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• 477: State of the City, the State, the Union: The inadequacy of New York's Mayor DeBlasio and What is to be done? John Catsimatidis @JCats2013 @CatsRoundtable @JohnCats

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  Sep 24 2020

  Photo:1900 Flag-making, Brooklyn Navy Yard  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow State of the City, the State, the Union: The inadequacy of New York's Mayor DeBlasio and What is to be done? John Catsimatidis @JCats2013 @CatsRoundtable @JohnCats https://nypost.com/2020/09/22/3-reasons-nyc-is-stuck-with-de-blasios-incompetence-goodwin/

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• 480: Whither the markets? @BrettArends ROI @Marketwatch,

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  Sep 24 2020

  Image:  The trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in 2008. Brett Arends, @BrettArends ROI @Marketwatch, Market Watch, in re: The markets in their current state. https://www.thestreet.com/video/market-correction-growth-v-value ..  ..  ..  

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• 479: Does China fear that Trump will win the election? @AlanTonelson @USBIC1

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  Sep 24 2020

  Image: 1904 Royal Prince Pu Lun, future emperor of China, guest of Indianapolis, Ind., week of May 17th, 1904  Alan Tonelson, @AlanTonelson   @USBIC1, independent economic policy analyst who blogs at RealityChek and tweets at @AlanTonelson, and Gordon Chang, Daily Beast, in re: Crude oil, 9000,000 Bbl/day. Forbes author, Dan Eberhart, is CEO of a major O&G from: China has decided to step up crude oil purchases from the US to show Trump that China is trying to keep the terms of the January agreement.  Suggests that China fears that Trump will win the election.  Chose crude oil: LNG purchases have lagged, but even as the world is awash in crude oil, so this is an especially strong signal from China in an effort to stay on President Trump’s good side.  In WWII, Japan couldn’t protect sea routes to oil; similar to China’s current situation, as China eels strikingly vulnerable.  Other major fears: inadequate food and water. (Much of its limited water is heavily polluted.)  https://www.forbes.com/sites/daneberhart/2020/09/20/china-increases-imports-of-us-oil-ahead-of-november-election/#2fbceaac48cc ...more

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• 479: Xi dares the world to confront China on its crimes against humanity. Charles Burton, @cburton001

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  Sep 24 2020

  Image:  Early photo of a typical man in the Turkestan province/region. Tipy narodnostei turkestanskago kraia. Indieitsy: MarvaridCharles Burton, @cburton001,  senior Fellow at the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, on China and the UN, and Gordon Chang, Daily Beast, in re:   . . .  Placing CCP cadres in strategic positions in the UN to cripple nations holding to democratic principles.  Xi is basically daring the world to confront China on its crimes against humanity.  Trump said: The world must hold China accountable.  Indications that [even] the Trudeau govt is concerned about its Chinese alliances and domestic policies. [Note: Trudeau has a lifelong past of favoring China, including the Chinese Communist Party.] Canadian public opinion favors [protecting Canada from China].  There are 300,000 Canadian citizens resident in Hong Kong.   https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202009/22/WS5f692dd8a31024ad0ba7ae01.html..  ..  ..   ...more

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• 479: Keep Nine Amendment: “The Supreme Court shall be composed of nine Justices.” Roman Buhler

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  Sep 24 2020

  Image:   Entering House Chamber Room, Supreme Court Clerk of the Supreme Court Charles B. Cropley with Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles E. Hughes & James McReynolds. Directly behind Hughes is Pierce Butler. Joining 150th Congress ceremonies Roman Buhler, Coalition to Preserve and Independent Supreme Court, in re: Court-packing.  FDR’s attempt; totally failed.  The Keep Nine Amendment: “The Supreme Court shall be composed of nine Justices.” Our goal is to stay focussed on keeping an independent Court.    keepnine.org      The Keep Nine Amendment, an effort to unite Americans across party lines. ...more

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• 478: Pricing Biden 46 or Trump 45? @BrettArends ROI @Marketwatch,

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  Sep 24 2020

  Image:  1929 The New York curb market telephone clerk calling one of the members on the floor.Photograph shows a young man on the telephone waving a note.J0923 U.S. Copyright Office.Copyright 1929 by Jack Sussman.Photo by Jack Sussman Features, New York City.Title from item. Pricing Biden 46 or Trump 45?   @BrettArends ROI @Marketwatch,e. https://www.thestreet.com/video/market-correction-growth-v-value

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• 477: Discoveries that Bennu and Ryugu are the blend of many asteroids over the Solar System's ages. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Sep 24 2020

  Photo:This 3D image was obtained as Dawn approached Vesta and circled the giant asteroid during the mission survey orbit phase. You need 3D glasses to view this image.NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowDiscoveries that Bennu and Ryugu are the blend of many asteroids over the Solar System's ages.  Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/ryugu-like-bennu-appears-to-have-rocks-from-other-asteroids/ ...more

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• 477: Artemis around the Moon waits on the Democrats. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Sep 24 2020

  Photo:Description: Apollo 8,Moon,Colombo and Target of Opportunity (T/O) 72, McClure crater cluster. Latitude 10.75 degrees South,Longitude  44.75 degrees East. Camera Tilt Mode: Low Oblique. Direction: South. Sun Angle: 12. Original Film Magazine was labeled E. Camera Data: 70mm Hasselblad; F-Stop: F/5.6; Shutter Speed: 1/250 second. Film Type: Kodak SO-3400 Black and White,ASA 40. Other Photographic Coverage: Lunar Orbiter 4 (LO IV) 60,65. Flight Date: December  21-27,1968.A http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowArtemis around the Moon waits on the Democrats. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatnesshttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-lays-out-artemis-budget-and-plan-to-get-astronauts-to-moon/ ...more

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• 477: Talking about the resourceful Hunter Biden in Moscow. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Sep 24 2020

  Photo:1890 Gezicht op de Ostankinokerk in Moskou  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowTalking about the resourceful Hunter Biden in Moscow. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatnesshttps://thefederalist.com/2020/09/23/hunter-biden-took-3-5-million-from-ex-moscow-mayors-wife/

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• 477: Joe Biden chooses not to answer the court-packing threat. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Sep 24 2020

  Photo: 1930 U.S. Supreme Court. Front facade of U.S. Supreme Court under construction, from street II http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowJoe Biden chooses not to answer the court-packing threat. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatnesshttps://www.nationalreview.com/2020/09/biden-wont-answer-court-packing-question/

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• 476: 4/4 Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? by Karen Dawisha

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  Sep 24 2020

  Image:  On 7 October 2006, the Russian journalist, writer and human rights activist Anna Politkovskaya (born 1958) was shot dead in the elevator of her apartment block in central Moscow. She was known for her opposition to the Chechen conflict and for criticism of Vladimir Putin.  Here:  grave of Anna Politkovskaya at the Troyekurovskoye Cemetery in MoscowPutin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?  by Karen Dawisha  A raging question in the world today is, who is the real Vladimir Putin and what are his intentions? Karen Dawisha’s brilliant Putin’s Kleptocracy provides an answer, describing how Putin got to power, the cabal he brought with him, the billions they have looted, and his plan to restore the Greater Russia. The Russian scholar Dawisha describes and exposes the origins of Putin’s kleptocratic regime. She presents extensive new evidence about Putin circle’s use of public positions for personal gain even before Putin became president in 2000. She documents the establishment of Bank Rossiya, now sanctioned by the US; the rise of the Ozero cooperative, founded by Putin and others who are now subject to visa bans and asset freezes; the links between Putin, Petromed, and “Putin’s Palace” near Sochi; and the role of security officials from Putin’s KGB days in Leningrad and Dresden, many of whom have maintained their contacts with Russian organized crime. Putin’s Kleptocracy is the result of years of research into the KGB and the various Russian crime syndicates. Dawisha’s sources include Stasi archives; Russian insiders; investigative journalists in the US, Britain, Germany, Finland, France, and Italy; and Western officials who served in Moscow. Russian journalists wrote part of this story when the Russian media was still free. “Many of them died for this story, and their work has largely been scrubbed from the Internet, and even from Russian libraries,” Dawisha says; “but some of that work remains.”  https://www.amazon.com/Putins-Kleptocracy-Who-Owns-Russia-ebook/dp/B00L01GHGY/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1600906688&sr=8-1  ..  ..  ..  ...more

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• 476: 3/4 Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? by Karen Dawisha

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  Sep 24 2020

  Image:  Interior of "Putin's Palace," near the village of Praskoveevka in Krasnodar Krai, Russia.   . . . Russian Web users dug out an article by a Novaya Gazeta journalist who reported on the villas of Praskoveevka in 2009. He couldn’t approach the palace reportedly being built for Putin because it was surrounded by security guards, but he managed to swim up to the beach behind it and speak to one of the workers on the site, who confirmed that Vladimir Putin was regularly on the premises.Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?  by Karen Dawisha  A raging question in the world today is, who is the real Vladimir Putin and what are his intentions? Karen Dawisha’s brilliant Putin’s Kleptocracy provides an answer, describing how Putin got to power, the cabal he brought with him, the billions they have looted, and his plan to restore the Greater Russia. The Russian scholar Dawisha describes and exposes the origins of Putin’s kleptocratic regime. She presents extensive new evidence about Putin circle’s use of public positions for personal gain even before Putin became president in 2000. She documents the establishment of Bank Rossiya, now sanctioned by the US; the rise of the Ozero cooperative, founded by Putin and others who are now subject to visa bans and asset freezes; the links between Putin, Petromed, and “Putin’s Palace” near Sochi; and the role of security officials from Putin’s KGB days in Leningrad and Dresden, many of whom have maintained their contacts with Russian organized crime. Putin’s Kleptocracy is the result of years of research into the KGB and the various Russian crime syndicates. Dawisha’s sources include Stasi archives; Russian insiders; investigative journalists in the US, Britain, Germany, Finland, France, and Italy; and Western officials who served in Moscow. Russian journalists wrote part of this story when the Russian media was still free. “Many of them died for this story, and their work has largely been scrubbed from the Internet, and even from Russian libraries,” Dawisha says; “but some of that work remains.”  https://www.amazon.com/Putins-Kleptocracy-Who-Owns-Russia-ebook/dp/B00L01GHGY/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1600906688&sr=8-1 ..  ..  ..  Permissions: Interior of "Putin's Palace," near the village of Praskoveevka in Krasnodar Krai, Russia.   Date 18 January 2011    Source http://ruleaks.net/1901   Author Russian Wikileaks. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. | You are free:   to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the workUnder the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. .....more

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• 476: 2/4 Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? by Karen Dawisha

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  Sep 24 2020

  Image:  Emblem of the Stasi.    The Ministry for State Security or State Security Service (Staatssicherheitsdienst, SSD), commonly known as the Stasi, was the official state security service of the GDR, East Germany.Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?  by Karen Dawisha  A raging question in the world today is, who is the real Vladimir Putin and what are his intentions? Karen Dawisha’s brilliant Putin’s Kleptocracy provides an answer, describing how Putin got to power, the cabal he brought with him, the billions they have looted, and his plan to restore the Greater Russia. The Russian scholar Dawisha describes and exposes the origins of Putin’s kleptocratic regime. She presents extensive new evidence about Putin circle’s use of public positions for personal gain even before Putin became president in 2000. She documents the establishment of Bank Rossiya, now sanctioned by the US; the rise of the Ozero cooperative, founded by Putin and others who are now subject to visa bans and asset freezes; the links between Putin, Petromed, and “Putin’s Palace” near Sochi; and the role of security officials from Putin’s KGB days in Leningrad and Dresden, many of whom have maintained their contacts with Russian organized crime. Putin’s Kleptocracy is the result of years of research into the KGB and the various Russian crime syndicates. Dawisha’s sources include Stasi archives; Russian insiders; investigative journalists in the US, Britain, Germany, Finland, France, and Italy; and Western officials who served in Moscow. Russian journalists wrote part of this story when the Russian media was still free. “Many of them died for this story, and their work has largely been scrubbed from the Internet, and even from Russian libraries,” Dawisha says; “but some of that work remains.”  https://www.amazon.com/Putins-Kleptocracy-Who-Owns-Russia-ebook/dp/B00L01GHGY/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1600906688&sr=8-1   ...more

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• 476: 1/4 Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? by Karen Dawisha

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  Sep 24 2020

  Image:  A view of the offices of the KGB Soviet State Police located on Dzerzhinski Circle, a few blocks from Red Square.  (Felix Dzerzhinsky  led the first two Soviet state-security organizations, the Cheka and the OGPU, establishing a secret police for the post-revolutionary Soviet regime. He was one of the architects of the Red Terror and decossackization.  In short, he was a terrifying figure, “frozen-hearted,” as the Russians say, and covered in blood.)Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?  by Karen Dawisha  A raging question in the world today is, who is the real Vladimir Putin and what are his intentions? Karen Dawisha’s brilliant Putin’s Kleptocracy provides an answer, describing how Putin got to power, the cabal he brought with him, the billions they have looted, and his plan to restore the Greater Russia. The Russian scholar Dawisha describes and exposes the origins of Putin’s kleptocratic regime. She presents extensive new evidence about Putin circle’s use of public positions for personal gain even before Putin became president in 2000. She documents the establishment of Bank Rossiya, now sanctioned by the US; the rise of the Ozero cooperative, founded by Putin and others who are now subject to visa bans and asset freezes; the links between Putin, Petromed, and “Putin’s Palace” near Sochi; and the role of security officials from Putin’s KGB days in Leningrad and Dresden, many of whom have maintained their contacts with Russian organized crime. Putin’s Kleptocracy is the result of years of research into the KGB and the various Russian crime syndicates. Dawisha’s sources include Stasi archives; Russian insiders; investigative journalists in the US, Britain, Germany, Finland, France, and Italy; and Western officials who served in Moscow. Russian journalists wrote part of this story when the Russian media was still free. “Many of them died for this story, and their work has largely been scrubbed from the Internet, and even from Russian libraries,” Dawisha says; “but some of that work remains.”  https://www.amazon.com/Putins-Kleptocracy-Who-Owns-Russia-ebook/dp/B00L01GHGY/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1600906688&sr=8-1   ...more

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• 475: The Supreme Court nomination and the Electoral College. @HooverWhalen @HooverInst

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  Sep 24 2020

  Photo: 1905 SUPREME COURT, U.S.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe Supreme Court nomination and the Electoral College. @HooverWhalen @HooverInsthttps://www.forbes.com/sites/billwhalen/2020/09/20/trumps-supreme-quandary-catholics-or-converts/#4e86d5347f1e

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• 475: The SCOTUS challenges for a new associate justice. John Yoo @HooverInst

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  Sep 24 2020

  Photo:Supreme Court from left in winter  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe SCOTUS challenges for a new associate justice. John Yoo @HooverInsthttps://www.foxnews.com/opinion/ginsburg-conservative-supreme-court-majority-issues-john-yoo?utm_source=Hoover%20Daily%20Report&utm_campaign=47ea3a97e7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_09_21_06_51&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_21b1edff3c-47ea3a97e7-72527561

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• 475: Nominate and confirm before the Election. @LizPeek

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  Sep 23 2020

  Photo:1904Supreme Court Room in the Capitol  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowNominate and confirm before the Election. @LizPeek

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• 475: The roaring economy of February 2020 kept America from falling into collapse. @LizPeek

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  Sep 23 2020

  Photo:1944 New York, New York. A crowd watching the news line on the Times building at Times Square http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe roaring economy of February 2020 kept America from falling into collapse.  @LizPeek

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• 474: Concern for anti-Catholic conduct by the Democratic Senate. The Rev Robert Sirico: @robertsirico, @GRDiocese, @ActonInstitute

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  Sep 23 2020

  Image:   St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, Main Street, Westphalia, Osage County, MOFather Robert Sirico, Acton Institute; and pastor in Grand Rapids, in re:  Two practicing Roman Catholics, one of whom will be nominated to the Supreme Court. “Dogma” simply means teachings.  “Orthodox” means right teaching. Pelosi’s blame was for actually believing the teachings of the Church. Roman Catholics and Quakers have been the object of [reservati0ns] for centuries.  . . .  An egregious aspect of this is that the Jewish member of the Senate should so severely question the faith of a nominee.    The question for JFK was, do you believe in the [absolute] power of a foreign potentate, i.e., the Pope?  The Reverend Robert A Sirico.  ..  ..  ..    Father Robert A. Sirico was ordained a priest in 1989 and received his Master of Divinity degree from the Catholic University of America, following undergraduate study at the University of Southern California and the University of London. During his studies and early ministry, he experienced a growing concern over the lack of training religious studies students receive in fundamental economic principles, leaving them poorly equipped to understand and address today's social problems. As a result of these concerns, Fr. Sirico co-founded the Acton Institute with Kris Alan Mauren in 1990. He was appointed pastor of Sacred Heart in 2013 and has served in a variety of pastoral positions both in Michigan and elsewhere. His writings on religious, political, economic, and social matters are published in a variety of journals, including: the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, the London Financial Times, the Washington Times, the Detroit News, and National Review. Fr. Sirico is often called upon by members of the broadcast media for statements regarding economics, civil rights, and issues of religious concern, and has provided commentary for CNN, ABC, the BBC, NPR, and CBS' 60 Minutes, among others. In April of 1999, Fr. Sirico was awarded an honorary doctorate in Christian Ethics from the Franciscan University of Steubenville, and in May of 2001, Universidad Francisco Marroquin awarded him an honorary doctorate in Social Sciences. He is a member of the prestigious Mont Pèlerin Society, the American Academy of Religion, and the Philadelphia Society, and is on the Board of Advisors of the Civic Institute in Prague. Father Sirico also served on the Michigan Civil Rights Commission from 1994 to 1998. His pastoral ministry has included a chaplaincy to AIDS patients at the National Institutes of Health. Fr. Sirico is a native of Brooklyn, New York. https://www.sacredheartgr.org/staff-members/fr-robert-sirico/ ...more

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• 474: What if India attacks China? Gregory R Copley, Defense and Foreign Affairs

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  Sep 23 2020

  Image:  P. & O. India-China-Australia Mail and Passenger Services.  S.S. Mongolia Gregory R Copley, Defense and Foreign Affairs, and The New Total War of the Twenty-first Century and the Trigger of the Fear Pandemic; in re:  The Indian military, frustrated by China’s aggression along the Line of Actual Control (high in the Himalaya where even breathing is difficult) and the deaths of officers at the hands of Chinese: enraged, and no longer just digging in and staving off Chinese, but now are set on liberating Tibet. Constraints on the practical aspects of this.  This is not just the Roof of the World, but the high spot whence the waters of all the main rivers of Asia. Tibet is critical to the survival of the PRC or any PRC government. The Indus Valley is the lifeline of Pakistan. This is an existential battle.  Pushing from Ladakh would be difficult right now: troops through a narrow pass to get to the region; very difficult.  My Indian sources are concerned that China may undertake an act of aggression before the US election.        China isn’t interested in a deal; just wants territory, India isn't interested, either, after what it did in Kashmir.  Rather, India is taking a route to the West of Ladakh into Pakistani-held Kashmir.   https://www.indiatoday.in/news-analysis/story/india-china-faceoff-worst-case-scenario-becoming-new-normal-in-eastern-ladakh-1724270-2020-09-22   ...more

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• 473: The 1992 Biden Rule says that a president and Senate of the same party can go ahead to fill a SCOTUS seat. Bruce Thornton @HooverInst, @BruceThornton

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  Sep 23 2020

  Image: Senate ofc. bldg.Bruce Thornton, David Horowitz Freedom Center, and Hoover, in re:  The Senate was given more power with the idea that it was constituted of people with more experience.          Key Largo:  gangster explains to Bogart how you hold elections in a 1930’s election: you keep counting till you get the result you want.  Murkowski and Collins.  Pelosi is threatening impeachment of the president to slow down the process.  Senate could wait, or could ignore the whole thing.   https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/09/dont-go-wobbly-senate-republicans-bruce-thornton/?utm_source=Hoover+Daily+Report&utm_campaign=47ea3a97e7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_09_21_06_51&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_21b1edff3c-47ea3a97e7-72527561 ...more

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• 473: California voters are rejecting permitting California to discriminate against Asian-Americans. @WJMcGurn, @WSJOpinion

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  Sep 23 2020

  Image: junk from "Through Unexplored Asia ... Illustrated by L. J. Bridgman. [With maps.]"Bill McGurn, @wjmcgurn, WSJ editorial page and Main Street column; in re:  Discrimination.  The whole state of California is weighing the possibility that it’s OK with discrimination. Ward Connolly: a ban on race preferences in the State constitution. Proposition 16 is designed to remove that.  It got on the ballot easily, but a poll says about half of Californians oppose it.  Asian-Americans seem to be a focus of it. Median income of Asian-American families is $100,000?   The school system is scandalous. Let's also return to SATs.  Baffling to repeal language that bans discrimination.  LA Times article.    https://www.wsj.com/articles/an-anti-asian-proposition-11600729855 ...more

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• 472: Narco-terrorist fugitive Evo Morales presses to recapture Bolivia at the poll. @jmhumire, @MariaFdaCabal

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  Sep 23 2020

  Photo: 1908 Washing copper ore at the mines in Corrocoro, Bolivia  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowNarco-terrorist fugitive Evo Morales presses to recapture  Bolivia at the poll. @jmhumire, @MariaFdaCabal https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/09/18/bolivian-interim-president-anez-withdraws-from-election-race/ 

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• 472: StateSec Pompeo bolsters Colombia's Duque in the struggle with rogue state Venezuela. @jmhumire, @MariaFdaCabal

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  Sep 23 2020

  Photo: Theodore Roosevelt standing among ships in harbor and digging and throwing dirt in direction of "Bogota," while small man on hill raises flag "new treaty." Probably in reference to Hay-Herran canal treaty of 1903.(DLC/PP-1932:0042).Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).Published in: A World worthwhile.  New York : Harper & Bros., 1922, p. 164.Exhibit loan 4185-L.Exhibit loan 4408-L: The World of Teddy Roosevelt, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY, 2002-2003. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowStateSec Pompeo bolsters Colombia's Duque in the struggle with rogue state Venezuela. @jmhumire, @MariaFdaCabal https://www.infobae.com/america/colombia/2020/09/19/mike-pompeo-visita-a-ivan-duque-con-el-foco-puesto-en-la-seguridad-regional-el-narcotrafico-y-la-crisis-en-venezuela/ ...more

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• 472: Boris Johnson orders a second lockdown in the UK. @JosephSternberg WSJOpinion

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  Sep 23 2020

  Photo:1901 [England - London - Bank of England]  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowBoris Johnson orders a second lockdown in the UK. @JosephSternberg WSJOpinionhttps://www.ft.com/content/a714ac9d-7ab3-47d9-910d-ecc00acf1cf6

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• 472: Brexit deadline looms despite the virus and lockdown. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

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  Sep 23 2020

  Photo:Entrance to St. Paul's London  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowBrexit deadline looms despite the virus and lockdown. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinionhttps://www.ft.com/content/75e3b3aa-757a-4ad2-968d-103354a7d3e3

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• 471: 8/8 The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606, by James Shapiro

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  Sep 22 2020

  Image: Macbeth with Lady MacbethThe Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606,by James Shapiro  The preeminent Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro shows how the tumultuous events in 1606 influenced three of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies written that year: King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra. “The Year of Lear is irresistible—a banquet of wisdom” (The New York Times Book Review). In the years leading up to 1606, Shakespeare’s great productivity had ebbed. But that year, at age forty-two, he found his footing again, finishing a play he had begun the previous autumn, King Lear, then writing two other great tragedies, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra. It was a memorable year in England as well—a terrorist plot conceived by a small group of Catholic gentry had been uncovered at the last hour. The foiled Gunpowder Plot would have blown up the king and royal family along with the nation’s political and religious leadership. The aborted plot renewed anti-Catholic sentiment and laid bare divisions in the kingdom. It was against this background that Shakespeare finished Lear, a play about a divided kingdom, then wrote a tragedy that turned on the murder of a Scottish king, Macbeth. He ended this astonishing year with a third masterpiece no less steeped in current events and concerns: Antony and Cleopatra. “Exciting and sometimes revelatory, in The Year of Lear, James Shapiro takes a closer look at the political and social turmoil that contributed to the creation of three supreme masterpieces” (The Washington Post). He places them in the context of their times, while also allowing us greater insight into how Shakespeare was personally touched by such events as a terrible outbreak of plague and growing religious divisions. “His great gift is to make the plays seem at once more comprehensible and more staggering” (The New York Review of Books). For anyone interested in Shakespeare, this is an indispensable book.   https://www.amazon.com/Year-Lear-Shakespeare-1606/dp/1416541659 ...more

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• 471: 7/8 The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606, by James Shapiro

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  Sep 22 2020

  Image: The Historie of King Lear, by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606,by James Shapiro  The preeminent Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro shows how the tumultuous events in 1606 influenced three of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies written that year: King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra. “The Year of Lear is irresistible—a banquet of wisdom” (The New York Times Book Review). In the years leading up to 1606, Shakespeare’s great productivity had ebbed. But that year, at age forty-two, he found his footing again, finishing a play he had begun the previous autumn, King Lear, then writing two other great tragedies, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra. It was a memorable year in England as well—a terrorist plot conceived by a small group of Catholic gentry had been uncovered at the last hour. The foiled Gunpowder Plot would have blown up the king and royal family along with the nation’s political and religious leadership. The aborted plot renewed anti-Catholic sentiment and laid bare divisions in the kingdom. It was against this background that Shakespeare finished Lear, a play about a divided kingdom, then wrote a tragedy that turned on the murder of a Scottish king, Macbeth. He ended this astonishing year with a third masterpiece no less steeped in current events and concerns: Antony and Cleopatra. “Exciting and sometimes revelatory, in The Year of Lear, James Shapiro takes a closer look at the political and social turmoil that contributed to the creation of three supreme masterpieces” (The Washington Post). He places them in the context of their times, while also allowing us greater insight into how Shakespeare was personally touched by such events as a terrible outbreak of plague and growing religious divisions. “His great gift is to make the plays seem at once more comprehensible and more staggering” (The New York Review of Books). For anyone interested in Shakespeare, this is an indispensable book.   https://www.amazon.com/Year-Lear-Shakespeare-1606/dp/1416541659 ...more

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• 471: 6/8 The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606, by James Shapiro

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  Image: Gunpowder PlotThe Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606,by James Shapiro  The preeminent Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro shows how the tumultuous events in 1606 influenced three of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies written that year: King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra. “The Year of Lear is irresistible—a banquet of wisdom” (The New York Times Book Review). In the years leading up to 1606, Shakespeare’s great productivity had ebbed. But that year, at age forty-two, he found his footing again, finishing a play he had begun the previous autumn, King Lear, then writing two other great tragedies, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra. It was a memorable year in England as well—a terrorist plot conceived by a small group of Catholic gentry had been uncovered at the last hour. The foiled Gunpowder Plot would have blown up the king and royal family along with the nation’s political and religious leadership. The aborted plot renewed anti-Catholic sentiment and laid bare divisions in the kingdom. It was against this background that Shakespeare finished Lear, a play about a divided kingdom, then wrote a tragedy that turned on the murder of a Scottish king, Macbeth. He ended this astonishing year with a third masterpiece no less steeped in current events and concerns: Antony and Cleopatra. “Exciting and sometimes revelatory, in The Year of Lear, James Shapiro takes a closer look at the political and social turmoil that contributed to the creation of three supreme masterpieces” (The Washington Post). He places them in the context of their times, while also allowing us greater insight into how Shakespeare was personally touched by such events as a terrible outbreak of plague and growing religious divisions. “His great gift is to make the plays seem at once more comprehensible and more staggering” (The New York Review of Books). For anyone interested in Shakespeare, this is an indispensable book.   https://www.amazon.com/Year-Lear-Shakespeare-1606/dp/1416541659 ...more

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• 471: 5/8 The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606, by James Shapiro

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  Sep 22 2020

  Image: William ShakespeareThe Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606,by James Shapiro  The preeminent Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro shows how the tumultuous events in 1606 influenced three of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies written that year: King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra. “The Year of Lear is irresistible—a banquet of wisdom” (The New York Times Book Review). In the years leading up to 1606, Shakespeare’s great productivity had ebbed. But that year, at age forty-two, he found his footing again, finishing a play he had begun the previous autumn, King Lear, then writing two other great tragedies, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra. It was a memorable year in England as well—a terrorist plot conceived by a small group of Catholic gentry had been uncovered at the last hour. The foiled Gunpowder Plot would have blown up the king and royal family along with the nation’s political and religious leadership. The aborted plot renewed anti-Catholic sentiment and laid bare divisions in the kingdom. It was against this background that Shakespeare finished Lear, a play about a divided kingdom, then wrote a tragedy that turned on the murder of a Scottish king, Macbeth. He ended this astonishing year with a third masterpiece no less steeped in current events and concerns: Antony and Cleopatra. “Exciting and sometimes revelatory, in The Year of Lear, James Shapiro takes a closer look at the political and social turmoil that contributed to the creation of three supreme masterpieces” (The Washington Post). He places them in the context of their times, while also allowing us greater insight into how Shakespeare was personally touched by such events as a terrible outbreak of plague and growing religious divisions. “His great gift is to make the plays seem at once more comprehensible and more staggering” (The New York Review of Books). For anyone interested in Shakespeare, this is an indispensable book.   https://www.amazon.com/Year-Lear-Shakespeare-1606/dp/1416541659 ...more

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• 471: 4/8 The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606, by James Shapiro

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  Sep 22 2020

  Image:  Second Globe Theatre, detail from Hollar's View of London, 1647. Hollar sketched the building from life, but only later assembled the drawings into this View; he mislabelled his images of The Globe and the nearby bear-baiting enclosure. Here, the correct label has been restored. The small building to the left supplied food- and ale-sellers at the theatreThe Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606,by James Shapiro  The preeminent Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro shows how the tumultuous events in 1606 influenced three of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies written that year: King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra. “The Year of Lear is irresistible—a banquet of wisdom” (The New York Times Book Review). In the years leading up to 1606, Shakespeare’s great productivity had ebbed. But that year, at age forty-two, he found his footing again, finishing a play he had begun the previous autumn, King Lear, then writing two other great tragedies, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra. It was a memorable year in England as well—a terrorist plot conceived by a small group of Catholic gentry had been uncovered at the last hour. The foiled Gunpowder Plot would have blown up the king and royal family along with the nation’s political and religious leadership. The aborted plot renewed anti-Catholic sentiment and laid bare divisions in the kingdom. It was against this background that Shakespeare finished Lear, a play about a divided kingdom, then wrote a tragedy that turned on the murder of a Scottish king, Macbeth. He ended this astonishing year with a third masterpiece no less steeped in current events and concerns: Antony and Cleopatra. “Exciting and sometimes revelatory, in The Year of Lear, James Shapiro takes a closer look at the political and social turmoil that contributed to the creation of three supreme masterpieces” (The Washington Post). He places them in the context of their times, while also allowing us greater insight into how Shakespeare was personally touched by such events as a terrible outbreak of plague and growing religious divisions. “His great gift is to make the plays seem at once more comprehensible and more staggering” (The New York Review of Books). For anyone interested in Shakespeare, this is an indispensable book.   https://www.amazon.com/Year-Lear-Shakespeare-1606/dp/1416541659 ...more

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• 470: 3/8 The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606, by James Shapiro

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  Sep 22 2020

  Image: Virginia in 1606.  Composite plate of reproductions of engravings featuring: John Smith, James I, Pocahontas, Capt. Newport, Bacon and Berkeley, Delaware, and Sandys.The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606,by James Shapiro  The preeminent Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro shows how the tumultuous events in 1606 influenced three of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies written that year: King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra. “The Year of Lear is irresistible—a banquet of wisdom” (The New York Times Book Review). In the years leading up to 1606, Shakespeare’s great productivity had ebbed. But that year, at age forty-two, he found his footing again, finishing a play he had begun the previous autumn, King Lear, then writing two other great tragedies, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra. It was a memorable year in England as well—a terrorist plot conceived by a small group of Catholic gentry had been uncovered at the last hour. The foiled Gunpowder Plot would have blown up the king and royal family along with the nation’s political and religious leadership. The aborted plot renewed anti-Catholic sentiment and laid bare divisions in the kingdom. It was against this background that Shakespeare finished Lear, a play about a divided kingdom, then wrote a tragedy that turned on the murder of a Scottish king, Macbeth. He ended this astonishing year with a third masterpiece no less steeped in current events and concerns: Antony and Cleopatra. “Exciting and sometimes revelatory, in The Year of Lear, James Shapiro takes a closer look at the political and social turmoil that contributed to the creation of three supreme masterpieces” (The Washington Post). He places them in the context of their times, while also allowing us greater insight into how Shakespeare was personally touched by such events as a terrible outbreak of plague and growing religious divisions. “His great gift is to make the plays seem at once more comprehensible and more staggering” (The New York Review of Books). For anyone interested in Shakespeare, this is an indispensable book.   https://www.amazon.com/Year-Lear-Shakespeare-1606/dp/1416541659 ...more

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• 470: 2/8 The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606, by James Shapiro

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  Sep 22 2020

  Image: The city of Amsterdam in 1606. The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606,by James Shapiro  The preeminent Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro shows how the tumultuous events in 1606 influenced three of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies written that year: King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra. “The Year of Lear is irresistible—a banquet of wisdom” (The New York Times Book Review). In the years leading up to 1606, Shakespeare’s great productivity had ebbed. But that year, at age forty-two, he found his footing again, finishing a play he had begun the previous autumn, King Lear, then writing two other great tragedies, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra. It was a memorable year in England as well—a terrorist plot conceived by a small group of Catholic gentry had been uncovered at the last hour. The foiled Gunpowder Plot would have blown up the king and royal family along with the nation’s political and religious leadership. The aborted plot renewed anti-Catholic sentiment and laid bare divisions in the kingdom. It was against this background that Shakespeare finished Lear, a play about a divided kingdom, then wrote a tragedy that turned on the murder of a Scottish king, Macbeth. He ended this astonishing year with a third masterpiece no less steeped in current events and concerns: Antony and Cleopatra. “Exciting and sometimes revelatory, in The Year of Lear, James Shapiro takes a closer look at the political and social turmoil that contributed to the creation of three supreme masterpieces” (The Washington Post). He places them in the context of their times, while also allowing us greater insight into how Shakespeare was personally touched by such events as a terrible outbreak of plague and growing religious divisions. “His great gift is to make the plays seem at once more comprehensible and more staggering” (The New York Review of Books). For anyone interested in Shakespeare, this is an indispensable book.   https://www.amazon.com/Year-Lear-Shakespeare-1606/dp/1416541659 ...more

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• 470: 1/8 The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606, by James Shapiro

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  Sep 22 2020

  Image: Book coverThe Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606,by James Shapiro  The preeminent Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro shows how the tumultuous events in 1606 influenced three of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies written that year: King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra. “The Year of Lear is irresistible—a banquet of wisdom” (The New York Times Book Review). In the years leading up to 1606, Shakespeare’s great productivity had ebbed. But that year, at age forty-two, he found his footing again, finishing a play he had begun the previous autumn, King Lear, then writing two other great tragedies, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra. It was a memorable year in England as well—a terrorist plot conceived by a small group of Catholic gentry had been uncovered at the last hour. The foiled Gunpowder Plot would have blown up the king and royal family along with the nation’s political and religious leadership. The aborted plot renewed anti-Catholic sentiment and laid bare divisions in the kingdom. It was against this background that Shakespeare finished Lear, a play about a divided kingdom, then wrote a tragedy that turned on the murder of a Scottish king, Macbeth. He ended this astonishing year with a third masterpiece no less steeped in current events and concerns: Antony and Cleopatra. “Exciting and sometimes revelatory, in The Year of Lear, James Shapiro takes a closer look at the political and social turmoil that contributed to the creation of three supreme masterpieces” (The Washington Post). He places them in the context of their times, while also allowing us greater insight into how Shakespeare was personally touched by such events as a terrible outbreak of plague and growing religious divisions. “His great gift is to make the plays seem at once more comprehensible and more staggering” (The New York Review of Books). For anyone interested in Shakespeare, this is an indispensable book.   https://www.amazon.com/Year-Lear-Shakespeare-1606/dp/1416541659 ...more

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• 469: GOP conservative base would be content with either Barrett or Lagoa. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Sep 22 2020

  Photo:This untitled illustration by cartoonist Clifford Berryman, which appeared in the Washington Post on November 8, 1905, depicts William Randolph Hearst, who ran for mayor of New York in the 1905 election, sitting at his desk while being taunted by the Tammany Tiger as election results came in showing powerful Tammany-backed candidate George B. McClellan Jr. to be the winner.Berryman Political Cartoon Collection http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowGOP conservative base would be content with either Barrett or Lagoa. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatnesshttps://www.nationalreview.com/2020/08/history-is-on-the-side-of-republicans-filling-a-supreme-court-vacancy-in-2020/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=right-rail&utm_content=top-stories&utm_term=first ...more

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• 469: Democrat court-packing is more radical than anything the GOP proposes. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Sep 22 2020

  Photo:1888Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, v. 32, (1888 June 28), p. 61.Wood engraving after Carl Becter.Title and other information transcribed from caption card. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowDemocrat court-packing is more radical than anything the GOP proposes.  @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatnesshttps://www.nationalreview.com/2020/09/replacing-justice-ginsburg-politics-not-precedent/

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• 469: The UN Security Council ignores the Islamic Republic of Iran's suspect nuclear weapons program and all other violations of arms sanctions.

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  Sep 22 2020

  Photo:1979Armed men crouching behind sandbag barricade in street, Tehran, Iran.Title from photographer. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe UN Security Council ignores the Islamic Republic of Iran's suspect nuclear weapons program and all other violations of arms sanctions. US says all UN sanctions on Iran restored, but world yawnshttps://apnews.com/8fe3bff342135cb4817629499e59964a

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• 469: "Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Inkwell of the Second Temple Period. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Sep 22 2020

  Photo:1750 InkwellMade in Mexico http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow"Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Inkwell of the Second Temple Period. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness Second Temple Era Inkwell Discovered in Gush Etzionhttps://www.newsbreak.com/news/2063650044795/second-temple-era-inkwell-discovered-in-gush-etzion

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• 468: PRC "Hoovers up" the data of all leadership worldwide; & What is to be done? Rich Fisher, International Assessment and Strategy Center @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Sep 22 2020

  Image:  "The Thief Falls Through the Skylight in the Bedroom", Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna Rick Fisher, Intl Assessment and Strategy Center, and Gordon Chang, Daily Beast, in re: Shenzhen Zhenhua Data Technology, a so-called private corporation in China, gathers data, incl in the US: esp military targets.  Hoovers up vast amounts of data, share it with Chinese govt and military. Providing data to Ministry of State Security or PLA, or the like.  Aerospace, automotive, energy: all industries in which to gather data and target enemies.   (https://www.foxnews.com/world/chinese-tech-company-collects-data-of-prominent-americans-and-military-social-media-posts) and the TikTok deal. ...more

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• 468: PRC arrests and detains without habeas corpus. @Michael_Yon @GordonGChang

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  Sep 22 2020

  Image:  Arrest of criminals in old China Michael Yon, East Asia correspondent, and Gordon Chang, Daily Beast, in re: PRC arrests and detains without habeas corpus.  https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/china-confirms-12-hong-kong-activists-detained-jw956gshs 

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• 468: Al Qaeda is not on the road to defeat. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD

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  Sep 22 2020

  Image:  During a search and destroy mission members of a US Navy (USN) Seal Team discover a large cache of Al Qaeda and Taliban forces munitions in a cave in the Zhawar Kili area of Eastern Afghanistan. USN Special Operations Forces (SOF) are conducting missions in Afghanistan in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM Tom Joscelyn, Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies; & Senior Editor for FDD's Long War Journal; and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD; in re:   Al Qaeda is not on the road to defeat. ...more

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• 468: The Taliban is not tired. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD

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  Sep 22 2020

  Image:  1986Soldiers ride aboard a Soviet BMD airborne combat vehicle Tom Joscelyn, Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies; & Senior Editor for FDD's Long War Journal; and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD; in re:  The Taliban is not tired.   

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• 467: Threats of FDR's 1937 court-packing awakened in 2021 & What is to be done? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Sep 22 2020

  Photo:Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images.Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2011; (DLC/PP-2011:124).Forms part of the Selects Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThreats of FDR's 1937 court-packing awakened in 2021 & What is to be done? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInsthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_Procedures_Reform_Bill_of_1937 ...more

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• 467: Who was the tireless Ruth Bader Ginsburg? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Sep 22 2020

  Photo:1890Harvard Law School http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowWho was the tireless Ruth Bader Ginsburg? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInsthttps://www.hoover.org/research/trump-and-mcconnell-beware

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• 467: Amy Coney Barrett of Indiana and Barbara Lagoa of Florida are the finalists for the POTUS choice by the weekend. @JohnFund @NRO

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  Sep 22 2020

  Photo:This illustration entitled "Uncle Sam Might Adopt This Plan With Success", by cartoonist Clifford Berryman, which appeared in the Washington Post on April 21, 1899, depicts Uncle Sam as he directs the attention of Cuban General Maximo Gomez to $3 million that was to be used, with Gomez's agreement, to pay Cuban soldiers to disarm, which would eliminate the possible threat of Cuban soldiers fighting to remove the American Army from its soil at the end of the Spanish-American War.Berryman Political Cartoon Collection http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowAmy Coney Barrett of Indiana and Barbara Lagoa of Florida are the finalists for the POTUS choice by the weekend.  @JohnFund @NRO...more

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• 467: McConnell plans a calendar to advise and consent the POTUS nominee before the Election, with confirmation in November, after the Election. @DavidMDrucker @DCExaminer

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  Sep 22 2020

  Photo: This illustration entitled, "Mr. Bryan Will Stick by Judge Parker, but Reserves the Right to Write", by cartoonist Clifford Berryman, which appeared in the Washington Post on July 19, 1904, shows William Jennings Bryan riding the Democratic Party donkey with Judge Alton B. Parker, but facing backward making notes, which shows Bryan's reluctance to commit to Parker's platform.Berryman Political Cartoon Collection http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowMcConnell plans a calendar to advise and consent the POTUS nominee before the Election, with confirmation in November, after the Election. @DavidMDrucker @DCExaminer...more

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• 465: Athenia Torpedoed: 4of4: The U-Boat Attack that Ignited the Battle of the Atlantic Kindle Edition. by Francis M. Carroll (Author) Format: Kindle Edition.

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  Sep 22 2020

  Photo: 1942 Die U-Boote laufen ein  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Athenia Torpedoed: 4of4: The U-Boat Attack that Ignited the Battle of the Atlantic Kindle Edition. by Francis M. Carroll  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition.  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CW0S1U2/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0 his book is an account of a disaster at sea, the sinking by a German submarine of the passenger liner Athenia sailing from Liverpool to Montreal, loaded with Americans, Canadians, and Europeans, attempting to cross the Atlantic before the outbreak of war. Although 112 people were lost, of whom 30 were the first Americans killed in the war, 1,306 were rescued. Housewives, children, college students, scientists, actresses, and Jewish refugees were among the victims, and even young John F. Kennedy was called on to give assistance. The drama, tragedy, and triumph of their experiences are a central part of the story. But of course the book is also about war and politics. Indeed, this is actually where the Second World War began. Here Germany, having already invaded Poland in what was expected to be a limited war, first struck the western Allies, Britain and France. This was the first blow, fired without warning, just hours after war was declared. For Britain, the sinking of the Athenia was seen as both a violation of international law and a return to the kind of total war Germany had waged in the Great War. The sinking of the Athena immediately pushed Britain to adopt convoys to protect shipping, and it served from the first to shape British public opinion toward the war. In Canada the sinking of the ship and particularly the death of the innocent, ten year old Margaret Hayworth, became emotional issues around which much of the nation could rally in support of the decision of Parliament to go to war. In the United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt was too wary to make the sinking of the Athenia the counterpart of the sinking of the Lusitania in the First World War. However, the Athenia exposed Germany in the public mind as a serious threat to Americans, and provided the opportunity for President Roosevelt to open direct communication with Winston Churchill. The Athenia helped to change public opinion in the United States sufficiently to amend the existing Neutrality Laws to allow the country to sell munitions and supplies to Britain and France—a supportive first step to meeting the Nazi threat directly. So the sinking of the Athenia is a tale full of meaning and passion that deserves to be known....more

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• 465: Athenia Torpedoed: 3of4: The U-Boat Attack that Ignited the Battle of the Atlantic Kindle Edition. by Francis M. Carroll (Author) Format: Kindle Edition.

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  Sep 22 2020

  Photo:U-Boat 110, Electric Control RoomThis photograph shows the U-Boat 110, a German Submarine that was sunk and risen in 1918. This photograph shows the Submarine's Electric Control Room, including its switch gear. ..Reference: DS.SWH/5/3/2/14/1/58..This image is taken from an album of photographs found in the Swan Hunter shipbuilders collection at Tyne & Wear Archives. The album is from 1918 and documents the U.B. 110 before she was scrapped on the dry docks of Swan Hunter Wigham Richardson Ltd, Wallsend...The twin-screw German submarine U.B. 110 was built by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg...On the 19th July 1918, when attacking a convoy of merchant ships near Hartlepool, she herself was attacked by H.M. Motor-Launch No. 263 and suffered from depth charges. Coming to the surface she was rammed by H.M.S. Garry, a torpedo boat destroyer, and sunk. ..In September she was salvaged and placed in the admiralty dock off Jarrow slake. She was then berthed at Swan Hunter's dry docks department with an order to restore her as a fighting unit. ..The Armistice on 11th November 1918 caused work on her to be stopped. She was towed on the 19th December 1918 from Wallsend to the Northumberland Dock at Howdon and was subsequently sold as scrap. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Athenia Torpedoed: 3of4: The U-Boat Attack that Ignited the Battle of the Atlantic Kindle Edition. by Francis M. Carroll  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition.  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CW0S1U2/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0 his book is an account of a disaster at sea, the sinking by a German submarine of the passenger liner Athenia sailing from Liverpool to Montreal, loaded with Americans, Canadians, and Europeans, attempting to cross the Atlantic before the outbreak of war. Although 112 people were lost, of whom 30 were the first Americans killed in the war, 1,306 were rescued. Housewives, children, college students, scientists, actresses, and Jewish refugees were among the victims, and even young John F. Kennedy was called on to give assistance. The drama, tragedy, and triumph of their experiences are a central part of the story. But of course the book is also about war and politics. Indeed, this is actually where the Second World War began. Here Germany, having already invaded Poland in what was expected to be a limited war, first struck the western Allies, Britain and France. This was the first blow, fired without warning, just hours after war was declared. For Britain, the sinking of the Athenia was seen as both a violation of international law and a return to the kind of total war Germany had waged in the Great War. The sinking of the Athena immediately pushed Britain to adopt convoys to protect shipping, and it served from the first to shape British public opinion toward the war. In Canada the sinking of the ship and particularly the death of the innocent, ten year old Margaret Hayworth, became emotional issues around which much of the nation could rally in support of the decision of Parliament to go to war. In the United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt was too wary to make the sinking of the Athenia the counterpart of the sinking of the Lusitania in the First World War. However, the Athenia exposed Germany in the public mind as a serious threat to Americans, and provided the opportunity for President Roosevelt to open direct communication with Winston Churchill. The Athenia helped to change public opinion in the United States sufficiently to amend the existing Neutrality Laws to allow the country to sell munitions and supplies to Britain and France—a supportive first step to meeting the Nazi threat directly. So the sinking of the Athenia is a tale full of meaning and passion that deserves to be known....more

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• 465: Athenia Torpedoed: 2of4: The U-Boat Attack that Ignited the Battle of the Atlantic Kindle Edition. by Francis M. Carroll (Author) Format: Kindle Edition.

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  Sep 22 2020

  Photo:Turning the tables: the PRIZE hoisting the white ensign and opening fire on the U-boat at short range  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Athenia Torpedoed: 2of4: The U-Boat Attack that Ignited the Battle of the Atlantic Kindle Edition. by Francis M. Carroll  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition.  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CW0S1U2/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0 his book is an account of a disaster at sea, the sinking by a German submarine of the passenger liner Athenia sailing from Liverpool to Montreal, loaded with Americans, Canadians, and Europeans, attempting to cross the Atlantic before the outbreak of war. Although 112 people were lost, of whom 30 were the first Americans killed in the war, 1,306 were rescued. Housewives, children, college students, scientists, actresses, and Jewish refugees were among the victims, and even young John F. Kennedy was called on to give assistance. The drama, tragedy, and triumph of their experiences are a central part of the story. But of course the book is also about war and politics. Indeed, this is actually where the Second World War began. Here Germany, having already invaded Poland in what was expected to be a limited war, first struck the western Allies, Britain and France. This was the first blow, fired without warning, just hours after war was declared. For Britain, the sinking of the Athenia was seen as both a violation of international law and a return to the kind of total war Germany had waged in the Great War. The sinking of the Athena immediately pushed Britain to adopt convoys to protect shipping, and it served from the first to shape British public opinion toward the war. In Canada the sinking of the ship and particularly the death of the innocent, ten year old Margaret Hayworth, became emotional issues around which much of the nation could rally in support of the decision of Parliament to go to war. In the United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt was too wary to make the sinking of the Athenia the counterpart of the sinking of the Lusitania in the First World War. However, the Athenia exposed Germany in the public mind as a serious threat to Americans, and provided the opportunity for President Roosevelt to open direct communication with Winston Churchill. The Athenia helped to change public opinion in the United States sufficiently to amend the existing Neutrality Laws to allow the country to sell munitions and supplies to Britain and France—a supportive first step to meeting the Nazi threat directly. So the sinking of the Athenia is a tale full of meaning and passion that deserves to be known....more

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• 465: Athenia Torpedoed: 1of4: The U-Boat Attack that Ignited the Battle of the Atlantic Kindle Edition. by Francis M. Carroll (Author) Format: Kindle Edition.

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  Sep 22 2020

  Photo:1900 U-Boat survivors  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Athenia Torpedoed: 1of4: The U-Boat Attack that Ignited the Battle of the Atlantic Kindle Edition. by Francis M. Carroll  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition.  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CW0S1U2/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0 his book is an account of a disaster at sea, the sinking by a German submarine of the passenger liner Athenia sailing from Liverpool to Montreal, loaded with Americans, Canadians, and Europeans, attempting to cross the Atlantic before the outbreak of war. Although 112 people were lost, of whom 30 were the first Americans killed in the war, 1,306 were rescued. Housewives, children, college students, scientists, actresses, and Jewish refugees were among the victims, and even young John F. Kennedy was called on to give assistance. The drama, tragedy, and triumph of their experiences are a central part of the story. But of course the book is also about war and politics. Indeed, this is actually where the Second World War began. Here Germany, having already invaded Poland in what was expected to be a limited war, first struck the western Allies, Britain and France. This was the first blow, fired without warning, just hours after war was declared. For Britain, the sinking of the Athenia was seen as both a violation of international law and a return to the kind of total war Germany had waged in the Great War. The sinking of the Athena immediately pushed Britain to adopt convoys to protect shipping, and it served from the first to shape British public opinion toward the war. In Canada the sinking of the ship and particularly the death of the innocent, ten year old Margaret Hayworth, became emotional issues around which much of the nation could rally in support of the decision of Parliament to go to war. In the United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt was too wary to make the sinking of the Athenia the counterpart of the sinking of the Lusitania in the First World War. However, the Athenia exposed Germany in the public mind as a serious threat to Americans, and provided the opportunity for President Roosevelt to open direct communication with Winston Churchill. The Athenia helped to change public opinion in the United States sufficiently to amend the existing Neutrality Laws to allow the country to sell munitions and supplies to Britain and France—a supportive first step to meeting the Nazi threat directly. So the sinking of the Athenia is a tale full of meaning and passion that deserves to be known....more

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• 466: Guest Podcast: Rich Valdes: This is America

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  Sep 21 2020

  Photo:1933 Boulder Dam, (i.e. Hoover Dam) between Arizona and Nevada. Placing concrete in the sidewall of the Nevada spillway. A 2 cubic yard bottom-dump bucket is being handled by crane. Note the manner in which the panels are staggered  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowGuest Podcast: Rich Valdes: This is America.https://www.facebook.com/RichValdesCompany/

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• 465: Lincoln's Code: 4of4: The Laws of War in American History Kindle Edition. by John Fabian Witt (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Sep 21 2020

  Photo: 1860Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1860 May 26.Presentation an American lady to the Japanese Ambassadors at Willard's, Washington  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Lincoln's Code: 4of4: The Laws of War in American History Kindle Edition. by John Fabian Witt  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005HF4DZG/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1In the closing days of 1862, just three weeks before Emancipation, the administration of Abraham Lincoln commissioned a code setting forth the laws of war for US armies. It announced standards of conduct in wartime—concerning torture, prisoners of war, civilians, spies, and slaves—that shaped the course of the Civil War. By the twentieth century, Lincoln’s code would be incorporated into the Geneva Conventions and form the basis of a new international law of war.In this deeply original book, John Fabian Witt tells the fascinating history of the laws of war and its eminent cast of characters—Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, and Lincoln—as they crafted the articles that would change the course of world history. Witt’s engrossing exploration of the dilemmas at the heart of the laws of war is a prehistory of our own era. Lincoln’s Code reveals that the heated controversies of twenty-first-century warfare have roots going back to the beginnings of American history. It is a compelling story of ideals under pressure and a landmark contribution to our understanding of the American experience....more

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• 465: Lincoln's Code: 3of4: The Laws of War in American History Kindle Edition. by John Fabian Witt (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Sep 21 2020

  Photo:1860 Washington Monument as it stood for 25 years.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Lincoln's Code: 3of4: The Laws of War in American History Kindle Edition. by John Fabian Witt  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005HF4DZG/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1In the closing days of 1862, just three weeks before Emancipation, the administration of Abraham Lincoln commissioned a code setting forth the laws of war for US armies. It announced standards of conduct in wartime—concerning torture, prisoners of war, civilians, spies, and slaves—that shaped the course of the Civil War. By the twentieth century, Lincoln’s code would be incorporated into the Geneva Conventions and form the basis of a new international law of war.In this deeply original book, John Fabian Witt tells the fascinating history of the laws of war and its eminent cast of characters—Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, and Lincoln—as they crafted the articles that would change the course of world history. Witt’s engrossing exploration of the dilemmas at the heart of the laws of war is a prehistory of our own era. Lincoln’s Code reveals that the heated controversies of twenty-first-century warfare have roots going back to the beginnings of American history. It is a compelling story of ideals under pressure and a landmark contribution to our understanding of the American experience....more

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• 465: Lincoln's Code: 2of4: The Laws of War in American History Kindle Edition. by John Fabian Witt (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Sep 21 2020

  Photo: 1860 Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1860 Dec. 15, p. 793.Assembling of Congress, Hall of Representatives, Washington City, December 3, 1860 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Lincoln's Code: 2of4: The Laws of War in American History Kindle Edition. by John Fabian Witt  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005HF4DZG/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1In the closing days of 1862, just three weeks before Emancipation, the administration of Abraham Lincoln commissioned a code setting forth the laws of war for US armies. It announced standards of conduct in wartime—concerning torture, prisoners of war, civilians, spies, and slaves—that shaped the course of the Civil War. By the twentieth century, Lincoln’s code would be incorporated into the Geneva Conventions and form the basis of a new international law of war.In this deeply original book, John Fabian Witt tells the fascinating history of the laws of war and its eminent cast of characters—Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, and Lincoln—as they crafted the articles that would change the course of world history. Witt’s engrossing exploration of the dilemmas at the heart of the laws of war is a prehistory of our own era. Lincoln’s Code reveals that the heated controversies of twenty-first-century warfare have roots going back to the beginnings of American history. It is a compelling story of ideals under pressure and a landmark contribution to our understanding of the American experience....more

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• 465: Lincoln's Code: 1of4: The Laws of War in American History Kindle Edition. by John Fabian Witt (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Sep 21 2020

  Photo: 1860 U.S. Treasury before completion. Washington, D.C.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Lincoln's Code: 1of4: The Laws of War in American History Kindle Edition. by John Fabian Witt  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005HF4DZG/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1In the closing days of 1862, just three weeks before Emancipation, the administration of Abraham Lincoln commissioned a code setting forth the laws of war for US armies. It announced standards of conduct in wartime—concerning torture, prisoners of war, civilians, spies, and slaves—that shaped the course of the Civil War. By the twentieth century, Lincoln’s code would be incorporated into the Geneva Conventions and form the basis of a new international law of war.In this deeply original book, John Fabian Witt tells the fascinating history of the laws of war and its eminent cast of characters—Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, and Lincoln—as they crafted the articles that would change the course of world history. Witt’s engrossing exploration of the dilemmas at the heart of the laws of war is a prehistory of our own era. Lincoln’s Code reveals that the heated controversies of twenty-first-century warfare have roots going back to the beginnings of American history. It is a compelling story of ideals under pressure and a landmark contribution to our understanding of the American experience....more

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• 465: Inferno: 4of4: The World at War, 1939-1945 Kindle Edition. by Max Hastings (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Sep 21 2020

  Photo:1944 -1945.17.5 cm x 12.2 cm 1 Black and white photograph..Canadian Women's Army Corps, World War 2.  CWAC warming themselves by an outdoor fire...To obtain high quality and larger reproductions of this image please visit the Galt Museum & Archives website: www.galtmuseum.com/archives.htm ( http://www.galtmuseum.com/archives.htm )  and include thIs number in your request:..P19891053004  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Inferno: 4of4: The World at War, 1939-1945 Kindle Edition. by Max Hastings (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Inferno-World-at-War-1939-1945-ebook/dp/B004SOQ198/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=hastings+inferno&qid=1600652136&s=digital-text&sr=1-1World War II involved tens of millions of soldiers and cost sixty million lives—an average of twenty-seven thousand a day. For thirty-five years, Max Hastings has researched and written about different aspects of the war. Now, for the first time, he gives us a magnificent, single-volume history of the entire war. Through his strikingly detailed stories of everyday people—of soldiers, sailors and airmen; British housewives and Indian peasants; SS killers and the citizens of Leningrad, some of whom resorted to cannibalism during the two-year siege; Japanese suicide pilots and American carrier crews—Hastings provides a singularly intimate portrait of the world at war. He simultaneously traces the major developments—Hitler’s refusal to retreat from the Soviet Union until it was too late; Stalin’s ruthlessness in using his greater population to wear down the German army; Churchill’s leadership in the dark days of 1940 and 1941; Roosevelt’s steady hand before and after the United States entered the war—and puts them in real human context.Hastings also illuminates some of the darker and less explored regions under the war’s penumbra, including the conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland, during which the Finns fiercely and surprisingly resisted Stalin’s invading Red Army; and the Bengal famine in 1943 and 1944, when at least one million people died in what turned out to be, in Nehru’s words, “the final epitaph of British rule” in India. Remarkably informed and wide-ranging, Inferno is both elegantly written and cogently argued. Above all, it is a new and essential understanding of one of the greatest and bloodiest events of the twentieth century....more

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• 465: Inferno: 3of4: The World at War, 1939-1945 Kindle Edition. by Max Hastings (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Sep 21 2020

  Photo:Air-raid precaution exercise in Flakhaven in Odense, 1940  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Inferno: 3of4: The World at War, 1939-1945 Kindle Edition. by Max Hastings (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Inferno-World-at-War-1939-1945-ebook/dp/B004SOQ198/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=hastings+inferno&qid=1600652136&s=digital-text&sr=1-1World War II involved tens of millions of soldiers and cost sixty million lives—an average of twenty-seven thousand a day. For thirty-five years, Max Hastings has researched and written about different aspects of the war. Now, for the first time, he gives us a magnificent, single-volume history of the entire war. Through his strikingly detailed stories of everyday people—of soldiers, sailors and airmen; British housewives and Indian peasants; SS killers and the citizens of Leningrad, some of whom resorted to cannibalism during the two-year siege; Japanese suicide pilots and American carrier crews—Hastings provides a singularly intimate portrait of the world at war. He simultaneously traces the major developments—Hitler’s refusal to retreat from the Soviet Union until it was too late; Stalin’s ruthlessness in using his greater population to wear down the German army; Churchill’s leadership in the dark days of 1940 and 1941; Roosevelt’s steady hand before and after the United States entered the war—and puts them in real human context.Hastings also illuminates some of the darker and less explored regions under the war’s penumbra, including the conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland, during which the Finns fiercely and surprisingly resisted Stalin’s invading Red Army; and the Bengal famine in 1943 and 1944, when at least one million people died in what turned out to be, in Nehru’s words, “the final epitaph of British rule” in India. Remarkably informed and wide-ranging, Inferno is both elegantly written and cogently argued. Above all, it is a new and essential understanding of one of the greatest and bloodiest events of the twentieth century....more

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• 465: Inferno: 2of4: The World at War, 1939-1945 Kindle Edition. by Max Hastings (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Sep 21 2020

  Photo:The bombing was a part of the Operation Carthage. The bombs where ment to hit the Shellhouse (Gestapo's head quarter), but one of the pilots dropped the bombs over the school because it lost control over the plane. After that the other pilots thought the school was the Shellhouse and dropped their bombs as well..86 children and 18 adults died at the school...More images from The Museum of Danish Resistance: erez.natmus.dk/FHMbilleder/Site/index.jsp ( http://erez.natmus.dk/FHMbilleder/Site/index.jsp ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Inferno: 2of4: The World at War, 1939-1945 Kindle Edition. by Max Hastings (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Inferno-World-at-War-1939-1945-ebook/dp/B004SOQ198/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=hastings+inferno&qid=1600652136&s=digital-text&sr=1-1World War II involved tens of millions of soldiers and cost sixty million lives—an average of twenty-seven thousand a day. For thirty-five years, Max Hastings has researched and written about different aspects of the war. Now, for the first time, he gives us a magnificent, single-volume history of the entire war. Through his strikingly detailed stories of everyday people—of soldiers, sailors and airmen; British housewives and Indian peasants; SS killers and the citizens of Leningrad, some of whom resorted to cannibalism during the two-year siege; Japanese suicide pilots and American carrier crews—Hastings provides a singularly intimate portrait of the world at war. He simultaneously traces the major developments—Hitler’s refusal to retreat from the Soviet Union until it was too late; Stalin’s ruthlessness in using his greater population to wear down the German army; Churchill’s leadership in the dark days of 1940 and 1941; Roosevelt’s steady hand before and after the United States entered the war—and puts them in real human context.Hastings also illuminates some of the darker and less explored regions under the war’s penumbra, including the conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland, during which the Finns fiercely and surprisingly resisted Stalin’s invading Red Army; and the Bengal famine in 1943 and 1944, when at least one million people died in what turned out to be, in Nehru’s words, “the final epitaph of British rule” in India. Remarkably informed and wide-ranging, Inferno is both elegantly written and cogently argued. Above all, it is a new and essential understanding of one of the greatest and bloodiest events of the twentieth century....more

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• 465: Inferno: 1of4: The World at War, 1939-1945 Kindle Edition. by Max Hastings (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Sep 21 2020

  Photo:Final assembly plant for the Hurricane Sea plane, Canadian Car and Foundry Co.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Inferno: 1of4: The World at War, 1939-1945 Kindle Edition. by Max Hastings (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Inferno-World-at-War-1939-1945-ebook/dp/B004SOQ198/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=hastings+inferno&qid=1600652136&s=digital-text&sr=1-1World War II involved tens of millions of soldiers and cost sixty million lives—an average of twenty-seven thousand a day. For thirty-five years, Max Hastings has researched and written about different aspects of the war. Now, for the first time, he gives us a magnificent, single-volume history of the entire war. Through his strikingly detailed stories of everyday people—of soldiers, sailors and airmen; British housewives and Indian peasants; SS killers and the citizens of Leningrad, some of whom resorted to cannibalism during the two-year siege; Japanese suicide pilots and American carrier crews—Hastings provides a singularly intimate portrait of the world at war. He simultaneously traces the major developments—Hitler’s refusal to retreat from the Soviet Union until it was too late; Stalin’s ruthlessness in using his greater population to wear down the German army; Churchill’s leadership in the dark days of 1940 and 1941; Roosevelt’s steady hand before and after the United States entered the war—and puts them in real human context.Hastings also illuminates some of the darker and less explored regions under the war’s penumbra, including the conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland, during which the Finns fiercely and surprisingly resisted Stalin’s invading Red Army; and the Bengal famine in 1943 and 1944, when at least one million people died in what turned out to be, in Nehru’s words, “the final epitaph of British rule” in India. Remarkably informed and wide-ranging, Inferno is both elegantly written and cogently argued. Above all, it is a new and essential understanding of one of the greatest and bloodiest events of the twentieth century....more

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• 464: 6/6 The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months that Changed the World, by A J Baime

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  Sep 21 2020

  Image:  Truman was so widely expected to lose the 1948 election that the Chicago Tribune had printed papers with this erroneous headline when few returns were in. The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months that Changed the World, by A J Baime           “A. J. Baime is a master. His reporting and storytelling are woven to hypnotic effect. This is history and humanity in lush, vivid color.”—Doug Stanton, author of The Odyssey of Echo Company  Heroes are often defined as ordinary characters who get pushed into extraordinary circumstances and, through courage and a dash of luck, cement their place in history. Chosen as FDR’s fourth-term vice president for his well-praised work ethic, good judgment, and lack of enemies, Harry S. Truman was the prototypical ordinary man. That is, until he was shockingly thrust in over his head after FDR’s sudden death. The first four months of Truman’s administration saw the founding of the United Nations, the fall of Berlin, victory at Okinawa, firebombings in Tokyo, the first atomic explosion, the Nazi surrender, the liberation of concentration camps, the mass starvation in Europe, the Potsdam Conference, the controversial decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the surrender of imperial Japan and, finally, the end of World War II and the rise of the Cold War. No other president had ever faced so much in such a short period of time. The Accidental President escorts readers into the situation room with Truman during a tumultuous, history-making 120 days, when the stakes were high and the challenges even higher.  https://www.amazon.com/Accidental-President-Truman-Months-Changed-ebook/dp/B01MQVT9TG/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=accidental+president+baime&qid=1600564421&s=digital-text&sr=1-1  ...more

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• 464: 5/6 The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months that Changed the World, by A J Baime

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  Sep 21 2020

  Image:  Truman announces Japan's surrender, August 14, 1945 The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months that Changed the World, by A J Baime           “A. J. Baime is a master. His reporting and storytelling are woven to hypnotic effect. This is history and humanity in lush, vivid color.”—Doug Stanton, author of The Odyssey of Echo Company  Heroes are often defined as ordinary characters who get pushed into extraordinary circumstances and, through courage and a dash of luck, cement their place in history. Chosen as FDR’s fourth-term vice president for his well-praised work ethic, good judgment, and lack of enemies, Harry S. Truman was the prototypical ordinary man. That is, until he was shockingly thrust in over his head after FDR’s sudden death. The first four months of Truman’s administration saw the founding of the United Nations, the fall of Berlin, victory at Okinawa, firebombings in Tokyo, the first atomic explosion, the Nazi surrender, the liberation of concentration camps, the mass starvation in Europe, the Potsdam Conference, the controversial decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the surrender of imperial Japan and, finally, the end of World War II and the rise of the Cold War. No other president had ever faced so much in such a short period of time. The Accidental President escorts readers into the situation room with Truman during a tumultuous, history-making 120 days, when the stakes were high and the challenges even higher.  https://www.amazon.com/Accidental-President-Truman-Months-Changed-ebook/dp/B01MQVT9TG/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=accidental+president+baime&qid=1600564421&s=digital-text&sr=1-1   ...more

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• 464: 4/6 The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months that Changed the World, by A J Baime

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  Sep 21 2020

  Image:  Two aerial photos of atomic bomb mushroom clouds, over two Japanese cities in 1945 The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months that Changed the World, by A J Baime           “A. J. Baime is a master. His reporting and storytelling are woven to hypnotic effect. This is history and humanity in lush, vivid color.”—Doug Stanton, author of The Odyssey of Echo Company  Heroes are often defined as ordinary characters who get pushed into extraordinary circumstances and, through courage and a dash of luck, cement their place in history. Chosen as FDR’s fourth-term vice president for his well-praised work ethic, good judgment, and lack of enemies, Harry S. Truman was the prototypical ordinary man. That is, until he was shockingly thrust in over his head after FDR’s sudden death. The first four months of Truman’s administration saw the founding of the United Nations, the fall of Berlin, victory at Okinawa, firebombings in Tokyo, the first atomic explosion, the Nazi surrender, the liberation of concentration camps, the mass starvation in Europe, the Potsdam Conference, the controversial decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the surrender of imperial Japan and, finally, the end of World War II and the rise of the Cold War. No other president had ever faced so much in such a short period of time. The Accidental President escorts readers into the situation room with Truman during a tumultuous, history-making 120 days, when the stakes were high and the challenges even higher.  https://www.amazon.com/Accidental-President-Truman-Months-Changed-ebook/dp/B01MQVT9TG/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=accidental+president+baime&qid=1600564421&s=digital-text&sr=1-1   ...more

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• 464: 3/6 The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months that Changed the World, by A J Baime

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  Sep 21 2020

  Image:   Harry and Bess Truman on their wedding day, June 28, 1919 The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months that Changed the World, by A J Baime           “A. J. Baime is a master. His reporting and storytelling are woven to hypnotic effect. This is history and humanity in lush, vivid color.”—Doug Stanton, author of The Odyssey of Echo Company  Heroes are often defined as ordinary characters who get pushed into extraordinary circumstances and, through courage and a dash of luck, cement their place in history. Chosen as FDR’s fourth-term vice president for his well-praised work ethic, good judgment, and lack of enemies, Harry S. Truman was the prototypical ordinary man. That is, until he was shockingly thrust in over his head after FDR’s sudden death. The first four months of Truman’s administration saw the founding of the United Nations, the fall of Berlin, victory at Okinawa, firebombings in Tokyo, the first atomic explosion, the Nazi surrender, the liberation of concentration camps, the mass starvation in Europe, the Potsdam Conference, the controversial decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the surrender of imperial Japan and, finally, the end of World War II and the rise of the Cold War. No other president had ever faced so much in such a short period of time. The Accidental President escorts readers into the situation room with Truman during a tumultuous, history-making 120 days, when the stakes were high and the challenges even higher.  https://www.amazon.com/Accidental-President-Truman-Months-Changed-ebook/dp/B01MQVT9TG/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=accidental+president+baime&qid=1600564421&s=digital-text&sr=1-1   ...more

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• 463: 2/6 The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months that Changed the World, by A J Baime

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  Sep 21 2020

  Image:  Truman in uniform, ca. 1918 The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months that Changed the World, by A J Baime           “A. J. Baime is a master. His reporting and storytelling are woven to hypnotic effect. This is history and humanity in lush, vivid color.”—Doug Stanton, author of The Odyssey of Echo Company  Heroes are often defined as ordinary characters who get pushed into extraordinary circumstances and, through courage and a dash of luck, cement their place in history. Chosen as FDR’s fourth-term vice president for his well-praised work ethic, good judgment, and lack of enemies, Harry S. Truman was the prototypical ordinary man. That is, until he was shockingly thrust in over his head after FDR’s sudden death. The first four months of Truman’s administration saw the founding of the United Nations, the fall of Berlin, victory at Okinawa, firebombings in Tokyo, the first atomic explosion, the Nazi surrender, the liberation of concentration camps, the mass starvation in Europe, the Potsdam Conference, the controversial decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the surrender of imperial Japan and, finally, the end of World War II and the rise of the Cold War. No other president had ever faced so much in such a short period of time. The Accidental President escorts readers into the situation room with Truman during a tumultuous, history-making 120 days, when the stakes were high and the challenges even higher.  https://www.amazon.com/Accidental-President-Truman-Months-Changed-ebook/dp/B01MQVT9TG/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=accidental+president+baime&qid=1600564421&s=digital-text&sr=1-1   ...more

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• 463: 1/6 The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months that Changed the World, by A J Baime

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  Sep 21 2020

  Image:  Truman at age 13 in 1897 The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months that Changed the World, by A J Baime           “A. J. Baime is a master. His reporting and storytelling are woven to hypnotic effect. This is history and humanity in lush, vivid color.”—Doug Stanton, author of The Odyssey of Echo Company  Heroes are often defined as ordinary characters who get pushed into extraordinary circumstances and, through courage and a dash of luck, cement their place in history. Chosen as FDR’s fourth-term vice president for his well-praised work ethic, good judgment, and lack of enemies, Harry S. Truman was the prototypical ordinary man. That is, until he was shockingly thrust in over his head after FDR’s sudden death. The first four months of Truman’s administration saw the founding of the United Nations, the fall of Berlin, victory at Okinawa, firebombings in Tokyo, the first atomic explosion, the Nazi surrender, the liberation of concentration camps, the mass starvation in Europe, the Potsdam Conference, the controversial decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the surrender of imperial Japan and, finally, the end of World War II and the rise of the Cold War. No other president had ever faced so much in such a short period of time. The Accidental President escorts readers into the situation room with Truman during a tumultuous, history-making 120 days, when the stakes were high and the challenges even higher.  https://www.amazon.com/Accidental-President-Truman-Months-Changed-ebook/dp/B01MQVT9TG/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=accidental+president+baime&qid=1600564421&s=digital-text&sr=1-1    ...more

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• 462: 4/4 The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority, by Patrick J. Buchanan

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  Sep 20 2020

  Image:  Nixon displays the V-for-victory sign as he departs the White House after resigning, August 9, 1974The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority, by Patrick J. Buchanan After suffering stinging defeats in the 1960 presidential election against John F. Kennedy, and in the 1962 California gubernatorial election, Nixon's career was declared dead by Washington press and politicians alike. Yet on January 20, 1969, just six years after he had said his political life was over, Nixon would stand taking the oath of office as 37th President of the United States. How did Richard Nixon resurrect a ruined career and reunite a shattered and fractured Republican Party to capture the White House?  In The Greatest Comeback, Patrick J. Buchanan—who, beginning in January 1966, served as one of two staff members to Nixon, and would become a senior advisor in the White House after 1968—gives a firsthand account of those crucial years in which Nixon reversed his political fortunes during a decade marked by civil rights protests; social revolution; the Vietnam War; the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and Martin Luther King; urban riots; campus anarchy, and the rise of the New Left. Using over 1,000 of his own personal memos to Nixon, with Nixon’s scribbled replies back, Buchanan gives readers an insider’s view as Nixon gathers the warring factions of the Republican party—from the conservative base of Barry Goldwater to the liberal wing of Nelson Rockefeller and George Romney, to the New Right legions of an ascendant Ronald Reagan—into the victorious coalition that won him the White House. How Richard Nixon united the party behind him may offer insights into how the Republican Party today can bring together its warring factions. The Greatest Comeback is an intimate portrayal of the 37th President and a fascinating, fly-on-the-wall account of one of the most remarkable American political stories of the 20th century. ...more

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• 462: 3/4 The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority, by Patrick J. Buchanan

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  Sep 20 2020

  Image:   A photo of the Watergate Complex taken from a DC-9-80 inbound to Washington National Airport on January 8, 2006.The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority, by Patrick J. Buchanan After suffering stinging defeats in the 1960 presidential election against John F. Kennedy, and in the 1962 California gubernatorial election, Nixon's career was declared dead by Washington press and politicians alike. Yet on January 20, 1969, just six years after he had said his political life was over, Nixon would stand taking the oath of office as 37th President of the United States. How did Richard Nixon resurrect a ruined career and reunite a shattered and fractured Republican Party to capture the White House?  In The Greatest Comeback, Patrick J. Buchanan—who, beginning in January 1966, served as one of two staff members to Nixon, and would become a senior advisor in the White House after 1968—gives a firsthand account of those crucial years in which Nixon reversed his political fortunes during a decade marked by civil rights protests; social revolution; the Vietnam War; the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and Martin Luther King; urban riots; campus anarchy, and the rise of the New Left. Using over 1,000 of his own personal memos to Nixon, with Nixon’s scribbled replies back, Buchanan gives readers an insider’s view as Nixon gathers the warring factions of the Republican party—from the conservative base of Barry Goldwater to the liberal wing of Nelson Rockefeller and George Romney, to the New Right legions of an ascendant Ronald Reagan—into the victorious coalition that won him the White House. How Richard Nixon united the party behind him may offer insights into how the Republican Party today can bring together its warring factions. The Greatest Comeback is an intimate portrayal of the 37th President and a fascinating, fly-on-the-wall account of one of the most remarkable American political stories of the 20th century. ,,  ,,  ,,   ...more

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• 462: 2/4 The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority, by Patrick J. Buchanan

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  Image:  Lieutenant Commander Richard Nixon, United States Navy (circa 1945)The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority, by Patrick J. Buchanan After suffering stinging defeats in the 1960 presidential election against John F. Kennedy, and in the 1962 California gubernatorial election, Nixon's career was declared dead by Washington press and politicians alike. Yet on January 20, 1969, just six years after he had said his political life was over, Nixon would stand taking the oath of office as 37th President of the United States. How did Richard Nixon resurrect a ruined career and reunite a shattered and fractured Republican Party to capture the White House?  In The Greatest Comeback, Patrick J. Buchanan—who, beginning in January 1966, served as one of two staff members to Nixon, and would become a senior advisor in the White House after 1968—gives a firsthand account of those crucial years in which Nixon reversed his political fortunes during a decade marked by civil rights protests; social revolution; the Vietnam War; the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and Martin Luther King; urban riots; campus anarchy, and the rise of the New Left. Using over 1,000 of his own personal memos to Nixon, with Nixon’s scribbled replies back, Buchanan gives readers an insider’s view as Nixon gathers the warring factions of the Republican party—from the conservative base of Barry Goldwater to the liberal wing of Nelson Rockefeller and George Romney, to the New Right legions of an ascendant Ronald Reagan—into the victorious coalition that won him the White House. How Richard Nixon united the party behind him may offer insights into how the Republican Party today can bring together its warring factions. The Greatest Comeback is an intimate portrayal of the 37th President and a fascinating, fly-on-the-wall account of one of the most remarkable American political stories of the 20th century. ...more

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• 462: 1/4 The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority, by Patrick J. Buchanan

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  Image:  Nixon (second from right) makes his newspaper debut in 1916, contributing five cents to a fund for war orphans. His brother Donald is to his right.The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority, by Patrick J. Buchanan After suffering stinging defeats in the 1960 presidential election against John F. Kennedy, and in the 1962 California gubernatorial election, Nixon's career was declared dead by Washington press and politicians alike. Yet on January 20, 1969, just six years after he had said his political life was over, Nixon would stand taking the oath of office as 37th President of the United States. How did Richard Nixon resurrect a ruined career and reunite a shattered and fractured Republican Party to capture the White House?  In The Greatest Comeback, Patrick J. Buchanan—who, beginning in January 1966, served as one of two staff members to Nixon, and would become a senior advisor in the White House after 1968—gives a firsthand account of those crucial years in which Nixon reversed his political fortunes during a decade marked by civil rights protests; social revolution; the Vietnam War; the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and Martin Luther King; urban riots; campus anarchy, and the rise of the New Left. Using over 1,000 of his own personal memos to Nixon, with Nixon’s scribbled replies back, Buchanan gives readers an insider’s view as Nixon gathers the warring factions of the Republican party—from the conservative base of Barry Goldwater to the liberal wing of Nelson Rockefeller and George Romney, to the New Right legions of an ascendant Ronald Reagan—into the victorious coalition that won him the White House. How Richard Nixon united the party behind him may offer insights into how the Republican Party today can bring together its warring factions. The Greatest Comeback is an intimate portrayal of the 37th President and a fascinating, fly-on-the-wall account of one of the most remarkable American political stories of the 20th century. ...more

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• 461: Dewey Defeats Truman: 4of4: The 1948 Election and the Battle for America's Soul Kindle Editionby A. J. Baime (Author) . Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo:1948Filmming of "On an Island with You," Anna Maria Island, Florida..Date: ca. 1948..General note: "On an Island with You," is a 1948 musical romantic comedy directed by Richard Thorpe. It starred Esther Williams, Peter Lawford, Ricardo Montalban, Cyd Charisse, and Kathryn Beaumont...Physical descrip: 1 transparency - col. - 4 x 5 in...Series Title: Joseph Janney Steinmetz Collection ( http://floridamemory.com/photographiccollection/collections/?id=49 ) ..Repository:  State  Library and Archives of Florida ( http://www.floridamemory.com/ ) , 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL  32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.myflorida.com http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Dewey Defeats Truman: 4of4: The 1948 Election and the Battle for America's Soul Kindle Editionby A. J. Baime  (Author)  . Format: Kindle Editionhttps://www.amazon.com/Dewey-Defeats-Truman-Election-Americas-ebook/dp/B07T1FX76H/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=baime&qid=1600566052&s=digital-text&sr=1-2On the eve of the 1948 election, America was a fractured country. Racism was rampant, foreign relations were fraught, and political parties were more divided than ever. Americans were certain that President Harry S. Truman’s political career was over. “The ballots haven’t been counted,” noted political columnist Fred Othman, “but there seems to be no further need for holding up an affectional farewell to Harry Truman.” Truman’s own staff did not believe he could win. Nor did his wife, Bess. The only man in the world confident that Truman would win was Mr. Truman himself. And win he did. 1948 was a fight for the soul of a nation. In Dewey Defeats Truman, A. J. Baime sheds light on one of the most action-packed six months in American history, as Truman not only triumphs, but oversees watershed events—the passing of the Marshall plan, the acknowledgement of Israel as a new state, the careful attention to the origins of the Cold War, and the first desegregation of the military. Not only did Truman win the election, he succeeded in guiding his country forward at a critical time with high stakes and haunting parallels to the modern day. ...more

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• 461: Dewey Defeats Truman: 3of4: The 1948 Election and the Battle for America's Soul Kindle Editionby A. J. Baime (Author) . Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo:1948Local call number: JJS0007A ..Title: Brooklyn Dodgers spring training: Vero Beach, Florida..Date: March 1949..General note: The Brooklyn Dodgers were one of the first major league baseball teams to conduct spring training in Florida, establishing their operations at Vero Beach in 1948...Physical descrip: 1 photonegative - b&w - 60 mm...Series Title: Joseph Janney Steinmetz Collection ( http://floridamemory.com/photographiccollection/collections/?id=49 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Dewey Defeats Truman: 3of4: The 1948 Election and the Battle for America's Soul Kindle Editionby A. J. Baime  (Author)  . Format: Kindle Editionhttps://www.amazon.com/Dewey-Defeats-Truman-Election-Americas-ebook/dp/B07T1FX76H/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=baime&qid=1600566052&s=digital-text&sr=1-2On the eve of the 1948 election, America was a fractured country. Racism was rampant, foreign relations were fraught, and political parties were more divided than ever. Americans were certain that President Harry S. Truman’s political career was over. “The ballots haven’t been counted,” noted political columnist Fred Othman, “but there seems to be no further need for holding up an affectional farewell to Harry Truman.” Truman’s own staff did not believe he could win. Nor did his wife, Bess. The only man in the world confident that Truman would win was Mr. Truman himself. And win he did. 1948 was a fight for the soul of a nation. In Dewey Defeats Truman, A. J. Baime sheds light on one of the most action-packed six months in American history, as Truman not only triumphs, but oversees watershed events—the passing of the Marshall plan, the acknowledgement of Israel as a new state, the careful attention to the origins of the Cold War, and the first desegregation of the military. Not only did Truman win the election, he succeeded in guiding his country forward at a critical time with high stakes and haunting parallels to the modern day. ...more

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• 461: Dewey Defeats Truman: 2of4: The 1948 Election and the Battle for America's Soul Kindle Editionby A. J. Baime (Author) . Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo:1948Persistent URL: floridamemory.com/items/show/53299 ( http://floridamemory.com/items/show/53299 ) ..Local call number: SP02408..Title: Unidentified men with the "Town Shopper" in San Diego, California..Date: 1948..Physical descrip: 1 photograph - b&w - 8 x 10 in...Series Title: Print Collections ( http://floridamemory.com/photographiccollection/collections/?id=37 ) ..Repository:  State  Library and Archives of Florida ( http://www.floridamemory.com/ ) .500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL, 32399-0250 USA, Contact: 850.245.6700, Archives@dos.myflorida.com http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Dewey Defeats Truman: 2of4: The 1948 Election and the Battle for America's Soul Kindle Editionby A. J. Baime  (Author)  . Format: Kindle Editionhttps://www.amazon.com/Dewey-Defeats-Truman-Election-Americas-ebook/dp/B07T1FX76H/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=baime&qid=1600566052&s=digital-text&sr=1-2On the eve of the 1948 election, America was a fractured country. Racism was rampant, foreign relations were fraught, and political parties were more divided than ever. Americans were certain that President Harry S. Truman’s political career was over. “The ballots haven’t been counted,” noted political columnist Fred Othman, “but there seems to be no further need for holding up an affectional farewell to Harry Truman.” Truman’s own staff did not believe he could win. Nor did his wife, Bess. The only man in the world confident that Truman would win was Mr. Truman himself. And win he did. 1948 was a fight for the soul of a nation. In Dewey Defeats Truman, A. J. Baime sheds light on one of the most action-packed six months in American history, as Truman not only triumphs, but oversees watershed events—the passing of the Marshall plan, the acknowledgement of Israel as a new state, the careful attention to the origins of the Cold War, and the first desegregation of the military. Not only did Truman win the election, he succeeded in guiding his country forward at a critical time with high stakes and haunting parallels to the modern day. ...more

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• 461: Dewey Defeats Truman: 1of4: The 1948 Election and the Battle for America's Soul Kindle Editionby A. J. Baime (Author) . Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo:1948The Olympic Games 100 metres final at Wembley Stadium with Harrison Dillard of USA winning in 10.3 seconds. This equals the previous best Olympic performances of Eddie Tolan in 1932 and Jessie Owens in 1936. Dillard (b.1923) failed to qualify for the 110 metres hurdles, his speciality, at the Olympic trials but did qualify in third and last place for the 100 metres event. Dillard went on to qualify for the 110 metres hurdle event at the Olympics in Helsinki in 1952 and won gold.     ..Daily Herald Archive at the National Media Museum.....We're happy for you to share this digital image within the spirit of The Commons. Certain restrictions on high quality reproductions of the original physical version of apply though; if you're unsure please visit the National Media Museum website ( http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/ ) ......For obtaining reproductions of selected images please go to the Science and Society Picture Library ( http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/ ) . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Dewey Defeats Truman: 1of4: The 1948 Election and the Battle for America's Soul Kindle Editionby A. J. Baime  (Author)  . Format: Kindle Editionhttps://www.amazon.com/Dewey-Defeats-Truman-Election-Americas-ebook/dp/B07T1FX76H/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=baime&qid=1600566052&s=digital-text&sr=1-2On the eve of the 1948 election, America was a fractured country. Racism was rampant, foreign relations were fraught, and political parties were more divided than ever. Americans were certain that President Harry S. Truman’s political career was over. “The ballots haven’t been counted,” noted political columnist Fred Othman, “but there seems to be no further need for holding up an affectional farewell to Harry Truman.” Truman’s own staff did not believe he could win. Nor did his wife, Bess. The only man in the world confident that Truman would win was Mr. Truman himself. And win he did. 1948 was a fight for the soul of a nation. In Dewey Defeats Truman, A. J. Baime sheds light on one of the most action-packed six months in American history, as Truman not only triumphs, but oversees watershed events—the passing of the Marshall plan, the acknowledgement of Israel as a new state, the careful attention to the origins of the Cold War, and the first desegregation of the military. Not only did Truman win the election, he succeeded in guiding his country forward at a critical time with high stakes and haunting parallels to the modern day. ...more

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• 462: 4/4 The Heroic Heart: Greatness Ancient and Modern, by Tod Lindberg

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  Image:  Joseph Campbell and Jean Erdman c. 1939The Heroic Heart: Greatness Ancient and Modern, by Tod Lindberg      What does it mean to be a hero? In The Heroic Heart, Tod Lindberg traces the quality of heroic greatness from its most distant origin in human prehistory to the present day. The designation of “hero” once conjured mainly the prowess of conquerors and kings slaying their enemies on the battlefield. Heroes in the modern world come in many varieties, from teachers and mentors making a lasting impression on others by giving of themselves, to firefighters no less willing than their ancient counterparts to risk life and limb. They don’t do so to assert a claim of superiority over others, however. Rather, the modern heroic heart acts to serve others and save others. The spirit of modern heroism is generosity, what Lindberg calls “the caring will,” a primal human trait that has flourished alongside the spread of freedom and equality. Through its intimate portraits of historical and literary figures and its subtle depiction of the most difficult problems of politics, The Heroic Heart offers a startlingly original account of the passage from the ancient to the modern world and the part the heroic type has played in it. Lindberg deftly combines social criticism and moral philosophy in a work that ranks with such classics as Thomas Carlyle’s nineteenth-century On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History and Joseph Campbell’s twentieth-century The Hero with a Thousand Faces. ...more

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• 462: 3/4 The Heroic Heart: Greatness Ancient an d Modern, by Tod Lindberg

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  Image:  Japanese print depicting Carlyle's horror at the burning of his manuscript of The French Revolution: A HistoryThe Heroic Heart: Greatness Ancient and Modern, by Tod Lindberg      What does it mean to be a hero? In The Heroic Heart, Tod Lindberg traces the quality of heroic greatness from its most distant origin in human prehistory to the present day. The designation of “hero” once conjured mainly the prowess of conquerors and kings slaying their enemies on the battlefield. Heroes in the modern world come in many varieties, from teachers and mentors making a lasting impression on others by giving of themselves, to firefighters no less willing than their ancient counterparts to risk life and limb. They don’t do so to assert a claim of superiority over others, however. Rather, the modern heroic heart acts to serve others and save others. The spirit of modern heroism is generosity, what Lindberg calls “the caring will,” a primal human trait that has flourished alongside the spread of freedom and equality. Through its intimate portraits of historical and literary figures and its subtle depiction of the most difficult problems of politics, The Heroic Heart offers a startlingly original account of the passage from the ancient to the modern world and the part the heroic type has played in it. Lindberg deftly combines social criticism and moral philosophy in a work that ranks with such classics as Thomas Carlyle’s nineteenth-century On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History and Joseph Campbell’s twentieth-century The Hero with a Thousand Faces. ...more

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• 462: 2/4 The Heroic Heart: Greatness Ancient and Modern, by Tod Lindberg

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  Image:  The Yarnell Fire began on Jun. 28, 2013, from a lightning strike and is approximately 1.5 miles from Yarnell, AZ.  On June 30, it overran and killed 19 members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots. Just one of the hotshots on the crew survived—he was posted as a lookout on the fire and was not with the others when the fire overtook them.  U.S. Forest Service photo.The Heroic Heart: Greatness Ancient and Modern, by Tod Lindberg      What does it mean to be a hero? In The Heroic Heart, Tod Lindberg traces the quality of heroic greatness from its most distant origin in human prehistory to the present day. The designation of “hero” once conjured mainly the prowess of conquerors and kings slaying their enemies on the battlefield. Heroes in the modern world come in many varieties, from teachers and mentors making a lasting impression on others by giving of themselves, to firefighters no less willing than their ancient counterparts to risk life and limb. They don’t do so to assert a claim of superiority over others, however. Rather, the modern heroic heart acts to serve others and save others. The spirit of modern heroism is generosity, what Lindberg calls “the caring will,” a primal human trait that has flourished alongside the spread of freedom and equality. Through its intimate portraits of historical and literary figures and its subtle depiction of the most difficult problems of politics, The Heroic Heart offers a startlingly original account of the passage from the ancient to the modern world and the part the heroic type has played in it. Lindberg deftly combines social criticism and moral philosophy in a work that ranks with such classics as Thomas Carlyle’s nineteenth-century On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History and Joseph Campbell’s twentieth-century The Hero with a Thousand Faces. ...more

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• 462: 1/4 The Heroic Heart: Greatness Ancient and Modern, by Tod Lindberg

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  Image:  Odysseus and the Sirens, Ulixes mosaic at the Bardo National Museum in Tunis, Tunisia, 2nd century ADThe Heroic Heart: Greatness Ancient and Modern, by Tod Lindberg      What does it mean to be a hero? In The Heroic Heart, Tod Lindberg traces the quality of heroic greatness from its most distant origin in human prehistory to the present day. The designation of “hero” once conjured mainly the prowess of conquerors and kings slaying their enemies on the battlefield. Heroes in the modern world come in many varieties, from teachers and mentors making a lasting impression on others by giving of themselves, to firefighters no less willing than their ancient counterparts to risk life and limb. They don’t do so to assert a claim of superiority over others, however. Rather, the modern heroic heart acts to serve others and save others. The spirit of modern heroism is generosity, what Lindberg calls “the caring will,” a primal human trait that has flourished alongside the spread of freedom and equality. Through its intimate portraits of historical and literary figures and its subtle depiction of the most difficult problems of politics, The Heroic Heart offers a startlingly original account of the passage from the ancient to the modern world and the part the heroic type has played in it. Lindberg deftly combines social criticism and moral philosophy in a work that ranks with such classics as Thomas Carlyle’s nineteenth-century On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History and Joseph Campbell’s twentieth-century The Hero with a Thousand Faces. ...more

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• 461: What can go wrong and why with a virus vaccine by November: 2of2: @HehryIMiller @PacificResearch

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  Photo:1903This illustration entitled, "Presidential Callers", by cartoonist Clifford Berryman, which appeared in the Washington Post on October 18, 1903, shows squabbling Republican Party leaders of Maryland coming to the White House, where they have been invited by President Roosevelt to find a way to iron out their differences.Berryman Political Cartoon Collection http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowWhat can go wrong and why with a virus vaccine by November: 2of2:   @HehryIMiller @PacificResearchhttp://www.henrymillermd.org/24564/why-a-coronavirus-vaccine-october-surprise-could ...more

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• 461: What can go wrong and why with a virus vaccine by November: 1of2: @HehryIMiller @PacificResearch

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  Photo:his illustration entitled, The Democratic "Elaine", by cartoonist Clifford Berryman, which appeared in the Washington Post on July 3, 1904, shows Judge Alton B. Parker, as the Democratic nominee for President, steering the Democratic Party toward heartbreak in the 1904 Presidential Election. This is a direct comparison to Elaine of Astolat of Arthurian legend.Berryman Political Cartoon Collection http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowWhat can go wrong and why with a virus vaccine by November: 1of2:   @HehryIMiller @PacificResearchhttp://www.henrymillermd.org/24564/why-a-coronavirus-vaccine-october-surprise-could ...more

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• 461: The next scheduled Solar Maximum is 2025, and we don't much know why it will be weak. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Photo:1941And this is also a poor place. Sunlight causes some foods to fade. Direct sunshine makes too much heat for the jars  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe next scheduled Solar Maximum is 2025, and we don't much know why it will be weak.  Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/?s=solar+maximum

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• 460: Prepping a three-booster Moon lander. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Sep 19 2020

  Photo:Photo of Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) Director Dr. Wernher von Braun at his desk with moon lander in background and rocket models on his desk. Dr. von Braun served as Marshall's first director from 1960 until his transfer to NASA Headquarters in 1970 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowPrepping a three-booster Moon lander.  Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/dynetics-manned-lunar-lander-requires-multiple-launches-and-in-space-refueling/ ...more

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• 460: Last days of the 2020 census under the shadow of the virus and bad weather. And prepping the Transition. @FRoseDC. @WJLA

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  Photo:1935 [Dust storm, Elkhart, Kan.]  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowLast days of the 2020 census under the shadow of the virus and bad weather. And prepping the Transition. @FRoseDC. @WJLADeadline approaching for Census despite COVIDhttps://govmatters.tv/covid-19-and-extreme-weather-making-it-difficult-to-get-accurate-census-count/Presidential transition process under way for both Trump and Bidenhttps://govmatters.tv/updates-on-the-presidential-transition-process/ ...more

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• 460: #TheScalaReport: The shape of retail things to come after the virus. And London is going back to the office. Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com #ScalaAPS

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  Sep 19 2020

  Photo:1910 [Department store window, handkerchiefs]  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow#TheScalaReport:  The shape of retail things to come after the virus.  And London is going back to the office. Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com  #ScalaAPShttps://risnews.com/mall-owners-set-buy-jcpenney-century-21-closing-all-stores

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• 460: #NewAmericanCivilWar: 2of2: Imagining and planning the violence following a stolen election 2020. Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Sep 19 2020

  Photo:Significance: Fort Gaddis is the oldest known building in Fayette County and the second oldest log building in western Pennsylvania. It was built ca. 1769-74 by Thomas Gaddis who was in charge of the defense of the region and his home was probably designated as a site for community meetings and shelter in times of emergency, hence the term "Fort Gaddis," probably a 19th century appellation. During the Whiskey Rebellion a Liberty Pole was erected at the house during a rally in support of the Rebel cause. The choice of this site for a political demonstration indicates its importance as a focal point for community expression. The fact that all the additions to the building were removed in the early 20th century in respect for the section contemporary with the Revolution and Rebellion is evidence of the building's long standing and continuing status and power as a community symbol.  Survey number: HABS PA-5474 Building/structure dates: ca. 1769- ca. 1774 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: before 1798 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: after 1866 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: after 1880 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: ca. 1909 Subsequent Work  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow#NewAmericanCivilWar: 2of2: Imagining and planning the violence following a stolen election 2020. Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisishttps://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/09/joe-biden-campaign-strategizing-for-all-out-2020-warfare ...more

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• 460: #NewAmericanCivilWar: 1of2: Imagining and planning the violence following a stolen election 2020. Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Photo:Near Braddock, Pa., where Edward Braddock's army was defeated, July 9, 1755; also scene of meeting of "Whiskey Rebels" and Pennsylvania MIlitia for their march on Pittsburg, Aug. 1, 1794.H119272 U.S. Copyright Office.Photo of engraving by A.W. Graham of painting by Paul Weber.This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.Caption card tracings: US Hist. 1794 (Whiskey Rebellion); Pa. Braddock region; U.S. History 9 July 1755; French & Indian War, 1755-1763; Artists, Publ. Index; BI; Shelf. Sources checked on verso of card. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow#NewAmericanCivilWar: 1of2: Imagining and planning the violence following a stolen election 2020. Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisishttps://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/09/joe-biden-campaign-strategizing-for-all-out-2020-warfare ...more

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• 459: Pluses, possibilities and pitfalls of the unfinished Paycheck Protection Program. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer

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  Sep 19 2020

  Photo:  1890 Pay day, U.S. Naval Academy  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowPluses, possibilities and pitfalls of the unfinished Paycheck Protection Program.  @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirerThere's an easier way to get another round of PPP accomplishedhttps://thehill.com/opinion/finance/516659-theres-an-easier-way-to-get-another-round-of-ppp-accomplished?rnd=1600267701PPP loans hide a painful kicker: A big tax billhttps://fusion.inquirer.com/business/ppp-loans-small-business-taxes-expenses-congress-toomey-casey-pa-20200915.htmlOf course there was PPP fraud, but the program was a crucial lifeline https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/sep/13/ppp-fraud-paycheck-protection-program  ...more

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• 459: #SmallBusinessAmerica: Builders lead the charge to recovery. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer

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  Sep 19 2020

  Photo: 1915 Maskinistbolig Eidsfossen 18/11-1915  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow#SmallBusinessAmerica: Builders lead the charge to recovery. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirerBuilder Confidence Soars to an All-Time High, http://nahbnow.com/2020/09/builder-confidence-soars-to-an-all-time-high-lumber-risks-remain/  Industrial production rose 0.4 percent in August for its fourth consecutive monthly increase. However, even after the recent gains, the index in August was 7.3 percent below its pre-pandemic February level.https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g17/Current/default.htmManufacturing activity in the Philly region continued to expand this month  https://www.philadelphiafed.org/research-and-data/regional-economy/business-outlook-survey/2020/bos0920 Business activity expanded at a solid clip in New York Statehttps://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/survey/empire/empire2020/esms_2020_9_survey.pdfLA Area Port Inbound Traffic up to New Record High, Outbound Traffic Down Year-over-year in Augusthttps://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2020/09/la-area-port-inbound-traffic-up-year.htmlRestaurant diners still significantly below pre-covid levelshttps://3.bp.blogspot.com/-W1iSTRisdQ4/X146KX-rXOI/AAAAAAAA2LA/4oorbxx6EjY5tDN8ufZqW0mTyzJUlmk2ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/DinersSept122020.PNG100,000 Restaurants Have Closed, New Report Sayshttps://news.yahoo.com/100-000-restaurants-closed-report-160141982.html?soc_src=hl-viewer&soc_trk=tw ...more

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• 459: Surprising to all, Law & Order is on the ballot 2020. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion

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  Sep 19 2020

  Photo:1940Deputy sheriff and constable talking, Mogollon, New Mexico  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowSurprising to all, Law & Order is on the ballot 2020. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinionhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/democrat-madness-11600296765?st=0j7170x27nek4kd&reflink=article_copyURL_share

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• 459: #PacificWatch:The SoCal Bobcat fire feeds on decades of unmanaged undergrowth & What is to be done? @JCBliss

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  Sep 19 2020

  Photo: 14235, Cloyne, Addington Highlands, Lennox and Addington County, Ontario, Canada, K0H 1K0, 44.81867, -77.18584 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow#PacificWatch:The SoCal Bobcat fire feeds on decades of unmanaged undergrowth & What is to be done? @JCBlisshttps://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/17/1008473/wildfires-california-prescribed-burns-climate-change-forests/

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• 458: White House signing ceremony for the Abraham Accords promises more peace ahead. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Sep 19 2020

  Photo:STS-35 Earth observation taken aboard Columbia, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 102, is of the Persian Gulf area. Major cities and oilfields of the countries of Saudi Arabia (foreground), Iraq (top left), Iran (top center and top right), Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and a portion of the United Arab Emirates are visible in this scene. The cities are the large whitish areas of city lights. Flares characteristic of the Mid-East oil field practices are visible both onshore and offshore throughout the scene. Major cities identifiable are in Iraq - Baghdad, Basra, and Faw; in Qatar - Ab Dawhah; in Kuwait - Kuwait City; in Saudi Arabia - Riyadh, Al Jubayl, Dharan, Al Huf, Ad Dilam and Al Hariq; and Bahrain and its associated causeway to the mainland. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowWhite House signing ceremony for the Abraham Accords promises more peace ahead.  Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres...more

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• 458: Why did Jeff Bezos buy the Washington Post in 2013? @LeeSmithDC

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  Sep 19 2020

  Photo:This untitled illustration by cartoonist Clifford Berryman, which appeared in the Washington Post on March 12, 1905, depicts President Theodore Roosevelt dealing a hand of cards in his "Square Deal" domestic program policy, which delighted the Democratic donkey, but made the Republican elephant somewhat nervous.Berryman Political Cartoon Collection http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowWhy did Jeff Bezos buy the Washington Post in 2013? @LeeSmithDChttps://www.washingtonpost.com/national/washington-post-to-be-sold-to-jeff-bezos/2013/08/05/ca537c9e-fe0c-11e2-9711-3708310f6f4d_story.html ...more

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• 458: BDS anti-semitism in New York City governance & What is to be done? @IsraelNitzan Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @IsraelinNewYork

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  Sep 19 2020

  Photo: 1957 [United Nations - Translators Cabin]  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowBDS anti-semitism in New York City governance & What is to be done? @IsraelNitzan Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @IsraelinNewYorkAs Acting Consul General, Israel Nitzan coordinates the political work at the Israeli Consulate in New York. Israel develops and maintains relations with national, state, and local elected officials as well as community leaders within the Consulate’s five-state jurisdiction as a representative of the State of Israel. New York is Israel’s fourth foreign posting with the Ministry. He served at the Israeli Embassy in Cairo, Egypt, as Spokesperson from 2002 to 2005, returning in 2009 as the Deputy Chief of Mission until an attack during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution forced the Embassy to evacuate. Related articles●        https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/chess-great-slams-antisemitism-of-ny-socialist-group-against-israel-638711 ●        https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-5796055,00.html ●        https://www.conferenceofpresidents.org/news/press/2020/aug18/jewish-leaders-condemn-discriminatory-dsa-candidate-questionnaire ...more

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• 458: Hamas rockets Israel during the signing of the Abraham Accords & What is to be done? @LTCJonathan @IDF Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Sep 19 2020

  Photo: 1898 Gaza ruins  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowGaza Hamas rockets Israel during the signing of the Abraham Accords & What is to be done? @LTCJonathan @IDF Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres Head of the International Media Branch of the IDF Spokesperson's Unit, Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus is the IDF's Spokesperson to the world.  ·         https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/gaza-news/israeli-aircraft-strike-in-gaza-witnesses-say-sirens-in-southern-israel-642434 ·         https://www.jns.org/hezbollahs-sniper-attack-a-risky-and-cynical-maneuver/ ·         https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-intel-firm-friday-airstrikes-in-syria-hit-missile-production-facility/#gs.getmwz ·         https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-54134869 ...more

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• 458: Uneasy El Salvador and unreliable Guatemala & What is to be done?. @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion

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  Sep 18 2020

  Photo:1911GUATEMALA. STREET SCENE, GUATEMALA CITY  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowUneasy El Salvador and unreliable Guatemala & What is to be done?. @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion https://www.wsj.com/articles/trouble-brewing-in-central-america-11600028832

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• 458: The growing dangers of BDS even after the Abraham Accords. David Peyman, US State Department Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Sep 18 2020

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe growing dangers of BDS even after the Abraham Accords. David Peyman, US State Department Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_presDavid Peyman is the US State Department’s deputy special envoy to combat antisemitism for BDS, Eurasia and special projects. ●        https://www.algemeiner.com/2020/09/09/us-state-department-planning-expanded-campaign-using-all-legal-and-policy-tools-to-combat-antisemitic-bds-movement-against-israel/ ●        https://thehill.com/opinion/international/516559-state-department-campaign-could-be-groundbreaking ...more

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• 457: Gavin Newsom opines, "This is all your fault, you climate deniers." @VDHanson @HooverInst

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  Sep 18 2020

  Photo:1966 Forest Fire Equipment: Fire Trucks - California  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowGavin Newsom claims, "This is all your fault, you climate deniers."  @VDHanson @HooverInsthttps://www.nationalreview.com/2020/09/california-forest-fires-taxes-homelessness-same-old-fall-problems/#slide-1

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• 457: "His campaign was quite correct in saying that the downside of staging this Oz-like figure was not as much as the downside of letting him loose..." @VDHanson

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  Sep 18 2020

  Photo:baum l frank lyman frank 1856 1919 wizard of oz illustrationsdrawingsthe miriam and ira d wallach division of art prints and photographs print collectionpen and ink drawings for the wizard of oz by frank l baumchapter xvdenslow w w william wallace 1856 1915 artist  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow"His campaign was quite correct in saying that the downside of staging this Oz-like figure was not as much as the downside of letting him loose..." @VDHanson @HooverInsthttps://amgreatness.com/2020/09/13/biden-the-great-and-powerful/ ...more

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• 456: Did the Democrats and Biden forget to mention the disorder in the cities until Kenosha? @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Sep 18 2020

  Photo: 1941 Cheese market on U.S. 41, Kenosha County, Wisconsin  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowDid the Democrats and Biden forget to mention the disorder in the cities until Kenosha? @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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• 456: AG Barr recommends seditious-conspiracy statute, Section 2384. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Sep 18 2020

  Photo: 1900 Sing Sing Prison. (Prisoners going to work.)  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowAG Barr recommends seditious-conspiracy statute, Section 2384. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatnesshttps://www.nationalreview.com/2020/09/yes-the-doj-should-charge-violent-anti-american-radicals-with-seditious-conspiracy/

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• 456: "The whole Democrat Party has become a hostage to ideology." @SebGorka #AmericaFirst

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  Sep 18 2020

  Photo: 1905 DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow"The whole Democrat Party has become a hostage to ideology." @SebGorka #AmericaFirst 

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• 456: The campaigning Democrats flee in silence from the Abraham Accords. @SebGorka #AmericaFirst

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  Sep 18 2020

  Photo: 1934 Arab cauliflower vendor  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe campaigning Democrats flee in silence from the Abraham Accords. @SebGorka #AmericaFirst

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• 455: The mystery of the elegant prose of Peggy Noonan choosing a cancer metaphor to deride POTUS. @ConradMBlack @TheAmGreatness

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  Sep 18 2020

  Photo: 1910 Circulating library, the New York Public Library  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe mystery of the elegant prose of Peggy Noonan choosing a cancer metaphor to deride POTUS. @ConradMBlack @TheAmGreatness

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• 455: Universal family leave is an expensive glass-ceiling for women in Scandinavia: will it succeed in the US? @VerodeRugy @Mercatus

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  Sep 18 2020

  Photo: 1885This image has been taken from scan 000123 from "Sketches in Holland and Scandinavia". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, created by users of the British Library's flickr photostream http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowUniversal family leave is an expensive glass-ceiling for women in Scandinavia: will it succeed in the US? @VerodeRugy @Mercatushttps://www.mercatus.org/publications/government-spending/poor-americans-will-suffer-paid-leave-mandate ...more

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• 455: Judy Shelton advocating the Gold Standard frightens the status quo in the Senate. @JohnTanmy @RealClearMarkets

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  Sep 18 2020

  Photo:The Argo Gold Mine and Mill, a former mining and milling property consisting of a gold mine and gold mill in Idaho Springs, Colorado, built at the entrance of the Argo TunnelTitle, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.The tunnel was built between 1893 and 1910 to drain the gold mines in Virginia Canyon, Gilpin Gulch, Russell Gulch, Quartz Hill, Nevadaville, and Central City and allow easier ore removal. The mill was built at the entrance of the tunnel to process ore from the many mines drained by the tunnel. The property had been closed from 1943 until 1976, when it was purchased by James N. Maxwell. He wanted to preserve an example of the Colorado gold rush mines. It is now a popular visitor destination for tours of the old mine.Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.Gift; Gates Frontiers Fund; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:068).Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowJudy Shelton advocating the Gold Standard frightens the status quo in the Senate. @JohnTanmy @RealClearMarketshttps://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2020/09/17/just_what_is_it_that_judy_sheltons_critics_are_so_afraid_of_577669.html ...more

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• 455: The recovery underway while the Pelosi-led Democrats stall. @TreasurySpox @MonicaCrowley

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  Sep 18 2020

  Photo: The 1855 Findlay Market, Ohio's oldest surviving public market in the now-gentrified (in 2016) Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe recovery underway while the Pelosi-led Democrats stall. @TreasurySpox @MonicaCrowley https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/14/steven-mnuchin-now-isnt-the-time-to-worry-about-the-deficit-fed-balance-sheet.html

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• 454: Calculating the long term national costs for the school lockdowns of 2020. @EricHanushek @HooverInst

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  Sep 18 2020

  Photo: 1889Back of photo states:.Hornick School SS No. 11.Cost $250.00 to build and furnish, year 1890.Caretaker paid 5 cents a day...Excerpt from: 'Schools of Kaladar Townshhip' by Eileen Flieler (The Pioneer Times, Newsletter of the CDHS Spring 2015):..'SS#11–Hornick's School (1889–1900), according to the original minute book was built on Wilson Vance's lot and was erected by James Freeburn and sons. SS#11 was formed when school section #2 was divided. Up until then the students went to Flinton (quite a walk)... The divisions formed SS#11–Hornick's School. The desks were made by William McLuckie. Two hundred and fifty dollars ($250) was raised for the construction, fencing and furnishing of this school which measured 18 feet wide, 30 feet long with ceilings of 10 ft. It had 2 windows on each side, clapboard on the outside and the shingles were laid in lime mortar. It had a stone foundation. Trustees were Wm. McLuckie, James Bryden, Wm. J. Freeburn and T. P. Hornick..Miss Betty Hornick was hired as the teacher for 1891 at a salary of $15.00 a month. The school was to be kept open for at least six months of the year...In 1895, because some non-resident students were attending free of charge, a motion was passed by the board that non-resident students should pay a monthly fee of twenty-five cents (25¢) each http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowCalculating the long term national costs for the school lockdowns of 2020. @EricHanushek @HooverInst https://thehill.com/opinion/education/515769-students-have-already-been-saddled-with-economic-losses-from-school ...more

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• 454: What explains rust on the moon, front and back? Shuai Li, University of Hawaii. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com

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  Sep 18 2020

  Photo: 2014A perigee full moon or supermoon is seen, Sunday, August 10, 2014, in Washington. A supermoon occurs when the moon’s orbit is closest (perigee) to Earth at the same time it is full. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowWhat explains rust on the moon, front and back?  Shuai Li, University of Hawaii. David Livingston, SpaceShow.comhttps://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/the-moon-is-rusting-and-researchers-want-to-know-whyDr. Shuai Li is a planetary geologist and spectroscopist. He was born in China. Dr. Li came to US 11 years ago. He got his master degree from the Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis in 2011. He got his PhD degree from Brown University in 2016. Dr. Li spent most of his time working on the distribution, variation, and origins of water on the Moon in graduate school. After that, he worked at the University of Hawaii as a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Paul Lucey’s group for 2 years. Dr. Li became a faculty member of Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP) at the university of Hawaii earlier this year. Major outcomes of his recent work include the discovery of surface exposed water ice in the lunar permanently shaded regions and the widespread hematite at high latitudes of the Moon.https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/the-moon-is-rusting-and-researchers-want-to-know-why ...more

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• 454: In defense of Dr. Scott Atlas from the suspiciously partisan: 2of2: @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Sep 18 2020

  Photo:1939 Patient being prepared for operation, Herring Hospital (private), Herrin, IllinoisRothstein, Arthur, 1915-1985, photographer  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowIn defense of Dr. Scott Atlas from the suspiciously partisan: 2of2: @RichardAEpstein @HooverInsthttps://www.nationalreview.com/2020/09/scott-atlas-attacked-for-joining-white-house-covid-19-task-force/

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• 454: In defense of Dr. Scott Atlas from the suspiciously partisan: 1of2: @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Sep 18 2020

  Photo:1900 Coolgardie Hospital, W.A. - circa 1900  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowIn defense of Dr. Scott Atlas from the suspiciously partisan: 1of2: @RichardAEpstein @HooverInsthttps://www.nationalreview.com/2020/09/scott-atlas-attacked-for-joining-white-house-covid-19-task-force/

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• 454: The trouble with TikTok and WeChat is the PRC. Dr. Weifeng Zhong, Senior Research Fellow. @Mercatus

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  Sep 18 2020

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe trouble with TikTok and WeChat is the PRC. Dr. Weifeng Zhong, Senior Research Fellow. @Mercatushttps://www.wsj.com/articles/white-house-concerns-grow-over-emerging-tiktok-deal-with-oracle-11600359798?mod=hp_lead_pos1

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• 453: The Belarus crisis: democracy challenges autocracy. Jonatan Vseviov @vseviov Republic of Estonia Ambassador to the US. @Estonia_in_US Christopher Nixon Cox.

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  Sep 17 2020

  Photo:View of Vitebsk in the early 19th century by Józef Peszka. Józef Peszka - Віктар Барысенкаў, Таямніцы Віцебска right:Greek Catholic church of Christ Resurrection in Vitsebsk, left: non existent catholic church of Saint Anthony. Public Domain File:Viciebsk, Rynak-Vialikaja. Віцебск, Рынак-Вялікая (J. Pieška, 1800).jpg Created: circa 1800 date QS:P,+1800-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe Belarus crisis: democracy challenges autocracy. Jonatan Vseviov @vseviov Republic of Estonia Ambassador to the US. @Estonia_in_US  Christopher Nixon Cox.https://finance.yahoo.com/news/russian-spymaster-accuses-us-fomenting-130246969.html ...more

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• 453: The Abraham Accord illustrates that Azerbaijan's friendship with Israel has established a trend for peace in Asia. Except for Armenia. @ElinSuleymanov Christopher Nixon Cox

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  Sep 17 2020

  Photo:Photograph shows the Summer Centre for Public Gatherings which first opened in 1912 as a club for upper-class Baku society. It is now called the Magomayev Azerbaijan State Philharmonic Hall. (Source: researcher A. Yusubov, 2015) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe Abraham Accord illustrates that Azerbaijan's friendship with Israel has established a trend for peace in Asia. Except for Armenia. @ElinSuleymanov Christopher Nixon Coxhttps://jewishjournal.com/commentary/blogs/320574/azerbaijan-israel-partnership-is-a-lesson-on-muslim-jewish-relations/   ...more

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• 452: State of the City, the State, the Union: "They're staying away because they don't feel safe." John Catsimatidis @JCats2013 @CatsRoundtable @JohnCats.

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  Sep 17 2020

  Photo:1860 The Five Points in 1859, view taken from the corner of Worth and Little Water St.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowState of the City, the State, the Union: "They're staying away because they don't feel safe."  John Catsimatidis @JCats2013 @CatsRoundtable @JohnCats.https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/516137-more-than-160-executives-critique-de-blasios-leadership-amid-pandemic

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• 452: Confronting the PRC at sea, the US lacks an adequate industrial base. James Holmes, @NavalWarCollege @GordonGChang

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  Sep 17 2020

  Photo:  AMS-133 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowConfronting the PRC at sea, the US lacks an adequate industrial base. James Holmes, @NavalWarCollege @GordonGChanghttps://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/war-china-shipyards-are-americas-achilles-heel-168921

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• 452: India considers liberating Tibet from the PRC. @CleoPaskal @FDD @GordonGChang

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  Sep 17 2020

  Photo:  Tibetan holy tanka, Sakya Pandita http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowIndia considers liberating Tibet from the PRC. @CleoPaskal @FDD @GordonGChang 

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• 452: What does the PRC want in Earth orbit and beyond? Brandon Weichert. @GordonGChang

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  Sep 17 2020

  Photo: Chinese fire arrows.  Fire arrows were one of the earliest forms of weaponized gunpowder, being used from the ninth century onward. Not to be confused with earlier incendiary arrow projectiles, the fire arrow was a gunpowder weapon that receives its name from the translated Chinese term huǒjiàn (火箭), which literally means fire arrow. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowWhat does the PRC want in Earth Orbit and beyond? Brandon Weichert. @GordonGChanghttps://www.space.com/china-rocket-launch-from-sea-platform-jilin-1-gaofen-3.html ...more

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• 452: At 33 PE, the market grows to Heaven while watching Trump and Biden, or not? @BrettArends @Marketwatch

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  Sep 17 2020

  Photo:  No. 2 Wall Street http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowAt 33 PE, the market grows to Heaven while watching Trump and Biden, or not? @BrettArends @Marketwatchhttps://www.marketwatch.com/story/theres-only-one-person-who-is-looking-out-for-your-retirement-you-11600281642?mod=brett-arends

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• 457: Hayabusa-2, on the way home, looking for another asteroid mission. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Sep 17 2020

  Photo:  Hayabusa-2 re-entry http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowHayabusa-2, on the way home, looking for another asteroid mission. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/japan-chooses-hayabusa-2s-next-asteroid-target/

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• 457: Capitalism in space means risk, reward and failure. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Sep 17 2020

  Photo:  Just Read the Instructions now on location in the Atlantic in advance of tomorrow's CRS-6 launch, targeted for 4:33pm ET. Since our last landing attempt, the drone ship has been upgraded to tolerate more powerful ocean swells, however weather at the landing site is looking significantly better this time...After Dragon and Falcon 9’s second stage are on their way to orbit, the first stage will execute a controlled reentry through Earth’s atmosphere, targeting touchdown on an autonomous spaceport drone ship approximately nine minutes after launch. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowCapitalism in space means risk, reward and failure. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/astras-first-orbital-launch-test-fails/ ...more

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• 457: Pence campaigns for the energy vote of PA, where no one believes Biden-Harris support fossil fuel jobs. @SalenaZito #MiddleofSomewhere

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  Sep 17 2020

  Photo:  1900Oil rig at Titusville, Pa  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowPence campaigns for the energy vote of PA, where no one believes Biden-Harris support fossil fuel jobs. @SalenaZito #MiddleofSomewherehttps://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/in-pennsylvania-mike-pence-lauds-the-shale-industry

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• 457: Cambria County, Pennsylvania, the working-class Democrats of 2012, moves toward the Republican camp. @SalenaZito #MiddleofSomewhere

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  Sep 17 2020

  Photo:  Cambria & Indiana Railroad, Blacksmith Shop, .25 miles northwest of Colver, Cambria County, PA http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowCambria County, Pennsylvania, the working-class Democrats of 2012, moves toward the Republican camp. @SalenaZito #MiddleofSomewherehttps://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-forgotten-counties-will-make-their-voices-heard

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• 456: After the crisis of the virus, the migrants from Tunisia and Libya have returned to Italy. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation.

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  Sep 17 2020

  Photo: View of Tripoli, Libya http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowAfter the crisis of the virus, the migrants from Tunisia and Libya have returned to Italy. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation."Instead, Tunisians have accounted for more than 40% of this year’s arrivals in Italy, according to the un’s High Commission for Refugees. The pandemic is responsible for this change, too. It has turned an ailing Tunisian economy into a stricken one. Heavily dependent on tourism, its gdp shrank by 22% in the second quarter, while unemployment rose to 18%. It is not just Tunisia’s poor who have fled across the sea. One woman got off a boat in July wearing sunglasses, a wide-brimmed straw hat and with a poodle on a lead." Economist...more

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• 456: Pritzker of deeply-in-debt Illinois aims to tax the rich even more following the virus and the disorder; & What is to be done?

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  Sep 17 2020

  Photo: Jay Pritzker Pavilion by Frank Gehry; Chicago, Illinois.   http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowPritzker of deeply in debt Illinois aims to tax the rich even more following the virus and the disorder & What is to be done? @Adam_Schuster. Budget and tax research director @illinoispolicy. 

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• 456: Strangers have risked everything to get here and taste freedom, not to be told by politicians to lock down their enterprise. @JohnTamny

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  Sep 17 2020

  Photo: Visiting card of a Norwegian immigrant to the United States. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowStrangers have risked everything to get here and taste freedom, not to be told by politicians to lockdown their enterprise. @JohnTamnyhttps://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2020/09/03/listing_a_few_of_the_many_reasons_to_celebrate_the_united_states_576205.html

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• 456: Why risk-taking entrepreneurs are America's treasure. @JohnTamny @RealClearMarkets

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  Sep 17 2020

  Photo:  Rockefeller, Morgan, and Sage standing in front of the U.S. Treasury while Hanna (?) holds his shin http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowWhy risk-taking entrepreneurs are America's treasure.  @JohnTamny @RealClearMarketshttps://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2020/09/09/government_spending_is_the_enemy_of_progress_576744.htmlFormer Disney executive Michael Crawford sees a future beyond the paranoid present. Crawford’s future is happily bereft of masks, of people going out of their way to remain “6 FEET APART,” of people avoiding crowds on the ludicrous supposition that the very humans whose innovations have relentlessly elevated living standards, and whose discoveries have elongated life, are presently a lethal threat to other humans. Crawford happily sees a world beyond coronavirus hysteria where people are told not to high five, hug, or even eat near one another. Thank goodness for people like him. Through their speculations, entrepreneurs create information without which there’s no progress. In Crawford’s case, he’s building what he describes as "the Disneyland of football" in Canton, OH. It's people like him that will free us from the ridiculous now. The opinion piece can be found here. ...more

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• 455: What do the Abraham Accords mean for Beijing, Ankara, Moscow? Gregory Copley, Defense and Foreign Affairs.

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  Sep 16 2020

  Photo:   1898 Straatgezicht in Moskou  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowWhat do the Abraham Accords mean for Beijing, Ankara, Moscow? Gregory Copley, Defense and Foreign Affairs.

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• 454: Nobel Prize for Trump just as unlikely as Trump wins the White House in 2016. @HooverWhelan @HooverInst

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  Sep 16 2020

  Photo:1929 Vestibul och biljettluckor Østbanestasjonen (i dagligt tal kallad Østbanen) var en järnvägsstation i Oslo som var slutstation för Hovedbanen till Eidsvoll. Stationen, som uppfördes 1854, ligger vid Jernbanetorget  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowNobel Prize for Trump just as unlikely as Trump wins the White House in 2016. @HooverWhelan @HooverInsthttps://www.forbes.com/sites/billwhalen/2020/09/13/noble-efforts-but-trump-can-forget-about-a-nobel-peace-prize/#47ef7c782be2 ...more

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• 454: Law & Order in the Battleground States. @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews

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  Sep 16 2020

  Photo: 1910 London Strike. Police escort for one van. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowLaw & Order in the Battleground States. @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNewshttps://www.ajc.com/politics/politics-blog/the-jolt-suburbia-has-every-right-to-be-afraid-gun-couple-says-during-rnc/ILTBMT6H4JFTLPC3BNEPN7PNME/

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• 454: The markets may signal a V-Shaped recovery. @LizPeek @TheHill

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  Sep 16 2020

  Photo: 1901Horse-drawn cabs in street.Stereo copyrighted by H.C. White Co.No. 2508.This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.Caption card tracings: Street scenes 1901; Taxicabs; Eng. London Views 1901; Eng London Streets Strand; Photog. I.; Geogr.; Shelf. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe markets may signal a V-Shaped recovery. @LizPeek @TheHillhttps://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/features/us-economy-recover-covid/ ...more

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• 454: Studying the deadly riots of the 1960s to puzzle out the origins of the deadly riots of 2020. @GorkaKatie @Heritage

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  Sep 16 2020

  Photo: 1886 The Stamp Act riots in Boston http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowStudying the deadly riots of the 1960s to puzzle out the origins of the deadly riots of 2020. @GorkaKatie @Heritagehttps://thefederalist.com/2020/09/14/how-the-1960s-riots-foreshadow-todays-communist-weaponization-of-black-pain/

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• 453: #NewWorld: Venezuela and Iran continue to bait the US. And the Latin American Development Bank gets a US leader. @jmhumire, @MariaFdaCabal

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  Sep 16 2020

  Photo:1830 Costumes and Fashion of the People of Peru  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow#NewWorld: Venezuela and Iran continue to bait the US. And the Latin American Development Bank gets a US leader. @jmhumire, @MariaFdaCabal https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/09/trump-nominee-elected-head-latin-american-development-bank-200912201907470.html

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• 453: #NewWorld: Bogota erupts in suspiciously organized anti-police violence. @jmhumire, @MariaFdaCabal

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  Sep 16 2020

  Photo: 1911 COLOMBIA. STREET SCENES IN BOGOTA  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow#NewWorld: Bogota erupts in suspiciously organized anti-police violence. @jmhumire, @MariaFdaCabal https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/09/colombia-protests-bogota-mayor-calls-reconciliation-200914142005778.html

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• 452: The London virus-time Rule of Eight becomes the Rule of Six. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

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  Sep 16 2020

  Photo: 1951 En avdelning från Kustflottan, som nu gästar London, på väg till Whitehall 31/5 -51.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe London virus-time Rule of Eight becomes the Rule of Six. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-54142699

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• 452: Brexit meets Covid-19 meets Boris Johnson and the Tories. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

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  Sep 16 2020

  Photo:1914 War Crowd in Downing St., London  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowBrexit meets Covid-19 meets Boris Johnson and the Tories. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinionhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/with-covid-brexit-matters-more-than-ever-11599759105

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• 452: Peace between Israel, the UAE and Bahrain in the White House while war-making Iran and Hamas fire rockets. @AaronKleinShow Strategic Adviser to the PM, State of Israel.

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  Sep 16 2020

  Photo:1934Jerusalem http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowPeace between Israel, the UAE and Bahrain in the White House while war-making Iran and Hamas fire rockets. @AaronKleinShow Strategic Adviser to the PM, State of Israel.https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/israel-uae-bahrain-sign-game-changing-normalization-deal-watch-live-642368

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• 452: "Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Canaanite Winery of the Western Galilee. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Sep 16 2020

  Photo:1898 Sea of Galilee  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow"Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Canaanite Winery of the Western Galilee. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatnesshttps://www.timesofisrael.com/archaeologists-say-earthquake-caused-sudden-disuse-of-canaanite-wine-palace/#gs.fpe0jaA joint Israeli-US team of archaeologists say they may have finally uncovered what caused the sudden abandonment of an ancient Canaanite palace well-stocked with wine — and the culprit was an earthquake....more

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• 452: Tehran planning to assassinate a US ambassador & What is to be done? Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Sep 16 2020

  Photo:South Africa.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowTehran planning to assassinate a US ambassador & What is to be done? Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_preshttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/iran-assassination-ambassador-south-africa-qassem-soleimani-lana-marks-b439239.html

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• 452: The UK won't give up two ISIS mass-murderers because SAG Barr may execute them. @MarkosKounalakis. @HooverInst

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  Sep 16 2020

  Photo: 1615Marteling en executie van Bathasar Gerards, 14 juli 1584. Op een schavot wordt Gerards voor het toegestroomde publiek terechtgesteld, op de Grote Markt te Delft. Met onderschrift van 4 regels in het Latijn. Genummerd 157. Bedrukt op achterzijde met tekst in het Latijn.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe UK won't give up two ISIS mass-murderers because SAG Barr may execute them. @MarkosKounalakis. @HooverInsthttps://www.miamiherald.com/article245636860.html ...more

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• 452: Pennsylvania's voters are buying guns. @WJMcGurn @WSJOpinion

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  Sep 16 2020

  Photo: 1866 Double-Barrel Breech-Loading Pinfire Shotgun http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowPennsylvania's voters are buying guns. @WJMcGurn @WSJOpinion

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• 451: The progressives seek to segregate the University of Michigan at Dearborn with bizarre categories such as Non-POC (People of Color). @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Sep 15 2020

  Photo:Daughters of Confederacy at Arlington, [11/22/23]  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe progressives seek to segregate the University of Michigan at Dearborn with bizarre categories such as Non-POC (People of Color). @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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• 451: The strange case of choosing to use a lawsuit for defamation against a sitting POTUS who says he doesn't remember you. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Sep 15 2020

  Photo: Frontispice de la deuxième cataracte a la Méditerranée http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe strange case of choosing to use a lawsuit for defamation against a sitting POTUS who says he doesn't remember you. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/09/why-government-lawyers-are-defending-trump/

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• 450: Countdown to Socialism: 4of4: Paperback – September 15, 2020. by Devin Nunes (Author)

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  Sep 15 2020

  Photo: 1800 New Market, in South Second Street, Philadelphia Countdown to Socialism: 4of4:  Paperback – September 15, 2020. by Devin Nunes  (Author)  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Countdown to Socialism: 4of4:  Paperback – September 15, 2020. by Devin Nunes  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Countdown-Socialism-Devin-Nunes/dp/1641771860 This pamphlet exposes how the Democratic Party has changed beyond recognition. Once the party of anti-communism and tax-cutting under President Kennedy, it is now dominated by a surging socialist movement and led by a presidential candidate who vows to “transform” America.On a near-daily basis, the Democrats are issuing radical proposals to socialize medicine, industry, and higher education. So how can the Democrats win elections when their agenda is so far to the left of the American people?That’s easy―it’s because the means of public debate are being manipulated.In this explosive Encounter Broadside, Congressman Devin Nunes exposes the nexus between the Democratic Party, the mainstream media, and the social media corporations. These three entities cooperate to blast out the Democrats’ message and downplay their extremism while suppressing and censoring conservative points of view.Tens of millions of Americans are only seeing one side of the debate. The information they get from newspapers and social media is not “news”―it’s contrived content designed to help one political party and punish its opponents.In the run-up to the most consequential election of our lifetime, read this book to learn how your information is being skewed and regulated to force America onto the path to socialism.About Encounter Broadsides: In the late eighteenth century, pamphlets electrified the colonies and helped to forge American democracy as we know it. Encounter Broadsides seek to revive this medium to make the case for ordered liberty and democratic capitalism in our time. Read them in a sitting and come away knowing the best we can hope for and the worst we must fear.  ...more

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• 450: Countdown to Socialism: 3of4: Paperback – September 15, 2020. by Devin Nunes (Author)

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  Sep 15 2020

  Photo: n1800 Pennsylvania Hospital, in Pine Street Philadelphia  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Countdown to Socialism: 3of4:  Paperback – September 15, 2020. by Devin Nunes  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Countdown-Socialism-Devin-Nunes/dp/1641771860 This pamphlet exposes how the Democratic Party has changed beyond recognition. Once the party of anti-communism and tax-cutting under President Kennedy, it is now dominated by a surging socialist movement and led by a presidential candidate who vows to “transform” America.On a near-daily basis, the Democrats are issuing radical proposals to socialize medicine, industry, and higher education. So how can the Democrats win elections when their agenda is so far to the left of the American people?That’s easy―it’s because the means of public debate are being manipulated.In this explosive Encounter Broadside, Congressman Devin Nunes exposes the nexus between the Democratic Party, the mainstream media, and the social media corporations. These three entities cooperate to blast out the Democrats’ message and downplay their extremism while suppressing and censoring conservative points of view.Tens of millions of Americans are only seeing one side of the debate. The information they get from newspapers and social media is not “news”―it’s contrived content designed to help one political party and punish its opponents.In the run-up to the most consequential election of our lifetime, read this book to learn how your information is being skewed and regulated to force America onto the path to socialism.About Encounter Broadsides: In the late eighteenth century, pamphlets electrified the colonies and helped to forge American democracy as we know it. Encounter Broadsides seek to revive this medium to make the case for ordered liberty and democratic capitalism in our time. Read them in a sitting and come away knowing the best we can hope for and the worst we must fear.  ...more

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• 450: Countdown to Socialism: 2of4: Paperback – September 15, 2020. by Devin Nunes (Author)

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  Sep 15 2020

  Photo: 1800 High Street, with the First Presbyterian Church - Philadelphia  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Countdown to Socialism: 2of4:  Paperback – September 15, 2020. by Devin Nunes  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Countdown-Socialism-Devin-Nunes/dp/1641771860 This pamphlet exposes how the Democratic Party has changed beyond recognition. Once the party of anti-communism and tax-cutting under President Kennedy, it is now dominated by a surging socialist movement and led by a presidential candidate who vows to “transform” America.On a near-daily basis, the Democrats are issuing radical proposals to socialize medicine, industry, and higher education. So how can the Democrats win elections when their agenda is so far to the left of the American people?That’s easy―it’s because the means of public debate are being manipulated.In this explosive Encounter Broadside, Congressman Devin Nunes exposes the nexus between the Democratic Party, the mainstream media, and the social media corporations. These three entities cooperate to blast out the Democrats’ message and downplay their extremism while suppressing and censoring conservative points of view.Tens of millions of Americans are only seeing one side of the debate. The information they get from newspapers and social media is not “news”―it’s contrived content designed to help one political party and punish its opponents.In the run-up to the most consequential election of our lifetime, read this book to learn how your information is being skewed and regulated to force America onto the path to socialism.About Encounter Broadsides: In the late eighteenth century, pamphlets electrified the colonies and helped to forge American democracy as we know it. Encounter Broadsides seek to revive this medium to make the case for ordered liberty and democratic capitalism in our time. Read them in a sitting and come away knowing the best we can hope for and the worst we must fear.  ...more

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• 450: Countdown to Socialism: 1of4: Paperback – September 15, 2020. by Devin Nunes (Author)

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  Sep 15 2020

  Photo: 1800Old Lutheran Church, in Fifth Street, Philadelphia  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Countdown to Socialism: 1of4:  Paperback – September 15, 2020. by Devin Nunes  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Countdown-Socialism-Devin-Nunes/dp/1641771860 This pamphlet exposes how the Democratic Party has changed beyond recognition. Once the party of anti-communism and tax-cutting under President Kennedy, it is now dominated by a surging socialist movement and led by a presidential candidate who vows to “transform” America.On a near-daily basis, the Democrats are issuing radical proposals to socialize medicine, industry, and higher education. So how can the Democrats win elections when their agenda is so far to the left of the American people?That’s easy―it’s because the means of public debate are being manipulated.In this explosive Encounter Broadside, Congressman Devin Nunes exposes the nexus between the Democratic Party, the mainstream media, and the social media corporations. These three entities cooperate to blast out the Democrats’ message and downplay their extremism while suppressing and censoring conservative points of view.Tens of millions of Americans are only seeing one side of the debate. The information they get from newspapers and social media is not “news”―it’s contrived content designed to help one political party and punish its opponents.In the run-up to the most consequential election of our lifetime, read this book to learn how your information is being skewed and regulated to force America onto the path to socialism.About Encounter Broadsides: In the late eighteenth century, pamphlets electrified the colonies and helped to forge American democracy as we know it. Encounter Broadsides seek to revive this medium to make the case for ordered liberty and democratic capitalism in our time. Read them in a sitting and come away knowing the best we can hope for and the worst we must fear.  ...more

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• 449: Trump Trade vs Biden Trade & What is to be done? @ChristineMcDan @Mercatus

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  Sep 15 2020

  Photo: 1909U.S. Ship Nantucket, training ship  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowTrump Trade vs Biden Trade & What is to be done?  @ChristineMcDan @Mercatushttps://www.forbes.com/sites/christinemcdaniel/2020/09/08/biden-vs-trump-on-trade/#2cb743644862

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• 449: The surprising stock market enthusiasm over options & What is to be done? @GregoryZuckerman @WSJ

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  Sep 15 2020

  Photo:Improper use of forest land. A homestead surrounded by cut-over land. Pine Ridge land use project, Dawes County, Nebraska  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe surprising stock market enthusiasm over options & What is to be done? @GregoryZuckerman @WSJhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/the-wildly-popular-trades-behind-the-markets-swoon-and-surge-11599989400

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• 449: Farewell to the profoundly hip Diana Rigg of the Avengers, 1938-2020. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund

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  Sep 15 2020

  Photo:Postcard of London Road from Municipal Offices, Camberley  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowFarewell to the profoundly hip Diana Rigg of the Avengers, 1938-2020. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund

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• 449: The Keystone State rebukes Governor Wolf's virus mandates. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund

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  Sep 15 2020

  Photo: Northeast Railroad Corridor, Amtrak route between Delaware-Pennsylvania & Pennsylvania-New Jersey state lines, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe Keystone State rebukes Governor Wolf's virus mandates. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund  https://www.pennlive.com/news/2020/09/federal-judge-says-gov-wolfs-lockdown-well-intentioned-but-unconstitutional.html

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• 449: Rumors of Xi fraying. Charles Burton, Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. @GordonGChang

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  Sep 15 2020

  Photo: 1900 Street in Peking  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowRumors of Xi fraying. Charles Burton, Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. @GordonGChanghttps://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1334061/China-news-coup-xi-jinpin-power-police-xi-jinping-under-control-Mao-style-purge

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• 449: Hong Kong grows angrier over the fate of the boat people. @Michael_Yon @GordonGChang

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  Sep 15 2020

  Photo:1910 A street market in Hong Kong, China  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowHong Kong grows angrier over the fate of the boat people. @Michael_Yon @GordonGChang https://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSKBN26509R

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• 449: ISIS vs Al Qaeda in the failed state of Mali. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD

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  Sep 15 2020

  Photo:1897 The old mosque restored.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowISIS vs Al Qaeda in the failed state of Mali. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDDhttps://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2020/09/generation-jihad-ep-25-another-coup-in-mali.php

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• 449: Al Qaeda's Zawahiri speaks against rivals and boasts of independence 19 years later. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD

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  Sep 15 2020

  Photo: 1895 Kach Station and blockhouse near the divide between Harnai and Quetta http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowAl Qaeda's Zawahiri speaks against rivals and boasts of independence 19 years later. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2020/09/zawahiri-asserts-al-qaedas-independence-in-new-message.php

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• 448: An American Betrayal: 4of4: Cherokee Patriots and the Trail of Tears Kindle Edition. by Daniel Blake Smith (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Sep 14 2020

  Photo:At upper right corner: Exhibit 8.At upper left corner: Tenth annual report, Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes.At head of title: Department of the Interior, Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes."Shaded portions represent selections filed on since the opening of Land Office Jan. 1st 1903 to June 30th 1903."Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow An American Betrayal: 4of4: Cherokee Patriots and the Trail of Tears Kindle Edition. by Daniel Blake Smith  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0051OASGG/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i2Though the tragedy of the Trail of Tears is widely recognized today, the pervasive effects of the tribe's uprooting have never been examined in detail. Despite the Cherokees' efforts to assimilate with the dominant white culture—running their own newspaper, ratifying a constitution based on that of the United States—they were never able to integrate fully with white men in the New World. In An American Betrayal, Daniel Blake Smith's vivid prose brings to life a host of memorable characters: the veteran Indian-fighter Andrew Jackson, who adopted a young Indian boy into his home; Chief John Ross, only one-eighth Cherokee, who commanded the loyalty of most Cherokees because of his relentless effort to remain on their native soil; most dramatically, the dissenters in Cherokee country—especially Elias Boudinot and John Ridge, gifted young men who were educated in a New England academy but whose marriages to local white girls erupted in racial epithets, effigy burnings, and the closing of the school.Smith, an award-winning historian, offers an eye-opening view of why neither assimilation nor Cherokee independence could succeed in Jacksonian America....more

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• 448: An American Betrayal: 3of4: Cherokee Patriots and the Trail of Tears Kindle Edition. by Daniel Blake Smith (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo:A caricature of President Martin Van Buren issued during the Panic of 1837, strongly critical of his continuation of predecessor Andrew Jackson's hard-money policies. Particular reference is made to the Specie Circular, a highly unpopular order issued by the Jackson administration in December 1836, directing collectors of public revenues to accept only gold or silver (i.e., "specie") in payment for public lands. Designed to curb speculation, the measure was blamed by administration critics for draining the economy of hard money and precipitating the 1837 crisis.  Hearkening back to the anti-Jackson "King Andrew the First" (no. 1833-4), the artist portrays Van Buren as a monarch in a princely cloak, treading on the Constitution. He is crowned "in the name of Belzebub . . . Ragamuffin king" by a demon. Van Buren's cloak is trimmed with "shinplasters," the colloquial term for the often worthless small-denomination bank notes which proliferated during the panic.  Van Buren says, "I like this cloak amazingly, for now I shall be able to put into execution my Designs without being observed by every quizing, prying Whig. I'm obliged to keep close since my Safety Fund is blown . . ." Under the Safety Fund law, passed during Van Buren's term as governor of New York, banks were required to contribute to a fund used to liquidate the obligations of banks that failed. The fund was quickly exhausted during the panic.  On the walls are pictures of "Bequests of the Late Incumbent" (Andrew Jackson), including "The Hickory Stick," worshipped by the masses like the brazen serpent in the Old Testament, Jackson's spectacles and clay pipe, his hat, the Safety Fund balloon in flames, and "the Last Gold Coin," minted in 1829 (the year Jackson first took office). On the wall at right is a headless statue of Jackson holding a "veto" in his right hand (an allusion to Jackson's 1832 veto of a bill to recharter the Bank of the United States).  Visible through a window is a street scene where a crowd mobs a theater exhibiting "a Real Gold Coin."  Beneath Van Buren's feet are several documents, including the Specie Circular and "petitions," the missives from New York bankers and merchants which deluged the White House calling for repeal of the Circular. A document labeled "Indian claims" refers to another unpopular Jackson legacy: the numerous grievances by tribes like the Cherokees and Seminoles regarding unfair and inhumane government treaties by which they were being displaced and deprived of their lands.Copyright secured according to law by F.J. Winston.Published at 89 Nassau St. NY.Signed: Forbes Delt.The Library's impression of the print was deposited for copyright on August 29, 1837, and published at the same address as Anthony Fleetwood's "6 Cents. Humbug Glory Bank" (no. 1837-10).Title appears as it is written on the item.Weitenkampf, p. 49.Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1837-1. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow An American Betrayal: 3of4: Cherokee Patriots and the Trail of Tears Kindle Edition. by Daniel Blake Smith  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0051OASGG/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i2Though the tragedy of the Trail of Tears is widely recognized today, the pervasive effects of the tribe's uprooting have never been examined in detail. Despite the Cherokees' efforts to assimilate with the dominant white culture—running their own newspaper, ratifying a constitution based on that of the United States—they were never able to integrate fully with white men in the New World. In An American Betrayal, Daniel Blake Smith's vivid prose brings to life a host of memorable characters: the veteran Indian-fighter Andrew Jackson, who adopted a young Indian boy into his home; Chief John Ross, only one-eighth Cherokee, who commanded the loyalty of most Cherokees because of his relentless effort to remain on their native soil; most dramatically, the dissenters in Cherokee country—especially Elias Boudinot and John Ridge, gifted young men who were educated in a New England academy but whose marriages to local white girls erupted in racial epithets, effigy burnings, and the closing of the school.Smith, an award-winning historian, offers an eye-opening view of why neither assimilation nor Cherokee independence could succeed in Jacksonian America....more

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• 448: An American Betrayal: 2of4: Cherokee Patriots and the Trail of Tears Kindle Edition. by Daniel Blake Smith (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo:Print shows Se-Quo-Yah, half-length portrait, seated, facing right, holding Cherokee alphabet.Title from item.Signed on stone at bottom center: R.T.Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1838 by F.W. Greenough, in the Clerks office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Penna.Another copy in the Rare Books and Special Collections Division in: History of the Indian tribes of North America, with biographical sketches and anecdotes of the principal chiefs : Embellished with one hundred and twenty portraits, from the Indian gallery in the Department of war, at Washington / By Thomas L. M'Kenney and James Hall. Philadelphia : E. C. Biddle [etc.], 1836-1844.Published in (Rare Book copy): Many nations: A Library of Congress resource guide for the study of Indian and Alaska native peoples of the United States / edited by Patrick Frazier and the Publishing Office. Washington : Library of Congress, 1996, p. 101 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow An American Betrayal: 2of4: Cherokee Patriots and the Trail of Tears Kindle Edition. by Daniel Blake Smith  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0051OASGG/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i2Though the tragedy of the Trail of Tears is widely recognized today, the pervasive effects of the tribe's uprooting have never been examined in detail. Despite the Cherokees' efforts to assimilate with the dominant white culture—running their own newspaper, ratifying a constitution based on that of the United States—they were never able to integrate fully with white men in the New World. In An American Betrayal, Daniel Blake Smith's vivid prose brings to life a host of memorable characters: the veteran Indian-fighter Andrew Jackson, who adopted a young Indian boy into his home; Chief John Ross, only one-eighth Cherokee, who commanded the loyalty of most Cherokees because of his relentless effort to remain on their native soil; most dramatically, the dissenters in Cherokee country—especially Elias Boudinot and John Ridge, gifted young men who were educated in a New England academy but whose marriages to local white girls erupted in racial epithets, effigy burnings, and the closing of the school.Smith, an award-winning historian, offers an eye-opening view of why neither assimilation nor Cherokee independence could succeed in Jacksonian America....more

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• 448: An American Betrayal: 1of4: Cherokee Patriots and the Trail of Tears Kindle Edition. by Daniel Blake Smith (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo:History of the Indian tribes of North America : with biographical sketches and anecdotes of the principal chiefs : embellished with one hundred and twenty portraits, from the Indian gallery in the Department of War, at Washington  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow An American Betrayal: 1of4: Cherokee Patriots and the Trail of Tears Kindle Edition. by Daniel Blake Smith  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0051OASGG/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i2Though the tragedy of the Trail of Tears is widely recognized today, the pervasive effects of the tribe's uprooting have never been examined in detail. Despite the Cherokees' efforts to assimilate with the dominant white culture—running their own newspaper, ratifying a constitution based on that of the United States—they were never able to integrate fully with white men in the New World. In An American Betrayal, Daniel Blake Smith's vivid prose brings to life a host of memorable characters: the veteran Indian-fighter Andrew Jackson, who adopted a young Indian boy into his home; Chief John Ross, only one-eighth Cherokee, who commanded the loyalty of most Cherokees because of his relentless effort to remain on their native soil; most dramatically, the dissenters in Cherokee country—especially Elias Boudinot and John Ridge, gifted young men who were educated in a New England academy but whose marriages to local white girls erupted in racial epithets, effigy burnings, and the closing of the school.Smith, an award-winning historian, offers an eye-opening view of why neither assimilation nor Cherokee independence could succeed in Jacksonian America....more

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• 448: Man-Eater: 4of4: The Life and Legend of an American Cannibal Kindle Edition. by Harold Schechter (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo:1936 Dust storm. Colorado  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Man-Eater: 4of4: The Life and Legend of an American Cannibal Kindle Edition. by Harold Schechter  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Man-Eater-Life-Legend-American-Cannibal-ebook/dp/B00T8RIK6C/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=american+cannibal&qid=1600044462&s=digital-text&sr=1-1n the winter of 1873, a small band of prospectors lost their way in the frozen wilderness of the Colorado Rockies. Months later, when the snow finally melted, only one of them emerged. His name was Alfred G. Packer, though he would soon become infamous throughout the country under a different name: “the Man-Eater.” After the butchered remains of his five traveling companions were discovered in a secluded valley by the Gunnison River, Packer vanished for nine years, becoming the West’s most wanted man. What followed was a saga of evasion and retribution as the trial of the century worked to extricate fact from myth and Polly Pry, a once-famed pioneering journalist, took on the cause of Packer. Man-Eater is the definitive story of a legendary crime—a gripping tale of unspeakable suffering, the desperate struggle for survival, and the fight to uncover the truth....more

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• 448: Man-Eater: 3of4: The Life and Legend of an American Cannibal Kindle Edition. by Harold Schechter (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo:[Colorado Springs, Colorado. Two automobiles going down mountain road, with horseshoe turn in foreground] / Wiswall(?)1910.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Man-Eater: 3of4: The Life and Legend of an American Cannibal Kindle Edition. by Harold Schechter  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Man-Eater-Life-Legend-American-Cannibal-ebook/dp/B00T8RIK6C/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=american+cannibal&qid=1600044462&s=digital-text&sr=1-1n the winter of 1873, a small band of prospectors lost their way in the frozen wilderness of the Colorado Rockies. Months later, when the snow finally melted, only one of them emerged. His name was Alfred G. Packer, though he would soon become infamous throughout the country under a different name: “the Man-Eater.” After the butchered remains of his five traveling companions were discovered in a secluded valley by the Gunnison River, Packer vanished for nine years, becoming the West’s most wanted man. What followed was a saga of evasion and retribution as the trial of the century worked to extricate fact from myth and Polly Pry, a once-famed pioneering journalist, took on the cause of Packer. Man-Eater is the definitive story of a legendary crime—a gripping tale of unspeakable suffering, the desperate struggle for survival, and the fight to uncover the truth....more

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• 448: Man-Eater: 2of4: The Life and Legend of an American Cannibal Kindle Edition. by Harold Schechter (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo:1905 Down in a Colorado gold mine--taking out ore, Eagle River Canyon, Colorado, U.S.A.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Man-Eater: 2of4: The Life and Legend of an American Cannibal Kindle Edition. by Harold Schechter  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Man-Eater-Life-Legend-American-Cannibal-ebook/dp/B00T8RIK6C/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=american+cannibal&qid=1600044462&s=digital-text&sr=1-1n the winter of 1873, a small band of prospectors lost their way in the frozen wilderness of the Colorado Rockies. Months later, when the snow finally melted, only one of them emerged. His name was Alfred G. Packer, though he would soon become infamous throughout the country under a different name: “the Man-Eater.” After the butchered remains of his five traveling companions were discovered in a secluded valley by the Gunnison River, Packer vanished for nine years, becoming the West’s most wanted man. What followed was a saga of evasion and retribution as the trial of the century worked to extricate fact from myth and Polly Pry, a once-famed pioneering journalist, took on the cause of Packer. Man-Eater is the definitive story of a legendary crime—a gripping tale of unspeakable suffering, the desperate struggle for survival, and the fight to uncover the truth....more

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• 448: Man-Eater: 1of4: The Life and Legend of an American Cannibal Kindle Edition. by Harold Schechter (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo:1901 The Antlers, Colorado Springs  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Man-Eater: 1of4: The Life and Legend of an American Cannibal Kindle Edition. by Harold Schechter  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Man-Eater-Life-Legend-American-Cannibal-ebook/dp/B00T8RIK6C/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=american+cannibal&qid=1600044462&s=digital-text&sr=1-1n the winter of 1873, a small band of prospectors lost their way in the frozen wilderness of the Colorado Rockies. Months later, when the snow finally melted, only one of them emerged. His name was Alfred G. Packer, though he would soon become infamous throughout the country under a different name: “the Man-Eater.” After the butchered remains of his five traveling companions were discovered in a secluded valley by the Gunnison River, Packer vanished for nine years, becoming the West’s most wanted man. What followed was a saga of evasion and retribution as the trial of the century worked to extricate fact from myth and Polly Pry, a once-famed pioneering journalist, took on the cause of Packer. Man-Eater is the definitive story of a legendary crime—a gripping tale of unspeakable suffering, the desperate struggle for survival, and the fight to uncover the truth....more

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• 448: Allied Master Strategists: 4of4: The Combined Chiefs of Staff in World War II Kindle Edition. by David Rigby (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo:In the heart of modern Babylon, Piccadilly Circus, London, England  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Allied Master Strategists: 4of4: The Combined Chiefs of Staff in World War II Kindle Edition. by David Rigby  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Allied-Master-Strategists-Combined-Chiefs-ebook/dp/B00B0YPKM8/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Allied+Master+Strategists&qid=1600044230&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 Calling the Combined Chiefs of Staff the glue that held the British-American alliance together in World War II, David Rigby describes the vital contributions to Allied victory made by the organization, which drew its members from the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, the British Chiefs of Staff Committee, and the British Joint Staff Mission. Readers get a good understanding of the personalities involved and insights into the relationships between the Chiefs and Allied theater commanders. The role of the Combined Chiefs in economic mobilization and the bitter inter-Allied strategic debates are fully examined. Detailed information is also given about the Casablanca Conference and the Chiefs’ often highly contentious meetings in Washington. The book gives the Combined Chiefs what they have long deserved—a book not weighted towards the Americans or the British and not strictly naval, army, or air oriented, but combined in an international as well as an inter-service manner....more

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• 448: Allied Master Strategists: 3of4: The Combined Chiefs of Staff in World War II Kindle Edition. by David Rigby (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo:Trafalgar Square, London, 1886. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Allied Master Strategists: 3of4: The Combined Chiefs of Staff in World War II Kindle Edition. by David Rigby  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Allied-Master-Strategists-Combined-Chiefs-ebook/dp/B00B0YPKM8/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Allied+Master+Strategists&qid=1600044230&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 Calling the Combined Chiefs of Staff the glue that held the British-American alliance together in World War II, David Rigby describes the vital contributions to Allied victory made by the organization, which drew its members from the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, the British Chiefs of Staff Committee, and the British Joint Staff Mission. Readers get a good understanding of the personalities involved and insights into the relationships between the Chiefs and Allied theater commanders. The role of the Combined Chiefs in economic mobilization and the bitter inter-Allied strategic debates are fully examined. Detailed information is also given about the Casablanca Conference and the Chiefs’ often highly contentious meetings in Washington. The book gives the Combined Chiefs what they have long deserved—a book not weighted towards the Americans or the British and not strictly naval, army, or air oriented, but combined in an international as well as an inter-service manner....more

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• 448: Allied Master Strategists: 2of4: The Combined Chiefs of Staff in World War II Kindle Edition. by David Rigby (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo: 1910London Bridge, London http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Allied Master Strategists: 2of4: The Combined Chiefs of Staff in World War II Kindle Edition. by David Rigby  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Allied-Master-Strategists-Combined-Chiefs-ebook/dp/B00B0YPKM8/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Allied+Master+Strategists&qid=1600044230&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 Calling the Combined Chiefs of Staff the glue that held the British-American alliance together in World War II, David Rigby describes the vital contributions to Allied victory made by the organization, which drew its members from the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, the British Chiefs of Staff Committee, and the British Joint Staff Mission. Readers get a good understanding of the personalities involved and insights into the relationships between the Chiefs and Allied theater commanders. The role of the Combined Chiefs in economic mobilization and the bitter inter-Allied strategic debates are fully examined. Detailed information is also given about the Casablanca Conference and the Chiefs’ often highly contentious meetings in Washington. The book gives the Combined Chiefs what they have long deserved—a book not weighted towards the Americans or the British and not strictly naval, army, or air oriented, but combined in an international as well as an inter-service manner....more

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• 448: Allied Master Strategists: 1of4: The Combined Chiefs of Staff in World War II Kindle Edition. by David Rigby (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo:London, England - London buses  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Allied Master Strategists: 1of4: The Combined Chiefs of Staff in World War II Kindle Edition. by David Rigby  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Allied-Master-Strategists-Combined-Chiefs-ebook/dp/B00B0YPKM8/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Allied+Master+Strategists&qid=1600044230&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 Calling the Combined Chiefs of Staff the glue that held the British-American alliance together in World War II, David Rigby describes the vital contributions to Allied victory made by the organization, which drew its members from the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, the British Chiefs of Staff Committee, and the British Joint Staff Mission. Readers get a good understanding of the personalities involved and insights into the relationships between the Chiefs and Allied theater commanders. The role of the Combined Chiefs in economic mobilization and the bitter inter-Allied strategic debates are fully examined. Detailed information is also given about the Casablanca Conference and the Chiefs’ often highly contentious meetings in Washington. The book gives the Combined Chiefs what they have long deserved—a book not weighted towards the Americans or the British and not strictly naval, army, or air oriented, but combined in an international as well as an inter-service manner....more

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• 448: The Only Street in Paris: 4of4: Life on the Rue des Martyrs Kindle Edition. by Elaine Sciolino (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo: The Eiffel Tower--Champs de Mars in distance--Paris Exposition, 1900 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Only Street in Paris: 4of4: Life on the Rue des Martyrs Kindle Edition. by Elaine Sciolino  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Only-Street-Paris-Life-Martyrs-ebook/dp/B00TMA91YA/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Elaine Sciolino, the former Paris Bureau Chief of the New York Times, invites us on a tour of her favorite Parisian street, offering an homage to street life and the pleasures of Parisian living. "I can never be sad on the rue des Martyrs," Sciolino explains, as she celebrates the neighborhood’s rich history and vibrant lives. While many cities suffer from the leveling effects of globalization, the rue des Martyrs maintains its distinct allure. On this street, the patron saint of France was beheaded and the Jesuits took their first vows. It was here that Edgar Degas and Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted circus acrobats, Emile Zola situated a lesbian dinner club in his novel Nana, and François Truffaut filmed scenes from The 400 Blows. Sciolino reveals the charms and idiosyncrasies of this street and its longtime residents—the Tunisian greengrocer, the husband-and-wife cheesemongers, the showman who’s been running a transvestite cabaret for more than half a century, the owner of a 100-year-old bookstore, the woman who repairs eighteenth-century mercury barometers—bringing Paris alive in all of its unique majesty. The Only Street in Paris will make readers hungry for Paris, for cheese and wine, and for the kind of street life that is all too quickly disappearing....more

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• 448: The Only Street in Paris: 3of4: Life on the Rue des Martyrs Kindle Edition. by Elaine Sciolino (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo: 1908 New York - Paris race: cars lined up to start, New York  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Only Street in Paris: 3of4: Life on the Rue des Martyrs Kindle Edition. by Elaine Sciolino  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Only-Street-Paris-Life-Martyrs-ebook/dp/B00TMA91YA/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Elaine Sciolino, the former Paris Bureau Chief of the New York Times, invites us on a tour of her favorite Parisian street, offering an homage to street life and the pleasures of Parisian living. "I can never be sad on the rue des Martyrs," Sciolino explains, as she celebrates the neighborhood’s rich history and vibrant lives. While many cities suffer from the leveling effects of globalization, the rue des Martyrs maintains its distinct allure. On this street, the patron saint of France was beheaded and the Jesuits took their first vows. It was here that Edgar Degas and Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted circus acrobats, Emile Zola situated a lesbian dinner club in his novel Nana, and François Truffaut filmed scenes from The 400 Blows. Sciolino reveals the charms and idiosyncrasies of this street and its longtime residents—the Tunisian greengrocer, the husband-and-wife cheesemongers, the showman who’s been running a transvestite cabaret for more than half a century, the owner of a 100-year-old bookstore, the woman who repairs eighteenth-century mercury barometers—bringing Paris alive in all of its unique majesty. The Only Street in Paris will make readers hungry for Paris, for cheese and wine, and for the kind of street life that is all too quickly disappearing....more

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• 448: The Only Street in Paris: 2of4: Life on the Rue des Martyrs Kindle Edition. by Elaine Sciolino (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo:Skioptikonbild med motiv från Paris. Möjligen från världsutställning Exposition Universelle, 1900. Bilden har förvarats i kartong märkt: ? http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Only Street in Paris: 2of4: Life on the Rue des Martyrs Kindle Edition. by Elaine Sciolino  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Only-Street-Paris-Life-Martyrs-ebook/dp/B00TMA91YA/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Elaine Sciolino, the former Paris Bureau Chief of the New York Times, invites us on a tour of her favorite Parisian street, offering an homage to street life and the pleasures of Parisian living. "I can never be sad on the rue des Martyrs," Sciolino explains, as she celebrates the neighborhood’s rich history and vibrant lives. While many cities suffer from the leveling effects of globalization, the rue des Martyrs maintains its distinct allure. On this street, the patron saint of France was beheaded and the Jesuits took their first vows. It was here that Edgar Degas and Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted circus acrobats, Emile Zola situated a lesbian dinner club in his novel Nana, and François Truffaut filmed scenes from The 400 Blows. Sciolino reveals the charms and idiosyncrasies of this street and its longtime residents—the Tunisian greengrocer, the husband-and-wife cheesemongers, the showman who’s been running a transvestite cabaret for more than half a century, the owner of a 100-year-old bookstore, the woman who repairs eighteenth-century mercury barometers—bringing Paris alive in all of its unique majesty. The Only Street in Paris will make readers hungry for Paris, for cheese and wine, and for the kind of street life that is all too quickly disappearing....more

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• 448: The Only Street in Paris: 1of4: Life on the Rue des Martyrs Kindle Edition. by Elaine Sciolino (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo:Skioptikonbild med motiv från världsutställningen i Paris, 1900. Palais des Mines. Bilden har förvarats i kartong märkt: ? http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Only Street in Paris: 1of4: Life on the Rue des Martyrs Kindle Edition. by Elaine Sciolino  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Only-Street-Paris-Life-Martyrs-ebook/dp/B00TMA91YA/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Elaine Sciolino, the former Paris Bureau Chief of the New York Times, invites us on a tour of her favorite Parisian street, offering an homage to street life and the pleasures of Parisian living. "I can never be sad on the rue des Martyrs," Sciolino explains, as she celebrates the neighborhood’s rich history and vibrant lives. While many cities suffer from the leveling effects of globalization, the rue des Martyrs maintains its distinct allure. On this street, the patron saint of France was beheaded and the Jesuits took their first vows. It was here that Edgar Degas and Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted circus acrobats, Emile Zola situated a lesbian dinner club in his novel Nana, and François Truffaut filmed scenes from The 400 Blows. Sciolino reveals the charms and idiosyncrasies of this street and its longtime residents—the Tunisian greengrocer, the husband-and-wife cheesemongers, the showman who’s been running a transvestite cabaret for more than half a century, the owner of a 100-year-old bookstore, the woman who repairs eighteenth-century mercury barometers—bringing Paris alive in all of its unique majesty. The Only Street in Paris will make readers hungry for Paris, for cheese and wine, and for the kind of street life that is all too quickly disappearing....more

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• 447: 2/2 #HotelMars: The narrow mission of the United States Space Force & What is to be done? General Steven Kwast, USAF (ret). David Livingston, SpaceShow.com

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   #HotelMars: The narrow mission of the United States Space Force & What is to be done? General Steven Kwast, USAF (ret). David Livingston, SpaceShow.com

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• 447: 1/2 #HotelMars: The narrow mission of the United States Space Force; & What is to be done? General Steven Kwast, USAF (ret). David Livingston, SpaceShow.com

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  Image:  The hatch opens on a United Launch Alliance barge, known as the Rocket Ship, revealing Delta IV Heavy boosters April 5, 2020, at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The barge docked at Vandenberg AFB to offload Delta IV Heavy boosters for an upcoming launch scheduled to occur later this year. The barge operation is a vital first step to executing the mission of assured access to space. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Aubree Owens) https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/ula-pinpoints-cause-of-delta-launch-abort-reschedules-launch/ ...more

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• 446: Big Space fumbles while NASA learns to hand off to commercial space. .Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com

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  Sep 13 2020

  Image: A participant at a NASA social in Washington tweets as he listens to astronaut Joe Acaba answer questions about his time living aboard the International Space Station, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012 at NASA Headquarters.  https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/ula-pinpoints-cause-of-delta-launch-abort-reschedules-launch/

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• 446: Gravel pit asteroid Bennu spits off debris. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com

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  Sep 13 2020

  Image: OSIRIS-REx Rollout for Launch.  The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket arrives at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The launch vehicle will boost NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. This will be the first U.S. mission to sample an asteroid, retrieve at least two ounces of surface material and return it to Earth for study. The asteroid, Bennu, may hold clues to the origin of the solar system and the source of water and organic molecules found on Earth.  https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/bennu-tosses-particles-from-its-surface-routinely/ ...more

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• 446: The Battle for Hell's Island: 8of8: How a Small Band of Carrier Dive-Bombers Helped Save GuadalcanalKindle Edition. by Stephen L. Moore (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo:Drawing shows four soldiers, some naked or shirtless, walking down the Mataniko River on Guadalcanal Island holding onto a small boat filled with two armed soldiers and two wounded ones during World War II.Study sketches for this drawing: DRWG/US - Brodie, no. 21 (A size) and DRWG/US - Brodie, no. 26 (A size).Gift, Sgt. Howard J. Brodie, 1944; (DLC/PP-1944:114). http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Battle for Hell's Island: 8of8:  How a Small Band of Carrier Dive-Bombers Helped Save GuadalcanalKindle Edition. by Stephen L. Moore  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Hells-Island-Dive-Bombers-Guadalcanal-ebook/dp/B00SI025T8/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=November 1942: Japanese and American forces have been fighting for control of Guadalcanal, a small but pivotal island in Japan’s expansion through the South Pacific. Both sides have endured months of grueling battle under the worst circumstances: hellish jungles, meager rations, and tropical diseases, which have taken a severe mental and physical toll on the combatants. The Japanese call Guadalcanal Jigoku no Jima—Hell's Island.Amid a seeming stalemate, a small group of U.S. Navy dive bombers are called upon to help determine the island's fate. The men have until recently been serving in their respective squadrons aboard the USS Lexington and the USS Yorktown, fighting in the thick of the Pacific War's aerial battles. Their skills have been honed to a fine edge, even as injury and death inexorably have depleted their ranks. When their carriers are lost, many of the men end up on the USS Enterprise. Battle damage to that carrier then forces them from their home at sea to operating from Henderson Field, a small dirt-and-gravel airstrip on Guadalcanal.With some Marine and Army Air Force planes, they help form the Cactus Air Force, a motley assemblage of fliers tasked with holding the line while making dangerous flights from their jungle airfield. Pounded by daily Japanese air assaults, nightly warship bombardments, and sniper attacks from the jungle, pilots and gunners rarely last more than a few weeks before succumbing to tropical ailments, injury, exhaustion, and death. But when the Japanese launch a final offensive to take the island once and for all, these dive-bomber jocks answer the call of duty—and try to perform miracles in turning back an enemy warship armada, a host of fighter planes, and a convoy of troop transports.A remarkable story of grit, guts, and heroism, The Battle for Hell's Island reveals how command of the South Pacific, and the outcome of the Pacific War, depended on control of a single dirt airstrip—and the small group of battle-weary aviators sent to protect it with their lives....more

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• 446: The Battle for Hell's Island: 7of8: How a Small Band of Carrier Dive-Bombers Helped Save GuadalcanalKindle Edition. by Stephen L. Moore (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Sep 13 2020

  Photo:Drawing shows a soldier armed with a rifle leading three Solomon Island natives through trees in a jungle on the island of Guadalcanal.Sketch version of this image: DRWG/US - Brodie, no. 31 (A size).Gift, Sgt. Howard J. Brodie, 1944; (DLC/PP-1944:114). http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Battle for Hell's Island: 7of8:  How a Small Band of Carrier Dive-Bombers Helped Save GuadalcanalKindle Edition. by Stephen L. Moore  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Hells-Island-Dive-Bombers-Guadalcanal-ebook/dp/B00SI025T8/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=November 1942: Japanese and American forces have been fighting for control of Guadalcanal, a small but pivotal island in Japan’s expansion through the South Pacific. Both sides have endured months of grueling battle under the worst circumstances: hellish jungles, meager rations, and tropical diseases, which have taken a severe mental and physical toll on the combatants. The Japanese call Guadalcanal Jigoku no Jima—Hell's Island.Amid a seeming stalemate, a small group of U.S. Navy dive bombers are called upon to help determine the island's fate. The men have until recently been serving in their respective squadrons aboard the USS Lexington and the USS Yorktown, fighting in the thick of the Pacific War's aerial battles. Their skills have been honed to a fine edge, even as injury and death inexorably have depleted their ranks. When their carriers are lost, many of the men end up on the USS Enterprise. Battle damage to that carrier then forces them from their home at sea to operating from Henderson Field, a small dirt-and-gravel airstrip on Guadalcanal.With some Marine and Army Air Force planes, they help form the Cactus Air Force, a motley assemblage of fliers tasked with holding the line while making dangerous flights from their jungle airfield. Pounded by daily Japanese air assaults, nightly warship bombardments, and sniper attacks from the jungle, pilots and gunners rarely last more than a few weeks before succumbing to tropical ailments, injury, exhaustion, and death. But when the Japanese launch a final offensive to take the island once and for all, these dive-bomber jocks answer the call of duty—and try to perform miracles in turning back an enemy warship armada, a host of fighter planes, and a convoy of troop transports.A remarkable story of grit, guts, and heroism, The Battle for Hell's Island reveals how command of the South Pacific, and the outcome of the Pacific War, depended on control of a single dirt airstrip—and the small group of battle-weary aviators sent to protect it with their lives....more

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• 446: The Battle for Hell's Island: 6of8: How a Small Band of Carrier Dive-Bombers Helped Save GuadalcanalKindle Edition. by Stephen L. Moore (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Sep 13 2020

  Photo: Drawing shows four soldiers operating field artillery--a howitzer--on Mt. Austen during the World War II Battle of Guadalcanal. In his inscription, Brodie refers to Mack Morriss, Yank magazine correspondent.Signed lower right: Sgt. Howard Brodie, Guadalcanal '43.Inscribed below image: Mack & I later witnessed the terrific damage our artillery had inflicted on the Japs along the Kokumbona Road.Gift, Sgt. Howard J. Brodie, 1944; (DLC/PP-1944:114).http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Battle for Hell's Island: 6of8:  How a Small Band of Carrier Dive-Bombers Helped Save GuadalcanalKindle Edition. by Stephen L. Moore  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Hells-Island-Dive-Bombers-Guadalcanal-ebook/dp/B00SI025T8/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=November 1942: Japanese and American forces have been fighting for control of Guadalcanal, a small but pivotal island in Japan’s expansion through the South Pacific. Both sides have endured months of grueling battle under the worst circumstances: hellish jungles, meager rations, and tropical diseases, which have taken a severe mental and physical toll on the combatants. The Japanese call Guadalcanal Jigoku no Jima—Hell's Island.Amid a seeming stalemate, a small group of U.S. Navy dive bombers are called upon to help determine the island's fate. The men have until recently been serving in their respective squadrons aboard the USS Lexington and the USS Yorktown, fighting in the thick of the Pacific War's aerial battles. Their skills have been honed to a fine edge, even as injury and death inexorably have depleted their ranks. When their carriers are lost, many of the men end up on the USS Enterprise. Battle damage to that carrier then forces them from their home at sea to operating from Henderson Field, a small dirt-and-gravel airstrip on Guadalcanal.With some Marine and Army Air Force planes, they help form the Cactus Air Force, a motley assemblage of fliers tasked with holding the line while making dangerous flights from their jungle airfield. Pounded by daily Japanese air assaults, nightly warship bombardments, and sniper attacks from the jungle, pilots and gunners rarely last more than a few weeks before succumbing to tropical ailments, injury, exhaustion, and death. But when the Japanese launch a final offensive to take the island once and for all, these dive-bomber jocks answer the call of duty—and try to perform miracles in turning back an enemy warship armada, a host of fighter planes, and a convoy of troop transports.A remarkable story of grit, guts, and heroism, The Battle for Hell's Island reveals how command of the South Pacific, and the outcome of the Pacific War, depended on control of a single dirt airstrip—and the small group of battle-weary aviators sent to protect it with their lives....more

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• 446: The Battle for Hell's Island: 5of8: How a Small Band of Carrier Dive-Bombers Helped Save GuadalcanalKindle Edition. by Stephen L. Moore (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Sep 13 2020

  Photo: [Ships off a coast] (Information on back: Guadalcanal Mural, X. Gonzalez) [X. Gonzalez]Original Artwork for World War II Posters http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Battle for Hell's Island: 5of8:  How a Small Band of Carrier Dive-Bombers Helped Save GuadalcanalKindle Edition. by Stephen L. Moore  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Hells-Island-Dive-Bombers-Guadalcanal-ebook/dp/B00SI025T8/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=November 1942: Japanese and American forces have been fighting for control of Guadalcanal, a small but pivotal island in Japan’s expansion through the South Pacific. Both sides have endured months of grueling battle under the worst circumstances: hellish jungles, meager rations, and tropical diseases, which have taken a severe mental and physical toll on the combatants. The Japanese call Guadalcanal Jigoku no Jima—Hell's Island.Amid a seeming stalemate, a small group of U.S. Navy dive bombers are called upon to help determine the island's fate. The men have until recently been serving in their respective squadrons aboard the USS Lexington and the USS Yorktown, fighting in the thick of the Pacific War's aerial battles. Their skills have been honed to a fine edge, even as injury and death inexorably have depleted their ranks. When their carriers are lost, many of the men end up on the USS Enterprise. Battle damage to that carrier then forces them from their home at sea to operating from Henderson Field, a small dirt-and-gravel airstrip on Guadalcanal.With some Marine and Army Air Force planes, they help form the Cactus Air Force, a motley assemblage of fliers tasked with holding the line while making dangerous flights from their jungle airfield. Pounded by daily Japanese air assaults, nightly warship bombardments, and sniper attacks from the jungle, pilots and gunners rarely last more than a few weeks before succumbing to tropical ailments, injury, exhaustion, and death. But when the Japanese launch a final offensive to take the island once and for all, these dive-bomber jocks answer the call of duty—and try to perform miracles in turning back an enemy warship armada, a host of fighter planes, and a convoy of troop transports.A remarkable story of grit, guts, and heroism, The Battle for Hell's Island reveals how command of the South Pacific, and the outcome of the Pacific War, depended on control of a single dirt airstrip—and the small group of battle-weary aviators sent to protect it with their lives....more

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• 446: The Battle for Hell's Island: 4of8: How a Small Band of Carrier Dive-Bombers Helped Save GuadalcanalKindle Edition. by Stephen L. Moore (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Sep 13 2020

  Photo:Sketch shows American soldiers in a jeep, seen from the rear, as they travel down the road to Kokumbona on Guadalcanal island, past abandoned Japanese field pieces during the World War II Battle of Guadalcanal.Inscribed right margin: Chin straps nobody buckles 'em.Gift, Sgt. Howard J. Brodie, 1944; (DLC/PP-1944:114). http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Battle for Hell's Island: 4of8:  How a Small Band of Carrier Dive-Bombers Helped Save GuadalcanalKindle Edition. by Stephen L. Moore  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Hells-Island-Dive-Bombers-Guadalcanal-ebook/dp/B00SI025T8/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=November 1942: Japanese and American forces have been fighting for control of Guadalcanal, a small but pivotal island in Japan’s expansion through the South Pacific. Both sides have endured months of grueling battle under the worst circumstances: hellish jungles, meager rations, and tropical diseases, which have taken a severe mental and physical toll on the combatants. The Japanese call Guadalcanal Jigoku no Jima—Hell's Island.Amid a seeming stalemate, a small group of U.S. Navy dive bombers are called upon to help determine the island's fate. The men have until recently been serving in their respective squadrons aboard the USS Lexington and the USS Yorktown, fighting in the thick of the Pacific War's aerial battles. Their skills have been honed to a fine edge, even as injury and death inexorably have depleted their ranks. When their carriers are lost, many of the men end up on the USS Enterprise. Battle damage to that carrier then forces them from their home at sea to operating from Henderson Field, a small dirt-and-gravel airstrip on Guadalcanal.With some Marine and Army Air Force planes, they help form the Cactus Air Force, a motley assemblage of fliers tasked with holding the line while making dangerous flights from their jungle airfield. Pounded by daily Japanese air assaults, nightly warship bombardments, and sniper attacks from the jungle, pilots and gunners rarely last more than a few weeks before succumbing to tropical ailments, injury, exhaustion, and death. But when the Japanese launch a final offensive to take the island once and for all, these dive-bomber jocks answer the call of duty—and try to perform miracles in turning back an enemy warship armada, a host of fighter planes, and a convoy of troop transports.A remarkable story of grit, guts, and heroism, The Battle for Hell's Island reveals how command of the South Pacific, and the outcome of the Pacific War, depended on control of a single dirt airstrip—and the small group of battle-weary aviators sent to protect it with their lives....more

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• 446: The Battle for Hell's Island: 3of8: How a Small Band of Carrier Dive-Bombers Helped Save GuadalcanalKindle Edition. by Stephen L. Moore (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Sep 13 2020

  Photo:Drawing shows a gunner from behind, kneeling in an airplane bomber during the World War II Battle of Guadalcanal.Signed lower left: Sgt. Howard Brodie Guadalcanal '43.For a similar sketch, see: DRWG/US - Brodie, no. 50 (A size).Gift, Sgt. Howard J. Brodie, 1944; (DLC/PP-1944:114). http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Battle for Hell's Island: 3of8:  How a Small Band of Carrier Dive-Bombers Helped Save GuadalcanalKindle Edition. by Stephen L. Moore  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Hells-Island-Dive-Bombers-Guadalcanal-ebook/dp/B00SI025T8/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=November 1942: Japanese and American forces have been fighting for control of Guadalcanal, a small but pivotal island in Japan’s expansion through the South Pacific. Both sides have endured months of grueling battle under the worst circumstances: hellish jungles, meager rations, and tropical diseases, which have taken a severe mental and physical toll on the combatants. The Japanese call Guadalcanal Jigoku no Jima—Hell's Island.Amid a seeming stalemate, a small group of U.S. Navy dive bombers are called upon to help determine the island's fate. The men have until recently been serving in their respective squadrons aboard the USS Lexington and the USS Yorktown, fighting in the thick of the Pacific War's aerial battles. Their skills have been honed to a fine edge, even as injury and death inexorably have depleted their ranks. When their carriers are lost, many of the men end up on the USS Enterprise. Battle damage to that carrier then forces them from their home at sea to operating from Henderson Field, a small dirt-and-gravel airstrip on Guadalcanal.With some Marine and Army Air Force planes, they help form the Cactus Air Force, a motley assemblage of fliers tasked with holding the line while making dangerous flights from their jungle airfield. Pounded by daily Japanese air assaults, nightly warship bombardments, and sniper attacks from the jungle, pilots and gunners rarely last more than a few weeks before succumbing to tropical ailments, injury, exhaustion, and death. But when the Japanese launch a final offensive to take the island once and for all, these dive-bomber jocks answer the call of duty—and try to perform miracles in turning back an enemy warship armada, a host of fighter planes, and a convoy of troop transports.A remarkable story of grit, guts, and heroism, The Battle for Hell's Island reveals how command of the South Pacific, and the outcome of the Pacific War, depended on control of a single dirt airstrip—and the small group of battle-weary aviators sent to protect it with their lives....more

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• 446: The Battle for Hell's Island: 2of8: How a Small Band of Carrier Dive-Bombers Helped Save GuadalcanalKindle Edition. by Stephen L. Moore (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Sep 13 2020

  Photo: Nightime on "Bloody Knoll" or "Chi. Heights" - 2 to a fox holeSigned lower right: Howard Brodie.Title continues: I tries to sleep - sketched on the front Howard Brodie - Guadalcanal Yank staff artist.Gift, Sgt. Howard J. Brodie, 1944; (DLC/PP-1944:114).  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Battle for Hell's Island: 2of8:  How a Small Band of Carrier Dive-Bombers Helped Save GuadalcanalKindle Edition. by Stephen L. Moore  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Hells-Island-Dive-Bombers-Guadalcanal-ebook/dp/B00SI025T8/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=November 1942: Japanese and American forces have been fighting for control of Guadalcanal, a small but pivotal island in Japan’s expansion through the South Pacific. Both sides have endured months of grueling battle under the worst circumstances: hellish jungles, meager rations, and tropical diseases, which have taken a severe mental and physical toll on the combatants. The Japanese call Guadalcanal Jigoku no Jima—Hell's Island.Amid a seeming stalemate, a small group of U.S. Navy dive bombers are called upon to help determine the island's fate. The men have until recently been serving in their respective squadrons aboard the USS Lexington and the USS Yorktown, fighting in the thick of the Pacific War's aerial battles. Their skills have been honed to a fine edge, even as injury and death inexorably have depleted their ranks. When their carriers are lost, many of the men end up on the USS Enterprise. Battle damage to that carrier then forces them from their home at sea to operating from Henderson Field, a small dirt-and-gravel airstrip on Guadalcanal.With some Marine and Army Air Force planes, they help form the Cactus Air Force, a motley assemblage of fliers tasked with holding the line while making dangerous flights from their jungle airfield. Pounded by daily Japanese air assaults, nightly warship bombardments, and sniper attacks from the jungle, pilots and gunners rarely last more than a few weeks before succumbing to tropical ailments, injury, exhaustion, and death. But when the Japanese launch a final offensive to take the island once and for all, these dive-bomber jocks answer the call of duty—and try to perform miracles in turning back an enemy warship armada, a host of fighter planes, and a convoy of troop transports.A remarkable story of grit, guts, and heroism, The Battle for Hell's Island reveals how command of the South Pacific, and the outcome of the Pacific War, depended on control of a single dirt airstrip—and the small group of battle-weary aviators sent to protect it with their lives....more

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• 446: The Battle for Hell's Island: 1of8: How a Small Band of Carrier Dive-Bombers Helped Save GuadalcanalKindle Edition. by Stephen L. Moore (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Sep 13 2020

  Photo:Drawing shows two privates, John Minihan of Rockford, Illinois on the right, and Sal de George of Manhattan on the left, kneeling to operate a machine gun from their dugout during the American offensive on Mt. Austen during the World War II Battle of Guadalcanal.Signed lower right: Sgt. Howard Brodie, Guadalcanal.Title continues: PFC's John (Rockford Ill.) Minihan (R) & Sal de George (Manhattan) handle their 30 cal heavy machine gun - all these sketches during push on Mt. Austin [i.e. Mt. Austen] - Howard Brodie "Yank" staff artist.Gift, Sgt. Howard J. Brodie, 1944; (DLC/PP-1944:114) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Battle for Hell's Island: 1of8:  How a Small Band of Carrier Dive-Bombers Helped Save GuadalcanalKindle Edition. by Stephen L. Moore  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Hells-Island-Dive-Bombers-Guadalcanal-ebook/dp/B00SI025T8/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=November 1942: Japanese and American forces have been fighting for control of Guadalcanal, a small but pivotal island in Japan’s expansion through the South Pacific. Both sides have endured months of grueling battle under the worst circumstances: hellish jungles, meager rations, and tropical diseases, which have taken a severe mental and physical toll on the combatants. The Japanese call Guadalcanal Jigoku no Jima—Hell's Island.Amid a seeming stalemate, a small group of U.S. Navy dive bombers are called upon to help determine the island's fate. The men have until recently been serving in their respective squadrons aboard the USS Lexington and the USS Yorktown, fighting in the thick of the Pacific War's aerial battles. Their skills have been honed to a fine edge, even as injury and death inexorably have depleted their ranks. When their carriers are lost, many of the men end up on the USS Enterprise. Battle damage to that carrier then forces them from their home at sea to operating from Henderson Field, a small dirt-and-gravel airstrip on Guadalcanal.With some Marine and Army Air Force planes, they help form the Cactus Air Force, a motley assemblage of fliers tasked with holding the line while making dangerous flights from their jungle airfield. Pounded by daily Japanese air assaults, nightly warship bombardments, and sniper attacks from the jungle, pilots and gunners rarely last more than a few weeks before succumbing to tropical ailments, injury, exhaustion, and death. But when the Japanese launch a final offensive to take the island once and for all, these dive-bomber jocks answer the call of duty—and try to perform miracles in turning back an enemy warship armada, a host of fighter planes, and a convoy of troop transports.A remarkable story of grit, guts, and heroism, The Battle for Hell's Island reveals how command of the South Pacific, and the outcome of the Pacific War, depended on control of a single dirt airstrip—and the small group of battle-weary aviators sent to protect it with their lives....more

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• 445: 4/4 The Lost World of the Old Ones: Discoveries in the Ancient Southwest, by David Roberts Kindle Edition

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  Sep 13 2020

  Image:  Bowl, Mogollon culture.  This is an archaeological culture of Native American peoples from Southern New Mexico and Arizona, Northern Sonora and Chihuahua, and Western Texas.  Mogollon culture flourished from the archaic period, c. 200 CE, to either 1450 or 1540 CE, when the Spanish arrived. The Lost World of the Old Ones: Discoveries in the Ancient Southwest, by David Roberts  Kindle Edition   In this thrilling story of intellectual and archaeological discovery, David Roberts recounts his last twenty years of far-flung exploits in search of spectacular prehistoric ruins and rock art panels known to very few modern travelers. His adventures range across Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and southwestern Colorado, and illuminate the mysteries of the Ancestral Puebloans and their contemporary neighbors the Mogollon and Fremont, as well as of the more recent Navajo and Comanche. https://www.amazon.com/Lost-World-Old-Ones-Discoveries-ebook/dp/B00NUB4F5M/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=roberts+the+old+one&qid=1599961636&s=digital-text&sr=1-2   ...more

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• 445: 3/4 The Lost World of the Old Ones: Discoveries in the Ancient Southwest, by David Roberts Kindle Edition

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  Sep 13 2020

  Image:  Multistory dwellings at Bandelier: Rock wall foundations and beam holes and "cavates" carved into volcanic tuff remain from upper floors. The Lost World of the Old Ones: Discoveries in the Ancient Southwest, by David Roberts  Kindle Edition   In this thrilling story of intellectual and archaeological discovery, David Roberts recounts his last twenty years of far-flung exploits in search of spectacular prehistoric ruins and rock art panels known to very few modern travelers. His adventures range across Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and southwestern Colorado, and illuminate the mysteries of the Ancestral Puebloans and their contemporary neighbors the Mogollon and Fremont, as well as of the more recent Navajo and Comanche. https://www.amazon.com/Lost-World-Old-Ones-Discoveries-ebook/dp/B00NUB4F5M/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=roberts+the+old+one&qid=1599961636&s=digital-text&sr=1-2   ...more

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• 444: 2/4 The Lost World of the Old Ones: Discoveries in the Ancient Southwest, by David Roberts Kindle Edition

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  Sep 13 2020

  Image:  Taos pueblo.  This building is at least 700 years old. In this thrilling story of intellectual and archaeological discovery, David Roberts recounts his last twenty years of far-flung exploits in search of spectacular prehistoric ruins and rock art panels known to very few modern travelers. His adventures range across Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and southwestern Colorado, and illuminate the mysteries of the Ancestral Puebloans and their contemporary neighbors the Mogollon and Fremont, as well as of the more recent Navajo and Comanche. https://www.amazon.com/Lost-World-Old-Ones-Discoveries-ebook/dp/B00NUB4F5M/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=roberts+the+old+one&qid=1599961636&s=digital-text&sr=1-2   ...more

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• 444: 1/4 The Lost World of the Old Ones: Discoveries in the Ancient Southwest, by David Roberts Kindle Edition

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  Sep 13 2020

  Image: Canyon de Chelly.   Artist: Adam Clark Vroman.  Artist bio: American, 1856-1916.  Creation date: 1903.  Process: platinum print. Gift of Darryl Vroman. The Ancestral Puebloans were an ancient Native American culture that spanned the present-day Four Corners region of the United States, comprising southeastern Utah, northeastern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico, and southwestern Colorado.[1] The Ancestral Puebloans are believed to have developed, at least in part, from the Oshara Tradition, who developed from the Picosa culture.They lived in a range of structures that included small family pit houses, larger structures to house clans, grand pueblos, and cliff-sited dwellings for defense. The Ancestral Puebloans possessed a complex network that stretched across the Colorado Plateau linking hundreds of communities and population centers. They held a distinct knowledge of celestial sciences that found form in their architecture. The kiva, a congregational space that was used chiefly for ceremonial purposes, was an integral part of this ancient people's community structure.The Lost World of the Old Ones: Discoveries in the Ancient Southwest, by David Roberts  Kindle Edition In this thrilling story of intellectual and archaeological discovery, David Roberts recounts his last twenty years of far-flung exploits in search of spectacular prehistoric ruins and rock art panels known to very few modern travelers. His adventures range across Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and southwestern Colorado, and illuminate the mysteries of the Ancestral Puebloans and their contemporary neighbors the Mogollon and Fremont, as well as of the more recent Navajo and Comanche. https://www.amazon.com/Lost-World-Old-Ones-Discoveries-ebook/dp/B00NUB4F5M/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=roberts+the+old+one&qid=1599961636&s=digital-text&sr=1-2   ...more

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• 442: Dinosaurs Without Bones: 4of4: Dinosaur Lives Revealed by Their Trace Fossils Kindle Edition. by Anthony J. Martin (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Sep 12 2020

  Photo:no known copyright restrictionsOriginal Caption: When you walk along the Trail Through Time, you can literally see remnants of what came before you -- the dinosaurs. Other stunning skeletons, like the Diplodocus, lie along the trail.Location: Along Dinosaur Diamond Prehistoric Highway., Colorado (40.440° N 109.301° W)Status: Public domain.Digital Photographs Relating to America's Byways http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Dinosaurs Without Bones: 4of4: Dinosaur Lives Revealed by Their Trace Fossils Kindle Edition. by Anthony J. Martin  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Dinosaurs-Without-Bones-Dinosaur-Revealed-ebook/dp/B00IDTADXY/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=What if we woke up one morning all of the dinosaur bones in the world were gone? How would we know these iconic animals had a 165-million year history on earth, and had adapted to all land-based environments from pole to pole? What clues would be left to discern not only their presence, but also to learn about their sex lives, raising of young, social lives, combat, and who ate who? What would it take for us to know how fast dinosaurs moved, whether they lived underground, climbed trees, or went for a swim?Welcome to the world of ichnology, the study of traces and trace fossils—such as tracks, trails, burrows, nests, toothmarks, and other vestiges of behavior—and how through these remarkable clues, we can explore and intuit the rich and complicated lives of dinosaurs. With a unique, detective-like approach, interpreting the forensic clues of these long-extinct animals that leave a much richer legacy than bones, Martin brings the wild world of the Mesozoic to life for the twenty-first-century reader....more

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• 442: Dinosaurs Without Bones: 3of4: Dinosaur Lives Revealed by Their Trace Fossils Kindle Edition. by Anthony J. Martin (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo:The original finding aid described this photograph as:Original Caption: Ancient tracks follow the route of the dinosaurs as they traversed Dinosaur Ridge.Status: Public domain.Digital Photographs Relating to America's Byways  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Dinosaurs Without Bones: 3of4: Dinosaur Lives Revealed by Their Trace Fossils Kindle Edition. by Anthony J. Martin  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Dinosaurs-Without-Bones-Dinosaur-Revealed-ebook/dp/B00IDTADXY/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=What if we woke up one morning all of the dinosaur bones in the world were gone? How would we know these iconic animals had a 165-million year history on earth, and had adapted to all land-based environments from pole to pole? What clues would be left to discern not only their presence, but also to learn about their sex lives, raising of young, social lives, combat, and who ate who? What would it take for us to know how fast dinosaurs moved, whether they lived underground, climbed trees, or went for a swim?Welcome to the world of ichnology, the study of traces and trace fossils—such as tracks, trails, burrows, nests, toothmarks, and other vestiges of behavior—and how through these remarkable clues, we can explore and intuit the rich and complicated lives of dinosaurs. With a unique, detective-like approach, interpreting the forensic clues of these long-extinct animals that leave a much richer legacy than bones, Martin brings the wild world of the Mesozoic to life for the twenty-first-century reader....more

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• 442: Dinosaurs Without Bones: 2of4: Dinosaur Lives Revealed by Their Trace Fossils Kindle Edition. by Anthony J. Martin (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo:Group of Sea-Serpents, Elasmosaur, and Fishes  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Dinosaurs Without Bones: 2of4: Dinosaur Lives Revealed by Their Trace Fossils Kindle Edition. by Anthony J. Martin  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Dinosaurs-Without-Bones-Dinosaur-Revealed-ebook/dp/B00IDTADXY/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=What if we woke up one morning all of the dinosaur bones in the world were gone? How would we know these iconic animals had a 165-million year history on earth, and had adapted to all land-based environments from pole to pole? What clues would be left to discern not only their presence, but also to learn about their sex lives, raising of young, social lives, combat, and who ate who? What would it take for us to know how fast dinosaurs moved, whether they lived underground, climbed trees, or went for a swim?Welcome to the world of ichnology, the study of traces and trace fossils—such as tracks, trails, burrows, nests, toothmarks, and other vestiges of behavior—and how through these remarkable clues, we can explore and intuit the rich and complicated lives of dinosaurs. With a unique, detective-like approach, interpreting the forensic clues of these long-extinct animals that leave a much richer legacy than bones, Martin brings the wild world of the Mesozoic to life for the twenty-first-century reader....more

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• 442: Dinosaurs Without Bones: 1of4: Dinosaur Lives Revealed by Their Trace Fossils Kindle Edition. by Anthony J. Martin (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo: 1938 Smithsonian rebuilding gigantic animal. Washington, D.C., March 24. One of the largest animals which ever walked the earth has been discovered and is being rebuilt by the Smithsonian Institution. Dr. Charles Gilmor, Paleontologist, found in western Utah the bones of a Sauropod,-a species of the dinosaurs which ruled the earth 80,000,000 to 150,000,000 years ago. Dr. Gilmore is pictured fitting the 32-foot tail of the monster together, 3/24/38  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Dinosaurs Without Bones: 1of4: Dinosaur Lives Revealed by Their Trace Fossils Kindle Edition. by Anthony J. Martin  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Dinosaurs-Without-Bones-Dinosaur-Revealed-ebook/dp/B00IDTADXY/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=What if we woke up one morning all of the dinosaur bones in the world were gone? How would we know these iconic animals had a 165-million year history on earth, and had adapted to all land-based environments from pole to pole? What clues would be left to discern not only their presence, but also to learn about their sex lives, raising of young, social lives, combat, and who ate who? What would it take for us to know how fast dinosaurs moved, whether they lived underground, climbed trees, or went for a swim?Welcome to the world of ichnology, the study of traces and trace fossils—such as tracks, trails, burrows, nests, toothmarks, and other vestiges of behavior—and how through these remarkable clues, we can explore and intuit the rich and complicated lives of dinosaurs. With a unique, detective-like approach, interpreting the forensic clues of these long-extinct animals that leave a much richer legacy than bones, Martin brings the wild world of the Mesozoic to life for the twenty-first-century reader....more

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• 443: Remote work works for the US government. Who will run space traffic control? Ronald Reagan in a cowboy hat. @FRoseDC @WJLA

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  Image:  The Executive Director of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Duke Blackwood, right, explains the history of a pair of boots and cowboy hat worn by President Ronald Reagan. Francis Rose, @FRoseDC,  Host of @GovMattersTV @ ABC7News & WJLA 24/7 News. Washington D.C., in re:  Walking to work on 9/11; arrived at work at 8:50 AM, boss was watching TV.   Boss said, “That’s not a private plane. This is a big deal.”   When we learned of the Pentagon, he turned and said, “We all have to get out of here.”  As I walked back to the Metro, wondered if I should even get on it.  Then saw the smoke plumes from across the river. I rode the Metro about 20 min to Grove; wondered , “Is this the day I die?”  At 9:37 AM, the flight struck the Pentagon.  Feds largely regard telework as successful; but is it sustainable? How long can people work remotely? Do we have the infrastructure?  Who's in charge of space traffic control? Apparently no one. / Reagan Library:  Roger Zakheim runs the Reagan National Defense Forum; photo of the recent meeting with a fellow in back wearing a cowboy hat: a bust of Ronald Reagan.   Potential benefits of long-term remote work  https://govmatters.tv/benefits-of-long-term-remote-work/ .Regulating traffic in space—who should do it? Former NASA Admin explains.https://govmatters.tv/napa-report-says-office-of-space-commerce-should-regulate-traffic-in-space/ .Chinese navy growth proves need for more money for defense, says Never-Trumper https://govmatters.tv/new-assessment-of-the-chinese-military/ ...more

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• 442: #NewAmericanCivilWar: Will the military brass follow the Constitution or the rebellion? Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Image:  Continental Congress, 1774 Michael E Vlahos, Johns Hopkins, in re: Are we now preparing for a civil war or an insurrection or for an entity to be called something other than the United States of America?  A main question: what will the military do?    We have the voices of esteemed general, incl Mattis, who speak against the president.   You can't go to one of the hallowed cemeteries in France or Belgium and speak ill of it or the soldiers.   They’re obviously putting together a mosaic saying, “Look at the forces of despotism.”  A canard to make people hate Trump.  Have giant demonstrations planned even now to be in the millions, to create a similar situation as now obtains in Byelorus against Lukashenko. Does the military step aside or get recruited? Already recruited higher brass.  Never-Trumpers, antipopulist by definition.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_Integrity_Project ...more

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• 442: #NewAmericanCivilWar: Preparing the grounds for an insurrection. Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Image:  South Carolina's "ultimatum" after secession Michael E Vlahos, Johns Hopkins, in re: Are we in a civil war?  The [notorious] Atlantic article smear saying the Trump refused to visit a WWI cemetery in France and derided the servicemen who died.   Transition Integrity Project, a Stalinist-sounding appellation, was intended to provide a [route] to a coup so Trump can’t win: people won't see it as a coup, but as the [salvation of American democracy]. Trying to set up an unimpeachable story of certitude to treat Trump as the antidemocrat, and to have Trump, the GOP, and all who aren't BLM and allies as racist, evil. Thereby the Constitution itself becomes the true enemy. The coup d’etat will be embraced by Americans as the only way to save democracy—not the Republic, which will no longer exist, but democracy.  . . . Existential postulates: for 200 years the rules of succession were inviolate; now in 18 mos we've gone from “the electoral College is bad” to its being something evil and in need of replacement. The Constitution as a whole becomes illegitimate, encapsulated in this one small part of it, the Electoral College  “From the foot of Hercules” you can discern and see the entire man.  https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-france-memorial/trump-cancels-ww1-memorial-at-u-s-cemetery-in-france-due-to-rain-idUSKCN1NF0NU ...more

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• 441: #TheScalaReport: How potent is Apple's profit machine smartphone? How much revenue per Apple employee? Is there a rival in sight? Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com #ScalaAPS

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  Photo:1910 FOREIGN TRADE COUNCIL. IN LEAD, FREDERICK A. DELANO AND J. P. MORGAN, JR.; LEAVING WHITE HOUSE  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow#TheScalaReport: How potent is Apple's profit machine smartphone?  How much revenue per Apple employee? Is there a rival in sight? Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com  #ScalaAPShttps://spendmenot.com/blog/revenue-per-employee/ https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/18/21295778/apple-app-store-hey-email-fees-policies-antitrust-wwdc-2020https://9to5mac.com/2019/12/19/apple-takes-home-a-third-of-smartphone-revenue-two-thirds-of-profits/...more

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• 440: SmallBusinessAmerica: Does your small business need a therapist? @GeneMarks

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  Image:  "In person, the eminent psychologist Dr. C. A. George Newmann presenting America's most unusual entertainment miracles of the mind . . . " Gene Marks,  @genemarks   #SmallBusinessAmerica @Guardian; in re: Are employees getting needed support for parents who face irregular school days?  Extremely frustrating for small businesses. Almost 1/3 of employees feel unsupported, Many teachers and teachers’s union refuse to return to school leaving the burden on working parents.  Now a federal law requiring companies to pay each employee 2/3 of salary for the next twelve weeks. Can't be done.  . . . MS Word will include voice transcription. Can talk into your Word doc!  A bunch of Amazon drivers bought extra phones, hung them from trees near Amazon warehouses, and got the orders for a delivery driver nearest to the warehouse on these phones, which then forwarded the order to wherever the drivers were. Entrepreneurial genius.    How a therapist can help you run your small business https://www.inquirer.com/business/small-business/covid-small-business-therapy-life-coach-psychologist-advice-customers-20200901.html ..  ..  ..  Microsoft Word Now Does Voice Transcription . . .  and Other Small-Business Tech Newshttps://www.forbes.com/sites/quickerbettertech/2020/08/30/microsoft-word-now-does-voice-transcriptionand-other-small-business-tech-news/#133109b34ce9...more

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• 440: #SmallBusinessAmerica: The Democrats risk alienating 30 million small-business owners while the GOP is well regarded. @GENE MARKS @Guardian

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  Image:  Small Business Contracting Opportunities ConferenceGene Marks,  @genemarks   #SmallBusinessAmerica @Guardian, and at TheHill; in re: PPPs have been successful so far.  A few weeks ago presidential order that by 10 Sept states are eligible to receive $300 per week per recipient for unemployment programs.   Businesses starting to look at rehiring.  A well-known restaurateur in Philadelphia whose restaurant remained closed because of the city’s regulations  posted a photo of Philly’s mayor eating at a restaurant in Maryland; the owner was furious Increasingly, small businesses are simply opening without permission.  In many red stats, esp in the South, business owner are optimistic; not so in the Northeast. San Antonio has fewer closures and more business than does a similarly-sized city in California.  Coming soon: competing vaccines.  Will employees be required to get a vaccine? What if one person says, “I just read that the one you recommend isn’t ineffective”? Trump's unemployment stimulus is a win for states ... and small businesses  https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/sep/2/trumps-unemployment-stimulus-is-a-win-for-states-a/.Republican Stimulus Bill Offers Unemployment, Small Business Aid https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2020-09-08/republican-stimulus-bill-offers-unemployment-small-business-aid?.A warning to Democrats: Small business owners are getting angry — very angryhttps://thehill.com/opinion/finance/514755-a-warning-to-democrats-small-business-owners-are-getting-angry-very-angry.Small Business survey finds virus’ impact varies sharply by regionhttps://www.nny360.com/communitynews/business/small-business-survey-finds-virus-s-impact-varies-sharply-by-region/article_91cfb29d-7962-5dd9-a3af-25f3d29cd041.html.Should employers force workers to get COVID-19 vaccine? Some experts say yes https://www.dispatch.com/news/20200826/should-employers-force-workers-to-get-covid-19-vaccine-some-experts-say-yes ...more

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• 440: #PacificWatch: The West is Mars on fire; & What is to be done? @JCBliss #PacificWatch

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  Image:    Telepresence Virtual Reality (Mars Surface)  Jeff Bliss, Pacific Watch, in re: In the Bay Area, sunrise and sunset are colored red, but people who live in the area of the fires send me photos of daytime being an unworldly night. Huge, pyroclastic clouds going ‘way up in the air. Cool, wet air comes in off the Pacific, creates a ceiling; as the smoke and particulates travel up through it, they get caught at a ceiling, rapped by wet air, leads to an orange-red glow down below. “Looks like the surface of Mars.”  Cars drive with lights on; in Portland, people wear a mask at home because of the bad air. Choking, sick smell.  We have fires in every Western state, from Montana to the Coast to Nevada and Colorado. Why so many?  Some of the California policies have ked to these problems:  mayn’t do controlled burns or clear forest underbrush. Policies and practices have created a situation out of control.  Gov Gavin Newsom blames the whole thing on climate change.   https://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/with-cal-fire-resources-scarce-volunteers-in-bulldozers-helped-save-pope-valley-angwin/article_b0e990d3-bc61-571b-be67-ceb6d3708644.html ...more

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• 440: November 3 is guaranteed the first day of a rolling battle. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion

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  Image:  Index data: All of the following photographs were made on Election Day, November 10, 1987. 0-12, Election returns being tabulated at City Hall. 1, 4, 10, and 12 are good photos; 13-26, Robert Kennedy headquarters, listening to election returns on the radio. 18, 20, and 23 are good photos. Dan Henninger, WSJ editorial board &  Wonder Land column; in re:  In 2001, Dan was walking from his office in the World Financial Center to a nearby Brooks Brothers to buy a cummerbund for his son’s wedding when he looked up and saw a plane flying too low. He looked again and the plane was in the building. Thus began his September 11.   Mail-in ballots are causing upset and court cases across the country. / Mrs Clinton’s demand that Democrats simply not accept any possible trump win in November.  She’s willing to see the entire electoral system torn to shreds rather than allow it to function normally.  Is there any way to prevent this boat from going over the falls?  . . .   https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-trump-biden-niagara-fall-11599693035?st=cqn6r0e9yfbjnlh&reflink=article_copyURL_share   ...more

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• 439: Cronies of Cronies of Cronies of the airlines seeking bailouts. @VerodeRugy @Mercatus

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  Photo:Trans World Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy (originally Idlewild) Airport, New York, New York, 1956-62. Interior  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowCronies of Cronies of Cronies of the airlines seeking bailouts.  @VerodeRugy @Mercatus

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• 439: The V-Shaped Recovery surprises the economists. @TreasurySpox @MonicaCrowley Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Public Affairs.

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  Photo:1910 Counting dimes in US Treasury  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe V-Shaped Recovery surprises the economists. @TreasurySpox @MonicaCrowley Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Public Affairs.

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• 438: "I hope the Russians trick me into voting for Trump again." @SebGorka #AmericaFirst

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  Photo:1900 Russian troops at R.R. station  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow"I hope the Russians trick me into voting for Trump again." @SebGorka #AmericaFirsthttps://www.amazon.com/Russians-Voting-Again-Bumper-Sticker/dp/B07PV21P8W

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• 438: Woodward overstays his celebrity and outlives his early fame. @SebGorka #AmericaFirst

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  Photo:[Long line of boys and men at Vaudeville Show. Saturday P.M.] Location: [Fall River, Massachusetts].  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowWoodward overstays his celebrity and outlives his early fame. @SebGorka #AmericaFirsthttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/10/us/politics/trump-woodward.html

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• 437: Suddenly, a worldwide shortage of kosher cooks for all the new Muslim friends of Israel. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Image:  Kosher delicatessen.Malcolm Hoenlein, in re:  . . . A 158-mile secret pipeline from Iran to Israel.  

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• 437: The PRC influence-peddles to all the Gulf States at once; & What is to be done? @FDD Benham ben Taleblu; Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Image:  Laborers build a dhow, the primary boat used by fishermen and merchants in the Persian Gulf area Behnam Ben Taleblu, in re: China is desperate for hydrocarbons, which has generated its Middle East policies.   Behnam Ben Taleblu is a senior Fellow at FDD where he focuses on Iranian security and political issues. Behnam previously served as a research fellow and senior Iran analyst at FDD. Prior to his time at FDD, Behnam worked on non-proliferation issues at an arms control think-tank in Washington.·       https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/world/middleeast/nazanin-zaghari-ratcliffe-iran-charges.html ·         https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/world/middleeast/iran-navid-afkari-wrestler-execution.html ·         https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2020/09/08/china-influence-persian-gulf-worry-washington/ ·         https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/11/world/asia/china-iran-trade-military-deal.html ...more

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• 437: France hesitates while Germany throws out the Hezbollah narcoterrorist gang. Benjamin Weinthal, @BenWeinthal; Malcolm Hoenlein, @Conf_of_Pres

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   Image:  Kreuzberg, Germany Ben Weinthal, in re: Iranian human rights abuse of Navid Afkari. Europe's response to the Charlie Hebdo trial. Ben’s recent monograph on BDS. Germany and Lithuania have banned Hezbollah, a narcoterrorist military gang. France is slow on the uptake. It would be helpful if the whole EU took this up.  . . .Helpful if the US Congress declared BDS to be an anti-Semitic movement. Benjamin Weinthal is a research Fellow at FDD. A widely published journalist based in Berlin, he serves as FDD’s eyes and ears in Europe. Benjamin’s investigative reporting has uncovered valuable information on Iran’s energy links to European firms and on Hamas’s  and Hezbollah’s terror-finance operations in Europe. ●        https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/irans-regime-to-execute-wrestling-champion-for-his-peaceful-protest-640389 ●        https://www.jpost.com/opinion/its-time-for-europe-to-follow-germanys-lead-and-ban-hezbollah-639791 ●        https://thearabweekly.com/french-figures-call-macron-back-eu-efforts-ban-hezbollah ●        https://www.algemeiner.com/2020/08/11/french-jewish-man-verbally-abused-badly-beaten-up-in-paris-elevator-in-antisemitic-assault/ ...more

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• 437: Anti-Semitism in America in California in Sacramento. Kenneth L. Marcus: @KLMarcusOCR; Malcolm Hoenlein : @Conf_of_Pres

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  Image:  Goel Tzedec Synagogue (Toronto) Kenneth L. Marcus: @KLMarcusOCR, and Malcolm Hoenlein, in re: Accomplishments at the Department of Education. Ethnic studies requirement in California; initiatives at the Brandeis Center.   Straightforward anti-Semitism in California: a curriculum attacks moral opprobrium to success because Irish people and Jews enjoy special privileges.   Pres Trump promulgated a rule saying that Jewish students will be protected, esp where anti-Israel extremism has permeated colleges, and now high schools; they attack Jews as having “special privileges.”   Kenneth L. Marcus is Founder and Chairman of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, former Assistant U.S. Secretary of Education for Civil Rights, and author of The Definition of Anti-Semitism (Oxford University Press: 2015). ●        https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-combating-anti-semitism/ ●        https://www.algemeiner.com/2020/09/09/us-state-department-planning-expanded-campaign-using-all-legal-and-policy-tools-to-combat-antisemitic-bds-movement-against-israel/ ●        https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/columnist/321372/save-newsom-from-an-even-worse-mistake/ ●        https://www.wsj.com/articles/critical-ethnic-studies-returns-to-california-11598568504 ...more

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• 436: The Team Biden/Democratic smear campaign starts early this year; & What is to be done? @ConradMBlack @TheAmGreatness

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  Image:  A point well made in the President's speech, 1907. Conrad Black, @ConradMBlack, publisher and litterateur, & American Greatness, in re: The feud between McCain and Trump.  Buttagieg, “a rodentine” [character], averred that since Trump said he hadn't spoken ill of McCain in certain ways, that proves that Trump did indeed impugn WWI soldiers. Asinine.  Trump did call a handful of fellows “a bunch of stiffs. Expect even more smears from the Democratic party  in the weeks to come.  https://amgreatness.com/2020/09/07/the-biden-slime-operation/ ...more

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• 435: The vision of the Three Seas Initiative uniting 12 states from the Baltic to the Adriatic and Black Seas. Ambassador Jonatan Vseviov, @vseviov @Estonia_in_US

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  Image:  Peen piknik / a fancy picnic of yore in EstoniaViitekood / Reference code:.EAA.2101.1.786.85..Kirje andmebaasis FOTIS / Description in the database FOTIS:.www.ra.ee/fotis/index.php?type=2&id=9691 ( http://www.ra.ee/fotis/index.php?type=2&id=9691 )The vision of the Three Seas Initiative uniting 12 states from the Baltic to the Adriatic and Black Seas. Ambassador Jonatan Vseviov, @vseviov @Estonia_in_US Jonatan Vseviov, @vseviov, Ambassador of the Republic of Estonia to the United States; in re:  Diplomatic initiative, The Three Seas Initiative, linking twelve nations from the Black to the Adriatic to the Baltic Seas. We’re a region of 100 million people, fastest-growing economies in the EU.  Governments are putting in funds with the main goal to have private capital take over. Last February at the Munich Security Conference, Mike Pompeo pledged US support for this, and Germany also has done so. In Estonia, we're well-educated, most are fluent in English, and our bureaucracy and taxes are minimal so we’re easy to do business with. We're politically stable. The IMF has identified a billions of dollars’ worth of gap: because of the decades we were under the USSR; ergo, there are a lot of profits to be made in our region. Estonia has developed e-business. In 1991 we gained our freedom and had to make up the years of lost history because of the occupation; we needed to leapfrog.  It was roughly the same time that the Internet came in strongly. Almost every government service is online, from taxes to DMV to voting.  Of bank transactions, 99.8% are online. We save five days per person every year because no one ever has to go stand in line. All this was especially useful during the pandemic. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/483227-pompeo-pledges-1-billion-in-us-support-for-european-energyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Seas_Initiative ...more

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• 435: Remembering the Cyprus War of 1974 and how it can happen again. Victor Davis Hanson, @VDHanson

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  Image:  Cyprus. Kyoenia. Hill on top of which is St. Hilarion Castle. Victor Davis Hanson, @VDHanson, Hoover & NRO, in re:   The disputed island of Cyprus; intl observers hold the Greece has the stronger claim.  US and Greece are increasing their joint work.  Turkey can't understand why EU and North America tend to favor Greece: perhaps because many of their ancestors suffered at the hands of Turks and Ottomans.  Turkey and Greece have several times almost gone to war; unplanned between to NATO members, but Turkey has stress-tested its membership. https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/09/greek-turkish-rivalry-near-boiling-point/ ...more

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• 435: Biden's and Big Media's race and class presumptions are out of date. Victor Davis Hanson, @VDHanson @HooverInst

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  Image:  “First municipal election in Richmond since the end of the war - registration of colored voters / drawn by W. L. Sheppard." Victor Davis Hanson, @VDHanson, Hoover & NRO, in re:  The Democratic party has relied heavily on the Black vote, but in recent decades has abandoned Black and Latino jobs.    The middle-class and upper-middle-class white people screaming epithets at police and tearing down statues are not gathering support.  Trump is campaigning on Land of Liberty.  Elites have been harassing diners, grabbing food off tables.  Mexican-Americans complain that the protestors are unwilling to work, while “I have to wake up at 4 AM to go run or fix a tractor.”  The elites think of every Latino as an ageing Cesar Chavez, get their news of Latinos from their own colleagues, all of whom seem to be clueless. BLS has a huge war chest.  Don Lemon.  https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/09/trump-race-and-class/ ...more

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• 434: Palau offers new USN base in Oceania. @CleoPaskal

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  Image:  [Assignment: 48-DPA-SOI_K_Palau_6-7-9-07] Pacific Islands Tour: Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne [and aides] to Palau Islands, Republic of Palau [48-DPA-SOI_K_Palau_6-7-9-07__DI12779.JPG] Cleo Paskal, @CleoPaskal, non-resident senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, in re: Palau has invited the US to build a base there. Has a compact of free association with the US. Recognizes Taiwan. Chinese organized crime has invaded; Palau asks the FBI to help.  Population fewer than 20,000 people; China sent many tourists and helped the economy, then withdrew them in order to pressure Palau to quit recognizing Taiwan.  China in India: India took back positions that China had taken from them; heights overlooking a strategic zone. A brand-new dynamic.   https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-military-is-offered-new-bases-in-the-pacific-11599557401  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ...more

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• 434: Huawei prospers on IP theft, as an arm of the CCP surveillance state. @BrendanCarrFCC

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  Sep 11 2020

  Image:  1913CHINA. BUILDINGS Brendan Carr, FCC commissioner, in re: Huawei was on the march worldwide two years ago, intended to [take over]; now, it’s on the back foot, trying workaround.  It was the No. 1 supplier of telecom chips and smartphones,  Recently has taken over from Samsung; US regs could crimp its expansion.  1. Huawei has been stealing IP for thirty years.  2. Huawei is an arm of the CCP surveillance state.  Ergo, channels all data to the Peoples Liberation Army.   Europe viewed all this with dubiety until several months ago; now, post-Covid and a great deal of legwork that this administration has done, they're paying attention.   https://venturebeat.com/2020/08/08/huawei-to-stop-making-kirin-chipsets-on-september-15/  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..   ...more

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• 434: 2/2 "American Workers Do Not Need Unions" and Replies, part 2 of 2 @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Image:  Political cartoon showing organized labor marching towards progress, while a shortsighted employer tries to stop labor (1913)Richard Epstein, Chicago Law, NYU Law, and Hoover; in re:  "American Workers do Not Need Unions" and Replies, part 2 of 2. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst   https://lawliberty.org/forum/american-workers-do-not-need-unions/

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• 434: 1/2 "American Workers Do Not Need Unions" and Replies, part 1 of 2 @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Image:  Early 19th century workplace militancy manifested in the Luddite riots, when unemployed workers destroyed labour-saving machines.Richard Epstein, Chicago Law, NYU Law, and Hoover; in re:  "American Workers do Not Need Unions" and Replies, part 1 of 2. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst   https://lawliberty.org/forum/american-workers-do-not-need-unions/

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• 433: India chooses Roscosmos to create a spacesuit for manned missions. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Sep 10 2020

  Image:  The Soyuz TMA-01M rocket launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Friday, October 8, 2010 carrying Expedition 25 Soyuz Commander Alexander Kaleri of Russia, NASA Flight Engineer Scott J. Kelly and Russian Flight Engineer Oleg Skripochka to the International Space Station. Their Soyuz TMA-01M rocket launched at 5:10 a.m Kazakhstan time. (Photo Credit: NASA/Carla Cioffi) India chooses Roscosmos to create a spacesuit for manned missions. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com  https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/russia-wins-spacesuit-contract-for-indias-gaganyaan-manned-mission/ ...more

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• 433: The minimum of a minimum sunspots for two hundred years. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Image:   "The current prediction for Sunspot Cycle 24 gives a smoothed sunspot number maximum of about 69 in the late Summer of 2013. The smoothed sunspot number reached 68.9 in August 2013 so the official maximum will be at least this high. The smoothed sunspot number has been rising again towards this second peak over the last five months and has now surpassed the level of the first peak (66.9 in February 2012). Many cycles are double peaked, but this is the first in which the second peak in sunspot number was larger than the first. We are currently over five years into Cycle 24. The current predicted and observed size makes this the smallest sunspot cycle since Cycle 14 which had a maximum of 64.2 in February of 1906." Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com, in re:   https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/sunspot-update-more-evidence-of-an-upcoming-maximum/ ...more

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• 433: The Women's Rodeo Association abides in the time of the virus. @SalenaZito #MiddleofSomewhere

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  Sep 10 2020

  Image: Women rodeo riders. Salena Zito,  @SalenaZito @DCExaminer @RealClearPolitics, CNN, New York Post, Washington Examiner; in re: The Girls’ Rodeo Assn, become the Women’s Professional Rodeo Association.  Includes children as young as eight, and someone 48.  A lot of dedication into this sport and art.  . . .   Homemade lawn signs: Trump supporters never have just one.  I even saw a grave with a Trump sign.   https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/in-spite-of-it-all-the-womens-professional-rodeo-association-rides-on ...more

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• 433: The opportunity Biden missed from Delaware to Pittsburgh. @SalenaZito

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  Sep 10 2020

  Image:  Pennsylvania constabulary, mounted on horses, at McKee's Rock Salena Zito,  @SalenaZito @DCExaminer @RealClearPolitics, CNN, New York Post, Washington Examiner; in re: From Delaware to Pittsburgh.   The parts of Pennsylvania where Mr Biden visited.  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/what-joe-biden-didnt-let-himself-see-in-pennsylvania

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• 432: The Frackers: 4of4: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters Kindle Edition. by Gregory Zuckerman (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Sep 10 2020

  Photo:1939 Machinist working at lathe. Seminole, Oklahoma, oil refinery  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Frackers: 4of4: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters Kindle Edition. by Gregory Zuckerman  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Frackers-Outrageous-Inside-Billionaire-Wildcatters-ebook/dp/B00C5R7CHK/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Things looked grim for American energy in 2006, but a handful of wildcatters were determined to tap massive deposits of oil and gas that giants like Exxon and Chevron had ignored. They risked everything on a new process called fracking. Within a few years, they solved America’s dependence on imported energy, triggered a global environmental controversy, and made and lost astonishing fortunes. No one understands the frackers—their ambitions, personalities, and foibles—better than Wall Street Journal reporter Gregory Zuckerman. His exclusive access drives this dramatic narrative, which stretches from North Dakota to Texas to Wall Street....more

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• 432: The Frackers: 3of4: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters Kindle Edition. by Gregory Zuckerman (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Sep 10 2020

  Photo: 1944 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Oil well in a residential district  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Frackers: 3of4: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters Kindle Edition. by Gregory Zuckerman  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Frackers-Outrageous-Inside-Billionaire-Wildcatters-ebook/dp/B00C5R7CHK/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Things looked grim for American energy in 2006, but a handful of wildcatters were determined to tap massive deposits of oil and gas that giants like Exxon and Chevron had ignored. They risked everything on a new process called fracking. Within a few years, they solved America’s dependence on imported energy, triggered a global environmental controversy, and made and lost astonishing fortunes. No one understands the frackers—their ambitions, personalities, and foibles—better than Wall Street Journal reporter Gregory Zuckerman. His exclusive access drives this dramatic narrative, which stretches from North Dakota to Texas to Wall Street....more

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• 432: The Frackers: 2of4: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters Kindle Edition. by Gregory Zuckerman (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Sep 10 2020

  Photo: 1939 Oil field salvage lot. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Frackers: 2of4: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters Kindle Edition. by Gregory Zuckerman  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Frackers-Outrageous-Inside-Billionaire-Wildcatters-ebook/dp/B00C5R7CHK/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Things looked grim for American energy in 2006, but a handful of wildcatters were determined to tap massive deposits of oil and gas that giants like Exxon and Chevron had ignored. They risked everything on a new process called fracking. Within a few years, they solved America’s dependence on imported energy, triggered a global environmental controversy, and made and lost astonishing fortunes. No one understands the frackers—their ambitions, personalities, and foibles—better than Wall Street Journal reporter Gregory Zuckerman. His exclusive access drives this dramatic narrative, which stretches from North Dakota to Texas to Wall Street....more

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• 432: The Frackers: 1of4: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters Kindle Edition. by Gregory Zuckerman (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo:1939 Junkyard for oil supplies. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Frackers: 1of4: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters Kindle Edition. by Gregory Zuckerman  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Frackers-Outrageous-Inside-Billionaire-Wildcatters-ebook/dp/B00C5R7CHK/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Things looked grim for American energy in 2006, but a handful of wildcatters were determined to tap massive deposits of oil and gas that giants like Exxon and Chevron had ignored. They risked everything on a new process called fracking. Within a few years, they solved America’s dependence on imported energy, triggered a global environmental controversy, and made and lost astonishing fortunes. No one understands the frackers—their ambitions, personalities, and foibles—better than Wall Street Journal reporter Gregory Zuckerman. His exclusive access drives this dramatic narrative, which stretches from North Dakota to Texas to Wall Street....more

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• 431: Walt Disney errs in the extreme in the slave state of Xianjiang; & What is to be done. @GordonGChang, @nuryturkel

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  Sep 10 2020

  Image:  The topography, cities, villages and roads with the military posts in the Xinjiang [hsin = new; chiang =  territory]  Also shows the administrative system and local divisions of Xinjiang before the 24th year of Emperor Qianlong (1759). Nury Turkel, co-founder of the Uyghur Human Rights Project and a commissioner of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, in re: Mulan—China wanted the world to know that a major US corporation, Disney, has sent a thank-you note to them for help in filming. Uyghur community has been blindsided by Hollywood; and dumfounded and distressed. They're so quick to criticize the president for injustice or foreign policy, but now it says nothing.  Hollywood and corporate America have become apologists for [Mainland brutality].   . . .  When you deal with a brutal and closed regime like Beijing, “due diligence” in unworkable.  Note: 80% of cotton products made in China are sourced in the Uyghur region [where slave labor is used].  Disney has spent years working this way into the good graces of Beijing.  “When you lie down with wolves, you get up with fleas.”https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/disney-mulan-backlash-chinas-xinjiang-province-human-rights ...more

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• 431: Brutality in Hong Kong as the city withers. @GordonGChang and @Michael_Yon

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  Sep 10 2020

  Image:  A Chinese junk in Hongkong Harbor, ChinaMichael Yon, Michael_Yon, East Asia reporter; and Gordon Chang, @GordonGChang, in re: In Hong Kong, local police brutalize a 12-year-old girl on a video. People are enraged. This may be a [game-changer].  The protests are still going on; street protests are a bit smaller, but the support base is still enormous.  This is an insurgency; it will not just go away. Hong Kong financial community are smiling at the upcoming IPO.  . . .  Many refuse to be under the Mainland boot: not only fundamental political differences, but a major cultural clash. “These fish just don't mix well in the same aquarium.”  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/world/asia/hong-kong-girl-police-video.html ...more

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• 431: The trouble in Belarus invites Moscow's bad acting. Russell Berman @HooverInst

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  Sep 10 2020

  Image:  Union of Lublin of 1569, oil on canvas by Jan Matejko, 1869, 298×512 cm, National Museum in Warsaw Russell Berman, @HooverInst, Hoover; in re: Byelorus.  If Byelorus goes democratic, then Russia is next; presaging a loss of power for Putin and his crew.  The Russian Novochuk poison administered to Navalny, who seems to be recovering in Germany now.  Major discussion in Germany on whether or not to stop the Nordstream pipeline from Russia to Germany.  A lot of Western Europe has gone to sleep on the topic of Russian despotism.  Our adversaries are trying to push the US away from Europe and East Asia.  NATO is a key piece of our security apparatus, but needs to rethink its [functions and range]. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/belarus-uprising-repeat-ukraine-168375?utm_source=Hoover+Daily+Report&utm_campaign=3508ea0689-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_09_08_06_57&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_21b1edff3c-3508ea0689-72527561 ...more

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• 431: State of the City, the State, the Union: NYC common sense closes the major threat of the Upper West Side's Lucerne Hotel. John Catsimatidis @JCats2013 @CatsRoundtable @JohnCats.

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  Sep 10 2020

  Image: 1905[Riverside Drive, New York, N.Y.] John Catsimatidis, @JCats2013, @CatsRoundtable, Red Apple Media & Cats Roundtable radio, in re: Upper West Side of Manhattan, 13,000 signatures of local liberals asking to have 300 deeply troubled drug addicts, demented people and overt criminals moved out of the Lucerne Hotel on 79 St.  [Considering the financial and political pull of the neighborhood,] the mayor recanted.  AG Barr sent in Federal agents in Operation Legend, including DEA, for multiple drug lord arrests in Chicago; crime rate was down 50% in one week. Sergeant Mullins of the Sergeants’ Benevolent Assn.  New York City restaurants are suing the state for $2 billion because of the irrational shutdown. Judy Abrams, theater.  https://abc7ny.com/lucerne-hotel-homeless-shelter-covid/6414819/ ...more

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• 430: "Indiana" Hoenlein & Napoleon at the Battle of Jaffa. Malcolm Hoenlein @Confofpres. @ThadMcCotter

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  Sep 10 2020

  Photo:Antoine-Jean Gros - Bonaparte visitant les pestiférés de Jaffa Antoine-Jean Gros - Musée du Louvre Permission details This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: This work is in the public domainin its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer. You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States. This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain". This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details.View more Public Domainview terms File:Antoine-Jean Gros - Bonaparte visitant les pestiférés de Jaffa.jpg Created: 1804date QS:P571,+1804-00-00T00:00:00Z/9  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow"Indiana" Hoenlein & Napoleon at the Battle of Jaffa. Malcolm Hoenlein @Confofpres. @ThadMcCotter http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.790107 On March 3, the French army reached the fortified hilltop city of Jaffa. The Ottoman fortress with its 1.3-meter thick walls constituted a formidable challenge. French military buttons found in Jaffa from Napoleon conquest Moshe Hartal, Israel Antiquities Authority As the French and Turks struggled, the Turks collected the heads of fallen French infantry soldiers, and placed the severed heads on poles above the walls. On March 7, Bonaparte sent an officer bearing a flag of truce to negotiate Jaffa's surrender. The Turks opened the city gates and let the officer through. Minutes later his head was raised on a pole. The furious Napoleon ordered a general assault. He remained outside the city, where he was told that 3,000 Ottoman soldiers were willing to surrender if their lives would be spared. But further outraging the emperor, among the captives were soldiers who had been caught in Al Arish, Gaza and Ramla, and who had promised never to take up arms against the French again. Again, the French were having difficulty provisioning their own troops, let alone prisoners of war. Also, Napoleon didn't want to stretch his already outnumbered soldiers by making them guard the captives. But he didn't want them rejoining the enemy ranks. Years later, exiled on the island of Saint Helena, Napoleon wrote: "to have acted otherwise than as I did, would probably have caused the destruction of my whole army…I therefore… ordered that the prisoners taken at El Arish, who in defiance of their capitulation, had been found bearing arms against me, should be selected out and shot. The rest, amounting to a considerable number, were spared." We do not know if Napoleon slaughtered all 3,000 Turkish prisoners at Jaffa or only men who resumed fighting him after their release, as he tells us. There is no archaeological evidence to support the mass slaughter described in the memoirs of Napoleon´s secretary, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, who never missed an opportunity to stain the Corsican's reputation. The booty the French found in Jaffa included small vessels anchored in its harbor, and also cannons, that would shortly prove useful. ...more

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• 429: Why does Biden fear to mention the disorder linked to Antifa and BLM? @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Sep 10 2020

  Photo: 1862-1875Manet, Edouard (1832-1883), ArtistImprimerie Lemercier et cie, Printer of plates http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowWhy does Biden fear to mention the disordered cities linked to Antifa and BLM? @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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• 429: AG Barr is "The Buffalo:" The Buffalo moves when he wants and where he wants. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Sep 10 2020

  Photo:The Buffalo herd at Banff, 1907  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowAG Barr is "The Buffalo:" The Buffalo moves when he wants and where he wants. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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• 428: Something goes very wrong atop a Soyuz rocket bound for ISS: 2of2: @PappalardoJoe @PopMech

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  Sep 09 2020

  Photo:Large gantry mechanisms on either side of the Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft are raised into position to secure the rocket at the launch pad on Tuesday, March 26, 2013 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for March 29 and will send Expedition 35 Soyuz Commander Pavel Vinogradov, and Flight Engineers Chris Cassidy of NASA and Alexander Misurkin of Russia on a five and a half-month mission aboard the International Space Station.  Photo Credit: (NASA/Carla Cioffi) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowSomething goes very wrong atop a Soyuz rocket bound for ISS: 2of2: @PappalardoJoe @PopMechhttps://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a33864689/soyuz-ms-10-russia-rocket-failure/ ...more

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• 428: Something goes very wrong atop a Soyuz rocket bound for ISS: 1of2: @PappalardoJoe @PopMech

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  Sep 09 2020

  Photo: JSC2003-E-31958 (24 April 2003) --- A Soyuz rocket is rolled out of the assembly building and travels via rail to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. Expedition Seven is scheduled to launch onboard the Soyuz on Saturday April 26, 2003. Photo credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowSomething goes very wrong atop a Soyuz rocket bound for ISS: 1of2: @PappalardoJoe @PopMechhttps://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a33864689/soyuz-ms-10-russia-rocket-failure/ ...more

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• 427: The Return of the Ottoman Empire: 2 of 2. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

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  Sep 09 2020

  Image:  Jonusses Pascha Gregory R Copley: Defense and Foreign Affairs; The New Total War of the Twenty-first Century and the Trigger of the Fear Pandemic, in re: Geography is destiny, and Turkey has been an epicenter for at least two millennia.  . . .  Erdogan believes that he has a divinely-appointed destiny; much admires Hitler.  Has been sending weapons to Chad, Niger, Sudan, all along central and eastern Africa. 

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• 427: The Return of the Otttoman Empire: 1 of 2. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

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  Sep 09 2020

  Image:  Mehmet V, Sultan of the Turks (1844-1918). The Return of the Otttoman Empire: 1 of 2: Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign AffairsCan Erdoğan’s “Conflict in All Directions” Strategy Work? Turkey seems to be at war on all fronts, particularly with its nominal allies. How can that work? Analysis. By GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs Staff. Using direct conflict to achieve objectives should be a last resort, or used selectively when overwhelming advantage can be seized. Always to favor confrontation as a first resort must have different motives. Turkish Pres. Reçep Tayyip Erdoğan, 66, began his governance as Prime Minister in 2003 under the slogan of “zero problems with all neighbors”. However, he has entered into direct or indirect war with almost all major foreign governments except that of Qatar, his financial guardian and fellow proponent of the Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan) political philosophy. He has done so during a time of increasing economic degradation within Turkey. He has repeatedly found himself forced to accommodate pressures from larger external powers, and yet continues to antagonize all except Qatar. Erdoğan’s decision to convert Istanbul’s historic Hagia Sophia museum — which began life in 537 CE as the biggest Christian cathedral in the world — back into a mosque in 2020 was a sign that Turkey’s flirtation with Western secularism since Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s accession in 1923 was now over, and Turkey would again assert itself as the center of Islam. What are Erdoğan’s motivations in pushing Turkey into an irretrievable economic and strategic position? His stated objectives are the restoration of a broad, Ottoman pan-Turkism, and a vague global pan-Islamism, with Turkey at its center. His attainment of those goals is undermined by his creation of unnecessary opponents...  ..  ..  Gregory R Copley: Defense and Foreign Affairs; The New Total War of the Twenty-first Century and the Trigger of the Fear Pandemic, in re:  Turkey has removed itself from being a reliable member of NATO, but there’s no mechanism for removing it. Turkey stays in to use it as a lever against Russia.  Now it’s interfering with energy development in the Eastern Med. He threatens physical attacks against [anyone who crosses him]; Turkey’s intell svc has been helpful to the US against PRC.  Hagia Sophia. Neo-Ottomanism, and will “liberate the al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.”  Libya: an actual war there using very advanced weapons. Turkey is on a worldwide jihad to install Muslim Brotherhood governments.   ...more

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• 427: Millennials at Home @JosephSternberg

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  Image:  Home with the family; two generations ago. Millennials at Home   @JosephSternberghttps://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/04/millennials-to-buy-the-most-houses-this-year-how-they-can-prepare.html

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• 427: Boris inside Brexit inside the virus inside the recovery. @JosephSternberg

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  Sep 09 2020

  Image:  England: ”Home Sweet Home,” and “Oh Dear, What Can the Matter Be?”  Joseph Sternberg, @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion, WSJ editorial board, in re: Brexit brinksmanship.  The trade agreement between the UK and the EU ends on 31 Dec.  With the pandemic, Brexit’s critical importance has slightly receded.  Dust-up within the government: Dustin Jones’s resignation.  The Irish border; free trade between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.  . . .  No lockdown is an island. https://www.ft.com/content/9bae0a3a-e1d9-4205-88f1-bf7d91d62cd4 ; https://www.ft.com/content/9bae0a3a-e1d9-4205-88f1-bf7d91d62cd4 ...more

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• 426: Assassination Moscow. Paul Gregory @PaulR_Gregory @HooverInst

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  Sep 09 2020

  Image: View of "Red Place", Moscow, U.S.S.R 1917. Assassination Moscow. Paul Gregory, @PaulR_Gregory, Hoover; in re:  Alexei Navalny, an anti-corruption blogger who exposed all kinds of abuse by oligarchs in Putin’s inner circle, incl Medvedev. Spent a lot of time in the Russian Far East, where there are demonstrations against Putin, Trying to organize it so that the Parliament becomes a real parliament.  He was poisoned by Novachuk (available only from the Russian military), which several years ago was used against two Russians in England; and Navalny finally was transported to a German hospital. He’s just come out of a medically-induced coma and is said to be recovering.  Now, there are demands in Germany and Europe to cancel Nordsteam2, which is a major threat to Russia.  Russians claim that Navalny merely ate something bad; that the CIA invented charges.  Many problems on Putin’s hands, including the mess in Byelorus...more

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• 426: California’s rolling blackouts, wildfires, tonsorial contretemps. Bill Whalen, @Hooverwhalen

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  Sep 09 2020

  Image:  A city blackout Bill Whalen, @Hooverwhalen, Hoover Area 45 blog; in re: Nancy Pelosi and the San Francisco blow-dry. Christoff, hair expert to the stars.  Gavin Newsom has a handsome head of hair, for which he probably needn’t do much; but he’s in trouble everywhere else—wildfires, rolling blackouts, Covid, Long-winded answers, interminable press conferences; these don't inspire confidence.  Rolling blackouts because years ago Cali decided to rely on renewable resources—wind, water, solar—and not enough is supplied, esp on gray days or at night.  https://www.forbes.com/sites/billwhalen/2020/09/03/the-speakers-death-by-a-thousand-snips-and-cuts/#60fc5d224bf7 ...more

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• 426: Suburban voters in play. @LizPeek,

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  Sep 09 2020

  Image:  Greenwich Boys' Club, Greenwich, Connecticut. Elizabeth Peek, @LizPeek, TheHill and Fox News; in re: From Delaware Co in Pennsylvania, one of the richest counties in the nation, in the collar counties, a Democratic lawn sign: Wendy for state Representative; PROUDLY SUPPORTING OUR POLICE. This is why Mr Biden is suddenly on the campaign trail. Democrats were silent on violence for so long.  Because of the breakdown of law and order, suburban voters are in play.  Biden still isn't taking tough questions; he reads answers off a teleprompter.  In swing states, a 3% margin, which is the margin of error.  He still won’t name Antifa. Young Black men don't like Joe Biden and if they stay at home—or, Heaven forbid, vote for Trump—that’s [a world of trouble for Biden].  https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2020/09/21/wrong-way-biden/ ...more

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• 426: The V recovery despite New York City’s mayor @LizPeek

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  Image:  Lenox Lounge, 288 Malcolm X Blvd. Harlem, 1996. Library of Congress.   Elizabeth Peek, @LizPeek,  TheHill and Fox News; in re: France has recovered 95% of its pre-virus economy. Germany also is doing well. Market: tremendous influence of a handful of stocks; mkt got top-heavy. People were ready to take money off the table; profit-taking.  Tesla and Apple spiked upward from stock splits.   This is not like the 2000 tech bubble, which was pumped up with hot air; this is ore like cotton candy. Good labor report-hours increased; income up 2% in August over July and a gain for the third quarter.  It does look like a V.  All this without the stimulus measure, which is still being haggled over.  . .  . Banks that never took the write-offs they should have. Green regulations in Europe.  Global recovery is led by China and the US.  . . . Not true that everyone under fifty was dead-set on living in the middle of a city.  Most people don’t want to get in a long elevator ride with a bunch of other people. Manhattan: no theater, no museum no restaurants; no reason to come to Manhattan. About 10% of the US GDP is from New York. I’m so offended that this mayor hasn't figured out how to open restaurants here when all the rest of the country has; and that’s many thousands of jobs gone, and restaurants closed forever.  https://www.wsj.com/articles/global-stock-markets-dow-update-9-08-2020-11599557376?mod=hp_lead_pos2 ...more

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• 425: Doomed to Succeed: 8of8: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama Kindle Edition. by Dennis Ross (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo: 1934 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Doomed to Succeed: 8of8: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama Kindle Edition. by Dennis Ross  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Doomed-Succeed-U-S-Israel-Relationship-Truman-ebook/dp/B00V36OEQG/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= When it comes to Israel, U.S. policy has always emphasized the unbreakable bond between the two countries and our ironclad commitment to Israel's security. Today our ties to Israel are close—so close that when there are differences, they tend to make the news. But it was not always this way.Dennis Ross has been a direct participant in shaping U.S. policy toward the Middle East, and Israel specifically, for nearly thirty years. He served in senior roles, including as Bill Clinton's envoy for Arab-Israeli peace, and was an active player in the debates over how Israel fit into the region and what should guide our policies. In Doomed to Succeed, he takes us through every administration from Truman to Obama, throwing into dramatic relief each president's attitudes toward Israel and the region, the often tumultuous debates between key advisers, and the events that drove the policies and at times led to a shift in approach.Ross points out how rarely lessons were learned and how distancing the United States from Israel in the Eisenhower, Nixon, Bush, and Obama administrations never yielded any benefits and why that lesson has never been learned. Doomed to Succeed offers compelling advice for how to understand the priorities of Arab leaders and how future administrations might best shape U.S. policy in that light....more

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• 425: Doomed to Succeed: 7of8: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama Kindle Edition. by Dennis Ross (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo:1934 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Doomed to Succeed: 7of8: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama Kindle Edition. by Dennis Ross  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Doomed-Succeed-U-S-Israel-Relationship-Truman-ebook/dp/B00V36OEQG/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= When it comes to Israel, U.S. policy has always emphasized the unbreakable bond between the two countries and our ironclad commitment to Israel's security. Today our ties to Israel are close—so close that when there are differences, they tend to make the news. But it was not always this way.Dennis Ross has been a direct participant in shaping U.S. policy toward the Middle East, and Israel specifically, for nearly thirty years. He served in senior roles, including as Bill Clinton's envoy for Arab-Israeli peace, and was an active player in the debates over how Israel fit into the region and what should guide our policies. In Doomed to Succeed, he takes us through every administration from Truman to Obama, throwing into dramatic relief each president's attitudes toward Israel and the region, the often tumultuous debates between key advisers, and the events that drove the policies and at times led to a shift in approach.Ross points out how rarely lessons were learned and how distancing the United States from Israel in the Eisenhower, Nixon, Bush, and Obama administrations never yielded any benefits and why that lesson has never been learned. Doomed to Succeed offers compelling advice for how to understand the priorities of Arab leaders and how future administrations might best shape U.S. policy in that light....more

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• 425: Doomed to Succeed: 6of8: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama Kindle Edition. by Dennis Ross (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo:1898Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor the Matson Photo Service.Title from: list, Matson Collection negative numbers 14565-15108.Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Doomed to Succeed: 6of8: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama Kindle Edition. by Dennis Ross  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Doomed-Succeed-U-S-Israel-Relationship-Truman-ebook/dp/B00V36OEQG/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= When it comes to Israel, U.S. policy has always emphasized the unbreakable bond between the two countries and our ironclad commitment to Israel's security. Today our ties to Israel are close—so close that when there are differences, they tend to make the news. But it was not always this way.Dennis Ross has been a direct participant in shaping U.S. policy toward the Middle East, and Israel specifically, for nearly thirty years. He served in senior roles, including as Bill Clinton's envoy for Arab-Israeli peace, and was an active player in the debates over how Israel fit into the region and what should guide our policies. In Doomed to Succeed, he takes us through every administration from Truman to Obama, throwing into dramatic relief each president's attitudes toward Israel and the region, the often tumultuous debates between key advisers, and the events that drove the policies and at times led to a shift in approach.Ross points out how rarely lessons were learned and how distancing the United States from Israel in the Eisenhower, Nixon, Bush, and Obama administrations never yielded any benefits and why that lesson has never been learned. Doomed to Succeed offers compelling advice for how to understand the priorities of Arab leaders and how future administrations might best shape U.S. policy in that light....more

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• 425: Doomed to Succeed: 5of8: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama Kindle Edition. by Dennis Ross (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo: 1934 Jerusalem. Jerusalem from above Gethsemane  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Doomed to Succeed: 5of8: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama Kindle Edition. by Dennis Ross  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Doomed-Succeed-U-S-Israel-Relationship-Truman-ebook/dp/B00V36OEQG/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= When it comes to Israel, U.S. policy has always emphasized the unbreakable bond between the two countries and our ironclad commitment to Israel's security. Today our ties to Israel are close—so close that when there are differences, they tend to make the news. But it was not always this way.Dennis Ross has been a direct participant in shaping U.S. policy toward the Middle East, and Israel specifically, for nearly thirty years. He served in senior roles, including as Bill Clinton's envoy for Arab-Israeli peace, and was an active player in the debates over how Israel fit into the region and what should guide our policies. In Doomed to Succeed, he takes us through every administration from Truman to Obama, throwing into dramatic relief each president's attitudes toward Israel and the region, the often tumultuous debates between key advisers, and the events that drove the policies and at times led to a shift in approach.Ross points out how rarely lessons were learned and how distancing the United States from Israel in the Eisenhower, Nixon, Bush, and Obama administrations never yielded any benefits and why that lesson has never been learned. Doomed to Succeed offers compelling advice for how to understand the priorities of Arab leaders and how future administrations might best shape U.S. policy in that light....more

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• 425: Doomed to Succeed: 4of8: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama Kindle Edition. by Dennis Ross (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Sep 09 2020

  Photo:Jerusalem. Jerusalem from Mt. Bezetha 1950  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Doomed to Succeed: 4of8: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama Kindle Edition. by Dennis Ross  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Doomed-Succeed-U-S-Israel-Relationship-Truman-ebook/dp/B00V36OEQG/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= When it comes to Israel, U.S. policy has always emphasized the unbreakable bond between the two countries and our ironclad commitment to Israel's security. Today our ties to Israel are close—so close that when there are differences, they tend to make the news. But it was not always this way.Dennis Ross has been a direct participant in shaping U.S. policy toward the Middle East, and Israel specifically, for nearly thirty years. He served in senior roles, including as Bill Clinton's envoy for Arab-Israeli peace, and was an active player in the debates over how Israel fit into the region and what should guide our policies. In Doomed to Succeed, he takes us through every administration from Truman to Obama, throwing into dramatic relief each president's attitudes toward Israel and the region, the often tumultuous debates between key advisers, and the events that drove the policies and at times led to a shift in approach.Ross points out how rarely lessons were learned and how distancing the United States from Israel in the Eisenhower, Nixon, Bush, and Obama administrations never yielded any benefits and why that lesson has never been learned. Doomed to Succeed offers compelling advice for how to understand the priorities of Arab leaders and how future administrations might best shape U.S. policy in that light....more

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• 425: Doomed to Succeed: 3of8: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama Kindle Edition. by Dennis Ross (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo:John Anthony (British, born France, 1823–1901) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Doomed to Succeed: 3of8: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama Kindle Edition. by Dennis Ross  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Doomed-Succeed-U-S-Israel-Relationship-Truman-ebook/dp/B00V36OEQG/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= When it comes to Israel, U.S. policy has always emphasized the unbreakable bond between the two countries and our ironclad commitment to Israel's security. Today our ties to Israel are close—so close that when there are differences, they tend to make the news. But it was not always this way.Dennis Ross has been a direct participant in shaping U.S. policy toward the Middle East, and Israel specifically, for nearly thirty years. He served in senior roles, including as Bill Clinton's envoy for Arab-Israeli peace, and was an active player in the debates over how Israel fit into the region and what should guide our policies. In Doomed to Succeed, he takes us through every administration from Truman to Obama, throwing into dramatic relief each president's attitudes toward Israel and the region, the often tumultuous debates between key advisers, and the events that drove the policies and at times led to a shift in approach.Ross points out how rarely lessons were learned and how distancing the United States from Israel in the Eisenhower, Nixon, Bush, and Obama administrations never yielded any benefits and why that lesson has never been learned. Doomed to Succeed offers compelling advice for how to understand the priorities of Arab leaders and how future administrations might best shape U.S. policy in that light....more

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• 425: Doomed to Succeed: 2of8: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama Kindle Edition. by Dennis Ross (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo:1857John Anthony (British, born France, 1823–1901) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Doomed to Succeed: 2of8: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama Kindle Edition. by Dennis Ross  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Doomed-Succeed-U-S-Israel-Relationship-Truman-ebook/dp/B00V36OEQG/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= When it comes to Israel, U.S. policy has always emphasized the unbreakable bond between the two countries and our ironclad commitment to Israel's security. Today our ties to Israel are close—so close that when there are differences, they tend to make the news. But it was not always this way.Dennis Ross has been a direct participant in shaping U.S. policy toward the Middle East, and Israel specifically, for nearly thirty years. He served in senior roles, including as Bill Clinton's envoy for Arab-Israeli peace, and was an active player in the debates over how Israel fit into the region and what should guide our policies. In Doomed to Succeed, he takes us through every administration from Truman to Obama, throwing into dramatic relief each president's attitudes toward Israel and the region, the often tumultuous debates between key advisers, and the events that drove the policies and at times led to a shift in approach.Ross points out how rarely lessons were learned and how distancing the United States from Israel in the Eisenhower, Nixon, Bush, and Obama administrations never yielded any benefits and why that lesson has never been learned. Doomed to Succeed offers compelling advice for how to understand the priorities of Arab leaders and how future administrations might best shape U.S. policy in that light....more

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• 425: Doomed to Succeed: 1of8: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama Kindle Edition. by Dennis Ross (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Sep 09 2020

  Photo:Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3463Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress). 1846 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Doomed to Succeed: 1of8: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama Kindle Edition. by Dennis Ross  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Doomed-Succeed-U-S-Israel-Relationship-Truman-ebook/dp/B00V36OEQG/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= When it comes to Israel, U.S. policy has always emphasized the unbreakable bond between the two countries and our ironclad commitment to Israel's security. Today our ties to Israel are close—so close that when there are differences, they tend to make the news. But it was not always this way.Dennis Ross has been a direct participant in shaping U.S. policy toward the Middle East, and Israel specifically, for nearly thirty years. He served in senior roles, including as Bill Clinton's envoy for Arab-Israeli peace, and was an active player in the debates over how Israel fit into the region and what should guide our policies. In Doomed to Succeed, he takes us through every administration from Truman to Obama, throwing into dramatic relief each president's attitudes toward Israel and the region, the often tumultuous debates between key advisers, and the events that drove the policies and at times led to a shift in approach.Ross points out how rarely lessons were learned and how distancing the United States from Israel in the Eisenhower, Nixon, Bush, and Obama administrations never yielded any benefits and why that lesson has never been learned. Doomed to Succeed offers compelling advice for how to understand the priorities of Arab leaders and how future administrations might best shape U.S. policy in that light....more

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• 424: 4/4 A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka: A Memoir, by Lev Golinkin

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  Image:    During the baroque era, the Austrian nobility started to move into the cities and built themselves lavish residences called Palais. The Palais Kinsky in Vienna is one of the outstanding pieces.A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka: A Memoir, by Lev Golinkin  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KAFVPFY/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0  Lev Golinkin's memoir is the vivid, darkly comic, and poignant story of a young boy in the confusing and often chilling final decade of the Soviet Union. It's also the story of Lev Golinkin, the American man who finally confronts his buried past by returning to Austria and Eastern Europe to track down the strangers who made his escape possible . . . and say thank you. Written with biting, acerbic wit and emotional honesty in the vein of Gary Shteyngart, Jonathan Safran Foer, and David Bezmozgis, Golinkin's search for personal identity set against the relentless currents of history is more than a memoir—it's a portrait of a lost era. This is a thrilling tale of escape and survival, a deeply personal look at the life of a Jewish child caught in the last gasp of the Soviet Union, and a provocative investigation into the power of hatred and the search for belonging. Lev Golinkin achieves an amazing feat—and it marks the debut of a fiercely intelligent, defiant, and unforgettable new voice. . ...more

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• 424: 3/4 A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka: A Memoir, by Lev Golinkin

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  Image: A  little boy with his bearA Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka: A Memoir, by Lev Golinkin  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KAFVPFY/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0  Lev Golinkin's memoir is the vivid, darkly comic, and poignant story of a young boy in the confusing and often chilling final decade of the Soviet Union. It's also the story of Lev Golinkin, the American man who finally confronts his buried past by returning to Austria and Eastern Europe to track down the strangers who made his escape possible . . . and say thank you. Written with biting, acerbic wit and emotional honesty in the vein of Gary Shteyngart, Jonathan Safran Foer, and David Bezmozgis, Golinkin's search for personal identity set against the relentless currents of history is more than a memoir—it's a portrait of a lost era. This is a thrilling tale of escape and survival, a deeply personal look at the life of a Jewish child caught in the last gasp of the Soviet Union, and a provocative investigation into the power of hatred and the search for belonging. Lev Golinkin achieves an amazing feat—and it marks the debut of a fiercely intelligent, defiant, and unforgettable new voice. . ...more

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• 424: 2/4 A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka: A Memoir, by Lev Golinkin

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  Image:   Soviet Jewry—Mountain Jews in Quba rayon, Azerbaijan, 1932A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka: A Memoir, by Lev Golinkin  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KAFVPFY/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0  Lev Golinkin's memoir is the vivid, darkly comic, and poignant story of a young boy in the confusing and often chilling final decade of the Soviet Union. It's also the story of Lev Golinkin, the American man who finally confronts his buried past by returning to Austria and Eastern Europe to track down the strangers who made his escape possible . . . and say thank you. Written with biting, acerbic wit and emotional honesty in the vein of Gary Shteyngart, Jonathan Safran Foer, and David Bezmozgis, Golinkin's search for personal identity set against the relentless currents of history is more than a memoir—it's a portrait of a lost era. This is a thrilling tale of escape and survival, a deeply personal look at the life of a Jewish child caught in the last gasp of the Soviet Union, and a provocative investigation into the power of hatred and the search for belonging. Lev Golinkin achieves an amazing feat—and it marks the debut of a fiercely intelligent, defiant, and unforgettable new voice. . ...more

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• 424: 1/4 A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka: A Memoir, by Lev Golinkin

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  Image:   Soviet Jewry—Mountain Jews in Quba rayon, Azerbaijan, 1932A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka: A Memoir, by Lev Golinkin  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KAFVPFY/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0  Lev Golinkin's memoir is the vivid, darkly comic, and poignant story of a young boy in the confusing and often chilling final decade of the Soviet Union. It's also the story of Lev Golinkin, the American man who finally confronts his buried past by returning to Austria and Eastern Europe to track down the strangers who made his escape possible . . . and say thank you. Written with biting, acerbic wit and emotional honesty in the vein of Gary Shteyngart, Jonathan Safran Foer, and David Bezmozgis, Golinkin's search for personal identity set against the relentless currents of history is more than a memoir—it's a portrait of a lost era. This is a thrilling tale of escape and survival, a deeply personal look at the life of a Jewish child caught in the last gasp of the Soviet Union, and a provocative investigation into the power of hatred and the search for belonging. Lev Golinkin achieves an amazing feat—and it marks the debut of a fiercely intelligent, defiant, and unforgettable new voice. . ...more

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• 422: Mission to Paris: 2of2: A Novel (Night Soldiers Book 12) Kindle Edition. by Alan Furst (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Sep 08 2020

  Photo:2935 Kronprins Gustaf Adolf besöker Arbogautställningen i samband med Riksdagens 500-årsjubileum. Kvinnan bredvid honom är sonhustrun prinsessan Sibylla.Kronprinsen, klädd i uniform, hälsar besökarna med honnör.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Mission to Paris: 2of2: A Novel (Night Soldiers Book 12) Kindle Edition. by Alan Furst  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Mission-Paris-Novel-Night-Soldiers-ebook/dp/B005OCYRGW/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=alan+furst+mission+to+paris&qid=1599529858&s=digital-text&sr=1-1Late summer, 1938. Hollywood film star Fredric Stahl is on his way to Paris to make a movie. The Nazis know he’s coming—a secret bureau within the Reich has been waging political warfare against France, and for their purposes, Fredric Stahl is a perfect agent of influence. What they don’t know is that Stahl, horrified by the Nazi war on Jews and intellectuals, has become part of an informal spy service run out of the American embassy. Mission to Paris is filled with heart-stopping tension, beautifully drawn scenes of romance, and extraordinarily alive characters: foreign assassins; a glamorous Russian actress-turned-spy; and the women in Stahl’s life. At the center of the novel is the city of Paris—its bistros, hotels grand and anonymous, and the Parisians, living every night as though it were their last. Alan Furst brings to life both a dark time in history and the passion of the human hearts that fought to survive it....more

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• 422: Mission to Paris: 1of2: A Novel (Night Soldiers Book 12) Kindle Edition. by Alan Furst (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo:1935Publik på Arbogautställningen. En servering har trädgårdsmöbler utställda. Vissa sittplatser har parasoll. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Mission to Paris: 1of2: A Novel (Night Soldiers Book 12) Kindle Edition. by Alan Furst  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Mission-Paris-Novel-Night-Soldiers-ebook/dp/B005OCYRGW/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=alan+furst+mission+to+paris&qid=1599529858&s=digital-text&sr=1-1Late summer, 1938. Hollywood film star Fredric Stahl is on his way to Paris to make a movie. The Nazis know he’s coming—a secret bureau within the Reich has been waging political warfare against France, and for their purposes, Fredric Stahl is a perfect agent of influence. What they don’t know is that Stahl, horrified by the Nazi war on Jews and intellectuals, has become part of an informal spy service run out of the American embassy. Mission to Paris is filled with heart-stopping tension, beautifully drawn scenes of romance, and extraordinarily alive characters: foreign assassins; a glamorous Russian actress-turned-spy; and the women in Stahl’s life. At the center of the novel is the city of Paris—its bistros, hotels grand and anonymous, and the Parisians, living every night as though it were their last. Alan Furst brings to life both a dark time in history and the passion of the human hearts that fought to survive it....more

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• 423: 8/8 Ike's Gamble: America's Rise to Dominance in the Middle East, by Michael Doran

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  Sep 08 2020

  Image: Statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps, the Frenchman who built the Suez Canal, was removed following the nationalization of the Suez Canal in 1956Ike's Gamble: America's Rise to Dominance in the Middle East, by Michael Doran  Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Ikes-Gamble-Americas-Dominance-Middle-ebook/dp/B01CO34NY4 “Deeply researched, tightly argued, and accessibly concise” (The New York Times Book Review)—a major retelling of the Suez Canal Crisis of 1956, a seminal event in the history of US relations with the Middle East, and why President Eisenhower sided with Egypt rather than Britain, France, and Israel; and how he came to regret that decision. .Ike's Gamble: America's Rise to Dominance in the Middle East, by Michael Doran  Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Ikes-Gamble-Americas-Dominance-Middle-ebook/dp/B01CO34NY4 “Deeply researched, tightly argued, and accessibly concise” (The New York Times Book Review)—a major retelling of the Suez Canal Crisis of 1956, a seminal event in the history of US relations with the Middle East, and why President Eisenhower sided with Egypt rather than Britain, France, and Israel; and how he came to regret that decision. . ...more

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• 423: 7/8 Ike's Gamble: America's Rise to Dominance in the Middle East, by Michael Doran

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  Sep 08 2020

  Image: Ralph Bunche, American political scientist, academic, and diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in Israel. He was the first African American to be so honored.Ike's Gamble: America's Rise to Dominance in the Middle East, by Michael Doran  Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Ikes-Gamble-Americas-Dominance-Middle-ebook/dp/B01CO34NY4 “Deeply researched, tightly argued, and accessibly concise” (The New York Times Book Review)—a major retelling of the Suez Canal Crisis of 1956, a seminal event in the history of US relations with the Middle East, and why President Eisenhower sided with Egypt rather than Britain, France, and Israel; and how he came to regret that decision. . ...more

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• 423: 6/8 Ike's Gamble: America's Rise to Dominance in the Middle East, by Michael Doran

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  Image: Damaged tank and vehicles, Sinai War, 1956.Ike's Gamble: America's Rise to Dominance in the Middle East, by Michael Doran  Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Ikes-Gamble-Americas-Dominance-Middle-ebook/dp/B01CO34NY4 “Deeply researched, tightly argued, and accessibly concise” (The New York Times Book Review)—a major retelling of the Suez Canal Crisis of 1956, a seminal event in the history of US relations with the Middle East, and why President Eisenhower sided with Egypt rather than Britain, France, and Israel; and how he came to regret that decision. . ...more

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• 423: 5/8 Ike's Gamble: America's Rise to Dominance in the Middle East, by Michael Doran

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  Sep 08 2020

  Image:  A newsreel filmIke's Gamble: America's Rise to Dominance in the Middle East, by Michael Doran  Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Ikes-Gamble-Americas-Dominance-Middle-ebook/dp/B01CO34NY4 “Deeply researched, tightly argued, and accessibly concise” (The New York Times Book Review)—a major retelling of the Suez Canal Crisis of 1956, a seminal event in the history of US relations with the Middle East, and why President Eisenhower sided with Egypt rather than Britain, France, and Israel; and how he came to regret that decision. . ...more

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• 423: 4/8 Ike's Gamble: America's Rise to Dominance in the Middle East, by Michael Doran

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  Image: British warship at the entrance to the Suez Canal.Ike's Gamble: America's Rise to Dominance in the Middle East, by Michael Doran  Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Ikes-Gamble-Americas-Dominance-Middle-ebook/dp/B01CO34NY4 “Deeply researched, tightly argued, and accessibly concise” (The New York Times Book Review)—a major retelling of the Suez Canal Crisis of 1956, a seminal event in the history of US relations with the Middle East, and why President Eisenhower sided with Egypt rather than Britain, France, and Israel; and how he came to regret that decision. . ...more

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• 423: 3/8 Ike's Gamble: America's Rise to Dominance in the Middle East, by Michael Doran

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  Sep 08 2020

  Image: Port Said, entrée du Canal de SuezIke's Gamble: America's Rise to Dominance in the Middle East, by Michael Doran  Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Ikes-Gamble-Americas-Dominance-Middle-ebook/dp/B01CO34NY4 “Deeply researched, tightly argued, and accessibly concise” (The New York Times Book Review)—a major retelling of the Suez Canal Crisis of 1956, a seminal event in the history of US relations with the Middle East, and why President Eisenhower sided with Egypt rather than Britain, France, and Israel; and how he came to regret that decision. . ...more

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• 423: 2/8 Ike's Gamble: America's Rise to Dominance in the Middle East, by Michael Doran

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  Sep 08 2020

  Image: Ike's Gamble: America's Rise to Dominance in the Middle East, by Michael Doran  Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Ikes-Gamble-Americas-Dominance-Middle-ebook/dp/B01CO34NY4 “Deeply researched, tightly argued, and accessibly concise” (The New York Times Book Review)—a major retelling of the Suez Canal Crisis of 1956, a seminal event in the history of US relations with the Middle East, and why President Eisenhower sided with Egypt rather than Britain, France, and Israel; and how he came to regret that decision. . ...more

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• 423: 1/8 Ike's Gamble: America's Rise to Dominance in the Middle East, by Michael Doran

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  Sep 08 2020

  Image: The Suez Canal, Port Said, EgyptIke's Gamble: America's Rise to Dominance in the Middle East, by Michael Doran  Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Ikes-Gamble-Americas-Dominance-Middle-ebook/dp/B01CO34NY4 “Deeply researched, tightly argued, and accessibly concise” (The New York Times Book Review)—a major retelling of the Suez Canal Crisis of 1956, a seminal event in the history of US relations with the Middle East, and why President Eisenhower sided with Egypt rather than Britain, France, and Israel; and how he came to regret that decision. . ...more

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• 420: The Admirals: 4of4: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King--The Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at SeaKindle Edition by Walter R. Borneman (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo:1945 Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN, signs the Instrument of Surrender as United States Representative.Photo #: 80-G-701293Surrender of Japan, Tokyo Bay, 2 September 1945 Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN, signs the Instrument of Surrender as United States Representative, aboard USS Missouri , 2 September 1945.Standing directly behind him are (left-to-right): General of the Army Douglas MacArthur; Admiral William F. Halsey, USN, and Rear Admiral Forrest Sherman, USN. U.S. Navy photo File# 140219-N-ZZ999-104  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Admirals: 4of4:  Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King--The Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at SeaKindle Edition by Walter R. Borneman  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Admirals-Nimitz-Halsey-King-Five-Star-ebook/dp/B007ME5GYC/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Admirals&qid=1599440180&s=digital-text&sr=1-1Only four men in American history have been promoted to the five-star rank of Admiral of the Fleet: William Leahy, Ernest King, Chester Nimitz, and William Halsey. These four men were the best and the brightest the navy produced, and together they led the U.S. navy to victory in World War II, establishing the United States as the world's greatest fleet.  In The Admirals, award-winning historian Walter R. Borneman tells their story in full detail for the first time. Drawing upon journals, ship logs, and other primary sources, he brings an incredible historical moment to life, showing us how the four admirals revolutionized naval warfare forever with submarines and aircraft carriers, and how these men -- who were both friends and rivals -- worked together to ensure that the Axis fleets lay destroyed on the ocean floor at the end of World War II....more

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• 420: The Admirals: 3of4: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King--The Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at SeaKindle Edition by Walter R. Borneman (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Sep 07 2020

  Photo:Photograph of the U.S.S. Missouri as It Enters Tokyo Bay for the Surrender Ceremony 2945  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Admirals: 3of4:  Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King--The Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at SeaKindle Edition by Walter R. Borneman  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Admirals-Nimitz-Halsey-King-Five-Star-ebook/dp/B007ME5GYC/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Admirals&qid=1599440180&s=digital-text&sr=1-1Only four men in American history have been promoted to the five-star rank of Admiral of the Fleet: William Leahy, Ernest King, Chester Nimitz, and William Halsey. These four men were the best and the brightest the navy produced, and together they led the U.S. navy to victory in World War II, establishing the United States as the world's greatest fleet.  In The Admirals, award-winning historian Walter R. Borneman tells their story in full detail for the first time. Drawing upon journals, ship logs, and other primary sources, he brings an incredible historical moment to life, showing us how the four admirals revolutionized naval warfare forever with submarines and aircraft carriers, and how these men -- who were both friends and rivals -- worked together to ensure that the Axis fleets lay destroyed on the ocean floor at the end of World War II....more

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• 420: The Admirals: 2of4: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King--The Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at SeaKindle Edition by Walter R. Borneman (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Sep 07 2020

  Photo:1941 North Island Aerial Catalog #: NI-109.Notes: This image appears in Arcadia Publishing's "San Diego's North Island 1911-1941" Written by Katrina Pescador and Mark Aldrich of the San Diego Air and Space Museum..Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive ( http://www.sandiegoairandspace.org/library/stillimages.html ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Admirals: 2of4:  Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King--The Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at SeaKindle Edition by Walter R. Borneman  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Admirals-Nimitz-Halsey-King-Five-Star-ebook/dp/B007ME5GYC/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Admirals&qid=1599440180&s=digital-text&sr=1-1Only four men in American history have been promoted to the five-star rank of Admiral of the Fleet: William Leahy, Ernest King, Chester Nimitz, and William Halsey. These four men were the best and the brightest the navy produced, and together they led the U.S. navy to victory in World War II, establishing the United States as the world's greatest fleet.  In The Admirals, award-winning historian Walter R. Borneman tells their story in full detail for the first time. Drawing upon journals, ship logs, and other primary sources, he brings an incredible historical moment to life, showing us how the four admirals revolutionized naval warfare forever with submarines and aircraft carriers, and how these men -- who were both friends and rivals -- worked together to ensure that the Axis fleets lay destroyed on the ocean floor at the end of World War II....more

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• 420: The Admirals: 1of4: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King--The Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at SeaKindle Edition by Walter R. Borneman (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Sep 07 2020

  Photo:1941 BB38 anchored NAS SD  From SDASM's Naval Aviation in San Diego and North Island Collection..Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive ( http://www.sandiegoairandspace.org/library/stillimages.html )http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Admirals: 1of4:  Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King--The Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at SeaKindle Edition by Walter R. Borneman  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Admirals-Nimitz-Halsey-King-Five-Star-ebook/dp/B007ME5GYC/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Admirals&qid=1599440180&s=digital-text&sr=1-1Only four men in American history have been promoted to the five-star rank of Admiral of the Fleet: William Leahy, Ernest King, Chester Nimitz, and William Halsey. These four men were the best and the brightest the navy produced, and together they led the U.S. navy to victory in World War II, establishing the United States as the world's greatest fleet.  In The Admirals, award-winning historian Walter R. Borneman tells their story in full detail for the first time. Drawing upon journals, ship logs, and other primary sources, he brings an incredible historical moment to life, showing us how the four admirals revolutionized naval warfare forever with submarines and aircraft carriers, and how these men -- who were both friends and rivals -- worked together to ensure that the Axis fleets lay destroyed on the ocean floor at the end of World War II....more

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• 421: 8/8 Men of War: The American Soldier in Combat at Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima, by Alexander Rose

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  Sep 07 2020

  Image:  Gen. Charles Griffin; Civil War.Men of War: The American Soldier in Combat at Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima, by Alexander Rose   Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Men-War-American-Soldier-Gettysburg-ebook/dp/B00N6PEOW6/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1599439251&sr=1-1 This is not a book about how great generals won their battles, nor is it a study in grand strategy. Men of War is instead a riveting, visceral, and astonishingly original look at ordinary soldiers under fire. Drawing on an immense range of firsthand sources from the battlefield, Alexander Rose begins by re-creating the lost and alien world of eighteenth-century warfare at Bunker Hill, the bloodiest clash of the War of Independence—and reveals why the American militiamen were so lethally effective against the oncoming waves of British troops. Then, focussing on Gettysburg, Rose describes a typical Civil War infantry action, vividly explaining what Union and Confederate soldiers experienced before, during, and after combat. Finally, he shows how in 1945 the Marine Corps hurled itself with the greatest possible violence at the island of Iwo Jima, where nearly a third of all Marines killed in World War II would die. As Rose demonstrates, the most important factor in any battle is the human one: At Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima, the American soldier, as much as any general, proved decisive. To an unprecedented degree, Men of War brings home the reality of combat and, just as important, its aftermath in the form of the psychological and medical effects on veterans. As such, the book makes a critical contribution to military history by narrowing the colossal gulf between the popular understanding of wars and the experiences of the soldiers who fight them.   ...more

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• 421: 7/8 Men of War: The American Soldier in Combat at Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima, by Alexander Rose

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  Image:   Parade of American soldiers.  From Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).  Published in Scribner's magazine.Men of War: The American Soldier in Combat at Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima, by Alexander Rose   Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Men-War-American-Soldier-Gettysburg-ebook/dp/B00N6PEOW6/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1599439251&sr=1-1 This is not a book about how great generals won their battles, nor is it a study in grand strategy. Men of War is instead a riveting, visceral, and astonishingly original look at ordinary soldiers under fire. Drawing on an immense range of firsthand sources from the battlefield, Alexander Rose begins by re-creating the lost and alien world of eighteenth-century warfare at Bunker Hill, the bloodiest clash of the War of Independence—and reveals why the American militiamen were so lethally effective against the oncoming waves of British troops. Then, focussing on Gettysburg, Rose describes a typical Civil War infantry action, vividly explaining what Union and Confederate soldiers experienced before, during, and after combat. Finally, he shows how in 1945 the Marine Corps hurled itself with the greatest possible violence at the island of Iwo Jima, where nearly a third of all Marines killed in World War II would die. As Rose demonstrates, the most important factor in any battle is the human one: At Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima, the American soldier, as much as any general, proved decisive. To an unprecedented degree, Men of War brings home the reality of combat and, just as important, its aftermath in the form of the psychological and medical effects on veterans. As such, the book makes a critical contribution to military history by narrowing the colossal gulf between the popular understanding of wars and the experiences of the soldiers who fight them. ...more

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• 421: 6/8 Men of War: The American Soldier in Combat at Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima, by Alexander Rose

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  Sep 07 2020

  Image:  “The American Soldier,” by M A JacksonMen of War: The American Soldier in Combat at Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima, by Alexander Rose   Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Men-War-American-Soldier-Gettysburg-ebook/dp/B00N6PEOW6/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1599439251&sr=1-1 This is not a book about how great generals won their battles, nor is it a study in grand strategy. Men of War is instead a riveting, visceral, and astonishingly original look at ordinary soldiers under fire. Drawing on an immense range of firsthand sources from the battlefield, Alexander Rose begins by re-creating the lost and alien world of eighteenth-century warfare at Bunker Hill, the bloodiest clash of the War of Independence—and reveals why the American militiamen were so lethally effective against the oncoming waves of British troops. Then, focussing on Gettysburg, Rose describes a typical Civil War infantry action, vividly explaining what Union and Confederate soldiers experienced before, during, and after combat. Finally, he shows how in 1945 the Marine Corps hurled itself with the greatest possible violence at the island of Iwo Jima, where nearly a third of all Marines killed in World War II would die. As Rose demonstrates, the most important factor in any battle is the human one: At Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima, the American soldier, as much as any general, proved decisive. To an unprecedented degree, Men of War brings home the reality of combat and, just as important, its aftermath in the form of the psychological and medical effects on veterans. As such, the book makes a critical contribution to military history by narrowing the colossal gulf between the popular understanding of wars and the experiences of the soldiers who fight them.   ...more

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• 421: 5/8 Men of War: The American Soldier in Combat at Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima, by Alexander Rose

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  Sep 07 2020

  Image:  The Battle of Bunker's Hill Men of War: The American Soldier in Combat at Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima, by Alexander Rose   Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Men-War-American-Soldier-Gettysburg-ebook/dp/B00N6PEOW6/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1599439251&sr=1-1 This is not a book about how great generals won their battles, nor is it a study in grand strategy. Men of War is instead a riveting, visceral, and astonishingly original look at ordinary soldiers under fire. Drawing on an immense range of firsthand sources from the battlefield, Alexander Rose begins by re-creating the lost and alien world of eighteenth-century warfare at Bunker Hill, the bloodiest clash of the War of Independence—and reveals why the American militiamen were so lethally effective against the oncoming waves of British troops. Then, focussing on Gettysburg, Rose describes a typical Civil War infantry action, vividly explaining what Union and Confederate soldiers experienced before, during, and after combat. Finally, he shows how in 1945 the Marine Corps hurled itself with the greatest possible violence at the island of Iwo Jima, where nearly a third of all Marines killed in World War II would die. As Rose demonstrates, the most important factor in any battle is the human one: At Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima, the American soldier, as much as any general, proved decisive. To an unprecedented degree, Men of War brings home the reality of combat and, just as important, its aftermath in the form of the psychological and medical effects on veterans. As such, the book makes a critical contribution to military history by narrowing the colossal gulf between the popular understanding of wars and the experiences of the soldiers who fight them. ...more

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• 421: 4/8 Men of War: The American Soldier in Combat at Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima, by Alexander Rose

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  Sep 07 2020

  Image:  Ramu Valley, New Guinea. NX103434 Captain F. D. Smith, dressed as Father Christmas, arriving at one of the wards of the main dressing station, 2/6th Australian Field Ambulance, in a jungle cart (Thompson Stretcher), drawn by a jeep, to distribute Christmas presents to the patients. Identified personnel are: SX28258 Private E. J. Cummings; TX5952 Private R. G. Viney, and Corporal R. Roessler.  This photograph is from the Australian War Memorial's collection www.awm.gov.au ( http://www.awm.gov.au ) Men of War: The American Soldier in Combat at Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima, by Alexander Rose   Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Men-War-American-Soldier-Gettysburg-ebook/dp/B00N6PEOW6/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1599439251&sr=1-1 This is not a book about how great generals won their battles, nor is it a study in grand strategy. Men of War is instead a riveting, visceral, and astonishingly original look at ordinary soldiers under fire. Drawing on an immense range of firsthand sources from the battlefield, Alexander Rose begins by re-creating the lost and alien world of eighteenth-century warfare at Bunker Hill, the bloodiest clash of the War of Independence—and reveals why the American militiamen were so lethally effective against the oncoming waves of British troops. Then, focussing on Gettysburg, Rose describes a typical Civil War infantry action, vividly explaining what Union and Confederate soldiers experienced before, during, and after combat. Finally, he shows how in 1945 the Marine Corps hurled itself with the greatest possible violence at the island of Iwo Jima, where nearly a third of all Marines killed in World War II would die. As Rose demonstrates, the most important factor in any battle is the human one: At Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima, the American soldier, as much as any general, proved decisive. To an unprecedented degree, Men of War brings home the reality of combat and, just as important, its aftermath in the form of the psychological and medical effects on veterans. As such, the book makes a critical contribution to military history by narrowing the colossal gulf between the popular understanding of wars and the experiences of the soldiers who fight them. ...more

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• 421: 3/8 Men of War: The American Soldier in Combat at Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima, by Alexander Rose

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  Sep 07 2020

  Image: “American Solders Chant,” composed by T. Jefferson HuntMen of War: The American Soldier in Combat at Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima, by Alexander Rose   Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Men-War-American-Soldier-Gettysburg-ebook/dp/B00N6PEOW6/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1599439251&sr=1-1 This is not a book about how great generals won their battles, nor is it a study in grand strategy. Men of War is instead a riveting, visceral, and astonishingly original look at ordinary soldiers under fire. Drawing on an immense range of firsthand sources from the battlefield, Alexander Rose begins by re-creating the lost and alien world of eighteenth-century warfare at Bunker Hill, the bloodiest clash of the War of Independence—and reveals why the American militiamen were so lethally effective against the oncoming waves of British troops. Then, focussing on Gettysburg, Rose describes a typical Civil War infantry action, vividly explaining what Union and Confederate soldiers experienced before, during, and after combat. Finally, he shows how in 1945 the Marine Corps hurled itself with the greatest possible violence at the island of Iwo Jima, where nearly a third of all Marines killed in World War II would die. As Rose demonstrates, the most important factor in any battle is the human one: At Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima, the American soldier, as much as any general, proved decisive. To an unprecedented degree, Men of War brings home the reality of combat and, just as important, its aftermath in the form of the psychological and medical effects on veterans. As such, the book makes a critical contribution to military history by narrowing the colossal gulf between the popular understanding of wars and the experiences of the soldiers who fight them. ...more

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• 421: 2/8 Men of War: The American Soldier in Combat at Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima, by Alexander Rose

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  Sep 07 2020

  Image: American soldiers in EuropeMen of War: The American Soldier in Combat at Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima, by Alexander Rose   Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Men-War-American-Soldier-Gettysburg-ebook/dp/B00N6PEOW6/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1599439251&sr=1-1 This is not a book about how great generals won their battles, nor is it a study in grand strategy. Men of War is instead a riveting, visceral, and astonishingly original look at ordinary soldiers under fire. Drawing on an immense range of firsthand sources from the battlefield, Alexander Rose begins by re-creating the lost and alien world of eighteenth-century warfare at Bunker Hill, the bloodiest clash of the War of Independence—and reveals why the American militiamen were so lethally effective against the oncoming waves of British troops. Then, focussing on Gettysburg, Rose describes a typical Civil War infantry action, vividly explaining what Union and Confederate soldiers experienced before, during, and after combat. Finally, he shows how in 1945 the Marine Corps hurled itself with the greatest possible violence at the island of Iwo Jima, where nearly a third of all Marines killed in World War II would die. As Rose demonstrates, the most important factor in any battle is the human one: At Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima, the American soldier, as much as any general, proved decisive. To an unprecedented degree, Men of War brings home the reality of combat and, just as important, its aftermath in the form of the psychological and medical effects on veterans. As such, the book makes a critical contribution to military history by narrowing the colossal gulf between the popular understanding of wars and the experiences of the soldiers who fight them. ...more

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• 421: 1/8 Men of War: The American Soldier in Combat at Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima, by Alexander Rose

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  Sep 07 2020

  Image:  Civil War hospitalMen of War: The American Soldier in Combat at Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima, by Alexander Rose   Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Men-War-American-Soldier-Gettysburg-ebook/dp/B00N6PEOW6/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1599439251&sr=1-1 This is not a book about how great generals won their battles, nor is it a study in grand strategy. Men of War is instead a riveting, visceral, and astonishingly original look at ordinary soldiers under fire. Drawing on an immense range of firsthand sources from the battlefield, Alexander Rose begins by re-creating the lost and alien world of eighteenth-century warfare at Bunker Hill, the bloodiest clash of the War of Independence—and reveals why the American militiamen were so lethally effective against the oncoming waves of British troops. Then, focussing on Gettysburg, Rose describes a typical Civil War infantry action, vividly explaining what Union and Confederate soldiers experienced before, during, and after combat. Finally, he shows how in 1945 the Marine Corps hurled itself with the greatest possible violence at the island of Iwo Jima, where nearly a third of all Marines killed in World War II would die. As Rose demonstrates, the most important factor in any battle is the human one: At Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima, the American soldier, as much as any general, proved decisive. To an unprecedented degree, Men of War brings home the reality of combat and, just as important, its aftermath in the form of the psychological and medical effects on veterans. As such, the book makes a critical contribution to military history by narrowing the colossal gulf between the popular understanding of wars and the experiences of the soldiers who fight them.   ...more

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• 419: 4/4 The Floating Kilogram: and Other Editorials on Money from The New York Sun, by Seth Lipsky

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  Sep 07 2020

  Image: Telegram from William Jennings Bryan to President Cleveland, March 4, 1893.       William Jennings Bryan was a U.S. representative from Nebraska at the time he sent this telegram to congratulate his fellow Democrat, President Cleveland, on his inauguration as president. During the economic depression of Cleveland's second administration, however, the Democratic Party was bitterly divided, with President Cleveland favoring the gold standard and Bryan supporting "free silver."The Floating Kilogram: and Other Editorials on Money from The New York Sun, by Seth Lipsky ;  with a forward by James Grant  Kindle Edition    https://www.amazon.com/Floating-Kilogram-Other-Editorials-Money-ebook/dp/B00VKVVW28/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Floating+Kilogram+lipsky&qid=1599434974&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 From the editor of The New York Sun, 130 astonishing and delightful editorials on the monetary crisis and the need for the restoration of a sound dollar. "Brilliant . . . irrefutable," says Steve Forbes. "The Federalist Papers of a gold standard.” ...more

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• 419: 3/4 The Floating Kilogram: and Other Editorials on Money from The New York Sun, by Seth Lipsky

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  Sep 07 2020

  Image: Gold animal figure, depicting a plum blossom deer.The Floating Kilogram: and Other Editorials on Money from The New York Sun, by Seth Lipsky ;  with a forward by James Grant  Kindle Edition    https://www.amazon.com/Floating-Kilogram-Other-Editorials-Money-ebook/dp/B00VKVVW28/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Floating+Kilogram+lipsky&qid=1599434974&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 From the editor of The New York Sun, 130 astonishing and delightful editorials on the monetary crisis and the need for the restoration of a sound dollar. "Brilliant . . . irrefutable," says Steve Forbes. "The Federalist Papers of a gold standard.” ...more

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• 419: 2/4 The Floating Kilogram: and Other Editorials on Money from The New York Sun, by Seth Lipsky

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  Sep 07 2020

  Image:  Frenier Pump; Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Mono County, California.  The building represents the standard form of the California stamp mill, and it houses the full array of equipment that exemplified stamp-milling practice at the turn of the twentieth century. The Floating Kilogram: and Other Editorials on Money from The New York Sun, by Seth Lipsky ;  with a forward by James Grant  Kindle Edition    https://www.amazon.com/Floating-Kilogram-Other-Editorials-Money-ebook/dp/B00VKVVW28/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Floating+Kilogram+lipsky&qid=1599434974&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 From the editor of The New York Sun, 130 astonishing and delightful editorials on the monetary crisis and the need for the restoration of a sound dollar. "Brilliant . . . irrefutable," says Steve Forbes. "The Federalist Papers of a gold standard.” ...more

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• 419: 1/4 The Floating Kilogram: and Other Editorials on Money from The New York Sun, by Seth Lipsky

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  Sep 07 2020

  Image:  Print shows a nervous William McKinley riding in a lop-sided chariot with a large gold dollar labeled "Gold Standard" on one side and a tiny wheel labeled "Tariff?" on the other; the chariot is being pulled by the Republican Elephant labeled "GOP" with Mark A. Hanna seated on top as the driver.   Caption: It is not exactly the sort of chariot he hoped for, but he will get there in it all the same.   Illus. from Puck, v. 39, no. 1013, (1896 August 5), centerfold.The Floating Kilogram: and Other Editorials on Money from The New York Sun, by Seth Lipsky ;  with a forward by James Grant  Kindle Edition    https://www.amazon.com/Floating-Kilogram-Other-Editorials-Money-ebook/dp/B00VKVVW28/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Floating+Kilogram+lipsky&qid=1599434974&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 From the editor of The New York Sun, 130 astonishing and delightful editorials on the monetary crisis and the need for the restoration of a sound dollar. "Brilliant . . . irrefutable," says Steve Forbes. "The Federalist Papers of a gold standard.” ...more

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• 415: Avenue of Spies: 4of4: A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Paris Kindle Edition. by Alex Kershaw (Author) Format: Kindle Edition.

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  Sep 06 2020

  Photo:[Taxi Cab Drivers Story] - [PAR-2438 through PAR-2444] http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Avenue of Spies: 4of4: A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Paris Kindle Edition. by Alex Kershaw  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition.https://www.amazon.com/Avenue-Spies-Espionage-Resistance-Nazi-Occupied-ebook/dp/B00PEPR6QW/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= The leafy Avenue Foch, one of the most exclusive residential streets in Nazi-occupied France, was Paris's hotbed of daring spies, murderous secret police, amoral informers, and Vichy collaborators. So when American physician Sumner Jackson, who lived with his wife and young son Phillip at Number 11, found himself drawn into the Liberation network of the French resistance, he knew the stakes were impossibly high. Just down the road at Number 31 was the "mad sadist" Theodor Dannecker, an Eichmann protégé charged with deporting French Jews to concentration camps. And Number 84 housed the Parisian headquarters of the Gestapo, run by the most effective spy hunter in Nazi Germany. From his office at the American Hospital, itself an epicenter of Allied and Axis intrigue, Jackson smuggled fallen Allied fighter pilots safely out of France, a job complicated by the hospital director's close ties to collaborationist Vichy. After witnessing the brutal round-up of his Jewish friends, Jackson invited Liberation to officially operate out of his home at Number 11—but the noose soon began to tighten. When his secret life was discovered by his Nazi neighbors, he and his family were forced to undertake a journey into the dark heart of the war-torn continent from which there was little chance of return.Drawing upon a wealth of primary source material and extensive interviews with Phillip Jackson, Alex Kershaw recreates the City of Light during its darkest days. The untold story of the Jackson family anchors the suspenseful narrative, and Kershaw dazzles readers with the vivid immediacy of the best spy thrillers. Awash with the tense atmosphere of World War II's Europe, Avenue of Spiesintroduces us to the brave doctor who risked everything to defy Hitler....more

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• 415: Avenue of Spies: 3of4: A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Paris Kindle Edition. by Alex Kershaw (Author) Format: Kindle Edition.

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  Photo:Grand Palais. Artificial limbs.Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card.Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Coles. [Henri A. Coles]Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952.General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.anrcTemp note: Batch 30 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Avenue of Spies: 3of4: A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Paris Kindle Edition. by Alex Kershaw  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition.https://www.amazon.com/Avenue-Spies-Espionage-Resistance-Nazi-Occupied-ebook/dp/B00PEPR6QW/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= The leafy Avenue Foch, one of the most exclusive residential streets in Nazi-occupied France, was Paris's hotbed of daring spies, murderous secret police, amoral informers, and Vichy collaborators. So when American physician Sumner Jackson, who lived with his wife and young son Phillip at Number 11, found himself drawn into the Liberation network of the French resistance, he knew the stakes were impossibly high. Just down the road at Number 31 was the "mad sadist" Theodor Dannecker, an Eichmann protégé charged with deporting French Jews to concentration camps. And Number 84 housed the Parisian headquarters of the Gestapo, run by the most effective spy hunter in Nazi Germany. From his office at the American Hospital, itself an epicenter of Allied and Axis intrigue, Jackson smuggled fallen Allied fighter pilots safely out of France, a job complicated by the hospital director's close ties to collaborationist Vichy. After witnessing the brutal round-up of his Jewish friends, Jackson invited Liberation to officially operate out of his home at Number 11—but the noose soon began to tighten. When his secret life was discovered by his Nazi neighbors, he and his family were forced to undertake a journey into the dark heart of the war-torn continent from which there was little chance of return.Drawing upon a wealth of primary source material and extensive interviews with Phillip Jackson, Alex Kershaw recreates the City of Light during its darkest days. The untold story of the Jackson family anchors the suspenseful narrative, and Kershaw dazzles readers with the vivid immediacy of the best spy thrillers. Awash with the tense atmosphere of World War II's Europe, Avenue of Spiesintroduces us to the brave doctor who risked everything to defy Hitler....more

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• 415: Avenue of Spies: 2of4: A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Paris Kindle Edition. by Alex Kershaw (Author) Format: Kindle Edition.

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  Photo:Paris moderne  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Avenue of Spies: 2of4: A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Paris Kindle Edition. by Alex Kershaw  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition.https://www.amazon.com/Avenue-Spies-Espionage-Resistance-Nazi-Occupied-ebook/dp/B00PEPR6QW/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= The leafy Avenue Foch, one of the most exclusive residential streets in Nazi-occupied France, was Paris's hotbed of daring spies, murderous secret police, amoral informers, and Vichy collaborators. So when American physician Sumner Jackson, who lived with his wife and young son Phillip at Number 11, found himself drawn into the Liberation network of the French resistance, he knew the stakes were impossibly high. Just down the road at Number 31 was the "mad sadist" Theodor Dannecker, an Eichmann protégé charged with deporting French Jews to concentration camps. And Number 84 housed the Parisian headquarters of the Gestapo, run by the most effective spy hunter in Nazi Germany. From his office at the American Hospital, itself an epicenter of Allied and Axis intrigue, Jackson smuggled fallen Allied fighter pilots safely out of France, a job complicated by the hospital director's close ties to collaborationist Vichy. After witnessing the brutal round-up of his Jewish friends, Jackson invited Liberation to officially operate out of his home at Number 11—but the noose soon began to tighten. When his secret life was discovered by his Nazi neighbors, he and his family were forced to undertake a journey into the dark heart of the war-torn continent from which there was little chance of return.Drawing upon a wealth of primary source material and extensive interviews with Phillip Jackson, Alex Kershaw recreates the City of Light during its darkest days. The untold story of the Jackson family anchors the suspenseful narrative, and Kershaw dazzles readers with the vivid immediacy of the best spy thrillers. Awash with the tense atmosphere of World War II's Europe, Avenue of Spiesintroduces us to the brave doctor who risked everything to defy Hitler....more

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• 415: Avenue of Spies: 1of4: A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Paris Kindle Edition. by Alex Kershaw (Author) Format: Kindle Edition.

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  Sep 06 2020

  Photo:De Notre-Dame in Parijs, gezien vanaf de Quai de Montebello. Links de Seine die onder de Pont au Double stroomt. Rechts wandelende figuren op de Quai de Montebello.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Avenue of Spies: 1of4: A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Paris Kindle Edition. by Alex Kershaw  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition.https://www.amazon.com/Avenue-Spies-Espionage-Resistance-Nazi-Occupied-ebook/dp/B00PEPR6QW/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= The leafy Avenue Foch, one of the most exclusive residential streets in Nazi-occupied France, was Paris's hotbed of daring spies, murderous secret police, amoral informers, and Vichy collaborators. So when American physician Sumner Jackson, who lived with his wife and young son Phillip at Number 11, found himself drawn into the Liberation network of the French resistance, he knew the stakes were impossibly high. Just down the road at Number 31 was the "mad sadist" Theodor Dannecker, an Eichmann protégé charged with deporting French Jews to concentration camps. And Number 84 housed the Parisian headquarters of the Gestapo, run by the most effective spy hunter in Nazi Germany. From his office at the American Hospital, itself an epicenter of Allied and Axis intrigue, Jackson smuggled fallen Allied fighter pilots safely out of France, a job complicated by the hospital director's close ties to collaborationist Vichy. After witnessing the brutal round-up of his Jewish friends, Jackson invited Liberation to officially operate out of his home at Number 11—but the noose soon began to tighten. When his secret life was discovered by his Nazi neighbors, he and his family were forced to undertake a journey into the dark heart of the war-torn continent from which there was little chance of return.Drawing upon a wealth of primary source material and extensive interviews with Phillip Jackson, Alex Kershaw recreates the City of Light during its darkest days. The untold story of the Jackson family anchors the suspenseful narrative, and Kershaw dazzles readers with the vivid immediacy of the best spy thrillers. Awash with the tense atmosphere of World War II's Europe, Avenue of Spiesintroduces us to the brave doctor who risked everything to defy Hitler....more

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• 418: 8/8 A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire 1st Edition, by Geoffrey Wawro

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  Image:  Destruction of an Austro-Hungarian trench following Russian bombardment.  A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire 1st Edition, by Geoffrey Wawro     Kindle Edition  https://www.amazon.com/Mad-Catastrophe-Outbreak-Collapse-Habsburg-ebook-dp-B00GL9TQ2C/dp/B00GL9TQ2C/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe.  As the prizewinning historian Geoffrey Wawro explains in A Mad Catastrophe, the doomed Austrian conscripts were an unfortunate microcosm of the Austro-Hungarian Empire itself—both equally ripe for destruction. After the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, Germany goaded the Empire into a war with Russia and Serbia. With the Germans massing their forces in the west to engage the French and the British, everything—the course of the war and the fate of empires and alliances from Constantinople to London—hinged on the Habsburgs' ability to crush Serbia and keep the Russians at bay. However, Austria-Hungary had been rotting from within for years, hollowed out by repression, cynicism, and corruption at the highest levels. Commanded by a dying emperor, Franz Joseph I, and a querulous celebrity general, Conrad von Hötzendorf (K.u.k. Feldmarschall Franz Xaver Josef Graf Conrad von Hötzendorf), the Austro-Hungarians managed to bungle everything: their ultimatum to the Serbs, their declarations of war, their mobilization, and the pivotal battles in Galicia and Serbia. By the end of 1914, the Habsburg army lay in ruins and the outcome of the war seemed all but decided. Drawing on deep archival research, Wawro charts the decline of the Empire before the war and reconstructs the great battles in the east and the Balkans in thrilling and tragic detail. A Mad Catastrophe is a rivetting account of a neglected face of World War I, revealing how a once-mighty empire collapsed in the trenches of Serbia and the Eastern Front, changing the course of European history. ...more

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• 418: 7/8 A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire 1st Edition, by Geoffrey Wawro

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  Image: Europa regina, symbolizing a Habsburg-dominated EuropeA Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire 1st Edition, by Geoffrey Wawro     Kindle Edition  https://www.amazon.com/Mad-Catastrophe-Outbreak-Collapse-Habsburg-ebook-dp-B00GL9TQ2C/dp/B00GL9TQ2C/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe.  As the prizewinning historian Geoffrey Wawro explains in A Mad Catastrophe, the doomed Austrian conscripts were an unfortunate microcosm of the Austro-Hungarian Empire itself—both equally ripe for destruction. After the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, Germany goaded the Empire into a war with Russia and Serbia. With the Germans massing their forces in the west to engage the French and the British, everything—the course of the war and the fate of empires and alliances from Constantinople to London—hinged on the Habsburgs' ability to crush Serbia and keep the Russians at bay. However, Austria-Hungary had been rotting from within for years, hollowed out by repression, cynicism, and corruption at the highest levels. Commanded by a dying emperor, Franz Joseph I, and a querulous celebrity general, Conrad von Hötzendorf (K.u.k. Feldmarschall Franz Xaver Josef Graf Conrad von Hötzendorf), the Austro-Hungarians managed to bungle everything: their ultimatum to the Serbs, their declarations of war, their mobilization, and the pivotal battles in Galicia and Serbia. By the end of 1914, the Habsburg army lay in ruins and the outcome of the war seemed all but decided. Drawing on deep archival research, Wawro charts the decline of the Empire before the war and reconstructs the great battles in the east and the Balkans in thrilling and tragic detail. A Mad Catastrophe is a rivetting account of a neglected face of World War I, revealing how a once-mighty empire collapsed in the trenches of Serbia and the Eastern Front, changing the course of European history. ...more

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• 418: 6/8 A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire 1st Edition, by Geoffrey Wawro

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  Image:  Coat of arms of the Counts of HabsburgA Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire 1st Edition, by Geoffrey Wawro     Kindle Edition  https://www.amazon.com/Mad-Catastrophe-Outbreak-Collapse-Habsburg-ebook-dp-B00GL9TQ2C/dp/B00GL9TQ2C/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe.  As the prizewinning historian Geoffrey Wawro explains in A Mad Catastrophe, the doomed Austrian conscripts were an unfortunate microcosm of the Austro-Hungarian Empire itself—both equally ripe for destruction. After the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, Germany goaded the Empire into a war with Russia and Serbia. With the Germans massing their forces in the west to engage the French and the British, everything—the course of the war and the fate of empires and alliances from Constantinople to London—hinged on the Habsburgs' ability to crush Serbia and keep the Russians at bay. However, Austria-Hungary had been rotting from within for years, hollowed out by repression, cynicism, and corruption at the highest levels. Commanded by a dying emperor, Franz Joseph I, and a querulous celebrity general, Conrad von Hötzendorf (K.u.k. Feldmarschall Franz Xaver Josef Graf Conrad von Hötzendorf), the Austro-Hungarians managed to bungle everything: their ultimatum to the Serbs, their declarations of war, their mobilization, and the pivotal battles in Galicia and Serbia. By the end of 1914, the Habsburg army lay in ruins and the outcome of the war seemed all but decided. Drawing on deep archival research, Wawro charts the decline of the Empire before the war and reconstructs the great battles in the east and the Balkans in thrilling and tragic detail. A Mad Catastrophe is a rivetting account of a neglected face of World War I, revealing how a once-mighty empire collapsed in the trenches of Serbia and the Eastern Front, changing the course of European history. ...more

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• 418: 5/8 A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire 1st Edition, by Geoffrey Wawro

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  Image:  Children of Monastir calling at the depot of the A.R.C. [American Red Cross] set up in an old shelled building for their rations of bread, lard and other foodstuffs sent from the United States to check the starvation in Southern Serbia. Each of the inhabitants is given a two-pound loaf of bread, a pound of rice, beans and sugar each week A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire 1st Edition, by Geoffrey Wawro     Kindle Edition  https://www.amazon.com/Mad-Catastrophe-Outbreak-Collapse-Habsburg-ebook-dp-B00GL9TQ2C/dp/B00GL9TQ2C/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe.  As the prizewinning historian Geoffrey Wawro explains in A Mad Catastrophe, the doomed Austrian conscripts were an unfortunate microcosm of the Austro-Hungarian Empire itself—both equally ripe for destruction. After the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, Germany goaded the Empire into a war with Russia and Serbia. With the Germans massing their forces in the west to engage the French and the British, everything—the course of the war and the fate of empires and alliances from Constantinople to London—hinged on the Habsburgs' ability to crush Serbia and keep the Russians at bay. However, Austria-Hungary had been rotting from within for years, hollowed out by repression, cynicism, and corruption at the highest levels. Commanded by a dying emperor, Franz Joseph I, and a querulous celebrity general, Conrad von Hötzendorf (K.u.k. Feldmarschall Franz Xaver Josef Graf Conrad von Hötzendorf), the Austro-Hungarians managed to bungle everything: their ultimatum to the Serbs, their declarations of war, their mobilization, and the pivotal battles in Galicia and Serbia. By the end of 1914, the Habsburg army lay in ruins and the outcome of the war seemed all but decided. Drawing on deep archival research, Wawro charts the decline of the Empire before the war and reconstructs the great battles in the east and the Balkans in thrilling and tragic detail. A Mad Catastrophe is a rivetting account of a neglected face of World War I, revealing how a once-mighty empire collapsed in the trenches of Serbia and the Eastern Front, changing the course of European history. ...more

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• 417: 4/8 A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire 1st Edition, by Geoffrey Wawro

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  Image:  Karl Franz Josef in BudapestA Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire 1st Edition, by Geoffrey Wawro     Kindle Edition  https://www.amazon.com/Mad-Catastrophe-Outbreak-Collapse-Habsburg-ebook-dp-B00GL9TQ2C/dp/B00GL9TQ2C/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe.  As the prizewinning historian Geoffrey Wawro explains in A Mad Catastrophe, the doomed Austrian conscripts were an unfortunate microcosm of the Austro-Hungarian Empire itself—both equally ripe for destruction. After the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, Germany goaded the Empire into a war with Russia and Serbia. With the Germans massing their forces in the west to engage the French and the British, everything—the course of the war and the fate of empires and alliances from Constantinople to London—hinged on the Habsburgs' ability to crush Serbia and keep the Russians at bay. However, Austria-Hungary had been rotting from within for years, hollowed out by repression, cynicism, and corruption at the highest levels. Commanded by a dying emperor, Franz Joseph I, and a querulous celebrity general, Conrad von Hötzendorf (K.u.k. Feldmarschall Franz Xaver Josef Graf Conrad von Hötzendorf), the Austro-Hungarians managed to bungle everything: their ultimatum to the Serbs, their declarations of war, their mobilization, and the pivotal battles in Galicia and Serbia. By the end of 1914, the Habsburg army lay in ruins and the outcome of the war seemed all but decided. Drawing on deep archival research, Wawro charts the decline of the Empire before the war and reconstructs the great battles in the east and the Balkans in thrilling and tragic detail. A Mad Catastrophe is a rivetting account of a neglected face of World War I, revealing how a once-mighty empire collapsed in the trenches of Serbia and the Eastern Front, changing the course of European history. ...more

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• 416: 3/8 A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire 1st Edition, by Geoffrey Wawro

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  Sep 06 2020

  Image:  Austria-Hungary—government, not a country. Behold the Austria-Hungary Valasek 18 A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire 1st Edition, by Geoffrey Wawro     Kindle Edition  https://www.amazon.com/Mad-Catastrophe-Outbreak-Collapse-Habsburg-ebook-dp-B00GL9TQ2C/dp/B00GL9TQ2C/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe.  As the prizewinning historian Geoffrey Wawro explains in A Mad Catastrophe, the doomed Austrian conscripts were an unfortunate microcosm of the Austro-Hungarian Empire itself—both equally ripe for destruction. After the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, Germany goaded the Empire into a war with Russia and Serbia. With the Germans massing their forces in the west to engage the French and the British, everything—the course of the war and the fate of empires and alliances from Constantinople to London—hinged on the Habsburgs' ability to crush Serbia and keep the Russians at bay. However, Austria-Hungary had been rotting from within for years, hollowed out by repression, cynicism, and corruption at the highest levels. Commanded by a dying emperor, Franz Joseph I, and a querulous celebrity general, Conrad von Hötzendorf (K.u.k. Feldmarschall Franz Xaver Josef Graf Conrad von Hötzendorf), the Austro-Hungarians managed to bungle everything: their ultimatum to the Serbs, their declarations of war, their mobilization, and the pivotal battles in Galicia and Serbia. By the end of 1914, the Habsburg army lay in ruins and the outcome of the war seemed all but decided. Drawing on deep archival research, Wawro charts the decline of the Empire before the war and reconstructs the great battles in the east and the Balkans in thrilling and tragic detail. A Mad Catastrophe is a rivetting account of a neglected face of World War I, revealing how a once-mighty empire collapsed in the trenches of Serbia and the Eastern Front, changing the course of European history. ...more

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• 415: 2/8 A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire 1st Edition, by Geoffrey Wawro

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  Image:  Man and woman on horse-drawn wagon, returning from market, HungaryA Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire 1st Edition, by Geoffrey Wawro     Kindle Edition  https://www.amazon.com/Mad-Catastrophe-Outbreak-Collapse-Habsburg-ebook-dp-B00GL9TQ2C/dp/B00GL9TQ2C/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe.  As the prizewinning historian Geoffrey Wawro explains in A Mad Catastrophe, the doomed Austrian conscripts were an unfortunate microcosm of the Austro-Hungarian Empire itself—both equally ripe for destruction. After the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, Germany goaded the Empire into a war with Russia and Serbia. With the Germans massing their forces in the west to engage the French and the British, everything—the course of the war and the fate of empires and alliances from Constantinople to London—hinged on the Habsburgs' ability to crush Serbia and keep the Russians at bay. However, Austria-Hungary had been rotting from within for years, hollowed out by repression, cynicism, and corruption at the highest levels. Commanded by a dying emperor, Franz Joseph I, and a querulous celebrity general, Conrad von Hötzendorf (K.u.k. Feldmarschall Franz Xaver Josef Graf Conrad von Hötzendorf), the Austro-Hungarians managed to bungle everything: their ultimatum to the Serbs, their declarations of war, their mobilization, and the pivotal battles in Galicia and Serbia. By the end of 1914, the Habsburg army lay in ruins and the outcome of the war seemed all but decided. Drawing on deep archival research, Wawro charts the decline of the Empire before the war and reconstructs the great battles in the east and the Balkans in thrilling and tragic detail. A Mad Catastrophe is a rivetting account of a neglected face of World War I, revealing how a once-mighty empire collapsed in the trenches of Serbia and the Eastern Front, changing the course of European history. ...more

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• 415: 1/8 A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire 1st Edition, by Geoffrey Wawro

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  Sep 06 2020

  Image:  Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (1863-1914) with his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg (1868-1914) and their childrenA Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire 1st Edition, by Geoffrey Wawro     Kindle Edition  https://www.amazon.com/Mad-Catastrophe-Outbreak-Collapse-Habsburg-ebook-dp-B00GL9TQ2C/dp/B00GL9TQ2C/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe.  As the prizewinning historian Geoffrey Wawro explains in A Mad Catastrophe, the doomed Austrian conscripts were an unfortunate microcosm of the Austro-Hungarian Empire itself—both equally ripe for destruction. After the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, Germany goaded the Empire into a war with Russia and Serbia. With the Germans massing their forces in the west to engage the French and the British, everything—the course of the war and the fate of empires and alliances from Constantinople to London—hinged on the Habsburgs' ability to crush Serbia and keep the Russians at bay. However, Austria-Hungary had been rotting from within for years, hollowed out by repression, cynicism, and corruption at the highest levels. Commanded by a dying emperor, Franz Joseph I, and a querulous celebrity general, Conrad von Hötzendorf (K.u.k. Feldmarschall Franz Xaver Josef Graf Conrad von Hötzendorf), the Austro-Hungarians managed to bungle everything: their ultimatum to the Serbs, their declarations of war, their mobilization, and the pivotal battles in Galicia and Serbia. By the end of 1914, the Habsburg army lay in ruins and the outcome of the war seemed all but decided. Drawing on deep archival research, Wawro charts the decline of the Empire before the war and reconstructs the great battles in the east and the Balkans in thrilling and tragic detail. A Mad Catastrophe is a rivetting account of a neglected face of World War I, revealing how a once-mighty empire collapsed in the trenches of Serbia and the Eastern Front, changing the course of European history. ...more

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• 414: 2/2 Armies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse, by Jay Rubenstein

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  Image:  Whiling Dervishes, from Yusef; or, the Journey of the Frangi. A crusade in the East ... With illustrationsArmies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse, by Jay Rubenstein  Kindle Edition  https://www.amazon.com/Armies-Heaven-First-Crusade-Apocalypse-ebook/dp/B005P1YCIK/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1577663037&sr=1-1-spell At Moson, the river Danube ran red with blood. At Antioch, the Crusaders, with their saddles freshly decorated with sawed-off heads, indiscriminately clogged the streets with the bodies of eastern Christians and Turks. At Marra, they cooked children on spits and ate them. By the time the Crusaders reached Jerusalem, their quest and their violence had become distinctly otherworldly: blood literally ran shin-deep through the streets as the Crusaders overran the sacred city. Beginning in 1095 and culminating four bloody years later, the First Crusade represented a new kind of warfare: holy, unrestrained, and apocalyptic.  In Armies of Heaven, medieval historian Jay Rubenstein tells the story of this cataclysmic event through the eyes of those who witnessed it, emphasizing the fundamental role that apocalyptic thought played in motivating the Crusaders. A thrilling work of military and religious history, Armies of Heaven will revolutionize our understanding of the Crusades. ...more

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• 412: Who stands to gain or to lose from the disorder in American cities? @RchardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Sep 06 2020

  Photo:Photo shows arrests during the food price riots in St. Quentin, France in 1911. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010 and New York Times, Aug. 31, 1911) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowWho stands to gain or to lose from the disorder in American cities?  @RchardAEpstein @HooverInsthttps://www.hoover.org/research/american-meltdown

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• 412: What of the interpretations of systematic or institutional racism & What is to be done? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Sep 06 2020

  Photo:Title devised by Library staff.Contact sheet folder caption: "Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. MST, 8/28/63."U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection.Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 10344, frame no. 14. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowWhat of the interpretations of systematic or institutional racism & What is to be done? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst https://www.hoover.org/research/american-meltdown First, evidence for the claim of institutional racism is weak, given the huge changes in both public sentiment and societal organization in the decades since the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the raft of follow-on legislation, and the rise of affirmative action. Second, the charge of institutional racism must ultimately rest on the view that the officials in charge of major American institutions harbor and act upon ugly racial sentiments. It is not enough to rely on the disparate impact of various policies to support that charge without examining underlying justifications.  A higher conviction rate for black males is justified by a higher rate of black crimes under race-neutral procedures. Nor can institutional racism be found in some supposed set of unconscious biases when elected and appointed officials, many of these officials themselves being members of minority groups, routinely reaffirm their fierce determination to stop racism. Sadly, the trope of institutional racism operates as a clever ploy that allows for global condemnations. Activists have generally failed to identify by name any one person or system which fits the odious description. Moreover, their broadsides make it less likely that any individual person will step forward to defend themselves or their institutions as not racist. ...more

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• 412: PRC arms race accelerates at sea and in outer space. @DefTechPat @DefenseOne

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  Sep 06 2020

  Photo: 1902Unharnessing pony which has collapsed while pulling heavy cart.  China. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowPRC arms race accelerates at sea and in outer space.  @DefTechPat @DefenseOnehttps://www.defenseone.com/threats/2020/09/china-rapidly-increasing-nuclear-naval-and-next-gen-tech-pentagon-warns/168166/

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• 412: AI drones vs warship rust and other AI successes. @DefTechPat Patrick Tucker @DefenseOne

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  Sep 06 2020

  Photo:This image possibly depicts two men scraping rust from the hull of the naval sloop BELLATRIX at Morts Dock in Balmain. The vessel visited Sydney in December 1929, December 1930 and July 1932 and was commanded by Commander Jells, Captain M Bastard and Commandant Constantan respectively. Each time, it docked in Morts Dock in Balmain for its 'annual overhaul' (The Sydney Morning Herald, 3 February 1931). Newspapers provided photographs of French and Pacific Islander sailors and crew at work during each stay in Sydney...This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Samuel J. Hood Studio collection. Sam Hood (1872-1953) was a Sydney photographer with a passion for ships. His 60-year career spanned the romantic age of sail and two world wars. The photos in the collection were taken mainly in Sydney and Newcastle during the first half of the 20th century. ..The ANMM undertakes research and accepts public comments that enhance the information we hold about images in our collection. This record has been updated accordingly. ..Photographer: Samuel J. Hood Studio Collection..Object no. 00034675 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowAI drones vs warship rust and other AI successes. @DefTechPat Patrick Tucker @DefenseOne https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2020/08/can-ai-solve-rare-earths-problem-chinese-and-us-researchers-think-so/168057/https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2020/08/us-navy-turns-drones-ai-monitor-rust/168036/https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2020/08/ai-just-beat-human-f-16-pilot-dogfight-again/167872/ ...more

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• 413: 1/2 Armies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse, by Jay Rubenstein

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  Sep 05 2020

  Image:   Jerusalem, from Yusef; or, the Journey of the Frangi. A crusade in the East ... With illustrationsArmies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse, by Jay Rubenstein  Kindle Edition  https://www.amazon.com/Armies-Heaven-First-Crusade-Apocalypse-ebook/dp/B005P1YCIK/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1577663037&sr=1-1-spell At Moson, the river Danube ran red with blood. At Antioch, the Crusaders, with their saddles freshly decorated with sawed-off heads, indiscriminately clogged the streets with the bodies of eastern Christians and Turks. At Marra, they cooked children on spits and ate them. By the time the Crusaders reached Jerusalem, their quest and their violence had become distinctly otherworldly: blood literally ran shin-deep through the streets as the Crusaders overran the sacred city. Beginning in 1095 and culminating four bloody years later, the First Crusade represented a new kind of warfare: holy, unrestrained, and apocalyptic.  In Armies of Heaven, medieval historian Jay Rubenstein tells the story of this cataclysmic event through the eyes of those who witnessed it, emphasizing the fundamental role that apocalyptic thought played in motivating the Crusaders. A thrilling work of military and religious history, Armies of Heaven will revolutionize our understanding of the Crusades.   ...more

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• 411: #NewAmericanCivilWar: What does the military do in either a coup or a secession? Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Sep 05 2020

  Photo:1910: Panorama of the battlefield, Vicksburg, Miss.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow#NewAmericanCivilWar: What does the military do in either a coup or a secession?  Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisishttps://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7013152/Preventing-a-Disrupted-Presidential-Election-and.pdfhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_Integrity_Project

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• 411: #NewAmericanCivilWar: Prepping Election 2020 for both a coup and a secession. Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Sep 05 2020

  Photo: Stereo filed in LOT 4163.Caption from negative sleeve: Charleston, S.C. 1865, Ruin of ____.Two plates form left (LC-B811-3100B) and right (LC-B811-3100A) halves of a stereograph pair.Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow#NewAmericanCivilWar: Prepping Election 2020 for both a coup and a secession. Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisishttps://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7013152/Preventing-a-Disrupted-Presidential-Election-and.pdfhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_Integrity_Project ...more

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• 411: Digital backdoor to dollarizing the needful medical workers of Venezuela. MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion

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  Sep 05 2020

  Photo:Statue of Bolivar, Caraca1930s  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowDigital backdoor to dollarizing the needful medical workers of Venezuela. MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinionhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/a-u-s-airdrop-of-dollars-in-venezuela-11598821889?st=55fkjl24kfj1awx&reflink=article_copyURL_share

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• 409: "The fact that Joe Biden finally came out of his basement, after six months in his basement, is very, very telling..." @DevinNunes CA-22

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  Sep 05 2020

  Photo:Mrs. Hull and corner of her one-room basement dugout. Dead Ox Flat, Malheur County, Oregon. General caption 67-11101/01/1939  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow"The fact that Joe Biden finally came out of his basement, after six months in his basement, is very, very telling..." @DevinNunes CA-22https://www.rollcall.com/2020/09/01/republicans-bank-on-post-basement-blunders-from-joe-biden-democrats/

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• 409: It didn’t start with Trump: Since Ike, the Democrats disdain every Republican president or presidential candidate as stupid, cruel, unstable and war-mongering. @DevinNunes

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  Sep 05 2020

  Photo:This is a photograph of Dwight D. Eisenhower and his family on the front porch of his parents' home in Abilene, Kansas.  Individuals depicted, standing from left to right, are: Roy Eisenhower, Arthur Eisenhower, Earl D. Eisenhower, Edgar Eisenhower, David Eisenhower, Milton Stover Eisenhower, Ida Eisenhower.  Dwight D. Eisenhower is seated on the steps. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowIt didn’t start with Trump: Since Ike, the Democrats disdain every Republican president or presidential candidate as stupid, cruel, unstable  and war-mongering. @DevinNunes ...more

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• 409: #TheScalaReport: Will the robots advance after the virus retreats? Is there a Robot Gap with the PRC? Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com #ScalaAPS

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  Sep 05 2020

  Photo:Theatrical poster for the film Forbidden Planet featuring Robby the Robot.Copyrighted by Loew's International. Artists(s) not known. - http://wrongsideoftheart.com/wp-content/gallery/posters-f/forbidden_planet_poster_01.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow#TheScalaReport: Will the robots advance after the virus retreats? Is there a Robot Gap with the PRC?    Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com  #ScalaAPShttps://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/08/25/robots-that-can-walk-are-now-striding-to-market?frsc=dg%7Cehttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-03/china-is-said-to-plan-broad-chip-sector-support-to-counter-trump?cmpid=BBD090320_OUS&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=200903&utm_campaign=openamericas&sref=dukn3Rgh  ...more

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• 410: A payroll tax holiday means someone else does the work; and the Payroll Protection Plan fail. @VeroDeRugy @Mercatus

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  Sep 05 2020

  Image:  Jesus driving the money-changers from the temple. Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus, in re: The PP program was well-intentioned but ill-conceived.  Should have been very low-interest loans that went directly into employee’s bank account; could be a loan rather than a gift. Problem with vast national debt is that it’ll have to be repaid, perhaps by our progeny. Big debt almost always means higher taxes.  https://www.creators.com/read/veronique-de-rugy/09/20/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-free-tax-holiday https://www.mercatus.org/bridge/commentary/simple-plan ...more

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• 410: #PacificWatch: Captain Midnight at LAX. @JCBliss

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  Sep 05 2020

  Image:  Photo of the actor Richard Webb, who played Captain Midnight in the television series. Jeff Bliss, Pacific Watch, in re: The fellow wearing a jetpack and terrifying pilots high over LAX. https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-09-02/jetpack-lax-access-exclusive

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• 410: Surprising Return of the Culture Wars as the Progressives Fail to Market Portland to America. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion.Image: Culture war in aulden times. A: Dan Henninger, Wonder Land column & WSJ editorial board; in re: The culture wars revive. ht

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  Sep 05 2020

  Image:  Culture war in olden times. Dan Henninger, Wonder Land column & WSJ editorial board; in re: The culture wars revive.   https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-culture-wars-are-back-11599087003?st=uucc68z4s6kekkv&reflink=article_copyURL_share

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• 409: American Helium prospecting for the 21st Century's overwhelming demand. Rob Rohlfing, CEO Desert Mountain Energy Corporation.

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  Sep 05 2020

  PhotoFossilized tree specimens in the Petrified Forest, now part of a U.S. national park near Holbrook in Arizona's remote Navajo and Apache countiesThe park is replete with fossils, especially fallen trees, or parts of them, that lived in the Late Triassic Period, about 225 million years ago. The park's splendors, which now include colorful badlands called the Painted Desert, so impressed early preservationists that they were the second-ever site designated a protected national monument (later national park) after President Theodore Roosevelt signed the authorization in 1906. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowAmerican Helium prospecting for the 21st Century's overwhelming demand.  Rob Rohlfing, CEO Desert Mountain Energy Corporation. U-S trading symbol: D-M-E-H-F; in Canada trading symbol: D-M-E.V (DME.V) https://desertmountainenergy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/DME-Investor-Presentation-08112020.pdf Robert Rohlfing, (CEO President and Chairman), is a seasoned oil & gas industry operations executive with a strong geological background and over 25 years’ experience in formulating, conducting and managing successful exploration, drilling, development and production programs for oil & gas and minerals worldwide. He has conducted geological exploration programs and drilling operations for a wide variety of companies for helium, hydrocarbons, gold, silver, rare earth metals, diamonds and gemstones in diverse areas ranging from Kansas, Oklahoma, Arizona and Alaska in the U.S. to Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, Australia, Canada, Vietnam, and Cambodia. DME has 65,911 acres of key helium leases throughout the Holbrook Basin. This project area is named “Heliopolis” after the famous ancient Egyptian city, seat of worship of the sun god Atum or Ra. The sun is comprised of 25% helium. Heliopolis is highly prospective for helium, oil & gas. Its leases were carefully selected from studies of regional geology, engineering reports and logs from historic wells. Heliopolis has two large anticlinal features covering an area more than double the other Holbrook helium fields. Heliopolis overlays typical Coconino sandstone reservoir rocks and has abundant salt caps to act as trapping mechanisms. Heliopolis has never been produced as the other Holbrook fields provided ample supply. Those fields are now largely depleted and Helium prices have skyrocketed in response to new demand. .................... Extremelyunderexploredwithonlyonewelldrilledper100sq.mi.Mosthistoricdrilling was for minerals. Modern exploration, drilling and production techniques enhance potential. 9.23Billioncuft.(Bcf)ofHeliumgasproducedfrom22wellsin3fieldsinthe Holbrook basin from 1961–1976: Pinta Dome, Navajo Springs & East Navajo Springs. 6.5BcfproducedfromPintaDomealone,averaging1400Mcfperdayover15year period from only 11 wells. Labelled “some of the richest helium-bearing gas ever produced in the world” at that time. LargestwellatPintaDome,KerrMcGee01Macie-State,producedstunning1.779 Bcf Helium gas over that period; 304.7 Mcf per day. Avg.GradesproducedfromPintaDomewere8-10%Helium;90%Nitrogen;1% Carbon dioxide from avg.depths of 1050 ft. Elsewhere in N.E. Arizona He was produced in smaller concentrations with oil & natural gas production, e.g., the Dineh Bi Keyah field. Productionendedin1976duetolowHeliumpricesandliquidationofHeinventories by the U.S. National Helium Reserve. ...more

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• 408: The Great Departure: 4of4: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World Kindle Edition. by Tara Zahra (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo: Taft party, Ellis Island N.Y.Date01/01/1910ContributorsBain News Service, publisherLibrary of Congresslink The Great Departure: 4of4: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World Kindle Edition. by Tara Zahra  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Great-Departure-Migration-Eastern-Europe-ebook-dp-B00ZAT8XPA/dp/B00ZAT8XPA/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1599261729 Between 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans moved to the Americas in one of the largest migrations of human history, emptying out villages and irrevocably changing both their new homes and the ones they left behind. With a keen historical perspective on the most consequential social phenomenon of the twentieth century, Tara Zahra shows how the policies that gave shape to this migration provided the precedent for future events such as the Holocaust, the closing of the Iron Curtain, and the tragedies of ethnic cleansing. In the epilogue, she places the current refugee crisis within the longer history of migration....more

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• 408: The Great Departure: 3of4: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World Kindle Edition. by Tara Zahra (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo: Immigrants leaving for New York from Ellis Islandno known copyright restrictions The Great Departure: 3of4: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World Kindle Edition. by Tara Zahra  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Great-Departure-Migration-Eastern-Europe-ebook-dp-B00ZAT8XPA/dp/B00ZAT8XPA/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1599261729 Between 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans moved to the Americas in one of the largest migrations of human history, emptying out villages and irrevocably changing both their new homes and the ones they left behind. With a keen historical perspective on the most consequential social phenomenon of the twentieth century, Tara Zahra shows how the policies that gave shape to this migration provided the precedent for future events such as the Holocaust, the closing of the Iron Curtain, and the tragedies of ethnic cleansing. In the epilogue, she places the current refugee crisis within the longer history of migration....more

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• 408: The Great Departure: 2of4: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World Kindle Edition. by Tara Zahra (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Sep 05 2020

  Photo:01/01/1900 Arriving at Ellis Island The Great Departure: 2of4: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World Kindle Edition. by Tara Zahra  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Great-Departure-Migration-Eastern-Europe-ebook-dp-B00ZAT8XPA/dp/B00ZAT8XPA/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1599261729 Between 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans moved to the Americas in one of the largest migrations of human history, emptying out villages and irrevocably changing both their new homes and the ones they left behind. With a keen historical perspective on the most consequential social phenomenon of the twentieth century, Tara Zahra shows how the policies that gave shape to this migration provided the precedent for future events such as the Holocaust, the closing of the Iron Curtain, and the tragedies of ethnic cleansing. In the epilogue, she places the current refugee crisis within the longer history of migration....more

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• 408: The Great Departure: 1of4: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World Kindle Edition. by Tara Zahra (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Sep 05 2020

  Photo:Public health workers checking immigrants arriving to the United States for signs of illness. The immigration law of 1891 made it mandatory that all immigrants coming into the United States undergo health inspection by Public Health Service physicians. The largest inspection center was on Ellis Island in New York Harbor. Credit: NIHCopyright info no known copyright restrictions The Great Departure: 1of4: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World Kindle Edition. by Tara Zahra  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Great-Departure-Migration-Eastern-Europe-ebook-dp-B00ZAT8XPA/dp/B00ZAT8XPA/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1599261729 Between 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans moved to the Americas in one of the largest migrations of human history, emptying out villages and irrevocably changing both their new homes and the ones they left behind. With a keen historical perspective on the most consequential social phenomenon of the twentieth century, Tara Zahra shows how the policies that gave shape to this migration provided the precedent for future events such as the Holocaust, the closing of the Iron Curtain, and the tragedies of ethnic cleansing. In the epilogue, she places the current refugee crisis within the longer history of migration....more

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• 407: Joe Biden explains that the virus will be solved when he’s president. @ConradMBlack

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  Sep 05 2020

  Image:  George Reed II House, built in 1804, New Castle, DelawareDigital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images.Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2011; (DLC/PP-2011:124).Forms part of the Selects Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive   Conrad Black, publisher political analyst, litterateur, in re: Joe Biden, who says the virus will be solved when he’s president.  His basement campaign opened up to solve the Pennsylvania problem.  Dems thought too complacently till recently that they could keep him under wraps; but to move him as far as Wisconsin shows they’re starting to sweat.         1.  Trump hate, Orange Man Bad.  2. The pestilence alliance: to terrorize the country with the virus.   In fact, the American performance has been good; red states have done better than the blue in this.   3. Violence blamed on Trump—he’s responsible for everything bad in America.          Russia? Impeachment?  Zero evidence that Trump did what he was accused of—and, in any case, none of it was illegal.   They trivialized the impeachment process. Nadler actually said that, “Violence in this country is a myth”! Recall Biden’s crashing acccusati0n of Trump as xenophobic for preventing incoming flights from China.   https://amgreatness.com/2020/08/31/the-democrats-laughable-president-chaos-strategy/ ...more

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• 407: Colossally mismanaged California forestry creates mammoth annual fires. @JohnHCochrane @HooverInst

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  Sep 05 2020

  Image:  Fire as an agent of war:  “Behold from your walls the lands laid waste with fire and sword, booty driven off, the houses set on fire in every direction and smoking.” —Livy, The History of Rome. Here: engraving of a thirteenth-century catapult for throwing Greek fire. John Cochrane, Hoover, Grumpy Economist blog; in re:  California wildfires.  Imagine if Zuckerberg had a huge estate that he’d mismanaged as badly as Sacramento has mismanaged public lands.  Imagine the howls.  Here in Palo Alto we’re covered with thick smoke for a month every year. They claim it's global warming—in fact, it’s forest management that’s wrong-headed, where underbrush is not cleared until massive fires occur.  https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2020/08/what-if-private-sector-were-responsible.html  ...more

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• 406: Why did Andrew Cuomo threaten POTUS with violence in New York City? @SebGorka #AmericaFirst

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  Sep 04 2020

  Photo: 1913 [Cipriano Castro, 1856?-1924, portrait walking on New York City street] Why did Andrew Cuomo threaten POTUS with violence in New York City? @SebGorka #AmericaFirsthttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/andrew-cuomo-trump-threat-funding-new-york-city/

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• 406: Why did Joe Biden go to Pittsburgh on Monday? @SebGorka

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  Sep 04 2020

  Photo: 1942Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. Mine foreman at a production meetingpublic domain Why did Joe Biden go to Pittsburgh on Monday?  @SebGorkahttps://triblive.com/news/politics-election/joe-biden-makes-campaign-stop-in-pittsburgh-says-hes-not-banning-fracking/

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• 405: NATO has a grave problem of internal inconsistencies, @BlaiseMisztal,

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  Sep 04 2020

  Image:  Cigala, Johann Michael Mehmet Blaise Misztal, @BlaiseMisztal, in re:  Arms embargo on Libya. France wanted to search a ship that a Turkish vessel was escorting; almost came to blows.   Moscow.  NATO has a grave problem of internal inconsistencies.  Italy seems to have stepped back; but as Turkey confronts the Greek-Egyptian-Israeli-Cypriot [etc.] alliance, it’s reached out to Italy, which still is afraid of massive, overwhelming immigration from sub-Saharan Africa—which Turkey has utilized to intimidate Western Europe.   Blaise Misztal, a Fellow at Hudson Institute. His research program focuses on the Middle East, Europe, and strategic competition. Most recently, Misztal served as the executive director of the Task Force on Extremism in Fragile States, a congressionally-mandated project convened by the U.S. Institute of Peace. Prior to that, he was director of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s national security program. ·         https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/08/1071342 ·         ttps://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-09-02/greece-turkey-and-oil-raise-fears-of-war-in-the-mediterranean ·         https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/lifting-the-arms-ban-on-the-republic-of-cyprus-is-good-policy-despite-the-timing/ ·         https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/is-turkey-moving-into-northern-lebanon-640226   ...more

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• 405: Macron promotes a Pax Mediterranea to stop Turkey. Charles Thépaut, @diplocharlie

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  Sep 04 2020

  Image:  For five thousand years we’ve needed a Pax Mediterranea.  Charles Thépaut, @diplocharlie,Charles Thépaut, @diplocharlie, in re: Maritime tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean; Libya. Charles Thépaut is a French diplomat and resident Visiting Fellow at The Washington Institute. An expert in Middle Eastern and North African affairs, he has worked for several European institutions in France, Syria, Algeria, Iraq, Belgium, and Germany. Most recently, he served as the political advisor for foreign policy at the French Embassy in Berlin, Germany. He has also been involved with the Global Coalition Against ISIS. Charles is speaking in personal capacity. ●        https://www.ft.com/content/9ce8847f-6fe8-4208-8a1d-2d6b3425ad42 ●        https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-macron-turkey/frances-macron-says-he-set-red-lines-with-turkey-in-eastern-mediterranean-idUSKBN25O2OO ●        https://cy.usembassy.gov/pompeo-temporarily-wa ●        https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/us-report-accuses-turkey-of-sending-extremists-looters-to-libya-640921 ...more

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• 405: Beirut: enormous cache of unexploded ammonium nitrate. Even belligerent sects protect each other’s corruption. Sarkis Naoum, @rnaoum1

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  Sep 04 2020

  Image:  Lebanese cedarSarkis Naoum, @rnaoum1, in re: Beirut blast; Lebanon New Government and Foreign Intervention; ICC/Hezbollah Tribunal. Hezbollah’s big mistake.  Everyone knows that in Lebanon we have no independence.  Conviction in absentia of former PM Hariri on Valentine’s Day in 2005. I think we’ve reached the end of our misery:  even sects that oppose each other, they're partners in corruption. Discovery of almost twice as much ammonium nitrate, unexploded, in the same area.    ●        https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/is-turkey-moving-into-northern-lebanon-640226 ●        https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/macron-to-hezbollah-mp-are-you-lebanese-prove-it-report-640799 ●        https://www.arabnews.com/node/1728711/middle-east ...more

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• 405: German intell services report more Iranian nuclear skullduggery. David Albright, @TheGoodISIS

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  Sep 04 2020

  Image:  Persian soldier, 1830 David Albright, @TheGoodISIS, in re: Iran.  German State Intell reports that Iran is advancing its WMD program, esp nuclear, on German soil. Secret missile programs.  German is a rich target because it has so much technology.  Iran as a criminal state; no respect for the laws of another country. After repeatedly refusing to let IAEA in at all, Iran has let nuclear inspectors in to two sites: IAEA decided there were two that had evidence of secret nuclear sites, and itself is under great pressure to [produce].  Compress the core; how well do the high explosives fire at Maravan?  (Maravan is Abadei.)  At this important site, buildings were razed after Iran found that Maravan had been discovered.   David Albright, physicist, founder and president of the nonprofit Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) in Washington, D.C. He directs the project work of the Institute and chairs its board of directors. He has written numerous assessments on secret nuclear weapons programs throughout the world. ●       https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-08-28/nuclear-inspectors-show-pressure-on-iran-works?srnd=opinion&sref=TP1pJeIF ●        https://www.thenational.ae/world/mena/macron-talks-nuclear-energy-and-ways-to-control-militias-during-iraq-visit-1.1071729 ●        https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/09/niger-un-security-council-president-sanctions-us-iran.html ...more

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• 404: The lava tubes of Mars are future Martian cities. Robert Zimmerman

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  Image:  This image from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a lava channel, which lies just to the east of the largest volcano in the solar system: Olympus Mons.  Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack,com, in re: Surface of Mars: lava tubes.  The lava tubes of Mars are future Martian cities.  Black holes in orbit around each other; spiral in to each other according to Einstein’s physics.    However, 85 solar masses is considered too large for the physics, should not exist; but one has been found.   https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-longest-lava-tube-in-the-solar-system/  ...more

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• 404: SpaceX Starship hops again. Robert Zimmerman

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  Image:  A SpaceX launch in 2012 Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack,com, in re:  . . .   Wallops Island.   SpaceX Starship hops again.  https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/another-successful-starship-prototype-hop/

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• 404: The decline of the NBA outside of China. @VDHanson @HooverInst

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  Image: Yankee basketball team, 1920 Copyright info No known restrictions on publication.Victor Davis Hanson, @VDHanson @HooverInst, Hoover, in re:  The decline of the NBA outside of China.  https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/09/joe-biden-campaign-competing-political-imperatives/

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• 404: Is Joe Biden an avatar? @VDHanson @HooverInst

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  Sep 04 2020

  Image:  Avatars:  An apparition of Vishna, Vamana, the dwarf sits in front of a giant figure In the blue strip at the bottom, a drowning figure.Een verschijning van Vishna, Vamana, de dwerg zit voor een reuzenfiguur Vanama met twee paar armen en benen waarvan een uit de schouder komt en een wat kort is en op het hoofd van de dwergfiguur staat, in de blauwe strook onderaan een verdrinkende figuur.Victor Davis Hanson, @VDHanson @HooverInst , Hoover, in re:  Joe Biden breaks old patterns.  Is Joe Biden an avatar? https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/09/joe-biden-campaign-competing-political-imperatives/ ...more

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• 403: 4/4 Ike and McCarthy: Dwight Eisenhower's Secret Campaign against Joseph McCarthy, by David A. Nichols

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  Image:  Welch (left) being questioned by Senator Joe McCarthy (right) at the Army–McCarthy hearings, June 9, 1954. His confrontation with McCarthy during the hearings, in which he famously asked McCarthy "At long last, have you left no sense of decency?" is seen as a turning point in the history of McCarthyism. Ike and McCarthy: Dwight Eisenhower's Secret Campaign against Joseph McCarthy, by David A. Nichols      https://www.amazon.com/Ike-McCarthy-Eisenhowers-Campaign-against-ebook/dp/B01HMXV2KO The full, little-known story of how President Dwight Eisenhower masterminded the downfall of the anti-Communist demagogue Senator Joseph McCarthy is “a gripping, detailed account of how the executive branch subtly but decisively defeated one of America’s most dangerous demagogues” (The Washington Post). ...more

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• 403: 3/4 Ike and McCarthy: Dwight Eisenhower's Secret Campaign against Joseph McCarthy, by David A. Nichols

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  Image: Senator Joseph McCarthy standing at microphone with two other men, probably discussing the Senate Select Committee to Study Censure Charges (Watkins Committee) chaired by Senator Arthur V. Watkins TOH Ike and McCarthy: Dwight Eisenhower's Secret Campaign against Joseph McCarthy, by David A. Nichols      https://www.amazon.com/Ike-McCarthy-Eisenhowers-Campaign-against-ebook/dp/B01HMXV2KO The full, little-known story of how President Dwight Eisenhower masterminded the downfall of the anti-Communist demagogue Senator Joseph McCarthy is “a gripping, detailed account of how the executive branch subtly but decisively defeated one of America’s most dangerous demagogues” (The Washington Post). ...more

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• 403: 2/4 Ike and McCarthy: Dwight Eisenhower's Secret Campaign against Joseph McCarthy, by David A. Nichols

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  Image: HPRESIDENT DWIGHT EISENHOWER VISIT TO MSFC FOR THE DEDICATION OF THE CENTER. Ike and McCarthy: Dwight Eisenhower's Secret Campaign against Joseph McCarthy, by David A. Nichols      https://www.amazon.com/Ike-McCarthy-Eisenhowers-Campaign-against-ebook/dp/B01HMXV2KO The full, little-known story of how President Dwight Eisenhower masterminded the downfall of the anti-Communist demagogue Senator Joseph McCarthy is “a gripping, detailed account of how the executive branch subtly but decisively defeated one of America’s most dangerous demagogues” (The Washington Post). ...more

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• 403: 1/4 Ike and McCarthy: Dwight Eisenhower's Secret Campaign against Joseph McCarthy, by David A. Nichols

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  Image: Eisenhower in the Oval Office, February 29, 1956. Ike and McCarthy: Dwight Eisenhower's Secret Campaign against Joseph McCarthy, by David A. Nichols      https://www.amazon.com/Ike-McCarthy-Eisenhowers-Campaign-against-ebook/dp/B01HMXV2KO The full, little-known story of how President Dwight Eisenhower masterminded the downfall of the anti-Communist demagogue Senator Joseph McCarthy is “a gripping, detailed account of how the executive branch subtly but decisively defeated one of America’s most dangerous demagogues” (The Washington Post). ...more

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• 403: Can US bombers fend off China’s new technologies? Rick Fisher, Intl Assessment & Strategy Center

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  Image:  Portrait of Wu Fu, Brigadier General of the Gansu Region. Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk; 1760 AD; inscribed, and with one seal of the Ch`in Lung emperor. Rick Fisher, senior Fellow on Asian Military Affairs at the International Assessment and Strategy Center, in re: Bombers to fend off China’s technological advances. Rotated through Guam and Diego Garcia.  PRC’s nuclear arsenal—large, in tunnels in Western China?  We really don’t have enough information.  China has everything underground: bomb factories, nuclear.   https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/01/politics/china-military-power-report/index.html https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-china-bombers/ ...more

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• 403: China’s “nibble and negotiate strategy”: hold peace parleys then move troops. @CleoPaskal

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  Image:  Days long gone—founding of the Sino-Indian Friendship Association on 16 May 1952 in Beijing. Cleo Paskal, non-resident senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, in re:  The latest on India. China’s “nibble and negotiate strategy,” whereby it holds peace parleys then moves troops forward to steal more Indian territory. India saw this, and moved in troops that had been acclimatized to the extreme height and cold of the Himalayas.  China has killed yet another Indian officer, a Tibetan; as China tried to steal strategic locati0ns, India responded strongly and China failed.  China keeps probing to see how it can rally its own domestic nationalism.  More on Chinese apps, which are singularly unwelcome in India, being agencies for economic and espionage infiltration; perhaps unwisely, Beijing isn’t backing down.       Tibetan supergene for highest altitudes is descended from the ancient Denisovans!   China won't understand the irony of killing ancient ancestors. Tibetans lost not only their physical homeland but their spiritual homeland, which gives people a lot of energy.  Supply Chain Resilience Initiative.  Lots going on in many complex areas.  Xi is forcing others to take stronger defensive positions as well as create new alliances.  HH the Dalai Lama.  Dharamsala.  https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/india-china-clashes-live-updates-fresh-clashes-between-india-china-troops-at-pangong-tso/liveblog/77842421.cms ...more

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• 402: The UAE Abraham Accord and Saudi Arabia overflight news are the first of many successes to follow for Netanyahu and Trump. @AaronKleinShow

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  Sep 03 2020

  Photo:Photograph shows pilgrims with camels and livestock gathered at a rest station near ʻArafah (Mount Arafat) east of  Mecca, Saudi Arabia during the Hajj. Pilgrims are wearing Ihrām clothing. After gathering at ʻArafah, pilgrims proceeded to Miná for the symbolic Stoning of the Devil ritual. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe UAE Abraham Accord and Saudi Arabia overflight news are the first of many successes to follow for Netanyahu and Trump.  @AaronKleinShowhttps://worldisraelnews.com/saudi-arabia-gives-israel-overflight-permission-to-uae/ ...more

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• 401: The unhappy timeline for the resolution of the Michael Flynn prosecution. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO . @ThadMcCotter

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  Image:  US courtroom The unhappy timeline for the resolution of the Michael Flynn prosecution. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO .  @ThadMcCotter  https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/with-election-looming-judge-sullivan-will-drag-out-the-flynn-case/

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• 401: What is the Travel Act and how can it solve the disorder in Blue cities? @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO; Thaddeus McCotter: @ThadMcCotter

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  Image: Cosa Nostra:  Travel Act is good to use against the Mafia.Andrew C McCarthy, Ball of Collusion, and Thaddeus McCotter, American Greatness, in re:  What is the Travel Act and how can it solve the disorder in Blue cities? Costa Nostra: The Travel Act is useful to use against the Mafia.@AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO    https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/meet-the-travel-act/

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• 400: Why is Russia arming Armenia & What is to be done? @ElinSuleymanov @azembassyus

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  Photo:Basiliuskathedraal in Moskou  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowWhy is Russia arming Armenia & What is to be done? @ElinSuleymanov  @azembassyushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-azerbaijan-armenia-russia/azerbaijan-accuses-moscow-of-arming-armenia-since-july-clashes-idUSKBN25P0L4

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• 399: The astonishing array of American rocket boosters for launch on a weekend in August. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com

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  Sep 03 2020

  Image:  Schooners became favored for some coast-wise commerce after 1850—they enabled a small crew to handle sails.  The astonishing array of American rocket boosters for launch on a weekend in August. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comNote that in the auld days, 5% of ships that set sail simply never returned.

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• 399: NASA Mars probe InSight discovers Martian soil is strange. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Sep 03 2020

  Image:  Martian soil is the fine regolith found on the surface of Mars. Here: Curiosity's view of Martian soil and boulders after crossing the "Dingo Gap" sand dune (February 9, 2014; image transformed to Earth-like atmospheric view. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com; in re: NASA Mars probe InSight discovers Martian soil is strange. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com   https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/problem-with-insights-weather-station/

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• 398: China's big banks lose big. @GordonGChang & On the Money with Charles Ortel

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  Sep 03 2020

  Image:  Sung Dynasty jiao-zr, the world's earliest paper money.  China's big banks lose big.  @GordonGChang Charles Ortel of the On the Money with Charles Ortel podcast in re:   https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/31/profit-declines-for-chinas-big-banks-in-first-half-of-2020-due-to-bad-loans-during-coronavirus.html

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• 398: Japan without Abe; the US without Abe. @GordonGChang, @ScottWHarold

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  Sep 03 2020

  Image:  Engraved in the Ehon Shaho bukuro (1720). Japan without Abe; the US without Abe. @GordonGChang ; and Scott Harold, @ScottWHarold, senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation, in re: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/31/japans-next-prime-minister-faces-a-difficult-year-ahead-after-abe-resigns.html

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• 398: California's unacceptable prejudices. Williamson M Evers, Independent Institute.

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  Sep 03 2020

  Image:   1890 photograph of the first "Bear Flag" of California. A replica of it is now at El Presidio de Sonoma, or Sonoma Barracks. Williamson Evers, Independent Institute and WSJ editorial board,  _____,   in re: Ethnic studies is a discipline growing from the California student strike of the late 1960s.   Through the lens of African-American and Marxist studies.  . . . Are the now-relevant persons oppressed or a [cog] in the capitalist system? Victimology. Cultural resilience? Need to study multiple ethnic groups, incl Koreans, Jews, Irish.  Obligatory high school ethnic studies derive from college courses. State Board of Education, apptd by the governor, seem to be the intellectual progenitors of the content.    https://www.wsj.com/articles/critical-ethnic-studies-returns-to-california-11598568504 ...more

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• 397: State of the City, the State, the Union: NYC famously Liberal Democratic Upper West Side overrun by hundreds of abandoned addicts and their dealers & What is to be done? John Catsimatidis @JCats2013 @CatsRoundtable @JohnCats.

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  Sep 03 2020

  Photo:The Hudson River & Riverside Park, New York, N.Y.01/01/1900Copyright infoNo known restrictions on publicatio  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowState of the City, the State, the Union: NYC famously Liberal Democratic Upper West Side overrun by hundreds of abandoned addicts and their dealers & What is to be done? John Catsimatidis @JCats2013 @CatsRoundtable @JohnCats.https://nypost.com/2020/09/02/nypd-urges-uws-residents-to-call-911-about-shelter-problems/...more

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• 396: 4/4 Dawn of Infamy: A Sunken Ship, a Vanished Crew, and the Final Mystery of Pearl Harbor, by Stephen Harding.

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  Image:  Sinking of S.S. Cynthia Olson. This ship was sunk by shelling Japanese submarine I-26 Japanese submarine on the same day as the attack on Pearl Harbor. This photograph is a taken by Saburo Hayashi crew Japanese submarine I-26Dawn of Infamy: A Sunken Ship, a Vanished Crew, and the Final Mystery of Pearl Harbor, by Stephen Harding.  Richard Ferrone(Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher). Audible Audiobook – Unabridged https://www.amazon.com/Dawn-Infamy-Sunken-Vanished-Mystery/dp/B01M6777QZ/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= The New York Times best-selling author Stephen Harding explores the little-known episode of a US cargo ship that mysteriously vanished, along with her crew, hours before the attack on Pearl Harbor, marking the start of a global conflict and sparking one of the most enduring nautical mysteries of the war.  On December 7, 1941, even as Japanese carrier-launched aircraft flew toward Pearl Harbor, a small American cargo ship chartered by the army reported that it was under attack from a submarine halfway between Seattle and Honolulu. After that one cryptic message, the humble lumber carrier Cynthia Olson and her crew vanished without a trace, sparking one of the most enduring nautical mysteries of the war. What happened to the ill-fated ship? What happened to her crew? And was she Japan's first American victim of the Pacific War?  Based on years of research, Dawn of Infamy explores both the military and human aspects of the Cynthia Olson story, bringing to life a complex tale of courage, tenacity, hubris, and arrogance in the opening hours of America's war in the Pacific. ...more

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• 396: 3/4 Dawn of Infamy: A Sunken Ship, a Vanished Crew, and the Final Mystery of Pearl Harbor, by Stephen Harding.

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  Image:  A Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter on the carrier Akagi Dawn of Infamy: A Sunken Ship, a Vanished Crew, and the Final Mystery of Pearl Harbor, by Stephen Harding.  Richard Ferrone (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher). Audible Audiobook – Unabridged https://www.amazon.com/Dawn-Infamy-Sunken-Vanished-Mystery/dp/B01M6777QZ/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= The New York Times best-selling author Stephen Harding explores the little-known episode of a US cargo ship that mysteriously vanished, along with her crew, hours before the attack on Pearl Harbor, marking the start of a global conflict and sparking one of the most enduring nautical mysteries of the war.  On December 7, 1941, even as Japanese carrier-launched aircraft flew toward Pearl Harbor, a small American cargo ship chartered by the army reported that it was under attack from a submarine halfway between Seattle and Honolulu. After that one cryptic message, the humble lumber carrier Cynthia Olson and her crew vanished without a trace, sparking one of the most enduring nautical mysteries of the war. What happened to the ill-fated ship? What happened to her crew? And was she Japan's first American victim of the Pacific War?  Based on years of research, Dawn of Infamy explores both the military and human aspects of the Cynthia Olson story, bringing to life a complex tale of courage, tenacity, hubris, and arrogance in the opening hours of America's war in the Pacific. ...more

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• 396: 2/4 Dawn of Infamy: A Sunken Ship, a Vanished Crew, and the Final Mystery of Pearl Harbor, by Stephen Harding.

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  Sep 03 2020

  Image:  American loggers in Okanogan County, Washington, 1927.Dawn of Infamy: A Sunken Ship, a Vanished Crew, and the Final Mystery of Pearl Harbor, by Stephen Harding.  Richard Ferrone(Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher). Audible Audiobook – Unabridged https://www.amazon.com/Dawn-Infamy-Sunken-Vanished-Mystery/dp/B01M6777QZ/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= The New York Times best-selling author Stephen Harding explores the little-known episode of a US cargo ship that mysteriously vanished, along with her crew, hours before the attack on Pearl Harbor, marking the start of a global conflict and sparking one of the most enduring nautical mysteries of the war.  On December 7, 1941, even as Japanese carrier-launched aircraft flew toward Pearl Harbor, a small American cargo ship chartered by the army reported that it was under attack from a submarine halfway between Seattle and Honolulu. After that one cryptic message, the humble lumber carrier Cynthia Olson and her crew vanished without a trace, sparking one of the most enduring nautical mysteries of the war. What happened to the ill-fated ship? What happened to her crew? And was she Japan's first American victim of the Pacific War?  Based on years of research, Dawn of Infamy explores both the military and human aspects of the Cynthia Olson story, bringing to life a complex tale of courage, tenacity, hubris, and arrogance in the opening hours of America's war in the Pacific. ...more

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• 396: 1/4 Dawn of Infamy: A Sunken Ship, a Vanished Crew, and the Final Mystery of Pearl Harbor, by Stephen Harding.

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  Image:  SS Cynthia Olson Dawn of Infamy: A Sunken Ship, a Vanished Crew, and the Final Mystery of Pearl Harbor, by Stephen Harding.  Richard Ferrone(Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher). Audible Audiobook – Unabridged https://www.amazon.com/Dawn-Infamy-Sunken-Vanished-Mystery/dp/B01M6777QZ/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= The New York Times best-selling author Stephen Harding explores the little-known episode of a US cargo ship that mysteriously vanished, along with her crew, hours before the attack on Pearl Harbor, marking the start of a global conflict and sparking one of the most enduring nautical mysteries of the war.  On December 7, 1941, even as Japanese carrier-launched aircraft flew toward Pearl Harbor, a small American cargo ship chartered by the army reported that it was under attack from a submarine halfway between Seattle and Honolulu. After that one cryptic message, the humble lumber carrier Cynthia Olson and her crew vanished without a trace, sparking one of the most enduring nautical mysteries of the war. What happened to the ill-fated ship? What happened to her crew? And was she Japan's first American victim of the Pacific War?  Based on years of research, Dawn of Infamy explores both the military and human aspects of the Cynthia Olson story, bringing to life a complex tale of courage, tenacity, hubris, and arrogance in the opening hours of America's war in the Pacific. ...more

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• 395: Major Northern Hemisphere transformation, Japan-Russia-Europe, almost agreed. Gregory R. Copley, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs

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  Sep 03 2020

  Image: The Second Silk Road, unencumbered by Beijing's despotism, a-building from Hokkaido through South Korea and Russia to Western Europe.Shinzo Abe’s Departure Comes at a Difficult Time, but Also with New Opportunities Analysis. From GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs, Tokyo. Shinzo Abe’s August 28, 2020, resignation as Prime Minister of Japan will have significant strategic ramifications, even if his successor follows the same path as Mr Abe. The fact that the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) would likely select a successor in September 2020 meant that there would be attempts by Beijing immediately to test the new Prime Minister’s resolve. That would be in the period of great delicacy in the run-up to the November 3, 2020, US Presidential and Congressional elections, when People’s Republic of China (PRC) leader Xi Jinping may well attempt to make a significant move in the region, banking now on the domestic preoccupations of both the US and Japanese leadership. Clearly, from an urgent perspective, the new Japanese Prime Minister must be able to pre-empt or respond to PRC military challenges but, in the broader sense it will be the new leader’s mission to take negotiations with Russia to the next stage, something Mr Abe was unable to do. That is a massive challenge, akin to unraveling the Gordian Knot. Mr Abe and Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin had made great progress in helping to develop an alternative trading route to challenge the Communist Party of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). They had, with strong support from US Pres. Donald Trump, moved a long way down the path of creating a “Second Silk Road”, which would exclude PRC territory, and utilize land links up the Korean Peninsula; access through Russia’s key port, Vladivostok; and, ultimately, by bridge and land from the Japanese northern main island, Hokkaido, giving overland rail access for Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese (ROC) goods to Europe without having to transit the South China Sea and Indian Ocean... Permissions:  Sea of Japan Map.png: Chris 73 •  derivative work: Phoenix7777 (talk)   This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. |  You are free: • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work •  to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: •  attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. •  share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.  ...more

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• 394: Heirs to English common law re-band in a powerful global host. Gregory R. Copley, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs

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  Image:  Current Commonwealth members (dark blue), former members (orange), and the British Overseas Territories and Crown dependencies (light blue). Public domain.Analysis. By Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs. It is probable that the fourth-largest geopolitical unit in the world — in economic weight — is now in the process of forming. Is it a supra-state? It is also the only one with an actual global strategic footprint. Not just reach: footprint. It is the gathering union (or re-union), in an as-yet-undetermined fashion, of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. This re-gathering of elements — dominions — of the British Empire with the United Kingdom has long been mooted, but has, in recent years, been re-crystallized in political terms around a movement that began in Canada in 2015, known as CANZUK International: The Commonwealth Freedom of Movement Organisation. By 2020, it had gained significant traction among the four states; and de facto links to allow free trade and free movement of peoples among them, were beginning to re-emerge. As well, there was a re-birth of shared approaches to national security, quite apart from the ongoing bonds they share in the Five Eyes intelligence accord, known as the UKUSA Accord, which binds the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States into an intelligence-sharing alliance. Indeed, some proponents of the CANZUK concept say that it would create an English-speaking bloc capable of exerting major alliance support for the United States. ...more

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• 393: The virus cancels Siena's astounding Palio horse race for the first time since the Second War. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation.

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  Photo: Some of the glorious flags of contrade (neighborhoods) in Siena seen in the splendid annual Palio. A good description of the event is at https://studyabroadblog.georgetown.domains/cultural-revelations-at-the-palio-di-siena/ http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe virus cancels Sienna's astounding Palio horse race for the first time since the Second War.  Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation.https://www.thelocal.it/20200515/italy-siena-palio-cancelled-for-first-time-since-world-war-two ...more

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• 392: “South American socialists call everyone but themselves corrupt.” Joseph Humire: @jmhumire, @securefreesoc; & Senator Maria Fernanda Cabal, @MariaFdaCabal.

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  Sep 02 2020

  Image:  Mikhail Bakunin speaking to members of the International Workingmen's Association at the Basel Congress in 1869. Bakunin proclaimed that he wouldn’t be satisfied till the major cities of the world—London, Paris Moscow, New York—were engulfed in flames and razed to the ground. The New World Report: Joseph Humire:  @jmhumire, @securefreesoc; and Senator Maria Fernanda Cabal, @MariaFdaCabal; in re:  Delayed election in Bolivia, where the leading candidate was finance minister under Morales.  Intent to restore Morales in power.  In Argentina, Kirchner has maintained power similarly.    Amlo grandstanding; a populist who uses a socialist agenda. Socialists call everyone but themselves “corrupt.”  The former head of Pemex knew 70 prominent Mexicans engaging in corruption, as well as the last two presidents. Amlo’s brother received a huge chunk of cash. ...more

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• 392: Maduro skirts world sanctions with “victimization narrative & military threat.” Joseph Humire: @jmhumire, @securefreesoc; & Senator Maria Fernanda Cabal, @MariaFdaCabal.

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  Sep 02 2020

  Image:   Coquero (Figure Chewing Coca), 850–1500 C.E.; Brooklyn Museum The New World Report: Joseph Humire:  @jmhumire, @securefreesoc; and Senator Maria Fernanda Cabal, @MariaFdaCabal; in re:   Way for Maduro regime to circumvent sanctions is to go to intl community with a victimization narrative and just enough of a military threat . . .  trying to pit the US against the UN.  Resolution 2231. . .  . Cocaine: NE corner of Colombia is [partly swamped] by Venezuela.  Fight to control territory; others want to change crops but are killed by narcoterrorists. Two weeks ago another massacre on the frontier; four Venezuelans died.   . . .    Transregional threat networks are horizontal in nature.  ...more

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• 391: BoJo under pressure from his allies, the Tories. @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion

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  Sep 02 2020

  Image:  An elegant tory of yore, William Pitt the Younger Joseph Sternberg, c , WSJ editorial board Political Economics column; in re:  Boris Johnson is under a lot of pressure, from his own side, the Tories.    . . . Consumer spending is starting to come back. The US is perched on a knife-edge: if we keep opening up, maybe the cryogenic freeze will let us come back quickly, or maybe [the opposite].  In London, recommendation that people walk or cycle to work.  Diminution of Tube travellers? ..“The leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party cannot be blamed for the advent of COVID-19, which he and 299,000 other Britons have contracted. Indeed, his government can be credited with a number of bold initiatives, such as 80 percent support for furloughed employees; a major public health campaign against obesity; and new moves to combat climate change. Yet he is guilty of boastful rhetoric, mixed messaging, poor policy execution, and broken promises. He has suffered a sharp decline in popularity. Many who helped him to an 80-strong majority in the House of Commons last December now feel abandoned and betrayed. The union is in jeopardy, with Scotland and Northern Ireland particularly at risk. The Conservative government avoids mainstream media interviews, preferring glib sound bites and photo opportunities.  . . .” http://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutlook/britain-suffers-boris-johnsons-chaotic-politics/ ...more

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• 391: A-Levels disaster: Eton safeguards it own—in 2020, with an algorithm. @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion

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  Image:  A bird's-eye view of Eton College by David Loggan, published in his Cantabrigia Illustrata of 1690. Joseph Sternberg, @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion, WSJ editorial board Political Economics column; in re:  More important than the virus: The education of high-schoolers passing into university. The A-levels. These tests are very important, being the only way a British student can enter university. Everything stopped with the pandemic, is now become chaos: Govt dvpd an algorithm to solve everything, but forty per cent of students’s schoolwork was downgraded [irrationally].  The algo punished poor students.  The bureaucrats just made it up.  State schools were disadvantaged because the algo assumed that if your class was bigger, your teacher wouldn’t be able to grade you very well.  Students at expensive schools were given an advantage. Another failing: extremely bright students were assumed not to be as good as their actual grades showed.   Re-established Victorian England: if you went to Eton, you won; if not, you lost. ...more

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• 390: Why did the Dow boot out Exxon? @JohnTamny

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  Image:  DJIA screen grab.John Tamny, RealClearMarkets; in re:  Exxon banned from the Dow-Jones 30. An entertaining approach to why: In 2013, Exxon was the world’s most valuable corporation. Now has lost [vast] billions [$207 bil in market cap?]. The Fed was propping up the market?  Every market rally has been top-heavy. If you remove the FAANGs and Microsoft from the market, not much happening.   Chris Buckley has written an amusing novel about the Russians; JT reviewed it.  The Russian conspiracy story lends itself to Gilbert and Sullivan. Bumper sticker: “I hope the Russians trick me into voting for Trump again.”  https://www.forbes.com/sites/johntamny/2020/08/30/exxonmobils-djia-deletion-exposes-the-insignificance-of-the-feds-latest-policy-shift/#2b5ba5fd26dc ...more

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• 390: Europeans learn that safety nets need people who actually work, even in the virus crisis. @JohnTamny @RealClearMarkets

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  Sep 02 2020

  Image:  Social utopias: The Earthly Paradise – Garden of Eden, from Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights. John Tamny, RealClearMarkets; Aauthor, Who Needs the Fed?; in re:  The virus in the EU. A re-think about their safety net: taking care of everyone all the time Forgot that there’s a safety net for those who aren't working if and only if others are feverishly working.  With the long shutdown and mass layoffs, too many aren't working; ergo, end of the safety net.  Italy has largely recovered, but tourism is barely extant.  In Tuscany, the hotels have closed, esp with no Americans. They may never have imagined a day when Americans wouldn’t show up.       With Americans’ producing less and travelling less, it affects much of the world. There’s no such thing as govt spending or safety nets: the [whole mechanism functions ] based on production.       The shutdowns in New York are a failure. Restaurants are closed; and no one may travel to New York State without an arduous quarantine.  Haven’t solved the virus but have badly damaged the economy.  The greatest enemy of disease is prosperity.       To fight a virus that kills a tiny percentage of people, we’ve put hundreds of millions back into poverty.   It’s appalling.  https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2020/08/27/europeans_discover_the_myth_about_safety_nets_the_hard_way_575386.html ...more

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• 389: Persecution of the hero Flynn and examination of the hero McCain. @LeeSmithDC

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  Sep 02 2020

  Image:As Task Force 38, maneuvering off the Japanese coast, 17 August 1945Taken by a USS Shangri-La (CV-38) photographer. - Official U.S. Navy photo 80-G-278815 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command The U.S. Navy Task Force 38, of the U.S. Third Fleet maneuvering off the coast of Japan, 17 August 1945, two days after Japan agreed to surrender. The aircraft carrier in lower right is USS Wasp (CV-18). Note that her forward hull number on the flight deck is painted to be readable for planes coming from the bow. This was discontinued as escort carriers with such high numbers, like in this case USS Rudyerd Bay (CVE-81), were commissioned. The other identifiable carrier is USS Shangri-La (CV-38) in the left center. She is the only known carrier to have her air group identification letter ("Z") painted in white on her flight deck, instead of her hull number. Also present in the formation are four other Essex-class carriers, four Independence-class light carriers, at least three battleships, two of the Iowa-class and one of the South Dakota-class, plus several cruisers and destroyers. Public Domain File:Task Force 38 off the coast of Japan 1945.jpg Created: 17 August 1945 Lee Smith, @LeeSmithDC. The Permanent Coup: How Enemies Foreign and Domestic Targeted the American President, in re:  The federal Court of Appeals has turned back the effort to release Gen Flynn.  Continued persecution of Flynn; the people who are deeply concerned abut the case and following it carefully: creating an enormous audience of, basically, followers, of Gen Flynn, an American hero. This is the continued persecution of a man whom everyone understands to have been set up by rogue FBI agents and the last administration, including the president and the vice-president. There actually is a two-tier system of justice; Flynn will continue to suffer because, inter al., the judiciary has proven itself—here, in the form of Sullivan—to be corrupt. It's shocking, Meanwhile, great anger is growing nationally, of which the [culpable persons] and others, such as Schiff, seem not to be aware. McCain gave the bogus, poison dossier to David Ignatius.  McCain could not have believed it [the contents of the dossier]. Hard to believe that he’d let that poison go into the American media; and four years later we’re still not done with it.   https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/28/john-mccain-associate-planned-leaks-posts-ignatius/ ...more

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• 389: Republican Smart People for Biden have nowhere to go, so they advertise in the WSJ. @JedBabbin, American Spectator, @JedBabbin @WashingtonTimes

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  Sep 02 2020

  Image:  In the 1930s and 1940s, Me-too Republicans described those running on a platform of agreeing with the Democratic Party, proclaiming only minor or moderating philosophical differences. An example is the two-time presidential candidate Thomas E. Dewey, who ran against the popular Franklin D. Roosevelt and his successor Harry Truman. Dewey didn't oppose Roosevelt's New Deal programs all together, but merely campaigned on the promise that Republicans would run them more efficiently and less corruptly. Here: a photo of Dewey.Jed Babbin, American Spectator,  in re: “Seventy former national security officials who had served in past Republican administrations have written a letter and taken out a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal to declare that President Trump is ‘dangerously unfit’ to serve a second term and that Democrat Joe Biden would be better to trust with our defense and foreign relationships.”        No one knows if Iran is complying with the internationally-imposed restrictions on its development of a nuclear bomb. For Biden to endorse the disastrous JCPOA is [madness].  He hasn’t thought it through. How can the seventy endorse him?  Trump has many faults but this danger is [virtually existential].  How can the signatories to the letter justify their endorsement? The total reason for the letter is that they don't like Trump’s personality.  . . .  Libya is Somalia on the Mediterranean.  They give no reason for supporting Biden; he’d inherit this problem which he helped to create. Their letter is an amazing defeat of the facts. We have choices in life; they've chosen to support Biden despite the fact that  “Biden has been wrong on every foreign policy decision for the last forty years.”—Robert Gates, former Defense Secretary.      ..  ..  ..    https://spectator.org/the-gang-of-seventy-swamps-trump/     “Seventy former national security officials who had served in past Republican administrations have written a letter and taken out a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal to declare that President Trump is ‘dangerously unfit’ to serve a second term and that Democrat Joe Biden would be better to trust with our defense and foreign relationships.  . . . What the G-70 letter writers ignore is that Trump’s approaches to China and North Korea have resulted in none of the bad deals that earlier presidents — notably Bill Clinton — made with nations such as North Korea. Trump’s proclaiming that he and Kim were in love was dumb, but it’s a long way from making a deal relieving North Korea of economic sanctions, as Clinton did, without extracting from North Korea any benefit to our national security in return.”https://spectator.org/the-gang-of-seventy-swamps-trump/ ...more

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• 388: The NBA forgets it is a theatrical company. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Sep 02 2020

  Photo:Georges-Pierre Seurat (UK: /ˈsɜːrɑː,  - rʌ/ SUR-ah, -⁠uh, US: /sʊˈrɑː/ suu-RAH,[1][2][3][4][5] French: [ʒɔʁʒ pjɛʁ sœʁa];[6] 2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) was a French post-Impressionist artist. He is best known for devising the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism as well as pointillism.  Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)Object type paintingGenregenre art Date1887–88Mediumoil on canvasDimensions39 1/4 x 59 in. (99.7 x 149.9 cm)  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe NBA forgets it is a theatrical company. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatnesshttps://www.nationalreview.com/2020/08/let-them-boycott/ ...more

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• 388: PM Shinzo Abe bids farewell and steps off the stage. @MichaelAuslin @HoverInst

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  Sep 02 2020

  Photo:Creator:Utagawa KunitoshiTitle御鳳輦之図DescriptionJapan; Print; PrintsDate1889MediumOne sheet of a triptych of polychrome woodblock prints; ink and color on paperDimensionsTriptych 14 9/16 x 29 in. (37 x 73.6 cm)Collection Metropolitan Museum of Art   Current locationAsian ArtAccession numberJP3230Credit lineGift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959Source/Photographer https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/55224  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowPM Shinzo Abe bids farewell and steps off the stage. @MichaelAuslin @HoverInsthttps://foreignpolicy.com/2020/08/28/abe-japan-resignation-united-states-ally/ ...more

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• 387: 4/4 Our Family Dreams: The Fletchers' Adventures in Nineteenth Century America, by Daniel Blake Smith

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  Sep 02 2020

  Image:  "Mining on the Comstock," depicting the headframes and mills of the various mines, and mining technology used at Comstock, most prominently the method of square-set timbering developed there to work the veins.Our Family Dreams: The Fletchers' Adventures in Nineteenth Century America, by Daniel Blake Smith         In the early years after the Revolution, Americans were on the move, seeking to establish a new way of life. And, more than the church or the school or the courthouse, it was the family that nurtured the American dream. In this novel-like narrative, Daniel Blake Smith vividly brings to life the Fletchers, a family of loving, ambitious, at times insecure pioneers who scattered across the vast expanse of post-revolutionary America but kept in touch through letters despite their wildly different life paths. On a hardscrabble farm in Vermont, the patriarch, Jesse Fletcher, struggled with debt and depression but managed to educate his children, especially his son Elijah, a Yankee who moved to Virginia: shocked by the horrors of slavery but then seduced by the plantation lifestyle. Another son, Calvin, left at age 17 for Indianapolis to become a self-made lawyer, banker, and prominent citizen and passionate abolitionist. The grandchildren include Indiana, a women's education activist who donated her home to create Sweet Briar College; the black sheep Lucian, who went to California to join in the gold rush; and the physician Billy, captured as a spy during the Civil War. Through letters and diaries, we find in Our Family Dreams that the Fletchers appear surprisingly similar to us; they dream, fret, fight, and love. Despite numerous heartaches and setbacks, their spirit of enterprise, sacrifice, mobility, and education endures as American values to this day. https://www.amazon.com/Our-Family-Dreams-Adventures-Nineteenth/dp/1137279818/ref=laB001JS0WUU1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1486097756&sr=1-3 Image:  "Mining on the Comstock," depicting the headframes and mills of the various mines, and mining technology used at Comstock, most prominently the method of square-set timbering developed there to work the veins. ...more

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• 387: 3/4 Our Family Dreams: The Fletchers' Adventures in Nineteenth Century America, by Daniel Blake Smith

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  Sep 02 2020

  Image:  Plat of the Town of Indianapolis, published in December 1821Our Family Dreams: The Fletchers' Adventures in Nineteenth Century America, by Daniel Blake Smith         In the early years after the Revolution, Americans were on the move, seeking to establish a new way of life. And, more than the church or the school or the courthouse, it was the family that nurtured the American dream. In this novel-like narrative, Daniel Blake Smith vividly brings to life the Fletchers, a family of loving, ambitious, at times insecure pioneers who scattered across the vast expanse of post-revolutionary America but kept in touch through letters despite their wildly different life paths. On a hardscrabble farm in Vermont, the patriarch, Jesse Fletcher, struggled with debt and depression but managed to educate his children, especially his son Elijah, a Yankee who moved to Virginia: shocked by the horrors of slavery but then seduced by the plantation lifestyle. Another son, Calvin, left at age 17 for Indianapolis to become a self-made lawyer, banker, and prominent citizen and passionate abolitionist. The grandchildren include Indiana, a women's education activist who donated her home to create Sweet Briar College; the black sheep Lucian, who went to California to join in the gold rush; and the physician Billy, captured as a spy during the Civil War. Through letters and diaries, we find in Our Family Dreams that the Fletchers appear surprisingly similar to us; they dream, fret, fight, and love. Despite numerous heartaches and setbacks, their spirit of enterprise, sacrifice, mobility, and education endures as American values to this day. https://www.amazon.com/Our-Family-Dreams-Adventures-Nineteenth/dp/1137279818/ref=laB001JS0WUU1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1486097756&sr=1-3 ...more

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• 387: 2/4 Our Family Dreams: The Fletchers' Adventures in Nineteenth Century America, by Daniel Blake Smith

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  Sep 02 2020

  Image:  Old Chapel, Clarke County, VirginiaOur Family Dreams: The Fletchers' Adventures in Nineteenth Century America, by Daniel Blake Smith         In the early years after the Revolution, Americans were on the move, seeking to establish a new way of life. And, more than the church or the school or the courthouse, it was the family that nurtured the American dream. In this novel-like narrative, Daniel Blake Smith vividly brings to life the Fletchers, a family of loving, ambitious, at times insecure pioneers who scattered across the vast expanse of post-revolutionary America but kept in touch through letters despite their wildly different life paths. On a hardscrabble farm in Vermont, the patriarch, Jesse Fletcher, struggled with debt and depression but managed to educate his children, especially his son Elijah, a Yankee who moved to Virginia: shocked by the horrors of slavery but then seduced by the plantation lifestyle. Another son, Calvin, left at age 17 for Indianapolis to become a self-made lawyer, banker, and prominent citizen and passionate abolitionist. The grandchildren include Indiana, a women's education activist who donated her home to create Sweet Briar College; the black sheep Lucian, who went to California to join in the gold rush; and the physician Billy, captured as a spy during the Civil War. Through letters and diaries, we find in Our Family Dreams that the Fletchers appear surprisingly similar to us; they dream, fret, fight, and love. Despite numerous heartaches and setbacks, their spirit of enterprise, sacrifice, mobility, and education endures as American values to this day. https://www.amazon.com/Our-Family-Dreams-Adventures-Nineteenth/dp/1137279818/ref=laB001JS0WUU1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1486097756&sr=1-3 ...more

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• 387: 1/4 Our Family Dreams: The Fletchers' Adventures in Nineteenth Century America, by Daniel Blake Smith

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  Sep 02 2020

  Image:  Coat of Arms of Vermont. Official, adopted by Act No. 11 of 1862Our Family Dreams: The Fletchers' Adventures in Nineteenth Century America, by Daniel Blake Smith     In the early years after the Revolution, Americans were on the move, seeking to establish a new way of life. And, more than the church or the school or the courthouse, it was the family that nurtured the American dream. In this novel-like narrative, Daniel Blake Smith vividly brings to life the Fletchers, a family of loving, ambitious, at times insecure pioneers who scattered across the vast expanse of post-revolutionary America but kept in touch through letters despite their wildly different life paths. On a hardscrabble farm in Vermont, the patriarch, Jesse Fletcher, struggled with debt and depression but managed to educate his children, especially his son Elijah, a Yankee who moved to Virginia: shocked by the horrors of slavery but then seduced by the plantation lifestyle. Another son, Calvin, left at age 17 for Indianapolis to become a self-made lawyer, banker, and prominent citizen and passionate abolitionist. The grandchildren include Indiana, a women's education activist who donated her home to create Sweet Briar College; the black sheep Lucian, who went to California to join in the gold rush; and the physician Billy, captured as a spy during the Civil War. Through letters and diaries, we find in Our Family Dreams that the Fletchers appear surprisingly similar to us; they dream, fret, fight, and love. Despite numerous heartaches and setbacks, their spirit of enterprise, sacrifice, mobility, and education endures as American values to this day. https://www.amazon.com/Our-Family-Dreams-Adventures-Nineteenth/dp/1137279818/ref=laB001JS0WUU1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1486097756&sr=1-3 20:00 ...more

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• 386: Philosophizing on crime and the fate of New York City mayoralty contests, 1993 and 2021. @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNews

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  Sep 01 2020

  Photo:Antique illustration of the Brooklyn Bridge towers published in 1886 by Frank Leslie (1821-1880). Original from New York public library. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowPhilosophizing on crime and the fate of New York City mayoralty contests, 1993 and 2021. @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNewshttps://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-fear-city-fear-country-20200829-mfq6jzhefffflpdcm5wsjonfzm-story.html ...more

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• 386: More courtroom delays for Michael Flynn & What is to be done? @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Sep 01 2020

  Photo:Anthropomorphic mouth of Hell with monsters Pieter Brueghel the Elder - Web Gallery of Art:   Image  Info about artwork Permission details This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: This work is in the public domainin its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer. You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States. This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain". This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details.View more Public Domainview terms File:Pieter Bruegel the Elder - Dulle Griet (detail) - WGA03404.jpg Created: circa 1562 date QS:P571,+1562-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowMore courtroom delays for Michael Flynn & What is to be done? @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatnesshttps://www.wsj.com/articles/michael-flynn-s-emergency-bid-to-force-dismissal-of-criminal-case-denied-11598891749 ...more

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• 385: Indiana Hoenlein and the Lost Paleolithic Flint Tools of the Negev. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Image:  A selection of prehistoric stone tools Indiana Hoenlein, Malcolm Hoenlein: @conf_of_pres; Conference of Presidents; and Thaddeus McCotter, @ThadMcCotter, in re: Found flint tools near Dimona in the Negev that were 100,000 years old. The Nubian ____. Travelled from Africa over the Arabian Peninsula to Israel.  Negev then was arid but had spring water.  https://www.timesofisrael.com/paleolithic-flint-tools-are-1st-breadcrumbs-of-modern-mans-trail-to-israel/

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• 385: Netanyahu hints at additional Arab states’ seeking rapprochement: Oman, Chad, Sudan. Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres; Thaddeus McCotter, @ThadMcCotter

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  Image:  Qaboos bin Said Al Said, Sultan of Oman from 1970 to 2020.  A highly-esteemed ruler.  Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres, Conference of Presidents, in re: On Wed, flight 972 flew over Saud Arabia, a first, to the UAE. On the plane were Jared Kushner, White House National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien, and Israeli officials.  Next week, extremely broad-ranging discussions and a formal signing ceremony.  Sheikh Khalifa, ruler of Abu Dhabi, issued a proclamation officially ending the boycott of Israel.  Moroccan PM criticized it, then had to retract.   Concerning Putin: Turkey, Iran and Russia got together to discuss Syria, but mostly oppose an oil deal . . . Two unsafe intercepts of US planes, extremely close and dangerous, in polar region. [In Beringia?] Also, Russia is arming Armenia; a direct provocation to threaten Azerbaijan.  Muslim Brothers in Cairo.  Egypt has made a treaty with Greece on maritime borders; Turkey impinging on Greece’s territorial waters. Hungary stood up for Israel in the EU, said EU needs to stop its nonstop criticism of Israel and start by stopping its funding of anti-Israeli groups.    German bank involved in funding 9/11 and sanction-busting, a unit of Deutsche Borse.  https://www.gov.il/en/departments/news/event_statement300820 ...more

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• 385: Joe Biden aims to answer a fracking ban in Pennsylvania. @DavidMDrucker

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  Sep 01 2020

  Image:  Tight non-shale gas plays using massive hydraulic fracturing .Public domain. David M Drucker, @DavidMDrucker , Washington Examiner, in re:  Candidate Biden travelled from Delaware to Pittsburgh, where he emphasized that he opposed violence.   Did not mention the disorder in the streets in his acceptance speech several weeks back. Is he surprised by the months of turmoil? Minnesota is an emerging swing state; Wisconsin definitely is; this is the first violence in a swing state. President Trump will go to Wisconsin on Tuesday; since the National Guard has been there, no further turmoil. Both the governor and mayor asked Trump not to visit, but he will.   Biden also said, “I will not ban fracking.”   Has a goal of using only renewable electric sources by 2035.  . . . Trump wants to go everywhere all the time. There’s something to be said for that.   https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/biden-pittsburgh-speech-protests-fracking ...more

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• 385: Joe Biden aims to answer Kenosha and Portland in Pittsburgh. @johnfund

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  Sep 01 2020

  Image: Chesrow Site in Kenosha, Wisconsin: a site on a beach of Glacial Lake Chicago where ancient people heated chert cobbles to produce projectile points.  An important archaeological site, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. John Fund, @johnfund, NRO, in re: Speech by Joe Biden in Pittsburgh to answer Mr Trump; accusations about violence and turmoil that we’ve seen for months, which has led to confrontations; most recently in Kinosha.  Apparently the Democratic organizers didn’t change their game plan for the convention, then were caught unaware by Kinosha violence.  Washington Examiner: In spring, a researcher for the Democratic party wrote a memo saying that “We should be very careful about violence because it could create blowback” —and he was fired.   Unions now aghast by Sanders and Warren statements on fossil fuels.  Today Biden said, “I will not ban fracking.”  Must have been focus-grouped, as it countermands his previous statements.  President’s acceptance speech was dramatic, and reminded some of a State of the Union speech in that it checked every box.  Could have been shorter, but President Trump holds that a lot of information on his accomplishments has not been publicized, so he took this chance to do so.  Covid19 will benefit the Democrats, who did not anticipate a counteroffensive. Infamous CNN chiron: “Fiery [reaction] to peaceful protests”!   --Headline: CNN Roasted for Dubbing Kenosha Protests 'Fiery but Mostly Peaceful'.--See also Wall St Journal: In Kenosha, Protests and Violence Roil Key Presidential Battleground   In Kenosha County, last week’s shooting of a Black man by police—followed by protests, looting and fatal violence—have elevated race relations and public safety as campaign issues.   https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/514448-biden-criticizes-violence-while-blaming-trump-for-fomenting-it ...more

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• 384: TikTok, the Trojan pony, has been collecting surveillance data on Americans; now is caught up short. @GordonGChang; Brandon Weichert @theweichertreport

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  Image:  Trojan horse as depicted in the Vergilius Vaticanus (c. 400) Brandon Weichert, Weichert Report, and Gordon Chang, author, commentator, lawyer, and Daily Beast, in re:  TikTok.   This app is different form others in that it’s the personal connectivity; can tailor your use in ways that Amazon doesn't allow. Can do videos, share a lot with friends; very interactive. All the hallmarks of the 18–25-year-old demographic.  TikTok—“a Trojan pony”— has been used to surveille Americans secretly, and apparently can download surveillance software secretly—and even use AI to influence political information and send it to whomever it finds susceptible.  Now, TikTok is required to hand over its source code and is unlikely to accede. India kicked TikTok out of India and it’s about to be kicked out of the US. Two large losses.   Eric Schmidt from Google is warning about the “Splinternet.”*  India also has banned WeChat.  Trump has given WeChat 45 days to leave the US; WeChat  also has been surveilling users. “One app of many that China uses to surveille Americans.”  There are still another 200 Chinese apps in India, which perhaps in the future will ban them, too.   China will push back any way it can.  China will go to court to challenge the president’s Emergency Powers Act, but not too likely to win.          * The splinternet (also referred to as cyber-balkanization or internet balkanization) is a characterization of the Internet as splintering and dividing due to various factors, such as technology, commerce, politics, nationalism, religion, and divergent national interests.  https://hongkongfp.com/2020/08/30/tiktok-owner-says-it-will-abide-by-new-chinese-export-rules/. ...more

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• 384: Hong Kong insurrectionists attempt a perilous sea escape. @GordonGChang, @Michael_Yon.

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  Image:    Winslow Homer, The Gulf Stream, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Michael Yon, East Asia reporter based in Thailand, and Gordon Chang, author, commentator, lawyer, and Daily Beast, in re: Report of a dozen Hong Kong citizens trying to escape over water to Taiwan, 400 miles of sea, and being intercepted by Mainland authorities; probably a death warrant, even to the fellow who also has a UK passport.  Taiwan has been offering refuge.   Hong Kong has rigorous emigration controls, Customs studies passports.  It’d be to China’s advantage to let dissidents leave because they usually wind up arguing among themselves.  People who are stuck there will need special help to escape; recall Operation Yellow Bird after T`ien An Men.  So far, we know of 17 escapees who've been captured. Terrifying. As Mainland tries to intimidate Taiwan, all it succeeds in doing is strengthening Taiwanese resolve. To boot, these awful events, including the story of a pregnant woman who was knocked down by Mainland police, have simply exacerbated the insurgency/rebellion.  Increasing HK advocacy for democracy. Expect more and more Hong Kongers supporting the protestors.  Beijing is confused about this because it completely doesn’t understand free societies.  Beijing is used to repressing and succeeding; not applicable to Hong Kong, Taiwan, and much of the rest of the world.   This is just the beginning of the insurgency; sophisticated operators. Settling in for a very long-term struggle.  https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-hong-kong-survey-shows-012321394.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/hong-kong-boats-refugees-asylum-seekers-national-security-law-taiwan/2020/08/31/2d429170-eb34-11ea-bd08-1b10132b458f_story.html ...more

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• 384: Donald Trump's plans to end the Endless Wars in the ummah. @thomasjoscelyn, @billroggio

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  Image:  U.S. President Donald Trump announces the death of Qasem Soleimani, after U.S. Drone Strike, Mar-a-Lago, 3 January 2020.  Screen grab. Tom Joscelyn, Long War Journal and FDD; in re: See: Generation Jihad, podcast by Tom Joscelyn and Bill Roggio.  If the US and the African Union both leave Somalia, what happens to Somalia?  Trying to get the Somali govt and military to be somewhat functional. Shebaab controls around 25% of the country, and will only expand.  Mogadishu is a critical city and port.    Is Iraq capable of standing on its own without a US presence?  Yes in some ways, no in others.  Trump recently defended a very small US presence there. It’d be helpful if the administration explained its [intentions]. Intra-Afghan talks don't have to produce a result . . . https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2020/08/generation-jihad-ep-23-joe-biden-cant-end-the-jihad.php ...more

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• 384: Joe Biden's plans to end the Forever Wars in the ummah. @thomasjoscelyn, @billroggio

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  Sep 01 2020

  Image:  When once asked if Saudi Arabia was America's friend, Obama replied with, "It's complicated."* Here: President Obama with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, July 2014       * Peter Mitchell (12 March 2016). "Obama to Turnbull on Indonesia, Islam and the Saudis: 'It's complicated'". Tom Joscelyn, Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies; & Senior Editor for FDD's Long War Journal; and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD; in re:  Afghanistan— blood and treasure. Treasure: costs currently are much lower than formerly.  Trump proposes to withdraw a much as possible from “endless wars,” while Biden proposes to end “forever wars,” but Biden says we’ll defeat al Qaeda and ISIS without getting [too] embroiled—an internal contradiction.  Ergo, at least prevent them from establishing more caliphates, esp in the Sahel and around Africa. Two thousand KIA in Afghanistan; fewer, minimal, in the last few years, and this year, none.  The American political class has never really come to terms with the goals of the jihadists.  Brennan tried to dismiss the whole thing; two years later, we were [up to our eyebrows].  The debate should be focussed on what's going on right now: need 5,0000 troops in Iraq? Worth it to keep a small contingent in Afghanistan?  for Africom to have 6,000 in all of Africa?  It's the jjhadis who are keeping this going, not the US.  https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2020/08/generation-jihad-ep-23-joe-biden-cant-end-the-jihad.php ...more

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• 383: 4/4 The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority, by Patrick J. Buchanan

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  Sep 01 2020

  Image:  President Nixon's cabinet in 1971.The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority, by Patrick J. Buchanan  Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Comeback-Richard-Defeat-Majority-ebook/dp/B00HXYLW8K/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= After suffering stinging defeats in the 1960 presidential election against John F. Kennedy, and in the 1962 California gubernatorial election, Nixon's career was declared dead by Washington press and politicians alike. Yet on January 20, 1969, just six years after he had said his political life was over, Nixon would stand taking the oath of office as 37th President of the United States. How did Richard Nixon resurrect a ruined career and reunite a shattered and fractured Republican Party to capture the White House? In The Greatest Comeback, Patrick J. Buchanan—who, beginning in January 1966, served as one of two staff members to Nixon, and would become a senior advisor in the White House after 1968—gives a firsthand account of those crucial years in which Nixon reversed his political fortunes during a decade marked by civil rights protests; social revolution; the Vietnam War; the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and Martin Luther King; urban riots; campus anarchy, and the rise of the New Left. Using over 1,000 of his own personal memos to Nixon, with Nixon’s scribbled replies back, Buchanan gives readers an insider’s view as Nixon gathers the warring factions of the Republican party—from the conservative base of Barry Goldwater to the liberal wing of Nelson Rockefeller and George Romney, to the New Right legions of an ascendant Ronald Reagan—into the victorious coalition that won him the White House. How Richard Nixon united the party behind him may offer insights into how the Republican Party today can bring together its warring factions. The Greatest Comeback is an intimate portrayal of the 37th President and a fascinating fly-on-the-wall account of one of the most remarkable American political stories of the 20th century. ...more

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• 382: 3/4 The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority, by Patrick J. Buchanan

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  Image:  March 16, 1968: My Lai MassacreThe Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority, by Patrick J. Buchanan  Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Comeback-Richard-Defeat-Majority-ebook/dp/B00HXYLW8K/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= After suffering stinging defeats in the 1960 presidential election against John F. Kennedy, and in the 1962 California gubernatorial election, Nixon's career was declared dead by Washington press and politicians alike. Yet on January 20, 1969, just six years after he had said his political life was over, Nixon would stand taking the oath of office as 37th President of the United States. How did Richard Nixon resurrect a ruined career and reunite a shattered and fractured Republican Party to capture the White House? In The Greatest Comeback, Patrick J. Buchanan—who, beginning in January 1966, served as one of two staff members to Nixon, and would become a senior advisor in the White House after 1968—gives a firsthand account of those crucial years in which Nixon reversed his political fortunes during a decade marked by civil rights protests; social revolution; the Vietnam War; the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and Martin Luther King; urban riots; campus anarchy, and the rise of the New Left. Using over 1,000 of his own personal memos to Nixon, with Nixon’s scribbled replies back, Buchanan gives readers an insider’s view as Nixon gathers the warring factions of the Republican party—from the conservative base of Barry Goldwater to the liberal wing of Nelson Rockefeller and George Romney, to the New Right legions of an ascendant Ronald Reagan—into the victorious coalition that won him the White House. How Richard Nixon united the party behind him may offer insights into how the Republican Party today can bring together its warring factions. The Greatest Comeback is an intimate portrayal of the 37th President and a fascinating fly-on-the-wall account of one of the most remarkable American political stories of the 20th century. ...more

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• 382: 2/4 The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority, by Patrick J. Buchanan

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  Image:  Martin Luther King, Jr.The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority, by Patrick J. Buchanan  Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Comeback-Richard-Defeat-Majority-ebook/dp/B00HXYLW8K/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= After suffering stinging defeats in the 1960 presidential election against John F. Kennedy, and in the 1962 California gubernatorial election, Nixon's career was declared dead by Washington press and politicians alike. Yet on January 20, 1969, just six years after he had said his political life was over, Nixon would stand taking the oath of office as 37th President of the United States. How did Richard Nixon resurrect a ruined career and reunite a shattered and fractured Republican Party to capture the White House? In The Greatest Comeback, Patrick J. Buchanan—who, beginning in January 1966, served as one of two staff members to Nixon, and would become a senior advisor in the White House after 1968—gives a firsthand account of those crucial years in which Nixon reversed his political fortunes during a decade marked by civil rights protests; social revolution; the Vietnam War; the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and Martin Luther King; urban riots; campus anarchy, and the rise of the New Left. Using over 1,000 of his own personal memos to Nixon, with Nixon’s scribbled replies back, Buchanan gives readers an insider’s view as Nixon gathers the warring factions of the Republican party—from the conservative base of Barry Goldwater to the liberal wing of Nelson Rockefeller and George Romney, to the New Right legions of an ascendant Ronald Reagan—into the victorious coalition that won him the White House. How Richard Nixon united the party behind him may offer insights into how the Republican Party today can bring together its warring factions. The Greatest Comeback is an intimate portrayal of the 37th President and a fascinating fly-on-the-wall account of one of the most remarkable American political stories of the 20th century. ...more

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• 382: 1/4 The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority, by Patrick J. Buchanan

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  Image: Nixon (second from right) makes his newspaper debut in 1916, contributing five cents to a fund for war orphans. His brother Donald is to his right.The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority, by Patrick J. Buchanan  Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Comeback-Richard-Defeat-Majority-ebook/dp/B00HXYLW8K/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= After suffering stinging defeats in the 1960 presidential election against John F. Kennedy, and in the 1962 California gubernatorial election, Nixon's career was declared dead by Washington press and politicians alike. Yet on January 20, 1969, just six years after he had said his political life was over, Nixon would stand taking the oath of office as 37th President of the United States. How did Richard Nixon resurrect a ruined career and reunite a shattered and fractured Republican Party to capture the White House? In The Greatest Comeback, Patrick J. Buchanan—who, beginning in January 1966, served as one of two staff members to Nixon, and would become a senior advisor in the White House after 1968—gives a firsthand account of those crucial years in which Nixon reversed his political fortunes during a decade marked by civil rights protests; social revolution; the Vietnam War; the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and Martin Luther King; urban riots; campus anarchy, and the rise of the New Left. Using over 1,000 of his own personal memos to Nixon, with Nixon’s scribbled replies back, Buchanan gives readers an insider’s view as Nixon gathers the warring factions of the Republican party—from the conservative base of Barry Goldwater to the liberal wing of Nelson Rockefeller and George Romney, to the New Right legions of an ascendant Ronald Reagan—into the victorious coalition that won him the White House. How Richard Nixon united the party behind him may offer insights into how the Republican Party today can bring together its warring factions. The Greatest Comeback is an intimate portrayal of the 37th President and a fascinating fly-on-the-wall account of one of the most remarkable American political stories of the 20th century.   ...more

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• 381: What the final end of our Solar System will look like -- several billion years from now, in the Constellation Virgo. Ken Croswell, Science Magazine

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  Aug 31 2020

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowWhat the final end of our Solar System will look like -- several billion years from now, in the Constellation Virgo. Ken Croswell, Science Magazine

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• 380: Endgame: Bobby Fischer’s Remarkable Rise and Fall—from America’s Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness, by Frank Brady (Author), with Ray Porter (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher). Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

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  Photo:Identifier: chessfundamental00capa Title: Chess fundamentals Year: 1921 (1920s) Authors:  Capablanca, José Raúl, 1888-1942 Subjects:  Chess Publisher:  New York : Harcourt, Brace and company [etc., etc.] Contributing Library:  University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor:  MSN   Text Appearing Before Image:30- P-QR3 A bad move, which gives away any legitimatechance Black had to draw. It loses a very importantmove. In fact, as the course of the game will show,it loses several moves. The proper way was to playK—Q 3. If then R —Q Kt 5, RxR; B x R,Kt—Q 5; followed by P —Q Kt 4; and WTiitewould have an exceedingly difficult game to draw onaccount of the dominating position of the Knight at i68 GAME 2 Q 5 in conjunction with the extra Pawn on the Queensside and the awkward position of Whites King. (Seehow this is so.) 31. R —B 7 ch R X K Kt P B —Kt8 2>^-33-34.35-36.37.38. K-Q3P —Kt4 P-QR4P-RSP-Kt5K—B4K-Kt3 RXP P —R4R—R6chR —R5 chB-Q5 With these last three moves White again gives Blacka chance. Even before the last move B — B 4 wouldhave won with comparative ease, but the text moveis a downright blunder, of which, fortunately for him,Black does not avail himself.   http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowEndgame: Bobby Fischer’s Remarkable Rise and Fall—from America’s Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness, by Frank Brady (Author), with Ray Porter (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher).  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged https://www.amazon.com/Endgame-Fischers-Remarkable-Fall-Brightest/dp/B004LQ5E8C/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Frank+Brady+Bobby+Fischer&qid=1574049142&s=audible&sr=1-1 From Frank Brady, who wrote one of the best-selling books on Bobby Fischer of all time and who was himself a friend of Fischer's, comes an impressively researched biography that for the first time completely captures the remarkable arc of Bobby Fischer's life. When Bobby Fischer passed away in January 2008, he left behind a confounding legacy. Everyone knew the basics of his life—he began as a brilliant youngster, then became the pride of American chess, then took a sharp turn, struggling with paranoia and mental illness. But nobody truly understood him.What motivated Fischer from such a young age, and what was the source of his remarkable intellect? How could a man so ambivalent about money and fame be so driven to succeed? What drew this man of Jewish descent to fulminate against Jews, and how was it that a mind so famously disciplined could unravel so completely? From Fischer's meteoric rise, to an utterly dominant prime unequaled by any American chess player, to his eventual descent into madness, the book draws upon hundreds of newly discovered documents and recordings and numerous firsthand interviews conducted with those who knew Fischer best. It paints, for the very first time, a complete picture of one of America's most enigmatic icons. This is the definitive account of a fascinating man and an extraordinary life, one that at last reconciles Fischer's deeply contradictory legacy and answers the question, who was Bobby Fischer?...more

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• 379: 8/8 American Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution, by Walter R. Borneman

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  Image:   Reverse of U.S. two-dollar bill, featuring John Trumbull's Declaration of Independence  paintingAmerican Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution, by Walter R. Borneman   Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EXTQRS8/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i5 When we reflect on our nation's history, the American Revolution can feel almost like a foregone conclusion. In reality, the first weeks and months of 1775 were very tenuous, and a fractured and ragtag group of colonial militias had to coalesce rapidly to have even the slimmest chance of toppling the mighty British army.   American Spring follows a fledgling nation from Paul Revere's little-known ride of December 1774 and the first shots fired on Lexington Green through the catastrophic Battle of Bunker Hill, culminating with a Virginian named George Washington‘s taking command of colonial forces on July 3, 1775.   Focusing on the colorful heroes John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Benjamin Franklin, and Patrick Henry, and the ordinary Americans caught up in the Revolution, Walter R. Borneman uses newly available sources and research to tell the story of how a decade of discontent erupted into an armed rebellion that forged our nation. ...more

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• 379: 7/8 American Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution, by Walter R. Borneman

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  Image:   The Loyalist John Malcolm, Boston Commissioner of Customs, tarred and feathered by Sons of Liberty. In the foreground, five leering men of the Sons of Liberty are holding down a Loyalist Commissioner of Customs agent, one holding a club. The agent is tarred and feathered, and they are pouring scalding hot tea down his throat. In the middle ground is the Boston Liberty Tree with a noose hanging from it. In the background is a merchant ship with protestors throwing tea overboard into the harbor.  ...more

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• 379: 6/8 American Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution, by Walter R. Borneman

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  Image:  The Battle of Long Island by Domenick D'Andrea for the state of Delaware and Maryland, 1776. Note: The Delaware Regiment at the Battle of Long Island.American Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution, by Walter R. Borneman   Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EXTQRS8/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i5 When we reflect on our nation's history, the American Revolution can feel almost like a foregone conclusion. In reality, the first weeks and months of 1775 were very tenuous, and a fractured and ragtag group of colonial militias had to coalesce rapidly to have even the slimmest chance of toppling the mighty British army.   American Spring follows a fledgling nation from Paul Revere's little-known ride of December 1774 and the first shots fired on Lexington Green through the catastrophic Battle of Bunker Hill, culminating with a Virginian named George Washington‘s taking command of colonial forces on July 3, 1775.   Focusing on the colorful heroes John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Benjamin Franklin, and Patrick Henry, and the ordinary Americans caught up in the Revolution, Walter R. Borneman uses newly available sources and research to tell the story of how a decade of discontent erupted into an armed rebellion that forged our nation. ...more

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• 379: 5/8 American Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution, by Walter R. Borneman

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  Image: Patrick Henry Arguing the Parson's Cause by George Cooke

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• 378: 4/8 American Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution, by Walter R. Borneman

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  Aug 31 2020

  Image: Samuel Adams, 1876, National Statuary Hall CollectionAmerican Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution, by Walter R. Borneman   Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EXTQRS8/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i5When we reflect on our nation's history, the American Revolution can feel almost like a foregone conclusion. In reality, the first weeks and months of 1775 were very tenuous, and a fractured and ragtag group of colonial militias had to coalesce rapidly to have even the slimmest chance of toppling the mighty British army.   American Spring follows a fledgling nation from Paul Revere's little-known ride of December 1774 and the first shots fired on Lexington Green through the catastrophic Battle of Bunker Hill, culminating with a Virginian named George Washington‘s taking command of colonial forces on July 3, 1775.   Focusing on the colorful heroes John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Benjamin Franklin, and Patrick Henry, and the ordinary Americans caught up in the Revolution, Walter R. Borneman uses newly available sources and research to tell the story of how a decade of discontent erupted into an armed rebellion that forged our nation. ..  ..  ..         ...more

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• 377: 3/8 American Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution, by Walter R. Borneman

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  Image: Mercy Otis Warren, c. 1763, oil on canvas by John Singleton CopleyAmerican Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution, by Walter R. Borneman   Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EXTQRS8/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i5When we reflect on our nation's history, the American Revolution can feel almost like a foregone conclusion. In reality, the first weeks and months of 1775 were very tenuous, and a fractured and ragtag group of colonial militias had to coalesce rapidly to have even the slimmest chance of toppling the mighty British army.   American Spring follows a fledgling nation from Paul Revere's little-known ride of December 1774 and the first shots fired on Lexington Green through the catastrophic Battle of Bunker Hill, culminating with a Virginian named George Washington‘s taking command of colonial forces on July 3, 1775.   Focusing on the colorful heroes John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Benjamin Franklin, and Patrick Henry, and the ordinary Americans caught up in the Revolution, Walter R. Borneman uses newly available sources and research to tell the story of how a decade of discontent erupted into an armed rebellion that forged our nation. ...more

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• 377: 2/8 American Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution, by Walter R. Borneman

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  Image:  Depiction of the Battle of Aughrim (1691) by John Mulvany: Red coats with Williamite forces during the Williamite War in Ireland. The Irish referred to soldiers of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland as red coats as early as 1561.American Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution, by Walter R. Borneman   Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EXTQRS8/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i5 When we reflect on our nation's history, the American Revolution can feel almost like a foregone conclusion. In reality, the first weeks and months of 1775 were very tenuous, and a fractured and ragtag group of colonial militias had to coalesce rapidly to have even the slimmest chance of toppling the mighty British army.   American Spring follows a fledgling nation from Paul Revere's little-known ride of December 1774 and the first shots fired on Lexington Green through the catastrophic Battle of Bunker Hill, culminating with a Virginian named George Washington‘s taking command of colonial forces on July 3, 1775.   Focusing on the colorful heroes John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Benjamin Franklin, and Patrick Henry, and the ordinary Americans caught up in the Revolution, Walter R. Borneman uses newly available sources and research to tell the story of how a decade of discontent erupted into an armed rebellion that forged our nation. ..  ..  ..   ...more

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• 377: 1/8 American Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution, by Walter R. Borneman

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  Image:  Amos Doolittle's engraving of the Skirmish at Lexington; the Buckman Tavern is building # 6 left of the tree at centerAmerican Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution, by Walter R. Borneman   Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EXTQRS8/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i5 When we reflect on our nation's history, the American Revolution can feel almost like a foregone conclusion. In reality, the first weeks and months of 1775 were very tenuous, and a fractured and ragtag group of colonial militias had to coalesce rapidly to have even the slimmest chance of toppling the mighty British army.   American Spring follows a fledgling nation from Paul Revere's little-known ride of December 1774 and the first shots fired on Lexington Green through the catastrophic Battle of Bunker Hill, culminating with a Virginian named George Washington‘s taking command of colonial forces on July 3, 1775.   Focusing on the colorful heroes John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Benjamin Franklin, and Patrick Henry, and the ordinary Americans caught up in the Revolution, Walter R. Borneman uses newly available sources and research to tell the story of how a decade of discontent erupted into an armed rebellion that forged our nation. ...more

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• 376: 4/4 West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776, by Claudio Saunt Kindle Edition, Reprint Edition

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  Image: Boreal forest, a biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces, and larches, near Shovel Point in Tettegouche State Park, along the northern shore of Lake Superior in MinnesotaWest of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776, by Claudio Saunt  Kindle Edition, Reprint Edition https://www.amazon.com/West-Revolution-Uncommon-History-1776/dp/B00KN8JTKG/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=West+of+the+Revolution&qid=1574811212&s=audible&sr=1-1 This panoramic account of 1776 chronicles the other revolutions unfolding that year across North America, far beyond the British colonies.  In 1776, Thomas Paine published Common Sense, the Continental Congress declared independence, and Washington crossed the Delaware. We are familiar with these famous moments in American history, but we know little about the extraordinary events occurring that same year far beyond the British colonies. In this distinctive history, Claudio Saunt tells an intriguing, largely untold story of an immense and restless continent connected in surprising ways.  In that pivotal year, the Spanish established the first European colony in San Francisco and set off a cataclysm for the region's native residents. The Russians pushed into Alaska in search of valuable sea otters, devastating local Aleut communities. And the British extended their fur trade from Hudson Bay deep into the continent, sparking an environmental revolution that transformed America's boreal forests.  While imperial officials in distant Europe maneuvered to control lands they knew almost nothing about, America's indigenous peoples sought their own advantage. Creek Indians navigated the Caribbean to explore trade with Cuba. The Osages expanded their dominion west of the Mississippi River, overwhelming the small Spanish outposts in the area. And the Sioux advanced across the Dakotas. One traditional Sioux history states that they first seized the Black Hills, the territory they now consider their sacred homeland, in 1776. "Two nations were born that year," Saunt writes. The native one would win its final military victory at the Battle of Little Bighorn 100 years later.  From the Aleutian Islands to the Gulf Coast and across the oceans to Europe's imperial capitals, Saunt's masterfully researched narrative reveals an interconnected web of history that spans not just the forgotten parts of North America but the entire globe.  West of the Revolution explores a turbulent continent in a year of many revolution ...more

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• 376: 3/4 West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776, by Claudio Saunt Kindle Edition, Reprint Edition

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  Image:  Fallingrock Cliff in Dark Canyon, in Paha Sapa, the dark Hills of the Lakota. The rock is of Paleozoic age but is capped with a Cenozoic gravel terrace.West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776, by Claudio Saunt  Kindle Edition, Reprint Editionhttps://www.amazon.com/West-Revolution-Uncommon-History-1776/dp/B00KN8JTKG/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=West+of+the+Revolution&qid=1574811212&s=audible&sr=1-1 This panoramic account of 1776 chronicles the other revolutions unfolding that year across North America, far beyond the British colonies.  In 1776, Thomas Paine published Common Sense, the Continental Congress declared independence, and Washington crossed the Delaware. We are familiar with these famous moments in American history, but we know little about the extraordinary events occurring that same year far beyond the British colonies. In this distinctive history, Claudio Saunt tells an intriguing, largely untold story of an immense and restless continent connected in surprising ways.  In that pivotal year, the Spanish established the first European colony in San Francisco and set off a cataclysm for the region's native residents. The Russians pushed into Alaska in search of valuable sea otters, devastating local Aleut communities. And the British extended their fur trade from Hudson Bay deep into the continent, sparking an environmental revolution that transformed America's boreal forests.  While imperial officials in distant Europe maneuvered to control lands they knew almost nothing about, America's indigenous peoples sought their own advantage. Creek Indians navigated the Caribbean to explore trade with Cuba. The Osages expanded their dominion west of the Mississippi River, overwhelming the small Spanish outposts in the area. And the Sioux advanced across the Dakotas. One traditional Sioux history states that they first seized the Black Hills, the territory they now consider their sacred homeland, in 1776. "Two nations were born that year," Saunt writes. The native one would win its final military victory at the Battle of Little Bighorn 100 years later.  From the Aleutian Islands to the Gulf Coast and across the oceans to Europe's imperial capitals, Saunt's masterfully researched narrative reveals an interconnected web of history that spans not just the forgotten parts of North America but the entire globe.  West of the Revolution explores a turbulent continent in a year of many revolution ...more

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• 376: 2/4 West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776, by Claudio Saunt Kindle Edition, Reprint Edition

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  Image: An Osage warrior painted by George Catlin in the Nineteenth Century.   The Osage Nation (Osage: Ni-u-kon-ska, "People of the Middle Waters") is a Midwestern Native American tribe of the Great Plains; they refer to themselves in their indigenous Dhegihan Siouan language asWazhazhe, or "Mid-waters." George Catlin described the Osage as "the tallest race of men in North America, either red or white skins; there being . . . many of them six and a half, and others seven, feet." The missionary Isaac McCoy described the Osage as an "uncommonly fierce, courageous, warlike nation."  The Osage called the Europeans I'n-Shta-Heh (Heavy Eyebrows) because of their facial hair.        In 1725, Bourgmont led a delegation of Osage and other tribal chiefs to Paris. The Native Americans were shown the wonders and power of France, including a visit to Versailles, Château de Marly and Fontainebleau. They hunted with Louis XV in the royal forest and saw an opera. During the French and Indian War (the North American front of the Seven Years' War in Europe), France was defeated by Great Britain and in 1763 ceded its lands east of the Mississippi River to that nation...  ..  ..  West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776, by Claudio Saunt  Kindle Edition, Reprint Editionhttps://www.amazon.com/West-Revolution-Uncommon-History-1776/dp/B00KN8JTKG/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=West+of+the+Revolution&qid=1574811212&s=audible&sr=1-1 This panoramic account of 1776 chronicles the other revolutions unfolding that year across North America, far beyond the British colonies.  In 1776, Thomas Paine published Common Sense, the Continental Congress declared independence, and Washington crossed the Delaware. We are familiar with these famous moments in American history, but we know little about the extraordinary events occurring that same year far beyond the British colonies. In this distinctive history, Claudio Saunt tells an intriguing, largely untold story of an immense and restless continent connected in surprising ways.  In that pivotal year, the Spanish established the first European colony in San Francisco and set off a cataclysm for the region's native residents. The Russians pushed into Alaska in search of valuable sea otters, devastating local Aleut communities. And the British extended their fur trade from Hudson Bay deep into the continent, sparking an environmental revolution that transformed America's boreal forests.  While imperial officials in distant Europe maneuvered to control lands they knew almost nothing about, America's indigenous peoples sought their own advantage. Creek Indians navigated the Caribbean to explore trade with Cuba. The Osages expanded their dominion west of the Mississippi River, overwhelming the small Spanish outposts in the area. And the Sioux advanced across the Dakotas. One traditional Sioux history states that they first seized the Black Hills, the territory they now consider their sacred homeland, in 1776. "Two nations were born that year," Saunt writes. The native one would win its final military victory at the Battle of Little Bighorn 100 years later.  From the Aleutian Islands to the Gulf Coast and across the oceans to Europe's imperial capitals, Saunt's masterfully researched narrative reveals an interconnected web of history that spans not just the forgotten parts of North America but the entire globe.  West of the Revolution explores a turbulent continent in a year of many revolution ...more

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• 376: 1/4 West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776, by Claudio Saunt Kindle Edition, Reprint Edition

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  Aug 31 2020

  Image:   In this 1860 map, Russian America (Alaska) was to the west of British America (Canada). Excerpt from the "Map of North America. Showing its Political Divisions, and Recent Discoveries in the Polar Regions" in Mitchell's New General Atlas, Containing Maps of the Various Countries of the World, Plans of Cities, etc. Published By S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr., No. 31 South Sixth Street. 1860.   1860-russian-america.jpgWest of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776, by Claudio Saunt  Kindle Edition, Reprint Editionhttps://www.amazon.com/West-Revolution-Uncommon-History-1776/dp/B00KN8JTKG/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=West+of+the+Revolution&qid=1574811212&s=audible&sr=1-1 This panoramic account of 1776 chronicles the other revolutions unfolding that year across North America, far beyond the British colonies.  In 1776, Thomas Paine published Common Sense, the Continental Congress declared independence, and Washington crossed the Delaware. We are familiar with these famous moments in American history, but we know little about the extraordinary events occurring that same year far beyond the British colonies. In this distinctive history, Claudio Saunt tells an intriguing, largely untold story of an immense and restless continent connected in surprising ways.  In that pivotal year, the Spanish established the first European colony in San Francisco and set off a cataclysm for the region's native residents. The Russians pushed into Alaska in search of valuable sea otters, devastating local Aleut communities. And the British extended their fur trade from Hudson Bay deep into the continent, sparking an environmental revolution that transformed America's boreal forests.  While imperial officials in distant Europe maneuvered to control lands they knew almost nothing about, America's indigenous peoples sought their own advantage. Creek Indians navigated the Caribbean to explore trade with Cuba. The Osages expanded their dominion west of the Mississippi River, overwhelming the small Spanish outposts in the area. And the Sioux advanced across the Dakotas. One traditional Sioux history states that they first seized the Black Hills, the territory they now consider their sacred homeland, in 1776. "Two nations were born that year," Saunt writes. The native one would win its final military victory at the Battle of Little Bighorn 100 years later.  From the Aleutian Islands to the Gulf Coast and across the oceans to Europe's imperial capitals, Saunt's masterfully researched narrative reveals an interconnected web of history that spans not just the forgotten parts of North America but the entire globe.  West of the Revolution explores a turbulent continent in a year of many revolution ...more

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• 375: The wait for therapeutics and vaccines & What is to be done? @HenryIMiller @PacificResearch

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  Aug 30 2020

  Photo:mage from page 626 of "The Trained nurse and hospital review" (1888) Identifier: trainednursehosp58newyuoft Title: The Trained nurse and hospital review Year: 1888 (1880s) Authors:  Subjects:  Nursing Publisher:  New York : [s.n.] Contributing Library:  Gerstein - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor:  Ontario Council of University Libraries and Member Libraries  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe wait for therapeutics and vaccines & What is to be done?  @HenryIMiller @PacificResearchhttps://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/08/18/encouraging-news-about-coronavirus-immunityCovid-19  ...more

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• 375: What is a superspreader & What is to be done? @HenryIIMiller @PacificResearch

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  Photo:St. Louis Red Cross Motor Corps on duty during influenza epidemic (1918). Original from Library of Congress.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowWhat is a superspreader & What is to be done? @HenryIIMiller @PacificResearchhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/08/25/boston-coronavirus-superspreading-event/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-superspreading-events-cause-flare-ups-covid-19-180975588/ ...more

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• 375: The extreme risks of touching and grabbing Bennu.Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Aug 30 2020

  Photo: NASA JPL http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe extreme risks of touching and grabbing Bennu.Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/what-osiris-rex-will-grab-from-the-asteroid-bennu-in-october/4

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• 375: Canada tries to hold back the gold rush to space mining. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Photo:433 Eros is a stony asteroid in a near-Earth orbit NASA/NEAR Project (JHU/APL). - http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/image/near_20000214_mos2.jpg from http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/mission/near/near_eros_2.html This picture of Eros, taken on February 14, 2001, shows the view looking from one end of the asteroid across the gouge on its underside and toward the opposite end. In this mosaic, constructed from two images taken after the NEAR spacecraft was inserted into orbit, features as small as 120 feet (35 meters) across can be seen. House-sized boulders are present in several places; one lies on the edge of the giant crater separating the two ends of the asteroid. A bright patch is visible on the asteroid in the top left-hand part of this image, and shallow troughs can be see just below this patch. The troughs run parallel to the asteroid's long dimension. (Mosaic of images 0125971425, 0125971487) Permission details This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was solely created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". (See Template:PD-USGov, NASA copyright policy page or JPL Image Use Policy.) Warnings: Use of NASA logos, insignia and emblems is restricted per U.S. law 14 CFR 1221. The NASA website hosts a large number of images from the Soviet/Russian space agency, and other non-American space agencies. These are not necessarily in the public domain. Materials based on Hubble Space Telescope data may be copyrighted if they are not explicitly produced by the STScI.[1] See also {{PD-Hubble}} and {{Cc-Hubble}}. The SOHO (ESA & NASA) joint project implies that all materials created by its probe are copyrighted and require permission for commercial non-educational use. [2] Images featured on the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) web site may be copyrighted. [3] The National Space Science Data Center(NSSDC) site has been known to host copyrighted content. Its photo gallery FAQ states that all of the images in the photo gallery are in the public domain "Unless otherwise noted."View more Public Domainview terms File:433eros.jpg  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowCanada tres to hold back the gold rush to space mining. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/?s=Canada ...more

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• 374: 8/8 War of Two: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Duel that Stunned the Nation, by John Sedgwick

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  Image: This July 25, 1804, article reflected extreme lamentation over Hamilton's death, and described the plan for his funeral procession and other tributes, including a 30-day wearing of a commemorative black armband ("crape") by members of the Society of the Cincinnati of Pennsylvania of which Hamilton had been President General.War of Two: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Duel that Stunned the Nation, by John Sedgwick .  Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/War-Two-Alexander-Hamilton-Stunned/dp/B016QQ67JE/ref=tmmaudswatch0?encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= A provocative and penetrating investigation into the rivalry between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, whose infamous duel left the Founding Father dead and turned a sitting Vice President into a fugitive. In the summer of 1804, two of America’s most eminent statesmen squared off, pistols raised, on a bluff along the Hudson River. Why would two such men risk not only their lives but the stability of the young country they helped forge?  In War of Two, John Sedgwick explores the long-standing conflict between the Founding Father Alexander Hamilton and Vice President Aaron Burr. Matching each other’s ambition and skill as lawyers in New York, they later battled for power along political fault lines that would decide—and define—the future of the United States.  A series of letters between Burr and Hamilton suggests the duel was fought over an unflattering comment made at a dinner party. But another letter, written by Hamilton the night before the event, provides critical insight into his true motivation. It was addressed to a former Speaker of the House, Theodore Sedgwick, a trusted friend of both men and the author’s own ancestor.  John Sedgwick suggests that Hamilton saw Burr not merely as a personal rival but as a threat to the nation. It was a fear that would prove justified after Hamilton’s death.   ...more

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• 374: 7/8 War of Two: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Duel that Stunned the Nation, by John Sedgwick

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  Image:  Drawing (c. 1902) of the Burr–Hamilton duel, from a painting by J. MundWar of Two: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Duel that Stunned the Nation, by John Sedgwick .  Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/War-Two-Alexander-Hamilton-Stunned/dp/B016QQ67JE/ref=tmmaudswatch0?encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= A provocative and penetrating investigation into the rivalry between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, whose infamous duel left the Founding Father dead and turned a sitting Vice President into a fugitive. In the summer of 1804, two of America’s most eminent statesmen squared off, pistols raised, on a bluff along the Hudson River. Why would two such men risk not only their lives but the stability of the young country they helped forge?  In War of Two, John Sedgwick explores the long-standing conflict between the Founding Father Alexander Hamilton and Vice President Aaron Burr. Matching each other’s ambition and skill as lawyers in New York, they later battled for power along political fault lines that would decide—and define—the future of the United States.  A series of letters between Burr and Hamilton suggests the duel was fought over an unflattering comment made at a dinner party. But another letter, written by Hamilton the night before the event, provides critical insight into his true motivation. It was addressed to a former Speaker of the House, Theodore Sedgwick, a trusted friend of both men and the author’s own ancestor.  John Sedgwick suggests that Hamilton saw Burr not merely as a personal rival but as a threat to the nation. It was a fear that would prove justified after Hamilton’s death. ...more

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• 374: 6/8 War of Two: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Duel that Stunned the Nation, by John Sedgwick

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  Image: Bust of Aaron Burr as Vice PresidentWar of Two: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Duel that Stunned the Nation, by John Sedgwick .  Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/War-Two-Alexander-Hamilton-Stunned/dp/B016QQ67JE/ref=tmmaudswatch0?encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= A provocative and penetrating investigation into the rivalry between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, whose infamous duel left the Founding Father dead and turned a sitting Vice President into a fugitive. In the summer of 1804, two of America’s most eminent statesmen squared off, pistols raised, on a bluff along the Hudson River. Why would two such men risk not only their lives but the stability of the young country they helped forge?  In War of Two, John Sedgwick explores the long-standing conflict between the Founding Father Alexander Hamilton and Vice President Aaron Burr. Matching each other’s ambition and skill as lawyers in New York, they later battled for power along political fault lines that would decide—and define—the future of the United States.  A series of letters between Burr and Hamilton suggests the duel was fought over an unflattering comment made at a dinner party. But another letter, written by Hamilton the night before the event, provides critical insight into his true motivation. It was addressed to a former Speaker of the House, Theodore Sedgwick, a trusted friend of both men and the author’s own ancestor.  John Sedgwick suggests that Hamilton saw Burr not merely as a personal rival but as a threat to the nation. It was a fear that would prove justified after Hamilton’s death.         ...more

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• 373: 5/8 War of Two: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Duel that Stunned the Nation, by John Sedgwick

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  Image:  The Hamilton statue in Central ParkWar of Two: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Duel that Stunned the Nation, by John Sedgwick .  Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/War-Two-Alexander-Hamilton-Stunned/dp/B016QQ67JE/ref=tmmaudswatch0?encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= A provocative and penetrating investigation into the rivalry between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, whose infamous duel left the Founding Father dead and turned a sitting Vice President into a fugitive. In the summer of 1804, two of America’s most eminent statesmen squared off, pistols raised, on a bluff along the Hudson River. Why would two such men risk not only their lives but the stability of the young country they helped forge?  In War of Two, John Sedgwick explores the long-standing conflict between the Founding Father Alexander Hamilton and Vice President Aaron Burr. Matching each other’s ambition and skill as lawyers in New York, they later battled for power along political fault lines that would decide—and define—the future of the United States.  A series of letters between Burr and Hamilton suggests the duel was fought over an unflattering comment made at a dinner party. But another letter, written by Hamilton the night before the event, provides critical insight into his true motivation. It was addressed to a former Speaker of the House, Theodore Sedgwick, a trusted friend of both men and the author’s own ancestor.  John Sedgwick suggests that Hamilton saw Burr not merely as a personal rival but as a threat to the nation. It was a fear that would prove justified after Hamilton’s death. ...more

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• 372: 4/8 War of Two: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Duel that Stunned the Nation, by John Sedgwick

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  Image: Aaron Burr, Hamilton and Philip Schuyler strolling on Wall Street, New York, 1790War of Two: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Duel that Stunned the Nation, by John Sedgwick .  Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/War-Two-Alexander-Hamilton-Stunned/dp/B016QQ67JE/ref=tmmaudswatch0?encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= A provocative and penetrating investigation into the rivalry between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, whose infamous duel left the Founding Father dead and turned a sitting Vice President into a fugitive. In the summer of 1804, two of America’s most eminent statesmen squared off, pistols raised, on a bluff along the Hudson River. Why would two such men risk not only their lives but the stability of the young country they helped forge?  In War of Two, John Sedgwick explores the long-standing conflict between the Founding Father Alexander Hamilton and Vice President Aaron Burr. Matching each other’s ambition and skill as lawyers in New York, they later battled for power along political fault lines that would decide—and define—the future of the United States.  A series of letters between Burr and Hamilton suggests the duel was fought over an unflattering comment made at a dinner party. But another letter, written by Hamilton the night before the event, provides critical insight into his true motivation. It was addressed to a former Speaker of the House, Theodore Sedgwick, a trusted friend of both men and the author’s own ancestor.  John Sedgwick suggests that Hamilton saw Burr not merely as a personal rival but as a threat to the nation. It was a fear that would prove justified after Hamilton’s death. ...more

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• 372: 3/8 War of Two: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Duel that Stunned the Nation, by John Sedgwick

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  Image: Miniature of Hamilton attributed to Charles Shirreff, c. 1790

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• 372: 2/8 War of Two: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Duel that Stunned the Nation, by John Sedgwick

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  Image:   Burr's maternal grandfather, Jonathan EdwardsWar of Two: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Duel that Stunned the Nation, by John Sedgwick .  Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/War-Two-Alexander-Hamilton-Stunned/dp/B016QQ67JE/ref=tmmaudswatch0?encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= A provocative and penetrating investigation into the rivalry between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, whose infamous duel left the Founding Father dead and turned a sitting Vice President into a fugitive. In the summer of 1804, two of America’s most eminent statesmen squared off, pistols raised, on a bluff along the Hudson River. Why would two such men risk not only their lives but the stability of the young country they helped forge?  In War of Two, John Sedgwick explores the long-standing conflict between the Founding Father Alexander Hamilton and Vice President Aaron Burr. Matching each other’s ambition and skill as lawyers in New York, they later battled for power along political fault lines that would decide—and define—the future of the United States.  A series of letters between Burr and Hamilton suggests the duel was fought over an unflattering comment made at a dinner party. But another letter, written by Hamilton the night before the event, provides critical insight into his true motivation. It was addressed to a former Speaker of the House, Theodore Sedgwick, a trusted friend of both men and the author’s own ancestor.  John Sedgwick suggests that Hamilton saw Burr not merely as a personal rival but as a threat to the nation. It was a fear that would prove justified after Hamilton’s death. ...more

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• 372: 1/8 War of Two: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Duel that Stunned the Nation, by John Sedgwick

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  Image:  Hamilton in his youthWar of Two: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Duel that Stunned the Nation, by John Sedgwick .  Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/War-Two-Alexander-Hamilton-Stunned/dp/B016QQ67JE/ref=tmmaudswatch0?encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= A provocative and penetrating investigation into the rivalry between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, whose infamous duel left the Founding Father dead and turned a sitting Vice President into a fugitive. In the summer of 1804, two of America’s most eminent statesmen squared off, pistols raised, on a bluff along the Hudson River. Why would two such men risk not only their lives but the stability of the young country they helped forge?  In War of Two, John Sedgwick explores the long-standing conflict between the Founding Father Alexander Hamilton and Vice President Aaron Burr. Matching each other’s ambition and skill as lawyers in New York, they later battled for power along political fault lines that would decide—and define—the future of the United States.  A series of letters between Burr and Hamilton suggests the duel was fought over an unflattering comment made at a dinner party. But another letter, written by Hamilton the night before the event, provides critical insight into his true motivation. It was addressed to a former Speaker of the House, Theodore Sedgwick, a trusted friend of both men and the author’s own ancestor.  John Sedgwick suggests that Hamilton saw Burr not merely as a personal rival but as a threat to the nation. It was a fear that would prove justified after Hamilton’s death. ...more

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• 372: #NewAmericanCivilWar: 2of2: Is this an existential battle for the Biden Blue? Michael Vlahos. Johns Hopkins, @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Photo: An 14th-century illustration of the execution of Mani Unknown author - Tehran Museum of contemporary art Смерть Мани._Шахнаме Демотта. 1315. Музей Ризы Аббаси. Public Domain File:Shahname - Mani death (cropped).jpg Created: 1 January 1315  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow #NewAmericanCivilWar: 2of2: Is this an existential battle for the Biden Blue?  Michael Vlahos. Johns Hopkins, @JHUWorldCrisishttps://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/08/joe-biden-speech-2020-democratic-national-convention ...more

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• 372: #NewAmericanCivilWar: 1of2: The Manichean Heresy: Ally of the Light vs the Prince of Darkness. Michael Vlahos. Johns Hopkins, @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Photo: Manichaean priests, writing at their desks. Eighth or ninth century manuscript from Gaochang, Tarim Basin, China.Unknown author - The original description page was here. All following user names refer to en.wikipedia. Leaf from a Manichaean Book. Khocho, Ruin K. 8th/9th century AD. Painting on paper. 17.2x 11.2 cm. “MIK III 6368” recto. Permission details This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 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: View more Public Domainview terms File:Manicheans.jpg Created: 1 May 2006  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow#NewAmericanCivilWar: 1of2: The Manichean Heresy: Ally of the Light vs the Prince of Darkness. Michael Vlahos. Johns Hopkins, @JHUWorldCrisishttps://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/08/joe-biden-speech-2020-democratic-national-convention ...more

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• 371: Senator Harris is descended from the hereditary Hindu priesthood called the Tamil Brahmins. Sadanand @Dhume @WSJOpinion

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  Aug 29 2020

  Photo:English: Hindu Temple in Trichinopoly in the 1860sDate | 1860s Source | http://www.oldindianphotos.in/2011_11_04_archive.htmlAuthor | Unknown author http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowSenator Harris is descended from the hereditary Hindu priesthood called the Tamil Brahmins. Sadanand @Dhume @WSJOpinionhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/what-kamala-harris-isnt-saying-about-her-mothers-background-11597944590?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTURNd01qWmxPVGhrWWpSaiIsInQiOiJcL1NqSTlHdnNqdFNoTUs4M1ZROWJxRkVSbUo2TE5YM0VPWjhyakpqOHoySTNINWJLenluNVlnSTlNYjJ0aGJvNkNQaGdJaiszUVQyNFVWaTRrRGNENHpoM2piN0Z5UzVuZUZpdXFPSGFXRktibGxaMVBZT0lYalMrR29ERWJCNlUifQ%3D%3D ...more

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