already exceeded 5,000. The slim prospects for western intervention – always overshadowed by the Iraq war – had peaked by the time Tlass made it to Paris with the help of French intelligence agents.  The big picture is that half-hearted western responses never matched the strategic determination displayed by Iran, backing both Assad and Lebanon’s Hezbollah, and Russia, angered by Nato’s role in toppling Muammar Gaddafi. Uncoordinated regional support for Syrian rebel groups – Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey all competing for influence – helped transform both the military landscape and the official narrative. What Dagher saw as a moving struggle for freedom – as did I when I reported from Damascus and a nearby rebel-held area in January 2012 – was transformed into a war on terror. “It was in keeping with a long-established regime tradition of nurturing the beast and then presenting itself to the west as the only one capable of slaying it – but subject to preconditions,” he writes.  The Tlass connection is an excellent way to sketch out the historical context (though it is fair to assume an element of self-justification in what Tlass chose to reveal). His father Mustafa served loyally as defence minister under Assad senior, Hafez, who ruled from 1971 until his death in 2000. The Tlass family were from Syria’s majority Sunni Muslim community, many of them co-opted by the Assads, who belonged to the minority Alawite sect. Mustafa was in office during the Hama massacre of 1982, when thousands died in the wake of an uprising by the Muslim Brotherhood. Hama remained a byword for official ruthlessness.  Dagher, a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, does not just make do with putting together this complicated tale, linking developments in an accessible way for a non-expert audience. Significant scoops are scattered throughout his account, many underlining the cynical cruelty of a regime that was fighting,   The deaths of Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin and a French colleague in Homs were described as “justifiable” by a Syrian general he spoke to, he writes. He also shows beyond reasonable doubt that Assad arranged the killing of his own brother-in-law, Assef Shawkat, and other senior security figures – in what state media reported as a terrorist attack. Dagher quotes “regime insiders” as saying that Assad ordered baffled army commanders to abandon outposts on the Iraqi border just as Isis was emerging. Tlass, he reveals, advised the CIA’s covert Syrian programme and was supported by the UK government (committed only to proving “non-lethal support”) in organising meetings with other potential defectors.  Dagher devotes a lot of space to the stories of Mazen Darwish, an Alawite lawyer and human rights activist who was tortured in the notorious Saydnaya prison (where Amnesty reports that up to 13,000 people were executed), and of Sally Masalmeh, a young woman from Daraa. Both ended up fleeing to Germany – part of the wave of Syrian refugees that helped determine Europe’s non-response to the crisis on its doorstep. It would have been instructive to read more, nevertheless, about those Syrians who, despite everything, stayed put and continued to support their president.  Dagher’s judgment is that Obama’s acquiescence in Assad’s use of chemical weapons, killing an estimated 1,400 people in Ghouta in August 2013, was a crucial turning point. “No single event in the history of the Syrian conflict helped Islamist extremists justify their terror and message of hate more than the … attack and the way the international community handled its aftermath,” he concludes.  Another significant moment was Vladimir Putin’s military intervention in September 2015. Since then, Assad has regained control of most of the country apart from Idlib province, where what looks like the final act in Syria’s tragedy is now being played out. In recent months, the regime has been publishing the death certificates of people who it disappeared, tortured and killed – blaming heart attacks or strokes – while statues of Hafez al-Assad destroyed since 2011 are being rebuilt in Daraa and elsewhere. On balance, the subtitle seems spot-on.  Ian Black is a former Middle East editor of the Guardian.  This review is from the Observer   ...more

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• 3/4 Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria, by Sam Dagher

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  Image:  The Khan Shaykhun chemical attack took place on 4 April 2017 on the town of Khan Shaykhun in the Idlib Governorate of Syria.  USS Ross firing a Tomahawk missile towards the Shayrat Airbase. Public domain.. Assad or We Burn the Country by Sam Dagher review – scoop-filled history of Syria’s downfall The Wall Street Journal writer gives a compelling insider account of the deadly ambition of the Assads Ian Black   @ian_black  In the summer of 2012, news broke that Manaf Tlass, a general in Syria’s elite Republican Guard and a confidante of Bashar al-Assad, had defected and was en route to exile in France. Tlass was not just the tennis partner of the shy ophthalmologist who was presiding over the greatest crisis of the Arab spring; they were close, indeed intimate, family friends.  Tlass had been alarmed by Assad’s brutal crackdown since protests erupted in the southern city of Daraa in March 2011: young people inspired by the historic changes taking place in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya called for dignity, freedom and the overthrow of their own oppressive regime. Syria, however, seemed destined from the start to be a different story – and a far bloodier one.  Sam Dagher’s grim and impressively detailed account of the destruction of a country rests on two closely related factors: first, he was the only journalist for a major western newspaper based permanently in Damascus from 2012-2014, before being detained and thrown out. Second, his work is impeccably sourced – his access to Tlass and others provides rich insights into Assad and his inner circle, as well as into leading opposition activists.  Dagher’s sympathies are clear from his title (though he missed a trick by not explaining that the menacing slogan, daubed on walls, rhymes neatly in Arabic) and from his even more explicit subtitle (How One Family’s Lust for Power Destroyed Syria). “There is no way to govern our society except with the shoe over people’s heads,” he quotes the Syrian leader as saying both before and after the unrest began.  Assad’s reaction to Daraa, advised by his younger brother Maher and cousin Hafez Makhlouf, was to double down on repression. Crucially, he also released hundreds of Islamists who had previously been encouraged to fight the post-Saddam Hussein US occupation of Iraq, but were imprisoned when they returned home. The result was that the slogan “selmiya” (peacefully) was drowned out by the blast of jihadist suicide bombings (some faked by the regime) and barrel bomb attacks.  In the early days, there was debate in western capitals about how Assad would respond: one clue was that his accession in 2000 had been followed by a short-lived “Damascus spring”. Talk of reform was in the air then, though it was largely about economic liberalisation for the privileged and did not impinge on the “barrier of fear” maintained by different branches of the ubiquitous mukhabarat secret police.  His glamorous anglophone wife Asma (AKA Emma from Acton) was an invaluable asset even when Syria was in the doghouse over the assassination of the Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri. The opportunities for positive spin were a publicist’s fantasy. In 2008, the presidential couple were feted by Nicolas Sarkozy on Bastille Day; the following year they hosted Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in Damascus.  International and regional responses are an important part of this bleak and continuing story. In August 2011, Barack Obama called for Assad to step down. Britain and other EU countries followed suit. By the end of that year Syria’s death toll had already exceeded 5,000. The slim prospects for western intervention – always overshadowed by the Iraq war – had peaked by the time Tlass made it to Paris with the help of French intelligence agents.  The big picture is that half-hearted western responses never matched the strategic determination displayed by Iran, backing both Assad and Lebanon’s Hezbollah, and Russia, angered by Nato’s role in toppling Muammar Gaddafi. Uncoordinated regional support for Syrian rebel groups – Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey all competing for influence – helped transform both the military landscape and the official narrative. What Dagher saw as a moving struggle for freedom – as did I when I reported from Damascus and a nearby rebel-held area in January 2012 – was transformed into a war on terror. “It was in keeping with a long-established regime tradition of nurturing the beast and then presenting itself to the west as the only one capable of slaying it – but subject to preconditions,” he writes.  The Tlass connection is an excellent way to sketch out the historical context (though it is fair to assume an element of self-justification in what Tlass chose to reveal). His father Mustafa served loyally as defence minister under Assad senior, Hafez, who ruled from 1971 until his death in 2000. The Tlass family were from Syria’s majority Sunni Muslim community, many of them co-opted by the Assads, who belonged to the minority Alawite sect. Mustafa was in office during the Hama massacre of 1982, when thousands died in the wake of an uprising by the Muslim Brotherhood. Hama remained a byword for official ruthlessness.  Dagher, a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, does not just make do with putting together this complicated tale, linking developments in an accessible way for a non-expert audience. Significant scoops are scattered throughout his account, many underlining the cynical cruelty of a regime that was fighting,   The deaths of Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin and a French colleague in Homs were described as “justifiable” by a Syrian general he spoke to, he writes. He also shows beyond reasonable doubt that Assad arranged the killing of his own brother-in-law, Assef Shawkat, and other senior security figures – in what state media reported as a terrorist attack. Dagher quotes “regime insiders” as saying that Assad ordered baffled army commanders to abandon outposts on the Iraqi border just as Isis was emerging. Tlass, he reveals, advised the CIA’s covert Syrian programme and was supported by the UK government (committed only to proving “non-lethal support”) in organising meetings with other potential defectors.  Dagher devotes a lot of space to the stories of Mazen Darwish, an Alawite lawyer and human rights activist who was tortured in the notorious Saydnaya prison (where Amnesty reports that up to 13,000 people were executed), and of Sally Masalmeh, a young woman from Daraa. Both ended up fleeing to Germany – part of the wave of Syrian refugees that helped determine Europe’s non-response to the crisis on its doorstep. It would have been instructive to read more, nevertheless, about those Syrians who, despite everything, stayed put and continued to support their president.  Dagher’s judgment is that Obama’s acquiescence in Assad’s use of chemical weapons, killing an estimated 1,400 people in Ghouta in August 2013, was a crucial turning point. “No single event in the history of the Syrian conflict helped Islamist extremists justify their terror and message of hate more than the … attack and the way the international community handled its aftermath,” he concludes.  Another significant moment was Vladimir Putin’s military intervention in September 2015. Since then, Assad has regained control of most of the country apart from Idlib province, where what looks like the final act in Syria’s tragedy is now being played out. In recent months, the regime has been publishing the death certificates of people who it disappeared, tortured and killed – blaming heart attacks or strokes – while statues of Hafez al-Assad destroyed since 2011 are being rebuilt in Daraa and elsewhere. On balance, the subtitle seems spot-on.  Ian Black is a former Middle East editor of the Guardian.  This review is from the Observer ...more

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• 4/4 Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria, by Sam Dagher

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  Oct 17 2019

  Image:  Syrian security tries to quash dissent in Douma, but residents remain defiant, Jan. 14, 2012. Photo taken by VOA Middle East correspondent Elizabeth Arrott while traveling through Damascus with government escorts. Elizabeth Arrott - A View of Syria, Under Government Crackdown. VOA News photo gallery.  Pubic domain.. Assad or We Burn the Country by Sam Dagher review – scoop-filled history of Syria’s downfall The Wall Street Journal writer gives a compelling insider account of the deadly ambition of the Assads Ian Black   @ian_black  In the summer of 2012, news broke that Manaf Tlass, a general in Syria’s elite Republican Guard and a confidante of Bashar al-Assad, had defected and was en route to exile in France. Tlass was not just the tennis partner of the shy ophthalmologist who was presiding over the greatest crisis of the Arab spring; they were close, indeed intimate, family friends.  Tlass had been alarmed by Assad’s brutal crackdown since protests erupted in the southern city of Daraa in March 2011: young people inspired by the historic changes taking place in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya called for dignity, freedom and the overthrow of their own oppressive regime. Syria, however, seemed destined from the start to be a different story – and a far bloodier one.  Sam Dagher’s grim and impressively detailed account of the destruction of a country rests on two closely related factors: first, he was the only journalist for a major western newspaper based permanently in Damascus from 2012-2014, before being detained and thrown out. Second, his work is impeccably sourced – his access to Tlass and others provides rich insights into Assad and his inner circle, as well as into leading opposition activists.  Dagher’s sympathies are clear from his title (though he missed a trick by not explaining that the menacing slogan, daubed on walls, rhymes neatly in Arabic) and from his even more explicit subtitle (How One Family’s Lust for Power Destroyed Syria). “There is no way to govern our society except with the shoe over people’s heads,” he quotes the Syrian leader as saying both before and after the unrest began.  Assad’s reaction to Daraa, advised by his younger brother Maher and cousin Hafez Makhlouf, was to double down on repression. Crucially, he also released hundreds of Islamists who had previously been encouraged to fight the post-Saddam Hussein US occupation of Iraq, but were imprisoned when they returned home. The result was that the slogan “selmiya” (peacefully) was drowned out by the blast of jihadist suicide bombings (some faked by the regime) and barrel bomb attacks.  In the early days, there was debate in western capitals about how Assad would respond: one clue was that his accession in 2000 had been followed by a short-lived “Damascus spring”. Talk of reform was in the air then, though it was largely about economic liberalisation for the privileged and did not impinge on the “barrier of fear” maintained by different branches of the ubiquitous mukhabarat secret police.  His glamorous anglophone wife Asma (AKA Emma from Acton) was an invaluable asset even when Syria was in the doghouse over the assassination of the Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri. The opportunities for positive spin were a publicist’s fantasy. In 2008, the presidential couple were feted by Nicolas Sarkozy on Bastille Day; the following year they hosted Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in Damascus.  International and regional responses are an important part of this bleak and continuing story. In August 2011, Barack Obama called for Assad to step down. Britain and other EU countries followed suit. By the end of that year Syria’s death toll had already exceeded 5,000. The slim prospects for western intervention – always overshadowed by the Iraq war – had peaked by the time Tlass made it to Paris with the help of French intelligence agents.  The big picture is that half-hearted western responses never matched the strategic determination displayed by Iran, backing both Assad and Lebanon’s Hezbollah, and Russia, angered by Nato’s role in toppling Muammar Gaddafi. Uncoordinated regional support for Syrian rebel groups – Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey all competing for influence – helped transform both the military landscape and the official narrative. What Dagher saw as a moving struggle for freedom – as did I when I reported from Damascus and a nearby rebel-held area in January 2012 – was transformed into a war on terror. “It was in keeping with a long-established regime tradition of nurturing the beast and then presenting itself to the west as the only one capable of slaying it – but subject to preconditions,” he writes.  The Tlass connection is an excellent way to sketch out the historical context (though it is fair to assume an element of self-justification in what Tlass chose to reveal). His father Mustafa served loyally as defence minister under Assad senior, Hafez, who ruled from 1971 until his death in 2000. The Tlass family were from Syria’s majority Sunni Muslim community, many of them co-opted by the Assads, who belonged to the minority Alawite sect. Mustafa was in office during the Hama massacre of 1982, when thousands died in the wake of an uprising by the Muslim Brotherhood. Hama remained a byword for official ruthlessness.  Dagher, a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, does not just make do with putting together this complicated tale, linking developments in an accessible way for a non-expert audience. Significant scoops are scattered throughout his account, many underlining the cynical cruelty of a regime that was fighting,   The deaths of Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin and a French colleague in Homs were described as “justifiable” by a Syrian general he spoke to, he writes. He also shows beyond reasonable doubt that Assad arranged the killing of his own brother-in-law, Assef Shawkat, and other senior security figures – in what state media reported as a terrorist attack. Dagher quotes “regime insiders” as saying that Assad ordered baffled army commanders to abandon outposts on the Iraqi border just as Isis was emerging. Tlass, he reveals, advised the CIA’s covert Syrian programme and was supported by the UK government (committed only to proving “non-lethal support”) in organising meetings with other potential defectors.  Dagher devotes a lot of space to the stories of Mazen Darwish, an Alawite lawyer and human rights activist who was tortured in the notorious Saydnaya prison (where Amnesty reports that up to 13,000 people were executed), and of Sally Masalmeh, a young woman from Daraa. Both ended up fleeing to Germany – part of the wave of Syrian refugees that helped determine Europe’s non-response to the crisis on its doorstep. It would have been instructive to read more, nevertheless, about those Syrians who, despite everything, stayed put and continued to support their president.  Dagher’s judgment is that Obama’s acquiescence in Assad’s use of chemical weapons, killing an estimated 1,400 people in Ghouta in August 2013, was a crucial turning point. “No single event in the history of the Syrian conflict helped Islamist extremists justify their terror and message of hate more than the … attack and the way the international community handled its aftermath,” he concludes.  Another significant moment was Vladimir Putin’s military intervention in September 2015. Since then, Assad has regained control of most of the country apart from Idlib province, where what looks like the final act in Syria’s tragedy is now being played out. In recent months, the regime has been publishing the death certificates of people who it disappeared, tortured and killed – blaming heart attacks or strokes – while statues of Hafez al-Assad destroyed since 2011 are being rebuilt in Daraa and elsewhere. On balance, the subtitle seems spot-on.  Ian Black is a former Middle East editor of the Guardian.  This review is from the Observer   ...more

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• Roscosmos hero Cosmonaut Alexi Leonov. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Photo: Vostok "Sharik" TigerPaw2154 at English Wikipedia - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Liftarn using CommonsHelper. Soviet Vostok Spacecraft. I took this picture at a public display in the LBJ Library and Museum, Austin Texas. Public Domain File:Vostok.jpg Created: 28 August 2008 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowRoscosmos hero Cosmonaut Alexi Leonov. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/?s=leonov ...more

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• Engineering the troubled InSight on Mars. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Photo: PIA17944: Curiosity's Color View of Martian Dune After Crossing It http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA17944This look back at a dune that NASA's Curiosity Mars rover drove across was taken by the rover's Mast Camera (Mastcam) during the 538th Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity's work on Mars (Feb. 9, 2014). The rover had driven over the dune three days earlier. For scale, the distance between the parallel wheel tracks is about 9 feet (2.7 meters). The dune is about 3 feet (1 meter) tall in the middle of its span across an opening called "Dingo Gap." This view is looking eastward.The image has been white balanced to show what the Martian surface materials would look like if under the light of Earth's sky. A version with raw color, as recorded by the camera under Martian lighting conditions, is available as Figure 1.NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. JPL designed and built the project's Curiosity rover. Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, built and operates the rover's Mastcam.More information about Curiosity is online at http://www.nasa.gov/msl and http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/.Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSSPolski: Kolorowy widok marsjańskich wydm widziany oczami łazika Curiosity po ich przejściuTo spojrzenie do tyłu na marsjańskie wydmy, zostało wykonane przez jedną z pośród dwóch kamer masztowych łazika Curiosity, podczas 538 marsjańskiej doby, czyli 09 lutego 2014. Łazik pokonał wydmy trzy dni wcześniej. Dla porównania, ślady kół łazika wyrażają ich rozpiętość, która wynosi 2,7 metra. Wysokość wydmy wynosi 1 metr, a w jej środku znajduje się luka o nazwie "Luka Dingo". Widok ten, jest skierowany w kierunku wschodnim.Zdjęcie było poddane regulacji równowagi bieli, aby pokazać powierzchnię Marsa tak, jakby wyglądała w warunkach oświetleniowych na Ziemi. Wersja w surowym formacie, zarejestrowanym przez kamerę w marsjańskich warunkach oświetleniowych, jest dostępna na  zdjęciu (figure 1).Należące do NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, będące oddziałem California Institute of Technology w Pasadenie, kieruje projektem Mars Science Laboratory dla należącego do NASA  Science Mission Directorate w Waszygtonie. JPL zaprojektowało i zbudowało łazik Curiosity. Malin Space Science Systems z San Diego, zbudowało i steruje kamerami masztowymi łazika (ang. Mastcams).Zdjęcie przypisane do: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSSDate | 19 February 2014, 21:03:02Source | http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA17944.jpgAuthorhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowEngineering the troubled InSight on Mars. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/?s=InSight ...more

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• Joe Biden skips the fact that ISIS was born on his watch. @AaronKleinShow

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  Oct 16 2019

  Image: Kayla Mueller was abducted by ISIS on 4 August 2103 while on a trip to Syria to provide humanitarian aid. In a speech in September 2014, United States President Barack Obama said that “ISIL” (a politically-charged appellation) was neither "Islamic" nor was it a "state."  Screengrab from motion picture..https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/15/us/politics/debate-live-analysis.html?src=livechatHomepagePromo&action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=HomepageAaron Klein, AaronKleinShow, & Breitbart, at the Democratic debate; explains that  there was no plan among Democrats advocating withdrawal from Syria. Biden spoke very strongly against Trump – “American betrayal” – and prognosticated an ISIS resurgence. Recall that it was Obama/Biden who began this problem, setting the stage to create ISIS in the first place.  ISIS fighters escaping from prisons. “We have an erratic and crazy president who knows not a damned thing about foreign policy.” – Joe Biden.  How’d he respond to a question about Hunter, whose income vastly mushroomed from China and Ukraine while his father was in negotiations with those two governments?  Democratic candidates repeatedly attacked Elizabeth Warren, suggesting that she’s pretty much the frontrunner right now. ...more

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• Frontrunner Warren is shaky in debate. @HooverWhalen @HooverInst

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  Oct 16 2019

  Photo: Orchestra at square dance in McIntosh County, Oklahoma (LOC)Lee, Russell,, 1903-1986,, photographer. Orchestra at square dance in McIntosh County, Oklahoma [1939 or 1940]  1 slide : color. Notes:Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. Subjects:Square dancingMusiciansUnited States--Oklahoma--McIntosh County   Format: Slides--Color http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowFrontrunner Warren is shaky in debate.  @HooverWhalen @HooverInst...more

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• Tales of the New Cold War: Democrats might be unaware of the New Cold War. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.

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  Oct 16 2019

  Photo: Urho Kekkonen on his 60th birthday. Nikita Khrushchev to his right.Suomi: Urho Kekkosen täyttäessä 60 vuotta Nikita Hruštšev (kesk.) halusi tulla onnittelemaan ystäväänsä Suomeen. Jatkot Tamminiemessä kestivät aamuviiteen.Date | Taken on 3 September 1960Source | HeSaAuthor | Helsingin Sanomat | This photograph is in the public domain in Finland, because either a period of 50 years has elapsed from the year of creation or the photograph was first published before 1966.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTales of the New Cold War: Democrats might be unaware of the New Cold War. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com....more

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• ISIS prospers as US hastily leaves with no dividend. Patrick Tucker @DefTechPat @DefenseOne

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  Oct 16 2019

  Image: Da-ish flag.  İslam Devleti bayrağı ile bir örgüt üyesi. Public domain..Patrick Tucker, DefenseOne technology editor, says it’s not clear where the [maybe one thousand] US troops pulled out of Syria will go, although about a thousand US troops will soon be sent to Saudi.  It’s the Kurds in Rojava who most substantially contributed to the defeat of ISIS.  The bug-out is considered a betrayal.  Further, the US loses a lot of intelligence sources; US  has not spoken extensively with ISIS fighters to debrief them, and now they're literally running away in the sands of Syria.  In the chaos of the Syrian civil war was when ISIS first arose; today, northeast Syria is fertile ground for a resurgence and we’re seeing early signs of that. This was highly predictable.  https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2019/10/isis-will-benefit-us-withdrawal-says-retired-3-star-who-helped-train-syrian-rebels/160433/?oref=d-river https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2019/10/esper-condemns-war-crimes-trump-orders-1000-us-troops-out-northern-syria/160579/   ...more

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• Russian troops now border US-stationed nukes. US vacates; leaves Kurds to survive under heavy fire. Josh Rogin. @joshrogin @WashingtonPost

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  Oct 16 2019

  Image: Repatriation of the body of Oleg Peshkov, the pilot of the Russian Su-24 that was shot down by Turkey; at Chkalovsky Airport in Russia, 30 November 2015. Самолёт военно-транспортной авиации Минобороны России доставил из Анкары на военный аэродром Чкаловский тело Героя России Олега Пешкова. Permissions*: see below..https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/15/trump-is-condemning-millions-syrians-assad-irans-cruelty/Josh Rogin, Washington Post, clarifies the situation around Syrian Kurds [in Rojava], and the fundamental regional shifts incurred by Pres Trump’s precipitate and unheralded withdrawal of US troops not only from the border but from all northeast Syria.        Russian troops now on the border of a NATO country [Turkey] as US troops flee with only what they could carry. Not only is a Russian-run Mideast not in the US interest, but it dooms millions of suffering people there to a tyrannical and cruel governance—creating a cauldron for extremism that eventually the US will have to clean up, one way or another.. Trump is condemning millions of Syrians to Assad and Iran’s cruelty; by Josh Rogin, columnist.   There’s lots of outrage about the United States abandoning our Kurdish partners in Syria, and rightly so. But the far greater impact of President Trump’s disastrous and completely mishandled Syria withdrawal is that millions of other Syrian civilians will soon find themselves living under the control of the Bashar al-Assad regime or Iranian forces, which is a fate crueler than any other..*Permissions:  Author, Vadim Savitsky for Russian Ministry of Defence.  This file comes from the websites (mil.ru, минобороны.рф) of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation and is copyrighted. This file is licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Licence. In short: you are free to distribute and modify the file as long as you attribute Mil.ru. +/−w:en:Creative Commonsattribution This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Attribution: Mil.ruYou 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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• Trump-Schiff-Biden Expert Electioneering Mud-Slinging for 2020. @DavidMDrucker @ThadMcCotter.

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  Oct 16 2019

  Photo: English: Moving a house with a team of horses through the mud down Front St., Nome, Alaska, August 27, 1900.Description | English: Caption on image: "Moving a house through Front St., Nome. Aug 27" Original image in Hegg Album 38, page 9.Subjects (LCTGM): Streets--Alaska--Nome; Boston Cafe (Nome, Alaska); Restaurants--Alaska--Nome; Horses--Alaska--Nome; Carts & wagons--Alaska--Nome; Advertising--Alaska--Nome; Mud--Alaska--NomeSubjects (LCSH): Moving of buildings, bridges, etc.--Alaska--Nome; Front Street (Nome, Alaska); Draft animals--Alaska--NomeDepicted place | Nome, AlaskaDate | circa 1900468Source | English: Eric A. Hegg PhotographsPermission(Reusing this file) |  | The author died in 1948, so 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: @BatchelorShowTrump-Schiff-Biden Expert Electioneering Mud-Slinging for 2020. @DavidMDrucker @ThadMcCotter.https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/exclusive-hiding-plain-sight-hunter-biden-defends-foreign/story?id=66275416 ...more

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• The relentless selling of expensive, underperforming and cultish Organic Food. @HenryIMiller henrymillermd.org @PacificResearch

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  Oct 16 2019

  Photo: Unknown or not providedRecord creator | Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Chief of Engineers. St. Louis District. (09/18/1947 - 06/14/1979)Title | Flooded farmlandDate | 1927Collection | National Archives and Records Administration   NARA's Central Plains Region (Kansas City) (NREA), 400 West Pershing Road, Kansas City, MO, 64108.Record ID |  | This media is available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 285952.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe relentless selling of expensive, underperforming and cultish Organic Food. @HenryIMiller henrymillermd.org @PacificResearchhttp://www.henrymillermd.org/23352/modifed-should-be-vilified ...more

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• The Full-Length Conversation: An Officer and a Spy: A Novel, by Robert Harris (Author); David Rintoul (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Oct 16 2019

  Photo: Paris-Berlin 1901 - contrôle d'Aix-la-Chapelle - Le Sport universel illustré du 6 juillet 1901, p.436Date | 3 April 2016Source | Le Sport universel illustré du 6 juillet 1901Author | Le Sport universel illustré | 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: @BatchelorShowThe Full-Length Conversation: An Officer and a Spy: A Novel, by Robert Harris (Author); David Rintoul (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Officer-Spy-Novel/dp/B00HFX8BME/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Robert Harris returns to the thrilling historical fiction he has so brilliantly made his own. This is the story of the infamous Dreyfus affair told as a chillingly dark, hard-edged novel of conspiracy and espionage.        Paris in 1895: Alfred Dreyfus, a young Jewish officer, has just been convicted of treason, sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's Island, and stripped of his rank in front of a baying crowd of 20,000. Among the witnesses to his humiliation is Georges Picquart, the ambitious, intellectual, recently-promoted head of the counterespionage agency that Dreyfus had passed secrets to the Germans. At first, Picquart firmly believes in Dreyfus's guilt. But it is not long after Dreyfus is delivered to his desolate prison that Picquart stumbles on information that leads him to suspect that there is still a spy at large in the French military. As evidence of the most malignant deceit mounts and spirals inexorably toward the uppermost levels of government, Picquart is compelled to question not only the case against Dreyfus but also his most deeply-held beliefs about his country, and about himself.        Bringing to life the scandal that mesmerized the world at the turn of the 20th century, Robert Harris tells a tale of uncanny timeliness — a witch hunt, secret tribunals, out-of-control intelligence agencies, the fate of a whistle-blower — richly dramatized with the singular storytelling mastery that has marked all of his internationally best-selling novels....more

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• Schiff's secret-grand-jury-for-impeachment behind-closed-doors-gambit. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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  Oct 16 2019

  Photo: The title is the same as the image caption above & in "Cassell's Illustrated History of England, Volume 2". The number shown is the page number. Follow the image link to the full book vol.2.Date | 1865Source | Internet ArchiveAuthor | John Cassell | This work is in the public domain  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowSchiff's secret-grand-jury-for-impeachment behind-closed-doors-gambit. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJRhttps://www.nationalreview.com/2019/10/impeachment-process-political-not-legal/ ...more

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• Schiff, Speier and Pallone pitch for the Iran-sanctions-busting Armenia & What is to be done?

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  Oct 16 2019

  Photo: January 26, 2005JPEG Heavy snow settled over Iran on January 23, 2005, closing roads and isolating many northern villages. The snow fell heaviest in the northern Zagros Mountains, where as much as 75 cm (32 inches) fell in a single night, but the white extends south along the spine of the mountains almost to the Persian Gulf. The snow also covers the Alborz range in the northeast. Located along the southern front of the Alborz mountains, Iran�s capital, Tehran, was also blanketed with snow.  This true-color image of the snow-covered region was acquired on January 26, after the clouds had largely cleared from the region. It appears that the snow extends across the border into Turkey and northern Iraq, though clouds make it difficult to see the extent of the snow cover in Turkey. The same weather system that brought snow to Iran also triggered a massive dust storm in the Persian Gulf states. Dust from the storm settled on the snow in western Iran, near the Iraqi border, giving the snow-covered mountains a slightly tan tint.  NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained from the MODIS Rapid Response team. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowRepresentatives Schiff, Speier and Pallone pitch for the Iran-sanctions-busting Armenia & What is to be done?https://www.latimes.com/socal/glendale-news-press/news/story/2019-09-26/armenias-prime-minister-pays-a-visit-promotes-investments-and-repatriation ...more

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• Is Hong Kong Carrie Lam afraid of Hong Kong? @Crosett @IWF

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  Oct 16 2019

  Photo: 1 July 2008Source | Own workAuthor |  | Iflwlou拍攝I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following licenses: | 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: @BatchelorShowIs Hong Kong Carrie Lam afraid of Hong Kong?  @Crosett @IWF https://www.nysun.com/foreign/hong-kong-set-to-hear-a-deal-from-red-china/90867/...more

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• Fusion GPS tell-all with Congressional limitations.@AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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  Oct 16 2019

  Photo: Interior of the Hall of Representatives, U.S. Capitol, WashingtonDavis, Alexander Jackson (1803-1892), ArtistPhelps, W., Printer of platescollectionsIn CollectionsCollection of American Historical Prints.I. N. Phelps Stokes Collection of American Historical Prints. createSourceNew York Public LibrarylinkLinkhttp://digitalcollections.nypl.org/copyrightCopyright infoPublic Domain . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowFusion GPS tell-all with Congressional limitations.@AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJRhttps://www.amazon.com/Crime-Progress-Inside-Dossier-Investigation-ebook/dp/B07YK1LJX5 ...more

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• “Women of the gulag were slaves of slaves.” Marianna Yarovskaya.

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  Oct 15 2019

  Image: Women of the Gulag film poster. Fair use. .Marianna Yarovskaya, filmmaker, in re: Women of the Gulag.  Six elderly women who were teenagers when the disastrous events occurred.  On Oct 18 and Oct 22, the film will be screened at the Hong Kong Film Festival.  VisibleRecord.com     The film was shown at the Moscow Intl Film Festival, and brought one survivor, who was able to walk. Two more remain, blind, one paralyzed.   The attendee got five minutes of standing ovation. Then it was shown on Rossiya ___ TV, and Aeroflot will show the longer version starting in November.  In the gulags, women were worked as hard as the men, were brutalized. In  a timber camp, one woman said that if she didn’t haul back a tree she got no dinner.  “Women in the camps were slaves of slaves.” No family is unaffected.  Not on YouTube, but we’re selling DVDs to universities and schools.  Will screen it in London next year. In the US, it’ll show at the UN Intl Festival at Stanford on October 22, several days hence.  Screenings in Croatia and elsewhere. I attended a festival in South Korea – North Korean camps are carbon copies of what Stalin camps were [and note that until extremely recently, North Koreans were sold en masse by the Kim family to slave-labor timbering camps in Siberia  —ed.]; in South Korea we got an audience award.  http://www.kinokultura.com/2019/65r-gulag-women.shtml?fbclid=IwAR1T-kP6BvueCPKSF_R2Rq_8R5anJ2ZzeneGnu7PkEyOnj_LYkEQy2FvDNk .       Marianna Yarovskaya is an award-winning Russian-American documentary filmmaker who is the director and producer of the 2018 Academy Award short-listed documentary film, Women of the Gulag based on the book, Women of the Gulag: Stories of Five Remarkable Lives, by Paul Roderick Gregory.   ...more

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• The Whistleblower and the Small Circle of Friends. @AaronKleinShow @Breitbart

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  Oct 15 2019

  Photo: In a speech at the LBJ Presidential Library on Thursday, Sept. 22nd, 2016, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper discussed national security as we prepare for an election year change in the White House. Following his remarks, Admiral Bob Inman, former Director of the National Security Agency and Deputy Director of the CIA, and Stephen Hadley, former National Security Advisor, joined Clapper on stage for a conversation moderated by LBJ Library Director Mark Updegrove on the pressing national security issues facing our nation.Date | 22 September 2016, 18:20:55Source | https://www.flickr.com/photos/lbjlibrarynow/29241395423/in/album-72157673041219621/Author | Jay Godwin | This work is in the public domain in the United States because http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Whistleblower and the Small Circle of Friends. @AaronKleinShow @Breitbarthttps://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/11/whistleblower-attorney-was-informant-who-scuttled-trumps-nominee-for-cia-watchdog/ ...more

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• Hong Kong police have lost control, themselves are out of control. Michael Yon & Gordon Chang

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  Oct 15 2019

  Image: Hong Kong police officer, early 20th century. Public domain..Michael Yon (see livestreaming videos of Hong Kong protests and crazed police), Hong Kong reporter, & Gordon Chang, Daily Beast, discuss how the Hong Kong police are out of control, tried to seize our reporter’s camera and beat the daylights out of another reporter – in error! They released him after hours of brutalization, and he was then rushed to a hospital by other reporters.  The trigger for this was petrol bombs thrown at a police station.  The side of the Mongkok police station was charred, no other damage. Next to the TRR station.  On 31 Aug, a bad beatdown in the TSS station; it’s believed that three patriots were killed, since  they simply vanished, and police steadfastly refuse to release the CCTV coverage. That’s probably why that station was closed.  Citizens continue to leave memorials of flowers and candles; police destroy them each time..Prince Edward (Chinese: 太子; Cantonese Yale [Yalu]: Taaijí) is a station of the MTR rapid transit system in Hong Kong. It’s located in Mong Kok, Kowloon, under the intersection of Nathan Road and Prince Edward Road West. The station is named after this road. ...more

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• Misunderestimating* Trump on China could prove bad for Beijing. Gordon Chang. . . . *(so to speak)

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  Oct 15 2019

  Image: Guangzhou's harbor in 1850. Public domain..Gordon Chang, Daily Beast, reviews stats.  Chinese exports numbers are poor, but imports are down over 8%, which is serious.  China can't lie, cheat and steal too much on import & export figures.  Meanwhile the country is suffering both a very bad African swine fever and a debilitating rust on wheat.  Setting aside the “trade war,” China needs to import a lot of food, which naturally is making the leadership unhappy.        Most Americans now hold that China is a really bad actor. If the current US president holds out in his China policies, he’s likely to keep the support of American people.  A bad trade deal would alienate voters; a bad deal would hurt worse than no deal.  China’s plan is to hold out till there’s a new guy in the White House. Beijing has misunderestimated Trump, to quote from a while ago; they want him out because he’s unpredictable, and they want feeble US policy such as we’ve see in in the last many Administrations.   ...more

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• Al Qaeda rules in the Subcontinent. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD

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  Oct 15 2019

  Photo: "1/2: BREAKING: #NDS can now confirm the death of Asim Omar, leader of #Al_Qaeda in the #Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), in a joint US-Afghan raid on a Taliban compound in Musa Qala district of Helmand province on Sep. 23."http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowAl Qaeda rules in the Subcontinent. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDDhttps://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2019/10/afghan-intelligence-confirms-death-of-aqis-emir.php

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• One Hundred Years to the Kurd Failure. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD

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  Oct 15 2019

  Photo: Lot-11138-9: WWI-Armistice. President Woodrow Wilson walking through gardens at Versailles, Paris, France, with David Lloyd George and Premier George Clemenceau, Jul 1919. Edith Bolling Galt Wilson Collection. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. (2017/09/08).Date | 8 September 2017, 09:42Source | Lot-11138-9Author | National Museum of the U.S. Navy | This image was originally posted to Flickr by Photograph Curator at https://flickr.com/photos/127906254@N06/36292057633. It was reviewed on 11 July 2018 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the Public Domain Mark. | This 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: @BatchelorShowOne Hundred Years to the Kurd Failure. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDDhttps://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2019/10/islamic-state-sleeper-cells-target-raqqa.php ...more

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• 4/4 Hunting Che: How a U.S. Special Forces Team Helped Capture the World's Most Famous Revolutionary, by Kevin Maurer and Mitch Weiss.

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  Oct 15 2019

  Image: Flags of the world with Che — protestors carrying a mosaic of national flags bearing the Guerrillero Heroico likeness of Che Guevara.  Permissions*: see below.. Hunting Che: How a U.S. Special Forces Team Helped Capture the World's Most Famous Revolutionary, by Kevin Maurer and  Mitch Weiss.  Robertson Dean (Narrator),  Tantor Audio (Publisher); Audible Audiobook – Unabridgedhttps://www.amazon.com/Hunting-Che-Special-Capture-Revolutionary/dp/B00D8F953M/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Hunting+Che&qid=1571005866&s=audible&sr=1-1       By the mid-1960s, Che Guevera had become famous for his outspoken criticism of the United States and his support for armed Communist insurgencies. He had been one of the architects of the Cuban Revolution, and was attempting to repeat his success throughout Latin America. His guerilla tactics and talent for proselytizing made him a threat to American foreign policy — and when he turned his attention to Bolivia in 1967, the Pentagon made a decision: Che had to be eliminated.        Major Ralph "Pappy" Shelton was called upon to lead the mission to train the Bolivians. With a hand-picked team of specialists, his first task was to transform a ragtag group of peasants into a trained fighting force who could also gather intelligence. Gary Prado, a Bolivian officer, volunteered to join the newly formed Bolivian Rangers. Joined by Felix Rodriguez, a Cuban exile working for the CIA, the Americans and Bolivians searched for Che. The size of Che's group and when they would strike were unknowns, and the stakes were high. If Bolivia fell, it would validate Che's theories and throw South America into turmoil.         Hunting Che follows the exploits of Major Shelton, Felix Rodriguez, and Gary Prado — the Bolivian Ranger commander who ultimately captured him. The story begins with Che's arrival in Bolivia and follows the hunt to the dramatic confrontation and capture of the iconic leader in the southeastern village of La Higuera. With the White House and the Pentagon secretly monitoring every move, Shelton and his team changed history, and prevented a catastrophic threat from taking root in the West..*Permissions: Source —  Che-Flag-Venezuela  ;  Uploaded by Smooth_O Author —  Peta de-Aztlan from Sacramento, Aztlan .  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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• 3/4 Hunting Che: How a U.S. Special Forces Team Helped Capture the World's Most Famous Revolutionary, by Kevin Maurer and Mitch Weiss.

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  Image: Che Guevara on a 1968 Cuban stamp. Public domain.  , Hunting Che: How a U.S. Special Forces Team Helped Capture the World's Most Famous Revolutionary, by Kevin Maurer and  Mitch Weiss.  Robertson Dean (Narrator),  Tantor Audio (Publisher); Audible Audiobook – Unabridgedhttps://www.amazon.com/Hunting-Che-Special-Capture-Revolutionary/dp/B00D8F953M/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Hunting+Che&qid=1571005866&s=audible&sr=1-1       By the mid-1960s, Che Guevera had become famous for his outspoken criticism of the United States and his support for armed Communist insurgencies. He had been one of the architects of the Cuban Revolution, and was attempting to repeat his success throughout Latin America. His guerilla tactics and talent for proselytizing made him a threat to American foreign policy — and when he turned his attention to Bolivia in 1967, the Pentagon made a decision: Che had to be eliminated.        Major Ralph "Pappy" Shelton was called upon to lead the mission to train the Bolivians. With a hand-picked team of specialists, his first task was to transform a ragtag group of peasants into a trained fighting force who could also gather intelligence. Gary Prado, a Bolivian officer, volunteered to join the newly formed Bolivian Rangers. Joined by Felix Rodriguez, a Cuban exile working for the CIA, the Americans and Bolivians searched for Che. The size of Che's group and when they would strike were unknowns, and the stakes were high. If Bolivia fell, it would validate Che's theories and throw South America into turmoil.         Hunting Che follows the exploits of Major Shelton, Felix Rodriguez, and Gary Prado — the Bolivian Ranger commander who ultimately captured him. The story begins with Che's arrival in Bolivia and follows the hunt to the dramatic confrontation and capture of the iconic leader in the southeastern village of La Higuera. With the White House and the Pentagon secretly monitoring every move, Shelton and his team changed history, and prevented a catastrophic threat from taking root in the West. ...more

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  Image: Countries Che Guevara visited (red) and those in which he participated in armed revolution (green).  Note: All nations are displayed with 2010 borders. However, Guevara's travels took place from around 1950-1967 (the year of his death), and if Guevara visited the U.S.S.R., for example, then all of those nations included in the U.S.S.R. at that time are shaded here in red.  Public domain.. Hunting Che: How a U.S. Special Forces Team Helped Capture the World's Most Famous Revolutionary, by Kevin Maurer and  Mitch Weiss.  Robertson Dean (Narrator),  Tantor Audio (Publisher); Audible Audiobook – Unabridgedhttps://www.amazon.com/Hunting-Che-Special-Capture-Revolutionary/dp/B00D8F953M/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Hunting+Che&qid=1571005866&s=audible&sr=1-1       By the mid-1960s, Che Guevera had become famous for his outspoken criticism of the United States and his support for armed Communist insurgencies. He had been one of the architects of the Cuban Revolution, and was attempting to repeat his success throughout Latin America. His guerilla tactics and talent for proselytizing made him a threat to American foreign policy — and when he turned his attention to Bolivia in 1967, the Pentagon made a decision: Che had to be eliminated.        Major Ralph "Pappy" Shelton was called upon to lead the mission to train the Bolivians. With a hand-picked team of specialists, his first task was to transform a ragtag group of peasants into a trained fighting force who could also gather intelligence. Gary Prado, a Bolivian officer, volunteered to join the newly formed Bolivian Rangers. Joined by Felix Rodriguez, a Cuban exile working for the CIA, the Americans and Bolivians searched for Che. The size of Che's group and when they would strike were unknowns, and the stakes were high. If Bolivia fell, it would validate Che's theories and throw South America into turmoil.         Hunting Che follows the exploits of Major Shelton, Felix Rodriguez, and Gary Prado — the Bolivian Ranger commander who ultimately captured him. The story begins with Che's arrival in Bolivia and follows the hunt to the dramatic confrontation and capture of the iconic leader in the southeastern village of La Higuera. With the White House and the Pentagon secretly monitoring every move, Shelton and his team changed history, and prevented a catastrophic threat from taking root in the West. ...more

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  Image:  Che Guevara (right) with Alberto Granado (left) in June 1952 on the Amazon River aboard their "Mambo-Tango" wooden raft, which was a gift from the lepers whom they had treated. Public domain.  . Hunting Che: How a U.S. Special Forces Team Helped Capture the World's Most Famous Revolutionary, by Kevin Maurer and  Mitch Weiss.  Robertson Dean (Narrator),  Tantor Audio (Publisher); Audible Audiobook – Unabridgedhttps://www.amazon.com/Hunting-Che-Special-Capture-Revolutionary/dp/B00D8F953M/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Hunting+Che&qid=1571005866&s=audible&sr=1-1       By the mid-1960s, Che Guevera had become famous for his outspoken criticism of the United States and his support for armed Communist insurgencies. He had been one of the architects of the Cuban Revolution, and was attempting to repeat his success throughout Latin America. His guerilla tactics and talent for proselytizing made him a threat to American foreign policy — and when he turned his attention to Bolivia in 1967, the Pentagon made a decision: Che had to be eliminated.        Major Ralph "Pappy" Shelton was called upon to lead the mission to train the Bolivians. With a hand-picked team of specialists, his first task was to transform a ragtag group of peasants into a trained fighting force who could also gather intelligence. Gary Prado, a Bolivian officer, volunteered to join the newly formed Bolivian Rangers. Joined by Felix Rodriguez, a Cuban exile working for the CIA, the Americans and Bolivians searched for Che. The size of Che's group and when they would strike were unknowns, and the stakes were high. If Bolivia fell, it would validate Che's theories and throw South America into turmoil.         Hunting Che follows the exploits of Major Shelton, Felix Rodriguez, and Gary Prado — the Bolivian Ranger commander who ultimately captured him. The story begins with Che's arrival in Bolivia and follows the hunt to the dramatic confrontation and capture of the iconic leader in the southeastern village of La Higuera. With the White House and the Pentagon secretly monitoring every move, Shelton and his team changed history, and prevented a catastrophic threat from taking root in the West. ...more

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• The Full-Length Conversation: They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate Audible Audiobook – Unabridged James Verini (Author), Ray Porter (Narrator), HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books (Publisher)

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  Photo: The Prophet Jonah before the Walls of Nineveh, drawing by Rembrandt, c. 1655 Rembrandt - TQHqiO_H-vrGbA at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level Public Domain File:Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn - The Prophet Jonah before the Walls of Nineveh, c. 1655 - Google Art Project.jpg Created: circa 1655 date QS:P571,+1655-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Full-Length Conversation:  They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged James Verini (Author), Ray Porter (Narrator), HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/They-Will-Have-Die-Now/dp/B07Y5MTKZV/ref=tmm_aud_title_sr?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=James Verini arrived in Iraq in the summer of 2016 to write about life in the Islamic State. He stayed to cover the jihadis' last great stand, the Battle of Mosul, not knowing it would go on for nearly a year, nor that it would become, in the words of the Pentagon, "the most significant urban combat since WWII."  They Will Have to Die Now takes the listener into the heart of the conflict against the most lethal insurgency of our time. We see unspeakable violence, improbable humanity, and occasional humor. We meet an Iraqi major fighting his way through the city with a bad leg; a general who taunts snipers; an American sergeant who removes his glass eye to unnerve his troops; a pair of Moslawi brothers who welcomed the Islamic State, believing, as so many Moslawis did, that it might improve their shattered lives. Verini also relates the rich history of Iraq, and of Mosul, one of the most beguiling cities in the Middle East....more

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• 4/4 An Officer and a Spy: A Novel, by Robert Harris

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  Image: Lieutenant Colonel Georges Picquart dressed in the uniform of the 4th Algerian Tirailleurs. Public domain.. An Officer and a Spy: A Novel, by Robert Harris (Author); David Rintoul (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Officer-Spy-Novel/dp/B00HFX8BME/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Robert Harris returns to the thrilling historical fiction he has so brilliantly made his own. This is the story of the infamous Dreyfus affair told as a chillingly dark, hard-edged novel of conspiracy and espionage.        Paris in 1895: Alfred Dreyfus, a young Jewish officer, has just been convicted of treason, sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's Island, and stripped of his rank in front of a baying crowd of 20,000. Among the witnesses to his humiliation is Georges Picquart, the ambitious, intellectual, recently-promoted head of the counterespionage agency that Dreyfus had passed secrets to the Germans. At first, Picquart firmly believes in Dreyfus's guilt. But it is not long after Dreyfus is delivered to his desolate prison that Picquart stumbles on information that leads him to suspect that there is still a spy at large in the French military. As evidence of the most malignant deceit mounts and spirals inexorably toward the uppermost levels of government, Picquart is compelled to question not only the case against Dreyfus but also his most deeply-held beliefs about his country, and about himself.        Bringing to life the scandal that mesmerized the world at the turn of the 20th century, Robert Harris tells a tale of uncanny timeliness — a witch hunt, secret tribunals, out-of-control intelligence agencies, the fate of a whistle-blower — richly dramatized with the singular storytelling mastery that has marked all of his internationally best-selling novels.  ...more

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  Image: Antisemitic riots in a print from Le Petit Parisien: Mathieu Drefus, Alfred's elder brother, burned in effigy in Montmartre, Public domain.. An Officer and a Spy: A Novel, by Robert Harris (Author); David Rintoul (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Officer-Spy-Novel/dp/B00HFX8BME/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Robert Harris returns to the thrilling historical fiction he has so brilliantly made his own. This is the story of the infamous Dreyfus affair told as a chillingly dark, hard-edged novel of conspiracy and espionage.        Paris in 1895: Alfred Dreyfus, a young Jewish officer, has just been convicted of treason, sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's Island, and stripped of his rank in front of a baying crowd of 20,000. Among the witnesses to his humiliation is Georges Picquart, the ambitious, intellectual, recently-promoted head of the counterespionage agency that Dreyfus had passed secrets to the Germans. At first, Picquart firmly believes in Dreyfus's guilt. But it is not long after Dreyfus is delivered to his desolate prison that Picquart stumbles on information that leads him to suspect that there is still a spy at large in the French military. As evidence of the most malignant deceit mounts and spirals inexorably toward the uppermost levels of government, Picquart is compelled to question not only the case against Dreyfus but also his most deeply-held beliefs about his country, and about himself.        Bringing to life the scandal that mesmerized the world at the turn of the 20th century, Robert Harris tells a tale of uncanny timeliness — a witch hunt, secret tribunals, out-of-control intelligence agencies, the fate of a whistle-blower — richly dramatized with the singular storytelling mastery that has marked all of his internationally best-selling novels.  ...more

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  Image: Alfred Dreyfus on Devil's Island; Le Petit Journal (27 September 1896). Public domain.. An Officer and a Spy: A Novel, by Robert Harris (Author); David Rintoul (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Officer-Spy-Novel/dp/B00HFX8BME/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Robert Harris returns to the thrilling historical fiction he has so brilliantly made his own. This is the story of the infamous Dreyfus affair told as a chillingly dark, hard-edged novel of conspiracy and espionage.        Paris in 1895: Alfred Dreyfus, a young Jewish officer, has just been convicted of treason, sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's Island, and stripped of his rank in front of a baying crowd of 20,000. Among the witnesses to his humiliation is Georges Picquart, the ambitious, intellectual, recently-promoted head of the counterespionage agency that Dreyfus had passed secrets to the Germans. At first, Picquart firmly believes in Dreyfus's guilt. But it is not long after Dreyfus is delivered to his desolate prison that Picquart stumbles on information that leads him to suspect that there is still a spy at large in the French military. As evidence of the most malignant deceit mounts and spirals inexorably toward the uppermost levels of government, Picquart is compelled to question not only the case against Dreyfus but also his most deeply-held beliefs about his country, and about himself.        Bringing to life the scandal that mesmerized the world at the turn of the 20th century, Robert Harris tells a tale of uncanny timeliness — a witch hunt, secret tribunals, out-of-control intelligence agencies, the fate of a whistle-blower — richly dramatized with the singular storytelling mastery that has marked all of his internationally best-selling novels.  ...more

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  Image: L’Aurore, 13 January 1898. An Officer and a Spy: A Novel, by Robert Harris (Author); David Rintoul (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Officer-Spy-Novel/dp/B00HFX8BME/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Robert Harris returns to the thrilling historical fiction he has so brilliantly made his own. This is the story of the infamous Dreyfus affair told as a chillingly dark, hard-edged novel of conspiracy and espionage.        Paris in 1895: Alfred Dreyfus, a young Jewish officer, has just been convicted of treason, sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's Island, and stripped of his rank in front of a baying crowd of 20,000. Among the witnesses to his humiliation is Georges Picquart, the ambitious, intellectual, recently-promoted head of the counterespionage agency that Dreyfus had passed secrets to the Germans. At first, Picquart firmly believes in Dreyfus's guilt. But it is not long after Dreyfus is delivered to his desolate prison that Picquart stumbles on information that leads him to suspect that there is still a spy at large in the French military. As evidence of the most malignant deceit mounts and spirals inexorably toward the uppermost levels of government, Picquart is compelled to question not only the case against Dreyfus but also his most deeply-held beliefs about his country, and about himself.        Bringing to life the scandal that mesmerized the world at the turn of the 20th century, Robert Harris tells a tale of uncanny timeliness — a witch hunt, secret tribunals, out-of-control intelligence agencies, the fate of a whistle-blower — richly dramatized with the singular storytelling mastery that has marked all of his internationally best-selling novels.   ...more

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• My Thoughts Be Bloody: 1 of 2: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Nora Titone (Author), John B. Lloyd (Narrator), & 2 more

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  Photo: Portrait of Edwin Booth by John Singer Sargent, 1890, which hung at The Players clubhouse. Now in the collection of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Amon Carter Museum of American Art - Amon Carter Museum of American Art John Singer Sargent (1856-1925); Edwin Booth; 1890; Oil on canvas; Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas; 2013.7 Public Domain File:2013-7 s.jpg Created: 1 January 1890date QS:P571,+1890-01-01T00:00:00Z/11 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow My Thoughts Be Bloody: 1 of 2: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Nora Titone (Author), John B. Lloyd (Narrator), & 2 more https://www.amazon.com/My-Thoughts-Be-Bloody-Rivalry/dp/B0047TB0J0/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1571011184&sr=1-2 My Thoughts Be Bloody, a sweeping family saga, revives an extraordinary figure whose name has been missing, until now, from the story of President Lincoln's death. Edwin Booth, John Wilkes's older brother by four years, was in his day the biggest star of the American stage. He won his celebrity at the precocious age of 19, before the Civil War began, when John Wilkes was a schoolboy. Without an account of Edwin Booth, author Nora Titone argues, the real story of Lincoln's assassin has never been told. Using an array of private letters, diaries, and reminiscences of the Booth family, Titone has uncovered a hidden history that reveals the reasons why John Wilkes Booth became this country's most notorious assassin.  The details of the conspiracy to kill Lincoln have been well documented elsewhere. My Thoughts Be Bloody tells a new story, one that explains for the first time why Lincoln's assassin decided to conspire against the president in the first place, and sets that decision in the context of a bitterly divided family-and nation. By the end of this riveting journey, listeners will see Abraham Lincoln's death less as the result of the war between the North and South and more as the climax of a dark struggle between two brothers who never wore the uniform of soldiers, except on stage....more

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• My Thoughts Be Bloody: 2 of 2: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Nora Titone (Author), John B. Lloyd (Narrator), & 2 more

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  Photo: Oliver Ingraham Lay: Edwin Booth as Hamlet, 1887 Oliver Ingraham Lay - https://artuk.org/discover/artists/lay-oliver-ingraham-18451890 Oliver Ingraham Lay - Edwin Booth as Hamlet Public Domain File:Oliver Ingraham Lay - Edwin Booth as Hamlet - 1887.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow My Thoughts Be Bloody: 2 of 2: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Nora Titone (Author), John B. Lloyd (Narrator), & 2 more https://www.amazon.com/My-Thoughts-Be-Bloody-Rivalry/dp/B0047TB0J0/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1571011184&sr=1-2 My Thoughts Be Bloody, a sweeping family saga, revives an extraordinary figure whose name has been missing, until now, from the story of President Lincoln's death. Edwin Booth, John Wilkes's older brother by four years, was in his day the biggest star of the American stage. He won his celebrity at the precocious age of 19, before the Civil War began, when John Wilkes was a schoolboy. Without an account of Edwin Booth, author Nora Titone argues, the real story of Lincoln's assassin has never been told. Using an array of private letters, diaries, and reminiscences of the Booth family, Titone has uncovered a hidden history that reveals the reasons why John Wilkes Booth became this country's most notorious assassin.  The details of the conspiracy to kill Lincoln have been well documented elsewhere. My Thoughts Be Bloody tells a new story, one that explains for the first time why Lincoln's assassin decided to conspire against the president in the first place, and sets that decision in the context of a bitterly divided family-and nation. By the end of this riveting journey, listeners will see Abraham Lincoln's death less as the result of the war between the North and South and more as the climax of a dark struggle between two brothers who never wore the uniform of soldiers, except on stage....more

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• 1177 B.C.: 4 of 4: The Year Civilization Collapsed Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Eric H. Cline (Author), Andy Caploe (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Oct 14 2019

  Photo: Mycenaean stirrup vase found in the acropolis of Ugarit, Eastern Mediterranean (c. 1400–1300 BC) Unknown - Jastrow (2006) Mycenaean stirrup vase, 14th-13th centuries BC, imported to Ugarit. Found in the acropolis of Ras Shamra (ancient Ugarit), tomb 37. Public Domain File:Mycenaean stirrup vase Louvre AO19201.jpg Uploaded: 2006-05-06 07:32:08 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow 1177 B.C.: 4 of 4: The Year Civilization Collapsed  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Eric H. Cline (Author), Andy Caploe (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/1177-B-C-Year-Civilization-Collapsed/dp/B00J37IKOO/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Cline+1177+BC&qid=1571005994&s=audible&sr=1-1In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations. After centuries of brilliance, the civilized world of the Bronze Age came to an abrupt and cataclysmic end. Kingdoms fell like dominoes over the course of just a few decades. No more Minoans or Mycenaeans. No more Trojans, Hittites, or Babylonians. The thriving economy and cultures of the late second millennium B.C., which had stretched from Greece to Egypt and Mesopotamia, suddenly ceased to exist, along with writing systems, technology, and monumental architecture. But the Sea Peoples alone could not have caused such widespread breakdown. How did it happen?  In this major new account of the causes of this "First Dark Ages", Eric Cline tells the gripping story of how the end was brought about by multiple interconnected failures, ranging from invasion and revolt to earthquakes, drought, and the cutting of international trade routes. Bringing to life the vibrant multicultural world of these great civilizations, he draws a sweeping panorama of the empires and globalized peoples of the Late Bronze Age and shows that it was their very interdependence that hastened their dramatic collapse and ushered in a dark age that lasted centuries.  A compelling combination of narrative and the latest scholarship, 1177 B.C. sheds new light on the complex ties that gave rise to, and ultimately destroyed, the flourishing civilizations of the Late Bronze Age - and that set the stage for the emergence of classical Greece....more

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• 1177 B.C.: 3 of 4: The Year Civilization Collapsed Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Eric H. Cline (Author), Andy Caploe (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Photo: Fresco depicting a female figure in the acropolis of Mycenae, 13th century BC Unknown - from Le musée absolu, Phaidon, 10-2012 La Dame de Mycènes, fresque, hauteur : 53 cm. L'expression sérieuse et pensive de la déesse révèle la solennité du moment, alors qu'elle accepte une offrande — un collier qu'elle tient serré dans sa main droite. Elle porte un corsage à manches courtes sur un chemisier qui souligne sa poitrine. Sa coiffure complexe retient l'attention de même que ses riches bijoux — bracelets et colliers. Public Domain File:La Dame de Mycènes, fresco.jpg Created: 1300-1200 BCE http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow 1177 B.C.: 3 of 4: The Year Civilization Collapsed  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Eric H. Cline (Author), Andy Caploe (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/1177-B-C-Year-Civilization-Collapsed/dp/B00J37IKOO/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Cline+1177+BC&qid=1571005994&s=audible&sr=1-1In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations. After centuries of brilliance, the civilized world of the Bronze Age came to an abrupt and cataclysmic end. Kingdoms fell like dominoes over the course of just a few decades. No more Minoans or Mycenaeans. No more Trojans, Hittites, or Babylonians. The thriving economy and cultures of the late second millennium B.C., which had stretched from Greece to Egypt and Mesopotamia, suddenly ceased to exist, along with writing systems, technology, and monumental architecture. But the Sea Peoples alone could not have caused such widespread breakdown. How did it happen?  In this major new account of the causes of this "First Dark Ages", Eric Cline tells the gripping story of how the end was brought about by multiple interconnected failures, ranging from invasion and revolt to earthquakes, drought, and the cutting of international trade routes. Bringing to life the vibrant multicultural world of these great civilizations, he draws a sweeping panorama of the empires and globalized peoples of the Late Bronze Age and shows that it was their very interdependence that hastened their dramatic collapse and ushered in a dark age that lasted centuries.  A compelling combination of narrative and the latest scholarship, 1177 B.C. sheds new light on the complex ties that gave rise to, and ultimately destroyed, the flourishing civilizations of the Late Bronze Age - and that set the stage for the emergence of classical Greece....more

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• 1177 B.C.: 2 of 4: The Year Civilization Collapsed Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Eric H. Cline (Author), Andy Caploe (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Oct 14 2019

  Photo: Two Mycenaean chariot warriors on a fresco from Pylos (about 1350 BC; left) and two female charioteers from Tiryns(1200 BC; right)View author information Public Domain File:Fresco of two female charioteers from Tiryns 1200 BC.jpg Uploaded: 2008-02-06 23:57:38 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow 1177 B.C.: 2 of 4: The Year Civilization Collapsed  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Eric H. Cline (Author), Andy Caploe (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/1177-B-C-Year-Civilization-Collapsed/dp/B00J37IKOO/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Cline+1177+BC&qid=1571005994&s=audible&sr=1-1In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations. After centuries of brilliance, the civilized world of the Bronze Age came to an abrupt and cataclysmic end. Kingdoms fell like dominoes over the course of just a few decades. No more Minoans or Mycenaeans. No more Trojans, Hittites, or Babylonians. The thriving economy and cultures of the late second millennium B.C., which had stretched from Greece to Egypt and Mesopotamia, suddenly ceased to exist, along with writing systems, technology, and monumental architecture. But the Sea Peoples alone could not have caused such widespread breakdown. How did it happen?  In this major new account of the causes of this "First Dark Ages", Eric Cline tells the gripping story of how the end was brought about by multiple interconnected failures, ranging from invasion and revolt to earthquakes, drought, and the cutting of international trade routes. Bringing to life the vibrant multicultural world of these great civilizations, he draws a sweeping panorama of the empires and globalized peoples of the Late Bronze Age and shows that it was their very interdependence that hastened their dramatic collapse and ushered in a dark age that lasted centuries.  A compelling combination of narrative and the latest scholarship, 1177 B.C. sheds new light on the complex ties that gave rise to, and ultimately destroyed, the flourishing civilizations of the Late Bronze Age - and that set the stage for the emergence of classical Greece....more

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• 1177 B.C.: 1 of 4: The Year Civilization Collapsed Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Eric H. Cline (Author), Andy Caploe (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Photo: Two Mycenaean chariot warriors on a fresco from Pylos (about 1350 BC; left) and two female charioteers from Tiryns(1200 BC; right)Unknown - Image from [1] more precisely from [2] Two helmeted warriors and chariot on a fresco from Pylos dated LH IIIA/B (about 1350 BC). 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:Two Mycenaean chariot warriors on a fresco from Pylos about 1350 BC.jpg Created: circa 1350 date QS:P,+1350-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 B.C. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow 1177 B.C.: 1 of 4: The Year Civilization Collapsed  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Eric H. Cline (Author), Andy Caploe (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/1177-B-C-Year-Civilization-Collapsed/dp/B00J37IKOO/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Cline+1177+BC&qid=1571005994&s=audible&sr=1-1In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations. After centuries of brilliance, the civilized world of the Bronze Age came to an abrupt and cataclysmic end. Kingdoms fell like dominoes over the course of just a few decades. No more Minoans or Mycenaeans. No more Trojans, Hittites, or Babylonians. The thriving economy and cultures of the late second millennium B.C., which had stretched from Greece to Egypt and Mesopotamia, suddenly ceased to exist, along with writing systems, technology, and monumental architecture. But the Sea Peoples alone could not have caused such widespread breakdown. How did it happen?  In this major new account of the causes of this "First Dark Ages", Eric Cline tells the gripping story of how the end was brought about by multiple interconnected failures, ranging from invasion and revolt to earthquakes, drought, and the cutting of international trade routes. Bringing to life the vibrant multicultural world of these great civilizations, he draws a sweeping panorama of the empires and globalized peoples of the Late Bronze Age and shows that it was their very interdependence that hastened their dramatic collapse and ushered in a dark age that lasted centuries.  A compelling combination of narrative and the latest scholarship, 1177 B.C. sheds new light on the complex ties that gave rise to, and ultimately destroyed, the flourishing civilizations of the Late Bronze Age - and that set the stage for the emergence of classical Greece....more

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• 2/2 The US produces more outputs with fewer inputs than anyone else in the world. Richard A Epstein @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Oct 13 2019

  Image:  The Availability Heuristic.  Confusing “easy” with “true.” Here, a diagram illustrating graphically the generalization process, using trees; also: snap judgment of whether or not a novel object fits an existing category. Public domain — *permissions: see below..Richard A Epstein, Chicago Law, NYU Law, Hoover, refines the discussion on climate. . . . The children’s crusade on climate. Setting aside what the adults say, what do people [activists] get from this?   In NOAA, the lager data set looks fishy; Michael Mann’s specs look highly dubious.  If you're trying to get funding and you become an alarmist, grants will flow your direction. How many billions have been allocated this way?         A carbon tax is the last thing you’d want: CO2 encourages photosynthesis more than global warming.  The US produces more outputs with fewer inputs than anyone else in the world. Leave well enough alone. The Chinese and pollution.  Who gains from this?  A whole establishment of consultants; can control imagination. Holman Jenkins: The Availability Heuristic/Bias, and the Background Bias.  The 2009 endangerment model was based on bad data.  . . .  Antarctic: active volcanoes, some under one side of the Antarctic but not on the other.  .*Permissions:  Author Tomwsulcer .  I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license: Creative Commons CC-Zero 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. ...more

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• 1/2 Five hundred climate scientists to the UNSG: “No climate emergency. Natural factors cause warming.” Richard A Epstein @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Oct 13 2019

  Image:  Artist’s illustration of events on the sun changing the conditions in Near-Earth space. Credits: NASA. Public domain.https://www.hoover.org/research/life-planet-thunberg.Richard Epstein, Chicago Law, NYU Law, and Hoover Defining Ideas, elucidates his views from his Defining Ideas essay.  The campaign to alarm all on global warming, especially recently in the UN by a teenager.  In the US, this seems not to be a useful political tack as it’s now commingled in many people’s minds with genuinely concerning other social matters.  Weather is capricious; it’s been a lovely autumn in New York; no leading indicator suggests we’re headed for trouble. . . . The frequency of extreme events has not gone up.  Polar bear population overall is doing well.  Worrisome photos from 1908 show that it was unexpectedly warm then.  The basic theoretical problem: something is driving temps down.  Feb 2016- Feb 2018, temperatures went down by 0.57 degrees Centigrade. Hundreds [500?] of climate scientists wrote to the UN SG*: “There is no climate emergency. Natural factors cause warming. Slowly.” Climate relates in some way to sunspots.  The sunspot low in the Seventeenth Century.  The notorious hockey stick.  The IPCC in 1991. Fires and forest management. The starting-point for graphs is centrally important. Arrhenius’s Law.  Chaos theory can be misleading.  A chaotic system is purely deterministic.  “CO2 is plant food.  Policy must respect economic and political realities.”.* Main points1 Natural as well as anthropogenic factors cause warming. 2. Warming is far slower than predicted. 3. Climate policy relies on inadequate models. 4. CO2 is not a pollutant. It is a plant food that is essential to all life on Earth. Photosynthesis is a blessing. More CO2 is beneficial for nature, greening the Earth: additional CO2 in the air has promoted growth in global plant biomass. It is also good for agriculture, increasing the yields of crops worldwide. 5. Global warming has not increased natural disasters. 6. Climate policy must respect scientific and economic realities.  7. There is no climate emergency. Therefore, there is no cause for panic.   ...more

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• The Discovery of Middle Earth: 4 of 4: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts, by Graham Robb (Author). 1st Edition, Kindle Edition

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  Oct 13 2019

  Photo: The reverse side of a British bronze mirror, with spiral and trumpet motifs typical of La Tène Celtic art in Britain Photo by Fuzzypeg - Photographed in the British Museum. The highly decorated reverse side of a Celtic bronze mirror (obverse is the reflecting surface with green patination) from Desborough, Northamptonshire, England, showing the development of the spiral and trumpet decorative theme of the Early Celtic La Tène style in Britain. The complex symmetrical clover-leaf pattern, outlined in the form of a lyre with flanking coils, was possibly laid out using a pair of compasses or string. Parts of the decoration are engraved, using a graver, with a basket-weave pattern and hatched texturing to make the pattern stand out. The mirror is made from three pieces - a cast handle, the main mirror plate and a tubular binding strip around the edge.with a basket-weave pattern and hatched texturing. Curator's comments: The plate was highly polished on one side to produce a reflective surface. A mirror would have been a powerful object in a world where reflections could only be glimpsed in water. A person using a mirror would control how they looked using the mirror in combination with tweezers or shears. Decorated mirrors of this type are uniquely British, very few are found on the continent. The majority are from graves dating between 100BC and AD 100 (Joy, J, Iron Age Mirrors: A biographical approach, Oxford, British Archeological Reports, 2010). https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=828309&partId=1 https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/decorated-bronze-mirror/VgE7t2RKW5GkxQ Permission detailsAll rights releasedView more Public Domain view terms File:Romano-Celtic mirror (Desborough).jpg Created: 50 BCE - 50 CE (manufactured), 2005-11-14 CE (photographed) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Discovery of Middle Earth: 4 of 4:  Mapping the Lost World of the Celts 1st Edition, Kindle Edition. by Graham Robb  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Discovery-Middle-Earth-Mapping-World-ebook-dp-B00COQ6XGI/dp/B00COQ6XGI/ref=mt_kindle?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= A treasure hunt that uncovers the secrets of one of the world’s great civilizations, revealing dramatic proof of the extreme sophistication of the Celts, and their creation of the earliest accurate map of the world. Fifty generations ago the cultural empire of the Celts stretched from the Black Sea to Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland. In six hundred years, the Celts had produced some of the finest artistic and scientific masterpieces of the ancient world. In 58 BC, Julius Caesar marched over the Alps, bringing slavery and genocide to western Europe. Within eight years the Celts of what is now France were utterly annihilated, and in another hundred years the Romans had overrun Britain. It is astonishing how little remains of this great civilization. While planning a bicycling trip along the Heraklean Way, the ancient route from Portugal to the Alps, Graham Robb discovered a door to that forgotten world―a beautiful and precise pattern of towns and holy places based on astronomical and geometrical measurements: this was the three-dimensional “Middle Earth” of the Celts. As coordinates and coincidences revealed themselves across the continent, a map of the Celtic world emerged as a miraculously preserved archival document. ...more

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• The Discovery of Middle Earth: 3 of 4: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts, by Graham Robb (Author). 1st Edition, Kindle Edition

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  Oct 13 2019

  Photo: Principal sites in Roman Britain, with indication of tribal territoriesEarle W. Dowe; uploaded to English Wikipedia 22:04, 1 April 2005 by Adamsan - Atlas of European History, London: G. Bell & Sons, 1910An outdated map of the Roman road network in Britain 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 70 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, 1924. 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:Romanbritain.jpg Created: 31 December 1909 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Discovery of Middle Earth: 3 of 4:  Mapping the Lost World of the Celts 1st Edition, Kindle Edition. by Graham Robb  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Discovery-Middle-Earth-Mapping-World-ebook-dp-B00COQ6XGI/dp/B00COQ6XGI/ref=mt_kindle?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= A treasure hunt that uncovers the secrets of one of the world’s great civilizations, revealing dramatic proof of the extreme sophistication of the Celts, and their creation of the earliest accurate map of the world. Fifty generations ago the cultural empire of the Celts stretched from the Black Sea to Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland. In six hundred years, the Celts had produced some of the finest artistic and scientific masterpieces of the ancient world. In 58 BC, Julius Caesar marched over the Alps, bringing slavery and genocide to western Europe. Within eight years the Celts of what is now France were utterly annihilated, and in another hundred years the Romans had overrun Britain. It is astonishing how little remains of this great civilization. While planning a bicycling trip along the Heraklean Way, the ancient route from Portugal to the Alps, Graham Robb discovered a door to that forgotten world―a beautiful and precise pattern of towns and holy places based on astronomical and geometrical measurements: this was the three-dimensional “Middle Earth” of the Celts. As coordinates and coincidences revealed themselves across the continent, a map of the Celtic world emerged as a miraculously preserved archival document....more

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• The Discovery of Middle Earth: 2 of 4: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts, by Graham Robb (Author). 1st Edition, Kindle Edition

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  Oct 13 2019

  Photo: Expansion of the Celtic culture in the third century BC according to Francisco Villar[51] User:Castagna - Own elaboration from Image:Europe satellite orthographic.jpg Celts spread in III century BC, rather loosely based on Francisco Villar's Los Indoeuropeos y los origenes de Europa, Italian version, p. 446 Public Domain File:Celts in III century BC.jpg Created: 11 February 2008 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Discovery of Middle Earth: 2 of 4:  Mapping the Lost World of the Celts 1st Edition, Kindle Edition. by Graham Robb  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Discovery-Middle-Earth-Mapping-World-ebook-dp-B00COQ6XGI/dp/B00COQ6XGI/ref=mt_kindle?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= A treasure hunt that uncovers the secrets of one of the world’s great civilizations, revealing dramatic proof of the extreme sophistication of the Celts, and their creation of the earliest accurate map of the world. Fifty generations ago the cultural empire of the Celts stretched from the Black Sea to Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland. In six hundred years, the Celts had produced some of the finest artistic and scientific masterpieces of the ancient world. In 58 BC, Julius Caesar marched over the Alps, bringing slavery and genocide to western Europe. Within eight years the Celts of what is now France were utterly annihilated, and in another hundred years the Romans had overrun Britain. It is astonishing how little remains of this great civilization. While planning a bicycling trip along the Heraklean Way, the ancient route from Portugal to the Alps, Graham Robb discovered a door to that forgotten world―a beautiful and precise pattern of towns and holy places based on astronomical and geometrical measurements: this was the three-dimensional “Middle Earth” of the Celts. As coordinates and coincidences revealed themselves across the continent, a map of the Celtic world emerged as a miraculously preserved archival document....more

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• The Discovery of Middle Earth: 1 of 4: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts, by Graham Robb (Author). 1st Edition, Kindle Edition

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  Oct 13 2019

  Photo: The world according to Herodotus User:Bibi Saint-Pol - Own work (based on the GIF by Marco Prins and Jona Lendering from www.livius.org, from http://www.mediterranees.net/geographie/herodote/cartes.html, http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/Ancientimages/109A.GIF). Compare this map from The Challenger Reports, 1895. Possibly what the world according to Herodotus looked like (5th century BC). Permission details 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.View more Public Domainview terms File:Herodotus world map-en.svg Created: 14 December 2006 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Discovery of Middle Earth: 1 of 4:  Mapping the Lost World of the Celts, 1st Edition, Kindle Edition. by Graham Robb  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Discovery-Middle-Earth-Mapping-World-ebook-dp-B00COQ6XGI/dp/B00COQ6XGI/ref=mt_kindle?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= A treasure hunt that uncovers the secrets of one of the world’s great civilizations, revealing dramatic proof of the extreme sophistication of the Celts, and their creation of the earliest accurate map of the world. Fifty generations ago the cultural empire of the Celts stretched from the Black Sea to Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland. In six hundred years, the Celts had produced some of the finest artistic and scientific masterpieces of the ancient world. In 58 BC, Julius Caesar marched over the Alps, bringing slavery and genocide to western Europe. Within eight years the Celts of what is now France were utterly annihilated, and in another hundred years the Romans had overrun Britain. It is astonishing how little remains of this great civilization. While planning a bicycling trip along the Heraklean Way, the ancient route from Portugal to the Alps, Graham Robb discovered a door to that forgotten world―a beautiful and precise pattern of towns and holy places based on astronomical and geometrical measurements: this was the three-dimensional “Middle Earth” of the Celts. As coordinates and coincidences revealed themselves across the continent, a map of the Celtic world emerged as a miraculously preserved archival document....more

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• The Local Void: 1 of 2: "About four million light years away, ...and then stretches for a quarter billion light years:" "The Void Next Door," by Ken Croswell,@SkyandTelescope

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  Oct 13 2019

  Photo:  Map of voids and superclusters within 500 million light years from Milky Way. The Local Void in the yellow circle.Date | 19 August 2016Source | http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/nearsc.gifAuthor | Richard Powell (modified)   | This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 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.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: @BatchelorShowThe Local Void: 1 of 2: "About four million light years away, ...and then stretches for a quarter billion light years:" "The Void Next Door," by Ken Croswell,@SkyandTelescope https://www.skyandtelescope.com/sky-and-telescope-magazine/inside-october-2018-issue/  The Local Void is a vast, empty region of space, lying adjacent to the Local Group.[3][4]Discovered by Brent Tully and Rick Fisher in 1987,[5] the Local Void is now known to be composed of three separate sectors, separated by bridges of "wispy filaments".[4] The precise extent of the void is unknown, but it is at least 45 Mpc (150 million light-years) across,[6] and possibly 150 to 300 Mpc.[7][8] The Local Void also appears to have significantly fewer galaxiesthan expected from standard cosmology.[9] ...more

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• The Local Void: 2 of 2: "About four million light years away, ...and then stretches for a quarter billion light years:" "The Void Next Door," by Ken Croswell,@SkyandTelescope

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  Oct 13 2019

  Photo: The Hubble Space Telescope in orbitRuffnax (Crew of STS-125) - http://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/media/23486741/content/stillpix/255-sts/STS125/STS125_ESC_JPG/255-STS-s125e011848.jpg English: The Hubble Space Telescope as seen from the departing Space Shuttle Atlantis, flying STS-125, HST Servicing Mission 4. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Local Void: 2 of 2: "About four million light years away, ...and then stretches for a quarter billion light years:" "The Void Next Door," by Ken Croswell,@SkyandTelescope https://www.skyandtelescope.com/sky-and-telescope-magazine/inside-october-2018-issue/  The Local Void is a vast, empty region of space, lying adjacent to the Local Group.[3][4]Discovered by Brent Tully and Rick Fisher in 1987,[5] the Local Void is now known to be composed of three separate sectors, separated by bridges of "wispy filaments".[4] The precise extent of the void is unknown, but it is at least 45 Mpc (150 million light-years) across,[6] and possibly 150 to 300 Mpc.[7][8] The Local Void also appears to have significantly fewer galaxiesthan expected from standard cosmology.[9] ...more

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• 1/4 They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate, by James Verini

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  Oct 12 2019

  Image: Grand mosque of Mosul.  1. Permissions*: see below.  2. More information on ISIS**. They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate, James Verini (Author), Ray Porter (Narrator), HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books (Publisher).  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.James Verini arrived in Iraq in the summer of 2016 to write about life in the Islamic State. He stayed to cover the jihadis' last great stand, the Battle of Mosul, not knowing it would go on for nearly a year, nor that it would become, in the words of the Pentagon, "the most significant urban combat since WWII."         They Will Have to Die Now takes the listener into the heart of the conflict against the most lethal insurgency of our time. We see unspeakable violence, improbable humanity, and occasional humor. We meet an Iraqi major fighting his way through the city with a bad leg; a general who taunts snipers; an American sergeant who removes his glass eye to unnerve his troops; a pair of Moslawi brothers who welcomed the Islamic State, believing, as so many Moslawis did, that it might improve their shattered lives. Verini also relates the rich history of Iraq, and of Mosul, one of the most beguiling cities in the Middle East.https://www.amazon.com/They-Will-Have-Die-Now-dp-B07Y5MTKZV/dp/B07Y5MTKZV/ref=mt_audio_download?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=.*Permissions: Author Omar Siddeeq Yousif.   I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license: w:en:Creative Commons attribution share alike.  This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work —Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use; 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..** wikipedia: The core of the territory of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant was from 2014 until November 2017 in Iraq and Syria, where the organization controlled significant swathes of urban, rural, and desert territory. ISIS also controls land in Afghanistan as well as Nigeria, and used to control land in Libya, the Philippines, Egypt, Yemen, possibly Somalia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The group also has insurgent cells  in India, Algeria, Iraq, Tunisia, the Caucasus, and Saudi Arabia that do not control territory. As of September 2018, ISIL controlled only 200 square miles (520 km2) of territory in Iraq and Syria, according to the US-led coalition against ISIS. However, this estimate referred only to the Euphrates region and disregarded a large ISIS pocket remaining in the Syrian Desert. By late March 2019, ISIS territory in Syria was reduced to only the besieged 1,550 square miles (4,000 km2) central desert pocket. The enclave was surrounded by Syrian government forces and its allies. The Syrian military conducted combing operations and airstrikes against the pocket, but with limited success ...more

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• 4/4 They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate, by James Verini

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  Image:  An Iraqi military HMMWV [Humvee] drives past an Islamic State sign in eastern Mosul after they captured it from IS; January 2017.  Public domain.. They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate, James Verini (Author), Ray Porter (Narrator), HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books (Publisher).  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.James Verini arrived in Iraq in the summer of 2016 to write about life in the Islamic State. He stayed to cover the jihadis' last great stand, the Battle of Mosul, not knowing it would go on for nearly a year, nor that it would become, in the words of the Pentagon, "the most significant urban combat since WWII."         They Will Have to Die Now takes the listener into the heart of the conflict against the most lethal insurgency of our time. We see unspeakable violence, improbable humanity, and occasional humor. We meet an Iraqi major fighting his way through the city with a bad leg; a general who taunts snipers; an American sergeant who removes his glass eye to unnerve his troops; a pair of Moslawi brothers who welcomed the Islamic State, believing, as so many Moslawis did, that it might improve their shattered lives. Verini also relates the rich history of Iraq, and of Mosul, one of the most beguiling cities in the Middle East. https://www.amazon.com/They-Will-Have-Die-Now-dp-B07Y5MTKZV/dp/B07Y5MTKZV/ref=mt_audio_download?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= ...more

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• 3/4 They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate, by James Verini

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  Image:  A Persian miniature depicting the siege of Mosul in 1261–63 from: Rashid-al-Din Hamadani, Jami' al-tawarikh, Bibliothèque Nationale de France.  Sayf al-Vâhidî. Hérât. Afghanistan.   Public domain.. They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate, James Verini (Author), Ray Porter (Narrator), HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books (Publisher).  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.James Verini arrived in Iraq in the summer of 2016 to write about life in the Islamic State. He stayed to cover the jihadis' last great stand, the Battle of Mosul, not knowing it would go on for nearly a year, nor that it would become, in the words of the Pentagon, "the most significant urban combat since WWII."         They Will Have to Die Now takes the listener into the heart of the conflict against the most lethal insurgency of our time. We see unspeakable violence, improbable humanity, and occasional humor. We meet an Iraqi major fighting his way through the city with a bad leg; a general who taunts snipers; an American sergeant who removes his glass eye to unnerve his troops; a pair of Moslawi brothers who welcomed the Islamic State, believing, as so many Moslawis did, that it might improve their shattered lives. Verini also relates the rich history of Iraq, and of Mosul, one of the most beguiling cities in the Middle East. https://www.amazon.com/They-Will-Have-Die-Now-dp-B07Y5MTKZV/dp/B07Y5MTKZV/ref=mt_audio_download?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= ...more

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• 2/4 They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate, by James Verini

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  Image: [google translate:] The house of Khader Efendi Aspire, a teacher at the Khalidiya school in Mosul, northern Iraq, near the Swedish coffee house (the house of the interrogator) Younis Judeh Ramadan. Archaeological . . . In the door of the Prophet, the picture was taken in the summer of 1968 and the second branch to the left goes to the archaeological house of Hijazi.  Public domain.       بيت خضر افندي اسبير المعلم في المدرسة الخالدية في الموصل شمال العراق، قرب قهوة السويدية (بيت المستنطق) يونس جودة الرمضاني ويقع البيت على بعد خطوات من مدخل سوق الشعيغين الى باب النبي، الصورة التقطت في صيف عام 1968 والفرع الثاني الى اليسار يذهب الى بيت حجازي الأثري. They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate, James Verini (Author), Ray Porter (Narrator), HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books (Publisher).  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.James Verini arrived in Iraq in the summer of 2016 to write about life in the Islamic State. He stayed to cover the jihadis' last great stand, the Battle of Mosul, not knowing it would go on for nearly a year, nor that it would become, in the words of the Pentagon, "the most significant urban combat since WWII."         They Will Have to Die Now takes the listener into the heart of the conflict against the most lethal insurgency of our time. We see unspeakable violence, improbable humanity, and occasional humor. We meet an Iraqi major fighting his way through the city with a bad leg; a general who taunts snipers; an American sergeant who removes his glass eye to unnerve his troops; a pair of Moslawi brothers who welcomed the Islamic State, believing, as so many Moslawis did, that it might improve their shattered lives. Verini also relates the rich history of Iraq, and of Mosul, one of the most beguiling cities in the Middle East. https://www.amazon.com/They-Will-Have-Die-Now-dp-B07Y5MTKZV/dp/B07Y5MTKZV/ref=mt_audio_download?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=   ...more

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• New American Civil War: 1 of 2: Sixteen months until Inauguration Day, 2021. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Oct 12 2019

  Photo: A stylized engraving that inaccurately depicts the Battle of Lexington, 19 April 1775.Godefroy, François, 1743?-1819 - Scanned by me from an old German book: Welst-Geschichte Herausgegeben von Professor Dr J.v.Pflugk-Harttung Neuzeit seit 1815 Berlin Ullstein & Co (copyright 1910) Another copy of this image is in the New York Public Library Digital Collection. Image URL:http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=254155&imageID=478724&word=battle%20of%20lexington&s=1&notword=&d=&c=&f=&k=0&lWord=&lField=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&total=46&num=0&imgs=20&pNum=&pos=7#_seemoreImage Title: Journée de Lexington. Medium: Engravings Specific Material Type: Prints Standard Reference: EM2374 Catalog Call Number: MEZP Digital ID: 478724 Record ID: 254155 Public Domain File:Battle of Lexington, 1775.png Created: 18 April 1775 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowNew American Civil War: 1 of 2: Sixteen months until Inauguration Day, 2021. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis...more

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• New American Civil War: 2 of 2: Sixteen months until Inauguration Day, 2021. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Oct 12 2019

  Photo: Photograph shows participants and crowd at the first inauguration of President Abraham Lincoln, at the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. Lincoln is standing under the wood canopy, at the front, midway between the left and center posts. His face is in shadow but the white shirt front is visible. (Source: Ostendorf, p. 87) "A distant photograph from a special platform by an unknown photographer, in front of the Capitol, Washington, D.C., afternoon of March 4, 1861. 'A small camera was directly in front of Mr. Lincoln,' reported a newspaper, 'another at a distance of a hundred yards, and a third of huge dimensions on the right ... The three photographers present had plenty of time to take pictures, yet only the distant views have survived." (Source: Ostendorf, p. 86-87) The 1861 inauguration is believed to be the first ever photographed, and some sources credit it to Scottish photographer, Alexander Gardner[1]  Unknown - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs divisionunder the digital ID ppmsca.07636. 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. Permission details Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.View more Public Domainview terms File:Abraham Lincoln inauguration 1861.jpg Created: 3 March 1861 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowNew American Civil War: 2 of 2: Sixteen months until Inauguration Day, 2021. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis...more

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• Trump to the Federal workforce: "You're fired!" @FRoseDC

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  Oct 12 2019

  Image — Palaces of bureaucracy: The 18th century Department of Excise developed a sophisticated bureaucracy. Pictured, the Custom House, London. Public domain..Francis Rose, Government Matters, discusses how Federal agencies have been stuck with deadwood employees, and reveals a proposed radical change in the coming year.  https://www.govexec.com/management/2019/09/opm-moves-implement-parts-trump-order-easing-firing-feds/159904/ https://www.federaltimes.com/management/hr/2019/09/25/opm-sets-deadline-for-agencies-to-streamline-employee-dismissal/ ...more

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• Massive urban blackouts sow chaos across California. Jeff Bliss.

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  Oct 12 2019

  Image:  Wildfire. Public domain..Jeff Bliss, Pacific Watch, discusses LA fires and, extraordinarily, PG&E’s planned blackouts — are they prophylactic and wise, or a vicious power play?  https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Firefighters-Battle-Blaze-in-San-Fernando-Valley-562787661.html  

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• Spy the Binary Star Nursery. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Oct 12 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowSpy the Binary Star Nursery. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/astronomers-photograph-baby-binary-system/

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• From the people who brought you the 737... Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Oct 12 2019

  Photo: Boeing Model 40 over mountains (probably the Cascade Range) circa 1930s. Boeing Air Transport (later United Airlines) logo.Item 78077, City Light Glass Lantern Slides (Record Series 1204-03), Seattle Municipal Archives.Date | circa 1930 s. Digitized 2011-04-22 12:49Source | Biplane over mountains, circa 1930sUploaded by jmabelAuthor | Seattle Municipal Archives from Seattle, WA  | This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. |  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowFrom the people who brought you the 737... Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/boeing-sets-dec-17-for-launch-of-unmanned-starliner/ ...more

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• Reawakening the ground-breaking publication "Civiltà delle Macchine." Lorenzo Fiori, Direttore Generale Fondazione Leonardo, Leonardo Spa.

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  Oct 12 2019

  Photo: September 2019The second issue of the magazine focuses on precision farming. It hosts the editorials of Gianni De Gennaro and Giancarlo Giorgetti; as well as the story of Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, on the “Giulietta”, the iconic Alfa Romeo machine. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowReawakening the ground-breaking publication "Civiltà delle Macchine." Lorenzo Fiori, Direttore Generale Fondazione Leonardo, Leonardo Spa.https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilt%25C3%25A0_delle_macchine&prev=search"Civiltà delle Macchine" was founded with the financial support of Finmeccanica , the financial company of the IRI . In 1953 , Giuseppe Luraghi , general manager, commissioned the engineer Leonardo Sinisgalli to create a magazine that combined humanistic culture, technical knowledge and art in dialogue [1] . The main editorial objective was that of perfect integration of art with technology, seeking the possibility of reading one with the vision of the other and vice versa " [2] . Published by "Edindustria" and printed in Turin's Letterpress Publishing Industry (ILTE), the magazine came out every two months [3] . Many figures of Italian culture collaborated in "Civiltà delle macchine", including Giuseppe Ungaretti , Carlo Emilio Gadda , Alberto Moravia , Arturo Tofanelli , Giuseppe Luraghi , Enzo Paci , Giansiro Ferrata . Sinisgalli continued to be in charge of the magazine for the first five years, during which time both the control of Finmeccanica and «La Civiltà delle Macchine» [4] were transferred to IRI. The magazine was closed in 1979 . In 2019 , after a silence that lasted forty years, the magazine was re-edited by the Leonardo Foundation , which renewed the publishing project [5] . The first issue of the new magazine was presented on 5 June 2019 at the Leonardo da Vinci National Museum of Science and Technology in Milan. [6] [7] The magazine is published quarterly. ...more

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• Global 21st Century Precious Metal and Rare Earth Mining for the Informed Investor. Pablo Martin, co-founder WeAre121.com

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  Oct 12 2019

  Photo: Gold mining by the Sotajoki river in 1898Municipality of Inari - http://www.tarinoideninari.fi/tarina/1309 Gold mining by the Ivalojoki River, Finland, 1898. Public Domain File:Sotajoki gold mining 1898.JPG Created: 31 December 1897 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowGlobal 21st Century Precious Metal and Rare Earth Mining for the Informed Investor. Pablo Martin, co-founder WeAre121.com @Investinmininghttps://www.weare121.comConnecting mining CEOs & funds 1-2-1. 121 Mining Investment events gather senior investors from institutional funds, private equity groups, family offices and sector analysts to meet with carefully selected mining company management teams in the world’s leading financial hubs.Featuring cash-generating producers, near-production development companies, project generators and exciting exploration projects, 121 Mining Investment events offer investors the perfect forum to seek out their next big mining investment opportunity.121 Mining Investment events are held annually in Hong Kong, London, Cape Town, New York, Sydney and Singapore and focus on two-days of 1-on-1 meetings tailored to match the right level of mining projects with the right investment capital. Alongside the 1-2-1 meetings, delegates are able to enjoy a two-day agenda of investor-led panel discussions providing market insights, analysis and each participating mining company presenting their latest updates.121 Mining Investment New York – Autumn Edition17-18 October 2019 – Convene 730 Third Avenue 121 Mining Investment Hong Kong – Autumn Edition22-23 October 2019 – JW Marriott Hong Kong  121 Mining Investment Sydney12-13 November 2019 – Sydney  121 Mining Investment London – Autumn Edition20-21 November 2019 – ETC Venues County Hall 121 Mining Investment Cape Town3-4 February 2020 – Welgemend Cape Town ...more

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• Egypt and Ethiopia clash over damming the Nile. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Oct 12 2019

  Photo: Satellite image of where White and Blue Niles mergeNASA - from http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=81186 Khartoum with White and Blue Niles Public Domain File:Whiteandblueniles.jpg Created: 25 April 2013 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowEgypt and Ethiopia clash over damming the Nile. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_preshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-dam/ethiopia-says-egypt-trying-to-maintain-colonial-era-grip-over-nile-idUSKBN1WN1OG ...more

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• Early detection of colorectal cancer with a blood test available as soon as 2020. Scott Powell, Investor Relations North America, Volition (VNRX: NYSE American) https://volition.com

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  Oct 12 2019

  Photo: The hospital in 1893This file is from the Mechanical Curator collection, a set of over 1 million images scanned from out-of-copyright books and released to Flickr Commons by the British Library.  View image on Flickr   View all images from book   View catalogue entry for book.  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 70 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, 1924. 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:491 NEW-YORK CANCER HOSPITAL, CENTRAL PARK WEST AND 106TH STREET.jpg Created: 1893date QS:P571,+1893-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Early detection of colorectal cancer with a blood test available as soon as 2020. Scott Powell, Investor Relations North America, Volition (VNRX: NYSE American) https://volition.com "Early diagnosis is key"Cancer is the second leading cause of death and is responsible for 1-in-6 deaths worldwide each year. It is widely accepted that the best way of tackling cancer is for patients to receive an early diagnosis, as this improves their chances of surviving cancer. Volition is developing simple, easy to use blood-based tests to diagnose a range of cancers and other diseases. "We believe that Nu.Q™ will provide a low-cost routine blood test allowing doctors to check off an extra box along with other routine blood tests, such as cholesterol and PSA, during a single visit, and that this is currently the only credible way of taking compliance with screening above 80%." https://volition.com ...more

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• Anti-Semitic gunman storms Yom Kippur prayers in Saxony & What is to be done? Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Oct 12 2019

  Photo: The market place, Halle, German Saxony, GermanyDate | between 1890 and 1900 Dimensions | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.Accession number | LCCN2002720632Credit line |  | This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs divisionunder the digital ID ppmsca.01006.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowAnti-Semitic gunman storms Yom Kippur prayers & What is to be done? Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_preshttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50011898 ...more

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• 2/2 Devin vs Whistlebower; Devin Nunes, CA-22 @DevinNunes

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  Oct 11 2019

  Image: Engraving of the Star Chamber, published in Old and New London in 1873, taken from a drawing made in 1836. Permissi0ns: “no restrictions.” Internet Archive Book Images - https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14598096217/ .Devin Nunes, CA-22, sat through nine hours of Congressional hearing on the not-quite impeachment, where nothing much happened.  Extension of the Russia hoax; have abandoned Whistleblower One, moving to Whistleblower Two.  House Intell, Oversight, and Foreign Affairs Committees tomorrow.   They leak what Volker said, but not the transcript.  Relying on air cover from mainstream media, shiny balls to chase around, as they hope to keep the middle of the country. They leak what Volker said, but not the transcript.  Relying on air cover from mainstream media, shiny balls to chase around, as they hope to keep the middle of the country; if they don’t impeach — Nancy Pelosi and the dinosaur leadership — they’ll be out of a job.        This is not an anonymous whistleblower, since the media all know and the New York Times have published it.  The only ones who don't know are those vaguely-informed — low-information —  voters whom the Democrats are counting on keeping in the fold.  https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine-whistleblower-may-not-testify-in-person-11570738009 ...more

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• 1/2 Devin vs Twitter; Devin Nunes, CA-22 @DevinNunes

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  Oct 11 2019

  Image:  Holstein cow. Public domain..Devin Nunes, CA-22, from Tulare County, the breadbasket of the Solar System; over $7 bil in direct farm income. However, we’re not allowed to cut trees from under power wires, nor cut the brush out – leading to cutting off power yesterday. The same people forbad us to use water, so we’ve lost maybe 10-15% of income.     During 2017 and 2018, you [Devin] were harassed on twitter about cows.  Devin’s lawsuit against twitter: after the 2016 election, it began to control content, became very biased, and had a lot of fake accounts, mostly bots: slander, defamation, and death threats to my family and me. Last week, a judge ruled in my favor: twitter knew all along that it was negligent. Twitter founders had become billionaires; now have put the company in jeopardy by refusing to release the names running the fake accounts.  Suit in Virginia state court: against Liz Mair and two anonymous accounts. Liz Mair was hired by someone to smear me on the Net; was working closely with McClatchy.  Case is in discovery stage; they have till tomorrow to provide the information. How they’ve changed their algorithms to favor Democrats and work against conservatives.  So many anonymous accounts were conducting slander. Case is both on negligence, and on the facts  that they’ve allowed defamation and slander.   The billionaire owners are acting arrogantly.  What happens when it shows that many of their accounts were fake bots?  Misrepresentation to paying advertisers.  Note that if someone criticizes AOC (and that was a parody), he loses his own personal account.  https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/08/devin-nunes-lawsuit-against-twitter-could-turn-into-the-companys-worst-nightmare/ ...more

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• Trump sanctions Red China for the enslavement of the Uyghurs. @SebGorka #AmericaFirst

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  Oct 11 2019

  Photo: : Establishment of the Turkish Republic of East Turkistan across from the Tumen Derya, Kashgar November 12, 1933Date | 12 Арваннэгдүгээр сар 1933Эх үүсвэр | http://www.klikunic.com/2012/02/turkistan-timur-negeri-islam-yang.htmlAuthor | Unknown | This image contains digital watermarking or credits in the image itself. The usage of visible watermarks is discouraged. If a non-watermarked version of the image is available, please upload it under the same file name and then remove this template. Ensure that removed information is present in the image description page and replace this template with {{Metadata from image}} or {{Attribution metadata from licensed image}}.Caution: Before removing a watermark from a copyrighted image, please read the WMF's analysis of the legal ramifications of doing so, as well as Commons' proposed policy regarding watermarks.If the old version is still useful, for example if removing the watermark damages the image significantly, upload the new version under a different title so that both can be used. After uploading the non-watermarked version, replace this template with {{ Superseded | new filename | version without watermarks }}. | This image is now in the public domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTrump sanctions Red China for the enslavement of the Uyghurs. @SebGorka #AmericaFirst...more

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• Why is Pelosi play-acting impeachment & What is to be done? @SebGorka #AmericaFirst

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  Oct 11 2019

  Photo: Illustration of the 'Mousetrap' scene from William Shakespeare's HamletDate | 1897Source | webAuthor | Harold Copping  (1863–1932)  Permission(Reusing this file) | public domain 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: | The author died in 1932, so this work is in the public domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWhy is Pelosi play-acting impeachment & What is to be done? @SebGorka #AmericaFirst...more

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• Democrats are stuck in a Trump-bashing loop. @VDHanson @HooverInst

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  Oct 11 2019

  Photo: The tragedy of the seas; or, Sorrow on the ocean, lake, and river, from shipwreck, plague, fire and famine ..Year: 1841 (1840s)Authors:  Ellms, CharlesSubjects:  ShipwrecksPublisher:  New York, Collins, Keese & Co.Contributing Library:  The Library of CongressDigitizing Sponsor:  The Library of CongressView 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:aved the woman, whowas nearly dead ; but, after using the means which are gener-ally adopted, she revived. The cutter stood for the shore,where she landed the survivors, except the last woman ; Cap-tain Dyer and myself sitting up all night, endeavoring tobring her to, which we did. I cannot conclude without expressing my sincere thanksfor the kindness we experienced from the inhabitants of theislands ; to Miss S. Crocket, for supplying the females withshoes and other articles ; and to persons whom I did notknow; at Vinal Haven, to the Messrs. Thomas, brothers,vi^ho were very kind ; and also to Captain Dyer, for takingthe females to his house and dressing their wounds. AtThomaston, Mr. Allen, of the marble works, and others,treated us extremely well, subscribing to assist me in gettingtjie females to Portland by the stage. Such a dreadful sacrifice of life I think has never oc-exirred before, through neglect and want of coolness andcourage on the part of those who had the management ofhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowDemocrats are stuck in a Trump-bashing loop. @VDHanson @HooverInsthttps://www.nationalreview.com/2019/10/trump-impeachment-inquiry-anti-trump-psychodrama/ ...more

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• California was built by giants and is occupied by 6-oz hotel shampoo bottles.@VDHanson @HooverInst

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  Oct 11 2019

  Photo: December 1900Source | Oregon Native Son, Vol. II, No. 7Author | UnknownPermission(Reusing this file) | First published in the United States before 1923 - public domain  | This media file is in the public domain i http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowCalifornia was built by giants and is occupied by 6-oz hotel shampoo bottles.@VDHanson @HooverInsthttps://www.foxnews.com/opinion/victor-davis-hanson-generations-giants

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• SpaceX readying to perform the abort test on Dragon; Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com

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  Oct 11 2019

  Image: The SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft approaches the International Space Station on Sept. 23, 2014 for grapple and berthing. European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, both Expedition 41 flight engineers, were at the controls of the robotics workstation in the Cupola when the Canadarm2 grappled Dragon at 6:52 A.M. EDT..Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com, on space engineering.  

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• The disappearing sunspots, and what is to be done? Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com

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  Oct 11 2019

  Image:  The Maunder Minimum shown in a 400-year history of sunspot numbers. Permissions*:  See below.Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com, opens with The Grand Solar Minimum (and the auld Maunder Minimum); are we there?  .*Pemissions:  This image is an original work created for Global Warming Art. Please refer to the image description page for more information.  GNU head Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; 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.w:en:Creative Commons attribution share alike 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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• Do the president’s claims on tariffs and trade deficits stack up to reality? Veronique de Rugy

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  Oct 11 2019

  Image: A French seaport painted by Claude Lorrain around 1639, at the height of mercantilism. Mercantilism: “the economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government should encourage by means of protectionism.”   Public domain. .Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus Center, on Pres Trump and tariffs.  “Debating trade issues with President Trump’s anti-trade supporters is a constant game of goal-shifting. If you point out that the Trump tariffs are raising revenue for Uncle Sam on the backs of American consumers, they reply that China is hurting the most. If you note that the trade war is the main reason the stock market is losing its mind, not actions by Jerome Powell, the Federal Reserve chairman, they reply that China is ‘a brutal Communist police state that abuses its own people and steals from the world.’”   https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/07/opinion/trump-trade.html ...more

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• Warren, Ohio’s, excellent and profitable work ethic; Salena Zito

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  Oct 11 2019

  Image:   Map of Trumbull County, Ohio with municipal and township labels.  US Census /  Taken from US Census website  and modified by User:Ruhrfisch .US Government work is public domain, my modifications licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.Salena Zito, Washington Examiner, New York Post, et al., details the healthy, small-city politics in eastern Ohio.    “. . . Warren has indeed been at the forefront of America’s innovative spirit. It was here in the town’s historic public square that the city become the first town in the United States to have electric street illumination.” https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/an-old-factory-town-isnt-merely-what-it-once-was ...more

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• The New Rasputin marches acores Siberia to rid the Kremlin of devils. @Paul_Gregory @HooverInst

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  Oct 11 2019

  Photo: Grigori Rasputin (1864-1916)Unknown - [1] [2] [3] Permission details 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.View more Public Domainview terms File:Rasputin pt.jpg Created: 31 December 1915 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe New Rasputin marches acores Siberia to rid the Kremlin of devils. @Paul_Gregory @HooverInsthttp://paulgregorysblog.blogspot.com/2019/10/a-shaman-unnerves-vladimir-putin-shades.html ...more

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• The Hong Kong Police discipline turns brutal. Rick Fisher, International Assessment and Strategy Center. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Oct 11 2019

  Photo: HK Police threaten demonstrators at point-blank rage. Video from @MichaelYonWatchhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Hong Kong Police discipline turns brutal. Rick Fisher, International Assessment and Strategy Center. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast 

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• ESPN broadcasts the illegal Nine (Ten) -Dash Line of the PRC. @YatesDCIA @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Oct 11 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowESPN broadcasts the illegal Nine (Ten) -Dash Line of the PRC. @YatesDCIA @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/dfr2ap/espn_recognizes_chinas_claim_to_taiwan_and_the/

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• Break Up Big Tech Sweeps Washington. Ludwig Siegele, @TheEconomist @EconoScribe

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  Oct 11 2019

  PHOTO: nglish: Wartime picture of a Bletchley Park BombeDate | 1945Source | Set of wartime photos of GC&CS at Bletchley ParkAuthor | Unknown | This work created by the United Kingdom Government is in the public domain. HTTP://JOHNBATCHELORSHOW.COM/CONTACTHTTP://JOHNBATCHELORSHOW.COM/SCHEDULESTWITTER: @BATCHELORSHOWBreak Up Big Tech Sweeps Washington. Ludwig Siegele, @TheEconomist @EconoScribehttps://www.economist.com/business/2019/10/05/silicon-valley-and-the-state-gird-for-war

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• The Chinese are coming, the Chinese are coming. Alan Tonelson.

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  Oct 10 2019

  Image: Part of the Great Wall of China (April 1853, X, p.41), from the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society.  Public domain..Alan Tonelson, independent economic policy analyst who blogs at RealityChek and tweets at @AlanTonelson, speaks of the upcoming trade talks.  A Chinese trade delegation is in, or arriving in, Washington. Liu He, head of the delegation, is very senior and a companion of Xi.  It looks like the last act of Trump trying to show the American public that he’s done all he can to create a deal, and it isn’t working.  Efforts to prevent intellectual property theft and the like aren't working.  I expect no tariffs lifted, although the Oct 5 tariffs may be held off; also, I don’t see the Chinese as interested in offering anything. They may have misread US politics and think they can wait out Pres Trump.  They can hold out for about one more year.         Even Elizabeth Warren sees that her voting base is in love with cheap Chinese goods, so her policies are likely to shift to favoring Beijing.  “Vote for Trump, or Xi”?   ...more

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• “FREE HONG KONG” sign busted by NBA. "Commissioner Silver should resign." Arthur Waldron

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  Oct 10 2019

  Image: Uyghur and Kazakh detainees in a Xinjiang Re-education Camp located in Lop County listening to "de-radicalization" talks in Lop County, Xinjiang, April 2017.   Xinjiang re-education camps are also named internment camps, indoctrination camps, re-education camps.  Permissions: fair use; and see below*.Arthur Waldron, University of Pennsylvania, Lauder Professor of International Relations discusses China's lack of options in Hong Kong.   Signs held by young people at basketball games, one saying, “Google Uyghurs” and the other “Support Free Hong Kong,” were confiscated by guards at US games. Adam Silver,  NBA commissioner, has approved this in principle.       The Nine-Dash Line (also called “cow’s tongue”) shows China’s claim to the South China Sea.  NBA and Disney have endorsed China’s attempt to steal vast territories.  China and the NBA take the position that China owns all this; the entire rest of the world disagrees. Any American who does bz with China is extremely foolish: you’ll [lose your shirt] and make a fool of yourself. Geneva Arbitration Court calls these claims illegal. China pays no attention, as usual.         Beijing keeps telling Hong Kong, “You’ve got to do what we say” – but it’s almost slipped out of its hands, with the people largely in control.  Mr Xi has done nothing, has let the situation get worse and worse.         US businesspersons should say to China: “[Be civilized,] or we won’t do any business with you.”  China is a criminal country: harvesting organs, and the Uyghurs. The US should have the sense not to get involved with such sordid countries.  Silver should resign. Apple is in trouble with Chinese work...*Permissions: This work is copyrighted (or assumed to be copyrighted) and unlicensed. It does not fall into one of the blanket acceptable non-free content categories listed at Wikipedia:Non-free content § Images or Wikipedia:Non-free content § Audio clips, and it is not covered by a more specific non-free content license listed at Category:Wikipedia non-free file copyright templates. However, it is believed that the use of this work: To illustrate the subject in question Where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information On the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law.       Sourcce: From an article entitled, “"用情感敲开心灵大门 用说理舒缓群众情绪", published by the wechat MP platform account "Xinjiang Juridical Administration", via baidu baijiahao platform archive https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1564669932542581     Original image creator: 牙生   ...more

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• What is going on in the MTR (subways) of Hong Kong? @MichaelYonWatch @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Oct 10 2019

  Photo: Victoria Barracks, c 1870.中文: 1870年代的域多利軍營.Date | circa 1870 Source | Hong Kong Library MMISAuthor | UnknownPermission(Reusing this file) |  | This work is in the public domain ihttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWhat is going on in the MTR (subways) of Hong Kong? @MichaelYonWatch @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast 

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• "Google Uyghurs" in Washington, D.C. Nury Turkel, Uyghur-American Association. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Oct 10 2019

  Photo: Kashgar road scene, 1870sThomas Edward Gordon - From the book The Roof of the World. Copied from Wikipedia. Uploaded to Wikipedia on 04:46, 12 February 2005 by User:John_Hill a road in Kashgar http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow"Google Uyghurs" in Washington, D.C. Nury Turkel, Uyghur-American Association. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/10/china-nba-dispute-woke-capital-hypocrisy-exposed/

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• Mayhem and Fear along the Armenia/Azerbaijan Frontier: not a frozen conflict. @ProfBShaffer @Georgetown

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  Oct 10 2019

  Photo: English: Satellite image of the Caucasus, from NASA’s Visible EarthNASA/MODIS - Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team - http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=1939 Permission details Public DomainView more Public Domainview terms File:Kaukasus.jpg Created: 12 June 2001 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowMayhem and Fear along the Armenia/Azerbaijan Frontier: not  a frozen conflict. @ProfBShaffer @Georgetownhttp://mfa.gov.az/en/news/909/6384 ...more

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• Is Joe Biden willing to try a Checkers Speech to slow the Warren Boom? @HooverWhalen @HooverInst

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  Oct 10 2019

  Photo: Screen capture from Richard Nixon's Checkers speech, which is part of The Fund BroadcastDate | 23 September 1952Source | http://www.wellesley.edu/Writing/Nixon/nixon_speeches.html (specifically http://www.wellesley.edu/Writing/Nixon/Images/checkers_speech.jpg)Author | Richard Nixon/paid political program by Republican National CommitteePermission(Reusing this file) | The Fund Broadcast was broadcasted without a copyright notice.[1][2] It is not copyrighted.[3] | This work is in the public domain  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowIs Joe Biden willing to try a  Checkers Speech to slow the Warren Boom?  @HooverWhalen @HooverInsthttps://www.forbes.com/sites/billwhalen/2019/10/07/while-other-democrats-play-chess-will-biden-turn-to-checkers/#19ba2191661b ...more

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• Rich residents flee California taxes, help impoverish the state. Josh Rauh

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  Oct 09 2019

  Image: Hearst Castle.  Permissions*: see below..Josh Rauh, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Hoover; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), explains California and taxes.        Drawing on the universe of California income tax filings and the variation imposed by a 2012 tax increase of up to 3 percentage points for high-income households, we present new findings about the effects of personal income taxation on household location choice and pre-tax income. First, over and above baseline rates of taxpayer departure from California, an additional 0.8% of the California residential tax filing base whose 2012 income would have been in the new top tax bracket moved out from full-year residency of California in 2013, mostly to states with zero income tax. Second, to identify the impact of the California tax policy shift on the pre-tax earnings of high-income California residents, we use as a control group high-earning, out-of-state taxpayers who persistently file as California non-residents. Using a differences-in-differences strategy paired with propensity score matching, we estimate an intensive margin elasticity of 2013 income with respect to the marginal net-of-tax rate of 2.5 to 3.3. Among top-bracket California taxpayers, outward migration and behavioral responses by stayers together eroded 45.2% of the windfall tax revenues from the reform.https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3461513.*Permissions:  author: Nishithdesai.   I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:w:en:Creative Commonsattribution share alikeThis 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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• How your neighborhood small businesses really work. John Tamny

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  Oct 09 2019

  Image: Former Childs restaurant in Woodside, Queens, at 5937 Queens Blvd.  Permissions*: Fair use, by Peter Greenberg; see below..John Tamny, RealClearMarkets, on events in the small Glover Park hood in Washington, D.C.:  “Joe Biden Should Visit Glover Park, Henry Paulson Should Call Goldman Sachs.”  “[W]hile it’s always dangerous to presume exact correlation, the economic fortunes of Glover Park’s businesses have visibly declined since the March 2017 shuttering of Whole Foods.  . . .  And with the decline in foot traffic related to Whole Foods, so have receipts fallen for countless businesses not Whole Foods.”  . . .  If Joe Biden walked around there, it “might cause him to tone down his rhetoric about how ‘Wall Street”’ didn’t build the United States, that ‘small business’ and the ‘middle class’ did build it. Blah, blah, blah.” https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2019/09/19/argentina_unwittingly_demands_that_its_citizens_stuff_money_under_mattresses_103915.html.*Permissions:  Author: Peter Greenberg /  I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:w:en:Creative Commonsattribution share alikeThis 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. ...more

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• NBA moral collapse: Beijing bullyboys elated. Josh Rogin

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  Oct 09 2019

  Image: Basketball!.Josh Rogin, Washington Post, covers the NBA collapsing morally, then tries to recoup in face of a tweet favoring liberty.  Beijing bullies every company that could make a yuan — and will continue to bulldoze at every possible chance.  . The NBA is only the latest Chinese government hostage.  The NBA has come under severe criticism for bending over backward to appease the Chinese government after Beijing threatened the league with severe economic consequences over one pro-Hong Kong tweet. But we must remember, the NBA and its teams are just the latest victims of the Chinese government’s efforts to force U.S. companies to do its political bidding. The U.S. government must help U.S. companies resist becoming complicit in Beijing’s repression.        It started when Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey posted a (now-deleted) tweet with an image that said “Fight For Freedom. Stand With Hong Kong.” Within hours, The Chinese Basketball Association, sportswear brand Li-Ning, SPD Bank, state broadcaster CCTV’s sports, and tech-giant Tencent all announced they would suspend business with the Rockets. We know the Chinese government organized this swift punishment because so many Chinese entities shunned the team so quickly; in China that only happens with official approval.       Morey, under pressure, issued a partial apology, saying, “I did not intend my tweet to cause any offense to Rockets fans and friends of mine in China. I was merely voicing one thought, based on one interpretation, of one complicated event.”       The NBA issued a measured statement in English calling Morey’s views “regrettable,” and a more apologetic statement in Chinese, saying, “We are extremely disappointed in the inappropriate remarks made by Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey.” Beijing is costing the Rockets millions while pressing them to apologize — and implicitly threatening every other NBA team. The punishment came before the trial. That’s how coercion works. It’s how the Chinese Communist Party operates.  . . .  Last year, China severely punished Marriott after an employee in Omaha, Neb., “liked” a pro-Tibet tweet. Marriott profusely apologized and fired the employee.  . . .  ...more

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• Roaring economy: huge jump in national incomes, minuscule unemployment. Stephen Moore.

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  Oct 09 2019

  Image: Campaign poster showing William McKinley holding U.S. flag and standing on gold coin "sound money," held up by group of men, in front of ships — "commerce"— and factories —"civilization"; between 1895 and 1900. Public domain..Steve Moore, chief economist at Heritage, on the state of the US economy, in cheerful detail.  Trump’s Middle-Class Economic Progress   A new study indicates median incomes are rising far faster than they did under Bush or Obama.        President Trump’s critics can’t deny that the economy is doing well, so instead they insist all the benefits have gone to the rich and large corporations. “America’s middle class is under attack,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren asserted in her presidential campaign announcement last December.       The latest data from the Census Bureau monthly surveys tell a different story. Real median household income—the amount earned by those in the very middle—hit $65,084 (in 2019 dollars) for the 12 months ending in July. That’s the highest level ever and a gain of $4,144, or 6.8%, since Mr. Trump took office. By comparison, during 7½ years under President Obama—starting from the end of the recession in June 2009 through January 2017—the median household income rose by only about $1,000.       These statistics were published by two former census income-research specialists with 50 years’ experience who now run Sentier Research, a nonpartisan research group. Sentier analyzes the Census Bureau’s monthly Current Population Survey to calculate the most up-to-date changes in median household income, which it publishes six months to a year ahead of the official annual numbers. Sentier’s advance estimates are imperfect and sure to be revised, but generally have been a reliable leading indicator. (The big rise Sentier reports doesn’t account for the effect of the 2017 tax cuts, which saved the average household $1,400 in 2018, according to my colleagues at the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Data Analysis. For married couples with two children, the figure was more than $2,900.)  . . .  https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-middle-class-economic-progress-11569786435?emailToken=4d382b9e7d457ecdb33d377af06e1ab5ZuXfbzfgHDyfHmaTXvejhnQ6/x/4+qj4jyK1vx8eRhxEKgh+7GsE7MZt6QYnERKT32bIdx4/5ybHhVkxiOXiRr6Xi1d6lYCvtbFSYYu/JBk%3D&reflink=article_email_share ...more

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• Connecting the dots: 1 of 4: from Ukrainegate's Whistleblower to Russiagate's Steele Dossier. @AaronKleinShow @Breitbart

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  Oct 09 2019

  Photo: Engraving of the Star Chamber, published in "Old and new London" in 1873, taken from a drawing made in 1836 Internet Archive Book Images - https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14598096217/ Source book page: https://archive.org/stream/oldnewlondonnarr03thor/oldnewlondonnarr03thor#page/n521/mode/1up Identifier: oldnewlondonnarr03thor (find matches) Title: Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places Year: 1873 (1870s) Authors: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876 Subjects: Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive 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: ement; the centre and wing-towersthree storeys. The wings and centre portions are 5^4 OLD AND NEW LONDON. (The New Palace, divided into thirty-five bays by hexagonal buttresses,with sunk tracery and pinnacles to each. Eachbay contains, between the principal windows, thearms and supporters of all the sovereigns of Eng-land, richly carved, from William the Conqueror toher present Majesty, Queen Victoria ; and on eachside are panels, with sceptres, labels, and appro-)iriate foliage. In a band underneath each win-dow are the names of the respective sovereigns, of St. George, St. Andrew, St. Patrick, and St.David (the patron saints of the four kingdoms),and St. Peter and St. Paul. Between the windowsare panels, containing angels supporting an imperialcrown over the royal arms. In a band over thewindows of the second storey are panels, with thedevices assumed by each sovereign since the Con-quest, Avith mottoes and foliage. In the parapet infront of the towers, supported by an angel corbel, Text Appearing After Image: THE STAR CHAMBER, (From a Drazving taken in 1836.) with the time of their reign and the date of theirdecease. The parapets to each bay are filled with richtracery, in the centre of which is a niche, with thefigure of an angel holding a shield, bearing themonogram V.R. The towers have bold orielwindows, with armorial bearings on each, andpanels containing the insignia of the present reign,with octagon turrets at the angles, and surmountedby an iron roof Between the towers, at each end,are three bays, divided by smaller buttresses andbays, within which are windows and panels, con-taining the arms of the three kingdoms, with therose, shamrock, and thistle entwined. The flanksof the wing-towers are divided into two bays by a Isquare buttress, containing six niches, with statues ! is a niche containing a statue of her Majesty; andthe parapets at the back of each have a niche witha statue of Edward the Confessor, the founder ofthe first Royal Palace at Westminster. The nortli and south retu 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:Old and new London - a narrative of its history, its people, and its places (1873) (14598096217).jpg Created: 31 December 1872 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowConnecting the dots: 1 of 4: from Ukrainegate's Whistleblower to Russiagate's Steele Dossier. @AaronKleinShow @Breitbarthttps://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/07/whistleblower-attorneys-offered-rate-discount-for-trump-informants-ranted-against-president-on-twitter/https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/06/attorney-for-impeachment-whistleblowers-actively-sought-trump-admin-informants/ ...more

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• Connecting the dots: 2 of 4: from Ukrainegate's Whistleblower to Russiagate's Steele Dossier. @AaronKleinShow @Breitbart

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  Oct 09 2019

  Photo: A document of 1504 showing King Henry VII sitting in the Star Chamber and receiving William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury, Richard Foxe, Bishop of Winchester, and clerics associated with Westminster Abbey and St Paul's Cathedral, as well as the Mayor of London. The National Archives UK - Royal Charity Performance Description: Detail from document connected with the foundation of Henry VII's chantry and almshouses at Westminster. The King sits in the Star Chamber and receives the Archbishop of Canterbury William Warham, Richard Fox, the Bishop of Westminster and clerics associated with Westminster Abbey and St. Paul's Cathedral as well as the Mayor of London. This image is from the collections of The National Archives Image no.5063510. Date: July 16th 1504 Our Catalogue Reference: E 33/2 This image is from the collections of The National Archives. Feel free to share it within the spirit of the Commons. For high quality reproductions of any item from our collection please contact our image library. Permission details The National Archives UK @ Flickr CommonsView more No restrictionsview terms File:Royal Charity Performance.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowConnecting the dots: 2 of 4: from Ukrainegate's Whistleblower to Russiagate's Steele Dossier. @AaronKleinShow @Breitbarthttps://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/07/whistleblower-attorneys-offered-rate-discount-for-trump-informants-ranted-against-president-on-twitter/https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/06/attorney-for-impeachment-whistleblowers-actively-sought-trump-admin-informants/ ...more

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• Connecting the dots: 3 of 4: from Ukrainegate's Whistleblower to Russiagate's Steele Dossier. @AaronKleinShow @Breitbart

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  Oct 09 2019

  Photo: Starry vault of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, Italy, frescoed by Giotto Giotto di Bondone - 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 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:Giotto di Bondone - Vault - WGA09168.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowConnecting the dots: 3 of 4: from Ukrainegate's Whistleblower to Russiagate's Steele Dossier. @AaronKleinShow @Breitbarthttps://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/07/whistleblower-attorneys-offered-rate-discount-for-trump-informants-ranted-against-president-on-twitter/https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/06/attorney-for-impeachment-whistleblowers-actively-sought-trump-admin-informants/ ...more

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• Connecting the dots: 4 of 4: from Ukrainegate's Whistleblower to Russiagate's Steele Dossier. @AaronKleinShow @Breitbart

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  Oct 09 2019

  Photo: Kiev 1930http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowConnecting the dots: 4 of 4: from Ukrainegate's Whistleblower to Russiagate's Steele Dossier. @AaronKleinShow @Breitbarthttps://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/07/whistleblower-attorneys-offered-rate-discount-for-trump-informants-ranted-against-president-on-twitter/https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/06/attorney-for-impeachment-whistleblowers-actively-sought-trump-admin-informants/ ...more

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• Warren 4-cyl Hyundai switch-passes Biden Mercury woodie wagon. Elizabeth Peek.

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  Oct 09 2019

  Image:  1940 Pontiac Special Series 25 woodie. Information about this specific car at www.longroof.us claims it is one of eight remaining Pontiac woodies and that its engine is a 468 Big Block Chevy, 750 Holley, 4L80E overdrive trans, with an estimated top speed without spare tire of 150 MPH.  Photo taken by en:User:Morven and released here under the GFDL; permissions*: see below..Elizabeth Peek, Fox News and TheHill, on Bernie Bro’s, Elizabeth Warren (who’ll  ban fracking on her first day as president and thereby alienate all of western Pennsylvania, plus a few other swing states; and destroy Medicare with “Medicare for All”), a possible Michelle grand entrance.  Massachusetts in the mix. .* Permissions:   Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License. Subject to disclaimers.w:en:Creative Commons attribution share alike This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Subject to disclaimers. 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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• Diogenes still looking for a recession? US economy is simply too strong. Elizabeth Peek

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  Oct 09 2019

  Image:   Statue of Diogenes, Sinop, Turkey.Elizabeth Peek, Fox News and TheHill, on the best US economy in fifty years; seven million more jobs available than workers to fill them; the average — median, definitively not rich — family has $5,000 more per year than several years ago: from $61K to $66K.   Tax rate reduction, diminution of regulations, several activities of this Administration. The tight labor market means that even the lowest-level employees can ask for benefits or a raise. .*Permissions:  Author: Diogenes-statue-Sinop.JPG: Tony f  derivative work: Singinglemon (talk)             I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:w:en:Creative Commons attribution 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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• Rojava –Western Kurdistan – to be overrun by clandestine ISIS? Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents

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  Oct 09 2019

   Image: The flag of Kurdistan. Public domain..Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, discusses the fact that the US says it’ll withdraw troops from Northern Syria, allowing Erdogan to move in and slaughter YPG Kurds.  “As American troops began pulling back on Monday from positions in northeastern Syria ahead of an expected Turkish assault, Syrian Kurdish fighters warned that Washington’s abrupt decision to stand aside — announced by the White House late Sunday — will overturn years of achievements in the battle against IS militants. In a strongly-worded statement, they accused Washington of failing to abide by its commitments to its key allies.”  Democratic Federation of Northern Syria (DFNS). ...more

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• Complex, Bronze Age, five-thousand-year-old city found. Indiana Hoenlein.

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  Oct 09 2019

  Image: The Nebra sky disc, a bronze disk of around 30 centimeters.  The symbols are interpreted generally as the Sun or full moon, a lunar crescent, and stars (including a cluster of seven interpreted as the Pleiades). Two golden arcs along the sides, interpreted to mark the angle between the solstices, were added later. A final addition was another arc at the bottom surrounded with multiple strokes (of uncertain meaning, variously interpreted as a Solar Barge with numerous oars, the Milky Way, or a rainbow). Permissions*: see below..Indiana Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, reports on the find of a Bronze Age city. “Archaeologists have uncovered a 5,000-year-old city thought to be ten times larger than Jericho as well as a 7,000-year-old temple in northern Israel, officials announced Sunday.”  .* Permissions:  Dbachmann at the English-language Wikipedia, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publishes it under the following license:GNU head Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; 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.w:en:Creative Commonsattribution share alike This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Attribution: DbachmannYou 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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• Leaving Afghanistan in the hands of Al Qaeda. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD

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  Oct 09 2019

  Photo: Image from page 262 of "A personal narrative of a visit to Ghuzni, Kabul and Afghanistan, and of a residence at the court of Dost Mohamed: with notices of Runjit Sing, Khiva, and the Russian expedition" (1843) Identifier: personalnarrativ00vign Title: A personal narrative of a visit to Ghuzni, Kabul and Afghanistan, and of a residence at the court of Dost Mohamed: with notices of Runjit Sing, Khiva, and the Russian expedition Year: 1843 (1840s) Authors:  Vigne, Godfrey Thomas, 1801-1863 Subjects:  Russians -- Asia, Central Afghanistan -- Description and travel Punjab (India) -- Description and travel Publisher:  London : G. Routledge 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.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowLeaving Afghanistan in the hands of Al Qaeda. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDDhttps://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2019/09/testimony-the-trump-administrations-afghanistan-policy.php ...more

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• Happy 18th Anniversary Taliban! @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD

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  Oct 09 2019

  Photo: Titled "Dignity & Impudence" for stereotypic personality traits of elephants and mules respectively, this photograph by John Burke shows an elephant and mule battery during the Second Anglo-Afghan War. The mule team would have hauled supplies or towed the small field gun, while the elephants towed the larger gun. The gun appears to be a Rifled Muzzle Loader (RML) 7-pounder mountain gun. The men in the photograph are a mix of British soldiers and Indian sepoys. The group kneeling around the smaller, muzzle-loaded field gun is preparing to fire after the soldier at front left has used the ramrod to jam the charge down into the gun. The gun at right, towed by elephants, appears to be a Rifled breech loader(RBL) 40-pounder ArmstrongBurke, John, died 1900 - http://dl.wdl.org/11496.png Gallery: http://www.wdl.org/en/item/11496/ This photograph of an elephant and mule battery is from an album of rare historical photographs depicting people and places associated with the Second Anglo-Afghan War. The mule team on the left side of the photograph would have hauled supplies or towed the small field gun, while the elephants towed the larger gun. The gun appears to be an RML 7-pounder mountain gun. The men in the photograph are a mix of British soldiers and Indian sepoys. The group kneeling around the smaller, muzzle-loaded field gun is preparing to fire after the soldier at front left has used the ramrod he is holding to jam the charge down into the gun. The gun at right, towed by elephants, appears to be an RBL 40-pounder Armstrong breechloader, as evidenced by gunner with ramrod behind the gun. The humorous caption invokes common stereotypes about elephants (“dignity”) and mules (“impudence”). The Second Anglo-Afghan War began in November 1878 when Great Britain, fearful of what it saw as growing Russian influence in Afghanistan, invaded the country from British India. The first phase of the war ended in May 1879 with the Treaty of Gandamak, which permitted the Afghans to maintain internal sovereignty but forced them to cede control over their foreign policy to the British. Fighting resumed in September 1879, after an anti-British uprising in Kabul, and finally concluded in September 1880 with the decisive Battle of Kandahar. The album includes portraits of British and Afghan leaders and military personnel, portraits of ordinary Afghan people, and depictions of British military camps and activities, structures, landscapes, and cities and towns. The sites shown are all located within the borders of present-day Afghanistan or Pakistan (a part of British India at the time). About a third of the photographs were taken by John Burke (circa 1843–1900), another third by Sir Benjamin Simpson (1831–1923), and the remainder by several other photographers. Some of the photographs are unattributed. The album possibly was compiled by a member of the British Indian government, but this has not been confirmed. How it came to the Library of Congress is not known. Afghan Wars; Cannons; Elephants; Great Britain. Army; Mules; Soldiers http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowHappy 18th Anniversary Taliban! @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDDhttps://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2019/10/taliban-commemorates-18-years-of-war-that-was-fought-to-defend-al-qaeda.php ...more

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• 2/2 Mendacious reporting on the never-arrested “spy.” Lee Smith

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  Oct 08 2019

  Image:  Colonel Benjamin Tallmadge, leader of the Culper Ring, in a 1790 portrait with his son William.  The Culper Ring was a spy ring organized by Major Tallmadge under orders from General George Washington in the summer of 1778, during the British occupation of New York City at the height of the American Revolutionary War. A 1790 portrait by Ralph Earl.  Public domain..Lee Smith, author of The Plot Against the President: The True Story of How Congressman Devin Nunes Uncovered the Biggest Political Scandal in U.S. History; and in RealClearInvestigations, reports on Carter Page, the never-arrested, never-convicted “spy” for the Kremlin.  His visit to Moscow; Christopher Steele’s allegation that he was a go-between in a payoff. In fact, he went there publicly to give a lecture; Steele says Carter had a secret mtg with an energy company, got a bribe to have DC lift sanctions on Russia, using Ukraine-related sanctions.  This is entirely invented and fictional.  Adam Schiff charges that Trump is withholding aid to Ukraine.  Same reporters, allegations, and CIA director – John Brennan, who’s been driving the Russiagate narrative for three or four years.        Danger in the US public/political sphere.  “Active intelligence community representative.”         Biden quid pro quo:  The notion that Trump sought help from the Ukrainian president with Attorney-General Barr’s collaboration: trying to discredit Pres Trump’s investigation and create a political witch hunt.     ...more

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• 1/2 Upside-down reporting on “the biggest political scandal in US history” — Ukraine, State Dept. Lee Smith

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  Oct 08 2019

  Image:  Emblem of Ukrainian Special Operations Forces, one of the five branches of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, with headquarters in Kyiv; its motto is, "I Come at You!"(Іду на ви!) Public domain.  Емблема сил спеціальних операцій Збройних сил України..Lee Smith, author of The Plot Against the President: The True Story of How Congressman Devin Nunes Uncovered the Biggest Political Scandal in U.S. History;  and RealClearInvestigations, speaks of Ukraine under Poroshenko, during the civil war while Ukraine was understood to be a colony of the Obama Administration.  Alexandra Chalupa, Ukrainian-American consultant to the DNC in early 2016(?). She asked diplomats for information showing that the Trump campaign had ties to Russia. What an American did to an American political campaign.   Fusion GPS.   Paul Manafort’s earlier work for Yanokovich led Fusion GPS to accuse him of activities he did not do.  Manafort was encouraging Yanukovich to sign a trade deal with the European Union; Putin, seeing a serious threat, told Yanukovich to accept a $15bil loan package. We see facts turned on their head to try to show that Trump was a Russian asset.        Hunter and Joe Biden: in 2014, State and Biden helped usher the Ukrainian president out of office – regime change by Washington.  See the work of John Solomon. 2013-2016, deeply involving Biden, State, and Christopher Steele.        Also upside-down: that the Trump campaign was dong the bidding of the Kremlin to disarm Ukraine.  In WaPo in July 2018, an inaccurate report that military support for Ukraine was stripped from the GOP platform. See: Byron York to get an accurate report.   ...more

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• The whole House of Representatives is the sole impeachment power. 1 of 2: @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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  Oct 08 2019

  Photo: : Map of the Missouri River drainage basin in the US and Canada. made using USGS and Natural Earth data. Replacement for File:Missouririvermap.jpg.Date | 21 March 2018Source | Own workAuthor | Shannon1http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe whole House of Representatives is the sole impeachment power. 1 of 2: @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJRhttps://www.nationalreview.com/2019/10/impeachment-inquiry-house-must-vote-or-its-just-democratic-stunt/ ...more

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• The whole House of Representatives is the sole impeachment power. 2 of 2: @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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  Oct 08 2019

  Photo: Correct map of the Burlington and Missouri River R.R., the Burlington Route and its connections. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe whole House of Representatives is the sole impeachment power. 2 of 2: @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJRhttps://www.nationalreview.com/2019/10/impeachment-inquiry-house-must-vote-or-its-just-democratic-stunt/

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• Warren uniformly outpolling Biden & What is to be done? @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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  Oct 08 2019

  Photo: Missouri indian, Oto indian, and chief of the Puncas Karl Bodmer - Library of Congress Permission details PD Author died more than 70 years agoView more Public Domainview terms File:Missouri indian Oto indian and chief of the Puncas 0040v.jpg Created: between 1840 and 1843 date QS:P571,+1840-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1840-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1843-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWarren uniformly outpolling Biden & What is to be done? @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotterhttps://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-new-front-runner-for-the-2020-democrats-warren-tops-biden-in-3-latest-polls-2019-10-07 ...more

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• Following the money for Ukrainegate. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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  Oct 08 2019

  Photo: Photochrom Print CollectionTitle | St. Sophia Cathedral, Kiev, Russia, (i.e., Ukraine)Date | between 1890 and 1900 Dimensions | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.Accession number | LCCN2001697426Credit line |  | This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs divisionunder the digital ID ppmsc.03818.This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still reqhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowFollowing the money for Ukrainegate. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter...more

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• “Hong Kong has an idiot in charge” – Claudia Rosett watches from inside.

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  Oct 08 2019

  Image: Streets of Hong Kong, 1865.Claudia Rosett, Independent Women’s Forum, in Hong Kong, an how the middle class is uncertain of the future. How are Hong Kong traders and bankers seeing events?  Extremely worried, esp since Carrie Lam refuses to do anything to accommodate the population.  A great city thrown into chaos by Communist China, with an idiot in charge and riot police going wherever they want.  Expect Internet shutdown.  If any leader emerges, China imprisons him. What do the people think the city will be like in three months? “We don’t know.”  Subway stations open and close; stores open irregularly.  A couple with a young daughter want to stay, are afraid they have to leave for her safety.   “Please have Congress pass the Hong Kong Freedom and Democracy Act.”   ...more

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• China 1, NBA 0. Houston Rockets manager praises freedom, risks being fired. Michael Yon & Gordon Chang

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  Oct 08 2019

  Image:   A U.S. Naval Academy ("Navy") player, left, posts up a U.S. Military Academy ("Army") defender. Public domain..Michael Yon, Hong Kong reporter, & michaelyon on Facebook; and Gordon Chang, Daily Beast, on the Houston Rockets general manager angering China with a tweet on the Hong Kong Protests: “Fight for freedom. Stand with Hong Kong.” Beijing came down like a sledgehammer:  NBA in fear apparently will fire the manager, and what we’re seeing is that China will use economic leverage to weaponize basketball and force Americans to undermine each other.*       Carrie Lam forbad masks on the street – which was countered by talk of an ebola outbreak – and her edict has been ignored by Hong Kong protestors. All the ban did was anger people. Ordinary HK residents started wearing masks to say to their government, “We just won't listen to you.” Elderly people wearing masks. “The GIA – grandmothers intelligence agency, because the old ladies know everything.”   What’ll Carrie Lam ban next—sneakers?  Martial law is in effect: stopping buses, hauling everyone off to check their IDs.   HK is outside the Great Chinese Firewall.         PLA in Kowloon raised a yellow flag, as they do just before firing off gas.  The GIA is very angry.  The thought is that at some point the PA will attack. A lot of people are saying they’ll fight and die – “Give me liberty or give me death” is inscribed all over.  A 14-year-old was shot last week; three killed in the Prince Edward Station.   MichaelYon on Facebook.* “Other criticism came from Tencent, a major media partner of the NBA in China with a streaming deal that is worth $1.5 billion over the next five years, and Chinese state television — both of which said they would not be showing Rockets games. It wasn’t immediately clear if Morey’s new tweets or the NBA’s statement that followed would be enough to salvage those relationships. Chinese athletic apparel maker Li-Ning released a statement saying it was upset with Morey’s tweet.”   Tencent is a government-run propaganda machine.    ...more

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• 4/4 Blackett's War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare, by Stephen Budiansky

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  Image:  The Government Office for Science advises the UK Government on policy and decision-making based on robust scientific evidence and long-term thinking. It is led by the Government Chief Scientific Adviser (GCSA), who reports to the Prime Minister and Cabinet.. Blackett's War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare, Stephen Budiansky (Author), John Lee (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher).  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged        The exciting history of a small group of British and American scientists who, during World War II, developed the new field of operational research to turn back the tide of German submarines—revolutionizing the way wars are waged and won.        In March 1941, after a year of unbroken and devastating U-boat onslaughts, the British War Cabinet decided to try a new strategy in the foundering naval campaign. To do so, they hired an intensely private, bohemian physicist who was also an ardent socialist. Patrick Blackett was a former navy officer and future winner of the Nobel Prize; he is little remembered today, but he and his fellow scientists did as much to win the war against Nazi Germany as almost anyone else. As director of the World War II antisubmarine effort, Blackett used little more than simple mathematics and probability theory—and a steadfast belief in the utility of science—to save the campaign against the U-boat. Employing these insights in unconventional ways, from the washing of mess hall dishes to the color of bomber wings, the Allies went on to win essential victories against Hitler’s Germany.        Here is the story of these civilian intellectuals who helped to change the nature of twentieth-century warfare. Throughout, Stephen Budiansky describes how scientists became intimately involved with what had once been the distinct province of military commanders—convincing disbelieving military brass to trust the solutions suggested by their analysis. Budiansky shows that these men above all retained the belief that operational research, and a scientific mentality, could change the world. It’s a belief that has come to fruition with the spread of their tenets to the business and military worlds, and it started in the Battle of the Atlantic, in an attempt to outfight the Germans, but most of all to outwit them.  ...more

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• 3/4 Blackett's War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare, by Stephen Budiansky

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  Image:  The Battle of the Atlantic.  Here: Dixie Arrow torpedoed off Cape Hatteras by U-71, 26 March 1942. Public domain.. Blackett's War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare, Stephen Budiansky (Author), John Lee (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher).  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged        The exciting history of a small group of British and American scientists who, during World War II, developed the new field of operational research to turn back the tide of German submarines—revolutionizing the way wars are waged and won.        In March 1941, after a year of unbroken and devastating U-boat onslaughts, the British War Cabinet decided to try a new strategy in the foundering naval campaign. To do so, they hired an intensely private, bohemian physicist who was also an ardent socialist. Patrick Blackett was a former navy officer and future winner of the Nobel Prize; he is little remembered today, but he and his fellow scientists did as much to win the war against Nazi Germany as almost anyone else. As director of the World War II antisubmarine effort, Blackett used little more than simple mathematics and probability theory—and a steadfast belief in the utility of science—to save the campaign against the U-boat. Employing these insights in unconventional ways, from the washing of mess hall dishes to the color of bomber wings, the Allies went on to win essential victories against Hitler’s Germany.        Here is the story of these civilian intellectuals who helped to change the nature of twentieth-century warfare. Throughout, Stephen Budiansky describes how scientists became intimately involved with what had once been the distinct province of military commanders—convincing disbelieving military brass to trust the solutions suggested by their analysis. Budiansky shows that these men above all retained the belief that operational research, and a scientific mentality, could change the world. It’s a belief that has come to fruition with the spread of their tenets to the business and military worlds, and it started in the Battle of the Atlantic, in an attempt to outfight the Germans, but most of all to outwit them.      ...more

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• 2/4 Blackett's War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare, by Stephen Budiansky

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  Image:  Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, ca. 1950. Public domain.. Blackett's War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare, Stephen Budiansky (Author), John Lee (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher).  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged       The exciting history of a small group of British and American scientists who, during World War II, developed the new field of operational research to turn back the tide of German submarines—revolutionizing the way wars are waged and won.        In March 1941, after a year of unbroken and devastating U-boat onslaughts, the British War Cabinet decided to try a new strategy in the foundering naval campaign. To do so, they hired an intensely private, bohemian physicist who was also an ardent socialist. Patrick Blackett was a former navy officer and future winner of the Nobel Prize; he is little remembered today, but he and his fellow scientists did as much to win the war against Nazi Germany as almost anyone else. As director of the World War II antisubmarine effort, Blackett used little more than simple mathematics and probability theory—and a steadfast belief in the utility of science—to save the campaign against the U-boat. Employing these insights in unconventional ways, from the washing of mess hall dishes to the color of bomber wings, the Allies went on to win essential victories against Hitler’s Germany.        Here is the story of these civilian intellectuals who helped to change the nature of twentieth-century warfare. Throughout, Stephen Budiansky describes how scientists became intimately involved with what had once been the distinct province of military commanders—convincing disbelieving military brass to trust the solutions suggested by their analysis. Budiansky shows that these men above all retained the belief that operational research, and a scientific mentality, could change the world. It’s a belief that has come to fruition with the spread of their tenets to the business and military worlds, and it started in the Battle of the Atlantic, in an attempt to outfight the Germans, but most of all to outwit them.  ...more

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• 1/4 Blackett's War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare, by Stephen Budiansky

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  Oct 07 2019

  Image:   Imperial War Cabinet, 1917. Public domain.       British War Cabinet. Photograph shows the Imperial War Cabinet during World War I taken at 10 Downing Street, London, probably in March or April of 1917. Seated front row, left to right: unidentified, unidentified, George Curzon; first Marquess Curzon; Bonar Law, David Lloyd George, Robert Burden, William Massey, Jan Smuts. Middle row: unidentified, Ganga Singh, unidentified, Austen Chamberlain.. Blackett's War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare, Stephen Budiansky (Author), John Lee (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher).  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged       The exciting history of a small group of British and American scientists who, during World War II, developed the new field of operational research to turn back the tide of German submarines—revolutionizing the way wars are waged and won.        In March 1941, after a year of unbroken and devastating U-boat onslaughts, the British War Cabinet decided to try a new strategy in the foundering naval campaign. To do so, they hired an intensely private, bohemian physicist who was also an ardent socialist. Patrick Blackett was a former navy officer and future winner of the Nobel Prize; he is little remembered today, but he and his fellow scientists did as much to win the war against Nazi Germany as almost anyone else. As director of the World War II antisubmarine effort, Blackett used little more than simple mathematics and probability theory—and a steadfast belief in the utility of science—to save the campaign against the U-boat. Employing these insights in unconventional ways, from the washing of mess hall dishes to the color of bomber wings, the Allies went on to win essential victories against Hitler’s Germany.        Here is the story of these civilian intellectuals who helped to change the nature of twentieth-century warfare. Throughout, Stephen Budiansky describes how scientists became intimately involved with what had once been the distinct province of military commanders—convincing disbelieving military brass to trust the solutions suggested by their analysis. Budiansky shows that these men above all retained the belief that operational research, and a scientific mentality, could change the world. It’s a belief that has come to fruition with the spread of their tenets to the business and military worlds, and it started in the Battle of the Atlantic, in an attempt to outfight the Germans, but most of all to outwit them.  ...more

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• 8/8 The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World, by Lincoln Paine

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  Oct 07 2019

  Image:  Legend: "The great ships full of boys and girls sent in search of the immortal medicine (Hôraizan) by the Chinese Emperor Shih Huang Ti (Shikôtei), c. 219 BCE". A 19th century ukiyo-e by Kuniyoshi depicting the ships of the great sea expedition sent around 219 BC by the first Chinese Emperor, Qin Shi Huang, to find the legendary home of the immortals, the Mount Penglai, and retrieve the elixir of immortality. Public domain.. The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World, by Lincoln Paine (Author) Tom Perkins (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher). Audible Audiobook – Unabridged       A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of maritime enterprise, revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world's waterways, bringing together civilizations and defining what makes us most human.       Lincoln Paine takes us back to the origins of long-distance migration by sea with our ancestors' first forays from Africa and Eurasia to Australia and the Americas. He demonstrates the critical role of maritime trade to the civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus Valley. He reacquaints us with the great seafaring cultures of antiquity like those of the Phoenicians and Greeks as well as those of India and Southeast and East Asia, who parlayed their navigational skills, shipbuilding techniques, and commercial acumen to establish thriving overseas colonies and trade routes in the centuries leading up to the age of European expansion. And finally, his narrative traces how commercial shipping and naval warfare brought about the enormous demographic, cultural, and political changes that have globalized the world throughout the post-Cold War era. https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Civilization-Maritime-History-World/dp/B078TMZJYC/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1570377550&sr=1-1   ...more

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• 7/8 The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World, by Lincoln Paine

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  Image: British Museum: "Assyrian warship 700-692 BC, from Nineveh, South-West Palace, Room VII, panel 11.  This ship was by Sennacherib. It is a bireme (dieris; Greek: διήρης), with two levels of oars. Shields are fastened around the superstructure, as on the fortifications of some city walls. The pointed bow is a ram, for holding enemy ships"     Permissions*: see below       To see a remarkable illustration of world commercial shipping:  https://www.canadiangeographic.ca/article/map-lets-you-visualize-shipping-traffic-around-world ;    scroll down to:To capture the enormity of the situation, Kiln, a London-based visualization studio, created the beautiful interactive map below: . The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World, by Lincoln Paine (Author) Tom Perkins (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher). Audible Audiobook – Unabridged       A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of maritime enterprise, revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world's waterways, bringing together civilizations and defining what makes us most human.       Lincoln Paine takes us back to the origins of long-distance migration by sea with our ancestors' first forays from Africa and Eurasia to Australia and the Americas. He demonstrates the critical role of maritime trade to the civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus Valley. He reacquaints us with the great seafaring cultures of antiquity like those of the Phoenicians and Greeks as well as those of India and Southeast and East Asia, who parlayed their navigational skills, shipbuilding techniques, and commercial acumen to establish thriving overseas colonies and trade routes in the centuries leading up to the age of European expansion. And finally, his narrative traces how commercial shipping and naval warfare brought about the enormous demographic, cultural, and political changes that have globalized the world throughout the post-Cold War era.https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Civilization-Maritime-History-World/dp/B078TMZJYC/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1570377550&sr=1-1.*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.       No machine-readable author provided. World Imaging assumed (based on copyright claims). ….. ...more

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• 6/8 The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World, by Lincoln Paine

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  Image: Indian vessel as shown in the Fra Mauro map (1460). Public domain.. The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World, by Lincoln Paine (Author) Tom Perkins (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher). Audible Audiobook – Unabridged       A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of maritime enterprise, revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world's waterways, bringing together civilizations and defining what makes us most human.       Lincoln Paine takes us back to the origins of long-distance migration by sea with our ancestors' first forays from Africa and Eurasia to Australia and the Americas. He demonstrates the critical role of maritime trade to the civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus Valley. He reacquaints us with the great seafaring cultures of antiquity like those of the Phoenicians and Greeks as well as those of India and Southeast and East Asia, who parlayed their navigational skills, shipbuilding techniques, and commercial acumen to establish thriving overseas colonies and trade routes in the centuries leading up to the age of European expansion. And finally, his narrative traces how commercial shipping and naval warfare brought about the enormous demographic, cultural, and political changes that have globalized the world throughout the post-Cold War era. https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Civilization-Maritime-History-World/dp/B078TMZJYC/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1570377550&sr=1-1       ...more

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• 5/8 The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World, by Lincoln Paine

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  Image:  Map of the Arctic region showing the Northeast Passage, the Northern Sea Route within it, and the Northwest Passage.  Public domain.. The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World, by Lincoln Paine (Author) Tom Perkins (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher). Audible Audiobook – Unabridged       A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of maritime enterprise, revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world's waterways, bringing together civilizations and defining what makes us most human.       Lincoln Paine takes us back to the origins of long-distance migration by sea with our ancestors' first forays from Africa and Eurasia to Australia and the Americas. He demonstrates the critical role of maritime trade to the civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus Valley. He reacquaints us with the great seafaring cultures of antiquity like those of the Phoenicians and Greeks as well as those of India and Southeast and East Asia, who parlayed their navigational skills, shipbuilding techniques, and commercial acumen to establish thriving overseas colonies and trade routes in the centuries leading up to the age of European expansion. And finally, his narrative traces how commercial shipping and naval warfare brought about the enormous demographic, cultural, and political changes that have globalized the world throughout the post-Cold War era. https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Civilization-Maritime-History-World/dp/B078TMZJYC/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1570377550&sr=1-1   ...more

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• Best of Epstein: Socialism was weak then and is weak now. 1 of 2. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Oct 07 2019

  Photo: The Engels family house at Barmen (now in Wuppertal), GermanyThe original uploader was Manos at German Wikipedia. - Transferred from de.wikipedia to Commons. Engelshaus. An der Friedrich-Engels-Allee in Barmen gelegen. Dient heute als Teil des Museums für Frühindustrialisierung. Eigenes Bild. Aufgenommen 28.05.2005. Urheber: manos CC BY-SA 3.0 File:280505 001 Engelshaus Barmen.jpg Created: 21 September 2006 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowBest of Epstein: Socialism was weak then and is weak now.  1 of 2.  @RichardAEpstein @HooverInsthttps://www.hoover.org/research/intellectual-poverty-new-socialists?utmsource=hdr&utmmedium=email&utmcampaign=2018-09-05&utmsource=Hoover+Daily+Report&utmcampaign=6668f1ab5a-HDRCOPY01&utmmedium=email&utmterm=021b1edff3c-6668f1ab5a-72527561 ...more

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• Best of Epstein: Socialism was weak then and is weak now. 2 of 2. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Oct 07 2019

  Photo:Engels in 1868[92] George Lester, Manchester photographer - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Engelss56fe1.jpg, uploaded 2006-01-16 by w:User:Bronks Engels in 1868 Permission details Public Domain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Engelss56fe1.jpg)View more Public Domainview terms File:Engels 1856.jpg  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowBest of Epstein: Socialism was weak then and is weak now.  2 of 2.  @RichardAEpstein @HooverInsthttps://www.hoover.org/research/intellectual-poverty-new-socialists?utmsource=hdr&utmmedium=email&utmcampaign=2018-09-05&utmsource=Hoover+Daily+Report&utmcampaign=6668f1ab5a-HDRCOPY01&utmmedium=email&utmterm=021b1edff3c-6668f1ab5a-72527561 ...more

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• 4/8 The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World, by Lincoln Paine

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  Oct 07 2019

  Image:  USS Constitution participating in the bombardment of Tripoli, 3 August 1804.  Cornè, Michele Felice, 1752-1845, artist.  Public domain.. The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World, by Lincoln Paine (Author) Tom Perkins (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher). Audible Audiobook – Unabridged       A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of maritime enterprise, revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world's waterways, bringing together civilizations and defining what makes us most human.       Lincoln Paine takes us back to the origins of long-distance migration by sea with our ancestors' first forays from Africa and Eurasia to Australia and the Americas. He demonstrates the critical role of maritime trade to the civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus Valley. He reacquaints us with the great seafaring cultures of antiquity like those of the Phoenicians and Greeks as well as those of India and Southeast and East Asia, who parlayed their navigational skills, shipbuilding techniques, and commercial acumen to establish thriving overseas colonies and trade routes in the centuries leading up to the age of European expansion. And finally, his narrative traces how commercial shipping and naval warfare brought about the enormous demographic, cultural, and political changes that have globalized the world throughout the post-Cold War era.https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Civilization-Maritime-History-World/dp/B078TMZJYC/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1570377550&sr=1-1...more

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• 3/8 The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World, by Lincoln Paine

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  Image:  Hōkūleʻa, a modern replica of a Polynesian double-hulled voyaging canoe, is an example of a catamaran, one of the early sailing innovations of Austronesians that allowed the first human voyages across large distances of water.  (Hōkūle`a, a Hawaiian wa'a kaulua or voyaging canoe, sailing off Honolulu, photo taken from onboard the Chinese junk Princess Taiping, January 22, 2009.)Permissions*: see below. The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World, by Lincoln Paine (Author) Tom Perkins (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher). Audible Audiobook – Unabridged       A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of maritime enterprise, revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world's waterways, bringing together civilizations and defining what makes us most human.       Lincoln Paine takes us back to the origins of long-distance migration by sea with our ancestors' first forays from Africa and Eurasia to Australia and the Americas. He demonstrates the critical role of maritime trade to the civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus Valley. He reacquaints us with the great seafaring cultures of antiquity like those of the Phoenicians and Greeks as well as those of India and Southeast and East Asia, who parlayed their navigational skills, shipbuilding techniques, and commercial acumen to establish thriving overseas colonies and trade routes in the centuries leading up to the age of European expansion. And finally, his narrative traces how commercial shipping and naval warfare brought about the enormous demographic, cultural, and political changes that have globalized the world throughout the post-Cold War era.https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Civilization-Maritime-History-World/dp/B078TMZJYC/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1570377550&sr=1-1.*Permissions: Author: HongKongHuey 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 The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World, by Lincoln Paine

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  Image:  The Battle of Lepanto in 1571. Public domain. See text below*. The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World, by Lincoln Paine (Author) Tom Perkins (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher). Audible Audiobook – Unabridged       A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of maritime enterprise, revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world's waterways, bringing together civilizations and defining what makes us most human.       Lincoln Paine takes us back to the origins of long-distance migration by sea with our ancestors' first forays from Africa and Eurasia to Australia and the Americas. He demonstrates the critical role of maritime trade to the civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus Valley. He reacquaints us with the great seafaring cultures of antiquity like those of the Phoenicians and Greeks as well as those of India and Southeast and East Asia, who parlayed their navigational skills, shipbuilding techniques, and commercial acumen to establish thriving overseas colonies and trade routes in the centuries leading up to the age of European expansion. And finally, his narrative traces how commercial shipping and naval warfare brought about the enormous demographic, cultural, and political changes that have globalized the world throughout the post-Cold War era. https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Civilization-Maritime-History-World/dp/B078TMZJYC/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1570377550&sr=1-1.* The Battle of Lepanto from 7 October 1571, a naval engagement between allied Christian forces and the Ottoman Turks. The painting is near-contemporary, but it shows an "imaginative interpretation" of the battle. It appears to be based on a Venetian print by Martin Rota, dated 1572. A comparable painting by a different artist is preserved in the Museo Correr, Venice. The history of this painting is unknown, except that it was acquired by the NMM in 1946 from a London dealer, who may have obtained it from an English country house collection. The prominence of the Negroni galley may indicate that family as original owners. The otherwise unknown artist has signed it 'HLETTER' (H and L joined) immediately after the inscription identifying Uluch-Ali. In 1960, Cecil Gould of the National Gallery, London, suggested 'Austro-Flemish school' as a possible association but no further information has yet been found. Some of the ships are labelled, including the galley of Gian' Andrea Doria (IL.GIO.ANDREA.DORIA), the commander of the Genoese squadron, and the flagship of the Genoese Negroni family (LA CAPITANIA DENEGRNI). In the right foreground is the galley of the Christian renegade Uluch-Ali  ...more

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• 1/8 The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World, by Lincoln Paine

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  Image:  Phoenician trireme.  Public domain.. The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World, by Lincoln Paine (Author) Tom Perkins (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher). Audible Audiobook – Unabridged       A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of maritime enterprise, revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world's waterways, bringing together civilizations and defining what makes us most human.       Lincoln Paine takes us back to the origins of long-distance migration by sea with our ancestors' first forays from Africa and Eurasia to Australia and the Americas. He demonstrates the critical role of maritime trade to the civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus Valley. He reacquaints us with the great seafaring cultures of antiquity like those of the Phoenicians and Greeks as well as those of India and Southeast and East Asia, who parlayed their navigational skills, shipbuilding techniques, and commercial acumen to establish thriving overseas colonies and trade routes in the centuries leading up to the age of European expansion. And finally, his narrative traces how commercial shipping and naval warfare brought about the enormous demographic, cultural, and political changes that have globalized the world throughout the post-Cold War era. https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Civilization-Maritime-History-World/dp/B078TMZJYC/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1570377550&sr=1-1 ...more

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• Cycles of Time: 1 of 4: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Roger Penrose (Author), Bruce Mann (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Oct 06 2019

  Photo: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center The Big Bang left a permanent scare in the cosmic background, 5 billion light-years from EarthThe events surrounding the Big Bang were so cataclysmic that they left an indelible imprint on the fabric of the cosmos. We can detect these scars today by observing the oldest light in the universe. As it was created nearly 14 billion years ago, this light — which exists now as weak microwave radiation and is thus named the cosmic microwave background (CMB) — permeates the entire cosmos, filling it with detectable photons. The CMB can be used to probe the cosmos via something known as the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich (SZ) effect, which was first observed over 30 years ago. We detect the CMB here on Earth when its constituent microwave photons travel to us through space. On their journey to us, they can pass through galaxy clusters that contain high-energy electrons. These electrons give the photons a tiny boost of energy. Detecting these boosted photons through our telescopes is challenging but important — they can help astronomers to understand some of the fundamental properties of the universe, such as the location and distribution of dense galaxy clusters. The NASA/ESA (European Space Agency) Hubble Space Telescope observed one of most massive known galaxy clusters, RX J1347.5–1145, seen in this Picture of the Week, as part of the Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH). This observation of the cluster, 5 billion light-years from Earth, helped the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile to study the cosmic microwave background using the thermal Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect. The observations made with ALMA are visible as the blue-purple hues. Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, T. Kitayama (Toho University, Japan)/ESA/Hubble & NASA NASA image use policy.  NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Cycles of Time: 1 of 4: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Roger Penrose (Author), Bruce Mann (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Cycles-Time-Extraordinary-View-Universe/dp/B004YZ4J4U/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Roger+penrose+cycles+of+time&qid=1570323631&s=audible&sr=1-1From the best-selling author of The Emperor's New Mind and The Road to Reality, a groundbreaking book that provides new views on three of cosmology's most profound questions: What, if anything, came before the Big Bang? What is the source of order in our universe? What is its ultimate future? Current understanding of our universe dictates that all matter will eventually thin out to zero density, with huge black holes finally evaporating away into massless energy. Roger Penrose - one of the most innovative mathematicians of our time - turns around this predominant picture of the universe's "heat death," arguing how the expected ultimate fate of our accelerating, expanding universe can actually be reinterpreted as the "Big Bang" of a new one. Along the way to this remarkable cosmological picture, Penrose sheds new light on basic principles that underlie the behavior of our universe, describing various standard and nonstandard cosmological models, the fundamental role of the cosmic microwave background, and the key status of black holes. Ideal for both the amateur astronomer and the advanced physicist - with plenty of exciting insights for each - Cycles of Time is certain to provoke and challenge. ...more

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• Cycles of Time: 2 of 4: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Roger Penrose (Author), Bruce Mann (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo: Timeline of the universe. A representation of the evolution of the universe over 13.77 billion years. The far left depicts the earliest moment we can now probe, when a period of "inflation" produced a burst of exponential growth in the universe. (Size is depicted by the vertical extent of the grid in this graphic.) For the next several billion years, the expansion of the universe gradually slowed down as the matter in the universe pulled on itself via gravity. More recently, the expansion has begun to speed up again as the repulsive effects of dark energy have come to dominate the expansion of the universe. The afterglow light seen by WMAP was emitted about 375,000 years after inflation and has traversed the universe largely unimpeded since then. The conditions of earlier times are imprinted on this light; it also forms a backlight for later developments of the universe.Español: Diagrama de la evolución del universo desde el Big Bang (izquierda) hasta la actualidad.Français : Frise chronologique de l'univers, depuis le Big Bang jusqu'à nos jours.Русский: Временна́я шкала ВселеннойУкраїнська: Хронологія ВсесвітуPortuguês: Diagrama da evolução do universo desde o Big Bang (esquerda) até o presente.Date | circa 2006 Source | Original version: NASA; modified by CherkashAuthor | NASA/WMAP Science Teamhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Cycles of Time: 2 of 4: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Roger Penrose (Author), Bruce Mann (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Cycles-Time-Extraordinary-View-Universe/dp/B004YZ4J4U/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Roger+penrose+cycles+of+time&qid=1570323631&s=audible&sr=1-1From the best-selling author of The Emperor's New Mind and The Road to Reality, a groundbreaking book that provides new views on three of cosmology's most profound questions: What, if anything, came before the Big Bang? What is the source of order in our universe? What is its ultimate future? Current understanding of our universe dictates that all matter will eventually thin out to zero density, with huge black holes finally evaporating away into massless energy. Roger Penrose - one of the most innovative mathematicians of our time - turns around this predominant picture of the universe's "heat death," arguing how the expected ultimate fate of our accelerating, expanding universe can actually be reinterpreted as the "Big Bang" of a new one. Along the way to this remarkable cosmological picture, Penrose sheds new light on basic principles that underlie the behavior of our universe, describing various standard and nonstandard cosmological models, the fundamental role of the cosmic microwave background, and the key status of black holes. Ideal for both the amateur astronomer and the advanced physicist - with plenty of exciting insights for each - Cycles of Time is certain to provoke and challenge. ...more

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• Cycles of Time: 3 of 4: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Roger Penrose (Author), Bruce Mann (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Oct 06 2019

  Photo:  NASA ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000528 Keywords: Hubble Spies Big Bang Frontiers, big, galaxy, galaxies, bang,hubble, hubblespacetelescope, bingbang, macsj071753745 Album: Test Center: GSFC Creator: NASA Goddard Date Created: 2017-12-08 Visit GSFC Website  Observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have taken advantage of gravitational lensing to reveal the largest sample of the faintest and earliest known galaxies in the universe. Some of these galaxies formed just 600 million years after the big bang and are fainter than any other galaxy yet uncovered by Hubble. The team has determined for the first time with some confidence that these small galaxies were vital to creating the universe that we see today. An international team of astronomers, led by Hakim Atek of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, has discovered over 250 tiny galaxies that existed only 600-900 million years after the big bang— one of the largest samples of dwarf galaxies yet to be discovered at these epochs. The light from these galaxies took over 12 billion years to reach the telescope, allowing the astronomers to look back in time when the universe was still very young. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Cycles of Time: 3 of 4: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Roger Penrose (Author), Bruce Mann (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Cycles-Time-Extraordinary-View-Universe/dp/B004YZ4J4U/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Roger+penrose+cycles+of+time&qid=1570323631&s=audible&sr=1-1From the best-selling author of The Emperor's New Mind and The Road to Reality, a groundbreaking book that provides new views on three of cosmology's most profound questions: What, if anything, came before the Big Bang? What is the source of order in our universe? What is its ultimate future? Current understanding of our universe dictates that all matter will eventually thin out to zero density, with huge black holes finally evaporating away into massless energy. Roger Penrose - one of the most innovative mathematicians of our time - turns around this predominant picture of the universe's "heat death," arguing how the expected ultimate fate of our accelerating, expanding universe can actually be reinterpreted as the "Big Bang" of a new one. Along the way to this remarkable cosmological picture, Penrose sheds new light on basic principles that underlie the behavior of our universe, describing various standard and nonstandard cosmological models, the fundamental role of the cosmic microwave background, and the key status of black holes. Ideal for both the amateur astronomer and the advanced physicist - with plenty of exciting insights for each - Cycles of Time is certain to provoke and challenge. ...more

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• Cycles of Time: 4 of 4: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Roger Penrose (Author), Bruce Mann (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo: This work, identified by PublicDomainFiles.com, is free of known copyright restrictions.Description:IRAQ (AFPN) -- Staff Sgt. Ron White gives direction to the volunteers who will help palletize ordnance for transportation to the explosive ordnance disposal site at Ali Base, Iraq. Sergeant White is assigned to the 407th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron.Creator:U.S. Air Force photoSource:US Air ForceViews:83Downloads:1Date Added:October 23, 2012 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Cycles of Time: 4 of 4: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Roger Penrose (Author), Bruce Mann (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Cycles-Time-Extraordinary-View-Universe/dp/B004YZ4J4U/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Roger+penrose+cycles+of+time&qid=1570323631&s=audible&sr=1-1From the best-selling author of The Emperor's New Mind and The Road to Reality, a groundbreaking book that provides new views on three of cosmology's most profound questions: What, if anything, came before the Big Bang? What is the source of order in our universe? What is its ultimate future? Current understanding of our universe dictates that all matter will eventually thin out to zero density, with huge black holes finally evaporating away into massless energy. Roger Penrose - one of the most innovative mathematicians of our time - turns around this predominant picture of the universe's "heat death," arguing how the expected ultimate fate of our accelerating, expanding universe can actually be reinterpreted as the "Big Bang" of a new one. Along the way to this remarkable cosmological picture, Penrose sheds new light on basic principles that underlie the behavior of our universe, describing various standard and nonstandard cosmological models, the fundamental role of the cosmic microwave background, and the key status of black holes. Ideal for both the amateur astronomer and the advanced physicist - with plenty of exciting insights for each - Cycles of Time is certain to provoke and challenge. ...more

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• The Battle of the Tanks: 1 of 4: Kursk, 1943 Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Lloyd Clark (Author), David Baker (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Photo: Troops of Division Das Reich, Tiger I tank, in June 1943 before the battleBundesarchiv, Bild 101III-Zschaeckel-206-35 / Zschäckel, Friedrich / CC-BY-SA 3.0 CC BY-SA 3.0 de File:Bundesarchiv Bild 101III-Zschaeckel-206-35, Schlacht um Kursk, Panzer VI (Tiger I).jpg Created: June 1943date QS:P,+1943-06-00T00:00:00Z/10 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Battle of the Tanks: 1 of 4: Kursk, 1943  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Lloyd Clark (Author), David Baker (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Tanks-Kursk-1943/dp/B00X92ECDC/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=On July 5, 1943, the greatest land battle in history began when Nazi and Red Army forces clashed near the town of Kursk, on the western border of the Soviet Union. Code named Operation Citadel, the German offensive would cut through the bulge in the eastern front that had been created following Germany's retreat at the battle of Stalingrad. But the Soviets, well informed about Germany's plans through their network of spies, had months to prepare. Two million men supported by 6,000 tanks, 35,000 guns, and 5,000 aircraft convened in Kursk for an epic confrontation that was one of the most important military engagements in history, the epitome of total war. It was also one of the most bloody, and despite suffering seven times more casualties, the Soviets won a decisive victory that became a turning point in the war.  With unprecedented access to the journals and testimonials of the officers, soldiers, political leaders, and citizens who lived through it, The Battle of the Tanks is the definitive account of an epic showdown that changed the course of history....more

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• The Battle of the Tanks: 2 of 4: Kursk, 1943 Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Lloyd Clark (Author), David Baker (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Photo: Guderian being transported to the Eastern Front, 1943Oberst Ludwig v. Eimannsberger - Oberst Ludwig v. Eimannsberger Generaloberst Guderian Permission details 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 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 #2011040910006977. If you have questions about the archived correspondence, please use the OTRS noticeboard.View more CC BY-SA 3.0view terms File:091220 - Heinz Guderian.jpg Created: circa 1943 date QS:P,+1943-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Battle of the Tanks: 2 of 4: Kursk, 1943  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Lloyd Clark (Author), David Baker (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Tanks-Kursk-1943/dp/B00X92ECDC/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=On July 5, 1943, the greatest land battle in history began when Nazi and Red Army forces clashed near the town of Kursk, on the western border of the Soviet Union. Code named Operation Citadel, the German offensive would cut through the bulge in the eastern front that had been created following Germany's retreat at the battle of Stalingrad. But the Soviets, well informed about Germany's plans through their network of spies, had months to prepare. Two million men supported by 6,000 tanks, 35,000 guns, and 5,000 aircraft convened in Kursk for an epic confrontation that was one of the most important military engagements in history, the epitome of total war. It was also one of the most bloody, and despite suffering seven times more casualties, the Soviets won a decisive victory that became a turning point in the war.  With unprecedented access to the journals and testimonials of the officers, soldiers, political leaders, and citizens who lived through it, The Battle of the Tanks is the definitive account of an epic showdown that changed the course of history....more

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• The Battle of the Tanks: 3 of 4: Kursk, 1943 Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Lloyd Clark (Author), David Baker (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Photo: A Raupenschlepper Ost, designed in response to the poor roads of Russia, moves materiel up shortly before the Kursk offensive.Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-022-2925-17 / Wolff/Altvater / CC-BY-SA 3.0 CC BY-SA 3.0 de File:Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-022-2925-17, Russland, motorisierte Truppen.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Battle of the Tanks: 3 of 4: Kursk, 1943  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Lloyd Clark (Author), David Baker (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Tanks-Kursk-1943/dp/B00X92ECDC/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=On July 5, 1943, the greatest land battle in history began when Nazi and Red Army forces clashed near the town of Kursk, on the western border of the Soviet Union. Code named Operation Citadel, the German offensive would cut through the bulge in the eastern front that had been created following Germany's retreat at the battle of Stalingrad. But the Soviets, well informed about Germany's plans through their network of spies, had months to prepare. Two million men supported by 6,000 tanks, 35,000 guns, and 5,000 aircraft convened in Kursk for an epic confrontation that was one of the most important military engagements in history, the epitome of total war. It was also one of the most bloody, and despite suffering seven times more casualties, the Soviets won a decisive victory that became a turning point in the war.  With unprecedented access to the journals and testimonials of the officers, soldiers, political leaders, and citizens who lived through it, The Battle of the Tanks is the definitive account of an epic showdown that changed the course of history....more

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• The Battle of the Tanks: 4 of 4: Kursk, 1943 Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Lloyd Clark (Author), David Baker (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Photo: A Soviet machine gun crew during the Battle of Kursk.Unknown - "The Eastern Front in Photographs", John Erickson At Kursk, the Red Army committed more than a million men, more than 3,275 tanks and 25,000 guns and mortars. Soviet riflemen like these had to hold off "tank fists" and German assault infantry supported by dive-bombers and heavy artillery fire. Soviet losses at Kursk amounted to 177,847 men killed, missing or wounded. Permission details This file is a Ukrainian or Ukrainian SSR work and it is presently in the public domain in Ukraine, because it was published before January 1, 1951, and the creator (if known) died before that date (details). (This is the effect of the retroactive Ukrainian copyright law of 1993 and the copyright term extension from 50 to 70 years in 2001.) A Ukrainian or Ukrainian SSR work that is in the public domain in Ukraine according to this rule is in the public domain in the U.S. only if it was in the public domain in Ukraine before January 1, 1996, e.g. if it was published before January 1, 1946 and the creator died before this date, and no copyright was registered in the U.S. (This is the combined effect of the retroactive [1], Ukraine's joining the Berne Convention in 1996, and of 17 USC 104A with its critical date of January 1, 1996.) Deutsch | English | suomi | français | italiano | русский | українська | +/−View more Public Domainview terms File:Kursk Soviet machineguns.JPG http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Battle of the Tanks: 4 of 4: Kursk, 1943  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Lloyd Clark (Author), David Baker (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Tanks-Kursk-1943/dp/B00X92ECDC/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=On July 5, 1943, the greatest land battle in history began when Nazi and Red Army forces clashed near the town of Kursk, on the western border of the Soviet Union. Code named Operation Citadel, the German offensive would cut through the bulge in the eastern front that had been created following Germany's retreat at the battle of Stalingrad. But the Soviets, well informed about Germany's plans through their network of spies, had months to prepare. Two million men supported by 6,000 tanks, 35,000 guns, and 5,000 aircraft convened in Kursk for an epic confrontation that was one of the most important military engagements in history, the epitome of total war. It was also one of the most bloody, and despite suffering seven times more casualties, the Soviets won a decisive victory that became a turning point in the war.  With unprecedented access to the journals and testimonials of the officers, soldiers, political leaders, and citizens who lived through it, The Battle of the Tanks is the definitive account of an epic showdown that changed the course of history....more

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• InSight is not nominal. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Oct 06 2019

  Photo: NASA InSight's Robotic Arm Helps Out its Mole on Mars: NASA’s InSight lander on Mars is trying to use its robotic arm to get the mission’s heat flow probe, or mole, digging again. InSight team engineer Ashitey Trebbi-Ollennu, based at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, explains what has been attempted and the game plan for the coming weeks. The next tactic they'll try will be "pinning" the mole against the hole it's in. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltechhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowInSight is not nominal.  Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/insight-robot-arm-to-help-mole-dig/ ...more

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• Destination SpaceX Moon. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Oct 06 2019

  Photo: English: Cover of Fawcett Comics's adaptation of Destination Moon.Date | 1950Source | http://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=16288Author | Fawcett Comics/George Pal ProductionsPermission(Reusing this file) |  | This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1924 and 1963 and although there may or may not have been a copyright notice, the copyright was not renewed. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowDestination SpaceX Moon. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-wins-launch-contract-for-nasa-privately-built-lunar-lander/ ...more

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• Widespread Iraq demonstrations against "corrupt" Baghdad regime. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Oct 05 2019

  Photo: German Baghdad Railway.Päiväys | Photo taken between 1900 and 1910.Lähde |  | Tämä image on saatavilla Yhdysvaltain kongressin kirjaston http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWidespread Iraq demonstrations against "corrupt" Baghdad regime. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_preshttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/04/iraq-police-open-fire-protesters-baghdad-fourth-day-unrest

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• The New American Civil War: 2 of 2: Did the Redeemer Nation start on 6/6/44 and end on 9/11/01? Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Oct 05 2019

  Photo: Seabees landing on D-Day, WWIIDescription: The 111th Naval Construction Battalion landing at Omaha Beach before the Mulberry was installed, 6 June 1944. Ships unloading on the beach while barrage balloons hover overhead. The Seabees constructed and operated camps for naval personnel behind the invasion beaches. On D-Day plus 6, work began on a beach camp designed to accommodate 6000 men.  Date: June 6, 1944 Creator/Photographer: 111th NCB Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. Repository: U.S. Navy Seabee Museum, Collections Department, Port Hueneme, CA 93043, www.history.navy.mil/museums/seabee_museum.htm http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe New American Civil War: 2 of 2: Did the Redeemer Nation start on 6/6/44 and end on 9/11/01? Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis ...more

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• The New American Civil War: 1 of 2: Did the Redeemer Nation start on 6/6/44 and end on 9/11/01? Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Oct 05 2019

  Photo: D-Day: The Normandy InvasionMembers of a landing party help injured Soldiers to safety on Utah Beach during the Allied Invasion of Europe on D-Day, June 6, 1944. www.army.mil/d-day http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe New American Civil War: 1 of 2: Did the Redeemer Nation start on 6/6/44 and end on 9/11/01? Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis 

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• Iran's Subterranean Missile City & What is to be done? Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Oct 05 2019

  Photo: Remainings of Persepolis near Shiraz, Iranhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowIran's Subterranean Missile City & What is to be done? Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_preshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_underground_missile_bases

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• Impeachment and Senate Trial: 2 of 2: "You can't do this in less than two years." @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Oct 05 2019

  Photo: Taking the Vote on the Impeachment of President Johnson, Senate Chamber, Washington, D.C., May 16th, 1868. – Senator Ross, of Kansas, Voting "Not Guilty." – Wood engraving, black and white, after James E. Taylor. – To the right on the dais: two Senate Pages.Date | 1868Source | Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, June 6, 1886, https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/art/common/image/Ga_chamber_38_00378a.htmAuthor | Unknownhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowImpeachment and Senate Trial: 2 of 2: "You can't do this in less than two years."  @RichardAEpstein @HooverInsthttps://www.hoover.org/research/ludicrous-impeachment-charge ...more

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• Impeachment and Senate Trial: 1 of 2: "Impeachment on evidence that would be manifestly inadmissible..." @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Photo:The Last speech on impeachment--Thaddeus Stevens closing the debate in the House, March 2.Date | Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1868 March 21, p. 180.Source |  | This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs divisionunder the digital ID cph.3c06848. https://www.hoover.org/research/ludicrous-impeachment-chargehttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowImpeachment and Senate Trial: 1 of 2:  "Impeachment on evidence that would be manifestly inadmissible..." @RichardAEpstein @HooverInsthttps://www.hoover.org/research/ludicrous-impeachment-charge ...more

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• Bailout: 4 of 4: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street Jul 24, 2012. by Neil Barofsky , Joe Barrett , Inc. Blackstone Audio Audible Audiobook

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  Oct 05 2019

  Photo: United States Department of the Treasury Joebengo - Originally from en.wikipedia; description page is/was here. Original uploader was Joebengo at en.wikipedia The U.S. Treasury building, Washington D.C. Permission details This work has been released into the public domain by its author, Joebengo at the Wikipediaproject. This applies worldwide. In case this is not legally possible: Joebengo grants anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.View more Public Domainview terms File:Ustreasur.JPG http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowBailout: 4 of 4: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street Jul 24, 2012. by Neil Barofsky , Joe Barrett , Inc. Blackstone Audio  Audible Audiobookhttps://www.amazon.com/Neil-M.-Barofsky/e/B00DVPZZYM%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_shareAn insider of both the Bush and Obama administrations offers an irrefutable indictment of the mishandling of the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program bailouts and the extreme degree to which our government officials-from both parties-served the interests of Wall Street at the expense of the public. From his first day on the job as the special inspector general in charge of overseeing the distribution of the bailout money, Neil Barofsky found that the officials at the Treasury Department in charge of the bailouts were in thrall to the interests of the big banks. In vivid behind-the-scenes detail he reveals how they steadfastly failed to hold the banks accountable even as they disregarded major job losses caused by the auto bailouts and refused to help struggling homeowners. He discloses how the team at the Treasury under Secretary Timothy Geithner worked with Wall Street executives to design programs that would have funneled vast amounts of taxpayer money to their firms and allowed them to game the markets and make huge profits with almost no risk and no accountability. Providing stark details about how-through a combination of sheer incompetence and a profound disregard of the plight of homeowners-the interests of the broader public were betrayed, he recounts how an increasingly aggressive war was waged by the Treasury against his efforts to raise the alarm about the failures. Bailout is a riveting account of his plunge into the political meat grinder of Washington, as well as a vital revelation of just how captive to Wall Street our political system is and why the too-big-to-fail banks have only become bigger and more dangerous in the wake of the crisis. Neil Barofsky is currently a senior fellow at New York University School of Law. From December 2008 until March 2011, he served as the special inspector general in charge of oversight of the Troubled Asset Relief Program. Before that he was a federal prosecutor in the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. Bailout is his first book....more

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• Bailout: 3 of 4: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street Jul 24, 2012. by Neil Barofsky , Joe Barrett , Inc. Blackstone Audio

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  Oct 05 2019

  Photo: Reserve balances with U.S. Federal Reserve Banks, 1995-2008 and 2008, in billions of U.S. dollars w:Federal Reserve System FRED economic data system, U.S. Government - http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/Raw Data: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/data/WRESBAL.txt Reserve Balances with w:U.S. Federal Reserve Banks, Weekly, 1995-2008 in Billions of Dollars Public Domain File:EESA128.png http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowBailout: 3 of 4: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street Jul 24, 2012. by Neil Barofsky , Joe Barrett , Inc. Blackstone Audio  Audible Audiobookhttps://www.amazon.com/Neil-M.-Barofsky/e/B00DVPZZYM%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_shareAn insider of both the Bush and Obama administrations offers an irrefutable indictment of the mishandling of the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program bailouts and the extreme degree to which our government officials-from both parties-served the interests of Wall Street at the expense of the public. From his first day on the job as the special inspector general in charge of overseeing the distribution of the bailout money, Neil Barofsky found that the officials at the Treasury Department in charge of the bailouts were in thrall to the interests of the big banks. In vivid behind-the-scenes detail he reveals how they steadfastly failed to hold the banks accountable even as they disregarded major job losses caused by the auto bailouts and refused to help struggling homeowners. He discloses how the team at the Treasury under Secretary Timothy Geithner worked with Wall Street executives to design programs that would have funneled vast amounts of taxpayer money to their firms and allowed them to game the markets and make huge profits with almost no risk and no accountability. Providing stark details about how-through a combination of sheer incompetence and a profound disregard of the plight of homeowners-the interests of the broader public were betrayed, he recounts how an increasingly aggressive war was waged by the Treasury against his efforts to raise the alarm about the failures. Bailout is a riveting account of his plunge into the political meat grinder of Washington, as well as a vital revelation of just how captive to Wall Street our political system is and why the too-big-to-fail banks have only become bigger and more dangerous in the wake of the crisis. Neil Barofsky is currently a senior fellow at New York University School of Law. From December 2008 until March 2011, he served as the special inspector general in charge of oversight of the Troubled Asset Relief Program. Before that he was a federal prosecutor in the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. Bailout is his first book....more

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• Bailout: 2 of 4: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street Jul 24, 2012. by Neil Barofsky , Joe Barrett , Inc. Blackstone Audio

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  Oct 05 2019

  Photo: 74 yea – 21 nay congress.org - congress.org Map detailing the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 Senate vote. Public Domain File:7bil-bailout-senateVOTE.png http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowBailout: 2 of 4: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street Jul 24, 2012. by Neil Barofsky , Joe Barrett , Inc. Blackstone Audio  Audible Audiobookhttps://www.amazon.com/Neil-M.-Barofsky/e/B00DVPZZYM%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_shareAn insider of both the Bush and Obama administrations offers an irrefutable indictment of the mishandling of the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program bailouts and the extreme degree to which our government officials-from both parties-served the interests of Wall Street at the expense of the public. From his first day on the job as the special inspector general in charge of overseeing the distribution of the bailout money, Neil Barofsky found that the officials at the Treasury Department in charge of the bailouts were in thrall to the interests of the big banks. In vivid behind-the-scenes detail he reveals how they steadfastly failed to hold the banks accountable even as they disregarded major job losses caused by the auto bailouts and refused to help struggling homeowners. He discloses how the team at the Treasury under Secretary Timothy Geithner worked with Wall Street executives to design programs that would have funneled vast amounts of taxpayer money to their firms and allowed them to game the markets and make huge profits with almost no risk and no accountability. Providing stark details about how-through a combination of sheer incompetence and a profound disregard of the plight of homeowners-the interests of the broader public were betrayed, he recounts how an increasingly aggressive war was waged by the Treasury against his efforts to raise the alarm about the failures. Bailout is a riveting account of his plunge into the political meat grinder of Washington, as well as a vital revelation of just how captive to Wall Street our political system is and why the too-big-to-fail banks have only become bigger and more dangerous in the wake of the crisis. Neil Barofsky is currently a senior fellow at New York University School of Law. From December 2008 until March 2011, he served as the special inspector general in charge of oversight of the Troubled Asset Relief Program. Before that he was a federal prosecutor in the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. Bailout is his first book....more

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• Bailout: 1 of 4: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street Jul 24, 2012. by Neil Barofsky , Joe Barrett , Inc. Blackstone Audio

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  Oct 05 2019

  Photo: President Bush meets with Congressional members, including presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama, at the White House to discuss the bailout, September 25, 2008.[25] White House photo by David Bohrer - White House President George W. Bush speaks during a meeting with Bicameral and Bipartisan members of Congress Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008, in the Cabinet Room of the White House. Included in the meeting with the President are, from left: Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.; Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.; Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. Public Domain File:President George W. Bush bipartisan economic meeting Congress, McCain, Obama.jpg Created: 24 September 2008 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowBailout: 1 of 4: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street Jul 24, 2012. by Neil Barofsky , Joe Barrett , Inc. Blackstone Audio  Audible Audiobookhttps://www.amazon.com/Neil-M.-Barofsky/e/B00DVPZZYM%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_shareAn insider of both the Bush and Obama administrations offers an irrefutable indictment of the mishandling of the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program bailouts and the extreme degree to which our government officials-from both parties-served the interests of Wall Street at the expense of the public. From his first day on the job as the special inspector general in charge of overseeing the distribution of the bailout money, Neil Barofsky found that the officials at the Treasury Department in charge of the bailouts were in thrall to the interests of the big banks. In vivid behind-the-scenes detail he reveals how they steadfastly failed to hold the banks accountable even as they disregarded major job losses caused by the auto bailouts and refused to help struggling homeowners. He discloses how the team at the Treasury under Secretary Timothy Geithner worked with Wall Street executives to design programs that would have funneled vast amounts of taxpayer money to their firms and allowed them to game the markets and make huge profits with almost no risk and no accountability. Providing stark details about how-through a combination of sheer incompetence and a profound disregard of the plight of homeowners-the interests of the broader public were betrayed, he recounts how an increasingly aggressive war was waged by the Treasury against his efforts to raise the alarm about the failures. Bailout is a riveting account of his plunge into the political meat grinder of Washington, as well as a vital revelation of just how captive to Wall Street our political system is and why the too-big-to-fail banks have only become bigger and more dangerous in the wake of the crisis. Neil Barofsky is currently a senior fellow at New York University School of Law. From December 2008 until March 2011, he served as the special inspector general in charge of oversight of the Troubled Asset Relief Program. Before that he was a federal prosecutor in the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. Bailout is his first book....more

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• 2/2 Seb Gorka amuses us with Pres Trump’s enjoying the impeachment game

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  Oct 04 2019

  Image:  The 1868 House impeachment committee (from a photograph by Mathew Brady), seated (left to right): Benjamin F. Butler, Thaddeus Stevens, Thomas Williams, John A. Bingham, standing (left to right): James F. Wilson, George S. Boutwell, John A. Logan.  Public domain..Sebastian Gorka, America First radio, and author, The War for America’s Soul, on DS 17 and a MIRVd rocket in the Chinese parade; not a peaceful power celebrating its seventieth birthday.   “I predict no trade deal: the Chinese don’t understand who Donald Trump is, but this saber-rattling is for China’s neighbors.” Part of One Belt/One Road: purchasing key European infrastructure, such as ports, which Euros no longer can afford and China will a pay cash for.  Elizabeth Warren would accommodate.   Xi Jinping still thinks he can pull the wool over the eyes of one of the most successful businessmen of all time.       President connects at a visceral, organic level with working-class America, the forgotten men and women who were so accurately described in Hillbilly Elegy.        Does Liz Warren, who lied about her ethnic background to get a $400K job at Harvard, think she can connect with steel workers?       Yes, he’s having fun; he enjoys the tension, feeds on the political theater. Since the faux impeachment announcement he’s raised $125 million, an all-time record, while the DNC owes more than it’s raised.         If the silent majority was key in 2016 – it was – under this excellent economy can the GOP and RNC get those people to the polling stations? That’s the only question. ...more

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• 1/2 Seb Gorka amuses us with Pres Trump’s enjoying the impeachment game

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  Oct 04 2019

  Image:  John Tyler was the first president whom some in Congress tried to get rid of. Public domain..Sebastian Gorka, America First radio and author, The War for America’s Soul, in re:  Just landed from a long-haul flight to Rome with Secretary Pompeo; on landing here, I saw amazing sound bites of the president. He never backs down; has a spine of rebar.   Nancy Pelosi takes as [serious] allegations by  an unknown person whose information came from unknown persons. There doesn't exist an “impeachment investigation.”  If this ever gets to the Senate, they don't have a supermajority.  We’ll be able to summon whomever we want, including Hillary Clinton and Hunter Biden. It’s not a conspiracy theory when you have incontrovertible proof; Hunter Biden has no background in energy, finance, or anything relevant to his $50K/month from the board of Burisma in Ukraine or $1.5 bil from the Chinese state for his just-formed hedge fund. And his business partner, John Kerry’s stepson, Chris Heinz. [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7519043/Chris-Heinz-split-business-partner-Hunter-Biden-board-seat-Ukrainian-energy-company.html]   The Four Horsemen of the Democratic Apocalypse. Biden is basically out: it's now Elizabeth Warren’s to lose.  With 397 days left, there are at least 30 Demoocatic Congressmen in districts that Trump won.  .Real American parody.   The miniclip.com impeachment game    As the new president of The United Republic of the People's Territories of States, it is your noble duty to set your nation down the right path by signing executive orders. But will everyone agree with your decisions? Will your answers satisfy the republic or will they leave you IMPEACHED!    ...more

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• Nancy Pelosi is play-acting an impeachment inquiry. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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  Oct 04 2019

  Photo: Impeachment of Andrew Johnson.Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper - http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/image/Johnson_Impeachment_Trial.htm Impeachment of President Johnson Public Domain File:Senate-Johnson-Impeachment-Trials.jpg Created: 27 March 1868 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowNancy Pelosi is play-acting an impeachment inquiry. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJRhttps://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/464140-ignore-the-hype-this-is-not-an-impeachment-inquiry ...more

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• The Get-Barr-Before-Barr-Gets-Us Scenario. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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  Oct 04 2019

  Photo: Roy Bean holding court while sitting on a barrel and holding his law book in 1900.Photographer not named - This media is available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 530985. "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." Permission details PD-USGOV-MILITARY.View more Public Domainview terms File:Old langtry tx.jpg Created: 31 December 1899 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Get-Barr-Before-Barr-Gets-Us Scenario. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJRhttps://www.nationalreview.com/2019/10/do-republicans-see-the-strategy-to-discredit-the-barr-investigation/ ...more

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• Smearing Barr inadvertently creates the global map of the origins of Russiagate. 2 of 2 @LeeSmithDC

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  Oct 04 2019

  Photo: A rugby league match at Canberra Stadium *Paul*} - Own work by the original uploader Canberra Stadium 19 March 2005, Canberra Raiders (green) vs. Canterbury Bulldogs (white), NSWRL Premier League Public Domain File:BruceStadium19032005.JPG Created: 18 March 2005 Location: 35° 15′ 0″ S, 149° 6′ 9.72″ E http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowSmearing Barr inadvertently creates the global map of the origins of Russiagate. 2 of 2 @LeeSmithDChttps://nypost.com/2019/10/01/dems-media-aim-to-squash-barrs-probe-of-russia-collusion-hoax/ ...more

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• Smearing Barr inadvertently creates the global map of the origins of Russiagate. 1 of 2 @LeeSmithDC

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  Oct 04 2019

  Photo: 15th-century illustration depicting the Sack of Rome (410) by the Visighotic king Alaric I Maïtre François (illuminator) - Augustine, La Cité de Dieu (Vol. I). Translation from the Latin by Raoul de Presles Augustine, La Cité de Dieu (Vol. I). Translation from the Latin by Raoul de Presles: Sack of Rome by Alaric - sacred vessels are brought to a church for safety (2nd of 2 images). Place of origin, date: Paris, Maïtre François (illuminator); c. 1475; 1478-1480 Material: Vellum, ff. 467, 440x300 (270x185) mm, 46 lines, littera hybrida, Binding: 18th-century brown leather (c. 1769) Decoration: 11 two-column miniatures (257/204x190/177 mm); 277 column miniatures (c. 120x80 mm); 11 illustrations in the margin (coats of arms); decorated initials with border decoration Provenance: made for Jacques d'Armagnac, duke of Nemours (1433-1477) and after his capture continued for Philippe de Commines (1447-1511), lord of Argenton (coats of arms in margin and on edge). Purchased in 1751 at the sale of J.-A. Crozat de Tugny (1696-1751) at Thiboust, Paris,by L.-J. Gaignat of Paris; purchased in 1769 at the Gaignat sale at G.F. De Bure le Jeune, Paris (cat. 1 Febr., no. 242) by Gerard Meerman (1722-1771) of Rotterdam, later The Hague; by descent to his son Johan Meerman (1753-1815); acquired between 1816 and 1824 by Willem H.J vanWestreenen van Tiellandt (1783-1848) of The Hague; by legacy to the kingdom of the Netherlands Annotation: Vol. II now: Nantes, BM, fr. 8 Public Domain File:Sack of Rome by Alaric - sacred vessels are brought to a church for safety (2nd of 2).jpg Created: circa 1475 date QS:P,+1475-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowSmearing Barr inadvertently creates the global map of the origins of Russiagate. 1 of 2 @LeeSmithDChttps://nypost.com/2019/10/01/dems-media-aim-to-squash-barrs-probe-of-russia-collusion-hoax/ ...more

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• 4/4 Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President, by Candice Millard (author), Paul Michael (narrator), Random House Audio (publisher)

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  Oct 04 2019

  Image: Garfield, shot by Charles J. Guiteau, collapses as Secretary of State Blaine gestures for help. Engraving from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper.. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President, by Candice Millard (Author), Paul Michael (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher); Audible Audiobook – Unabridged       James A. Garfield may have been the most extraordinary man ever elected president. Born into abject poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War hero, and a renowned and admired reformist congressman. Nominated for president against his will, he engaged in a fierce battle with the corrupt political establishment. But four months after his inauguration, a deranged office seeker tracked Garfield down and shot him in the back.        But the shot didn't kill Garfield. The drama of what hap­pened subsequently is a powerful story of a nation in tur­moil. The unhinged assassin's half-delivered strike shattered the fragile national mood of a country so recently fractured by civil war, and left the wounded president as the object of a bitter, behind-the-scenes struggle for power–over his administration, over the nation's future, and, hauntingly, over his medical care. A team of physicians administered shockingly archaic treatments, to disastrous effect. As his con­dition worsened, Garfield received help: Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, worked around the clock to invent a new device capable of finding the bullet.        Meticulously researched, epic in scope, and pulsating with an intimate human focus and high-velocity narrative drive, The Destiny of the Republic will stand alongside The Devil in the White City and The Professor and the Madman as a classic of narrative history. From the Hardcover edition. https://www.amazon.com/Destiny-Republic-Madness-Medicine-President/dp/B005O5HY8C/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=     ...more

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• 3/4 Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President, by Candice Millard (author), Paul Michael (narrator), Random House Audio (publisher)

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  Oct 04 2019

  Image:  Throughout his political career, Garfield favored the gold standard and decried attempts to increase the money supply through the issuance of paper money not backed by gold, and later, through the free and unlimited coinage of silver.  Here, the greenback he despised. Public domain.. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President, by Candice Millard (Author), Paul Michael (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher); Audible Audiobook – Unabridged       James A. Garfield may have been the most extraordinary man ever elected president. Born into abject poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War hero, and a renowned and admired reformist congressman. Nominated for president against his will, he engaged in a fierce battle with the corrupt political establishment. But four months after his inauguration, a deranged office seeker tracked Garfield down and shot him in the back.        But the shot didn't kill Garfield. The drama of what hap­pened subsequently is a powerful story of a nation in tur­moil. The unhinged assassin's half-delivered strike shattered the fragile national mood of a country so recently fractured by civil war, and left the wounded president as the object of a bitter, behind-the-scenes struggle for power–over his administration, over the nation's future, and, hauntingly, over his medical care. A team of physicians administered shockingly archaic treatments, to disastrous effect. As his con­dition worsened, Garfield received help: Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, worked around the clock to invent a new device capable of finding the bullet.        Meticulously researched, epic in scope, and pulsating with an intimate human focus and high-velocity narrative drive, The Destiny of the Republic will stand alongside The Devil in the White City and The Professor and the Madman as a classic of narrative history. From the Hardcover edition. https://www.amazon.com/Destiny-Republic-Madness-Medicine-President/dp/B005O5HY8C/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= ...more

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• 2/4 Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President, by Candice Millard (author), Paul Michael (narrator), Random House Audio (publisher)

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  Oct 04 2019

    Image:  Replica of the log cabin where Garfield was born. Public domain,. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President, by Candice Millard (Author), Paul Michael (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher); Audible Audiobook – Unabridged       James A. Garfield may have been the most extraordinary man ever elected president. Born into abject poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War hero, and a renowned and admired reformist congressman. Nominated for president against his will, he engaged in a fierce battle with the corrupt political establishment. But four months after his inauguration, a deranged office seeker tracked Garfield down and shot him in the back.        But the shot didn't kill Garfield. The drama of what hap­pened subsequently is a powerful story of a nation in tur­moil. The unhinged assassin's half-delivered strike shattered the fragile national mood of a country so recently fractured by civil war, and left the wounded president as the object of a bitter, behind-the-scenes struggle for power–over his administration, over the nation's future, and, hauntingly, over his medical care. A team of physicians administered shockingly archaic treatments, to disastrous effect. As his con­dition worsened, Garfield received help: Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, worked around the clock to invent a new device capable of finding the bullet.        Meticulously researched, epic in scope, and pulsating with an intimate human focus and high-velocity narrative drive, The Destiny of the Republic will stand alongside The Devil in the White City and The Professor and the Madman as a classic of narrative history.  From the Hardcover edition.https://www.amazon.com/Destiny-Republic-Madness-Medicine-President/dp/B005O5HY8C/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=     ...more

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• 1/4 Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President, by Candice Millard (author), Paul Michael (narrator), Random House Audio (publisher)

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  Oct 04 2019

  Painting:  Official White House portrait of James A Garfield, 20th President of the United States. Public domain.. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President, by Candice Millard (Author), Paul Michael (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher); Audible Audiobook – Unabridged       James A. Garfield may have been the most extraordinary man ever elected president. Born into abject poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War hero, and a renowned and admired reformist congressman. Nominated for president against his will, he engaged in a fierce battle with the corrupt political establishment. But four months after his inauguration, a deranged office seeker tracked Garfield down and shot him in the back.        But the shot didn't kill Garfield. The drama of what hap­pened subsequently is a powerful story of a nation in tur­moil. The unhinged assassin's half-delivered strike shattered the fragile national mood of a country so recently fractured by civil war, and left the wounded president as the object of a bitter, behind-the-scenes struggle for power–over his administration, over the nation's future, and, hauntingly, over his medical care. A team of physicians administered shockingly archaic treatments, to disastrous effect. As his con­dition worsened, Garfield received help: Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, worked around the clock to invent a new device capable of finding the bullet.        Meticulously researched, epic in scope, and pulsating with an intimate human focus and high-velocity narrative drive, The Destiny of the Republic will stand alongside The Devil in the White City and The Professor and the Madman as a classic of narrative history. From the Hardcover edition. https://www.amazon.com/Destiny-Republic-Madness-Medicine-President/dp/B005O5HY8C/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= ...more

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• Chinese state runs out of Hong Kong options when fighting children. Gordon Chang, The Daily Beast.

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  Oct 03 2019

  Image: Armband of Chinese People's Armed Police Force (“PAP”). Public domain..Gordon Chang on the Chinese state. Beijing tries to intimidate with its weapons parade; does have ambitions beyond its borders.  Xi Jinping; China’s few or no options on Hong Kong.   Almost no one under the age of thirty identifies himself as “Chinese”; rather, as from Hong Kong. On the eve of a second Taiwan?  Taiwanese have a hundred miles between them and Mainland, and also the support of the US, both of which protect them. ...more

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• Beijing ramps up HK police violence – not to its advantage. Michael Yon, Facebook/MichaelYonfanpage

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  Image:  View of Victoria Town, Island of Hong Kong, 1850.       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.  Permissions*--also see below..Michael Yon, Hong Kong reporter; also doing Facebook live streaming: Facebook/MichaelYonfanpage ; on: Hong Kong police are occasionally violent with demonstrators. An Indonesian journo was hit and lost an eye. They’ve grabbed me, demanded that I turn off my camera.  Police fully clad in protective gear shot an eighteen-year-old, who was carrying a boogie board, at close range; he’s in critical condition. This in no way has slowed down the protestors.   Looks as though the protestors will call for independence in the next month or two. The “guerrilla force” is clearly in the thousands.  Guerrilla force; auxiliary group; support people.  The kid who was shot in the chest was carrying a boogie board. Demonstrators trying to damage their own economy in order to damage the income to the Mainland.   Police shout to each other in Mandarin, showing them to be from Mainland. They put their knees on the back of demonstrator’s neck.. *Permissions: U.S. work public domain in the U.S. for unspecified reason but presumably because it was published in the U.S. before 1924. ...more

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• Transforming health and happiness with NJDiet.com: Seven short stories. Dr Arthur Turovets, NJDIET.com

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  Oct 03 2019

  Photo: Common culinary fruits. Bananas, apples, pears, strawberries, oranges, grapes, canary melons, water melon, cantaloupe, pineapple and mango. Picture by Bill Ebbesen,Date | 8 May 2010 (according to Exif data)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTransforming health and happiness with NJDiet.com: Seven short stories. Dr Arthur Turovets, NJDIET.comhttps://www.njdiet.com/about-us/ We give a personalized calorie count, specifically calculated for your body type. We give you 10 different eating tools so you know exactly how to eat – even if you are 2-3 pounds over your end of program weight. We use DNA testing to genetically assess over 40 different factors for keeping your fat off and staying healthy. We will also do a bio-energetic scan at the end of the program that tells you which foods your body shows a biological preference to. ...more

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• Armenia-Iran aggression against neighboring Azerbaijan.@ProfBShaffer Georgetown University.

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  Oct 03 2019

  Photo: The Sarsang Reservoir "This photo is taken by Sergey Yakovlev" Sarsang reservoir from Drmbon village, Martakert region, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (Republic of Azerbaijan) CC BY 3.0 File:Sarsang reservoir P1090881.JPG Created: 10 September 2009 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowArmenia-Iran aggression against neighboring Azerbaijan.@ProfBShaffer Georgetown University. https://news.az/articles/karabakh/142083On Oct.1 night, the troops of Azerbaijan’s State Border Service, serving in combat positions on the contact line at the state border with Armenia in the direction of the Gazakh district of Azerbaijan, revealed and prevented the movement of sabotage-provocative groups from the combat positions of the Armenian armed forces in the direction of the territory of Azerbaijan, Trend reports referring to the State Border Service of Azerbaijan Oct. 2. ...more

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• What does Moon get from nuke talks with Kim? Bruce Bechtol, author, North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa: Enabling Violence and Instability. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Oct 03 2019

  Photo: Reception Center at Cheongwadae or "Blue House", the South Korean presidential residence in Seoul South Korea. Korea-Seoul-Blue_House_(Cheongwadae)_Reception_Center_0688&9-07.jpg: Steve46814 derivative work: Humorahead01 (talk) - Korea-Seoul-Blue_House_(Cheongwadae)_Reception_Center_0688&9-07.jpg CC BY-SA 3.0 File:Korea-Seoul-Blue House (Cheongwadae) Reception Center 0688&9-07 cropped.jpg Created: 2010-08-05 03:14 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWhat does Moon get from nuke talks with Kim? Bruce Bechtol, author, North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa: Enabling Violence and Instability. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast...more

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• US-North Korea nuke weapon talks about talks. Bruce Bechtol, author, North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa: Enabling Violence and Instability. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Oct 03 2019

  Photo: Site of negotiations in 1951Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer. - File:Panmunjom, Korea, the site of military armistice negotiations between representatives of the Communist forces... - NARA - 531418.tif (NAIL Control Number: NWDNS-111-SC-383310) (ARC=531418) Panmunjom, Korea, the site of military armistice negotiations between representatives of the Communist forces fighting in Korea, and United Nations forces representatives. Public Domain File:Panmunjom, site of armistice negotiations.jpg Created: 31 October 1951 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowUS-North Korea nuke weapon talks about talks. Bruce Bechtol, author, North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa: Enabling Violence and Instability. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast...more

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• North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa: Enabling Violence and Instability Hardcover – August 22, 2018. by Bechtol Jr., Bruce E. (Author)

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  Oct 03 2019

  Photo: Before and after picture of building struck during Operation Orchard in Syria... ((one of the photos should be rotated 180 degrees))US government - Found at CNN but released by US government. Permission details public domainView more Public Domainview terms File:Syrian Reactor Before After.jpg Uploaded: 2008-04-25 14:43:04 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa: Enabling Violence and Instability Hardcover – August 22, 2018.  by Bechtol Jr., Bruce E. (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Korean-Military-Proliferation-Middle-Africa/dp/0813175887 North Korea has posed a threat to stability in Northeast Asia for decades. Since Kim Jong-un assumed power, this threat has both increased and broadened. Since 2011, the small, isolated nation has detonated nuclear weapons multiple times, tested a wide variety of ballistic missiles, expanded naval and ground systems that threaten South Korea, and routinely employs hostile rhetoric. Another threat it poses has been less recognized: North Korea presents a potentially greater risk to American interests by exporting its weapons systems to other volatile regions worldwide.In North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa, Bruce E. Bechtol Jr. analyzes relevant North Korean military capabilities, what arms the nation provides, and to whom, how it skirts its sanctions, and how North Korea's activities can best be contained. He traces illicit networks that lead to state and nonstate actors in the Middle East, including Syria, Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas, and throughout Africa, including at least a dozen nations. The potential proliferation of nuclear and chemical weapons technology and the vehicles that carry it, including ballistic missiles and artillery, represent a broader threat than the leadership in Pyongyang. Including training and infrastructure support, North Korea's profits may range into the billions of dollars, all concealed in illicit networks and front companies so complex that the nation struggles to track and control them. Bechtol not only presents an accurate picture of the current North Korean threat―he also outlines methodologies that Washington and the international community must embrace in order to contain it....more

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• North Korea Boomer can deliver a nuke-capable medium range missile. Bruce Bechtol, author, North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa: Enabling Violence and Instability. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Oct 03 2019

  Photo: An aerial starboard bow view of a Soviet Golf II class ballistic missile submarine underway. Date Shot: 1 Oct 1985 SOURCE: http://www.dodmedia.osd.mil/Assets/1986/Navy/DN-SN-86-00740.JPEG View author information Public Domain File:Image Submarine Golf II class.jpg Uploaded: 2007-11-05 08:30:37 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowNorth Korea Boomer can deliver a nuke-capable medium range missile. Bruce Bechtol, author, North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa: Enabling Violence and Instability. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast ...more

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• 4 /4 The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics, by Paul Bracken

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  Image:  The U.S. and USSR conducted hundreds of nuclear tests, including the Desert Rock exercises at the Nevada Test Site, USA, pictured above during the Korean War to familiarize their soldiers with conducting operations and counter-measures around nuclear detonations, as the Korean War threatened to expand.  Public domain.. The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics, by Paul Bracken       A leading international security strategist offers a compelling new way to "think about the unthinkable."        The cold war ended more than two decades ago, and with its end came a reduction in the threat of nuclear weapons―a luxury that we can no longer indulge. It's not just the threat of Iran getting the bomb or North Korea doing something rash; the whole complexion of global power politics is changing because of the reemergence of nuclear weapons as a vital element of statecraft and power politics. In short, we have entered the second nuclear age.       In this provocative and agenda-setting book, Paul Bracken of Yale University argues that we need to pay renewed attention to nuclear weapons and how their presence will transform the way crises develop and escalate. He draws on his years of experience analyzing defense strategy to make the case that the United States needs to start thinking seriously about these issues once again, especially as new countries acquire nuclear capabilities. He walks us through war-game scenarios that are all too realistic, to show how nuclear weapons are changing the calculus of power politics, and he offers an incisive tour of the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia to underscore how the United States must not allow itself to be unprepared for managing such crises.        Frank in its tone and farsighted in its analysis, The Second Nuclear Age is the essential guide to the new rules of international politics. https://www.amazon.com/Second-Nuclear-Age-Strategy-Politics/dp/1250037352/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Second+Nuclear+Age+Bracken&qid=1569811265&s=books&sr=1-1   ...more

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• 3/4 The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics, by Paul Bracken

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  Image:     Map of nuclear-armed states of the world.    Light blue:  NPT-designated nuclear weapon states (China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States) Red: Other states with nuclear weapons (India, North Korea, Pakistan)   Yellow: Other states presumed to have nuclear weapons (Israel)   Dark blue: NATO member nuclear weapons sharing states (Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey)   Green: States formerly possessing nuclear weapons (Belarus, Kazakhstan, South Africa, Ukraine). The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics, by Paul Bracken       A leading international security strategist offers a compelling new way to "think about the unthinkable."        The cold war ended more than two decades ago, and with its end came a reduction in the threat of nuclear weapons―a luxury that we can no longer indulge. It's not just the threat of Iran getting the bomb or North Korea doing something rash; the whole complexion of global power politics is changing because of the reemergence of nuclear weapons as a vital element of statecraft and power politics. In short, we have entered the second nuclear age.       In this provocative and agenda-setting book, Paul Bracken of Yale University argues that we need to pay renewed attention to nuclear weapons and how their presence will transform the way crises develop and escalate. He draws on his years of experience analyzing defense strategy to make the case that the United States needs to start thinking seriously about these issues once again, especially as new countries acquire nuclear capabilities. He walks us through war-game scenarios that are all too realistic, to show how nuclear weapons are changing the calculus of power politics, and he offers an incisive tour of the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia to underscore how the United States must not allow itself to be unprepared for managing such crises.        Frank in its tone and farsighted in its analysis, The Second Nuclear Age is the essential guide to the new rules of international politics. https://www.amazon.com/Second-Nuclear-Age-Strategy-Politics/dp/1250037352/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Second+Nuclear+Age+Bracken&qid=1569811265&s=books&sr=1-1   ...more

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• 2/4 The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics, by Paul Bracken

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  Image: Cartoon by the brilliant Herblock, from 29 April 1954.         During World War II, the United States government funded a massive scientific and engineering project to build an atomic bomb. It shared information on this project with its French and British allies, but not the Soviet Union. However, because of Soviet infiltration into the American project, the Soviet government was aware of the bomb project all along.        Source: The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at Ohio State University (A 1954 Herblock cartoon. Copyright the Herb Block Foundation.)  Published with gratitude to the Herbock Foundation; entered here under fair use.*. The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics, by Paul Bracken       A leading international security strategist offers a compelling new way to "think about the unthinkable."        The cold war ended more than two decades ago, and with its end came a reduction in the threat of nuclear weapons―a luxury that we can no longer indulge. It's not just the threat of Iran getting the bomb or North Korea doing something rash; the whole complexion of global power politics is changing because of the reemergence of nuclear weapons as a vital element of statecraft and power politics. In short, we have entered the second nuclear age.       In this provocative and agenda-setting book, Paul Bracken of Yale University argues that we need to pay renewed attention to nuclear weapons and how their presence will transform the way crises develop and escalate. He draws on his years of experience analyzing defense strategy to make the case that the United States needs to start thinking seriously about these issues once again, especially as new countries acquire nuclear capabilities. He walks us through war-game scenarios that are all too realistic, to show how nuclear weapons are changing the calculus of power politics, and he offers an incisive tour of the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia to underscore how the United States must not allow itself to be unprepared for managing such crises.        Frank in its tone and farsighted in its analysis, The Second Nuclear Age is the essential guide to the new rules of international politics. https://www.amazon.com/Second-Nuclear-Age-Strategy-Politics/dp/1250037352/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Second+Nuclear+Age+Bracken&qid=1569811265&s=books&sr=1-1..  ..  ..   *Permissions:  Under the "fair use" defense, another author may make limited use of the original author's work without asking permission. Pursuant to 17 U.S. Code § 107, certain uses of copyrighted material "for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright."    “. . . For example, in its advertising a vacuum cleaner manufacturer was permitted to quote from a Consumer Reports article comparing vacuum cleaners. Why? The ad significantly increased the number of people exposed to the Consumers Reports' evaluations and thereby disseminated helpful consumer information. The same rationale probably applies [here].  https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/fair-use-rule-copyright-material-30100.html       ...more

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• 1 /4 The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics, by Paul Bracken

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  Photo:   At Hanford, Washington, the first of three huge, related government facilities.  At Hanford, the Department of Energy long produced plutonium for the morethan 60,000 weapons built for the U.S. nuclear arsenal. Here, its underground tank farm with 12 of the site's 177 waste storage tanks.       The Hanford facility housed the historic B Reactor, the world's first plutonium production reactor.  Radioactivity was released from 1944 to 1971 into the Columbia River. Public domain.. The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics, by Paul Bracken       A leading international security strategist offers a compelling new way to "think about the unthinkable."        The cold war ended more than two decades ago, and with its end came a reduction in the threat of nuclear weapons―a luxury that we can no longer indulge. It's not just the threat of Iran getting the bomb or North Korea doing something rash; the whole complexion of global power politics is changing because of the reemergence of nuclear weapons as a vital element of statecraft and power politics. In short, we have entered the second nuclear age.       In this provocative and agenda-setting book, Paul Bracken of Yale University argues that we need to pay renewed attention to nuclear weapons and how their presence will transform the way crises develop and escalate. He draws on his years of experience analyzing defense strategy to make the case that the United States needs to start thinking seriously about these issues once again, especially as new countries acquire nuclear capabilities. He walks us through war-game scenarios that are all too realistic, to show how nuclear weapons are changing the calculus of power politics, and he offers an incisive tour of the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia to underscore how the United States must not allow itself to be unprepared for managing such crises.        Frank in its tone and farsighted in its analysis, The Second Nuclear Age is the essential guide to the new rules of international politics.  https://www.amazon.com/Second-Nuclear-Age-Strategy-Politics/dp/1250037352/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Second+Nuclear+Age+Bracken&qid=1569811265&s=books&sr=1-1 ...more

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• Musk preps PR for Starship for Destination Mars. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Oct 03 2019

  Photo: This is a poster for Destination Moon (film). The poster art copyright is believed to belong to the distributor of the film, the publisher of the film or the graphic artist.Source Fair use File:Destination-moon-movie-poster-md.jpg Uploaded: 2019-08-09 00:02:36 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowMusk preps PR for Starship for Destination Mars. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/musk-on-starship-engineering-and-management/ ...more

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• Law of the Desert Born (Graphic Novel): 2 of 2: A Graphic Novel Kindle Edition. by Louis L'Amour (Author), Beau L'Amour (Author), Kathy Nolan (Author), & 1 more

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  Oct 03 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Law of the Desert Born (Graphic Novel): 2 of 2: A Graphic Novel Kindle Edition. by Louis L'Amour  (Author), Beau L'Amour  (Author), Kathy Nolan (Author), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EEBMQP8/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i3The first graphic novel adaptation of the work of master storyteller Louis L’Amour is a dynamic tale of the Old West that explores the borderlands of loyalty and betrayal with the emotional grittiness of a noir thriller. New Mexico, 1887, a land in the midst of the worst drought anyone can remember. Family histories and loyalties run deep, but when rancher Tom Forrester has his access to the Pecos River cut off by the son of his old partner, he convinces his foreman, Shad Marone, to pay Jud Bowman back for the discourtesy. Yet what starts as a simple act of petty revenge quickly spirals into a cycle of violence that no one can control. Now Marone is on the run, pursued by a sheriff’s posse across a rugged desert landscape. Leading the chase is Jesus Lopez, a half-Mexican, half-Apache with a personal stake in bringing Shad to justice. Newly released from jail, trusted by no one, Lopez swears he’s the only man who can track Marone down. That may be true. But who will live and who will die and what price will be paid in suffering are open questions. Fate and the Jornada del Muerto desert possess a harsh justice that is all their own. With a propulsive script from Beau L’Amour and Kathy Nolan, adapted by Charles Santino and illustrated in bold black-and-white by Thomas Yeates, Law of the Desert Born captures the dust and blood of Louis L’Amour’s West—a world where the difference between a hero and a villain can be as wide as the gap between an act of kindness or brutality or as narrow as a misspoken word....more

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• Law of the Desert Born (Graphic Novel): 1 of 2: A Graphic Novel Kindle Edition. by Louis L'Amour (Author), Beau L'Amour (Author), Kathy Nolan (Author), & 1 more

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  Oct 03 2019

  Photo: Santa Rita vintage photo in New Mexico. Photo by Public Domain.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Law of the Desert Born (Graphic Novel): 1 of 2: A Graphic Novel Kindle Edition. by Louis L'Amour  (Author), Beau L'Amour  (Author), Kathy Nolan (Author), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EEBMQP8/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i3The first graphic novel adaptation of the work of master storyteller Louis L’Amour is a dynamic tale of the Old West that explores the borderlands of loyalty and betrayal with the emotional grittiness of a noir thriller.New Mexico, 1887, a land in the midst of the worst drought anyone can remember. Family histories and loyalties run deep, but when rancher Tom Forrester has his access to the Pecos River cut off by the son of his old partner, he convinces his foreman, Shad Marone, to pay Jud Bowman back for the discourtesy. Yet what starts as a simple act of petty revenge quickly spirals into a cycle of violence that no one can control.Now Marone is on the run, pursued by a sheriff’s posse across a rugged desert landscape. Leading the chase is Jesus Lopez, a half-Mexican, half-Apache with a personal stake in bringing Shad to justice. Newly released from jail, trusted by no one, Lopez swears he’s the only man who can track Marone down. That may be true. But who will live and who will die and what price will be paid in suffering are open questions. Fate and the Jornada del Muerto desert possess a harsh justice that is all their own.With a propulsive script from Beau L’Amour and Kathy Nolan, adapted by Charles Santino and illustrated in bold black-and-white by Thomas Yeates, Law of the Desert Born captures the dust and blood of Louis L’Amour’s West—a world where the difference between a hero and a villain can be as wide as the gap between an act of kindness or brutality or as narrow as a misspoken word....more

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• Curiosity begins the search for organic chemistry on Mars. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Oct 03 2019

  Photo: Mars Nasahttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowCuriosity begins the search for organic chemistry on Mars. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/curiosity-to-use-first-of-nine-wet-chemistry-cups/

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• Tales of the New Cold War: 1 of 2: Broken Ukraine gets back into the picture. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.

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  Oct 02 2019

  Photo: hotochrom Print CollectionTitle | Krestchatik, (i.e., Kreshchatik), street, Kiev, Russia, (i.e., Ukraine)Date | between 1890 and 1900 Dimensions | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.Accession number | LCCN2001697433http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTales of the New Cold War: 1 of 2: Broken Ukraine gets back into the picture. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.

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• Tales of the New Cold War: 2 of 2: Broken Ukraine gets back into the picture. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.

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  Oct 02 2019

  Photo: Kiev UniversityPhotochrom Print CollectionTitle | View of University, Kiev, Russia, (i.e., Ukraine)Date | between 1890 and 1900 Dimensions | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.Accession number | LCCN2001697437http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTales of the New Cold War: 2 of 2: Broken Ukraine gets back into the picture. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.

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• The Hong Kong Police shoot to kill. @CRosett, Independent Women's Forum

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  Oct 02 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Hong Kong Police shoot to kill. @CRosett, Independent Women's Forum

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• Pelosi runs out of calendar for Impeachment and Trial. @HooverWhalen @HooverInst

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  Oct 02 2019

  Photo: John Bingham and Thaddeus Stevens before the Senate presenting the vote on the president's impeachment by the HouseSketch by Theodore R. Davis - Harper's weekly, v. 12, no. 585 (1868 March 14), p. 161. Transferred from en.wikipedia Impeachment - Thaddeus Stevens and John A. Bingham before the Senate. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowPelosi runs out of calendar for Impeachment and Trial. @HooverWhalen @HooverInsthttps://www.forbes.com/sites/billwhalen/2019/09/29/impeachment-is-destined-to-fail--if-the-senate-parties-like-its-1999/#1a4112294ca4 ...more

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• Warren is an ideologue, like Sumner: not a pol like Seward. @LizPeek

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  Oct 02 2019

  Photo: Sumner ca. 1850Southworth & Hawes - Metropolitan Museum of Art Warren is an ideologue, like Sumner: not a pol like Seward. @LizPeek 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 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. Note that a few countries have copyright terms longer than 70 years: Mexico has 100 years, Jamaica has 95 years, Colombia has 80 years, and Guatemala and Samoa have 75 years. This image may not be in the public domain in these countries, which moreover do not implement the rule of the shorter term. Côte d'Ivoire has a general copyright term of 99 years and Honduras has 75 years, but they do implement the rule of the shorter term. Copyright may extend on works created by French who died for France in World War II (more information), Russians who served in the Eastern Front of World War II (known as the Great Patriotic War in Russia) and posthumously rehabilitated victims of Soviet repressions (more information). 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:Charles Sumner by Southworth & Hawes c1850.jpg Created: circa 1850 date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWarren is an ideologue, not a pol. @LizPeekhttp://lizpeek.com/democrats-toss-biden-aside-zeal-impeach-ensuring-trumps-reelection/ ...more

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• The whole world is weak manufacturing & What is to be done? @LizPeek @FoxNews

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  Oct 02 2019

  Photo: English: Photograph shows a view of the rail yard beneath the lower Sixth street viaduct on the east side of Atchison, Kansas. Also visible are freight cars (including Missouri Pacific, Texas & Pacific, Kansas City, Fort Scott, & Memphis railway cars), and the business, church, and residence buildings of eastern Atchison.Date | circa 1880-1900Source | http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/210449Author | Unknown | This work is in the public domain  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe whole world is weak manufacturing & What is to be done? @LizPeek @FoxNewshttps://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2019/10/01/newsletter-the-big-squeeze-on-trade-factories-and-farms/ ...more

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• 4/4 The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today, by Thomas E. Ricks

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  Oct 02 2019

  Image: Operation Desert Storm.   Clockwise from top: USAF F-15Es, F-16s, and a F-15C flying over burning Kuwaiti oil wells; British troops from the Staffordshire Regiment in Operation Granby; camera view from a Lockheed AC-130; the Highway of Death; M728 Combat Engineer Vehicle.   Permissions: Author: User:Acdx    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... The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today, by Thomas E. Ricks An epic history of the decline of American military leadership—from the bestselling author of Fiasco and Churchill and Orwell.        While history has been kind to the American generals of World War II—Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley—it has been less kind to the generals of the wars that followed, such as Koster, Franks, Sanchez, and Petraeus. In The Generals, Thomas E. Ricks sets out to explain why that is. In chronicling the widening gulf between performance and accountability among the top brass of the U.S. military, Ricks tells the stories of great leaders and suspect ones, generals who rose to the occasion and generals who failed themselves and their soldiers. In Ricks’s hands, this story resounds with larger meaning: about the transmission of values, about strategic thinking, and about the difference between an organization that learns and one that fails. ...more

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• 3/4 The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today, by Thomas E. Ricks

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  Oct 02 2019

  Image:  General David Howell Petraeus.  United States Department of Defense http://www.centcom.mil/images/stories/petraeushi.jpg  Public domain.. The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today, by Thomas E. Ricks An epic history of the decline of American military leadership—from the bestselling author of Fiasco and Churchill and Orwell.        While history has been kind to the American generals of World War II—Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley—it has been less kind to the generals of the wars that followed, such as Koster, Franks, Sanchez, and Petraeus. In The Generals, Thomas E. Ricks sets out to explain why that is. In chronicling the widening gulf between performance and accountability among the top brass of the U.S. military, Ricks tells the stories of great leaders and suspect ones, generals who rose to the occasion and generals who failed themselves and their soldiers. In Ricks’s hands, this story resounds with larger meaning: about the transmission of values, about strategic thinking, and about the difference between an organization that learns and one that fails.   ...more

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• 2/4 The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today, by Thomas E. Ricks

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  Oct 02 2019

  Image: Roman legion. Reenactment of XXX Ulpia Victrix legion by LEGIO XXX ULPIA TRAIANA VICTRIX ONLUS, Rome, 2007. Permissions*: see below.. The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today, by Thomas E. Ricks An epic history of the decline of American military leadership—from the bestselling author of Fiasco and Churchill and Orwell.        While history has been kind to the American generals of World War II—Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley—it has been less kind to the generals of the wars that followed, such as Koster, Franks, Sanchez, and Petraeus. In The Generals, Thomas E. Ricks sets out to explain why that is. In chronicling the widening gulf between performance and accountability among the top brass of the U.S. military, Ricks tells the stories of great leaders and suspect ones, generals who rose to the occasion and generals who failed themselves and their soldiers. In Ricks’s hands, this story resounds with larger meaning: about the transmission of values, about strategic thinking, and about the difference between an organization that learns and one that fails...  ..  ..  *Permissions:  Author: Marten253     I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following licenses: GNU head Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; 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. w:en:Creative Commons attribution share alike 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 Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today, by Thomas E. Ricks

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  Oct 02 2019

  Image:  The 1900 VMI Keydets football team photo (George C. Marshall [left tackle] is in the middle row, second from right). Public domain.. The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today, by Thomas E. Ricks              news.usni.org  . . . Fiasco [an earlier book by Thomas Ricks] contributed to a reassessment of military strategy in Iraq and focused attention on the failures of American military leadership in that war. One of the most pointed indictments came from inside the Army when my friend Lt. Col. Paul Yingling published an essay entitled “A Failure of Generalship.” Yingling noted the Army’s failures to prepare for the Iraq war and to adapt to its requirements during the course of the conflict; his most damning line noted that, “As matters stand now, a private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war.”       In response to Yingling’s j’accuse and similar indictments, Tom Ricks has written a must-read book that explains why America’s generals now lose wars with impunity. In The Generals, he argues that the decline in the performance of the Army — from the triumph of World War II to stalemate in Korea through defeat in Vietnam to the fiasco of the early years of the Iraq war — can be attributed to failures in how the Army manages its senior officers. Gen. George C. Marshall, the architect of victory in America’s greatest war, relieved subordinates regularly and with gusto. Since that war, Ricks argues, the Army has abdicated its responsibility to police its own ranks, failing to hold senior officers accountable for their actions. Instead, it has fallen to presidents to relieve generals, as Harry Truman did to Douglas MacArthur for rank insubordination during the Korean War or Barack Obama did to Stanley McChrystal for indiscrete political comments.       In a cascading litany of failures, this book presents more villains than heroes. Other than Marshall, generals who receive high praise include Matthew Ridgway, who turned around a losing war in Korea, and David Petraeus, who performed a similar task in Iraq. Marine Maj. Gen. General O. P. Smith earns praise for his exceptional performance at the 1950 Battle of the Chosin Reservoir, where his inspired generalship saved a Marine division from a Chinese onslaught. Smith’s success is contrasted with US Army generals who left their units exposed and subject to devastating defeats.       Others are not so fortunate. Generals Maxwell Taylor and William Westmoreland earn scathing criticism for their performance in Vietnam. Gen. Tommy Franks is faulted for his leadership in Iraq and Afghanistan and for his post-Army conduct, and Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez is described as “in over his head” for his leadership during the first, horrible year of the Iraq fiasco.       There is much truth in Ricks’s description of flawed Army generalship. Since Vietnam, the Pentagon and civilian administrations have too often failed to hold general officers accountable for their actions in war. The admiration that the American public rightly proclaims for the soldiers of today’s conflicts should not automatically extend to their superiors, despite the hard tasks they recently have been given. America’s major wars of the past four decades (other than the brief and almost completely conventional Operation Desert Storm) have been the sort of protracted counterinsurgency campaigns that have tested generals since the Roman Empire. While Rome’s legions could simply lay waste to rebellious provinces, modern morality has rendered that technique untenable.       Instead, success in modern counterinsurgency campaigns demands a precise calibration of military force along with an integrated campaign to improve governance, spur economic development, and create effective local security forces—formidable tasks for which military service is seldom good preparation. Only a few generals have shown the ability to successfully integrate these tasks; Creighton Abrams in Vietnam and David Petraeus are the best examples, although their talents were applied to the conflicts they led late in the day — after many damning mistakes had been made by their predecessors. Ultimately, the failures of American generalship in Iraq, as in Vietnam, resulted from failures of imagination and the ability to adapt to changed conditions in the Army over several generations.       Ricks notes that, “Of all the nation’s armed forces, the Army arguably is the dominant service, the one around which the national defense still is constructed.” This has been true for the past decade, which saw more soldiers deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan than Marines, sailors, and airmen put together. However, there is no guarantee that this state of affairs will continue, and it is therefore essential that this book be widely read outside the Army. The Navy and Marines have much to gain from a careful consideration of the lessons with which Ricks concludes the book. The rise of China and U.S. pivot to Asia, along with an American population weary of protracted ground wars in Asia, likely signal an increase in the prominence of the sea services during the next few decades—and it is worth noting that both the current and incoming commanders of the Afghan effort are Marines rather than Army generals. One hopes that the naval tradition of relief for ship captains who run aground (literally or figuratively) has properly shaped the men and women America will need on point in the Pacific for the next generation. ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..   ...more

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• Beethoven: The Universal Composer (Eminent Lives) Paperback – by Edmund Morris (Author)

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  Oct 01 2019

  Photo: Deutsch: Einzug der siegreichen französischen Armee in Wien am 13. November 1805, kolorierter KupferstichEnglish: The Triumphal Entry into Vienna of the Grand Army under the Orders of the Emperor Napoleon, November 1805Français : Entrée Triomphante de la grande Armée dans la ville de Vienne, sous les ordres de Napoleon 1., Empereur des francais et Roi d'Italie : de 22 Brumaire An 14 (13. Novembre 1805) / Dessinée sur les Lieux par Ziegler. Déposé à la Bibliotheque Imp[eri]ale. - Paris : Beauble u.a., [ab 1805].Date | 19th century Source | Musée Carnavalet Paris, Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothk DresdenAuthor | Johann ZieglerPermission(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: @BatchelorShow Beethoven: The Universal Composer (Eminent Lives) Paperback – by Edmund Morris  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Beethoven-Universal-Composer-Eminent-Lives/dp/0060759755/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Beethoven+edmund+morris&qid=1569895432&s=books&sr=1-1Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was a composer of universal genius whose popularity, extraordinary even during his lifetime, has never ceased to grow and now encircles the globe. His most famous works are as beloved in Beijing as they are in Boston. A lifelong devotee, Edmund Morris, the author of three bestselling presidential biographies, brings the great composer to life as a man of astonishing complexity and overpowering intelligence—a gigantic, compulsively creative personality unable to tolerate constraints. But Beethoven's achievement rests in his immortal music, whose grandeur and beauty were conceived "on the other side of silence."...more

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• Searching for Einstein in the Heavens. Ken Croswell

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  Oct 01 2019

  Photo: The Milky Way GalaxyNASA/JPL-Caltech/ESO/R. Hurt - http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1339g/ This detailed artist’s impression shows the structure of the Milky Way, including the location of the spiral arms and other components such as the bulge. This version of the image has been updated to include the most recent mapping of the shape of the central bulge deduced from survey data from ESO’s VISTA telescope at the Paranal Observatory. Public Domain File:Artist’s impression of the Milky Way.jpg Created: 2013-09-12 12:00:00 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowSearching for Einstein in the Heavens. Ken Croswellhttps://www.newscientist.com/article/2133830-general-relativity-passes-test-at-milky-ways-central-black-hole/instein’s greatest theory has aced another test. Two stars are speeding around the big black hole at the Milky Way’s core in just the way his general theory of relativity predicted.Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2133830-general-relativity-passes-test-at-milky-ways-central-black-hole/#ixzz613zwHxr8https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg13918853-000-science-a-down-to-earth-test-for-general-relativity/ ...more

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• Our Family Dreams: 1 of 4: The Fletchers' Adventures in Nineteenth Century America. by Daniel Blake Smith (Author)

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  Oct 01 2019

  Photo: Image from page 225 of "History and description of New England. New Hampshire" (1860) Identifier: historydescripti00cool Title: History and description of New England. New Hampshire Year: 1860 (1860s) Authors:  Coolidge, A. J. (Austin Jacobs) Mansfield, J. B. (John Brainard), 1826-1886 Subjects:  New Hampshire -- History New Hampshire -- Description and travel Publisher:  Boston, A.J. Coolidge Contributing Library:  The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor:  Sloan Foundation    View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOur Family Dreams: 1 of 4: The Fletchers' Adventures in Nineteenth Century America.  by Daniel Blake Smith (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Our-Family-Dreams-Adventures-Nineteenth/dp/1137279818 In the early years after the Revolution, Americans were on the move, seeking to establish a new way of life. And, more than the church or the school or the courthouse, it was the family that nurtured the American Dream. In this novel-like narrative, Daniel Blake Smith vividly brings to life the Fletchers, a family of loving, ambitious, at times insecure pioneers who scattered across the vast expanse of post-revolutionary America but kept in touch through letters despite their wildly different life paths. On a hard scrabble farm in Vermont, the patriarch, Jesse Fletcher, struggled with debt and depression but managed to educate his children, especially his son Elijah, a Yankee who moved to Virginia, shocked by the horrors of slavery but then seduced by the plantation lifestyle. Another son, Calvin, left at age 17 for Indianapolis to become a self-made lawyer, banker, and a prominent citizen and passionate abolitionist. The grandchildren include Indiana, a women's education activist who donated her home to create Sweet Briar College; black sheep Lucian, who went to California to join in the gold rush; and physician Billy captured as a spy during the Civil War. Through letters and diaries, we find in Our Family Dreams that the Fletchers appear surprisingly similar to us; they dream, fret, fight, and love. Despite numerous heartaches and setbacks, their spirit of enterprise, sacrifice, mobility, and education endures as American values to this day....more

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• Our Family Dreams: 2 of 4: The Fletchers' Adventures in Nineteenth Century America. by Daniel Blake Smith (Author)

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  Oct 01 2019

  Photo: Image from page 226 of "History and description of New England. Vermont" (1860) Identifier: historydescrip00cool Title: History and description of New England. Vermont Year: 1860 (1860s) Authors:  Coolidge, A. J. (Austin Jacobs) Mansfield, J. B. (John Brainard), 1826-1886 Subjects:  Vermont -- Description and travel Vermont -- History Publisher:  Boston, A. J. Coolidge 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 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOur Family Dreams: 2 of 4: The Fletchers' Adventures in Nineteenth Century America.  by Daniel Blake Smith (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Our-Family-Dreams-Adventures-Nineteenth/dp/1137279818 In the early years after the Revolution, Americans were on the move, seeking to establish a new way of life. And, more than the church or the school or the courthouse, it was the family that nurtured the American Dream. In this novel-like narrative, Daniel Blake Smith vividly brings to life the Fletchers, a family of loving, ambitious, at times insecure pioneers who scattered across the vast expanse of post-revolutionary America but kept in touch through letters despite their wildly different life paths. On a hard scrabble farm in Vermont, the patriarch, Jesse Fletcher, struggled with debt and depression but managed to educate his children, especially his son Elijah, a Yankee who moved to Virginia, shocked by the horrors of slavery but then seduced by the plantation lifestyle. Another son, Calvin, left at age 17 for Indianapolis to become a self-made lawyer, banker, and a prominent citizen and passionate abolitionist. The grandchildren include Indiana, a women's education activist who donated her home to create Sweet Briar College; black sheep Lucian, who went to California to join in the gold rush; and physician Billy captured as a spy during the Civil War. Through letters and diaries, we find in Our Family Dreams that the Fletchers appear surprisingly similar to us; they dream, fret, fight, and love. Despite numerous heartaches and setbacks, their spirit of enterprise, sacrifice, mobility, and education endures as American values to this day....more

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• Our Family Dreams: 3 of 4: The Fletchers' Adventures in Nineteenth Century America. by Daniel Blake Smith (Author)

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  Oct 01 2019

  Photo: Image from page 124 of "History and description of New England. New Hampshire" (1860) Identifier: historydescripti00cool Title: History and description of New England. New Hampshire Year: 1860 (1860s) Authors:  Coolidge, A. J. (Austin Jacobs) Mansfield, J. B. (John Brainard), 1826-1886 Subjects:  New Hampshire -- History New Hampshire -- Description and travel Publisher:  Boston, A.J. Coolidge Contributing Library:  The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor:  Sloan Foundation    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:and hardships of NEW HAMPSHIRE TOWN OF EXETER. 4S9 the war, and contracted heavy debts to raise men and supplies for thearmy. Exeter was one of the fir.st in declaring and steadily maintain-ing the independence of t)ur country, and her records are full of une-quivocal evidences of her zeal and patriotism. The early conventions,and the provincial assembly or congress, repeatedly met hei-e, until 1 he-adoption of the state constitution. Among the eminent and usefulmen who have been citizens of Exeter we may notice Hon. SanmelTenney, Hon. Oliver Peabody, Hon. Nicholas Oilman, OeneralNathaniel Folsom, Oovernors Jeremiah Smith and Hon. John Taylor(iilman,, all of whom held important civil, and some of them military,ollices ill the earlier years of the republic. Hon. Lewis Cass, who hasoccupied many important posts in the service of his country, and nowstands next in rank to the presitleiit of the United St;ites, was a nativeof this town. He was born on the 9th day of October, 1782, in the http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOur Family Dreams: 3 of 4: The Fletchers' Adventures in Nineteenth Century America.  by Daniel Blake Smith (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Our-Family-Dreams-Adventures-Nineteenth/dp/1137279818 In the early years after the Revolution, Americans were on the move, seeking to establish a new way of life. And, more than the church or the school or the courthouse, it was the family that nurtured the American Dream. In this novel-like narrative, Daniel Blake Smith vividly brings to life the Fletchers, a family of loving, ambitious, at times insecure pioneers who scattered across the vast expanse of post-revolutionary America but kept in touch through letters despite their wildly different life paths. On a hard scrabble farm in Vermont, the patriarch, Jesse Fletcher, struggled with debt and depression but managed to educate his children, especially his son Elijah, a Yankee who moved to Virginia, shocked by the horrors of slavery but then seduced by the plantation lifestyle. Another son, Calvin, left at age 17 for Indianapolis to become a self-made lawyer, banker, and a prominent citizen and passionate abolitionist. The grandchildren include Indiana, a women's education activist who donated her home to create Sweet Briar College; black sheep Lucian, who went to California to join in the gold rush; and physician Billy captured as a spy during the Civil War. Through letters and diaries, we find in Our Family Dreams that the Fletchers appear surprisingly similar to us; they dream, fret, fight, and love. Despite numerous heartaches and setbacks, their spirit of enterprise, sacrifice, mobility, and education endures as American values to this day....more

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• Our Family Dreams: 4 of 4: The Fletchers' Adventures in Nineteenth Century America. by Daniel Blake Smith (Author)

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  Oct 01 2019

  Photo: Title: History and description of New England. New Hampshire Year: 1860 (1860s) Authors:  Coolidge, A. J. (Austin Jacobs) Mansfield, J. B. (John Brainard), 1826-1886 Subjects:  New Hampshire -- History New Hampshire -- Description and travel Publisher:  Boston, A.J. Coolidge Contributing Library:  The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor:  Sloan Foundation    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:iapcr. A beautiful view ofExeter is here presented, taken at a point where most of the compact Text Appearing After Image:part of the town can be seen. A portion of the town was annexed toyoutii New Market, January 7, 1853. There are nine church edifices— two Congregational, two Baptist, one Unitarian, one ]\rcthodist, oneChristian, one Second Advent, and one Roman Catholic; a femaleseminary; a public library of 1,900 volumes; six school districts, withtliirteen public schools; the Granite State bank, with a capital of^125,000; the Exeter Bank, with a capital of $75,000; a savings insti-tution, incorporated in 18-)1; and a post-office. The following are theincorporated companies: The Water-power and Mill Company, with acapital of §10,000; the Exeter Manufacturing Company, incorporatedin 1829, with a capital of $162,500, the buildings of which are of brick,the ntain one being 175 feet long and fortv-five wide, and having NEW IIAJIPSIIini: TOffX OF FARMINCiTOX, ETC. 493 7,224 spindles; and the New England 8team and C4as-pipe Com-pany, incorporated in l^Us, and having a capital of 8100,000. Be-sides thes http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOur Family Dreams: 4 of 4: The Fletchers' Adventures in Nineteenth Century America.  by Daniel Blake Smith (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Our-Family-Dreams-Adventures-Nineteenth/dp/1137279818 In the early years after the Revolution, Americans were on the move, seeking to establish a new way of life. And, more than the church or the school or the courthouse, it was the family that nurtured the American Dream. In this novel-like narrative, Daniel Blake Smith vividly brings to life the Fletchers, a family of loving, ambitious, at times insecure pioneers who scattered across the vast expanse of post-revolutionary America but kept in touch through letters despite their wildly different life paths. On a hard scrabble farm in Vermont, the patriarch, Jesse Fletcher, struggled with debt and depression but managed to educate his children, especially his son Elijah, a Yankee who moved to Virginia, shocked by the horrors of slavery but then seduced by the plantation lifestyle. Another son, Calvin, left at age 17 for Indianapolis to become a self-made lawyer, banker, and a prominent citizen and passionate abolitionist. The grandchildren include Indiana, a women's education activist who donated her home to create Sweet Briar College; black sheep Lucian, who went to California to join in the gold rush; and physician Billy captured as a spy during the Civil War. Through letters and diaries, we find in Our Family Dreams that the Fletchers appear surprisingly similar to us; they dream, fret, fight, and love. Despite numerous heartaches and setbacks, their spirit of enterprise, sacrifice, mobility, and education endures as American values to this day. ...more

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• 2/2 Vera Gran: The Accused, by Agata Tuszynska. Hardcover Deckle Edge.

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  Oct 01 2019

  Image: The photo presents Wiera Gran, a singer, at her home in Paris, taken on November 11, 2003 by Jerzy Placzkiewicz. Ms Gran is holding one of her posters. It is from her Alhambra Cabaret performances. On that occasion, Ms Gran presented 17 posters of her artistic activity both in Poland and in France to Mr Płaczkiewicz.  Вера Гран в Париже, 2003 год.   *Permissions: see below... Vera Gran: The Accused, by Agata Tuszynska.  Hardcover Deckle Edge.         The extraordinary, controversial story of Vera Gran, beautiful, exotic prewar Polish singing star; legendary, sensual contralto, Dietrich-like in tone, favorite of the 1930s Warsaw nightclubs, celebrated before, and during, her year in the Warsaw Ghetto (spring 1941–summer 1942) . . . and her piano accompanist: W³adys³aw Szpilman, made famous by Roman Polanski’s Oscar-winning film The Pianist, based on Szpilman’s memoir.        Following the war, singer and accompanist, each of whom had lived the same harrowing story, were met with opposing fates: Szpilman was celebrated for his uncanny ability to survive against impossible odds, escaping from a Nazi transport loading site, smuggling in weapons to the Warsaw Ghetto for the Jewish resistance.         Gran was accused of collaborating with the Nazis; denounced as a traitor, a “Gestapo whore,” reviled, imprisoned, ultimately exonerated yet afterward still shunned as a performer . . . in effect, sentenced to death without dying . . . until she was found by Agata Tuszyñska, acclaimed poet and biographer of, among others, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Nobel laureate (“Her book has few equals”—The Times Literary Supplement).        Tuszyñska, who won the trust of the once-glamorous former singer, then living in a basement in Paris—elderly, bitter, shut away from the world—encouraged Gran to tell her story, including her seemingly inexplicable decision to return to Warsaw to be reunited with her family after she had fled Hitler’s invading army, knowing she would have to live within the ghetto walls and, to survive, continue to perform at the popular Café Sztuka.        At the heart of the book, Gran’s complex, fraught relationship with her accompanist, performing together month after month, for the many who came from within the ghetto and outside its walls to hear her sing.        Using Vera Gran’s reflections and memories, as well as archives, letters, statements, and interviews with Warsaw Ghetto historians and survivors, Agata Tuszyñska has written an explosive, resonant portrait of lives lived inside a nightmare time, exploring the larger, more profound question of the nature of collaboration, of the price of survival, and of the long, treacherous shadow cast in its aftermath...  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  *Permissions: Source: Own work and collection of Jerzy Płaczkiewicz.  I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following licenses: w:en:Creative Commons attribution share alike  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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• 1/2 Vera Gran: The Accused, by Agata Tuszynska. Hardcover Deckle Edge.

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  Oct 01 2019

  Image:  Wiera Gran, real name Dwojra Grynberg (20 April 1916 – 19 November 2007) was a Polish singer and actress. Book cover: fair use.. Vera Gran: The Accused, by Agata Tuszynska.  Hardcover Deckle Edge.       The extraordinary, controversial story of Vera Gran, beautiful, exotic prewar Polish singing star; legendary, sensual contralto, Dietrich-like in tone, favorite of the 1930s Warsaw nightclubs, celebrated before, and during, her year in the Warsaw Ghetto (spring 1941–summer 1942) . . . and her piano accompanist: W³adys³aw Szpilman, made famous by Roman Polanski’s Oscar-winning film The Pianist, based on Szpilman’s memoir.        Following the war, singer and accompanist, each of whom had lived the same harrowing story, were met with opposing fates: Szpilman was celebrated for his uncanny ability to survive against impossible odds, escaping from a Nazi transport loading site, smuggling in weapons to the Warsaw Ghetto for the Jewish resistance.         Gran was accused of collaborating with the Nazis; denounced as a traitor, a “Gestapo whore,” reviled, imprisoned, ultimately exonerated yet afterward still shunned as a performer . . . in effect, sentenced to death without dying . . . until she was found by Agata Tuszyñska, acclaimed poet and biographer of, among others, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Nobel laureate (“Her book has few equals”—The Times Literary Supplement).        Tuszyñska, who won the trust of the once-glamorous former singer, then living in a basement in Paris—elderly, bitter, shut away from the world—encouraged Gran to tell her story, including her seemingly inexplicable decision to return to Warsaw to be reunited with her family after she had fled Hitler’s invading army, knowing she would have to live within the ghetto walls and, to survive, continue to perform at the popular Café Sztuka.        At the heart of the book, Gran’s complex, fraught relationship with her accompanist, performing together month after month, for the many who came from within the ghetto and outside its walls to hear her sing.        Using Vera Gran’s reflections and memories, as well as archives, letters, statements, and interviews with Warsaw Ghetto historians and survivors, Agata Tuszyñska has written an explosive, resonant portrait of lives lived inside a nightmare time, exploring the larger, more profound question of the nature of collaboration, of the price of survival, and of the long, treacherous shadow cast in its aftermath. ...more

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• 2 /2 The Language of Pain: Finding Words, Compassion, and Relief; by David Biro MD. Hardcover – January 18, 2010

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  Oct 01 2019

  Image: Bayer heroin bottle, originally containing 5 grams of heroin substance. The label on the back refer to the 1924 US ban, and has a batch number stamp starting with 27, so it probably dates from the 1920s.  Public domain.. The Language of Pain: Finding Words, Compassion, and Relief, by David Biro        Pain regularly accompanies illness, as David Biro knows only too well. Faced with a bone marrow transplant, the young doctor was determined to study his pain but found himself unable to articulate its depths, even to his doctors and wife. He has now discovered a way to break through the silent wall of suffering—physical and psychological—and wants to share it with others. In his new book, the critically acclaimed author expertly weaves together compelling stories and artwork from patients along with insights from some of our greatest thinkers, writers, and artists. https://www.amazon.com/Language-Pain-Finding-Compassion-Relief/dp/0393070638/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1569203880&sr=1-1   ...more

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• 1 /2 The Language of Pain: Finding Words, Compassion, and Relief; by David Biro MD. Hardcover – January 18, 2010

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  Oct 01 2019

  Image:  Jack London, author of “The White Silence,” which speaks of extreme pain;  London at the age of nine with his dog Rollo, in 1885, Public domain. . The Language of Pain: Finding Words, Compassion, and Relief, by David Biro        Pain regularly accompanies illness, as David Biro knows only too well. Faced with a bone marrow transplant, the young doctor was determined to study his pain but found himself unable to articulate its depths, even to his doctors and wife. He has now discovered a way to break through the silent wall of suffering—physical and psychological—and wants to share it with others. In his new book, the critically acclaimed author expertly weaves together compelling stories and artwork from patients along with insights from some of our greatest thinkers, writers, and artists. https://www.amazon.com/Language-Pain-Finding-Compassion-Relief/dp/0393070638/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1569203880&sr=1-1 ...more

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• 4/4 Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century, by Michael Hiltzik

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  Sep 30 2019

  Image:  Apache Indians employed as high-scalers on the construction of Hoover Dam. –  U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Public domain..Michael Hiltzik's history of Hoover Dam has an ambitious subtitle: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century . . . Although Hiltzik spends part of the introduction and most of the last chapter discussing how Hoover Dam's control of the Colorado River has facilitated the growth of desert cities such as Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Las Vegas, the meat of the book is concerned with the political and business personalities who built the dam and the daunting technical challenges that went into its construction. Political figures such as President Herbert Hoover, flamboyant California Progressive Hiram Johnson, and quintessential New Dealer Harold Ickes loom large. The exploits of the ruthlessly efficient—to the point of disregard for worker safety—construction engineer Frank "Hurry-Up" Crowe are detailed in admiring prose. Hiltzik does a fine job of using oral histories to let the construction workers relate their on-the-job experiences. The sometimes hand-in-glove and sometimes contentious relationship between the federal government and the Six Companies construction conglomerate responsible for building the dam is discussed, as is the development and social life of the company town of Boulder City, Nevada. The book's final chapter notes the alarming rate of diminution in recent years of Lake Mead, the huge reservoir created by Hoover Dam now renowned for its "bathtub ring," showing just how much the water level has fallen as the Colorado has been over-expropriated, giving the book a rather sobering end.       Colossus is not an academic history, nor does it profess to be one. Hiltzik's primary research, consisting of sources in national, university, and local archives, newspapers, and oral histories seems solid, though one wonders why state archives were not consulted. The notes and bibliography suggest a familiarity with key historical works on water in the West such as Donald Worster's Rivers of Empire and Marc Reisner's Cadillac Desert, though Hiltzik is unconcerned about placing himself in any historiographical context—certainly to the relief of the general reader. Scholars of the American West may be dismayed by Hiltizik's questionable assertion that "As a federal project, Hoover Dam was the first manifestation of the clamorous, ascendant West's expanding influence in Washington." Although this statement can be understood in such a way that it would be hard to argue that it is exactly wrong, Hiltzik gives short shrift to the Newlands Reclamation Act of 1902, which committed significant federal resources to developing irrigation in the West decades before the building of Hoover Dam commenced. The dam represented not so much the first, but the grandest, manifestation of efforts to provide a regular flow of water to the Arid West that stretched back to the 1870s. The section of illustrations in the book is not clearly placed nor noted in the table of contents; this makes for frustrating reading in the early going when a map would be useful.       Although practically none of the content of Colossus relates to Texas history, it does highlight a neglected subject for Texas historians: the copious dam-building projects on the state's major rivers to regulate water for urban and agricultural use. Many of Texas's booming metropolitan areas depend on water procured by such projects (along with already strained groundwater supplies), and if predictions of higher temperatures and more erratic rainfall in coming decades hold true, Texas's growing population could be just as vulnerable as the far Southwest is now to falling reservoirs and dwindling water supplies. Could our own Colorado prove to be as overextended as the one to the west? By Ryan Schumacher, Texas State Historical Association ...more

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• 3 /4 Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century, by Michael Hiltzik

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  Image: Workers on a "jumbo rig," used for drilling the Hoover Dam's tunnels. Public domain..Michael Hiltzik's history of Hoover Dam has an ambitious subtitle: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century . . . Although Hiltzik spends part of the introduction and most of the last chapter discussing how Hoover Dam's control of the Colorado River has facilitated the growth of desert cities such as Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Las Vegas, the meat of the book is concerned with the political and business personalities who built the dam and the daunting technical challenges that went into its construction. Political figures such as President Herbert Hoover, flamboyant California Progressive Hiram Johnson, and quintessential New Dealer Harold Ickes loom large. The exploits of the ruthlessly efficient—to the point of disregard for worker safety—construction engineer Frank "Hurry-Up" Crowe are detailed in admiring prose. Hiltzik does a fine job of using oral histories to let the construction workers relate their on-the-job experiences. The sometimes hand-in-glove and sometimes contentious relationship between the federal government and the Six Companies construction conglomerate responsible for building the dam is discussed, as is the development and social life of the company town of Boulder City, Nevada. The book's final chapter notes the alarming rate of diminution in recent years of Lake Mead, the huge reservoir created by Hoover Dam now renowned for its "bathtub ring," showing just how much the water level has fallen as the Colorado has been over-expropriated, giving the book a rather sobering end.       Colossus is not an academic history, nor does it profess to be one. Hiltzik's primary research, consisting of sources in national, university, and local archives, newspapers, and oral histories seems solid, though one wonders why state archives were not consulted. The notes and bibliography suggest a familiarity with key historical works on water in the West such as Donald Worster's Rivers of Empire and Marc Reisner's Cadillac Desert, though Hiltzik is unconcerned about placing himself in any historiographical context—certainly to the relief of the general reader. Scholars of the American West may be dismayed by Hiltizik's questionable assertion that "As a federal project, Hoover Dam was the first manifestation of the clamorous, ascendant West's expanding influence in Washington." Although this statement can be understood in such a way that it would be hard to argue that it is exactly wrong, Hiltzik gives short shrift to the Newlands Reclamation Act of 1902, which committed significant federal resources to developing irrigation in the West decades before the building of Hoover Dam commenced. The dam represented not so much the first, but the grandest, manifestation of efforts to provide a regular flow of water to the Arid West that stretched back to the 1870s. The section of illustrations in the book is not clearly placed nor noted in the table of contents; this makes for frustrating reading in the early going when a map would be useful.       Although practically none of the content of Colossus relates to Texas history, it does highlight a neglected subject for Texas historians: the copious dam-building projects on the state's major rivers to regulate water for urban and agricultural use. Many of Texas's booming metropolitan areas depend on water procured by such projects (along with already strained groundwater supplies), and if predictions of higher temperatures and more erratic rainfall in coming decades hold true, Texas's growing population could be just as vulnerable as the far Southwest is now to falling reservoirs and dwindling water supplies. Could our own Colorado prove to be as overextended as the one to the west? By Ryan Schumacher, Texas State Historical Association   ...more

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• 2/4 Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century, by Michael Hiltzik

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  Image:  Photograph of the Hoover Dam (formerly Boulder Dam) from Across the Colorado River; From the series Ansel Adams Photographs of National Parks and Monuments, compiled 1941 - 1942, documenting the period ca. 1933 - 1942. Public domain..Michael Hiltzik's history of Hoover Dam has an ambitious subtitle: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century . . . Although Hiltzik spends part of the introduction and most of the last chapter discussing how Hoover Dam's control of the Colorado River has facilitated the growth of desert cities such as Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Las Vegas, the meat of the book is concerned with the political and business personalities who built the dam and the daunting technical challenges that went into its construction. Political figures such as President Herbert Hoover, flamboyant California Progressive Hiram Johnson, and quintessential New Dealer Harold Ickes loom large. The exploits of the ruthlessly efficient—to the point of disregard for worker safety—construction engineer Frank "Hurry-Up" Crowe are detailed in admiring prose. Hiltzik does a fine job of using oral histories to let the construction workers relate their on-the-job experiences. The sometimes hand-in-glove and sometimes contentious relationship between the federal government and the Six Companies construction conglomerate responsible for building the dam is discussed, as is the development and social life of the company town of Boulder City, Nevada. The book's final chapter notes the alarming rate of diminution in recent years of Lake Mead, the huge reservoir created by Hoover Dam now renowned for its "bathtub ring," showing just how much the water level has fallen as the Colorado has been over-expropriated, giving the book a rather sobering end.       Colossus is not an academic history, nor does it profess to be one. Hiltzik's primary research, consisting of sources in national, university, and local archives, newspapers, and oral histories seems solid, though one wonders why state archives were not consulted. The notes and bibliography suggest a familiarity with key historical works on water in the West such as Donald Worster's Rivers of Empire and Marc Reisner's Cadillac Desert, though Hiltzik is unconcerned about placing himself in any historiographical context—certainly to the relief of the general reader. Scholars of the American West may be dismayed by Hiltizik's questionable assertion that "As a federal project, Hoover Dam was the first manifestation of the clamorous, ascendant West's expanding influence in Washington." Although this statement can be understood in such a way that it would be hard to argue that it is exactly wrong, Hiltzik gives short shrift to the Newlands Reclamation Act of 1902, which committed significant federal resources to developing irrigation in the West decades before the building of Hoover Dam commenced. The dam represented not so much the first, but the grandest, manifestation of efforts to provide a regular flow of water to the Arid West that stretched back to the 1870s. The section of illustrations in the book is not clearly placed nor noted in the table of contents; this makes for frustrating reading in the early going when a map would be useful.       Although practically none of the content of Colossus relates to Texas history, it does highlight a neglected subject for Texas historians: the copious dam-building projects on the state's major rivers to regulate water for urban and agricultural use. Many of Texas's booming metropolitan areas depend on water procured by such projects (along with already strained groundwater supplies), and if predictions of higher temperatures and more erratic rainfall in coming decades hold true, Texas's growing population could be just as vulnerable as the far Southwest is now to falling reservoirs and dwindling water supplies. Could our own Colorado prove to be as overextended as the one to the west? By Ryan Schumacher, Texas State Historical Association ...more

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• 1 /4 Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century, by Michael Hiltzik

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  Image:   Aerial view of Hoover Dam, Nevada-Arizona. Permissions*:  see below. .Michael Hiltzik's history of Hoover Dam has an ambitious subtitle: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century . . . Although Hiltzik spends part of the introduction and most of the last chapter discussing how Hoover Dam's control of the Colorado River has facilitated the growth of desert cities such as Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Las Vegas, the meat of the book is concerned with the political and business personalities who built the dam and the daunting technical challenges that went into its construction. Political figures such as President Herbert Hoover, flamboyant California Progressive Hiram Johnson, and quintessential New Dealer Harold Ickes loom large. The exploits of the ruthlessly efficient—to the point of disregard for worker safety—construction engineer Frank "Hurry-Up" Crowe are detailed in admiring prose. Hiltzik does a fine job of using oral histories to let the construction workers relate their on-the-job experiences. The sometimes hand-in-glove and sometimes contentious relationship between the federal government and the Six Companies construction conglomerate responsible for building the dam is discussed, as is the development and social life of the company town of Boulder City, Nevada. The book's final chapter notes the alarming rate of diminution in recent years of Lake Mead, the huge reservoir created by Hoover Dam now renowned for its "bathtub ring," showing just how much the water level has fallen as the Colorado has been over-expropriated, giving the book a rather sobering end.       Colossus is not an academic history, nor does it profess to be one. Hiltzik's primary research, consisting of sources in national, university, and local archives, newspapers, and oral histories seems solid, though one wonders why state archives were not consulted. The notes and bibliography suggest a familiarity with key historical works on water in the West such as Donald Worster's Rivers of Empire and Marc Reisner's Cadillac Desert, though Hiltzik is unconcerned about placing himself in any historiographical context—certainly to the relief of the general reader. Scholars of the American West may be dismayed by Hiltizik's questionable assertion that "As a federal project, Hoover Dam was the first manifestation of the clamorous, ascendant West's expanding influence in Washington." Although this statement can be understood in such a way that it would be hard to argue that it is exactly wrong, Hiltzik gives short shrift to the Newlands Reclamation Act of 1902, which committed significant federal resources to developing irrigation in the West decades before the building of Hoover Dam commenced. The dam represented not so much the first, but the grandest, manifestation of efforts to provide a regular flow of water to the Arid West that stretched back to the 1870s. The section of illustrations in the book is not clearly placed nor noted in the table of contents; this makes for frustrating reading in the early going when a map would be useful.       Although practically none of the content of Colossus relates to Texas history, it does highlight a neglected subject for Texas historians: the copious dam-building projects on the state's major rivers to regulate water for urban and agricultural use. Many of Texas's booming metropolitan areas depend on water procured by such projects (along with already strained groundwater supplies), and if predictions of higher temperatures and more erratic rainfall in coming decades hold true, Texas's growing population could be just as vulnerable as the far Southwest is now to falling reservoirs and dwindling water supplies. Could our own Colorado prove to be as overextended as the one to the west? By Ryan Schumacher, Texas State Historical Association ..  ..  .. *Permissions:  Author: Mariordo (Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz)   I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:  w:en:Creative Commonsattribution share alike   This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work - Under the following conditions:  attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.  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 Ganja archaeology: Russians conquered the Persians in the 19 Century; Ottomans had taken over from the Byzantines in the 15 Century. Dr Elnur Hasanov, Senior Specialist, Ganja Branch of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences

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  Lithograph: Persian defeat at Elisavetpole. Литография Г. Беггрова по оригиналу В. Машкова - runivers.ru. Public Domain .Dr Elnur Hasanov, Senior Specialist, Ganja Branch of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences: In Ganja, the Russians conquered the Persians here in the Nineteenth Century, while the Ottomans took over from the Byzantines in the Fifteenth Century. [Elisabethpol was a Russian name for Ganja; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Persian_War_(1826–1828)]

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• 1/2 The 4,000-yr-old Ganja & ancient kurgans; Persians, Buddhists, Zoroastrians conquered; with Dr Elnur Hasanov, Senior Specialist, Ganja Branch of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences

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  Image:  Sarmatian Kurgan, 4th century BC, Fillipovka, South Urals, Russia. A dig led by Russian Academy of Sciences Archeology Institute Prof. L. Yablonsky excavated this kurgan in 2006. It’s the first kurgan known to have been completely destroyed and then rebuilt to its original appearance. Public domain.       A kurgan (Russian: курга́н) is a tumulus, a type of burial mound or barrow, heaped over a burial chamber, often of wood. The Russian noun, already attested in Old East Slavic, comes from an unidentified Turkic language. Kurgans are mounds of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. More information: see below*..Dr Elnur Hasanov, Senior Specialist, Ganja Branch of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences; Archaeology and history of Ganja, Azerbaijan.   The name “Ganja” refers to historical tribes who called themselves “Ganzhak.” Ganja city, over 4,000 years old, has changed place four or five times. More than five ancient kurgans; with the help of the Smithsonian, of Japanese professors, and others, we have three international ethnological excavations right now.  Ganja is on the Great Silk Way.  “Every empire has been here except the empire of the New York Yankees.”  Persians moved in during the Eleventh or Twelfth Century.  Ganja was long the capital; has changed its fortifications four or five times. Buddhists and Zoroastrians have been here.  We have more than twenty Shi’a and Sunni mosques, early Christian temples, a German Protestant church and a Russian church—and the first and only Jewish quarter here, still here...  ..  ..   * The Kurgan hypothesis (also known as the Kurgan theory or Kurgan model) or steppe theory is the most widely accepted proposal to identify the Proto-Indo-European homeland from which the Indo-European languages spread out throughout Europe, Eurasia and parts of Asia. It postulates that the people of a Kurgan culture in the Pontic steppe north of the Black Sea were the most likely speakers of the Proto-Indo-European language (PIE). The term is derived from the Russian kurgan (курга́н), meaning tumulus or burial mound.         See also:    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurgan_hypothesis#/media/File:IE_expansion.png       Map of Indo-European expansion 4000–1000 BC, according to the Kurgan hypothesis. Even within the Kurgan hypothesis, there is considerable uncertainty, mainly depending on assumptions about the Tocharians, the Corded ware culture, and the Beaker culture. The central purple area is supposed to show early Yamna culture (4000–3500 BC); the dark red area could show expansion to about 2500 BC; and the lighter red area,expansion to about 1000 BC. ...more

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• Visions of Infinity: 4 of 4: The Great Mathematical Problems 1st Edition by Ian Stewart (Author)

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  Photo:English: Tsarevich Nikolai Aleksandrovich (later Nicholas II) (fifth from left) during his trip in Egypt. Third from left Prince N. D. Obolensky, forth V. A. Baryatinsky, sixth Hereditary Prince Swedish and Norwegian general Erikson, seventh Greek Prince George.Date | 1890Source | Записки скучного человека - Путешествие Цесаревича Николая на Восток. 1890-1891Author | Unknown Camera location | 29° 58′ 30.11″ N, 31° 08′ 17.2″ E    | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth | Licensing[edit] | 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 Visions of Infinity: 4 of 4:  The Great Mathematical Problems 1st Edition by Ian Stewart  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Visions-Infinity-Great-Mathematical-Problems-dp-0465022405/dp/0465022405/ref=mt_hardcover?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= It is one of the wonders of mathematics that, for every problem mathematicians solve, another awaits to perplex and galvanize them. Some of these problems are new, while others have puzzled and bewitched thinkers across the ages. Such challenges offer a tantalizing glimpse of the field's unlimited potential, and keep mathematicians looking toward the horizons of intellectual possibility.In Visions of Infinity, celebrated mathematician Ian Stewart provides a fascinating overview of the most formidable problems mathematicians have vanquished, and those that vex them still. He explains why these problems exist, what drives mathematicians to solve them, and why their efforts matter in the context of science as a whole. The three-century effort to prove Fermat's last theorem—first posited in 1630, and finally solved by Andrew Wiles in 1995—led to the creation of algebraic number theory and complex analysis. The Poincaré conjecture, which was cracked in 2002 by the eccentric genius Grigori Perelman, has become fundamental to mathematicians' understanding of three-dimensional shapes. But while mathematicians have made enormous advances in recent years, some problems continue to baffle us. Indeed, the Riemann hypothesis, which Stewart refers to as the “Holy Grail of pure mathematics,” and the P/NP problem, which straddles mathematics and computer science, could easily remain unproved for another hundred years.An approachable and illuminating history of mathematics as told through fourteen of its greatest problems, Visions of Infinity reveals how mathematicians the world over are rising to the challenges set by their predecessors—and how the enigmas of the past inevitably surrender to the powerful techniques of the present....more

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• Visions of Infinity: 3 of 4: The Great Mathematical Problems 1st Edition by Ian Stewart (Author)

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  Photo:  The Sphinx, with sand cleared away and two pyramids visible, on either side of its head.Date | 1890Source |  | This image comes from the Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA) where it is available at the following Uniform Resource Identifier: 21425.Original source: Edwards, Amelia B. "A Thousand Miles up the Nile." George Routledge and Sons, Limited: London, 1890. p 489.This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. All of TIMEA's content is licensed under a CC-BY-2.5 license. Depending on their publication date, some images might be in the public domain.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Visions of Infinity: 3 of 4:  The Great Mathematical Problems 1st Edition by Ian Stewart  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Visions-Infinity-Great-Mathematical-Problems-dp-0465022405/dp/0465022405/ref=mt_hardcover?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= It is one of the wonders of mathematics that, for every problem mathematicians solve, another awaits to perplex and galvanize them. Some of these problems are new, while others have puzzled and bewitched thinkers across the ages. Such challenges offer a tantalizing glimpse of the field's unlimited potential, and keep mathematicians looking toward the horizons of intellectual possibility.In Visions of Infinity, celebrated mathematician Ian Stewart provides a fascinating overview of the most formidable problems mathematicians have vanquished, and those that vex them still. He explains why these problems exist, what drives mathematicians to solve them, and why their efforts matter in the context of science as a whole. The three-century effort to prove Fermat's last theorem—first posited in 1630, and finally solved by Andrew Wiles in 1995—led to the creation of algebraic number theory and complex analysis. The Poincaré conjecture, which was cracked in 2002 by the eccentric genius Grigori Perelman, has become fundamental to mathematicians' understanding of three-dimensional shapes. But while mathematicians have made enormous advances in recent years, some problems continue to baffle us. Indeed, the Riemann hypothesis, which Stewart refers to as the “Holy Grail of pure mathematics,” and the P/NP problem, which straddles mathematics and computer science, could easily remain unproved for another hundred years.An approachable and illuminating history of mathematics as told through fourteen of its greatest problems, Visions of Infinity reveals how mathematicians the world over are rising to the challenges set by their predecessors—and how the enigmas of the past inevitably surrender to the powerful techniques of the present....more

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• Visions of Infinity: 2 of 4: The Great Mathematical Problems 1st Edition by Ian Stewart (Author)

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  Photo: English: book illustrationDate | 1890Source |  | This file has been extracted from another file:  Desmazures - Cours d'archéologie, les Indes, l'Égypte, l'Assyrie, la Palestine, 1890.djvu | Author | Canada Bank Note Cohttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Visions of Infinity: 2 of 4:  The Great Mathematical Problems 1st Edition by Ian Stewart  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Visions-Infinity-Great-Mathematical-Problems-dp-0465022405/dp/0465022405/ref=mt_hardcover?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= It is one of the wonders of mathematics that, for every problem mathematicians solve, another awaits to perplex and galvanize them. Some of these problems are new, while others have puzzled and bewitched thinkers across the ages. Such challenges offer a tantalizing glimpse of the field's unlimited potential, and keep mathematicians looking toward the horizons of intellectual possibility.In Visions of Infinity, celebrated mathematician Ian Stewart provides a fascinating overview of the most formidable problems mathematicians have vanquished, and those that vex them still. He explains why these problems exist, what drives mathematicians to solve them, and why their efforts matter in the context of science as a whole. The three-century effort to prove Fermat's last theorem—first posited in 1630, and finally solved by Andrew Wiles in 1995—led to the creation of algebraic number theory and complex analysis. The Poincaré conjecture, which was cracked in 2002 by the eccentric genius Grigori Perelman, has become fundamental to mathematicians' understanding of three-dimensional shapes. But while mathematicians have made enormous advances in recent years, some problems continue to baffle us. Indeed, the Riemann hypothesis, which Stewart refers to as the “Holy Grail of pure mathematics,” and the P/NP problem, which straddles mathematics and computer science, could easily remain unproved for another hundred years.An approachable and illuminating history of mathematics as told through fourteen of its greatest problems, Visions of Infinity reveals how mathematicians the world over are rising to the challenges set by their predecessors—and how the enigmas of the past inevitably surrender to the powerful techniques of the present....more

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• Visions of Infinity: 1 of 4: The Great Mathematical Problems 1st Edition by Ian Stewart (Author)

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  Photo: Lord Carnarvon, his daughter Lady Evelyn Herbert and Howard Carter at the top of the steps leading to the newly discovered tomb of Tutankhamun, November 1922.[10] Harry Burton (Photographer) - The Griffith Institute Archive. Harry Burton’s photos of Tutankhamun’s Tomb taken in 1922 are on the Griffith Institute Archive with the note: “This material is published with full and free access, providing a comprehensive online resource for all audiences.” See: http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/discoveringTut/ Howard Carter, Lord Carnarvon and his daughter Lady Evelyn Herbert at the steps leading to the newly discovered tomb of Tutankhamen, November 1922. Public Domain File:Howard Carter, Lord Carnarvon and Lady Evelyn Herbert at Tutankhamen's tomb.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Visions of Infinity: 1 of 4:  The Great Mathematical Problems 1st Edition by Ian Stewart  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Visions-Infinity-Great-Mathematical-Problems-dp-0465022405/dp/0465022405/ref=mt_hardcover?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= It is one of the wonders of mathematics that, for every problem mathematicians solve, another awaits to perplex and galvanize them. Some of these problems are new, while others have puzzled and bewitched thinkers across the ages. Such challenges offer a tantalizing glimpse of the field's unlimited potential, and keep mathematicians looking toward the horizons of intellectual possibility.In Visions of Infinity, celebrated mathematician Ian Stewart provides a fascinating overview of the most formidable problems mathematicians have vanquished, and those that vex them still. He explains why these problems exist, what drives mathematicians to solve them, and why their efforts matter in the context of science as a whole. The three-century effort to prove Fermat's last theorem—first posited in 1630, and finally solved by Andrew Wiles in 1995—led to the creation of algebraic number theory and complex analysis. The Poincaré conjecture, which was cracked in 2002 by the eccentric genius Grigori Perelman, has become fundamental to mathematicians' understanding of three-dimensional shapes. But while mathematicians have made enormous advances in recent years, some problems continue to baffle us. Indeed, the Riemann hypothesis, which Stewart refers to as the “Holy Grail of pure mathematics,” and the P/NP problem, which straddles mathematics and computer science, could easily remain unproved for another hundred years.An approachable and illuminating history of mathematics as told through fourteen of its greatest problems, Visions of Infinity reveals how mathematicians the world over are rising to the challenges set by their predecessors—and how the enigmas of the past inevitably surrender to the powerful techniques of the present....more

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• Five-star hotel: The care and feeding of global travelers. Bob Suri, General Manager, Four Seasons Hotel, Baku, Azerbaijan

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  Image:  Four Seasons logo; fair use..The care and feeding of the always-late and hungry global traveler.  "We have 116 hotels in 42 countries. Advice to young people who want to undertake becoming a hotelier: wear your attitude on your shoulder. We don't hire people; we select people.  . . . Of course we need excellent technology in your room, but the human connection will always be central." Bob Suri, General Manager, Four Seasons Hotel, Baku, Azerbaijan.

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• 2/2 Today’s technology will be completely gone in 25 years. We invest in human capital. Emin Huseynov, Aide to the First Vice-President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

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  Image: The Flame Towers, gloriously-lit skyscrapers in Baku. Historically, Azeris worshipped fire (the oil and gas escaping through rocks often were aflame for centuries); these buildings are a tribute to that history.  The exceptionally vivid illumination, repeatedly coursing up the buildings,  continues from sundown till 1 AM.  Screen-grab from a vid by Traxon Technologies, who, apparently in an act of genius, figured out how to illuminate the towers. “To meet the project requirements, Traxon created a special fixture, to be installed behind the buildings’ windows and give the illusion of ribbons of light.” See: traxontechnologies.com.2 of 2  Emin Huseynov, Aide to the First Vice-President of the Republic of Azerbaijan:  To invest more in human capital, to be productive and efficient, a person needs above all to be healthy, then to get a good education; then can contribute to society. All these components are essential. We've been reforming in health, education, and social welfare: we’ve targetted all five components of education – content, teachers, management, financing . . . I studied twice in the US, first time funded by the Dept of State, then for my second Master’s funded by Azerbaijan; initially, in Florida, and second at Harvard.  Azerbaijan is using financial assets to grow education; now shifting to intangible wealth, which will be our priority for the next twenty-five years.  The technology we see now will be completely gone in twenty-five years.  JB: Azerbaijan dreams big ...more

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• 1/2 We’ve tripled our rate of growth after years of military threat; Emin Huseynov, Aide to the First Vice-President of the Republic of Azerbaijan,

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  Image:  Bakü gece görünüşü — the Baku shoreline, facing north, with the Caspian to the right. Permissions*: see below..1 of 2  Emin Huseynov, Aide to the First Vice-President of the Republic of Azerbaijan:  After years of being under military threat, we recently tripled our rate of growth.  World Bank research among Central Asian nations: There’s no clear-cut evidence that diversified exports lead to a developed economy.  What’s more important: diversify exports, or diversify assets?  World Bank refers to natural, produced, and intangible (human capital and institutions – i.e.., rules of the game) wealth. In Azerbaijan, we have a lot of natural wealth in hydrocarbons; we then built infrastructure — water, irrigation, bridges, roads; upgraded to a top-notch level, which greatly contributed to our produced wealth. We now need to invest more in human capital and in building more effective market institutions.  .*Permissions:  I, Abbaszade656, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:w:en:Creative Commons attribution share alike   This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work - Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. 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 Pipeline links Caspian, Black Sea, Mediterranean and the Adriatic, takes oil to Europe; Hikmet Hajiyev, Head of the Foreign Policy Affairs Department, Administration of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

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  Image:  Location and extent of the former Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (lighter color). [Note: “oblast” is a Russian word; this is a carryover from Soviet colonialization. –ed.]  Public domain..2 of 2 Hikmet Hajiyev, Head of the Foreign Policy affairs Department, Administration of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, in re:  The tragedy of Nagorno-Karabakh weighs upon the whole of the South Caucasus. The Southern Gas Pipeline; energy resources for  Central Asia, and also for security. HH: Our gratitude to the United States for its help. Pipeline takes gas from Caspian Sea to the European market, so we link Caspian, Black Sea, Mediterranean and the Adriatic; 50,000 new jobs. JB: I was in Uzbekistan this year, and they want to do what you’ve done.  HH:  [The historical connections among Central Asian nations.] We had globalization a thousand years ago, even including traders from China.   We’re linking railroads (“the Iron Silk Road”), air transport, Caspian shipping; we're even linking in Afghanistan. Everyone’s products can thereby go to the European market.  ...more

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• 1 /2 The tragedy of Nagorno-Karabakh weighs upon the whole of the South Caucasus; Hikmet Hajiyev, Head of the Foreign Policy Affairs Department, Administration of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

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  Image:  Qirmizi Bazar village (the village is in the background). Permissions*: see below..1 of 2   Hikmet Hajiyev, Head of the Foreign Policy Affairs Department, Administration of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan:  The tragedy of Nagorno-Karabakh weighs upon the whole of the South Caucasus.  Soldiers’ sitting in trenches facing each other – same as World Wars I and II.   Unfortunately, Armenia is in blatant disregard of rules of warfare. What has it achieved for its occupation? Nothing, Worse, it's using vast amounts of Armenian resources, while many Armenia youngsters are spending a great part of their life in trench warfare.  JB: Excellent farm land – lavish roses, fabulous melons; but on the other side, it's barren.  HH: Marco Polo in the Twelfth Century remarked on what a fertile agricultural region this is.  We’ve managed to develop well with oil and gas and we're eager to share our prosperity with Armenia, which is suffering economically. UN demanded that Armenia withdraw its forces.  Ethnic cleansing of Azerbaijanis in Armenia.  We should live side by side in peace and dignity.  Otherwise, we have a dividing line, similar to during the Cold War.  JB:  The day before I arrived, an Azerbaijani young soldier was shot. Do these many provocations – sniper fire – help Armenia?  HH:  . . .  when 600 civilians were deliberately killed, including many old people. JB: The Armenian population is declining while the Azerbaijanis are having babies.  .*Permissions:  Source:  http://plusninety.livejournal.com/139040.html ; Author:  LJ user plusninety.    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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• Beau Brummell: 1 of 1: The Ultimate Man of Style Hardcover – May 2, 2006

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  Photo: A ball at Almack's, supposedly in 1815; the couple on the left are annotated as 'Beau Brummell in deep conversation with the Duchess of Rutland'.Rees Howell Gronow (Life time: (1794–1865)) - Original publication: A print from "Reminiscences and Recollections of Captain Gronow: Being Anecdotes of Camp, Court, Club and Society 1810 to 1860" Immediate source: http://whitebison.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/asymmetric-hem-mr-darcy1.jpg A print from Reminiscences and Recollections of Captain Gronow: Being Anecdotes of Camp, Court, Club and Society 1810 to 1860 published in 1865. It shows a ball at Almack's, supposedly in the year 1815, and the couple on the left are annotated as 'Beau Brummell in Deep Conversation with the Duchess of Rutland'. According to the author the original was presented to Beau Brummell himself by the artist. This copy is from the collection of the British Museum. A cursory comparison of dress styles and other images of Brummell demonstrates that the image depicts neither Brummell nor 1815. The dress style is late 1820s or early 1830s, and the profile more closely matches the Duke of Wellington's famous high-bridged nose than Brummell's dainty retroussé one. Public Domain File:Almacks with Brummell.jpg Created: 31 December 1864 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Beau Brummell: 1 of 1: The Ultimate Man of Style Hardcover – May 2, 2006https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007Z4SOL6/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i1 "If people turn to look at you in the street, you are not well dressed, but either too stiff, too tight, or too fashionable." -- Beau Brummell Long before tabloids and television, Beau Brummell was the first person famous for being famous, the male socialite of his time, the first metrosexual -- 200 years before the word was conceived. His name has become synonymous with wit, profligacy, fine tailoring, and fashion. A style pundit, Brummell was singly responsible for changing forever the way men dress -- inventing, in effect, the suit. Brummell cut a dramatic swath through British society, from his early years as a favorite of the Prince of Wales and an arbiter of taste in the Age of Elegance, to his precipitous fall into poverty, incarceration, and madness. Brummell created the blueprint for celebrity crash and burn, falling dramatically out of favor and spending his last years in a hellish asylum. For nearly two decades, Brummell ruled over the tastes and pursuits of the well heeled and influential, and for almost as long, lived in penury and exile. With vivid prose, critically acclaimed biographer Ian Kelly unlocks the glittering, turbulent world of late-eighteenth/early-nineteenth-century London -- the first truly modern metropolis: venal, fashion-and-celebrity obsessed, self-centered and self-doubting -- through the life of one of its greatest heroes and most tragic victims. Brummell personified London's West End, where a new style of masculinity and modern men's fashion were first defined. Brummell was the leading Casanova and elusive bachelor of his time, appealing to both men and women of his society. The man Lord Byron once claimed was more important than Napoleon, Brummell was the ultimate cosmopolitan man. "Toyboy" to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, and leader of playboys including the eventual king of England, Brummell inspired Pushkin to write Eugene Onegin, and Byron to write Don Juan, and he influenced others from Oscar Wilde to Coco Chanel. Through love letters, historical records, and poems, Kelly reveals the man inside the suit, unlocking the scandalous behavior of London's high society while illuminating Brummell's enigmatic life in the colorful, tumultuous West End. A rare rendering of an era filled with excess, scandal, promiscuity, opulence, and luxury, Beau Brummell is the first comprehensive view of an elegant and ultimately tragic figure whose influence continues to this day....more

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• The Spy Who Was Left Behind: 4 of 4: Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Michael Pullara (Author, Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo: Tblisihttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Spy Who Was Left Behind: 4 of 4:  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Michael Pullara (Author, Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Spy-Who-Was-Left-Behind/dp/B07FYRRTHN/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=On August 8, 1993, a single bullet to the head killed Freddie Woodruff, the Central Intelligence Agency's station chief in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. Within hours, police had a suspect - a vodka-soaked village bumpkin named Anzor Sharmaidze. A tidy explanation quickly followed: It was a tragic accident. US diplomats hailed Georgia's swift work, and both countries breathed a sigh of relief. Yet the bullet that killed Woodruff was never found, and key witnesses have since retracted their testimony, saying they were beaten and forced to identify Sharmaidze. But if he didn't do it, who did? Those who don't buy the official explanation think the answer lies in the spy games that played out on Russia's frontier following the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. Woodruff was an early actor in a dangerous drama. American spies were moving into newborn nations previously dominated by Soviet intelligence. Russia's security apparatus, resentful and demoralized, was in turmoil, its nominal loyalty to a pro-Western course set by President Boris Yeltsin, shredded by hard-line spooks and generals who viewed the Americans as a menace. At the time when Woodruff was stationed there, Georgia was a den of intrigue. It had a big Russian military base and was awash with former and not-so-former Soviet agents. Shortly before Woodruff was shot, veteran CIA Officer Aldrich Ames - who would soon be unmasked as a KGB mole - visited him on agency business. In short order, Woodruff would be dead and Ames, in prison for life. Buckle up, because The Spy Who Was Left Behind reveals the full-throttle, little-known thrilling tale.  ...more

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• The Spy Who Was Left Behind: 3 of 4: Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Michael Pullara (Author, Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo: Tblisihttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Spy Who Was Left Behind: 3 of 4:  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Michael Pullara (Author, Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Spy-Who-Was-Left-Behind/dp/B07FYRRTHN/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=On August 8, 1993, a single bullet to the head killed Freddie Woodruff, the Central Intelligence Agency's station chief in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. Within hours, police had a suspect - a vodka-soaked village bumpkin named Anzor Sharmaidze. A tidy explanation quickly followed: It was a tragic accident. US diplomats hailed Georgia's swift work, and both countries breathed a sigh of relief. Yet the bullet that killed Woodruff was never found, and key witnesses have since retracted their testimony, saying they were beaten and forced to identify Sharmaidze. But if he didn't do it, who did? Those who don't buy the official explanation think the answer lies in the spy games that played out on Russia's frontier following the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. Woodruff was an early actor in a dangerous drama. American spies were moving into newborn nations previously dominated by Soviet intelligence. Russia's security apparatus, resentful and demoralized, was in turmoil, its nominal loyalty to a pro-Western course set by President Boris Yeltsin, shredded by hard-line spooks and generals who viewed the Americans as a menace. At the time when Woodruff was stationed there, Georgia was a den of intrigue. It had a big Russian military base and was awash with former and not-so-former Soviet agents. Shortly before Woodruff was shot, veteran CIA Officer Aldrich Ames - who would soon be unmasked as a KGB mole - visited him on agency business. In short order, Woodruff would be dead and Ames, in prison for life. Buckle up, because The Spy Who Was Left Behind reveals the full-throttle, little-known thrilling tale. ...more

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• The Spy Who Was Left Behind: 2 of 4: Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Michael Pullara (Author, Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo: Tblisihttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Spy Who Was Left Behind: 2 of 4:  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Michael Pullara (Author, Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Spy-Who-Was-Left-Behind/dp/B07FYRRTHN/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=On August 8, 1993, a single bullet to the head killed Freddie Woodruff, the Central Intelligence Agency's station chief in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. Within hours, police had a suspect - a vodka-soaked village bumpkin named Anzor Sharmaidze. A tidy explanation quickly followed: It was a tragic accident. US diplomats hailed Georgia's swift work, and both countries breathed a sigh of relief. Yet the bullet that killed Woodruff was never found, and key witnesses have since retracted their testimony, saying they were beaten and forced to identify Sharmaidze. But if he didn't do it, who did? Those who don't buy the official explanation think the answer lies in the spy games that played out on Russia's frontier following the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. Woodruff was an early actor in a dangerous drama. American spies were moving into newborn nations previously dominated by Soviet intelligence. Russia's security apparatus, resentful and demoralized, was in turmoil, its nominal loyalty to a pro-Western course set by President Boris Yeltsin, shredded by hard-line spooks and generals who viewed the Americans as a menace. At the time when Woodruff was stationed there, Georgia was a den of intrigue. It had a big Russian military base and was awash with former and not-so-former Soviet agents. Shortly before Woodruff was shot, veteran CIA Officer Aldrich Ames - who would soon be unmasked as a KGB mole - visited him on agency business. In short order, Woodruff would be dead and Ames, in prison for life. Buckle up, because The Spy Who Was Left Behind reveals the full-throttle, little-known thrilling tale. ...more

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• The Spy Who Was Left Behind: 1 of 4: Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Michael Pullara (Author, Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo: Tblisihttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Spy Who Was Left Behind: 1 of 4:  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Michael Pullara (Author, Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Spy-Who-Was-Left-Behind/dp/B07FYRRTHN/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=On August 8, 1993, a single bullet to the head killed Freddie Woodruff, the Central Intelligence Agency's station chief in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. Within hours, police had a suspect - a vodka-soaked village bumpkin named Anzor Sharmaidze. A tidy explanation quickly followed: It was a tragic accident. US diplomats hailed Georgia's swift work, and both countries breathed a sigh of relief. Yet the bullet that killed Woodruff was never found, and key witnesses have since retracted their testimony, saying they were beaten and forced to identify Sharmaidze. But if he didn't do it, who did? Those who don't buy the official explanation think the answer lies in the spy games that played out on Russia's frontier following the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. Woodruff was an early actor in a dangerous drama. American spies were moving into newborn nations previously dominated by Soviet intelligence. Russia's security apparatus, resentful and demoralized, was in turmoil, its nominal loyalty to a pro-Western course set by President Boris Yeltsin, shredded by hard-line spooks and generals who viewed the Americans as a menace. At the time when Woodruff was stationed there, Georgia was a den of intrigue. It had a big Russian military base and was awash with former and not-so-former Soviet agents. Shortly before Woodruff was shot, veteran CIA Officer Aldrich Ames - who would soon be unmasked as a KGB mole - visited him on agency business. In short order, Woodruff would be dead and Ames, in prison for life. Buckle up, because The Spy Who Was Left Behind reveals the full-throttle, little-known thrilling tale. ...more

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• Better Living Through Criticism: 4 of 4: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth. Audible Audiobook – Unabridged A. O. Scott (Author), Jonathan Todd Ross (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher)

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  Photo: Andy Devine and George Bancroft Screenshot by Wayne77 - She Wore a Yellow Ribbon trailer This image is a screenshot from a public domain trailer for the 1938 film, en:Stagecoach. Trailers for movies released before 1964 are in the Public Domain because they were never separately copyrighted. Permission details This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1924 and 1963 and although there may or may not have been a copyright notice, the copyright was not renewed. Unless its author has been dead for the required period, it is copyrighted in the countries or areas that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works, such as Canada (50 pma), Mainland China (50 pma, not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 pma), Mexico (100 pma), Switzerland (70 pma), and other countries with individual treaties. See Commons:Hirtle chart for further explanation.View more Public Domainview terms File:Stagecoach-02 - Andy Devine et George Bancroft.jpg Created: 31 December 1938 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Better Living Through Criticism: 4 of 4: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth.  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged A. O. Scott (Author), Jonathan Todd Ross (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Better-Living-Through-Criticism-Pleasure/dp/B01B6SHTYE/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1569709761&sr=8-2Few could explain, let alone seek out, a career in criticism. Yet what A. O. Scott shows in Better Living Through Criticism is that we are, in fact, all critics: because critical thinking informs almost every aspect of artistic creation, of civil action, of interpersonal life.  With penetrating insight and warm humor, Scott shows that while individual critics - himself included - can make mistakes and find flaws where they shouldn't, criticism as a discipline is one of the noblest, most creative and urgent activities of modern existence. Using his own film criticism as a starting point - everything from his infamous dismissal of the international blockbuster The Avengers to his intense affection for Pixar's animated Ratatouille - Scott expands outward, easily guiding listeners through the complexities of Rilke and Shelley, the origins of Chuck Berry and the Rolling Stones, the power of Marina Abramovich and "Ode on a Grecian Urn".  Drawing on the long tradition of criticism from Aristotle to Susan Sontag, Scott shows that real criticism was and always will be the breath of fresh air that allows true creativity to thrive.  "The time for criticism is always now," Scott explains, "because the imperative to think clearly, to insist on the necessary balance of reason and passion, never goes away."...more

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• Better Living Through Criticism: 3 of 4: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth. Audible Audiobook – Unabridged A. O. Scott (Author), Jonathan Todd Ross (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher)

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  Photo: George Bancroft, John Wayne and Louise Platt in Stagecoach (1939)United Artists - National Board of Review Magazine for March 1939, Volume XIV, Number 3 (front cover) Promotional still from the 1939 film Stagecoach, published on the front cover of National Board of Review Magazine Permission details This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1924 and 1963 and although there may or may not have been a copyright notice, the copyright was not renewed. Unless its author has been dead for the required period, it is copyrighted in the countries or areas that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works, such as Canada (50 pma), Mainland China (50 pma, not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 pma), Mexico (100 pma), Switzerland (70 pma), and other countries with individual treaties. See Commons:Hirtle chart for further explanation.View more Public Domainview terms File:Stagecoach-1939.jpg Created: 28 February 1939 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Better Living Through Criticism: 3 of 4: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth.  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged A. O. Scott (Author), Jonathan Todd Ross (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Better-Living-Through-Criticism-Pleasure/dp/B01B6SHTYE/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1569709761&sr=8-2Few could explain, let alone seek out, a career in criticism. Yet what A. O. Scott shows in Better Living Through Criticism is that we are, in fact, all critics: because critical thinking informs almost every aspect of artistic creation, of civil action, of interpersonal life.  With penetrating insight and warm humor, Scott shows that while individual critics - himself included - can make mistakes and find flaws where they shouldn't, criticism as a discipline is one of the noblest, most creative and urgent activities of modern existence. Using his own film criticism as a starting point - everything from his infamous dismissal of the international blockbuster The Avengers to his intense affection for Pixar's animated Ratatouille - Scott expands outward, easily guiding listeners through the complexities of Rilke and Shelley, the origins of Chuck Berry and the Rolling Stones, the power of Marina Abramovich and "Ode on a Grecian Urn".  Drawing on the long tradition of criticism from Aristotle to Susan Sontag, Scott shows that real criticism was and always will be the breath of fresh air that allows true creativity to thrive.  "The time for criticism is always now," Scott explains, "because the imperative to think clearly, to insist on the necessary balance of reason and passion, never goes away."...more

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• Better Living Through Criticism: 2 of 4: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth. Audible Audiobook – Unabridged A. O. Scott (Author), Jonathan Todd Ross (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher)

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  Photo: Henry Fonda as Tom JoadA Darryl F. Zanuck Production - trailer Trailer for the 1940 black and white film The Grapes of Wrath. Henry Fonda. Permission details This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1924 and 1977 without a copyright notice. See Commons:Hirtle chart for further explanation. Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (50 p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 p.m.a.), Mexico (100 p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.View more Public Domainview terms File:Grapes of Wrath, The - (Original Trailer) - 01.png Created: 31 December 1939 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Better Living Through Criticism: 2 of 4: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth.  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged A. O. Scott (Author), Jonathan Todd Ross (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Better-Living-Through-Criticism-Pleasure/dp/B01B6SHTYE/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1569709761&sr=8-2Few could explain, let alone seek out, a career in criticism. Yet what A. O. Scott shows in Better Living Through Criticism is that we are, in fact, all critics: because critical thinking informs almost every aspect of artistic creation, of civil action, of interpersonal life.  With penetrating insight and warm humor, Scott shows that while individual critics - himself included - can make mistakes and find flaws where they shouldn't, criticism as a discipline is one of the noblest, most creative and urgent activities of modern existence. Using his own film criticism as a starting point - everything from his infamous dismissal of the international blockbuster The Avengers to his intense affection for Pixar's animated Ratatouille - Scott expands outward, easily guiding listeners through the complexities of Rilke and Shelley, the origins of Chuck Berry and the Rolling Stones, the power of Marina Abramovich and "Ode on a Grecian Urn".  Drawing on the long tradition of criticism from Aristotle to Susan Sontag, Scott shows that real criticism was and always will be the breath of fresh air that allows true creativity to thrive.  "The time for criticism is always now," Scott explains, "because the imperative to think clearly, to insist on the necessary balance of reason and passion, never goes away."...more

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• Better Living Through Criticism: 1 of 4: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth. Audible Audiobook – Unabridged A. O. Scott (Author), Jonathan Todd Ross (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher)

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  Photo: A scene from the film trailer for I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang Trailer screenshot - I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang trailer Cropped screenshot from the trailer for the film I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang Permission details This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1924 and 1977 without a copyright notice. See Commons:Hirtle chart for further explanation. Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (50 p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 p.m.a.), Mexico (100 p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.View more Public Domainview terms File:I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang trailer 2.jpg Created: 31 December 1931 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Better Living Through Criticism: 1 of 4: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth.  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged A. O. Scott (Author), Jonathan Todd Ross (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Better-Living-Through-Criticism-Pleasure/dp/B01B6SHTYE/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1569709761&sr=8-2Few could explain, let alone seek out, a career in criticism. Yet what A. O. Scott shows in Better Living Through Criticism is that we are, in fact, all critics: because critical thinking informs almost every aspect of artistic creation, of civil action, of interpersonal life.  With penetrating insight and warm humor, Scott shows that while individual critics - himself included - can make mistakes and find flaws where they shouldn't, criticism as a discipline is one of the noblest, most creative and urgent activities of modern existence. Using his own film criticism as a starting point - everything from his infamous dismissal of the international blockbuster The Avengers to his intense affection for Pixar's animated Ratatouille - Scott expands outward, easily guiding listeners through the complexities of Rilke and Shelley, the origins of Chuck Berry and the Rolling Stones, the power of Marina Abramovich and "Ode on a Grecian Urn".  Drawing on the long tradition of criticism from Aristotle to Susan Sontag, Scott shows that real criticism was and always will be the breath of fresh air that allows true creativity to thrive.  "The time for criticism is always now," Scott explains, "because the imperative to think clearly, to insist on the necessary balance of reason and passion, never goes away."...more

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• 2/2 Rohit Talwar, Impact investing fastfuture.com An intentional approach to investing designed to be of benefit of certain people or goals.

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  Image: Malala Yousafzai, also known mononymously as Malala, is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate. She is known for human rights advocacy, especially the education of women and children in her native Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has grown into an international movement, and according to former Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, she has become "the most prominent citizen" of the country. Permissions*: see  below. .2/2  Rohit Talwar on Impact investing; fastfuture.com        Rohit Talwar is an award-winning global futurist, entrepreneur and specialist advisor on business transformation, disruptive strategies and radical innovation. He was nominated as one of the top ten global future thinkers by the UK's Independent newspaper and regularly comments on the future and innovation for major international news networks.        Rohit focuses on helping audiences make sense of and respond to a constantly changing reality and a hyper-connected world; provides critical insights into how to respond to the forces and ideas shaping the future, deliver transformational change and create imaginative new strategies and possibilities; shows us how to identify the key factors shaping the future, assess their impact and deliver real change both in our own lives and in the organisations we lead or work for..*Permissions:  Author:  DFID - UK Department for International Development.  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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• 1/2 Rohit Talwar, Impact investing fastfuture.com An intentional approach to investing designed to be of benefit of certain people or goals.

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  Image:  The F.B. Heron Foundation Mission-Related Investing Continuum.  *Permissions: see below..Rohit Talwar on Impact investing; fastfuture.com        Rohit Talwar is an award-winning global futurist, entrepreneur and specialist advisor on business transformation, disruptive strategies and radical innovation. He was nominated as one of the top ten global future thinkers by the UK's Independent newspaper and regularly comments on the future and innovation for major international news networks.        Rohit focuses on helping audiences make sense of and respond to a constantly changing reality and a hyper-connected world; provides critical insights into how to respond to the forces and ideas shaping the future, deliver transformational change and create imaginative new strategies and possibilities; shows us how to identify the key factors shaping the future, assess their impact and deliver real change both in our own lives and in the organisations we lead or work for..*Permissions: Author:  NicoleMN6 (talk) (Uploads)  I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:Creative Commons CC-Zero 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. ...more

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• The War of the North: Hezbollah prepares to rocket Israel. ISIS in Sinai. With Dore Gold, & Malcolm Hoenlein

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  Image: ISIS in Sinai.  The Sinai insurgency is an ongoing conflict in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, between Islamist militants and Egyptian security forces, which has included attacks on civilians.  Permissions*: see below..Dore Gold, & Malcolm Hoenlein:   Israeli security update, UN week.  Iran’s attack on Saudi.  ISIS in Sinai.   Reluctant to recommend a mutual defense treaty.  The War of the North. ·         https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-angrily-rejects-holocaust-gaza-comparison-from-turkeys-erdogan/ ·         https://www.timesofisrael.com/at-un-trump-calls-on-mideast-nations-to-fully-normalize-ties-with-israel/ ·         https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-floats-idea-of-mutual-defense-pact-with-israel-days-before-close-election/2019/09/14/515270d8-d714-11e9-9610-fb56c5522e1c_story.html ·         https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/09/03/get-ready-for-isis-to-make-a-comeback/ ·         https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/09/1047702  Ambassador Dore Gold is President of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. In June 2015, Dore Gold left the Jerusalem Center, which he had led since 2000, to serve as Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, appointed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. During his tenure at the Foreign Ministry, until October 2016, Ambassador Gold advanced policies that strengthened Israel on a global level – from Africa and Asia to the Mideast and the Western world..*Permissions:  I, Sherif9282, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following licenses:w:en:Creative Commons attribution share alikeThis 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 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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• “Freedom of speech lets me be anti-Jewish”—Mahathir Mohamad, invited by Columbia University Pres Bollinger. With Malcolm Hoenlein.

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  Image:  Coat of Arms of Malaysia, home of Mahathir bin Mohammed, Malaysian PM.  Public domain. .Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, in re:  Columbia University, under the direction of Pres Lee Bollinger, has invited Mahathir Mohammed, who delivered a speech saying that freedom of speech allows him to be anti-Jewish. Reminiscent of the genius Bollinger’s invitation to Ahmadinejad; then, under much national pressure, received Ahmadinejad and was extremely rude to him in the introduction. Laughingstock. Assad. Iranian troops not being paid; Brits are thinking of paying 400 mil pounds sterling. Boris Johnson says that Pres Trump should come up with a new JCPOA. IAEA. Rouhani’s suggestion for a “peace plan” for the Straits of Hormuz.   ...more

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• The surprising Israeli elections; and "Be Strong and of Good Courage: How Israel's Most Important Leaders Shaped Its Destiny"; with Ambassador Dennis Ross, & Malcolm Hoenlein:

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  Image:  David Ben Gurion, Israel's Prime Minister and Defence Minister. January, 1959. Public domain..Ambassador Dennis Ross, & Malcolm Hoenlein:   Israeli elections; Iran; new book.·         https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/09/16/trump-must-react-attacks-saudi-arabia-quick-fix-wont-be-enough/ ·         https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/iran-entrenches-its-axis-of-resistance-across-the-middle-east ·         https://www.jpost.com/Israel-Elections/Political-Affairs-A-sweet-new-election-year-603068 ·         https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/.premium-israel-election-results-gantz-turns-down-president-s-co-premiership-offer-1.7909470 Ambassador Dennis Ross is counselor and William Davidson Distinguished Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Prior to returning to the Institute in 2011, he served two years as special assistant to President Obama and National Security Council senior director for the Central Region, and a year as special advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. New book: Be Strong and of Good Courage: How Israel's Most Important Leaders Shaped Its Destiny, by Dennis Ross and David Makovsky    ...more

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• Initiative to break the Israeli-Palestinian logjam; with Col. Eran Lerman & Malcolm Hoenlein

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  Image:  The Mahgreb (North Africa) plus Egypt, and Saudi Arabia and Jordan.        Additionally, Iraq, Iran, Israel, the nations of the Sahara and the Sahel; East Africa; as far south as the Democratic Republic of the Congo.   Map was originally drawn to show the many varieties of Arabic.  Permissions*: see below.Col. Eran Lerman & Malcolm Hoenlein:   Emerging strategic partnerships and threats to Israel.  Has proposed an American initiative to break the logjam of the Israeli-Palestinian situation – in context of the regional situation. Old paradigms no longer work.  At the same time, aware that current Palestinian leadership may not measure up to the challenge – political legitimacy in question (Abbas in the thirteenth year of a four-year term), as well as corruption, opacity, et al.  We need effective, compassionate conflict management. Our sponsor for this visit is a Moroccan; we’re all coming together. Morocco broke relations w Iran.  Egyptians. Jordanian, Saudis.  Iranian economy is in a nosedive; I think the sanctions are [the best bet to] bring the Iranian leadership to its senses.  If China supported Iran here, that would be a mistake: 1. They aren't really dependent on Iranian oil; 2.  If they lock Iranians into a violent course of action, that would have very negative consequences for the Chinese economy.·         https://warontherocks.com/2019/09/the-strategic-implications-of-israels-turn-to-the-sea/ ·         https://jiss.org.il/en/main-recommendations/ ·         https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-nuclear-usa/us-slaps-new-sanctions-on-chinese-entities-over-iran-oil-idUSKBN1WA1M6 ·         https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Arab-response-to-Jordan-Valley-move-shows-regions-shifting-sands-601414 ·         https://www.jns.org/think-tank-urges-national-unity-in-the-face-of-iran-and-other-threats/ Dr. Lerman is the Vice President of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security. Dr. 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.*Permissions:  Author: Rafy    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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• Major Turkish bank sued for financing Hamas; groundbreaking legal move; with Aykan Erdemir, & Malcolm Hoenlein

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  Image:  Kuveyt Türk bank ATM.   Permissions*: see below.Aykan Erdemir, & Malcolm Hoenlein:  Lawsuit against Kuveyt Turk Bank by the four children of Mr & Mrs Henkin, because they were murdered due to Turkey’s financing of terrorism – financial services to Hamas. [US legal firms filed a lawsuit against Turkish banking giant Kuveyt Turk Katilim Bankasi on Monday, accusing it of “aiding and abetting” Palestinian militant group Hamas. “This case is one of many seeking to bring justice against international banks that have provided material support to or aided and abetted terrorist organisations,” it added.]  Turkey's role in rewriting Syria’s constitution; UNGA; state of Turkey’s economy.●        https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/leverage-in-every-crisis-turkeys-erdogan-hints-at-pursuing-nuclear-weapons ●        https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/a10d1683-f5a1-40ea-8ac3-c9449b472229 ●        https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/09/23/turkey-is-now-a-haven-for-terrorists-and-an-enabler-of-terrorism/ ●        https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2019/09/turkey-executive-presidency-system-is-being-reconsidered.html●        https://warontherocks.com/2018/10/turkeys-walking-dead-zombie-companies-lurk-around-every-corner/ ●        http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/imf-meeting-with-turkeys-opposition-stirs-debate-146845 ●        https://www.ft.com/content/343eaf56-d850-11e9-8f9b-77216ebe1f17 ●        https://apnews.com/359b711434034ac29bf8cbe18698b5cb  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.*Permissions: I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:w:en:Creative Commons attribution share alike   This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. You are free:  to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the wor;  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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• At UN General Assembly, Iran was the main issue; Rouhani was confrontational, aggressive. With Ilan Berman & Malcolm Hoenlein.

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  Image: United Nations General Assembly hall in New York City. Permissions*: see below.Ilan Berman & Malcolm Hoenlein:   MH: I had the privilege of meeting the Azerbaijani Foreign Minister yesterday at the UN, along with Amb Elin Suleymanov. It was the sidelines, esp Rouhani with the Europeans; Iran was certainly the central issue.   Proceedings of the GA meetings and what participants had to say were really telling: Iranian attacks on Saudi should have led to a more concrete coalition;  instead, Euro leaders called for more discussion and embracing Rouhani. Being Iranian means never having to say you're sorry. There might have been a robust military response, but the longer we waited, the more the Euros were prepared to [jaw-jaw].  GA meetings tend to be more atmospherics; Rouhani’s speech was confrontational, aggressive: proposed a regional security arrangement excluding the US with Iran at the center – “Washington is not your only option.”       Trump Adm maximum pressure program is not maximum.  If Iran has to deal with Trump in the second term, it wants to have has many bargaining chips as possible. ●        http://www.ilanberman.com/23283/what-changed-in-israel-and-what-hasnt ●        http://www.ilanberman.com/23276/the-long-game-for-iranian-democracy ●        http://www.ilanberman.com/23255/saudi-strikes-are-a-critical-test-for-trump ●        http://www.ilanberman.com/23241/iran-struggling-space-program-could-be-a-real ● https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/23/saudi-arabia-iran-france-germany-uk  Ilan Berman is Senior Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council in Washington, DC. An expert on regional security in the Middle East, Central Asia, and the Russian Federation, he has consulted for both the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Department of Defense, and provided assistance on foreign policy and national security issues to a range of governmental agencies and congressional offices. He has been called one of America's "leading experts on the Middle East and Iran" by CNN.*Permissions:  Author: Patrick Gruban, cropped and downsampled by Pine.  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. ...more

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• Soldaten: 4 of 4: On Fighting, Killing, and Dying Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Sonke Neitzel (Author), Harald Welzer (Author), Simon Prebble (Narrator), & 2 more

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  Photo: Louis Braun – Bayerischer Infanterist, Max LehnerLouis Braun (1836-1916) - Gemälde Gemälde von Louis Braun (1836-1916) um das Jahr 1870. Es zeigt den bayerischen Infanteristen Max Lehner, Krankenträger der Sanitätskompanie, aus zwei Perspektiven. Standort: Bayerisches Armeemuseum, Ingolstadt Gemeinfrei File:Louis Braun - Bayerischer Infanterist Max Lehner Krankenträger der Sanitätskompanie.JPG Erstellt: etwa 1870 date QS:P,+1870-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Soldaten: 4 of 4: On Fighting, Killing, and Dying  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Sonke Neitzel (Author), Harald Welzer (Author), Simon Prebble (Narrator), & 2 more https://www.amazon.com/Soldaten-Fighting-Killing-Dying/dp/B009GBXXU8/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=On a visit to the British National Archive in 2001, Sonke Neitzel made a remarkable discovery: reams of meticulously transcribed conversations among German POWs that had been covertly recorded and recently declassified. Neitzel would later find another collection of transcriptions, twice as extensive, in the National Archive in Washington, D.C. These were discoveries that would provide a unique and profoundly important window into the true mentality of the soldiers in the Wehrmacht, the Luftwaffe, the German navy, and the military in general - almost all of whom had insisted on their own honorable behavior during the war.  Collaborating with renowned social psychologist Harald Welzer, Neitzel examines these conversations - and the casual, pitiless brutality omnipresent in them - from a historical and psychological perspective, and in reconstructing the frameworks and situations behind these conversations, they have created a powerful narrative of wartime experience....more

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• Soldaten: 3 of 4: On Fighting, Killing, and Dying Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Sonke Neitzel (Author), Harald Welzer (Author), Simon Prebble (Narrator), & 2 more

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  Photo: Exerzieren einer französischen Truppe im Lager Ile Chambrière bei Metz, 1870Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1970-053-87 / CC-BY-SA 3.0 CC BY-SA 3.0 de File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1970-053-87, Deutsch-französischer Krieg 1870-71.jpg Erstellt: 1870date QS:P,+1870-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Soldaten: 3 of 4: On Fighting, Killing, and Dying  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Sonke Neitzel (Author), Harald Welzer (Author), Simon Prebble (Narrator), & 2 more https://www.amazon.com/Soldaten-Fighting-Killing-Dying/dp/B009GBXXU8/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=On a visit to the British National Archive in 2001, Sonke Neitzel made a remarkable discovery: reams of meticulously transcribed conversations among German POWs that had been covertly recorded and recently declassified. Neitzel would later find another collection of transcriptions, twice as extensive, in the National Archive in Washington, D.C. These were discoveries that would provide a unique and profoundly important window into the true mentality of the soldiers in the Wehrmacht, the Luftwaffe, the German navy, and the military in general - almost all of whom had insisted on their own honorable behavior during the war.  Collaborating with renowned social psychologist Harald Welzer, Neitzel examines these conversations - and the casual, pitiless brutality omnipresent in them - from a historical and psychological perspective, and in reconstructing the frameworks and situations behind these conversations, they have created a powerful narrative of wartime experience....more

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• Soldaten: 2 of 4: On Fighting, Killing, and Dying Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Sonke Neitzel (Author), Harald Welzer (Author), Simon Prebble (Narrator), & 2 more

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  Photo: Die Berennung von Lichtenberg, Gemälde von Karl Albert von Schott Karl Albert von Schott - http://www.auktionshaus-rieber.de/ (scene from the Franco-Prussian War 1870/71; August 1870) Gemeinfrei File:Schott Berennung von Lichtenberg.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Soldaten: 2 of 4: On Fighting, Killing, and Dying  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Sonke Neitzel (Author), Harald Welzer (Author), Simon Prebble (Narrator), & 2 more https://www.amazon.com/Soldaten-Fighting-Killing-Dying/dp/B009GBXXU8/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=On a visit to the British National Archive in 2001, Sonke Neitzel made a remarkable discovery: reams of meticulously transcribed conversations among German POWs that had been covertly recorded and recently declassified. Neitzel would later find another collection of transcriptions, twice as extensive, in the National Archive in Washington, D.C. These were discoveries that would provide a unique and profoundly important window into the true mentality of the soldiers in the Wehrmacht, the Luftwaffe, the German navy, and the military in general - almost all of whom had insisted on their own honorable behavior during the war.  Collaborating with renowned social psychologist Harald Welzer, Neitzel examines these conversations - and the casual, pitiless brutality omnipresent in them - from a historical and psychological perspective, and in reconstructing the frameworks and situations behind these conversations, they have created a powerful narrative of wartime experience....more

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• Soldaten: 1 of 4: On Fighting, Killing, and Dying Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Sonke Neitzel (Author), Harald Welzer (Author), Simon Prebble (Narrator), & 2 more

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  Photo: Alphonse de Neuville, Der Friedhof von Saint-Privat 1881. Der Friedhof in der Nähe von Metz wurde zum Schlachtfeld: am 18. August 1870 kämpften dort in der Schlacht bei Gravelotte französische Truppen, erkennbar an ihren roten Hosen, gegen die preußische Armee. Alphonse de Neuville - Foto eines Gemäldes Der Friedhof von Saint-Privat, 1881, Öl auf Leinwand, Musée d´Orsay, Paris; Der Friedhof von Saint-Privat in der Nähe von Metz wurde zum blutigen Schlachtfeld, auf dem 42000 Soldaten starben. Am 18. August 1870 kämpften dort die französischen Truppen, erkennbar an ihren roten Hosen, in den letzten Zügen gegen die preußische Armee. Das Licht, das durch den Gefechtsrauch im oberen Bildteil dringt, betont die Dramatik des Kampfes. Neuville hebt mit seiner Darstellung hervor, dass auch die Niederlage ehrenvoll sein kann. Mit dem Bild verteidigt er den republikanischen Patriotismus und stärkt das französische Revanchestreben. Das Gemälde, das 1881 im Pariser Salon erstmals ausgestellt wurde, brachte dem Künstler den Offizierstitel der Ehrenlegion ein. Gemeinfrei File:AlphonseNeuvilleFriedhofSaint-PrivatL1100806 (2).jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Soldaten: 1 of 4: On Fighting, Killing, and Dying  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Sonke Neitzel (Author), Harald Welzer (Author), Simon Prebble (Narrator), & 2 more https://www.amazon.com/Soldaten-Fighting-Killing-Dying/dp/B009GBXXU8/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=On a visit to the British National Archive in 2001, Sonke Neitzel made a remarkable discovery: reams of meticulously transcribed conversations among German POWs that had been covertly recorded and recently declassified. Neitzel would later find another collection of transcriptions, twice as extensive, in the National Archive in Washington, D.C. These were discoveries that would provide a unique and profoundly important window into the true mentality of the soldiers in the Wehrmacht, the Luftwaffe, the German navy, and the military in general - almost all of whom had insisted on their own honorable behavior during the war.  Collaborating with renowned social psychologist Harald Welzer, Neitzel examines these conversations - and the casual, pitiless brutality omnipresent in them - from a historical and psychological perspective, and in reconstructing the frameworks and situations behind these conversations, they have created a powerful narrative of wartime experience....more

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• Elizabeth Warren as the Howard Dean of 2019? Bill Whalen, Hoover, & Area 45 blog.

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  Sep 27 2019

  Image:Photograph of Henry Wallace, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, using a DictaphoneComplete file name follows:Agriculture Secretary prepares speeches with use of dictaphone. Washington, D.C., Sept. 20. Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace dispenses with the services of a stenographer and instead uses a dictaphone when preparing his speeches. In fact, he seldom uses a stenographer even when dictating [...] picture was made today, 9/20/37Date | 20 September 1937.Bill Whalen, Hoover & Area 45 blog:  Impeachment Blues. California poll for Warren.  Warren’s Challenge.  Watch Bernie, Buttigieg, Harris. Now That She’s Ahead in Iowa: Staying Off the Dean’s List The one thing that Sen. Elizabeth Warren, now the frontrunner in Iowa, doesn’t want to be remembered as: the Howard Dean of 2019 – the Democrat who came on strong in the third and fourth quarters of the year leading up to the election, only to tank when voters actually went to the polls.Forbes (Sun, Sept 22, 2019) https://www.forbes.com/search/?q=whalen#67d8899b279f Why Not a Presidential Debate in California? Real Clear Politics (Fri, Sept 20, 2019) https://www.forbes.com/sites/billwhalen/2019/09/22/warrens-challenge-now-that-shes-ahead-in-iowa-staying-off-the-deans-list/#3f21d9db7abb ...more

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• California despair: boulders to thwart homeless; with Jeff Bliss, Pacific Watch.

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  Sep 27 2019

  Image:Photograph of the mesa on which Acoma is built, ca.1900. Large rock formations emerge from the mountainside from both sides of the picture. Smaller boulders line the lower areas, and through a gap between the sides, more mountains can be seen in the distance. Call number: CHS-46817 Photographer: James, George Wharton Provenance: Southwest Native American Photograph Collection Filename: CHS-46817 Coverage date: circa 1900 Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 Type: images Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections Accession number: 46817 Archival file: chs_Volume110/CHS-46817.tiff Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Geographic subject (country): USA Format (aacr2): 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 16 x 20 cm. Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Subject (adlf): natural rock formations Project: USC .Jeff Bliss, Pacific Watch:  The growing despair of Californians in face of mass homelessness.  How to conduct life?  Boulders – large rocks – being used in the Bay Area: homeowners resorting to placing boulders on sidewalks to prevent homeless encampments from being built.  In Oakland, 22 service camps for the homeless (whose population has increased enormously in the last few years); “the homeless-industrial complex.”  Full-scale homeless camps, including outhouses, lean-to’s, vermin, right behind the backyards of houses where the homeowner is paying large taxes.  Like something out of a sci-fi or Mad Max movie.  Insurance widely cancelled because of tent fires – five to seven a day in LA County.  . SF residents buy boulders, place them on sidewalk to thwart homeless tents https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/SF-residents-buy-boulders-place-them-on-sidewalk-14464233.php The latest twist in LA's homeless crisis: "Your Insurance Is Canceled Because of Homeless Tent Fires" https://www.nbclosangeles.com/investigations/LA-Homeless-Encampment-Fires-Insurance-Rates-Tents-Homelessness-561145811.html?akmobile=o Sacramento McDonald's takes unusual measure to to reduce loitering -  https://www.foxbusiness.com/retail/sacramento-mcdonalds-loitering L.A. City, Venice petition U.S. Supreme Court to overturn homeless lawsuit decision -- The city of Los Angeles and a Venice community group filed briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday in support of an appeal of a ruling that prevents local governments from enforcing laws against camping on sidewalks or in other public places unless sufficient alternative shelter space is available.  Los Angeles Daily News       Trump EPA challenges California for "failure" to address human health hill.cm/QYZu2Zg pic.twitter.com/kfvN29rWMR . A Los Angeles City Council meeting was punctuated by shouting and hissing as lawmakers weighed a proposal that would restrict where homeless people can sleep. Homeless activists say it amounts to criminalizing poverty. Neighborhoods groups say enforcement is needed to control filth and blight. "We must take an honest look at this catastrophe," one council member said. In the end, no formal action was taken. Curbed Los Angeles | L.A. Daily News Oakland is learning to live with its homeless camps. With homeless numbers up 47 percent since 2017, the city now sanctions and services 22 camps — and more are on the way. S.F. Chronicle This is really a homeless-related item . . . not campers/boaters/recreation seekers - Officials blamed the problem on an influx of drunken partiers from the Bay Area who have been too lazy to make the walk from the beach to the facilities. "What our deputies have seen is that when people become overly intoxicated the first thing to go is judgment," a Sheriff's Office spokeswoman said. Press Democrat   ...more

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• Whistleblower directed by senior intell, & gossip from White House; beware the White House. Andrew McCarthy & Thaddeus McCotter

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  Sep 27 2019

  Image:The White House, Washington D.C., USADescription | The front of the White House, Washington D.C., United States of AmericaIconographic CollectionsKeywords: Building; District of Columbia; GovernmentCredit line |  | This file comes from Wellcome Images, a website operated by Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation based in the United Kingdom. Refer to Wellcome blog post (archive).This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.References | Library reference: Iconographic Collection 571350iPhoto number: V0038272Full Bibliographic Record: http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/record=b1571350Source/Photographer | https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/84/e3/56a5a1e6a5639ce105b4e5bc9bed.jpgGallery: https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0038272.html .Andrew C McCarthy, NRO, & former Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; and Thaddeus McCotter, WJR and recovering Congressman; Allegation, hearsay, gossip, by an unnamed member of the CIA about a conversation that we’ve now read of between Pres Trump and Pres Zelensky of Ukraine. In any court of law, evidence – facts, actual transcript – would be what mattered, not paraphrasing. The dossier 2.0.  When you don't have the evidence, you pound the law; when you don't have the law, you pound the table.  The whistleblower imputes most of what he said to the president’s staff, not to intell members.  Caveat the White House staff. ...more

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• Bizarre “parody” by Rep Schiff of the critical telcon, Pres Trump & Pres Zelensky; with Andrew McCarthy & Thaddeus McCotter

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  Sep 27 2019

  Image:Ringling Circus clown Emmett Kelly getting ready for the show: Sarasota, Florida Local call number: JJS1384  Title: Ringling Circus clown Emmett Kelly getting ready for the show: Sarasota, Florida  Date: ca. 1945  Physical descrip: 1 photoprint - b&w - 10 x 8 in.  Series Title: Joseph Janney Steinmetz Collection   Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.myflorida.com   Persistent URL: floridamemory.com/items/show/246630 .Andrew C McCarthy, NRO, & former Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; and Thaddeus McCotter, WJR and recovering Congressman: Chairman Schiff purported to summarize the conversation between Pres Trump and Pres Zelensky – an otherworldly revision that he was later obliged to call a parody. Biden essentially [blackmailed] Ukrainians into firing a prosecutor who was investigating Biden family deeds.     https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/09/double-standards-on-ukraine/ ...more

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• #TheScalaReport: The Internet of All Things, Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHE

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  Sep 27 2019

  Photo: Forbidden Planet Movie Forbidden Planet is a 1956 American science fiction film, produced by Nicholas Nayfack, directed by Fred M. Wilcox, that stars Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, and Leslie Nielsen. Shot in Eastmancolor and CinemaScope, it is considered one of the great science fiction films of the 1950s,[4] a precursor of contemporary science fiction cinema. The characters and isolated setting have been compared to those in William Shakespeare's The Tempest,[5] and the plot contains certain analogues to the play. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow#TheScalaReport:  The Internet of All Things, Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com  #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHE ...more

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• The American economy is strong enough. @McTagueJim ; Christopher Nixon Cox, Lichtenstein Institute

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  Sep 27 2019

  Photo: Sleeping carriage Pullman sleeping carriage at workshopDated: No dateDigital ID: 4481_a026_000268 Rights: www.records.nsw.gov.au/about-us/rights-and-permissions  We'd love to hear from you if you use our photos. Many other photos in our collection are available to view and browse on our website using Photo Investigator. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe American economy is strong enough.  @McTagueJim ; Christopher Nixon Cox, Lichtenstein Institute...more

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• Suppose China held a parade, and no one showed up? Stephen Yates, DCI Advisory. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Sep 27 2019

  Photo: English: Celebrations of the tricentennial of Luis de Camões (c.1524–1580). The parade in Lisbon.Português: Comemorações do Tricentenário de Luís de Camões (c.1524-1580). O Cortejo Cívico em Lisboa.Date | 1 July 1880Source | Hemeroteca Digital - "O Ocidente: revista ilustrada de Portugal e do estrangeiro", N.º 61 (1 Jul. 1880)Author | Casanova | 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: @BatchelorShowSuppose China held a parade, and no one showed up? Stephen Yates, DCI Advisory. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast ...more

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• On the Road to Baku: The State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan celebrates 20 years of growth, & what is to be done? Shahmar Movsumov, Executive Director.

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  Sep 27 2019

  Photo: T. TaylorDescripción | Français : Port de Bakou et Cap Bail BourniРусский: Порт Баку и мыс БаиловFecha | 1880Fuente/fotógrafo | "Земля и люди. Всеобщая география" известного французского географа и историка Жана Жака Элизе Реклю, Париж, 1880-1881 г.Permiso(Reutilización de este archivo) | Esta es una reproducción fotográfica fiel de una obra de arte bidimensional de dominio público. La obra de arte misma se halla en el dominio público por el motivo siguiente: | Este material está en dominio público en los demás países donde el derecho de autor se extiende por 70 años (o menos) tras la muerte del autor.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Baku: The State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan celebrates 20 years of growth, & what is to be done? Shahmar Movsumov, Executive Director. Of the $52 billion in the State Oil Fund, roughly half is invested US dollars.  ...more

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• On the Road to Baku: Azerbaijan's Energy Ministry looks to sustainability on the windy shores of the Caspian Sea. Parviz Shahbazov, Minister of Energy.

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  Sep 27 2019

  Photo: English: Seashore of the town of Baku in 1870. We can see the former tramway and the Maiden Tower.Français : Bord de mer à Bakou en 1870. On peut voir l'ancien tramway et la Tour de la Demoiselle.Date | 1870Source | Photo exhibited within the Maiden TowerAuthor | UnknownLicensing | 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: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Baku: Azerbaijan's Energy Ministry looks to sustainability on the windy shores of the Caspian Sea. Parviz Shahbazov, Minister of Energy....more

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• On the Road to Baku: Azerbaijan religionists bundle up tolerance for export. Mubariz Gurbanli & Christopher Nixon Cox.

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  Sep 27 2019

  Photo: A.Bogolyubov - Baku, 1861 Alexey Bogolyubov - http://www.baku.ru/cmm-pht-list.php?cmm_id=276&glr_id=4373 Baku Public Domain File:Bogolyubov. Baku view.jpg Created: 31 December 1860 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Baku: Azerbaijan religionists bundle up tolerance for export. Mubariz Gurbanli, Chairman, Republic of Azerbaijan State Committee on Religious Associations.  Christopher Nixon Cox.

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• Can North Korea sink the Ronald Reagan? James Holmes, Naval War College. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Sep 27 2019

  Photo: English: Maritime painting "The First Battle Squadron of Dreadnoughts, 1910"Date | 1910Source | maritimeprints.comAuthor | A. B. CullPermission(Reusing this file) | 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: | The author died in 1931, so 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 80 years or fewer.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowCan North Korea sink the Ronald Reagan? James Holmes, Naval War College.  @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast  ...more

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• On the Road to Baku: The tragedy and the prosperity of Azerbaijan. Leyla Abdullayeva, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Christopher Nixon Cox.

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  Sep 26 2019

  Photo: Deutsch: Satellitenaufnahme des Kaukasus von NASAs Visible EarthEnglish: Satellite image of the Caucasus, from NASA’s Visible EarthDate | 13 June 2001Source | http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=1939Author | NASA/MODIS - Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response TeamPermission(Reusing this file) | Public Domain  | This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was solely created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". (See Template:PD-USGov, NASA copyright policy page or JPL Image Use Policy.) | http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Baku: The tragedy and the prosperity of Azerbaijan. Leyla Abdullayeva, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Christopher Nixon Cox. ...more

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• Farmers and life in the foothills of Greater Caucasus, with Rovshan Aghayev, mayor of Ismayilli

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  Sep 26 2019

  Image: Fertile farmland. Public domain.Permissions: also see below.Rovshan Aghayev, First Deputy Mayor, village and region of Ismayilli, Azerbaijan: the needs of the farmers in the foothills of the Greater Caucasus. Teenagers in training to be vintners. Farmers need help in getting agricultural machinery; and a problem with insurance against natural disasters.  .Permissions:  Public domain.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. ...more

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• Ta-da! Great sauvignons from Azerbaijan - c’est étonnant. Marco Catelani, vintner.

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  Sep 26 2019

  Image:.Marco Catelani, vintner in Azerbaijan: A Florentine winemaker originally brought in by Russians, he now has hundreds of hectares of land, experimenting with his own sauvignons.  Experimenting with new kinds of compost: use winter pruning material, crush it, and make a compost from it to apply in March.  Haji Hatamli village: very nice, all the people here are around – you see everyone in the morning and evening as they go to and return from local work.  Wines in Florence and Azerbaijan.

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• Japan’s launch pad fire, and Comet Borisov; Bob Zimmerman

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  Sep 26 2019

  Image:The Hermes A-1 rocket was designed by the U. S. Army after capturing the V-2 rocket from the German army at the conclusion of the Second World War. The Hermes A-1 is a modified V-2 rocket; it utilized the German aerodynamic configuration; however, internally it was a completely new design. This rocket was the first designed by the German Rocket Team at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, AL..Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com: Japan finds cause of its launch pad fire: in an exit hole on the mobile launch platform, by static electricity, exacerbated by [an oxygen tank?]  We never found out even what was damaged.  ESA asks for NASA help on ExoMars parachute problems.  Comet Borisov is now officially 2I/Borisov.  Launch in 2030, go near Jupiter, and catch the comet by 2045.  Cave pits in Martian northern lowlands.  May have ice – water!  Subterranean is more benign. Protected from radiation, more constant temperature. ...more

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• SpaceX Starship prepares for orbital re-entries; with Bob Zimmerman

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  Sep 26 2019

  Image:Front cover of Fawcett Comics's adaptation of Destination Moon with trademark notices removed.Data | 1950Origem | http://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=16288Autor | Fawcett Comics/George Pal ProductionsPermissão(Reutilizar este ficheiro) |  | Este trabalho está em domínio público  .Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com: Starship, Elon Musk: fins attached.  Been a year in construction; will have three Raptor engines, most powerful and efficient rocket engines ever made. Private programs compared to earlier, govt programs: in the 1960s. NASA functioned the way it should have.  Need to compare with the giant swamp govt boondoggle today, e.g., Orion. Orion contracts sent out willy-nilly to different companies, but Congress hasn't authorized any money. These contracts are all to help NASA lobby for the program.  Russia and China team up on lunar lander/orbiter projects, on a lunar lander and unmanned missions. The US is currently ’way behind. China is far in the lead. I don’t want a space program dictated by the govt; I want a chaotic, competitive industry.  This competes very effectively with Russia.        NASA awards Lockheed Martin long-term Orion contract.  Australia signs on to Artemis.  Boeing pushing to kill Gateway, NASA boondoggle?   ...more

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• 2/2 Twenty-first Century American civil war, with Michael Vlahos

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  Sep 26 2019

  Image:.Michael E Vlahos, Johns Hopkins:  The Twenty-first Century American civil war. Will Mrs Pelosi’s move speed up the civil war? Her demand for impeachment suggests Robespierre on Valium. Does this accelerate the clash?  She’s held back sternly and strongly, but now in a drugged way is embracing impeachment: in a revolutionary situation millenarians take over.  Here, like the Jacobins, a hysterical [effort] of purification.  The entire impeachment process in the modern age is about purification.   Have the president put to the stake to purify and transform the country. The Thermidorian reaction worked only because of Napoleon’s victories in the Italian campaign - it won't happen today. ...more

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• 1/2 Twenty-first Century American civil war, with Michael Vlahos

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  Sep 26 2019

  Image:.Michael E Vlahos, Johns Hopkins:  Millenarians, Nancy Pelosi’s Ukrainian impeachment trajectory, and the Twenty-first Century American civil war.  Declarations that we’ll have to give up our energy; themes converge in the Messianic climate change tale.  Jeremy Corbyn taking people’s wealth away:  we’re already in the midst of a civil war that’s, inter al., economic.  Vast majority of globalist American elite have embraced overturning society because they think that’s where the momentum and power will be.  Most large US corporations, esp social media corporations, have lurched toward the revolutionaries. Messianic, milennarian, apocalyptic – a religious movement. A powerful existential clash.  The Speaker of the House will endeavor to remove the king ...more

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• Azerbaijan’s Deal of the Century is developing internationally; Brenda Shaffer

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  Sep 26 2019

  Image:.Brenda Shaffer, Georgetown University, Atlantic Council: Azerbaijan, the Deal of the Century. The adults need to manage the cornucopia of oil for the benefit of the next generation.  When oil was $12 a barrel and war was raging regionally, Azerbaijan invited the major oil companies of the world to come in and develop the resources, which they did, vastly to the benefit of the present and future.  Baku will put wind turbines on the coast of the Caspian? Might make the most sense to do that for villages in the North Caucasus. SOCAR is already an international investor – Italy, Central Asia, all around.  Major accomplishment.   ...more

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• Europe, South America, Asia – only the US economy is relatively booming; Charles Ortel

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  Sep 26 2019

  Image:.Charles Ortel, of the On the Money with Charles Ortel podcast:  The global economy and trading system. People tired of corruption; this impeachment process is a waste of time and the voters are growing annoyed. Pres Trump’s UN speech was extremely good, Does the president need a trade deal with China? No, he needs a good deal with China. Europe is not a unified market; South American, incl Brazil, is in turmoil. Where else in the world can you see as economically promising a nation as the US? Xi Jinping will worry about what the Chinese people will say about the intransigence of their political system. Our friends and allies can conclude that they’re not important to the [American political class].   ...more

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• Beijing meddles in Canadian elections; Canadian elite seduced by the CCP; with Charles Burton.

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  Sep 26 2019

  Image:.Charles Burton, senior Fellow at the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute: China in the Canadian elections. The elite in Canada seem to have been coopted by, seduced by, the Chinese Communist Party, which [doesn't suit] those of us in favor of free trade and democratic governance.  We consider it inappropriate for Canadians to celebrate the seventieth anniversary of the establishment of the PRC, but my government has said it will, anyway.

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• Chinese CP most fears people expressing themselves freely; Arthur Waldron

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  Sep 26 2019

  Image:.Arthur Waldron, Lauder Professor of International Relations in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania: Seventieth anniversary of the Peoples Republic of China. The only thing to “celebrate” is that the Communist Party, without war and in good weather, managed to take the lives of seventy million Chinese people.   What the Party leadership most fear is that the people be able to express themselves freely. Chinese people on the coast, many of whom have done fairly well, feel more obliged to the Party; those in the villages, many of whom are living in abject poverty, are more likely to be malcontent. Look for signs of displeasure or boredom.   ...more

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• “Don't need a crime for impeachment, but it helps”; “Ukraine Goes for Elizabeth Warren”; with Andrew C McCarthy, Ball of Collusion.

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  Sep 25 2019

  Image: Theodore R. Davis's illustration of President Johnson's impeachment trial in the Senate, published in Harper's Weekly.  Public domain. .Andrew C McCarthy, NRO;  author, Ball of Collusion, and served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, in re: Ukraine, Russia, and Trump. . . . Pelosi has been trying to steer clear of impeachment while her base wants it; once the machinery of impeachment in turned on, no one can stop it.  Holman Jenkins (WSJ) article headline: Ukraine Goes for Elizabeth Warren.  . . . You don't need a crime for impeachment, but it helps to have one.  A political offense in not as clean as a crime; here, Biden’s past will have to be brought in, which will not help him.   ...more

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• Trillions of dollars’ worth of precious metals & rare earths; US uranium troubles; Steve Moore, economist, Heritage.

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  Sep 25 2019

  Image: Rare-earth ore (shown with a 19 mm diameter US 1 cent coin for size comparison). Public domain.  .Steve Moore, Committee to Unleash Prosperity; Economic Consultant with Freedom Works;  & Heritage; in re: The US economy: seven million jobs available right now, best economy in decades.  Last week, industrial production went ’way up – no recession in sight.       US uranium stocks perilously low*. Russia and China are putting nuclear power plants in countries they want to control.  Anyone truly concerned about climate change needs to favor nuclear power. Uranium is critical to US power and military y; our uranium industry has in effect been shut down – we’re getting it from Russia and Kazakhstan, both unreliable in a pinch.   I think natural gas and nuclear power will both be essential in the coming century.  And China is getting in this game.      https://committeetounleashprosperity.com/release-why-mining-domestic-uranium-is-vital-to-u-s-national-and-economic-security/  We’re sitting on trillions of dollars’ worth of precious metals and rare earths, but cannot get them because of draconian regulations here.  Shooting selves in foot., Executive Summary  The U.S. uranium mining industry is in crisis today due to certain foreign state-owned companies and entities undermining free-market uranium through predatory practices. U.S, uranium production has also suffered from years of anti-mining regulatory and environmental policies that have left the domestic industry dormant. As of 2019, more than 99 percent of U.S. uranium supplies are imported, much of it from Russia, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan. China is also ramping up its ability to supply more cheap uranium to the U.S. These are not friendly ally nations that America can depend on. Because of those foreign imports, and for a variety of regulatory and policy reasons, domestic uranium production and employment are at historic lows not seen since the dawn of the industry in the 1940s. The private industry on which the nuclear fuel cycle has traditionally relied is on the verge of collapse. Were the nation’s domestic uranium mining industry to disappear, could it make a comeback? If a comeback were possible, how long would it take and at what cost to our energy, medical and military needs? Despite the existence of vast uranium deposits in the U.S., domestic producers expect 2019 production to dip below one percent of what our nation requires to fuel its commercial nuclear reactors—i.e. less than the amount required to fuel even one  of the 97 commercial reactors that produce electricity, and enable nuclear and medical research in the U.S. It is dangerous to have the world’s largest network of nuclear reactors operating without some basic level of uninterruptable supply of domestic uranium to fuel them, rather than the near 100 percent import reliance now expected for 2019 and 2020. In addition, the nation is ultimately at risk of not being able to provide its mandated supply of domestic uranium for national defense and national security requirements. Western companies operating in free-market capitalism environments are not and have not been on a level playing field with state-sponsored companies and entities who are more interested in geopolitical advantage over the West, than in profitability. While we certainly believe in free trade, the increasing uranium market dominance from state-sponsors threatens not just the production of U.S. uranium, but also the prospect of a vibrant civilian nuclear reactor fleet—i.e. the entire nuclear fuel cycle. Civilian nuclear reactors provide critical baseload power that keeps the electrical grid stable. The U.S. can ill-afford the possibility of geopolitically motivated uranium fuel supply disruptions because nuclear energy provides 20 percent of the nation’s electricity, as well as 55 percent of our carbon-free power generation. Unfortunately, U.S. domestic uranium production has been reduced to three mining companies. Currently the total U.S. uranium workforce has been reduced to less than 400 employees from over 21,000 in the early 1980’s. In addition, the nation has lost considerable technical talent and expertise that has become increasingly difficult to replace. The uranium industry has capacity to produce significant quantities of uranium from mines idled and on standby, but the ability of the industry to sustain idle operations is severely limited by the following factors:  • State laws  that restrict the length of time mines can remain on standby and, forcing premature decommissioning of mining capacity.  • Nongovernmental organizations  that actively pursue litigation to force the closure of mines currently on standby.  • State and tribal governments considering uranium mining bans,  who have been emboldened by the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent upholding of Virginia’s uranium mining ban.  • For smaller domestic uranium companies, the sheer cost of maintaining non-producing mines is not sustainable and will result in closures under current market conditions. Unless conditions improve dramatically or the federal government provides immediate assistance to create a level playing field, much of current uranium production capacity is at risk of being permanently stranded or lost, immediately jeopardizing U.S. uranium-dependent power generation and national security and national defense programs. Rebuilding production capacity and intellectual capital to support the minimum uranium industrial base needed for defense programs would also probably take decades.   ...more

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• Biden’s son paid a mil a year by a Ukrainian gas company; odd. With Elizabeth Peek, TheHill & Fox News

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  Sep 25 2019

  Image: Ukrainian 5 Hryvnia banknote, 2005, front. Public domain..Elizabeth Peek, TheHill and Fox News; in re:  The ongoing matter of the nomination process; and how does the news from Mrs Pelosi suit the Biden campaign?    Note that Joe Biden’s son was being paid roughly a million dollars a year by a Ukrainian gas company, although the son knew nothing about the field.  Smells bad.  The winner here is Elizabeth Warren, “George McGovern in pants.”  Taking on the president is risky for Democrats.  Trump needs to resolve the trade dispute with China, or else show that it can be done. There are 535 electoral votes. ...more

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• The City Economic Surprise Index upward spike: peoples’ expectations are constantly surpassed; with Elizabeth Peek, TheHill & Fox News

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  Sep 25 2019

  Image: Image: FANUC 6-axis welding robots. Permissions*: see below..Elizabeth Peek, TheHill and Fox News; in re:   Tomorrow, a conference with the State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan (effectively, the national sovereign fund).  Trump vs Pelosi.  Spontaneous market sell-off with Mrs Pelosi’s announcement of an inquiry; recovered before the close.  “Sprinkling fairy dust.”  Betting sites say that the Democrats will go full-bore toward impeachment.   American people probably won't like the Democrats’ blocking; PMI for manufacturing and services: both picked up.   We’re still ’way above Germany, which is in contracting territory. The City Economic Surprise Index:  results vs expectations – on an upward spike because peoples’ expectations  have constantly been surpassed. Low-income Americans are trading up in jobs   ...more

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• 2/2 The tragedy of a front line along Nagorno-Karabakh that’s mined. Major-General Hikmat Hasanov, Commander of First Corps, Azerbaijan.

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  Sep 25 2019

  Image: At the Line of Contact, looking from an Azerbaijani military bunker toward Armenian-controlled Nagorno-Karabakh.  The tragedies of young soldiers on both sides being killed during the 25-year war. Photo: John Batchelor..Major-General Hikmat Hasanov, Commander of First Corps, Azerbaijan: Military considerations; General Hasanov’s professional history.

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• 1 /2 The tragedy of a front line along Nagorno-Karabakh that’s mined. Major-General Hikmat Hasanov, Commander of First Corps, Azerbaijan.

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  Sep 25 2019

  Image:  Ilham Aliyev, Serzh Sargsyan and Vladimir Putin, 10 August 2014. Permissions*: see below..Major-General Hikmat Hasanov, Commander of First Corps, Azerbaijan: Armenia is a deadly foe. Azerbaijani soldiers endure severe peril from snipers and artillery fire along the heavily-mined Line of Contact..*Permissions:   This file comes from the website of the President of the Russian Federation and is licensed under the Creative CommonsAttribution 4.0 License. In short: you are free to distribute and modify the file as long as you attribute www.kremlin.ru. Note: Works published on site before April 8, 2014 are also licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.  The permission letter from the Press Secretary for the President of the Russian Federation is available here. ...more

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• 2/2 Prosperity in the farm bounty along the frontier with Nagorno-Karabakh. Mayor Mustagin Mammadov of Terter region.

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  Sep 25 2019

  Image:  The primary crops produced in Azerbaijan are agricultural cash crops, grapes, cotton, tobacco, citrus fruits, and vegetables. The first three crops account for over half of all production, and the last two together account for an additional 30 per cent. Livestock, dairy products, and wine and spirits are also important farm products. Permissions*: see below..Mayor Mustagin Mammadov, Terter township and region, Azerbaijan: Terter prospers with new industry, an Olympic facility, and growth.  Roses lavishly around the town in late September..*Permissions: I, the copyright holder of this work, Elina Mark, hereby publish it under the following license: w:en:Creative Commons attribution share alike  This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 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 /2 Prosperity in the farm bounty along the frontier with Nagorno-Karabakh. Mayor Mustagin Mammadov of Terter region.

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  Sep 25 2019

  Image:  Location of Azerbaijan (green) and Artsakh[a] (light green). Public domain..Mayor Mustagin Mammadov of Terter town and region in Azerbaijan: Western Azerbaijan, farm country; Nagorno-Karabakh was invaded and occupied by Armenia more than 25 years ago.      

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• 4/4 Measure of the Earth: The Enlightenment Expedition that Reshaped Our World, by Larrie D. Ferreiro

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  Sep 25 2019

  Image: Latitude and Longitude of the Earth.  Permissions*: see below.. Measure of the Earth: The Enlightenment Expedition that Reshaped Our World, by Larrie D. Ferreiro       In the 18th century, Europe's scientific community was torn between two opposing theories: Descartes' argument that the Earth was spherical, and Newton's contention that it was flattened at the poles. Recognizing that the answer was the key to securely navigating the Earth's oceans, France and Spain organized a joint expedition to colonial Peru. Their goal was to measure a degree of latitude at the Equator; by comparing this measurement to one taken back in Europe, they would be able to determine the planet's shape and put an end to the debate. But what seemed a straightforward scientific exercise was almost immediately marred by a series of unforeseen catastrophes: treacherous terrain, deeply suspicious locals, and the voyagers' own hubris. A thrilling tale of adventure, political history, and scientific discovery, Larrie D. Ferreiro's Measure of the Earth recounts the greatest scientific exhibition of the Enlightenment through the eyes of the men who completed it—pioneers who overcame tremendous adversity to traverse the towering Andes Mountains and discern the Earth's true shape..*Permissions: I, the copyright holder of this work, Djexplo, hereby publish it under the following license: Creative Commons CC-Zero 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. ...more

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• 3/4 Measure of the Earth: The Enlightenment Expedition that Reshaped Our World, by Larrie D. Ferreiro

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  Sep 25 2019

  Image: René Descartes (right) with Queen Christina of Sweden (left);  Nils Forsberg after Pierre Louis Dumesnil (1698-1781).   Public domain.. Measure of the Earth: The Enlightenment Expedition that Reshaped Our World, by Larrie D. Ferreiro       In the 18th century, Europe's scientific community was torn between two opposing theories: Descartes' argument that the Earth was spherical, and Newton's contention that it was flattened at the poles. Recognizing that the answer was the key to securely navigating the Earth's oceans, France and Spain organized a joint expedition to colonial Peru. Their goal was to measure a degree of latitude at the Equator; by comparing this measurement to one taken back in Europe, they would be able to determine the planet's shape and put an end to the debate. But what seemed a straightforward scientific exercise was almost immediately marred by a series of unforeseen catastrophes: treacherous terrain, deeply suspicious locals, and the voyagers' own hubris. A thrilling tale of adventure, political history, and scientific discovery, Larrie D. Ferreiro's Measure of the Earth recounts the greatest scientific exhibition of the Enlightenment through the eyes of the men who completed it—pioneers who overcame tremendous adversity to traverse the towering Andes Mountains and discern the Earth's true shape. ...more

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• 2/4 Measure of the Earth: The Enlightenment Expedition that Reshaped Our World, by Larrie D. Ferreiro

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  Sep 25 2019

  Image:  Portrait of Isaac Newton in black with shoulder-length, wavy brown hair, a large sharp nose, and a distracted gaze; after Godfrey Kneller, 1669. Public domain.. Measure of the Earth: The Enlightenment Expedition that Reshaped Our World, by Larrie D. Ferreiro      In the 18th century, Europe's scientific community was torn between two opposing theories: Descartes' argument that the Earth was spherical, and Newton's contention that it was flattened at the poles. Recognizing that the answer was the key to securely navigating the Earth's oceans, France and Spain organized a joint expedition to colonial Peru. Their goal was to measure a degree of latitude at the Equator; by comparing this measurement to one taken back in Europe, they would be able to determine the planet's shape and put an end to the debate. But what seemed a straightforward scientific exercise was almost immediately marred by a series of unforeseen catastrophes: treacherous terrain, deeply suspicious locals, and the voyagers' own hubris. A thrilling tale of adventure, political history, and scientific discovery, Larrie D. Ferreiro's Measure of the Earth recounts the greatest scientific exhibition of the Enlightenment through the eyes of the men who completed it—pioneers who overcame tremendous adversity to traverse the towering Andes Mountains and discern the Earth's true shape. ...more

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• 1/ 4 Measure of the Earth: The Enlightenment Expedition that Reshaped Our World, by Larrie D. Ferreiro

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  Sep 25 2019

  Image: Huyna Picchu in Peru.  Public domain.. Measure of the Earth: The Enlightenment Expedition that Reshaped Our World, by Larrie D. Ferreiro       In the 18th century, Europe's scientific community was torn between two opposing theories: Descartes' argument that the Earth was spherical, and Newton's contention that it was flattened at the poles. Recognizing that the answer was the key to securely navigating the Earth's oceans, France and Spain organized a joint expedition to colonial Peru. Their goal was to measure a degree of latitude at the Equator; by comparing this measurement to one taken back in Europe, they would be able to determine the planet's shape and put an end to the debate. But what seemed a straightforward scientific exercise was almost immediately marred by a series of unforeseen catastrophes: treacherous terrain, deeply suspicious locals, and the voyagers' own hubris. A thrilling tale of adventure, political history, and scientific discovery, Larrie D. Ferreiro's Measure of the Earth recounts the greatest scientific exhibition of the Enlightenment through the eyes of the men who completed it—pioneers who overcame tremendous adversity to traverse the towering Andes Mountains and discern the Earth's true shape. ...more

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• 4/4 Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis, by Timothy Egan and David Drummond

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  Image: Havasu Falls near Supai, Arizona. The water is blue/green due to high concentrations of dissolved lime picked up as the water runs through the sedimentary rock of Havasu Canyon and the Grand Canyon.   Permissions*: see below.. Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged, Timothy Egan (Author), David Drummond (Narrator), Dreamscape Media, LLC (Publisher)       How a lone man's epic obsession led to one of America's greatest cultural treasures: Prize-winning writer Timothy Egan tells the riveting, cinematic story behind the most famous photographs in Native American history -- and the driven, brilliant man who made them.        Edward Curtis was charismatic, handsome, a passionate mountaineer, and a famous photographer, the Annie Leibovitz of his time. He moved in rarefied circles, a friend to presidents, vaudeville stars, leading thinkers. And he was thirty-two years old in 1900 when he gave it all up to pursue his Great Idea: to capture on film the continent’s original inhabitants before the old ways disappeared.        An Indiana Jones with a camera, Curtis spent the next three decades traveling from the Havasupai at the bottom of the Grand Canyon to the Acoma on a high mesa in New Mexico to the Salish in the rugged Northwest rain forest, documenting the stories and rituals of more than eighty tribes. It took tremendous perseverance - ten years alone to persuade the Hopi to allow him into their Snake Dance ceremony. And the undertaking changed him profoundly, from detached observer to outraged advocate. Eventually Curtis took more than 40,000 photographs, preserved 10,000 audio recordings, and is credited with making the first narrative documentary film. In the process, the charming rogue with the grade school education created the most definitive archive of the American Indian.        His most powerful backer was Theodore Roosevelt, and his patron was J. P. Morgan. Despite the friends in high places, he was always broke and often disparaged as an upstart in pursuit of an impossible dream. He completed his masterwork in 1930, when he published the last of the twenty volumes. A nation in the grips of the Depression ignored it. But today rare Curtis photogravures bring high prices at auction, and he is hailed as a visionary. In the end he fulfilled his promise: He made the Indians live forever..https://www.amazon.com/Short-Nights-Shadow-Catcher-Photographs/dp/B009NOT8XY/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1569037710&sr=1-1.*Permissions: I, the copyright holder of this work (User:Moondigger), hereby publish it under the following license:w:en:Creative Commons attribution share alike This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 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. 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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• 3 /4 Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis, by Timothy Egan and David Drummond

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  Image: Acoma massacre.  Original lithograph for report of J.W. Abert of "His Examination of New Mexico in the Years 1846-47" to the Secretary of War. Public domain.. Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged, Timothy Egan (Author), David Drummond (Narrator), Dreamscape Media, LLC (Publisher)       How a lone man's epic obsession led to one of America's greatest cultural treasures: Prize-winning writer Timothy Egan tells the riveting, cinematic story behind the most famous photographs in Native American history -- and the driven, brilliant man who made them.        Edward Curtis was charismatic, handsome, a passionate mountaineer, and a famous photographer, the Annie Leibovitz of his time. He moved in rarefied circles, a friend to presidents, vaudeville stars, leading thinkers. And he was thirty-two years old in 1900 when he gave it all up to pursue his Great Idea: to capture on film the continent’s original inhabitants before the old ways disappeared.        An Indiana Jones with a camera, Curtis spent the next three decades traveling from the Havasupai at the bottom of the Grand Canyon to the Acoma on a high mesa in New Mexico to the Salish in the rugged Northwest rain forest, documenting the stories and rituals of more than eighty tribes. It took tremendous perseverance - ten years alone to persuade the Hopi to allow him into their Snake Dance ceremony. And the undertaking changed him profoundly, from detached observer to outraged advocate. Eventually Curtis took more than 40,000 photographs, preserved 10,000 audio recordings, and is credited with making the first narrative documentary film. In the process, the charming rogue with the grade school education created the most definitive archive of the American Indian.        His most powerful backer was Theodore Roosevelt, and his patron was J. P. Morgan. Despite the friends in high places, he was always broke and often disparaged as an upstart in pursuit of an impossible dream. He completed his masterwork in 1930, when he published the last of the twenty volumes. A nation in the grips of the Depression ignored it. But today rare Curtis photogravures bring high prices at auction, and he is hailed as a visionary. In the end he fulfilled his promise: He made the Indians live forever.. https://www.amazon.com/Short-Nights-Shadow-Catcher-Photographs/dp/B009NOT8XY/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1569037710&sr=1-1   ...more

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• 2/4 Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis, by Timothy Egan and David Drummond

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  Image: Salish Men Near Tipis (1903 Flathead Reservation, MT). Public domain.. Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged, Timothy Egan (Author), David Drummond (Narrator), Dreamscape Media, LLC (Publisher)       How a lone man's epic obsession led to one of America's greatest cultural treasures: Prize-winning writer Timothy Egan tells the riveting, cinematic story behind the most famous photographs in Native American history -- and the driven, brilliant man who made them.        Edward Curtis was charismatic, handsome, a passionate mountaineer, and a famous photographer, the Annie Leibovitz of his time. He moved in rarefied circles, a friend to presidents, vaudeville stars, leading thinkers. And he was thirty-two years old in 1900 when he gave it all up to pursue his Great Idea: to capture on film the continent’s original inhabitants before the old ways disappeared.        An Indiana Jones with a camera, Curtis spent the next three decades traveling from the Havasupai at the bottom of the Grand Canyon to the Acoma on a high mesa in New Mexico to the Salish in the rugged Northwest rain forest, documenting the stories and rituals of more than eighty tribes. It took tremendous perseverance - ten years alone to persuade the Hopi to allow him into their Snake Dance ceremony. And the undertaking changed him profoundly, from detached observer to outraged advocate. Eventually Curtis took more than 40,000 photographs, preserved 10,000 audio recordings, and is credited with making the first narrative documentary film. In the process, the charming rogue with the grade school education created the most definitive archive of the American Indian.        His most powerful backer was Theodore Roosevelt, and his patron was J. P. Morgan. Despite the friends in high places, he was always broke and often disparaged as an upstart in pursuit of an impossible dream. He completed his masterwork in 1930, when he published the last of the twenty volumes. A nation in the grips of the Depression ignored it. But today rare Curtis photogravures bring high prices at auction, and he is hailed as a visionary. In the end he fulfilled his promise: He made the Indians live forever.. https://www.amazon.com/Short-Nights-Shadow-Catcher-Photographs/dp/B009NOT8XY/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1569037710&sr=1-1   ...more

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• 1 /4 Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis, by Timothy Egan and David Drummond

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  Image: A cover of the audiobook using one of Curtis’s spectacular photos. . Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged, Timothy Egan (Author), David Drummond (Narrator), Dreamscape Media, LLC (Publisher)       How a lone man's epic obsession led to one of America's greatest cultural treasures: Prize-winning writer Timothy Egan tells the riveting, cinematic story behind the most famous photographs in Native American history -- and the driven, brilliant man who made them.        Edward Curtis was charismatic, handsome, a passionate mountaineer, and a famous photographer, the Annie Leibovitz of his time. He moved in rarefied circles, a friend to presidents, vaudeville stars, leading thinkers. And he was thirty-two years old in 1900 when he gave it all up to pursue his Great Idea: to capture on film the continent’s original inhabitants before the old ways disappeared.        An Indiana Jones with a camera, Curtis spent the next three decades traveling from the Havasupai at the bottom of the Grand Canyon to the Acoma on a high mesa in New Mexico to the Salish in the rugged Northwest rain forest, documenting the stories and rituals of more than eighty tribes. It took tremendous perseverance - ten years alone to persuade the Hopi to allow him into their Snake Dance ceremony. And the undertaking changed him profoundly, from detached observer to outraged advocate. Eventually Curtis took more than 40,000 photographs, preserved 10,000 audio recordings, and is credited with making the first narrative documentary film. In the process, the charming rogue with the grade school education created the most definitive archive of the American Indian.        His most powerful backer was Theodore Roosevelt, and his patron was J. P. Morgan. Despite the friends in high places, he was always broke and often disparaged as an upstart in pursuit of an impossible dream. He completed his masterwork in 1930, when he published the last of the twenty volumes. A nation in the grips of the Depression ignored it. But today rare Curtis photogravures bring high prices at auction, and he is hailed as a visionary. In the end he fulfilled his promise: He made the Indians live forever.. https://www.amazon.com/Short-Nights-Shadow-Catcher-Photographs/dp/B009NOT8XY/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1569037710&sr=1-1 ...more

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• Ramped-up Hong Kong protests, chameleon tactics: report from that frontline by Michael Yon

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  Sep 24 2019

  Image: Hong Kong 2019 June 9 demonstration, at Arsenal Street, capturing Hennessy Road, Admiralty. 2019年6月反對逃犯條例修訂草案遊行，攝於金鐘軍器廠街口，望軒尼詩道。 Permissions*: see below.Michael Yon, veteran war correspondent who’s been covering the Hong Kong protests: Expectations of 1 October, seventieth anniversary of the founding of Chinese Communist Party-run China. Demos seem to have ramped up somewhat; they keep changing form, are still vibrant and energetic.       Five demands: extradition bill, dropping charges preferred against protestors, etc..*Permissions: I, the copyright holder of this work (author: Hf9631), hereby publish it under the following license:w:en:Creative Commons attribution share alike  This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work - Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. 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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• Will Xi Jinping crush Hong Kong on Communist China’s seventieth anniversary on October 1?

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  Sep 24 2019

  Image: Tong lau in Mong Kok. Once a ubiquitous form of mixed-use architecture in Hong Kong, such shophouses are now a rare sight. These particular shophouses were demolished by the Urban Renewal Authority in 2016.  Public domain..Gordon Chang, Daily Beast: How will October 1 play out in Mainland?  Much concern there and embarrassment by Xi Jinping: the seventieth anniversary of the founding of CCP-run China.  

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• Vigorous Taliban launch attacks, probably with major support from their pals al Qaeda; with Tom Joscelyn of FDD.

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  Sep 24 2019

  Image: Flag of the Taliban. Public domain..Tom Joscelyn, Long War Journal (LongWarJournal.org) and FDD  @thomasjoscelyn: On the eighteenth anniversary of the 9/11 attack, the Taliban are more vigorous than ever; and Amb Khalilzad has been negotiating with them while excluding the Afghan government from the talks.  Al Qaeda has an established presence in the heart of Taliban country. AQAS (Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula) and the Subcontinent. Taliban Red Unit: high-level fighters who’ve received significant assistance from outside.  https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2019/09/testimony-the-trump-administrations-afghanistan-policy.php   ...more

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• From the front lines of the Azerbaijani-Armenian hot conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, Batchelor speaks with the Azerbaijani ambassador to Washington.

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  Sep 24 2019

  Image:  Azerbaijani refugees from the territories taken by local Armenians (Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding regions).  Permissions*: see below.Elin Suleymanov, Ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan to Washington: The front lines of the Azerbaijani-Armenian conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, where John Batchelor again donned Kevlar and steel helmet and ascended the bunker to look through a periscope to the Armenian side.  Near here, a very young Azerbaijani soldier was shot and killed by Armenians on Saturday 22 September.   https://www.news.az/articles/karabakh/141812   The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is in talks over the return of the body of the Azerbaijani soldier killed on the frontline, Ilaha Huseynova, head of the public relations department of the ICRC Azerbaijani representative office, told Trend on Sept. 23.    She noted that the structure represented by her is informed about this issue, and is conducting a bilateral confidential dialogue in this regard.       On Sept. 22, Ramin Abdulrahmanov, an Azerbaijani soldier of a frontline military unit, lost his way and was shot dead by Armenians in the “no man’s land” between the positions of the parties. To ensure the safe evacuation of the soldier’s body, an appeal was made to the Azerbaijani representative office of the ICRC..*Permissions: Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.w:en:Creative Commonsattribution share alike   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.         Source: Azerbaijan: Land of Fire. Azerbaijan International. Sherman Oaks, 1996       Author: Oleg Litvin ...more

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• 2/2 How Long Can South Africa Survive as a Cohesive State?

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  Sep 23 2019

  Image:  Depiction of a Zulu attack on a Boer camp in February 1838; the painter was Thomas Baines (November 1820 – 1875). Public domain..The plunder under Pres Zuma: estimates that money transferred from the government could have amounted to $100 billion under his second term.        Pres Cyril Ramaphosa, worth from one half a billion dollars to a billion at the start, continues his deeds.        The wealth of the country derives primarily from agricultural and mines. Current legislation: expropriation without compensation. Obviously, this deters foreign direct investment.   ANC xenophobia against whites and Coloreds – persons who've been there for generations, esp from India; and other Africans.  As evil as Apartheid was, that system kept the nation prosperous. Now, even prosperity is highly threatened.        The African Union, based in Addis Ababa, has been unable to resist the domination of the ANC, which is still the darling of Western elites.        The Obama Adm did the ANC’s bidding and badly damaged Swaziland.  ...more

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• 1 /2 How Long Can South Africa Survive as a Cohesive State?

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  Sep 23 2019

  1 /2  How Long Can South Africa Survive as a Cohesive State?Photo:  Nelson Mandela, first black African President of Republic of South Africa.  Permissions*: see below..South Africa currently has Insecure borders.  Could break up into constituent parts.         Few South Africans are aware of how the state was formed: there were many small countries there; as Bantu started to move south and Europeans move in to the Cape.  The Swazis (Zulu) (Eswatini- land of Zulus) asked the British to protect them.  In fact, Brits administered Swaziland from the Cape, leased parts to the Portuguese (Mozambique), took others, and returned in by simply leaving. South Africa now contains huge portions o f Swazi territory and parts of other countries the Brits arrogated to their control on the Cape Province.       Swaziland actually contains all the gold and diamond fields, and much of the good agricultural land, Meanwhile, S Africa is breaking down along ethnic lines; at the same time, the white population is under threat, but is fairly well established, having been there since the Seventeenth Century.       What used to be Zululand now is KwaZulu Natal.  Is moderately independent now.         The three main regions might be- KwaZulu Natal (Bantu)- Khoisan (Bushmen); the king declared independence of Western Cape in 2018, sent a msg tot h national government, hoisted its flag, and announced that it had seceded. It's been the most successful area since Nelson.- The rump of South Africa – everything else. .*Permissions: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. Attribution: South Africa The Good News / www.sagoodnews.co.za  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. Source Flickr: Nelson Mandela.   Author South Africa The Good News.   ...more

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• Is this the end of shoe-checking at the airport? Dana Wheeler, Plymouth Rock Technologies. PRT.CN, PLRTF.

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  Sep 23 2019

  Image:  The original Plymouth Rock. Permissions*: see below.https://twitter.com/plyrotechinc?lang=en https://plyrotech.com/en/about/mission . OUR GOAL       To develop unique radar and image processor techniques to counter high casualty, terrorist and assault weaponry threats.       Plymouth Rock Technologies is a team of experienced scientists, engineers and business executives formed to develop exclusive Intellectual Property (IP) to meet growing challenges in the security screening and threat detection market.       We are creating the next generation of threat detection methods that will fuse artificial intelligence with augmented reality interfaces to eliminate human error. Our products, both airborne and land based will covertly scan “non-cooperative” groups in real-time, for threat items at longer, “stand-off” distances than existing technologies.       Our technologies will operate in a stand-alone configuration or as a compliment to existing security systems.       By expanding the security perimeter, our systems will revolutionize the threat screening process and deliver timely operational intelligence.       By fusing our “complementary” technologies with existing detection methods, we will increase the probability of detection, over wider areas, while simultaneously reducing false alarms to improve overall efficiency.       Our user friendly technologies will require no special training and will be “Network Agnostic”; seamlessly interfacing with all existing command and control infrastructures both Military and Commercial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkG6w5hNH7Y.In response to the shoe bomber: we make a shoe scanner, a simple, low-power, harmless, scanner that images the bottom of your shoes. Instantly detects if there’s been any alteration; we can see plastics, metals.  It's either green or red; marks here the contraband or explosive is.  The Myriad: a drone, lightweight, a transport vehicle to carry sensors to detect explosives, weapons, suicide bombers – from above, looking down on unstructured crowds. Con ops = concepts of operations. Dual use application: civil and military applications, and it also penetrates layers of paint, of skin, to see corrosion on pipelines or bridges.  AI at Grand Central Terminal! .Dana Wheeler, Plymouth Rock Technologies. PRT.CN, PLRTF. https://twitter.com/plyrotechinc?lang=en https://plyrotech.com/en/about/mission.*Permissions:  I, the copyright holder of this work - Sophia Lai- hereby publish it under the following license: w:en:Creative Commonsattribution This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work - Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. ...more

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• The touted recession was aspirational; underlying manufacturing is strong; the Fed; with Jim McTague, long of Barron’s Washington.

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  Sep 23 2019

  Image: Boeing 787 Section 41 assembly.  Permissions* see below..Jim McTague, long of Barron’s Washington, now a novelist. The economy: housing starts are up.  Where’s the recession? “It was aspirational, in order to weaken president Trump.”  Trump used the Fed as an annex of the Department of Defense.  I theorize that if Iran forces the US to engage militarily, that might affect the market . . . Gasoline prices haven't reacted at all because there’s so much oil in the world.   The OECD says global growth will be slowest since 2009; but the US will do better than other by grace of the tax cut and the roll-back of red tape cannot be overestimated. .*Permissions:  Source - https://www.flickr.com/photos/markjhandel/774759265/ Author - https://www.flickr.com/photos/markjhandel/ 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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• 2/2 Michael Flynn's amazing attorney demands 40 items, blows cover US & Brit intell; with Larry C. Johnson, former CIA, FBI, et al.

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  Sep 23 2019

  Image:  Thomas Stewart – Chevalier d'Eon. Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d'Éon de Beaumont, usually known as the Chevalier d'Éon, was a French diplomat, spy, Freemason and soldier who fought in the Seven Years' War. Public domain..Gen Michael Flynn: investigation and incarceration for presumed abuse of power;  was part of Trump campaign, was removed for cloudy reasons . . . More Fusion GPS.  The very odd FISA applications. Mueller.  With Larry C. Johnson, Sic Semper Tyannis;  a former analyst at the CIA; is co-owner and CEO of BERG Associates, LLC (Business Exposure Reduction Group)  ...more

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• 1/ 2 Michael Flynn's amazing attorney demands 40 items, blows cover US & Brit intell; with Larry C. Johnson, former CIA, FBI, et al.

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  Image:   The Secret Intelligence Service building at Vauxhall Cross, London, seen from Vauxhall Bridge. By & copyright Tagishsimon 24th April 2004.  Permissions*: see below. .Gen Michael Flynn: investigation and incarceration for presumed abuse of power;  was part of Trump campaign, was removed for cloudy reasons . . . More Fusion GPS.  The very odd FISA applications. Mueller.  With Larry C. Johnson, Sic Semper Tyannis;  a former analyst at the CIA; is co-owner and CEO of BERG Associates, LLC (Business Exposure Reduction Group) .* Permissions:  Tagishsimon at the English language Wikipedia, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publishes it under the following license:       GNU head Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; 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.w:en:Creative Commonsattribution share alike.  This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Attribution: Tagishsimon  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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• 2 /2 Anosognosia: intrinsic flaws in our brain, & how we manage; Brain Bugs with Dean Buonomano

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  Sep 23 2019

  Image: Representation of consciousness from the seventeenth century by Robert Fludd, an English Paracelsian physician. Public domain.. Brain Bugs: How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives, by Dean Buonomano“Excellent. . . . [Buonomano] reveals the intricate limitations and blessings of the most complex device in the known universe.”―The Atlantic       The human brain may be the best piece of technology ever created, but it’s far from perfect. Drawing on colorful examples and surprising research, the neuroscientist Dean Buonomano exposes the blind spots and weaknesses that beset our brains and lead us to make misguided personal, professional, and financial decisions. Whether explaining why we are susceptible to advertisements or demonstrating how false memories are formed, Brain Bugs not only explains the brain’s inherent flaws but also gives us the tools to counteract them..From our susceptibility to advertising and propaganda to the biases of our memory to how word choice sways our decisions, Buonomano treks across evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, neurobiology, philosophy, theory of mind and a number of other disciplines. -- brainpickings.org   ...more

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• 1/2 Anosognosia: intrinsic flaws in our brain, & how we manage; Brain Bugs with Dean Buonomano

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  Sep 23 2019

  Image:  Henry Vandyke Carter and one more author - Henry Gray (1918) Anatomy of the Human Body (See "Book" section below); Bartleby.com: Gray's Anatomy, Plate 1197. Public domain. . Brain Bugs: How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives, by Dean Buonomano“Excellent. . . . [Buonomano] reveals the intricate limitations and blessings of the most complex device in the known universe.”―The Atlantic       The human brain may be the best piece of technology ever created, but it’s far from perfect. Drawing on colorful examples and surprising research, the neuroscientist Dean Buonomano exposes the blind spots and weaknesses that beset our brains and lead us to make misguided personal, professional, and financial decisions. Whether explaining why we are susceptible to advertisements or demonstrating how false memories are formed, Brain Bugs not only explains the brain’s inherent flaws but also gives us the tools to counteract them..From our susceptibility to advertising and propaganda to the biases of our memory to how word choice sways our decisions, Buonomano treks across evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, neurobiology, philosophy, theory of mind and a number of other disciplines. -- brainpickings.org ...more

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• 1/2 Fly me to the Moon – unless Congress is a pinchpenny; with Robert Zimmerman, behindtheBlack.com

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  Sep 23 2019

  Image: Io, moon of Jupiter, NASA. Public domain..       Fifty years ago, Moon landing.  Now, we’re all going to die in 11-1/2 years according to Democratic politicians. . . . None of the old predictions has been right. Temperatures and water levels have been more or less static for twenty years. Greenland’s glaciers are not shrinking – have been recovering for about five years. The science is not “settled” – science is never settled.       Vikram, India’s first attempt to land on the Moon, but lost contact near the surface.       Bouncing boulders on Comet 67P.       Io, moon of Jupiter, has volcanoes that erupt; one is scheduled to erupt soon.  Snowstorm on Saturn, Enceledus.  Eclipse on Saturn.        The fire that debilitated China’s launches for the next two years: Chinese regularly steal initial designs then upgrade them.  It’s possible that someone fed them inaccurate information: they may have stolen designs that were purposely intended not to work. ...more

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• 2/2 Fly me to the Moon – unless Congress is a pinchpenny; with Robert Zimmerman, behindtheBlack.com

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  Sep 23 2019

  Image: Pistol-grip drill. Who drilled a hole in th Russian craft?  Permissions: see below..Capitol Hill:  the 2024 mission to the Moon – is there money from Congress requested by the Trump Administration to go to the Moon by 2024?  Unlikely, as the Democratically-controlled House released a draft resolution that doesn't include a dime for it.         House Science Space and Technology Committee: a lot of skepticism of SLS Gateway. Even the NASA official ’splained that the intended landing may not be achieved. The hope for manned space in the US is private space.        Who manually drilled a hole in the Russian spacecraft, the orbital module of SpaceX, then patched it up? Dmitri Rogozin now knows and announced that he won't tell anyone.       Roscosmos:  Russia was supposed to split ISS modules work 50/50 – Russians have not; are bankrupt; have an endlessly-delayed module (since 2013) – this time, with contamination in fuel tanks.  In a little while, ISS will be decommissioned.         SpaceX on a buying binge: Boca Chica is too physically close to the rocket launches and therefore in danger. Starhopper.  SpaceX has offered 3X the value of the hundred-odd homes, but that won't be enough for homeowners to buy new homes.  ‘.*Permissions: I, the copyright holder [derivative by Mikael Häggström from original by Kosiarz-PL of this work, hereby publish it under the following licenses:w:en:Creative Commonsattribution share alike 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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• 1/2 The New American Civil War: Strength of the New Millennarians, with Michael Vlahos (@JHUWorldCrisis)

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  Image: The Battle of Fort Sumter was a Confederate attack on a U.S. fort in South Carolina in April 1861. It was the opening battle of the war. Currier & Ives. Public domain..Messianic belief in oneself and one’s great goals — a sign of strength, in one sense, but weakness in that the political party has gone from being collegial and democratic to being radical and [rigid –ed]; with Michael E Vlahos.          In the 1850s, thought they were strong and that the future belonged to them, almost by divine command; echoed today in the blue party.     ...more

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• 2/2 The New American Civil War: Strength of the New Millennarians, with Michael Vlahos (@JHUWorldCrisis)

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  Sep 23 2019

  Image: The American Civil War, 1850: Five soldiers, four unidentified, in Union uniforms of the 6th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia outfitted with Enfield muskets in front of encampment. Photo shows soldiers wearing frock coats and standing at ease with their Enfield Rifles. An encampment is visible in the background. Photo shows one identified soldier, Albert L. Burgess, on far right. Public domain..Messianic belief in o.neself and one’s great goals — a sign of strength, in one sense, but weakness in that the political party has gone from being collegial and democratic to being radical and [rigid –ed]; with Michael E Vlahos       In the 1850s, thought they were strong and that the future belonged to them, almost by divine command; echoed today in the blue party.   ...more

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• Trophy-hunting sustains, prospers and preserves wildlife habitats and the residents: 2 of 2: @CatherineSemcer @PERC

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  Sep 22 2019

  Photo: Six lions in various poses; after Rubens.Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTrophy-hunting sustains, prospers and preserves wildlife habitats and the residents: 2 of 2: @CatherineSemcer @PERChttps://www.perc.org/2019/07/18/the-role-of-hunting-in-conserving-african-wildlife/

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• Trophy-hunting sustains, prospers and preserves wildlife habitats and the residents: 1 of 2: @CatherineSemcer @PERC

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  Sep 22 2019

  Photo:  Lala Deen Dayal  (1844–1905)  TitleThe Great ElephantDescription Photograph; Photographs Datebetween 1885 and 1900 MediumAlbumen silver print from glass negativeDimensions Image: 24.1 x 21.2 cm (9 1/2 x 8 3/8 in.) Mount: 30 x 37.7 cm (11 13/16 x 14 13/16 in.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTrophy-hunting sustains, prospers and preserves wildlife habitats and the residents: 1 of 2: @CatherineSemcer @PERChttps://www.perc.org/2019/07/18/the-role-of-hunting-in-conserving-african-wildlife/ ...more

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• 1/4 The never-before-told story of the grid that ate Manhattan. City on a Grid, by Gerard Koeppel

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  Sep 21 2019

  Image: Gezicht op Nieuw Amsterdam by Johannes Vingboons (1664), an early picture of Nieuw Amsterdam made in the year when it was conquered by the English under Richard Nicolls. Created on 31 December 1663.  Public domain.. City on a Grid: How New York Became New York (Kindle Edition), by Gerard Koeppel  (Author)https://www.amazon.com/City-Grid-How-York-Became-ebook/dp/B016TX4DY0.  “ Rarely does one come across a book that makes you rethink the city you thought you knew … . Koeppel’s masterful story-telling does that and more.” — Kate Ascher, author of The Works: Anatomy of a City.You either love it or hate it, but nothing says New York like the street grid of Manhattan. Created in 1811 by a three-man commission featuring the headstrong founding father Gouverneur Morris, the plan called for a dozen parallel avenues crossing at right angles with many dozens of parallel streets in an unbroken grid. Hills and valleys, streams and ponds, forests and swamps were invisible to the grid; so too were country villages, roads, farms, and estates and generations of property lines. All would disappear as the crosshatch fabric of the grid overspread the island: a heavy greatcoat on the land, the dense undergarment of the future city.       No other grid in Western civilization was so large and uniform as the one ordained in 1811. Not without reason. When the grid plan was announced, New York was just under two hundred years old, an overgrown town at the southern tip of Manhattan, a notorious jumble of streets laid at the whim of landowners. To bring order beyond the chaos—and good real estate to market—the street planning commission came up with a monolithic grid for the rest of the island. Mannahatta—the native “island of hills”—became a place of rectangles, in thousands of blocks on the flattened landscape, and many more thousands of right-angled buildings rising in vertical mimicry.       The Manhattan grid has been called “a disaster” of urban planning and “the most courageous act of prediction in Western civilization.” However one feels about it, the most famous urban design of a living city defines its daily life. ...more

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• 2/4 The never-before-told story of the grid that ate Manhattan. City on a Grid, by Gerard Koeppel

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  Image: A portion of a map of the city [currently, Manhattan] from 1776; De Lancey Square and the grid around it can be seen on the right. Public domain.. City on a Grid: How New York Became New York (Kindle Edition),by Gerard Koeppel  (Author)https://www.amazon.com/City-Grid-How-York-Became-ebook/dp/B016TX4DY0       You either love it or hate it, but nothing says New York like the street grid of Manhattan. Created in 1811 by a three-man commission featuring the headstrong founding father Gouverneur Morris, the plan called for a dozen parallel avenues crossing at right angles with many dozens of parallel streets in an unbroken grid. Hills and valleys, streams and ponds, forests and swamps were invisible to the grid; so too were country villages, roads, farms, and estates and generations of property lines. All would disappear as the crosshatch fabric of the grid overspread the island: a heavy greatcoat on the land, the dense undergarment of the future city.       No other grid in Western civilization was so large and uniform as the one ordained in 1811. Not without reason. When the grid plan was announced, New York was just under two hundred years old, an overgrown town at the southern tip of Manhattan, a notorious jumble of streets laid at the whim of landowners. To bring order beyond the chaos—and good real estate to market—the street planning commission came up with a monolithic grid for the rest of the island. Mannahatta—the native “island of hills”—became a place of rectangles, in thousands of blocks on the flattened landscape, and many more thousands of right-angled buildings rising in vertical mimicry.       The Manhattan grid has been called “a disaster” of urban planning and “the most courageous act of prediction in Western civilization.” However one feels about it, the most famous urban design of a living city defines its daily life. ...more

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• 3 /4 The never-before-told story of the grid that ate Manhattan. City on a Grid, by Gerard Koeppel

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  Sep 21 2019

  Image: A crowd outside The New York Times building follows the progress of the Jack Dempsey–Georges Carpentier fight in 1921.  Public domain.. City on a Grid: How New York Became New York (Kindle Edition),by Gerard Koeppel  (Author)https://www.amazon.com/City-Grid-How-York-Became-ebook/dp/B016TX4DY0       You either love it or hate it, but nothing says New York like the street grid of Manhattan. Created in 1811 by a three-man commission featuring the headstrong founding father Gouverneur Morris, the plan called for a dozen parallel avenues crossing at right angles with many dozens of parallel streets in an unbroken grid. Hills and valleys, streams and ponds, forests and swamps were invisible to the grid; so too were country villages, roads, farms, and estates and generations of property lines. All would disappear as the crosshatch fabric of the grid overspread the island: a heavy greatcoat on the land, the dense undergarment of the future city.       No other grid in Western civilization was so large and uniform as the one ordained in 1811. Not without reason. When the grid plan was announced, New York was just under two hundred years old, an overgrown town at the southern tip of Manhattan, a notorious jumble of streets laid at the whim of landowners. To bring order beyond the chaos—and good real estate to market—the street planning commission came up with a monolithic grid for the rest of the island. Mannahatta—the native “island of hills”—became a place of rectangles, in thousands of blocks on the flattened landscape, and many more thousands of right-angled buildings rising in vertical mimicry.       The Manhattan grid has been called “a disaster” of urban planning and “the most courageous act of prediction in Western civilization.” However one feels about it, the most famous urban design of a living city defines its daily life.    ...more

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• 4/4 The never-before-told story of the grid that ate Manhattan. City on a Grid, by Gerard Koeppel

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  Sep 21 2019

  Image: Evacuation Day in auld New York: A once-annual holiday local to New York City, Evacuation Day was formerly equal in importance to the Fourth of July. Referring to the evacuation of British troops from New York City following the Revolutionary War, the celebration of the troops’ departure was observed yearly throughout the early 20th century.         "Evacuation Day" and Washington's Triumphal Entry in New York City, November 25, 1783 . Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.  Public domain.. City on a Grid: How New York Became New York (Kindle Edition),by Gerard Koeppel  (Author).  https://www.amazon.com/City-Grid-How-York-Became-ebook/dp/B016TX4DY0        You either love it or hate it, but nothing says New York like the street grid of Manhattan. Created in 1811 by a three-man commission featuring the headstrong founding father Gouverneur Morris, the plan called for a dozen parallel avenues crossing at right angles with many dozens of parallel streets in an unbroken grid. Hills and valleys, streams and ponds, forests and swamps were invisible to the grid; so too were country villages, roads, farms, and estates and generations of property lines. All would disappear as the crosshatch fabric of the grid overspread the island: a heavy greatcoat on the land, the dense undergarment of the future city.       No other grid in Western civilization was so large and uniform as the one ordained in 1811. Not without reason. When the grid plan was announced, New York was just under two hundred years old, an overgrown town at the southern tip of Manhattan, a notorious jumble of streets laid at the whim of landowners. To bring order beyond the chaos—and good real estate to market—the street planning commission came up with a monolithic grid for the rest of the island. Mannahatta—the native “island of hills”—became a place of rectangles, in thousands of blocks on the flattened landscape, and many more thousands of right-angled buildings rising in vertical mimicry.       The Manhattan grid has been called “a disaster” of urban planning and “the most courageous act of prediction in Western civilization.” However one feels about it, the most famous urban design of a living city defines its daily life. ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  *Permissions: I, the copyright holder (author: Rhododendrites) of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:w:en:Creative Commons attribution share alike. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work—Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. 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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• Argentina with dollar-lumpy mattresses, & what is to be done? @JohnTamny

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  Sep 21 2019

  Image:  Argentine passport:  Portada de un pasaporte biométrico argentine. Public domain..People are sleeping on lumpy mattresses in Argentina: they stuff their US dollars there rather than be at the mercy of the Argentine peso.       Money is a consequence of production. Thereafter, money is an agreed-upon unit to represent production.   Where money is not treated well, money will escape.  In Argentina, a limit on dollars is a limit on trade. . .  . https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2019/09/19/argentina_unwittingly_demands_that_its_citizens_stuff_money_under_mattresses_103915.html ...more

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• The new Space Force vs an ossified, federated bureaucracy unable to react to threats from China and Russia. Peter Garretson.

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  Sep 21 2019

  Image:  Long March 2D launching off pad with VRSS-1:  launch of the first Venezuelan Earth observation satellite, VRSS-1 / Miranda, by the LM-2D launch vehicle, from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, Gansu Province, China.Permissions*: see below.. What Space Command needs from Congress.  @GarretsonPeter. . .  The House and Senate have passed different bills so they must be reconciled by a conference committee. Simply put, the House bill does the job, and the Senate version is wholly inadequate to protect American power and interests in space.  . . . It’s becoming very clear that we’re in a serious space race with China, and Beijing has begun a bold strategic initiative. When it becomes clear to the American people that they’re behind, they’ll ask why we weren’t better prepared.   https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/460943-is-the-senate-ready-to-protect-american-interests-in-space.*Permissions:  Author: Cristóbal Alvarado Minic.   w:en:Creative Commons attribution. 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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• 1/2 California Knifes the Gig Economy, Richard A. Epstein

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  Sep 21 2019

  Image:  W-9 IRS form. “Form W-9 is most commonly used in a business–contractor arrangement.”  Public domain..California vs Uber and Lyft. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst       California state legislators embarked last week on the single most important regulatory misadventure this country has seen in many decades, seeking to redefine the obscure but critical legal distinction between an employee and an independent contractor.   . . .  https://www.hoover.org/research/california-knifes-gig-economy   ...more

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• 2/2 California Knifes the Gig Economy, Richard A. Epstein

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  Sep 21 2019

  Image:  Cars and trucks stuck in traffic.  Permissions*: see below..California vs Uber and Lyft. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInstCalifornia state legislators embarked last week on the single most important regulatory misadventure this country has seen in many decades, seeking to redefine the obscure but critical legal distinction between an employee and an independent contractor.   . . . https://www.hoover.org/research/california-knifes-gig-economy.*Permissions:  I, the copyright holder (author: Ngô Trung) of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:  w:en:Creative Commons attribution 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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• https://www.wsj.com/articles/mr-horowitz-speaks-11568933134

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  Sep 21 2019

  Photo: Execution of Louis XVI in the then Place de la Révolution. The empty pedestal in front of him had supported a statue of his grandfather, Louis XV, torn down during one of the many revolutionary riots. Isidore Stanislas Helman - Bibliothèque nationale de France Journée du 21 janvier 1793 la mort de Louis Capet sur la place de la Révolution : présentée à la Convention nationale le 30 germinal par Helman Public Domain File:Execution of Louis XVI.jpg Created: 1794date QS:P571,+1794-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWaiting for perhaps 1000 pages from Horowitz on the FISA abuse of power 2016. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJRhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/mr-horowitz-speaks-11568933134 ...more

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• Nadler knows better than to criminalize a counterintelligence operation & What is to be done? @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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  Sep 21 2019

  Photo: In the uttermost East, being an account of investigations among the natives and Russian convicts of the island of Sakhalin, with notes of travel in Korea, Siberia, and ManchuriaYear: 1903 (1900s)Authors:  Hawes, Charles Henry, 1867-1943Subjects: Publisher:  London, HarperContributing Library:  Robarts - University of TorontoDigitizing Sponsor:  University of TorontoView 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:nt. I experienced a curious sensation as the doorof the kamera was flung open, and the prisoners rose clank-ing their chains ere the soldiers had time to close aroundus. The prison master made some remarks, and one mancomplained that he had not had a bath for six months,and was covered with vermin. The master flew into apassion, and swore at him. The visit of a stranger is anopportunity for prisoners to make complaints, whethergenuine or not, but the behaviour of the master lent con-firmation rather than otherwise to the convicts statement,and caused meto take his own remarks cum grano, whenshowing me the bath-house, he declared that the prisonershad baths twice a week. Another prisoner of gentler disposition, who worespectacles, asked if he might have his chains struck off,and be permitted to help in the kitchen. His term hadexpired, and he might have gone free in Nikolaevsk, butwhat would he have done there in an utterly strange place ?He might even have required protection himself.Text Appearing After Image:ON THE AMUR 69 The next room was about 20 X 16 feet, and containedas many as twenty-five. The inmates slept on the floor,covered by whatever their bundles yielded. I asked whetherthey had a blanket in winter, but was assured that therooms were sufficiently heated. The prisoners crowdedround us, and I learned in answer to questions of theprison master that they had been three months trampingfrom Nerchensk, 2075 miles, with an occasional lift onbarges towed by a steamer. Just as we were turning to leave, a tall not unpleasant-looking prisoner stepped forward and asked, Where doesthe barin come from? America, replied the master.I corrected him. Dont they treat the prisoners better inEngland ? To which I believe the reply was, No, theyhang such as you ! —which was probably true. Some of the men complained that they wanted moreto eat. To this came the indignant reply, They haveplenty, the ruffians ! The regulations for food in Russianprisons are good, and compare well as to quantity withhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowNadler knows better than to criminalize a counterintelligence operation & What is to be done? @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJRhttps://www.nationalreview.com/2019/09/democrats-impeachment-theater-corey-lewandowski-and-executive-privilege/ ...more

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• Pacific Watch: Beto on the road with the Homeless of California. Jeff Bliss.

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  Sep 21 2019

  Photo: Hobo signs, California, c. 1870sCol. Albert S. Evans - Internet archives A La California (1873): Description and travel; Social life and customs written by Colonel Albert S. Evans. The number is the page number in the book. The words are the captions with each image. Follow the link to the full book. Public Domain File:71-THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL.jpg Created: 2014-09-01 10:25:38 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowPacific Watch: Beto on the road with the Homeless of California. Jeff Bliss.https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/09/19/beto-orourke-president-california-marijuana-cannabis-prison/ ...more

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• Successful takeover of the Democrats by the enthusiastic Progressives. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion

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  Sep 21 2019

  Photo: The royal carriage of king Louis Philippe is burned in front of the Chateau d'eau during the French revolution of 1848, Paris 24th February 1848Date | 12 October 2015, 15:15:35Source | https://springfieldmuseums.org/collections/item/the-french-revolution-burning-the-royal-carriages-at-the-chateau-deu-feby-24th-1848-nathaniel-currier/Author | Nathaniel Currierhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowSuccessful takeover of the Democrats by the enthusiastic Progressives. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinionhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/the-democrats-ritualistic-stoning-of-brett-kavanaugh-11568846710 ...more

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• #TheScalaReport: Why does Microsoft need a State Department? Is Big Tech the new Tyrell Corporation? Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHE

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  Sep 20 2019

  Image: Microsoft has its own foreign ministry? Painting: Charles James Fox, by Karl Anton Hickel.  Fox served as Britain's first Foreign Secretary in the ministry of the Marquess of Rockingham in 1782. Public domain..Chris Riegel, Scala.com:  Clear lines of differentiation between private industry and government exists in some countries, not others.  In 2013, Microsoft refused to hand over to the US data on drug dealers in Ireland; Microsoft maintains its own State Department with hordes of employees.   https://www.economist.com/business/2019/09/12/the-redmond-doctrine ...more

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• 1/ 2 The Democrats 2019 follow George McGovern 1972 into the Wilderness, with Dr Sebastian Gorka

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  Sep 20 2019

  Image:  Wilderness— Red Mountain Wilderness in the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, Nevada, United States. Public domain (USFS - US Forest Service).Dr Sebastian Gorka:  The Democrats 2019 follow George McGovern 1972 into the Wilderness. @SebGorka #AmericaFirsthttp://www.srnonline.com/show/america-first-with-dr-sebastian-gorka

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• 2/2 The Democrats 2019 follow George McGovern 1972 into the Wilderness. @SebGorka #AmericaFirst

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  Sep 20 2019

  Image:   Texas Barnett Shale gas drilling (fracking) rig near Alvarado, Texas, just off of state highway 67.  Permissions**: see below..Dr Sebastian Gorka:   Elizabeth Warren has promised to cut off fracking on her first day in office* and confiscate private property in the form of Wall Street corporations.  “Hell yes, we’re coming after your guns.” Oops.  We were told these would never happen, to take off our tinfoil hats. But here they are, out of the closet. The Party of Scoop Jackson is dead and buried. JB: My rational explanation is that Americans vote on the economy, which is gangbusters, and he Democrats aren't able to speak of economics.   SG:  That’s your first error – being rational. Even without the matter of the economy they’d still be making the same claims: this is the result of Gramsci and of their belief in Utopianism.  No way on God’s green Earth that Biden’s campaign will survive; it's Warren’s to lose: the outcome of decades and decades of anti-American politics.         Warren, in her righteousness and virtue-signalling, is leading the Democratic Party to McGovern’s wilderness. The Democratic Party is no longer tethered to reality; no adults left in the room.         Greg Jarrett agrees, not only did Comey break the law in leaking info, but he appears to have framed General Mike Flynn.       *Although the Constitution doesn't make that possible.https://www.sebgorka.com** I, the copyright holder of this work — Loadmaster (David R. Tribble) — hereby publish it under the following licenses:w:en:Creative Commons attribution share alike.  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. GNU head Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; 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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• Benny Gantz vs Bibi Netanyahu vs Bibi Netanyahu; & What is to be done?

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  Sep 20 2019

  Image:  Entrance to the First Temple (20th-century painting). Public domain..Israeli elections, with Gil Hoffman. Liberman wants to be defense minister and kingmaker; leave out religious parties.  Will Blue and White go with the religious parties?  Benny Gantz.  @GilHoffman @JerusalemPost Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres.Gil Hoffman is the chief political correspondent and analyst for The Jerusalem Post. Well-connected to Israeli and Palestinian leaders, he has interviewed every major figure across the Israeli political spectrum, has been interviewed by top media on six continents and is a regular analyst on CNN, Al-Jazeera and other news outlets.·         https://www.timesofisrael.com/updated-tally-shows-blue-and-white-increasing-its-lead-over-likud-to-33-31/ ·         https://www.jpost.com/Israel-Elections/Gantz-readies-recommendation-to-receive-mandate-from-Rivlin-602305 ·         https://www.timesofisrael.com/liberman-says-he-intends-to-recommend-gantz-for-prime-minister-report/ ·         https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5592518,00.html ·         http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/269160 ...more

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• India looks to stabilize Kashmir, Jammu and Ladakh. Sandeep Chakravorty, Consul General Republic of India. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Sep 20 2019

  Image:  Nanga parbat, fairy meadow, Pakistan.  Permissions:  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. Source http://www.sxc.hu/photo/341372     Author Atif Gulzar.Consul-General Sandeep Chakravorty, of the Republic of India: Kashmir, Jammu, Ladakh.  Forty thousand people have died in the last years; Modi has removed the geographical anomaly to protect it from violence and make the region a state in India, with the citizenry having all normal rights of Indian citizens.  Pakistan has only one agenda, is obsessed with India. See the government tweets. My Prime Minister will speak [at the UN General Assembly] of multiple topics, including what it means to be a democracy. “Most states have an army; in the case of Pakistan, the army has a state.”   We do not covet any territory of Pakistan; all this has no basis in law. In a New York Times op-ed, Pakistan used that forum to threaten India with nuclear war. When Pakistan was formed, it was 23% non-Muslim; now it’s 3%.  India is the opposite. This is not a Hindu-Muslim issue; India has 200 million Muslims – the second-largest Muslim population in the world after Indonesia.  Even in Jammu-Kashmir-Ladakh, there are multiple minorities.  Pakistan tries to convey itself as a victim – but it backs the Taliban, gave refuge to bin Ladin, is militarily active in Afghanistan. Extremely good relations between India and Israel.  Three democracies need to work closely together: US, India, Israel, including in the private sector.Sandeep Chakravorty, a member of the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) since 1996, has served in India’s Missions in Spain, Colombia, Bangladesh and Peru. Prior to assuming charge as Consul General of India in New York in August, 2017, he was the Ambassador of India to Peru and Bolivia. Earlier he had been India’s Deputy Chief of Mission in Bangladesh. Before joining the Government, Mr. Chakravorty worked with civil society organizations dealing with natural resources and environmental issues.●       https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/a-passage-to-india-israel-s-pivot-east/ ●        https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/israel-ready-help-india-dealing-water-shortage-1549664-2019-06-15 ●        https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/foreign-trade/india-israel-explore-new-areas-of-cooperation-to-boost-financial-ties/articleshow/70549085.cms ●        https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/netanyahu-cancels-india-modi-visit-israel-election-1.7794279 ●        http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/267599 ●        https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/opinion/india-pakistan-kashmir-jammu.html ...more

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• Eli Lake: Iran's predation, & what is to be done? @EliLake @Bloomberg View

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  Image:   Ethnicities and religions in Iran. الأعراق والأديان في إيران    From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. Permissions*:  see below..Robert O’Brien’s promotion as national security advisor, & implications of the Saudi Aramco attack on future US-Iran policies, with Eli Lake. After the September 14 missile strike on Saudi Arabia: the world energy supply is much more resilient than it was a decade ago; however, it looks as though Iran has a free hand to attack US allies in the region since it’s received no punishment for its deed. Wobbly states like Qatar may think it’s [less wise] to align with the US.  . . .  Embers of a democratic revolution in Iran.  @EliLake @Bloomberg View @BF.Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_presEli Lake is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering national security and foreign policy. He was the senior national security correspondent for the Daily Beast and covered national security and intelligence for the Washington Times, the New York Sun and UPI.●        https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-09-18/trump-s-replacement-for-bolton-at-nsa-is-also-a-hawk ●        https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-09-15/iran-is-responsible-for-the-houthi-attack-on-saudi-arabia-s-oil? ●        https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/syria/.premium-drone-attacks-iran-backed-militia-on-iraq-syria-border-report-says-1.7862354 ●        https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-steers-clear-of-war-footing-toward-iran-11568844304 ●        https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/iran-calls-trumps-bluff/ ●        https://www.wsj.com/articles/irans-whip-hand-11568847827 .*Permissions:  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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• Iran launches the Apocalypse against Saudi Arabia and the world doesn't end. @ProfBshaffer Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres.

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  Sep 20 2019

  Photo: The Martyrdom of Saint John, from The Apocalypse, Latin Edition 1511Copyright infoPublic Domain Dedication (CC0) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowIran launches the Apocalypse against Saudi Arabia and the world doesn't end. @ProfBShaffer Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres.

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• Israel at the UN prepares for more trouble from predatory Iran. @DannyDanon Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Sep 20 2019

  Photo: UN building, New York. 01 February, 1966http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowIsrael at the UN prepares for more trouble from predatory Iran.  @DannyDanon Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_presAmbassador Danny Danon became Israel’s 17th Permanent Representative to the United Nations in October 2015. Danny Danon was a member of Knesset from February 2009 until August 2015 and served as Deputy Minister of Defense from March 2013 until July 2014. In May 2015 he was appointed Minister of Science, Technology, and Space, serving until his appointment in August 2015 as Israel Ambassador to the United Nations.Relevant articles:·         https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Will-Netanyahu-travel-to-US-next-week-to-address-UN-meet-Trump-602105 ·         https://www.jns.org/israel-us-to-seek-renewal-of-un-peacekeeping-force-to-counter-hezbollah-in-lebanon/ ·         https://www.un.org/press/en/2019/sc13936.doc.htm ·         https://www.jns.org/oic-calls-to-hold-israel-accountable-over-netanyahu-annexation-vow/ ·         https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5590711,00.html ·         https://www.foxnews.com/politics/new-un-ambassador-kelly-craft-takes-up-post-promises-strong-american-leadership ...more

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• Israeli Groundhog Day do-over elections produce a muddle. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Sep 20 2019

  Photo: snow in Haifa, Israel. 1950Date | January 1950Source | PikiWiki - Israel free image collection projectAuthor | לויה אבימורPermission(Reusing this file) | http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowIsraeli Groundhog Day do-over elections produce a muddle. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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• The Democrats offer no credible energy source to replace fossil fuels or nuclear energy. @DevinNunes

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  Sep 20 2019

  Photo: The Calder Hall nuclear power station in the United Kingdom was the world's first commercial nuclear power station. It was connected to the national power grid on 27 August 1956 and officially revealed in a ceremony by Queen Elizabeth II on 17 October 1956. In common with a number of other Generation I nuclear reactors, the plant had the dual purpose of producing electrical power and plutonium-239, the latter for the nascent nuclear weapons program in Britain.[37] ENERGY.GOV - HD.15.019 Calder Hall, United Kingdom - The world's first commercial nuclear power station. First connected to the national power grid on 27 August 1956 and officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 17 October 1956 Public Domain File:Calder Hall nuclear power station (11823864155).jpg Created: circa 1973 date QS:P,+1973-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Democrats offer no credible energy source to replace fossil fuels or nuclear energy. @DevinNunes ...more

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• Abused Tibet gets a helping hand from the US Congress. Bunching Tsering

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  Sep 20 2019

  Image:  Yak near Yamdrok lake, Tibet: a long-haired bovinae found throughout the Himalayan region of south Central Asia, the Tibetan Plateau and as far north as Mongolia and Russia. The Tibetan economy is dominated by subsistence agriculture. Due to limited arable land, the primary occupation of the Tibetan Plateau is raising livestock, such as sheep, cattle, goats, camels, yaks, dzo, and horses. The Tibetan yak is an integral part of Tibetan life. Permissions* below..Bunching Tsering, vice president of the International Campaign for Tibet, on a new Tibet bill in Congress, the Tibetan Policy and Support Act of 2019. What Westerners call reincarnation is what Buddhists call the continuum of mindstream; US Congress jumps in to sanction Beijing for interfering in the appointment of high lamas: “the succession or reincarnation of the Dalai Lama and other Tibetan Buddhist leaders is exclusively a religious issue that the Tibetan Buddhist community should decide on. Under the bill, any Chinese officials who attempt to interfere in this process could be subject to targeted sanctions.” https://savetibet.org/new-bill-will-sanction-chinese-officials-for-interfering-in-dalai-lama-reincarnation-update-tibetan-policy-act/ हिन्दी: यमद्रोक झील, तिब्बत के निकट याक। यह दक्षिण मध्य एशिया के हिमालय क्षेत्र, तिब्बत के पठार और सुदूर उत्तर में मंगोलिया और रूस तक पाया जाने वाला एक लंबे बालों वाला जानवर है। तिब्बती अर्थव्यवस्था पर जीविका कृषि का प्रभुत्व है। कृषि योग्य सीमित भूमि के कारण, तिब्बती पठार का प्राथमिक व्यवसाय पशु पालन है जैसे भेड़, मवेशी, बकरी, ऊंट, याक, और घोड़े। तिब्बती याक तिब्बती जीवन का एक अभिन्न हिस्सा है। (हिमालय में जलवायु परिवर्तन के बारे में जागरूकता बढ़ाने के लिये विश्व जल सप्ताह पर स्टॉकहोम में एक छोटी सी प्रदर्शनी में प्रयुक्त हुआ था। मूल शीर्षक था: "Tibet-5812").*Permissions:  Dennis Jarvis, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publishes it under the following license:  w:en:Creative Commons attribution share alike       This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Attribution: Dennis Jarvis  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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• Surprise: Hong Kong economy sagging from protests - but structurally holding up well. Andrew Collier

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  Image:  Logo of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, owner of SEHK. Public domain..Hong Kong finance sees no end to the protests. Andrew Collier, Orient Capital Research. A “sprawling Russian-style disinformation [Twitter] offensive from China” – “Before this year, nearly all of its tweets were links to pornography” – the Chinese Communist Party strategy.       Hong Kong economy is sagging: banks have had to pull IPOs.  Eight hundred mil write-off in real estate. However, how much pressure can the economy take?  S0 far, it’s doing pretty well.-- Andrew Collier, managing director of Orient Capital Research in Hong Kong & author, Shadow Banking and the Rise of Capitalism in China, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/18/world/asia/hk-twitter.html ...more

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• “Forgetting what you said two minutes ago?” --Bill Whalen on Biden and Harris

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  Image:  Kamala Harris at Baldwin Hills, 2014.  Office of Attorney General Kamala Harris; public domain..Joe Biden learns how to take a punch, or, lowered expectations. @HooverWhalen @HooverInst https://www.forbes.com/sites/billwhalen/2019/09/15/democrats-learn-the-hard-way-not-all-biden-attacks-cut-the-same/#61e41768729b

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• Gas on the fire: instant cancellation of health care for GM workers; with Lou Ann Hammond

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  Image:  Young striker off sentry duty sleeping on assembly line of auto seats.  Farm Security Administration.  Public domain: Office of War Information Photograph Collection.. GM uses a nuke against the striking UAW. Lou Ann Hammond Drivingthenation.com https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2019/09/18/expert-gm-health-care-shift-during-uaw-strike-poured-gasoline-fire/2367317001/

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• Iran's target weakness is the Iranian military in Syria, with Josh Rogin

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  Image:  A Syrian soldier manning a checkpoint near Damascus. Public domain (VoA).. How Trump can punish Iran, without starting a war @JoshRogin       “. . . there’s a way for the president to show American strength, restore deterrence, punish Iran and also advance his own strategy of rolling back Iranian regional aggression. Trump could hit back against Iran inside Syria.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/09/18/how-trump-can-punish-iran-without-starting-war/

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• Crackers and frackers could hold the keys to 2020, with Salena Zito in Pennsylvania

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  Image:  Town center of West Chester. View looks northeast along Market Street from Darlington Street. [Added by Nyttend: This block is included in the West Chester Downtown Historic District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.] Public domain.. Liz Warren ban Western Pennsylvania. @SalenaZito @WashingtonExaminer:         “On my first day as president, I will sign an executive order that puts a total moratorium on all new fossil-fuel leases for drilling offshore and on public lands. And I will ban fracking — everywhere,” Warren tweeted. I s she a secret asset of the GOP? https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/the-crackers-and-frackers-could-hold-the-keys-to-2020 ...more

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• #VanceryReport Modest Shopify.com provides opportunities for merchants to market directly without the large take by the giant sales platforms. @gunnargregory @vancery_

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  Sep 20 2019

  Photo: Store in Grand Forks, North Dakota, 1880Date | 1880Source | vintage postcardAuthor | Unknownhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow#VanceryReport Modest Shopify.com provides opportunities for merchants to market directly without the large take by the giant sales platforms. @gunnargregory @vancery_ shopify.comvancery.com

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• Our man in Hong Kong on the102d day of protests: Michael Yon @Michael_Yon

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  Sep 19 2019

  Image:  Victoria, Hong Kong, 1990s. Public domain. (Law Chun Lim, Image was from iBiblio. Public domain,).Michael Yon, veteran war correspondent covering the Hong Kong protests: Updating 172 Days of protests in Hong Kong. @Michael_Yon @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast.        Sophisticated protestors change tactics weekly or more often; extremely swiftly. (In Afghanistan, for example, protestors were mostly farmers; they changed tactics more or less annually.)

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• Trump and Modi rally in Houston while India rallies history in Kashmir. Swatick Mujumdar. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Sep 19 2019

  Photo: Source: ebay, Oct. 2004 "Woodblock prints by British American printmaker Charles William Bartlett (1860-1940). Bartlett is a well documented artist who traveled extensively in India, China, Japan and other parts of Asia, influencing his art for the rest of his life. In Japan, he learned woodblock printmaking, one of a handful of Western artists who mastered the Japanese print during this period."Date | before 1940 Source | http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1900_1999/drawings/bartlett/bartlett.htmlAuthor | Charles William Bartlett (1860-1940)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTrump and Modi rally in Houston while India rallies history in Kashmir. Swatick Mujumdar. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast ...more

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• Red China aims to use social credits to cow US companies in the PRC. @AlanTonelson @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast RealityChek.com

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  Sep 19 2019

  Photo: Deutsch: Eine Fabrik in China am Ufer des Jangtse.English: A Factory in China at Yangtze River.Euskara: Landare industrialen ondoriz, aire kutsakorra.Nederlands: Industrie langs de Yangtse rivier in China.Date | September 2008Source | Own workAuthor | High Contrasthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowRed China aims to use social credits to cow US companies in the PRC. @AlanTonelson @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast RealityChek.comhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/coming-soon-in-china-social-credit-for-companies-too-11568713871 ...more

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• Pence cancels meeting with the PRC's Guadalcanal. @CleoPaskal @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Sep 19 2019

  Image:  Solomon Island warriors, armed with spears, on board an ornamented war canoe (1895). William Henry Jackson - Library of Congress LC-W7- 807. Public domain..Pence cancels meeting with the PRC's Guadalcanal. @CleoPaskal @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast The globally-relevant matter of the Solomon Islands, with Cleo Paskal, visiting Trudeau Fellow, University of Montreal, and associate Fellow, Chatham House.       The Solomon Islands accepted China’s wooing and cash, and caused VP Mike Pence’s cancellation of his imminent visit. China has thrown money at retail, infrastructure, educational programs: a broad scale of engagement by China. Further, many Island officials have trained in China, and get free trips there and around the region. The US absolutely should emulate this. Also, perhaps funds go directly to officials . . .  https://www.reuters.com/article/us-taiwan-diplomacy-pence-exclusive/exclusive-pence-rebuffs-solomon-islands-pm-after-nation-cuts-ties-with-taiwan-idUSKBN1W22WK ...more

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• PRC aims cultural genocide against the Uyghurs of East Turkistan & What is to be done? Arthur Waldron, University of Pennsylvania. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Sep 19 2019

  Photo: Uyghur Princes wearing Chinese-styled robes and headgear. Bezeklik, Cave 9, 9-12th century CE, wall painting, 62.4 x 59.5 cm. Located at the Museum für Indische Kunst, Berlin-Dahlem.Museum of Asian Art   Date | May 2006Source | Own workAuthor | GryffindorPermission(Reusing this file) | I release it into the public domain.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowPRC aims cultural genocide against the Uyghurs of East Turkistan & What is to be done? Arthur Waldron, University of Pennsylvania. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/monitor-09162019160139.html ...more

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• 2/2 New new version of Tabby's Star.

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  Image: Artist's concept of an "uneven ring of dust" orbiting Tabby's Star.  Public domain..There's a New Explanation for Mysterious Tabby's Star: A Melting Ploonet, by Michelle Starr      We're yet to make a conclusive detection of an exomoon. But if such moons are out there, orbiting planets outside the Solar System, one of them could be responsible for the peculiarities of KIC 8462852 - AKA Tabby's star.https://behindtheblack.com https://www.sciencealert.com/a-new-explanation-for-tabby-s-star-a-melting-ploonet   ...more

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• 1/ 2 Unknown Unsolved Troubles with PRC Long March 45.

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  Sep 19 2019

  Image:  The launch of Long March 3B Rocket in 1997, in Xichang Satellite Center, China. Public domain.   Medium and Intercontinental Range Ballistic Missiles (2007). Note: China currently is capable of targeting its nuclear forces throughout the region and most of the world, including the continental United States. Newer systems, such as the DF-31, DF-31A, and JL-2, will give China a more survivable nuclear force.  Public domain.. China suffers Long March 4 failure https://spacenews.com/china-appears-to-have-suffered-a-long-march-launch-failure/https://behindtheblack.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongfeng_(missile)   ...more

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• 2/2 Roskosmos has big plans and limited funds. Hotel Mars, episode n; Anatoly Zak, RussianSpaceWeb.com, & David Livingston, SpaceShow.com

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  Sep 19 2019

  Image:  Patch of the Russian Space Agency, 1991-2004.  Roscosmos - Roscosmos.ru   Public domain..Hotel Mars, episode n; Anatoly Zak, RussianSpaceWeb.com, & David Livingston, SpaceShow.com http://www.russianspaceweb.com/2019.html    Planned Russian orbital launch attempts   September 25, 16:57 Moscow Time: A Soyuz-FG rocket to launch the Soyuz MS-15 transport spacecraft (Production No. 744/ISS mission 61S) from Baikonur. The crew will include a Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka, a US astronaut Jessica Meir and a commercial passenger from the United Arab Emirates, UAE, Hazzaa Ali Almansoori. The spacecraft is scheduled to dock at the Russian Segment of the International Space Station, ISS, at 22:57 Moscow Time on the day of the launch.       As of the end of February 2019, Roskosmos was yet to get a final agreement with NASA about the potential use of one seat on the Soyuz MS-15 for a paid passenger. At the same time, Roskosmos needed to get NASA to agree to extend the mission of . . .    ...more

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• 1/2 Roskosmos has big plans and limited funds. Hotel Mars, episode n; Anatoly Zak, RussianSpaceWeb.com, & David Livingston, SpaceShow.com

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  Sep 19 2019

  Image:  Roscosmos buildings - Moscow, Schepkina Street 42.  Author: Александр Спиридонов Alexander SpirilonovPermissions*: see below..Hotel Mars, episode n; Anatoly Zak, RussianSpaceWeb.com, & David Livingston, SpaceShow.com http://www.russianspaceweb.com/2019.html    Planned Russian orbital launch attempts   September 25, 16:57 Moscow Time: A Soyuz-FG rocket to launch the Soyuz MS-15 transport spacecraft (Production No. 744/ISS mission 61S) from Baikonur. The crew will include a Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka, a US astronaut Jessica Meir and a commercial passenger from the United Arab Emirates, UAE, Hazzaa Ali Almansoori. The spacecraft is scheduled to dock at the Russian Segment of the International Space Station, ISS, at 22:57 Moscow Time on the day of the launch.      As of the end of February 2019, Roskosmos was yet to get a final agreement with NASA about the potential use of one seat on the Soyuz MS-15 for a paid passenger. At the same time, Roskosmos needed to get NASA to agree to extend the mission of . . . .*Permissions:  This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. Attribution: Александр Спиридонов  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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• The Democrat game of silencing SCOTUS. @WJMcGurn @WSJOpinion

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  Sep 19 2019

  Photo: Supreme Court of the United States, circa 1864Date | circa 1864 Source | UnknownAuthor | Alexander Gardner, according to National Constitution Centerhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Democrat game of silencing SCOTUS. @WJMcGurn @WSJOpinion

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• Tales of the New Cold War: 1 of 2: Russia looks to the East, the West or Neither. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.

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  Sep 18 2019

  Photo: The Oprichniki by Nikolai Nevrev. The painting shows the last minutes of boyarin Feodorov, arrested for treason. To mock his alleged ambitions on the Tsar's title, the nobleman was given Tsar's regalia before execution. Nikolai Nevrev - [1] Public Domain File:0NevrevNV Oprichniki BISH.jpg Created: 1870s date QS:P571,+1870-00-00T00:00:00Z/8 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTales of the New Cold War: 1 of 2: Russia looks to the East, the West or Neither. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-g7-summit-france-russia/france-wants-progress-in-ukraine-before-russia-returns-to-g7-idUSKCN1VB0SA ...more

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• Tales of the New Cold War: 2 of 2: Russia looks to the East, the West or Neither. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.

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  Sep 18 2019

  Photo: Ivan the Terrible Showing His Treasures to Jerome Horsey by Alexander Litovchenko (1875) Alexander Litovchenko - [1] originally uploaded to Wikipedia by Ghirlandajo on 2 February 2005 Ivan IV of Russia ("Ivan the Terrible") demonstrates his treasures to the ambassador of Queen Elizabeth I of England Public Domain File:Ivan the Terrible and Harsey.jpg Created: 1875date QS:P571,+1875-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTales of the New Cold War: 2 of 2: Russia looks to the East, the West or Neither. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-g7-summit-france-russia/france-wants-progress-in-ukraine-before-russia-returns-to-g7-idUSKCN1VB0SA ...more

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• Baghdadi speaks in conflict with Al Qaeda. @ThomasJoscelyn

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  Sep 18 2019

  Photo:  monumentsoldtest00pric (find matches)Title: The monuments and the Old Testament : evidence from ancient recordsYear: 1900 (1900s)Authors:  Price, Ira Maurice, 1856-1939Subjects:  Bible Jews -- History, AncientPublisher:  Chicago : Christian Culture PressContributing Library:  Princeton Theological Seminary 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:Sennacherib (705-681B. C). Whether this son had anything to do withthe intrigue is not known. It is at least significantthat the fathers name is not found in the recordsof the son. This king of Assyria, from his frequentmention in the Bible, is most familiar to Bible stu-dents. His records of his own campaigns, his con-quests, his cruelties, modify in no important respectthe character attributed to him by the books of Kingsand Isaiah. 167. The earlier activities of Sennacherib wereconfined to his eastern and southern boundaries. Hemeasured lances with the irrepressible Chaldeans ofthe South. His own brother, whom he had put uponthe throne of Babylon, was displaced by a usurper;and this usurper, after one morrth, was deposed byMerodach-Baladan. Sennacherib swooped down onthe intriguing army of seceders and crushed them,and established his authority in lower Babylonia. To•secure himself still further, he captured and pillagedseventy-five cities and 420 villages; 208,000 captives, 180http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowBaghdadi speaks in conflict with Al Qaeda. @ThomasJoscelyn...more

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• 2/2 Humdinger Flynn trial: The desperation will be on the part of the prosecutors who are being exposed and liars and lawbreakers.

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  Image:  10th St. NW facade of the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building from Constitution Avenue. Public domain.. Michael Flynn's new lawyer demands exculpatory evidence from DOJ. Larry Johnson, Sic Semper Tyrannis. https://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2019/09/michael-flynns-motion-to-compel-brady-evidence-is-compelling-by-larry-c-johnson.html

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• 1/2 Humdinger Flynn trial: The desperation will be on the part of the prosecutors who are being exposed and liars and lawbreakers.

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  Image:  Seal of the United States Department of Justice National Security Division. Public domain.. Michael Flynn's new lawyer demands exculpatory evidence from DOJ. Larry Johnson, Sic Semper Tyrannis.https://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2019/09/michael-flynns-motion-to-compel-brady-evidence-is-compelling-by-larry-c-johnson.htmlFlynn's attorney, the amazing Sidney Powell, is demanding access to forty items of information. Let's review them one by one:A letter delivered by the British Embassy to the incoming National Security team after Donald Trump’s election, and to outgoing National Security Advisor Susan Rice (the letter apparently disavows former British Secret Service Agent Christopher Steele, calls his credibility into question, and declares him untrustworthy).. . .  2. The original draft of Mr. Flynn’s 302 and 1A-file, and any FBI document that identifies everyone who had possession of it (parts of which may have been leaked to the press, but the full original has never been produced). This would include information given to Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates on January 24 and 25, 2017.  . . .  ...more

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• Conservative Biden and Progressive Warren surge ahead of the posse. @LizPeek

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  Sep 18 2019

  Photo: Title: Posse members resting on cots in the United Railway car barn during the Streetcar Strike of 1900.Date | 1900Source | Missouri History MuseumURL: http://images.mohistory.org/image/9687D950-3C1B-71F2-9387-A4F7105BBE33/original.jpgGallery: http://collections.mohistory.org/resource/140921Author | George StarkPermission(Reusing this file) | UND - Copyright undeterminedMHS Open Access Policy: You are welcome to download and utilize any digital file that the Missouri Historical believes is likely in the public domain or is free of other known restrictions. This content is available free of charge and may be used without seeking permission from the Missouri Historical Society.Identifier | N01213Part of | George Stark Collection- 1900 Streetcar Strikehttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowConservative Biden and Progressive Warren surge ahead of the posse. @LizPeek...more

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• What Recession? Manufacturing reawakens to the consumer. @LizPeek @FoxNews

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  Sep 18 2019

  Photo:  Workers in a boot making factory, South Brisbane, 1900 A large contingent of workers are busy making boots at Antill & Freeman's Boot Factory, Cordelia Street, South Brisbane. (Description supplied with photograph.).Date | 1 December 1900Source | Copied and digitised from an image appearing in the Queenslander, 8 December 1900, p. 1169Author | Contributor(s): Queenslander (Brisbane, Qld.: 1866-1939)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWhat Recession? Manufacturing reawakens to the consumer. @LizPeek @FoxNewshttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/17/us-industrial-production-august-2019.html ...more

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• 2/2 First Americans dated to 16,000 years ago arriving by sea: Loren G. Davis, Oregon State University.

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  Image: The Lithic peoples, or Paleo-Indians, are the earliest known settlers of the Americas. The period's name derives from the appearance of lithic flaked stone tools.  Heinrich Harder (1858-1935) - The Wonderful Paleo Art of Heinrich Harder. Public domain.. First Americans dated to 16,000 years ago arriving by sea: Loren G. Davis, Oregon State University.  https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6456/891 Late Upper Paleolithic occupation at Cooper’s Ferry, Idaho, USA, ~16,000 years ago       Radiocarbon dating of the earliest occupational phases at the Cooper’s Ferry site in western Idaho indicates that people repeatedly occupied the Columbia River basin, starting between 16,560 and 15,280 calibrated years before the present (cal yr B.P.). Artifacts from these early occupations indicate the use of unfluted stemmed projectile point technologies before the appearance of the Clovis Paleoindian tradition and support early cultural connections with northeastern Asian Upper Paleolithic archaeological traditions. The Cooper’s Ferry site was initially occupied during a time that predates the opening of an ice-free corridor (≤14,800 cal yr B.P.), which supports the hypothesis that initial human migration into the Americas occurred via a Pacific coastal route.   ...more

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• 1/2 First Americans dated to 16,000 years ago arriving by sea: Loren G. Davis, Oregon State University.

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  Image:   Restoration of an American mastodon herd by Charles R. Knight.   The Mammut americanum (American mastodon) became extinct around 12,000–9,000 years ago due to human-related activities or climate change. A hybrid of human-related activities and climate change has been proposed in recent years. See either Quaternary extinction event or Holocene extinction.  Public domain.. First Americans dated to 16,000 years ago arriving by sea: Loren G. Davis, Oregon State University.  https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6456/891 Late Upper Paleolithic occupation at Cooper’s Ferry, Idaho, USA, ~16,000 years ago       Radiocarbon dating of the earliest occupational phases at the Cooper’s Ferry site in western Idaho indicates that people repeatedly occupied the Columbia River basin, starting between 16,560 and 15,280 calibrated years before the present (cal yr B.P.). Artifacts from these early occupations indicate the use of unfluted stemmed projectile point technologies before the appearance of the Clovis Paleoindian tradition and support early cultural connections with northeastern Asian Upper Paleolithic archaeological traditions. The Cooper’s Ferry site was initially occupied during a time that predates the opening of an ice-free corridor (≤14,800 cal yr B.P.), which supports the hypothesis that initial human migration into the Americas occurred via a Pacific coastal route. ...more

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• Will the Iran attack on Saudi Arabia lead the Arab states to Israel? Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres@ThadMcCotter

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  Image:  Platform supply vessels battle the blazing remnants of the offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon; April 2010.  Public domain..Iranian attack on Saudi Arabia, Israeli elections, et al.Saudi oil attacks: Drones and missiles launched from Iran - US https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-49733558

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• Indiana Hoenlein and the 2000-year-old lost Cornwall tin ingots in Israel. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres, & @Conf_of_pres@ThadMcCotter

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  Image:   Tinner leat in Trevelloe woods, in Cornwall. The leat is the best preserved feature of old tin streaming works that once ran down the stream in Trevelloe woods. Permissions:  1.  Author: John Negus / Tinner leat in Trevelloe woods / CC BY-SA 2.0   2. See below..The story of Boris Johnson and Moses: two-millennia-old tin ingots found off the coast of Israel; they turn out to have come from Devon and Cornwall!  Engelond had enormous trade routes, and metallurgical analysis shows these ingots were from a certain village in Cornwall. T McCotter: “I’d love to be there when they tell Jeremy Corbyn about this.”          Also found, the first use of the word “Hebrew”: in Jordan, in a Moabite excavation, the first use.  See: Book of Kings in the Bible; King Mesha of Moab rebelled against Hebrew rule  . . .https://www.timesofisrael.com/groundbreaking-study-ancient-tin-ingots-found-in-israel-were-mined-in-england/.*Permissions:  This image was taken from the Geograph project collection. See this photograph's page on the Geograph website for the photographer's contact details. The copyright on this image is owned by John Negus and is licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.w:en:Creative Commons attribution share alike This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. Attribution: John Negus.  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..Geograph:  Name: John NegusNickname: John NegusWebsite: http://www.kernoweb.freeserve.co.uk Email: john@kernoweb.freeserve.co.uk Send message to John Negus ...more

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• 4/4 The Third Horseman: Climate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th Century; Audible Audiobook – Unabridged; by William Rosen

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  Image:  In Holland, the Grote Mandrake means “The Great Drowning” and is named for the epic and massive flooding that occurred more and more frequently in the Low Countries of Europe's North Sea region as Europe's Little Ice Age intensified.. The Third Horseman: Climate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th Century  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  William Rosen (Author), William Hughes (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher).How a seven-year cycle of rain, cold, disease, and warfare created the worst famine in European history.         In May 1315 it started to rain. It didn't stop anywhere in north Europe until August. Next came the four coldest winters in a millennium. Two separate animal epidemics killed nearly 80 percent of northern Europe's livestock. Wars between Scotland and England, France and Flanders, and two rival claimants to the Holy Roman Empire destroyed all remaining farmland. After seven years, the combination of lost harvests, warfare, and pestilence would claim six million lives - one eighth of Europe's total population.         William Rosen draws on a wide array of disciplines, from military history to feudal law to agricultural economics and climatology, to trace the succession of traumas that caused the Great Famine. With dramatic appearances by Scotland's William Wallace, the luckless Edward II, and his treacherous Queen Isabella, history's best documented episode of catastrophic climate change comes alive, with powerful implications for future calamities.  https://www.amazon.com/Third-Horseman-Climate-Change-Century/dp/B00K0L9POG/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Third+Horseman&qid=1568597926&s=audible&sr=1-1  ...more

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• 3/4 The Third Horseman: Climate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th Century; Audible Audiobook – Unabridged; by William Rosen

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  Image:  Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, an 1887 painting by Russian artist Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov. Depicted from left to right are Death, Famine, War, and Conquest.  Public domain.. The Third Horseman: Climate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th Century  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  William Rosen (Author), William Hughes (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher).How a seven-year cycle of rain, cold, disease, and warfare created the worst famine in European history.         In May 1315 it started to rain. It didn't stop anywhere in north Europe until August. Next came the four coldest winters in a millennium. Two separate animal epidemics killed nearly 80 percent of northern Europe's livestock. Wars between Scotland and England, France and Flanders, and two rival claimants to the Holy Roman Empire destroyed all remaining farmland. After seven years, the combination of lost harvests, warfare, and pestilence would claim six million lives - one eighth of Europe's total population.         William Rosen draws on a wide array of disciplines, from military history to feudal law to agricultural economics and climatology, to trace the succession of traumas that caused the Great Famine. With dramatic appearances by Scotland's William Wallace, the luckless Edward II, and his treacherous Queen Isabella, history's best documented episode of catastrophic climate change comes alive, with powerful implications for future calamities.  https://www.amazon.com/Third-Horseman-Climate-Change-Century/dp/B00K0L9POG/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Third+Horseman&qid=1568597926&s=audible&sr=1-1   ...more

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• 2/4 The Third Horseman: Climate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th Century; Audible Audiobook – Unabridged; by William Rosen

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  Image:  Citizens of Tournai, Belgium, bury plague victims. Miniature by Pierart dou Tielt illustrating the Tractatus quartus bu Gilles li Muisit (Tournai, c. 1353).  Public domain. The Third Horseman: Climate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th Century  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  William Rosen (Author), William Hughes (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher).How a seven-year cycle of rain, cold, disease, and warfare created the worst famine in European history.         In May 1315 it started to rain. It didn't stop anywhere in north Europe until August. Next came the four coldest winters in a millennium. Two separate animal epidemics killed nearly 80 percent of northern Europe's livestock. Wars between Scotland and England, France and Flanders, and two rival claimants to the Holy Roman Empire destroyed all remaining farmland. After seven years, the combination of lost harvests, warfare, and pestilence would claim six million lives - one eighth of Europe's total population.         William Rosen draws on a wide array of disciplines, from military history to feudal law to agricultural economics and climatology, to trace the succession of traumas that caused the Great Famine. With dramatic appearances by Scotland's William Wallace, the luckless Edward II, and his treacherous Queen Isabella, history's best documented episode of catastrophic climate change comes alive, with powerful implications for future calamities.  https://www.amazon.com/Third-Horseman-Climate-Change-Century/dp/B00K0L9POG/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Third+Horseman&qid=1568597926&s=audible&sr=1-1   ...more

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• 1/4 The Third Horseman: Climate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th Century; Audible Audiobook – Unabridged; by William Rosen

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  Image:  From the Apocalypse in a Biblia Pauperum illuminated at Erfurt around the time of the Great Famine. Death sits astride a manticore whose long tail ends in a ball of flame (Hell). Famine points to her hungry mouth. Public domain..        When God saw that the world was so over proud, He sent a dearth on earth, and made it full hard. A bushel of wheat was at four shillings or more, Of which men might have had a quarter before... And then they turned pale who had laughed so loud, And they became all docile who before were so proud. A man's heart might bleed for to hear the cry Of poor men who called out, "Alas! For hunger I die ...!" Poem on the Evil Times of Edward II, c. 1321. The Third Horseman: Climate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th Century  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  William Rosen (Author), William Hughes (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher).How a seven-year cycle of rain, cold, disease, and warfare created the worst famine in European history.         In May 1315 it started to rain. It didn't stop anywhere in north Europe until August. Next came the four coldest winters in a millennium. Two separate animal epidemics killed nearly 80 percent of northern Europe's livestock. Wars between Scotland and England, France and Flanders, and two rival claimants to the Holy Roman Empire destroyed all remaining farmland. After seven years, the combination of lost harvests, warfare, and pestilence would claim six million lives - one eighth of Europe's total population.         William Rosen draws on a wide array of disciplines, from military history to feudal law to agricultural economics and climatology, to trace the succession of traumas that caused the Great Famine. With dramatic appearances by Scotland's William Wallace, the luckless Edward II, and his treacherous Queen Isabella, history's best-documented episode of catastrophic climate change comes alive, with powerful implications for future calamities.  https://www.amazon.com/Third-Horseman-Climate-Change-Century/dp/B00K0L9POG/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Third+Horseman&qid=1568597926&s=audible&sr=1-1 ...more

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