The John Batchelor Show

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• 305: Leyte 1944: 4 of 4: The Soldiers' Battle Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Nathan N. Prefer (Author), Jones Allen (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Aug 11 2020

  Photo:  Advance Japanese landings in the Philippines 8–20 December 1941 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Leyte 1944: 4 of 4: The Soldiers' Battle  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Nathan N. Prefer (Author), Jones Allen (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Leyte-1944-The-Soldiers-Battle/dp/B00GIUI4PO/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=When General Douglas MacArthur arrived in Australia in March 1942, having successfully left the Philippines to organize a new American army, he vowed, "I shall return!" More than two years later he did return, at the head of a large U.S. army to retake the Philippines from the Japanese. The place of his re-invasion was the central Philippine Island of Leyte. Much has been written about the naval Battle of Leyte Gulf that his return provoked, but almost nothing has been written about the three-month long battle to seize Leyte itself.  Originally intending to delay the advancing Americans, the Japanese high command decided to make Leyte the "Decisive Battle" for the western Pacific and rushed crack Imperial Army units from Manchuria, Korea, and Japan itself to halt and then overwhelm the Americans on Leyte. As were most battles in the Pacific, it was a long, bloody, and brutal fight. As did the Japanese, the Americans were forced to rush in reinforcements to compensate for the rapid increase in Japanese forces on Leyte.  This unique battle also saw a major Japanese counterattack - not a banzai charge, but a carefully thought-out counteroffensive designed to push the Americans off the island and capture the elusive General MacArthur. Both American and Japanese battalions spent days surrounded by the enemy, often until relieved or overwhelmed. Under General Yamashita's guidance it also saw a rare deployment of Japanese paratroopers in conjunction with the ground assault offensive.  Finally there were more naval and air battles, all designed to protect or cover landing operations of friendly forces. Leyte was a three-dimensional battle, fought with the best both sides had to offer, and did indeed decide the fate of the Philippines in World War II...more

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• 305: Leyte 1944: 3 of 4: The Soldiers' Battle Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Nathan N. Prefer (Author), Jones Allen (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Aug 11 2020

  Photo:  "This picture, captured from the Japanese, shows American prisoners using improvised litters to carry those of their comrades who, from the lack of food or water on the march from Bataan, fell along the road." Philippines, May 1942. 208-AA-288BB-2. (ww2_131.jpg) "At the time of its release, this photo was identified as dead and wounded being carried by fellow prisoners during the Bataan Death March in April 1942 ... Subsequent information from military archivists, the National Archives and Records Administration, and surviving prisoners, strongly suggests that this photo may actually depict a burial detail at Camp O'Donnell http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Leyte 1944: 3 of 4: The Soldiers' Battle  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Nathan N. Prefer (Author), Jones Allen (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Leyte-1944-The-Soldiers-Battle/dp/B00GIUI4PO/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=When General Douglas MacArthur arrived in Australia in March 1942, having successfully left the Philippines to organize a new American army, he vowed, "I shall return!" More than two years later he did return, at the head of a large U.S. army to retake the Philippines from the Japanese. The place of his re-invasion was the central Philippine Island of Leyte. Much has been written about the naval Battle of Leyte Gulf that his return provoked, but almost nothing has been written about the three-month long battle to seize Leyte itself.  Originally intending to delay the advancing Americans, the Japanese high command decided to make Leyte the "Decisive Battle" for the western Pacific and rushed crack Imperial Army units from Manchuria, Korea, and Japan itself to halt and then overwhelm the Americans on Leyte. As were most battles in the Pacific, it was a long, bloody, and brutal fight. As did the Japanese, the Americans were forced to rush in reinforcements to compensate for the rapid increase in Japanese forces on Leyte.  This unique battle also saw a major Japanese counterattack - not a banzai charge, but a carefully thought-out counteroffensive designed to push the Americans off the island and capture the elusive General MacArthur. Both American and Japanese battalions spent days surrounded by the enemy, often until relieved or overwhelmed. Under General Yamashita's guidance it also saw a rare deployment of Japanese paratroopers in conjunction with the ground assault offensive.  Finally there were more naval and air battles, all designed to protect or cover landing operations of friendly forces. Leyte was a three-dimensional battle, fought with the best both sides had to offer, and did indeed decide the fate of the Philippines in World War II...more

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• 305: Leyte 1944: 2 of 4: The Soldiers' Battle Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Nathan N. Prefer (Author), Jones Allen (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Aug 11 2020

  Photo:  Leyte province in 1918, before its division into three provinces, namely Leyte, Southern Leyte and Biliran http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Leyte 1944: 2 of 4: The Soldiers' Battle  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Nathan N. Prefer (Author), Jones Allen (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Leyte-1944-The-Soldiers-Battle/dp/B00GIUI4PO/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=When General Douglas MacArthur arrived in Australia in March 1942, having successfully left the Philippines to organize a new American army, he vowed, "I shall return!" More than two years later he did return, at the head of a large U.S. army to retake the Philippines from the Japanese. The place of his re-invasion was the central Philippine Island of Leyte. Much has been written about the naval Battle of Leyte Gulf that his return provoked, but almost nothing has been written about the three-month long battle to seize Leyte itself.  Originally intending to delay the advancing Americans, the Japanese high command decided to make Leyte the "Decisive Battle" for the western Pacific and rushed crack Imperial Army units from Manchuria, Korea, and Japan itself to halt and then overwhelm the Americans on Leyte. As were most battles in the Pacific, it was a long, bloody, and brutal fight. As did the Japanese, the Americans were forced to rush in reinforcements to compensate for the rapid increase in Japanese forces on Leyte.  This unique battle also saw a major Japanese counterattack - not a banzai charge, but a carefully thought-out counteroffensive designed to push the Americans off the island and capture the elusive General MacArthur. Both American and Japanese battalions spent days surrounded by the enemy, often until relieved or overwhelmed. Under General Yamashita's guidance it also saw a rare deployment of Japanese paratroopers in conjunction with the ground assault offensive.  Finally there were more naval and air battles, all designed to protect or cover landing operations of friendly forces. Leyte was a three-dimensional battle, fought with the best both sides had to offer, and did indeed decide the fate of the Philippines in World War II...more

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• 305: Leyte 1944: 1 of 4: The Soldiers' Battle Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Nathan N. Prefer (Author), Jones Allen (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Aug 11 2020

  Photo:  Battle of Leyte: General Douglas MacArthur and staff land at Dulag Beach, Leyte, 20 October 1944.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Leyte 1944: 1 of 4: The Soldiers' Battle  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Nathan N. Prefer (Author), Jones Allen (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Leyte-1944-The-Soldiers-Battle/dp/B00GIUI4PO/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=When General Douglas MacArthur arrived in Australia in March 1942, having successfully left the Philippines to organize a new American army, he vowed, "I shall return!" More than two years later he did return, at the head of a large U.S. army to retake the Philippines from the Japanese. The place of his re-invasion was the central Philippine Island of Leyte. Much has been written about the naval Battle of Leyte Gulf that his return provoked, but almost nothing has been written about the three-month long battle to seize Leyte itself.  Originally intending to delay the advancing Americans, the Japanese high command decided to make Leyte the "Decisive Battle" for the western Pacific and rushed crack Imperial Army units from Manchuria, Korea, and Japan itself to halt and then overwhelm the Americans on Leyte. As were most battles in the Pacific, it was a long, bloody, and brutal fight. As did the Japanese, the Americans were forced to rush in reinforcements to compensate for the rapid increase in Japanese forces on Leyte.  This unique battle also saw a major Japanese counterattack - not a banzai charge, but a carefully thought-out counteroffensive designed to push the Americans off the island and capture the elusive General MacArthur. Both American and Japanese battalions spent days surrounded by the enemy, often until relieved or overwhelmed. Under General Yamashita's guidance it also saw a rare deployment of Japanese paratroopers in conjunction with the ground assault offensive.  Finally there were more naval and air battles, all designed to protect or cover landing operations of friendly forces. Leyte was a three-dimensional battle, fought with the best both sides had to offer, and did indeed decide the fate of the Philippines in World War II...more

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• 303: "Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye: 2of2: A Family Field Trip to the Arctic's Edge in Search of Adventure, Truth, and Mini-Marshmallows," by Zac Unger.

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  Aug 11 2020

  Photo:  Polar bears have evolved adaptations for Arctic life. For example, large furry feet and short, sharp, stocky claws give them good traction on ice. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow"Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye: 2of2: A Family Field Trip to the Arctic's Edge in Search of Adventure, Truth, and Mini-Marshmallows," by Zac Unger.https://www.amazon.com/Never-Look-Polar-Bear-Mini-Marshmallows/dp/0306821168Yes, welcome to Churchill, Manitoba. Year-round human population: 943. Yet despite the isolation and the searing cold here at the arctic's edge, visitors from around the globe flock to the town every fall, driven by a single purpose: to see polar bears in the wild.Churchill is "The Polar Bear Capital of the World," and for one unforgettable "bear season," Zac Unger, his wife, and his three children moved from Oakland, California, to make it their temporary home. But they soon discovered that it's really the polar bears who are at home in Churchill, roaming past the coffee shop on the main drag, peering into garbage cans, languorously scratching their backs against fence posts and front doorways. Where kids in other towns receive admonitions about talking to strangers, Churchill schoolchildren get "Let's All Be Bear Aware" booklets to bring home. (Lesson number 8: Never explore bad-smelling areas.)Zac Unger takes readers on a spirited and often wildly funny journey to a place as unique as it is remote, a place where natives, tourists, scientists, conservationists, and the most ferocious predators on the planet converge. In the process he becomes embroiled in the controversy surrounding "polar bear science" -- and finds out that some of what we've been led to believe about the bears' imminent extinction may not be quite the case. But mostly what he learns is about human behavior in extreme situations . . . and also why you should never even think of looking a polar bear in the eye....more

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• 303: "Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye: 1of2: A Family Field Trip to the Arctic's Edge in Search of Adventure, Truth, and Mini-Marshmallows," by Zac Unger.

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  Aug 11 2020

  Photo:  Polar bear statue in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow"Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye: 1of2: A Family Field Trip to the Arctic's Edge in Search of Adventure, Truth, and Mini-Marshmallows," by Zac Unger.https://www.amazon.com/Never-Look-Polar-Bear-Mini-Marshmallows/dp/0306821168Yes, welcome to Churchill, Manitoba. Year-round human population: 943. Yet despite the isolation and the searing cold here at the arctic's edge, visitors from around the globe flock to the town every fall, driven by a single purpose: to see polar bears in the wild.Churchill is "The Polar Bear Capital of the World," and for one unforgettable "bear season," Zac Unger, his wife, and his three children moved from Oakland, California, to make it their temporary home. But they soon discovered that it's really the polar bears who are at home in Churchill, roaming past the coffee shop on the main drag, peering into garbage cans, languorously scratching their backs against fence posts and front doorways. Where kids in other towns receive admonitions about talking to strangers, Churchill schoolchildren get "Let's All Be Bear Aware" booklets to bring home. (Lesson number 8: Never explore bad-smelling areas.)Zac Unger takes readers on a spirited and often wildly funny journey to a place as unique as it is remote, a place where natives, tourists, scientists, conservationists, and the most ferocious predators on the planet converge. In the process he becomes embroiled in the controversy surrounding "polar bear science" -- and finds out that some of what we've been led to believe about the bears' imminent extinction may not be quite the case. But mostly what he learns is about human behavior in extreme situations . . . and also why you should never even think of looking a polar bear in the eye....more

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• 302: The Last Man in Russia: 4of4: The Struggle to Save a Dying Nation, by Oliver Bullough. Hardcover – April 30, 2013

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  Aug 11 2020

  Photo:  A Siberian tigress and cub. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe Last Man in Russia: 4of4: The Struggle to Save a Dying Nation, by Oliver Bullough. Hardcover – April 30, 2013https://www.amazon.com/Last-Man-Russia-Struggle-Nation/dp/0465074987/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?keywords=Oliver+Bullough+Last+man+in+russia&qid=1584312415&s=audible&sr=8-1-fkmr0Russia is dying from within. Oligarchs and oil barons may still dominate international news coverage, but their prosperity masks a deep-rooted demographic tragedy. Faced with staggering population decline and near-certain economic collapse driven by toxic levels of alcohol abuse, Russia is also battling a deeper sickness: a spiritual one, born out of the country’s long totalitarian experiment.In The Last Man in Russia, the award-winning journalist Oliver Bullough uses the tale of a lone priest to give life to this national crisis. Father Dmitry Dudko, a dissident Orthodox Christian, was thrown into a Stalinist labor camp for writing poetry. Undaunted, on his release in the mid-1950s he began to preach to congregations across Russia with little concern for his own safety. At a time when the Soviet government denied its subjects the prospect of advancement, and turned friend against friend and brother against brother, Dudko urged his followers to cling to hope. He maintained a circle of sacred trust at the heart of one of history’s most deceitful systems. But as Bullough reveals, this courageous group of believers was eventually shattered by a terrible act of betrayal, one that exposes the full extent of the Communist tragedy. Still, Dudko’s dream endures. Although most Russians have forgotten the man himself, the embers of hope that survived the darkness are once more beginning to burn.Leading readers from a churchyard in Moscow to the snow-blanketed ghost towns of rural Russia, and from the forgotten graves of Stalin’s victims to a rock festival in an old gulag camp, The Last Man in Russia is at once a travelogue, a sociological study, a biography, and a cri de coeur for a dying nation—one that, Bullough shows, might yet be saved....more

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• 302: The Last Man in Russia: 3of4: The Struggle to Save a Dying Nation, by Oliver Bullough. Hardcover – April 30, 2013

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  Aug 11 2020

  Photo:  An Old Believer Priest, Nikita Pustosviat, Disputing with Patriarch Joachim the Matters of Faith. Painting by Vasily Perov http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe Last Man in Russia: 3of4: The Struggle to Save a Dying Nation, by Oliver Bullough. Hardcover – April 30, 2013https://www.amazon.com/Last-Man-Russia-Struggle-Nation/dp/0465074987/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?keywords=Oliver+Bullough+Last+man+in+russia&qid=1584312415&s=audible&sr=8-1-fkmr0Russia is dying from within. Oligarchs and oil barons may still dominate international news coverage, but their prosperity masks a deep-rooted demographic tragedy. Faced with staggering population decline and near-certain economic collapse driven by toxic levels of alcohol abuse, Russia is also battling a deeper sickness: a spiritual one, born out of the country’s long totalitarian experiment.In The Last Man in Russia, the award-winning journalist Oliver Bullough uses the tale of a lone priest to give life to this national crisis. Father Dmitry Dudko, a dissident Orthodox Christian, was thrown into a Stalinist labor camp for writing poetry. Undaunted, on his release in the mid-1950s he began to preach to congregations across Russia with little concern for his own safety. At a time when the Soviet government denied its subjects the prospect of advancement, and turned friend against friend and brother against brother, Dudko urged his followers to cling to hope. He maintained a circle of sacred trust at the heart of one of history’s most deceitful systems. But as Bullough reveals, this courageous group of believers was eventually shattered by a terrible act of betrayal, one that exposes the full extent of the Communist tragedy. Still, Dudko’s dream endures. Although most Russians have forgotten the man himself, the embers of hope that survived the darkness are once more beginning to burn.Leading readers from a churchyard in Moscow to the snow-blanketed ghost towns of rural Russia, and from the forgotten graves of Stalin’s victims to a rock festival in an old gulag camp, The Last Man in Russia is at once a travelogue, a sociological study, a biography, and a cri de coeur for a dying nation—one that, Bullough shows, might yet be saved....more

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• 302: The Last Man in Russia: 2of4: The Struggle to Save a Dying Nation, by Oliver Bullough. Hardcover – April 30, 2013

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  Aug 11 2020

  Photo:   Trinity by Andrey Rublev http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe Last Man in Russia: 2of4: The Struggle to Save a Dying Nation, by Oliver Bullough. Hardcover – April 30, 2013https://www.amazon.com/Last-Man-Russia-Struggle-Nation/dp/0465074987/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?keywords=Oliver+Bullough+Last+man+in+russia&qid=1584312415&s=audible&sr=8-1-fkmr0Russia is dying from within. Oligarchs and oil barons may still dominate international news coverage, but their prosperity masks a deep-rooted demographic tragedy. Faced with staggering population decline and near-certain economic collapse driven by toxic levels of alcohol abuse, Russia is also battling a deeper sickness: a spiritual one, born out of the country’s long totalitarian experiment.In The Last Man in Russia, the award-winning journalist Oliver Bullough uses the tale of a lone priest to give life to this national crisis. Father Dmitry Dudko, a dissident Orthodox Christian, was thrown into a Stalinist labor camp for writing poetry. Undaunted, on his release in the mid-1950s he began to preach to congregations across Russia with little concern for his own safety. At a time when the Soviet government denied its subjects the prospect of advancement, and turned friend against friend and brother against brother, Dudko urged his followers to cling to hope. He maintained a circle of sacred trust at the heart of one of history’s most deceitful systems. But as Bullough reveals, this courageous group of believers was eventually shattered by a terrible act of betrayal, one that exposes the full extent of the Communist tragedy. Still, Dudko’s dream endures. Although most Russians have forgotten the man himself, the embers of hope that survived the darkness are once more beginning to burn.Leading readers from a churchyard in Moscow to the snow-blanketed ghost towns of rural Russia, and from the forgotten graves of Stalin’s victims to a rock festival in an old gulag camp, The Last Man in Russia is at once a travelogue, a sociological study, a biography, and a cri de coeur for a dying nation—one that, Bullough shows, might yet be saved....more

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• 302: The Last Man in Russia: 1of4: The Struggle to Save a Dying Nation, by Oliver Bullough. Hardcover – April 30, 2013

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  Aug 11 2020

  Photo:  Lithuanian deportees preparing logs for rafting on the Mana River http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe Last Man in Russia: 1of4: The Struggle to Save a Dying Nation, by Oliver Bullough. Hardcover – April 30, 2013https://www.amazon.com/Last-Man-Russia-Struggle-Nation/dp/0465074987/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?keywords=Oliver+Bullough+Last+man+in+russia&qid=1584312415&s=audible&sr=8-1-fkmr0Russia is dying from within. Oligarchs and oil barons may still dominate international news coverage, but their prosperity masks a deep-rooted demographic tragedy. Faced with staggering population decline and near-certain economic collapse driven by toxic levels of alcohol abuse, Russia is also battling a deeper sickness: a spiritual one, born out of the country’s long totalitarian experiment.In The Last Man in Russia, the award-winning journalist Oliver Bullough uses the tale of a lone priest to give life to this national crisis. Father Dmitry Dudko, a dissident Orthodox Christian, was thrown into a Stalinist labor camp for writing poetry. Undaunted, on his release in the mid-1950s he began to preach to congregations across Russia with little concern for his own safety. At a time when the Soviet government denied its subjects the prospect of advancement, and turned friend against friend and brother against brother, Dudko urged his followers to cling to hope. He maintained a circle of sacred trust at the heart of one of history’s most deceitful systems. But as Bullough reveals, this courageous group of believers was eventually shattered by a terrible act of betrayal, one that exposes the full extent of the Communist tragedy. Still, Dudko’s dream endures. Although most Russians have forgotten the man himself, the embers of hope that survived the darkness are once more beginning to burn.Leading readers from a churchyard in Moscow to the snow-blanketed ghost towns of rural Russia, and from the forgotten graves of Stalin’s victims to a rock festival in an old gulag camp, The Last Man in Russia is at once a travelogue, a sociological study, a biography, and a cri de coeur for a dying nation—one that, Bullough shows, might yet be saved....more

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• 301: Black April: 4 of 4: The Fall of South Vietnam, 1973-75 by George J Veith.

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  Aug 11 2020

  Photo:  210 prisoners from the Bien Hoa POW Camp refuse repatriation and want to remain in South Vietnam http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowBlack April: 4 of 4: The Fall of South Vietnam, 1973-75 by George J Veith.  https://www.amazon.com/Black-April-South-Vietnam-1973-75-ebook/dp/B00EN8SZ7K/ref=sr11?ie=UTF8&qid=1528073749&sr=8-1&keywords=black+april+veith The defeat of South Vietnam was arguably America’s worst foreign policy disaster of the 20th Century. Yet a complete understanding of the endgame—from the 27 January 1973 signing of the Paris Peace Accords to South Vietnam’s surrender on 30 April 1975—has eluded us. Black April addresses that deficit. A culmination of exhaustive research in three distinct areas: primary source documents from American archives, North Vietnamese publications containing primary and secondary source material, and dozens of articles and numerous interviews with key South Vietnamese participants, this book represents one of the largest Vietnamese translation projects ever accomplished, including almost one hundred rarely or never seen before North Vietnamese unit histories, battle studies, and memoirs. Most important, to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of South Vietnam’s conquest, the leaders in Hanoi released several compendiums of formerly highly classified cables and memorandum between the Politburo and its military commanders in the south. This treasure trove of primary source materials provides the most complete insight into North Vietnamese decision-making ever complied. While South Vietnamese deliberations remain less clear, enough material exists to provide a decent overview. Ultimately, whatever errors occurred on the American and South Vietnamese side, the simple fact remains that the country was conquered by a North Vietnamese military invasion despite written pledges by Hanoi’s leadership against such action. Hanoi’s momentous choice to destroy the Paris Peace Accords and militarily end the war sent a generation of South Vietnamese into exile, and exacerbated a societal trauma in America over our long Vietnam involvement that reverberates to this day. How that transpired deserves deeper scrutiny. ...more

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• 301: Black April: 3 of 4: The Fall of South Vietnam, 1973-75 by George J Veith.

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  Aug 11 2020

  Photo:  Hanoi Taxi checks out its new home A C-141 Starlifter aircraft, better known as the Hanoi Taxi, flies over its soon-to-be new home at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force adjacent to Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, Dec. 13. This particular aircraft gained fame when it was used to return American prisoners of war back home at the end of the Viet Nam War. As the last operational C-141 in Air Force Reserve Command's 445 Airlift Wing, the historic aircraft is scheduled to retire and be dedicated at the museum May 5-6. The Reserve wing started replacing its C-141s with C-5 cargo aircraft in October and plan to have a total of 11 C-5s by April 2007. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowBlack April: 3 of 4: The Fall of South Vietnam, 1973-75 by George J Veith.  https://www.amazon.com/Black-April-South-Vietnam-1973-75-ebook/dp/B00EN8SZ7K/ref=sr11?ie=UTF8&qid=1528073749&sr=8-1&keywords=black+april+veith The defeat of South Vietnam was arguably America’s worst foreign policy disaster of the 20th Century. Yet a complete understanding of the endgame—from the 27 January 1973 signing of the Paris Peace Accords to South Vietnam’s surrender on 30 April 1975—has eluded us. Black April addresses that deficit. A culmination of exhaustive research in three distinct areas: primary source documents from American archives, North Vietnamese publications containing primary and secondary source material, and dozens of articles and numerous interviews with key South Vietnamese participants, this book represents one of the largest Vietnamese translation projects ever accomplished, including almost one hundred rarely or never seen before North Vietnamese unit histories, battle studies, and memoirs. Most important, to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of South Vietnam’s conquest, the leaders in Hanoi released several compendiums of formerly highly classified cables and memorandum between the Politburo and its military commanders in the south. This treasure trove of primary source materials provides the most complete insight into North Vietnamese decision-making ever complied. While South Vietnamese deliberations remain less clear, enough material exists to provide a decent overview. Ultimately, whatever errors occurred on the American and South Vietnamese side, the simple fact remains that the country was conquered by a North Vietnamese military invasion despite written pledges by Hanoi’s leadership against such action. Hanoi’s momentous choice to destroy the Paris Peace Accords and militarily end the war sent a generation of South Vietnamese into exile, and exacerbated a societal trauma in America over our long Vietnam involvement that reverberates to this day. How that transpired deserves deeper scrutiny....more

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• 301: Black April: 2 of 4: The Fall of South Vietnam, 1973-75 by George J Veith.

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  Aug 11 2020

  Photo:    Flag of South Vietnam    http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowBlack April: 2 of 4: The Fall of South Vietnam, 1973-75 by George J Veith.  https://www.amazon.com/Black-April-South-Vietnam-1973-75-ebook/dp/B00EN8SZ7K/ref=sr11?ie=UTF8&qid=1528073749&sr=8-1&keywords=black+april+veith The defeat of South Vietnam was arguably America’s worst foreign policy disaster of the 20th Century. Yet a complete understanding of the endgame—from the 27 January 1973 signing of the Paris Peace Accords to South Vietnam’s surrender on 30 April 1975—has eluded us. Black April addresses that deficit. A culmination of exhaustive research in three distinct areas: primary source documents from American archives, North Vietnamese publications containing primary and secondary source material, and dozens of articles and numerous interviews with key South Vietnamese participants, this book represents one of the largest Vietnamese translation projects ever accomplished, including almost one hundred rarely or never seen before North Vietnamese unit histories, battle studies, and memoirs. Most important, to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of South Vietnam’s conquest, the leaders in Hanoi released several compendiums of formerly highly classified cables and memorandum between the Politburo and its military commanders in the south. This treasure trove of primary source materials provides the most complete insight into North Vietnamese decision-making ever complied. While South Vietnamese deliberations remain less clear, enough material exists to provide a decent overview. Ultimately, whatever errors occurred on the American and South Vietnamese side, the simple fact remains that the country was conquered by a North Vietnamese military invasion despite written pledges by Hanoi’s leadership against such action. Hanoi’s momentous choice to destroy the Paris Peace Accords and militarily end the war sent a generation of South Vietnamese into exile, and exacerbated a societal trauma in America over our long Vietnam involvement that reverberates to this day. How that transpired deserves deeper scrutiny....more

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• 301: Black April: 1 of 4: The Fall of South Vietnam, 1973-75 by George J Veith.

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  Aug 11 2020

  Photo:  About 1 million Vietnamese refugees left the newly created communist North Vietnam during Operation "Passage to Freedom" (October 1954). http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowBlack April: 1 of 4: The Fall of South Vietnam, 1973-75 by George J Veith.  https://www.amazon.com/Black-April-South-Vietnam-1973-75-ebook/dp/B00EN8SZ7K/ref=sr11?ie=UTF8&qid=1528073749&sr=8-1&keywords=black+april+veith The defeat of South Vietnam was arguably America’s worst foreign policy disaster of the 20th Century. Yet a complete understanding of the endgame—from the 27 January 1973 signing of the Paris Peace Accords to South Vietnam’s surrender on 30 April 1975—has eluded us. Black April addresses that deficit. A culmination of exhaustive research in three distinct areas: primary source documents from American archives, North Vietnamese publications containing primary and secondary source material, and dozens of articles and numerous interviews with key South Vietnamese participants, this book represents one of the largest Vietnamese translation projects ever accomplished, including almost one hundred rarely or never seen before North Vietnamese unit histories, battle studies, and memoirs. Most important, to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of South Vietnam’s conquest, the leaders in Hanoi released several compendiums of formerly highly classified cables and memorandum between the Politburo and its military commanders in the south. This treasure trove of primary source materials provides the most complete insight into North Vietnamese decision-making ever complied. While South Vietnamese deliberations remain less clear, enough material exists to provide a decent overview. Ultimately, whatever errors occurred on the American and South Vietnamese side, the simple fact remains that the country was conquered by a North Vietnamese military invasion despite written pledges by Hanoi’s leadership against such action. Hanoi’s momentous choice to destroy the Paris Peace Accords and militarily end the war sent a generation of South Vietnamese into exile, and exacerbated a societal trauma in America over our long Vietnam involvement that reverberates to this day. How that transpired deserves deeper scrutiny....more

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• 308: A Serial Killer in Nazi Berlin: 2of2: The Chilling True Story of the S-Bahn Murderer by Scott Andrew Selby.

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  Photo:  The S-Bahn Berlin serial killer Paul Ogorzow.  Screen grab. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowA Serial Killer in Nazi Berlin: 2of2: The Chilling True Story of the S-Bahn Murderer by Scott Andrew Selby.https://www.amazon.com/Serial-Killer-Nazi-Berlin-Chilling/dp/0425264157/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1474166591&sr=1-1&keywords=Berlin+murder+selby "For all appearances, Paul Ogorzow was a model German. An employed family man, party member, and sergeant in the infamous Brownshirts, he had worked his way up in the Berlin railroad from a manual laborer laying track to auxiliary signalman. But he also had a secret . . . Due to Allied bombing raids, the Nazi high command instituted a total blackout throughout Berlin, including on commuter trains. Under cover of darkness and with a flock of helpless victims, Ogorzow escalated from simply frightening women to physically attacking them, eventually raping and murdering them, and even casually tossing their bodies off the moving trains. Though the Nazi party tried to censor news of the attacks, the women of Berlin soon lived in a state of constant fear. It was up to Wilhelm Lüdtke, head of the Berlin police’s serious crimes division, to hunt down the madman in their midst. For the first time, the gripping full story of Ogorzow’s killing spree and Lüdtke’s relentless pursuit is told in dramatic detail." ...more

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• 308: A Serial Killer in Nazi Berlin: 1of2: The Chilling True Story of the S-Bahn Murderer by Scott Andrew Selby.

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  Photo:  The Berlin S-Bahn http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowA Serial Killer in Nazi Berlin: 1of2: The Chilling True Story of the S-Bahn Murderer by Scott Andrew Selby.https://www.amazon.com/Serial-Killer-Nazi-Berlin-Chilling/dp/0425264157/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1474166591&sr=1-1&keywords=Berlin+murder+selby "For all appearances, Paul Ogorzow was a model German. An employed family man, party member, and sergeant in the infamous Brownshirts, he had worked his way up in the Berlin railroad from a manual laborer laying track to auxiliary signalman. But he also had a secret . . . Due to Allied bombing raids, the Nazi high command instituted a total blackout throughout Berlin, including on commuter trains. Under cover of darkness and with a flock of helpless victims, Ogorzow escalated from simply frightening women to physically attacking them, eventually raping and murdering them, and even casually tossing their bodies off the moving trains. Though the Nazi party tried to censor news of the attacks, the women of Berlin soon lived in a state of constant fear. It was up to Wilhelm Lüdtke, head of the Berlin police’s serious crimes division, to hunt down the madman in their midst. For the first time, the gripping full story of Ogorzow’s killing spree and Lüdtke’s relentless pursuit is told in dramatic detail." ...more

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• 300: Oliver Hazard Perry: 4 of 4: Honor, Courage, and Patriotism in the Early U.S. Navy (Library of Naval Biography) Hardcover – October 3, 2006. by David Curtis Skaggs (Author)

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  Aug 10 2020

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Oliver Hazard Perry: 4 of 4: Honor, Courage, and Patriotism in the Early U.S. Navy (Library of Naval Biography) Hardcover – October 3, 2006.  by David Curtis Skaggs  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Oliver-Hazard-Perry-Patriotism-Biography/dp/1591147921Hailed for his decisive victory over a Royal Navy squadron on Lake Erie in September 1813 and best known for his after-action report proclamation We have met the enemy and they are ours, Oliver Hazard Perry was one the early U.S. Navy's most famous heroes. In this modern, scholarly reassessment of the man and his career, Professor David Skaggs emphasizes Perry's place in naval history as an embodiment of the code of honor, an exemplar of combat courage, and a symbol of patriotism to his fellow officers and the American public. It is the first biography of Perry to be published in more than a quarter of a century and the first to offer an even-handed analysis of his career. After completing a thorough examination of primary sources, Skaggs traces Perry's development from a midshipman to commodore where he personified the best in seamanship, calmness in times of stress, and diplomatic skills. But this work is not a hagiographic treatment, for it offers a candid analysis of Perry's character flaws, particularly his short temper and his sometimes ineffective command and control procedures during the battle of Lake Erie. Skaggs also explains how Perry's short but dramatic naval career epitomized the emerging naval professionalism of the young republic, and he demonstrates how the Hero of Lake Erie fits into the most recent scholarship concerning the role of post-revolutionary generation in the development of American national identity. Finally, Skaggs explores in greater detail than anyone before the controversy over the conduct of his Lake Erie second, Jesse Duncan Elliott, that raged on for over a quarter century after Perry's death in 1819....more

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• 300: Oliver Hazard Perry: 3 of 4: Honor, Courage, and Patriotism in the Early U.S. Navy (Library of Naval Biography) Hardcover – October 3, 2006. by David Curtis Skaggs (Author)

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  Aug 10 2020

  Portrait:  Oliver Hazard Perry http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Oliver Hazard Perry: 3 of 4: Honor, Courage, and Patriotism in the Early U.S. Navy (Library of Naval Biography) Hardcover – October 3, 2006.  by David Curtis Skaggs  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Oliver-Hazard-Perry-Patriotism-Biography/dp/1591147921Hailed for his decisive victory over a Royal Navy squadron on Lake Erie in September 1813 and best known for his after-action report proclamation We have met the enemy and they are ours, Oliver Hazard Perry was one the early U.S. Navy's most famous heroes. In this modern, scholarly reassessment of the man and his career, Professor David Skaggs emphasizes Perry's place in naval history as an embodiment of the code of honor, an exemplar of combat courage, and a symbol of patriotism to his fellow officers and the American public. It is the first biography of Perry to be published in more than a quarter of a century and the first to offer an even-handed analysis of his career. After completing a thorough examination of primary sources, Skaggs traces Perry's development from a midshipman to commodore where he personified the best in seamanship, calmness in times of stress, and diplomatic skills. But this work is not a hagiographic treatment, for it offers a candid analysis of Perry's character flaws, particularly his short temper and his sometimes ineffective command and control procedures during the battle of Lake Erie. Skaggs also explains how Perry's short but dramatic naval career epitomized the emerging naval professionalism of the young republic, and he demonstrates how the Hero of Lake Erie fits into the most recent scholarship concerning the role of post-revolutionary generation in the development of American national identity. Finally, Skaggs explores in greater detail than anyone before the controversy over the conduct of his Lake Erie second, Jesse Duncan Elliott, that raged on for over a quarter century after Perry's death in 1819....more

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• 300: Oliver Hazard Perry: 2 of 4: Honor, Courage, and Patriotism in the Early U.S. Navy (Library of Naval Biography) Hardcover – October 3, 2006. by David Curtis Skaggs (Author)

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  Mural: Battle of Lake Erie, 10 September 1813. (1959) by Charles Robert Patterson and Howard B. French, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. Niagara joins the battle. Detroit and Queen Charlotte at right. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Oliver Hazard Perry: 2 of 4: Honor, Courage, and Patriotism in the Early U.S. Navy (Library of Naval Biography) Hardcover – October 3, 2006.  by David Curtis Skaggs  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Oliver-Hazard-Perry-Patriotism-Biography/dp/1591147921Hailed for his decisive victory over a Royal Navy squadron on Lake Erie in September 1813 and best known for his after-action report proclamation We have met the enemy and they are ours, Oliver Hazard Perry was one the early U.S. Navy's most famous heroes. In this modern, scholarly reassessment of the man and his career, Professor David Skaggs emphasizes Perry's place in naval history as an embodiment of the code of honor, an exemplar of combat courage, and a symbol of patriotism to his fellow officers and the American public. It is the first biography of Perry to be published in more than a quarter of a century and the first to offer an even-handed analysis of his career. After completing a thorough examination of primary sources, Skaggs traces Perry's development from a midshipman to commodore where he personified the best in seamanship, calmness in times of stress, and diplomatic skills. But this work is not a hagiographic treatment, for it offers a candid analysis of Perry's character flaws, particularly his short temper and his sometimes ineffective command and control procedures during the battle of Lake Erie. Skaggs also explains how Perry's short but dramatic naval career epitomized the emerging naval professionalism of the young republic, and he demonstrates how the Hero of Lake Erie fits into the most recent scholarship concerning the role of post-revolutionary generation in the development of American national identity. Finally, Skaggs explores in greater detail than anyone before the controversy over the conduct of his Lake Erie second, Jesse Duncan Elliott, that raged on for over a quarter century after Perry's death in 1819....more

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• 300: Oliver Hazard Perry: 1 of 4: Honor, Courage, and Patriotism in the Early U.S. Navy (Library of Naval Biography) Hardcover – October 3, 2006. by David Curtis Skaggs (Author)

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  Photo:  Perry (standing) after abandoning Lawrence in a 1911 painting by Edward Percy Moran http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Oliver Hazard Perry: 1 of 4: Honor, Courage, and Patriotism in the Early U.S. Navy (Library of Naval Biography) Hardcover – October 3, 2006.  by David Curtis Skaggs  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Oliver-Hazard-Perry-Patriotism-Biography/dp/1591147921Hailed for his decisive victory over a Royal Navy squadron on Lake Erie in September 1813 and best known for his after-action report proclamation—We have met the enemy and they are ours—Oliver Hazard Perry was one the early U.S. Navy's most famous heroes. In this modern, scholarly reassessment of the man and his career, Professor David Skaggs emphasizes Perry's place in naval history as an embodiment of the code of honor, an exemplar of combat courage, and a symbol of patriotism to his fellow officers and the American public. It is the first biography of Perry to be published in more than a quarter of a century and the first to offer an even-handed analysis of his career. After completing a thorough examination of primary sources, Skaggs traces Perry's development from a midshipman to commodore, where he personified the best in seamanship, calmness in times of stress, and diplomatic skills. But this work is not a hagiographic treatment, for it offers a candid analysis of Perry's character flaws, particularly his short temper and his sometimes ineffective command and control procedures during the battle of Lake Erie. Skaggs also explains how Perry's short but dramatic naval career epitomized the emerging naval professionalism of the young republic, and he demonstrates how the Hero of Lake Erie fits into the most recent scholarship concerning the role of post-revolutionary generation in the development of American national identity. Finally, Skaggs explores in greater detail than anyone before the controversy over the conduct of his Lake Erie second, Jesse Duncan Elliott, that raged on for over a quarter century after Perry's death in 1819....more

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• 300: The Shadow King: 4of4: The Bizarre Afterlife of King Tut's Mummy,by Jo Marchant / Hardcover – June 4, 2013

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  Aug 09 2020

  Photo: King Tutankhamun http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe Shadow King: 4of4:  The Bizarre Afterlife of King Tut's Mummy,by Jo Marchant / Hardcover – June 4, 2013    https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0306821338/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1 More than 3,000 years ago, King Tutankhamun’s desiccated body was lovingly wrapped and sent into the future as an immortal god. After resting undisturbed for more than three millennia, King Tut’s mummy was suddenly awakened in 1922. The archaeologist Howard Carter had discovered the boy-king’s tomb, and the soon-to-be famous mummy’s story—even more dramatic than King Tut’s life—began. The mummy’s “afterlife” is a modern story, not an ancient one. The award-winning science writer Jo Marchant traces the mummy’s story from its first brutal autopsy in 1925 to the most recent arguments over its DNA. From the glamourous treasure hunts of the 1920s to today’s high-tech scans in the volatile modern Egypt, Marchant introduces us to the brilliant and sometimes flawed people who have devoted their lives to revealing the mummy’s secrets, unravels the truth behind the hyped-up TV documentaries, and explains what science can and can’t tell us about King Tutankhamun....more

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• 300: The Shadow King: 3of4: The Bizarre Afterlife of King Tut's Mummy,by Jo Marchant / Hardcover – June 4, 2013

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  Image:  The "Egyptian Number" of Life, 19 Apr 1923. The discovery and excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb attracted widespread public interest in ancient Egypt. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe Shadow King: 3of4:  The Bizarre Afterlife of King Tut's Mummy,by Jo Marchant / Hardcover – June 4, 2013    https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0306821338/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1 More than 3,000 years ago, King Tutankhamun’s desiccated body was lovingly wrapped and sent into the future as an immortal god. After resting undisturbed for more than three millennia, King Tut’s mummy was suddenly awakened in 1922. The archaeologist Howard Carter had discovered the boy-king’s tomb, and the soon-to-be famous mummy’s story—even more dramatic than King Tut’s life—began. The mummy’s “afterlife” is a modern story, not an ancient one. The award-winning science writer Jo Marchant traces the mummy’s story from its first brutal autopsy in 1925 to the most recent arguments over its DNA. From the glamourous treasure hunts of the 1920s to today’s high-tech scans in the volatile modern Egypt, Marchant introduces us to the brilliant and sometimes flawed people who have devoted their lives to revealing the mummy’s secrets, unravels the truth behind the hyped-up TV documentaries, and explains what science can and can’t tell us about King Tutankhamun....more

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• 300: The Shadow King: 2of4: The Bizarre Afterlife of King Tut's Mummy,by Jo Marchant / Hardcover – June 4, 2013

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  Aug 09 2020

  Photo:  The death of Lord Carnarvon six weeks after the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb resulted in many curse stories in the press. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe Shadow King: 2of4:  The Bizarre Afterlife of King Tut's Mummy,by Jo Marchant / Hardcover – June 4, 2013    https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0306821338/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1 More than 3,000 years ago, King Tutankhamun’s desiccated body was lovingly wrapped and sent into the future as an immortal god. After resting undisturbed for more than three millennia, King Tut’s mummy was suddenly awakened in 1922. The archaeologist Howard Carter had discovered the boy-king’s tomb, and the soon-to-be famous mummy’s story—even more dramatic than King Tut’s life—began. The mummy’s “afterlife” is a modern story, not an ancient one. The award-winning science writer Jo Marchant traces the mummy’s story from its first brutal autopsy in 1925 to the most recent arguments over its DNA. From the glamourous treasure hunts of the 1920s to today’s high-tech scans in the volatile modern Egypt, Marchant introduces us to the brilliant and sometimes flawed people who have devoted their lives to revealing the mummy’s secrets, unravels the truth behind the hyped-up TV documentaries, and explains what science can and can’t tell us about King Tutankhamun....more

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• 300: The Shadow King: 1of4: The Bizarre Afterlife of King Tut's Mummy, by Jo Marchant / Hardcover – June 4, 2013

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  Aug 09 2020

  Image:  Tutankhamun and his queen, Ankhesenamun  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe Shadow King: 1of4:  The Bizarre Afterlife of King Tut's Mummy,by Jo Marchant / Hardcover – June 4, 2013https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0306821338/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1 More than 3,000 years ago, King Tutankhamun’s desiccated body was lovingly wrapped and sent into the future as an immortal god. After resting undisturbed for more than three millennia, King Tut’s mummy was suddenly awakened in 1922. The archaeologist Howard Carter had discovered the boy-king’s tomb, and the soon-to-be famous mummy’s story—even more dramatic than King Tut’s life—began. The mummy’s “afterlife” is a modern story, not an ancient one. The award-winning science writer Jo Marchant traces the mummy’s story from its first brutal autopsy in 1925 to the most recent arguments over its DNA. From the glamourous treasure hunts of the 1920s to today’s high-tech scans in the volatile modern Egypt, Marchant introduces us to the brilliant and sometimes flawed people who have devoted their lives to revealing the mummy’s secrets, unravels the truth behind the hyped-up TV documentaries, and explains what science can and can’t tell us about King Tutankhamun....more

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• 299: A Noble Cause: 4 of 4: American Battlefield Victories in Vietnam Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Douglas Niles (Author), Brian O'Neill (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher)

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  Aug 09 2020

  Photo:  Wounded Soldiers are loaded on to a UH-1 medivac helicopter http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow A Noble Cause: 4 of 4: American Battlefield Victories in Vietnam  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Douglas Niles (Author), Brian O'Neill (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Noble-Cause-American-Battlefield-Victories/dp/B01670QQSG/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1589160968&sr=1-1In the tradition of We Were Soldiers Once, and Young, A Noble Cause is a stirring tribute to the valor and courage of the allied forces in the Vietnam War and a vivid re-creation of hard-won battles from Ia Drang Valley to Khe Sanh and Hamburger Hill.  Celebrating the skill and bravery of the United States armed forces and their South Vietnamese allies, A Noble Causepresents a gripping chronicle of both large and small unit successful combat engagements, including the Battle of Dong Xoai (1965); the Battle of Ia Drang Valley (1965), the first major ground battle of the Vietnam War; the Battle of Loc Ninh (1967) by the Cambodian border; the Battle of Khe Sanh (1967-1968) leading up to the Tet Offensive; the Battle of Dong Ha (1968); the bloody siege on Hamburger Hill (1969); and the Battle of An Loc (1972), 65 miles north of Saigon, which contributed to the failure of the Vietcong's Eastertide Offensive.  Documenting the invaluable role of a tireless and determined infantry as well as air cavalry divisions and B-52 "Arc Light" air strikes, A Noble Cause chronicles the crucial strategic decisions that led to victory - often against steep odds - and honors the bravery of every soldier who stood his ground, faced the enemy, and gave his all....more

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• 299: A Noble Cause: 3 of 4: American Battlefield Victories in Vietnam Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Douglas Niles (Author), Brian O'Neill (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher)

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  Aug 09 2020

  Map:  Battle of Loc Ninh, 29 October 1967 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow A Noble Cause: 3 of 4: American Battlefield Victories in Vietnam  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Douglas Niles (Author), Brian O'Neill (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Noble-Cause-American-Battlefield-Victories/dp/B01670QQSG/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1589160968&sr=1-1In the tradition of We Were Soldiers Once, and Young, A Noble Cause is a stirring tribute to the valor and courage of the allied forces in the Vietnam War and a vivid re-creation of hard-won battles from Ia Drang Valley to Khe Sanh and Hamburger Hill.  Celebrating the skill and bravery of the United States armed forces and their South Vietnamese allies, A Noble Causepresents a gripping chronicle of both large and small unit successful combat engagements, including the Battle of Dong Xoai (1965); the Battle of Ia Drang Valley (1965), the first major ground battle of the Vietnam War; the Battle of Loc Ninh (1967) by the Cambodian border; the Battle of Khe Sanh (1967-1968) leading up to the Tet Offensive; the Battle of Dong Ha (1968); the bloody siege on Hamburger Hill (1969); and the Battle of An Loc (1972), 65 miles north of Saigon, which contributed to the failure of the Vietcong's Eastertide Offensive.  Documenting the invaluable role of a tireless and determined infantry as well as air cavalry divisions and B-52 "Arc Light" air strikes, A Noble Cause chronicles the crucial strategic decisions that led to victory - often against steep odds - and honors the bravery of every soldier who stood his ground, faced the enemy, and gave his all....more

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• 299: A Noble Cause: 2 of 4: American Battlefield Victories in Vietnam Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Douglas Niles (Author), Brian O'Neill (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher)

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  Aug 09 2020

  Photo:  Close air support strikes of the 1st marine Aircraft Wing and massive artillery fires paved the way for infantry assault.  (USMC photo) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow A Noble Cause: 2 of 4: American Battlefield Victories in Vietnam  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Douglas Niles (Author), Brian O'Neill (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Noble-Cause-American-Battlefield-Victories/dp/B01670QQSG/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1589160968&sr=1-1In the tradition of We Were Soldiers Once, and Young, A Noble Cause is a stirring tribute to the valor and courage of the allied forces in the Vietnam War and a vivid re-creation of hard-won battles from Ia Drang Valley to Khe Sanh and Hamburger Hill.  Celebrating the skill and bravery of the United States armed forces and their South Vietnamese allies, A Noble Causepresents a gripping chronicle of both large and small unit successful combat engagements, including the Battle of Dong Xoai (1965); the Battle of Ia Drang Valley (1965), the first major ground battle of the Vietnam War; the Battle of Loc Ninh (1967) by the Cambodian border; the Battle of Khe Sanh (1967-1968) leading up to the Tet Offensive; the Battle of Dong Ha (1968); the bloody siege on Hamburger Hill (1969); and the Battle of An Loc (1972), 65 miles north of Saigon, which contributed to the failure of the Vietcong's Eastertide Offensive.  Documenting the invaluable role of a tireless and determined infantry as well as air cavalry divisions and B-52 "Arc Light" air strikes, A Noble Cause chronicles the crucial strategic decisions that led to victory - often against steep odds - and honors the bravery of every soldier who stood his ground, faced the enemy, and gave his all....more

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• 299: A Noble Cause: 1 of 4: American Battlefield Victories in Vietnam Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Douglas Niles (Author), Brian O'Neill (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher)

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  Aug 09 2020

  Photo:  South Vietnamese Rangers and an American adviser at the crash site of a U.S. helicopter in Dong Xoai. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow A Noble Cause: 1 of 4: American Battlefield Victories in Vietnam  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Douglas Niles (Author), Brian O'Neill (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Noble-Cause-American-Battlefield-Victories/dp/B01670QQSG/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1589160968&sr=1-1In the tradition of We Were Soldiers Once, and Young, A Noble Cause is a stirring tribute to the valor and courage of the allied forces in the Vietnam War and a vivid re-creation of hard-won battles from Ia Drang Valley to Khe Sanh and Hamburger Hill.  Celebrating the skill and bravery of the United States armed forces and their South Vietnamese allies, A Noble Causepresents a gripping chronicle of both large and small unit successful combat engagements, including the Battle of Dong Xoai (1965); the Battle of Ia Drang Valley (1965), the first major ground battle of the Vietnam War; the Battle of Loc Ninh (1967) by the Cambodian border; the Battle of Khe Sanh (1967-1968) leading up to the Tet Offensive; the Battle of Dong Ha (1968); the bloody siege on Hamburger Hill (1969); and the Battle of An Loc (1972), 65 miles north of Saigon, which contributed to the failure of the Vietcong's Eastertide Offensive.  Documenting the invaluable role of a tireless and determined infantry as well as air cavalry divisions and B-52 "Arc Light" air strikes, A Noble Cause chronicles the crucial strategic decisions that led to victory - often against steep odds - and honors the bravery of every soldier who stood his ground, faced the enemy, and gave his all....more

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• 299: German Wars: 2of2: A Concise History, 1859-1945 First Edition. by Michael A. Palmer (Author)

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  Aug 09 2020

  Image:   Berlin in 1912 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow German Wars: 2of2: A Concise History, 1859-1945 First Edition. by Michael A. Palmer (Author) https://www.amazon.com/German-Wars-Concise-History-1859-1945/dp/0760337802 The German Wars: A Concise History, 1859-1945 outlines the history of European warfare from the Wars of German Unification to the end of the World War II. The title aside, the book is not be another history of the German military; it takes a much broader approach looking at political, social, economic, and military developments across Europe, and the United States during the period. The “German War” part of the title is there because Germany plays the central part in the story. But the key element threading its way through this volume is the Industrial Revolution....more

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• 299: German Wars: 1of2: A Concise History, 1859-1945 First Edition. by Michael A. Palmer (Author)

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  Aug 09 2020

  Photo:  Germany at war and in the Industrial Revolution; The Krupp-Works in Essen, 1864.    http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow German Wars: 1of2: A Concise History, 1859-1945 First Edition. by Michael A. Palmer (Author)https://www.amazon.com/German-Wars-Concise-History-1859-1945/dp/0760337802 The German Wars: A Concise History, 1859-1945 outlines the history of European warfare from the Wars of German Unification to the end of the World War II. The title aside, the book is not be another history of the German military; it takes a much broader approach looking at political, social, economic, and military developments across Europe, and the United States during the period. The “German War” part of the title is there because Germany plays the central part in the story. But the key element threading its way through this volume is the Industrial Revolution....more

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• 299: Ike's Bluff: 4of4: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World, by Evan Thomas; with Brian Troxell as narrator. Published by Hachette Audio.

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  Photo:  The official White House portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower by James Anthony Wills  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowIke's Bluff: 4of4: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World, by Evan Thomas; with Brian Troxell as narrator. Published by Hachette Audio. https://www.amazon.com/Ikes-Bluff-President-Eisenhowers-Secret/dp/B009GBX6L4/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Upon assuming the presidency in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower came to be seen by many as a doddering lightweight. Yet behind the bland smile and apparent simplemindedness was a brilliant, intellectual tactician. As Evan Thomas reveals in his provocative examination of Ike's White House years, Eisenhower was a master of calculated duplicity. In his bridge and poker games, he was eventually forced to stop playing after leaving too many fellow army officers insolvent, revealing that Ike could be patient and ruthless in the con. He equally was generous and expedient in his partnerships. Facing the Soviet Union, China, and his own generals, some of whom believed a first strike was the only means of survival, Eisenhower would make his boldest and riskiest bet ever, one of such enormity that there could be but two outcomes: the survival of the world, or its end....more

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• 299: Ike's Bluff: 3of4: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World, by Evan Thomas; with Brian Troxell as narrator. Published by Hachette Audio.

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  Photo:  A U-2 reconnaissance aircraft in flight http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowIke's Bluff: 3of4: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World, by Evan Thomas; with Brian Troxell as narrator. Published by Hachette Audio.https://www.amazon.com/Ikes-Bluff-President-Eisenhowers-Secret/dp/B009GBX6L4/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Upon assuming the presidency in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower came to be seen by many as a doddering lightweight. Yet behind the bland smile and apparent simplemindedness was a brilliant, intellectual tactician. As Evan Thomas reveals in his provocative examination of Ike's White House years, Eisenhower was a master of calculated duplicity. In his bridge and poker games, he was eventually forced to stop playing after leaving too many fellow army officers insolvent, revealing that Ike could be patient and ruthless in the con. He equally was generous and expedient in his partnerships. Facing the Soviet Union, China, and his own generals, some of whom believed a first strike was the only means of survival, Eisenhower would make his boldest and riskiest bet ever, one of such enormity that there could be but two outcomes: the survival of the world, or its end....more

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• 299: Ike's Bluff: 2of4: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World, by Evan Thomas; with Brian Troxell as narrator. Published by Hachette Audio.

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  Photo:  First test launch of the PGM-17 Thor from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 17B, January 25, 1957  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowIke's Bluff: 2of4: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World, by Evan Thomas; with Brian Troxell as narrator. Published by Hachette Audio.https://www.amazon.com/Ikes-Bluff-President-Eisenhowers-Secret/dp/B009GBX6L4/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Upon assuming the presidency in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower came to be seen by many as a doddering lightweight. Yet behind the bland smile and apparent simplemindedness was a brilliant, intellectual tactician. As Evan Thomas reveals in his provocative examination of Ike's White House years, Eisenhower was a master of calculated duplicity. In his bridge and poker games, he was eventually forced to stop playing after leaving too many fellow army officers insolvent, revealing that Ike could be patient and ruthless in the con. He equally was generous and expedient in his partnerships. Facing the Soviet Union, China, and his own generals, some of whom believed a first strike was the only means of survival, Eisenhower would make his boldest and riskiest bet ever, one of such enormity that there could be but two outcomes: the survival of the world, or its end....more

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• 299: Ike's Bluff: 1of4: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World, by Evan Thomas; with Brian Troxell as narrator. Published by Hachette Audio.

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  Photo:  Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev during his 11-day U.S. visit as guest of President Eisenhower, September 1959 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowIke's Bluff: 1of4: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World, by Evan Thomas; with Brian Troxell as narrator. Published by Hachette Audio.https://www.amazon.com/Ikes-Bluff-President-Eisenhowers-Secret/dp/B009GBX6L4/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Upon assuming the presidency in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower came to be seen by many as a doddering lightweight. Yet behind the bland smile and apparent simplemindedness was a brilliant, intellectual tactician. As Evan Thomas reveals in his provocative examination of Ike's White House years, Eisenhower was a master of calculated duplicity. In his bridge and poker games, he was eventually forced to stop playing after leaving too many fellow army officers insolvent, revealing that Ike could be patient and ruthless in the con. He equally was generous and expedient in his partnerships. Facing the Soviet Union, China, and his own generals, some of whom believed a first strike was the only means of survival, Eisenhower would make his boldest and riskiest bet ever, one of such enormity that there could be but two outcomes: the survival of the world, or its end....more

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• 299: Such Men as These: 4 of 4: The Story of the Navy Pilots Who Flew the Deadly Skies over Korea Kindle Edition. by David Sears (Author)

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  Photo:  MiG-15s curving in to attack USAF B-29s, 1951. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Such Men as These: 4 of 4: The Story of the Navy Pilots Who Flew the Deadly Skies over Korea Kindle Edition. by David Sears  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Such-Men-These-Pilots-Deadly-ebook/dp/B003K15524/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?keywords=David+Sears+Such+men+as+these&qid=1574993497&s=audible&sr=8-1-fkmr1In 1951, James Michener went to Korea to report on a little known aspect of America's stalemated war: navy aviators. His research inspired novel about these pilots became an overnight bestseller and, perhaps, the most widely read book ever written about aerial combat.Using Michener's notes, author David Sears tracked down the actual pilots to tell their riveting, true-life stories. From the icy, windswept decks of aircraft carriers, they penetrated treacherous mountain terrain to strike heavily defended dams, bridges, and tunnels, where well entrenched Communist anti-aircraft gunners waited to shoot them down. Many of these men became air combat legends, and one, Neil Armstrong, the first astronaut to walk on the moon. Such Men As These brims with action-packed accounts of combat and unforgettable portraits of the pilots whose skill and sacrifice made epic history....more

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• 299: Such Men as These: 3 of 4: The Story of the Navy Pilots Who Flew the Deadly Skies over Korea Kindle Edition. by David Sears (Author)

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  Photo:  No. 77 Squadron pilots and their Meteors at Kunsan, South Korea, June 1954 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Such Men as These: 3 of 4: The Story of the Navy Pilots Who Flew the Deadly Skies over Korea Kindle Edition. by David Sears  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Such-Men-These-Pilots-Deadly-ebook/dp/B003K15524/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?keywords=David+Sears+Such+men+as+these&qid=1574993497&s=audible&sr=8-1-fkmr1In 1951, James Michener went to Korea to report on a little known aspect of America's stalemated war: navy aviators. His research inspired novel about these pilots became an overnight bestseller and, perhaps, the most widely read book ever written about aerial combat.Using Michener's notes, author David Sears tracked down the actual pilots to tell their riveting, true-life stories. From the icy, windswept decks of aircraft carriers, they penetrated treacherous mountain terrain to strike heavily defended dams, bridges, and tunnels, where well entrenched Communist anti-aircraft gunners waited to shoot them down. Many of these men became air combat legends, and one, Neil Armstrong, the first astronaut to walk on the moon. Such Men As These brims with action-packed accounts of combat and unforgettable portraits of the pilots whose skill and sacrifice made epic history....more

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• 299: Such Men as These: 2 of 4: The Story of the Navy Pilots Who Flew the Deadly Skies over Korea Kindle Edition. by David Sears (Author)

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  Image:  F-86A-5-NA Sabre 49-1223. This aircraft served with the 335th F-I Squadron, 4th F-IW in Korea. It was shot down by MiGs near Wonsan on February 3, 1952; the pilot ejected.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Such Men as These: 2 of 4: The Story of the Navy Pilots Who Flew the Deadly Skies over Korea Kindle Edition. by David Sears  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Such-Men-These-Pilots-Deadly-ebook/dp/B003K15524/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?keywords=David+Sears+Such+men+as+these&qid=1574993497&s=audible&sr=8-1-fkmr1In 1951, James Michener went to Korea to report on a little known aspect of America's stalemated war: navy aviators. His research inspired novel about these pilots became an overnight bestseller and, perhaps, the most widely read book ever written about aerial combat.Using Michener's notes, author David Sears tracked down the actual pilots to tell their riveting, true-life stories. From the icy, windswept decks of aircraft carriers, they penetrated treacherous mountain terrain to strike heavily defended dams, bridges, and tunnels, where well entrenched Communist anti-aircraft gunners waited to shoot them down. Many of these men became air combat legends, and one, Neil Armstrong, the first astronaut to walk on the moon. Such Men As These brims with action-packed accounts of combat and unforgettable portraits of the pilots whose skill and sacrifice made epic history....more

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• 299: Such Men as These: 1 of 4: The Story of the Navy Pilots Who Flew the Deadly Skies over Korea Kindle Edition. by David Sears (Author)

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  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Such Men as These: 1 of 4: The Story of the Navy Pilots Who Flew the Deadly Skies over Korea, by David Sears   Kindle Edition. https://www.amazon.com/Such-Men-These-Pilots-Deadly-ebook/dp/B003K15524/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?keywords=David+Sears+Such+men+as+these&qid=1574993497&s=audible&sr=8-1-fkmr1In 1951, James Michener went to Korea to report on a little-known aspect of America's stalemated war: navy aviators. His research-inspired novel about these pilots became an overnight bestseller and, perhaps, the most widely read book ever written about aerial combat. Using Michener's notes, the author David Sears tracked down the actual pilots to tell their riveting, true-life stories. From the icy, windswept decks of aircraft carriers, they penetrated treacherous mountain terrain to strike heavily defended dams, bridges, and tunnels, where well entrenched Communist anti-aircraft gunners waited to shoot them down. Many of these men became air combat legends, and one, Neil Armstrong, the first astronaut to walk on the moon. Such Men As These brims with action-packed accounts of combat and unforgettable portraits of the pilots whose skill and sacrifice made epic history....more

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• 298: #NewAmericanCivilWar:2of2: The old gods of the American pantheon under assault by the godless Cancel Culture (Church of Woke.)

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  Photo:A Committee of Five, composed of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston, drafted and presented to the Continental Congress what became known as the U.S. Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776. John Trumbull - US Capitol Committee of Five, Declaration of Independence, July 1776, detail of John Trumbull's painting (1819) Public Domain File:Committee of Five, 1776.png Created: 1819date QS:P571,+1819-00-00T00:00:00Z/9  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow#NewAmericanCivilWar:2of2: The old gods of the American pantheon under assault by the godless Cancel Culture (Church of Woke.)https://par.pw/l/ucUhF ...more

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• 298: #NewAmericanCivilWar: 1of2: The old gods of the American pantheon under assault by the godless Cancel Culture (Church of Woke.)

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  Photo:Robert R. Livingston, member of the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence.Attributed to Gilbert Stuart - Christie's Robert R. Livingston oil on canvas 35¼ x 28½ inch Public Domain File:Robert R Livingston, attributed to Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828).jpg Created: 18th century date QS:P,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow#NewAmericanCivilWar: 1of2: The old gods of the American pantheon under assault by the godless Cancel Culture (Church of Woke.)https://par.pw/l/ucUhF ...more

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• 298: Mushballs on Jupiter. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Photo:  NASA's image of Jupiter's mushballs. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowMushballs on Jupiter.  Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/lightning-and-mushballs-on-jupiter/

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• 298: SpaceX Starship hops. Blue Origen New Glenn unready. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowSpaceX Starship hops. Blue Origen New Glenn unready. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/jeff-bezos-sells-3-billion-more-in-amazon-stock/

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• 297: Asia's New Geopolitics: 4of4: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific Hardcover – May 1, 2020. by Michael R. Auslin (Author)

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  Photo:Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe with U.S. President Donald Trump at the 45th G7 in Biarritz, August 2019. The White House from Washington, DC - #G7Biarritz President Donald J. Trump and Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe, joined by their delegation members, participate in a bilateral meeting at the Centre de Congrés Bellevue Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019, in Biarritz, France, site of the G7 Summit. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead) Public Domain File:-G7Biarritz (48617425121).jpg Created: 2019-08-25 05:43  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Asia's New Geopolitics: 4of4: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific Hardcover – May 1, 2020. by Michael R. Auslin  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Asias-New-Geopolitics-Reshaping-Indo-Pacific/dp/0817923241The Indo-Pacific is fast becoming the world's dominant region. As it grows in power and wealth, geopolitical competition has reemerged, threatening future stability not merely in Asia but around the globe. China is aggressive and uncooperative, and increasingly expects the world to bend to its wishes. The focus on Sino-US competition for global power has obscured "Asia's other great game": the rivalry between Japan and China. A modernizing India risks missing out on the energies and talents of millions of its women, potentially hampering the broader role it can play in the world. And in North Korea, the most frightening question raised by Kim Jong-un's pursuit of the ultimate weapon is also the simplest: can he control his nukes? In Asia's New Geopolitics: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific, Michael R. Auslin examines these and other key issues transforming the Indo-Pacific and the broader world. He also explores the history of American strategy in Asia from the 18th century through today. Taken together, Auslin's essays convey the richness and diversity of the region: with more than three billion people, the Indo-Pacific contains over half of the global population, including the world's two most populous nations: India and China. In a riveting final chapter, Auslin imagines a war between America and China in a bid for regional hegemony and what this conflict might look like....more

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• 297: Asia's New Geopolitics: 3of4: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific Hardcover – May 1, 2020. by Michael R. Auslin (Author)

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  Photo:Cover for Shanghai Manhua issue 13 (July 1, 1928)Date | 1928Source | http://mclc.osu.edu/rc/pubs/laing.htmAuthor | Huaisu http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Asia's New Geopolitics: 3of4: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific Hardcover – May 1, 2020. by Michael R. Auslin  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Asias-New-Geopolitics-Reshaping-Indo-Pacific/dp/0817923241The Indo-Pacific is fast becoming the world's dominant region. As it grows in power and wealth, geopolitical competition has reemerged, threatening future stability not merely in Asia but around the globe. China is aggressive and uncooperative, and increasingly expects the world to bend to its wishes. The focus on Sino-US competition for global power has obscured "Asia's other great game": the rivalry between Japan and China. A modernizing India risks missing out on the energies and talents of millions of its women, potentially hampering the broader role it can play in the world. And in North Korea, the most frightening question raised by Kim Jong-un's pursuit of the ultimate weapon is also the simplest: can he control his nukes? In Asia's New Geopolitics: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific, Michael R. Auslin examines these and other key issues transforming the Indo-Pacific and the broader world. He also explores the history of American strategy in Asia from the 18th century through today. Taken together, Auslin's essays convey the richness and diversity of the region: with more than three billion people, the Indo-Pacific contains over half of the global population, including the world's two most populous nations: India and China. In a riveting final chapter, Auslin imagines a war between America and China in a bid for regional hegemony and what this conflict might look like....more

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• 297: Asia's New Geopolitics: 2of4: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific Hardcover – May 1, 2020. by Michael R. Auslin (Author)

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  Photo:English: The Illustration of The Siberian War, N°. 16: The Japanese Army Occupied Vragaeschensk (Blagoveshchensk)日本語: 1918年、ブラゴヴェシチェンスクに入城する日本軍と日の丸を振って出迎える市民などを描いた作品。空からは航空隊により布告文が撒かれた。『救露討獨遠征軍画報』よりDate | 1919Source | The Library of CongressAuthor | Tokyo : Shobido & Co. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Asia's New Geopolitics: 2of4: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific Hardcover – May 1, 2020. by Michael R. Auslin  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Asias-New-Geopolitics-Reshaping-Indo-Pacific/dp/0817923241The Indo-Pacific is fast becoming the world's dominant region. As it grows in power and wealth, geopolitical competition has reemerged, threatening future stability not merely in Asia but around the globe. China is aggressive and uncooperative, and increasingly expects the world to bend to its wishes. The focus on Sino-US competition for global power has obscured "Asia's other great game": the rivalry between Japan and China. A modernizing India risks missing out on the energies and talents of millions of its women, potentially hampering the broader role it can play in the world. And in North Korea, the most frightening question raised by Kim Jong-un's pursuit of the ultimate weapon is also the simplest: can he control his nukes? In Asia's New Geopolitics: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific, Michael R. Auslin examines these and other key issues transforming the Indo-Pacific and the broader world. He also explores the history of American strategy in Asia from the 18th century through today. Taken together, Auslin's essays convey the richness and diversity of the region: with more than three billion people, the Indo-Pacific contains over half of the global population, including the world's two most populous nations: India and China. In a riveting final chapter, Auslin imagines a war between America and China in a bid for regional hegemony and what this conflict might look like....more

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• 297: Asia's New Geopolitics: 1of4: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific Hardcover – May 1, 2020. by Michael R. Auslin (Author)

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  Photo: Kamisuki (Combing the hair), A colour woodblock print, Japan, Taishō era, 1920 Goyō (1880-1921) Goyō Hashiguchi - Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork Kamisuki (Combing the hair), A colour woodblock print, Japan, Taishō era, 1920 Goyō Hashiguchi. 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 Foundation has received an e-mail confirming that the copyright holder has approved publication under the terms mentioned on this page. This correspondence has been reviewed by an OTRS member and stored in our permission archive. The correspondence is available to trusted volunteers as ticket #2012021710000834. If you have questions about the archived correspondence, please use the OTRS noticeboard.View more Public Domainview terms File:Hashiguchi Goyo - Woman in Blue Combing Her Hair - Walters 95880.jpg Created: Published in 1920 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Asia's New Geopolitics: 1of4: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific Hardcover – May 1, 2020. by Michael R. Auslin  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Asias-New-Geopolitics-Reshaping-Indo-Pacific/dp/0817923241The Indo-Pacific is fast becoming the world's dominant region. As it grows in power and wealth, geopolitical competition has reemerged, threatening future stability not merely in Asia but around the globe. China is aggressive and uncooperative, and increasingly expects the world to bend to its wishes. The focus on Sino-US competition for global power has obscured "Asia's other great game": the rivalry between Japan and China. A modernizing India risks missing out on the energies and talents of millions of its women, potentially hampering the broader role it can play in the world. And in North Korea, the most frightening question raised by Kim Jong-un's pursuit of the ultimate weapon is also the simplest: can he control his nukes? In Asia's New Geopolitics: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific, Michael R. Auslin examines these and other key issues transforming the Indo-Pacific and the broader world. He also explores the history of American strategy in Asia from the 18th century through today. Taken together, Auslin's essays convey the richness and diversity of the region: with more than three billion people, the Indo-Pacific contains over half of the global population, including the world's two most populous nations: India and China. In a riveting final chapter, Auslin imagines a war between America and China in a bid for regional hegemony and what this conflict might look like....more

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• 296: Armenian provocations against Azerbaijan defy common sense about the promise of the South Caucasus. @ElinSuleymanov, Ambassador to the United State from the Republic of Azerbaijan.

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  Photo:mage from page 208 of "All the Russias: travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia" (1902) Identifier: allrussiastravel01norm Title: All the Russias: travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia Year: 1902 (1900s) Authors:  Norman, Henry, 1858-1939 Subjects:  Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910 Eastern question (Central Asia) Publisher:  New York, C. Seribner's sons Contributing Library:  The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor:  The Library of Congress    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:ment to astonish an age little apt to enthusiasm over thetreasures it drags from their hiding-places in the earth. Finally,to the student of politics its very atmosphere reeks with interest,since some day the vast armies of Russia will pour through itagain to another death-grip with the Turk—the great fortressof Kars is fortified only on the south side—and who knows whatscenes it may witness if Britain and Russia draw the sword, andthe masses of Moscovy march singing across it, to the Caspian,to find their graves on the banks of the Indus? Yet this little land, in spite of its surpassing interest fromevery point of view, remains comparatively unknown. It can THE FROSTY CAUCASUS 177 be reached almost in luxury, and on its main routes the mostdelicate dame need suffer no undue discomfort. In the wholeof Russia there is not a hotel so clean and pleasant as the Hotelde Londres at Tifiis. I cannot think why the enterprising andwell-to-do tourist, who has exhausted Europe, does not turn  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowArmenian provocations against Azerbaijan defy common sense about the promise of the South Caucasus. @ElinSuleymanov, Ambassador to the United State from the Republic of Azerbaijan.https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/azerbaijan-covid-pompeo/2020/08/05/id/980732/ ...more

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• 296: #TheScalaReport: What the gamblers of Macau can tell about the PRC economy. Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com #ScalaAPS

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  Photo:English: MacauDate | circa 1870 Source | [https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/20912/lot/4/Author | William Pryor Floyd (1830 - c.1900) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow#TheScalaReport: What the gamblers of Macau can tell about the PRC economy.   Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com  #ScalaAPShttps://www.zerohedge.com/markets/macaus-gaming-revenues-crash-945-july-recovery-hopes-dim

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• 296: Suddenly discovering that Clinton's agent Steele had a source, Danchenko, who travelled to Petersburg and Moscow in 2016: “How hysterical is it that now we know that we had a paid operative where? Russia! Russia! Doing what? Digging up dirt on what? Oh

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  Photo:English: Nevsky Prospekt (or Neva Avenue) and Admiralty in Saint Petersburg (Russia). 19th-century photochrome print (1890—1900)Русский: Невский проспект и Адмиралтейство в Санкт-Петербурге (Россия). Цветная фотолитография XIX века (1890—1900)Français : Saint-Pétersbourg. Perspective Nevski.Date | between 1890 and 1905 Source | Original image: Photochrom print (color photo lithograph)Reproduction number: LC-DIG-ppmsc-03885 from Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Photochrom Prints Collection http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowSuddenly discovering that Clinton's agent Steele had a source, Danchenko, who travelled to Petersburg and Moscow in 2016: “How hysterical is it that now we know that we had a paid operative where?  Russia!  Russia!  Doing what? Digging up dirt on what? Oh!  The Republican party and the Trump Campaign.”  @DevinNunes CA-22https://nypost.com/2020/08/04/bogus-russia-scandal-sourced-to-man-with-history-of-drunkenness/ ...more

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• 296: Introducing the fresh Ramble.com to supplant the untrusted Youtube.com. @DevinNune CA-22

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  Photo:Oil Wells, Fresno, Calif.New York Public LibrarylinkLinkhttp://digitalcollections.nypl.org/copyrightCopyright infoPublic Domain  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowIntroducing the fresh Ramble.com to supplant the untrusted Youtube.com. @DevinNunes CA-22

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• 295: Imbeciles: 4of4: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Adam Cohen (Author), Dan Woren (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo:  Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood and a principal proponent of eugenics, in 1920 published, Woman and the New Race, endorsing negative eugenics. Here: at the top is a photo of a woman seated affectionately with her two sons. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Imbeciles: 4of4:  The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Adam Cohen (Author), Dan Woren (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Imbeciles-Adam-Cohen-audiobook/dp/B01AIT2QKO/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=One of America’s great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court’s infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell ruling made government sterilization of “undesirable” citizens the law of the land.   In 1927, the Supreme Court handed down a ruling so disturbing, ignorant, and cruel that it stands as one of the great injustices in American history. In Imbeciles, best-selling author Adam Cohen exposes the court’s decision to allow the sterilization of a young woman it wrongly thought to be “feebleminded” and to champion the mass eugenic sterilization of undesirable citizens for the greater good of the country. The 8–1 ruling was signed by some of the most revered figures in American law — including Chief Justice William Howard Taft, a former U.S. president; and Louis Brandeis, a progressive icon. Oliver Wendell Holmes, considered by many the greatest Supreme Court justice in history, wrote the majority opinion, including the court’s famous declaration “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” Imbeciles is the shocking story of Buck v. Bell, a legal case that challenges our faith in American justice. A gripping courtroom drama, it pits a helpless young woman against powerful scientists, lawyers, and judges who believed that eugenic measures were necessary to save the nation from being “swamped with incompetence.”   At the center was Carrie Buck, who was born into a poor family in Charlottesville, Virginia, and taken in by a foster family, until she became pregnant out of wedlock. She was then declared “feebleminded” and shipped off to the Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-Minded.Buck v. Bell unfolded against the backdrop of a nation in the thrall of eugenics, which many Americans thought would uplift the human race. Congress embraced this fervor, enacting the first laws designed to prevent immigration by Italians, Jews, and other groups charged with being genetically inferior. Cohen shows how Buck arrived at the colony at just the wrong time, when influential scientists and politicians were looking for a “test case” to determine whether Virginia’s new eugenic sterilization law could withstand a legal challenge. A cabal of powerful men lined up against her, and no one stood up for her — not even her lawyer, who, it is now clear, was in collusion with the men who wanted her sterilized. In the end, Buck’s case was heard by the Supreme Court, the institution established by the founders to ensure that justice would prevail. The court could have seen through the false claim that Buck was a threat to the gene pool, or it could have found that forced sterilization was a violation of her rights. Instead, Holmes, a scion of several prominent Boston Brahmin families, who was raised to believe in the superiority of his own bloodlines, wrote a vicious, haunting decision upholding Buck’s sterilization and imploring the nation to sterilize many more. Holmes got his wish, and before the madness ended, some 60 to 70 thousand Americans were sterilized. Cohen overturns cherished myths and demolishes lauded figures in relentless pursuit of the truth. With the intellectual force of a legal brief and the passion of a front-page exposé, Imbeciles is an ardent indictment of our champions of justice and our optimistic faith in progress, as well as a triumph of American legal and social history. ...more

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• 295: Imbeciles: 3of4: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Adam Cohen (Author), Dan Woren (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo:  G. K. Chesterton, an opponent of eugenics, in 1909, by photographer Ernest Herbert Mills http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Imbeciles: 3of4:  The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Adam Cohen (Author), Dan Woren (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Imbeciles-Adam-Cohen-audiobook/dp/B01AIT2QKO/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=One of America’s great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court’s infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell ruling made government sterilization of “undesirable” citizens the law of the land.   In 1927, the Supreme Court handed down a ruling so disturbing, ignorant, and cruel that it stands as one of the great injustices in American history. In Imbeciles, best-selling author Adam Cohen exposes the court’s decision to allow the sterilization of a young woman it wrongly thought to be “feebleminded” and to champion the mass eugenic sterilization of undesirable citizens for the greater good of the country. The 8–1 ruling was signed by some of the most revered figures in American law — including Chief Justice William Howard Taft, a former U.S. president; and Louis Brandeis, a progressive icon. Oliver Wendell Holmes, considered by many the greatest Supreme Court justice in history, wrote the majority opinion, including the court’s famous declaration “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” Imbeciles is the shocking story of Buck v. Bell, a legal case that challenges our faith in American justice. A gripping courtroom drama, it pits a helpless young woman against powerful scientists, lawyers, and judges who believed that eugenic measures were necessary to save the nation from being “swamped with incompetence.”   At the center was Carrie Buck, who was born into a poor family in Charlottesville, Virginia, and taken in by a foster family, until she became pregnant out of wedlock. She was then declared “feebleminded” and shipped off to the Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-Minded.Buck v. Bell unfolded against the backdrop of a nation in the thrall of eugenics, which many Americans thought would uplift the human race. Congress embraced this fervor, enacting the first laws designed to prevent immigration by Italians, Jews, and other groups charged with being genetically inferior. Cohen shows how Buck arrived at the colony at just the wrong time, when influential scientists and politicians were looking for a “test case” to determine whether Virginia’s new eugenic sterilization law could withstand a legal challenge. A cabal of powerful men lined up against her, and no one stood up for her — not even her lawyer, who, it is now clear, was in collusion with the men who wanted her sterilized. In the end, Buck’s case was heard by the Supreme Court, the institution established by the founders to ensure that justice would prevail. The court could have seen through the false claim that Buck was a threat to the gene pool, or it could have found that forced sterilization was a violation of her rights. Instead, Holmes, a scion of several prominent Boston Brahmin families, who was raised to believe in the superiority of his own bloodlines, wrote a vicious, haunting decision upholding Buck’s sterilization and imploring the nation to sterilize many more. Holmes got his wish, and before the madness ended, some 60 to 70 thousand Americans were sterilized. Cohen overturns cherished myths and demolishes lauded figures in relentless pursuit of the truth. With the intellectual force of a legal brief and the passion of a front-page exposé, Imbeciles is an ardent indictment of our champions of justice and our optimistic faith in progress, as well as a triumph of American legal and social history. ...more

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• 295: Imbeciles: 2of4: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Adam Cohen (Author), Dan Woren (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo:  Dr. John H. Bell was the superintendent at the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Imbeciles: 2of4:  The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Adam Cohen (Author), Dan Woren (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Imbeciles-Adam-Cohen-audiobook/dp/B01AIT2QKO/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=One of America’s great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court’s infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell ruling made government sterilization of “undesirable” citizens the law of the land.   In 1927, the Supreme Court handed down a ruling so disturbing, ignorant, and cruel that it stands as one of the great injustices in American history. In Imbeciles, best-selling author Adam Cohen exposes the court’s decision to allow the sterilization of a young woman it wrongly thought to be “feebleminded” and to champion the mass eugenic sterilization of undesirable citizens for the greater good of the country. The 8–1 ruling was signed by some of the most revered figures in American law — including Chief Justice William Howard Taft, a former U.S. president; and Louis Brandeis, a progressive icon. Oliver Wendell Holmes, considered by many the greatest Supreme Court justice in history, wrote the majority opinion, including the court’s famous declaration “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” Imbeciles is the shocking story of Buck v. Bell, a legal case that challenges our faith in American justice. A gripping courtroom drama, it pits a helpless young woman against powerful scientists, lawyers, and judges who believed that eugenic measures were necessary to save the nation from being “swamped with incompetence.”   At the center was Carrie Buck, who was born into a poor family in Charlottesville, Virginia, and taken in by a foster family, until she became pregnant out of wedlock. She was then declared “feebleminded” and shipped off to the Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-Minded.Buck v. Bell unfolded against the backdrop of a nation in the thrall of eugenics, which many Americans thought would uplift the human race. Congress embraced this fervor, enacting the first laws designed to prevent immigration by Italians, Jews, and other groups charged with being genetically inferior. Cohen shows how Buck arrived at the colony at just the wrong time, when influential scientists and politicians were looking for a “test case” to determine whether Virginia’s new eugenic sterilization law could withstand a legal challenge. A cabal of powerful men lined up against her, and no one stood up for her — not even her lawyer, who, it is now clear, was in collusion with the men who wanted her sterilized. In the end, Buck’s case was heard by the Supreme Court, the institution established by the founders to ensure that justice would prevail. The court could have seen through the false claim that Buck was a threat to the gene pool, or it could have found that forced sterilization was a violation of her rights. Instead, Holmes, a scion of several prominent Boston Brahmin families, who was raised to believe in the superiority of his own bloodlines, wrote a vicious, haunting decision upholding Buck’s sterilization and imploring the nation to sterilize many more. Holmes got his wish, and before the madness ended, some 60 to 70 thousand Americans were sterilized. Cohen overturns cherished myths and demolishes lauded figures in relentless pursuit of the truth. With the intellectual force of a legal brief and the passion of a front-page exposé, Imbeciles is an ardent indictment of our champions of justice and our optimistic faith in progress, as well as a triumph of American legal and social history. ...more

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• 295: Imbeciles: 1of4: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Adam Cohen (Author), Dan Woren (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo:  Logo from the Second International Eugenics Conference, 1921, depicting eugenics as a tree which unites a variety of different fields http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Imbeciles: 1of4:  The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Adam Cohen (Author), Dan Woren (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Imbeciles-Adam-Cohen-audiobook/dp/B01AIT2QKO/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=One of America’s great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court’s infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell ruling made government sterilization of “undesirable” citizens the law of the land.   In 1927, the Supreme Court handed down a ruling so disturbing, ignorant, and cruel that it stands as one of the great injustices in American history. In Imbeciles, best-selling author Adam Cohen exposes the court’s decision to allow the sterilization of a young woman it wrongly thought to be “feebleminded” and to champion the mass eugenic sterilization of undesirable citizens for the greater good of the country. The 8–1 ruling was signed by some of the most revered figures in American law — including Chief Justice William Howard Taft, a former U.S. president; and Louis Brandeis, a progressive icon. Oliver Wendell Holmes, considered by many the greatest Supreme Court justice in history, wrote the majority opinion, including the court’s famous declaration “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” Imbeciles is the shocking story of Buck v. Bell, a legal case that challenges our faith in American justice. A gripping courtroom drama, it pits a helpless young woman against powerful scientists, lawyers, and judges who believed that eugenic measures were necessary to save the nation from being “swamped with incompetence.”   At the center was Carrie Buck, who was born into a poor family in Charlottesville, Virginia, and taken in by a foster family, until she became pregnant out of wedlock. She was then declared “feebleminded” and shipped off to the Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-Minded.Buck v. Bell unfolded against the backdrop of a nation in the thrall of eugenics, which many Americans thought would uplift the human race. Congress embraced this fervor, enacting the first laws designed to prevent immigration by Italians, Jews, and other groups charged with being genetically inferior. Cohen shows how Buck arrived at the colony at just the wrong time, when influential scientists and politicians were looking for a “test case” to determine whether Virginia’s new eugenic sterilization law could withstand a legal challenge. A cabal of powerful men lined up against her, and no one stood up for her — not even her lawyer, who, it is now clear, was in collusion with the men who wanted her sterilized. In the end, Buck’s case was heard by the Supreme Court, the institution established by the founders to ensure that justice would prevail. The court could have seen through the false claim that Buck was a threat to the gene pool, or it could have found that forced sterilization was a violation of her rights. Instead, Holmes, a scion of several prominent Boston Brahmin families, who was raised to believe in the superiority of his own bloodlines, wrote a vicious, haunting decision upholding Buck’s sterilization and imploring the nation to sterilize many more. Holmes got his wish, and before the madness ended, some 60 to 70 thousand Americans were sterilized. Cohen overturns cherished myths and demolishes lauded figures in relentless pursuit of the truth. With the intellectual force of a legal brief and the passion of a front-page exposé, Imbeciles is an ardent indictment of our champions of justice and our optimistic faith in progress, as well as a triumph of American legal and social history. ...more

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• 294: POTUS disciplines the untrusted PRC; POTUS inclines to payroll and stimulus relief by Executive Order. @CGasparino @FoxBusiness

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  Photo:Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor by William Halsall  William Halsall - Pilgrim Hall Museum "Mayflower e porzh-mor Aberplymm" gant William Halsall, 1882 Public Domain File:Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor, by William Halsall.jpg Created: 1882date QS:P571,+1882-00-00T00:00:00Z/9  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowPOTUS disciplines the untrusted PRC; POTUS inclines to payroll and stimulus relief by Executive Order.  @CGasparino @FoxBusiness...more

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• 294: #PacificWatch: The decline and fall of San Francisco creates the Meth Lab Hotel, @JCBliss Jeff Bliss

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  Photo:Joachim Ferdinand Richardt (10 April 1819 - 29 October 1895) Danish-American artist, in Denmarkknown for his lithographs of manor houses, and in the U.S. for his paintings of Niagara Falls and other landscapes.Oakland EstuaryAcquisition Fund and Florence M. Heafey Foundation FundInscriptions | Signature bottom right:  Ferd. RichardtSource/Photographer | Oakland Museum of California  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow#PacificWatch: The decline and fall of San Francisco creates the Meth Lab Hotel, @JCBliss Jeff Blisshttps://www.ktvu.com/news/meth-lab-found-at-san-francisco-hotel-room-used-as-city-covid-19-shelter.  https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/alleged-drug-lab-bust-at-san-francisco-motel-used-to-house-homeless-during-pandemic/ THE DECLINE AND FALL OF SAN FRANCISCOChristopher Rufo has been reporting on the decay of west coast cities for City Journal, and has posted this 11-minute video showing how bad things have become in San Francisco. It makes for bracing viewing. VIDEO HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=222&v=uw8MACDZ3RI&feature=emb_logo ...more

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• 294: The Barr/Bash inquiry about the Obama Administration abuse of surveillance likely reaches back to the first term. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Photo:View down Pike Street toward the Manhattan Bridge, 1936, photograph by Berenice Abbott Berenice Abbott - https://www.flickr.com/photos/nypl/3095884537/ Digital ID: 482679. Abbott, Berenice -- Photographer. March 06, 1936 Notes: Code: I.A.5. Looking down Pike Street toward the Manhattan Bridge, street half in shadow, rubble in gutters, some traffic. Source: Changing New York / Berenice Abbott. (more info) Repository: The New York Public Library. Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. Permission details See NYPL about Flickr and this photo labeled as "No known copyright restictions" on this page http://www.nypl.org/node/8314View more Public Domainview terms File:Pike and Henry Street by Berenice Abbott in 1936.jpg Created: 6 March 1936 Location: 40° 42′ 46.98″ N, 73° 59′ 33″ W  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe Barr/Bash inquiry about the Obama Administration abuse of surveillance likely  reaches back to the first term. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatnesshttps://www.redstate.com/shipwreckedcrew/2020/08/03/expanding-scope-of-inquiry-on-unmaskings-to-include-tofromabout-queries-in-nsa-database-would-be-huge-development/ ...more

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• 294: August 17, 2016 was not a "defensive briefing" of Candidate Trump by FBI agent Joe Pientka: it was an ambush. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Photo:The Manhattan Bridge under construction in March 1909 Irving Underhill - Library of Congress Manhattan Bridge, made March 23rd, 1909. Marine terminal at Main and Plymouth Streets in foreground; bridge under construction in background. Original image cropped slightly. Public Domain File:Manhattan Bridge Construction 1909.jpg Created: 23 March 1909 Location: 40° 42′ 26″ N, 73° 59′ 27.24″ W  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowAugust 17, 2016 was not a "defensive briefing" of Candidate Trump by FBI agent Joe Pientka: it was an ambush.  @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness  https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2020/08/24/barrs-dilemma-how-to-get-politics-out-of-the-justice-department/#slide-1 ...more

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• 293: Tiny, resource-rich Uruguay is a positive virus story in the modes of the general tragedy of South America. @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion

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  Aug 07 2020

  Photo:English: The 4th goal of Uruguay v. Argentina national team scored by Héctor Castro.Date | 30 July 1930Source | Album - Primer Campeonato Mundial de Football - Argentine Football Association LibraryAuthor | Unknown author http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowTiny, resource-rich Uruguay is a positive virus story in the modes of the general tragedy of South America. @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinionhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/a-latin-leader-copes-with-covid-19-11596396676?st=bg1qocbduxacwbm&reflink=article_email_share ...more

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• 293: Tariffs are a negative for the American and Canadian economy. @VeroDeRugy @Mercatus

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  Photo:View looking s.e. from approx. Cherry & Villiers St.Original caption: "Inscribed in the photograph u.r. (mirror image): 216130 Reproduced in Toronto Board of Harbour Commissioners annual report, 1930, p.14. TEC 138B.5H" — 1930 Jun 02Date | 2 June 1930Source | http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMDC-PICTURES-R-1409&R=DC-PICTURES-R-1409 Courtesy of Toronto Public LibraryAuthor | Unknown author http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowTariffs are a negative for the American and Canadian economy. @VeroDeRugy @Mercatushttps://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/freeland-aluminum-imports-tariffs-trump-1.5677757 ...more

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• 292: What or who will bail out the shutdown Blue state economies? @SebGorka #AmericaFirst

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  Aug 07 2020

  Image:  "A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast, Harper's Weekly, January 19, 1870 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowWhat or who will bail out the shutdown Blue state economies?  @SebGorka #AmericaFirsthttps://www.cnn.com/2020/08/06/us/iowa-teachers-coronavirus-obits-trnd/index.html

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• 292: Biden unable. @SebGorka #AmericaFirst

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  Aug 07 2020

  Image:  Intellectual activities such as playing chess or regular social interaction have been linked to a reduced risk of AD in epidemiological studies, although no causal relationship has been found. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowBiden unable.  @SebGorka #AmericaFirsthttps://www.foxnews.com/media/ny-times-reporter-spotlights-anxiety-from-biden-staff-over-gaffes-dems-thrilled-hes-not-on-campaign-trail

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• 292: The Iron Dome that protected me in Ashkelon finally comes to America. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Image:  Iron Dome. Fair use.In 2019, the U.S. Army announced its intent to buy two Iron Dome batteries to fill a need for an interim capability. Given interest by the U.S. and several other nations in Iron Dome’s unique capabilities, Raytheon Missiles & Defense has debuted the SkyHunter® system in cooperation with Rafael. Based on Iron Dome, SkyHunter can be produced in the United States to expand availability and capacity for the U.S. and its allies. These systems protect at the lowest layer, and Raytheon Missiles & Defense is also teamed with Rafael on the David’s Sling System, which defends at higher layers. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe Iron Dome that protected me in Ashkelon finally comes to America. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_preshttps://themedialine.org/by-region/rafael-raytheon-reach-deal-on-american-iron-dome/ ...more

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• 292: What does the predatory PRC want from rogue state of Iran? Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres Mike Doran Hudson Institute @Doranimated

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  Aug 07 2020

  Image:  Sassanid-era nobleman Mihransitad selects bride for the Persian king from five daughters of the Chinese emperor, 14th century miniature http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowWhat does the predatory PRC want from rogue state of Iran? Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres Mike Doran Hudson Institute @DoranimatedMichael Doran is a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute. He specializes in Middle East security issues. In the administration of President George W. Bush, Mr. Doran served in the White House as a senior director in the National Security Council, where he was responsible for helping to devise and coordinate United States strategies on a variety of Middle East issues, including Arab-Israeli relations and U.S. efforts to contain Iran and Syria. Related articles●        https://www.voanews.com/middle-east/voa-news-iran/pompeos-warning-against-closer-china-iran-ties-highlights-dilemma-beijing ●        https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/china-middle-eastern-kingdom ●        https://www.state.gov/secretary-michael-r-pompeo-with-maria-bartiromo ●        https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/us/politics/us-examines-saudi-nuclear-program.html ●        https://apnews.com/b001ff286408a7b424c016840745f048  ...more

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• 292: Yemen is unsolved. Norman Roule. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres. Norman T. Roule.Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Photo: The Yemeni capital, Sanaa, after airstrikes, 9 October 2015 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowYemen is unsolved. Norman Roule. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres. Norman T. Roule.Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_presNorman T. Roule served for 34-years in the Central Intelligence Agency, managing significant programs relating to the Middle East. Mr. Roule’s service in the CIA’s Directorate of Operations included roles as Division Chief, Deputy Division Chief and Chief of Station. He has held multiple senior assignments in Washington as well as during more than 15 years of overseas work. He served as the National Intelligence Manager for Iran (NIM-I) at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence from November 2008 until September 2017.Relevant articles: ·         https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/08/egypt-role-riyadh-agreement-uae-south-yemen-turkey.html ·         https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/01/world/middleeast/uae-nuclear-Barakah.html ·         https://www.wsj.com/articles/saudi-arabia-with-chinas-help-expands-its-nuclear-program-11596575671 ·         https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/08/iraq-shiite-militias-us-iran.html ·         https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/iraqs-prime-minister-announces-early-elections-which-will-be-held-next-year/2020/07/31/7075a272-d34a-11ea-826b-cc394d824e35_story.html ...more

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• 292: After the blast, Nasrallah and Hezbollah remain in control of the failed state of Lebanon. Yoni Ben Menachem. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Image:  Hezbollah logo.   http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowAfter the blast, Nasrallah and Hezbollah remain in control of the failed state of Lebanon. Yoni Ben Menachem. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_presYoni Ben Menachem, a veteran Arab affairs and diplomatic commentator for Israel Radio and Television, is a senior Middle East analyst for the Jerusalem Center. He served as director general and chief editor of the Israel Broadcasting Authority. Yoni speaks four different dialects of Arabic ,English ,Hebrew. Japanese and Persian. Currently, Yoni is an independent journalist from 2015 and strategic consultant and appears as a political and middle east commentator on the Israeli and Foreign media. ●        https://www.timesofisrael.com/beirut-blast-may-see-lebanese-scrutiny-turn-to-hezbollahs-weapon-stores/ ●        https://news.yahoo.com/hezbollah-not-escape-blame-beirut-115000724.html ●        https://www.gzeromedia.com/whats-next-for-lebanon ●        https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/nasrallah-threatened-to-blow-up-israel-with-same-chemicals-as-beirut-blast-637582 ●        https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2020/08/04/crisis-in-lebanon/  ...more

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• 291: PRC losing hold of the Pakistani road to the Indian Ocean and Iran. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs.

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  Photo:  Pakistan Prime Minister Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy with Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai signing the Treaty of Friendship Between China and Pakistan. Pakistan is host to China's largest embassy http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowPRC losing hold of the Pakistan road to the Indian Ocean and Iran. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs. The New Total War of the 21st Century and the Trigger of the Fear Pandemic Paperback – July 15, 2020. by Gregory R. Copley  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1892998262/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1 ...more

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• 291: Australia and the US prepare for PRC provocations. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs.

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  Photo:  Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison with U.S. President Donald Trump shaking hands at the White House, September 2019. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowAustralia and the US prepare for PRC provocations. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs. The New Total War of the 21st Century and the Trigger of the Fear Pandemic Paperback – July 15, 2020. by Gregory R. Copley  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1892998262/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1 ...more

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• 291: Obama the routine partisan rationalizes disorder. @ConradMBlack @TheAmGreatness

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  Photo:  The buildings burning during Watts riot http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowObama the routine partisan rationalizes disorder. @ConradMBlack @TheAmGreatnesshttps://amgreatness.com/2020/08/03/obama-defends-mob-rule/

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• 291: Will Canada's Conservatives keep pushing back on the Liberal/NDP/Green climate change assault? @ConradMBlack @NationalPost

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  Photo:  A Canadian Conservative election poster from 1891. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowWill Canada's Conservatives keep pushing back on the Liberal/NDP/Green climate change assault? @ConradMBlack @NationalPosthttps://nationalpost.com/opinion/black080120

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• 290: The retail (small) investor bids up the vaccine-makers and everything that looks like the vaccine-makers. @GregZuckerman @WSJ

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  Photo:Curb market at Broad Street 1902. Wrote a local resident in 1907, each morning at 10 o'clock the "multitude" of "brokers, brokers' clerks, lemonade and provision vendors, messenger boys, 'lambs' awaiting slaughter, and numerous other attaches and camp followers of the noisy and disorderly throng breaks forth with a volley of discordant screams which rend the air for several blocks, and then bedlam reigns until the gong again sounds at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, to the confusion and discomfort of the whole surrounding neighborhood."[8] Falk - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID pan.6a12056. 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. Curb market at Broad Street. It later became the en:American Stock Exchange. In the background there's the NYSE building under construction. Public Domain File:Curb market at Broad Street 1902.jpg Created: 15 July 1902 Location: 40° 42′ 18″ N, 74° 0′ 41.6″ W  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe retail (small) investor bids up the vaccine-makers and everything that looks like the vaccine-makers. @GregZuckerman @WSJ https://www.wsj.com/articles/with-biotech-stocks-investors-love-the-thrill-of-the-chase-11596619800?mod=hp_lead_pos2  https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-vaccine-front-runners-impress-investors-but-concerns-exist-11596533401?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=2  ...more

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• 290: PRC indignant at a UN report on Kim nukes. Kim indignant at baby sister. Brue Bechtol, Angelo State, author North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa: Enabling Violence and Instability.

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  Photo: Kim Yo-jong, Kim Jong-il's younger sister, of similar mentality and frozen-hearted temperament.  Here: Photograph of Kim Yo-jong attending the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics on 9 February 2018 Part of her domain:  Room 39 (officially Central Committee Bureau 39 of the Workers' Party of Korea, also referred to as Bureau 39, Division 39, or Office 39[2]) is a secretive North Korean party organization that seeks ways to maintain the foreign currency slush fund for the country's leaders. The organization is estimated to bring in between $500 million and $1 billion per year or more and may be involved in illegal activities, such as counterfeiting $100 bills, producing controlled substances (including the synthesis of methamphetamine and the conversion of morphine-containing opium into more potent opiates like heroin), and international insurance fraudhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowPRC indignant at a UN report on Kim nukes.  Kim indignant at baby sister. Brue Bechtol, Angelo State, author North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa: Enabling Violence and Instability. https://www.foxnews.com/world/north-korea-has-likely-developed-mini-nukes-to-fit-into-warheads-of-ballistic-missiles-report ...more

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• 290: #HotelMars: SpaceX double success with Dragon Endeavor return to the Gulf and Starship hop at Boca Chica. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com William Harwood @cbs_spacenews

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  Photo:  SpaceX : Tracking footage of Crew Dragon’s descent, parachute deployments and splashdown.  NASA http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow#HotelMars: SpaceX double success with Dragon Endeavor return to the Gulf and Starship hop at Boca Chica. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com William Harwood @cbs_spacenewsBy WILLIAM HARWOODCBS News (@cbs_spacenews)Plunging back to Earth in a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule Sunday amounted to a high-speed thrill ride, astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken reported Tuesday, a fiery, flawlessly-controlled descent to splashdown that came off without a hitch, a major step toward certifying the vehicle for operational flights."What a ride!" Behnken tweeted, sharing long-range tracking camera footage of the Crew Dragon's dramatic descent.https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1290478601804996609 ...more

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• 290: Would Biden's fair housing correct Trump's fair housing? . @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Photo:  Boundary Street 1890; three years later, the London County Council began slum clearance. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowWould Biden's fair housing correct Trump's fair housing? . @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst https://www.hoover.org/research/two-cheers-hud

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• 290: Trump's fair housing in Westchester corrects Obama's fair housing in Westchester. @RichardAepstein @HooverInst

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  Photo: Westchester County, New York: Yonkers http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowTrump's fair housing in Westchester corrects Obama's fair housing in Westchester. @RichardAepstein @HooverInst https://www.hoover.org/research/two-cheers-hud

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• 290: The troubles with TikTok. @TheBrandon Weichert, The Weichert Report. @GordonGChang

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  Photo: TikTok logo http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe troubles with TikTok. @TheBrandon Weichert, The Weichert Report. @GordonGChang https://www.ft.com/content/45d739f5-37cc-4957-874d-a310c2ac8e07

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• 289: Dr. Nashina knew it was an atomic bomb when he found radioactive teeth on the pavement in Hiroshima, August 6, 1945. Charles Pellegrino.

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  Aug 06 2020

  Photo:Hiroshima in ruins, October 1945, two months after the atomic bomb exploded.US government, Post-Work: User:W.wolny - ibiblio.org a collaboration of the centerforthepublicdomain.org Effects of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. View from the top of the Red Cross Hospital looking northwest. Frame buildings recently erected. 1945 Public Domain File:AtomicEffects-Hiroshima.jpg Created: 1 January 1945  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowDr. Nashina knew it was an atomic bomb when he found radioactive teethon the pavement  in Hiroshima, August 6, 1945. Charles Pellegrino. To Hell and Back: The Last Train from Hiroshima (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives) Hardcover – August 6, 2015.  by Charles Pellegrino  (Author)https://www.amazon.com/Hell-Back-Hiroshima-Pacific-Perspectives/dp/1442250585...more

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• 289: Comey under the bus while Flynn gets off the bus. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Aug 06 2020

  Photo:Català: Autobús Petit-Canigó 1920 Begues-GavàDate | 31 January 2013, 19:52:07Source | Colección Ricard Fernández i ValentíAuthor | Unknown author http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowComey under the bus while Flynn gets off the bus. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatnesshttps://www.nationalreview.com/2020/08/what-to-make-of-sally-yatess-senate-testimony/

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• 289: Western Pennsylvania buys more guns while witnessing the virus and the Woke. @SalenaZito DCExaminer

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  Photo: Long rifles of various Pennsylvania and Massachusetts manufacturers displayed at the Huntington Museum of ArtThe 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 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowWestern Pennsylvania buys more guns while witnessing the virus and the Woke. @SalenaZito DCExaminer

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• 289: Watching a healthy, small-business-based State Senate contest in Allegheny County to gauge how Pennsylvania goes on Election Day. @SalenaZito @DCExaminer salena zito.com

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  Photo: English: Original, suspension 1877 Point Bridge and 1915 North Side Point Bridge, known as Manchester Bridge, in Pittsburgh, PA.Date | between 1910 and 1920 Source | https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/det1994020046/PP/Author | Part of Detroit Publishing Company Photograph CollectionPermission(Reusing this file) | PD-Detroit http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowWatching a healthy, small-business-based State Senate contest in Allegheny County to gauge how Pennsylvania goes on Election Day.  @SalenaZito @DCExaminer Salenazito.com ...more

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• 289: Bullying, deceiving PRC is not ready for global leadership. @RHFontaine @CNASDC

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  Image;  Ch'ien Lung emperor http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowBullying, deceiving PRC is not ready for global leadership. @RHFontaine @CNASDChttps://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/china-has-squandered-its-first-great-opportunity/614647/ China Has Squandered Its First Great OpportunityThe world has experienced a six-month geopolitical vacuum, and China has filled it poorly.

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• 289: It is something other than a repurposed Cold War with PRC. @RHFontaine @CNASDC

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  Image:  Unrestricted Warfare (simplified Chinese: 超限战; traditional Chinese: 超限戰; lit.: 'warfare beyond bounds') is a book on military strategy written in 1999 by two colonels in the People's Liberation Army, Qiao Liang (乔良) and Wang Xiangsui (王湘穗). http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowIt is something other than a repurposed Cold War with PRC. @RHFontaine @CNASDChttps://www.cnas.org/publications/commentary/the-u-s-china-confrontation-is-not-another-cold-war-its-something-newhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/02/us-china-confrontation-is-not-another-cold-war-its-something-new/ The U.S.-China confrontation is not another Cold War. It’s something new....more

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• 288: Japan pushes back adamantly against PRC at the Senkakus. Rick Fisher, International Assessment and Strategy Center. @GordonGChang

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  Image:   Overview. "The Senkaku Islands" is the collective term that refers to a group of islands that includes Uotsuri, Kitakojima, Minamikojima, Kuba, Taisho, Okinokitaiwa, Okinominamiiwa, and Tobise located at the west side of the Nansei Shoto Islands. They are part of Ishigaki City, Okinawa Prefecture. Here: map courtesy of the Japanese Ministry Foreign Affairs. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowJapan pushes back adamantly against PRC at the Senkakus. Rick Fisher, International Assessment and Strategy Center. @GordonGChang https://asiatimes.com/2020/08/china-japan-island-dispute-in-new-sharper-focus/ ...more

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• 288: Discarding untrustworthy Huawei and ZTE. @BrendanCarrFCC @GordonGChang

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  Image:  Industrial Workers of the World "stickerette" or "silent agitator"  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowDiscarding untrustworthy Huawei and ZTE.  @BrendanCarrFCC @GordonGChang https://www.rcrwireless.com/20200717/5g/fcc-takes-further-actions-against-huawei-zte

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• 287: Gavin Newsom deep in California debt and no obvious way out unless Trump wins. @HooverWhalen @HooverInst

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  Photo:nglish: Dorothea Lange atop automobile in California. The car is a 1933 Ford Model C, 4 door Wagon. The camera is a Graflex 5x7 Series D.Lange was a New Deal Resettlement Administration and FSA-OWI photographer.Date | 1936 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowGavin Newsom deep in California debt and no obvious way out unless Trump wins. @HooverWhalen @HooverInsthttps://www.hoover.org/research/newsom-rainmaker

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• 287: State of the City, the State, the Union: Governor Cuomo pleads for the people return from the Hamptons, Westchester, Connecticut to a fretful city. John Catsimatidis @JCats2013 @CatsRoundtable @JohnCats.

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  Photo:English: Digital ID: 1219157. Abbott, Berenice -- Photographer. March 20, 1936Notes: Three large row houses, including one of marble (#8) and traffic on Fifth Ave. and 8th St., and trolley tracks in 8th St. Code: I.A.1.; I.A.3. Exhibited: Modern Vision #74Source: Changing New York / Berenice Abbott. (http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/?col_id=160)Repository: The New York Public Library. Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs.See more information about http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?1219157 and others at http://digitalgallery.nypl.org.Persistent URL: http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?1219157Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions; may be subject to third party rights (for more information, http://www.nypl.org/node/8314)Date | 15 December 2008, 05:22:29Source | https://www.flickr.com/photos/nypl/3109782095/Author | New York Public LibraryPermission(Reusing this file) | At the time of upload, the image license was automatically confirmed using the Flickr API. For more information see Flickr API detail.Flickr sets | Changing New York, 1935-1938Flickr tags | New York Public Librarydc:identifier http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?1219157xmlns:dc http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/dc:coverage 1936New YorkN.Y.Street railroadsGreenwich VillageStreetsFifth AvenueRow houses http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowState of the City, the State, the Union: Governor Cuomo pleads for the people return from the Hamptons, Westchester, Connecticut to a fretful city.  John Catsimatidis @JCats2013 @CatsRoundtable @JohnCats.https://nypost.com/2020/08/05/cuomo-wealthy-residents-should-leave-hamptons-return-to-nyc/“I literally talk to people all day long who are now in their Hamptons house who also lived here, or in their Hudson Valley house, or in their Connecticut weekend house, and I say, ‘You got to come back! We’ll go to dinner! I’ll buy you a drink! Come over, I’ll cook!’” the Democratic governor said Monday....more

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• 284: London thrives with masking and social distancing, waiting on schooldays and the vaccine. @JosephSternberg

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  Photo:  A masked Guy being paraded on Guy Fawkes Night, 1868.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowLondon thrives with masking and social distancing, waiting on schooldays and the vaccine. @JosephSternberghttps://www.wsj.com/articles/europe-turns-america-into-a-bad-example-on-fiscal-policy-11596131253

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• 286: The roadmap for a Biden Administration to enforce the Green New Deal with the Commerce Clause and the Taxing Power. John Yoo @HooverInst @AEI

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  Photo:  The Green New Deal (GND) is a proposed package of United States legislation that aims to address climate change and economic inequality. here: German Green Party co-founder Petra Kelly, first leader and theorist of green politics:  a founding member of the German Green Party, the first Green party to rise to prominence both nationally in Germany and worldwide (murdered in 1992 by her sweetheart, Gen Gert Bastian). http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe roadmap for a Biden Administration to enforce the Green New Deal with the Commerce Clause and the Taxing Power. John Yoo @HooverInst @AEIhttps://www.amazon.com/Defender-Chief-Donald-Trumps-Constitution/dp/1250269571 ...more

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• 286: What is the President's Constitutional authority to deploy Homeland Security to protect US citizens and property? John Yoo.

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  Photo: President George W. Bush signs the Homeland Security Appropriations Act of 2004 on October 1, 2003. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowWhat is the President's Constitutional authority to deploy Homeland Security to protect US citizens and property? John Yoo. @HooverInst @AEI Defender in Chief: Donald Trump's Fight for Presidential Power Hardcover – July 28, 2020. by John Yoo  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Defender-Chief-Donald-Trumps-Constitution/dp/1250269571 ...more

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• 286: Italy is open for the British and waits on the Americans to return to the Amalfi Coast. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation

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  Photo:  With 61.6 million tourists per year (2018), Italy is the fifth most visited countryin international tourism arrivals.  Real tourism affected Italy only in the second half of the 17th century, with the beginning of the Grand Tour, when European aristocrats, many of whom were British, visited parts of Europe; Italy, Greece and other Mediterranean places were amongst the most popular. This was in order to study ancient architecture and the local culture. The Grand Tour was in essence triggered by the book Voyage to Italy, by the Roman Catholic priest Richard Lassels, and published in 1670.'Inglese italianato è un diavolo incarnato' (an Italianate Englishman is a devil incarnate) , Roger Ascham famously said in the Schoolmaster. Here: Florence in 1898, a painting by Oswald Achenbach. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowItaly is open for the British and waits on the Americans to return to the Amalfi Coast. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundationhttps://news.yahoo.com/absence-us-tourists-hammers-italys-amalfi-coast-105056179.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACKfYlxx-ADx8aDU7U2VIMTlSpVkD3VSjaARUJ8bTuYFH6-q5SQoAsalqti0IYHxPf8MK1XnmbawvL-e6J9j_AzXDxYYub3hGzz_HSLT_c_1a4S2TVOIcCh6U-pzcDrCMkFYp56Gw5Utjwz9qScR3qTEIGxpZY8vJRYllJ1do6vU ...more

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• 286: Strong recruiting United States Space Force for 2050.Peter Garretson, American Foreign Policy Council.

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  Photo:  Flag of the United States Space Force http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowStrong recruiting United States Space Force for 2050.Peter Garretson, American Foreign Policy Council.https://www.newsweek.com/americas-space-strategy-comes-age-opinion-1521146Peter Garretson is a senior fellow in Defense Studies at the American Foreign Policy Council and a strategy consultant who focuses on space and defense. He was a participant in the USSF-AFRL-DIU workshop and a contributor to the SIB2020 report. ...more

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• 285: Chasing the Last Laugh: 4of4: Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Richard Zacks (Author), George Guidall (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Aug 05 2020

  Photo:English: "The great humorist standing in the private roadway at his summer home, Tuxedo Park, NY."Date | 1 January 1916Source | Pressley Park. A Vocational Reader. Chicago, Rand McNally, 1916. Original from Harvard University. Image courtesy of HathiTrust.Author | Underwood & Underwood http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Chasing the Last Laugh: 4of4: Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Richard Zacks (Author), George Guidall (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Last-Laugh-Round-World/dp/B01DO8C9LM/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Mark Twain, the highest-paid writer in America in 1894, was also one of the nation's worst investors. "There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate," he wrote. "When he can't afford it and when he can." The publishing company Twain owned was failing; his investment in a typesetting device was bleeding red ink. After losing hundreds of thousands of dollars back when a beer cost a nickel, he found himself neck-deep in debt. His heiress wife, Livy, took the setback hard. "I have a perfect horror and heart-sickness over it," she wrote. "I cannot get away from the feeling that business failure means disgrace."  But Twain vowed to Livy he would pay back every penny. And so, just when the 59-year-old, bushy-browed icon imagined that he would be settling into literary lionhood, telling jokes at gilded dinners, he forced himself to mount the "platform" again, embarking on a round-the-world stand-up comedy tour. No author had ever done that. He cherry-picked his best stories - such as stealing his first watermelon and buying a bucking bronco - and spun them into a 90-minute performance.  Twain trekked across the American West and onward by ship to the faraway lands of Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, India, Ceylon, and South Africa. He rode an elephant twice and visited the Taj Mahal. He saw Zulus dancing and helped sort diamonds at the Kimberley mines. (He failed to slip away with a sparkly souvenir.) He played shuffleboard on cruise ships and battled captains for the right to smoke in peace. He complained that his wife and daughter made him shave and change his shirt every day.  The great American writer fought off numerous illnesses and travel nuisances to circle the globe and earn a huge payday and a tidal wave of applause. Word of his success, however, traveled slowly enough that one American newspaper reported that he had died penniless in London. That's when he famously quipped, "The report of my death was an exaggeration."  Throughout his quest, Twain was aided by cutthroat Standard Oil tycoon H. H. Rogers, with whom he had struck a deep friendship, and he was hindered by his own lawyer (and future secretary of state) Bainbridge Colby, whom he deemed "head idiot of this century".  In Chasing the Last Laugh, author Richard Zacks, drawing extensively on unpublished material in notebooks and letters from Berkeley's ongoing Mark Twain Project, chronicles a poignant chapter in the author's life - one that began in foolishness and bad choices but culminated in humor, hard-won wisdom, and ultimate triumph....more

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• 285: Chasing the Last Laugh: 3of4: Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Richard Zacks (Author), George Guidall (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo:Title: Mark Twain in front of boyhood home in Hannibal.Date | 1902Source | Missouri History MuseumURL: http://images.mohistory.org/image/A2B4F9AC-80AD-15B3-07DB-C90073011D4C/original.jpgGallery: http://collections.mohistory.org/resource/140805Author | H. TomlinsonPermission(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. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Chasing the Last Laugh: 3of4: Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Richard Zacks (Author), George Guidall (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Last-Laugh-Round-World/dp/B01DO8C9LM/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Mark Twain, the highest-paid writer in America in 1894, was also one of the nation's worst investors. "There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate," he wrote. "When he can't afford it and when he can." The publishing company Twain owned was failing; his investment in a typesetting device was bleeding red ink. After losing hundreds of thousands of dollars back when a beer cost a nickel, he found himself neck-deep in debt. His heiress wife, Livy, took the setback hard. "I have a perfect horror and heart-sickness over it," she wrote. "I cannot get away from the feeling that business failure means disgrace."  But Twain vowed to Livy he would pay back every penny. And so, just when the 59-year-old, bushy-browed icon imagined that he would be settling into literary lionhood, telling jokes at gilded dinners, he forced himself to mount the "platform" again, embarking on a round-the-world stand-up comedy tour. No author had ever done that. He cherry-picked his best stories - such as stealing his first watermelon and buying a bucking bronco - and spun them into a 90-minute performance.  Twain trekked across the American West and onward by ship to the faraway lands of Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, India, Ceylon, and South Africa. He rode an elephant twice and visited the Taj Mahal. He saw Zulus dancing and helped sort diamonds at the Kimberley mines. (He failed to slip away with a sparkly souvenir.) He played shuffleboard on cruise ships and battled captains for the right to smoke in peace. He complained that his wife and daughter made him shave and change his shirt every day.  The great American writer fought off numerous illnesses and travel nuisances to circle the globe and earn a huge payday and a tidal wave of applause. Word of his success, however, traveled slowly enough that one American newspaper reported that he had died penniless in London. That's when he famously quipped, "The report of my death was an exaggeration."  Throughout his quest, Twain was aided by cutthroat Standard Oil tycoon H. H. Rogers, with whom he had struck a deep friendship, and he was hindered by his own lawyer (and future secretary of state) Bainbridge Colby, whom he deemed "head idiot of this century".  In Chasing the Last Laugh, author Richard Zacks, drawing extensively on unpublished material in notebooks and letters from Berkeley's ongoing Mark Twain Project, chronicles a poignant chapter in the author's life - one that began in foolishness and bad choices but culminated in humor, hard-won wisdom, and ultimate triumph....more

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• 285: Chasing the Last Laugh: 2of4: Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Richard Zacks (Author), George Guidall (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo:[Samuel Langhorne Clemens, (Mark Twain), full-length portrait, standing, facing left, in academic cap and gown]  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Chasing the Last Laugh: 2of4: Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Richard Zacks (Author), George Guidall (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Last-Laugh-Round-World/dp/B01DO8C9LM/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Mark Twain, the highest-paid writer in America in 1894, was also one of the nation's worst investors. "There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate," he wrote. "When he can't afford it and when he can." The publishing company Twain owned was failing; his investment in a typesetting device was bleeding red ink. After losing hundreds of thousands of dollars back when a beer cost a nickel, he found himself neck-deep in debt. His heiress wife, Livy, took the setback hard. "I have a perfect horror and heart-sickness over it," she wrote. "I cannot get away from the feeling that business failure means disgrace."  But Twain vowed to Livy he would pay back every penny. And so, just when the 59-year-old, bushy-browed icon imagined that he would be settling into literary lionhood, telling jokes at gilded dinners, he forced himself to mount the "platform" again, embarking on a round-the-world stand-up comedy tour. No author had ever done that. He cherry-picked his best stories - such as stealing his first watermelon and buying a bucking bronco - and spun them into a 90-minute performance.  Twain trekked across the American West and onward by ship to the faraway lands of Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, India, Ceylon, and South Africa. He rode an elephant twice and visited the Taj Mahal. He saw Zulus dancing and helped sort diamonds at the Kimberley mines. (He failed to slip away with a sparkly souvenir.) He played shuffleboard on cruise ships and battled captains for the right to smoke in peace. He complained that his wife and daughter made him shave and change his shirt every day.  The great American writer fought off numerous illnesses and travel nuisances to circle the globe and earn a huge payday and a tidal wave of applause. Word of his success, however, traveled slowly enough that one American newspaper reported that he had died penniless in London. That's when he famously quipped, "The report of my death was an exaggeration."  Throughout his quest, Twain was aided by cutthroat Standard Oil tycoon H. H. Rogers, with whom he had struck a deep friendship, and he was hindered by his own lawyer (and future secretary of state) Bainbridge Colby, whom he deemed "head idiot of this century".  In Chasing the Last Laugh, author Richard Zacks, drawing extensively on unpublished material in notebooks and letters from Berkeley's ongoing Mark Twain Project, chronicles a poignant chapter in the author's life - one that began in foolishness and bad choices but culminated in humor, hard-won wisdom, and ultimate triumph....more

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• 285: Chasing the Last Laugh: 1of4: Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Richard Zacks (Author), George Guidall (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo:Mark Twain House, Hartford, Conn.Public domain  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Chasing the Last Laugh: 1of4: Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Richard Zacks (Author), George Guidall (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Last-Laugh-Round-World/dp/B01DO8C9LM/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Mark Twain, the highest-paid writer in America in 1894, was also one of the nation's worst investors. "There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate," he wrote. "When he can't afford it and when he can." The publishing company Twain owned was failing; his investment in a typesetting device was bleeding red ink. After losing hundreds of thousands of dollars back when a beer cost a nickel, he found himself neck-deep in debt. His heiress wife, Livy, took the setback hard. "I have a perfect horror and heart-sickness over it," she wrote. "I cannot get away from the feeling that business failure means disgrace."  But Twain vowed to Livy he would pay back every penny. And so, just when the 59-year-old, bushy-browed icon imagined that he would be settling into literary lionhood, telling jokes at gilded dinners, he forced himself to mount the "platform" again, embarking on a round-the-world stand-up comedy tour. No author had ever done that. He cherry-picked his best stories - such as stealing his first watermelon and buying a bucking bronco - and spun them into a 90-minute performance.  Twain trekked across the American West and onward by ship to the faraway lands of Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, India, Ceylon, and South Africa. He rode an elephant twice and visited the Taj Mahal. He saw Zulus dancing and helped sort diamonds at the Kimberley mines. (He failed to slip away with a sparkly souvenir.) He played shuffleboard on cruise ships and battled captains for the right to smoke in peace. He complained that his wife and daughter made him shave and change his shirt every day.  The great American writer fought off numerous illnesses and travel nuisances to circle the globe and earn a huge payday and a tidal wave of applause. Word of his success, however, traveled slowly enough that one American newspaper reported that he had died penniless in London. That's when he famously quipped, "The report of my death was an exaggeration."  Throughout his quest, Twain was aided by cutthroat Standard Oil tycoon H. H. Rogers, with whom he had struck a deep friendship, and he was hindered by his own lawyer (and future secretary of state) Bainbridge Colby, whom he deemed "head idiot of this century".  In Chasing the Last Laugh, author Richard Zacks, drawing extensively on unpublished material in notebooks and letters from Berkeley's ongoing Mark Twain Project, chronicles a poignant chapter in the author's life - one that began in foolishness and bad choices but culminated in humor, hard-won wisdom, and ultimate triumph....more

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• 284: The EU does not understand that Americans revile bail-outs and punish the profligate with relentless disregard. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

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  Photo:[Royal Theatre, Brussels, Belgium] (LOC)[Royal Theatre, Brussels, Belgium] [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color. Notes:Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J, foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, c1905.Print no. "6424".Forms part of: Views of architecture and other sites in Belgium in the Photochrom print collection.  Format: Photochrom prints--Color--1890-1900.  Rights Info: No known restrictions on reproduction.  Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA  Part Of: Views of architecture and other sites in Belgium (DLC) 2001696375  Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.05653  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe EU does not understand that Americans revile bail-outs and punish the profligate with relentless disregard. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinionhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/europe-turns-america-into-a-bad-example-on-fiscal-policy-11596131253 ...more

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• 284: Are those dried-up water channels on Mars actually the scars of ancient glaciers scraping the planet? Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Photo:Satellite photo montage of Devon Island and its neighboursNASA - worldwind.arc.nasa.gov Devon Island in the Canadian Arctic. Permission details This image is in the public domain because it is a screenshot from NASA’s globe software World Wind using a public domain layer, such as Blue Marble, MODIS, Landsat, SRTM, USGS or GLOBE. English | فارسی | français | עברית | македонски | മലയാളം | Nederlands | русский | 中文（中国大陆）‎ | +/−View more Public Domainview terms File:Wff devon island.jpg Created: Unknown dateUnknown date  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowAre those dried-up water channels on Mars actually the scars of ancient glaciers scraping the planet? Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/study-mars-meandering-canyons-formed-under-ice/ ...more

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• 284: Endeavor comes home as Roscosmos searches for new customers. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowEndeavor comes home as Roscosmos searches for new customers. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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• 283: Biden's questioned health is a known unknown & What is to be done? @LizPeek

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  Aug 05 2020

  Photo:Garner with Governor Roosevelt and Kansas Governor Harry Woodring in September 1932 Unknown author or not provided - U.S. National Archives and Records Administration Public Domain File:Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Woodring, and John Garner in Topeka, Kansas - NARA - 196071.jpg Created: 14 September 1932date QS:P571,+1932-09-14T00:00:00Z/11  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowBiden's questioned health is a known unknown & What is to be done? @LizPeekhttp://lizpeek.com/bidens-vp-choice-hes-dithering/ ...more

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• 283: The global economy watches the US economy awakens from the unprecedented. @LizPeek @TheHill

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  Photo:This woodcut from 1568 shows the left printer removing a page from the press while the one at right inks the text-blocks. Such a duo could reach 14,000 hand movements per working day, printing around 3,600 pages in the process.[3] Jost Amman - Meggs, Philip B. A History of Graphic Design. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1998. (p 64) At the left in the foreground, a "puller" removes a printed sheet from the press. The "beater" to his right is inking the forme. In the background, compositors are setting type. Public Domain File:Printer in 1568-ce.png Created: 1 January 1568  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe global economy watches the US economy awakens from the unprecedented. @LizPeek @TheHillhttps://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2020/08/04/newsletter-long-road-to-recovery/ ...more

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• 283: Princeton cancelling Woodrow Wilson is Princeton trying to erase its own history. @RepKenBuck CO-4

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  Photo:English: A photograph of the Princeton University Class of 1879 on the steps of the John C. Green School of ScienceDate | 14 November 2011Source | https://www.flickr.com/photos/wwplarchives/4453967539/sizes/o/in/photostream/Author | Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowPrinceton cancelling Woodrow Wilson is Princeton trying to erase its own history. @RepKenBuck CO-4https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2020-election-conservatives-cancel-culture-ken-buck ...more

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• 283: Americans vote for law and against lawlessness, 1968 and 2020. @WJMcGurn @WSJOpinion

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  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowAmericans vote for law and against lawlessness, 1968 and 2020. @WJMcGurn @WSJOpinionhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-wins-in-portland-11596495197

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• 282: #NewWorld: The Ayatollah's K-Mart/Costco opens in Caracas for the elite of the regime -- in Farsi. @jmhumire, @MariaFdaCabal.

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  Aug 05 2020

  Photo:Español: Caracas La Vega hacia 1900Date | 1900Source | Rivero, Angel. 1992: La vega en concreto. Libro conmemorativo de la fundación C.A. Fabrica Nacional de Cementos. Editorial Arte. ISBN:980-6273-66-4Author | Unknown author http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow#NewWorld: The Ayatollah's K-Mart/Costco opens in Caracas for the elite of the regime -- in Farsi.    @jmhumire, @MariaFdaCabal.https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/07/iran-supermarket-opens-venezuela.html ...more

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• 282: #NewWorld: Latin America's virus crisis deepens in all countries, with Brazil and Mexico hard hit. @jmhumire, @MariaFdaCabal.

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  Photo:[Interior of the Pavilion of Uruguay, showing products from Uruguay, Paris Exposition, 1889]  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow#NewWorld: Latin America's virus crisis deepens in all countries, with Brazil and Mexico hard hit.   @jmhumire, @MariaFdaCabal.https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/02/americas/latin-america-worst-coronavirus-romo-intl/index.html

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• 282: Weeks to the NYC school year and parents and children are adrift in the bickering Cuomo and DeBlasio. @HarrySiegel

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  Photo:Title: Play and play materials for the pre-school childYear: 1900 (1900s)Authors:  Mitchell, HarrietSubjects:  Play ChildrenPublisher:  Ottawa, Canadian Council on Child WelfareContributing 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:> 50 Schwartz. Fifth .\ve., N.Y. Work Bench Sheldon . Tools. Chase Stockinet Dolls. 24 Park Place, Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Schoenhut Wooden Jointed Dolls.Schoenhut Wooden Jointed Animals. Sepvivia and Kast Hagert Sts., Philadelphia. 42 III. THE HOME PLAYGROUND. PLANNING A HOME PLAYGROUND. WHY THE CHILDNEEDS APLAYGROUND. Everyone accepts the fact that as far aspossible the childs play should be carried onout of doors. In the congested cities andeven in suburban districts with small building lots, it isnot always easy to provide a desirable place for such outdoor play, where children can be protected from thetraffic of the streets, away from dangers, and healthilyactive. In most cities to-day, public playgroundsare scientifically equipped and supervisedfor the most wholesome out door activitiesof growing children from six years on. Somefew have a special part fenced off for thepre-school children. The pre-school child is IS A PUBLICPLAYGROUNDDESIRABLE FORTHE PRE-SCHOOLCHILD ? use of http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowWeeks to the NYC school year and parents and children are adrift in the bickering Cuomo and DeBlasio.  @HarrySiegelhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/opinion/cuomo-de-blasio-coronavirus-nyc.htmlhttps://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-telling-tales-out-of-school-20200801-y4qjn3z6gbdfrl5gom3rrhv2r4-story.html ...more

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• 282: The Federal Reserve Put explains everything, including Bullish Gold and Silver. @BrettArends @Marketwatch

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  Photo:nglish: 1896 map of the Transvaal Gold FieldsDate | 1896Source | "Engineering and Mining Journal" (1896), McGraw-Hill, p. 60 https://books.google.com/books?id=sdc2AQAAMAAJAuthor | Engineering and Mining Journal http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe Federal Reserve Put explains everything, including Bullish Gold and Silver. @BrettArends @Marketwatch

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• 282: Where in the Solar System was Jupiter born? 2of2: Ken Croswell, @PNASNews

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  Photo:Deutsch: Bild von ultraviolettem Polarlicht auf Jupiter, aufgenommen mit dem Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) des Weltraumteleskops Hubble der NASA. • STScI-PRC00-38Helle Streifen und Tupfen sind verursacht durch magnetischen Flussröhren, die Jupiter mit seinen größten Monden verbindet:Io: heller Streifen ganz links,Ganymed: heller Tupfer unterhalb der Bildmitte,Europa: Tupfer rechts dessen von GanymedEnglish: This is a spectacular NASA Hubble Space Telescope close-up view of an electric-blue aurora that is eerily glowing one half billion miles away on the giant planet Jupiter. Auroras are curtains of light resulting from high-energy electrons racing along the planet's magnetic field into the upper atmosphere. The electrons excite atmospheric gases, causing them to glow. The image shows the main oval of the aurora, which is centered on the magnetic north pole, plus more diffuse emissions inside the polar cap.Though the aurora resembles the same phenomenon that crowns Earth's polar regions, the Hubble image shows unique emissions from the magnetic "footprints" of three of Jupiter's largest moons. (These points are reached by following Jupiter's magnetic field from each satellite down to the planet).Auroral footprints can be seen in this image from Io (along the left hand limb), Ganymede (near the center), and Europa (just below and to the right of Ganymede's auroral footprint). These emissions, produced by electric currents generated by the satellites, flow along Jupiter's magnetic field, bouncing in and out of the upper atmosphere. They are unlike anything seen on Earth.This ultraviolet image of Jupiter was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) on November 26, 1998. In this ultraviolet view, the aurora stands out clearly, but Jupiter's cloud structure is masked by haze. This image was taken in UV light at 140 nm.Date | Taken on 26 November 1998 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowWhere in the Solar System was Jupiter born? 2of2: Ken Croswell, @PNASNews  https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/06/30/2011609117 ...more

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• 282: Where in the Solar System was Jupiter born? 1of2: Ken Croswell, @PNASNews

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  Photo: English: Detail of Jupiter's atmosphere, as imaged by Voyager 1.Suggested for English Wikipedia:alternative text for images: This view of Jupiter's clouds with the Great Red Spot at top right as brown oval to right of wavy white and brown clouds. Below the Great Red Spot are various bands of bluer wavy clouds at smaller scales with smaller light blue spotsDate | March 1979Source | http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2002/release_2002_166.htmlhttp://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01384 (image link)Author | NASA, Caltech/JPLhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowWhere in the Solar System was Jupiter born? 1of2: Ken Croswell, @PNASNews  https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/06/30/2011609117 ...more

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• 281: Candidate and President Trump was the only target for the FBI and CIA, the rest was distraction. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Photo:English: John F. Kennedy and J. Edgar Hoover at the FBI National Academy, October 31, 1962 , John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and MuseumDate | 31 October 1962Source | https://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKWHP-1962-10-31-A.aspx# http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowCandidate and President Trump was the only target for the FBI and CIA, the rest was distraction. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/08/new-disclosures-confirm-trump-was-the-target-of-obama-administrations-russia-probe/...more

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• 281: The radical Left both needs and disdains the Democratic moderates. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Photo:Vietnam War protestors at the 1967 "March on the Pentagon".Frank Wolfe - Lyndon B. Johnson Library Vietnam War protestors march at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. on October 21, 1967. Public Domain File:Vietnam War protestors at the March on the Pentagon.jpg Created: 30 April 2012  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe radical Left both needs and disdains the Democratic moderates. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness https://amgreatness.com/2020/07/31/malcontents-in-the-middle/Alsohttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/25/us/politics/igor-danchenko-steele-dossier.html ...more

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• 280: The cautious and retiring Biden Camp drifts toward the VP choice. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund

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  Photo:US Senate chamber (circa 1873 view)Brady-Handy Photograph Collection (Library of Congress) - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cwpbh.03299. 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. US Senate Chamber (Restored image from glass negative) Public Domain File:US Senate Chamber c1873.jpg Created: circa 1873 date QS:P,+1873-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe cautious and retiring Biden Camp drifts toward the VP choice. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFundhttps://www.cnn.com/2020/08/01/opinions/bidens-pick-for-vice-president-will-be-about-energizing-the-base-louis/index.html ...more

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• 280: The $600 unemployment debate. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund

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  Photo:The Washington Depot with the U.S. Capitol in the distance (1872 view)Cushings & Bailey (publisher), published by DeGolyer Library, SMU Central University Libraries - Flicker: Washington Depot, with U. S. Capitol in the Distance Title: Washington Depot, with U. S. Capitol in the Distance. Part Of: Photographic views of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road and its branches from the lakes to the sea Description: This is an albumen print from the book Photographic Views of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road, and Its Branches, From The Lakes to The Sea, which is illustrated with images of attractions found along the route of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad between Baltimore and Chicago. Physical Description: 1 photographic print: albumen, part of 1 volume; 8 x 10 cm on 26 x 34 cm File: vault_ag1982_0119x_085_1_opt.jpg Rights: Please cite Southern Methodist University, Central University Libraries, DeGolyer Library when using this image file. A high-quality version of the file may be obtained for a fee by contacting degolyer@smu.edu. For more information, see: http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/nam/id/317 View the full album at: http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm/search/collection/nam/searchterm/Ag1982.0119x/mode/exact View the North America: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints: http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/all/cul/nam/ No restrictions File:Vault ag1982 0119x 085 1 opt.jpg Created: 1 January 1872  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe $600 unemployment debate. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFundhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-stimulus-talks-to-resume-after-jobless-aid-lapses-11596470044?mod=hp_lead_pos10 ...more

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• 280: "Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Battlefield of Saladin and Richard the Lionheart. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Photo: Richard I being anointed during his coronation in Westminster Abbey, from a 13th-century chronicle Matthew Paris - A 13th-century chronicle. Chetham MS Ms 6712 (A.6.89), fol.141r Richard the Lionheart, Richard I of England, being anointed during his coronation in Westminster Abbey. Public Domain File:Richard Löwenhez, Salbung zum König.jpg Created: 13th century date QS:P,+1250-00-00T00:00:00Z/7.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow"Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Battlefield of Saladin and Richard the Lionheart. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatnesshttps://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-archaeologist-identifies-battlefield-where-crusaders-defeated-saladin-1.9030323 ...more

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• 280: As Lebanon collapses,Iran refineries on strike. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres@ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Photo:Town and harbor from St. Dimila, Beyrout, Holy Land, (i.e., Beirut, Lebanon)Date | between 1890 and 1900 Dimensions | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.Accession number | LCCN2002724973 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowAs Lebanon collapses,Iran refineries on strike. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres@ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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• 272: India to China: "No compromise on territorial integrity." @CleoPaskal @FDD @GordonGChang

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  Photo:Hemis Monastery in the 1870sView author information Public Domain File:Hemis Monastery Ladakh 1876.jpg Uploaded: 2006-03-12 02:08:19  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowIndia to China: "No compromise on territorial integrity." @CleoPaskal @FDD @GordonGChang https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/no-compromise-on-territorial-integrity-india-to-china-during-5th-round-of-military-talks/articleshow/77335573.cms 

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• 272: Crushed Hong Kong and the possibility of Re-Education Camps. @GordonGChang @Michael_Yon

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  Aug 04 2020

  Photo:First generation of automobiles in Hong KongUnknown photographer - Image taken from Voices from the Past: Hong Kong 1842-1918 by Solomon Bard A Ford Model T in Hong Kong. Photograph was likely taken in the 1910s. Public Domain File:HKCar1900s.jpg Created: between circa 1909 and circa 1918 date QS:P,+1950-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1909-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1918-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 (based on the model Ford shown and when the photograph was published)  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowCrushed Hong Kong and the possibility of Re-Education Camps. @GordonGChang @Michael_Yonhttps://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3095774/hong-kong-elections-beijing-sends-top-official-discuss ...more

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• 272: The Uyghurs in Afghanistan, 2001-2020. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD

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  Photo:Map from Mahmud al-Kashgari's Dīwān ul-Lughat al-Turk, showing the 11th century distribution of Turkic tribesMahmud al-Kashgari - https://web.archive.org/web/20080125072719/http://www.lindenmuseum.de/inhalt/tuerkei/diwan.html Map from Mahmud al-Kashgari's Diwan (11th century). Public Domain File:Kashgari map.jpg Created: 11th century date QS:P,+1050-00-00T00:00:00Z/7  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe Uyghurs in Afghanistan, 2001-2020. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDDhttps://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2020/07/generation-jihad-ep-20-how-chinas-repressive-policies-could-fuel-the-jihad.php ...more

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• 272: ISIS Mass Prison Break in Afghanistan. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD

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  Photo:Русский: Берк, Джон, умер в 1900 годуFrançais : Burke, John, mort en 1900English: Burke, John, died 1900中文: 约翰·伯克，卒于 1900 年Português: Burke, John, falecido em 1900العربية: بيرك، جون، توفي 1900Español: Burke, John, fallecido en 1900Title | Русский: Сад эмира, ДжелалабадFrançais : Jardin de l'émir, à JalālābādEnglish: The Amir’s Garden, Jalālābād中文: 贾拉拉巴德的埃米尔花园Português: O jardim do emir, Jalālābādالعربية: حديقة الأمير، جلال آبادEspañol: El jardín del emir, JalālābādDescription | Русский: Эта фотография сада афганского эмира в Джелалабаде входит в альбом редких исторических фотоснимков, на которых изображены люди и места, связанные со Второй англо-афганской войной. Место для строительства современного Джелалабада было выбрано Захиром ад-дином Мухаммедом Бабуром (1483–1530 гг.), первым императором Великих Монголов. Строительство города началось в 1560 году при его внуке, императоре Джелаль-ад-дине Мухаммаде Акбаре (1542–1605 гг.), под наблюдением которого проходило возведение многочисленных городских садов. Многие сады империи Великих Монголов выполнены в персидском декоративном стиле "chahar bagh" ("четыре сада" — планировка, в соответствии с которой сад состоит из четырех частей, разделенных водой или прямыми дорожками). На снимке видны двое часовых, стоящих возле аллеи деревьев, которая ведет к находящейся в некотором отдалении круглой беседке. Вторая англо-афганская война началась в ноябре 1878 года, когда Великобритания, опасаясь, как ей казалось, растущего влияния России в Афганистане, вторглась в эту страну с территории Британской Индии. Первый этап войны закончился в мае 1879 года подписанием Гандамакского договора, позволившего афганцам сохранить внутренний суверенитет, однако заставившего их уступить контроль над внешней политикой своей страны британцам. Военные действия возобновились в сентябре 1879 года, после антибританского восстания в Кабуле, и окончательно завершились в сентябре 1880 года решающей битвой за Кандагар. Данный альбом включает портреты британских и афганских лидеров и военнослужащих, фотографии простых афганских людей, изображения британских военных лагерей, военных действий, строений, пейзажей, крупных и небольших городов. Все изображенные на фотоснимках места находятся на территории современных Афганистана или Пакистана (в то время бывших частью Британской Индии). Около трети представленных в альбоме фотографий выполнены Джоном Берком (около 1843–1900 гг.), другая треть — сэром Бенджамином Симпсоном (1831–1923 гг.), а оставшаяся часть — несколькими другими фотографами. Авторы некоторых фотоснимков неизвестны. Возможно, что составителем альбома был один из членов британского правительства в Индии, однако это предположение не подтверждено. Каким образом альбом попал в Библиотеку Конгресса, неизвестно. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowISIS Mass Prison Break in Afghanistan. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDDhttps://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2020/08/islamic-state-claims-prison-raid-in-eastern-afghanistan.php ...more

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• 279: 4/4 Island on Fire: The Extraordinary Story of a Forgotten Volcano That Changed the World, by Alexandra Witze and Jeff Kanipe

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  Image: Ash plume rising from Mount Redoubt after an eruption on April 21, 1990.  Island on Fire: The Extraordinary Story of a Forgotten Volcano That Changed the World, by Alexandra Witze  and Jeff Kanipe,  with John Lescault as Narrator.    https://www.amazon.com/Island-on-Fire-audiobook-dp-B07QZZS52V/dp/B07QZZS52V/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= Can a single explosion change the course of history? An eruption at the end of the 18th century led to years of climate change while igniting famine, disease, and even perhaps revolution.  Laki is Iceland's largest volcano —and its most fearsome. Its eruption in 1783 is one of history's great untold natural disasters. Spewing out sun-blocking ash and then a poisonous fog for eight long months, the effects of the eruption lingered across the world for years. It caused the deaths of people as far away as the Nile and created catastrophic conditions throughout Europe. Island on Fire is the story not only of a single eruption but the people whose lives it changed, the dawn of modern volcanology, as well as the history—and potential—of other super-volcanoes like Laki around the world. And perhaps most pertinently, in the wake of the eruption of another Icelandic volcano, Eyjafjallajokull, which closed European air space in 2010, the acclaimed science writers Witze and Kanipe look at what might transpire should Laki erupt again in our lifetime. ...more

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• 278: 3/4 Island on Fire: The Extraordinary Story of a Forgotten Volcano That Changed the World, by Alexandra Witze and Jeff Kanipe

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  Image:  Fountain of lava erupting from a volcanic cone in Hawaii.Island on Fire: The Extraordinary Story of a Forgotten Volcano That Changed the World, by Alexandra Witze  and Jeff Kanipe,  with John Lescault as Narrator.    https://www.amazon.com/Island-on-Fire-audiobook-dp-B07QZZS52V/dp/B07QZZS52V/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= Can a single explosion change the course of history? An eruption at the end of the 18th century led to years of climate change while igniting famine, disease, and even perhaps revolution.  Laki is Iceland's largest volcano —and its most fearsome. Its eruption in 1783 is one of history's great untold natural disasters. Spewing out sun-blocking ash and then a poisonous fog for eight long months, the effects of the eruption lingered across the world for years. It caused the deaths of people as far away as the Nile and created catastrophic conditions throughout Europe. Island on Fire is the story not only of a single eruption but the people whose lives it changed, the dawn of modern volcanology, as well as the history—and potential—of other super-volcanoes like Laki around the world. And perhaps most pertinently, in the wake of the eruption of another Icelandic volcano, Eyjafjallajokull, which closed European air space in 2010, the acclaimed science writers Witze and Kanipe look at what might transpire should Laki erupt again in our lifetime. ...more

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• 278: 2/4 Island on Fire: The Extraordinary Story of a Forgotten Volcano That Changed the World, by Alexandra Witze and Jeff Kanipe

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  Image: An eruption of Mount Pinatubo on June 12, 1991 three days before its climactic eruption Island on Fire: The Extraordinary Story of a Forgotten Volcano That Changed the World, by Alexandra Witze  and Jeff Kanipe,  with John Lescault as Narrator.    https://www.amazon.com/Island-on-Fire-audiobook-dp-B07QZZS52V/dp/B07QZZS52V/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= Can a single explosion change the course of history? An eruption at the end of the 18th century led to years of climate change while igniting famine, disease, and even perhaps revolution.  Laki is Iceland's largest volcano —and its most fearsome. Its eruption in 1783 is one of history's great untold natural disasters. Spewing out sun-blocking ash and then a poisonous fog for eight long months, the effects of the eruption lingered across the world for years. It caused the deaths of people as far away as the Nile and created catastrophic conditions throughout Europe. Island on Fire is the story not only of a single eruption but the people whose lives it changed, the dawn of modern volcanology, as well as the history—and potential—of other super-volcanoes like Laki around the world. And perhaps most pertinently, in the wake of the eruption of another Icelandic volcano, Eyjafjallajokull, which closed European air space in 2010, the acclaimed science writers Witze and Kanipe look at what might transpire should Laki erupt again in our lifetime.   ...more

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• 278: 1/4 Island on Fire: The Extraordinary Story of a Forgotten Volcano That Changed the World, by Alexandra Witze and Jeff Kanipe

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  Image: Kirkjubaejarklaustur, a village in South Iceland, was the home of Jón Steingrímsson (1728 – 1791), who left contemporary accounts of the effects of the eruption, which was nearby. His reports are extensively quoted in the book Island on Fire. Island on Fire: The Extraordinary Story of a Forgotten Volcano That Changed the World, by Alexandra Witze  and Jeff Kanipe,  with John Lescault as Narrator.    https://www.amazon.com/Island-on-Fire-audiobook-dp-B07QZZS52V/dp/B07QZZS52V/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= Can a single explosion change the course of history? An eruption at the end of the 18th century led to years of climate change while igniting famine, disease, and even perhaps revolution.  Laki is Iceland's largest volcano —and its most fearsome. Its eruption in 1783 is one of history's great untold natural disasters. Spewing out sun-blocking ash and then a poisonous fog for eight long months, the effects of the eruption lingered across the world for years. It caused the deaths of people as far away as the Nile and created catastrophic conditions throughout Europe. Island on Fire is the story not only of a single eruption but the people whose lives it changed, the dawn of modern volcanology, as well as the history—and potential—of other super-volcanoes like Laki around the world. And perhaps most pertinently, in the wake of the eruption of another Icelandic volcano, Eyjafjallajokull, which closed European air space in 2010, the acclaimed science writers Witze and Kanipe look at what might transpire should Laki erupt again in our lifetime. ...more

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• 277: 2/2 "Vanishing Act," by Paul Collins, Lapham's Quarterly.

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  Image: Barbara Newhall Follett as a young adult“Vanishing Act," by Paul Collins, Lapham's Quarterly. https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/celebrity/vanishing-act?src=longreads&utmcontent=buffer40479&utmmedium=social&utmsource=twitter.com&utmcampaign=buffer "America’s next great novelist was now without a high-school degree, without work, and a teen bride. Yet she was not unhappy—at first. She backpacked through Europe, and between secretarial jobs in New York and Boston, she discovered dance classes. She took some summers off to travel west for dance classes at Mills College, which she loved: it was a taste of the college life that she’d been denied. But returning to her husband in Brookline, Massachusetts, in late 1939, she was shaken once again, worse even than by her father’s abandonment. “There is somebody else…” she wrote to a friend. “I had it coming to me, I know.” Her despair was so keen that she could only rest with the help of “sleeping stuff.” Soon her correspondence darkened ominously: “On the surface things are terribly, terribly calm, and wrong…I still think there is a chance that the outcome will be a happy one, but I would have to think that anyway, in order to live; so you can draw any conclusions you like from that!” "The conclusion to be drawn was perhaps the worst one possible. On the evening of December 7, 1939, she and Nick quarreled, and by a friend’s account she left later that evening.  "She never returned...." https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/celebrity/vanishing-act ...more

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• 277: 1/2 "Vanishing Act," by Paul Collins, Lapham's Quarterly.

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  Image: Barbara Newhall Follett as a child“Vanishing Act," by Paul Collins, Lapham's Quarterly. https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/celebrity/vanishing-act?src=longreads&utmcontent=buffer40479&utmmedium=social&utmsource=twitter.com&utmcampaign=buffer "America’s next great novelist was now without a high-school degree, without work, and a teen bride. Yet she was not unhappy—at first. She backpacked through Europe, and between secretarial jobs in New York and Boston, she discovered dance classes. She took some summers off to travel west for dance classes at Mills College, which she loved: it was a taste of the college life that she’d been denied. But returning to her husband in Brookline, Massachusetts, in late 1939, she was shaken once again, worse even than by her father’s abandonment. “There is somebody else…” she wrote to a friend. “I had it coming to me, I know.” Her despair was so keen that she could only rest with the help of “sleeping stuff.” Soon her correspondence darkened ominously: “On the surface things are terribly, terribly calm, and wrong…I still think there is a chance that the outcome will be a happy one, but I would have to think that anyway, in order to live; so you can draw any conclusions you like from that!” "The conclusion to be drawn was perhaps the worst one possible. On the evening of December 7, 1939, she and Nick quarreled, and by a friend’s account she left later that evening.  "She never returned...." https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/celebrity/vanishing-act ...more

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• 275: The data storm for the European immigration crisis 2016to present. 2of2: Frans Willekens, @ScienceMagazine. Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, The Hague, Netherlands.

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  Photo:'Rural Life' Pictures from The Powerhouse MuseumDate | circa 1900 Source | The Powerhouse MuseumAuthor | Unknown authorPermission(Reusing this file) | PD http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe data storm for the European immigration crisis 2016to present. 2of2: Frans Willekens, @ScienceMagazine. Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, The Hague, Netherlands.http://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6288/897.full BY FRANS WILLEKENS, DOUGLAS MASSEY, JAMES RAYMER, CRIS BEAUCHEMIN "Although humanitarian crises, such as the ongoing mass exodus from Syria toward Europe, tend to focus global attention on migration, each year millions of people migrate to and from affected countries throughout the world. Progress has been made in understanding drivers of migration, and we have relatively good data on immigrant populations, but we lack information on how many people leave their country each year to settle elsewhere and who these emigrants are. The impact of migration on the individual and on sending and receiving communities and countries is only partly understood. Economic effects can be very different from the impacts on society and culture; some gain from migration, whereas others lose. The lack of knowledge creates systemic risks and uncertainties and frustrates public debate and the formation of effective policies. As high-level leaders convene to discuss such issues at the first United Nations World Humanitarian Summit, we outline priorities for migration data collection, research, and training." ...more

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• 275: The data storm for the European immigration crisis 2016to present. 1of2: Frans Willekens, @ScienceMagazine. Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, The Hague, Netherlands.

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  Photo:Vincent Willem van Gogh (Dutch: [ˈvɪnsənt ˈʋɪləm vɑŋ ˈɣɔx] (listen);[note 1] 30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch post-impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of which date from the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterised by bold colours and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. He was not commercially successful, and his suicide at 37 came after years of mental illness, depression and povertyEnglish: Encampment of Gypsies with CaravansFrançais : Les roulottes, campement de bohémiensObject type | painting Genre | portrait Date | August 1888 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe data storm for the European immigration crisis 2016to present. 1of2: Frans Willekens, @ScienceMagazine. Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, The Hague, Netherlands.http://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6288/897.full BY FRANS WILLEKENS, DOUGLAS MASSEY, JAMES RAYMER, CRIS BEAUCHEMIN "Although humanitarian crises, such as the ongoing mass exodus from Syria toward Europe, tend to focus global attention on migration, each year millions of people migrate to and from affected countries throughout the world. Progress has been made in understanding drivers of migration, and we have relatively good data on immigrant populations, but we lack information on how many people leave their country each year to settle elsewhere and who these emigrants are. The impact of migration on the individual and on sending and receiving communities and countries is only partly understood. Economic effects can be very different from the impacts on society and culture; some gain from migration, whereas others lose. The lack of knowledge creates systemic risks and uncertainties and frustrates public debate and the formation of effective policies. As high-level leaders convene to discuss such issues at the first United Nations World Humanitarian Summit, we outline priorities for migration data collection, research, and training." ...more

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• 276: 2/2 Going Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969, by David Eisenhower and Julie Nixon Eisenhower. Narrated by Arthur Morey.

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  Image:  President Lyndon Johnson with Eisenhower aboard Air Force One in October 1965Going Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969, Arthur Morey (Narrator), David Eisenhower (Author), Julie Nixon Eisenhower (Author), & 1 more Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  https://www.amazon.com/Going-Home-to-Glory-audiobook/dp/B004991TDU/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1596417145&sr=1-1 After President Dwight D. Eisenhower left office in 1961, he retired to a farm in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Living next door was his teenage grandson, David; they would be neighbors for the rest of the decade. Based on personal stories, letters, diaries, and the reminiscences of Eisenhower’s closest friends, Going Home to Glory is both an intimate chronicle of the elder statesman’s final years and a coming of age story.  In this book, Eisenhower emerges as both a beloved and forbidding figure, whether relaxing at home or playing golf, advising presidents Kennedy and Johnson and 1968 presidential hopeful Richard Nixon, or rendering sage advice to young people—including the author. Set amidst the turbulent 60s, the author describes Eisenhower's many efforts to influence a bewildered nation on civil rights and Vietnam.  David Eisenhower's first book about his grandfather, Eisenhower at War, was a best seller and a finalist for the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in History. Going Home to Glory, a personal sequel, offers completely new insight into one of the country's most respected presidents. ...more

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• 276: 1/2 Going Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969, by David Eisenhower and Julie Nixon Eisenhower. Narrated by Arthur Morey.

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  Image:  Perspective view of the main house of the Eisenhower Farm, Emmitsburg Road (U.S. Route 15), Gettysburg, Adams County, PennsylvaniaGoing Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969, Arthur Morey (Narrator), David Eisenhower (Author), Julie Nixon Eisenhower (Author), & 1 more Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  https://www.amazon.com/Going-Home-to-Glory-audiobook/dp/B004991TDU/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1596417145&sr=1-1 After President Dwight D. Eisenhower left office in 1961, he retired to a farm in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Living next door was his teenage grandson, David; they would be neighbors for the rest of the decade. Based on personal stories, letters, diaries, and the reminiscences of Eisenhower’s closest friends, Going Home to Glory is both an intimate chronicle of the elder statesman’s final years and a coming of age story.  In this book, Eisenhower emerges as both a beloved and forbidding figure, whether relaxing at home or playing golf, advising presidents Kennedy and Johnson and 1968 presidential hopeful Richard Nixon, or rendering sage advice to young people—including the author. Set amidst the turbulent 60s, the author describes Eisenhower's many efforts to influence a bewildered nation on civil rights and Vietnam.  David Eisenhower's first book about his grandfather, Eisenhower at War, was a best seller and a finalist for the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in History. Going Home to Glory, a personal sequel, offers completely new insight into one of the country's most respected presidents. ...more

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• 275: Jupiter & Saturn 4of4: -- and the Building of the Solar System. Konstantin Batygin, California Institute of Technology.

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  Aug 03 2020

  Photo:Titan's atmosphere makes Saturn's largest moon look like a fuzzy orange ball in this natural color view from the Cassini spacecraft. Titan's north polar hood is visible at the top of the image, and a faint blue haze also can be detected above the south pole at the bottom of this view. This view looks toward the anti-Saturn side of Titan (3,200 miles, or 5,150 kilometers across). North is up. Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural color view. The images were obtained with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Jan. 30, 2012 at a distance of approximately 119,000 miles (191,000 kilometers) from Titan. Image scale is 7 miles (11 kilometers) per pixel.NASA - http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA14602 Public Domain File:Titan in true color.jpg Created: 30 January 2012  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowJupiter & Saturn 4of4: -- and the Building of the Solar System. Konstantin Batygin, California Institute of Technology.http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015MNRAS.451.2589B The early stages of dynamical evolution of planetary systems are often shaped by dissipative processes that drive orbital migration. In multi-planet systems, convergent amassing of orbits inevitably leads to encounters with rational period ratios, which may result in establishment of mean-motion resonances. The success or failure of resonant capture yields exceedingly different subsequent evolutions, and thus plays a central role in determining the ensuing orbital architecture of planetary systems. In this work, we employ an integrable Hamiltonian formalism for first order planetary resonances that allows both secondary bodies to have finite masses and eccentricities, and construct a comprehensive theory for resonant capture. Particularly, we derive conditions under which orbital evolution lies within the adiabatic regime, and provide a generalized criterion for guaranteed resonant locking as well as a procedure for calculating capture probabilities when capture is not certain. Subsequently, we utilize the developed analytical model to examine the evolution of Jupiter and Saturn within the protosolar nebula, and investigate the origins of the dominantly non-resonant orbital distribution of sub-Jovian extrasolar planets. Our calculations show that the commonly observed extrasolar orbital structure can be understood if planet pairs encounter mean-motion commensurabilities on slightly eccentric (e ˜ 0.02) orbits. Accordingly, we speculate that resonant capture among low-mass planets is typically rendered unsuccessful due to subtle axial asymmetries inherent to the global structure of protoplanetary discs.Publication: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 451, Issue 3, p.2589-2609 Pub Date: August 2015DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv1063 arXiv: arXiv:1505.01778 Bibcode: 2015MNRAS.451.2589B Keywords: methods: analytical;  celestial mechanics; planets and satellites: dynamical evolution and stability; Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics; Mathematics - Dynamical Systems ...more

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• 275: Jupiter & Saturn 3of4: -- and the Building of the Solar System. Konstantin Batygin, California Institute of Technology.

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  Photo:This image shows a view of the trailing hemisphere of Jupiter's ice-covered satellite, Europa, in approximate natural color. Long, dark lines are fractures in the crust, some of which are more than 3,000 kilometers (1,850 miles) long. The bright feature containing a central dark spot in the lower third of the image is a young impact crater some 50 kilometers (31 miles) in diameter. This crater has been provisionally named "Pwyll" for the Celtic god of the underworld. Europa is about 3,160 kilometers (1,950 miles) in diameter, or about the size of Earth's moon. This image was taken on September 7, 1996, at a range of 677,000 kilometers (417,900 miles) by the solid state imaging television camera onboard the Galileo spacecraft during its second orbit around Jupiter. The image was processed by Deutsche Forschungsanstalt fuer Luftund Raumfahrt e.V., Berlin, Germany.NASA/JPL/DLR - http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00502 (TIFF image link) Public Domain File:Europa-moon.jpg Created: 7 September 1996  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowJupiter & Saturn 3of4: -- and the Building of the Solar System. Konstantin Batygin, California Institute of Technology.http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015MNRAS.451.2589B The early stages of dynamical evolution of planetary systems are often shaped by dissipative processes that drive orbital migration. In multi-planet systems, convergent amassing of orbits inevitably leads to encounters with rational period ratios, which may result in establishment of mean-motion resonances. The success or failure of resonant capture yields exceedingly different subsequent evolutions, and thus plays a central role in determining the ensuing orbital architecture of planetary systems. In this work, we employ an integrable Hamiltonian formalism for first order planetary resonances that allows both secondary bodies to have finite masses and eccentricities, and construct a comprehensive theory for resonant capture. Particularly, we derive conditions under which orbital evolution lies within the adiabatic regime, and provide a generalized criterion for guaranteed resonant locking as well as a procedure for calculating capture probabilities when capture is not certain. Subsequently, we utilize the developed analytical model to examine the evolution of Jupiter and Saturn within the protosolar nebula, and investigate the origins of the dominantly non-resonant orbital distribution of sub-Jovian extrasolar planets. Our calculations show that the commonly observed extrasolar orbital structure can be understood if planet pairs encounter mean-motion commensurabilities on slightly eccentric (e ˜ 0.02) orbits. Accordingly, we speculate that resonant capture among low-mass planets is typically rendered unsuccessful due to subtle axial asymmetries inherent to the global structure of protoplanetary discs.Publication: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 451, Issue 3, p.2589-2609 Pub Date: August 2015DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv1063 arXiv: arXiv:1505.01778 Bibcode: 2015MNRAS.451.2589B Keywords: methods: analytical;  celestial mechanics; planets and satellites: dynamical evolution and stability; Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics; Mathematics - Dynamical Systems ...more

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• 275: Jupiter & Saturn 2of4: -- and the Building of the Solar System. Konstantin Batygin, California Institute of Technology.

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  Aug 03 2020

  Photo:English: Rough comparison of sizes of Saturn and Earth.Date | 21 August 2019, 03:58:23Source | File:Saturn from Cassini Orbiter (2004-10-06).jpgFile:The Earth seen from Apollo 17.jpgAuthor | Saturn image: NASA/JPL/Space Science InstituteEarth image: NASA/Apollo 17 crew http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowJupiter & Saturn 2of4: -- and the Building of the Solar System. Konstantin Batygin, California Institute of Technology.http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015MNRAS.451.2589B The early stages of dynamical evolution of planetary systems are often shaped by dissipative processes that drive orbital migration. In multi-planet systems, convergent amassing of orbits inevitably leads to encounters with rational period ratios, which may result in establishment of mean-motion resonances. The success or failure of resonant capture yields exceedingly different subsequent evolutions, and thus plays a central role in determining the ensuing orbital architecture of planetary systems. In this work, we employ an integrable Hamiltonian formalism for first order planetary resonances that allows both secondary bodies to have finite masses and eccentricities, and construct a comprehensive theory for resonant capture. Particularly, we derive conditions under which orbital evolution lies within the adiabatic regime, and provide a generalized criterion for guaranteed resonant locking as well as a procedure for calculating capture probabilities when capture is not certain. Subsequently, we utilize the developed analytical model to examine the evolution of Jupiter and Saturn within the protosolar nebula, and investigate the origins of the dominantly non-resonant orbital distribution of sub-Jovian extrasolar planets. Our calculations show that the commonly observed extrasolar orbital structure can be understood if planet pairs encounter mean-motion commensurabilities on slightly eccentric (e ˜ 0.02) orbits. Accordingly, we speculate that resonant capture among low-mass planets is typically rendered unsuccessful due to subtle axial asymmetries inherent to the global structure of protoplanetary discs.Publication: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 451, Issue 3, p.2589-2609 Pub Date: August 2015DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv1063 arXiv: arXiv:1505.01778 Bibcode: 2015MNRAS.451.2589B Keywords: methods: analytical;  celestial mechanics; planets and satellites: dynamical evolution and stability; Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics; Mathematics - Dynamical Systems ...more

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• 275: Jupiter & Saturn 1of4: -- and the Building of the Solar System. Konstantin Batygin, California Institute of Technology. @Kbatygin @CalTech

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  Photo:Hubble's Jupiter and the Shrinking Great Red Spot Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble, OPAL Program, STScI; Processing: Karol Masztalerz Explanation: What will become of Jupiter's Great Red Spot? Gas giant Jupiter is the solar system's largest world with about 320 times the mass of planet Earth. Jupiter is home to one of the largest and longest lasting storm systems known, the Great Red Spot (GRS), visible to the left. The GRS is so large it could swallow Earth, although it has been shrinking. Comparison with historical notes indicate that the storm spans only about one third of the surface area it had 150 years ago. NASA's Outer Planets Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) program has been monitoring the storm more recently using the Hubble Space Telescope. The featured Hubble OPAL image shows Jupiter as it appeared in 2016, processed in a way that makes red hues appear quite vibrant. Modern GRS data indicate that the storm continues to constrict its surface area, but is also becoming slightly taller, vertically. No one knows the future of the GRS, including the possibility that if the shrinking trend continues, the GRS might one day even do what smaller spots on Jupiter have done -- disappear completely.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowJupiter & Saturn 1of4: -- and the Building of the Solar System. Konstantin Batygin, California Institute of Technology. @Kbatygin @CalTechhttp://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015MNRAS.451.2589B The early stages of dynamical evolution of planetary systems are often shaped by dissipative processes that drive orbital migration. In multi-planet systems, convergent amassing of orbits inevitably leads to encounters with rational period ratios, which may result in establishment of mean-motion resonances. The success or failure of resonant capture yields exceedingly different subsequent evolutions, and thus plays a central role in determining the ensuing orbital architecture of planetary systems. In this work, we employ an integrable Hamiltonian formalism for first order planetary resonances that allows both secondary bodies to have finite masses and eccentricities, and construct a comprehensive theory for resonant capture. Particularly, we derive conditions under which orbital evolution lies within the adiabatic regime, and provide a generalized criterion for guaranteed resonant locking as well as a procedure for calculating capture probabilities when capture is not certain. Subsequently, we utilize the developed analytical model to examine the evolution of Jupiter and Saturn within the protosolar nebula, and investigate the origins of the dominantly non-resonant orbital distribution of sub-Jovian extrasolar planets. Our calculations show that the commonly observed extrasolar orbital structure can be understood if planet pairs encounter mean-motion commensurabilities on slightly eccentric (e ˜ 0.02) orbits. Accordingly, we speculate that resonant capture among low-mass planets is typically rendered unsuccessful due to subtle axial asymmetries inherent to the global structure of protoplanetary discs.Publication: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 451, Issue 3, p.2589-2609 Pub Date: August 2015DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv1063 arXiv: arXiv:1505.01778 Bibcode: 2015MNRAS.451.2589B Keywords: methods: analytical;  celestial mechanics; planets and satellites: dynamical evolution and stability; Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics; Mathematics - Dynamical Systems ...more

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• 275: 4/4 Sydney and Violet: A Modernist Power Couple and Their Life with Eliot, Proust, Joyce, Huxley, Mansfield, Picasso and the Excruciatingly Irascible Wyndham Lewis, by Stephen Klaidman

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  Image: Wyndham Lewis, c.1914–15: Workshop (Tate, London)Sydney and Violet: Their Life with T.S. Eliot, Proust, Joyce and the Excruciatingly Irascible Wyndham Lewis by Stephen Klaidman.   Paperback – June 9, 2015. https://www.amazon.com/Sydney-Violet-Modernist-Mansfield-Excruciatingly/dp/0307742113 "A long overdue biography of the power couple that nurtured and influenced the literary world of early twentieth-century England" "I write primarily to pay homage to a beloved friend, but also in the hope that some future chronicler of the history of art and letters in our time may give to Sydney and Violet Schiff the place which is their due." —T. S. Eliot, in a letter appended to Violet Schiff's obituary, Times of London, July 9, 1962 "Largely forgotten today, Sydney and Violet Schiff were ubiquitous, almost Zelig-like figures in the most important literary movement of the twentieth century. Their friendships among the elite of the Modernist writers were remarkable, and their extensive correspondence with T. S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, Proust, and many others strongly suggests both intimacy and intellectual equality. Leading critics of the day considered Sydney, writing as Stephen Hudson, to be in the same literary league as Joyce, Eliot, and D. H. Lawrence. As for Violet, she was a talented musician who nurtured Sydney's literary efforts and was among the first in England to recognize Proust's genius and spread the word. Sydney and Violet tells the story of how the Schiffs, despite their commercial and Jewish origins, won acceptance in the snobbish, anti-Semitic, literary world of early twentieth-century England, and brings to life a full panoply of extravagant personalities: Proust, Joyce, Picasso, Mansfield, Wyndham Lewis, T. S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley, and many more. A highly personal, anecdote-filled account of the social and intellectual history of the Modernist movement, Sydney and Violet also examines what divides the literary survivors from the victims of taste and time."  ...more

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• 275: 3/4 Sydney and Violet: A Modernist Power Couple and Their Life with Eliot, Proust, Joyce, Huxley, Mansfield, Picasso and the Excruciatingly Irascible Wyndham Lewis, by Stephen Klaidman

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  Image:  Left to right: Bloomsbury Group members Lady Ottoline Morrell, Maria Nys, Lytton Strachey, Duncan Grant, and Vanessa Bell Sydney and Violet: Their Life with T.S. Eliot, Proust, Joyce and the Excruciatingly Irascible Wyndham Lewis by Stephen Klaidman.   Paperback – June 9, 2015. https://www.amazon.com/Sydney-Violet-Modernist-Mansfield-Excruciatingly/dp/0307742113 "A long overdue biography of the power couple that nurtured and influenced the literary world of early twentieth-century England" "I write primarily to pay homage to a beloved friend, but also in the hope that some future chronicler of the history of art and letters in our time may give to Sydney and Violet Schiff the place which is their due." —T. S. Eliot, in a letter appended to Violet Schiff's obituary, Times of London, July 9, 1962 "Largely forgotten today, Sydney and Violet Schiff were ubiquitous, almost Zelig-like figures in the most important literary movement of the twentieth century. Their friendships among the elite of the Modernist writers were remarkable, and their extensive correspondence with T. S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, Proust, and many others strongly suggests both intimacy and intellectual equality. Leading critics of the day considered Sydney, writing as Stephen Hudson, to be in the same literary league as Joyce, Eliot, and D. H. Lawrence. As for Violet, she was a talented musician who nurtured Sydney's literary efforts and was among the first in England to recognize Proust's genius and spread the word. Sydney and Violet tells the story of how the Schiffs, despite their commercial and Jewish origins, won acceptance in the snobbish, anti-Semitic, literary world of early twentieth-century England, and brings to life a full panoply of extravagant personalities: Proust, Joyce, Picasso, Mansfield, Wyndham Lewis, T. S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley, and many more. A highly personal, anecdote-filled account of the social and intellectual history of the Modernist movement, Sydney and Violet also examines what divides the literary survivors from the victims of taste and time."  ...more

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• 275: 1/4 Sydney and Violet: A Modernist Power Couple and Their Life with Eliot, Proust, Joyce, Huxley, Mansfield, Picasso and the Excruciatingly Irascible Wyndham Lewis, by Stephen Klaidman

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  Image:  T S Eliot in 1934; photo by Lady Ottoline MorrellSydney and Violet: Their Life with T.S. Eliot, Proust, Joyce and the Excruciatingly Irascible Wyndham Lewis by Stephen Klaidman.   Paperback – June 9, 2015. https://www.amazon.com/Sydney-Violet-Modernist-Mansfield-Excruciatingly/dp/0307742113 "A long-overdue biography of the power couple that nurtured and influenced the literary world of early twentieth-century England" "I write primarily to pay homage to a beloved friend, but also in the hope that some future chronicler of the history of art and letters in our time may give to Sydney and Violet Schiff the place which is their due." —T. S. Eliot, in a letter appended to Violet Schiff's obituary, Times of London, July 9, 1962 "Largely forgotten today, Sydney and Violet Schiff were ubiquitous, almost Zelig-like figures in the most important literary movement of the twentieth century. Their friendships among the elite of the Modernist writers were remarkable, and their extensive correspondence with T. S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, Proust, and many others strongly suggests both intimacy and intellectual equality. Leading critics of the day considered Sydney, writing as Stephen Hudson, to be in the same literary league as Joyce, Eliot, and D. H. Lawrence. As for Violet, she was a talented musician who nurtured Sydney's literary efforts and was among the first in England to recognize Proust's genius and spread the word. Sydney and Violet tells the story of how the Schiffs, despite their commercial and Jewish origins, won acceptance in the snobbish, anti-Semitic, literary world of early twentieth-century England, and brings to life a full panoply of extravagant personalities: Proust, Joyce, Picasso, Mansfield, Wyndham Lewis, T. S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley, and many more. A highly personal, anecdote-filled account of the social and intellectual history of the Modernist movement, Sydney and Violet also examines what divides the literary survivors from the victims of taste and time."  ...more

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• 275: 2/4 Sydney and Violet: A Modernist Power Couple and Their Life with Eliot, Proust, Joyce, Huxley, Mansfield, Picasso and the Excruciatingly Irascible Wyndham Lewis, by Stephen Klaidman

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  Image:  Marcel Proust in 1900; photo by Otto Wegener Sydney and Violet: Their Life with T.S. Eliot, Proust, Joyce and the Excruciatingly Irascible Wyndham Lewis by Stephen Klaidman.   Paperback – June 9, 2015. https://www.amazon.com/Sydney-Violet-Modernist-Mansfield-Excruciatingly/dp/0307742113 "A long overdue biography of the power couple that nurtured and influenced the literary world of early twentieth-century England" "I write primarily to pay homage to a beloved friend, but also in the hope that some future chronicler of the history of art and letters in our time may give to Sydney and Violet Schiff the place which is their due." —T. S. Eliot, in a letter appended to Violet Schiff's obituary, Times of London, July 9, 1962 "Largely forgotten today, Sydney and Violet Schiff were ubiquitous, almost Zelig-like figures in the most important literary movement of the twentieth century. Their friendships among the elite of the Modernist writers were remarkable, and their extensive correspondence with T. S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, Proust, and many others strongly suggests both intimacy and intellectual equality. Leading critics of the day considered Sydney, writing as Stephen Hudson, to be in the same literary league as Joyce, Eliot, and D. H. Lawrence. As for Violet, she was a talented musician who nurtured Sydney's literary efforts and was among the first in England to recognize Proust's genius and spread the word. Sydney and Violet tells the story of how the Schiffs, despite their commercial and Jewish origins, won acceptance in the snobbish, anti-Semitic, literary world of early twentieth-century England, and brings to life a full panoply of extravagant personalities: Proust, Joyce, Picasso, Mansfield, Wyndham Lewis, T. S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley, and many more. A highly personal, anecdote-filled account of the social and intellectual history of the Modernist movement, Sydney and Violet also examines what divides the literary survivors from the victims of taste and time."  ...more

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• 274: 4/4 Measure of the Earth: The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World, by Larrie D. Ferreiro.

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  Aug 02 2020

  Image: Quito the eighteenth centuryMeasure of the Earth: The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World, by Larrie D. Ferreiro.  1st Edition  https://www.amazon.com/Measure-Earth-Enlightenment-Expedition-Reshaped-dp-0465017231/dp/0465017231/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1596333584 In the early eighteenth century, at the peak of the Enlightenment, an unlikely team of European scientists and naval officers set out on the world’s first international, cooperative scientific expedition. Intent on making precise astronomical measurements at the Equator, they were poised to resolve one of mankind’s oldest mysteries: the true shape of the Earth. In Measure of the Earth, the award-winning science writer Larrie D. Ferreiro tells the full story of the Geodesic Mission to the Equator for the very first time. It was an age when Europe was torn between two competing conceptions of the world: the followers of René Descartes argued that the Earth was elongated at the poles, even as Isaac Newton contended that it was flattened. A nation that could accurately determine the planet’s shape could securely navigate its oceans, giving it great military and imperial advantages. Recognizing this, France and Spain organized a joint expedition to colonial Peru, Spain’s wealthiest kingdom. Armed with the most advanced surveying and astronomical equipment, they would measure a degree of latitude at the Equator, which when compared with other measurements would reveal the shape of the world. But what seemed to be a straightforward scientific exercise was almost immediately marred by a series of unforeseen catastrophes, as the voyagers found their mission threatened by treacherous terrain, a deeply suspicious populace, and their own hubris. A thrilling tale of adventure, political history, and scientific discovery, Measure of the Earth recounts the greatest scientific expedition of the Enlightenment through the eyes of the men who completed it—pioneers who overcame tremendous adversity to traverse the towering Andes Mountains in order to discern the Earth’s shape.  In the process they also opened the eyes of Europe to the richness of South America and paved the way for scientific cooperation on a global scale. ...more

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• 274: 3/4 Measure of the Earth: The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World, by Larrie D. Ferreiro.

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  Image: 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.  1st Edition  https://www.amazon.com/Measure-Earth-Enlightenment-Expedition-Reshaped-dp-0465017231/dp/0465017231/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1596333584 In the early eighteenth century, at the peak of the Enlightenment, an unlikely team of European scientists and naval officers set out on the world’s first international, cooperative scientific expedition. Intent on making precise astronomical measurements at the Equator, they were poised to resolve one of mankind’s oldest mysteries: the true shape of the Earth. In Measure of the Earth, the award-winning science writer Larrie D. Ferreiro tells the full story of the Geodesic Mission to the Equator for the very first time. It was an age when Europe was torn between two competing conceptions of the world: the followers of René Descartes argued that the Earth was elongated at the poles, even as Isaac Newton contended that it was flattened. A nation that could accurately determine the planet’s shape could securely navigate its oceans, giving it great military and imperial advantages. Recognizing this, France and Spain organized a joint expedition to colonial Peru, Spain’s wealthiest kingdom. Armed with the most advanced surveying and astronomical equipment, they would measure a degree of latitude at the Equator, which when compared with other measurements would reveal the shape of the world. But what seemed to be a straightforward scientific exercise was almost immediately marred by a series of unforeseen catastrophes, as the voyagers found their mission threatened by treacherous terrain, a deeply suspicious populace, and their own hubris. A thrilling tale of adventure, political history, and scientific discovery, Measure of the Earth recounts the greatest scientific expedition of the Enlightenment through the eyes of the men who completed it—pioneers who overcame tremendous adversity to traverse the towering Andes Mountains in order to discern the Earth’s shape.  In the process they also opened the eyes of Europe to the richness of South America and paved the way for scientific cooperation on a global scale. ...more

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• 274: 2/4 Measure of the Earth: The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World, by Larrie D. Ferreiro.

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  Aug 02 2020

  Image: Huayna Picchu in PeruMeasure of the Earth: The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World, by Larrie D. Ferreiro.  1st Edition  https://www.amazon.com/Measure-Earth-Enlightenment-Expedition-Reshaped-dp-0465017231/dp/0465017231/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1596333584 In the early eighteenth century, at the peak of the Enlightenment, an unlikely team of European scientists and naval officers set out on the world’s first international, cooperative scientific expedition. Intent on making precise astronomical measurements at the Equator, they were poised to resolve one of mankind’s oldest mysteries: the true shape of the Earth. In Measure of the Earth, the award-winning science writer Larrie D. Ferreiro tells the full story of the Geodesic Mission to the Equator for the very first time. It was an age when Europe was torn between two competing conceptions of the world: the followers of René Descartes argued that the Earth was elongated at the poles, even as Isaac Newton contended that it was flattened. A nation that could accurately determine the planet’s shape could securely navigate its oceans, giving it great military and imperial advantages. Recognizing this, France and Spain organized a joint expedition to colonial Peru, Spain’s wealthiest kingdom. Armed with the most advanced surveying and astronomical equipment, they would measure a degree of latitude at the Equator, which when compared with other measurements would reveal the shape of the world. But what seemed to be a straightforward scientific exercise was almost immediately marred by a series of unforeseen catastrophes, as the voyagers found their mission threatened by treacherous terrain, a deeply suspicious populace, and their own hubris. A thrilling tale of adventure, political history, and scientific discovery, Measure of the Earth recounts the greatest scientific expedition of the Enlightenment through the eyes of the men who completed it—pioneers who overcame tremendous adversity to traverse the towering Andes Mountains in order to discern the Earth’s shape.  In the process they also opened the eyes of Europe to the richness of South America and paved the way for scientific cooperation on a global scale.   ...more

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• 274: 1/4 Measure of the Earth: The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World, by Larrie D. Ferreiro.

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  Image:  Narrative of a journey from Lima to Para, across the Andes and down the Amazon: undertaken with a view of ascertaining the practicability of a navigable communication with the Atlantic, by the rivers Pachitea, Ucayali, and AmazonMeasure of the Earth: The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World, by Larrie D. Ferreiro.  1st Edition  https://www.amazon.com/Measure-Earth-Enlightenment-Expedition-Reshaped-dp-0465017231/dp/0465017231/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1596333584 In the early eighteenth century, at the peak of the Enlightenment, an unlikely team of European scientists and naval officers set out on the world’s first international, cooperative scientific expedition. Intent on making precise astronomical measurements at the Equator, they were poised to resolve one of mankind’s oldest mysteries: the true shape of the Earth. In Measure of the Earth, the award-winning science writer Larrie D. Ferreiro tells the full story of the Geodesic Mission to the Equator for the very first time. It was an age when Europe was torn between two competing conceptions of the world: the followers of René Descartes argued that the Earth was elongated at the poles, even as Isaac Newton contended that it was flattened. A nation that could accurately determine the planet’s shape could securely navigate its oceans, giving it great military and imperial advantages. Recognizing this, France and Spain organized a joint expedition to colonial Peru, Spain’s wealthiest kingdom. Armed with the most advanced surveying and astronomical equipment, they would measure a degree of latitude at the Equator, which when compared with other measurements would reveal the shape of the world. But what seemed to be a straightforward scientific exercise was almost immediately marred by a series of unforeseen catastrophes, as the voyagers found their mission threatened by treacherous terrain, a deeply suspicious populace, and their own hubris. A thrilling tale of adventure, political history, and scientific discovery, Measure of the Earth recounts the greatest scientific expedition of the Enlightenment through the eyes of the men who completed it—pioneers who overcame tremendous adversity to traverse the towering Andes Mountains in order to discern the Earth’s shape.  In the process they also opened the eyes of Europe to the richness of South America and paved the way for scientific cooperation on a global scale. ...more

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• 273: What is a Colophon? "Praise the Colophon: Twenty Notes on Type." Nick Ripatrazone, The Millions. @nickripatrazone

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  Aug 02 2020

  Photo:English: The last page of Suecica Birgitta (Bridget of Sweden); Petrus (Magister o P); Matthias (Lincopiensis) (1492)  Revelationes caelestes: mit Vita abbreviata sanctae Birgittae, Inhaltsverzeichnis, Tabula und Bittgebet zur hl. Birgitta. Davor: Turrecremata, Johannes de: Defensorium super Revelationes caelestes sanctae Birgittae <Ausz.> Mit der Kanonisationsbulle "Ab origine mundi," Rom 7.10.1391, von Papst Bonifatius IX. und der Bestätigung "Excellentum principum," Florenz 1.7.1419, von Papst Martin V [Celestial revelations: with a brief life of Saint Bridget, table of contents, picture and petitionary prayer for St. Bridget. Formerly: Turrecremata, Johannes de: Defence of the celestial revelations of Saint Bridget (extracts). With the canonization bull "From the beginning of the world," Rome 7 October 1391, by Pope Boniface IX and the confirmation "Leaders of excellence," Florence 1 July 1419, by Pope Martin V], Lübeck:  Bartholomäus Ghotan [for the Abbey of Our Lady and of Saint Bridget in Vadstena]  OCLC: 239380301. (BSB-Ink B-530 GW 4391.) The page features a colophon and printer's mark.Date | 1492Source | http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0002/bsb00025551/images/bsb00025551_00691.jpg.Author | Artist Unknown author; printed by Bartholomäus Ghotan. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler &amp; Twitter: @BatchelorShowWhat is a Colophon? "Praise the Colophon: Twenty Notes on Type." Nick Ripatrazone, The Millions. @nickripatrazone Author of WILD BELIEF: POETS &amp; PROPHETS IN THE WILDERNESS (http://bit.ly/2WPKT0f) / Writer: Rolling Stone, GQ, The Atlantic, Esquire / Columns: @lithub &amp; @The_Millions http://www.themillions.com/2015/03/praise-the-colophon-twenty-notes-on-type.html?src=longreads "Colophon: a statement at the end of a book, typically with a printer's emblem, giving information about its authorship and printing. You know: the details about the typeface, the typographer, the publisher, the who, what and where of the book's creation. Nick Ripatrazone researches the colophon's history and its artistic purpose. He concludes, "I call for the return of colophons. The battle of the book is not to be won or lost in preferences of print or digital. The page will always remain. Letters will always remain." ...more

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• 273: SETI and the possibility of an unwanted contact. @SethShostak @SETI

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  Aug 02 2020

  Photo:The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).NASA/Ames Research Center - https://web.archive.org/web/20070327105953/http://ails.arc.nasa.gov/Images/Astrobiology/AC87-0459.html Image of the Large Magellanic Cloud and Supernova 1987A taken by the Kuiper Airborne Observatory (NASA 714) during its New Zealand deployment in 1987. Public Domain File:Large.mc.arp.750pix.jpg Created: 23 June 1987  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowSETI and the possibility of an unwanted contact. @SethShostak @SETI"Should We Keep a Low Profile in Space?" By Seth Shostak, SETI.Seth Shostak is the director of the Center for SETI Research at the SETI Institute, and a host of the radio program “Big Picture Science.”https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/28/opinion/sunday/messaging-the-stars.html "Consequently, recent conferences on the merits of active SETI have sought the advice of social scientists. Among their worries is whether to be up front about humanity’s seamy side: Should we tell the extraterrestrials about war and injustice? Personally, I think this concern is overwrought. Any society that can pick up our radio messages will be at a level of development at least centuries beyond our own. They would be no more incensed by our bad behavior than historians who learned that Babylonians attacked one another with spears. It seems naïve to imagine that, by shielding aliens from the less flattering aspects of humanity, we would somehow lessen any incentive to do us harm. If there’s a danger, mincing words is unlikely to eliminate it. A better approach is to note that the nearest intelligent extraterrestrials are likely to be at least dozens of light-years away. Even assuming that active SETI provokes a reply, it won’t be breezy conversation. Simple back-and-forth exchanges would take decades. This suggests that we should abandon the “greeting card” format of previous signaling schemes, and offer the aliens Big Data. For example, we could transmit the contents of the Internet. Such a large corpus — with its text, pictures, videos and sounds — would allow clever extraterrestrials to decipher much about our society, and even formulate questions that could be answered with the material in hand. Sending the web on its way would take months if a radio transmitter were used. A powerful laser, conveying bits much like an optical fiber, could launch these data in a few days...." ...more

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• 273: Elements of Mind: 2of2: Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Walter H. Hunt (Author), Robert Dixon (Narrator), WordFire Press LLC (Publisher)

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  Photo:William Ewart Lockhart RSA (14 February 1846 – 9 February 1900[1]) was a Scottish Victorian painter, born in Eaglesfield and later raised by his grandparents in Sibbaldbie and then Annan. English: Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee Service, Westminster Abbey, 21 June 1887.Object type | paintingDescription | English: A depiction of a thanksgiving service on 21 June 1887 in Westminster Abbey celebrating the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria (24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901), that is, the 50th anniversary of her accession to the throne.Date | from 1887 until 1890 .Medium | oil on canvas.Dimensions | Height: 233.3 cm (91.8 in); Width: 306 cm (10 ft) . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler &amp; Twitter: @BatchelorShowPhoto: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler &amp; Twitter: @BatchelorShow Elements of Mind: 2of2:   Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Walter H. Hunt (Author), Robert Dixon (Narrator), WordFire Press LLC (Publisher)  https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Mind-Walter-Hunt-ebook/dp/B00LGSGGZS?ie=UTF8&amp;Version=1&amp;entries=0 "In Victorian India, a Scottish doctor, Dr. James Esdaile, finds a way to use the power of mesmerism to aid him in performing surgeries, using a remarkable artifact that enhances his abilities. The revocation of the promise to bring the artifact to Rev. William Davey, the head of the secret Committee of English mesmerists leads him to commit suicide in the center of the Crystal Palace...but that is only the beginning of the story. "Davey's pursuit of the object leads him across two continents, unfolding the story that has its origins two decades before - and reveals the secret world of the -chthonoi-, the elemental spirits that were banished from human lands in antiquity, and now want to find a way to open the Glass Door and reassert themselves in the world of men."...more

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• 273: Elements of Mind: 1of2: Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Walter H. Hunt (Author), Robert Dixon (Narrator), WordFire Press LLC (Publisher)

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  Photo:English: This is the primary of the two Thames embankments, London, England, the lesser one facing this, not shown, (Albert Embankment) at the time without the National Theatre and London Eye was only notable for Lambeth Palace and the newly completed building of London County Hall (now a hotel)Date | circa 1890 Source | https://www.flickr.com/photos/8623220@N02/8726538970/Author | Library of Congress http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Elements of Mind: 1of2:   Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Walter H. Hunt (Author), Robert Dixon (Narrator), WordFire Press LLC (Publisher)  https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Mind-Walter-Hunt-ebook/dp/B00LGSGGZS?ie=UTF8&amp;Version=1&amp;entries=0 "In Victorian India, a Scottish doctor, Dr. James Esdaile, finds a way to use the power of mesmerism to aid him in performing surgeries, using a remarkable artifact that enhances his abilities. The revocation of the promise to bring the artifact to Rev. William Davey, the head of the secret Committee of English mesmerists leads him to commit suicide in the center of the Crystal Palace...but that is only the beginning of the story. "Davey's pursuit of the object leads him across two continents, unfolding the story that has its origins two decades before - and reveals the secret world of the -chthonoi-, the elemental spirits that were banished from human lands in antiquity, and now want to find a way to open the Glass Door and reassert themselves in the world of men." ...more

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• 273: 4/4 The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb, by Neal Bascomb

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  Image:  Satellite photo of Scandinavia during wintertime  The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb, by Neal Bascomb   with Chris Sorensen (Narrator), 11th Street Productions LLC (Publisher).  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  https://www.amazon.com/Winter-Fortress-Mission-Sabotage-Hitlers/dp/B01EM9ATCS/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= It's 1942 and the Nazis are racing to be the first to build a weapon unlike any known before. They have the physicists, they have the uranium, and now all their plans depend on amassing a single ingredient: heavy water, which is produced in Norway's Vemork, the lone plant in all the world that makes this rare substance. Under threat of death, Vemork's engineers push production into overdrive.  For the Allies, the plant must be destroyed. But how would they reach the castle fortress set on a precipitous gorge in one of the coldest, most inhospitable places on Earth?  Based on a trove of top-secret documents and never-before-seen diaries and letters of the saboteurs, The Winter Fortress is an arresting chronicle of a brilliant scientist, a band of spies on skies, perilous survival in the wild, sacrifice for one's country, Gestapo manhunts, soul-crushing setbacks, and a last-minute operation that would end any chance Hitler could obtain the atomic bomb—and alter the course of the war. ...more

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• 273: 3/4 The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb, by Neal Bascomb

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  Image:  The German firm IG Farben, which was a partial owner of Norsk Hydro, had ordered 100 kg (220 lb)/month; Norsk Hydro's maximum production rate was then limited to 10 kg (22 lb)/month.  Here: Telford Taylor [after the war] opens the case against the defendants, in The United States of America vs. Carl Krauch, et al., also known as the IG Farben Trial, was the sixth of the twelve trials for war crimes The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb, by Neal Bascomb   with Chris Sorensen (Narrator), 11th Street Productions LLC (Publisher).  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  https://www.amazon.com/Winter-Fortress-Mission-Sabotage-Hitlers/dp/B01EM9ATCS/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr= It's 1942 and the Nazis are racing to be the first to build a weapon unlike any known before. They have the physicists, they have the uranium, and now all their plans depend on amassing a single ingredient: heavy water, which is produced in Norway's Vemork, the lone plant in all the world that makes this rare substance. Under threat of death, Vemork's engineers push production into overdrive.  For the Allies, the plant must be destroyed. But how would they reach the castle fortress set on a precipitous gorge in one of the coldest, most inhospitable places on Earth?  Based on a trove of top-secret documents and never-before-seen diaries and letters of the saboteurs, The Winter Fortress is an arresting chronicle of a brilliant scientist, a band of spies on skies, perilous survival in the wild, sacrifice for one's country, Gestapo manhunts, soul-crushing setbacks, and a last-minute operation that would end any chance Hitler could obtain the atomic bomb—and alter the course of the war. ...more

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• 273: 2/4 The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb, by Neal Bascomb

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  Image:  Spacefill model of heavy waterThe Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb, by Neal Bascomb   with Chris Sorensen (Narrator), 11th Street Productions LLC (Publisher).  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  https://www.amazon.com/Winter-Fortress-Mission-Sabotage-Hitlers/dp/B01EM9ATCS/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= It's 1942 and the Nazis are racing to be the first to build a weapon unlike any known before. They have the physicists, they have the uranium, and now all their plans depend on amassing a single ingredient: heavy water, which is produced in Norway's Vemork, the lone plant in all the world that makes this rare substance. Under threat of death, Vemork's engineers push production into overdrive.  For the Allies, the plant must be destroyed. But how would they reach the castle fortress set on a precipitous gorge in one of the coldest, most inhospitable places on Earth?  Based on a trove of top-secret documents and never-before-seen diaries and letters of the saboteurs, The Winter Fortress is an arresting chronicle of a brilliant scientist, a band of spies on skies, perilous survival in the wild, sacrifice for one's country, Gestapo manhunts, soul-crushing setbacks, and a last-minute operation that would end any chance Hitler could obtain the atomic bomb—and alter the course of the war. ...more

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• 273: 1/4 The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb, by Neal Bascomb

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  Image: Vemork Hydroelectric Plant at Rjukan in Telemark, Norway, in 1935. The plant was built by Norsk Hydro and opened in 1911. In the front building, the Norsk Hydro hydrogen production plant, a Norwegian Special Operations Executive (SOE) team (Operation Gunnerside) blew up heavy water production cells on 27 February 1943 in order to sabotage the efforts of the World War II German nuclear energy project. Telemark is in the southernmost county in Eastern Norway; the name Telemark means the "mark of the Thelir", the ancient North Germanic tribe that inhabited what is now known as Upper Telemark in the Migration Period and the Viking Age. Upper Telemark is also known as the birthplace of skiing.  ..The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb, by Neal Bascomb   with Chris Sorensen (Narrator), 11th Street Productions LLC (Publisher).  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  https://www.amazon.com/Winter-Fortress-Mission-Sabotage-Hitlers/dp/B01EM9ATCS/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr= It's 1942 and the Nazis are racing to be the first to build a weapon unlike any known before. They have the physicists, they have the uranium, and now all their plans depend on amassing a single ingredient: heavy water, which is produced in Norway's Vemork, the lone plant in all the world that makes this rare substance. Under threat of death, Vemork's engineers push production into overdrive.  For the Allies, the plant must be destroyed. But how would they reach the castle fortress set on a precipitous gorge in one of the coldest, most inhospitable places on Earth?  Based on a trove of top-secret documents and never-before-seen diaries and letters of the saboteurs, The Winter Fortress is an arresting chronicle of a brilliant scientist, a band of spies on skies, perilous survival in the wild, sacrifice for one's country, Gestapo manhunts, soul-crushing setbacks, and a last-minute operation that would end any chance Hitler could obtain the atomic bomb—and alter the course of the war. ...more

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• 272: #NewAmericanCivilWar: The Election cannot end the Washington Post fear of a military coup. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Aug 02 2020

  Photo:Zouaves, 9th N.Y. Volunteer Infantry, ca. 1860 - ca. 1865. Original Caption: Zouaves, 9th N.Y. Volunteer Infantry, ca. 1860 - ca. 1865.  U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 111-B-5886  From:: Series Mathew Brady Photographs of Civil War-Era Personalities and Scenes, compiled 1921 - 1940, documenting the period 1860 - 1865  Created By:: War Department. Office of the Chief Signal Officer. (08/01/1866 - 09/18/1947)  Production Date: ca. 1860 - ca. 1865  Persistent URL: arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/ExternalIdSearch?id=529972   Repository: Still Picture Records Section, National Archives at College Park (College Park, MD)  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler &amp; Twitter: @BatchelorShow#NewAmericanCivilWar: The Election cannot end the Washington Post fear of a military coup.  Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisishttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Days_in_Mayttps://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/as-trump-demurs-an-unimaginable-question-forms-could-the-president-reach-for-the-military-in-a-disputed-election/2020/07/28/15c8818c-cb5c-11ea-89ce-ac7d5e4a5a38_story.html President Trump’s refusal to commit to accepting the results of the November election, paired with his penchant for plunging the military into the partisan fray, has prompted scholars and legal experts to ask a once-unthinkable question: How would the armed forces respond if pulled into a disputed election?Speculation about whether the military could be asked to play a role in events following the 2020 presidential vote has intensified in the wake of the Pentagon’s involvement in the government’s response to demonstrations against racism and police brutality.“If the president is willing to thrust the military leadership into so damaging a set of circumstances during the protests, just imagine what he would be willing to do if he wants to prevent an electoral outcome that would be damaging to him,” said Kori Schake, director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. “So yes, they should be absolutely worried about it.”...more

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• 272: #NewAmericanCivilWar: Washington Post rewriting "Seven Days in May" for Election Day. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Photo:Mathew B. Brady (c. 1822 – January 15, 1896) was an American photographer, and one of the earliest in American history. Best known for his scenes of the Civil War, he studied under inventor Samuel F. B. Morse, who pioneered the daguerreotype technique in America. Brady opened his own studio in New York in 1844, and photographed Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and Abraham Lincoln, among other public figures. War Department. Office of the Chief Signal Officer. (08/01/1866 - 09/18/1947)Title | White House, Washington D.C. 1861- 1865Date | between circa 1860 and circa 1865 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler &amp; Twitter: @BatchelorShow#NewAmericanCivilWar: Washington Post rewriting "Seven Days in May" for Election Day. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisishttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Days_in_Mayttps://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/as-trump-demurs-an-unimaginable-question-forms-could-the-president-reach-for-the-military-in-a-disputed-election/2020/07/28/15c8818c-cb5c-11ea-89ce-ac7d5e4a5a38_story.html President Trump’s refusal to commit to accepting the results of the November election, paired with his penchant for plunging the military into the partisan fray, has prompted scholars and legal experts to ask a once-unthinkable question: How would the armed forces respond if pulled into a disputed election?Speculation about whether the military could be asked to play a role in events following the 2020 presidential vote has intensified in the wake of the Pentagon’s involvement in the government’s response to demonstrations against racism and police brutality.“If the president is willing to thrust the military leadership into so damaging a set of circumstances during the protests, just imagine what he would be willing to do if he wants to prevent an electoral outcome that would be damaging to him,” said Kori Schake, director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. “So yes, they should be absolutely worried about it.”...more

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• 271: Perseverance and the risks ahead. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Aug 01 2020

  Photo:A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover onboard launches from Space Launch Complex 41, Thursday, July 30, 2020, at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Perseverance rover is part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the Red Planet.Credits: NASA/Joel Kowsky  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowPerseverance and the risks ahead. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/perseverances-planned-journey-in-jezero-crater/ ...more

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• 271: Artemis is pork. Bringing Dragon home. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Aug 01 2020

  Photo:Apollo (left) and Artemis (right). Brygos (potter, signed), Briseis Painter, Tondo of an Attic red-figure cup, ca. 470 BC, Louvre. Briseis Painter and one more author Apollo and Artemis. Tondo of an Attic red-figure cup. Permission details This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1925. This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.View more Public Domainview terms File:Apollo Artemis Brygos Louvre G151.jpg Created: circa 470 BC  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler &amp; Twitter: @BatchelorShowArtemis is pork. Bringing Dragon home. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/house-rejects-artemis-senate-funds-artemis/https://behindtheblack.com/?s=Dragon ...more

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• 270: The NIH answers Ebola with jointness. Army of the North deploys #in-the-time-of-the-virus @FRoseDC @WJLA

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  Photo:English: Ebola virus virion. Created by GC microbiologist Cynthia Goldsmith, this colorized transmission electron micrograph (TEM) revealed some of the ultrastructural morphology displayed by an Ebola virus virion.Source | Public Health Image Library, #10816 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe NIH answers Ebola with jointness. Army of the North deploys #in-the-time-of-the-virus @FRoseDC @WJLALessons from Ebola vaccine that may apply to fighting covidhttps://govmatters.tv/antiviral-infusion-treatment-of-ebola-virus-developed-by-nih-team/ Feds list 12 properties for salehttps://govmatters.tv/the-public-buildings-reform-board-and-selling-properties/Lt Gen Richardson on fighting virus, fires, and hurricanes at the same timehttps://govmatters.tv/preparing-for-wildfires-and-hurricanes-during-a-pandemic/...more

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• 270: #TheScalaReport: The downside of Remote Working may be why Boris Johnson's Tory members want a return to the London office place: to preserve the sinking city. Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com #ScalaAPS

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  Photo:Tottenham 1927 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow #TheScalaReport: The downside of Remote Working may be why Boris Johnson's Tory members want a return to the London office place:  to preserve the sinking city.  Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com  #ScalaAPShttps://www.ft.com/content/ec98228e-474c-40e6-b68a-143865064e3dhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/companies-start-to-think-remote-work-isnt-so-great-after-all-11595603397bb   ...more

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• 270: Unmaskings: Using the surveillance apparatus for political ends? "That's correct. That's what it was being used for." @DevinNunes CA-22

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  Photo:Queen Elizabeth I, William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, Sir Francis Walsinghamafter Unknown artist,print,possibly early to mid 17th century  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowUnmaskings: Using the surveillance apparatus for political ends? "That's correct. That's what it was being used for." @DevinNunes CA-22https://www.wsj.com/articles/bill-barrs-other-prosecutor-11595978614

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• 270: "What they (Democrats) stand for, which is total chaos, power at all costs, which has its roots in Marxism, Communism, Socialism." @DevinNunes CA-22

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  Aug 01 2020

  Photo:Lenin with comrades at a May Day rally in Red Square, May 1919"Boris Souvarine Papers - Soviet Russia Photosgraduateinstitute.ch/home/research/library/archives/boris...  Notes: This political demonstration takes place near the Kremlin and celebrates the IIIrd Communist International. One reads the name of the countries represented at the Communist International on the banners, as well as the slogan "Workers of the world, unite!". The title of this picture was written on the back of the document (in Russian). Another photo of the same event can be found in Red Star over Russia (ref. below), with this description: "Lenin (seen standing on the left of the bottom step) with comrades at a May Day rally in Red Square, Moscow, 1919. Marx's First International and the IIIrd International are graphically celebrated in the festivities. There is, however, no representation of the IInd International, whose leaders Lenin mercilessly lambasted on another gramophone record: "They betrayed the workers, prolonged the slaughter, became enemies of socialism, and went over to the side of the capitalists" (p.85). Unknown photographer.  Description: 1 photograph mounted on card. Black and white ; 16.5 x 22.5 cm. Sources and further reading:King, David. 2009. Red Star over Russia: a Visual History of the Soviet Union from 1917 to the Death of Stalin: Posters, Photographs and Graphics from the David King Collection. London, Tate.   http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler &amp; Twitter: @BatchelorShow"What they (Democrats) stand for, which is total chaos, power at all costs, which has its roots in Marxism, Communism, Socialism." @DevinNunes CA-22https://devinnunes.podbean.com ...more

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• 269: #SmallBusinessAmerica: The unacceptable media disregard for the genius of small business. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer

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  Aug 01 2020

  Photo:Title: Philadelphia and its environsYear: 1876 (1870s)Authors: Subjects: Publisher:  Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & co.Contributing Library:  The Library of CongressDigitizing Sponsor:  Sloan FoundationView 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:he Bank of North America, the first bank estab-lished in the United States, it having been founded by Congress in 1781, when the credit ofthe country was verv far indeed below par. Robert Morris was one of the principal originators PHILADELPHIA AND ITS ENVIRONS. of this bank, and it proved a valuable auxiliary to his efforts in behalf of the public treasury.By its aid he succeeded in raising again the public credit and in establishing a good cir-culating medium. The present building is of brown stone, in the Florentine style of archi-tecture. Just above, on the opposite side of the street, is the new building of the Guaran-tee Trust and Safe Deposit Company, a beautiful structure of pressed brick ornamented withOhio stone and colored tiles. Its frontage on Chestnut Street is 57 feet, and its depth 198 feet.The building was erected in 1874, and has the merits of combining novelty and beauty ofdesign with the greatest security against both fire and theft. The safe deposit vaults, six in http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler &amp; Twitter: @BatchelorShow#SmallBusinessAmerica: The unacceptable media disregard for the genius of small business.   @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirerThe media's portrayal of small businesses closing is insultinghttps://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jul/27/the-medias-portrayal-of-small-businesses-closing-i/Ellen, Just Apologize Alreadyhttps://www.entrepreneur.com/article/354009Ice cream shop owner wants customers to stop yelling at staff over mask requirementhttps://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/2020/07/ice-cream-shop-owner-wants-customers-to-stop-yelling-at-staff-over-mask-requirement.htmlFor This Family of Farmers, Hemp is Their Golden Ticket to the Futurehttps://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/business/2020/07/30/hemp-golden-ticket-to-the-future-for-these-farmers?cid=share_twitter?cid=share_twitterFirms with more female executives 'perform better'https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53548704 Want More Cash?: 100+ Ideas And Strategies For Increasing Your Company's Cash Flow Paperback – July 24, 2020. by Gene Marks  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Want-More-Cash-Strategies-Increasing/dp/B08DBNHDHG/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr= ...more

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• 269: #SmallBusinessAmerica: Want more cash? Hire a Millennial & Why. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer

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  Photo:Image from page 23 of "MNB : ninety odd years of banking 1825-1916" (1900) Identifier: mnbninetyoddyear00newb Title: MNB : ninety odd years of banking 1825-1916 Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors:  Subjects:  Merchants National Bank (New Bedford, Mass.) Banks and banking -- Massachusetts New Bedford New Bedford (Mass.) -- Commerce Publisher:  [New Bedford, MA : Merchants National Bank Contributing Library:  Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Digitizing Sponsor:  Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler &amp; Twitter: @BatchelorShow#SmallBusinessAmerica: Want more cash?  Hire a Millennial &amp; Why. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer Want More Cash?: 100+ Ideas And Strategies For Increasing Your Company's Cash Flow Paperback – July 24, 2020. by Gene Marks  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Want-More-Cash-Strategies-Increasing/dp/B08DBNHDHG/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr= ...more

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• 269: Joe Biden is the end of charter schools and an existential threat to parochial schools. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion

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  Aug 01 2020

  Photo:Gawler History https://www.flickr.com/photos/gawler_history/6940943530Burton School 1880church_hill_orleana_sq_1880 _cowan _st _l.s. burton _school  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowJoe Biden is the end of charter schools and an existential threat to parochial schools. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinionhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/reading-the-trump-biden-inkblots-11596061771

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• 269: #PacificWatch: Canceling Francis Drake, Abraham Lincoln, John Muir and FDR. Jeff Bliss @JCBliss.

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  Aug 01 2020

  Photo:[Sir Francis Drake's House near Severn Bridge, Gatcombe, England] (LOC)[Sir Francis Drake's House near Severn Bridge, Gatcombe, England] [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color. Notes:Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J--foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905.Print no. "11014".Forms part of: Views of the British Isles, in the Photochrom print collection. Subjects:England--Gloucestershire--Gatcombe.  Format: Photochrom prints--Color--1890-1900.  Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.  Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print   Part Of: Views of the British Isles (DLC) 2002696059 More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pgz  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler &amp; Twitter: @BatchelorShow#PacificWatch: Canceling Francis Drake, Abraham Lincoln, John Muir and FDR. Jeff Bliss @JCBliss.A 30-foot tall steel sculpture of Sir Francis Drake has been removed by crews near the Larkspur Ferry Terminal in Marin County. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt — each name in this pantheon of presidents faces possible purging from a San Francisco school, according to a recently released working paper drawn up by the school district’s Names Advisory Committee.  San Francisco Chronicle List of over 50 John Muir namesakes shows how widespread memorials to him are in California -- The Sierra Club on Wednesday distanced itself from Muir, its founder, saying he was a racist and apologizing for the group’s “substantial role in perpetuating white supremacy.”  San Francisco Chronicle  ...more

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• 268: #HotelMars: The long delayed James Webb Telescope is delayed #in-the-time-of-the-virus. Mike Wall, Space.com David Livingston, SpaceShow.com

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  Photo:Artist's concept of Spitzer Space Telescope. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow#HotelMars: The long delayed James Webb Telescope is delayed #in-the-time-of-the-virus.  Mike Wall, Space.com David Livingston, SpaceShow.comhttps://www.space.com/nasa-delays-james-webb-space-telescope-october-2021.html

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• 268: The Congressional intervention crisis stimulus packages are very expensive for a long while. @VerodeRugy @Mercatus

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  Aug 01 2020

  Photo:English: Title: Labor Day parade on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C. Abstract/medium: 1 photograph : glass plate negative ; plate 13 x 10 cm (4 x 5 format)Date | 1894Source | Library of CongressCatalog: https://lccn.loc.gov/2017645684Image download: https://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/ppmsca/50000/50064v.jpgOriginal url: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017645684/Author | Miscellaneous Items in High Demand, PPOC, Library of CongressPermission(Reusing this file) | No known restrictions on publication. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler &amp; Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe Congressional intervention crisis stimulus packages are very expensive for a long while.  @VerodeRugy @Mercatushttps://www.mercatus.org/publications/corporate-welfare/congress-should-reflect-past-financial-relief-providing-more ...more

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• 268: Is it futile waiting for Durham? @ConradMBlack @TheAmGreatness

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  Aug 01 2020

  Photo:English: The Steamer Albany, of Hudson River Day Line, on the Hudson River at Albany, New York, United States. In the background can be seen the New York State Capitol and Albany City Hall.Date | between 1900 and 1910 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowIs it futile waiting for Durham? @ConradMBlack @TheAmGreatnesshttps://amgreatness.com/2020/07/23/the-five-burning-questions-of-this-election-season/

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• 268: Can POTUS overcome the media storm against his re-election? @ConradMBlack @TheAmGreatness

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  Aug 01 2020

  Photo:Description: This MODIS true-color image of Canada shows a spiral of clouds centered over the Hudson Bay, and draped over parts of Manitoba (left), Ontario (bottom center) and Quebec (right).Date | 16 September 2010, 12:55Source | Borrasca en Canadá (NASA Terra-Modis)Author | Banco de Imágenes Geológicas http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowCan POTUS overcome the media storm against his re-election? @ConradMBlack @TheAmGreatnesshttps://amgreatness.com/2020/07/23/the-five-burning-questions-of-this-election-season/ ...more

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• 267: Blue governors continue to check the American consumer and still we spend. Monica Crowley @TreasurySpox

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  Jul 31 2020

  Photo:Title: Trolley trips through New England ..Year: 1900 (1900s)Authors: Subjects:  New England -- Description and travel. (from old catalog) Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Description and travelPublisher:  Hartford, Conn., Guyde publishing co.Contributing Library:  The Library of CongressDigitizing Sponsor:  Sloan FoundationView 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:ALBANY, N. Y.Hotel: Hampton (rooms, $2). Restaurant: Kcelers. Albany, the capital of the Empire State, lies on hilly groundat the debouchure of the Champlain and Erie Canals into theHudson. It owes much of its prosperity to its connection withthe West by means of them, and more from the great fiordthat lies at its front door, for the Hudson is that: its bed a sunkcleft through the hills, its waters tidal.94. ALBANY and HUDSON -oo Albany, lv. P. O. -13 Rensselaer (5c.13m.) -47 Nassau (20c.47m.) -52 N. Chatham (25c.52m.) -58 Electric Park (25c.58m.) •02 Niverville (30c.1hr.2m.) -07 Yalatie (35c.1hr.7m.) -11 Kinderhook (3SC.ihr.i im.) -28 Stockport (50c.1hr.28m.) •53 Hudson (50c.1hr.53m.) -00 Hudson, lv.N. Y. C. Depot-28 Stockport (5c.28m.)-44 Kinderhook (15c.44m.)-48 Yalatie (15c.48m.)-53 Niverville (20c.53m.)-58 Electric Park (250.58111.)-03 N. Chatham (25c.1hr.3m.)-09 Nassau (30c.1hr.9m.)-39 Rensselaer (50c.1hr.39m.)-53 Albany (50c.1hr.53m.) The Hudson River Valley 133 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler &amp; Twitter: @BatchelorShowBlue governors continue to check the American consumer and still we spend. Monica Crowley @TreasurySpoxhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-surge-could-restrain-consumer-spendingand-recovery-11596187800?mod=hp_lead_pos11 ...more

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• 267: The long arm of the Russian mob using US funds and UN cover in Guatemala City. @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion

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  Jul 31 2020

  Photo:"Cerrito del Carmen" church. First construction ever built by the Spaniards in the valley that eventually became Guatemala City.Unknown author - Fotos antiguas de Guatemala Cerrito del Carmen en 1900 Public Domain File:Cerritodelcarmen.jpg Created: 1 January 1900  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe long arm of the Russian mob using US funds and UN cover in Guatemala City. @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinionhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/guatemala-torments-the-bitkovs-11595796433...more

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• 266: Is the Biden camp plan to keep Flynn off the campaign trail? @SebGorka #AmericaFirst

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  Jul 31 2020

  Photo:Poster used in the 1912 U.S. election on behalf of Socialist Party Presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs and Vice Presidential candidate Emil Seidel Previously uploaded to en:Wikipedia 00:19, 30 October 2005 by en:User:Revolución  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowIs the Biden camp plan to keep Flynn off the campaign trail? @SebGorka #AmericaFirst

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• 266: Are the Portland Democrats regrouping or retreating? @SebGorka #AMericaFirst

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  Photo:English: Tahoma and Bailey Gatzert (sternwheelers) at the Willamette River waterfront at Portland, Oregon ca 1900. Other large sternwheelers are visible in background.Date | circa 1900 Source | University of Washington digital collection image PH Coll.701.51Author | John Fletcher Ford (c1862-1914)Permission(Reusing this file) | Author deceased more than 70 years http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowAre the Portland Democrats regrouping or retreating? @SebGorka #AMericaFirst ...more

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• 265: Russia gains in Libya and Syria by pressing the NATO member Turkey. Anna Borshchevskaya @AnnaBorsch @WashInstitute ; Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Image:  Ottoman Turkey Anna Borshchevskaya, in re: Erdogan is an instrument to Russia; an unequal relation where Putin holds stronger cards. Anna Borshchevskaya is a senior Fellow at The Washington Institute, focusing on Russia's policy toward the Middle East. In addition, she is a contributor to Oxford Analytica and a fellow at the European Foundation for Democracy. She was previously with the Atlantic Council and the Peterson Institute for International Economics. A former analyst for a U.S. military contractor in Afghanistan, she has also served as communications director at the American Islamic Congress. ·         https://iranwire.com/en/features/7336 ·         https://www.defense.gov/Explore/News/Article/Article/2287821/russia-wagner-group-continue-military-involvement-in-libya/ ·         https://www.axios.com/russia-anti-satellite-weapon-test-03127d27-8b9f-47a8-a39c-edf9d89ee717.html ·         https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/russia-will-hate-ukraine-cleared-move-american-javelin-missiles-front-lines-164359 ·         https://www.npr.org/2020/07/29/896804140/defense-secretary-esper-says-u-s-plans-to-cut-troops-in-germany-by-a-third   ...more

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• 265: Hagia Sophia becomes Erdogan's conquest & the Uyghurs become Erdogan's deal with the PRC. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres. @AykanErdemir @FDD Press

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  Image:   Aykan Erdemir, in re: Erdogan converts Hagia Sophia into a mosque; he invited everyone to the inauguration, including the pope; even Muslim leaders refused to appear. Turkey is sending Uyghurs back to China! via third countries to their certain destruction.  China found that it was cheap to buy Erdogan’s silence and cooperation.  Turkish Secret Service (Millî İstihbarat Teşkilatı, MİT) has been trying to protect them.  Dr. Aykan Erdemir, senior director of FDD’s Turkey program, 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. ●        https://www.ft.com/content/69a222d4-b37c-4e7e-86dc-4f96b226416d ●        https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/07/28/us-congress-pushes-sanctions-turkey-russia-libya-war/ ●        https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2020/07/24/hagia-sophia-rhetoric-adds-insult-to-injury/ ●        https://english.alarabiya.net/en/features/2020/07/29/Former-Turkish-PM-acknowledges-Turkey-policy-of-returning-Uighur-Muslims-to-China.html ...more

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• 265: Significant & Hamas defectors in IDF custody & Iran war games sink a toy aircraft carrier named Nimitz. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Image:  The real Nimitz:  USS Nimitz (CVN-68), a US Navy aircraft carrier.  Malcolm Hoenlein : @Conf_of_Pres; in re: National Day of Mourning for many historical tragedies.  The failed state of Iran: war games. explosions, disruptions, infrastructure deterioration 

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• 265: Intercepting the Hezbollah Murder Raid on the Israel-Lebanon Border. Assaf Orion, @WashInstitute; Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Image:  Banyas waterfall at the foot of Mount Hermon. Public domain. Assaf Orion, in re: UNIFIL incident along the Lebanese-Israeli border.  Thwarted an attempt attack by Hezbollah murder raid?  Iran in the middle of it.  UNIFIL supposed to be a buffer as well as an arbiter, was notable for its absence.   Assaf Orion is the Rueven International Fellow with The Washington Institute and is a Senior Research Fellow at INSS. Prior to retiring from the Israel Defense Forces in 2016 as a brigadier general, he held a leadership role in the Planning Directorate that included coordinating with UNIFIL and the LAF. ●        https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/unifils-yearly-mandate-renewal-maintain-ends-change-ways-and-means ●        https://www.timesofisrael.com/unifil-peacekeepers-launch-investigation-into-lebanon-border-incident/? ●        https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/israel-to-unsc-empower-unifil-to-better-monitor-hezbollah-in-lebanon-634652 ●        https://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/2020/07/09/a-partnership-to-nurture/ ...more

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• 264: India spurns Beijing apps and hardware. Sadanand @Dhume @WSJOpinion

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  Image: Part of Pangong Tso/Bangong Co with the Chinese (pink) and Indian (red) claims. The area in the middle is disputed.[d] Khurnak Fort and Sirijap campground are also visible. India spurns Beijing apps and hardware. Sadanand @Dhume @WSJOpinion https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-beijing-lost-with-its-border-clash-blunder-11594310502

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• 264: India romances Moscow to rearm against Beijing. Sadanand @Dhume @WSJOpinion

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  Image:   Soviet Ambassador Kirill Novikov arriving in New Delhi 1947 to establish formal diplomatic relations with India https://www.wsj.com/articles/moscow-isnt-new-delhis-pal-11595548947?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWlRVNFpEazRaakUxTWpGaSIsInQiOiJVNERUUFk1ODNaeDhlNFwvVW9BQ2gwblhzOUhFamNqYkpxeTcrZEdRM3FKNTE5UmNaZFgwejk1V2VER1VlK2k0MEJCb0dwY2UybTZuYnYxditzc0dPXC9ERkZKV2lYTnB2Q1JjY3hEZlNKR05xT0w0eXVTZ3RDZlBZcFwvSElTZUkzQyJ9

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• 263: Democrats Rewrite the Trump Coup Plot to Include Cancelling the Election. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness, @ThadMcCotter

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  Image:  Parliamentary elections were held in Kyrgyzstan on 27 February and 13 March 2005. The belief that the elections had been rigged by the government led to widespread protests, culminating in the Tulip Revolution on 24 March in which President Askar Akayev* was overthrown.  Here: Akayev on a Kyrgyzstani stamp.*He obtained a doctorate in 1981 from the Moscow Institute of Engineering and Physics, having written his dissertation on holographic systems of storage and transformation of information. In 1984, he became a member of the Kirghiz Academy of Sciences, rose to vice president of the Academy in 1987 and then president of the Academy in 1989.   In a 1991 interview, he said that "Although I am a Communist, my basic attitude toward private property is favorable. I believe that the revolution in the sphere of economics was not made by Karl Marx but by Adam Smith."  . . .  Akayev now works as Professor and Senior Researcher of Prigogine Institute for Mathematical Investigations of Complex Systems at Moscow State University.[8] Together with Andrey Korotayev and George Malinetsky he is a coordinator of the Russian Academy of Sciences Program "System Analysis and Mathematical Modeling of World Dynamics". He is also Academic Supervisor of the Laboratory for Monitoring the Risks of Socio-Political Destabilization at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow @AndrewCMcCarthy, Ball of Collusion, and Thaddeus McCotter @ThadMcCotter, American Greatness; in re:   Some people think that, because Trump tweeted, “Shall we delay the election?” that the military are coming down the pike to confiscate ballot boxes.  [Trump is using his very dry humor to agitate his opponents.]  Of course, as a fundamental legal matter, it’s not up to the president to decide it he’ll stay or leave. This is not at all a question.   https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/as-trump-demurs-an-unimaginable-question-forms-could-the-president-reach-for-the-military-in-a-disputed-election/2020/07/28/15c8818c-cb5c-11ea-89ce-ac7d5e4a5a38_story.html President Trump’s refusal to commit to accepting the results of the November election, paired with his penchant for plunging the military into the partisan fray, has prompted scholars and legal experts to ask a once-unthinkable question: How would the armed forces respond if pulled into a disputed election? Speculation about whether the military could be asked to play a role in events following the 2020 presidential vote has intensified in the wake of the Pentagon’s involvement in the government’s response to demonstrations against racism and police brutality. “If the president is willing to thrust the military leadership into so damaging a set of circumstances during the protests, just imagine what he would be willing to do if he wants to prevent an electoral outcome that would be damaging to him,” said Kori Schake, director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. “So yes, they should be absolutely worried about it.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/24/can-president-trump-delay-election/There has been no evidence to back up Trump’s repeated claims about fraud in mail-in voting. Trump has previously denied that he wanted to move the November election. In April, responding to Democratic rival Joe Biden’s suggestion that he would try to change the date, Trump said, “I never even thought of changing the date of the election. Why would I do that? November 3rd. It’s a good number. No, I look forward to that election and that was just made up propaganda.” Even if he wanted to, though, the president has no power over when the United States holds federal elections. ...more

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• 263: Pursuing Michael Flynn as if he is Jean Valjean. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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    Image:  Monsieur Madeleine, illustration de Gustave Brion pour Les Misérables (Maison de Victor Hugo - Hauteville House).@AndrewCMcCarthy, Ball of Collusion, and Thaddeus McCotter @ThadMcCotter, American Greatness; in re: Judge Sullivan has no legal standing to be here; en banc on August 1. Small chance of prevailing, group skewing 7 to 3  Democratic.  Court of Appeals considering on a very narrow point:  No other remedy but to order Sullivan to dismiss the case?  They didn’t disagree with the legal analysis of the panel.   Were the intention to delay this past Election Day, how would it look different?  (It wouldn't.) Sullivan called Flynn a traitor, and subscribes to the Russia hoax.  A big majority of Democrats (&gt;40%) believe the Russia hoax; this will not soon end. For example, Trump is pulling forces out of Germany—it’s reported as being a deed to help Putin. Michael (Jean Valjean) Flynn https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/michael-flynn-case-to-be-reheard-by-full-federal-appeals-court-in-dc/2020/07/30/003f9720-d033-11ea-8d32-1ebf4e9d8e0d_story.htmlA federal appeals court in Washington will take a second look at a judge’s effort to scrutinize the Justice Department’s decision to drop its case against President Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn. The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit agreed Thursday to revisit U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan’s plan to examine the politically charged matter, reviving the unusual case testing the limits of the judiciary’s power to check the executive branch. The court’s brief order set oral argument for Aug. 11. Sullivan requested a rehearing by a full complement of judges after a divided three-judge panel ordered him immediately to dismiss the case and said Sullivan was wrong to appoint a retired federal judge to argue against the government’s move to undo Flynn’s guilty plea.Max Boot restates Russiagate https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/29/new-interview-trump-again-shows-that-hes-putins-puppet/?hpid=hp_save-opinions-float-right-4-0_opinion-card-g-right%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans So Jonathan Swan of Axios did what Chris Wallace of Fox News did not do in an otherwise admirable interview with President Trump: He asked about the reports of Russia placing bounties on the heads of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. The responses were as appalling as you might expect, with the “America First” president once again turning into a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin. Swan began by asking whether Trump had discussed the reported bounties during his phone call with Putin on July 23. “No, that was a call to discuss other things,” Trump said, explaining that they discussed “nuclear proliferation, which is a very big problem.” Nuclear proliferation is indeed important, although it’s doubtful that Putin has either the ability or the willingness to do much about it. But Putin does have it in his power to stop the headhunting of U.S. troops — if, in fact, it has occurred. But Trump did not ask him to do so or upbraid him for reportedly having carried out such operations in the past. To listen to Trump, the threat to the soldiers under his command wasn’t important enough to bring up. ...more

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• 263: What Democratic Party? "It's the party of slavery. It's the party of rebellion. It's the party of secession.It's the party of Jim Crow. It's the party of the Ku Klux Klan. It's the party of the Roosevelt coalition that got him four terms by refusing to ta

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  Image:Location of the 1860 Democratic Party Convention. Stereoscopic image of South Carolina Institute Hall by George Norman Barnard  Barnard, George N., 1819-1902 -- Photographer - This image is available from the New York Public Library's Digital Library under the digital ID G92F025_002F: digitalgallery.nypl.org → digitalcollections.nypl.org Public Domain File:South Carolina Institute Hall, Charleston, S.C, by Barnard, George N., 1819-1902.jpg Created: Coverage: 1861?-1880?. Source Imprint: Charleston, S. C. : G. N. Barnard, 1861?-1880?. Digital item published 3-9-2006; updated 2-13-2009. What Democratic Party? "It's the party of slavery. It's the party of rebellion. It's the party of secession.It's the party of Jim Crow. It's the party of the Ku Klux Klan. It's the party of the Roosevelt coalition that got him four terms by refusing to talk about civil rights. It's the party of Woodrow Wilson, refusing to integrate the Armed Forces. Etcetera etcetera." @VDHanson @HooverInst Victor Davis Hanson, @VDHanson; Hoover, and NRO ; in re:   Where’s the counterrevolution?  Those who hold that the chaos is designed simply no to elect Donald Trump. What are they waiting f?  Might they wait too long, and the cancel culture will be victorious? Yes; that’s a real worry. Gun sales are astronomic; people growing weary of the violence, won’t even watch the NFL  me Labor Day, people will start putting the pieces together.  JB:  The values I’ve developed as a septuagenarian are being [obliterated].  That there’s virtue-signalling all the time, and people are cut out.  The [real] New York Times no longer exists.  “We don't dismiss people by applying today’s standards to historical figures.”  Tear down FDR because he interned Japanese? The obvious one is he Democratic Party – of the Klan, of Jim Crow, of Woodrow Wilson de-integrating the armed forces; of Robert Byrd.  https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/07/protests-riots-democrats-media-blame-trump/   ...more

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• 263: American culture cancels American culture. @VDHanson @HooverInst

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  Image:  Engraving "Closing of the Jacobin Club, during the night of 27–28 July 1794, or 9–10 Thermidor, year 2 of the Republic" Victor Davis Hanson, @VDHanson; Hoover, and NRO ; in re:  The Cancel culture as part f th woke culture.  Self-destruction occurred in Rome-—Philip and Alexander were much less of a threat than the Persians had been a century earlier—.  France caved in to the Nazis in six weeks despite having a superior military, more tanks.    . . .  Destroying and rewriting our past is almost a comic-book version of Orwell.  . . .  In Oaxaca, inter al., is a pre-Columbian society; also, Peru, or Bolivian jungles. It's the upper middle class that enjoys this agita, raises hell, then goes to get a latte.  The Bolsheviks were a tiny number of people; created a putsch in a turbulent time.  Media, Hollywood, entertainment industry: all exaggerate the number of people involved in tearing-down. There were few Jacobins or Salem witches; but these created a reign of terror.  These people have zero agenda other than chaos.     https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/07/summer-cultural-suicide-sports-movies-schools-go-woke/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202020-07-30&amp;utm_term=NRDaily-Smart...more

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• 262: More Mars surface mysteries as Perseverance launches for Jezero Crater in February, 2021. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Photo:NASA JPLThe image to the right, taken by the high resolution camera on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) on September 23, 2019, is of one of those glacial flows, coming off a mesa in a region called Protonilus Mensae, located in the transition zone between the southern highlands and the northern lowland plains where an intermittent ocean might have once existed. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowMore Mars surface mysteries as Perseverance launches for Jezero Crater in February, 2021. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/glacier-country-on-mars/ ...more

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• 262: SpaceX raises private equity for the Moon and Mars expeditions. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Photo:Frontispiece illustration Caption: "I was progressing in great leaps and bounds" Claude Allin Shepperson - Internet Archive identifier Frontispiece of H. G. Wells' The First Men in the Moon, 1st hardcover edition, published by George Newnes in 1901. Caption: "I was progressing in great leaps and bounds" Public Domain File:First Men in the Moon (1901) frontispiece.jpg Created: 1 January 1901  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowSpaceX raises private equity for the Moon and Mars expeditions. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-to-raise-another-billion-in-private-investment-capital/ ...more

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• 261: Why does troubled PRC aim to buy a gold mine in far-north Canada? @GordonGChang ; Charles Burton: @cburton001

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  Image:  Gold miners excavate a gold-bearing bluff with jets of water at a placer mine in Dutch Flat, California sometime between 1857 and 1870. Charles Burton: Why does troubled PRC aim to buy a gold mine in far-north Canada?

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• 261: Trump Administration chooses Kodak to reconfigure the API supply chain away from the PRC. @Rosemary100 @GordonGChang

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  Image:  U.S. patent no. 388,850, issued to George Eastman, fonder of Kodak, September 4, 1888 Trump Administration chooses Kodak to reconfigure the API supply chain away from the PRC. @Rosemary100 @GordonGChang https://www.amazon.com/China-Rx-Exposing-Americas-Dependence/dp/1633883817 https://www.whec.com/rochester-new-york-news/when-will-we-see-the-360-jobs-promised-in-the-kodak-deal/5810772/

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• 260: Attorney General Barr in a talkfest with electioneering Democrats. @RichardAEpstein

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  Image:  Dirksen Senate Building room 226, from http://judiciary.senate.gov/information.cfmcommons:category:United States Senate Attorney General Barr in a talkfest with electioneering Democrats https://nypost.com/2020/07/28/barr-destroys-nadler-in-another-house-democrat-testimony-disaster-goodwin/

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• 260: Time-out called in Portland as the Democrats reload. @RichardAEpstein

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  Image:  Map of Portland in 1890. Time-out called in Portland as the Democrats reload. @RichardAEpsteinhttps://www.hoover.org/research/portland-goes-over-brink?utm_source=Hoover+Daily+Report&utm_campaign=97fbb87f68-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_28_05_48&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_21b1edff3c-97fbb87f68-72527561The continuing unrest in Portland, Oregon, which has now lasted some 55 nights, exemplifies the breakdown of law and order that has become a daily occurrence in many cities with progressive mayors. Portland police are nowhere to be found at the site of the protests outside the Mark O. Hatfield Courthouse, a federal building. On June 26, President Trump issued an Executive Order sending federal troops to protect the courthouse—and so far, they have made at least 43 arrests. The President minced no words when he attacked the protesters as “anarchists and left-wing extremists” spurred on by “agitators who have traveled ...more

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• 259: #NewWorldReport: Fake news bedevils Latin America as much as the virus does. @jmhumire, @MariaFdaCabal.

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  Image:  El Universal, Venezuela New World Report. Joseph Humire:  @jmhumire, @securefreesoc; and Senator Maria Fernanda Cabal of Colombia:   @MariaFdaCabal; in re:  #NewWorldReport: Fake news bedevils Latin America as much as the virus does. @jmhumire, @MariaFdaCabal.

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• 259: #NewWorldReport: The lawless Colombia-Venezuela borderland as Caracas exports crime. @jmhumire, @MariaFdaCabal.

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  Image:  Map showing the shrinking territory of Gran Colombia from 1824 to 1890 (red line). Panama declared its independence from Colombia in 1903. New World Report. Joseph Humire:  @jmhumire, @securefreesoc; and Senator Maria Fernanda Cabal of Colombia:   @MariaFdaCabal; in re: The lawless  Colombia-Venezuela borderland as Caracas exports crime.

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• 259: The beautiful and empty Altoona Curves (Double A) ballpark of missing Minor League Baseball. @SalenaZito @DCExaminer @RealClearPolitics

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  Image:  Altoona in 1895: a Pennsylvania Railroad town. Lithograph by Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler. Salena Zito, The Middle of Somewhere column; New York Post; Real Clear Politics; in re:  Minor League Baseball. Altoona.  The Altoona Curve!

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• 259: The imminent Election Day vote-by-mail crash landing in the Keystone State @SalenaZito @DCExaminer @RealClearPolitics SalenaZito.com

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  Image:  The Birth of Pennsylvania depicts William Penn receiving a royal deed from King Charles II of England. Penn founded the colony in 1681 as a refuge for Quakers.The imminent Election Day vote-by-mail crash landing in the Keystone State @SalenaZito @DCExaminer @RealClearPolitics SalenaZito.com Salena Zito, The Middle of Somewhere column; New York Post; Real Clear Politics; in re: Pennsylvania.  Delayed ballot-counting because most ballots were mailed in.  A new process; with some absentee ballots.  Some counties took days; the Collar Counties took weeks to get the final count in.  ’Twasn’t the ballots, it was the counting that took so long.  Imagine the presidential contest dragging on till December.  In the end, 31,000 ballots not counted—enough to swing the election. There were 160,000 newly-registered Republican voters.  Keystone State because the person who wins the election in Pennsylvania is likely to win the White House.  https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/07/24/with_votesafe_initiative_both_parties_push_pa_mail-in_ballots_143791.html?mc_cid=0fd5f626af&amp;mc_eid=08984dcda5&amp;utm_source=Salena+Zito&amp;utm_campaign=438d5aceb6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_24_02_37&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_06ac76b2f8-438d5aceb6-11447385 https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/americas-mindset-recovered-from-spanish-flu-for-one-reason-unity?utm_source=Salena+Zito&amp;utm_campaign=210ee1fff5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_24_09_47&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_06ac76b2f8-210ee1fff5-11447385 https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/as-mlb-restarts-minor-league-baseball-survives-and-waits-its-turn?utm_source=Salena+Zito&amp;utm_campaign=a7d0a2ebea-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_27_11_08&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_06ac76b2f8-a7d0a2ebea-11447385 ...more

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• 258: Threatening unknown seed packages from untrusted China. Gordon Chang @GordonGChang, & Bill Gertz @BillGertz,

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  Image:  The Chinese snakehead fish, “the fish from Hell,” which mysteriously appeared in a pond near Washington, D.C.  Screen grab.Gordon Chang @GordonGChang, & Bill Gertz @BillGertz, Inside the Ring column, and author of a new Encounter Books Broadside, How China's Communist Party Made the World Sick, in re: Pompeo’s brilliant speech in California at the Nixon library: Distrust and verify [China]. Now, many packets of seeds have arrived mysteriously from China; [God knows] what they’d do if planted. China truly is engaged in unrestricted warfare with the US. It's stolen our advanced technology in many realms.  A snakehead Chinese fish, an extreme predator (“the fish from Hell”), was found in a pond near Washington, D.C. Whence did it arrive?  Another deed: send defective masks and personal protective equipment—which, in fact, it did. However, some could be sabotaged actually to enhance the spread of the virus. A truly evil incarnation of the Soviet Union. Serious concerns in US intell and military: China is working very hard on biological weapons; defectors have attested to this.   Secret deal between China and Pakistan whereby Pakistan will test biowar elements. After China’s mishandling of the Wuhan virus, increasing biowar research, all under the PLA.  Recent reports of China working with bioweapons programs of many other nations, including in the Middle East.  We need a full accounting of the origins of the corona virus.    Dr Yan Li-meng worked at a WHO lab in Hong Kong, is very well informed ; has given new details on the relation between the Chinese military and the Wuhan virus. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jun/23/china-conducting-covert-biological-weapons-researc/ https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/27-states-issue-warnings-about-residents-receiving-unsolicited-seed-packets-n1235094 ...more

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• 258: Virus surge in Hong Kong as the PRC presses the crackdown Gordon Chang @GordonGChang, Daily Beast, & Michael Yon @Michael_Yon

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  Image:   The Ministry of State Security (MSS) is the intelligence, security and secret police agency of the People's Republic of China, responsible for counterintelligence, foreign intelligence and political security.  Here: MSS facilities in Xiyuan, Haidian District, Beijing.  Public domain. Gordon Chang @GordonGChang, Daily Beast,   & Michael Yon @Michael_Yon, East Asian reporter, in re: The Chinese Ministry of State Security is inquiring about Michael in Hong Kong  A new virus outbreak, so Carrie Lam may suspend elections [surprise].  Chinese arrests of activists retroactively, which was said never to occur.  Legco [pron: ledge-co] elections: China doesn’t want elections; the whole democratic process in Hong Kong  is probably at an end.  Will there be civil society in Hong Kong? Not at all.  Never again till the CCP is gone. Everyone who can leave should do so as rapidly as possible.  People suspended their twitter accounts, are laying low.   Michael: We must bring Japan into the Five Eyes. Are we in the US being watched by Chinese State Security? Definitely yes—they’re all over, and very much here. One of the reasons that the State Dept closed the Houston Chinese consulate.  We’re under an unrelenting assault by Beijing. It’s vicious; without hyperbole, we stand possibly to lose the Republic.  https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/hong-kong-verge-large-scale-coronavirus-outbreak-carrie-lam-warns-n1235161 ...more

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• 258: Back to school for Italy means newly-configured classrooms and guidelines. Lorenzo Fiori, Direttore Generale Ansaldo Fondazione

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  Image:  The University of Bologna ("Archiginnasio"), the world's oldest university, founded in 1088 Lorenzo Fiori, Direttore Generale Ansaldo Fondazione, in re:  In Italy, 246,00 cases of virus.  . . .   On school reopening, lots of polemics.  Average age of those infected has gone from 60 to 40. . .  . Human trafficking : enormous increase of small boats form Tunisia, arriving not only at small islands but in Sardinia.    https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/coronavirus-school-reopening-covid-europe-20200709.html ...more

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• 257: #HotelMars: The mysteries of the sizzling Venus might include active volcanoes. David Grinspoon @Funkyspoon @Planetarysci David Livingston, SpaceShow.com

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  (Photo Mission: Magellan Target: Venus Spacecraft: Magellan Instrument: Radar System Views: 8,295 Full-Res TIFF: PIA00268.tif Full-Res JPG: PIA00268.jpg Image credit: NASA/JPL : )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShow#HotelMars: The mysteries of the sizzling Venus might include active volcanoes. David Grinspoon @Funkyspoon @Planetarysci David Livingston, SpaceShow.comhttps://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jul/21/likely-active-volcanoes-found-on-venus-defying-theory-of-dormant-planet ...more

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• 256: The Last of the New York City Middle Class @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNews

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  Image:  Lower Manhattan, as seen from a ferry, December 1941 Harry Siegel, The Daily News and The Daily Beast; in re:  https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-nyc-on-the-verge-of-a-breakdown-20200725-splqsugoeratjn5oowvobyis24-story.html

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• 255: State of the City, the State, the Union: The Democratic-endorsed disorder in Portland is the same Democratic-endorsed disorder in New York City. John Catsimatidis @JCats2013 @CatsRoundtable @JohnCats.

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  (Photo:English: Map of Portland in 1890 from: [1]]Date | 1890Source | per aboveAuthor | James McIntosh Wood )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter & Parler: @BatchelorShow State of the City, the State, the Union: The Democratic endorsed disorder in Portland is the same Democratic endorsed disorder in New York City. John Catsimatidis @JCats2013 @CatsRoundtable @JohnCats. https://www.foxnews.com/media/chad-wolf-dhs-agents-portland-riots-courthouse ...more

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• 255: Iran-backed Armenia vs US-backed Azerbaijan. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

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  Image:   Patriarch Nerses Varjabedyan (1837–1884)Iran-backed Armenia vs US-backed Azerbaijan.  Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign AffairsCrisis or Opportunity in the Southern Caucasus? Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs.  Analysis by GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs correspondents, Washington, DC, Yerevan, and Baku. Skirmishes which began on the Azerbaijan-Armenia border on July 12, 2020, quickly turned deadly, reflecting the frustration of both sides over the breakdown in the failed Minsk Process.   The forerunner to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) put the Minsk Process in place in 1992; it was put in place to resolve differences between the two states. It has yielded little besides entrenching polarized viewpoints.  ...more

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• 255: US-backed Egypt vs Europe-backed Ethiopia. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

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  Image:  Gebre Mesqel Lalibela, the Zagwe dynasty Ethiopian king credited with having constructed the rock-hewn churches of Lalibela. War as a (Fatal) Diversion from Reality.  Egypt has been in a proxy war for some time with Ethiopia. Ethiopia has failed to grasp this, largely because escalating the war would seem fatal for both sides  Analysis, by Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs. Egypt and Ethiopia stand on the brink of a formal war neither can afford. It is a war, moreover, demanded by the Egyptian media and street. It is unjustified and will resolve none of Egypt’s urgent needs.  It is a war which would, in fact, dramatically worsen Egypt’s strategic position at a critical time; turn a potential major strategic partner into an implacable foe; damage the security of one of the world’s most important sea lines of communications (the Red Sea—Suez) at huge risk to the fragile global trading system; and cause the death and disaffection of many Ethiopians and Egyptians.  ...more

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• 254: 4/4 Defender in Chief: Donald Trump's Fight for Presidential Power, by John Yoo

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  Image: John Locke, Tw0 Treatises of Government   Defender in Chief: Donald Trump's Fight for Presidential Power, by John Yoo (Berkeley Law, Hoover Institution and AEI).  James Edward Thomas (Narrator), Macmillan Audio (Publisher) Audible Audiobook – Unabridged In Defender in Chief, the celebrated constitutional scholar John Yoo makes an airtight case against Donald Trump's supposed disdain for constitutional rules and norms. Donald Trump isn't shredding the Constitution—he's its greatest protector.         Ask any liberal—and many moderate conservatives‑and they'll tell you that Donald Trump is a threat to the rule of law as delineated by the U.S. Constitution. Mainstream media outlets have reported fresh examples of alleged executive overreach or authoritarian rhetoric nearly every day of his presidency. In the 2020 primaries, the candidates seem to be competing to paint the most frightening picture of how the president is destroying our democracy and jeopardizing our nation's very existence.        Far from considering Trump an inherent threat to our nation's founding principles, Yoo convincingly argues that Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, Adams, and Franklin would have seen the president as more in line with their vision of the executive branch than were his recent predecessors, even at his most controversial.        This authoritative and engaging work is a compelling, intellectually-sound defense of an embattled president's ideas and actions. ...more

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• 254: 3/4 Defender in Chief: Donald Trump's Fight for Presidential Power, by John Yoo

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  Image: The Powers of War and Peace: The Constitution and Foreign Affairs after 9/11, by John Yoo Defender in Chief: Donald Trump's Fight for Presidential Power, by John Yoo (Berkeley Law, Hoover Institution and AEI).  James Edward Thomas (Narrator), Macmillan Audio (Publisher) Audible Audiobook – Unabridged In Defender in Chief, the celebrated constitutional scholar John Yoo makes an airtight case against Donald Trump's supposed disdain for constitutional rules and norms. Donald Trump isn't shredding the Constitution—he's its greatest protector.         Ask any liberal—and many moderate conservatives‑and they'll tell you that Donald Trump is a threat to the rule of law as delineated by the U.S. Constitution. Mainstream media outlets have reported fresh examples of alleged executive overreach or authoritarian rhetoric nearly every day of his presidency. In the 2020 primaries, the candidates seem to be competing to paint the most frightening picture of how the president is destroying our democracy and jeopardizing our nation's very existence.        Far from considering Trump an inherent threat to our nation's founding principles, Yoo convincingly argues that Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, Adams, and Franklin would have seen the president as more in line with their vision of the executive branch than were his recent predecessors, even at his most controversial.        This authoritative and engaging work is a compelling, intellectually-sound defense of an embattled president's ideas and actions. ...more

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• 254: 2/4 Defender in Chief: Donald Trump's Fight for Presidential Power, by John Yoo

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  Image:  Signing of the Constitution, September 17, 1787Defender in Chief: Donald Trump's Fight for Presidential Power, by John Yoo (Berkeley Law, Hoover Institution and AEI).  James Edward Thomas (Narrator), Macmillan Audio (Publisher) Audible Audiobook – Unabridged In Defender in Chief, the celebrated constitutional scholar John Yoo makes an airtight case against Donald Trump's supposed disdain for constitutional rules and norms. Donald Trump isn't shredding the Constitution—he's its greatest protector.         Ask any liberal—and many moderate conservatives‑and they'll tell you that Donald Trump is a threat to the rule of law as delineated by the U.S. Constitution. Mainstream media outlets have reported fresh examples of alleged executive overreach or authoritarian rhetoric nearly every day of his presidency. In the 2020 primaries, the candidates seem to be competing to paint the most frightening picture of how the president is destroying our democracy and jeopardizing our nation's very existence.        Far from considering Trump an inherent threat to our nation's founding principles, Yoo convincingly argues that Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, Adams, and Franklin would have seen the president as more in line with their vision of the executive branch than were his recent predecessors, even at his most controversial.        This authoritative and engaging work is a compelling, intellectually-sound defense of an embattled president's ideas and actions. ...more

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• 254: 1/4 Defender in Chief: Donald Trump's Fight for Presidential Power, by John Yoo.

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  Image: The title pages of Volume II of the first edition of Joseph Story (1833) Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States; with a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, before the Adoption of the Constitution. By Joseph Story, LL.D. Dane Professor of Law in Harvard University. In Three Volumes, Boston; Cambridge, Mass.: Hilliard, Gray, and Company; Brown, Shattuck, and Co  Defender in Chief: Donald Trump's Fight for Presidential Power, by John Yoo (Berkeley Law, Hoover Institution and AEI).  James Edward Thomas (Narrator), Macmillan Audio (Publisher) Audible Audiobook – Unabridged In Defender in Chief, the celebrated constitutional scholar John Yoo makes an airtight case against Donald Trump's supposed disdain for constitutional rules and norms. Donald Trump isn't shredding the Constitution—he's its greatest protector.        Ask any liberal—and many moderate conservatives‑and they'll tell you that Donald Trump is a threat to the rule of law as delineated by the U.S. Constitution. Mainstream media outlets have reported fresh examples of alleged executive overreach or authoritarian rhetoric nearly every day of his presidency. In the 2020 primaries, the candidates seem to be competing to paint the most frightening picture of how the president is destroying our democracy and jeopardizing our nation's very existence.         Far from considering Trump an inherent threat to our nation's founding principles, Yoo convincingly argues that Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, Adams, and Franklin would have seen the president as more in line with their vision of the executive branch than were his recent predecessors, even at his most controversial.         This authoritative and engaging work is a compelling, intellectually-sound defense of an embattled president's ideas and actions. ...more

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• 253: The Obama Administration Unmaskings and the Revealed DOJ Investigation. @AndrewCMcCarthy; & Thaddeus McCotter, American Greatness.

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  Image:  Roman-era mosaic from Antioch depicting a plethora of devices against the evil eye. Andrew C McCarthy, Ball of Collusion, @AndrewCMcCarthy; and Thaddeus McCotter, American Greatness, in re: On the Hill today: “unmasking,” the topic of a second investigation. Testimony: broader in scope and perhaps going back further in time. Serious and very irregular conduct. Unmasking is the revelation of identities of US persons when they were incidentally [caught] in surveillance.  Legal to unmask if it's deemed to be necessary in intelligence collection. Must never be done on a mass scale, which it was here.  The Obama Administration Unmaskings and the Revealed DOJ Investigation.    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jul/28/ag-william-barr-says-hes-appointed-another-us-atto/ ...more

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• 253: Bill Barr Defends the Rule of Law before the Democrats. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Image:  Site of the first U.S. Congress:  "Old City Hall, Wall St., New York" Steel engraving by Robert Hinshelwood, from Washington Irving's Life of George Washington, 5 vol. (1855-59). Andrew C McCarthy, Ball of Collusion, @AndrewCMcCarthy; and Thaddeus McCotter, American Greatness, in re:  Today’s hearing (perhaps not the right term) on the Hill where AG Barr was treated to a “clown show” of extreme rudeness, all ad hominem, little ad rem. Bill Barr defends the Rule of Law before the Democrats.  https://www.foxnews.com/politics/barr-testifies-before-house-judiciary-committee-maintains-independence-from-trump ...more

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• 253: Life in London #in-the-time-of-the-virus. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

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  Image:  Fila Foggia Hi LTD 03, a rare but popular set of high tops. Fair use. Joe Sternberg, WSJ editorial board, in London, josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion, in re:   Life in London #in-the-time-of-the-virus.  https://www.ft.com/content/bd203e1b-db48-4609-ab01-67e6e139b8d3  The UK property market has bounced back sharply, according to estate agent Foxtons, with lettings almost at pre-crisis levels and sales well up on April and May. Activity dropped heavily during the peak of the coronavirus crisis as estate agents shut their offices and social-distancing measures made physical viewings impossible. But London-focused Foxtons on Tuesday said that the market had recovered quickly in June and July.  https://www.ft.com/content/080988c3-a6d8-42f6-b80c-66c7d62f8307 A global pandemic might not seem the best moment to try to sell ultra-pricey trainers, least of all when the global economy is predicted to shrink 5 per cent this year. But next week Christie’s, the auction house, will conduct a cyber auction of a dozen pairs of Michael Jordan’s old shoes — and the top lot is expected to fetch $350,000 to $550,000. This follows a digital auction organised by Sotheby’s in May of the basketball star’s old Nike Air Jordan 1s. They fetched $560,000 — a record in the second-hand sneaker world, and a level that might make even billionaires feel dizzy. ...more

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• 253: Trans-Atlantic Travel #in-the-time-of-the-virus. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

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  Image:  A typical 17th century shop, with customers’ being served through an opening onto the street; shutters were used rather than glazing. Joe Sternberg, WSJ editorial board, in London, josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion, in re: Second or third wave of the virus in Europe and UK.  Spain asks not to be excluded.  We’ve never put an entire economy on hold before; it's not surprising that no one knows how to bring it back. TransAtlantic travel #in-the-time-of-the-virus. 1. https://www.ft.com/content/584ee262-d539-40ca-b145-e42865f2bc6b  European tour operators responded with dismay to new curbs on travel imposed by countries following a string of local upsurges in coronavirus infections, dealing a blow to hopes of a revival in the global tourism industry. Spain’s tourism sector is in particular feeling the brunt of the latest caution, prompting an angry response from Madrid. “Spain is a safe country,” said foreign minister Arancha González Laya. 2/  https://www.ft.com/content/688618a1-1c93-451b-b5eb-3316afae1c9e  Businesses in London and the south east of England have borne the brunt of drops in expenditure during the pandemic with households in the more prosperous parts of the UK reducing spending far more than the rest of the country. There is also mounting evidence that spending fell less in other parts of the UK owing to the financial support measures introduced by the government during the crisis, which will begin to be scaled back from next month. 3. https://www.ft.com/content/38177be2-c782-478a-87ca-c9f113f093a4   British businesses were warned by Boris Johnson on Monday of the risk of a second wave of the coronavirus in the autumn, just as companies were getting ready to encourage more workers back to offices from next week. The prime minister told more than a dozen organisations on a conference call that the pandemic could worsen again after the summer. But he sought to reassure executives it would not be as bad as the first outbreak and stressed the government would seek to avoid a second national lockdown, according to several participants. 4.  https://www.ft.com/content/ec98228e-474c-40e6-b68a-143865064e3d   Tory MPs are urging Boris Johnson to force bosses to order their staff back to offices to prevent a catastrophic decline in city centres around the UK. For the past four months the government has told all workers to stay at home “if possible” to prevent the spread of coronavirus. On August 1 the guidance will be updated so that it is entirely up to employers whether or not to bring back staff to their offices. But many companies are holding out until the autumn — or beyond — because of fears about a second wave of Covid-19 infections. Google this week told its workers around the world that most will not need to return to the office until at least next July. Most large employers across the UK have said they will only gradually bring back staff given concerns about spreading infection. ...more

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• 252: Robinhood is the new new #in-the-time-of-the-virus. Gregory Zuckerman @WSJ

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  Image:  Courtyard of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange (Beurs van Hendrick de Keyser) by Emanuel de Witte, 1653. The process of buying and selling the VOC's shares (on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange) became the basis of the world's first formal stock market Robinhood is the new new #in-the-time-of-the-virus.  Gregory Zuckerman @WSJ   https://www.wsj.com/articles/everyones-a-day-trader-now-11595649609?st=xgl4umnbf19homh&reflink=article_copyURL_share

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• 251: 2/2 Markets and property rights are working to solve a variety of environmental problems. Shawn Regan @PERCtweets

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  Image:  The Blue Marble by the crew of Apollo 17 (1972)A Different Shade of Green Volume 39, No.1, Summer 2020 When Terry Anderson and Donald Leal published the first edition of their book, Free Market Environmentalism, in 1991, the idea was met with mixed reviews. “Free market environmentalism is an oxymoron,” wrote one reviewer, “and the authors are the moron part.” https://perc.org/2020/07/06/a-different-shade-of-green/

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• 251: 1/2 Markets and property rights are working to solve a variety of environmental problems. Shawn Regan @PERCtweets

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  Image:  Original title page of Walden by Henry David Thoreau.A Different Shade of Green Volume 39, No.1, Summer 2020 When Terry Anderson and Donald Leal published the first edition of their book, Free Market Environmentalism, in 1991, the idea was met with mixed reviews. “Free market environmentalism is an oxymoron,” wrote one reviewer, “and the authors are the moron part.”https://perc.org/2020/07/06/a-different-shade-of-green/

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• 250: Cancel Culture cancels the eugenics progressive Margaret Sanger. @WJMcGurn @WSJOpinion

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  Image:  Eugenics supporters hold signs criticizing various "genetically inferior" groups. Wall Street, New York, c. 1915. Bill McGurn: Cancel Culture cancels the eugenics progressive Margaret Sanger. https://www.wsj.com/articles/margaret-sanger-gets-canceled-11595889653       The national Margaret Sanger Award hasn't been given out since 2015.  The New York Planned Parenthood group removed Sangers’s name from the building because of her “racist legacy and deep belief in eugenics ideology.”

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• 250: Gavin Newsom's risk-averse word salads #in-the-time-of-the-virus. Bill Whalen @HooverWhalen @HooverInst

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  Image:  Salad.   A word salad, or schizophasia, is a "confused or unintelligible mixture of seemingly random words and phrases," most often used to describe a symptom of a neurological or mental disorder. Gavin Newsom is mildly dyslexic.   Bill Whalen:  Gavin Newsom's risk-averse word salads #in-the-time-of-the-virus  https://www.hoover.org/research/it-time-california-quadrumvirate

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• 250: The unknown reluctance of the leading Biden to put the game away. @Liz Peek

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  Image:  Putting the game away. Screen grab. Elizabeth Peek: The unknown reluctance of the leading Biden to put the game away.  https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/28/biden-running-mate-choice-august-385107

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• 250: The US economy asks: Back to School or Not? @Liz Peek

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  Image:  Amish one-room schoolhouse in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 1941.  Elizabeth Peek: The US economy asks: Back to School or Not?   https://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2020/07/28/newsletter-what-are-markets-saying-about-the-u-s-recovery/

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• 249: 2/2 The King of Infinite Space: Euclid and His Elements, by David Berlinski

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  Image:  An illumination from a manuscript based on Adelard of Bath's translation of the Elements, c. 1309–1316; Adelard's is the oldest surviving translation of the Elements into Latin, done in the 12th-century work and translated from ArabicThe King of Infinite Space: Euclid and His Elements, by David Berlinski.  Arthur Morey (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher).  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged               Geometry defines the world around us, helping us make sense of everything from architecture to military science to fashion. And for over 2,000 years, geometry has been equated with Euclid's Elements, arguably the most influential book in the history of mathematics. In The King of Infinite Space, the renowned mathematics writer David Berlinski provides a concise homage to this elusive mathematician and his staggering achievements. Berlinski shows that, for centuries, scientists and thinkers from Copernicus to Newton to Einstein have relied on Euclid's axiomatic system, a method of proof still taught in classrooms around the world. Euclid's use of elemental logic—and the mathematical statements he and others built from it‑have dramatically expanded the frontiers of human knowledge.  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HTQ320S/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i6 ...more

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• 249: 1/2 The King of Infinite Space: Euclid and His Elements, by David Berlinski

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  Image:  Eukleides of Alexandria The King of Infinite Space: Euclid and His Elements, by David Berlinski.  Arthur Morey (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher).  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Geometry defines the world around us, helping us make sense of everything from architecture to military science to fashion. And for over 2,000 years, geometry has been equated with Euclid's Elements, arguably the most influential book in the history of mathematics. In The King of Infinite Space, the renowned mathematics writer David Berlinski provides a concise homage to this elusive mathematician and his staggering achievements. Berlinski shows that, for centuries, scientists and thinkers from Copernicus to Newton to Einstein have relied on Euclid's axiomatic system, a method of proof still taught in classrooms around the world. Euclid's use of elemental logic—and the mathematical statements he and others built from it‑have dramatically expanded the frontiers of human knowledge.  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HTQ320S/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i6 ...more

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• 248: #PacificWatch: Downtown Disney is a friendly ghost town while the mobs roam the Blue cities. Jeff Bliss @JCBliss

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  (Photo: English: Rome, Colosseo - woman selling oranges hand painted PhotoDate | 1900Source | my archiveAuthor | T. H. McAllister)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShow#PacificWatch: Downtown Disney is a friendly ghost town while the mobs roam the Blue cities. Jeff Bliss @JCBliss

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• 248: Portland, Seattle and Oakland look like failed tactical electioneering by Democratic mayors and governors. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Jul 28 2020

  (Photo: Title: Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and collegesYear: 1900 (1900s)Authors:  Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness), 1846-1937Subjects: Publisher:  Boston, Ginn & companyContributing 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:0 008 903 885 6Text Appearing After Image:* 15 10 ~^7n, ? oromeitsrisefallt00myerNote About ImagesPlease 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.Date | 1900)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowPortland, Seattle and Oakland look like failed tactical electioneering by Democratic mayors and governors. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatnesshttps://www.nationalreview.com/2020/07/a-dubious-order-against-the-seattle-ban-on-police-use-of-non-lethal-force/ ...more

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• 247: AG Barr vs the Gladiator Tantrums of the Left. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  (Photo:  Life in the Roman world of Nero and St. PaulYear: 1910 (1910s)Authors:  Tucker, T. G. (Thomas George), 1859-1946Subjects:  Church historyPublisher:  London : MacmillanContributing 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:that the criminal should escape death,but only that he should be able to make a fight forhis life. Meanwhile the gladiators who fought withmen and not with beasts were in the position of pro-fessionals, who might be slaves, condemned brigands,mutineers, prisoners of war, or volunteers. Thepicture drawn bj^ Byron, although the so-calledDying Gladiator which inspired him is in reality nogladiator but a Gaulish warrior, perhaps fairly repre-sents one class of combatant, but it represents onlyone. In the case of these swordsmen a number ofsuccessful fights might in the end secure freedom andsomething more for slave or prisoner, and a competencefor the volunteer. It was not unnatural that menof courage and strength should frequently offer them-selves for this service. Their physical training wasindeed severe both in the way of exercise and ofdiet, and their personal treatment was harsh andignominious; but their fame, such as it might be, waswide, and their rewards often solid. Contemporary)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowAG Barr vs the tantrums on the Left. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatnesshttp://hill.cm/ZfXdzqj ...more

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• 246: "Indiana" Hoenlein and finding names for the lost children's shoes—the children of Auschwitz-Birkenau Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres@ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Image:  Ghetto Litzmannstadt. Children rounded up for deportation to the Kulmhof extermination camp. "Indiana" Hoenlein and finding names for the lost children's shoes—the children of Auschwitz-Birkenau Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres@ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness https://fox6now.com/2020/07/23/auschwitz-discovery-heartbreaking-finds-made-in-childrens-shoes/

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• 246: Iran attacks northern Israel with surrogates. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Image:  View of Nazareth, largest city in northern Israel, with the Basilica of the Annunciation at the center.    Iran attacks Northern Israel with surrogates.   https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-security-incident-developing-on-lebanon-border-residents-ordered-indoors/

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• 246: Can Biden win without debates or the campaign trail? @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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  Image:   Politics in an Oyster House (1848) by Richard Caton Woodville

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• 246: Have the Democratic cities lost control of the protests? @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund

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  Image:  During the American Civil Rights Movement and the March on Washington, leaders marched from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial, August 28, 1963.

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• 244: 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: Illustration of the Daubeny Laboratory in Magdalen College, Oxford, as it looked c. 1870Blackett's War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare, by Stephen Budiansky.     John Lee (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged      https://www.amazon.com/Blacketts-War-Stephen-Budiansky-audiobook/dp/B00BEWY33S/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=    In March 1941, after a year of unbroken and devastating U-boat onslaughts, the British War Cabinet decided to try a new strategy in its 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 20th-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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• 243: 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:   Most tactical fighter-bomber units flew the Thunderbolt, which was an excellent aircraft for the mission. One important feature of the P-47 was its ruggedness, due in part to armor plating in vital areas. These pieces of armor protected the pilot from the front and from behind. (U.S. Air Force photo)Blackett's War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare, by Stephen Budiansky.     John Lee (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged      https://www.amazon.com/Blacketts-War-Stephen-Budiansky-audiobook/dp/B00BEWY33S/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=    In March 1941, after a year of unbroken and devastating U-boat onslaughts, the British War Cabinet decided to try a new strategy in its 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 20th-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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• 243: 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:  U-boat: A German postcard depicting the U-boat SM U-20 sinking RMS LusitaniaBlackett's War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare, by Stephen Budiansky.     John Lee (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged      https://www.amazon.com/Blacketts-War-Stephen-Budiansky-audiobook/dp/B00BEWY33S/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=    In March 1941, after a year of unbroken and devastating U-boat onslaughts, the British War Cabinet decided to try a new strategy in its 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 20th-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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• 243: 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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  Image:  Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, ca. 1950 Blackett's War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare, by Stephen Budiansky.     John Lee (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged      https://www.amazon.com/Blacketts-War-Stephen-Budiansky-audiobook/dp/B00BEWY33S/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=    In March 1941, after a year of unbroken and devastating U-boat onslaughts, the British War Cabinet decided to try a new strategy in its 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 20th-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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• 245: PRC without friends or allies. @GordonGChang

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  Jul 28 2020

  Image:  Mid-rank officer of the Terracotta Army in Xi'an  Gordon Chang, Daily Beast, in re: Pravda in English from China, the Global Times, castigates Mike Pompeo and strives to drive a wedge between the US and its allies, although the UK, France, India, Vietnam Philippines, Japan, and multiple other countries have already withdrawn from Beijing’s embrace.  “US hawks on China will not completely overturn” the policy laid out by Nixon.  Gee, are there doves on China these days?   Xi Jinping seems to have made himself to be a villain. Yes, there are doves, but they’re awfully quiet right now. China is pushing everyone in frightening directions.  No friends left for Xi.   Stratfor thinks Beijing wants Trump to win. Deeply unlikely. With Biden, they’ll get someone with a more favorable view of China, whereas Trump is protective of the US. Biden would not keep Pompeo. ...more

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• 245: Pompeo challenges the Chinese people to discard Xi.

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  Image:   Gordon Chang, Daily Beast, and Jonathan Ward, China’s Vision of Victory, in re: Secretary Mike Pompeo’s landmark speech a the Nixon library last week:  a new US policy vis-a-vis China. Bookended a decades-long failed US policy of hoping to get a friendly state; instead, China has become hostile and warlike.  Pompeo spoke of “Chinese people governing themselves” – sounds like regime change (to democracy).   Consider China as a danger to the world in toto.  It abuses both its neighbors and states around the world. We’ll [the world’s developed nations] need to create economic containment to reduce the risk of war. “The Secretary of State is an enemy of all humankind” said China.  Expect retaliation against US firms.   Also, Houston office of PRC was closed; in retaliation, China closed US Chengdu office. China still believes in coercive leverage.  Dominic Robb, UK foreign minister:  Chinese “genocide” against the Uyghurs; statement may have rattled Beijing.  Germany remains the open question. ...more

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• 245: Al Qaeda 2020 grows as Washington looks away. Caleb Weiss, Research analyst @ LongWarJournal, @Weissenberg7 ; @billroggio

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  Image:  1998 Nairobi embassy bombing. Public domain. Caleb Weiss, LongWarJournal; Tom Joscelyn, Long War Journal and FDD; and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD; in re: Al Q proposes to set up emirates within it caliphate. It’s definitely stronger now than it was before.  Washington doesn’t acknowledge this.  US has improved homeland defense, but if the groups continue, they’ll be setting up bases from which to attack the US again, as in 9/11.  Puntland.   https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2020/07/us-launches-airstrike-on-islamic-state-in-somalia.php ...more

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• 245: Taliban keep attacking. Al Shabaab keeps attacking. @billroggio; @LongWarJournal; Caleb Weiss, Research analyst @Weissenberg7

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  Image:  Mukhtar Robow ("Abu Mansoor"), the Second Deputy Leader of al-Shabaab. Public domain. Tom Joscelyn, Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies; & Senior Editor for FDD's Long War Journal; Caleb Weiss, Research analyst @ LongWarJournal; and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD; in re: A Taliban suicide bomber targeted an Afghan military convoy as it passed through a district in eastern Afghanistan that has been a hotbed of terrorist activity. Yesterday’s attack is the second major suicide bombing against Afghan forces within a week. Taliban claim they carried out the attack in revenge for the Afgh not releasing prisoners.  . . .  Once the US leaves, it won't join an Afghan government; interested only in restoring the Islamic Caliphate of Afghanistan. A totally shameful deal that the US has participated in. Convoy was passing though a Wardak district, a Taliban-controlled stronghold on the doorstep of Kabul. the capital.  Btw, al Qaeda also claimed to have made the attack. https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2020/07/taliban-suicide-bomber-hits-afghan-military-convoy.php Al Shabaab: in the heart of Mogadishu, US launches airstrike on Islamic State in Somalia   Yesterday's drone strike was the first US airstrike on the Islamic State in Somalia this year. Shabaab is officially al Q’s branch in East Africa—probably al Qaeda’s most effective branch. https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2020/07/us-launches-airstrike-on-islamic-state-in-somalia.php https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2020/07/taliban-suicide-bomber-hits-afghan-military-convoy.php ...more

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• 242: 4/4 The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen, by Stephen R. Bown.

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  Image:   Amundsen's Latham 47 flying boat, his last vessel.The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen, by Stephen R. Bown.    Stephen Hoye (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher).  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  https://www.amazon.com/The-Last-Viking-Stephen-R-Bown-audiobook/dp/B00J35XK82/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=   The Last Viking unravels the life of the man who stands head and shoulders above all those who raced to map the last corners of the world. In 1900, the four great geographical mysteries—the Northwest Passage, the Northeast Passage, the South Pole, and the North Pole—remained blank spots on the globe. Within twenty years, Roald Amundsen would claim all four prizes. Renowned for his determination and technical skills, both feared and beloved by his men, Amundsen is a legend of the heroic age of exploration, which shortly thereafter would be tamed by technology, commerce, and publicity. Feted in his lifetime as an international celebrity, pursued by women and creditors, he died in the Arctic on a rescue mission for an inept rival explorer.  Stephen R. Bown has unearthed archival material to give Amundsen’s life the grim immediacy of Apsley Cherry-Garrard’s The Worst Journey in the World, the exciting detail of the Endurance,* and the suspense of a Jon Krakauer tale. The Last Viking is both a thrilling literary biography and a cracking good story. * Endurance was the three-masted barquentine in which Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men and one cat sailed for the Antarctic on the 1914–1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. ...more

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• 242: 3/4 The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen, by Stephen R. Bown.

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  Image:   Norwegian flag at the South PoleThe Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen, by Stephen R. Bown.    Stephen Hoye (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher).  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  https://www.amazon.com/The-Last-Viking-Stephen-R-Bown-audiobook/dp/B00J35XK82/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=   The Last Viking unravels the life of the man who stands head and shoulders above all those who raced to map the last corners of the world. In 1900, the four great geographical mysteries—the Northwest Passage, the Northeast Passage, the South Pole, and the North Pole—remained blank spots on the globe. Within twenty years, Roald Amundsen would claim all four prizes. Renowned for his determination and technical skills, both feared and beloved by his men, Amundsen is a legend of the heroic age of exploration, which shortly thereafter would be tamed by technology, commerce, and publicity. Feted in his lifetime as an international celebrity, pursued by women and creditors, he died in the Arctic on a rescue mission for an inept rival explorer.  Stephen R. Bown has unearthed archival material to give Amundsen’s life the grim immediacy of Apsley Cherry-Garrard’s The Worst Journey in the World, the exciting detail of the Endurance,* and the suspense of a Jon Krakauer tale. The Last Viking is both a thrilling literary biography and a cracking good story. * Endurance was the three-masted barquentine in which Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men and one cat sailed for the Antarctic on the 1914–1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.   ...more

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• 242: 2/4 The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen, by Stephen R. Bown.

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  Image:  Polarskipet Maud in June 1918The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen, by Stephen R. Bown.    Stephen Hoye (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher).  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  https://www.amazon.com/The-Last-Viking-Stephen-R-Bown-audiobook/dp/B00J35XK82/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=   The Last Viking unravels the life of the man who stands head and shoulders above all those who raced to map the last corners of the world. In 1900, the four great geographical mysteries—the Northwest Passage, the Northeast Passage, the South Pole, and the North Pole—remained blank spots on the globe. Within twenty years, Roald Amundsen would claim all four prizes. Renowned for his determination and technical skills, both feared and beloved by his men, Amundsen is a legend of the heroic age of exploration, which shortly thereafter would be tamed by technology, commerce, and publicity. Feted in his lifetime as an international celebrity, pursued by women and creditors, he died in the Arctic on a rescue mission for an inept rival explorer.  Stephen R. Bown has unearthed archival material to give Amundsen’s life the grim immediacy of Apsley Cherry-Garrard’s The Worst Journey in the World, the exciting detail of the Endurance,* and the suspense of a Jon Krakauer tale. The Last Viking is both a thrilling literary biography and a cracking good story. * Endurance was the three-masted barquentine in which Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men and one cat sailed for the Antarctic on the 1914–1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. ...more

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• 242: 1/4 The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen, by Stephen R. Bown.

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  Image:   Portrait of Roald Amundsen (1872-1928).The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen, by Stephen R. Bown.    Stephen Hoye (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher).  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  https://www.amazon.com/The-Last-Viking-Stephen-R-Bown-audiobook/dp/B00J35XK82/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=   The Last Viking unravels the life of the man who stands head and shoulders above all those who raced to map the last corners of the world. In 1900, the four great geographical mysteries—the Northwest Passage, the Northeast Passage, the South Pole, and the North Pole—remained blank spots on the globe. Within twenty years, Roald Amundsen would claim all four prizes. Renowned for his determination and technical skills, both feared and beloved by his men, Amundsen is a legend of the heroic age of exploration, which shortly thereafter would be tamed by technology, commerce, and publicity. Feted in his lifetime as an international celebrity, pursued by women and creditors, he died in the Arctic on a rescue mission for an inept rival explorer.  Stephen R. Bown has unearthed archival material to give Amundsen’s life the grim immediacy of Apsley Cherry-Garrard’s The Worst Journey in the World, the exciting detail of the Endurance,* and the suspense of a Jon Krakauer tale. The Last Viking is both a thrilling literary biography and a cracking good story. * Endurance was the three-masted barquentine in which Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men and one cat sailed for the Antarctic on the 1914–1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. ...more

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• 241: 2/2 Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II, by Mitchell Zuckoff.

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  Jul 27 2020

  Image:    (from left) Sgt. Kenneth Decker, Cpl. Margaret Hastings and Lt. John McCollom were the only three survivors of the Gremlin Special crash. They’re pictured above at the U.S. Army station in Hollandia, New Guinea, shortly after their rescue. B.B. McCollom.       The Gremlin Special was a Douglas C-47 Skytrain that crashed during a sightseeing flight for U.S. service members over the Baliem Valley (Shangri-La Valley) in New Guinea in 1945.Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II, by Mitchell Zuckoff.   HarperAudio (Publisher).   Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.        https://www.amazon.com/Lost-in-Shangri-La-audiobook/dp/B004XXVSYW/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=Mitchell+Zuckoff+shanghai-la&amp;qid=1595811909&amp;s=audible&amp;sr=1-1       On May 13, 1945, twent-f0ur American servicemen and WACs boarded a transport plane for a sightseeing trip over “Shangri-La,” a beautiful and mysterious valley deep within the jungle-covered mountains of Dutch New Guinea. Unlike the peaceful Tibetan monks of James Hilton’s best-selling novel, Lost Horizon, this Shangri-La was home to spear-carrying tribesmen, warriors rumored to be cannibals.  But the pleasure tour became an unforgettable battle for survival when the plane crashed. Miraculously, three passengers pulled through. Margaret Hastings, barefoot and burned, had no choice but to wear her dead best friend’s shoes. John McCollom, grieving the death of his twin brother also aboard the plane, masked his grief with stoicism. Kenneth Decker, too, was severely burned and suffered a gaping head wound.  Emotionally devastated, badly injured, and vulnerable to the hidden dangers of the jungle, the trio faced certain death unless they left the crash site. Caught between man-eating headhunters and enemy Japanese, the wounded passengers endured a harrowing hike down the mountainside—a journey into the unknown that would lead them straight into a primitive tribe of superstitious natives who had never before seen a white man—or woman. ...more

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• 241: 1/2 Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II, by Mitchell Zuckoff.

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  Image: The Baliem Valley was a “magnificent vastness” in Michael Rockefeller’s eyes, and its people were “emotionally expressive.” But Asmat proved to be “more remote country than what I have ever seen.” (President and Fellows of Harvard University; Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology)  Smithsonian Magazine. Public domain. “It’s teeming with shrimp and crabs and fish and clams. In the jungle there are wild pig, the furry, opossumlike cuscus, and the ostrichlike cassowary. And sago palm, whose pith can be pounded into a white starch and which hosts the larvae of the Capricorn beetle, both key sources of nutrition. The rivers are navigable highways. Crocodiles 15 feet long prowl their banks, and jet-black iguanas sun on uprooted trees. There are flocks of brilliant red-and-green parrots. Hornbills with five-inch beaks and blue necks.  And secrets, spirits, laws and customs, born of men and women who have been walled off by ocean, mountains, mud and jungle for longer than anyone knows.”Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II, by Mitchell Zuckoff.   HarperAudio (Publisher).   Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.        https://www.amazon.com/Lost-in-Shangri-La-audiobook/dp/B004XXVSYW/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=Mitchell+Zuckoff+shanghai-la&amp;qid=1595811909&amp;s=audible&amp;sr=1-1       On May 13, 1945, twent-f0ur American servicemen and WACs boarded a transport plane for a sightseeing trip over “Shangri-La,” a beautiful and mysterious valley deep within the jungle-covered mountains of Dutch New Guinea. Unlike the peaceful Tibetan monks of James Hilton’s best-selling novel, Lost Horizon, this Shangri-La was home to spear-carrying tribesmen, warriors rumored to be cannibals.  But the pleasure tour became an unforgettable battle for survival when the plane crashed. Miraculously, three passengers pulled through. Margaret Hastings, barefoot and burned, had no choice but to wear her dead best friend’s shoes. John McCollom, grieving the death of his twin brother also aboard the plane, masked his grief with stoicism. Kenneth Decker, too, was severely burned and suffered a gaping head wound.  Emotionally devastated, badly injured, and vulnerable to the hidden dangers of the jungle, the trio faced certain death unless they left the crash site. Caught between man-eating headhunters and enemy Japanese, the wounded passengers endured a harrowing hike down the mountainside—a journey into the unknown that would lead them straight into a primitive tribe of superstitious natives who had never before seen a white man—or woman. ...more

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• 240: Ajax, the Dutch, the War: 2of2: The Strange Tale of Soccer During Europe's Darkest Hour Kindle Edition by Simon Kuper (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Jul 27 2020

  (Photo: Nederlands: Deportatie Joden, zomer 1943. Panamakade, Oostelijk Havengebied, in Amsterdam. Het gebouw is Loods III.Date | Summer 1943 Source | https://beeldbankwo2.nl/nl/beelden/?mode=gallery&view=horizontal&q=panamakade&rows=1&page=1Author | Stapf Bilderdienst)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShow Ajax, the Dutch, the War: 2of2: The Strange Tale of Soccer During Europe's Darkest Hour Kindle Edition by Simon Kuper  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Ajax-Dutch-War-Strange-Europes-ebook/dp/B008WPRAA8/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1595813384&amp;sr=1-2When most people think about the Netherlands, images of tulips and peaceful pot smoking residents spring to mind. Bring up soccer, and most will think of Johan Cruyuff, the Dutch player thought to rival Pele in preternatural skill, and Ajax, one of the most influential soccer clubs in the world whose academy system for young athletes has been replicated around the globe (and most notably by Barcelona and the 2010 world champions, Spain).But as international bestselling author Simon Kuper writes in Ajax, The Dutch, The War: Soccer in Europe During the Second World War, the story of soccer in Holland cannot be understood without investigating what really occurred in this country during WWII. For decades, the Dutch have enjoyed the reputation of having a “good war.” The myth is even resonant in Israel where Ajax is celebrated. The fact is, the Jews suffered shocking persecution at the hands of Dutch collaborators. Holland had the second largest Nazi movement in Europe outside Germany, and in no other country except Poland was so high a percentage of Jews deported.Kuper challenges Holland's historical amnesia and uses soccer—particularly the experience of Ajax, a club long supported by Amsterdam's Jews—as a window on wartime Holland and Europe. Through interviews with Resistance fighters, survivors, wartime soccer players and more, Kuper uncovers this history that has been ignored, and also finds out why the Holocaust had a profound effect on soccer in the country.Ajax produced Cruyuff but was also built by members of the Dutch resistance and Holocaust survivors. It became a surrogate family for many who survived the war and its method for producing unparalleled talent became the envy of clubs around the world. In this passionate, haunting and moving work of forensic reporting, Kuper tells the breathtaking story of how Dutch Jews survived the unspeakable and came to play a strong role in the rise of the most exciting and revolutionary style of soccer — “Total Football” — the world had ever seen....more

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• 240: Ajax, the Dutch, the War: 1of2: The Strange Tale of Soccer During Europe's Darkest Hour Kindle Edition by Simon Kuper (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  (Photo: Nederlands: Deportatie Joden, zomer 1943. Panamakade, Oostelijk Havengebied, in Amsterdam. Het gebouw is Loods III.Date | Summer 1943 Source | https://beeldbankwo2.nl/nl/beelden/?mode=gallery&view=horizontal&q=panamakade&rows=1&page=1Author | Stapf Bilderdienst)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShow Ajax, the Dutch, the War: 1of2: The Strange Tale of Soccer During Europe's Darkest Hour Kindle Edition by Simon Kuper  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Ajax-Dutch-War-Strange-Europes-ebook/dp/B008WPRAA8/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1595813384&amp;sr=1-2When most people think about the Netherlands, images of tulips and peaceful pot smoking residents spring to mind. Bring up soccer, and most will think of Johan Cruyuff, the Dutch player thought to rival Pele in preternatural skill, and Ajax, one of the most influential soccer clubs in the world whose academy system for young athletes has been replicated around the globe (and most notably by Barcelona and the 2010 world champions, Spain).But as international bestselling author Simon Kuper writes in Ajax, The Dutch, The War: Soccer in Europe During the Second World War, the story of soccer in Holland cannot be understood without investigating what really occurred in this country during WWII. For decades, the Dutch have enjoyed the reputation of having a “good war.” The myth is even resonant in Israel where Ajax is celebrated. The fact is, the Jews suffered shocking persecution at the hands of Dutch collaborators. Holland had the second largest Nazi movement in Europe outside Germany, and in no other country except Poland was so high a percentage of Jews deported.Kuper challenges Holland's historical amnesia and uses soccer—particularly the experience of Ajax, a club long supported by Amsterdam's Jews—as a window on wartime Holland and Europe. Through interviews with Resistance fighters, survivors, wartime soccer players and more, Kuper uncovers this history that has been ignored, and also finds out why the Holocaust had a profound effect on soccer in the country.Ajax produced Cruyuff but was also built by members of the Dutch resistance and Holocaust survivors. It became a surrogate family for many who survived the war and its method for producing unparalleled talent became the envy of clubs around the world. In this passionate, haunting and moving work of forensic reporting, Kuper tells the breathtaking story of how Dutch Jews survived the unspeakable and came to play a strong role in the rise of the most exciting and revolutionary style of soccer — “Total Football” — the world had ever seen....more

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• 240: Red Blood, Black Sand: 2of2: Fighting Alongside John Basilone from Boot Camp to Iwo Jima Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Chuck Tatum (Author), Norman Dietz (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 27 2020

  (Photo:LVTs approach Iwo Jima.View author information Public Domain File:Tracked landing vehicles (LVTs) approach Iwo Jima;fig14.jpg  )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShow Red Blood, Black Sand: 2of2: Fighting Alongside John Basilone from Boot Camp to Iwo Jima  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Chuck Tatum (Author), Norman Dietz (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Red-Blood-Black-Sand-audiobook/dp/B00IK4BIPE/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=Red+Sands+Black+Beach+tatum&amp;qid=1595813220&amp;s=audible&amp;sr=1-1In 1944, the U.S. Marines were building the 5th Marine Division - also known as “The Spearhead” - in preparation for the invasion of the small, Japanese-held island of Iwo Jima. . .  When Chuck Tatum began Marine boot camp, he was just a smart-aleck teenager eager to serve his country. Little did he know that he would be training under a living legend of the Corps - Medal of Honor recipient John Basilone, who had almost single-handedly fought off a Japanese force of three thousand on Guadalcanal.  It was from Basilone and other sergeants that Tatum would learn how to fight like a Marine and act like a man - skills he would need when he hit the black sand of Iwo Jima with thirty thousand other Marines.  Red Blood, Black Sand is the story of Chuck’s two weeks in hell, where he would watch his hero, Basilone, fall, where the enemy stalked the night, where snipers haunted the day, and where Chuck would see his friends whittled away in an eardrum-shattering, earth-shaking, meat grinder of a battle.  This is the island, the heroes, and the tragedy of Iwo Jima, through the eyes of the battle’s greatest living storyteller, Chuck Tatum....more

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• 240: Red Blood, Black Sand: 1of2: Fighting Alongside John Basilone from Boot Camp to Iwo Jima Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Chuck Tatum (Author), Norman Dietz (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  (Photo:Map of Iwo Jima detailing the invasionView author information Public Domain File:Iwo Jima - Landing Plan.jpg Uploaded: 2019-03-15 19:27:09  )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShow Red Blood, Black Sand: 1of2: Fighting Alongside John Basilone from Boot Camp to Iwo Jima  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Chuck Tatum (Author), Norman Dietz (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Red-Blood-Black-Sand-audiobook/dp/B00IK4BIPE/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=Red+Sands+Black+Beach+tatum&amp;qid=1595813220&amp;s=audible&amp;sr=1-1In 1944, the U.S. Marines were building the 5th Marine Division - also known as “The Spearhead” - in preparation for the invasion of the small, Japanese-held island of Iwo Jima. . .  When Chuck Tatum began Marine boot camp, he was just a smart-aleck teenager eager to serve his country. Little did he know that he would be training under a living legend of the Corps - Medal of Honor recipient John Basilone, who had almost single-handedly fought off a Japanese force of three thousand on Guadalcanal.  It was from Basilone and other sergeants that Tatum would learn how to fight like a Marine and act like a man - skills he would need when he hit the black sand of Iwo Jima with thirty thousand other Marines.  Red Blood, Black Sand is the story of Chuck’s two weeks in hell, where he would watch his hero, Basilone, fall, where the enemy stalked the night, where snipers haunted the day, and where Chuck would see his friends whittled away in an eardrum-shattering, earth-shaking, meat grinder of a battle.  This is the island, the heroes, and the tragedy of Iwo Jima, through the eyes of the battle’s greatest living storyteller, Chuck Tatum....more

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• 239: 4/4 Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President, by Candice Millard.

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  Image:  Official White House portrait of James GarfieldDestiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President, by Candice Millard.     Paul Michael (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher),  Audible Audiobook – Unabridgedhttps://www.amazon.com/Destiny-of-Republic-audiobook/dp/B005O5HY8C/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1595806445&sr=1-2    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.   ...more

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• 239: 3/4 Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President, by Candice Millard

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  Image:  Garfield, shot by Charles J. Guiteau, collapses as Secretary of State Blaine gestures for help. Engraving from Frank Leslie's Illustrated NewspaperDestiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President, by Candice Millard.     Paul Michael (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher),  Audible Audiobook – Unabridgedhttps://www.amazon.com/Destiny-of-Republic-audiobook/dp/B005O5HY8C/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1595806445&sr=1-2    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.   ...more

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• 239: 2/4 Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President, by Candice Millard.

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  Image:  The Appomattox of the third termers—unconditional surrender: Following Grant's defeat for the nomination Puck magazine satirized Robert E. Lee's surrender to him at Appomattox by depicting Grant giving up his sword to Garfield.Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President, by Candice Millard.     Paul Michael (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher),  Audible Audiobook – Unabridgedhttps://www.amazon.com/Destiny-of-Republic-audiobook/dp/B005O5HY8C/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1595806445&amp;sr=1-2    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.   ...more

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• 239: 1/4 Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President, by Candice Millard.

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  Image: Replica of the log cabin in Moreland Hills, Ohio where Garfield was born. Public domain.Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President, by Candice Millard.     Paul Michael (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher),  Audible Audiobook – Unabridgedhttps://www.amazon.com/Destiny-of-Republic-audiobook/dp/B005O5HY8C/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1595806445&sr=1-2    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.   ...more

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• 238: 4/4 State of Failure: Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, and the Unmaking of the Palestinian State, by Jonathan Schanzer

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  Jul 27 2020

  Image:  Palestinian refugees in 1948State of Failure: Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, and the Unmaking of the Palestinian State, by Jonathan Schanzer.  Hardcover – October 29, 2013  https://www.amazon.com/State-Failure-Mahmoud-Unmaking-Palestinian/dp/1137278242 The biggest obstacle to Palestinian statehood may not be Israel In September 2011, president Mahmoud Abbas stood before the United Nations General Assembly and dramatically announced his intention to achieve recognition of Palestinian statehood. The United States roundly opposed the move then, but two years later, Washington revived dreams for Palestinian statehood through bilateral diplomacy with Israel. But are the Palestinians prepared for the next step? In State of Failure, the Middle East expert Jonathan Schanzer argues that the reasons behind Palestine's inertia are far more complex than we realize. Despite broad international support, Palestinian independence is stalling because of internal mismanagement, not necessarily because of Israeli intransigence. Drawing on exclusive sources, the author shows how the PLO under Yasser Arafat was ill prepared for the task of state-building. Arafat's successor, Mahmoud Abbas, used President George W. Bush's support to catapult himself into the presidency. But the aging leader, now four* years past the end of his elected term, has not only failed to implement much-needed reforms but huge sums of international aid continue to be squandered, and the Palestinian people stand to lose everything as a result. Supporters of Palestine and Israel alike will find Schanzer's narrative compelling at this critical juncture in Middle Eastern politics...  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..   * Mahmoud Abbas was elected president of the Palestinian National Authority on 9 January 2005, for a four-year term ending on 9 January 2009. In 2020, he’s in his fifteenth year of a four-year term. ...more

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• 238: 3/4 State of Failure: Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, and the Unmaking of the Palestinian State, by Jonathan Schanzer

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  Image:  Yasser Arafat, November 2004, shortly before his death. Public domain.

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• 238: 2/4 State of Failure: Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, and the Unmaking of the Palestinian State, by Jonathan Schanzer

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  Jul 27 2020

  Image:   The Mukata’a with the headquarters of the President of the PLO, 2007.   Mukata’a (المقاطعة al-muqāṭaʿah‎) means headquarters or administrative centerState of Failure: Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, and the Unmaking of the Palestinian State, by Jonathan Schanzer.  Hardcover – October 29, 2013  https://www.amazon.com/State-Failure-Mahmoud-Unmaking-Palestinian/dp/1137278242 The biggest obstacle to Palestinian statehood may not be Israel In September 2011, president Mahmoud Abbas stood before the United Nations General Assembly and dramatically announced his intention to achieve recognition of Palestinian statehood. The United States roundly opposed the move then, but two years later, Washington revived dreams for Palestinian statehood through bilateral diplomacy with Israel. But are the Palestinians prepared for the next step? In State of Failure, the Middle East expert Jonathan Schanzer argues that the reasons behind Palestine's inertia are far more complex than we realize. Despite broad international support, Palestinian independence is stalling because of internal mismanagement, not necessarily because of Israeli intransigence. Drawing on exclusive sources, the author shows how the PLO under Yasser Arafat was ill prepared for the task of state-building. Arafat's successor, Mahmoud Abbas, used President George W. Bush's support to catapult himself into the presidency. But the aging leader, now four* years past the end of his elected term, has not only failed to implement much-needed reforms but huge sums of international aid continue to be squandered, and the Palestinian people stand to lose everything as a result. Supporters of Palestine and Israel alike will find Schanzer's narrative compelling at this critical juncture in Middle Eastern politics...  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..   * Mahmoud Abbas was elected president of the Palestinian National Authority on 9 January 2005, for a four-year term ending on 9 January 2009. In 2020, he’s in his fifteenth year of a four-year term. ...more

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• 238: 1/4 State of Failure: Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, and the Unmaking of the Palestinian State, by Jonathan Schanzer

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  Image: Mahmoud Abbas with the president of the United States, George W. Bush, and the prime minister of Israel, Ariel Sharon, at the Red Sea Summit in Aqaba, Jordan, 4 June 2003State of Failure: Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, and the Unmaking of the Palestinian State, by Jonathan Schanzer.  Hardcover – October 29, 2013  https://www.amazon.com/State-Failure-Mahmoud-Unmaking-Palestinian/dp/1137278242 The biggest obstacle to Palestinian statehood may not be Israel In September 2011, president Mahmoud Abbas stood before the United Nations General Assembly and dramatically announced his intention to achieve recognition of Palestinian statehood. The United States roundly opposed the move then, but two years later, Washington revived dreams for Palestinian statehood through bilateral diplomacy with Israel. But are the Palestinians prepared for the next step? In State of Failure, the Middle East expert Jonathan Schanzer argues that the reasons behind Palestine's inertia are far more complex than we realize. Despite broad international support, Palestinian independence is stalling because of internal mismanagement, not necessarily because of Israeli intransigence. Drawing on exclusive sources, the author shows how the PLO under Yasser Arafat was ill prepared for the task of state-building. Arafat's successor, Mahmoud Abbas, used President George W. Bush's support to catapult himself into the presidency. But the aging leader, now four* years past the end of his elected term, has not only failed to implement much-needed reforms but huge sums of international aid continue to be squandered, and the Palestinian people stand to lose everything as a result. Supporters of Palestine and Israel alike will find Schanzer's narrative compelling at this critical juncture in Middle Eastern politics. ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..   * Mahmoud Abbas was elected president of the Palestinian National Authority on 9 January 2005, for a four-year term ending on 9 January 2009. In 2020, he’s in his fifteenth year of a four-year term. ...more

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• 237: The PRC launches for Mars landing. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Jul 26 2020

  (Photo: Curiosity's 1.8-Billion-Pixel Panorama: NASA's Curiosity rover captured its highest-resolution panorama of the Martian surface between Nov. 24 and Dec. 1, 2019. A version without the rover contains nearly 1.8 billion pixels; a version with the rover contains nearly 650 million pixels. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS. Full image and caption ›To interact: Use the controls in the top left (or pinch) to zoom in and out of the image. Click (or touch) and drag your cursor to move around in the image.)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe PRC launches for Mars landing. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/tianwen-1-successfully-launched-on-its-way-to-mars/ ...more

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• 237: Curioisity drives into a Mars lakebed. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Jul 26 2020

  (Photo: This image was taken by Left Navigation Camera onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 2824. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech.)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowCurioisity drives into a Mars lakebed.  Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/rover-update-curiosity-pauses-to-drill/

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• 237: #NewAmericanCivilWar: Accusing Lincoln of provoking the cannoneers of Charleston Harbor: 2of2: Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Jul 26 2020

  (Photo:Illustrations of the War in America by Our Special Artist. The Interior of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbour, after a Continuous Bombardment by the Federal Batteries on Morris Island, The Illustrated London News, Volume 42, 1863, Page 574.Date | 1863Source | http://iln.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/illustration/v43p564.jpg/ via http://iln.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/illustrationsAuthor | Frank Vizetelly  (1830–1883)  )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShow#NewAmericanCivilWar: Accusing Lincoln of provoking the cannoneers of Charleston Harbor: 2of2: Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisishttps://www.cbsnews.com/video/protesters-in-portland-oregon-continue-to-clash-with-federal-officers/ ...more

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• 237: #NewAmericanCivilWar: Accusing Lincoln of provoking the cannoneers of Charleston Harbor: 1of2: Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis

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  (Photo:English: Print of artillerymen firing cannons in foreground at Fort Sumter in the background. "THE ATTACK ON FORT SUMTER." (printed below image).Title: "The Attack on Fort Sumter."Date | between 1861 and 1865 Source | Missouri History MuseumURL: http://images.mohistory.org/image/B99D97BF-11BD-6CC4-ACCD-450029432385//original.jpgGallery: http://collections.mohistory.org/resource/157413Author | BobbettPermission(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 | P0084-0606Part of | Battle Scenes- assorted printsSubjects | Civil War, 1861-1865printwood engravingFort Sumter )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShow#NewAmericanCivilWar: Accusing Lincoln of provoking the cannoneers of Charleston Harbor: 1of2: Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisishttps://www.cbsnews.com/video/protesters-in-portland-oregon-continue-to-clash-with-federal-officers/ ...more

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• 237: The dangers of politicized prosecutors: 2of2: @AdamJWhiteDC @GeorgeMasonU

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  Jul 26 2020

  Image:  The Lord High Chancellor, in Iolanthe, sings:The Law is the true embodimentOf everything that's excellentIt has no kind of fault or flaw—And I, my Lords, embody the Law.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe dangers of politicized prosecutors: 12f2: @AdamJWhiteDC @GeorgeMasonUhttps://www.city-journal.org/inherent-dangers-in-prosecutorial-powerAdam J. White is a City Journal contributing editor, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and director of George Mason University’s C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State. ...more

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• 237: The dangers of politicized prosecutors: 1of2: @AdamJWhiteDC @GeorgeMasonU

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  Jul 26 2020

  (Photo:Hobart Bosworth (right) in The Count of Monte Cristo (1908)Unknown author - Internet Archive Film still from The Count of Monte Cristo, an American silent film. On the right, Hobard Bosworth as Edmnd Dantès. Public Domain File:Count of Monte Cristo 1908.jpg Created: 1 January 1908  )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe dangers of politicized prosecutors: 1of2: @AdamJWhiteDC @GeorgeMasonUhttps://www.city-journal.org/inherent-dangers-in-prosecutorial-powerAdam J. White is a City Journal contributing editor, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and director of George Mason University’s C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State. ...more

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• 236: 4/4 John Quincy Adams, by Harlow Giles Unger.

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  Jul 26 2020

  Image: Contemporary painting of the sailing vessel La Amistad off Culloden Point, Long Island, New York, on 26 August 1839; on the left the USS Washington of the US Navy.John Quincy Adams, by Harlow Giles Unger.     Johnny Heller (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher); Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  https://www.amazon.com/John-Quincy-Adams-audiobook/dp/B0095PEHHI/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=harlow+giles+unger&qid=1595726136&s=audible&sr=1-2   He fought for Washington, served with Lincoln, witnessed Bunker Hill, and sounded the clarion against slavery on the eve of the Civil War. He negotiated an end to the War of 1812, engineered the annexation of Florida, and won the Supreme Court decision that freed the African captives of La Amistad. He served his nation as minister to six countries; as secretary of state, senator, congressman, and president.  John Quincy Adams was all of these things and more. In this masterful biography, the award-winning author Harlow Giles Unger reveals Adams as a towering figure in the nation’s formative years and one of the most courageous figures in American history—which is why he ranked first in John F. Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Profiles in Courage. A magisterial biography and a sweeping panorama of American history from the Washington to Lincoln eras, Unger’s John Quincy Adams follows one of America’s most important yet least-known figures.  Harlow Giles Unger, a former distinguished visiting Fellow in American history at George Washington’s Mount Vernon, is a veteran journalist, broadcaster, educator, and historian. He is the author of twenty books, including several biographies of America’s Founding Fathers. He has also written histories of the early Republic as well as numerous books on American education. He lives in New York. ...more

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• 236: 3/4 John Quincy Adams, by Harlow Giles Unger.

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  Image:  Signing of the Treaty of Ghent. Baron Gambier of Britain is shaking hands with John Quincy Adams.John Quincy Adams, by Harlow Giles Unger.     Johnny Heller (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher); Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  https://www.amazon.com/John-Quincy-Adams-audiobook/dp/B0095PEHHI/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=harlow+giles+unger&qid=1595726136&s=audible&sr=1-2   He fought for Washington, served with Lincoln, witnessed Bunker Hill, and sounded the clarion against slavery on the eve of the Civil War. He negotiated an end to the War of 1812, engineered the annexation of Florida, and won the Supreme Court decision that freed the African captives of La Amistad. He served his nation as minister to six countries; as secretary of state, senator, congressman, and president.  John Quincy Adams was all of these things and more. In this masterful biography, the award-winning author Harlow Giles Unger reveals Adams as a towering figure in the nation’s formative years and one of the most courageous figures in American history—which is why he ranked first in John F. Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Profiles in Courage. A magisterial biography and a sweeping panorama of American history from the Washington to Lincoln eras, Unger’s John Quincy Adams follows one of America’s most important yet least-known figures.  Harlow Giles Unger, a former distinguished visiting Fellow in American history at George Washington’s Mount Vernon, is a veteran journalist, broadcaster, educator, and historian. He is the author of twenty books, including several biographies of America’s Founding Fathers. He has also written histories of the early Republic as well as numerous books on American education. He lives in New York.   ...more

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• 236: 2/4 John Quincy Adams, by Harlow Giles Unger.

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  Image:  Gilbert Stuart Portrait of Louisa Adams (1821–26)John Quincy Adams, by Harlow Giles Unger.     Johnny Heller (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher); Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  https://www.amazon.com/John-Quincy-Adams-audiobook/dp/B0095PEHHI/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=harlow+giles+unger&qid=1595726136&s=audible&sr=1-2   He fought for Washington, served with Lincoln, witnessed Bunker Hill, and sounded the clarion against slavery on the eve of the Civil War. He negotiated an end to the War of 1812, engineered the annexation of Florida, and won the Supreme Court decision that freed the African captives of La Amistad. He served his nation as minister to six countries; as secretary of state, senator, congressman, and president.  John Quincy Adams was all of these things and more. In this masterful biography, the award-winning author Harlow Giles Unger reveals Adams as a towering figure in the nation’s formative years and one of the most courageous figures in American history—which is why he ranked first in John F. Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Profiles in Courage. A magisterial biography and a sweeping panorama of American history from the Washington to Lincoln eras, Unger’s John Quincy Adams follows one of America’s most important yet least-known figures.  Harlow Giles Unger, a former distinguished visiting Fellow in American history at George Washington’s Mount Vernon, is a veteran journalist, broadcaster, educator, and historian. He is the author of twenty books, including several biographies of America’s Founding Fathers. He has also written histories of the early Republic as well as numerous books on American education. He lives in New York. ...more

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• 236: 1/4 John Quincy Adams, by Harlow Giles Unger.

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  Jul 26 2020

  Image: Copy of portrait daguerreotype of John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the United States.John Quincy Adams, by Harlow Giles Unger.     Johnny Heller (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher); Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  https://www.amazon.com/John-Quincy-Adams-audiobook/dp/B0095PEHHI/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=harlow+giles+unger&qid=1595726136&s=audible&sr=1-2   He fought for Washington, served with Lincoln, witnessed Bunker Hill, and sounded the clarion against slavery on the eve of the Civil War. He negotiated an end to the War of 1812, engineered the annexation of Florida, and won the Supreme Court decision that freed the African captives of La Amistad. He served his nation as minister to six countries; as secretary of state, senator, congressman, and president.  John Quincy Adams was all of these things and more. In this masterful biography, the award-winning author Harlow Giles Unger reveals Adams as a towering figure in the nation’s formative years and one of the most courageous figures in American history—which is why he ranked first in John F. Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Profiles in Courage. A magisterial biography and a sweeping panorama of American history from the Washington to Lincoln eras, Unger’s John Quincy Adams follows one of America’s most important yet least-known figures.  Harlow Giles Unger, a former distinguished visiting Fellow in American history at George Washington’s Mount Vernon, is a veteran journalist, broadcaster, educator, and historian. He is the author of twenty books, including several biographies of America’s Founding Fathers. He has also written histories of the early Republic as well as numerous books on American education. He lives in New York.   ...more

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• 235: 4/4 The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace, by H. W. Brands.

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  Jul 26 2020

  Image:  The Peacemakers, an 1868 painting by George P. A. Healy, depicts the historic March 27, 1865, strategy session by the Union high command on the steamer River Queen during the final days of the American Civil War. Since 1947, it has been in the White House collection.The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace, by H. W. Brands.   Stephen Hoye (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher).  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged   https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Saved-Union-Ulysses/dp/B009KF04ZM/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=    Ulysses Grant rose from obscurity to discover that he had a genius for battle, and he propelled the Union to victory in the Civil War. After Abraham Lincoln's assassination and the disastrous brief presidency of Andrew Johnson, America turned to Grant again to unite the country, this time as president. In Brands's sweeping, majestic, full biography, Grant emerges as a heroic figure who was fearlessly on the side of right. He was a beloved commander in the field but willing to make the troop sacrifices necessary to win the war, even in the face of storms of criticism. He worked valiantly to protect the rights of freedmen in the South; Brands calls him the last presidential defender of black civil rights for nearly a century. He played it straight with the American Indians, allowing them to shape their own fate even as the realities of Manifest Destiny meant the end of their way of life. He was an enormously popular president whose memoirs were a huge best seller; yet within decades of his death his reputation was in tatters, the victim of Southerners who resented his policies on Reconstruction. In this page-turning biography, Brands now reconsiders Grant's legacy and provides a compelling and intimate portrait of a man who saved the Union on the battlefield and consolidated that victory as a resolute and principled political leader. ...more

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• 235: 3/4 The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace, by H. W. Brands.

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  Image:  Battle of ShilohThe Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace, by H. W. Brands.   Stephen Hoye (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher).  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged   https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Saved-Union-Ulysses/dp/B009KF04ZM/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=    Ulysses Grant rose from obscurity to discover that he had a genius for battle, and he propelled the Union to victory in the Civil War. After Abraham Lincoln's assassination and the disastrous brief presidency of Andrew Johnson, America turned to Grant again to unite the country, this time as president. In Brands's sweeping, majestic, full biography, Grant emerges as a heroic figure who was fearlessly on the side of right. He was a beloved commander in the field but willing to make the troop sacrifices necessary to win the war, even in the face of storms of criticism. He worked valiantly to protect the rights of freedmen in the South; Brands calls him the last presidential defender of black civil rights for nearly a century. He played it straight with the American Indians, allowing them to shape their own fate even as the realities of Manifest Destiny meant the end of their way of life. He was an enormously popular president whose memoirs were a huge best seller; yet within decades of his death his reputation was in tatters, the victim of Southerners who resented his policies on Reconstruction. In this page-turning biography, Brands now reconsiders Grant's legacy and provides a compelling and intimate portrait of a man who saved the Union on the battlefield and consolidated that victory as a resolute and principled political leader. ...more

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• 235: 2/4 The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace, by H. W. Brands.

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  Image:  Grant believed Pacific Northwest Indians were a peaceful people and not a threat to settlers. Chinook Indian plankhouse, published 1845.The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace, by H. W. Brands.   Stephen Hoye (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher).  Audible Audiobook – Unabridgedhttps://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Saved-Union-Ulysses/dp/B009KF04ZM/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Ulysses Grant rose from obscurity to discover that he had a genius for battle, and he propelled the Union to victory in the Civil War. After Abraham Lincoln's assassination and the disastrous brief presidency of Andrew Johnson, America turned to Grant again to unite the country, this time as president. In Brands's sweeping, majestic, full biography, Grant emerges as a heroic figure who was fearlessly on the side of right. He was a beloved commander in the field but willing to make the troop sacrifices necessary to win the war, even in the face of storms of criticism. He worked valiantly to protect the rights of freedmen in the South; Brands calls him the last presidential defender of black civil rights for nearly a century. He played it straight with the American Indians, allowing them to shape their own fate even as the realities of Manifest Destiny meant the end of their way of life. He was an enormously popular president whose memoirs were a huge best seller; yet within decades of his death his reputation was in tatters, the victim of Southerners who resented his policies on Reconstruction. In this page-turning biography, Brands now reconsiders Grant's legacy and provides a compelling and intimate portrait of a man who saved the Union on the battlefield and consolidated that victory as a resolute and principled political leader. ...more

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• 235: 1/4 The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace, by H. W. Brands.

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  Jul 26 2020

  Image:  Grant's birthplace: Point Pleasant, OhioThe Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace, by H. W. Brands.   Stephen Hoye (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher).  Audible Audiobook – Unabridgedhttps://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Saved-Union-Ulysses/dp/B009KF04ZM/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Ulysses Grant rose from obscurity to discover that he had a genius for battle, and he propelled the Union to victory in the Civil War. After Abraham Lincoln's assassination and the disastrous brief presidency of Andrew Johnson, America turned to Grant again to unite the country, this time as president. In Brands's sweeping, majestic, full biography, Grant emerges as a heroic figure who was fearlessly on the side of right. He was a beloved commander in the field but willing to make the troop sacrifices necessary to win the war, even in the face of storms of criticism. He worked valiantly to protect the rights of freedmen in the South; Brands calls him the last presidential defender of black civil rights for nearly a century. He played it straight with the American Indians, allowing them to shape their own fate even as the realities of Manifest Destiny meant the end of their way of life. He was an enormously popular president whose memoirs were a huge best seller; yet within decades of his death his reputation was in tatters, the victim of Southerners who resented his policies on Reconstruction. In this page-turning biography, Brands now reconsiders Grant's legacy and provides a compelling and intimate portrait of a man who saved the Union on the battlefield and consolidated that victory as a resolute and principled political leader. ...more

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• 234: Previewing AG Bill Barr before the Democratic House Judiciary Committe re the cities and Durham.@AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Jul 25 2020

  (Photo: Unknown author or not providedRecord creator | War Department. 1789-9/18/1947Title | Enemy Activities - Arrests of Alien Enemies - Bolsheviks in Russia - Bolshevik Revolution. Hear the Kremlin, Russia. Red Army soldiers and common people marchingDescription | Scope and content: Photographer: Underwood and Underwood)The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent agency of the United States government charged with the preservation and documentation of government and historical records. It is also tasked with increasing public access to those documents which make up the National Archive.[7] NARA is officially responsible for maintaining and publishing the legally authentic and authoritative copies of acts of Congress, presidential directives, and federal regulations. NARA also transmits votes of the Electoral College to Congress.[8] The National Archives, and its publicly exhibited Charters of Freedom, which include the original United States Declaration of Independence, United States Constitution, United States Bill of Rights, and many other historical documents, is headquartered in the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowPreviewing AG Bill Barr before the Democratic House Judiciary Committee re the cities and Durham. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness...more

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• 234: These last hours in Seattle and Portland are about securing Federal property from provocation. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Jul 25 2020

  (Photo:Asahel Curtis (1874–1941) was a photographer based in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. His career included documentation of the Klondike Gold Rush period in Seattle, natural landscapes in the Northwest, and infrastructure projects in Seattle. nglish: 1st Ave. looking north from James St, Seattle, 1900Description | English: Shows Pioneer Building at right, Starr-Boyd Building and New York Mutual Life Building at left. Business firms depicted: Stewart and Holmes Drug Co. (627-629 1st Ave.); Morrison's Saloon (621-623 1st Ave.),Subjects (LCTGM): Streets--Washington (State)--Seattle; Business districts--Washington (State)--Seattle; Bars--Washington (State)--SeattleSubjects (LCSH): First Avenue (Seattle, Wash.); Starr-Boyd Building (Seattle, Wash.); Pioneer Buildings (Seattle, Wash.); New York Mutual Life Building; Morrison's Saloon (Seattle, Wash.)Depicted place | SeattleDate | 1900Medium | English: silver gelatin, b&amp;w)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowThese last hours in Seattle and Portland are about securing Federal property from provocation.  @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness...more

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• 234: The Washington smearing of Devin Nunes becomes the Washington smearing of Bill Barr and John Durham. @DevinNunes CA-22

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  Jul 25 2020

  (Photo:English: Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.Deutsch: Bibliothek des Kongresses, auch Thomas Jefferson Gebäude, Washington, D.C.Español: Biblioteca del Congreso de Estados UnidosFrançais : Bibliothèque du CongrèsDate | circa 1902 )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Washington smearing of Devin Nunes becomes the Washington smearing of Bill Barr and John Durham.  @DevinNunes CA-22https://thehill.com/homenews/media/508573-comey-to-release-second-book-saving-justice-truth-transparency-and-trust-in ...more

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• 234: The truth gets its boots on to restore order in Democratic cities. @DevinNunes CA-22

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  Jul 25 2020

  (Photo: )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe truth gets its boots on to restore order in Democratic cities. @DevinNunes CA-22

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• 233: #SmallBusinessAmerica: What you need to know about the PPP and your tax bill 2020.@GeneMarks

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  Image:  First Bank of the United States, the country's first central bank under the US Constitution Gene Marks, The Guardian, the Philadelphia Inquirer; in re: If you got a PPP loan, talk to your accountant about taxes! The Maine lobster industry was crushed by the flu; PPP saved it, and now you can get great deals on lobsters.   Chinese are crazy for Maine lobsters.   Bailing out lemonade stands, then taxing them? Children are invited to apply for $100 loans at Countrytimebailout.com Small-business owners skipping PPP loans could be making a big mistake  https://www.inquirer.com/business/small-business/ppp-small-business-loan-deadline-approaching-august-8-20200720.html Should Accountants Be Charging for PPP Services?  https://www.accountingtoday.com/opinion/should-accountants-be-charging-for-ppp-services Thanks to the PPP, small business owners could face a huge tax bill this year  https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/508546-thanks-to-the-ppp-small-business-owners-could-face-a-huge-tax-bill-this-year PPP loans helped buoy Maine’s lobster industry through the spring  https://www.seafoodsource.com/news/business-finance/ppp-loans-helped-buoy-maine-s-lobster-industry-through-the-spring Tiny ‘stimulus checks’ for tiny CEOs of lemonade stands are now a thing https://www.fastcompany.com/90527911/tiny-stimulus-checks-for-tiny-ceos-of-lemonade-stands-are-now-a-thing ...more

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• 233: #SmallBusinessAmerica: Is this the worst small biz year ever? The plus and minus of working remotely. @GENE MARKS

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  Image:  Historic district of small businesses in South Norwalk, Connecticut. Gene Marks, The Guardian, the Philadelphia Inquirer; in re: In the year 536 AD, an Icelandic volcanic explosion blanketed continents and led to famine, war, plague.  That was a worse year for small businesses than 2020 is.  I think the closing of small businesses is overstated: many have hunkered down, changed methods; as for shuttered shops, many are still selling out of home, eBay, Amazon.   The flu has brought about major shifts.  We were an agrarian economy 150 years ago. The future of entrepreneurs will never change.  Most of my clients are mom-and-pops, are still very much in business. Not as [hot] a story as the doomsayers publish.  I close more deals sitting at a dinner table than on a phone.  Work-at-home rend will continue; more efficient for companies, but must be balanced.  Rental prices will go down, which is good for some businesses.  Philadelphia forever.  Is 2020 The Worst Year Ever?   https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/353327 One-third of NYC small businesses may never reopen, report says https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/third-of-nyc-small-businesses-may-never-reopen-report-says Industrial production increased 5.4% in June, beating the consensus expected gain of 4.3% https://www.ftportfolios.com/Commentary/EconomicResearch/2020/7/15/industrial-production-increased-5.4percent-in-june Economic Green Shoots   http://scottgrannis.blogspot.com/2020/07/lots-more-green-shoots.html New Home Sales increased to 776,000 Annual Rate in June - the highest rate since 2007   https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2020/07/new-home-sales-increased-to-776000.html Housing Starts increased to 1.186 Million Annual Rate in June https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2020/07/housing-starts-increased-to-1186.html   ...more

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• 232: Federal workforce: Lessons learned #in-the-time-of-the-virus. @Francis Rose, @FRoseDC

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  Image:  Working at home:   Saint Jerome Writing, by Caravaggio (1605-6) Francis Rose, Government Matters, WJLA, Channel 7 in Washington, D.C.; in re:  Senator Van Hollen, others, concerned about Trump admin plans to recall employees to offices  https://govmatters.tv/reopening-concerns-at-federal-agencies/ FEMA response challenges in coronavirus https://govmatters.tv/femas-challenges-in-managing-the-coronavirus-response/  Why Congress wants, and White House will probably have to choose, a Cyber Director, and what s/he will do  ...more

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• 232: #PacificWatch: Seattle targeted for organized disorder. @JCBliss

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  Jul 25 2020

  Image:  Bird's-eye view of Seattle in 1889 Jeff Bliss, Pacific Watch, in re: The disorder in Seattle: Orions, with dome atop, from the US Navy.  Came from a Customs & Border Patrol in Texas.  Can sweep up data—incl calls, txts, etc.--from the ground; can read a license plate at 25,000 feet.   Warnings of a huge gathering in coming days; cancelled vacations, etc. Police chief: “We’re under a consent decree; if things go haywire, protect yourself.”  Said that federal authorities are dispatched to Seattle to prevent Seattle from getting out of hand as did Portland.  . . .  Strong Antifa group in Portland.    Bay Area &amp; Portland: mayors are besieged; why?  “You’ll never get enough, they demand free rent, free food.”  Disneyland downtown: forbidden t walk around and eat at the same time.  Trying to get more stores in its downtown; projecting $100 million-plus.  Elon Musk drills tunnels under cities: enter the tunnel, hop in a Tesla car; it’ll drop you off where you want to exit. Musk’s entry into public transportation. https://komonews.com/news/local/seattle-police-prepare-for-weekend-protests-chief-best-tells-officers-to-not-risk-safety?fbclid=IwAR3Zvr89tJw9-y0IVRyataTtUKhCH7kutEUcqLHRmsi6i1OryTE0Yk6r9xU ...more

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• 232: The long-term wear of virus recovery. @henryimiller

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  Jul 25 2020

  Image: Anathomia, 1541 Dr Henry Miller, Pacific Research Institute & WSJ, in re: The long-term wear of virus recovery. Sequellae of recovery from COVID19 infection overlap with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, a variable collection of symptoms, all worrisome, can last for years. Can be almost wholly debilitating. We don't know the long-term effects.  Italian academics studied: two months after recovery, fatigue in about 55% of patents; shortness of breath; joint or chest pain; cough; loss of taste and smell; runny nose.  Note also: post-ICU syndrome, which these are not.  Mononucleosis is a classic version of: acute phase, then feeling run-down for months.   SARS and MERS.  West Nile virus, H1N1 flu, Ebola, all evince similar symptoms to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.  https://www.wsj.com/articles/covids-harrowing-complications-11595284283?mod=opinion_le   ...more

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• 232: Escape from New York. @DanHenninger

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  Jul 25 2020

  Image:  Niew Amsterdam in 1664 Dan Henninger, WSJ Wonder Land column, and editorial board; in re:  Progressives to cities: Drop dead! Gerry Ford declined to help New York City in its time of travail; Daily News printed a headline:  Ford to city: Drop dead!   The forgotten men and women now are the storekeepers of cities whose shops are being looted, closed, livelihoods being shut down.  Look for a political backlash.  Hell’s Kitchen in Manhattan:   Mayor DeBlasio is housing homeless in hotels here; the vagrants and visibly demented homeless  are wandering among the tables demanding money.  Nauseating. New Yorkers leaving; Westchester rents approaching those of the Hamptons.   Is this a temporary matter, or the end of the life of many cities? https://www.wsj.com/articles/progressives-to-cities-drop-dead-11595458490 ...more

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• 231: Reawakening the once upon a time prosperous Erie County without government cash. @SalenaZito

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  Jul 25 2020

  (Photo: Boston Public Library https://www.flickr.com/photos/boston_public_library/6329421868 On the beach, at Presque Isle State Park, Erie, PA. File name: 06_10_017464  Title: On the beach, at Presque Isle State Park, Erie, PA.  Created/Published: Tichnor Bros. Inc., Boston, Mass.  Date issued: 1930 - 1945 (approximate)  Physical description: 1 print (postcard) : linen texture, color ; 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.  Genre: Postcards   Subjects: Beaches Notes:   Collection: The Tichnor Brothers Collection  Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department  Rights: No known restrictions)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowReawakening the once upon a time prosperous Erie County without government cash. @SalenaZitoSalenaZito.com https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/opportunity-abounds-when-government-gets-out-of-the-way ...more

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• 231: The Big Bang Theory solves social distancing at Carnegie Mellon in an app called NOVID. @SalenaZito

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  Jul 25 2020

  (Photo:Wheat Fields After the Rain (The Plain of Auvers), 1890, oil on canvas, Vincent Van Gogh Vincent van Gogh - Photo I took of Vincent Van Goghs' Wheat Fields after the Rain (The Plain of Auvers) from 1890. Carnegie Museum of Art Photo of Vincent Van Goghs' Wheat Fields after the Rain (The Plain of Auvers)  )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Big Bang Theory solves social distancing at Carnegie Mellon in an app called NOVID.  @SalenaZitohttps://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/a-personal-covid-19-radar-could-be-key-to-resuming-daily-life?utm_source=Salena+Zito&amp;utm_campaign=0f5ba8524e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_22_07_24&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_06ac76b2f8-0f5ba8524e-11447385 ...more

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• 231: The gentlemen's puzzle of the Never-Trumpers without a party like George Will. @ConradMBlack

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  Jul 25 2020

  (Photo: A Club of Gentlemen by Joseph Highmore, c. 1730 Joseph Highmore - PAFRDy5Es1PqMA at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level Public Domain File:Joseph Highmore - A Club of Gentlemen - Google Art Project.jpg Created: circa 1730 date QS:P571,+1730-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe gentlemen's puzzle of the Never-Trumpers without a party like George Will.  @ConradMBlackhttps://amgreatness.com/2020/07/20/when-the-sensible-take-leave-of-their-senses/ ...more

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• 231: Moscow provokes by launching an apparent anti-satellite satellite. @DeftechPat @Defensone

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  Jul 24 2020

  (Photo: Title: Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian InstitutionYear: 1895 (1890s)Authors:  Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American EthnologySubjects:  Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Ethnology IndiansPublisher:  Washington : U. S. Govt. Print. Off.Contributing Library:  Boston Public LibraryDigitizing Sponsor:  Kahle/Austin Foundation and Omidyar NetworkText Appearing Before Image:Fig. 22—African archery posture snakes and lizards, and a good many insects, besides various birds,including hawks and owls, as well as the eaters of seeds and insects.The crow and vulture are also classed as edible, though they are rarein Seriland, probably because of the effective scavengering of theprovince by its human residents. It is a signiticant fact that the BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT PL. XXIXText Appearing After Image:SERI ARCHER AT ATTENTION MCGEK) THE TABU SQUIRREL 203* smaller rodents, especially the long-tail nocturnal squirrel, areexcluded from the Seri menu by a rigidly observed tabu of undiscov-ered meaning. A general consequence of this tabu is readily observedon entering Seriland; there is a notable rarity of the ser))ents, thehigh-colored and swift efts, and the logy lizards and dull i)hrynosoinasso abundant in neighboring deserts, as well as of song birds and theirnests; and this dearth is coupled with a still more notable abundanceof the rodents, which have increased and multiplied throughout Seri-land so abundantly that their burrows honeycomb hundreds of squaremiles of territory. A special consequence of the tabu is found in thefact that the myriad squirrel tunnels have rendered much of the terri-tory impassable for horses and nearly so for pedestrians, and havethereby served to repel invaders and enable the jealous tribesmen toprotect their principality against the hated alien. Seril)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowMoscow provokes by launching an apparent anti-satellite satellite. @DeftechPat @Defensonehttps://www.defenseone.com/technology/2020/07/russia-tests-satellite-rams-other-satellites-us-says/167154/?oref=defense_one_breaking_nl ...more

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• 231: Will Biden appease or antagonize the villains of the PRC? @DefTechPat Patrick Tucker @DefenseOne

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  Jul 24 2020

  (Photo: English: November 1939: Standing, Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty (1874 - 1965), Leslie Hore-Belisha , Secretary of State for War, (1893 - 1957) and Lord Hankey (without portfolio) (1877 - 1963). Front Row, Lord Halifax, Foreign Secretary (1881 - 1959), Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer (1873 - 1954), Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister (1869 - 1940, Sir Samuel Hoare, Home Secretary (1880 - 1959) and Lord Chakfield, Co-ordination of Defence. (Photo by Walter Bellamy/London Express/Getty Images)Date | 28 October 2009, 17:26:22Source | https://www.johndenugent.com/images/british-war-cabinet-1939-40-churchill-chamberlain.jpgAuthor | Walter Bellamy)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowWill Biden appease or antagonize the villains of the PRC? @DefTechPat Patrick Tucker @DefenseOnehttps://www.defenseone.com/technology/2020/07/biden-pledged-prohibit-us-tech-companies-helping-china-it-wont-be-easy/166740/?oref=d-river https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2020/07/how-biden-will-wage-great-power-competition/166570/?oref=d-river...more

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• 231: #TheScalaReport: Trading with the enemy PRC & What is to be done? Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com #ScalaAPS

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  Jul 24 2020

  (Photo:中文: 中华人民共和国发行的《中苏友好同盟互助条约》签约纪念邮票——毛泽东和斯大林握手，1950年发行，面值为400元。English: Chinese Stamp, 1950, commemorating the execution of the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance of 1950. Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong are shaking hands.Français : Timbre chinois de 1950 montrant Joseph Staline et Mao Zedong se serrant la main.Italiano: Un francobollo cinese del 1950 raffigurante Stalin e Mao Tse-tung che si stringono la mano.Русский: Китайская марка 1950г. Иосиф Сталин и Мао Цзэдун пожимают руки.First day of Issue | 1 December 1950Publisher | 中国人民邮政Design | 孙传哲Printer | 北京中国人民印刷厂Printing Technique | 雕刻版Perforation | 14Scan by | Brocken Inaglory )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShow#TheScalaReport: Trading with the enemy PRC &amp; What is to be done?  Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com  #ScalaAPShttps://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/07/18/china-v-america ...more

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• 231: The Trump Administration answers the Blue city disorder with energetic law and order. @SebGorka #AmercaFirst

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  Jul 24 2020

  (Photo:EliotnessView author information Public Domain File:Eliotness.jpg Uploaded: 2005-11-21 07:39:48  )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Trump Administration answers the Blue city disorder with energetic law and order.  @SebGorka #AmercaFirst

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• 231: Biden spends and spends to placate the Sanders socialists. @SebGorka #AmericaFirst

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  (Photo: Lenin (seated centre) with other members of the League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class in 1897Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya (1869-1939) - http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/photo/1895-1917/1897-1.htm A meeting of the St. Petersburg chapter of the Union of Struggle for the Liberation of the Working Class in February 1897. Shortly after the picture was taken the whole group was arrested by the Okhrana. From left to right (standing) : A.L. Malchenko, P. K. Zaporozhets, Anatoly Vaneyev. (sitting) : Victor V. Starkov, Gleb Krzhizhanovsky, Vladimir Lenin and Julius Martov. Saint Petersburg, 1897 Permission details This work is in the public domain in Russia according to article 1281 of Book IV of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation No. 230-FZ of December 18, 2006 and article 6 of Law No. 231-FZ of the Russian Federation of December 18, 2006 (the Implementation Act for Book IV of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation). Usually:[1] The author of this work died before January 1, 1946. The author of this work died between January 1, 1946 and January 1, 1950, did not work during the Great Patriotic War (Eastern Front of World War II) and did not participate in it. This work was originally published anonymously or under a pseudonym before January 1, 1943 and the name of the author did not become known during 50 years after publication. This work was originally published anonymously or under a pseudonym between January 1, 1943 and January 1, 1950, and the name of the author did not become known during 70 years after publication. This work is non-amateur cinema or television film (or shot, or fragment from it), which was first shown between January 1, 1929[2] and January 1, 1950. [1] If the author of this work was subjected to repression and rehabilitated posthumously, countdown of copyright protection began not from the death date, but from the rehabilitation date. If the work was first published posthumously, the copyright term is counted from the date of that first publication, unless the author was later rehabilitated, in which case it runs again from that later rehabilitation date. [2] Cinema films first shown before January 1, 1929 are subjects of points 1 and 2 of this template.View more Public Domainview terms File:Union-de-Lucha.jpg Created: 1 February 1897 )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowBiden spends and spends to placate the Sanders socialists. @SebGorka #AmericaFirst...more

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• 231: The Standoffs: Greece, Turkey and Israel standoff in Eastern Mediterranean; Turkey, Russia and Iran standoff in Western Syria. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  (Photo:English: Two men shoeing a donkey. Black-and-white photograph.Date | 1900Source |  | This image comes from the Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA) where it is available at the following Uniform Resource Identifier: 10018.Original source: From: Haggard, Henry Rider. "A Winter Pilgrimage; being an account of travels through Palestine, Italy, and the land of Cyprus, accompished in the year 1900". Longmans, Green, and Co.: London, 1901. p 87.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/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Standoffs: Greece, Turkey and Israel standoff in Eastern Mediterranean; Turkey, Russia and Iran standoff in Western Syria. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres...more

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• 231: The virus strikes down the Houthis in the failed state Yemen. @IrinaTsukerman. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  (Photo:View of Mocha, Yemen during the second half of the 17th centuryDutch geographer/engraver Olfert Dapper, 1680 - eBay.com View of Mocha during the second half of the 17th century. The Dutch flag is flying over a Dutch East India Company (VOC) ship in the foreground, as well as over the VOC factory seen toward the left of the picture. The English East India Company factory is visible near the center. Another flag can be seen flying on the right, most likely over the Danish East India Co. factory. The French were to establish their own factory during the early years of the 18th. century. However, by the 1740s Mocha was quickly losing its commercial importance when the Dutch East Indies and Brazil became important centers of coffee cultivation. Cropped from an engraving by Dutch geographer/mapmaker Olfert DAPPER published in 1680. Public Domain File:Mocha Dapper 1680.jpg Created: 2014-04-26 13:19:41  )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe virus strikes down the Houthis in the failed state Yemen. @IrinaTsukerman. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_presirinatsukerman.blogspot.com ...more

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• 231: Correcting the 1492 expulsion of the Jews from Spain. David Hatchwell . Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  (Photo: nquisition Scene by Francisco Goya. The Spanish Inquisition was still in force in the late eighteenth century. but much reduced in power. Francisco Goya - Web Gallery of Art:   Image  Info about artwork Public Domain File:Scene from an Inquisition by Goya.jpg Created: between 1812 and 1819 date QS:P571,+1812-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1812-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1819-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowCorrecting the 1492 expulsion of the Jews from Spain. David Hatchwell . Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_presDavid Hatchwell Altaras has held several positions in the global Jewish community. He was the President of the Jewish Community of Madrid from 2011 to 2017, served on the Executive Planning Committee of Taglit Birthright, and the board of Maccabi World Union. He is currently a member of the Genesis Prize’s selection committee and the Peres Center International Board of Governors. In his professional life, Mr. Hatchwell Altaras serves as President of Excem Grupo, a diversified international group started which is a trading and investment firm, headquartered in Spain and active internationally. Related articles●        https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/spain-prolongs-citizenship-deadline-for-descendants-of-expelled-jews-628191 ●        https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/rich-sephardi-legacy-of-murcia-brought-to-light-after-agreement-signed-634970 ●        https://www.ajc.org/news/ajc-applauds-spains-adoption-of-antisemitism-working-definition ●        https://www.thelawfareproject.org/releases/2020/6/14/victory-spanish-parliament-passes-first-of-its-kind-anti-bds-bill-assisted-by-lawfare-projects-arguments ●        https://www.jta.org/2020/05/04/bonds-of-life/enrique-mugica-herzog-88-first-jew-to-serve-in-spanish-government-since-inquisition ...more

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• 231: Why is Al Jazeera media not registered as a foreign agent (FARA)? Ileana Ros-Lehtinen @RosLehtinen Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  (Photo: )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowWhy is Al Jazeera media not registered as a foreign agent (FARA)? Ileana Ros-Lehtinen @RosLehtinen Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Served for almost three decades as a member of Congress representing a congressional district in South Florida and was the first Hispanic woman to serve in Congress. Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen is now a senior advisor at Akin Gump and is registered on behalf of the UAE under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Related articles●        https://freebeacon.com/national-security/report-al-jazeera-violating-u-s-law-by-operating-as-undisclosed-qatari-agent/ ●        https://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/AK_AlJazeeraFinal_070120_v1.pdf ●        https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2020/07/22/hezbollah-operative-extradited-to-paraguay/ ●        https://www.timesofisrael.com/argentine-president-tells-jewish-leaders-he-wants-results-in-amia-bombing-trial/ ...more

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• 230: The mayors join the disordered (aka mobs). @VDHanson @HooverInst

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  (Photo: Lamartine in front of the Town Hall of Paris rejects the red flag on 25 February 1848 Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux 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:Philippoteaux - Lamartine in front of the Town Hall of Paris rejects the red flag.jpg Created: 19th century date QS:P571,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7 )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe mayors join the disordered (aka mobs). @VDHanson @HooverInsthttps://www.nationalreview.com/2020/07/todays-progressive-revolutionaries-more-dangerous-than-1960s-predecessors/ ...more

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• 230: Trump's adamant foreign policy with bad actors PRC, Iran, Russia and North Korea. @VDHanson @HooverInst

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  (Photo:English: Chinese Volunteer Army troops crossing the Amrokgang River to aid Korean People's Army forces during the Korean War. Scan from page 111 of 10th Anniversary of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Commemorative Book. Published in 1958, therefore in the public domain according to DPRK law.Български: Китайски доброволчески войски прекосяват река Амнок (Амрок), включващи се на страната на КНДР по време на Корейската война.Date | 1958Source | 10th Anniversary of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Commemorative BookAuthor | Foreign Languages Edition, Pyongyang )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowTrump's adamant foreign policy with bad actors PRC, Iran, Russia and North Korea. @VDHanson @HooverInsthttps://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2020/08/10/trumps-reactive-engagement/#slide-1 ...more

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• 230: The Tax-Based failed solution to the pandemic-swelling national debt. @VerodeRugy @Mercatus

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  (Photo: )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Tax-Based failed solution to the pandemic-swelling national debt. @VerodeRugy @Mercatushttps://www.mercatus.org/bridge/commentary/proposed-tax-increases-will-not-reduce-deficit

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• 230: Money-laundering stormclouds in Medillin, Colombia much more sophisticated than Hollywood screenplays permit. @MaryAnastasiaOG

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• 229: PLA Navy follows Alfred Mahan teachings scrupulously to establish supremacy. James Holmes @NavalWarCollege

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  (Photo: The Mahan Hall at the United States Naval Academy is named for Mahan.John T. Lowe, photographer, Historic American Buildings Survey - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID hhh.md0919. 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 southeastern face of the United States Naval Academy's Mahan Hall, named after Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan. Public Domain File:Mahan Hall-US Naval Academy.jpg Created: 1 January 1981 )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowPLA Navy follows Alfred Mahan teachings scrupulously to establish supremacy. James Holmes @NavalWarCollege @GordonGChang https://nationalinterest.org/feature/china-wants-ownership-south-china-sea-heres-why-cant-happen-165070 ...more

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• 229: PRC building two more carriers to total six to dominate East Asia and project power to Wake Island. Rich Fisher, International Assessment and Strategy Center. @GordonGChang

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  (Photo:Aerial view of Pan American Airways Hotel and facilities on Peale Island at Wake Atoll. The hotel is on the left, the anchor from the Libelle shipwreck and the pergola leading to the "Clipper" seaplane dock is on the right.United States Navy - National Archives Pan American Airways (PAA) hotel and facilities on Peale Island, Wake Atoll. Hotel is on left, anchor from Libelle shipwreck and pergola leading to "clipper" seaplane dock is on right. Public Domain )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowPRC building two more carriers to total six to dominate East Asia and project power to Wake Island.  Rich Fisher, International Assessment and Strategy Center. @GordonGChang...more

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• 228: 4/4 Citizen Canine, by David Grimm

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  4/4  Citizen Canine, by David Grimm   Image: The last of the Horse Drawn CarriagesDogs are getting lawyers. Cats are getting kidney transplants. Could they one day be fellow citizens?  Cats and dogs were once wild animals. Today, they are family members and surrogate children. A little over a century ago, pets didn't warrant the meager legal status of property. Now, they have more rights and protections than any other animal in the country. Some say they're even on the verge of becoming legal persons.  How did we get here—and what happens next?  In this fascinating exploration of the changing status of dogs and cats in society, pet lover and award-winning journalist David Grimm explores the rich and surprising history of our favorite companion animals. He treks the long and often torturous path from their wild origins to their dark days in the middle ages to their current standing as the most valued animals on Earth. As he travels across the country—riding along with Los Angeles detectives as they investigate animal cruelty cases, touring the devastation of New Orleans in search of the orphaned pets of Hurricane Katrina, and coming face-to-face with wolves and feral cats—Grimm reveals the changing social attitudes that have turned pets into family members, and the remarkable laws and court cases that have elevated them to quasi citizens.  The journey to citizenship isn't a smooth one, however. As Grimm finds, there's plenty of opposition to the rising status of cats and dogs. From scientists and farmers worried that our affection for pets could spill over to livestock and lab rats to philosophers who say the only way to save society is to wipe cats and dogs from the face of the earth, the battle lines are being drawn. We are entering a new age of pets—one that is fundamentally transforming our relationship with these animals and reshaping the very fabric of society.  For pet lovers or anyone interested in how we decide who gets to be a “person” in today's world, Citizen Canine is a must read. It is a pet book like no other. ...more

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• 227: 3/4 Citizen Canine, by David Grimm

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  Image: Cats, watercolour by Gottfried MindDogs are getting lawyers. Cats are getting kidney transplants. Could they one day be fellow citizens?  Cats and dogs were once wild animals. Today, they are family members and surrogate children. A little over a century ago, pets didn't warrant the meager legal status of property. Now, they have more rights and protections than any other animal in the country. Some say they're even on the verge of becoming legal persons.  How did we get here—and what happens next?  In this fascinating exploration of the changing status of dogs and cats in society, pet lover and award-winning journalist David Grimm explores the rich and surprising history of our favorite companion animals. He treks the long and often torturous path from their wild origins to their dark days in the middle ages to their current standing as the most valued animals on Earth. As he travels across the country—riding along with Los Angeles detectives as they investigate animal cruelty cases, touring the devastation of New Orleans in search of the orphaned pets of Hurricane Katrina, and coming face-to-face with wolves and feral cats—Grimm reveals the changing social attitudes that have turned pets into family members, and the remarkable laws and court cases that have elevated them to quasi citizens.  The journey to citizenship isn't a smooth one, however. As Grimm finds, there's plenty of opposition to the rising status of cats and dogs. From scientists and farmers worried that our affection for pets could spill over to livestock and lab rats to philosophers who say the only way to save society is to wipe cats and dogs from the face of the earth, the battle lines are being drawn. We are entering a new age of pets—one that is fundamentally transforming our relationship with these animals and reshaping the very fabric of society.  For pet lovers or anyone interested in how we decide who gets to be a “person” in today's world, Citizen Canine is a must read. It is a pet book like no other. ...more

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• 227: 2/4 Citizen Canine, by David Grimm

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  Citizen Canine, by David Grimm   Image: North Country beagle Dogs are getting lawyers. Cats are getting kidney transplants. Could they one day be fellow citizens?  Cats and dogs were once wild animals. Today, they are family members and surrogate children. A little over a century ago, pets didn't warrant the meager legal status of property. Now, they have more rights and protections than any other animal in the country. Some say they're even on the verge of becoming legal persons.  How did we get here—and what happens next?  In this fascinating exploration of the changing status of dogs and cats in society, pet lover and award-winning journalist David Grimm explores the rich and surprising history of our favorite companion animals. He treks the long and often torturous path from their wild origins to their dark days in the middle ages to their current standing as the most valued animals on Earth. As he travels across the country—riding along with Los Angeles detectives as they investigate animal cruelty cases, touring the devastation of New Orleans in search of the orphaned pets of Hurricane Katrina, and coming face-to-face with wolves and feral cats—Grimm reveals the changing social attitudes that have turned pets into family members, and the remarkable laws and court cases that have elevated them to quasi citizens.  The journey to citizenship isn't a smooth one, however. As Grimm finds, there's plenty of opposition to the rising status of cats and dogs. From scientists and farmers worried that our affection for pets could spill over to livestock and lab rats to philosophers who say the only way to save society is to wipe cats and dogs from the face of the earth, the battle lines are being drawn. We are entering a new age of pets—one that is fundamentally transforming our relationship with these animals and reshaping the very fabric of society.  For pet lovers or anyone interested in how we decide who gets to be a “person” in today's world, Citizen Canine is a must read. It is a pet book like no other. ...more

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• 227: 1/4 Citizen Canine, by David Grimm

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  Image:  A feral dog from Sri Lanka nursing very well-developed puppiesCitizen Canine, by David Grimm   Dogs are getting lawyers. Cats are getting kidney transplants. Could they one day be fellow citizens?  Cats and dogs were once wild animals. Today, they are family members and surrogate children. A little over a century ago, pets didn't warrant the meager legal status of property. Now, they have more rights and protections than any other animal in the country. Some say they're even on the verge of becoming legal persons.  How did we get here—and what happens next?  In this fascinating exploration of the changing status of dogs and cats in society, pet lover and award-winning journalist David Grimm explores the rich and surprising history of our favorite companion animals. He treks the long and often torturous path from their wild origins to their dark days in the middle ages to their current standing as the most valued animals on Earth. As he travels across the country—riding along with Los Angeles detectives as they investigate animal cruelty cases, touring the devastation of New Orleans in search of the orphaned pets of Hurricane Katrina, and coming face-to-face with wolves and feral cats—Grimm reveals the changing social attitudes that have turned pets into family members, and the remarkable laws and court cases that have elevated them to quasi citizens.  The journey to citizenship isn't a smooth one, however. As Grimm finds, there's plenty of opposition to the rising status of cats and dogs. From scientists and farmers worried that our affection for pets could spill over to livestock and lab rats to philosophers who say the only way to save society is to wipe cats and dogs from the face of the earth, the battle lines are being drawn. We are entering a new age of pets—one that is fundamentally transforming our relationship with these animals and reshaping the very fabric of society.  For pet lovers or anyone interested in how we decide who gets to be a “person” in today's world, Citizen Canine is a must read. It is a pet book like no other. ...more

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• 226: James Comey's forthcoming book accuses the Trump DOJ of what Comey, McCabe, Lynch and Yates achieved at the Obama DOJ -- politicizing the law. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  (Photo: The Hickok–Tutt shootout, in an 1867 illustration accompanying the article by Nichols in Harper's magazineUnknown author - https://books.google.ru/books?id=LXNNAAAAYAAJ&hl=ru&source=gbs_navlinks_s An illustration to the article Wild Bill by George Ward Nichols (Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, February, 1867). Public Domain File:Wild-bill-harpers-3.png Created: 2012-10-29 03:07:49 )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowJames Comey's forthcoming book accuses the Trump DOJ of what Comey, McCabe, Lynch and Yates achieved at the Obama DOJ -- politicizing the law.  @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatnesshttps://www.axios.com/james-comey-book-saving-justice-4ce3e277-9f45-4dfc-82fe-411b078927cd.html ...more

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• 226: Trump Administration dispatches law enforcement to disordered cities, the Democratic mayors blink. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  (Photo: Hickok, Texas Jack Omohundro, and Buffalo Bill Cody as the "Scouts of the Plains" in 1873Smith Saginaw Mich. - Live Auctioneers Wild Bill, Texas Jack Omohundro, and Buffalo Bill Cody 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, 1925. 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:Wild-Bill-Buffalo-Bill.jpg Created: 1 January 1873 )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowTrump Administration dispatches law enforcement to  disordered cities, the Democratic mayors blink. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatnesshttps://www.chicagotribune.com/news/criminal-justice/ct-chicago-trump-federal-agents-20200722-ki3dqmj3szgwvicltnoubvmmwu-story.html ...more

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• 225: Biden nationalizes caregiving for the very young and very old, paid for by the very rich and the very unrich. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  (Photo:Children in La Fiesta de Los Angeles, ca.1900Photograph of three children with a flower laden baby carriage (headed left) at La Fiesta de Los Angeles, ca.1900. Two little boys in white[?] pinafores with hats hold onto ribbons a la horses drawing a carriage, while the little girl, also dressed in white[?] "drives". A few other people (mostly children) are visible in the background amongst the trees and bushes.Call number: CHS-1450Filename: CHS-1450Coverage date: circa 1900Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960Format: glass plate negativesType: imagesGeographic subject (city or populated place): Los AngelesRepository name: USC Libraries Special CollectionsAccession number: 1450Microfiche number: 1-121-10Archival file: chs_Volume57/CHS-1450.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, photoprint, b&amp;w ; 17 x 22 cm.Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern CaliforniaSubject (adlf): parksProject: USCRepository email: specol@usc.eduContributing entity: California Historical SocietyDate created: circa 1900Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. LibrariesFormat (aat): photographic prints; photographsGeographic subject (state): CaliforniaSubject (file heading): Festivals and parades -- La Fiesta -- UndatedLegacy record ID: chs-m7083; USC-1-1-1-7196Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.Geographic subject (county): Los AngelesSubject (lcsh): Children; Flowers; FestivalsSubject: La Fiesta de Los AngelesDate | circa 1900 (date created)Source | http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/7229Author | Unknown authorchecking out our catalogue: handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/32345  )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowBiden nationalizes caregiving for the very young and very old, paid for by the very rich and the very unrich. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-to-unveil-child-care-plan-to-help-families-struggling-in-pandemic-11595323802...more

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• 225: Biden's magical thinking electricity plan for 2035. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  (Photo: Title: The story of American democracy, political and industrial Year: 1922 (1920s) Authors:  West, Willis M. (Willis Mason), b. 1857 Subjects:  Publisher:  Boston, New York [etc.] Allyn and Bacon Contributing Library:  The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor:  Sloan Foundation Text Appearing Before Image:ka, southern Illinois,— had remained tributary commercially to New Orleans,by the river. Now this Northwest suddenly changed front.Farm machinery and the railway made it possible for it tofeed the growing Eastern cities and even to export thesurplus to Europe from Eastern ports. And this change intrade routes was more than economic. It completed thebreak in the old political alliance of South and West —already begun by the moral awakening on slavery — andforeshadowed a new political alliance of East and West.The merit of the Compromise of 1850 in our history is that 518 AMERICA IN 1860 it put off the war until this alliance was cemented and theNorthwest was, body and soul, on the side of the Union. In yet another way the improved reapers and threshers mayhe said to have icon the Civil War. Without such machinery,Northern grain fields could never have spared the men whomarched with Grant and Sherman. As it was, with half itsmen under arms, the Northwest increased its farm output.)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowBiden's magical thinking electricity plan for 2035. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst https://www.hoover.org/research/bidens-clean-economy?utm_source=Hoover+Daily+Report&amp;utm_campaign=40ac571c34-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_21_06_11&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_21b1edff3c-40ac571c34-72527561...more

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• 225: Washington D.C. and its neighborhoods empty as remote- working alters expectations. @McTagueJ

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  (Photo: )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowWashington D.C. and its neighborhoods empty as remote- working alters expectations. @McTagueJhttps://dcist.com/story/20/07/17/coronavirus-impact-dc-public-transit-travel-how/

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• 225: State of the City, the State, the Union: DeBlasio and the NY City Council appear to retreat in the face of Trump Administration peace-keeping. John Catsimatidis, @JCats13 @CatsRoundtable

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  (Photo: English: Caption: "CITY HALL."Credit line: "Drawn by Dakin. Engraved by Dick."Text, pp. 13-5Date | Published 1831Source | Internet Archive: Fay, Theodore S. and Dakin, James H. Views in New-York and its environs, from accurate, characteristic & picturesque drawings, taken on the spot, expressly for this work (New York: Peabody & Co., 1831), Plate 5.Also at: Museum of the City of New York Digital Collections Image ID: 29.100.1877Author | Drawn by James H. Dakin. Engraved by Archibald L. Dick.)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShow State of the City, the State, the Union: DeBlasio and the NY City Council appear to retreat in the face of Trump Administration peace-keeping. John Catsimatidis, @JCats13 @CatsRoundtablehttps://apnews.com/eaa951c352353133c0ea95c12fa05781 ...more

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• 225: The UK joins the US to condemn the PRC for the Uyghur genocide & What is to be done? @NuryTurkel Uyghur Human Rights Project and a commissioner of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom

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  Jul 23 2020

  (Photo: )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe UK joins the US to condemn the PRC for the Uyghur genocide & What is to be done? @NuryTurkel Uyghur Human Rights Project and a commissioner of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedomhttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-20/uk-accuses-china-of-human-rights-abuses-uyghur-xinjiang/12472028

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• 225: The Sino-Anglo Cold War escalates in Houston, Texas. @ScottWHarold @RANDCorporation @GordonGChang

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  Jul 23 2020

  (Photo: )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Sino-Anglo Cold War escalates in Houston, Texas. @ScottWHarold @RANDCorporation @GordonGChanghttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/world/asia/us-china-houston-consulate.html

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• 225: The state legislatures of Ohio, New York and Illinois demonstrate that Tammany Hall lives on. Austin Berg @A_R_BERG

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  Jul 23 2020

  (Photo: )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe state legislatures of Ohio, New York and Illinois demonstrate that Tammany Hall lives on.  Austin Berg @A_R_BERGhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/larry-householder-ohios-house-speaker-arrested-on-racketeering-charges-11595350062 In Ohio, Federal officials arrested Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and several others on Tuesday in connection with a $60 million bribery case. In New York,  Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was sentenced Monday to 6 1/2 years in prison in the corruption case that drove him from power as a judge said she hoped to “send a message to Albany.” And in Illinois, Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, the longest-serving legislative House speaker in American history, is embroiled in a federal bribery case involving   utility giant Commonwealth Edison.  Austin Berg, author of "The New Chicago Way" and vice president of marketing at the Illinois Policy Institute says statehouse corruption is rampant around the country and a serious problem that impedes progress and perverts the system and desperately needs to be fixed: Political power and corruption too often go hand in hand. Top legislative leaders in Illinois, Ohio and New York, all of whom have been implicated, arrested or charged for political bribery, make it clear that Statehouse corruption is a serious problem that gets in the way of needed reforms and perverts the system. Politicians focus on accumulating personal power instead of what’s best for the people they’re supposed to represent.States have to focus immediately on ethics reforms, starting by amending the rules that give the House speaker so much power. ...more

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• 225: Pompeo is attacked for supporting human rights based upon the US founding principles of "unalienable rights." @CliffordDMay @FDD

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  Jul 23 2020

  (Photo: )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowPompeo is attacked for supporting human rights based upon the US founding principles of "unalienable rights." @CliffordDMay @FDDhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/us/politics/pompeo-human-rights-policy.html

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• 224: The House That Ruth Built: 4of4: A New Stadium, the First Yankees Championship, and the Redemption of 1923 Hardcover

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  Jul 23 2020

  (Photo:Public Domain: A Young George H.W. Bush with Babe Ruth by Unknown, 1948 (NARA)This image is believed to be in the public domain and is from the National Archives. More information may be found below. Search or Contact the National Archives. _______________________ All images from the National Archives posted on this site should be "unrestricted&quot, according to NARA's information provided below. PLEASE DO NOT ATTRIBUTE IMAGE TO PINGNEWS. You may say "via" pingnews or found through pingnews. You may also thank the "pingnews photo service." Here, we are serving as A FREE PHOTO SERVICE and NOT THE ORIGINATOR/CREATOR of these images NOR the archival location. Any credit should attribute photographer (if known) and the National Archives.________________________ Public Domain. Suggested credit: National Archives via pingnews. Additional information from source: ARC Identifier: 186375 Title: George Bush, captain of the Yale baseball team, receives Babe Ruth's manuscript of his autobiography which he was donating to Yale, 1948 )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShow The House That Ruth Built: 4of4: A New Stadium, the First Yankees Championship, and the Redemption of 1923 Hardcover https://www.amazon.com/House-That-Ruth-Built-Championship/dp/B007K4GR4M/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=The untold story of Babe Ruth's Yankees, John McGraw's Giants, and the extraordinary baseball season of 1923.Before the 27 World Series titles -- before Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, and Derek Jeter -- the Yankees were New York's shadow franchise. They hadn't won a championship, and they didn't even have their own field, renting the Polo Grounds from their cross-town rivals the New York Giants. In 1921 and 1922, they lost to the Giants when it mattered most: in October. But in 1923, the Yankees played their first season on their own field, the newly-built, state of the art baseball palace in the Bronx called "the Yankee Stadium." The stadium was a gamble, erected in relative outerborough obscurity, and Babe Ruth was coming off the most disappointing season of his career, a season that saw his struggles on and off the field threaten his standing as a bona fide superstar. It only took Ruth two at-bats to signal a new era. He stepped up to the plate in the 1923 season opener and cracked a home run to deep right field, the first homer in his park, and a sign of what lay ahead. It was the initial blow in a season that saw the new stadium christened "The House That Ruth Built," signaled the triumph of the power game, and established the Yankees as New York's -- and the sport's -- team to beat. From that first home run of 1923 to the storybook World Series matchup that pitted the Yankees against their nemesis from across the Harlem River -- one so acrimonious that John McGraw forced his Giants to get to the Bronx in uniform rather than suit up at the Stadium -- Robert Weintraub vividly illuminates the singular year that built a classic stadium, catalyzed a franchise, cemented Ruth's legend, and forever changed the sport of baseball....more

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• 224: The House That Ruth Built: 3of4: A New Stadium, the First Yankees Championship, and the Redemption of 1923 Hardcover

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  Jul 23 2020

  (Photo:English: Panorama of Polo Grounds. The Morris-Jumel Mansion is on the upper right on top of Coogan's Bluff.Original title: "Deciding game bet. Nationals & American Leagues B.B."Date | circa 1905 Source | Copyright deposit; Pictorial News Co.; October 27, 1905; DLC/PP-1905:42753.268. )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShow The House That Ruth Built: 3of4: A New Stadium, the First Yankees Championship, and the Redemption of 1923 Hardcover https://www.amazon.com/House-That-Ruth-Built-Championship/dp/B007K4GR4M/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=The untold story of Babe Ruth's Yankees, John McGraw's Giants, and the extraordinary baseball season of 1923.Before the 27 World Series titles -- before Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, and Derek Jeter -- the Yankees were New York's shadow franchise. They hadn't won a championship, and they didn't even have their own field, renting the Polo Grounds from their cross-town rivals the New York Giants. In 1921 and 1922, they lost to the Giants when it mattered most: in October. But in 1923, the Yankees played their first season on their own field, the newly-built, state of the art baseball palace in the Bronx called "the Yankee Stadium." The stadium was a gamble, erected in relative outerborough obscurity, and Babe Ruth was coming off the most disappointing season of his career, a season that saw his struggles on and off the field threaten his standing as a bona fide superstar. It only took Ruth two at-bats to signal a new era. He stepped up to the plate in the 1923 season opener and cracked a home run to deep right field, the first homer in his park, and a sign of what lay ahead. It was the initial blow in a season that saw the new stadium christened "The House That Ruth Built," signaled the triumph of the power game, and established the Yankees as New York's -- and the sport's -- team to beat. From that first home run of 1923 to the storybook World Series matchup that pitted the Yankees against their nemesis from across the Harlem River -- one so acrimonious that John McGraw forced his Giants to get to the Bronx in uniform rather than suit up at the Stadium -- Robert Weintraub vividly illuminates the singular year that built a classic stadium, catalyzed a franchise, cemented Ruth's legend, and forever changed the sport of baseball....more

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• 224: The House That Ruth Built: 2of4: A New Stadium, the First Yankees Championship, and the Redemption of 1923 Hardcover

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  Jul 23 2020

  (Photo: With his hitting prowess, Babe Ruth ushered in an offensive-oriented era of baseball and helped lead the Yankees to four World Series titles.Irwin, La Broad, & Pudlin. - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3g07246. 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. Babe Ruth, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly right, in baseball uniform, holding baseball bat. Facsimile signature on image: "Yours truly "Babe" Ruth." Public Domain File:Babe Ruth2.jpg Created: 23 July 1920, registered as part of a series of 8 photographs of Ruth under J242488–J242491 on the 3 August 1920[1] )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShow The House That Ruth Built: 2of4: A New Stadium, the First Yankees Championship, and the Redemption of 1923 Hardcover https://www.amazon.com/House-That-Ruth-Built-Championship/dp/B007K4GR4M/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=The untold story of Babe Ruth's Yankees, John McGraw's Giants, and the extraordinary baseball season of 1923.Before the 27 World Series titles -- before Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, and Derek Jeter -- the Yankees were New York's shadow franchise. They hadn't won a championship, and they didn't even have their own field, renting the Polo Grounds from their cross-town rivals the New York Giants. In 1921 and 1922, they lost to the Giants when it mattered most: in October. But in 1923, the Yankees played their first season on their own field, the newly-built, state of the art baseball palace in the Bronx called "the Yankee Stadium." The stadium was a gamble, erected in relative outerborough obscurity, and Babe Ruth was coming off the most disappointing season of his career, a season that saw his struggles on and off the field threaten his standing as a bona fide superstar. It only took Ruth two at-bats to signal a new era. He stepped up to the plate in the 1923 season opener and cracked a home run to deep right field, the first homer in his park, and a sign of what lay ahead. It was the initial blow in a season that saw the new stadium christened "The House That Ruth Built," signaled the triumph of the power game, and established the Yankees as New York's -- and the sport's -- team to beat. From that first home run of 1923 to the storybook World Series matchup that pitted the Yankees against their nemesis from across the Harlem River -- one so acrimonious that John McGraw forced his Giants to get to the Bronx in uniform rather than suit up at the Stadium -- Robert Weintraub vividly illuminates the singular year that built a classic stadium, catalyzed a franchise, cemented Ruth's legend, and forever changed the sport of baseball....more

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• 224: The House That Ruth Built: 1of4: A New Stadium, the First Yankees Championship, and the Redemption of 1923 Hardcover

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  Jul 23 2020

  (Photo: English: The Polo Grounds in 1923. Photo courtesy of Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection.Date | 1923Source | Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ggbain-35829 (digital file from original negative)Author | Bain News Service, publisher)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShow The House That Ruth Built: 1of4: A New Stadium, the First Yankees Championship, and the Redemption of 1923 Hardcover https://www.amazon.com/House-That-Ruth-Built-Championship/dp/B007K4GR4M/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=The untold story of Babe Ruth's Yankees, John McGraw's Giants, and the extraordinary baseball season of 1923.Before the 27 World Series titles -- before Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, and Derek Jeter -- the Yankees were New York's shadow franchise. They hadn't won a championship, and they didn't even have their own field, renting the Polo Grounds from their cross-town rivals the New York Giants. In 1921 and 1922, they lost to the Giants when it mattered most: in October. But in 1923, the Yankees played their first season on their own field, the newly-built, state of the art baseball palace in the Bronx called "the Yankee Stadium." The stadium was a gamble, erected in relative outerborough obscurity, and Babe Ruth was coming off the most disappointing season of his career, a season that saw his struggles on and off the field threaten his standing as a bona fide superstar. It only took Ruth two at-bats to signal a new era. He stepped up to the plate in the 1923 season opener and cracked a home run to deep right field, the first homer in his park, and a sign of what lay ahead. It was the initial blow in a season that saw the new stadium christened "The House That Ruth Built," signaled the triumph of the power game, and established the Yankees as New York's -- and the sport's -- team to beat. From that first home run of 1923 to the storybook World Series matchup that pitted the Yankees against their nemesis from across the Harlem River -- one so acrimonious that John McGraw forced his Giants to get to the Bronx in uniform rather than suit up at the Stadium -- Robert Weintraub vividly illuminates the singular year that built a classic stadium, catalyzed a franchise, cemented Ruth's legend, and forever changed the sport of baseball....more

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• 223: Hawaii's Thirty Meter Telescope unlikely road ahead. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Jul 23 2020

  (Photo: English: View of Hilo, Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa in the 1820s, from Hiram Bingham I's book A Residence of Twenty-one Years in the Sandwich Islands.Date | circa 1820 sSource | Hiram Bingham I (1849) [1848]  A Residence of Twenty-one Years in the Sandwich Islands (3rd ed.), H.D. Goodwin, p. Page 385  Author | not given)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowHawaii's Thirty Meter Telescope unlikely road ahead. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/no-tmt-construction-until-2021-according-to-its-builders/...more

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• 223: Celebrating the July 20, 1969 walk on the moon that left behind a US flag in moon dust. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Jul 22 2020

  (Photo: Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong working at an equipment storage area on the lunar module. This is one of the few photos that show Armstrong during the moonwalk. Image Credit: NASA)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowCelebrating the July 20, 1969 walk on the moon that left behind a US flag in moon dust.  Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/?s=flag+in+the+dust

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• 222: The paradoxical 1788 Constitution is why socialism has not succeeded in America: 2 of 2: John Yoo @HooverInst @AEI

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  Jul 22 2020

  (Photo: John Trumbull depicts the Committee of Five presenting their work to the Congress.[149] John Trumbull - US Capitol John Trumbull's painting, Declaration of Independence, depicting the five-man drafting committee of the Declaration of Independence presenting their work to the Congress. The painting can be found on the back of the U.S. $2 bill. The original hangs in the US Capitol rotunda. Public Domain File:Declaration of Independence (1819), by John Trumbull.jpg )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe paradoxical 1788 Constitution is why socialism has not succeeded in America: 2 of 2: John Yoo @HooverInst @AEIJohn Yoo is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California–Berkeley School of Law, and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.https://www.hoover.org/research/socialism-vs-american-constitutional-structure-advantages-decentralization-and-federalism ...more

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• 222: The paradoxical 1788 Constitution is why socialism has not succeeded in America. 1 of 2: John Yoo @HooverInst @AEI

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  (Photo: Franklin in London, 1767, wearing a blue suit with elaborate gold braid and buttons, a far cry from the simple dress he affected at the French court in later years. Painting by David Martin, displayed in the White House. David Martin - The White House Historical Association Public Domain File:Benjamin Franklin 1767.jpg Created: 1767date QS:P571,+1767-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe paradoxical 1788 Constitution is why socialism has not succeeded in America. 1 of 2: John Yoo @HooverInst @AEIJohn Yoo is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California–Berkeley School of Law, and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.https://www.hoover.org/research/socialism-vs-american-constitutional-structure-advantages-decentralization-and-federalism ...more

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• 221: #NewWorld: Venezuelans sell gasoline on the black market to Colombians. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JSHumire @SecureFreeSoc

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  Jul 22 2020

  Image:   The main leader of the Muisca on the Bogotá savanna at the time of conquest was Tisquesusa. He led numerous efforts to resist Spanish invasion but was eventually killed in battle. His nephew, Sagipa, succeeded him and soon submitted to the conquistadors.#NewWorld:  Venezuelans sell gasoline on the black market to Colombians.  Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JSHumire @SecureFreeSoc New World Report.  Joseph Humire, Secure Free Society, and Senator Maria Fernanda Cabal; in re: The troubled, failed state of Venezuela.  Cocaine.  Every kind of illegal weapon, kidnapping, cocaine—it all goes back and forth. Venezuela is out of gasoline. Maduro has no control over the economy; chaos.  Long lines for gasoline, other lines for food.  Illicit networks continue to function.  Iran sent about forty days’ worth of gasoline. Trying to import another million gallons, but it’s interdicted.  Clearly, Iran doesn’t have the capacity to solve Venezuela’s problems.  For Iran, Venezuela is dual-use operation: slightly humanitarian, but in reality a military operation.     Mexico: AMLO enjoys a favorable position throughout Latin America. However, he “has the worst numbers” – the economy is doing badly.  Colombia was achieving a 3.5% increase, while Mexico was at less than 1%.    AMLO is a Chavez.  He’s starting a new, profoundly leftist group: La Puebla.   Perfect profile of a socialist president who’ll destroy Mexico’s economy. He says he won’t fight the mafia in order “to be less confrontational.”  He’s appeasing the cartels, and thereby the countries that are mfrg cocaine.  The cartels got the message right away; they’ll control more territory, are bldg mini-cartels.    Joseph Humire:  @jmhumire, @securefreesoc ...more

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• 221: #NewWorld: 26 years later and no justice for the AMIA bombing. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JSHumire @SecureFreeSoc

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  Jul 22 2020

  Image: Français : Buenos Aires (Argentine). Café Los Inmortales, vers 1920.Date | 1920Source | InternetAuthor | Unknown author#NewWorld: 26 years later and no justice for the AMIA bombing.   Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal Joseph Humire @JSHumire @SecureFreeSoc New World Report.  Joseph Humire, Secure Free Society, and Senator Maria Fernanda Cabal ; in re:  Argentina. Cristina Kirshner, barbaric acts.  Still have “the last Nazis” there.  Joseph Humire:  @jmhumire, @securefreesoc; @MariaFdaCabal ...more

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• 220: Joe Biden only knows how to talk about government spending. @LizPeek

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  Jul 22 2020

  Image:  CBO: U.S. Federal spending and revenue components for fiscal year 2019. Major expenditure categories are healthcare, Social Security, and defense; income and payroll taxes are the primary revenue sources. Elizabeth Peek, TheHill and Fox News; in re: Federal govt is $26 trillion in debt; much of it in an effort to [salve] the damage done by the virus.  When interest rates rise, the single largest expense in the federal budget will be interest!  Read Joe Biden’s climate plan: all about racial equity and union-building (“union” is mentioned 45 times).  When Trump was elected, small-business optimism went through the roof because for eight years they’d been encircled by ever-more regulations.  It's the labor-law change every few weeks in New York City.    @LizPeek https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trump-revive-booming-economy-biden-cant-liz-peek.amp https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/opinion/biden-climate-change.html ...more

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• 220: Is America learning to normalize the virus? @LizPeek

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  Jul 22 2020

  Image:   At the time of the 1918 influenza, Massachusetts was drained of physicians and nurses due to military calls. Here: a 1918 photograph. Elizabeth Peek, TheHill and Fox News; in re:  Virus hotspots in California and Arizona, some of the alarming elements—stress on ICUs and hospitals—aren't an issue except in Arizona.  Vulnerable people remain so. Young people who catch the disease are treated and don't die.  I feel as though the country is becoming used to having this virus in its midst.  Many wear masks. When cases began to increase again a few weeks ago, people went about their business. Not having as much of an impact on the economy as was predicted. It’d be exciting to lift the payroll tax.  @LizPeek   https://www.foxnews.com/us/los-angeles-second-stay-at-home-order-coronavirus ...more

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• 219: Is Vladivostok in the frantic Xi-PRC appetite? Gregory Copley.

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  Image:  Vladivostok in 1910 Gregory Copley, Defense and Foreign Affairs, and author: The New Total War of the Twenty-first Century, in re: Xi has trouble in Moscow. Vladivostok: Russia celebrated the 150th anniversary of conquering Vladivostok, with concomitant unhappiness in Beijing.  Recall that Argentina invaded the Falklands in a war he couldn't win.  Xi has failed in invading Taiwan, not doing well in South Chia Sea, and doing badly in India. He may claim that Vladivostok is actually Chinese.  The Russian pushback was immediate and strong. Russia and China have claims of about a million square miles on each other’s territory.  The newest Chinese fighter is stolen from the US with a Russian engine; and China’s space program is basically Russian. No love lost ’twixt them.  In 1973, the Sino-Soviet conflict was considered to be a permanent dispute, and nothing has been done to ameliorate.  China still has to worry about the khanate of East Turkestan.Analysis. By GIS/Defense &amp; Foreign Affairs Staff. Was it coincidence? Or was it a new gambit by People’s Republic of China (PRC) Pres. Xi Jinping to galvanize “Chinese nationalism” as means of counter-acting the growing internal criticism he faces? A growing chorus began at the beginning of July 2020 among PRC officials complaining that Russia was occupying Chinese territory. The com- plaint was nothing new, but what was the point of raising the issue again at this time, particularly when Pres. Xi was un-der so much — and increasing — pressure to show some kind of success and leader-ship in the face of declining PRC fortunes?1 The territorial claims which China has with Russia, and vice-versa, are extensive, and more than a century old, but this time the issue was just Vladivostok. The port capital of the Russian Far East, Vladivostok, was, until the 1860 Treaty of Pe-king [now Beijing], part of China’s Qing dynasty, when the area — then undeveloped — was known as Haishenwai. The city itself, although now large and symbolic of Russia’s reach into the Pacific, is only a small part of the territory which Beijing has claimed should be returned to the PRC, and is matched by a similar claim by Russia against the PRC. The current dispute began when the Russian Embassy in Beijing made a statement on the PRC micro-blogging website, Weibo, celebrating the 160th anniversary of the found-ing of Vladivostok. A number of PRC officials and ostensibly private sector individuals began responding vociferously on social media. Was Beijing seriously raising the issue of territorial claims against Russia at this stage, when the Communist Party of China (CPC) least needed to provoke differences with its most significant strategic partner, albeit an historical rival.  ...more

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• 219: Shoddily-built Three Gorges Dam trembles. Gregory Copley. Defense & Foreign Affairs.

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  Image:  Teton Dam breach widened to nearly its full extent. The outlet works are completely inundated with muddy water. Fair use.Shoddily-built Three Gorges Dam trembles. Gregory Copley. Defense & Foreign Affairs. Gregory Copley, Defense and Foreign Affairs, and author: The New Total War of the Twenty-first Century, in re: Massive rains  brought the Three Gorges Dam to its highest point since its construction. Is upstream from Wuhan.  August promises worse.  Clearly, the Mandate of Heaven has been withdrawn from the Chinese Communist Party. Dam was deeply criticized b foreign experts: so many payoffs for bribes that not enough money was left to construct it well. Wasn’t attached to bedrock. Was supposed to be straight, now it zig-zags.  Today, for the first time, CCP admitted that the dam was flexing and had moved. Today, water dramatically exceeds safety levels.  Floodgates are releasing water at 24x the regular water flow, which itself is causing problems  Deaths and displacement of people in vast numbers.  If it bursts: 400 million people downstream, incl Beijing and Shanghai.   At the Thames, BoJo has chastised China for having broken it Hong Kong treaty and fearful abuse of Uyghurs and Kazakhs in Xinjiang. Xi thought China could create tributary states with investment; when the money stopped, so did the “loyalty.” Now, CCP leadership in their annual summer retreat in two weeks: Xi and Li Kai-sheng will be on the carpet.   The world is crashing down on the heads of the CCP; Party elders want someone to blame, and that will be Xi. UK decision to castigate China and cancel Huawei at once: highly symbolic, as Britain carries a lot of symbolic weight.  Cost to Britain of replacing Huawei will also cost Chinese investment in UK nuclear power plants.  All this spells total repositioning of the CCP.  https://asiatimes.com/2020/07/three-gorges-dam-deformed-but-safe-say-operators/ ...more

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• 219: Weeks till the school year without a plan for New York City’s 1.1 million students and their families. @harrysiegel,

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  Jul 22 2020

  Image: The  First Boston Latin School House Harry Siegel, Daily Beast and New York Daily News, in re: Schools reopening? Hundreds of thousands of parents are invited to return to work—how to do that and home-school at the same time? The current in-between condition is deeply confusing. Over a million children. School some days and not others??  School is to start in fifty days. So far, it's a failure for the younger grades; small children not prepared to sit at a computer all day. This’ll get weirder.  https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-what-we-still-havent-learned-20200719-eswb3vvsvzhrpj6nxw52jqsyru-story.html\ ...more

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• 219: The 2020 campaign is dull and duller. Bill Whalen @Hooverwhalen

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  Jul 22 2020

  Image:  Garfield–Arthur election poster Bill Whalen, Hoover Area 45 podcast, and Goodfellas video; in re:  In 2016. Trump was always going to lose, Hillary was going to win. Now, Trump is being . . .  normal, while Biden is not. Democratic convention was scheduled to have ended yesterday. This is a boring campaign season. Biden: reminiscent of the Ali-Forman fight.  Being an incumbent is a tremendous advantage, as may be the notion of “the quiet voter”— citizens unwilling to say that they support Trump. “You can run but you can’t hide”— but Biden has done a good job of running and hiding.  https://www.forbes.com/sites/billwhalen/2020/07/15/when-did-this-presidential-race-become-so----dull/ ...more

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• 218: The Man Who Planted Trees: 2of2: Lost Groves, Champion Trees, and an Urgent Plan to Save the Planet Hardcover – Deckle Edge, April 17, 2012

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  Jul 22 2020

  (Photo: Image from page 41 of "North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies " (1908) Title: North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies  Identifier: cu31924074276845 Year: 1908 (1900s) Authors: Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Shafer, John Adolph Subjects: Trees Publisher: New York : H. Holt and Co. Contributing Library: Cornell University Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN    Text Appearing Before Image: 20 The Pines for 4 to 6 dm. and persist for a number of years. The staminate flo^vers are in crowded, spike-like clusters, 12 mm. long; anthers reddish or orange. Pistillate flowers nearly terminal, oblong-oval, about 12 mm. long, their scales dark purple, ovate and sharp-pointed. The cones mature by the second autumn and are pen- dulous, nearly cylindric, 7 to 12 cm. long, about 4 cm. in diameter and dark pur- ple; the scales are elongated and narrow, slightly concave, much thickened, rounded, transvei-scly ridged, and terminated by an oblong, dark, concave knob, appendaged by a small deciduous spine. The seed is ovoid, full and rounded at the apex, tapering to the flattened base, about 8 mm. long, marked with dark purple; its wing narrowed upwards, somewhat obhque, 4 to 6 mm. wide; cotyle- dons about 5. The wood is soft, weak and brittle, close-grained and satiny; its specific gravity is about 0.54. The tree is reported to grow also in southern Oregon. 13. HICKORY PIXE â Pinus aristata Engelmann This rather small tree of the mountains of Colorado to Nevada, Arizona and southeastern California seldom forms forests alone, but is interspersed often with the Rocky IMountain white pine, and with Engelmann's spruce, at altitudes of 2400 to 3600 meters. Its maximum height is 15 meters, with a trunk diameter of 9 dm. At the higher altitudes it is often shrubby and much contorted. It is also called Foxtail pine and Bristle cone pine. The branches are stout, whorled, and verj- regular, forming a rather stiff cone- like tree; in old age it becomes more or less contorted by the irregular development of some of its branches. The bark is 12 to 16 mm. thick, irregularly fissured into confluent, broad, flat ridges, their surface broken into small, close scales of a red- brown color; on young stems it is thinner, smooth, almost white, and filled with resin bhsters which be- come enclosed in the thicker, older bark. The twigs are stout, orange- yellow and smooth, becoming dark brown or nearly black and rough- ened by the persistent remnants of the bud-scales. The branch-buds are broadly ovoid, sharp-pointed, 8 mm. long, or the lateral ones smaller, their scales pointed. The leaves are in fascicles of 5, their sheaths soon disappearing; they are dark green and shining, stout or slen- der and recurved, 2.5 to 4 cm. long, stiff, calloused-tipped, their lower faces marked with narrow rows of pale stomata,)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Man Who Planted Trees: 2of2: Lost Groves, Champion Trees, and an Urgent Plan to Save the Planet Hardcover – Deckle Edge, April 17, 2012 https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Planted-Trees-Champion/dp/1400069068/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=The Man Who Planted Trees is the inspiring story of David Milarch’s quest to clone the biggest trees on the planet in order to save our forests and ecosystem—as well as a hopeful lesson about how each of us has the ability to make a difference.“When is the best time to plant a tree? Twenty years ago. The second best time? Today.”—Chinese proverb Twenty years ago, David Milarch, a northern Michigan nurseryman with a penchant for hard living, had a vision: angels came to tell him that the earth was in trouble. Its trees were dying, and without them, human life was in jeopardy. The solution, they told him, was to clone the champion trees of the world—the largest, the hardiest, the ones that had survived millennia and were most resilient to climate change—and create a kind of Noah’s ark of tree genetics. Without knowing if the message had any basis in science, or why he’d been chosen for this task, Milarch began his mission of cloning the world’s great trees. Many scientists and tree experts told him it couldn’t be done, but, twenty years later, his team has successfully cloned some of the world’s oldest trees—among them giant redwoods and sequoias. They have also grown seedlings from the oldest tree in the world, the bristlecone pine Methuselah. When New York Times journalist Jim Robbins came upon Milarch’s story, he was fascinated but had his doubts. Yet over several years, listening to Milarch and talking to scientists, he came to realize that there is so much we do not yet know about trees: how they die, how they communicate, the myriad crucial ways they filter water and air and otherwise support life on Earth. It became clear that as the planet changes, trees and forest are essential to assuring its survival....more

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• 218: The Man Who Planted Trees: 1of2: Lost Groves, Champion Trees, and an Urgent Plan to Save the Planet Hardcover – Deckle Edge, April 17, 2012

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  Jul 22 2020

  (Photo:English: Florida spruce pine forest by Lake Tsala ApopkaDate | 1914Source | Popular Science Monthly Volume 85Author | Unknown author )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Man Who Planted Trees: 1of2: Lost Groves, Champion Trees, and an Urgent Plan to Save the Planet Hardcover – Deckle Edge, April 17, 2012 https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Planted-Trees-Champion/dp/1400069068/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=The Man Who Planted Trees is the inspiring story of David Milarch’s quest to clone the biggest trees on the planet in order to save our forests and ecosystem—as well as a hopeful lesson about how each of us has the ability to make a difference.“When is the best time to plant a tree? Twenty years ago. The second best time? Today.”—Chinese proverbTwenty years ago, David Milarch, a northern Michigan nurseryman with a penchant for hard living, had a vision: angels came to tell him that the earth was in trouble. Its trees were dying, and without them, human life was in jeopardy. The solution, they told him, was to clone the champion trees of the world—the largest, the hardiest, the ones that had survived millennia and were most resilient to climate change—and create a kind of Noah’s ark of tree genetics. Without knowing if the message had any basis in science, or why he’d been chosen for this task, Milarch began his mission of cloning the world’s great trees. Many scientists and tree experts told him it couldn’t be done, but, twenty years later, his team has successfully cloned some of the world’s oldest trees—among them giant redwoods and sequoias. They have also grown seedlings from the oldest tree in the world, the bristlecone pine Methuselah.When New York Times journalist Jim Robbins came upon Milarch’s story, he was fascinated but had his doubts. Yet over several years, listening to Milarch and talking to scientists, he came to realize that there is so much we do not yet know about trees: how they die, how they communicate, the myriad crucial ways they filter water and air and otherwise support life on Earth. It became clear that as the planet changes, trees and forest are essential to assuring its survival....more

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• 218: Green New Deal Biden placates carefully to his Left. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund

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  Jul 22 2020

  (Photo:Svenska: Bergby kvarn i MarkimDate | 1890-tal?Source | http://gustaveriksson.blogspot.se/2013/07/satt-vingar-pa-berby-kvarn.htmlAuthor | Unknown author )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowGreen New Deal Biden placates carefully to his Left. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFundhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/20/joe-biden-has-endorsed-the-green-new-deal-in-all-but-name

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• 218: Will the Republicans rally in Jacksonville, Florida? @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund

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  (Photo:Title: Jacksonville and Florida factsYear: 1906 (1900s)Authors:  Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce Smith, Charles HSubjects: Publisher:  Jacksonville, The H. & W. B. Drew companyContributing Library:  The Library of CongressDigitizing Sponsor:  Sloan FoundationText Appearing Before Image:of May 3rd, 1901; acity whose citizenship will stand unrivaled; whose public buildings,business houses and public improvements of every kind cannot besurpassed; a city of refined, cultivated, moral and progressive people,who having been welded together by adversity to a greater degreethan any amount of prosperity could have accomplished: a united,helpful people, always ready to stand together in promoting its publicwelfare and future glory. We do not claim that the wonderful achievements of the past orprevious years which have placed this city in the very front rank ofthe progressive cities of the country, are exclusively the work of thisBoard of Trade, but we do submit that no body of men in all this land-that no organization of this kind—has worked harder, more unitedly,or with greater enthusiasm, toward not only the upbuilding of thecity, but of the entire State, than has the Jacksonville Board of Trade.To accomplish these things is the motive and inspiration of thisorganization. )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowWill the Republicans rally in Jacksonville, Florida? @DavidMDrucker @JohnFundhttps://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/rnc-lays-out-plan-for-limited-convention-as-covid-cases-in-florida-spike ...more

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• 217: Life in Rome without Americans. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation

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  Jul 21 2020

  (Photo:English: This view of the Colosseum and the Arch of Constantine is a somewhat fanciful reconstruction showing each monument from its best side. Fallen walls of the Colosseum have been tidied up, and several other works of antiquity have been introduced into the landscapes, such as the famous Borghese vase (now in the Louvre Museum, Paris) at the left. Roman ruins had become popular subjects by the 1700s, in part due to the new interest in archaeology. Panini was a master of these souvenir paintings so favored by wealthy English visitors on their Grand Tour of Europe; this painting and its companion, View of the Roman Forum, were originally in a private British collection.Date | 1747 (Baroque)Medium | oil on canvasDimensions | Painted surface Height: 82 cm (32.2 in); Width: 133.2 cm (52.4 in) ; Stretcher Height: 82 cm (32.2 in); Width: 134.8 cm (53 in) )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowLife in Rome without Americans. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation...more

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• 217: South Caucasus violence risks a regional conflict between Turkey and Russia. @ProfBShaffer @ElinSuleymanov @azembassyus

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  Jul 21 2020

  (PhotoMoscow Kremlin. Voznesenskaya Square (all demolished)Date | 1900s Source | "Вuilders of Russia. Moscow at the turn of century" ("Строители России. Москва в начале века", M, 2001Author | Unknown author: )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowSouth Caucasus violence risks a regional conflict between Turkey and Russia. @ProfBShaffer @ElinSuleymanov @azembassyushttps://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/20/turkey-russia-azerbaijan-armenia-374878 ...more

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• 216: Can the Federal police power intervene in a state or municipal crime wave? @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Jul 21 2020

  (Photo:William HogarthGin LaneDescription | English: Gin Lane, from Beer Street and Gin Lane. A scene of urban desolation with gin-crazed Londoners, notably a woman who lets her child fall to its death and an emaciated ballad-seller; in the background is the tower of St George's Bloomsbury. The accompanying poem, printed on the bottom, reads:Gin, cursed Fiend, with Fury fraught,   Makes human Race a Prey.It enters by a deadly Draught   And steals our Life away.Virtue and Truth, driv'n to Despair   Its Rage compells to fly,But cherishes with hellish Care   Theft, Murder, Perjury.Damned Cup! that on the Vitals preys   That liquid Fire contains,Which Madness to the heart conveys,   And rolls it thro' the Veins. )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowCan the Federal police power intervene in a state or municipal crime wave? @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatnesshttps://www.nationalreview.com/2020/07/the-revolution-is-winning/ ...more

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• 216: Comey's and Wray's FBI knew from at least February, 2017 that the Steele dossier was a fraud and yet said nothing. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Jul 21 2020

  (Photo:Taylor, depicted at upper left, in William Hogarth's 1736 print The Company of Undertakers (A Consultation of Quacks) https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/18/33/77d7ff8320492c1886b7b52ce10a.jpg Gallery: https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/M0011548.html Wellcome Collection gallery (2018-03-30): https://wellcomecollection.org/works/y7c4nt4d CC-BY-4.0 The Company of Undertakers or a Consultation of Physicians. The three figures at the top are Chevalier Taylor, 'Crazy Sally' Map and Spotward. Iconographic Collections Keywords: William Hogarth CC BY 4.0 File:Hogarth's The Company of Undertakers. Wellcome M0011548.jpg Uploaded: 2014-10-24 01:50:20  )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowComey's and Wray's FBI knew from at least February, 2017 that the Steele dossier was a fraud and yet said nothing. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatnesshttps://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2020/07/20/the_primary_subsources_guide_to_russiagate_as_told_to_the_fbi_124516.html ...more

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• 215: Indiana Hoenlein and the lost city of Ziklag—origin of King David after the death of Saul. Malcolm Hoenlein: @conf_of_pres

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  Image:     Samuel anoints David, Dura Europos, Syria, 3rd century CE Indiana Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, in re:  Tel al Shariah (Tel al Sharah)—verifies David of yore. Hyksos and Egypt: dental remains of 75 people: can differentiate those who spent their whole life in the northern delta, and those who also lived elsewhere, Hyksos now are seen as infiltrators. Eleventh C BC Egyptian king was a monotheist.  

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• 215: Twenty-five million virus-infected in Iran. Malcolm Hoenlein: @conf_of_pres

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  Jul 21 2020

  Image:  Saint Sebastian pleads with Jesus for the life of a gravedigger afflicted by plague during the Plague of Justinian. (Josse Lieferinxe, c. 1497–1499)  Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, in re:  Virus.  Anecdotes that the virus has ripped thorough Iran; now Rouhani announces that legislators have been infected, along with 25 million Iranians; may go to 35 million.  Regime arrests doctors who gave interviews.   Originally, had hundreds of thousands of Chinese studying in Iran.  . . .  Iranian cyberspies made a selfie video.  . . . Zarif in Baghdad; wanted to go to Saudi, but the king is hospitalized. In Baghdad, still upset about death of Soleimani.  The largest freshwater lake in Iran—in all of Central Asia—is drying up. Regime acknowledges that it’s lost control, but still funds “adventurism” – proxy wars, et al.     ...more

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• 214: Mask wearing is "patriotic" says POTUS. @HenryIMiller @PacificResearch

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  Jul 21 2020

  Image:  Fang mask used for the ngil ceremony, an inquisitorial search for sorcerers. Wood, Gabon, 19th century. Dr Henry Miller, Pacific Research Institute; in re: Virus and masks.  Universal Masking to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Transmission—The Time Is Now https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-tweets-photo-of-himself-wearing-coronavirus-mask-nobody-more-patriotic-than-me

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• 214: Eighty-seven per cent undetected infected in Wuhan January and February. @henryimiller Dr Henry Miller

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  Jul 21 2020

  Image:   Victims of the Manchurian plague, circa 1910. Dr Henry Miller, Pacific Research Institute; in re: Virus.  Multiple levels of testing of vaccines; not good to have uncertainty or side effects when a vaccine is offered to millions of people.  We still have a long way to go with efficacy or safety.Epidemiology: Covert infections may have contributed to the rapid spread of COVID-19    Up to 87% of COVID-19 cases in Wuhan, China, between January and March 2020 may have gone undetected, according to a modelling study published in Nature. These findings are consistent with recent serological studies in the United States and Europe. Undetected, or unascertained, infections — which may have included asymptomatic or presymptomatic individuals, or those with mild symptoms — probably had a major role in the rapid spread of the disease, and could lead to a resurgence of infections upon lifting of restrictions too early....more

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• 213: Canada's Foreign Ministry risks PRC surveillance with a low-bidder contract. Charles Burton: @cburton001 ; @GordonGChang

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  Jul 21 2020

  Image:  Dissatisfaction of citizenry with the Canadian legislature:  the Burning of the Parliament Buildings in Montreal – 1849, Joseph Légaré, c.1849 Charles Burton, Brock University and senior Fellow at the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute,  @GordonGChang, in re:  Canada reviewing purchasing security esp in regard to Nutech scanners*  for 170 Canadian missions abroad, which would give China an intell bonanza; Chinese govt offered them at a ridiculously low price  (recall Zambian flap some years ago anent cash payments). You'd think the Canadians might  have googled Nutech before promising the check.  If there’s enough outrage, Ottawa might reverse the commitment. The real question is, where is the Canadian govt getting its info about China? Consider Xinjiang, HK, products of forced labor, hair shorn from Uyghur women prisoners in concentration camps.  . . .   Possible co-optation of Canadian elites in relation to Huawei https://nationalpost.com/news/chinese-government-owned-firm-wins-6-8m-contract-to-supply-security-equipment-to-canada-embassies * The contract for conveyor-style X-ray machines was awarded to Beijing-based Nuctech Company, a company owned by the Chinese government and founded by the son of a former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Hu Jintao https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/liberals-reviewing-deal-with-chinese-state-owned-firm-to-provide-security-equipment-to-canadian-embassies ...more

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• 213: Beijing breaks its UN-registered treaty with Hong Kong; @Michael_Yon @GordonGChang

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  Jul 21 2020

  Image: “Might makes right,” aphorism on the origin of morality.  Here:  Military parade on the occasion of the founding of a Chinese Soviet Republic in 1931. Michael Yon, East Asia reporter, and Gordon Chang, Daily Beast, in re:  UK has suspended extradition agreements with Hong Kong on two grounds: the new law of Hong Kong, and accused China of forced sterilization of ethnic minorities, esp Uyghurs.  Beijing is far from being indifferent; what’s important is that last Tuesday the UK followed the US—which had followed Australia, which had followed Canada.  A period of much de-linking from China.   Large banks are now checking their large clients to see that none is entangled in the HK protests [in their kowtowing to Beijing].  Virus seems to have taken hold in HK again. Citizens have carefully slowed down their street activities; they respect the virus after SARS.   If HK people stay, no protection. Beijing considers the UK to be weak; it also disrespects Denmark, or probably any other country but perhaps the US. Chin plays by jungle rules: big dog makes the rules. No respect for law.  Might acknowledge US-born ABCs, but certainly not Hong Kongers with a British passport.  Beijing is still installing Huawei towers around HK.  ...more

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• 213: Improbable tales of Russian bounty paid to the Taliban for American KIA. @thomasjoscelyn @billroggio @FDD

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  Jul 21 2020

  Image:  UN: Foreign Terrorist Fighters; Manual for Judicial Training Institutes South-Eastern Europe (UNODC, UNDCP) Tom Joscelyn, Long War Journal and FDD; and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD; @billroggio  @thomasjoscelyn; in re: Why would bounties need to be offered? WH needs an incentive?  CENTCOM commander: No causal link has been proffered.  There’s already an incredible scale of violence; hard to believe that the Kremlin had much effect in the grand scheme of things as practiced by al Qaeda, the Pakistanis, and a wealth of other groups. Imam al-Bukhari (KIB), an Uzbek jihadist group loyal to the Taliban that fights under its banner. Taliban asserts that there’s no foreign fighter in Afghanistan.  Absurd. “In a tweet released earlier today by its spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban claimed that ‘these images have been stolen from our archive’ [by LongWarJournal].” “Disappointment in American leadership”: few pols or others can articulate whom we’re fighting or why. https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2020/07/generation-jihad-ep-18-what-we-dont-know-about-russian-bounties.php https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2020/07/taliban-attempts-to-cover-up-images-posted-by-an-uzbek-jihadist-group-in-afghanistan.php ...more

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• 213: Al Qaeda's clear and well-known links to the Taliban @billroggio @thomasjoscelyn @FDD

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  Image:  Durand Line Border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Public domain. Tom Joscelyn, Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies; & Senior Editor for FDD's Long War Journal; and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD; @billroggio  @thomasjoscelyn; in re:  The United Nations Security Council added Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan emir Mufti Noor Wali Mehsud (Wali) to its list of terrorist leaders and operatives who associated with Al Qaeda. While Wali’s Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan (Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan, or TTP) has carried out few major attacks inside Pakistan, it has stepped up small-scale operations against Pakistani security forces in North and South Waziristan over the past several months. The UNSC added Wali to the Al Qaeda Sanctions List on July 16, 2020, for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf of, or in support of” Al Qaeda. https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2020/07/un-sanctions-emir-of-the-pakistani-talibanz.php Drone strikes in three Afgh provinces: Taliban accuses the US of violating the “peace” deal.  In fact, there’s nothing in the withdrawal deal that says either side needs to stop attacking until the deal is fully consummated. ...more

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• 212: Civilization: 3of3: The West and the Rest Hardcover – November 1, 2011. by Niall Ferguson (Author)

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  Jul 21 2020

  (Photo:Siebe's improved design in 1873.Unknown author - The Illustrated London News Divers Preparing for Work. Front cover illustration of the February 6, 1873 The Illustrated London News. While not labelled explicitly, the Wreck of the Northfleet, a major naval disaster, occurred on the 22nd of January, and an article in a previous issue mentions divers being sent to recover the bodies and other remains. It would presumably have been obvious what they were doing to readers of the time. Public Domain File:Divers - Illustrated London News Feb 6 1873-2.PNG Created: 6 February 1873  )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShow Civilization: 3of3: The West and the Rest Hardcover – November 1, 2011.  by Niall Ferguson  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Civilization-West-Rest-Niall-Ferguson/dp/1594203059/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=Western civilization’s rise to global dominance is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five centuries.How did the West overtake its Eastern rivals? And has the zenith of Western power now passed? Acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson argues that beginning in the fifteenth century, the West developed six powerful new concepts, or “killer applications”—competition, science, the rule of law, modern medicine, consumerism, and the work ethic—that the Rest lacked, allowing it to surge past all other competitors.Yet now, Ferguson shows how the Rest have downloaded the killer apps the West once monopolized, while the West has literally lost faith in itself. Chronicling the rise and fall of empires alongside clashes (and fusions) of civilizations, Civilization: The West and the Rest recasts world history with force and wit. Boldly argued and teeming with memorable characters, this is Ferguson at his very best....more

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• 212: Civilization: 2of3: The West and the Rest Hardcover – November 1, 2011. by Niall Ferguson (Author)

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  Jul 21 2020

  (Photo: An anatomical illustration from Sobotta's Human Anatomy 1908Dr. Johannes Sobotta - Atlas and Text-book of Human Anatomy Volume III Vascular System, Lymphatic system, Nervous system and Sense Organs Public Domain File:Sobo 1909 589.png Uploaded: 2019-07-07 14:50:18 )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShow Civilization: 2of3: The West and the Rest Hardcover – November 1, 2011.  by Niall Ferguson  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Civilization-West-Rest-Niall-Ferguson/dp/1594203059/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=Western civilization’s rise to global dominance is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five centuries.How did the West overtake its Eastern rivals? And has the zenith of Western power now passed? Acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson argues that beginning in the fifteenth century, the West developed six powerful new concepts, or “killer applications”—competition, science, the rule of law, modern medicine, consumerism, and the work ethic—that the Rest lacked, allowing it to surge past all other competitors.Yet now, Ferguson shows how the Rest have downloaded the killer apps the West once monopolized, while the West has literally lost faith in itself. Chronicling the rise and fall of empires alongside clashes (and fusions) of civilizations, Civilization: The West and the Rest recasts world history with force and wit. Boldly argued and teeming with memorable characters, this is Ferguson at his very best....more

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• 212: Civilization: 1of3: The West and the Rest Hardcover – November 1, 2011. by Niall Ferguson (Author)

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  Jul 21 2020

  (Photo:Title: The fireside university of modern invention, discovery, industry and art for home circle study and entertainmentYear: 1902 (1900s)Authors:  McGovern, John. (from old catalog)Subjects:  SciencePublisher:  Chicago, Union pub. houseContributing Library:  The Library of CongressDigitizing Sponsor:  The Library of CongressText Appearing Before Image:oths and other colored articles of merchandise were secured bysomewhat similar means—the printer putting his paper to presson half-tone photographic cuts or pictures in three colors ofink—red, white and yellow. Even a black was well simulated.The selective action of the colors was astonishing, and suggestedthe need of entirely new theories of the laws of Light and theideas of color. What is a Stereoscope ? It is an instrument which takes advantage of the fact that thetwo eyes of a human being form different images of objectswithin certain distances. Euclid made the first optical demon-stration of this kind. Wheatstone and Brewster brought theStereoscope to the form usually seen in parlors, where each evelooks through a refracting prism, and pictured weeds or trees ina field stand out in a photograph, as if the photograph were areal field. What did this lead to ? The Magic Lantern was developed into a Stereopticon, andstereopticon pictures, much enlarged, were thrown upon a screen. )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShow Civilization: 1of3: The West and the Rest Hardcover – November 1, 2011.  by Niall Ferguson  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Civilization-West-Rest-Niall-Ferguson/dp/1594203059/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=Western civilization’s rise to global dominance is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five centuries.How did the West overtake its Eastern rivals? And has the zenith of Western power now passed? Acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson argues that beginning in the fifteenth century, the West developed six powerful new concepts, or “killer applications”—competition, science, the rule of law, modern medicine, consumerism, and the work ethic—that the Rest lacked, allowing it to surge past all other competitors.Yet now, Ferguson shows how the Rest have downloaded the killer apps the West once monopolized, while the West has literally lost faith in itself. Chronicling the rise and fall of empires alongside clashes (and fusions) of civilizations, Civilization: The West and the Rest recasts world history with force and wit. Boldly argued and teeming with memorable characters, this is Ferguson at his very best....more

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• 211: 4/4 Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich, by Christopher B. Krebs

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  Image:  Magna Germania before the battle of the Teutoburg ForestMost Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich, by Christopher B. Krebs    Paperback – August 27, 2012 https://www.amazon.com/Most-Dangerous-Book-Tacituss-Germania/dp/0393342921/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Krebs+dangerous+book&qid=1595201644&s=books&sr=1-1 The pope wanted it, Montesquieu used it, and the Nazis pilfered an Italian noble's villa to get it: the Germania, by the Roman historian Tacitus, took on a life of its own as both an object and an ideology. When Tacitus wrote a not-very-flattering little book about the ancient Germans in 98 CE, at the height of the Roman Empire, he could not have foreseen that the Nazis would extol it as "a bible," nor that Heinrich Himmler, the engineer of the Holocaust, would vow to resurrect Germany on its grounds. But the Germania inspired—and polarized—readers long before the rise of the Third Reich. In this elegant and captivating history, Christopher B. Krebs, a professor of classics at Harvard University, traces the wide-ranging influence of the Germania over a five-hundred-year span, showing us how an ancient text rose to take its place among the most dangerous books in the world. ...more

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• 211: 3/4 Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich, by Christopher B. Krebs

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  Image:  Germanic warriors storm the field, Varusschlacht, 1909Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich, by Christopher B. Krebs    Paperback – August 27, 2012 https://www.amazon.com/Most-Dangerous-Book-Tacituss-Germania/dp/0393342921/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Krebs+dangerous+book&qid=1595201644&s=books&sr=1-1 The pope wanted it, Montesquieu used it, and the Nazis pilfered an Italian noble's villa to get it: the Germania, by the Roman historian Tacitus, took on a life of its own as both an object and an ideology. When Tacitus wrote a not-very-flattering little book about the ancient Germans in 98 CE, at the height of the Roman Empire, he could not have foreseen that the Nazis would extol it as "a bible," nor that Heinrich Himmler, the engineer of the Holocaust, would vow to resurrect Germany on its grounds. But the Germania inspired—and polarized—readers long before the rise of the Third Reich. In this elegant and captivating history, Christopher B. Krebs, a professor of classics at Harvard University, traces the wide-ranging influence of the Germania over a five-hundred-year span, showing us how an ancient text rose to take its place among the most dangerous books in the world. ...more

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• 211: 2/4 Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich, by Christopher B. Krebs

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  Image: Germaniae veteris typus (Old Germany) edited by Willem and Joan Blaeu), 1645, based on information from Tacitus and PlinyMost Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich, by Christopher B. Krebs    Paperback – August 27, 2012 https://www.amazon.com/Most-Dangerous-Book-Tacituss-Germania/dp/0393342921/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Krebs+dangerous+book&qid=1595201644&s=books&sr=1-1 The pope wanted it, Montesquieu used it, and the Nazis pilfered an Italian noble's villa to get it: the Germania, by the Roman historian Tacitus, took on a life of its own as both an object and an ideology. When Tacitus wrote a not-very-flattering little book about the ancient Germans in 98 CE, at the height of the Roman Empire, he could not have foreseen that the Nazis would extol it as "a bible," nor that Heinrich Himmler, the engineer of the Holocaust, would vow to resurrect Germany on its grounds. But the Germania inspired—and polarized—readers long before the rise of the Third Reich. In this elegant and captivating history, Christopher B. Krebs, a professor of classics at Harvard University, traces the wide-ranging influence of the Germania over a five-hundred-year span, showing us how an ancient text rose to take its place among the most dangerous books in the world. ...more

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• 211: 1/4 Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich, by Christopher B. Krebs

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  Image: Germaniae veteris typus (Old Germany) edited by Willem and Joan Blaeu), 1645, based on information from Tacitus and Pliny [The 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica, far and away the best ever published, has this article on Teutonic peoples.  https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclopædia_Britannica/Teutonic_Peoples]Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich, by Christopher B. Krebs    Paperback – August 27, 2012https://www.amazon.com/Most-Dangerous-Book-Tacituss-Germania/dp/0393342921/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=Krebs+dangerous+book&amp;qid=1595201644&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1The pope wanted it, Montesquieu used it, and the Nazis pilfered an Italian noble's villa to get it: the Germania, by the Roman historian Tacitus, took on a life of its own as both an object and an ideology. When Tacitus wrote a not-very-flattering little book about the ancient Germans in 98 CE, at the height of the Roman Empire, he could not have foreseen that the Nazis would extol it as "a bible," nor that Heinrich Himmler, the engineer of the Holocaust, would vow to resurrect Germany on its grounds. But the Germania inspired—and polarized—readers long before the rise of the Third Reich. In this elegant and captivating history, Christopher B. Krebs, a professor of classics at Harvard University, traces the wide-ranging influence of the Germania over a five-hundred-year span, showing us how an ancient text rose to take its place among the most dangerous books in the world. ...more

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• 210: Atlantic: 2of2: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories Paperback – November 1, 2011. by Simon Winchester (Author)

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  (Photo: Portsmouth Harbour with Prison Hulks Ambroise Louis Garneray - http://www.nla.gov.au Portsmouth Harbour with Prison Hulks (oil on canvas; 50.4 x 98.6 cm) Permission details Public domainView more Public Domainview terms File:Garneray - Portsmouth Harbour with Prison Hulks.jpg Created: circa 1814 date QS:P,+1814-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShow Atlantic: 2of2: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories Paperback – November 1, 2011. by Simon Winchester  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Atlantic-Battles-Discoveries-Titanic-Million/dp/0061702625/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;gclid=EAIaIQobChMIuP2Ottja6gIViYbACh33rQObEAAYASAAEgLCevD_BwE&amp;hvadid=323472153050&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvlocphy=9003415&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvqmt=b&amp;hvrand=4101675554787581676&amp;hvtargid=kwd-308339975963&amp;hydadcr=15309_10335545&amp;keywords=the+atlantic+simon+winchester&amp;qid=1595208952&amp;sr=8-1&amp;tag=googhydr-20 Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and exposition, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester tells the breathtaking saga of the Atlantic Ocean. A gifted storyteller and consummate historian, Winchester sets the great blue sea's epic narrative against the backdrop of mankind's intellectual evolution, telling not only the story of an ocean, but the story of civilization. Fans of Winchester's Krakatoa, The Man Who Loved China, and The Professor and the Madman will love this masterful, penetrating, and resonant tale of humanity finding its way across the ocean of history. ...more

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• 210: Atlantic: 1of2: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories Paperback – November 1, 2011. by Simon Winchester (Author)

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  (PhotoМученики Анания и Петр и с ними 7 воинов. Константинополь. 985 г. Миниатюра Минология Василия II.Ватиканская библиотека. Рим.Date | 985Source | http://days.pravoslavie.ru/Images/ii160&3984.htmAuthor | Anonymous)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShow Atlantic: 1of2: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories Paperback – November 1, 2011. by Simon Winchester  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Atlantic-Battles-Discoveries-Titanic-Million/dp/0061702625/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;gclid=EAIaIQobChMIuP2Ottja6gIViYbACh33rQObEAAYASAAEgLCevD_BwE&amp;hvadid=323472153050&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvlocphy=9003415&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvqmt=b&amp;hvrand=4101675554787581676&amp;hvtargid=kwd-308339975963&amp;hydadcr=15309_10335545&amp;keywords=the+atlantic+simon+winchester&amp;qid=1595208952&amp;sr=8-1&amp;tag=googhydr-20 Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and exposition, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester tells the breathtaking saga of the Atlantic Ocean. A gifted storyteller and consummate historian, Winchester sets the great blue sea's epic narrative against the backdrop of mankind's intellectual evolution, telling not only the story of an ocean, but the story of civilization. Fans of Winchester's Krakatoa, The Man Who Loved China, and The Professor and the Madman will love this masterful, penetrating, and resonant tale of humanity finding its way across the ocean of history....more

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• 209: Turning the Tide: 4of4: How a Small Band of Allied Sailors Defeated the U-boats and Won the Battle of the Atlantic 1st Edition. by Ed Offley (Author)

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  (Photo:German submarine U-848 under attack in south Atlantic (10-09 S, 18-00 W) – second pass of LT Charles A. Baldwin, USNR, PB4Y-1 107-B-12 of VB-107AWM Caption: ATLANTIC. C.1943. SAILORS TAKE COVER AROUND THE CONNING TOWER OF A GERMAN TYPE IXC SUBMARINE UNDER ATTACK FROM A VERY LOW FLYING AIRCRAFT (NOT IN THE PHOTOGRAPH). A DEPTH BOMB EXPLODES IN THE DISTANCE. NOTE THE TWO TWIN 2 CM FLAK 38 GUNS IN THE CONNING TOWER AND THE 10.5 CM SKC/32 DECK GUN. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION).Date | 5 November 1943 )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShow Turning the Tide: 4of4: How a Small Band of Allied Sailors Defeated the U-boats and Won the Battle of the Atlantic 1st Edition. by Ed Offley (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Turning-Tide-Sailors-Defeated-Atlantic/dp/046501397X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1595208029&amp;sr=1-2The United States experienced its most harrowing military disaster of World War II not in 1941 at Pearl Harbor but in the period from 1942 to 1943, in Atlantic coastal waters from Newfoundland to the Caribbean. Sinking merchant ships with impunity, German U-boats threatened the lifeline between the United States and Britain, very nearly denying the Allies their springboard onto the European Continent--a loss that would have effectively cost the Allies the war.In Turning the Tide, author Ed Offley tells the gripping story of how, during a twelve-week period in the spring of 1943, a handful of battle-hardened American, British, and Canadian sailors turned the tide in the Atlantic. Using extensive archival research and interviews with key survivors, Offley places the reader at the heart of the most decisive maritime battle of World War II....more

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• 209: Turning the Tide: 3of4: How a Small Band of Allied Sailors Defeated the U-boats and Won the Battle of the Atlantic 1st Edition. by Ed Offley (Author)

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  (Photo: )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShow Turning the Tide: 3of4: How a Small Band of Allied Sailors Defeated the U-boats and Won the Battle of the Atlantic 1st Edition. by Ed Offley (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Turning-Tide-Sailors-Defeated-Atlantic/dp/046501397X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1595208029&sr=1-2The United States experienced its most harrowing military disaster of World War II not in 1941 at Pearl Harbor but in the period from 1942 to 1943, in Atlantic coastal waters from Newfoundland to the Caribbean. Sinking merchant ships with impunity, German U-boats threatened the lifeline between the United States and Britain, very nearly denying the Allies their springboard onto the European Continent--a loss that would have effectively cost the Allies the war.In Turning the Tide, author Ed Offley tells the gripping story of how, during a twelve-week period in the spring of 1943, a handful of battle-hardened American, British, and Canadian sailors turned the tide in the Atlantic. Using extensive archival research and interviews with key survivors, Offley places the reader at the heart of the most decisive maritime battle of World War II....more

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• 209: Turning the Tide: 2of4: How a Small Band of Allied Sailors Defeated the U-boats and Won the Battle of the Atlantic 1st Edition. by Ed Offley (Author)

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  (Photo:Oil painting of a Kriegsmarine U-boat, by Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau - Own work U-boot by Ferrer-Dalmau 2002 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 Foundation has received an e-mail confirming that the copyright holder has approved publication under the terms mentioned on this page. This correspondence has been reviewed by an OTRS member and stored in our permission archive. The correspondence is available to trusted volunteers as ticket #2013032610005631. If you have questions about the archived correspondence, please use the OTRS noticeboard.View more CC BY-SA 3.0view terms File:U-boot by Ferrer-Dalmau.jpg  )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShow Turning the Tide: 2of4: How a Small Band of Allied Sailors Defeated the U-boats and Won the Battle of the Atlantic 1st Edition. by Ed Offley (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Turning-Tide-Sailors-Defeated-Atlantic/dp/046501397X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1595208029&amp;sr=1-2The United States experienced its most harrowing military disaster of World War II not in 1941 at Pearl Harbor but in the period from 1942 to 1943, in Atlantic coastal waters from Newfoundland to the Caribbean. Sinking merchant ships with impunity, German U-boats threatened the lifeline between the United States and Britain, very nearly denying the Allies their springboard onto the European Continent--a loss that would have effectively cost the Allies the war.In Turning the Tide, author Ed Offley tells the gripping story of how, during a twelve-week period in the spring of 1943, a handful of battle-hardened American, British, and Canadian sailors turned the tide in the Atlantic. Using extensive archival research and interviews with key survivors, Offley places the reader at the heart of the most decisive maritime battle of World War II....more

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• 209: Turning the Tide: 1of4: How a Small Band of Allied Sailors Defeated the U-boats and Won the Battle of the Atlantic 1st Edition. by Ed Offley (Author)

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  (Photo:Sinking of the Linda Blanche out of Liverpool by SM U-21 (Willy Stöwer)Willy Stöwer (1864–1931) - http://www.cityofart.net/bship/u_boat_gallery.html Sinking of the Linda Blanche out of Liverpool (German: Kaperung und Versenkung des englischen Handelsdampfer Linda Blanche):[1] a German depiction of the attack of a U-boat on the Linda Blancheduring WWI, showing the disembarkation of passengers from the stricken vessel - a procedure not always done in practice. The Linda Blanche was sunk on 30 January 1915 by U-21, under the command of Kapitän-Leutnant Hersing.[1] 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: 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. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1925. This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain". This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details.View more Public Domainview terms File:Willy Stöwer - Sinking of the Linda Blanche out of Liverpool.jpg Created: 1 January 1915  )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShow Turning the Tide: 1of4: How a Small Band of Allied Sailors Defeated the U-boats and Won the Battle of the Atlantic 1st Edition. by Ed Offley (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Turning-Tide-Sailors-Defeated-Atlantic/dp/046501397X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1595208029&amp;sr=1-2The United States experienced its most harrowing military disaster of World War II not in 1941 at Pearl Harbor but in the period from 1942 to 1943, in Atlantic coastal waters from Newfoundland to the Caribbean. Sinking merchant ships with impunity, German U-boats threatened the lifeline between the United States and Britain, very nearly denying the Allies their springboard onto the European Continent--a loss that would have effectively cost the Allies the war.In Turning the Tide, author Ed Offley tells the gripping story of how, during a twelve-week period in the spring of 1943, a handful of battle-hardened American, British, and Canadian sailors turned the tide in the Atlantic. Using extensive archival research and interviews with key survivors, Offley places the reader at the heart of the most decisive maritime battle of World War II....more

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• 208: 4/4 The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, by Daniel James Brown

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  Image: University of Washington logo The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, by Daniel James Brown   Hardcover – January 1, 2013 https://www.amazon.com/Boys-Boat-Americans-Berlin-Olympics/dp/067002581X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= For readers of Laura Hillenbrand's Seabiscuit and Unbroken, the dramatic story of the American rowing team that stunned the world at Hitler's 1936 Berlin Olympics. Daniel James Brown's robust book tells the story of the University of Washington's 1936 eight-oar crew and their epic quest for an Olympic gold medal, a team that transformed the sport and grabbed the attention of millions of Americans. The sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the boys defeated elite rivals first from eastern and British universities and finally the German crew rowing for Adolf Hitler in the Olympic games in Berlin, 1936. The emotional heart of the story lies with one rower, Joe Rantz, a teenager without family or prospects, who rows not for glory, but to regain his shattered self-regard and to find a place he can call home. The crew is assembled by an enigmatic coach and mentored by a visionary, eccentric British boat builder, but it is their trust in each other that makes them a victorious team. They remind the country of what can be done when everyone quite literally pulls together—a perfect melding of commitment, determination, and optimism. Drawing on the boys' own diaries and journals, their photos and memories of a once-in-a-lifetime shared dream, The Boys in the Boat is an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times—the improbable, intimate story of nine working-class boys from the American west who, in the depths of the Great Depression, showed the world what true grit really meant. It will appeal to readers of Erik Larson, Timothy Egan, James Bradley, and David Halberstam's The Amateurs. ...more

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• 208: 3/4 The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, by Daniel James Brown

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  Image:  Documentary film profiles 1936 U.S. Olympic rowers The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, by Daniel James Brown   Hardcover – January 1, 2013 https://www.amazon.com/Boys-Boat-Americans-Berlin-Olympics/dp/067002581X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= For readers of Laura Hillenbrand's Seabiscuit and Unbroken, the dramatic story of the American rowing team that stunned the world at Hitler's 1936 Berlin Olympics. Daniel James Brown's robust book tells the story of the University of Washington's 1936 eight-oar crew and their epic quest for an Olympic gold medal, a team that transformed the sport and grabbed the attention of millions of Americans. The sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the boys defeated elite rivals first from eastern and British universities and finally the German crew rowing for Adolf Hitler in the Olympic games in Berlin, 1936. The emotional heart of the story lies with one rower, Joe Rantz, a teenager without family or prospects, who rows not for glory, but to regain his shattered self-regard and to find a place he can call home. The crew is assembled by an enigmatic coach and mentored by a visionary, eccentric British boat builder, but it is their trust in each other that makes them a victorious team. They remind the country of what can be done when everyone quite literally pulls together—a perfect melding of commitment, determination, and optimism. Drawing on the boys' own diaries and journals, their photos and memories of a once-in-a-lifetime shared dream, The Boys in the Boat is an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times—the improbable, intimate story of nine working-class boys from the American west who, in the depths of the Great Depression, showed the world what true grit really meant. It will appeal to readers of Erik Larson, Timothy Egan, James Bradley, and David Halberstam's The Amateurs. ...more

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• 208: 2/4 The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, by Daniel James Brown

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  Image:  Volmari Iso-Hollo, 3000 m steeplechase, 1936 Summer Olympics The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, by Daniel James Brown   Hardcover – January 1, 2013 https://www.amazon.com/Boys-Boat-Americans-Berlin-Olympics/dp/067002581X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= For readers of Laura Hillenbrand's Seabiscuit and Unbroken, the dramatic story of the American rowing team that stunned the world at Hitler's 1936 Berlin Olympics. Daniel James Brown's robust book tells the story of the University of Washington's 1936 eight-oar crew and their epic quest for an Olympic gold medal, a team that transformed the sport and grabbed the attention of millions of Americans. The sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the boys defeated elite rivals first from eastern and British universities and finally the German crew rowing for Adolf Hitler in the Olympic games in Berlin, 1936.The emotional heart of the story lies with one rower, Joe Rantz, a teenager without family or prospects, who rows not for glory, but to regain his shattered self-regard and to find a place he can call home. The crew is assembled by an enigmatic coach and mentored by a visionary, eccentric British boat builder, but it is their trust in each other that makes them a victorious team. They remind the country of what can be done when everyone quite literally pulls together—a perfect melding of commitment, determination, and optimism. Drawing on the boys' own diaries and journals, their photos and memories of a once-in-a-lifetime shared dream, The Boys in the Boat is an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times—the improbable, intimate story of nine working-class boys from the American west who, in the depths of the Great Depression, showed the world what true grit really meant. It will appeal to readers of Erik Larson, Timothy Egan, James Bradley, and David Halberstam's The Amateurs.     ...more

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• 208: 1/4 The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, by Daniel James Brown

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  Image:  Rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics on a German stamp  The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, by Daniel James Brown   Hardcover – January 1, 2013  https://www.amazon.com/Boys-Boat-Americans-Berlin-Olympics/dp/067002581X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= For readers of Laura Hillenbrand's Seabiscuit and Unbroken, the dramatic story of the American rowing team that stunned the world at Hitler's 1936 Berlin Olympics.Daniel James Brown's robust book tells the story of the University of Washington's 1936 eight-oar crew and their epic quest for an Olympic gold medal, a team that transformed the sport and grabbed the attention of millions of Americans. The sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the boys defeated elite rivals first from eastern and British universities and finally the German crew rowing for Adolf Hitler in the Olympic games in Berlin, 1936.The emotional heart of the story lies with one rower, Joe Rantz, a teenager without family or prospects, who rows not for glory, but to regain his shattered self-regard and to find a place he can call home. The crew is assembled by an enigmatic coach and mentored by a visionary, eccentric British boat builder, but it is their trust in each other that makes them a victorious team. They remind the country of what can be done when everyone quite literally pulls together—a perfect melding of commitment, determination, and optimism. Drawing on the boys' own diaries and journals, their photos and memories of a once-in-a-lifetime shared dream, The Boys in the Boat is an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times—the improbable, intimate story of nine working-class boys from the American west who, in the depths of the Great Depression, showed the world what true grit really meant. It will appeal to readers of Erik Larson, Timothy Egan, James Bradley, and David Halberstam's The Amateurs. ...more

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• 204: Wild Bill Donovan: 2of2: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage Hardcover – February 8, 2011. by Douglas Waller (Author)

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  (Photo:paintingDescription | English: The Messerschmidt in Windsor Great Park 1940 Paul Nash 1889-1946 Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/N05716Date | 1940Source/Photographer | http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/nash-the-messerschmidt-in-windsor-great-park-n05716 )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShow Wild Bill Donovan: 2of2: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage Hardcover – February 8, 2011.  by Douglas Waller  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Bill-Donovan-Spymaster-Espionage/dp/1416567445/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1595124906&amp;sr=1-1He was one of America’s most exciting and secretive generals—the man Franklin Roosevelt made his top spy in World War II. A mythic figure whose legacy is still intensely debated, “Wild Bill” Donovan was director of the Office of Strategic Services (the country’s first national intelligence agency) and the father of today’s CIA. Donovan introduced the nation to the dark arts of covert warfare on a scale it had never seen before. Now, veteran journalist Douglas Waller has mined government and private archives throughout the United States and England, drawn on thousands of pages of recently declassified documents, and interviewed scores of Donovan’s relatives, friends, and associates to produce a riveting biography of one of the most powerful men in modern espionage. William Joseph Donovan’s life was packed with personal drama. The son of poor Irish Catholic parents, he married into Protestant wealth and fought heroically in World War I, where he earned the nickname “Wild Bill” for his intense leadership and the Medal of Honor for his heroism. After the war he made millions as a Republican lawyer on Wall Street until FDR, a Democrat, tapped him to be his strategic intelligence chief. A charismatic leader, Donovan was revered by his secret agents. Yet at times he was reckless—risking his life unnecessarily in war zones, engaging in extramarital affairs that became fodder for his political enemies—and he endured heartbreaking tragedy when family members died at young ages. Wild Bill Donovan reads like an action-packed spy thriller, with stories of daring young men and women in his OSS sneaking behind enemy lines for sabotage, breaking into Washington embassies to steal secrets, plotting to topple Adolf Hitler, and suffering brutal torture or death when they were captured by the Gestapo. It is also a tale of political intrigue, of infighting at the highest levels of government, of powerful men pitted against one another. Donovan fought enemies at home as often as the Axis abroad. Generals in the Pentagon plotted against him. J. Edgar Hoover had FBI agents dig up dirt on him. Donovan stole secrets from the Soviets before the dawn of the Cold War and had intense battles with Winston Churchill and British spy chiefs over foreign turf. Separating fact from fiction, Waller investigates the successes and the occasional spectacular failures of Donovan’s intelligence career. It makes for a gripping and revealing portrait of this most controversial spymaster....more

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• 204: Wild Bill Donovan: 1of2: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage Hardcover – February 8, 2011. by Douglas Waller (Author)

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  (Photo: Svenska: Illustration av krigsreportern Helmuth Ellgaard, "Slaget om England"Date | 1940Source | Uppladdarens egna verk (uploader's own work), jag äger som son upphovsrätten till denna bildAuthor | Helmuth Ellgaard, far till Holger.Ellgaard)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShow Wild Bill Donovan: 1of2: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage Hardcover – February 8, 2011.  by Douglas Waller  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Bill-Donovan-Spymaster-Espionage/dp/1416567445/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1595124906&amp;sr=1-1He was one of America’s most exciting and secretive generals—the man Franklin Roosevelt made his top spy in World War II. A mythic figure whose legacy is still intensely debated, “Wild Bill” Donovan was director of the Office of Strategic Services (the country’s first national intelligence agency) and the father of today’s CIA. Donovan introduced the nation to the dark arts of covert warfare on a scale it had never seen before. Now, veteran journalist Douglas Waller has mined government and private archives throughout the United States and England, drawn on thousands of pages of recently declassified documents, and interviewed scores of Donovan’s relatives, friends, and associates to produce a riveting biography of one of the most powerful men in modern espionage. William Joseph Donovan’s life was packed with personal drama. The son of poor Irish Catholic parents, he married into Protestant wealth and fought heroically in World War I, where he earned the nickname “Wild Bill” for his intense leadership and the Medal of Honor for his heroism. After the war he made millions as a Republican lawyer on Wall Street until FDR, a Democrat, tapped him to be his strategic intelligence chief. A charismatic leader, Donovan was revered by his secret agents. Yet at times he was reckless—risking his life unnecessarily in war zones, engaging in extramarital affairs that became fodder for his political enemies—and he endured heartbreaking tragedy when family members died at young ages. Wild Bill Donovan reads like an action-packed spy thriller, with stories of daring young men and women in his OSS sneaking behind enemy lines for sabotage, breaking into Washington embassies to steal secrets, plotting to topple Adolf Hitler, and suffering brutal torture or death when they were captured by the Gestapo. It is also a tale of political intrigue, of infighting at the highest levels of government, of powerful men pitted against one another. Donovan fought enemies at home as often as the Axis abroad. Generals in the Pentagon plotted against him. J. Edgar Hoover had FBI agents dig up dirt on him. Donovan stole secrets from the Soviets before the dawn of the Cold War and had intense battles with Winston Churchill and British spy chiefs over foreign turf. Separating fact from fiction, Waller investigates the successes and the occasional spectacular failures of Donovan’s intelligence career. It makes for a gripping and revealing portrait of this most controversial spymaster....more

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• 204: #TheNewAmericanCivilWar: A supersessionist civil war-- like Russia, 1917 -- means no peace until one side destroys the other. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Jul 19 2020

  (Photo:DescriptionEnglish: Armed soldiers carry a banner reading 'Communism', Nikolskaya street, Moscow, October 1917Date | 2 November 1917Source | Image source: [1]Additional information on the origin: [2]Author | Unknown author )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShow#TheNewAmericanCivilWar: A supersessionist civil war-- like Russia, 1917 -- means no peace until one side destroys the other.  Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis...more

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• 204: #TheNewAmericanCivilWar: What kind of civil war? Glorious Revolution, 1688; War Between the States, 1861; or Russian Revolution, 1917? Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Jul 19 2020

  (Photo:Battle of Fort Donelson Kurz & Allison. - Library of Congress. from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Battle_of_Fort_Donelson.png Public Domain File:Battle of Fort Donelson.png Created: circa 1887 date QS:P571,+1887-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShow#TheNewAmericanCivilWar: What kind of civil war?  Glorious Revolution, 1688; War Between the States, 1861; or Russian Revolution, 1917? Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis...more

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• 207: 4/4 The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts, by Graham Robb.

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  Jul 19 2020

  Image:   Reconstruction of a late La Tène period settlement in Altburg near Bundenbach (first century BC) The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts, by Graham Robb.  Hardcover – November 4, 2013  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/039308163X/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A1NHUUMD625VL9&psc=1 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. Robb―“one of the more unusual and appealing historians currently striding the planet” (New York Times)―here reveals the ancient secrets of the Celts, demonstrates the lasting influence of Druid science, and re-charts the exploration of the world and the spread of Christianity. A pioneering history grounded in a real-life historical treasure hunt, The Discovery of Middle Earth offers nothing less than an entirely new understanding of the birth of modern Europe. 50 illustrations ...more

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• 207: 3/4 The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts, by Graham Robb.

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  Image:   Gallic warrior statuette, first century BC, Museum of Brittany, Rennes, France The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts, by Graham Robb.  Hardcover – November 4, 2013  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/039308163X/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A1NHUUMD625VL9&psc=1 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. Robb―“one of the more unusual and appealing historians currently striding the planet” (New York Times)―here reveals the ancient secrets of the Celts, demonstrates the lasting influence of Druid science, and re-charts the exploration of the world and the spread of Christianity. A pioneering history grounded in a real-life historical treasure hunt, The Discovery of Middle Earth offers nothing less than an entirely new understanding of the birth of modern Europe. 50 illustrations ...more

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• 207: 2/4 The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts, by Graham Robb.

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  Image:  The reverse side of a British bronze mirror, with spiral and trumpet motifs typical of La Tène Celtic art in Britain. Public domain The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts, by Graham Robb.  Hardcover – November 4, 2013   https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/039308163X/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A1NHUUMD625VL9&psc=1 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. Robb―“one of the more unusual and appealing historians currently striding the planet” (New York Times)―here reveals the ancient secrets of the Celts, demonstrates the lasting influence of Druid science, and re-charts the exploration of the world and the spread of Christianity. A pioneering history grounded in a real-life historical treasure hunt, The Discovery of Middle Earth offers nothing less than an entirely new understanding of the birth of modern Europe. 50 illustrations ...more

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• 207: 1/4 The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts, by Graham Robb.

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  Image:  Expansion of the Celtic culture in the third century BC according to Francisco Villar The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts, by Graham Robb.  Hardcover – November 4, 2013  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/039308163X/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A1NHUUMD625VL9&psc=1 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. Robb―“one of the more unusual and appealing historians currently striding the planet” (New York Times)―here reveals the ancient secrets of the Celts, demonstrates the lasting influence of Druid science, and re-charts the exploration of the world and the spread of Christianity. A pioneering history grounded in a real-life historical treasure hunt, The Discovery of Middle Earth offers nothing less than an entirely new understanding of the birth of modern Europe. 50 illustrations ...more

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• 204: #PacificWatch: Buffalo roam Catalina Island as Antifa roams Portland, Oregon #in-the-time-of-the-virus. @JCBliss

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  Jul 19 2020

  (Photo:View of Avalon Harbor, Santa Catalina Island, ca.1900Photograph of a panoramic view of Avalon Harbor, Santa Catalina Island, from the south, showing Sugar Loaf and the wireless telegraph station. A steamer is docked a the pier. Numerous other small boats are in the harbor. The mountains to the north of Avalon are visible.Call number: CHS-884Legacy record ID: chs-m5596; USC-1-1-1-5713Photographer: Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946Filename: CHS-884Coverage date: circa 1900Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960Type: imagesGeographic subject (city or populated place): AvalonRepository name: USC Libraries Special CollectionsAccession number: 884Microfiche number: 1-26-17Archival file: chs_Volume149/CHS-884.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): 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&amp;w ; 17 x 22 cm.Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern CaliforniaSubject (adlf): harborsProject: USCRepository email: specol@usc.eduContributing entity: California Historical SocietyDate created: circa 1900Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. LibrariesFormat (aat): photographsGeographic subject (state): CaliforniaSubject (file heading): Los Angeles County -- Catalina -- GeneralFormat: glass plate negativesGeographic subject: islands: Santa Catalina IslandAccess conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.Geographic subject (county): Los AngelesSubject (lcsh): Islands; Harbors; Steamboats; Boats and boatingDate | circa 1900 (date created)Source | http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/26114 )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShow#PacificWatch: Buffalo roam Catalina Island as Antifa roams Portland, Oregon #in-the-time-of-the-virus. @JCBlisshttps://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2020/04/25/covid-19-wrecked-tourism-based-economy-californias-santa-catalina-island/3026703001/ ...more

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• 206: Mars InSight detected weak seismic activity in March 2020. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com

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  Image:  This is NASA InSight's first full selfie on Mars. It displays the lander's solar panels and deck. On top of the deck are its science instruments, weather sensor booms and UHF antenna. Mars InSight detected weak seismic activity in March 2020.  Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/quakes-by-insight-indicate-mars-interior-is-active/

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• 206: NASA delays Orion and Webb again and again; & what is to be done? Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com

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  Jul 19 2020

  Image:  Orion’s Ascent Abort-2 flight test vehicle was rolled out from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Abort System Facility to Space Launch Complex 46 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station for its July 2 launch. NASA delays Orion and Web again and again; & what is to be done?  Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/ig-report-nasas-orion-is-a-program-of-lies/

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• 204: The cancel culture bids farewell to the Cleveland Indians (the Tribe), last of the Yankee killers. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion

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  (Photo:Shoeless Joe Jackson was an Indians outfielder from 1910–1915, and still holds franchise records for both triples in a season and career batting average. Charles M. Conlon - Mears Auctions Shoeless Joe Jackson, Black Betsy in hand, during his 1913 season with the Cleveland Naps. Permission details This image might not be in the public domain outside of the United States; this especially applies in the countries and areas that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works, such as Canada, Mainland China (not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany, Mexico, and Switzerland. The creator and year of publication are essential information and must be provided. See Wikipedia:Public domain and Wikipedia:Copyrights for more details.View more Public Domainview terms File:Shoeless Joe Jackson by Conlon, 1913.jpeg Created: 1 January 1913  )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe cancel culture bids farewell to the Cleveland Indians (the Tribe), last of the Yankee killers. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinionhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/oh-yes-ban-the-redskins-11594854707"I’ve been fighting the team-name wars for years, most recently over baseball commissioner Rob Manfred’s goofy suppression of the Cleveland Indians’ Chief Wahoo."...more

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• 205: #HotelMars: The Perseverance landing zone at Jezero Crater, February 2021. Jim Bell @Jim_Bell, Principal Investigator, Mars 2020 Mastcam-Z Investigation. School of Earth & Space Exploration, Arizona State University; & David Livingston @SpaceShow

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  Jul 19 2020

  Image:    Jezero crater Hotel Mars, episode n.  #HotelMars: The landing zone at Jezero Crater, February 2021. Jim Bell, Principal Investigator, Mars 2020 Mastcam-Z Investigation. Professor, School of Earth & Space Exploration, Arizona State University, & David Livingston, SpaceShow.com; in re: We have to stay close to the Martian equator to avoid the cold; must be at a low elevation because of the parachute;  cannot land among boulders, or in paces covered in dust. These close off 80% of Mars.  We chose Jezero: crater lake, ancient river delta. #HotelMars: The Perseverance landing zone at Jezero Crater, February 2021. Jim Bell @Jim_Bell, Principal Investigator, Mars 2020 Mastcam-Z Investigation.  School of Earth &amp; Space Exploration, Arizona State University; &amp; David Livingston @SpaceShow https://sese.asu.edu/research/mastcam-z http://www.planetary.org/explore/projects/mars-2020/  ...more

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• 205: #HotelMars: The Camera Eyes on Perseverance Mission to Mars. Jim Bell @Jim_Bell, Principal Investigator, Mars 2020 Mastcam-Z Investigation. Professor, School of Earth & Space Exploration; & David Livingston @SpaceShow

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  Jul 19 2020

  Image:  Perseverance rover Hotel Mars, episode n.  Jim Bell @Jim_Bell, Principal Investigator, Mars 2020 Mastcam-Z Investigation. Professor, School of Earth & Space Exploration, Arizona State University. & David Livingston, SpaceShow.com, in re: Perseverance, 1,000 kg. A rover with improved wheels.   #HotelMars: The Camera Eyes on Perseverance Mission to Mars. Jim Bell @Jim_Bell, Principal Investigator, Mars 2020 Mastcam-Z Investigation. Professor, School of Earth & Space Exploration; &amp; David Livingston @SpaceShow https://sese.asu.edu/research/mastcam-z http://www.planetary.org/explore/projects/mars-2020/ ...more

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• 204: The Comey FBI panicked that it was found out by @DevinNunes in the Spring of 2017. @DevinNunes CA-22

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  Jul 18 2020

  (Photo: What An Unbranded Cow Has Cost by Frederic Remington, which depicts the aftermath of a range war between cowboys and supposed rustlers. Frederic Remington - Yale University Art Gallery Public Domain File:What an Unbranded Cow Has Cost by Frederic Remington 1895.jpeg Created: 1895date QS:P571,+1895-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Comey FBI panicked that it was found out by @DevinNunes in the Spring of 2017.  @DevinNunes CA-22https://www.judicialwatch.org/tom-fittons-weekly-update/fbi-conspires/ ...more

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• 204: Is the California economy going Speakeasy Underground? @DevinNunes CA-22

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  Jul 18 2020

  (Photo:English: Still from thehluh American comedy film The Speakeasy (1919), on page 109 of the December 27, 1919 Exhibitors Herald. It was a humorous take on Prohibition in the United States.Date | 27 December 1919Source | Exhibitors Herald (Dec. 1919) on the Internet ArchiveAuthor | Mack Sennett Comedies / Paramount Pictures)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowIs the California Newsom economy going Speakeasy Underground? @DevinNunes CA-22...more

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• 204: #TheScalaReport: Digital Wall rises between the US and its allies --UK, Japan -- vs the PRC. Chris Riegel, CEO, Scala.com #ScalaAPS

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  Jul 18 2020

  (Photo: )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShow#TheScalaReport: Digital Wall rises between the US and its allies --UK, Japan -- vs the PRC. Chris Riegel, CEO                                                                                                 Scala.com  #ScalaAPSft.com/content/df9170…ft.com/content/dcac04…asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Japan-… asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Huaw… @STRATACACHE                                             ...more

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• 204: Wall Street titan closes in on the Mets,whom he loves. Charles Gasparino, @CGasparino, @FoxBusiness

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  Jul 18 2020

  Image:  Invitation to the "1st Annual Ball of the Magnolia Ball Club" of New York, c. 1843, depicting the Colonnade Hotel at the Elysian Fields and a group of men playing baseball: the earliest known image of grown men playing the game.Wall Street titan closes in on the Mets he loves.  Charles Gasparino, @CGasparino, @FoxBusiness Charles Gasparino, Fox Business Network, in re:  The New York Mets were for sale, then not, now are again.  Alex Rodrigues, affianced to JLo, vs. Stve Cohen and vs. Sheldon Adelson, all bidding.  Like M&amp;A assets up for bid.  Sheldon Adelson via David Paterson, who works for Shelly, looked into building a casino near there, [an unattractive locale].  Looking at 2023, when downstate NY may have casinos.  Adelson says he’s not in the bidding for the Mets.  . . .  Money raised by J P Morgan; mysterious; “a lot of hat, not many cattle ARod had a falling-out with Jeff Wilpon.  Look at how Wilpons bought out Nelson Doubleday; but their involvement with Madoff led to money being clawed back by financial groups.  Cohen bid around $2 billion is in the lead. Harris and Blitzer have a strong hand, around $1.7 bil; ARod is number three.   https://www.foxbusiness.com/sports/cohen-bidding-2b-for-mets-franchise-and-2b-for-cable-network-gasparino ...more

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• 203: Italy recovers from the virus onslaught. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation

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  Jul 18 2020

  Image:  In Italy:  Columbus Breaking the Egg by William Hogarth An egg of Columbus, or Columbus's egg (Italian: uovo di Colombo), refers to a brilliant idea or discovery that seems simple or easy after the fact. The expression refers to an apocryphal story, dating from at least the 15th century, in which it is said that Christopher Columbus, having been told that finding a new trade route was inevitable and no great accomplishment, challenges his critics to make an egg stand on its tip. After his challengers give up, Columbus does it himself by tapping the egg on the table to flatten its tip. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation, in re:  Second wave "unlikely" in hard-put-to-it Italy.   In the US, more  young people are testing positive, then they toss off the virus in a few weeks.  Similar in Italy.  Young people conduct themselves in rather less prudent ways.    . . .  In Lombardy, some regions have removed the obligation to wear the mask out of doors, but still must wear it indoors.   https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/87446 ...more

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• 203: Pentagon steps in to rescue small and tiny businesses. Francis Rose @FRoseDC,

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  Jul 18 2020

  Image:  The predecessor to the US Defense Department, the Department of War. Francis Rose @FRoseDC,  Government Matters, WJLA, Channel 7 in Washington, D.C; in re:  Defense Department supports and keeps afloat myriad small and tiny businesses, including subcontractors down four and five levels.   Pentagon is alert to this, is intervening to be sure that they have work and income.  . .  . The push and pull come from middle managers (having twenty or so people under one); working from home means no two hours in traffic each way, no break room or Starbucks, so a lot more gets done.  The grand and the small at DoD.   -  #SmallBusinessAmerica: DoD Lessons Learned #in-the-time-of-the-virus. -  NatSec 2020 virtual conference we did this week -  DoD CMO Lisa Hershman https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2020/07/coronavirus-shattered-myth-defense-workforce-cant-telework-official-says/166867/ -  Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment  -  Alan Shaffer https://www.defensenews.com/congress/2020/07/14/the-pentagon-wants-a-10b-defense-industry-cash-injection-is-congress-listening/ -  Hershman https://fcw.com/articles/2020/07/14/williams-dod-cmo-savings.aspx -  Shaffer https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2020/7/13/defense-industry-bouncing-back-as-pentagon-considers-more-aid -  HASC Chair Adam Smith https://news.usni.org/2020/07/13/hasc-chair-smith-troops-not-ready-to-fight-without-resource-informed-strategy ...more

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• 203: The Roberts Court balances the Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania. @adamjwhitedc). @AEI & @Unprecedential; @AdLawCenter & @GeorgeMasonLaw.

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  Jul 18 2020

  Image:  Hildegard of Bingen and her nuns Adam J. White, Executive Director, C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State, & Assistant Professor of Law at George Mason Uniersity; & Washington Post, in re: Little Sisters of the Poor v. Azar - Becket.  “History sometimes seems like one damn thing after another.”   In August 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a federal mandate as part of the Affordable Care Act. The mandate required employers to provide all FDA-approved contraceptives in their health insurance plans, including the week-after pill, free of cost. Despite the obvious religious liberty issues with a contraceptive mandate, HHS included only a narrow religious exemption—one that did not include religious non-profits like the Little Sisters of the Poor, a Catholic order of nun that runs homes for the elderly poor across the country.  The Little Sisters’ Catholic beliefs about life and contraception meant that complying with the mandate was impossible. The Little Sisters initially tried to communicate their concerns with the federal government. In good faith, they believed that the government would grant them an exemption. After all, HHS already exempted thousands of other secular employers whose plans were “grandfathered” in under the new rule—including Exxon, Pepsi Bottling, and Visa—and even exempted the healthcare programs for the U.S. military. Instead, HHS doubled down, continued to refuse to exempt the Little Sisters, and threatened them with ruinous fines of tens of millions of dollars if they did not comply with the mandate.  Five years of litigation—including at the Supreme Court. https://medium.com/@adamjwhite/is-religious-liberty-dismantling-progressive-legal-victories-or-making-them-possible-in-the-5bcce0482c6c ...more

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• 203: Does John Roberts stabilize the divided SCOTUS? @adamjwhitedc). @AEI & @Unprecedential; @AdLawCenter & @GeorgeMasonLaw.

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  Jul 18 2020

  Image:  The members of the Chase Court in 1868. Adam J. White, Executive Director, C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State, & Assistant Professor of Law at George Mason University; & Washington Post, in re: Chief Justice Roberts.  The modern administrative state’s flip-flops. impossible to plan our lives around there being a new president every four years, someone who radically changes everything around. John Marshall famously brought the Court together; Roberts does something sort of similar.  Subpoenaing papers [by a local District Attorney] from the president is unprecedented.   https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/16/want-understand-what-supreme-court-did-this-term-these-two-words-are-key/  ...more

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• 202: Marketing the Moon: 4of4:The Selling of the Apollo Lunar Program (The MIT Press) Hardcover – February 28, 2014

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  Jul 18 2020

  (Photo: Apollo 10 Lunar ModuleView author information Public Domain File:Apollo 10 Lunar Module.jpg Uploaded: 2008-05-10 23:27:05 )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShow Marketing the Moon: 4of4:The Selling of the Apollo Lunar Program (The MIT Press) Hardcover – February 28, 2014 https://www.amazon.com/Marketing-Moon-Selling-Apollo-Program/dp/0262026961One of the most successful public relations campaigns in history, featuring heroic astronauts, press-savvy rocket scientists, enthusiastic reporters, deep-pocketed defense contractors, and Tang. In July 1969, ninety-four percent of American televisions were tuned to coverage of Apollo 11's mission to the moon. How did space exploration, once the purview of rocket scientists, reach a larger audience than My Three Sons? Why did a government program whose standard operating procedure had been secrecy turn its greatest achievement into a communal experience? InMarketing the Moon, David Meerman Scott and Richard Jurek tell the story of one of the most successful marketing and public relations campaigns in history: the selling of the Apollo program.  Primed by science fiction, magazine articles, and appearances by Wernher von Braun on the “Tomorrowland” segments of the Disneyland prime time television show, Americans were a receptive audience for NASA's pioneering “brand journalism.” Scott and Jurek describe sophisticated efforts by NASA and its many contractors to market the facts about space travel—through press releases, bylined articles, lavishly detailed background materials, and fully produced radio and television features—rather than push an agenda. American astronauts, who signed exclusive agreements with Life magazine, became the heroic and patriotic faces of the program. And there was some judicious product placement: Hasselblad was the “first camera on the moon”; Sony cassette recorders and supplies of Tang were on board the capsule; and astronauts were equipped with the Exer-Genie personal exerciser. Everyone wanted a place on the bandwagon. Generously illustrated with vintage photographs, artwork, and advertisements, many never published before, Marketing the Moon shows that when Neil Armstrong took that giant leap for mankind, it was a triumph not just for American engineering and rocketry but for American marketing and public relations....more

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• 202: Marketing the Moon: 3of4:The Selling of the Apollo Lunar Program (The MIT Press) Hardcover – February 28, 2014

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  Jul 18 2020

  (Photo: English: Following the crash of a sister Lunar Landing Training Vehicle at Ellington Field in Houston, Texas, the Bell LLTV (NASA 952) was sent from Houston to Langley for tests in the 30 x 60 Full Scale Tunnel. The LLTV was returned to Houston for further training use a short time later. NASA 952 is now on exhibit at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.Date | 16 January 1969Source | Great Images in NASA DescriptionAuthor | NASA)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShow Marketing the Moon: 3of4:The Selling of the Apollo Lunar Program (The MIT Press) Hardcover – February 28, 2014 https://www.amazon.com/Marketing-Moon-Selling-Apollo-Program/dp/0262026961One of the most successful public relations campaigns in history, featuring heroic astronauts, press-savvy rocket scientists, enthusiastic reporters, deep-pocketed defense contractors, and Tang. In July 1969, ninety-four percent of American televisions were tuned to coverage of Apollo 11's mission to the moon. How did space exploration, once the purview of rocket scientists, reach a larger audience than My Three Sons? Why did a government program whose standard operating procedure had been secrecy turn its greatest achievement into a communal experience? InMarketing the Moon, David Meerman Scott and Richard Jurek tell the story of one of the most successful marketing and public relations campaigns in history: the selling of the Apollo program.  Primed by science fiction, magazine articles, and appearances by Wernher von Braun on the “Tomorrowland” segments of the Disneyland prime time television show, Americans were a receptive audience for NASA's pioneering “brand journalism.” Scott and Jurek describe sophisticated efforts by NASA and its many contractors to market the facts about space travel—through press releases, bylined articles, lavishly detailed background materials, and fully produced radio and television features—rather than push an agenda. American astronauts, who signed exclusive agreements with Life magazine, became the heroic and patriotic faces of the program. And there was some judicious product placement: Hasselblad was the “first camera on the moon”; Sony cassette recorders and supplies of Tang were on board the capsule; and astronauts were equipped with the Exer-Genie personal exerciser. Everyone wanted a place on the bandwagon. Generously illustrated with vintage photographs, artwork, and advertisements, many never published before, Marketing the Moon shows that when Neil Armstrong took that giant leap for mankind, it was a triumph not just for American engineering and rocketry but for American marketing and public relations....more

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• 202: Marketing the Moon: 2of4:The Selling of the Apollo Lunar Program (The MIT Press) Hardcover – February 28, 2014

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  Jul 18 2020

  (Photo:President John F. Kennedy is briefed on the operation of Mercury Control Center at Cape Canaveral following the Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) flight. This was President Kennedy's first visit to Cape Canaveral. MA-6 astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr. (partially obscured) piloted the Mercury "Friendship 7" spacecraft on the United States' first human orbital flight. In the center (on Glenn's left) is Christopher C. Kraft, Jr., MA-6 flight director and Chief of Flight Operations at the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC). The MA-6 flight was on February 20, 1962. Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr. (right), pilot of the Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) mission, made the United States' first manned space flight on May 5, 1961. Image Credit: NASA Last Updated: July 22, 2019Editor: Sarah Loff )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShow Marketing the Moon: 2of4:The Selling of the Apollo Lunar Program (The MIT Press) Hardcover – February 28, 2014 https://www.amazon.com/Marketing-Moon-Selling-Apollo-Program/dp/0262026961One of the most successful public relations campaigns in history, featuring heroic astronauts, press-savvy rocket scientists, enthusiastic reporters, deep-pocketed defense contractors, and Tang. In July 1969, ninety-four percent of American televisions were tuned to coverage of Apollo 11's mission to the moon. How did space exploration, once the purview of rocket scientists, reach a larger audience than My Three Sons? Why did a government program whose standard operating procedure had been secrecy turn its greatest achievement into a communal experience? InMarketing the Moon, David Meerman Scott and Richard Jurek tell the story of one of the most successful marketing and public relations campaigns in history: the selling of the Apollo program.  Primed by science fiction, magazine articles, and appearances by Wernher von Braun on the “Tomorrowland” segments of the Disneyland prime time television show, Americans were a receptive audience for NASA's pioneering “brand journalism.” Scott and Jurek describe sophisticated efforts by NASA and its many contractors to market the facts about space travel—through press releases, bylined articles, lavishly detailed background materials, and fully produced radio and television features—rather than push an agenda. American astronauts, who signed exclusive agreements with Life magazine, became the heroic and patriotic faces of the program. And there was some judicious product placement: Hasselblad was the “first camera on the moon”; Sony cassette recorders and supplies of Tang were on board the capsule; and astronauts were equipped with the Exer-Genie personal exerciser. Everyone wanted a place on the bandwagon. Generously illustrated with vintage photographs, artwork, and advertisements, many never published before, Marketing the Moon shows that when Neil Armstrong took that giant leap for mankind, it was a triumph not just for American engineering and rocketry but for American marketing and public relations....more

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• 202: Marketing the Moon: 1of4:The Selling of the Apollo Lunar Program (The MIT Press) Hardcover – February 28, 2014

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  Jul 18 2020

  (Photo:n early 1962, preparations were under way for John Glenn's flight as the first American to orbit the Earth. He decided to name his Mercury spacecraft "Friendship 7." The script art for Glenn's Mercury capsule was developed by Cecelia Bibby, an artist employed by NASA contractor Chrysler Aerospace. After selecting the name, Glenn insisted the individual who developed the artwork personally apply the paint, meaning that Bibby would need to hand paint the name on the spacecraft as it stood atop an Atlas rocket enclosed in the gantry at Cape Canaveral's Launch Pad 14. Bibby's supervisor initially objected to her painting the name since women rarely, if ever, went up the launch pad towers. Glenn insisted and Bibby was allowed to apply the historic name to the Mercury 6 spacecraft. She later painted the names on Scott Carpenter's Aurora 7 and Wally Schirra's Sigma 7. In this photo, Bibby is wearing coveralls for McDonnell Aircraft, the Mercury spacecraft's prime contractor, and painting Friendship 7 on NASA astronaut John Glenn's Mercury spacecraft. Image Credit: NASA )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShow Marketing the Moon: 1of4:The Selling of the Apollo Lunar Program (The MIT Press) Hardcover – February 28, 2014 https://www.amazon.com/Marketing-Moon-Selling-Apollo-Program/dp/0262026961One of the most successful public relations campaigns in history, featuring heroic astronauts, press-savvy rocket scientists, enthusiastic reporters, deep-pocketed defense contractors, and Tang. In July 1969, ninety-four percent of American televisions were tuned to coverage of Apollo 11's mission to the moon. How did space exploration, once the purview of rocket scientists, reach a larger audience than My Three Sons? Why did a government program whose standard operating procedure had been secrecy turn its greatest achievement into a communal experience? InMarketing the Moon, David Meerman Scott and Richard Jurek tell the story of one of the most successful marketing and public relations campaigns in history: the selling of the Apollo program.  Primed by science fiction, magazine articles, and appearances by Wernher von Braun on the “Tomorrowland” segments of the Disneyland prime time television show, Americans were a receptive audience for NASA's pioneering “brand journalism.” Scott and Jurek describe sophisticated efforts by NASA and its many contractors to market the facts about space travel—through press releases, bylined articles, lavishly detailed background materials, and fully produced radio and television features—rather than push an agenda. American astronauts, who signed exclusive agreements with Life magazine, became the heroic and patriotic faces of the program. And there was some judicious product placement: Hasselblad was the “first camera on the moon”; Sony cassette recorders and supplies of Tang were on board the capsule; and astronauts were equipped with the Exer-Genie personal exerciser. Everyone wanted a place on the bandwagon. Generously illustrated with vintage photographs, artwork, and advertisements, many never published before, Marketing the Moon shows that when Neil Armstrong took that giant leap for mankind, it was a triumph not just for American engineering and rocketry but for American marketing and public relations....more

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• 201: Panama Canal Zone at an extreme risk of failed state of kleptocrats. @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion

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  Jul 17 2020

  (Photo: The Culebra Cut, or Gaillard Cut, in 1896Unknown author - archive.org Panama, Past and Present by Bishop, Farnham - Publisher: New York, The Century Co. Universal Interoceanic Canal Company at the foot of the Gold Hill in the Culebra Cut 1896. Inadequate machinery, such as the tiny dump cars and the Small Belgian Locomotive Shown here contributed to the failure of the French in the valiant effort to link the Atlantic and the pacific. This photo of an old bucket excavator at work in Culebra Cut at the foot of Gold Hill was made in 1896. Permission details This image might not be in the public domain outside of the United States; this especially applies in the countries and areas that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works, such as Canada, Mainland China (not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany, Mexico, and Switzerland. The creator and year of publication are essential information and must be provided. See Wikipedia:Public domain and Wikipedia:Copyrights for more details.View more Public Domainview terms File:125-French method of excavation in Culebra Cut.jpg Created: 1 January 1896 )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowPanama Canal Zone at an extreme risk of failed state of kleptocrats. @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion"Democracies rarely survive such abuses if they are allowed to go unchecked."https://www.wsj.com/articles/panamas-free-press-under-siege-11594578741 ...more

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• 200: The New Ottoman Empire reconquers Christianity's fifteen century-long prize, Hagia Sophia. Bruce Thornton @HooverInst @FrontpageMag

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  Jul 17 2020

  (Photo: English: Map from the Nuremberg chronicle (1493). It can be distinguished the column of Justinian in front of Hagia Sophia, next to the column is possibly the Arslan hane (butit could also be the church of St. John the Evangelist at Dihippion: the inscription above the church says "JOHIS BAPTE.", that is, St. John the Baptist).Date | 18 May 2012Source | http://eistinpolin330.blogspot.com/2011/03/arslanhane.htmlAuthor | Unknown (Nuremberg Chronicle, about 1500))http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe New Ottoman Empire reconquers Christianity's fifteen century-long prize, Hagia Sophia. Bruce Thornton @HooverInst @FrontpageMaghttps://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/07/turkeys-new-mosque-monument-western-decline-bruce-thornton/?utm_source=Hoover+Daily+Report&amp;utm_campaign=7e65066775-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_13_06_37&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_21b1edff3c-7e65066775-72527561 ...more

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• 200: The Super Super Croesus Rich of California are the essential state treasury. @JohnTamny @RealClearMarkets

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  Jul 17 2020

  (Photo: The Wedding of Stephen Beckingham and Mary Cox, 1729 William Hogarth - Metropolitan Museum of Art, online collection (accession number 36.111) Public Domain File:Wedding of Stephen Beckingham and Mary Cox, 1729 by William Hogarth.jpg Created: 1729date QS:P571,+1729-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Super Super Croesus Rich of California are the essential state treasury. @JohnTamny @RealClearMarkets  To be clear, there shouldn’t be federal bailouts of cities and states. Those led by individuals so obtuse as to fight a virus with economic desperation deserve to face up to their reduced revenue fate without extra money to waste. Still, conservatives triggered by the mere mention of California can't have it both ways. If it’s true as they regularly point out about the top 1 percent being fleeced for 40%+ of federal revenues, and they do, then let’s end the nonsensical talk about “Americans” paying for suicidal economic errors made in California. More than most want to admit, California’s economy very much is the federal budget. For the feds to bail out California is in many ways for California to bail out California. The opinion piece can be found here.https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2020/07/13/tax_cuts_trigger_dopey_liberals_california_triggers_conservatives_498837.html ...more

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• 199: The "conspicuously fatuous" anti-Trump intellectuals become "progressively more outrageous." @ConradMBlack @TheAmGreatness

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  Jul 17 2020

  (Photo:William HogarthEnglish: Arrested for Debt — A Rake's Progress series Deutsch: Gemäldefolge »Der Lebensweg eines Wüstlings«, Szene: Die Verhaftung wegen Diebstahls )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe "conspicuously fatuous" anti-Trump intellectuals become "progressively more outrageous." @ConradMBlack @TheAmGreatness

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• 199: Considering Beijing Biden. @SebGorka #AmericaFirst

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  Jul 17 2020

  (Photo: An artist's view of an Ottoman opium sellerF. W. Topham (London: E. Bell, c. 1850) - Scan from the original engraving An imaginary view of an Ottoman opium seller. Public Domain File:The Opium Seller (W. Müller).jpg Created: circa 1850 date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowConsidering Beijing Biden.  @SebGorka #AmericaFirsthttps://apnews.com/f160b6dd3b6bb73bfa5556ec9348edfd ...more

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• 199: Denouncing the NYT Denouncers. @SebGorka #AmericaFirst

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  Jul 17 2020

  (Photo:The Assembly at Wanstead House. Earl Tylney and family in foregroundView author information Public Domain File:HogarthWanstead.jpg Uploaded: 2016-01-07 13:20:02 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Denouncing of the Denouncers of the NYT Denouncer. @SebGorka #AmericaFirst https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2020/reactions-bari-weiss-resignation-from-new-york-times-just-keep-coming/

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• 198: EU and Amnesty Intl continue end-runs to support anti-Israel enterprises. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_Pres

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  Jul 17 2020

  Image:  Map of Ottoman Palestine showing the Kaza subdivisions. Malcolm Hoenlein, in re:   Hamas round-up to break a ring of defectors.  The billions of dollars going into Gaza supposedly for the people has become a massive embezzlement scheme; alternative charities, money stole by foundation directors  with dummy corporations.  Money comes from Paris, goes to Middle East, then back to Paris. EU investing in Area C, in West Bank, under Israeli control. Agreed to bld 16 infrastructure projects, illegally and without approval, to surround and isolate Jewish communities there.  Amnesty Intl is cross with Morocco:  Amnesty’s alleged corruption; it claimed that an Israeli company should have its export license closed because it was spying on Amnesty—which turned out to be entirely bogus. Poisoning minds.   Tunisian politics, which began the Arab Spring, has deep a ideological split. Public deficit and debt; fiscal problems; economy shrank by 6%. ...more

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• 198: US holds firm to extending embago against Ian’s nukes. Brian Hook @StateDept

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  Jul 17 2020

  Image:  Persian Immortals, as portrayed during the 2,500-year celebrations of Persia. Public domain. Brian Hook, in re: Iran, Venezuela, Natanz. Will the US enforce the embargo no matter what?  On Oct 18 the arms embargo expires, one of many failings of the Iran deal, allowing fighter jets, subs, missiles up to 300 km, leading to a regional arms growth.   Saudi, UAE, Bahrain, Israel, are the frontline.  All four strongly favor a continuation of the embargo; Supreme Leader again called on [death for Jews].  Committed to the destruction of the US and Israel. Reportedly $400 bil in Chinese investment in Iran for 25 years; but the sum is highly doubtful.  Iranian people are suspicious of a shadowy deal inked by a tyrannical regime.  Ayatollahs urgently need capital, even while China has well over a million Uyghur Muslim in concentration camps.   I share an office wall with Elliot Abrams on the seventh floor.  Ran shipping oil to Venezuela; two pariah states, both run by brute fore and having economies in the tank. Five ships did make it to Caracas from Iran, but four did not. We’re driving up costs and disrupting.  Arrest of Saab: a Justice Dept matter.  We’re seeing greater domestic unrest in Iran.  Now 236,000 Iranian rials to a dollar. Libya, Iran and Venezuela are the three at the bottom of the IMF list of economies.  Iran’s kleptocracy; world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism and anti-Semitism.  Azerbaijani protestors after the Armenian clashes. Water cannon and tear gas; deaths.  Possibilities of military options anent Iran: President Trump is committee to Iran’s never getting a nuclear weapon.  (What would that look like? North Korea.)  Choice of guns on Damascus  or butter in Iran.   No country in the world wants Iran to have a nuclear weapon.   Brian Hook is the U.S. Special Representative for Iran and Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary of State. Prior to this appointment, he served as Director of the Policy Planning Staff from 2017–2018. From 2009–2017, he managed an international strategic consulting firm based in Washington, DC.  Mr. Hook held a number of senior positions in the Bush Administration, including Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations; Senior Advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; Special Assistant to the President for Policy in the White House Chief of Staff’s office; and Counsel, Office of Legal Policy, at the Justice Department. https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-envoy-says-white-house-would-use-military-against-iranian-nuclear-program/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/us-moves-to-seize-iranian-petroleum-aboard-four-tankers-bound-for-venezuela-in-sanctions-escalation-push-to-extend-arms-embargo/2020/07/02/70ae590a-bad1-11ea-bdaf-a129f921026f_story.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/world/middleeast/iran-nuclear-trump.html  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..   ...more

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• 198: Beijing extends tentacles into Iran; the economically halt and lame embrace. @ilanberman

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  Jul 17 2020

  Image:  Abbas the Great, the most powerful king of the Safavid dynasty Ilan Berman, in re: Explosions and fires unexplained across the predatory regime of Iran. An actor not taking credit.  Odds are in favor of the sabotage campaign being from the Israeli government. Bushehr ships?  A fascinating wrinkle; plausible.  Indigenously developed hacks: of Iranians’s hacking their own government.  Big news that Iran has been steadily drawing closer to China over the last four years; framework accord for a quarter-century of close contact, incl military.  Iran now has a steady oil purchaser.   1.  The Iranian regime is seriously rickety; looking for a great-power sponsor.  2 Both China and Iran are counting on a change of US president in 2020.   3. Chinese have been making a major play to expand their influence in the Middle East—planting a flag in Iran is very significant. Global disaffection for China; glaring: Britain leaving Huawei, so China is having trouble insinuating itself; can [control] Iranian oil industry while China desperately needs power for its weakening economy.   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 the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency as well as the U.S. Departments of State and Defense, and has also provided assistance on foreign policy and national security issues to a range of governmental agencies and congressional offices. ●        https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/07/iran-turns-to-china-shift-to-east-strategy-against-united-states/ ●        https://www.ynetnews.com/article/Skcqk0Hyv ●        https://www.timesofisrael.com/china-strategic-accord-could-give-iran-400-billion-boost-up-military-ties/ ...more

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• 198: Uncovered: 28 new Hezbollah launch sites Lt-Col Sarit Zehavi @Israel_Alma_org

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  Jul 17 2020

  Image:  Christian refugees during the 1860 strife between Druze and Maronites in Lebanon.  Lt-Col Sarit Zehavi, in re: Huge fall of the Lebanese pound.  Lebanese suffering hard conditions from corrupted system, Hezbollah taking over he country; none of this has harmed Hezbollah’s military ability, and it controls the government more than ever before. Has 10,000 missiles in Lebanon; upgrade has occurred. Were the missiles to hit Israel, that’d be catastrophic for Beirut; does anyone consider this? Yes.  But interested in drawing attention away from domestic problems.  Lieutenant Colonel Sarit Zehavi is the Founder and CEO of Alma research and education center, a nonprofit and an independent research and education center specialized in Israel’s security challenges on its northern border. Lt. Colonel Zehavi served for 15 years in the Israeli Defense Forces, specializing in military intelligence. Lt. Colonel Zehavi holds an M.A. in Middle East Studies from Ben-Gurion University.        https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/israeli-research-center-finds-28-new-hezbollah-missile-launch-sites-634911      https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/middle-east/1594830030-rocked-by-mounting-financial-crisis-lebanon-eyes-chinese-invesment?        https://www.jpost.com/opinion/lebanon-protests-increase-possibility-of-hezbollah-attack-against-israel-633236 ...more

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• 197: Unprecedented low interest rates are not forever. Veronique de Rugy, Senior Research Fellow@ Mercatus Center @veroderugy

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  Jul 17 2020

  Image:   A new way to pay the National Debt, James Gillray, 1786. King George III, with William Pitt handing him another moneybag.  Public domain.Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus Center, in re: Thirty-year mortgage under 3% for the first time ever. Did the Federal Reserve create this? Will it be permanent?  No; but it’s a great moment to accumulate debt.  This is a perfect environment in which to cut spending, but both parties [rush headlong into increasing debt].   A permanent debt crisis. We’ll slow even more with a $7 trillion debt.   https://www.wsj.com/articles/30-year-mortgage-rate-reaches-lowest-level-ever-2-98-11594908357?mod=hp_lead_pos2 ...more

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• 197: The American shopper (shoes, chocolates, cars, second homes) leads the V-shaped recovery. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Public Affairs. @TreasurySpox & @MonicaCrowley @USTreasury

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  Jul 17 2020

  Image:  "Traités nouveaux & curieux du café du thé et du chocolate," by Philippe Sylvestre Dufour, 1685.  Public domain. Monica Crowley, Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs for the U.S. Department of the Treasury; in re: Economists continually underestimate the ability of the country to recover. When they allowed us out, we shopped.    Chart on retail sales was steady pre-Covid; then decline; now: a dramatic increase. Looks like a V-shaped consumer and retail-sales recovery.  Double-digit increase—and car sales rose 8.2% in June. Gasoline; bars &amp; restaurants, spending, all increased.  All the stores boarded up after the June disorders are open again except Victoria’s Secret.  Washington is slightly ahead of New York City in re-opening.  People who’ve been pent up and cooped up are eager to get out. Rural America: life goes on as normal except everyone wears a mask. A chocolate store on 35 St is open again.  People are investing in homes; Dutchess County horse estates are putting up SOLD signs. Migration to exurban and rural areas.  Some parts of the economy are still suffering—the reason for PPP, enhanced unemployment insurance, many programs stood up in record time to get people through this challenging time.  Unprecedented times.  We’re committed to seeing that every American get a job.  Payroll tax holiday or tax cut considered. https://www.wsj.com/articles/us-retail-sales-report-data-june-2020-11594846181?mod=hp_lista_pos3   ...more

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• 197: What is POTUS To-Do List for the Second Term? @VDHanson @HooverInst

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  Jul 17 2020

  Image:  Defensive wall: The Porta Nigra of Trier, Germany, capital of the Roman province of Gallia Belgica, constructed between 186 and 200 AD.  Public domain. Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover, in re: The wall.  A representation of defending the United Stats; American sovereignty. He’s completed 215 miles, envisions 400-plus by the end of the year. If he serves a second tem, he’ll finish the 1,200 miles. Each mile completed fees up a large complement of border security guards. I live in a Mexican-American area; everybody is poor; they all want the wall.  The second matter: the economy was booming, now the president must restore it, or at least show that it’s ascendant. This weak he started to.  Restoration 2021: China will do this again, We need to have a natl plan on how to deal with this. Also, the $30 trillion debt.  The root of a lot of the current troubles is the universities; I think he’ll have to tax endowments, If they can't honor free speech, they should lose their federal funding. Also: highways, dams, bridges all need repair. Four states have almost 50% of the population; need to spread out [more evenly].    https://amgreatness.com/2020/07/12/trump-needs-to-scale-the-real-wall-of-2020/ ...more

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• 197: Are the Democrats climbing the steps to Dr. Guillotine? @VDHanson @HooverInst

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  Jul 17 2020

  Image:  17th-century engraving of a guillotine. Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover 7 National Review, in re: Peak Jacobinism. Peak me-tooism with Brett Kavanaugh. Denunciations of the 153 Harper’s signatories.  We learn from the letter: careerism; the Internet mob;  effort to take out a well-known person and thereby elevate their own status.  Let homeless take over parks, defund police, crash statues; shut down 911. A demand letter directed at Princeton University:  wanted a faculty-student committee of public safety, unaccountable to anyone. The administration caved in and didn't even object. Also: review hiring, firing, language, lecture.  It's not even class-driven; it’s race-driven. Demand race quotas, theme houses, safe spaces, rec centers, all based on race.  Forget Dr Martin Luther King. Why aren’t the adults in charge pushing back? One: hatred of Donald Trump, so this movement creates chaos and anarchy against Trump; two, these people have cushy jobs, will do anything to prevent people coming to my home and screaming at me.  Cowardly.  https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/07/peak-jacobinism/ ...more

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• 196: Farewell TikTok: India bans 59 untrusted PRC apps and the US considers same. @CleoPaskal @FDD @GordonGChang

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  Jul 17 2020

  (Photo: "The Prince of Wales on the Road to the Temple of Parbuttee, near Poonah"*, 1876between 1846 and 1899 Source | http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/dailylife_drawings/ilnviews/ilnviews.htmlAuthor | Views from the ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS and The Graphic (some with later hand coloring, all from ebay auctions):)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowFarewell TikTok: India bans 59 untrusted PRC apps and the US considers same. @CleoPaskal @FDD @GordonGChanghttps://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/international-business/follow-indias-lead-to-ban-tiktok-us-congress-members-urge-trump/articleshow/76995090.cms ...more

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• 195: Boris Johnson's government discards untrusted Huawei. @WeTheBrandon Brandon Weichert, Weichert Report. @GordonGChang

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  (Photo:Image taken from: Title: "[Memorials of the Tower of London ... With illustrations.]" Author: DE ROS, William Lennox Lascelles Fitzgerald - Baron De Ros Shelfmark: "British Library HMNTS 010349.f.43." Page: 132 Place of Publishing: London Date of Publishing: 1867Publisher: John Murray Edition: New edition, with additions. Issuance: monographic Identifier: 000915282 Explore: Image taken from page 132 of '[Memorials of the Tower of London ... With illustrations.]'Author | The British LibraryPermission(Reusing this file) | The British Library @ Flickr Commons )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowBoris Johnson's government discards untrusted Huawei. @WeTheBrandon Brandon Weichert, Weichert Report. @GordonGChang https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-huawei/uk-to-purge-huawei-from-5g-by-end-of-2027-siding-with-trump-over-china-idUSKCN24E30P ...more

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• 195: Casualties of war escalate along the Azerbaijan-Armenia international border. @ElinSuleymanov @azembassyus @ProfBShaffer @FDD

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  (Photo:Title: "The Prophet of the Caucasus: an historical romance of Krim-Tatary" Author(s): Spencer, Edmund, captain [person] British Library shelfmark: "Digital Store 12620.b.52" Page: 158 (scanned page number - not necessarily the actual page number in the publication) Place of publication: London (England) Date of publication: 1854 Publisher: G. Routledge Edition: Another edition, The Fall of the Crimea Type of resource: Monograph Language(s): English Physical description: iv, 500 pages (8°)  Explore this item in the British Library’s catalogue:  003460207 (physical copy) and 014829955 (digitised copy) The British Library community is able to flourish online thanks to freely available resources such as this. )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowCasualties of war escalate along the Azerbaijan-Armenia international border. @ElinSuleymanov @azembassyus @ProfBShaffer @FDD https://www.aa.com.tr/en/world/1-more-azerbaijani-soldier-martyred-by-armenian-army/1913056 ...more

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• 194: Exiting the uncivil Twitter. @SalenaZito SalenaZito.com

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  (Photo:Gustave Doré's illustration to Dante's Inferno. Plate VIII: Canto III: The gate of Hell. "Abandon all hope ye who enter here"Date | Originally 1857Source | Dante's Divine Comedy: Hell - Purgatory - Paradise. Illustrations by Gustave Doré, Translation by Henry W. Longfellow, Published by Arcturus Books, 2007.Author | Gustave Doré (1832 – 1883) )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowExiting the uncivil Twitter. @SalenaZito SalenaZito.com ...more

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• 194: Persecuting religious freedom in America. @SalenaZito on PARLER

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  Image:  Front of Old Homestead, located off Gilmore Road northwest of Enon Valley in Little Beaver Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, United States. Built in the Federal style in 1824, the house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Public domain. Salena Zito @SalenaZito on PARLER, CNN, New York Post, et al.; in re: White clapboard Baptist church in Pennsylvania; serving since 1848. Enon in Western PA. Counties: Washington, Greene.  Parishioners were from Wales, unwilling to join the Church of England.   ...more

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• 193: State of the City, the State, the Union: NYPD Chief Terry Monahan assaulted at a "Defund the Police" rally & What is to be done? John Catsimatidis, @JCats13 @CatsRoundtable

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  (Photo:Image from page 237 of "Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time, comprising the development of social instititions and the story of a Identifier: ridpathshistoryo07ridp Title: Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time, comprising the development of social instititions and the story of all nations Year: 1907 (1900s) Authors:  Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900 Subjects:  World history Publisher:  Cincinnati, Ohio : Jones Brothers Contributing Library:  University of California Libraries  Text Appearing Before Image:aracter across the Ohio Kiver, be-tween Cincinnati and Covington. The latterstructure, at the time of its erection, was by athousand feet the longest of the kind in theworld. The younger Roebling inherited muchof his fathers genius, and added a genius of hisown. The construction of the bridge overEast River could not have been put into handsmore capable if all nations had been exploredfor engineers. William C. Kingsley, President of the Bridge-Trustees; and his predecessor in that office,Henry C. Murphy. The first plans and es-timates were prepared in 1865. The com-pany for the construction was organized two-years afterwards. The capital was fixed at$5,000,000. The enterprise was not pressedwith due vigor until 1875, when the workwas taken up by the State of New York. ABoard of Managers was appointed to bringthe bridge to completion at as early a date aspossible. Congress also patronized the enter-prise by an act of June, 1869, authorizing theconstruction. The formal opening in May of )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShow State of the City, the State, the Union: NYPD Chief of the NYPD Terry Monahan assaulted at a "Defund the Police" rally &amp; What is to be done?  John Catsimatidis, @JCats13 @CatsRoundtable https://abc7ny.com/protesters-clash-with-nypd-defund-the-police-encampment-officer-injured/6318496/ ...more

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• 192: Delays and cost overruns at Europa Clipper. Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com

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  Image:  Jupiter’s south pole (Juno; 2017). NASA.  Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com, in re: Delays and cost overruns at Europa Clipper.

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• 192: Slowdown and hat in hand at Roscosmos. Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com

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  Image: The Baraba steppe as seen from the window of the Trans-Siberian railway.  Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com, in re: Slowdown and hat in hand at Roscosmos.   

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• 192: "Mr. President": 4of4: George Washington and the Making of the Nation's Highest Office Kindle Edition. by Harlow Giles Unger (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  (Photo:Published: N.Y. : Bencke & ScottTitle | The reception of Lafayette at Mount Vernon, home of WashingtonDescription | The print showing George Washington welcoming Marquis de Lafayette to his home at Mount Vernon; Martha Washington and others are on the right.Date | circa 1875 Medium | chromolithograph )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShow "Mr. President": 4of4: George Washington and the Making of the Nation's Highest Office Kindle Edition.  by Harlow Giles Unger (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Mr-President-Washington-Nations-Highest-ebook/dp/B01DPSCUIS/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=Although the framers gave the president little authority, George Washington knew whatever he did would set precedents for generations of future leaders. To ensure their ability to defend the nation, he simply ignored the Constitution when he thought it necessary.In a revealing new look at the birth of American government, “Mr. President”describes Washington's presidency in a time of continual crisis, as rebellion and attacks by foreign enemies threatened to destroy this new nation. Constantly weighing preservation of the Union against preservation of individual liberties and states' rights, Washington assumed more power with each crisis. In a series of brilliant but unconstitutional maneuvers he forced Congress to cede control of the four pillars of executive power: war, finance, foreign affairs, and law enforcement.Drawing on rare documents and letters, Unger shows how Washington combined political cunning and sheer genius to seize ever-widening powers, impose law and order while ensuring individual freedom, and shape the office of President of the United States....more

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