The John Batchelor Show

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• American Airbnb promotes BDS in Israel & What is to be done?. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Dec 14 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: Title: Road to Jericho, Jordan, etc. Distant view of St. George's Convent Abstract/medium: G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection Physical description: 1 negative : Date 1900 Source Library of Congress Catalog: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/matpc/item/mpc2005008748/PP Original url: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/matpc.12323 Author Matson Collection Permission (Reusing this file)  No known restrictions on publication. US-LibraryOfCongress-BookLogo.svg This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID matpc.12323. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow American Airbnb promotes BDS in Israel & What is to be done?. Malcolm Hoenlein @Confofpres...more

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• PRC retaliation for Meng's detention puts all official Americans in China at risk. @MichaelAuslin @HooverInst

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  Dec 14 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Dalai Lama, Calcutta, 1910 from the George Ernest Morrison collection / photograph by Johnston & Hoffmann, Calcutta  Taken on December 8, 2009  No known copyright restrictions Note: George Ernest Morrison, 1862-1920, doctor of medicine, traveller and journalist, became resident correspondent of 'The Times' at Peking in 1897 and political adviser to the President of China (Yuan Shih-k'ai), 1912-1920. His collection shows China in 1910 and includes photographs of the Boxer Rebellion Format: Photograph  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow PRC retaliation for Meng's detention puts all official Americans in China at risk. @MichaelAuslin @HooverInst...more

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• Promoter Richard Branson is ten years late to Sub-orbital flight. @PappalardoJoe @PopMech

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  Dec 14 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Promoter Richard Branson is ten years late to Sub-orbital flight. @PappalardoJoe @PopMech

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• @SebGorka: The Trump administration makes Xi Jinping panic over the Vancouver detention of Meng.

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  Dec 14 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Vancouver Station and grounds. Date 1920s Source Library and Archives Canada Library and Archives Canada.JPG This image is available from Library and Archives Canada under the MIKAN ID number 3349021 This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information.  Library and Archives Canada does not allow free use of its copyrighted works. See Category:Images from Library and Archives Canada. Flag of Canada.svg Author Canada. Dept. of National Defence / Library and Archives Canada / PA-067486 Permission (Reusing this file)  Public domain This Canadian work is in the public domain in Canada because its copyright has expired due to one of the following: 1. it was subject to Crown copyright and was first published more than 50 years ago, or it was not subject to Crown copyright, and 2. it is a photograph that was created prior to January 1, 1949, or 3. the creator died more than 50 years ago.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow @SebGorka: The Trump administration makes Xi Jinping panic over the Vancouver detention of Meng....more

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• @SebGorka: Did the FBI entrap National Security Adviser Michael Flynn on January 24, 2017 at the White House?

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  Dec 14 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: View of the White House conservatories. Collection of the Library of Congress. Date circa 1900 Source  US-LibraryOfCongress-BookLogo.svg This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ds.01814. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow @SebGorka: Did the FBI entrap National Security Adviser Michael Flynn on January 24, 2017 at the White House?...more

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• Peace talk for the failed state of Yemen & What is to be done? Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ElanaGulf @WashInstitute

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  Dec 14 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: 920 Date  Source http://alamree.net/ Author العمري Permission (Reusing this file)  Public domain This image was created in Yemen and is now in the public domain b) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Peace talk for the failed state of Yemen & What is to be done? Malcolm Hoenlein @Confofpres @ElanaGulf @WashInstitute

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• The Hezbollah Attack Tunnels & What is to be done? Tony Badran @FDD Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Dec 14 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: Title: Baalbek. Capitals in the ruins Abstract/medium: G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection Physical description: 1 negative : Date 1900 Source Library of Congress Catalog: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/matpc/item/mpc2004003826/PP Original url: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/matpc.05199 Author Matson Collection Permission (Reusing this file)  No known restrictions on publication. US-LibraryOfCongress-BookLogo.svg This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID matpc.05199.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Hezbollah Attack Tunnels & What is to be done? Tony Badran @FDD Malcolm Hoenlein @Confofpres         https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-u-s-rejects-israel-s-request-for-sanctions-on-lebanon-over-hezbollah-tunnels-1.6741125 · https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/277051/netanyahu-lebanon-hezbollah · https://www.cfr.org/blog/unifil-and-hezbollah-tunnels...more

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• The fate of one whistleblower at the troubled VA. @FRoseDC

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  Dec 14 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Dayton Ohio  Rosenthal, James W., creator - https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/oh1965.photos.574829p Permission details This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, such work is in the public domain in the United States. See the NPS website and NPS copyright policy for more information.View more Public Domainview terms File:Perspective view from west - National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Central Branch, Protestant Chapel, 4100 West Third Street, Dayton, Montgomery County, OH HABS OH-2364-X-4.tif Created: 31 December 2007 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The fate of one whistleblower at the troubled VA. @FRoseDC https://www.stripes.com/news/whistleblower-who-says-he-was-forced-to-retire-as-va-surgeon-is-temporarily-reinstated-1.559260...more

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• NASA"s InSight Mission: 1 of 2: to discover the center of the Planet Mars. Bruce Banerdt, PI, InSight Mission. David Livingston, Spaceship.com

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  Dec 14 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:This is NASA InSight's first selfie on Mars. It displays the lander's solar panels and deck. On top of the deck are its science instruments, weather sensor booms and UHF antenna. The selfie was taken on Dec. 6, 2018 (Sol 10). Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow NASA"s InSight Mission: 1 of 2: to discover the center of the Planet Mars. Bruce Banerdt, PI, InSight Mission. David Livingston, Spaceship.com...more

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• NASA"s InSight Mission: 2 of 2: to discover the center of the Planet Mars. Bruce Banerdt, PI, InSight Mission. David Livingston, Spaceship.com

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  Dec 14 2018

  AUTHOR. (PhotoMission: InSight Target: Mars Spacecraft: InSight Mars Lander Instrument: Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC) Views: 75 Full-Res TIFF: PIA22874.tif Full-Res JPG: PIA22874.jpg Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow NASA"s InSight Mission: 2 of 2: to discover the center of the Planet Mars. Bruce Banerdt, PI, InSight Mission. David Livingston, Spaceship.com

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• The Caspian Sea Basin and pipeline politics to stabilize European energy demands. Lou Ann Hammond DrivingtheNation.com

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  Dec 14 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Illustration of two Caspian tigers, extinct in the region since the 1970s. Unknown - http://www.50birds.com/extan/gextanimals1.htm Turanian Tiger, Caspian Tiger Caspian Tigers lived in China, Tajikistan, Iran, Afghanistan and Turkey. They were hunted for their furs and to protect livestock. A ban on hunting the Caspian Tiger in the USSR in 1947 followed their greatest destruction in the 1930s. The last Caspian Tiger reported shot was in 1957. Public Domain File:Extantigerturanianwksciam97.jpg Created: All images on the site are at least PD-US.[1] ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Caspian Sea Basin and pipeline politics to stabilize European energy demands. Lou Ann Hammond DrivingtheNation.com...more

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• Beto, Biden and Bernie are the frontline of the Democratic hopefuls for 2020. @MonicaCrowley

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  Dec 14 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:El Paso, Texas in 1886. Bird's Eye View of El Paso, El Paso County Texas, 1886. Lithograph, 20 x 30 in. Lithographer unknown. Private Collection. Date 1886 Source http://www.birdseyeviews.org/zoom.php?city=El%20Paso&year=1886&extra_info= Author Augustus Koch (1840-?). Permission (Reusing this file)  Public domain  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 less. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Beto, Biden and Bernie are the frontline of the Democratic hopefuls for 2020. @MonicaCrowley...more

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• Pelosi fails the Trump reality TV talent test. @MonicaCrowley

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  Dec 14 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: A campaign sound truck belonging to 1940 Florida, USA, governor candidate Hans Walker, from a radio magazine. Sound trucks with public address systems were used in the US for political campaigning from the 1920s to the 1950s, driving through neighborhoods while playing recorded speeches by the candidate at a high volume. They are still used in Japan, Portugal, and other countries. Caption: Truck sound-equipped by Radio Nick, Orlando Florida, purchased by friends of the candidate. Original installation, operation, and maintenance are profit sources for the sound man. Speakers are University Labs. Alterations to image: Cropped out the magazine article title from white space. Date August 1940 Source Retrieved September 26, 2014 from Radio and Television Today, published by Caldwell-Clements Inc., New York, Vol. 6, No. 8, August 1940, p. 26 on American Radio History website Author Unknown Permission (Reusing this file)  This 1940 issue of Radio and Television Today magazine would have the copyright renewed in 1968. Online page scans of the Catalog of Copyright Entries, published by the US Copyright Office can be found here. [1] Search of the Renewals for Periodicals for 1967, 1968, and 1969 show no renewal entries for Radio and Television Today. Therefore the magazine's copyright was not renewed and it is in the public domain. Licensing[edit] Public domain This work is in the public domain ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Pelosi fails the Trump reality TV talent test. @MonicaCrowley...more

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• @BernieandSid and I chat Mets & Realmuto, Yankees & Kluber, Tehran & Obama, Macron & "the little people," the World Championship Ring (or death) & Brian Cashman.

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  Dec 13 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: Yankee Stadium in 1927, unknown date. Original image caption: "Yankees make it three straight by taking first game in New York: score 8 to 1. General view of game looking towards the diamond from the grandstand." Date Digital Item Published : 2004-10-14; updated 2010-06-25 Source http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?405503 Author Underwood & Underwood -- Photographer Permission (Reusing this file)  Public domain  This work is in the public domain ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow @BernieandSid and I chat Mets & Realmuto, Yankees & Kluber, Tehran & Obama, Macron &  "the little people," the World Championship Ring (or death) & Brian Cashman....more

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• Charles Burton (@cburton001): Huawei’s CFO could face life in a US prison. Her info on Huawei’s relations with Chinese intell could affect China’s abilities to use large state firms to further China’s geostrategic knowledge and espionage. @GordonGChang

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  Dec 13 2018

  Photo:tton Co. Limited." Post Card. The North Vancouver Ferry dock on Vancouver's waterfront at the foot of Columbia Street circa-1920. Prior to the opening of the Lions' Gate Bridge in 1939, this was the fastest way to reach the North Shore. The service ceased in 1958. The Grand Trunk Pacific terminal and dock (later the Canadian National Steamship dock, 1931) is seen on the right. beaumontneal faved this Rob 4y North Vancouver Ferry Dock, 1936 by blizzy63 1,123 views 1 fave 1 comment Uploaded on December 24, 2014  Public domain Permissions: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact . . . . . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules . . . . Twitter: @BatchelorShow Charles Burton (@cburton001): Huawei’s CFO, Meng Wanzhou, daughter of the founder (a PLA general) and a Chinese corporate princess, remains in custody in Vancouver, not allowed to leave the city and must wear her ankle bracelet. What's China doing in reprisal threats? One Canadian is being tortured, another is being detained. She could be facing life in a US prison. What if she decided to seek leniency and provided the US govt with clear information about the relations of Huawaei with the Chinese intelligence apparatus? That could seriously affect China’s abilities to use large state firms to further China’s geostrategic knowledge and espionage. . . ....more

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• Early days with Beto, Biden and Bernie in the MoveOn.org beauty contest lead after No preference. @LaraMBrownPHD @SalenaZito

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  Dec 13 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: A young Bryan Obtained from the online portrait gallery of the University of Texas at Austin [1]. Photograph of William Jennings Bryan as a young man. Permission details PD-US.View more Public Domainview terms File:William Jennings Bryan 2.jpg Uploaded: 12 August 2010) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Early days with Beto, Biden and Bernie in the MoveOn.org beauty contest lead after No preference. @LaraMBrownPHD @SalenaZito...more

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• No-Deal-Brexiters take the lead over Hardline Leavers and Softish Brexiters. @BrettArends

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  Dec 13 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: The Channel fleet in heavy weather oil on canvas 101 x 167 cm signed b.r.: J.W.Carmichael / 1852 Date 1852 Source Sotheby's Author  James Wilson Carmichael (1800–1868) Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q4215366 Licensing[edit] Public domain  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 less. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow No-Deal-Brexiters take the lead over Hardline Leavers and Softish Brexiters. @BrettArends...more

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• Huawei is a PLA spying and destabilizing tool. Rick Fisher, International Assessment and Strategy Center. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Dec 13 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: Old China street in Canton, 1856. Date 1856 Source http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/risefallcanton04/galleryplaces/pages/cwC1856HeineOCStBOOKING JBS (please confirm you see this and respond, thanks).htm Author  Wilhelm Heine (1827–1885) Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q1618070 Licensing[edit] 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: Public domain  This work is in the public domain  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Huawei is a PLA spying and destabilizing tool. Rick Fisher, International Assessment and Strategy Center. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast...more

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• General Quarters: PRC threatens to ram the US Navy in the Taiwan Strait. James Holmes, first holder of the Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College and blogger at The Naval Diplomat (https://navaldiplomat.com/)

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  Dec 13 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:A Roman naval bireme depicted in a relief from the Temple of Fortuna Primigenia in Praeneste (Palastrina),[22] which was built c. 120 BC;[23] exhibited in the Pius-Clementine Museum (Museo Pio-Clementino) in the Vatican Museums. Élisée Reclus - Extrait de "L’Homme et la Terre" A Roman naval bireme depicted in a relief from the Temple of Fortuna Primigenia in Praeneste, which was built c. 120 BC. Exhibited in the Pius-Clementine Museum (Museo Pio-Clementino) in the Vatican Museums. Source: D.B. Saddington (2011) [2007]. "the Evolution of the Roman Imperial Fleets," in Paul Erdkamp (ed), A Companion to the Roman Army, 201-217. Malden, Oxford, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4051-2153-8. Plate 12.2 on p. 204. For the construction of the Temple of Fortuna Primigenia, see Coarelli, Filippo (1987), I Santuari del Lazio in età repubblicana. NIS, Rome, pp 35-84. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow General Quarters: PRC threatens to ram the US Navy in the Taiwan Strait. James Holmes, first holder of the Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College and blogger at The Naval Diplomat (https://navaldiplomat.com/) https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3592985...more

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• @StephenMoore: China has violated every WTO trade rule. The US has been losing $300 Billion a year. It's difficult to get the Chinese to keep their world; they’re slippery: one day they say one thing, the next day, another. @GordonGChang

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  Dec 13 2018

  Photo: Permissions: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact . . . . . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules . . . . . Twitter: @BatchelorShow  StephenMoore, Heritage Fdn & author, Trumponomics; in re: US soybeans to China. Is the Chinese Communist Party blinking rapidly? This is good news for Donald Trump and for US soybean farmers. This is a high-stakes game. We're dealing with a country that’s been very abusive to the US in trade practices. The stock market has been herky-jerky because everyone is waiting to see the denouement. I saw the president yesterday; he was upbeat. He wants to bring the trade deficit down, and—they have to buy more of our soybeans and petroleum products. China has done a lot illegally, violated every WTO trade rule. Trump will demand they buy substantially more American products and wants real progress in the matter of the theft of our intellectual property — and to pay us. We estimate that the US has been losing $300 Billion a year. It's very difficult to get the Chinese to keep their world – they’re slippery: one day they say one thing, the next day, another....more

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• @DrTara O: @PacificForum and ICAS; author of The Collapse of North Korea; Air Force veteran, discusses: Will Kim (the undistinguished tyrant of a failed state) visit Seoul before the end of this year?

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  Dec 13 2018

  Photo: Permissions: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact . . . . . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules . . . .  Twitter: @BatchelorShow @GordonGChang Tara O (@DrTaraO). Adjunct Fellow @PacificForum and ICAS. Author of The Collapse of North Korea. Air Force veteran; in re: Will Kim (the undistinguished tyrant of a failed state) visit Seoul before the end of this year? They trickle out a little informati0n at a time, probably to test public opinion. The Blue House sends out both possibilities; wants positive energy in the newspapers....more

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• @AlanTonelson: (What’s Left of) Our Economy: More Evidence of the Crucial U.S. Role in China’s Tech Rise

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  Dec 13 2018

  Alan Tonelson, independent economic policy analyst who blogs at RealityChek and tweets at @AlanTonelson, on the latest on trade. (What’s Left of) Our Economy: More Evidence of the Crucial U.S. Role in China’s Tech Rise If you need any further evidence that American technology firms have played vital roles in China’s transformation into a major technology power capable of threatening U.S. national security as well as economic interests, check out Dan Strumpf’s article in The Wall Street Journal today. In the process, he inevitably exposes gaping holes in President Trump’s China strategy that need to be closed up pronto if the President is serious about checking China’s dangerous rise.  . . . https://alantonelson.wordpress.com/2018/12/09/whats-left-of-our-economy-more-evidence-of-the-crucial-u-s-role-in-chinas-tech-rise/...more

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• Young Benjamin Franklin: 1 of 4: The Birth of Ingenuity 1st Ediion by Nick Bunker (Author)

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  Dec 13 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Penn's Treaty with the Lenape, from US Capitol Rotunda View author information Public Domain File:Penn capitol frieze.jpg Uploaded: 26 October 2005) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Young Benjamin Franklin: 1 of 4: The Birth of Ingenuity 1st Ediion by Nick Bunker (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Young-Benjamin-Franklin-Birth-Ingenuity/dp/1101874414 In this new account of Franklin's early life, Pulitzer finalist Nick Bunker portrays him as a complex, driven young man who elbows his way to success. From his early career as a printer and journalist, to his scientific work and his role as a founder of a new republic, Benjamin Franklin has always seemed the inevitable embodiment of American ingenuity. But in his youth he had to make his way through a harsh colonial world where he fought many battles: with his rivals, but also with his wayward emotions. Taking Franklin to the age of forty-one, when he made his first electrical discoveries, Bunker goes behind the legend to reveal the sources of his passion for knowledge. Always trying to balance virtue against ambition, Franklin emerges as a brilliant but flawed human being, made from the conflicts of an age of slavery as well as reason. With archival material from both sides of the Atlantic, we see Franklin in Boston, London, and Philadelphia, as he develops his formula for greatness. A tale of science, politics, war, and religion, this is also a story about Franklin's forebears: the talented family of English craftsmen who produced America's favorite genius....more

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• Young Benjamin Franklin: 2 of 4: The Birth of Ingenuity 1st Ediion by Nick Bunker (Author)

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  Dec 13 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Benjamin Franklin (center) at work on a printing press. Reproduction of a Charles Mills painting by the Detroit Publishing Company. Charles E. Mills - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3g07217. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. Reproduction of a Charles Mills painting by the Detroit Publishing Company. Depicts W:Benjamin Franklin at work on a printing press. Public Domain File:Franklin the printer.jpg Created: circa 1914 date QS:P,+1914-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Young Benjamin Franklin: 2 of 4: The Birth of Ingenuity 1st Ediion by Nick Bunker (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Young-Benjamin-Franklin-Birth-Ingenuity/dp/1101874414 In this new account of Franklin's early life, Pulitzer finalist Nick Bunker portrays him as a complex, driven young man who elbows his way to success. From his early career as a printer and journalist, to his scientific work and his role as a founder of a new republic, Benjamin Franklin has always seemed the inevitable embodiment of American ingenuity. But in his youth he had to make his way through a harsh colonial world where he fought many battles: with his rivals, but also with his wayward emotions. Taking Franklin to the age of forty-one, when he made his first electrical discoveries, Bunker goes behind the legend to reveal the sources of his passion for knowledge. Always trying to balance virtue against ambition, Franklin emerges as a brilliant but flawed human being, made from the conflicts of an age of slavery as well as reason. With archival material from both sides of the Atlantic, we see Franklin in Boston, London, and Philadelphia, as he develops his formula for greatness. A tale of science, politics, war, and religion, this is also a story about Franklin's forebears: the talented family of English craftsmen who produced America's favorite genius....more

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• Young Benjamin Franklin: 3 of 4: The Birth of Ingenuity 1st Ediion by Nick Bunker (Author)

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  Dec 13 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Franklin's The General Magazine and Historical Chronicle (Jan. 1741) B. Franklin - "The Cooper Collections" (Scanned by the uploader) "The General Magazine and Historical Chronicle for all the British Plantations in America", Vol. 1, January, 1741 Philadelphia, Printed and Sold by B. Franklin Public Domain File:The General Magazine and Historical Chronicle Vol 1, January, 1741.jpg Created: 31 December 1740) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Young Benjamin Franklin: 3 of 4: The Birth of Ingenuity 1st Ediion by Nick Bunker (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Young-Benjamin-Franklin-Birth-Ingenuity/dp/1101874414 In this new account of Franklin's early life, Pulitzer finalist Nick Bunker portrays him as a complex, driven young man who elbows his way to success. From his early career as a printer and journalist, to his scientific work and his role as a founder of a new republic, Benjamin Franklin has always seemed the inevitable embodiment of American ingenuity. But in his youth he had to make his way through a harsh colonial world where he fought many battles: with his rivals, but also with his wayward emotions. Taking Franklin to the age of forty-one, when he made his first electrical discoveries, Bunker goes behind the legend to reveal the sources of his passion for knowledge. Always trying to balance virtue against ambition, Franklin emerges as a brilliant but flawed human being, made from the conflicts of an age of slavery as well as reason. With archival material from both sides of the Atlantic, we see Franklin in Boston, London, and Philadelphia, as he develops his formula for greatness. A tale of science, politics, war, and religion, this is also a story about Franklin's forebears: the talented family of English craftsmen who produced America's favorite genius....more

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• Young Benjamin Franklin: 4 of 4: The Birth of Ingenuity 1st Ediion by Nick Bunker (Author)

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  Dec 13 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: More details Franklin and Electricity vignette engraved by the BEP (c. 1860) Alfred Jones, for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing - Restoration by Godot13 Bureau of Engraving and Printing engraved vignette Franklin and Electricity. The vignette appears on the left obverse of the $10 National Bank Note. Engraving by Alfred Jones. Scanned from an original impression, part of a Treasury Department presentation album of portraits and vignettes (c. 1902), possibly presented to Lyman Gage. (Epson 10000XL scanner @2400dpi). Public Domain File:BEP-JONES-Franklin and Electricity.jpg Created: 28 May 2014 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Young Benjamin Franklin: 4 of 4: The Birth of Ingenuity 1st Ediion by Nick Bunker (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Young-Benjamin-Franklin-Birth-Ingenuity/dp/1101874414 In this new account of Franklin's early life, Pulitzer finalist Nick Bunker portrays him as a complex, driven young man who elbows his way to success. From his early career as a printer and journalist, to his scientific work and his role as a founder of a new republic, Benjamin Franklin has always seemed the inevitable embodiment of American ingenuity. But in his youth he had to make his way through a harsh colonial world where he fought many battles: with his rivals, but also with his wayward emotions. Taking Franklin to the age of forty-one, when he made his first electrical discoveries, Bunker goes behind the legend to reveal the sources of his passion for knowledge. Always trying to balance virtue against ambition, Franklin emerges as a brilliant but flawed human being, made from the conflicts of an age of slavery as well as reason. With archival material from both sides of the Atlantic, we see Franklin in Boston, London, and Philadelphia, as he develops his formula for greatness. A tale of science, politics, war, and religion, this is also a story about Franklin's forebears: the talented family of English craftsmen who produced America's favorite genius....more

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• 1/4 Beirut Rules: The Murder of a CIA Station Chief & Hezbollah's War Against America, by Fred Burton & Samuel Katz "An intense, incredibly well-written tale of terrorism, treachery & tradecraft. Absolute must-read!” -Brad Thor, #1 bestselling author

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  AUTHOR. (PhotoBeirut - Chancery Office Building - 0 file_downloadDOWNLOAD save_alt Thumbnail 200x200 save_alt Small 640x452 save_alt Medium 1024x724 save_alt Large 1600x1131 save_alt Original 3000x2121 crop_originalORDER PRINT description Summary The original finding aid described this item as: Caption: Construction Property Number: X 1001 Photographs Related to Embassies, Consulates, and Other Overseas Buildings label_outline Tags beirutchancerychancery officeus embassy officesus embassyoffice buildingschancery office building date_range Date 1945 - 2006 create Source The U.S. National Archives link Link https://catalog.archives.gov/ copyright Rights advisory Public Domain: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow From the New York Times bestselling coauthors of Under Fire–the riveting story of the kidnapping and murder of CIA Station Chief William Buckley. After a deadly terrorist bombing at the American embassy in Lebanon in 1983, only one man inside the CIA possessed the courage and skills to rebuild the networks destroyed in the blast: William Buckley. But the new Beirut station chief quickly became the target of a young terrorist named Imad Mughniyeh. Beirut Rules is the pulse-by-pulse account of Buckley’s abduction, torture, and murder at the hands of Hezbollah terrorists. Drawing on never-before-seen government documents as well as interviews with Buckley’s co-workers, friends and family, Burton and Katz reveal how the relentless search for Buckley in the wake of his kidnapping ignited a war against terror that continues to shape the Middle East to this day....more

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• 2/4 Beirut Rules: The Murder of a CIA Station Chief & Hezbollah's War Against America, by Fred Burton & Samuel Katz "An intense, incredibly well-written tale of terrorism, treachery & tradecraft. Absolute must-read!” -Brad Thor, #1 bestselling author

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  Photo:Library of Congress link Link http://www.loc.gov/ copyright Rights advisory Public Domain Permissions: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact …. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules ….. Twitter: @BatchelorShow From the New York Times bestselling coauthors of Under Fire–the riveting story of the kidnapping and murder of CIA Station Chief William Buckley. After a deadly terrorist bombing at the American embassy in Lebanon in 1983, only one man inside the CIA possessed the courage and skills to rebuild the networks destroyed in the blast: William Buckley. But the new Beirut station chief quickly became the target of a young terrorist named Imad Mughniyeh. Beirut Rules is the pulse-by-pulse account of Buckley’s abduction, torture, and murder at the hands of Hezbollah terrorists. Drawing on never-before-seen government documents as well as interviews with Buckley’s co-workers, friends and family, Burton and Katz reveal how the relentless search for Buckley in the wake of his kidnapping ignited a war against terror that continues to shape the Middle East to this day. .. .. .. .. . . .. .....more

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• 3/4 Beirut Rules: The Murder of a CIA Station Chief & Hezbollah's War Against America, by Fred Burton & Samuel Katz "An intense, incredibly well-written tale of terrorism, treachery & tradecraft. Absolute must-read!” -Brad Thor, #1 bestselling author

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  Photo:English: Title: Beirut. Street leading to Ras Beirut Abstract/medium: G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection Physical description: 1 negative : Date 1900 Source Library of Congress Catalog: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/matpc/item/mpc2004003849/PP Original url: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/matpc.05226 Author Matson Collection Permission (Reusing this file)  No known restrictions on publication. US-LibraryOfCongress-BookLogo.svg This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID matpc.05226. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright  Permissions: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact …. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules ….. Twitter: @BatchelorShow Fast-paced narrative account of events in the Middle East 35 years ago, the opening salvo in a war that continues to unfold. Burton and Katz (co-authors: Under Fire: The Untold Story of the Attack in Benghazi, 2013) open at a climactic moment: the kidnapping, in March 1984, of the CIA station chief in Beirut, William Francis Buckley. His Hezbollah captors tortured him for months before finally killing him. The authors focus sharply on key players and actors in the murder, which was but one act in an orchestrated campaign that played out on a stage marked by chaos. By their account, U.S. policy in the region was not well-articulated, and Reagan administration officials were divided over whether and how to support Israel in its actions against neighboring Lebanon and Syria, the former of which had emerged as a center of Iranian activity in the Middle East, the latter as “the Soviet Union’s chief client in the Arab world.” Buckley’s abduction closely followed a bomb attack on the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon, a second suicide bombing of a Marine Corps barracks, and other terrorist actions coordinated by Imad Mughniyeh, a senior Hezbollah officer who planned operations against the U.S. and Israel for decades before finally being killed by the CIA and Mossad. Mughniyeh, the authors make clear, was serving Iranian interests, and Iran’s activities in Lebanon amounted to an undeclared war against the U.S., “a rapid march of calculated measures defined by cold-blooded ruthlessness.” These matters have since been revisited many times over, most recently by the Trump administration’s resumption of sanctions against Iran, but they resound in haunting ways throughout these sometimes-redacted pages—for, after all, Buckley’s murder and the back-channel dealings that would soon become known as Iran-Contra are roughly contemporaneous events. As the authors suggest, it seems that only insiders sworn to secrecy knew “that the spies didn’t do enough to save William F. Buckley.” A sturdy tale of terror and counterterror that speaks to events that are happening even now. —KIRKUS REVIEW...more

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• 4/4 Beirut Rules: The Murder of a CIA Station Chief & Hezbollah's War Against America, by Fred Burton & Samuel Katz "An intense, incredibly well-written tale of terrorism, treachery & tradecraft. Absolute must-read!” -Brad Thor, #1 bestselling author

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  Photo:English: Title: Aerial panoramic view of Beirut] / Bonfils Abstract/medium: 2 photographic prints: albumen. Date 1867 Source Library of Congress Catalog: https://lccn.loc.gov/2004668095 Image download: https://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/ppmsca/04000/04095v.jpg Original url: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004668095/ Author Maison Bonfils (Beirut, Lebanon), photographer Permission (Reusing this file)  No known restrictions on publication in the U.S. Use elsewhere may be restricted by other countries' laws. For general information see "Copyright and Other Restrictions..." (https://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/195_copr.html) US-LibraryOfCongress-BookLogo.svg This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppmsca.04095. Permissions: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow On March 16, 1984, William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, was kidnapped by Hezbollah operatives just as he had left his apartment building at 6:45 am and started driving his car to his office at the United States embassy compound, a two-minute drive away. The two cars driven by the Hezbollah kidnappers quickly blocked Mr. Buckley’s car and their operatives overwhelmed him with their firearms and hurled him into one of their cars, driving him to their hidden place of captivity. Mr. Buckley had been in his position since June 1983, and contrary to standard security practice, he was not accompanied by an embassy-provided driver or bodyguard. Mr. Buckley reportedly died in Hezbollah captivity in June 1985, despite the numerous measures the United States had employed to attempt his rescue. Taking this high-profile kidnapping as its central focus, this book is a dramatic and engaging account of the American backchannel intelligence and military efforts to help restore order to Lebanon’s protracted Hobbesian civil war, with the Iranian- and Syrian-backed Hezbollah’s Shi’ite insurgency the primary antagonist....more

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• What does Vladimir Putin want? @JedBabbin, @AmericanSpectator.

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  AUTHOR. (PhotoEnglish: The autograph of Peter I of Russia also known as Peter the Great. Date 30 January 2011 Source Self-made, based on Image:Autograf, Peter den store, Nordisk familjebok.png Author Antonu SVG development  W3C icon.svg The source code of this SVG is invalid due to 2 errors. Unknown logo-I.svg This W3C-invalid vector image was created with an unknown SVG tool. Public domain This image was first published in the 1st (1876–1899), 2nd (1904–1926) or 3rd (1923–1937) edition of Nordisk familjebok. The copyrights for that book have expired and this image is in the public domain, because images had no named authors and the book was published more than 70 years ago. Logo för Nordisk familjeboks uggleupplaga.png Public domain This image (or other media file) is in the public domain : ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow What does Vladimir Putin want? @JedBabbin, @AmericanSpectator. Putin’s goals aren’t obvious but they can be derived from the sum of his choices of people to govern Russia, his personality and actions.  https://spectator.org/what-is-putins-game/...more

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• O-Rex closes with Asteroid Bennu. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow O-Rex closes with Asteroid Bennu.  Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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• Joe Rochefort's War: 2 of 2: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway by Elliot Carlson (Author)

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  AUTHOR. (PhotoAerial starboard side view of the U.S. Navy light cruiser USS Honolulu (CL-48) at Williamstown, Victoria (Australia), in early 1942. Note the two Bathurst-class corvettes fitting out at the pier beyond. The tug at the bottom right of the picture is the James Paterson, which was requisitioned by the RAN for minesweeping duties during the First World War. Date 1942 Source   This image is available from the Collection Database of the Australian War Memorial under the ID Number: 302626 This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. Български | English | Español | Français | हिन्दी | Македонски | Português | +/− Author Australian armed forces Permission (Reusing this file)  Image copyright: Copyright expired - public domain Other versions  frame cropped Licensing[edit] Public domain This image is of Australian origin and is now in the public domain : ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Joe Rochefort's War: 2 of 2: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway by Elliot Carlson (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Joe-Rocheforts-War-Codebreaker-Outwitted/dp/1591141613/ref=sr1fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1544565730&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=joe+midway+intelligence+pearl+harbor Elliot Carlson's award-winning biography of Capt. Joe Rochefort is the first to be written about the officer who headed Station Hypo, the U.S. Navy's signals monitoring and cryptographic intelligence unit at Pearl Harbor, and who broke the Japanese navy's code before the Battle of Midway. The book brings Rochefort to life as the irreverent, fiercely independent, and consequential officer that he was. Readers share his frustrations as he searches in vain for Yamamoto's fleet prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, but share his joy when he succeeds in tracking the fleet in early 1942 and breaks the code that leads Rochefort to believe Yamamoto's invasion target is Midway. His conclusions, bitterly opposed by some top Navy brass, are credited with making the U.S. victory possible and helping to change the course of the war. The author tells the story of how opponents in Washington forced Rochefort's removal from Station Hypo and denied him the Distinguished Service Medal recommended by Admiral Nimitz. In capturing the interplay of policy and personality and the role played by politics at the highest levels of the Navy, Carlson reveals a side of the intelligence community seldom seen by outsiders. For a full understanding of the man, Carlson examines Rochefort's love-hate relationship with cryptanalysis, his adventure-filled years in the 1930s as the right-hand man to the Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet, and his return to codebreaking in mid-1941 as the officer in charge of Station Hypo. He traces Rochefort's career from his enlistment in 1918 to his posting in Washington as head of the Navy's codebreaking desk at age twenty-five, and beyond. In many ways a reinterpretation of Rochefort, the book makes clear the key role his codebreaking played in the outcome of Midway and the legacy he left of reporting actionable intelligence directly to the fleet. An epilogue describes efforts waged by Rochefort's colleagues to obtain the medal denied him in 1942--a drive that finally paid off in 1986 when the medal was awarded posthumously....more

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• Joe Rochefort's War: 1 of 2: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway by Elliot Carlson (Author)

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Pearl Harbor, Oahu, view looking northward, with the Navy Yard industrial area in the foreground and the Marine Barracks in the lower right, 28 July 1942. Ford Island is at left, with USS Oklahoma (BB-37) and USS Arizona (BB-39) under salvage nearby. USS San Diego (CL-53) is in the upper center. USS West Virginia (BB-48) is in Drydock No. 1, in the lower left, and USS California (BB-44) is alongside the wharf at the extreme right. The cruisers alongside the pier in right center are USS Northampton (CA-26), left, and USS Peansacola (CA-24). The submarines alongside 1010 Dock, just beyond Drydock No. 1, are USS Trout (SS-202), USS Pollack (SS-180), USS Dolphin (SS-169) and USS Cachalot (SS-170). Note camouflage on many of the Navy Yard's buildings. Date 28 July 1942 Source Official U.S. Navy photo NH 84002 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Author U.S. Navy Licensing[edit] Public domain This file is a work of a sailor or employee of the U.S. Navy, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Joe Rochefort's War: 1 of 2: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway by Elliot Carlson (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Joe-Rocheforts-War-Codebreaker-Outwitted/dp/1591141613/ref=sr1fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1544565730&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=joe+midway+intelligence+pearl+harbor Elliot Carlson's award-winning biography of Capt. Joe Rochefort is the first to be written about the officer who headed Station Hypo, the U.S. Navy's signals monitoring and cryptographic intelligence unit at Pearl Harbor, and who broke the Japanese navy's code before the Battle of Midway. The book brings Rochefort to life as the irreverent, fiercely independent, and consequential officer that he was. Readers share his frustrations as he searches in vain for Yamamoto's fleet prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, but share his joy when he succeeds in tracking the fleet in early 1942 and breaks the code that leads Rochefort to believe Yamamoto's invasion target is Midway. His conclusions, bitterly opposed by some top Navy brass, are credited with making the U.S. victory possible and helping to change the course of the war. The author tells the story of how opponents in Washington forced Rochefort's removal from Station Hypo and denied him the Distinguished Service Medal recommended by Admiral Nimitz. In capturing the interplay of policy and personality and the role played by politics at the highest levels of the Navy, Carlson reveals a side of the intelligence community seldom seen by outsiders. For a full understanding of the man, Carlson examines Rochefort's love-hate relationship with cryptanalysis, his adventure-filled years in the 1930s as the right-hand man to the Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet, and his return to codebreaking in mid-1941 as the officer in charge of Station Hypo. He traces Rochefort's career from his enlistment in 1918 to his posting in Washington as head of the Navy's codebreaking desk at age twenty-five, and beyond. In many ways a reinterpretation of Rochefort, the book makes clear the key role his codebreaking played in the outcome of Midway and the legacy he left of reporting actionable intelligence directly to the fleet. An epilogue describes efforts waged by Rochefort's colleagues to obtain the medal denied him in 1942--a drive that finally paid off in 1986 when the medal was awarded posthumously....more

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• FBI Informant Felix Sater was childhood friends with Michael Cohen and brought Cohen into the Trump circle. Larry Johnson, Sic Temper Tyrannis.

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow FBI Informant Felix Sater was childhood friends with Michael Cohen and brought Cohen into the Trump circle. Larry Johnson, Sic Temper Tyrannis.

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• Carlos Ghosn jailed for Christmas and New Year. & What is to be done? Lou Ann Hammond, DrivingtehNation.com

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Carlos Ghosn jailed for Christmas and New Year. & What is to be done? Lou Ann Hammond, DrivingtehNation.com

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• Berlin rearranges politics to suit the Kremlin's NordStream 2 pipeline. @PaulR_Gregory @HooverInst

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Deutsch: Ostseeregion vom Weltall. Die roten Punkt markieren Brände. English: Satellite image of the Baltic Sea. Red dots mark the locations of fires burning in countries south and east of the Baltic Sea. Date 5 April 2004 Source https://www.visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=70636 → jpg Author  Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC Permission (Reusing this file)  Public domain This file is in the public domain in ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Berlin rearranges politics to suit the Kremlin's NordStream 2 pipeline.  @PaulR_Gregory @HooverInst https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/420537-putins-latest-ukraine-stunt-may-blow-up-in-his-face...more

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• Voyager2 departs the Solar System until the 24th Century. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Voyager2 departs the Solar System until the 24th Century. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com https://behindtheblack.com/?s=voyager+2

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• Mueller and the SDNY are moving toward indicting Trump for campaign finance violations & What is to be done? @AndrewCMcCarth @ThadMcCotter

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Mueller and the SDNY are moving toward indicting Trump for campaign finance violations & What is to be done? @AndrewCMcCarth @ThadMcCotter https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/andrew-c-mccarthy-why-trump-is-likely-to-be-indicted-by-manhattan-us-attorney

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• Bill Barr is the right choice to take charge of the Mueller and FISA investigations. @AndrewCMcCarthy @ThadMcCotter

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Bill Barr is the right choice to take charge of the Mueller and FISA investigations. @AndrewCMcCarthy @ThadMcCotter https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/the-mccarthy-report/episode-25-theatrical-exercises/

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• Bruce E. Bechtol Jr, @AngeloState: North Korea is expanding its long-range missile battery, increasing its stockpile of missiles that directly threaten the United States.

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  Photo: Overview of the ballistic missile defense system. Defense Department graphic https://dod.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/721122/missile-defense-agency-budget-addresses-escalating-north-korea-iran-threats/ Missile Defense Agency Budget Addresses Escalating North Korea, Iran Threats. Escalating threats from North Korea and Iran, including aggressive ballistic missile testing, are pushing the Missile Defense Agency to find increasingly more cost-effective ways to perform its mission, MDA Director Navy Vice Adm. James D. Syring said in Washington. Permissions: Public domain in in the United States. Permissions: Public domain in in the United States. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules  Twitter: @BatchelorShow  Bruce E. Bechtol Jr., professor of political science at Angelo State University and a retired Marine; author or editor of six previous books, including The Last Days of Kim Jong-il: The North Korean Threat in a Changing Era and Confronting Security Challenges on the Korean Peninsula; in re: North Korea is expanding its long-range missile battery, increasing its stockpile of missiles that directly threaten the United States. From the size of the bldgs, looks as though they’re shelters for missiles, maybe Hwasong-14; since they’re near the Chinese border, probably for long-range missiles. The meetings: on Fri & Sat reports from the Blue House that Kim would go to the North on the 17th and 18th; then it was announced that he would not. Bolton says Jan or Feb.  . . . ...more

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• @GordonGChang: Huawei CFO arrested for colluding with Iran. Thaddeus McCotter denounced Huawei in 2007—“ You could see where they’d act as a normal communist adversary: steal & lie, and what they were trying to do to the United States.”

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  Photo: How China dealt with domestic theft in Nanjing, 1903. However, current, unimaginably-vast theft by China of American IP, inventions, databases, is viewed with amusement by the Chinese Communist Party.  Image shows four heads of Chinese robbers after beheading, posted on a billboard in Nanking. The negative shows the full inscription from the original book, but the file print shows only the picture.  This is a copy of a photograph from an unidentified book, the original photographer is identified as Claude Meacham. The copy was photographed by Albert Percy Godber in 1903. Caption in the book: Photograph by Claude Meacham; Heads of outlaws posted on a billboard at Nanking. The Chinese consider the worst form of death is to be beheaded, but if the condemned man faces his execution with contempt and lack of fear he stands a somewhat better chance of appeasing the anger of his gods. The crime of which these men were convicted was theft. Permissions: This New Zealand work is in the public domain in New Zealand, because its copyright has expired or it is not subject to copyright (details). According to the New Zealand Copyright Act of 1994 as elaborated on by the Standing Committee on Copyright of the Library and Information Association of New Zealand (LIANZA), as of May 2011. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it meets three requirements: it was first published outside the United States (and not published in the U.S. within 30 days); it was first published before 1 March 1989 without copyright notice or before 1964 without copyright renewal or before the source country established copyright relations with the United States; it was in the public domain in its home country on the URAA date (January 1, 1996 for most countries). http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules  Twitter: @BatchelorShow  Gordon Chang, Daily Beast, in re: The daughter of the f0under of Huawei, CFO Mme Meng, was detained at the Vancouver airport last week – IP theft using state money to overwhelm competitors, even as it buys US technology. Eleven years ago in 2007, Thaddeus McCotter on the Congressional floor denounced Huawei. You could see where they’d engage like a normal communist adversary, steal and lie. You could see what this communist regime was trying to do to the United States. Huawei grew from nothing to be the world’s largest telecom because the Chinese govt pushed it. Also to be the first with 5G, so the PLA can scoop of up vast amounts of data on all of us. So far, four of the Five Eyes have banned Huawai technology in their country. Waiting for Canada. Did we think they’d get better because we allowed them to steal more? Bush 41, Clinton—even Obama, to a lesser degree—just let China be a predator. We’ve has [powerful people] caring a good deal more about incoming money than about even American national security! . . . The arrest warning for Meng was issued during the summer, on August 22 (Thaddeus: “My best birthday gift, ever”); she was arrested last week only because it was possible; it had nothing to do with the simultaneous dinner in Buenos Aires where Presidents Trump and Xi were busy charming each other....more

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• "Indiana" Hoenlein and the3600 hundred year-old Lost Vanilla Spice of Armageddon. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres@ThadMcCotter

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:The Battle of Megiddo, September 1918: Turkish carts and gun carriages destroyed by British aircraft on the Nablus-Beisan road. Date 20 September 1918 Source  IWMLondonThumbnail.jpg This is photograph Q 12310 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 1900-34) Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Originally uploaded to EN Wikipedia as en:File:Battle of Megiddo (1918) Destroyed Turkish transport.jpg by en:User:HLGallon 23 January 2009. Author George Westmoreland Permission (Reusing this file)  Public domain This work created by the United Kingdom Government is in the public domain. This is because it is one of the following: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Indiana" Hoenlein and the3600 hundred year-old Lost Vanilla Spice of Armageddon. Malcolm Hoenlein @Confofpres@ThadMcCotter...more

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• @billroggio, @thomasjoscelyn: Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claims that the victims of an American airstrike on Nov. 29 “were a group of Tuareg youth.” AQIM wants Tuaregs to protest both the bombing & the American drone base in Niger.

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  Photo: Tuareg man. Photo by Akly. See also: The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad Permissions: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules  Twitter: @BatchelorShow  THE NATIONAL SECURITY REPORT BROUGHT TO YOU BY SCALA.com Tom Joscelyn, Long War Journal and FDD; and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD; in re: AQIM CLAIMS TUAREG YOUTH KILLED IN US AIRSTRIKE  Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has released a statement claiming that the victims of an American airstrike on Nov. 29 “were a group of Tuareg youth” and not members of the organization. US Africa Command previously said that 11 AQIM “terrorists” were killed and three vehicles destroyed in the “precision airstrike near Al Uwaynat, Libya.” AQIM has spent a lot of time creating liens with Tuareg. Are France and Italy helping the US in this? Not clear, with secrecy being a possible reason. In Somalia, several hundred US Special Forces operating with local Somali forces. The US has launched over three dozen strikes against Shebaab this year. US forces are called “advisors.”...more

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• Trump chooses the steady hand of the Washington graybeard William Barr. @JohnFund @DavidMDrucker @ThadMcCotter

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Hay signs the Treaty of Paris, 1899 Frances Benjamin Johnston - https://archive.org/details/harperspictorial00milerich John Hay, Secretary of State, signing the memorandum of ratification on behalf of the United States, from p. 430 of Harper's Pictorial History of the War with Spain, Vol. II, published by Harper and Brothers in 1899. Permission details This image might not be in the public domain outside of the United States; this especially applies in the countries and areas that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works, such as Canada, Mainland China (not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany, Mexico, and Switzerland. The creator and year of publication are essential information and must be provided. See Wikipedia:Public domain and Wikipedia:Copyrights for more details.View more Public Domainview terms File:John Hay signs Treaty of Paris, 1899.JPG Created: 10 December 1898 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Trump chooses the steady hand of the Washington graybeard William Barr. @JohnFund @DavidMDrucker @ThadMcCotter...more

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• @thomasjoscelyn, @billroggio, in re: In Hajin, in Eastern Syria: heavy conflict is broadcast in real time by Amaq News Agency; we can see their digital broadcast to the planet about the fighting. Hajin is one of the last strongholds of ISIS.

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  Photo: 2018 Hajin Offensive. Map showing the SDF operation against the Hajin - Euphrates river ISIS pocket. Heavily influenced by Gargari (https://twitter.com/Gargaristan) Yellow Controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces.   Gray Controlled by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.   Pink Controlled by the Syrian Arab Republic Permissions: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules  Twitter: @BatchelorShow  THE NATIONAL SECURITY REPORT BROUGHT TO YOU BY SCALA.com T 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: Eastern Syria: heavy conflict, broadcast by Amaq News Agency; we can see their digital broadcast to the planet about the fighting. From one of the last strongholds of ISIS. US-backed forces battle Islamic State for control of Hajin, Syria The YPG has been fighting, more or less, with the US and its allies. Have sometimes had to depart to protect themselves from Turkey. IS keeps proving th IS use Telegram for pix, audio files, multiple msgs. Telegram has tried to wipe out the ISIS channels; as the channels went down, they immediately popped back up. ISI exaggerates and sometimes lies, but most of what it puts out matches with independent sources. GLOBAL JIHADISTS EULOGIZE JALALUDDIN HAQQANI IN TALIBAN VIDEO  A Taliban video eulogy for Jalaluddin Haqqani includes praise from three jihadists based in the UK or Syria: Hani al-Sibai, Dr. Abdullah al-Muhaysini, and Sheikh Muslih al-Ulyani. Sibai is a well-known, pro-al Qaeda ideologue living in the UK. Muhaysini is a US-designated terrorist. Both Muhaysini and Ulyani operate in Syria. . . .  IS is advertising its alliance with these. Haqqani had, and the Network still does have, very strong links to the Pakistani ISI. Haqqani was absolutely involved in killing seven CIA agents. Haqqani are probably the most important [member of? allies with?] the Taliban. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2018/12/us-backed-forces-battle-islamic-state-for-control-of-hajin-syria.php US-backed forces battle Islamic State for control of Hajin, Syria; December 10, 2018 | tjoscelyn@gmail.com | @thomasjoscelyn Fighters in the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) continue to battle against the Islamic State in and around Hajin, a town in eastern Syria that has become a hub for the jihadists. The fighting has been intense, with civilian facilities coming in the crosshairs. On Dec. 7, the so-called caliphate’s media team claimed that an “international coalition airplane bombed the Hajin city hospital” in the countryside of Deir Ezzor. The US-led coalition, Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR), has responded with a video purportedly showing an Islamic State member firing at targets from inside the hospital. The Islamic State (ISIS) “used the Hajin Hospital as a platform to engage CJTF-OIR partner forces on Dec. 9” and therefore “caused the hospital to lose its protected status afforded by the Law of Armed Conflict,” the US-led coalition said in a statement. “ISIS has no regard for human life. As we close in on them, they are getting more and more desperate and are hiding behind the safety of mosques, hospitals, and other protected sites,” Maj. Gen. Patrick Roberson, the Commanding General of Special Operations JTF-OIR, was quoted as saying. It is not clear why the Islamic State reported that the hospital was struck on Dec. 7, whereas CJTF-OIR says the incident occurred two days later. The current battle in and around Hajin began in late November, when the jihadists mounted a massive assault against . . ....more

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• Will Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden run for president in 2020? @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History label_outline Tags geologicalformationsgeological formationsarizona29390923110monument valleyreed w bailey1934national forest service date_range Date 1900 - 1966 create Source The U.S. National Archives link Link https://catalog.archives.gov/ copyright Rights advisory Public Domain ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Will Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden run for president in 2020? @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter...more

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• Anti-semitism increases in Europe and America & What is to be done? Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotter

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: Krupp Works in Essen, 1890 Unknown - http://www.essen.de/Deutsch/Rathaus/Aemter/Ordner0115/Stadtbildstelle/Presseseriehistorisch/a54vStadtpanorama-1890.jpg Essen, Stadtpanorama vom Rathausturm nach Westen, Krupp Fabriken, um 1890 Public Domain File:Essen a54 v Stadtpanorama-1890.jpg Created: 31 December 1889) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Anti-semitism increases in Europe and America & What is to be done? Malcolm Hoenlein @Confofpres @ThadMcCotter https://www.ft.com/content/a8f26a56-fc62-11e8-aebf-99e208d3e521...more

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• Billy Mitchell's War with the Navy: 1 of 2: The Interwar Rivalry Over Air Power by Thomas Wildenberg.

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  AUTHOR. (PHOTO:English: This image depicts US Navy warships entering Sydney Harbour through the Heads. Spectators are seen in the foreground, possibly near Bradleys Head in Mosman. On 23 July 1925, Sydney hosted eight of the US Navy Battle Fleet's largest ships, including USS CALIFORNIA, USS COLORADO, USS TENNESSEE, USS MARYLAND, USS WEST VIRGINIA, USS NEW MEXICO, USS MISSISSIPPI and USS IDAHO. The fleet departed for New Zealand on 6 August. 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. 00035979 Date 1 July 1925 Source https://www.flickr.com/photos/anmm_thecommons/7997941883/ Author Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons Permission (Reusing this file)  At the time of upload, the image license was automatically confirmed using the Flickr API. For more information see Flickr API detail. Flickr sets  The United States Navy tour 1925 Samuel J Hood Studio Naval Vessels Flickr tags  HOOD COLLECTION 35979 Samuel J Hood collection American fleet visit Great White fleet American Navy Admiral Samuel Shelburne Robison Admiral SS Robison United States Navy Sydney Harbour fleet visit Sydney Heads Bradleys Head Mosman lookout hood collection samuel j hood collection great white fleet american navy admiral samuel shelburne robison admiral ss robison united states navy sydney harbour sydney heads bradleys head Flickr posted date 18 September 2012 Camera location 33° 51′ 03.96″ S, 151° 14′ 45.1″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap. View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth info Licensing[edit] This image was taken from Flickr's The Commons. The uploading organization may have various reasons for determining that no known copyright restrictions exist, such as: ) HTTP://JOHNBATCHELORSHOW.COM/CONTACT HTTP://JOHNBATCHELORSHOW.COM/SCHEDULES TWITTER: @BATCHELORSHOW Billy Mitchell's War with the Navy: 1 of 2: The Interwar Rivalry Over Air Power by Thomas Wildenberg. https://www.amazon.com/Billy-Mitchells-War-Navy-Interwar/dp/0870210386/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1482016884&sr=1-1&keywords=wildenberg+mitchell When Billy Mitchell returned from WWI, he brought with him the deep-seated belief that air power had made navies obsolete. However, in the years following WWI, the U.S. Congress was far more interested in disarmament and isolationist policies than in funding national defense. For the military services this meant lean budgets and skeleton operating forces. Billy Mitchell’s War with the Navy recounts the intense political struggle between the Army and Navy air arms for the limited resources needed to define and establish the role of aviation within their respective services in the period between the two world wars. After Congress rejected the concept of a unified air service in 1920, Mitchell and his supporters turned on the Navy, seeking to substitute the Air Service as the nation's first line of defense. While Mitchell proved that aircraft could sink a battleship with the bombing of the Ostfriesland in 1921, he was unable to convince the General Staff of the Army, the General Board of the Navy, the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, or Congress of the need for an independent air force. When Mitchell turned to the pen to discredit the Navy, he was convicted by his own words and actions in a court-martial that captivated the nation, and was forced to resign in 1925. Rather than ending the rivalry for air power, Mitchell’s resignation set the stage for the ongoing dispute between the two services in the years immediately before WWII. After Mitchell’s resignation, the rivalry for air power between the two services resurfaced when the Navy's plans to procure torpedo planes for the defense of Pearl Harbor and Coco Solo were brought to the attention of the Army. The book concludes with a description of the events surrounding the Air Corps' abysmal performance at Pearl Harbor and Midway followed by a critical assessment of how the development of aviation was pursued by the Army and the Navy after WWII....more

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• Billy Mitchell's War with the Navy: 2 of 2: The Interwar Rivalry Over Air Power by Thomas Wildenberg.

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  AUTHOR. (PHOTO:Download Image: Low (PNG, 319x319px, 75KB) Med (JPEG, 1280x1280px, 308KB) High (TIFF, 1960x1568px, 2MB) Caption: USS Langley (CV-1), 1925. Aircraft carrier shown approximately 100 miles south west of Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, 26 April 1925. Official U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2014/02/27). Accession #: 80-G-410459 Related Content Topic Document Type Wars & Conflicts Navy Communities File Formats Location of Archival Materials ) HTTP://JOHNBATCHELORSHOW.COM/CONTACT HTTP://JOHNBATCHELORSHOW.COM/SCHEDULES TWITTER: @BATCHELORSHOW Billy Mitchell's War with the Navy: 2 of 2: The Interwar Rivalry Over Air Power by Thomas Wildenberg. https://www.amazon.com/Billy-Mitchells-War-Navy-Interwar/dp/0870210386/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1482016884&sr=1-1&keywords=wildenberg+mitchell When Billy Mitchell returned from WWI, he brought with him the deep-seated belief that air power had made navies obsolete. However, in the years following WWI, the U.S. Congress was far more interested in disarmament and isolationist policies than in funding national defense. For the military services this meant lean budgets and skeleton operating forces. Billy Mitchell’s War with the Navy recounts the intense political struggle between the Army and Navy air arms for the limited resources needed to define and establish the role of aviation within their respective services in the period between the two world wars. After Congress rejected the concept of a unified air service in 1920, Mitchell and his supporters turned on the Navy, seeking to substitute the Air Service as the nation's first line of defense. While Mitchell proved that aircraft could sink a battleship with the bombing of the Ostfriesland in 1921, he was unable to convince the General Staff of the Army, the General Board of the Navy, the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, or Congress of the need for an independent air force. When Mitchell turned to the pen to discredit the Navy, he was convicted by his own words and actions in a court-martial that captivated the nation, and was forced to resign in 1925. Rather than ending the rivalry for air power, Mitchell’s resignation set the stage for the ongoing dispute between the two services in the years immediately before WWII. After Mitchell’s resignation, the rivalry for air power between the two services resurfaced when the Navy's plans to procure torpedo planes for the defense of Pearl Harbor and Coco Solo were brought to the attention of the Army. The book concludes with a description of the events surrounding the Air Corps' abysmal performance at Pearl Harbor and Midway followed by a critical assessment of how the development of aviation was pursued by the Army and the Navy after WWII....more

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• (6/6) The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944, by Ian W. Toll. PART 6 of 6. As the Japanese admiral Kichisaburo Nomura lamented to postwar interrogators, “You came far more quickly than we expected.”

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  . Photo: Captured Japanese steamroller on Guadalcanal in August 1942. Engineers used this Japanese roller to complete the half-finished runway of the Lunga airfield. Permissions: Photo [1] in: John Miller, Jr.: Guadalcanal: The First Offensive. United States Army in World War II. The War in the Pacific. U.S. Army History Division, 1948. Author: US Marine Corps http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules  Twitter: @BatchelorShow  . No one needs to persuade me of the relevance of a new panoramic history of World War II. As Hanson W. Baldwin, the former New York Times war correspondent and editor, once put it: “World War II is one with man’s Homeric yesterdays—an epoch, like the Trojan wars, to be read about, studied, imagined.” Now that Rick Atkinson has concluded his finely wrought Liberation Trilogy, we can pivot to Ian W. Toll’s The Conquering Tide, volume 2 of his Pacific War Trilogy.  Those Pacific campaigns became personal odysseys for millions of soldiers, sailors, and airmen, and a comprehensive updating of the war in the Pacific, even without significant new scholarship, can add vital new perspective and context. And when Toll executes the narrative, we can be pretty certain it will deliver the goods. All Pacific War historians write in the shadow of Samuel Eliot Morison, our prose Homer, whose History of United States Naval Operations in World War II still resonates. Morison had the “courage to simplify,” Yale historian Edmund S. Morgan once wrote. “To simplify where you know a great deal requires…unusual penetration of mind and, above all, sheer nerve.” Morison’s history, encompassing the Atlantic and Pacific fronts, stretched to 15 volumes; Toll’s has just three. Moreover, while Toll’s first volume, Pacific Crucible, kaleidoscopes six months from Pearl Harbor to Midway, The Conquering Tide encompasses two years, replete not only with air and sea battles but with epic ground assaults in the southwest and central Pacific. Embarking on such a far-reaching work truly requires the courage to simplify or, as Toll puts it, “to pay a lot of attention to some things and little or none to others.” That approach is obvious in his in-depth treatment of Guadalcanal and the Marianas and correspondingly lighter emphasis on what followed in the southwest Pacific, the Marshalls and Gilberts. Toll shapes his narrative with deft visuals and tense action and fashions a fitting climax with the Battle of the Philippine Sea. While he cannot report firsthand as did Morison, it’s evident that Toll has trod such historic settings as Guadalcanal. The vignettes and quotes, drawn from archives and published secondary sources, are pitch perfect, marred only by a few fact-checking lapses: Alex Vraciu, a navy aviator quoted in several passages, was not, as Toll asserts, a Guadalcanal veteran; neither was William Manchester. Toll quotes Goodbye, Darkness, Manchester’s fine memoir, but leaves the mistaken impression that the young Marine-turned-biographer fought not only on Guadalcanal but on Saipan, too. Manchester didn’t reach Guadalcanal until 1944. Perhaps Toll exhibits his deepest penetration of mind in his cogent assessment of the Pacific War once the Marianas fell. “Though Americans were slow to appreciate it, they had just won the decisive victory of the Pacific War.” All across the Pacific their planes, ships, and troops surprised the Japanese. As the Japanese admiral Kichisaburo Nomura lamented to postwar interrogators, “You came far more quickly than we expected.” MHQ David L. Sears is a former U.S. Navy officer with extensive sea duty aboard a destroyer. His more recent books, on naval aviation, are Such Men as These (2011) and Pacific Air (2012). This article originally appeared in the Spring 2016 issue (Vol. 29, No. 1) of MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History with the headline: Reviews: The Conquering Tide War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944....more

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• (5/6) The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944, by Ian W. Toll. PART 5 of 6. This masterful history encompasses the heart of the Pacific War—mid-1942 to mid-1944—when Allied counteroffensives washed over Japan's far-flung empire

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  Photo: Soldiers of the 25th Infantry, Fort Keogh, Montana, 1890. The Twenty-fifth United States Infantry Regiment was one of the racially segregated units of the United States Army known as Buffalo Soldiers. The 25th served from 1866 to 1957, seeing action in the American Indian Wars, Spanish–American War, Philippine–American War and World War II. In World War II the 25th Infantry Regiment (Colored) was an organic element of the 93rd Infantry Division (Colored) and served in the Pacific Theater of Operations. The regiment departed San Francisco on 24 January 1944 and arrived on Guadalcanal in echelons between 7 February and 5 March 1944. From there the regiment was transferred to Bougainville and attached to the Americal Division to take part in offensive operations against Japanese forces on that island in April and May of the same year.  Permissions: Public domain. Chr. Barthelmess - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3g06161. T http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules  Twitter: @BatchelorShow  The devastation of Pearl Harbor and the American victory at Midway were prelude to a greater challenge: rolling back the vast Japanese Pacific empire, island by island. This masterful history encompasses the heart of the Pacific War—the period between mid-1942 and mid-1944—when parallel Allied counteroffensives north and south of the Equator washed over Japan's far-flung island empire like a "conquering tide," concluding with Japan's irreversible strategic defeat in the Marianas. It was the largest, bloodiest, most costly, most technically innovative and logistically complicated amphibious war in history, and it fostered bitter interservice rivalries, leaving wounds that even victory could not heal. Often overlooked, these are the years and fights that decided the Pacific War. Ian W. Toll's battle scenes—in the air, at sea, and in the jungles—are simply riveting. He also takes the reader into the wartime councils in Washington and Tokyo where politics and strategy often collided, and into the struggle to mobilize wartime production, which was the secret of Allied victory. Brilliantly researched, the narrative is propelled and colored by firsthand accounts—letters, diaries, debriefings, and memoirs—that are the raw material of the telling details, shrewd judgment, and penetrating insight of this magisterial history....more

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• (4/6) The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944, by Ian W. Toll. PART 4 of 6. “A beautiful blend of history & prose proves Mr. Toll’s mastery of the naval-war narrative, from Washington’s marble halls to the red-stained Pacific.”

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  Photo: Jun'yō (隼鷹 "Peregrine Falcon") was a Hiyō-class aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). Here, a bomb from a Japanese Aichi D3A2 dive-bomber from the carrier Junyo barely misses the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6) during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands on 26 October 1942. The dive-bomber was shot down and crashed on the other side of the Big E. Permissions: Public domain. U.S. Navy - U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No. 1996.488.272.014 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules  Twitter: @BatchelorShow https://audioboom.com/posts/6212540-the-conquering-tide-war-in-the-pacific-islands-1942-1944-war-in-the-pacific-islands-1942-1944 “A beautiful blend of history and prose and proves again Mr. Toll’s mastery of the naval-war narrative, carrying the reader smoothly from the marble halls of Washington to the Pacific’s gritty, red-stained beaches.” - Jonathan W. Jordan, Wall Street Journa l “A gripping narrative of the central Pacific campaign…. Toll is strong on the operational details of battle, but he is no less skilled at presenting something that is frequently missing from military histories, a well-rounded depiction of the home front on both sides.” - Walter R. Borneman, New York Times Book Review “Heavily researched…. Toll’s absorbing text flows smoothly and quickly, helped along by anecdotes and stories involving combatants and political leaders on both sides.” - S. I. Dunn, Dallas Morning News “In The Conquering Tide, Ian Toll takes his place as one of the great storytellers of war. He is equally vivid and commanding describing landing on a carrier at night, making grand strategy in Washington, and brawling in a bar in Australia. Toll is a master; he is writing for the ages.” - Evan Thomas, author of Sea of Thunder and Ike's Bluff “A lucid and learned exposition of the grand chess match between high commanders in the middle years of the Pacific War, vividly evoking the grit and gristle of its many horrors and triumphs. Ian W. Toll is a superb historian whose writing appeals to both the head and the heart.” - James D. Hornfischer, author of Neptune’s Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal Ian W. Toll is the author of Pacific Crucible and Six Frigates, winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award and the William E. Colby Award. He lives in San Francisco and New York . https://www.amazon.com/Conquering-Tide-Pacific-Islands-1942-1944/dp/0393080641/ref=mthardcover?encoding=UTF8&me=...more

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• (3/6) The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944, by Ian W. Toll. PART 3 of 6. Toll shapes his narrative with deft visuals & tense action; fashions a fitting climax with the Battle of the Philippine Sea. Vignettes are pitch-perfect.

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  Photo: Allied Lunga perimeter and Battle of the Tanaru River, Guadalcanal, 21 August 1942. Permissions: This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules  Twitter: @BatchelorShow  No one needs to persuade me of the relevance of a new panoramic history of World War II. As Hanson W. Baldwin, the former New York Times war correspondent and editor, once put it: “World War II is one with Man’s Homeric yesterdays—an epoch, like the Trojan wars, to be read about, studied, imagined.”  Now that Rick Atkinson has concluded his finely wrought Liberation Trilogy, we can pivot to Ian W. Toll’s The Conquering Tide, volume 2 of his Pacific War Trilogy. Those Pacific campaigns became personal odysseys for millions of soldiers, sailors, and airmen, and a comprehensive updating of the war in the Pacific, even without significant new scholarship, can add vital new perspective and context. And when Toll executes the narrative, we can be pretty certain it will deliver the goods. All Pacific War historians write in the shadow of Samuel Eliot Morison, our prose Homer, whose History of United States Naval Operations in World War II still resonates. Morison had the “courage to simplify,” Yale historian Edmund S. Morgan once wrote. “To simplify where you know a great deal requires…unusual penetration of mind and, above all, sheer nerve.” Morison’s history, encompassing the Atlantic and Pacific fronts, stretched to 15 volumes; Toll’s has just three. Moreover, while Toll’s first volume, Pacific Crucible, kaleidoscopes six months from Pearl Harbor to Midway, The Conquering Tide encompasses two years, replete not only with air and sea battles but with epic ground assaults in the southwest and central Pacific. Embarking on such a far-reaching work truly requires the courage to simplify or, as Toll puts it, “to pay a lot of attention to some things and little or none to others.” That approach is obvious in his in-depth treatment of Guadalcanal and the Marianas and correspondingly lighter emphasis on what followed in the southwest Pacific, the Marshalls and Gilberts. Toll shapes his narrative with deft visuals and tense action and fashions a fitting climax with the Battle of the Philippine Sea. While he cannot report firsthand as did Morison, it’s evident that Toll has trod such historic settings as Guadalcanal. The vignettes and quotes, drawn from archives and published secondary sources, are pitch perfect, marred only by a few fact-checking lapses: Alex Vraciu, a navy aviator quoted in several passages, was not, as Toll asserts, a Guadalcanal veteran; neither was William Manchester. Toll quotes Goodbye, Darkness, Manchester’s fine memoir, but leaves the mistaken impression that the young Marine-turned-biographer fought not only on Guadalcanal but on Saipan, too. Manchester didn’t reach Guadalcanal until 1944. Perhaps Toll exhibits his deepest penetration of mind in his cogent assessment of the Pacific War once the Marianas fell. “Though Americans were slow to appreciate it, they had just won the decisive victory of the Pacific War.” All across the Pacific their planes, ships, and troops surprised the Japanese. As the Japanese admiral Kichisaburo Nomura lamented to postwar interrogators, “You came far more quickly than we expected.” MHQ David L. Sears is a former U.S. Navy officer with extensive sea duty aboard a destroyer. His more recent books, on naval aviation, are Such Men as These (2011) and Pacific Air (2012). This article originally appeared in the Spring 2016 issue (Vol. 29, No. 1) of MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History with the headline: Reviews: The Conquering Tide War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944....more

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• (2/6) The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944, by Ian W. Toll. PART 2 of 6. Devastation of Pearl Harbor & US victory at Midway were prelude to a greater challenge: rolling back the vast Japanese Pacific empire, island by island.

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  Photo: “These photos depict some of the events in the history of the Marine Corps during the past year.  MARINES ON THE MARCH--- Through jungle thickets, swamps and burning sands, the fighting Leathernecks march on to their goals. With rifle and full packs, on day and nights of endless marching it is plain to see why they are called the toughest fighting men in this world.” "[A] picture taken by me personally. It is a patrol crossing the Lunga river upstream a way and this was quite a bit later in the campaign." OFFICIAL USMC PHOTOGRAPH Permissions: This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules  Twitter: @BatchelorShow  (2/6) The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944, by Ian W. Toll. PART 2 of 6. The devastation of Pearl Harbor and the American victory at Midway were prelude to a greater challenge: rolling back the vast Japanese Pacific empire, island by island. This masterful history encompasses the heart of the Pacific War—the period between mid-1942 and mid-1944—when parallel Allied counteroffensives north and south of the equator washed over Japan's far-flung island empire like a "conquering tide," concluding with Japan's irreversible strategic defeat in the Marianas. It was the largest, bloodiest, most costly, most technically innovative and logistically complicated amphibious war in history, and it fostered bitter interservice rivalries, leaving wounds that even victory could not heal. Often overlooked, these are the years and fights that decided the Pacific War. Ian W. Toll's battle scenes—in the air, at sea, and in the jungles—are simply riveting. He also takes the reader into the wartime councils in Washington and Tokyo where politics and strategy often collided, and into the struggle to mobilize wartime production, which was the secret of Allied victory.  Brilliantly researched, the narrative is propelled and colored by firsthand accounts—letters, diaries, debriefings, and memoirs—that are the raw material of the telling details, shrewd judgment, and penetrating insight of this magisterial history....more

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• (1/6) The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944, by Ian W. Toll. PART 1 of 6. When Martin Clemens radioed intell that Japan had almost completed an airstrip on the Lunga Canal, that triggered a debate in Washington . . .

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  Photo: Book cover Permissions: Author and publisher approve http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules  Twitter: @BatchelorShow  Guadalcanal, an island in the Solomons, was strategically located for Americans especially in that Japan was building an airstrip there which an Allied serviceman was able to report to Washington by radio. Had Japan extended into the Coral Sea, it would have been better for them. When Martin Clemens radioed intell that Japan had almost completed an airstrip on the Lunga Canal, that triggered a debate in Washington . . .  .. .. ..  (1/6) The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944, by Ian W. Toll. PART 1 of 6. https://audioboom.com/posts/6212540-the-conquering-tide-war-in-the-pacific-islands-1942-1944-war-in-the-pacific-islands-1942-1944 “A beautiful blend of history and prose and proves again Mr. Toll’s mastery of the naval-war narrative, carrying the reader smoothly from the marble halls of Washington to the Pacific’s gritty, red-stained beaches.” - Jonathan W. Jordan, Wall Street Journal “A gripping narrative of the central Pacific campaign…. Toll is strong on the operational details of battle, but he is no less skilled at presenting something that is frequently missing from military histories, a well-rounded depiction of the home front on both sides.” - Walter R. Borneman, New York Times Book Review “Heavily researched…. Toll’s absorbing text flows smoothly and quickly, helped along by anecdotes and stories involving combatants and political leaders on both sides.” - S. I. Dunn, Dallas Morning News “In The Conquering Tide, Ian Toll takes his place as one of the great storytellers of war. He is equally vivid and commanding describing landing on a carrier at night, making grand strategy in Washington, and brawling in a bar in Australia. Toll is a master; he is writing for the ages.” - Evan Thomas, author of Sea of Thunder and Ike's Bluff “A lucid and learned exposition of the grand chess match between high commanders in the middle years of the Pacific War, vividly evoking the grit and gristle of its many horrors and triumphs. Ian W. Toll is a superb historian whose writing appeals to both the head and the heart.” - James D. Hornfischer Ian W. Toll is the author of Pacific Crucible and Six Frigates, winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award and the William E. Colby Award. He lives in San Francisco and New York. https://www.amazon.com/Conquering-Tide-Pacific-Islands-1942-1944/dp/0393080641/ref=mthardcover?encoding=UTF8&me=...more

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• Japan 1941: 1 of 4: Countdown to Infamy by Eri Hotta (Author)

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: 日本語: 1939年（昭和14年）5月22日、東京・宮城前広場で行われた青少年学徒親閲式。 English: Military parade held in Tokyo on May 22, 1939. Date 3 October 2018 Source 三浦藤作著『青少年学徒ニ賜ハリタル勅語謹解』（国立国会図書館書誌ID：000000720478）、東洋図書、1939年。 Author Unknown Licensing[edit] w:en:Creative Commons attribution share alike This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.  You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). share alike – If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Japan 1941: 1 of 4:  Countdown to Infamy by Eri Hotta (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Japan-1941-Countdown-Eri-Hotta/dp/0307739740  Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A groundbreaking history that considers the attack on Pearl Harbor from the Japanese perspective and is certain to revolutionize how we think of the war in the Pacific. When Japan attacked the United States in 1941, its leaders, in large part, understood they were entering a war they were almost certain to lose. In a groundbreaking history that considers Pearl Harbor from the Japanese perspective, certain to revolutionize how we think of the war in the Pacific, Eri Hotta poses essential questions overlooked for the last seventy years: Why did these men—military men, civilian politicians, diplomats, the emperor—put their country and its citizens in harm's way? Why did they make a decision that was doomed from the start? Introducing us to the doubters, bluffers, and schemers who led their nation into this conflagration, Hotta brilliantly shows us a hidden Japan—eager to avoid war but fraught with tensions with the West, deluded by reckless militarism, tempted by the gambler’s dream of scoring the biggest win against impossible odds and nearly escaping disaster before it finally proved inevitable....more

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• Japan 1941: 2 of 4: Countdown to Infamy by Eri Hotta (Author)

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: Imperial Japanese Navy Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto at Tokyo Station enroute to take command of the Combined Fleet on August 31, 1939. Date 31 August 1939 Source Agawa, Hiroyuki, The Reluctant Admiral, Kodansha International, Tokyo, 1979, p. 206. Author Unknown Licensing[edit] Public domain This photograph is in the public domain in Japan  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Japan 1941: 2 of 4: Countdown to Infamy by Eri Hotta (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Japan-1941-Countdown-Eri-Hotta/dp/0307739740  Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A groundbreaking history that considers the attack on Pearl Harbor from the Japanese perspective and is certain to revolutionize how we think of the war in the Pacific. When Japan attacked the United States in 1941, its leaders, in large part, understood they were entering a war they were almost certain to lose. In a groundbreaking history that considers Pearl Harbor from the Japanese perspective, certain to revolutionize how we think of the war in the Pacific, Eri Hotta poses essential questions overlooked for the last seventy years: Why did these men—military men, civilian politicians, diplomats, the emperor—put their country and its citizens in harm's way? Why did they make a decision that was doomed from the start? Introducing us to the doubters, bluffers, and schemers who led their nation into this conflagration, Hotta brilliantly shows us a hidden Japan—eager to avoid war but fraught with tensions with the West, deluded by reckless militarism, tempted by the gambler’s dream of scoring the biggest win against impossible odds and nearly escaping disaster before it finally proved inevitable....more

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• Japan 1941: 3 of 4: Countdown to Infamy by Eri Hotta (Author)

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: 日本語: 1939年(昭和14年)当時の日暮里駅。京成電車のりばが見える。常磐線の蒸気機関車牽引列車は夕方の数本は日暮里駅に停車したが、昼間はホームの中線が閉鎖されていて不思議な光景だったという。戦前 Date 1939 Source  English: Japan Railfan Magazine(Tetsudō Fan: Japanese), Page37, No.148, KOYUSHA CO.LTD.,1973-8 日本語: 鉄道ファン1973年8月号(No.148)P37 Author Sasaki Kikyou/佐々木桔梗 Licensing[edit] Public domain This photograph is in the public domain in Japan because its copyright has expired according to Article 23 of the 1899 Copyright Act of Japan (English translation) and Article 2 of Supplemental Provisions of Copyright Act of 1970. This is when the photograph meets one of the following conditions: It was published before January 1, 1957. It was photographed before January 1, 1947. It is also in the public domain in the United States because its copyright in Japan expired by 1970 and was not restored by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Japan 1941: 3 of 4: Countdown to Infamy by Eri Hotta (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Japan-1941-Countdown-Eri-Hotta/dp/0307739740  Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A groundbreaking history that considers the attack on Pearl Harbor from the Japanese perspective and is certain to revolutionize how we think of the war in the Pacific. When Japan attacked the United States in 1941, its leaders, in large part, understood they were entering a war they were almost certain to lose. In a groundbreaking history that considers Pearl Harbor from the Japanese perspective, certain to revolutionize how we think of the war in the Pacific, Eri Hotta poses essential questions overlooked for the last seventy years: Why did these men—military men, civilian politicians, diplomats, the emperor—put their country and its citizens in harm's way? Why did they make a decision that was doomed from the start? Introducing us to the doubters, bluffers, and schemers who led their nation into this conflagration, Hotta brilliantly shows us a hidden Japan—eager to avoid war but fraught with tensions with the West, deluded by reckless militarism, tempted by the gambler’s dream of scoring the biggest win against impossible odds and nearly escaping disaster before it finally proved inevitable....more

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• Japan 1941: 4 of 4: Countdown to Infamy by Eri Hotta (Author)

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: Tsurumi Rinko Railway MoHa 51 electric car (built by Kisha Tokyo in 1932) 日本語: ブリル21形台車の上に半鋼製車体を載せた、鶴見臨港鉄道モハ51号。（昭和7年、汽車東京静） 三岐鉄道ハフ1号を経て北恵那鉄道ハフ11号となっている。 Date 31 August 1939 Source Japan Railfan Magazine Vol. 57, Issue 670, February 2017, p. 109 Author Kinjiro Miyamatsu Licensing[edit] Public domain This photograph is in the public domain in Japan ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Japan 1941: 4 of 4: Countdown to Infamy by Eri Hotta (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Japan-1941-Countdown-Eri-Hotta/dp/0307739740  Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A groundbreaking history that considers the attack on Pearl Harbor from the Japanese perspective and is certain to revolutionize how we think of the war in the Pacific. When Japan attacked the United States in 1941, its leaders, in large part, understood they were entering a war they were almost certain to lose. In a groundbreaking history that considers Pearl Harbor from the Japanese perspective, certain to revolutionize how we think of the war in the Pacific, Eri Hotta poses essential questions overlooked for the last seventy years: Why did these men—military men, civilian politicians, diplomats, the emperor—put their country and its citizens in harm's way? Why did they make a decision that was doomed from the start? Introducing us to the doubters, bluffers, and schemers who led their nation into this conflagration, Hotta brilliantly shows us a hidden Japan—eager to avoid war but fraught with tensions with the West, deluded by reckless militarism, tempted by the gambler’s dream of scoring the biggest win against impossible odds and nearly escaping disaster before it finally proved inevitable....more

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• Countdown to Pearl Harbor: 1 of 2: The Twelve Days to the Attack by Steve Twomey (Author)

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: An Imperial Japanese Navy Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter on the aircraft carrier Akagi IJN - This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. An Imperial Japanese Navy Mitsubishi A6M2 "Zero" fighter on the aircraft carrier Akagi during the Pearl Harbor attack mission. Public Domain File:A6M2 on carrier Akagi 1941.jpeg Created: 7 December 1941) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Countdown to Pearl Harbor: 1 of 2: The Twelve Days to the Attack by Steve Twomey (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Countdown-Pearl-Harbor-Twelve-Attack/dp/1476776466 A Smithsonian Top History Book of 2016 A Japan Times Best Book About Japan of 2016 A fascinating look at the twelve days leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor—the warnings, clues and missteps—by a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter. In Washington, DC, in late November 1941, admirals compose the most ominous message in Navy history to warn Hawaii of possible danger, but they write it too vaguely. They think precautions are being taken, but never check to see if they are. A key intelligence officer wants more warnings sent, but he is on the losing end of a bureaucratic battle and can’t get the message out. American sleuths have pierced Japan’s most vital diplomatic code, and Washington believes it has a window on the enemy’s soul—but it does not. In a small office at Pearl Harbor, overlooking the battleships at the heart of America’s seafaring power, the Commander of the Pacific Fleet tries to figure out how much danger he really faces. His intelligence unit has lost track of Japan’s biggest aircraft carriers, but assumes they are resting in a port far away. The admiral thinks Pearl is too shallow for torpedoes, so he never puts up a barrier. As he frets, a Japanese spy is counting the warships in the harbor and reporting to Tokyo. There were false assumptions, and racist ones: The Japanese aren’t very good aviators and they don’t have the nerve or the skill to attempt a strike so far from their home. There were misunderstandings, conflicting desires, painful choices. And there was a naval officer who, on his very first mission as captain of his very first ship, did exactly the right thing. His warning could have averted disaster, but his superiors reacted too leisurely. Japanese planes arrived moments later. Twomey’s telescoping of the twelve days leading to the attack unravels the crucial characters and moments, and produces an edge-of-your seat drama with fascinating details about America at this moment in its history. By the end, the reader understands how assumption is the root of disaster, and how sometimes a gamble pays off....more

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• Countdown to Pearl Harbor: 2 of 2: The Twelve Days to the Attack by Steve Twomey (Author)

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Photograph taken from a Japanese plane during the torpedo attack on ships moored on both sides of Ford Island shortly after the beginning of the Pearl Harbor attack. View looks about east, with the supply depot, submarine base and fuel tank farm in the right center distance. A torpedo has just hit USS West Virginia on the far side of Ford Island (center). Other battleships moored nearby are (from left): Nevada, Arizona, Tennessee (inboard of West Virginia), Oklahoma (torpedoed and listing) alongside Maryland, and California. On the near side of Ford Island, to the left, are light cruisers Detroit and Raleigh, target and training ship Utah and seaplane tender Tangier. Raleigh and Utah have been torpedoed, and Utah is listing sharply to port. Japanese planes are visible in the right center (over Ford Island) and over the Navy Yard at right. U.S. Navy planes on the seaplane ramp are on fire. Japanese writing in the lower right states that the photograph was reproduced by authorization of the Navy Ministry. Imperial Japanese Navy - Official U.S. Navy photograph NH 50930. Public Domain File:Attack on Pearl Harbor Japanese planes view.jpg Created: 7 December 1941 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Countdown to Pearl Harbor: 2 of 2:  The Twelve Days to the Attack by Steve Twomey (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Countdown-Pearl-Harbor-Twelve-Attack/dp/1476776466 A Smithsonian Top History Book of 2016 A Japan Times Best Book About Japan of 2016 A fascinating look at the twelve days leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor—the warnings, clues and missteps—by a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter. In Washington, DC, in late November 1941, admirals compose the most ominous message in Navy history to warn Hawaii of possible danger, but they write it too vaguely. They think precautions are being taken, but never check to see if they are. A key intelligence officer wants more warnings sent, but he is on the losing end of a bureaucratic battle and can’t get the message out. American sleuths have pierced Japan’s most vital diplomatic code, and Washington believes it has a window on the enemy’s soul—but it does not. In a small office at Pearl Harbor, overlooking the battleships at the heart of America’s seafaring power, the Commander of the Pacific Fleet tries to figure out how much danger he really faces. His intelligence unit has lost track of Japan’s biggest aircraft carriers, but assumes they are resting in a port far away. The admiral thinks Pearl is too shallow for torpedoes, so he never puts up a barrier. As he frets, a Japanese spy is counting the warships in the harbor and reporting to Tokyo. There were false assumptions, and racist ones: The Japanese aren’t very good aviators and they don’t have the nerve or the skill to attempt a strike so far from their home. There were misunderstandings, conflicting desires, painful choices. And there was a naval officer who, on his very first mission as captain of his very first ship, did exactly the right thing. His warning could have averted disaster, but his superiors reacted too leisurely. Japanese planes arrived moments later. Twomey’s telescoping of the twelve days leading to the attack unravels the crucial characters and moments, and produces an edge-of-your seat drama with fascinating details about America at this moment in its history. By the end, the reader understands how assumption is the root of disaster, and how sometimes a gamble pays off....more

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• Synthetic biology (GMO) to defeat the submarine fleet. @DefTechPat. @DefenseOne

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: Alphonse de Neuville (1836–1885) Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q1494309 and Édouard Riou (1833–1900) Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q583275 s:fr:Auteur:Édouard Riou Title Nautilus Medium drawing Notes This image was originally featured in the Hetzel edition of 20000 Lieues Sous les Mers, and has also been featured in more recent editions. Source/Photographer Taken from Boston Public Library scan of 1875 edition hosted on Internet Archive at https://archive.org/details/twentythousandle1875vern Permission (Reusing this file) Drawing is now the public domain, since its Droit d'auteur is expired. This is a French work. French law applies. France does not use the notion of "copyright", but a "Droit d'auteur" system. Licensing[edit] Public domain 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 less. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Synthetic biology (GMO) to defeat the submarine fleet. @DefTechPat. @DefenseOne https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2018/12/us-military-genetically-engineering-new-life-forms-detect-enemy-subs/153200/?oref=dbriefnl...more

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• A drone swarm defeats an Electronic Warfare defense. @DefTechPat @DefenseOne

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:English:  Identifier: handbookofbirdso00litt (find matches) Title: A handbook of the birds of Tasmania and its dependencies Year: 1910 (1910s) Authors: Littler, Frank Mervyn Subjects: Birds -- Australia Tasmania Publisher: Launceston, Tasmania : F.M. Littler Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: th American side of the Pacific ; otherwise very generallydistributed (B. M. Cat.) Observations.—It is somewhat doubtful whether this Ternreally does come as far south as the Tasmanian seas, but at thesame time it is quite probable stragglers do come down. Mr. A.J. Campbell states that he has seen eggs of this species supposedto have been taken in the Furneaux Group, but he was unable toobtain confirmatory evidence. In an interesting account of this Tern on Ascension Island,Captain Sperling writes:— Leaving Comfortless Cove about themiddle of the day, I walked two dreary miles of cinders and ashes,uncheered by a symptom of vegetation, before I noticed flocks ofTenis converging from various parts of the ocean to a spot appar-ently about a mile in front of me; but as yet I observed nothingof the fair. At length, on turning slightly to the left, and sur-mounting a low ridge, the whole scene was disclosed. A gradualincline of a quarter of a mile terminated in a plain of ten or fifteen Text Appearing After Image: BIRDS OF TASMANIA. 151 acres in extent, which was hterally covered with the birds. Theplain was surrounded by low mountains, except on the side onwhich we stood, and, being entirely sheltered from the wind, itsheat under the full blaze of a tropical sun was very oppressive.No description can give an adequate idea of the effect producedby the thousands upon thousands of these wild sea-birds, floatingand screaming over this arid cinder-bed, the eggs and youngscattered so thickly over the ground that in some instances it wasimpossible to avoid crushing them, and the bleached bones of deadbirds distributed in all directions. During our short walk downthe incline, large Hocks of parent birds hovered over our heads,and assailed us with plaintive cries, regardless of our sticks, withwhich we might have killed any number of them; but theirbeautiful pure black and white plumage and graceful motionscaused it to appear almost a sin to knock anj of them down. Onarriving within the precincts of th Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. Date 1910 Source https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14563291358/ Source book page: https://archive.org/stream/handbookofbirdso00litt/handbookofbirdso00litt#page/n230/mode/1up Author Internet Archive Book Images Permission (Reusing this file)  At the time of upload, the image license was automatically confirmed using the Flickr API. For more information see Flickr API detail. Flickr tags  bookid:handbookofbirdso00litt bookyear:1910 bookdecade:1910 bookcentury:1900 bookauthor:LittlerFrank_Mervyn booksubject:BirdsAustralia_Tasmania bookpublisher:LauncestonTasmaniaFMLittler bookcontributor:AmericanMuseumofNaturalHistoryLibrary booksponsor:BiodiversityHeritage_Library bookleafnumber:230 bookcollection:biodiversity bookcollection:americanmuseumnaturalhistory bookcollection:americana BHL Collection BHL Consortium Flickr posted date 26 July 2014 Licensing[edit] This image was taken from Flickr's The Commons. The uploading organization may have various reasons for determining that no known copyright restrictions exist, such as: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Without GPS, a drone swarm defeats an Electronic Warfare defense. @DefTechPat @DefenseOne https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2018/11/us-militarys-drone-swarm-strategy-just-passed-key-test/153026/ https://m.govexec.com/technology/2018/11/pentagon-wants-more-money-lasers-defend-against-missiles-drone-swarms/152817/?oref=d-river https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2018/11/russia-has-started-train-its-entire-military-fight-drones/152889/?oref=d-river China https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2018/11/chinas-beating-us-market-combat-drones-copying-us-technology/152638/...more

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• Gregory R Copley: Ukraine has the right to pass into the Sea of Azov; Russia has the right to set the protocols. After Russia received intell of threats of covert armed intrusion, Ukraine sent three craft without warning & violating all protocols.

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• Gregory R Copley: Nigeria’s junior army officers & enlisted ranks fighting in the north are preparing to revolt. Corruption, incompetence, & lies of political generals; one soldier said: “We are dying so the generals can get rich off defense funds.”

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  Photo: Nigerian Army Special Forces Soldiers assist US Marine Corps (USMC) Marines assigned to the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) Special Operations Capable (SOC), with security operations at Roberts International Airport, Liberia, during Joint Task Force (JTF) Liberia Permissions: Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact . . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules . . Twitter: @BatchelorShow . Nigeria’s Military Prepares to Revolt Analysis. From GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs, Abuja. Nigeria’s junior army officers and enlisted ranks fighting in the north of the country were, by early December 2018, preparing to revolt. Corruption, incompetence, and lies of political generals — up to and including Pres. Muhammadu Buhari, a retired Army major-general — had already led to one recent act of despair by troops in the war zone. It was prosecuted as mutiny.    Another mutiny — this time more serious — was brewing as 2018 came to a close, and as young officers and enlisted men, all volunteers, echoed the thoughts of one soldier who said: “We are dying so that the generals can get rich off defense funds.”1 One retired two-star, forced out of service for attempting to suppress corruption, told Defense & Foreign Affairs: “Frankly, the anger and despair are justifiably so deep that many of the troops are ready to kill any officer of the rank of colonel and above, and then to kill any politician they see. Not because they want to seize power, but because they see their own lives being thrown away. They see the greed and incompetence and arrogance of officials who continue throw young soldiers, without support or adequate weapons, into combat against the Boko Haramterrorists, who have somehow acquired weapons which are superior to those the troops have.” Nigerian Army troops are being lost in significant numbers, almost daily, with entire units being reduced to almost nothing. And now fighting has erupted in Sokoto state in Nigeria’s north-west. A Nigerian Army officer, speaking to Punch newspaper in an interview published on December 2, 2018, noted: “Many of us, officers, are afraid because the soldiers can revolt any time from now. You will recall that some soldiers of the 21 Brigade in Sambisa Forest last year went on the rampage, revolting against their superiors. Such rebellion happens only when the officers lose the trust of their men. The soldiers have been complaining about lack of weapons and welfare but their demands are being ignored. Always remember that whenever there is an attack, if 40 soldiers are killed, only two officers will be affected. This is because the soldiers are the ones at the battlefront.” “If they feel they are being led to their death, they will rather revolt and save themselves rather than die. As it is, we are fearful of what may happen. We don’t want a Bangladeshi Rifle Revolt in Nigeria like it happened in 2009 in Bangladesh where soldiers killed 57 officers.” A major-general — not the same source who spoke with Defense & Foreign Affairs— told Punch that apart from the lack of weapons, the military was losing the anti-insurgency war due to two principal reasons: [poor or no] strategy, and lack of synergy among the service chiefs, and that there was disunity among the service chiefs which was affecting the fight against Boko Haramand splinter groups. The general added, “The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. (Abayomi) Olonishakin, has no control over the service chiefs. He summons meetings and the service chiefs don’t come.” “The indiscipline has reached a level that the service chiefs now bypass the CDS and the Minister of Defence and write letters directly to the President. The service chiefs even attended Mr President’s [election] campaign launch recently. This is not the military I (have) spent 33 years serving. You don’t break the chain of command.” The senior military officer said the service chiefs had become lords unto themselves and were not open to alternative views. He added: “On several occasions during our security meetings, if you bring up an alternative view, you become an easy target for those in power. These service chiefs have stayed for too long and are now bereft of new ideas.” “From the order we were given, Boko Haram is not supposed to occupy an inch of Nigeria’s territory. The strategy ... was to spread our men thinly across the border so that we can boast that no territory is under Boko Haram.  What we should have done is to allow Boko Haram have a particular territory which we can identify and then we would unite our men on one front and form a wall. We would then attack the insurgents head on. Our men are just being killed because they are thinly spread.” Also, a Nigerian Army colonel told Punch that the United States Africa Command had not been giving Nigeria the much needed Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR). He noted: “In the past, AFRICOM would provide us with intelligence and then the Nigerian Air Force would bomb terrorists’ strongholds. However, this arrangement seems not to be working any more. What AFRICOM has been doing is to boost security in Niger Republic in order to prevent terrorists from getting their hands on uranium.” “It may seem they do not trust Nigeria with intelligence anymore.”   Indeed, the Nigerian Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA), which has little to no active collection capability, also lacks the capacity to transmit actionable intelligence to operational units. As a result of persistent intelligence mis-handling, US- AFRICOM and other foreign agencies ceased passing on satellite and UAV-derived intelligence. Now, isolated Nigerian Army units just wait to be ambushed. And now Boko Haram has morphed, or split, with groups coming into the area identifying with the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP). ISWAP was able to take three new armored vehicles abandoned in late November 2018 by 205 members of 119 Task Force Battalion, which had only just taken delivery of the vehicles in Kangarwa by the Theater Command. They also lost 7,200 rounds of AK-47 ammunition, 5,000 rounds of light machine gun ammunition, and 40 mortar rounds. It was difficult to blame the troops; their commanding officer was in hospital and they were effectively leaderless. They had also seen their companions attached to 157 Task Force Battalion had been surprised and overwhelmed a week or so before in nearby Metele, Borno State, and more than 100 of them were killed, including battalion commander, Lt.-Col. Sakaba. That group, in Metele, had only an hour’s warning that a Boko Haram attack was incoming. One survivor said: “Most of our people dropped their arms and pulled off this dirty uniform … the bodies of our troops [were] littered everywhere, but we watched the news and heard Army Headquarters saying troops repelled the attack.” “The Army Chief and other generals only sit in Abuja and lie to Nigerians, whereas soldiers are being killed on a daily basis. We lack manpower but nobody is telling the President the truth. The President should demand the whereabouts of all the soldiers deployed to Operation Last Hold to fight Boko Haram under Maj.-Gen. Abbah Dikko [who has now been replaced; see below].  The answer is, all of them have been crushed by Boko Haram and their new weapons are what the Boko Haramis using to attack us.” The Nigerian Army on November 12, 2018, appointed a new commander to lead the fight against Boko Haram jihadists from Maiduguri, in Borno state, in the north-east. Maj.-Gen. Benson Akinroluyo replaced Maj.-Gen. Abba Dikko as head of Operation Lafiya Dole(“Peace by Force”). Maj.-Gen. Akinroluyo became the fifth commander in two years to head the fight against the Islamist insurgents. Maj.-Gen. Dikko had only been appointed in July 2018. Since then there had been at least nine attacks on military bases, most of them in the northern part of Borno state, near the shores of Lake Chad. Most were blamed on, or claimed by, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), an ISIS-backed faction of Boko Haram, whose recent activities have prompted speculation the group had been taken over by hardliners. The conflict had claimed more than 27,000 lives from 2009 to 2018, with nearly two-million people displaced.  Footnotes: 1. See also: “Nigeria’s Tortuous Path to its Presidential Election, but with No Surprise Ending: Buhari Goes”, in Defense & Foreign Affairs Special Analysis, October 19, 2018....more

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• @RichardAEpstein: Trump v GM (2 of 2) — . . . when it comes to corporate and social arrangements of private firms, the government should not mandate, or even try to influence, those business decisions, especially for short-term political advantage.

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  Photo: Governmental interference: “I suppose that’s the hired hand?” “No, it's the first vice-president in charge of the cows.” Permissions: Public domain. Image from page 667 of "Illinois Agricultural Association record [microform]" (1923). Authors: Illinois Agricultural Association; Illinois Agricultural Association. Publ: Mendota, Ill. : The Association. Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact . . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules . . Twitter: @BatchelorShow . Richard Epstein, Hoover, in re: Trump V. General Motors, by Richard A. Epstein From Defining Ideas. Monday, December 3, 2018 (Part 2 of 2) .  . .. and often aging, facilities in the United States or Canada for their new purposes. Nor do plants stand in splendid isolation. Instead, they are parts of supply chains, usually international in nature, whose work flow can easily be disrupted by relocating any of their constituent parts. Politically, the multinational nature of modern business always suffers when today’s angry presidential threats can be turned into higher tariffs tomorrow. Sadly, with President Trump, these threats are always credible because he does not understand their huge threat to global prosperity. He falsely boasts that tariffs do much to fill the “coffers” of the American treasury, which makes it appear as if they are the goose that lays the golden egg. On this view, the more tariffs, the better. He then compounds error with the silly claim that companies can avoid tariffs by manufacturing objects in the United States, even if the same products can be built better and cheaper overseas. Thus, he never explains how we will “just make our Country richer than ever before!” even as domestic consumers and suppliers—including those for foreign markets—are forced to pay more for goods that are made more efficiently elsewhere. Worse still, tariffs induce all too many collateral responses in addition to their dutiful payment. When we impose tariffs on the Chinese, they do the same for our agricultural products, so the lost sales from rotten potatoes have a negative effect on the cash balances payable the United States treasury: money that comes in at one end of the trough spills out at the other. Trade wars are, moreover, difficult to confine to isolated products and limited responses. Merely the interim uncertainty as to whether the United States and China will come together at the last second negates a good deal of the success that comes from making comprehensive trade deals in the first place. Worse still, as matters evolve, other nations will avoid doing business with the United States, which will further reduce those revenues. It is in any case difficult to make a balanced assessment of any policy in angry tweets. Subliminally, Trump has gotten the message, given his welcome recent decision to shelve for ninety days his threat to raise tariffs on Chinese goods to 25 percent. Nor is the impact of tweets and tariffs confined to the manufacturing of existing products by existing facilities. As Barra noted, the automobile industry is in the midst of a major technological revolution with the advent of driverless cars. Perhaps artificial intelligence in this area is overhyped. But no central authority should decide that question for all firms, when each uses distinctive technologies and business plans. Within a firm, it is often imperative to diversify research approaches in a given area before choosing which line or lines of businesses ultimately to pursue. All of this effort takes nimble management, excess cash, and solid lines of credit. One reason for GM to extricate itself from its failing lines is to free up the resources and flexibility to try multiple new strategies, some of which are bound to fail. And the last thing that we need is a loudmouth president seeking to sink billions of dollars of capital investment into obsolete technologies.   Worse still, presidential bullying is not limited by product line. Today it is GM cars. In August, Trump was for boycotting Harley Davidson motorcycles, whose own business woes were ironically attributable to Trump’s tariff wars. He has already attacked the pharmaceutical industry on drug prices. Oil and gas could be next. The genius of a market system is that it uses decentralized knowledge to make key decisions on all matters that pertain to product selection and production. In this age of incipient socialism, it is worth recalling that our populist president could find that his successors in office use similar tactics, some of which dovetail with the president’s economic populism, for socialist ends.  Most dangerous in this regard is the endless call for good jobs for all American workers, which from the progressive left could translate guaranteed employment, high minimum wages, compulsory unionization, early retirement, and much more. Such calls from any quarter are always misconceived. The ideal social objective should never be to create jobs as such. It should be to let businesses create jobs that produce more in social value than the cost of the labor that goes into the job. As the old adage in the garment industry had it, “you don’t make up in volume what you lose on each piece.” Putting government subsidies into the political hopper reduces the likelihood of achieving that objective. Make-work and featherbedding are dangerous first steps down the wrong path. But if one president is allowed to disrupt markets in the international sphere, why can’t the next president do so domestically as well? Sadly, the harmful effects of subsidies and restraints on trade only compound one other. To keep the economy humming, remember that these are the twin evils in labor markets, no matter which president is at the helm....more

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• @RichardAEpstein: Trump v GM 1 of 2—At this point, the only question worth asking is if everyone in politics has lost his senses. The first principle is, government has a restricted role, which is to define property rights and enforce contracts.

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  Photo: Governmental interference: The Happy Land, before censorship; showing the singing, dancing members of Gladstone's government. Illustration by D. H. Friston for The Illustrated London News of 22 March 1873. Permissions: Public Domain. File: The Happy Land - Illustrated London News, March 22, 1873.PNG http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact . . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules . . Twitter: @BatchelorShow . Richard Epstein, Hoover, in re: Trump V. General Motors, by Richard A. Epstein From Defining Ideas. Monday, December 3, 2018 (Part 1 of 2) If President Donald J. Trump is to be believed, General Motors CEO Mary Barra committed a high crime when she announced recently that GM will close up to seven plants in the United States and Canada. One of those plants will be its Lordstown, Ohio plant, which now employs about 1,600 workers, including 1,435 hourly workers, when it ceases production in 2019 of the slow-selling Chevrolet Cruze. In total, GM plans to lay off over 14,000 hourly and salaried workers worldwide, including 25% of the company’s salaried executives. Trump had no patience for Barra’s considered view that the rapid transformation in the automotive market requires, as she put it, “a highly agile, resilient and profitable GM to stay in front of changing market conditions and customer preferences to position our company for long-term success. ” Elsewhere, the responses to Barra’s announcement were more or less as expected. The stock market was pleased, as the price of GM shares soared by as much as 7.9 percent. Market judgments are a solid reflection of the worth of such long-term corporate planning. In contrast, Terry Dittes of the United Auto Worker denounced “this callous decision,” which put “profits before the working families of this country,” a stock union refrain in all collective bargaining negotiations. North of the border, Jerry Dias, the head of the Canadian union, Unifor, promised “one hell of a fight here in Canada” without any clear knowledge of what deal might emerge when GM’s Canadian labor contracts are renegotiated in 2020. Worst of all, and true to form, President Trump bellowed that GM had “better put something else” in Ohio to replace the lost Lordstown plant. These were not idle words, for Trump made all too clear his intention to use the full power of the presidency to make GM pay for its supposed sins. His thunderous tweet announced that he was “very disappointed” with GM, which the United States had “saved” through an ill-designed 2009 bailout, and said that we “are now looking at cutting all GM subsidies.” In principle, of course, these subsidies should be eliminated for all manufacturers independently of GM’s announcement. Prominent Ohio officials of both parties, including Senators Sherrod Brown, Rob Portman, and Governor John Kasich, chimed in to echo Trump’s criticisms. Sure enough, the price of GM shares adjusted downward in response to this constellation of political threats, none of which should have been made in the first place. At this point, the only question that is really worth asking is whether everyone in politics has lost their senses. At the most basic level, the president once again shows his utter lack of understanding as to how a market economy does and should work. The first principle is that the government has a restricted role, which is to define property rights and enforce contracts. But when it comes to corporate and social arrangements of private firms, it should not mandate, or even try to influence, those business decisions, especially for short-term political advantage. The first reason for this hands-off policy is that the president, notwithstanding his high political position, does not have a clue as to why and when GM makes its particular decisions. Five minutes of political reflex is not a substitute for thousands of hours of hard work and analysis. GM is typical of many complex organizations that consist of many interlocking parts often moving in tension with one another. The president may think that it is easy for GM to just cut jobs in Mexico or China before daring to do the same in the United States. But it is highly unlikely that the tasks undertaken by GM are fungible across different plants. Shutting down profitable facilities is costly. Supply contracts and leases may have to be breached or renegotiated, straining business relationships overseas and creating reputational losses in foreign markets where, after all, many American-made cars are sold. There are likely to be parallel costs in adapting existing, and often . . ....more

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• @GeneMarks: For boomer entrepreneurs, the best places to start businesses are San Jose, California; San Francisco; Boston; Sacramento; Nashville.

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  Small Business Report brought to you by Scala.com , Photo: Small business in Khayelitsha, South Africa. Small businesses in informal settlements in South Africa are extremely important as suppliers of basic sustenance products. Most of them face an uphill battle to become successful. Permissions: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. You are free: • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work • to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: • attribution – You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). • share alike – If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact . . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules . . Twitter: @BatchelorShow . .. .. .. Gene Marks: For boomer entrepreneurs, the best places to start businesses are San Jose, California; San Francisco; Boston; Sacramento; Nashville. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/dec/02/us-farmers-trump-tariffs-farmers https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/dec/06/is-the-gig-economy-what-it-has-been-cracked-up-to-be Here's Where Tariffs Are Taking a Toll Across The Country, According to The Feds https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/05/federal-reserve-banks-cite-tariffs-trade-war-as-concerns-in-beige-book.html Midwest factories see slowest growth in two years https://www.postbulletin.com/news/business/midwest-factories-see-slowest-growth-in-two-years/article9b89f2bd-449a-5367-8007-d7344546bfa0.html @pbn https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/nov/29/meat-poultry-sustainable-affordable-solution-lab-grown Survey reveals executive success may be influenced by having pets https://www.theoaklandpress.com/lifestyles/pets/survey-reveals-executive-success-may-be-influenced-by-having-pets/articlec29b8488-f1b3-11e8-9cc5-1fb6ddf580ef.html?utmmedium=social&utmsource=twitter&utmcampaign=user-share...more

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• @GeneMarks: I write for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Downtown Philly used to be a dead zone; now it’s teeming with people at all hours. It's halfway between DC & New York; is home to the PA Silicon Valley, & you can still get a pitcher of beer for $5

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   Photo: “When you buy from a small business, and actual person does a little dance.” It’s Small Business Saturday today in the U.S., a day that’s particularly meaningful to companies like ours. Although some are cynical of this manufactured holiday, I believe that supporting small businesses matters now more than ever. Amidst the noise of . . . bit.ly/2jmzLn0 -- Tradlands Permissions: You are free to: Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format; Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms. Under the following terms: 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. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact . . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules . . Twitter: @BatchelorShow . @GeneMarks: I write for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Downtown Philly used to be a dead zone; now it’s teeming with people at all hours. Further, it's halfway between DC and New York —and is home to the Pennsylvania Silicon Valley. Here, you can still get a pitcher of beer for five bucks. Hiring is speeding up nati9nally. Philadelphia Is the City of the Year! https://www.gq.com/story/philadelphia-is-the-city-of-the-year-2018 Best Places for Boomer Entrepreneurs to Start a Business https://www.thestreet.com/personal-finance/best-places-for-people-over-50-to-start-a-business-14800379 @TheStreet Job creation was supposed to slow, but a funny thing happened: Hiring has sped up https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-pace-of-job-creation-was-supposed-to-slow-but-a-funny-thing-happened-hiring-actually-sped-up-2018-12-05 @marketwatch U.S. Small Business Owner's Optimism Reaches New Heights https://news.gallup.com/poll/245156/small-business-owners-optimism-reaches-new-heights.aspx...more

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• @EmilyLandau: Will Saudi Arabia become a nuclear power? It’s aimed at civilian nuclear–unless Iran has nukes, in which case Saudis will be right behind: with an indigenous capability, or an agreement with Pakistan . . .The JCPOA has made this harder.

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  Photo: Military personnel examine a Scud missile shot down in the Saudi desert by an MIM-104 Patriot tactical air defense missile during Operation Desert Storm. 26/05/1992      Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM; Saudi Arabia(SAU); Scene Camera Operator: Unknown. Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files Permissions: Public Domain. Release Status: Released to Public. Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files. The U.S. National Archives. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact . . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules . . Twitter: @BatchelorShow  Emily Landau, research Fellow at INSS and head of the Arms Control and Regional Security Program, in re: Is Saudi Arabia intending to become a nuclear power? What we've been hearing since 2010 is that they don’t intend to, but are interested in civilian nuclear cooperation – unless Iran does, in which case Saudis will be right behind them. No one knows if Saudis want an indigenous capability, or perhaps have an agreement with Pakistan from when Saudis financed Pakistan’s nukes. The Trump Adm’s dilemma is whether or not to allow [how much] development. The JCPOA has made this harder because it explicitly endorses Iran’s uranium enrichment. Also advanced centrifuges. The Saudis are a good member in good standing of the . . . https://www.vox.com/world/2018/12/4/18126085/inf-treaty-russia-usa-pompeo-trump-putin-missile https://nationalinterest.org/print/feature/can-united-states-prevent-saudi-arabia-getting-nuclear-weapons-37812 http://www.inss.org.il/publication/trumps-intent-exit-inf-treaty-implications-us-russian-arms-control-strategic-stability/ Emily Landau is a senior research Fellow at INSS and head of the Arms Control and Regional Security Program, leading its research, conference outreach, and mentorship projects. Dr. Landau has taught nuclear strategy, negotiations and arms control in different programs at Tel Aviv University since 2004; she currently teaches in the executive MA program on Diplomacy and Security at Tel Aviv University, as well as in the Lauder school of Government at IDC Herzliya (from 2013), and the International School at the University of Haifa (from 2008). Dr. Landau holds a PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Forbes magazine chose Dr. Landau as one of Israel’s fifty most influential women for 2015, in recognition of her work on security issues, in particular her public profile regarding the Iranian nuclear crisis....more

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• Hanin Ghadar (@haningdr): Beirut is on the edge of collapse: economic—vast national debt—and political: there's been no government since the last elections. It’s a regional crisis, about sanctions, Hezbollah, & insecurity—especially Syria. @hajjarmo

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  Photo: Beirut Permissions: Beautiful free photo contributed by our talented community; Mohammed Hajjar: HajjarForum.com; @hajjarmo http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact . . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules . . Twitter: @BatchelorShow Hanin Ghaddar: Beirut is a city on the edge of collapse: economic with vast national debt; and political: there's been no government since the last elections. It’s a regional crisis, about sanctions, Hezbollah; and insecurity — Syria. What's the status of Hariri and of Aoun? During parliamentary elections, there was an agreement between the two; unfortunately, it didn’t work. Hariri is much more isolated, has no influence, as you can see in how he handles the governmental formation, which he cannot do, although constitutionally, he’ s required to. Hezbollah proclaims that it's the key to government formation, which Hariri rejects. Aoun is Hezbollah’s ally. . . . Role of Lebanese army? In 2006, the Lebanese govt was not Hezbollah-controlled, nor were the state institutions. Today Hezbollah is the state.  ● https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-says-it-shared-tunnel-details-with-lebanon-and-un-calls-for-sanctions/ ● https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/home-secretary-sajid-javid-gives-clearest-signal-yet-he-will-ban-hezbollah-s-political-wing-1.473487 ● https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/.premium-lebanon-s-prime-minister-israeli-tunnel-operation-is-no-reason-for-escalation-1.6722323 ● https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-warns-hezbollah-lebanese-army-to-stay-away-from-border-tunnels/   Hanin Ghaddar is the inaugural Friedmann Visiting Fellow at The Washington Institute's Geduld Program on Arab Politics, where she focuses on Shia politics throughout the Levant. The longtime managing editor of Lebanon's NOW news website, Ghaddar shed light on a broad range of cutting-edge issues, from the evolution of Hezbollah inside Lebanon's fractured political system to Iran's growing influence throughout the Middle East. In addition, she has contributed to a number of U.S.-based magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times and Foreign Policy. Prior to joining NOW in 2007, Ghaddar wrote for the Lebanese newspapers As-Safir, An-Nahar, and Al-Hayat, and also worked as a researcher for the United Nations Development Program regional office. A native of Al-Ghazieh, Lebanon, Ghaddar holds a Bachelor's degree in English literature and a Master's degree in Middle East studies, both from the American University of Beirut....more

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• The Cold War: 3 of 3: A World History by Odd Arne Westad.

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Soviet ground forces in action while conducting an offensive operation against the Islamist resistance, the Mujahideen. Undetermined (Soviet Military Power, 1984. Photo No. 130, page 116. U.S Department of Defense publication) - dodmedia.osd.mil Original caption: Helicopter-tank operation in Afghanistan. . Permission details This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code. Note: This only applies to original works of the Federal Government and not to the work of any individual U.S. state, territory, commonwealth, county, municipality, or any other subdivision. This template also does not apply to postage stamp designs published by the United States Postal Service since 1978. (See § 313.6(C)(1) of Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices). It also does not apply to certain US coins; see The US Mint Terms of Use.View more Public Domainview terms File:SovietafghanwarTanksHelicopters.jpg Created: 23 May 1984 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Cold War: 3 of 3: A World History by Odd Arne Westad. https://www.amazon.com/Cold-War-World-History/dp/0465054935/ref=laB001ILMCVK1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1507086567&sr=1-1 From a Bancroft Prize-winning scholar, a new global history of the Cold War and its ongoing impact around the world We tend to think of the Cold War as a bounded conflict: a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, born out of the ashes of World War II and coming to a dramatic end with the collapse of the Soviet Union. But in this major new work, Bancroft Prize-winning scholar Odd Arne Westad argues that the Cold War must be understood as a global ideological confrontation, with early roots in the Industrial Revolution and ongoing repercussions around the world. In The Cold War, Westad offers a new perspective on a century when great power rivalry and ideological battle transformed every corner of our globe. From Soweto to Hollywood, Hanoi, and Hamburg, young men and women felt they were fighting for the future of the world. The Cold War may have begun on the perimeters of Europe, but it had its deepest reverberations in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, where nearly every community had to choose sides. And these choices continue to define economies and regimes across the world. Today, many regions are plagued with environmental threats, social divides, and ethnic conflicts that stem from this era. Its ideologies influence China, Russia, and the United States; Iraq and Afghanistan have been destroyed by the faith in purely military solutions that emerged from the Cold War. Stunning in its breadth and revelatory in its perspective, this book expands our understanding of the Cold War both geographically and chronologically, and offers an engaging new history of how today's world was created....more

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• Potsdam: 1 of 3: The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe by Michael Neiberg (Author)

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: Winston Churchill in Berlin, July 1945 Prime Minister Winston Churchill leaves the ruins of Adolf Hitler's Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, on 16 July 1945. Date Taken on 16 June 1945 Source http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//39/media-39534/large.jpg IWMLondonThumbnail.jpg This is photograph BU 8962 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums. Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Author Lockeyear W T (Capt), Malindine E G (Capt), No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit Permission (Reusing this file)  This image was created and released by the Imperial War Museum on the IWM Non Commercial Licence. Photographs taken, or artworks created, by a member of the forces during their active service duties are covered by Crown Copyright provisions. Faithful reproductions may be reused under that licence, which is considered expired 50 years after their creation. Part of War Office Second World War Official Collection Subjects  Associated people and organisations Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer Associated places Berlin, Germany Associated events Potsdam Conference, 1945, International Diplomacy Associated themes German Home Front 1939-1945, Germany post-1945 Associated keywords Destruction, Government, central Category photographs Licensing[edit] This image is in the public domain) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Potsdam: 1 of 3: The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe by Michael Neiberg (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Potsdam-End-World-Remaking-Europe/dp/0465075258 The definitive account of the 1945 Potsdam Conference: the historic summit where Truman, Stalin, and Churchill met to determine the fate of post-World War II Europe After Germany's defeat in World War II, Europe lay in tatters. Millions of refugees were dispersed across the continent. Food and fuel were scarce. Britain was bankrupt, while Germany had been reduced to rubble. In July of 1945, Harry Truman, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin gathered in a quiet suburb of Berlin to negotiate a lasting peace: a peace that would finally put an end to the conflagration that had started in 1914, a peace under which Europe could be rebuilt. The award-winning historian Michael Neiberg brings the turbulent Potsdam conference to life, vividly capturing the delegates' personalities: Truman, trying to escape from the shadow of Franklin Roosevelt, who had died only months before; Churchill, bombastic and seemingly out of touch; Stalin, cunning and meticulous. For the first week, negotiations progressed relatively smoothly. But when the delegates took a recess for the British elections, Churchill was replaced-both as prime minster and as Britain's representative at the conference-in an unforeseen upset by Clement Attlee, a man Churchill disparagingly described as "a sheep in sheep's clothing." When the conference reconvened, the power dynamic had shifted dramatically, and the delegates struggled to find a new balance. Stalin took advantage of his strong position to demand control of Eastern Europe as recompense for the suffering experienced by the Soviet people and armies. The final resolutions of the Potsdam Conference, notably the division of Germany and the Soviet annexation of Poland, reflected the uneasy geopolitical equilibrium between East and West that would come to dominate the twentieth century. As Neiberg expertly shows, the delegates arrived at Potsdam determined to learn from the mistakes their predecessors made in the Treaty of Versailles. But, riven by tensions and dramatic debates over how to end the most recent war, they only dimly understood that their discussions of peace were giving birth to a new global conflict....more

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• Main Street is bullish and Wall Street is bearish & What is to be done? @McTagueJim, author, "Follow the Vader: Murder and Mayhem on Capitol Hill."

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Main Street is bullish and Wall Street is bearish & What is to be done? @McTagueJim, author, "Follow the Vader: Murder and Mayhem on Capitol Hill."

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• Pacific Watch: Gavin Newsome inherits Jerry Brown's unsolved homeless crisis. @JeffBliss!

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Unknown or not provided Record creator Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency. (09/17/1947 - 09/09/9999) Title Winter in tent city for Oglala Dam project workers and their families Date circa 1940 Collection National Archives and Records Administration Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q518155 NARA's Central Plains Region (Kansas City) (NREA), 400 West Pershing Road, Kansas City, MO, 64108. Record ID NARA Logo created 2010.svg This media is available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 285606. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. English | Español | Français | Italiano | Македонски | മലയാളം | Nederlands | Polski | Português | Русский | Slovenščina | Türkçe | Українська | Tiếng Việt | 中文（简体） | 中文（繁體） | +/− Record group: Record Group 75: Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1793 - 1999 (National Archives Identifier: 404 ) Series: Main Decimal Files, compiled 1900 - 1965 (National Archives Identifier: 285586 ) NAIL Control Number: NRE-75-PRSERIES9-2863 Source U.S. National Archives and Records Administration Other versions Please do not overwrite this file: any restoration work should be uploaded with a new name and linked in this page's "other versions=" parameter, so that this file represents the exact file found in the NARA catalog record to which it links. The metadata on this page was imported directly from NARA's catalog record; additional descriptive text may be added by Wikimedians to the template below with the "description=" parameter, but please do not modify the other fields. (Note: Editors who post this notice are strongly encouraged to add details explaining how it applies to this file.) .tif .jpg Ambox notice.png The metadata on this page was imported directly from NARA's catalog record; additional descriptive text may be added by Wikimedians to the template below with the "Description=" parameter, but please do not modify the other fields. Please help us by reporting errors! This may include misidentifications, erroneous images, typos in the metadata, possible copyright issues, and poor-quality images needing rescanning. (Be aware that, for documentary purposes, NARA often retains the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, or even misspelled.) Licensing[edit] NARA Logo created 2010.svg This file was provided to Wikimedia Commons by the National Archives and Records Administration as part of a cooperation project. The National Archives and Records Administration provides images depicting American and global history which are public domain or licensed under a free license. български | Deutsch | English | Esperanto | español | français | Ido | 한국어 | македонски | മലയാളം | Nederlands | português | русский | Türkçe | 中文 | +/− Public domain This work is in the public domain in ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Pacific Watch: Gavin Newsome inherits Jerry Brown's unsolved homeless crisis. @JeffBliss! https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/migrant-caravan/sd-me-migrants-sandiego-help-20181205-story.html...more

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• @DanHenninger: “Family values” has fallen out of the political vocabulary; temperance, self-restraint, plain speaking, duty, honesty & courage —these are simply virtues, developed by all Americans to survive and succeed on the frontier.

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  Photos:English: Easter Parade on Fifth Avenue, New York 1900 Date 28 January 2014, 02:43:14 Source http://www.old-picture.com/american-history-1900-1930s/Avenue-Fifth-Yorks-New.htm Author Unknown Licensing[edit] Public domain This media file is in the public domain in the United States. This applies to U.S. works where the copyright has expired, often because its first publication occurred prior to January 1, 1923. See this page for further explanation. Permissions: Dan Henninger, deputy editor of the Wall Street Journal; in re: The passing of George H W Bush. The phrase “family values” has fallen out of the political vocabulary; but we've spent the last week talking about Bush family values. We went through the same exercise in April, when Barbara Bush died. Note that these have all become invidious comparisons to Donald Trump. New England, as well as basic American, values have been: Temperance, self-restraint, plain speaking, duty, honesty, and courage. These are simply virtues, the sort developed by all Americans as they conquered the frontier because they were necessary for us to survive and succeed. I think that the media in this country for the last thirty years have been responsible for undermining these values. In Houston in1992, Dan Quayle’s speech about the culture and family values. The press was appalled to see middle-class folk say that their values were under assault. McGuffey’s Reader. Good guys win, heroes are to be rewarded—except the Clintons, who do not seem to embrace those values. The Democratic Party drifted away from these values: Obama said, “People clinging to their guns and religion.” Why he felt obliged to deride those did not go unnoticed....more

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• The Imperial Japanese Navy victory at Pearl Harbor: 1 of 2: and the forgotten lesson of the Great War. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: More details 1st Air Fleet Aichi dive bombers preparing to bomb American naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii USN - U.S. Navy photo 80-G-182259 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Japanese Navy Aichi D3A1 Type 99 carrier bombers (allied codename Val) prepare to take off from an aircraft carrier during the morning of 7 December 1941. Ship in the background is the carrier Soryu. Public Domain File:Japanese planes preparing-Pearl Harbor.jpg Created: 7 December 1941  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Imperial Japanese Navy victory at Pearl Harbor: 1 of 2:  and the forgotten lesson of the Great War. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis...more

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• The Imperial Japanese Navy victory at Pearl Harbor: 2 of 2: and the forgotten lesson of the Great War. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: Carrier Shōkaku preparing to launch the attack on Pearl Harbor. Unknown, the original photograph was captured on Attu in 1943. - Official U.S. Navy Photograph 80-G-71198, now in the collections of the National Archives. Photo #: . Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941. Japanese naval aircraft prepare to take off from an aircraft carrier (reportedly Shokaku) to attack Pearl Harbor during the morning of 7 December 1941. Plane in the foreground is a "Zero" Fighter, in front of "Val" dive bombers. This is probably the launch of the second attack wave. Public Domain File:Carrier shokaku.jpg Created: 7 December 1941) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Imperial Japanese Navy victory at Pearl Harbor: 2 of 2: and the forgotten lesson of the Great War. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis...more

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• #TheScalaReport: When and how did we first lose the privacy of our data & What is to be done? Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHE @ScalaInc

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: Original caption: “ Event: Immigration Bill Signing Description: President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Immigration Act as Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Lady Bird Johnson, Muriel Humphrey, Sen. Edward (Ted) Kennedy, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, and others look on. Location: Liberty Island, New York, New York ” Date 3 October 1965 Source White House Photo Office; to Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidental Library & Museum; A1421-33a via http://www.lbjlibrary.net/collections/photo-archive/photolab-detail.html?id=270 Author  Yoichi Okamoto (1915–1985) Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q8054507 Permission (Reusing this file)  "Public Domain: This image is in the public domain and may be used free of charge without permissions or fees." Other versions  http://www.lbjlibrary.net/assets/lbj_tools/photolab/photos/1/large/a1421-33a.tif — original TIFF (20MB) Licensing[edit] PD-icon.svg This image is a work of an employee of the Executive Office of the President of the United States, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow #TheScalaReport: When and how did we first lose the privacy of our data & What is to be done? Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHE @ScalaInc https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/opinion/google-facebook-privacy.html?emc=editmbau20181205&nl=morning-briefing-australia&nlid=4879157820181205&te=1 A historian of Silicon Valley argues that the end of privacy began in the 1960s, when the U.S. Congress made choices that allowed tech giants to become as powerful as they are. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07503-w In his 1909 short story The Machine Stops, E. M. Forster imagined a future in which people live in isolation underground, their needs serviced by an all-powerful ‘machine’. Human activity consists mainly of remote communication — face-to-face interaction is frowned upon. Ultimately, the title of the story plays out: the machine stops, civilization collapses, and the future of humanity is left to the surface-dwellers who avoided dependency....more

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• Strategic threat to Israel by Hamas from the South and Hezbollah from the North. Assaf Orion @WashInstitute Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:English:  Identifier: holylandsyria00carp (find matches) Title: The Holy Land and Syria Year: 1922 (1920s) Authors: Carpenter, Frank G. (Frank George), 1855-1924 Subjects: Palestine -- Description and travel Syria -- Description and travel Publisher: Garden City, N. Y. : Doubleday, Page & company Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: near which stood Askalon. It was here that St.Peter had that wonderful dream, in which he beheld allthe beasts of the world let down from heaven in a sheet,in order that he might eat of them. You remember thathe refused, saying: Not so. Lord! for I have never eatenanything that is common or unclean. And then came a voice which said: What God hathcleansed that call not thou common. It was these words that first led to the preaching of theGospel to the Gentiles, bringing about the conversion ofCornelius, the Roman centurion, and later on the preach-ing of Christ to all the world. As my guide refreshed my biblical memory with thisstory, he told me of an American who had visited thisplace with him last week. Said Moses: This American was a funny man, and it seemed to mea foolish one. He was not satisfied with seeing this house,but he asked me to show him the vision that St. Petersaw, and demanded to know what had become of the sheet.He said he did not think he ought to pay me unless I 20 Text Appearing After Image: The men of Palestine are very strong and carry amazing loads on theirbacks. Both men and women think little of walking twenty miles a day.Many are too poor to keep even a donkey Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. Date 1922 Source https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14780542341/ Source book page: https://archive.org/stream/holylandsyria00carp/holylandsyria00carp#page/n48/mode/1up Author Internet Archive Book Images Permission (Reusing this file)  At the time of upload, the image license was automatically confirmed using the Flickr API. For more information see Flickr API detail. Flickr tags  bookid:holylandsyria00carp bookyear:1922 bookdecade:1920 bookcentury:1900 bookauthor:CarpenterFrank_GFrankGeorge18551924 booksubject:PalestineDescriptionandtravel booksubject:SyriaDescriptionandtravel bookpublisher:Garden_CityNYDoubledayPage__company bookcontributor:UniversityofCaliforniaLibraries booksponsor:MSN bookleafnumber:48 bookcollection:cdl bookcollection:americana Flickr posted date 30 July 2014 Applications-category-tree-info.svg The categories of this image should be checked. Check them now! Remove redundant categories and try to put this image in the most specific category/categories Remove this template by clicking here (or on the first line) Licensing[edit] This image was taken from Flickr's The Commons. The uploading organization may have various reasons for determining that no known copyright restrictions exist, such as: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Strategic threat to Israel by Hamas from the South and Hezbollah from the North. Assaf Orion @WashInstitute Malcolm Hoenlein @Confofpres  Retired Israeli brigadier general and defense strategist whose broad research scope ranges from relations with China to Israel’s regional political-military strategy and policy, is a military fellow at The Washington Institute. During his career in the Israel Defense Forces, General Orion was responsible for strategic policy formulation, international cooperation, and military diplomacy. He also served as a liaison to neighboring militaries and peacekeeping forces in the region. He was most recently the head of the Strategic Division in the Planning Directorate of the IDF General Staff. In this position, he was in charge of communication with UNIFIL and the Lebanese army, led staff meetings with counterparts from the Pentagon and from other Western militaries, took part in the U.S.-Israel security dialogue, and represented the IDF in talks with the Palestinian Authority. After retiring from the IDF in 2016, General Orion joined the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) in Tel Aviv where he serves as senior research fellow, head of the countering Boycott, Divestment, and Delegitimization program, and director of its Israel-China program.  Related Articles: · https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/flare-up-in-gaza-part-2-gently-undoing-a-gordian-knot · https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/netanyahu-visits-oman · https://www.brookings.edu/research/ending-gazas-perpetual-crisis-a-new-u-s-approach/...more

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• More Hamas attack tunnels discovered & What is to be done? Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Image from page 347 of "Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations  Identifier: ridpathsuniversa05ridp Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning Year: 1897 (1890s) Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900 Subjects: World history Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: rived from their j . j courage. them, tliouoli amont^ the mained in the districts which they hadformerlv possessed, and Avere contentwith a relation of servitude to theirconquerors. The Philistines were a lowland peo-ple, belonging t(j the seacoast. Theirregion extended from Joppa to theEgyptian desert. The whole countrywas a low alluvial plain, Place and cities fertile to the last degree, of the pmus-Much is said in the He- most picturesque of Canaan, were also brew narrative of this district and its Text Appearing After Image: PASTORAI, SCENE NEAR GAZA. among the least fi*uitful—least produc-tive in an agricultural and horticulturalsense. The strength of the Amoriteslay in their courage. They had thequalities of other ancient mountain men,and were among the last to yield to thearmies of Joshua. It was a confeder-ation of five Amorite kings that wasoverthrovrn at the waters of ]\Ierom.It w(_)uld appear that the Amorites werenot so repugnant, socially and reli-giously, to the Hebrews as were theother native inhabitants of Canaan.Many people of Amorite extraction re- inhabitants. For a long time Philistiacontended with Israel for the mastery;and it was not until David had suc-ceeded in bringing all the tribes of hiscountrymen under a single governmentthat Philistine opposition was putdown. There were five principal citiesin the country occupied by this race.These were Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon,Gath, and P>kron. The first three werecoast towns; the last two, inland cities.Each was governed bv its own lord, or Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow More Hamas attack tunnels discovered & What is to be done? Malcolm Hoenlein @Confofpres...more

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• Are the severe US sanction on Iran weakening the Tehran regime? @WashInstitute Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @Levitt_Matt

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:English:  Identifier: persianprobleme00whig (find matches) Title: The Persian problem; an examination of the rival positions of Russia and Great Britain in Persia, with some account of the Persian gulf and the Bagdad railway Year: 1903 (1900s) Authors: Whigham, Henry James, 1869- Subjects: Baghdad Railway Eastern question (Central Asia) Publisher: London Isbister Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: tleast of the most powerful men in the Persiancapital. Last, but not least, of the four predominant figuresis Mr. Naus, the Director-General of Customs forPersia. In most other countries the controller ofcustoms is merely a paid official of the Government,entrusted with certain routine work which has nopolitical significance. In a country like Persia, how-ever, where the customs have been placed in thehands of a foreign staff, and where the moneycollected at the ports is almost the only availablesecurity for the raising of foreign loans, the con-troller may, if he likes, become a political factor ofimportance. There is nothing, for example, toprevent Mr. Naus filling in Persia the place whichin China has for- so many years been occupied bySir Bobert Hart. Indeed, the possibilities in thecase of Mr. Naus are even greater; for while thefamous I.G. has always shown what is perhaps aconstitutional disinclination to invest his office witha political significance, his Belgian counterpart in Text Appearing After Image: TEHERAN 325 Persia strikes one as being of a different and moreambitious character. Mr. Naus is a large powerfulman of the fair Flemish type, with a big head on hisbroad shoulders, and a strong, not to say cruel, jaw.His utterance, sharp, incisive, and slightly guttural,with an almost ferocious rolling of the rs, leaves nodoubt on the mind of the hearer as to the intentionof the speaker. To converse with him for fiveminutes is to be convinced of his executive ability,and his power to control his subordinates. Mr. Naus record speaks for itself. Brought outto Persia from the Customs Department of Belgium,in 1898, he first of all undertook the collecting ofduties at Tabriz and Kermanshah. So successfulwas the first attempt to do away with the pernicioussystem of farming the customs, that the experimentwas soon extended, until in 1900 nearly all the portsof entry were included in the new regime. By theend of the twelvemonth, March 1900 to March1901, the customs revenue had increased 50 pe Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. Date 1903 Source https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14760602111/ Source book page: https://archive.org/stream/persianprobleme00whig/persianprobleme00whig#page/n386/mode/1up Author Internet Archive Book Images Permission (Reusing this file)  At the time of upload, the image license was automatically confirmed using the Flickr API. For more information see Flickr API detail. Flickr tags  bookid:persianprobleme00whig bookyear:1903 bookdecade:1900 bookcentury:1900 bookauthor:WhighamHenry_James1869_ booksubject:BaghdadRailway booksubject:EasternquestionCentralAsia bookpublisher:London_Isbister bookcontributor:RobartsUniversityofToronto booksponsor:Universityof_Toronto bookleafnumber:386 bookcollection:robarts bookcollection:toronto Flickr posted date 28 July 2014 Licensing[edit] This image was taken from Flickr's The Commons. The uploading organization may have various reasons for determining that no known copyright restrictions exist, such as: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Are the severe US sanction on Iran weakening the Tehran regime?  @WashInstitute Malcolm Hoenlein @Confofpres @Levitt_Matt Fromer-Wexler Fellow & Director Reinhard Counterterrorism Program, The Washington Institute; Georgetown Adjunct Prof; Former FBI, Treasury, etc. Matthew Levitt is the Fromer-Wexler fellow and director of The Washington Institute's Jeanette and Eli Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence. From 2005 to early 2007, he served as deputy assistant secretary for intelligence and analysis at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. In that capacity, he served both as a senior official within the department's terrorism and financial intelligence branch and as deputy chief of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis, one of sixteen U.S. intelligence agencies coordinated under the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. During his tenure at Treasury, Dr. Levitt played a central role in efforts to protect the U.S. financial system from abuse and to deny terrorists, weapons proliferators, and other rogue actors the ability to finance threats to U.S. national security. In 2008-2009, he served as a State Department counterterrorism advisor to the special envoy for the Middle East regional security (SEMERS), General James L. Jones. 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• First ever UN condemnation of Hamas by General Assembly plurality. @DannyDanon Israel's Permanent Representative to the UN

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: mage from page 363 of "Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations  Identifier: ridpathsuniversa05ridp Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning Year: 1897 (1890s) Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900 Subjects: World history Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: here note the activity of thePhoenicians as contributing to the re- 550 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. Enterprisebrought afflu-ence and power sources of the people—to their means ofsupport. Phoenician life was the mostvaried and luxurious of theage. The market placesof the coast cities wereheaped with the resources of many na-tions, and by the consumption of thesethe people grew great and intellectual.The Phoenician mind rose to preemi-nence at an age so far removed that his-tory is unable to reach it with her faint-est taper. This small strip of seacoast, fore he could possess himself of the keyof the Phoenician coast. It was, however, the Phoenician mindrather than military resistance that gaveto the people their immemorial fame.There was a certain adroit- Mental activityness and skill for which we ^^^::iishould look in vain among antiquity,any other people of antiquity. Theywho foreran and outstripped the Greeksmust have been both intellectual andexpert above all nations of their times. Text Appearing After Image: SIDONIAN COAST BETWEEN GAZA AND ASHKELON.—Drawn by Paul Hardy, from a photograph. with its two or three principal cities, be-came the w^ealthiest and most desiredmorsel of the world. The great despot-isms of the East coveted the wealth andindustrial resources of Phoenicia. Egypt.sought ever to possess herself of so richan appanage. The kingdom of vSolo-mon and David did obeisance to Tyreand Sidon. Those cities were able tostand against the intrigues and militarypressure of great nations. The Baby-lonian kings battered at the gates foryears. Necho besieged the Tyrianstronghold. Alexander must pausehere in his career for seven months be- The Phoenicians had the reputation ofbeing the great inventors of antiquity.They w^ere the Yankees of the ancientworld! It would appear under closescrutiny that their part was rather toadapt and disseminate the intellectualachievements of other races than to orig-inate. Thus, for instance, though thePhoenicians have the fame of inventingthe alphabet, Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow First ever UN condemnation of Hamas by General Assembly plurality.  @DannyDanon Israel's Permanent Representative to the UN https://twitter.com/dannydanon/status/1070797441325297664...more

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• Breakthrough using the heart of a pig to sustain a baboon for 945 days & What is to be done? @HenryIMiller @Pacificresearch

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:  Chacma Baboon vector file. Graphic by Public Domain.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Breakthrough using the heart of a pig to sustain a baboon for 945 days & What is to be done? @HenryIMiller @Pacificresearch https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0765-z.epdf?referreraccesstoken=6F0o6SV6Uq4OyPNgWiddRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0PYPkYuj93VFWgMmvERk5Onhpw0nBmqjnB2qIwPCHlhdKOs5Ug9Esg3ftUIMlo5cLCiLAIJHbWtzt4peUpIEZfLnPshw188SnQUb4rjw0kf3FIiT-N25XZMPCbDxvFdFFH4T7NmlXVcmOFB2mudlx2Kdb4iVJlKx_KsEkb6gbQrFw0Xj0ZMDn-44nhB8PJw6OSCHH0ke22lRwPUaMJA8XveUR5RTptVNGCZwNe1nslcoRRxck6twfansdtSkI%3D&trackingreferrer=www.sciencenews.org.   Heart transplantation is the only cure for patients with terminal cardiac failure, but the supply of allogeneic donor organs falls far short of the clinical need1–3. Xenotransplantation of genetically modified pig hearts has been discussed as a potential alternative4. Genetically multi-modified pig hearts that lack galactose-α1,3-galactose epitopes (α1,3-galactosyltransferase knockout) and express a human membrane cofactor protein (CD46) and human thrombomodulin have survived for up to 945days after heterotopic abdominal transplantation in baboons5. This model demonstrated long-term acceptance of discordant xenografts with safe immunosuppression but did not predict their life-supporting function. Despite 25years of extensive research, the maximum survival of a baboon after heart replacement with a porcine xenograft was only 57days and this was achieved, to our knowledge, only once6. Here we show that α1,3-galactosyltransferase-knockout pig hearts that express human CD46 and thrombomodulin require non-ischaemic preservation with continuous perfusion and control of post-transplantation growth to ensure long-term orthotopic function of the xenograft in baboons, the most stringent preclinical xenotransplantation model. Consistent life-supporting function of xenografted hearts for up to 195days is a milestone on the way to clinical cardiac xenotransplantation7....more

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• Where is the rogue Dr He who claims to have experimented with CRISPR embryos? @HenryIMiller @PacificResearch

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  Dec 08 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Where is the rogue Dr He who claims to have experimented with CRISPR embryos? @HenryIMiller @PacificResearch https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-07/chinese-scientist-who-edited-twins-genes-he-jiankui-missing/10588528

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• Lee Ohanian: Cost of California high-speed rail has ballooned from $39 bil $100 bil, although the plan is scaled back to exclude San Diego & Sacramento—but include Bakersfield & Madeira, both having no use for it. @HooverInst

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  Dec 07 2018

  Photo: Painting of Sutter's Fort ruins, c. 1900 Calthea C. Vivian (1857–1943) - http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf6489p330/?layout=metadata&brand=calisphere/reuterdahl.952.html Public Domain File:Sutter's Fort ruins painting by Calthea Vivian.jpg Created: circa 1900 date QS:P571,+1900-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Lee Ohanian: Cost of California high-speed rail has ballooned from $39 bil $100 bil, although the plan is scaled back to exclude San Diego & Sacramento—but include Bakersfield (where the state prison reposes) & Madeira, both having no use for it. @HooverInst Lee E. Ohanian , Professor of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles ; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; in re: Does Cali care about the high-speed rail project? In 2008, voters were willing because of promised federal funding. Now the original $39 bil has ballooned to about $100 bil, even though the plan is scaled back to exclude San Diego and Sacramento. It will include Bakersfield (where the state prison reposes) and Madeira, both of which have no use for it. Sounds like [only] a sort-of high speed project. It was supposed to go up to 150 mph and then reduce speed swiftly in minutes. A head-scratcher. They didn't secure all the needed land? Isn’t that fundamental? Some of the planners forgot that all the utilities had to be moved. A retired judge is presiding over this; he said, “This job will last past my lifetime.” Inexcusable mistakes made on this project. High-speed rail is, however, being built from Houston toward Dallas, stopping in College Station: about $15 bil. It’ll all be done with private money, will be finished in about five years. Cali has already spent $5,4 bil; when you think of the possible alternative uses in transport, it's very sad. Gavin Newsom has endorsed the idea in principle, but the $100 bil so far has only about $12.7 bil allocated....more

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• @GordonGChang: The US has had deep concerns about Huawei and its sister company, ZTE, for a long time. Canada is the only member of the Five Eyes (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK, US) that has yet to ban Huawei equipment. Even Japan has done so.

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  Dec 07 2018

  English:  Title: Canadian forest industries 1907 Identifier: canadianforest1907donm (find matches) Year: 1907 (1900s) Authors:  Subjects: Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : Southam Business Publications Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image:  CANADA LUMBERMAN and WOOD-WORKER Volume XXVIII. Number 6. TORONTO. MONTREAL - JUNE. 1907 - WINNIPEG. VANCOUVER j Terms, $1.00 Per \ Single Copies, 10 Year Cents History of trie B. C. Cedar Sliingle An interesting history has attached to the British Columbia red cedar shingle since its introduction into Ontario in 1891. In the summer of that year there were but two mills making shingles in Vancouver. These were the Royal City Mills and G. T. Sclater & Company. In that year David MacLaren and H. Depencier. of Ontario, arrived at the coast and contracted for what was at that time con- sidered a very large order at $2.72% deliver- On his way back Mr. Spicer called again on Mr. Tennant, and this time sold the latter a carload of shingles and left him some adver- tising matter, which was sent to various points in Ontario, accompanied by samples of the shingle. The success of this method was pro- nounced, and orders came in apace. Soon Mr. Tennant had built up a considerable business in British Columbia shingles. Mr. Robert Laidlaw and Mr. John Waldie also joined in a meeting of the numerous manufacturers was called and the whole question thoroughly dis- cussed. The upshot of the gathering was that all agreed that unless slashing of prices ceased all would be buried under their own over- production. A means of curtailing produc- tion was arranged, and a minimum price agreed upon, which would admit of a bare margin of profit. More competition subse- quently entering the field disarranged this Text Appearing After Image:  The First Solid Train Load of Shingles Shipped East from British Columbia. H. H. Spicer & Company, Vancouver Shippers ; F. N. Tennant, Toronto, Consignee. ed. The following year Mr. H. H. Spicer, who had been previously representing Sclater & Company, added to his own plant the first hot blast dry kiln used in the province. Mr. Spicer then conceived the idea of introducing the British Columbia shingle into Ontario, and came down to Toronto and interviewed Mr. F. N. Tennant, who still is in business in Toronto. Mr. Tennant at first demurred about handling such an unknown article as the British Columbia shingle then was, and Mr. Spicer proceeded to Boston, where he sold to Shepard, Morse & Company the first British Columbia shingles ever shipped into New England. the movement, and from that time to this the demand for British Columbia shingles has increased by leaps and bounds. The price of British Columbia shingles was originally $2.75 per thousand, f .o.b., any point in Ontario, 12i/2 cents per thousand being the Ontario agent's commission. The market once created, mills for manufacturing shingles com- menced to pop up in every direction on the coast, but for a time the demand was so great that it was equal to the expansion of the busi- ness. Presently, however, keen competition ruined the trade temporarily, shingles being sold as low as $1 f.o.b. This condition of affairs could not last long, however, and, accordingly, understanding, and shingles once more fell to ruinous prices. The scheme was thereupon evolved of having all mills dispose of their product through two sering agencies. In the fall of .1904 and spring of 1905 shingles sold at $2.25 f .o.b. With the increase in the cost of raw material, this price has since advanced periodically, until, on April 4th, 1907, with the declaration of an advance of 30 cents a thousand, the price is now nominally $2.50 f.o.b., Vancouver, for XXX shingles, while buyers are offering as high as $3.90 for Perfections. In all probability a still further rise will be seen before the present season closes. Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. Date 1907 Source https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/19903254773/ Source book page: https://archive.org/stream/canadianforest1907donm/#page/n290/mode/1up Author Internet Archive Book Images Permission (Reusing this file)  At the time of upload, the image license was automatically confirmed using the Flickr API. For more information see Flickr API detail. Flickr tags  bookid:canadianforest1907donm bookyear:1907 bookdecade:1900 bookcentury:1900 booksubject:Lumbering booksubject:Forestsandforestry booksubject:Forestproducts booksubject:Woodpulpindustry booksubject:Woodusingindustries bookpublisher:DonMillsOntSouthamBusinessPublications bookcontributor:FisherUniversityofToronto booksponsor:Universityof_Toronto bookleafnumber:291 bookcollection:canadiantradejournals bookcollection:thomasfisher bookcollection:toronto BHL Collection Flickr posted date 13 August 2015 Licensing[edit] This image was taken from Flickr's The Commons. The uploading organization may have various reasons for determining that no known copyright restrictions exist, such as:http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Gordon Chang, Daily Beast, in re: The US has had deep concerns about Huawei and its sister company, ZTE, for a long time. China had attacked Qualcomm, perhaps encouraging the Trump Adm to go after Huawei and ZTE concerning 5G. At present there are three American hostages, another and two children, being held by China after her husband was accused of fraud. Canada is the only member of the Five Eyes that has yet to ban Huawei equipment. Even Japan has done so....more

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• @SebGorka: Because of the failure of the Baghdad regime to exercise control, ISIS remnants are living on the edges there.

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  Photo: TALLIL AIR BASE, Iraq -- Local safety officials inspect the wreckage of a Sept. 21 Army UH-60 Blackhawk crash here. All four Soldiers on board were rescued from the helicopter by people of the 407th Air Expeditionary Group and 407th Expeditionary Medical Squadron. Permissions: U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Jeff Andrejcik. This image or file is a work of a U.S. Air Force Airman or employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image or file is in the public domain in the United States. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Sebastian Gorka, Fox News, and author, Why We Fight; soon to be radio host of America First on 1 Jan 2019; in re: WSJ: because of the failure of the Baghdad regime to exercise control, ISIS remnants are living on the edges there. The famous Petraeus counterinsurgency doctrine; must have local forces with the capacity to absorb your assistance, you’ll be throwing good money after bad. Baghdad cannot exercise sovereignty. The only reason remaining for US assistance is to prevent mass attacks from being launched against us....more

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• @SebGorka: Praise lavished on George H W Bush is remarkable as he was poorly treated by media during his presidency, but vituperation against the current incumbent—daily slurring, lambasting him as a white supremacist & anti-Semite. It's insanity.

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  Photo: . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Sebastian Gorka, Fox News, and author, Why We Fight; soon to be radio host of America First on 1 Jan 2019; in re: The praise lavished on George H W Bush is remarkably in view of how poorly treated he was by media during his tenure as president. Do they think we have no memory of history? The level of vituperation against the current incumbent is something we haven’t seen before. Daily calls slurring, lambasting him as a white supremacist, and anti-Semite. It's peak insanity, but not new – an incredible level of calumny against Reagan, Bush I, Bush II. The constant, daily castigation of the current president, of which we've never seen the like. This is the mob. When he has to travel 250 yards from the White House, and in light of the extraordinary threats against his life is obliged to ride in a bulletproof car, the Washington Post writes, couldn't he have walked? If truth is subjective, having nothing to so with what’s happening to us, then . . . Russia: the Secretary of State has indicated that unless Russia comes into compliance with the INF treaty—at present, only the US is— the US will withdraw. This causes WaPo and others to claim that Trump is a war-monger. . . . The US Navy has sortied into the Sea of Japan, reminding Russia that ____; and are thinking of sending the Navy back in the Black Sea, in connection with the Sea of Azov. Russia is trying to destabilize various regions around the world....more

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• The sinister possibility of space junk in Earth orbit. @PappalardoJoe @PopularMechanics

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:: Debris plot by NASA The following graphics are computer generated images of objects in Earth orbit that are currently being tracked. Approximately 95% of the objects in this illustration are orbital debris, i.e., not functional satellites. The dots represent the current location of each item. The orbital debris dots are scaled according to the image size of the graphic to optimize their visibility and are not scaled to Earth. These images provide a good visualization of where the greatest orbital debris populations exist. Below are the graphics generated from different observation points. The GEO Polar images are generated from a vantage point above the north pole, showing the concentrations of objects in LEO and in the geosynchronous region. Date  Source http://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/photogallery/beehives.html Author NASA Licensing[edit] Public domain This file is in the public domain i ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The sinister possibility of space junk in Earth orbit. @PappalardoJoe @PopularMechanics https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a25349950/nro-satellite-space-junk/...more

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• The disorder of identity politics & What is to be done? @PeterBerkowitz @HooverInst

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Benjamin Franklin playing chess with Mrs. Howe.] Original 760x620 crop_originalORDER PRINT label_outline Tags chesswatercolorsbenjaminfranklinbenjamin franklinhoweemmet collectionamerican historyfounding fathersdeclaration of independenceunited statescontinental congressamerican revolutionpennsylvania create Source New York Public Library link Link http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/ copyright Rights advisory Public Domain ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules The disorder of identity politics & What is to be done? @PeterBerkowitz @HooverInst https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/11/25/liberaleducationasanantidotetoidentitypolitics.html?utmsource=Hoover+Daily+Report&utmcampaign=b540873088-HDRCOPY01&utmmedium=email&utmterm=021b1edff3c-b540873088-72527561 Liberal Education As An Antidote To Identity Politics by Peter Berkowitz via Real Clear Politics Donald Trump’s presidency has provoked an outpouring of anguished commentary about the norms — that is, customary behavior and moral standards — that underlie liberal democracy in America. The president has certainly disrupted settled patterns of campaigning, politics, and governance. The reasons for his success, the limitations of his style, and the consequences for the nation deserve careful examination....more

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• IN THE WARLORDS' SHADOW; 5 of 6: Special Operations Forces, the Afghans, and Their Fight Against the Taliban; by Daniel R Green.

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Kaubul Police. Photograph of Afghan policemen sporting long-barelled rifles, taken in Kabul, Afghanistan, by John Burke, 1879-80. Burke accompanied the British army into Afghanistan in 1878 and worked steadily in the hostile environment of Afghanistan and the North West Frontier Province, recording military and topographical scenes as well as the peoples of the country during the Second Afghan War (1878-80). Burke also photographed many darbars or meetings that took place between British combat leaders and Afghan chiefs which led to the uneasy peace treaties characteristic of the campaign. His two-year Afghan expedition produced a visual document which resulted in his achieving significance as the photographer of the region of the Great Game (concerning Anglo-Russian territorial rivalry). In the winter of 1879, through to the summer of 1880, the British force called the Kabul Field Force occupied Kabul. Its commander General Roberts was tasked with securing Kabul and maintaining lines of communication via the Khyber Pass with the rest of the British forces, meanwhile negotiations to bring an end to the war and place a new Amir on the throne of Kabul were going on. Burke spent many months in Kabul and took a series of images of its diverse residents. Date 1879 Source The British Library - Online Gallery Auteur John Burke (1843 - 1900) Autorisation (Réutilisation de ce fichier)  Public domain This work is in the public domain  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow IN THE WARLORDS' SHADOW; 5 of 6: Special Operations Forces, the Afghans, and Their Fight Against the Taliban; by Daniel R Green.  https://www.amazon.com/Warlords-Shadow-Special-Operations-Afghans/dp/161251815X/ref=laB0055JCJWS1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1505537847&sr=1-1 In 2010, U.S. special operations forces (SOF) in Afghanistan began a new and innovative program to fight the Taliban insurgency using the movement's structure and strategy against it. The Village Stability Operations/Afghan Local Police initiative consisted of U.S. Army Special Forces and U.S. Navy SEAL teams embedding with villagers to fight the Taliban holistically. By enlisting Afghans in their own defense, organizing the local populace, and addressing their grievances with the Afghan government, SOF was able to defeat the Taliban’s military as well as its political arm. Combining the traditions of U.S. Army Special Forces with the lessons learned in the broader SOF community from years of counterinsurgency work in Iraq and Afghanistan, this new approach fundamentally changed the terms of the conflict with the Taliban. However, little has been written about this initiative outside of the special operations community until now. In this first-hand account of how the Village Stability Operations program functioned, Daniel R. Green provides a long-term perspective on how SOF stabilized the southern Afghan province of Uruzgan, the site of the Pashtun uprising against the Taliban in 2001 led by Hamid Karzai, future president of Afghanistan. In the Warlords’ Shadow offers a comprehensive overview of how SOF adapted to the unique demands of the local insurgency and is a rare, inside look at how special operations confronted the Taliban by fighting a “better war” and in so doing fundamentally changed the course of the war in Afghanistan....more

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• IN THE WARLORDS' SHADOW; 6 of 6: Special Operations Forces, the Afghans, and Their Fight Against the Taliban; by Daniel R Green.

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: Afridi picket near Jumrood, Khyber & Rotass in distance. Photograph of a group of Afridis taken by John Burke in 1878. Burke accompanied the Peshawar Valley Field Force, one of three British Anglo-Indian army columns deployed in the Second Afghan War (1878-80), despite being rejected for the role of official photographer. He financed his trip by advance sales of his photographs 'illustrating the advance from Attock to Jellalabad'. Coming to India as apothecary with the Royal Engineers, Burke turned professional photographer, in partnership at first with William Baker. Travelling widely in India, they were the main rivals to the better-known Bourne and Shepherd. Burke's two-year Afghan expedition produced an important visual document of the region where strategies of the Great Game were played out. With the spread of Russia's sphere of influence in Central Asia, British foreign policy in the 19th century was motivated by fears of their Indian Empire being vulnerable to Russian moves southwards. The Anglo-Russian rivalry in Asia, termed the Great Game, precipitated the Second Afghan War. The British were trying to establish a permanent mission at Kabul which the Amir Sher Ali, trying to keep a balance between the Russians and British, would not permit. The arrival of a Russian diplomatic mission in Kabul in 1878 increased British suspicions of Russian influence and ultimately led to them invading Afghanistan. The Afridis were a powerful, independent Pashtun tribe inhabiting the Peshawar border of the North West Frontier Province, who defended their mountainous strongholds with tenacity and courage, impressing the British who took them on as troops. They had a reputation for being first rate soldiers and particularly good skirmishers. The Afridi soldiers are pictured with their jezails, long and heavy Afghan muskets, with which they were excellent sharpshooters. Date 1878 Source The British Library - Online Gallery Author John Burke (1843-1900) Permission (Reusing this file)  Public domain  This work is in the public domain ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow IN THE WARLORDS' SHADOW; 6 of 6: Special Operations Forces, the Afghans, and Their Fight Against the Taliban; by Daniel R Green.  https://www.amazon.com/Warlords-Shadow-Special-Operations-Afghans/dp/161251815X/ref=laB0055JCJWS1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1505537847&sr=1-1 In 2010, U.S. special operations forces (SOF) in Afghanistan began a new and innovative program to fight the Taliban insurgency using the movement's structure and strategy against it. The Village Stability Operations/Afghan Local Police initiative consisted of U.S. Army Special Forces and U.S. Navy SEAL teams embedding with villagers to fight the Taliban holistically. By enlisting Afghans in their own defense, organizing the local populace, and addressing their grievances with the Afghan government, SOF was able to defeat the Taliban’s military as well as its political arm. Combining the traditions of U.S. Army Special Forces with the lessons learned in the broader SOF community from years of counterinsurgency work in Iraq and Afghanistan, this new approach fundamentally changed the terms of the conflict with the Taliban. However, little has been written about this initiative outside of the special operations community until now. In this first-hand account of how the Village Stability Operations program functioned, Daniel R. Green provides a long-term perspective on how SOF stabilized the southern Afghan province of Uruzgan, the site of the Pashtun uprising against the Taliban in 2001 led by Hamid Karzai, future president of Afghanistan. In the Warlords’ Shadow offers a comprehensive overview of how SOF adapted to the unique demands of the local insurgency and is a rare, inside look at how special operations confronted the Taliban by fighting a “better war” and in so doing fundamentally changed the course of the war in Afghanistan....more

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• Campaign marching on Mars 1997-2018. @PappalardoJoe @PopularMechanics

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:  More details Title page, 1927 Amazing Stories reprint. Illustrated by Frank R. Paul [1] - Digital scan from http://samizdat.4t.com/samizdat21/war%20of%20the%20worlds.jpg Interior illustration to H. G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds from reprinting in Amazing Stories, August 1927. Permission details PDView more Public Domainview terms File:War of the Worlds original cover bw.jpg Created: 31 December 1897) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Campaign marching on Mars 1997-2018. @PappalardoJoe @PopularMechanics https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/satellites/a25394146/golden-age-of-probes/...more

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• TV praises George H.W. Bush after 50 years of derision & What is to be done? @SalenaZito @LaraMBrownPHD

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: Governor Mark Hatfield appears before the 1964 Republican National Convention Date 13 July 1964 Source https://www.loc.gov/item/2016646549/ Author Warren K. Leffler, U.S. News & World Report Magazine Other versions  Image extraction process This file has an extracted image: File:1964 Republican National Convention (press boxes).jpg. Extracted version Licensing[edit] Public domain This work is from the U.S. News & World Report collection at the Library of Congress. According to the library, there are no known copyright restrictions on the use of this work. This photograph is a work for hire created between 1952 and 1986 by one of the following staff photographers at U.S. News & World Report: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow TV praises George H.W. Bush after 50 years of derision & What is to be done? @SalenaZito @LaraMBrownPHD...more

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• The Cold War: 2 of 3: A World History by Odd Arne Westad.

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:  More details Loading milk on a West Berlin-bound aircraft Own work Berlin Blockade: Milk Permission details public domain from [1]View more Public Domainview terms File:Berlin Blockade Milk.jpg Uploaded: 24 March 2005) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Cold War: 2 of 3: A World History by Odd Arne Westad. https://www.amazon.com/Cold-War-World-History/dp/0465054935/ref=laB001ILMCVK1_1?s=books&;ie=UTF8&qid=1507086567&sr=1-1 From a Bancroft Prize-winning scholar, a new global history of the Cold War and its ongoing impact around the world We tend to think of the Cold War as a bounded conflict: a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, born out of the ashes of World War II and coming to a dramatic end with the collapse of the Soviet Union. But in this major new work, Bancroft Prize-winning scholar Odd Arne Westad argues that the Cold War must be understood as a global ideological confrontation, with early roots in the Industrial Revolution and ongoing repercussions around the world. In The Cold War, Westad offers a new perspective on a century when great power rivalry and ideological battle transformed every corner of our globe. From Soweto to Hollywood, Hanoi, and Hamburg, young men and women felt they were fighting for the future of the world. The Cold War may have begun on the perimeters of Europe, but it had its deepest reverberations in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, where nearly every community had to choose sides. And these choices continue to define economies and regimes across the world. Today, many regions are plagued with environmental threats, social divides, and ethnic conflicts that stem from this era. Its ideologies influence China, Russia, and the United States; Iraq and Afghanistan have been destroyed by the faith in purely military solutions that emerged from the Cold War. Stunning in its breadth and revelatory in its perspective, this book expands our understanding of the Cold War both geographically and chronologically, and offers an engaging new history of how today's world was created....more

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• PRC is a malign actor aiming to weaken America. 1 of 2: @LarryDiamond @HooverInst

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: Beijing in 1900 near Legation Quarter Date August 1900 Source Book, published in 1903 Author D.G.Yanchevetsky Licensing[edit] Public domain  This work is in the public domain  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow PRC is a malign actor aiming to weaken America. 1 of 2: @LarryDiamond @HooverInst  https://www.wsj.com/articles/scholars-warn-of-chinese-influence-operations-in-u-s-1543449490?emailToken=0954f35247b115ea40f7c37b41a8947caYRhjwEBdjgCBsX8QNU6KV4y1BtoS3z3PW5gcDUdWpntg6KVBOK6Ya9m+j2ebyDtxBHlnsAXPPs7NVVl4hwZogIBgWd9lFfxHLVlHWRAhQ0%3D&reflink=articleemailshare...more

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• PRC is a malign actor aiming to weaken America. 2 of 2: @LarryDiamond @HooverInst

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:The National Archives UK Follow Traffic in Tianjin  Description: View of traffic outside the Temperance Hall in Tianjin (Tientsin). Western troops were billeted in the hall during the Boxer Rising before the march on Beijing. Date: c.1900 Our Catalogue Reference: WO 28/302 f.29 This image is from the collections of The National Archives. Feel free to share it within the spirit of the Commons. For high quality reproductions of any item from our collection please contact our image library.  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow PRC is a malign actor aiming to weaken America. 2 of 2: @LarryDiamond @HooverInst  https://www.wsj.com/articles/scholars-warn-of-chinese-influence-operations-in-u-s-1543449490?emailToken=0954f35247b115ea40f7c37b41a8947caYRhjwEBdjgCBsX8QNU6KV4y1BtoS3z3PW5gcDUdWpntg6KVBOK6Ya9m+j2ebyDtxBHlnsAXPPs7NVVl4hwZogIBgWd9lFfxHLVlHWRAhQ0%3D&reflink=articleemailshare...more

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• David Grinspoon (@DrFunkySpoon): Shukrayaan-1 (Venus craft) is a proposed orbiter to Venus by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to study the surface/subsurface and atmosphere of Venus. Also chemistry, & solar radiation and solar wind.

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  Photo: Logo of Indian Space Research Organisation Permissions: Public domain. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules  Twitter: @BatchelorShow David Grinspoon (@DrFunkySpoon), Senior Scientist, Planetary Science Institute; Adjunct Professor of Astrophysical and Planetary Science, University of Colorado; in re: Mars and Venus – Indian space agency is sending a probe to Venus. The Indian Venusian orbiter mission is a planned orbiter to Venus by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to study the atmosphere of Venus. It’ll be launched some time after 2020. Venus’ volcanoes, clouds of sulfuric acid, and runaway greenhouse effect.  Was Venus once like Earth in its distant past, and what clues might it provide about the future of our own planet?  Venus’ backward rotation and “forever sunsets,” plus the remarkable and heroic “Apollo 11”-like story of the Akatsuki spacecraft. Based on the success of Chandrayaan and the Mars Orbiter Mission, ISRO has been studying the feasibility of future interplanetary missions to Mars and Venus, the closest planetary neighbours to Earth. The mission concept to Venus was first presented at a Tirupati space meet in 2012.[12] The Government of India, in its budget for 2017–18 gave the Department of Space a 23% increase. Under the space sciences section, the budget mentions provisions "for Mars Orbiter Mission II and Mission to Venus", and following the 2017–18 request for grants, it was authorized to complete preliminary studies.  The three broad research areas of interest for this mission include surface/subsurface features and re-surfacing processes; second: study the atmospheric chemistry, dynamics and compositional variations, and third: study the atmospheric interaction with solar radiation and solar wind. Mysterious silver object on the surface of Mars....more

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• David Grinspoon (@DrFunkySpoon): New Horizons’ flyby of Ultima Thule, an ancient Kuiper Belt object (KBO) on the far edge of our solar system, on Jan 1. It has multiple instruments on board, including LORRI, “the eagle eyes of the spacecraft.”

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  Photo: New Horizons Permissions: NASA http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow David Grinspoon (@DrFunkySpoon), Senior Scientist, Planetary Science Institute; Adjunct Professor of Astrophysical and Planetary Science, University of Colorado; in re: New Horizons’ flyby of Ultima Thule on January 1. “Before it zips past the strange Kuiper Belt object, New Horizons is already busy at work giving astronomers a clearer picture of its target.” “This New Year’s, the New Horizons spacecraft will make a historic flyby of Ultima Thule — an ancient Kuiper Belt object (KBO) located on the far edge of our solar system. The exciting findings of this mission will not be limited to New Year’s — scientists have been and will continue to collect data from this mission and there will be plenty of groundbreaking updates both before and after the flyby actually occurs. In anticipation of the flyby, scientists are using instruments on board the craft to monitor brightness variations to try to figure out the size, shape, and rotation of the object. They're searching for moons, surveying the surrounding area for debris and other objects, and refining navigation to best observe the object while protecting the craft, Hal Weaver, a New Horizons project scientist, said at a press conference at the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society 50th annual meeting. The New Horizons spacecraft has a number of instruments on board, including LORRI, “the eagle eyes of the spacecraft,” Weaver said, describing the high-resolution camera; a massive radio dish, an infrared spectral imager, an ultraviolet spectral imager, and three separate instruments used for measuring different types of particles. Scientists have been using them to collect data and will continue to do so through the flyby....more

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• @MichaelLedeen: It's time to move corruptible bureaucrats out of D.C. and into flyover country. You can’t pay for life in the Beltway with a government bureaucrat’s salary. Extra income from where? Corruption.

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  Image:    “I’m filing a complaint that bureaucracy has crushed my soul and destroyed my desire to live” “Sir, that’s not the proper form.” Permissions: You are free to: Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format; Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material or any purpose, even commercially. 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. Author: Torben Heikel Vinther; bureaucracy :-) #jboye14 / via Instagram . The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.   http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact .  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules   Twitter: @BatchelorShow It's Time to Move Corruptible Bureaucrats Out of D.C. and into Flyover Country, by Michael Ledeen We moved to Washington from Rome in 1977. It wasn’t much, frankly, after years in Italy. The most dramatic difference was restaurants. Rome was full of great and wonderfully affordable eateries, but Washington, aside from a few great dives, only had 3-4 spots with food worth the expense. For the most part, you didn’t go to restaurants; you went to dinner parties at people’s homes. Today, D.C. is awash in expensive restaurants, some with Michelin stars even, and most of them have private dining rooms. Dinner parties in those spaces abound, and if you’re a foreign agent, or one of the FBI’s gang of spooks, you want to get inside the “private” rooms, either physically (get one of your own invited to the table) or electronically. The proliferation of expensive eateries requires money, as do private schools and costly colleges and universities, which are important to Washington parents. A smart friend pointed out to me that you can’t pay for all this with a government bureaucrat’s salary. Not even with two. But they do pay for it, and the restaurants. That means extra income from somewhere. Writing books and blogs and op-eds doesn’t come close to generating enough cash. Ergo, corruption. We’ve got people paid by Russians, Chinese, Iranians, and Saudis. Even Malaysia is playing. Just this week, a former Justice official admitted to setting up a scheme to smuggle tens of millions of dollars to Washington to defraud the government (that is, defraud us). Corruption starts early, as diplomats see their costly future can be covered by foreign regimes if only the dips do the right things in office. The same applies to corporations, foreign and domestic, especially in the military and intelligence agencies. We’re talking about helping the businesses get billion-dollar contracts, so the kickbacks and rewards are fulsome. All this money supports the high style of life in our capital. Take a look at what a night in one of our best hotels costs; most Americans will be astonished. And that’s without dinner. This helps us understand why politics—elections—are played for such high stakes: there’s a lot of money to be had. You want to dine at one of those Michelin-starred restaurants in your own private room? There are lots of friendly corruptors happy to defray your expenses. If you’re tied in to one of the establishments -- and who isn’t nowadays? — you’d better hope yours wins. Ergo, election fraud is rampant.  Don’t be so surprised at the violent opposition to voter ID laws; the wrong side might win if that were instituted. These are not so much matters of principle as matters of money. And as Washington booms—and man, does it ever—the corruption spreads and deepens. What to do? Unless you believe the police and the FBI can effectively thwart it (and you’d be foolish to believe that; just look at the corruption of the Bureau, far greater than anything I ever imagined), you’ve got to move at least some significant parts of the system out of D.C. Once upon a time, when most sensitive messages were carried by couriers, it was imperative to have all the agencies here in one place. That no longer applies. Messages now move through the ether at the push of a button, and the offices between which they move can be anywhere. So get the corruptible Washington bureaucrats out of town, and into flyover country, where there’s less corruption, fewer fancy restaurants, and maybe even decent public schools. There are plenty of benefits out there in real America. Doesn’t it make sense to have the Department of Agriculture in Nebraska? Wouldn’t it be an improvement to relocate special operations from the Pentagon to, say, Alabama? And just think how much better off we could be if CIA were taken out of the Washington political/social cesspool and quietly moved to West Texas. Sure, there are corrupt people everywhere. But we need to encourage virtue. And there’s a great deal more virtue in the hinterland than in the capital. Plenty of yummy food, too....more

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• Trump hopes for a new summit with Rocket Man as Moon welcomes Rocket Man to Seoul. Tara ), Corean-American Institute. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Trump hopes for a new summit with Rocket Man as Moon welcomes Rocket Man to Seoul. Tara ), Corean-American Institute.  @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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• PRC small business weaken as Xi fences with Trump. Andrew Collier, Orient Capital Research, Hong Kong. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow PRC small business weaken as Xi fences with Trump. Andrew Collier, Orient Capital Research, Hong Kong. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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• What does Xi Jinping want in Panama & What is to be done? @REvanEllis @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:The U.S. Navy heavy cruiser USS Houston (CA-30) going through the Panama Canal, in the 1930s. Date 1930s Source Official U.S. Navy photo 2014.32.01 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Author USN Licensing[edit] Public domain This file is a work of a sailor or employee of the U.S. Navy, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow What does Xi Jinping want in Panama & What is to be done? @REvanEllis @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast Assistant Professor of National Security Studies focused on China's engagement with Latin America https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/panama--china-sign-accords-on-xi-visit-after-diplomatic-ties-start-10994138...more

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• PRC's Huawei boss arrested at Vancouver for deportation to the US & What is to be done? Charles Burton, Brock University. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: Cordova Street, Vancouver, B.C. [looking east from Cambie Street]. Douglas & Co. Real Estate and the Royal Restaurant. Date 1890s Source  Photo from City of Vancouver Archives (Item identifier CVA 2-14) EXTENT: 1 photograph; platinum print; 19 x 25 cm  PART OF FONDS: R.H. Trueman fonds NOTE: Old URL was replaced as it was no longer valid. http://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/index.php/cordova-street-vancouver-b-c-looking-east-from-cambie-street Author Trueman, Richard H. Licensing[edit] Public domain This Canadian work is in the public domain in Canada because its copyright has expired due to one of the following:) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow PRC's Huawei boss arrested at Vancouver for deportation to the US & What is to be done? Charles Burton, Brock University. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-canada-has-arrested-huaweis-global-chief-financial-officer-in/ Canada has arrested the chief financial officer of China’s Huawei Technologies, who now faces extradition to the United States on suspicion she violated U.S. trade sanctions against Iran. Meng Wanzhou, who is also the deputy chair of Huawei’s board and the daughter of company founder Ren Zhengfei, was arrested on Saturday in Vancouver at the request of American law enforcement authorities. “She is sought for extradition by the United States, and a bail hearing has been set for Friday,” Justice Department spokesman Ian McLeod said in a statement to The Globe and Mail on Wednesday. “As there is a publication ban in effect, we cannot provide any further detail at this time. The ban was sought by Ms. Meng.”...more

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• PRC trade violations are not problems to be solved with tariffs that weaken the US. @JohnHCochrane @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Hong Kong waterfront, 1900s. Note: Queen's Building was built in 1899. The pier is probably the temporary pier off Ice House Street [1894-1911] [1], that was leased to the Star Ferry Co. from 1900. It was replaced by the Second Generation Star Ferry Pier in 1912. Date 1941 - 45 Source https://www.flickr.com/photos/acstudio/sets/72157622555491467/ Author Unknown Permission (Reusing this file)  Public domain This work is in the public domain in Hong Kong because ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow PRC trade violations are not problems to be solved with tariffs that weaken the US. @JohnHCochrane @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2018/12/flowers-not-tariffs.html?spref=tw...more

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• Lou Ann Hammond, DrivingtheNation.com: Carlos Ghosn, jailed in Tokyo over two weeks ago with no indictment because he’d proposed a Renault-Nissan merger; Japan rejected it. Police were deployed. Japan is starting to look very bad.

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  Dec 06 2018

  Photo: Tesla Model S P70 exhibited at the Salão Internacional do Automóvel 2016 São Paulo, Brazil Permissions: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. You are free: • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work • to remix – to adapt the work http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact . .  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules . . Twitter: @BatchelorShow Lou Ann Hammond, DrivingtheNation.com; a brave little robot in a Tesla, speeding down a Cali highway, the 101, with no driver: the driver apparently had passed out from intoxication. The police saw a strange vista and managed to stop the car, but it was the autonomous Tesla robot that saved the day. Tesla deserves to be in a Hall of Fame, and credit in this to Elon Musk. JB: that Tesla deserves to be in a Hall of Fame, and credit in this to Elon Musk. Apparently because Ghosn had proposed an actual Renault-Nissan merger, which the Japanese, esp the Mitsubishi leg, rejected; so the Japanese constabulary were deployed. Ghosn was thrown in jail with no indictment. Japan is starting to look very bad.* “Carlos Ghosn saved tens of thousands of jobs in France and Japan,” Hachem said in an interview. “If he made a mistake, he should be held accountable for it. But this should be done in a decent way. Why is he being humiliated in this manner? *Police may have used Tesla’s Autopilot feature to stop driver asleep at the wheel Redwood City California Highway Patrol stopped a Tesla Model 3 they suspected was running Autopilot with a drunk driver asleep at the wheel. The incident occurred last Friday, November 30th at 3:37AM PT, when officers observed a car going 70 mph on Highway 101 with a driver that appeared to be asleep. After flashing their lights and sirens in an attempt to pull the car over, the officers deployed a strategy based around their assumption that the Tesla Model 3 was running on Autopilot. According to the CHP incident report, two unit cars pulled up in front and behind the Tesla to get the car to gradually come to a stop, after a seven-mile chase. A statement from the CHP reads, “We cannot confirm at this time if the “driver assist” feature was activated but considering the vehicle’s ability to slow to a stop when [the driver] was asleep, it appears the “driver assist” feature may have been active at the time.” .. .. .. Carlos Ghosn was arrested in Tokyo on suspicion of financial misconduct more than two weeks ago, yet the world hasn't heard a word from the auto industry icon since. The reasons for his silence have a lot to do with Japan's legal system. The multimillionaire executive has been fired as chairman of Nissan (NSANY) and Mitsubishi Motors (MSBHY), and sidelined at Renault (RNSDF), even though prosecutors have yet to file any formal charges against him. An indictment would be ominous for Ghosn. More than 99% of people charged with a crime in Japan are eventually convicted, experts say. Ghosn has retained lawyers to represent him but has issued no public statement....more

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• How many nuclear warheads does the PRC possess? How many INF-banned missiles? Rick Fisher, International Assessment and Strategy Center, @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: The Trinity test base camp Federal Government of the United States - This image is available from the National Nuclear Security Administration Nevada Site Office Photo Library under number 0040439-30. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. Image of en:Trinity test base camp. Permission details This image is a work of a United States Department of Energy (or predecessor organization) employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain. Please note that national laboratories operate under varying licences and some are not free. Check the site policies of any national lab before crediting it with this tag. English | français | македонски | മലയാളം | Nederlands | русский | українська | 中文（简体）‎ | 中文（繁體）‎ | +/−View more Public Domainview terms File:Trinity basecamp.jpg Created: c. May 1945) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow How many nuclear warheads does the PRC possess? How many INF-banned missiles? Rick Fisher, International Assessment and Strategy Center, @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast...more

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• IN THE WARLORDS' SHADOW; 3 of 6: Special Operations Forces, the Afghans, and Their Fight Against the Taliban; by Daniel R Green.

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow IN THE WARLORDS' SHADOW; 3 of 6: Special Operations Forces, the Afghans, and Their Fight Against the Taliban; by Daniel R Green.  https://www.amazon.com/Warlords-Shadow-Special-Operations-Afghans/dp/161251815X/ref=laB0055JCJWS1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1505537847&sr=1-1 In 2010, U.S. special operations forces (SOF) in Afghanistan began a new and innovative program to fight the Taliban insurgency using the movement's structure and strategy against it. The Village Stability Operations/Afghan Local Police initiative consisted of U.S. Army Special Forces and U.S. Navy SEAL teams embedding with villagers to fight the Taliban holistically. By enlisting Afghans in their own defense, organizing the local populace, and addressing their grievances with the Afghan government, SOF was able to defeat the Taliban’s military as well as its political arm. Combining the traditions of U.S. Army Special Forces with the lessons learned in the broader SOF community from years of counterinsurgency work in Iraq and Afghanistan, this new approach fundamentally changed the terms of the conflict with the Taliban. However, little has been written about this initiative outside of the special operations community until now. In this first-hand account of how the Village Stability Operations program functioned, Daniel R. Green provides a long-term perspective on how SOF stabilized the southern Afghan province of Uruzgan, the site of the Pashtun uprising against the Taliban in 2001 led by Hamid Karzai, future president of Afghanistan. In the Warlords’ Shadow offers a comprehensive overview of how SOF adapted to the unique demands of the local insurgency and is a rare, inside look at how special operations confronted the Taliban by fighting a “better war” and in so doing fundamentally changed the course of the war in Afghanistan....more

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• IN THE WARLORDS' SHADOW; 4 of 6: Special Operations Forces, the Afghans, and Their Fight Against the Taliban; by Daniel R Green.

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow IN THE WARLORDS' SHADOW; 4 of 6: Special Operations Forces, the Afghans, and Their Fight Against the Taliban; by Daniel R Green.  https://www.amazon.com/Warlords-Shadow-Special-Operations-Afghans/dp/161251815X/ref=laB0055JCJWS1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1505537847&sr=1-1 In 2010, U.S. special operations forces (SOF) in Afghanistan began a new and innovative program to fight the Taliban insurgency using the movement's structure and strategy against it. The Village Stability Operations/Afghan Local Police initiative consisted of U.S. Army Special Forces and U.S. Navy SEAL teams embedding with villagers to fight the Taliban holistically. By enlisting Afghans in their own defense, organizing the local populace, and addressing their grievances with the Afghan government, SOF was able to defeat the Taliban’s military as well as its political arm. Combining the traditions of U.S. Army Special Forces with the lessons learned in the broader SOF community from years of counterinsurgency work in Iraq and Afghanistan, this new approach fundamentally changed the terms of the conflict with the Taliban. However, little has been written about this initiative outside of the special operations community until now. In this first-hand account of how the Village Stability Operations program functioned, Daniel R. Green provides a long-term perspective on how SOF stabilized the southern Afghan province of Uruzgan, the site of the Pashtun uprising against the Taliban in 2001 led by Hamid Karzai, future president of Afghanistan. In the Warlords’ Shadow offers a comprehensive overview of how SOF adapted to the unique demands of the local insurgency and is a rare, inside look at how special operations confronted the Taliban by fighting a “better war” and in so doing fundamentally changed the course of the war in Afghanistan....more

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• The Cold War: 1 of 3: A World History by Odd Arne Westad.

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: C-54s stand out against the snow at Wiesbaden Air Base during the Berlin Airlift in March 1949. U.S. Army ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Cold War: 1 of 3: A World History by Odd Arne Westad. https://www.amazon.com/Cold-War-World-History/dp/0465054935/ref=laB001ILMCVK1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1507086567&sr=1-1 From a Bancroft Prize-winning scholar, a new global history of the Cold War and its ongoing impact around the world We tend to think of the Cold War as a bounded conflict: a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, born out of the ashes of World War II and coming to a dramatic end with the collapse of the Soviet Union. But in this major new work, Bancroft Prize-winning scholar Odd Arne Westad argues that the Cold War must be understood as a global ideological confrontation, with early roots in the Industrial Revolution and ongoing repercussions around the world. In The Cold War, Westad offers a new perspective on a century when great power rivalry and ideological battle transformed every corner of our globe. From Soweto to Hollywood, Hanoi, and Hamburg, young men and women felt they were fighting for the future of the world. The Cold War may have begun on the perimeters of Europe, but it had its deepest reverberations in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, where nearly every community had to choose sides. And these choices continue to define economies and regimes across the world. Today, many regions are plagued with environmental threats, social divides, and ethnic conflicts that stem from this era. Its ideologies influence China, Russia, and the United States; Iraq and Afghanistan have been destroyed by the faith in purely military solutions that emerged from the Cold War. Stunning in its breadth and revelatory in its perspective, this book expands our understanding of the Cold War both geographically and chronologically, and offers an engaging new history of how today's world was created....more

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• @oren_cass: Robots are coming in, and AI is getting better, but we’ve always had new technologies – electricity, computers! At every stage, we need more workers than before.

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  Photo: WPA poster Permissions: US government-created artwork; in public domain.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules . Twitter: @BatchelorShow .. .. .. THE AMERICAN BUSINESS REPORT, BROUGHT TO YOU BY SCALA.COM Conservatives and the Politics of Work: Oren Cass, Mitt Romney’s former domestic-policy director, says wage subsidies are an alternative to the current welfare state and the left’s universal basic income. https://www.wsj.com/articles/conservatives-and-the-politics-of-work-1543014553 . .. .. .. Oren Cass, Manhattan Institute senior Fellow, and author, The Once and Future Worker, in re: The unemployed, the underemployed, even people who feel threatened by robots, by the new society. Is the concern about robots genuine? I think it's mostly science fiction. Robots are coming in, and AI is getting better, but we’ve always had new technologies – electricity, computers! Over time, new technologies move into the economy and have huge effects on the kinds of jobs people do, but the effect tends to take place slowly, over time, and we need all the human workers, too. At every stage, we need more workers than before. . . .  Truck driving is a great example: self-driving, long-haul trucks; we’ll still need people at many of the stages, and someone to take control. Maybe a person sitting at a central control system managing ten trucks; he can stay closer to home, work in a better environment. Also much greater emphasis on the human element—an improvement. When ATMs came in, it became much cheaper to open a new bank branch, with the result that banks now employ more people than before ATMs. They spend less time counting money and more facing customers. Technology has no bias one way or another. You do say that there needs to be an augmentation for people who are too poorly-paid. Yes, the market will find an efficient outcome, but . . .  Right now, we say you have to go to college; and if you didn’t make it, well, I’m sorry. If you care, you have to put much more emphasis on education. How we do trade and immigration. Organized labor – the present labor unions system is broken, but in theory it's good. We need a plan here. There’s a good group of folks, esp Senators in the Republican Party, who say, Work really matters. We need to focus on work....more

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• @oren_cass: UBI (universal basic income) means: free money for everyone; the government should send a check to everyone in the country for about $1,000 a month.

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  Photo: On 4 October 2013, Swiss activists from "Generation Grundeinkommen" organised a performance in Bern were eight millions of valid Swiss 5-cent coins (one per inhabitant) were dumped on a the Bundesplatz, as a celebration of the successful collection of more than 125,000 signatures for their federal popular initiative, which forced the government to hold a referendum on whether or not to incorporate the concept of basic income in the Swiss Federal Constitution. In 2016, the referendum resulted in 76.9% of votes against the introduction of a basic income. By Stefan Bohrer Permissions: This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. The person who associated a work with this deed has dedicated the work to the public domain by waiving all of his or her rights to the work worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow THE AMERICAN BUSINESS REPORT, BROUGHT TO YOU BY SCALA.COM Conservatives and the Politics of Work: Oren Cass, Mitt Romney’s former domestic-policy director, says wage subsidies are an alternative to the current welfare state and the left’s universal basic income. https://www.wsj.com/articles/conservatives-and-the-politics-of-work-1543014553   .. .. ..  Oren Cass, Manhattan Institute senior Fellow, and author, The Once and Future Worker, in re: Universal basic income – UBI. This means: free money for everyone; the govt should send a check to everyone in the country for about $1,000 a month, so you can live on it if needed. Probably to anyone with a Social Security number, plus perhaps undocumented immigrants. Maybe everyone over age eighteen. Did McGovern speak of this in 1972? The thought is that it answers poverty – needn’t worry about the safety net, declining wages.  We currently have ways of conveying assets to people who are unemployed, disabled — many versions: in come subsidy, SNAP (food stamps), daycare, subsidized housing, does the thousand dollars take the place of all that? It varies a lot from proposal to proposal. Some say replace, others say on top of the programs. A thousand dollars a month sounds like a lot till you look at health insurance, Medicaid, elders with Medicare. This kind of idea has a lot of the Devil in the details. Tax increases would be needed--might double the size of the entire federal government, Once you plunge in, there’ll be no way out, ever.  It’s more important to focus on the conceptual aspect: do we like the idea? Is this what people really need? Is saying, “That’s OK; richer people will send you a check” —is that addressing their problems in am effective way? Do we really want to live in a society where everyone is in effect a trust fund baby? Taking care of yourself is no longer your responsibility. If people are underemployed, does giving them money for breathing solve their problem? The consumer approach we've taken – consumer welfare is what matters; we measure success by your material living standard, the economic pie.  That’s not consistent with what people really care about, what’s important in their lives, to their own happiness, to their families, their communities. For those, you have to worry about work, their role in the community, in the economy. Are they productive contributors, do they feel that they’re fulfilling their obligations? Do they have a purpose? Are they taking care of themselves and their families? If those are the foundation of a healthy society, then the UBI model is no answer at all. JB: My time unemployed in life when I was a novelist, composing books or seeking publishers, I felt extremely empowered. Between those, I was discouraged. My memory is that it's very hard even as young, healthy person to walk the streets looking for work. Without a job it's difficult to maintain an even-keeled personality. OC: Yes, having something to get up and do every day is an important part of organizing a person’s life, helping give it focus, ensuring that they’re engaging with other people – when you take that away, it has a immediate negative effects on how people feel and how they spend their time. One of the most foolish things you’ll hear is, “This would free people up –you could be an artist, a poet, start a business.” That not what most people do. Those who drop out of the labor force, esp young men, the main thing they use their time for is sleeping and watching TV. It's important in ......more

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• @lizpeek, @elizabeth_peek: The aggressive behavior of this White House is the first thing that’s [stopped] the predatory conduct of China. For the first time, the American people are learning what's happened to us. High time!

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  Photo: Professor Peter Navarro of the Business School at University of California, Irvine talks of his work "Death by China" and how China cheats in the world trade system @ University of Michigan Permissions: @ The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan on 9/24/2012 This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact . .  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules . . Twitter: @BatchelorShow THE GLOBAL BUSINESS REPORT, SPONSORED BY THE REPUBLIC OF AZERBAIJAN Liz Peek, Fox News and columnist for The Hill, in re: Glad the press is treating Pres George H W Bush so kindly at the time of his demise, although it was radically unfavorable to him throughout his presidency, including lots of mendacity. . . . The aggressive behavior of this White House is the first thing that’s [stopped] the predatory conduct of China. For the first time, the American people are learning what's happened to us. High time!...more

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• @lizpeek, @elizabeth_peek: Did the Xi and Trump talk in Buenos Aires lead to the end of piracy by China of US intellectual property? The amount China has stolen to date constitutes “the largest transfer of wealth in history.”

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  Photo: President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump pose for the G20 “Family Photo” with fellow G20 leaders and their spouses Friday evening, Nov. 30, 2018, at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks) Permissions: Public domain. Taken on November 30, 2018   http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact . . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules . . Twitter: @BatchelorShow THE GLOBAL BUSINESS REPORT, SPONSORED BY THE REPUBLIC OF AZERBAIJAN Liz Peek, Fox News and columnist for The Hill, in re: Did the Buenos Aires discussion between Xi and Trump lead to the end of piracy by China of US intellectual property? The amount stolen to date constitutes “the largest transfer of wealth in history.” That’s certainly the goal of the Trump Adm; however, Xi needs to [maintain face]. Xi has been championing free trade in speeches, presenting himself as a world leader in that and, oddly, castigating the US as anti-free trade. The miracle of the people of China extends back to the Adm of George H W Bush. . . .  Larry Kudlow is quoted in Reuters; The Chinese, by eliminating the car, ag and energy commodities tariff, will provide a litmus test. It's my measure that that talk in BA is the beginning of the end of the astounding piracy. Agree; and no one has ever told the American people [the truth] about the massive theft, for which I fault our large corporations, who wanted to do business in China and make fortunes. In the event, they found that China has no rule of law, steals openly at incomprehensibly large scale, and can (and will) take over any foreign firm it chooses to. Xi was unwilling to tell the Chinese people the results of the Buenos Aires talks, so they have no idea what transpired. Larry Kudlow said in plain American: No recession in sight. Why are our journalistic colleagues still ardently looking for a recession? True that the yield curve flattened, but no other real sign of any such thing....more

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• Tales of the New Cold War: 1 of 2: Moscow asserts the Kerch Strait was a Kiev provocation. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Valley of the Shadow of Death, by Roger Fenton, one of the most famous pictures of the Crimean War[28] Roger Fenton - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppmsca.35546. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. "The valley of the shadow of death" Crimean War photograph. Dirt road in ravine scattered with cannonballs. 27.6 × 34.9 cm (10 7/8 × 13 3/4 in.), salted paper print. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Public Domain File:Valley of the shadow of death.jpg Created: 23 April 1855 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Tales of the New Cold War: 1 of 2: Moscow asserts the Kerch Strait was a Kiev provocation. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/12/ukraine-movement-kerch-strait-partially-restored-181204112249926.html Ukraine has said several ports in the Sea of Azov have been "partially unblocked" following a military standoff last week that led to 24 Ukrainian sailors being held by the Russian navy. Ukraine's Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan confirmed the minor easing of tension on Tuesday. "Yes, Berdyansk and Mariupol ports are partially unlocked. Vessels make their way to the entrance and exit through the Kerch strait towards Ukrainian ports ... the movement is partially restored," Reuters news agency quoted the minister....more

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• Tales of the New Cold War: 2 of 2: Moscow asserts the Kerch Strait was a Kiev provocation. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Kerch is one of the most ancient cities of Ukraine, and is strategically located along the Strait of Kerch between the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea. Already inhabited by the 17th century BCE, Kerch as a city started in the 7th century BCE when Greek colonists founded a city-state named Panticapaeum (fish road). Capital of an extensive kingdom, Panticapaeum suffered from Ostrogoth raids in the 1st century, and devastation by the Huns in 375. From the 6th century the city was under the Byzantine Empire. In the 7th century, the Turkic Khazars took control, and the city was named Karcha. From the 10th century the city was a Slavic settlement, then a Mongol city, then a Genoese colony in the 14th century. In 1475 Karcha passed to the Ottoman Empire. In 1771, Kerch passed into Russian hands; and finally became a city in the independent country of Ukraine. The image was acquired 22 August 2008, covers an area of 53 x 34 km, and is located near 45.3 degrees north latitude, 36.5 degrees east longitude. (Information from Wikipedia) Image credit: NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Tales of the New Cold War: 2 of 2: Moscow asserts the Kerch Strait was a Kiev provocation. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/12/ukraine-movement-kerch-strait-partially-restored-181204112249926.html Ukraine has said several ports in the Sea of Azov have been "partially unblocked" following a military standoff last week that led to 24 Ukrainian sailors being held by the Russian navy. Ukraine's Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan confirmed the minor easing of tension on Tuesday. "Yes, Berdyansk and Mariupol ports are partially unlocked. Vessels make their way to the entrance and exit through the Kerch strait towards Ukrainian ports ... the movement is partially restored," Reuters news agency quoted the minister....more

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• IN THE WARLORDS' SHADOW; 2 of 6: Special Operations Forces, the Afghans, and Their Fight Against the Taliban; by Daniel R Green. Detailed & illuminating look at COIN efforts in Uruzgan province . . . well-researched, first-person account

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  Photo: One of the biggest challenges when entering a new area in Afghanistan is earning the trust and confidence of the local community. With the presence of a new base, Patrol Base Mohammed, many people of the Mirabad Valley, Uruzgan province, are seeing their government for the first time. Permissions: This image is a work of a U.S. Army soldier or employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow   IN THE WARLORDS' SHADOW; Special Operations Forces, the Afghans, and Their Fight Against the Taliban; by Daniel R Green. Published by Naval Institute Press. One of the biggest challenges when entering a new area in Afghanistan is earning the trust and confidence of the local community. With the presence of a new base, Patrol Base Mohammed, many people of the Mirabad Valley, Uruzgan province, are seeing their government for the first time. "The Afghan government has never been out here - especially in these far, far reaches," said U.S. Army Capt. Patrick M. Blue, civil affairs team leader for the Uruzgan Provincial Reconstruction Team. "These people have never met their government, they have no idea what their government is." -- By Spc. Edward Garibay, 16th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment, March 18, 2011 • “In the Warlords’ Shadow is a superb, unflinching look at one of the most important yet most neglected endeavors of the last fifteen years of combat. Special Operations Forces raised local defense forces that successfully defended key areas of Afghanistan from the Taliban, providing an important case of partnering with nonstate local actors. Simply put, harnessing those with the most to gain—and the most to lose—is the right way to win today's wars.” —Linda Robinson, author of One Hundred Victories: Special Ops and the Future of American Warfare • “In the Warlords’ Shadow is a brilliant study of the intimate dynamics of the Afghan war, of its tribal elders, and militias and insurgents. . . . Part memoir, part reportage, and part analysis, this book is a masterpiece of local history and a crucial piece to the puzzle of understanding how to bring peace to Afghanistan.” —Anand Gopal, No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War Through Afghan Eyes • “In the Warlords’ Shadow is a rare, insider’s account into the Special Operations program Village Stability Operations which was so devastatingly effective against the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan. Dan Green’s on-the-ground perspective, as both a civilian and a member of the military, provides an insightful look into how Special Forces and SEALs eventually adapted their strategy to the unique demands of Afghan stability – in a sea of Special Operations memoirs, this one stands alone.” —Dick Couch, author of Always Faithful, Always Forward: The Forging of a Special Operations Marine and The Warrior Elite: The Forging of SEAL Class 228 • “At a time when Islamic State and other violent extremist terror groups are fomenting instability around the world—and at home, Dan Green has an answer to defeating them. In the Warlords’ Shadow is an honest and hard-hitting account of how Village Stability Operations changed the game in some of the most violently contested places of rural Afghanistan. Dan’s lessons come first hand from a warrior-diplomat who immersed himself in the local environment on an unprecedented scale. If we are serious about ending the longest war in U.S. history, our politicians, policy makers, and senior military leaders would do well to take numerous margin notes inside the pages of this book.” —Lt. Col. Scott Mann, USA (Ret.), author of Game Changers: Going Local to Defeat Violent Extremists • “Why is counterinsurgency doctrine more effective in some settings than others? And what are the keys to successfully battling an insurgency that are universal, despite the unique challenges of each conflict? These are among the questions that Dan Green answers with In the Warlords' Shadow, a highly-detailed and illuminating look at COIN efforts in Uruzgan province, Afghanistan. This well-researched, first-person account gives both historians and small wars practitioners an invaluable resource to examine the war in Afghanistan—and future conflicts that will demand the dedicated strategies, tactics, and skillsets of counterinsurgency.” —Bill Ardolino, author of Fallujah Awakens: Marines, Sheikhs, and the Battle Against al Qaeda, recipient of the 2014 General Wallace M. Greene, Jr. Award for distinguished nonfiction • “This book accurately describes why the 15-year effort of American nation-building in Afghanistan failed. Narrated in detail by an expert, this account will be studied by a generation of officers. For the civilians in our government, especially in the White House, it should be required reading.” —Bing West, author of The Village and No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle of Fallujah • “Dan Green’s In the Warlords’ Shadow delivers a vivid first-hand account of the liberation of the southern Afghan province of Uruzgan from Taliban rule. His book is a unique combination of a personal memoir, scholarly study and narrative history of the innovative ‘Village Stability Operations’ program he helped realize. Always engaging and often compelling, Green's work earns a place alongside counter-insurgency classics like Bing West's The Village and Stuart Herrington's Silence was a Weapon. No detached academic or armchair strategist, Dan Green offers the striking proposition that success in Afghanistan is actually possible, one valley and one village at a time.” —Dr. Kalev I. Sepp, former Green Beret and co-author of Weapon of Choice: U.S. Army Special Operations Forces in Afghanistan...more

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• IN THE WARLORDS' SHADOW; 1 of 6: Special Operations Forces, the Afghans, and Their Fight Against the Taliban; by Daniel R Green. Why the 15-year effort of American nation-building in Afghanistan failed. . . . it should be required reading.”

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  Photo: Smoke from early morning fires linger over wheat fields in Khas Oruzgan district, eastern Uruzgan province, June 2006. Photo by Cain S. Claxton, U.S. Army Permissions: This image is a work of a U.S. Army soldier or employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow   IN THE WARLORDS' SHADOW ; Special Operations Forces, the Afghans, and Their Fight Against the Taliban; by Daniel R Green. Published by Naval Institute Press. • “Green is perhaps one of the best-placed Americans to write definitively on the ongoing war in Afghanistan. It is clear from the first chapter that he has an unparalleled understanding of the tribal structures in Afghanistan and that he probably understood them before the rest of us realized there was a problem with the ‘search and destroy’ method.” —Naval Historical Foundation • “In the Warlord’s Shadow is forthright in its critique of U.S. strategy and highlights areas that we as a U.S. military have room to grow.” —Center for International Maritime Security (CIMSEC) • “In this first-hand account, Green offers a long-term perspective on how SOF stabilized the southern Afghan province of Uruzgan and its impact on the course of the war in Afghanistan.” —The Foreign Service Journal • "In the Warlords' Shadow tells the compelling story of SOTF-SE and its successful counterinsurgency efforts to provide stability in Uruzgan Province. It is a must read for policy makers and those desiring a better understanding of counterinsurgency warfare in Afghanistan." —Military Review • “This captivating first-person narrative offers an intimate, ground-level perspective on local engagement in the wider context of ongoing US war and peace building efforts.” —CHOICE • “Dan Green has done it again. After what I considered to be his terrific account of Fallujah, he's now brought us an accurate and compelling history of the Village Stability Operations program and the Afghan Local Police. This was one of the key features in our war against the Taliban, and Green captures its history marvelously.” —Gen. John R. Allen, USMC (Ret.), former Commander, NATO International Security Assistance Force, and Commander, U.S. Forces Afghanistan, 2011–13 • “In the Warlords’ Shadow is a riveting firsthand account of an important initiative by American Special Operations Forces to work with community leaders in Afghanistan and dramatically improve local security; it is impressively researched and written by an accomplished soldier and scholar.” —Gen. David Petraeus, USA (Ret.), former Commander, NATO International Security Assistance Force, and Commander, U.S. Forces Afghanistan, 2010–11 • “Dan Green brings his considerable military expertise and knowledge of Afghanistan to reflect deeply on the Special Forces-led war in Uruzgan, deep in the heart of Taliban country. Green writes with great authority about this largely unknown conflict and his book is important for anyone who wants to understand how Special Forces work in the field and for those who want to better comprehend the tribal and political structures of southern Afghanistan.” —Peter Bergen, United States of Jihad: Investigating America's Homegrown Terrorists • “The author of three books… you can tell he knows what he is talking about… his message is worthwhile.” —Military Times Fall Reading Guide • “…Green makes interesting points defining the problem with earlier counterinsurgency efforts and has produced a well-documented personal account of his trials and tribulations in Afghanistan…” —Modern War Institute...more

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• Gavin Newsome takes command of deeply Blue and ambitious California & What is to be done? @HooverWhalen @HooverInst

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Orange County Archives Follow Huntington Beach Pier, circa 1930  There are no known copyright restrictions on this image. All future uses of this photo should include the courtesy line, "Photo courtesy Orange County Archives." ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Gavin Newsome takes command of deeply Blue and ambitious California & What is to be done? @HooverWhalen @HooverInst

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• Soviet turmoil in Azerbaijan 1972 transforms into the Azeri peacefulness in Azerbaijan in 2018. Rabbi Abraham Cooper @simonwiesenthal

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: Tourist map of Baku (Baku, panoramnyi plan 1970g.) Created/Published by Central Intelligence Agency, 1972. Date 1970 Source  US-LibraryOfCongress-BookLogo.svg This map is available from the United States Library of Congress's Geography & Map Division under the digital ID g7144b.ct002932. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. العربية | čeština | Deutsch | English | español | فارسی | suomi | français | עברית | magyar | italiano | македонски | മലയാളം | Nederlands | polski | português | português do Brasil | русский | slovenčina | slovenščina | Türkçe | українська | 中文 | 中文（简体）‎ | 中文（繁體）‎ | +/− Author Washington : Central Intelligence Agency, 1972 Licensing[edit] Public domain This work is in the public domain  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Soviet turmoil in Azerbaijan 1972 transforms into the Azeri peacefulness in Azerbaijan in 2018. Rabbi Abraham Cooper @simonwiesenthal THE GLOBAL BUSINESS REPORT, SPONSORED BY THE REPUBLIC OF AZERBAIJAN Tuesday 4 September 2018/ Hour 1, Block C: Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean and director of the Global Action Center of the Simon Wiesenthal Center; in re: Rabbi Cooper has just returned from a visit to Azerbaijan, which is a paradigm of tolerance and multi-religious freedom. Part of it is tradition: some of these trace back to the time of Solomon’s temple. However, considering how it's been maintained, this is excellent. The leaders, Pres Aliyev and others, have carefully nurtured history and tradition, with a government invested in what they call multiculturalism and we call peaceful coexistence. Rabbi Cooper saw how Jews were treated in Baku under the USSR: an atheistic system trying to decouple religion from the society; oppression obtained then across the board. However, people were not crushed; they celebrated High Holy Days. Azeris were lucky to have this current leader. I visited in 1972; most of those whom I met were able to emigrate to Israel; the Mountain Jews, isolated for thousands of years, stayed. I also visited Sunni and Shi’a Muslims this time; whatever they’re drinking – it works. There are places in Europe, in Sweden and Berlin, where it’s a good idea for me to take off my kipa; in Azerbaijan, not at all. There’s [anti-Jewish] pressure from Iran, and some from Turkey; nonetheless. the leadership stays strong and the press constantly emphasizes what a peaceful and religiously tolerant country Azerbaijan is....more

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• How the "intraslab" Alaska earthquake of 2018: 2 of 2: compares to the "mega thrust Alaska earthquake of 1964 @HenryFountain

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Album: #Vintage photosUsage: public domain (CC0)Orientation: Landscape (cropped)Resolution: 1446 × 942Megapixels: 1.4 MPAuthor: Hipkins, USFWS  Donate Coffee  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow How the "intraslab" Alaska earthquake of 2018: 2 of 2:  compares to the "mega thrust Alaska earthquake of 1964 @HenryFountain https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/30/us/earthquake-anchorage-alaska.html?rref=collection%2Fbyline%2Fhenry-fountain...more

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• How the "intraslab" Alaska earthquake of 2018: 1 of 2: compares to the "mega thrust Alaska earthquake of 1964 @HenryFountain

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Three C-130's from the 36th Airlift Squadron, Yokota AB, Japan and Air National Guard (ANG) base at Anchorage Alaska, line the snow-cleared runway 05 in preparation for take-off file_downloadDOWNLOAD save_alt Thumbnail 200x200 save_alt Small 640x425 save_alt Medium 1024x680 save_alt Large 1600x1063 save_alt Original 2860x1900 crop_originalORDER PRINT description Summary The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Elmendorf Air Force Base State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: SRA Jeromy Cross Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files label_outline Tags threeairliftsquadronairlift squadronyokotayokota abjapanair national guardangbaseanchoragealaskaanchorage alaskalinerunwaypreparationtake offnational guardc 130elmendorf air force base date_range Date 04/03/1996 create Source The U.S. National Archives link Link https://catalog.archives.gov/ copyright Rights advisory Public Domain  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow How the "intraslab" Alaska earthquake of 2018: 1 of 2: compares to the "mega thrust Alaska earthquake of 1964 @HenryFountain https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/30/us/earthquake-anchorage-alaska.html?rref=collection%2Fbyline%2Fhenry-fountain...more

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• Who met with Michael Cohen in the Trump Tower lobby June 14, 2016: 1 of 2: and Why?

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Who met with Michael Cohen in the Trump Tower lobby June 14, 2016: 1 of 2: and Why? https://turcopolier.typepad.com/sicsempertyrannis/2018/11/felix-sater-may-be-the-rosetta-stone-to-unlocking-the-conspiracy-between-the-fbi-and-the-cia-to-destroy-the-candidacy-and-la.html

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• Who met with Michael Cohen in the Trump Tower lobby June 14, 2016: 2 of 2: and Why?

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Who met with Michael Cohen in the Trump Tower lobby June 14, 2016: 2 of 2: and Why? https://turcopolier.typepad.com/sicsempertyrannis/2018/11/felix-sater-may-be-the-rosetta-stone-to-unlocking-the-conspiracy-between-the-fbi-and-the-cia-to-destroy-the-candidacy-and-la.html

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• @AlanTonelson: Fear of Chinese retaliations; but few US-based manufacturers are in the Walmart supply chain; they were squeezed out long ago. Pres Trump must explain to Americans that this is part of national security, is unavoidable and essential.

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  Photo: Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan (1900) Permissions: Tis image was reviewed on 24 September 2015 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the No known copyright restrictions. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Alan Tonelson, independent consultant who blogs at RealityChek (@AlanTonelson), in re: How do US mfrs hear “truce” between the US and China? Two groups: multinational manufacturers, who've invested heavily in the Chinese mkt, and whose US operations depend on importing cheap Chinese parts. The second is purely domestic mfrs, make money supplying the multinationals and in the last several decades have been squeezed out by China’s cheap goods. The big mfrs are so afraid of Chines retaliations. Disruption of their Chinese operations and global supply chains, and their profits would take something of a hit. Also, global supply chains are intrinsically flexible; these companies have a lot of experience moving from country to country and will land on their feet. Take Walmart: in the next 60 days, it’ll make 90% of its purchasing commitments for 2019. This coincides with the 90-day “truce.” There are few US-based mfrs in the Walmart supply chain; they were squeezed out long ago. A shame. That’s why Pres Trump needs to do a better job explaining to the American voter that this is part of national security, is unavoidable and essential. The multinationals, along with the big-box retails, will stoke fear; but the US holds so many of the cards over China – when all is said and done, the US doesn’t export much; therefore, the scale of the economic hit will be relatively modest. Trump needs to go down this road sooner, before the 2020 campaign begins. Odd; in the Cold War, mfrs understood this? Big difference – the US had invested hardly anything in the USSR....more

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• @GordonGChang: The US thinks that if we offer concessions, that’ll be appreciated by China. The Chinese don't think that way; they pummel their adversaries into the ground, & will no doubt steal up to $100 bil in the coming 90 days of economic truce.

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  Image: The Office of International Intellectual Property Enforcement (IPE) represents the genius of America to the world. Reflecting America’s imagination, intellectual property is the lifeblood of our economy. Permissions: Produced by the US Department of State; thus is in public domain. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Gordon Chang, Daily Beast, in re: Negotiation between Xi and Trump. The US thinks that if we offer concessions, that’ll be appreciated by the Chinese. Chinese don't think that way; they pummel their adversaries into the ground, and will no doubt steal up to $100 bil in the coming 90 days. Why did we do that? Ask Steve Mnuchin and Larry Kudlow. “It’s different this time,” said Kudlow. No it's not. . . The one thing we don't have is the political will to defend the American worker. Has the US leadership sat in a room with cameras and spoken of this list of [depredations]? Yes, in Sept 2105, XI sat with the predecessor president The only different thing this time is that on CNBC, China agreed to buy $1.2 trillion of stuff – agricultural. Washington continues to see this through one prism. Yes, and they place more emphasis on stack mkt results- loo at he Dow, the S&P, but not at the workers in the United States. A lot of families have been devastated buy loss of income, Awe need to see that China poses a comprehensive danger to the US, not just economic. What percentage tariff would affect China’s decision? 25%? Maybe – might be 100%; many people don’t care for tariffs but prefer a straightforward import ban, I want to stop the IP theft, the trade predation. Till now, we haven’t had a president willing to confront the challenges; we have one now, but he’s not willing to do something effective. HuaWei: director of MI6 is now speaking against Huawei. ZTE, its competitor/compadre, again has violated a major agreement by selling Dell Eqpt to Venezuela. We need to impose a fourteen-year ban on ZTW and put it out of business. Is this the Christmas Truce of 1914 repeated, where Germans and American troops joined for schnapps and carolling then retreated and the next day began slaughtering each other again?...more

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• @BillRoggio: Afghanistan. Are the Taliban just running out the clock? Yes; US is desperate to get out; Taliban laughs. Will Ashraf Ghani survive? I doubt it–I don’t think even the government will. I think in short order it’ll go back to warlordism.

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  Photo: The taller Buddha of Bamiyan before (left picture) and after destruction (right).  Permissions: 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 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow THE NATIONAL SECURITY REPORT, BROUGHT TO YOU BY SCALA.COM 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, discuss the al Qaeda publication of, “The Love Story between Salman al Saud and the Pirate Trump.” Al Q follows our reporting carefully. At last week’s conference in Geneva: Taliban will negotiate with the US, but not with the “impotent Kabul administration” – the Afghan government. Are the Taliban just running out the clock? Yes, I think so: the US is desperate to get out; wants a negotiated settlement by the April election. Taliban laughs. Will Ashraf Ghani survive? I doubt it – I don’t think the government will. I think in short order it’ll go back to warlordism....more

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• @BillRoggio: Afghanistan. Are the Taliban just running out the clock? Yes; US is desperate to get out; Taliban laughs. Will Ashraf Ghani survive? I doubt it–I don’t think even the government will. I think in short order it’ll go back to warlordism.

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  Photo: The taller Buddha of Bamiyan before (left picture) and after destruction (right). Permissions: 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 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow THE NATIONAL SECURITY REPORT BROUGHT TO YOU BY SCALA.COM 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, discuss the al Qaeda publication of, “The Love Story between Salman al Saud and the Pirate Trump.” Al Q follows our reporting carefully. At last week’s conference in Geneva: Taliban will negotiate with the US, but not with the “impotent Kabul administration” – the Afghan government. Are the Taliban just running out the clock? Yes, I think so: the US is desperate to get out; wants a negotiated settlement by the April election. Taliban laughs. Will Ashraf Ghani survive? I doubt it – I don’t think even the government will. I think in short order it’ll go back to warlordism....more

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• "Indiana" Hoenlein and the lost Pontius Pilate ring of Herodium. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotter

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: Remains of the ancient Roman aqueduct The original uploader was Mark87 at English Wikipedia. - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons. Ruins of the Roman aqueduct at Caesarea Maritima. Permission details This work has been released into the public domain by its author, Mark87 at English Wikipedia. This applies worldwide. In some countries this may not be legally possible; if so: Mark87 grants anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.View more Public Domainview terms File:Caesarea Maritima aqueduct.jpg Created: 31 March 2007) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Indiana" Hoenlein and the lost Pontius Pilate ring of Herodium. Malcolm Hoenlein @Confofpres @ThadMcCotter...more

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• George H.W. Bush and the rescue of the Ethiopian Jews, the Syria Jews, the Russian Jews. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: Ethiopian Olim stepping out of the IAF's Hercules, May 25, 1991 Government Press Office (Israel) LINE OF ETHIOPIAN IMMIGRANTS STREAMING OUT OF THE HERCULES, WALKING TO THE BUSES, AIR FORCE BASE, OPERATION SOLOMON. עולים חדשים מאתיופיה יורדים ממטוס הרקולס במסגרת הבאתם לארץ, מבצע שלמה CC BY-SA 3.0 File:Flickr - Government Press Office (GPO) - LINE OF ETHIOPIAN IMMIGRANTS STREAMING OUT OF THE HERCULES.jpg Created: 25 May 1991) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow George H.W. Bush and the rescue of the Ethiopian Jews, the Syria Jews, the Russian Jews. Malcolm Hoenlein @Confofpres...more

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• Remembering the Clinton Democrats and media mocking George HW Bush as a wimp. @JedBabbin @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Remembering the Clinton Democrats and media mocking George HW Bush as a wimp. @JedBabbin @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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• Is Washington aware that NYC is laughing at Michael Cohen? @JedBabbin @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:ription Summary This famous watercolor view by William Birch shows the only section of the Capitol that had been completed when the government moved to Washington in 1800. Workmen are still cutting stones in the left foreground, and the city can be seen in the distance on the right. label_outline Tags united states capitol washington dccapitolswatercolorsamericanwashington dcviewcapitolwashingtonbritishunited states capitol1800 date_range Date 01/01/1800 person Contributors Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834, artist place Location washington dc create Source Library of Congress link Link http://www.loc.gov/ copyright Rights advisory Public Domain ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Is Washington aware that NYC is laughing at Michael Cohen? @JedBabbin @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter...more

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• A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka: 1 of 2: A Memoir by Lev Golinkin.

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Kuyalnyckyi (formerly Andrewski) Liman, the Kurhaus, Odessa, Russian Empire Українська: Курорт Куяльник (грязелікарня), вигляд з гори. Хромолітографія, 1895 рік Date 1895 Source  US-LibraryOfCongress-BookLogo.svg This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppmsc.03858. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. العربية | čeština | Deutsch | English | español | فارسی | suomi | français | עברית | magyar | italiano | македонски | മലയാളം | Nederlands | polski | português | português do Brasil | русский | slovenčina | slovenščina | Türkçe | українська | 中文 | 中文（简体）‎ | 中文（繁體）‎ | +/− Restoration by Trialsanderrors: Andrewski Liman, the Kurhaus, Odessa, Ukraine, Russian Empire, ca. 1895 Author Detroit Publishing Co. Other versions  Kuyalnik liman hospital.jpg Licensing[edit] Public domain This work is in the public domain ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka: 1 of 2: A Memoir by Lev Golinkin.  https://www.amazon.com/Backpack-Bear-Eight-Crates-Vodka/dp/0345806336/ref=laB00JAL5BXQ1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1479607739&sr=1-1 ""[A] hilarious and heartbreaking story of a Jewish family’s escape from oppression."--The New York Times A compelling story of two intertwined journeys: a Jewish refugee family fleeing persecution and a young man seeking to reclaim a shattered past. In the twilight of the Cold War (the late 1980s), nine-year old Lev Golinkin and his family cross the Soviet border with only ten suitcases, $600, and the vague promise of help awaiting in Vienna. Years later, Lev, now an American adult, sets out to retrace his family's long trek, locate the strangers who fought for his freedom, and in the process, gain a future by understanding his past. 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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• A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka: 2 of 2: A Memoir by Lev Golinkin.

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:hotochrom Print Collection Title  Rue Richelieu, Odessa, Russia, (i.e., Ukraine) Date between 1890 and 1900 Dimensions 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color. Accession number  LCCN2001697469 Credit line  US-LibraryOfCongress-BookLogo.svg This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppmsc.03861. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. العربية | čeština | Deutsch | English | español | فارسی | suomi | français | עברית | magyar | italiano | македонски | മലയാളം | Nederlands | polski | português | português do Brasil | русский | slovenčina | slovenščina | Türkçe | українська | 中文 | 中文（简体）‎ | 中文（繁體）‎ | +/− Source/Photographer  Library of Congress Catalog: http://lccn.loc.gov/2001697469 Permission (Reusing this file)  Public domain This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1923. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka: 2 of 2: A Memoir by Lev Golinkin.  https://www.amazon.com/Backpack-Bear-Eight-Crates-Vodka/dp/0345806336/ref=laB00JAL5BXQ1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1479607739&sr=1-1 ""[A] hilarious and heartbreaking story of a Jewish family’s escape from oppression."--The New York Times A compelling story of two intertwined journeys: a Jewish refugee family fleeing persecution and a young man seeking to reclaim a shattered past. In the twilight of the Cold War (the late 1980s), nine-year old Lev Golinkin and his family cross the Soviet border with only ten suitcases, $600, and the vague promise of help awaiting in Vienna. Years later, Lev, now an American adult, sets out to retrace his family's long trek, locate the strangers who fought for his freedom, and in the process, gain a future by understanding his past. 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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• Hell and Good Company:1 of 2: The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made by Richard Rhodes.

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  Dec 03 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: Russian writer Mikhail Koltsov photo. Español: Soldados republicanos del Quinto Regimiento marchando en Madrid. Русский: Фотография марширующих солдат 5 полка республиканцев (Мадрид). "Испанский дневник". Date 16 September 1936 Source Own work photo Author Mikhail Koltsov Permission (Reusing this file)  Public domain This work is in the public domain in Russia according to article 1281 of Book IV of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation No. 230-FZ of December 18, 2006 and article 6 of Law No. 231-FZ of the Russian Federation of December 18, 2006 (the Implementation Act for Book IV of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation). Usually:[1]) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Hell and Good Company:1 of 2:  The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made by Richard Rhodes. https://www.amazon.com/Hell-Good-Company-Spanish-Civil/dp/1451696213/ref=sr18?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1502037735&sr=1-8&keywords=richard+rhodes From the Pulitzer Prize–winning and bestselling author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb—the remarkable story of the Spanish Civil War through the eyes of the reporters, writers, artists, doctors, and nurses who witnessed it. The Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) inspired and haunted an extraordinary number of exceptional artists and writers, including Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Martha Gellhorn, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, and John Dos Passos. The idealism of the cause—defending democracy from fascism at a time when Europe was darkening toward another world war—and the brutality of the conflict drew from them some of their best work: Guernica, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Homage to Catalonia, The Spanish Earth. The war spurred breakthroughs in military and medical technology as well. New aircraft, new weapons, new tactics and strategy all emerged in the intense Spanish conflict. Indiscriminate destruction raining from the sky became a dreaded reality for the first time. Progress also arose from the horror: the doctors and nurses who volunteered to serve with the Spanish defenders devised major advances in battlefield surgery and front-line blood transfusion. In those ways, and in many others, the Spanish Civil War served as a test bed for World War II, and for the entire twentieth century. From the life of John James Audubon to the invention of the atomic bomb, readers have long relied on Richard Rhodes to explain, distill, and dramatize crucial moments in history. Now, he takes us into battlefields and bomb shelters, into the studios of artists, into the crowded wards of war hospitals, and into the hearts and minds of a rich cast of characters to show how the ideological, aesthetic, and technological developments that emerged in Spain changed the world forever....more

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• Hell and Good Company:2 of 2: The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made by Richard Rhodes.

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  Dec 03 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Soviet writer Mikhail Koltsov photo in Madrid. Русский: Фотография лозунга "Но Пасаран!" в Мадриде Михаила Кольцова. "Испанский дневник". Date 1936 or 1937 arter 1936-08-19 - before 1937 Source Оригинал (1936) сделан фотоаппаратом "ФЭД". Own work photo Author Mikhail Koltsov Permission (Reusing this file)  Public domain  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 less.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Hell and Good Company:2 of 2: The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made by Richard Rhodes. https://www.amazon.com/Hell-Good-Company-Spanish-Civil/dp/1451696213/ref=sr18?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1502037735&sr=1-8&keywords=richard+rhodes From the Pulitzer Prize–winning and bestselling author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb—the remarkable story of the Spanish Civil War through the eyes of the reporters, writers, artists, doctors, and nurses who witnessed it. The Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) inspired and haunted an extraordinary number of exceptional artists and writers, including Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Martha Gellhorn, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, and John Dos Passos. The idealism of the cause—defending democracy from fascism at a time when Europe was darkening toward another world war—and the brutality of the conflict drew from them some of their best work: Guernica, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Homage to Catalonia, The Spanish Earth. The war spurred breakthroughs in military and medical technology as well. New aircraft, new weapons, new tactics and strategy all emerged in the intense Spanish conflict. Indiscriminate destruction raining from the sky became a dreaded reality for the first time. Progress also arose from the horror: the doctors and nurses who volunteered to serve with the Spanish defenders devised major advances in battlefield surgery and front-line blood transfusion. In those ways, and in many others, the Spanish Civil War served as a test bed for World War II, and for the entire twentieth century. From the life of John James Audubon to the invention of the atomic bomb, readers have long relied on Richard Rhodes to explain, distill, and dramatize crucial moments in history. Now, he takes us into battlefields and bomb shelters, into the studios of artists, into the crowded wards of war hospitals, and into the hearts and minds of a rich cast of characters to show how the ideological, aesthetic, and technological developments that emerged in Spain changed the world forever....more

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• 4/4 @alexwitze: Volcanic eruptions change everything. When the ash gets into the high atmosphere, it can enter the jet engines, melt them. Sulphur spreads out like a big sunscreen reflecting sunlight back into space, causing really cold winters.

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  Dec 02 2018

  Map: Iceland on the carta marina by Olaus Magnus, 1539 Permissions: The author died in 1557, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or less. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1923. Island on Fire: The Extraordinary Story of a Forgotten Volcano that Changed the World, by Alexandra Witze and Jeff Kanipe Can a single explosion change the course of history? An eruption at the end of the 18th century led to years of climate change while igniting famine, disease, even perhaps revolution. Laki is one of Iceland’s most fearsome volcanoes. Laki is Iceland’s largest volcano. Its eruption in 1783 is one of history’s great, untold natural disasters. Spewing out sun-blocking ash and then a poisonous fog for eight long months, the effects of the eruption lingered across the world for years. It caused the deaths of people as far away as the Nile and created catastrophic conditions throughout Europe. Island on Fire is the story not only of a single eruption but the people whose lives it changed, the dawn of modern volcanology, as well as the history―and potential―of other super-volcanoes like Laki around the world. And perhaps most pertinently, in the wake of the eruption of another Icelandic volcano, Eyjafjallajökull, which closed European air space in 2010, acclaimed science writers Witze and Kanipe look at what might transpire should Laki erupt again in our lifetime. https://www.amazon.com/Island-Fire-Extraordinary-Forgotten-Volcano/dp/1605989584/ref=mtpaperback?encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=...more

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• 3/4 @alexwitze. In England, enormous thunderstorms that affrighted & distressed; the lurid sun blank as a clouded moon. Heat so intense, meat could hardly be eaten the day after it was killed; flies so swarmed they rendered the horses half frantic

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  Dec 02 2018

  Photo: Lava flow during a rift eruption at Krafla volcano (caldera), northern Iceland, in 1984. Permissions: This image is in the public domain in the United States because it contains only materials that originally came from the United States Geological Survey, an agency of the United States Department of the Interior. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules  Twitter: @BatchelorShow  Island on Fire: The Extraordinary Story of a Forgotten Volcano that Changed the World, by Alexandra Witze and Jeff Kanipe Can a single explosion change the course of history? An eruption at the end of the 18th century led to years of climate change while igniting famine, disease, even perhaps revolution. Laki is one of Iceland’s most fearsome volcanoes. Laki is Iceland’s largest volcano. Its eruption in 1783 is one of history’s great, untold natural disasters. Spewing out sun-blocking ash and then a poisonous fog for eight long months, the effects of the eruption lingered across the world for years. It caused the deaths of people as far away as the Nile and created catastrophic conditions throughout Europe. Island on Fire is the story not only of a single eruption but the people whose lives it changed, the dawn of modern volcanology, as well as the history―and potential―of other super-volcanoes like Laki around the world. And perhaps most pertinently, in the wake of the eruption of another Icelandic volcano, Eyjafjallajökull, which closed European air space in 2010, acclaimed science writers Witze and Kanipe look at what might transpire should Laki erupt again in our lifetime. https://www.amazon.com/Island-Fire-Extraordinary-Forgotten-Volcano/dp/1605989584/ref=mtpaperback?encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=...more

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• 2/4 @alexwitze. Priest wrote, more poison fell from the sky than words can describe: ash, volcanic hairs, rain of sulfur & saltpeter. Livestock [flesh] turned yellow & raw. All the earth's plants burned as the fire increased & neared the settlements

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  Photo: An anciently-formed lava outcrop, Lakagigar, Iceland. Permissions: Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. 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 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules  Twitter: @BatchelorShow  Island on Fire: The Extraordinary Story of a Forgotten Volcano that Changed the World, by Alexandra Witze and Jeff Kanipe Can a single explosion change the course of history? An eruption at the end of the 18th century led to years of climate change while igniting famine, disease, even perhaps revolution. Laki is one of Iceland’s most fearsome volcanoes. Laki is Iceland’s largest volcano. Its eruption in 1783 is one of history’s great, untold natural disasters. Spewing out sun-blocking ash and then a poisonous fog for eight long months, the effects of the eruption lingered across the world for years. It caused the deaths of people as far away as the Nile and created catastrophic conditions throughout Europe. Island on Fire is the story not only of a single eruption but the people whose lives it changed, the dawn of modern volcanology, as well as the history―and potential―of other super-volcanoes like Laki around the world. And perhaps most pertinently, in the wake of the eruption of another Icelandic volcano, Eyjafjallajökull, which closed European air space in 2010, acclaimed science writers Witze and Kanipe look at what might transpire should Laki erupt again in our lifetime. https://www.amazon.com/Island-Fire-Extraordinary-Forgotten-Volcano/dp/1605989584/ref=mtpaperback?encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=...more

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• 1/4 @alexwitze. Laki or Lakagígar (Craters of Laki), a volcanic fissure in the south of Iceland, erupted violently between June 1783 & Feb, pouring out 42 billion tons of basalt lava & clouds of poisonous hydrofluoric acid & sulfur dioxide compounds

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  Photo: A contemporary photo, overview of the second fissure on Fimmvörðuháls, close to Eyjafjallajökull, as the lava flows down towards the north, turning snow into steam. [Note that ð, the letter "thorn," is pronounced "th," same as in faith or thorn.] Permissions: I, the copyright holder of this work [author: Boaworm], hereby publish it under the following license: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules  Twitter: @BatchelorShow   . . Island on Fire: The Extraordinary Story of a Forgotten Volcano that Changed the World, by Alexandra Witze and Jeff Kanipe Can a single explosion change the course of history? An eruption at the end of the 18th century led to years of climate change while igniting famine, disease, even perhaps revolution. Laki is one of Iceland’s most fearsome volcanoes. Laki is Iceland’s largest volcano. Its eruption in 1783 is one of history’s great, untold natural disasters. Spewing out sun-blocking ash and then a poisonous fog for eight long months, the effects of the eruption lingered across the world for years. It caused the deaths of people as far away as the Nile and created catastrophic conditions throughout Europe. Island on Fire is the story not only of a single eruption but the people whose lives it changed, the dawn of modern volcanology, as well as the history―and potential―of other super-volcanoes like Laki around the world. And perhaps most pertinently, in the wake of the eruption of another Icelandic volcano, Eyjafjallajökull, which closed European air space in 2010, acclaimed science writers Witze and Kanipe look at what might transpire should Laki erupt again in our lifetime. https://www.amazon.com/Island-Fire-Extraordinary-Forgotten-Volcano/dp/1605989584/ref=mtpaperback?encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= .....more

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• All in the Family: 1 of 2: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s by Robert O. Self

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  Dec 02 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Civil Rights leaders Martin Luther King, Jr., Whitney Young, James Farmer Date 18 January 1964 Source Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum. Image Serial Number: W425-21. http://photolab.lbjlib.utexas.edu/detail.asp?id=9853 Author  Yoichi Okamoto (1915–1985) Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q8054507 Permission (Reusing this file)  PD Other versions  Image extraction process This file has an extracted image: File:African-American-history.jpg. Extracted version Licensing[edit] PD-icon.svg This image is a work of an employee of the Executive Office of the President of the United States, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow All in the Family: 1 of 2: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s by Robert O. Self https://www.amazon.com/All-Family-Realignment-American-Democracy-ebook/dp/B007TJ1C2A/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1543790738&sr=1-1&keywords=Robert+O+Self In the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty promised an array of federal programs to assist working-class families. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan declared the GOP the party of "family values" and promised to keep government out of Americans' lives. Again and again, historians have sought to explain the nation's profound political realignment from the 1960s to the 2000s, five decades that witnessed the fracturing of liberalism and the rise of the conservative right. The award-winning historian Robert O. Self is the first to argue that the separate threads of that realignment—from civil rights to women's rights, from the antiwar movement to Nixon's "silent majority," from the abortion wars to gay marriage, from the welfare state to neoliberal economic policies—all ran through the politicized American family. Based on an astonishing range of sources, All in the Family rethinks an entire era. Self opens his narrative with the Great Society and its assumption of a white, patriotic, heterosexual man at the head of each family. Soon enough, civil rights activists, feminists, and gay rights activists, animated by broader visions of citizenship, began to fight for equal rights, protections, and opportunities. Led by Pauli Murray, Gloria Steinem, Harvey Milk, and Shirley Chisholm, among many others, they achieved lasting successes, including Roe v. Wade, antidiscrimination protections in the workplace, and a more inclusive idea of the American family. Yet the establishment of new rights and the visibility of alternative families provoked, beginning in the 1970s, a furious conservative backlash. Politicians and activists on the right, most notably George Wallace, Phyllis Schlafly, Anita Bryant, and Jerry Falwell, built a political movement based on the perceived moral threat to the traditional family. Self writes that "family values" conservatives in fact "paved the way" for fiscal conservatives, who shared a belief in liberalism's invasiveness but lacked a populist message. Reagan's presidency united the two constituencies, which remain, even in these tumultuous times, the base of the Republican Party. All in the Family, an erudite, passionate, and persuasive explanation of our current political situation and how we arrived in it, will allow us to think anew about the last fifty years of American politics....more

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• All in the Family: 2 of 2: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s by Robert O. Self

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  Dec 02 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: n  English: President Lyndon B. Johnson shakes hands with crowd members Date 30 June 1966 Source http://lbjlibrary.org/collections/photo-archive/photolab-detail.html?id=443 Author  Yoichi Okamoto (1915–1985) Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q8054507 Permission (Reusing this file)  Public Domain: This image is in the public domain and may be used free of charge without permissions or fees.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow All in the Family: 2 of 2: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s by Robert O. Self https://www.amazon.com/All-Family-Realignment-American-Democracy-ebook/dp/B007TJ1C2A/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1543790738&sr=1-1&keywords=Robert+O+Self In the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty promised an array of federal programs to assist working-class families. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan declared the GOP the party of "family values" and promised to keep government out of Americans' lives. Again and again, historians have sought to explain the nation's profound political realignment from the 1960s to the 2000s, five decades that witnessed the fracturing of liberalism and the rise of the conservative right. The award-winning historian Robert O. Self is the first to argue that the separate threads of that realignment—from civil rights to women's rights, from the antiwar movement to Nixon's "silent majority," from the abortion wars to gay marriage, from the welfare state to neoliberal economic policies—all ran through the politicized American family. Based on an astonishing range of sources, All in the Family rethinks an entire era. Self opens his narrative with the Great Society and its assumption of a white, patriotic, heterosexual man at the head of each family. Soon enough, civil rights activists, feminists, and gay rights activists, animated by broader visions of citizenship, began to fight for equal rights, protections, and opportunities. Led by Pauli Murray, Gloria Steinem, Harvey Milk, and Shirley Chisholm, among many others, they achieved lasting successes, including Roe v. Wade, antidiscrimination protections in the workplace, and a more inclusive idea of the American family. Yet the establishment of new rights and the visibility of alternative families provoked, beginning in the 1970s, a furious conservative backlash. Politicians and activists on the right, most notably George Wallace, Phyllis Schlafly, Anita Bryant, and Jerry Falwell, built a political movement based on the perceived moral threat to the traditional family. Self writes that "family values" conservatives in fact "paved the way" for fiscal conservatives, who shared a belief in liberalism's invasiveness but lacked a populist message. Reagan's presidency united the two constituencies, which remain, even in these tumultuous times, the base of the Republican Party. All in the Family, an erudite, passionate, and persuasive explanation of our current political situation and how we arrived in it, will allow us to think anew about the last fifty years of American politics....more

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• 4.@henryfountain: Plafker sees that this vast expanse lurched at a shallow angle and thrust into something else! Earth has plates & subsets; Pacific Ring of Fire. Subduction distorts, heats, compresses the rocks, and earthquakes release the pressures.

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  Dec 02 2018

  Photo: Alaska 1964 Good Friday earthquake and tsunami damage. Image ID: cgs02076, NOAA's Historic Coast & Geodetic Survey (C&GS) Collection. Alaska, Kodiak; 1964 April. Coast and Geodetic Survey/Geophysics Seismology/Earthquake/Tsunami/ Permissions: Public domain: publication of the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Adminstration (NOAA), NOAA Central Library http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet, by Henry Fountain George Plafker sees that this vast expanse lurched at a shallow angle and thrust into something else! Like one piece sliding into another. Presents a paper: demolished opposing arguments; blossoming of the plate tectonics theory. Earth has plates and subsets; Pacific Ring of Fire. Subduction distorts, heats, compresses the rocks, and earthquakes release the pressures. Megathrust quakes, 9.0-plus; the fault was 500 miles long and 60 feet wide. .. .. ..    A veteran science journalist illuminates the significance of the biggest earthquake ever recorded in North America. In his first book, New York Times reporter and editor Fountain combines scientific expertise and human interest storytelling to detail the devastation wreaked by the massive 1964 earthquake and explain why it hasn’t gotten more attention and has been all but forgotten less than 60 years later. As the author makes clear, the quake, which took place on Good Friday, March 27, was truly a horrific disaster to experience: its magnitude was 9.2, and it lasted “the better part of five minutes, which is an eternity for an earthquake.”  Furthermore, “the energy released was equivalent to thousands of A-bombs,” and it opened cracks that were 6 feet wide, 4 feet deep, and a quarter-mile long. Yet because the region most severely affected was underpopulated, it never achieved the notoriety of smaller California quakes through the decades. The human cost was some 130 casualties, many from the giant waves that engulfed small coastal villages. Fountain relates much of the narrative through the perspective of George Plafker, “a geologist with the US Geological Survey” who, at 35, “was already something of an old Alaska hand.” Plafker arrived in the wake of the earthquake and used what he learned to advance the theory of plate tectonics, which is “now considered as consequential as Darwin’s theory of evolution (although plate tectonics was the work of many people not one man).”  The author provides a narrative counterpoint through the perspective of a young female teacher who saw the village surrounding her one-room schoolhouse destroyed. Though Fountain succeeds in showing why this particular earthquake and its aftermath are worth remembering. A readable book that shows how natural disaster spurred scientific inquiry...more

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• 3.@henryfountain: The stabilists and the mobilists: Alfred Wegener championed the fact that all the continents seem to fit together; continental drift—highly controversial still in the 19th Century. Proposed one huge continent 250 million years ago.

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  Dec 02 2018

  Map: Travel times (in hours) are shown for the tsunamis produced by the 1960 Concepción, Chile, earthquake (purple curves) and by the 1964 Good Friday, Valdez (Anchorage), Alaska earthquake (red curves). Permissions: This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow . THE GREAT QUAKE: HOW THE BIGGEST EARTHQUAKE IN NORTH AMERICA CHANGED OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE PLANET By Henry Fountain. The stabilists and the mobilists; Alfred L. Wegener championed the fact that all the continents seem to fit together; continental drift—highly controversial still in the 19th Century. Proposed one huge continent 250 million years ago. .. .. .. Henry Fountain dissects the connections between Alaska’s Great Earthquake of 27 March 1964 and geologists’ perceptions of how Earth’s crust slowly renews itself. Charles Darwin’s synthesis of his and other naturalists’ observations persuaded 19th century scientists to replace the idea of divine creation of mixed species with the theory that species of animals and plants evolve through processes of natural selection. That paradigm shift was rivaled by earth scientists’ 20th century adoption of the theory of plate tectonics to explain relative mobilities of continental and oceanic units of our planet’s crust. Fountain’s background in journalism led him to inoculate this account against technical esoterica by humanizing his storytelling, making it a reflection on human ecology as well as a chronology of idea development in earth sciences. In 1911, 31-year-old German meteorologist, Alfred L. Wegener, took his first steps toward proposing that continents drift across the surface of our planet, which he expressed in a treatise published in 1912. A revised and amplified version appeared in 1915 and was published in English in 1922. New York City hosted a geological symposium in 1926 that became a “kangaroo court” for rejecting Wegener’s theory of continental drift (p. 64 – 65). At that time, Wegener could not identify a source of energy that could impart motion to continents. Wegener’s ideas were discounted partly because they were proposed by someone outside the guild or discipline of formally trained geologists. It took four decades for North American geologists to drop resistance to the German meteorologist’s notions of mobility in Earth’s crust. An American contemporary of Wegener who did belong to the geologists’ guild, however, suffered a comparable rejection. J Harlen Bretz’s wide-ranging field studies along the Columbia River in eastern Washington State from 1910 to 1924 led him to propose that the extensive feature he called the “Channeled Scablands” had been formed by one or more catastrophic floods of proportions neither seen nor imagined by geologists to be possible. The year after Wegener was discredited for his continental drift theory, Bretz was “lynched” intellectually at a meeting of the Geological Society of America in Washington, D.C. for failing to identify a source of enough floodwater to scour the Scablands. Unlike Wegener, who perished crossing Greenland in 1930 at age 50 (p. 65), Bretz lived to see his theories vindicated by . . . https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323408653TheGreatQuakeHowtheBiggestEarthquakeinNorthAmericaChangedOurUnderstandingofthePlanetbyHenry_Fountain...more

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• 2.@henryfountain: This quake made scientists curious about “floating continents” – later the plate tectonic theory. George Plafker, geologist, rushed there, got into the mechanism, the tectonics, of it—& spent the entire summer measuring barnacles.

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  Photo: Alaska Earthquake March 27, 1964. Fissures in Seward Highway near The Alaska Railroad station at Portage, at the head of Turnagain Arm. Many bridges were also damaged. At some places, tectonic subsidence and consolidation of alluvial materials dropped both highway and railroad below high-tide levels. (Photo by U.S. Army) Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. Permissions: This photograph is considered public domain and has been cleared for release. If you would like to republish please give the photographer appropriate credit. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet, by Henry Fountain This quake made scientists curious about “floating continents” – what became the plate tectonic theory. George Plafker, a field geologist, rushed to where the quake had occurred & really got into the mechanism – the tectonics – of it. George then spent the entire summer measuring barnacles. .. .. .. How a 9.2 earthquake in Alaska in 1964 changed our understanding is explained in 'The Great Quake' / Geological tumult is all around us in the American West, in our vertiginous topography and in our heads — fear of the Big One. But a little over half a century ago there came what, befitting its magnitude and locale — in the "Great Land" of the Aleut — may be called the Great One. Henry Fountain's "The Great Quake" is dedicated to the five terrifyingly convulsive minutes around dinnertime on March 27, 1964, when the forces of geological upheaval, normally beneath our threshold of perception, violently obtruded into human time, reconfiguring not only the landscape of south-central Alaska but our understanding of earthquakes and the risk posed today by the Big One and Really Big One. For an idea of its power, consider the 1994 temblor that shook Northridge, killing 57, lasted a brisk 30 seconds at most. The Alaskan earthquake registered 9.2 on the Richter Scale (many times stronger than the biggest quake predicted along the San Andreas fault), making it the most forceful tremor ever recorded in North America. Globally, it's second only to the 9.5 Chilean earthquake of 1960. Had it struck any sort of population density, the loss of life would have been calamitous. As it was, 131 people died (including 16 in Oregon and California — swept away by tsunamis that inundated the West Coast and points south). Fountain locates part of his story in the two communities that bore the brunt — Chenega and Valdez. They're emblematic of a still-germinal Alaskan state (admitted to the Union in 1959): a native fishing village, population 75 — mostly related to one another — and old gold rush boomtown numbering 841 souls sustained since then as a transportation hub.  https://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-great-quake-20170804-story.html...more

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• 1.@henryfountain: A barely perceptible rumbling, then violent shaking & rolling & the sound of a freight train; lasted for 4-1/2 minutes. The schoolteacher sees that all the water has drained out of the cove. Children were playing down at the beach.

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  Photo: Good Friday Earthquake at Turnagain Arm Permissions: This image is in the public domain because it contains materials that originally came from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, taken or made as part of an employee's official duties. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet, by Henry Fountain March 27, 1964, about 5:30 in the afternoon. Chenega, in Prince William Sound, in the Gulf of Alaska: a rumbling, barely perceptible, then quickly into a violent shaking and rolling and the sound of a freight train right next to their ear. Alaska accounts for about one-sixth of the earthquakes in the world; this lasted for four-and-a-half minutes. The schoolteacher is from California – and sees that all the water has drained out of the cove. Children were playing down at the beach. .. .. .. The Great Quake is a riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in North American recorded history -- the 1964 Alaska earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and swept away the island village of Chenega -- and the geologist who hunted for clues to explain how and why it took place. At 5:36 p.m. on March 27, 1964, a magnitude 9.2. earthquake – the second most powerful in world history – struck the young state of Alaska. The violent shaking, followed by massive tsunamis, devastated the southern half of the state and killed more than 130 people. A day later, George Plafker, a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, arrived to investigate. His fascinating scientific detective work in the months that followed helped confirm the then-controversial theory of plate tectonics. In a compelling tale about the almost unimaginable brute force of nature, New York Times science journalist Henry Fountain combines history and science to bring the quake and its aftermath to life in vivid detail. With deep, on-the-ground reporting from Alaska, often in the company of George Plafker, Fountain shows how the earthquake left its mark on the land and its people -- and on science. .. .. ..    The Great Quake is rich with...revelations; and I felt grateful, even giddy, as I read them. Fountain's book is like a gift box: Open the lid to peek at the treasures of the Earth. I could geek out on such details for a month." --New York Times Book Review, Editor's Choice “In his entertaining and enlightening book, The Great Quake, Henry Fountain tells the story of what is sometimes called ‘Alaska’s Good Friday Earthquake…’ Fountain sets the scene for an abrupt wake-up call, and his description of how it unfolds is gripping.” --San Francisco Chronicle "As elegant as a Beethoven symphony...journalist Henry Fountain provides us with a forthright and timely reminder of the startling historical consequences of North America's largest known earthquake." --Nature "The Great Quake is an elegant showcase of how the progressive work of numerous scientists over time…can be pieced together into an idea that reshapes how we see and understand the planet." --Science News Magazine "Mr. Fountain weaves a compelling scientific detective story." --The Wall Street Journal “Fountain isn’t a showy writer, but there’s a fever-dream quality to his account of those five minutes that ‘made the earth ring like a bell’ that captures the hallucinogenic oddness of a world off-kilter, out-of-joint, suddenly uncooperative. Combinations of words with no earthly business being together occur…Interleaving snapshots of a lost world, the primal power of nature and high science, The Great Quake is an outstanding work of nonfiction.” --The LA Times “Fountain atmospherically depicts life in the frontier communities…that were razed when ‘the earth (rang) like a bell’ for five minutes. The narrative is haunted by images that live long in the mind, not least a crimson tide of dead red snapper flushed from the roiling depths.” --The Oregonian...more

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• Coolidge: 1 OF 2: by Amity Shlaes.

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  Dec 02 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:[President and Mrs. Coolidge leaving the Capitol after the funeral of Warren G. Harding] file_downloadDOWNLOAD save_alt Thumbnail 200x200 save_alt Small 640x514 save_alt Medium 1024x822 save_alt Original 1024x822 crop_originalORDER PRINT label_outline Tags coolidge calvincoolidge grace goodhuephotographic printsharding warren gwarren gamalielpresidentcoolidgecapitolwarrenwarren gharding date_range Date 01/01/1923 collections In Collections President Warren Harding Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th President of the United States, serving from 1921, until his death in 1923. President Calvin Coolidge John Calvin Coolidge was the 30th President of the United States (1923–29) create Source Library of Congress link Link http://www.loc.gov/ copyright Rights advisory Public Domain ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Coolidge: 1 OF 2: by Amity Shlaes. http://www.amazon.com/Coolidge-Amity-Shlaes/dp/0061967599/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1459657723&sr=1-1&keywords=coolidge+s “A marvelous book that is in many respects as subtle and powerful as Coolidge himself. Shlaes’s masterly command of economics, policy, and personal portraiture illustrates the times, talents, character, and courage of the consummate New Englander.” (Mark Helprin) “Coolidge is a welcome new biography of a great American president. Amity Shlaes shines fresh light on a leader of humble persistence who unexpectedly found himself in the presidency and whose faith in the American people helped restore prosperity during a period of great turmoil. Amidst today’s economic hardships and an uncertain future, Shlaes illuminates a path forward -- making Coolidge a must-read for policymakers and citizens alike.” (Paul Ryan) http://www.amazon.com/Coolidge-Amity-Shlaes/dp/0061967599/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1459657723&sr=1-1&keywords=coolidge+s...more

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• Coolidge: 2 OF 2: by Amity Shlaes.

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  Dec 02 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Mrs. Coolidge receiving children for the Easter egg rolling file_downloadDOWNLOAD save_alt Thumbnail 200x200 save_alt Small 640x514 save_alt Medium 1024x823 save_alt Original 1024x823 crop_originalORDER PRINT description Summary Grace Coolidge making her way through a crowd with her two dogs. label_outline Tags coolidge grace goodhuepublic appearanceswhite house easter egg rollpresidents spousescrowdseaster eggsphotographic printscoolidgechildreneastereggeaster egg1920s commoners date_range Date 01/01/1925 create Source Library of Congress link Link http://www.loc.gov/ copyright Rights advisory Public Domain ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Coolidge: 2 OF 2: by Amity Shlaes. http://www.amazon.com/Coolidge-Amity-Shlaes/dp/0061967599/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1459657723&sr=1-1&keywords=coolidge+s “A marvelous book that is in many respects as subtle and powerful as Coolidge himself. Shlaes’s masterly command of economics, policy, and personal portraiture illustrates the times, talents, character, and courage of the consummate New Englander.” (Mark Helprin) “Coolidge is a welcome new biography of a great American president. Amity Shlaes shines fresh light on a leader of humble persistence who unexpectedly found himself in the presidency and whose faith in the American people helped restore prosperity during a period of great turmoil. Amidst today’s economic hardships and an uncertain future, Shlaes illuminates a path forward -- making Coolidge a must-read for policymakers and citizens alike.” (Paul Ryan) http://www.amazon.com/Coolidge-Amity-Shlaes/dp/0061967599/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1459657723&sr=1-1&keywords=coolidge+s...more

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• Who is Russian-born Felix Sater: 1 of 2; why did he inform for the FBI for decades, sometimes while roosted in Trump Tower? Larry Johnson, Sic Semper Tyrannis.

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  Dec 02 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Donald Trump with Bill Clinton at Trump Tower in 2000 Ralph Alswang, Office of the President - Clinton Presidential Library Donald Trump with Bill Clinton at Trump Tower in 2000 Public Domain File:Donald Trump and Bill Clinton 05.jpg Created: 16 June 2000) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Who is Russian-born Felix Sater: 1 of 2; why did he inform for the FBI for decades, sometimes while roosted in Trump Tower? Larry Johnson, Sic Semper Tyrannis. https://turcopolier.typepad.com/sicsempertyrannis/2018/11/draft.html...more

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• Who is Russian-born Felix Sater: 2 of 2; why did he inform for the FBI for decades, sometimes while roosted in Trump Tower? Larry Johnson, Sic Semper Tyrannis.

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  Dec 02 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:President Donald Trump poses for his official portrait at The White House, in Washington, D.C., on Friday, October 6, 2017. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead) Shealah Craighead - White House Public DomainThis image contains persons who may have rights that legally restrict certain re-uses of the image without consent. File:Donald Trump official portrait (cropped).jpg Created: 6 October 2017 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Who is Russian-born Felix Sater: 2 of 2; why did he inform for the FBI for decades, sometimes while roosted in Trump Tower? Larry Johnson, Sic Semper Tyrannis. https://turcopolier.typepad.com/sicsempertyrannis/2018/11/draft.html...more

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• Poroshenko (Kiev) directed provocation at the Kerch Strait: 1 of 2: in anticipation of elections Spring 2019. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs.

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  Dec 02 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Landsat satellite photo NASA - http://edcsns17.cr.usgs.gov/NewEarthExplorer/ image ID LT51760282011242MOR00 and LT51760292011242MOR00 Kerch Strait, Ukraine, Russia, near natural colors satellite image, LandSat-5, 2011-08-30, resolution 30 m Public Domain File:Kerch Strait, Ukraine, Russia, near natural colors satellite image, LandSat-5, 2011-08-30.jpg Created: 30 August 2011) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Poroshenko (Kiev) directed provocation at the Kerch Strait:  1 of 2: in anticipation of elections Spring 2019. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs. "The Russian Government, however, said that the Ukrainian naval vessels violated Rus-sian territorial waters, and, as a result, more than one Sobol-class patrol boat, the Coast Guard ship Don, and the corvette Suzdalets intercepted the Ukrainian vessels. The in-cident enabled Pres. Poroshenko to sign a decree declaring regional martial law for 30 days starting on November 28, 2018, and sent the matter to Parliament for approval. That was immediately granted. Significantly, the two gunboats which were seized did not need to be moved by sea to the base in Azov (where there were already two Gyurza-M-class vessels recently deliv-ered and constructed at the Azov naval base); the vessels were sufficiently small that they could have been delivered overland, unless the Ukraine Government sought to create an incident. "...more

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• Poroshenko (Kiev) directed provocation at the Kerch Strait: 2 of 2: in anticipation of elections Spring 2019. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs.

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: The "Cimmerian Bosphorus" of antiquity, shown on a map printed in London, c. 1770. last upload en:User:AnonMoos - www.village-atlas.com Original uploaded to en.wikipedia: en:Image:1729.jpg "A Map of Colchis, Iberia, Albania, and the neighbouring countries". A map of the Caucasus / Crimea / southern Russia region during classical antiquity (the ancient period). Note that the "Albania" referred to was on the Caspian Sea (not the modern Albania in the Balkans). Copper-engraved map, no publisher or date, London, ca 1770 (or 1729?). Public Domain File:Map of Colchis, Iberia, Albania, and the neighbouring countries ca 1770.jpg Created: circa 1770 date QS:P,+1770-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Poroshenko (Kiev) directed provocation at the Kerch Strait: 2 of 2: in anticipation of elections Spring 2019. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs. "The Russian Government, however, said that the Ukrainian naval vessels violated Rus-sian territorial waters, and, as a result, more than one Sobol-class patrol boat, the Coast Guard ship Don, and the corvette Suzdalets intercepted the Ukrainian vessels. The in-cident enabled Pres. Poroshenko to sign a decree declaring regional martial law for 30 days starting on November 28, 2018, and sent the matter to Parliament for approval. That was immediately granted. Significantly, the two gunboats which were seized did not need to be moved by sea to the base in Azov (where there were already two Gyurza-M-class vessels recently deliv-ered and constructed at the Azov naval base); the vessels were sufficiently small that they could have been delivered overland, unless the Ukraine Government sought to create an incident. "...more

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• @oren_cass: Robots are coming in, and AI is getting better, but we’ve always had new technologies – electricity, computers! At every stage, we need more workers than before.

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  Dec 02 2018

  Photo: An inhabited initial from a 13th-century French text representing the tripartite social order of the Middle Ages: the ōrātōrēs (those who pray – clerics), bellātōrēs (those who fight – knights, that is, the nobility), and labōrātōrēs (those who work – peasants and members of the lower middle class). Permissions: "Cleric, Knight and Workman representing the three classes", a French School illustration from Li Livres dou Santé (late 13th century, vellum), MS Sloane 2435, folio 85, British Library/Bridgeman Art Library; losslessly adapted from https://web.archive.org/web/20060115103059/http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/hss/medieval/. Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Global Business Report, brought to you by the Republic of Azerbaijan .. .. .. Conservatives and the Politics of Work: Oren Cass: Mitt Romney’s former domestic-policy director, says wage subsidies are an alternative to the current welfare state and the left’s universal basic income. https://www.wsj.com/articles/conservatives-and-the-politics-of-work-1543014553 .. .. .. Oren Cass, Manhattan Institute senior Fellow, and author, The Once and Future Worker, in re: The unemployed, the underemployed, even people who feel threatened by robots, by the new society. Is the concern about robots genuine? I think it's mostly science fiction. Robots are coming in, and AI is getting better, but we’ve always had new technologies – electricity, computers! Over time, new technologies move into the economy and have huge effects on the kinds of jobs people do, but the effect tends to take place slowly, over time, and we need all the human workers, too. At every stage, we need more workers than before. . . . Truck driving is a great example: self-driving, long-haul trucks; we’ll still need people at many of the stages, and someone to take control. Maybe a person sitting at a central control system managing ten trucks; he can stay closer to home, work in a better environment. Also much greater emphasis on the human element—an improvement. When ATMs came in, it became much cheaper to open a new bank branch, with the result that banks now employ more people than before ATMs. They spend less time counting money and more facing customers. Technology has no bias one way or another. You do say that there needs to be an augmentation for people who are too poorly-paid. Yes, the market will find an efficient outcome, but . . . Right now, we say you have to go to college; and if you didn’t make it, well, I’m sorry. If you care, you have to put much more emphasis on education. How we do trade and immigration. Organized labor – the present labor unions system is broken, but in theory it's good. We need a plan here. There’s a good group of folks, esp Senators in the Republican Party, who say, Work really matters. We need to focus on work....more

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• @oren_cass: UBI (universal basic income) means: free money for everyone; the government should send a check to everyone in the country for about $1,000 a month.

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  Dec 02 2018

  Photo: The assembly hall of the Escher Wyss Machine factory in Zürich in the Neumühle Permissions: 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 less. Author: unknown. Graphische Sammlung der Zentralbibliothek Zürich. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Global Business Report, brought to you by the Republic of Azerbaijan ..  ..  .. Conservatives and the Politics of Work: Oren Cass: Mitt Romney’s former domestic-policy director, says wage subsidies are an alternative to the current welfare state and the left’s universal basic income. https://www.wsj.com/articles/conservatives-and-the-politics-of-work-1543014553 ..  ..  .. Oren Cass, Manhattan Institute senior Fellow, and author, The Once and Future Worker, in re: Universal basic income – UBI. This means: free money for everyone; the govt should send a check to everyone in the country for about $1,000 a month, so you can live on it if needed. Probably to anyone with a Social Security number, plus perhaps undocumented immigrants. Maybe everyone over age eighteen. Did McGovern speak of this in 1972? The thought is that it answers poverty – needn’t worry about the safety net, declining wages. We currently have ways of conveying assets to people who are unemployed, disabled — many versions: in come subsidy, SNAP (food stamps), daycare, subsidized housing, does the thousand dollars take the place of all that? It varies a lot from proposal to proposal. Some say replace, others say on top of the programs. A thousand dollars a month sounds like a lot till you look at health insurance, Medicaid, elders with Medicare. This kind of idea has a lot of the Devil in the details. Tax increases would be needed--might double the size of the entire federal government, Once you plunge in, there’ll be no way out, ever. It’s more important to focus on the conceptual aspect: do we like the idea? Is this what people really need? Is saying, “That’s OK; richer people will send you a check” —is that addressing their problems in am effective way? Do we really want to live in a society where everyone is in effect a trust fund baby? Taking care of yourself is no longer your responsibility. If people are underemployed, does giving them money for breathing solve their problem? The consumer approach we've taken – consumer welfare is what matters; we measure success by your material living standard, the economic pie. That’s not consistent with what people really care about, what’s important in their lives, to their own happiness, to their families, their communities. For those, you have to worry about work, their role in the community, in the economy. Are they productive contributors, do they feel that they’re fulfilling their obligations? Do they have a purpose? Are they taking care of themselves and their families? If those are the foundation of a healthy society, then the UBI model is no answer at all. JB: My time unemployed in life when I was a novelist, composing books or seeking publishers, I felt extremely empowered. Between those, I was discouraged. My memory is that it's very hard even as young, healthy person to walk the streets looking for work. Without a job it's difficult to maintain an even-keeled personality. OC: Yes, having something to get up and do every day is an important part of organizing a person’s life, helping give it focus, ensuring that they’re engaging with other people – when you take that away, it has a immediate negative effects on how people feel and how they spend their time. One of the most foolish things you’ll hear is, “This would free people up –you could be an artist, a poet, start a business.” That not what most people do. Those who drop out of the labor force, esp young men, the main thing they use their time for is sleeping and watching TV. It's important in an immediate sense to have a way to spend your day, but also for life satisfaction In “happiness studies,” the good ones look at someone over an extended period. You see that everyone has a sort of internal base level happiness. Major life events, such as marriage, a birth, someone’s death, permanent disabilities, are blips on the line; the only thing people do not recover from is unemployment. Then, people move to a permanently lower level of happiness. It has that unique effect on our psyche....more

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• Robert Zimmerman: Insight’s mission is to probe into the interior of Mars to do seismographic readings & find the temperature of the interior. They landed in a small crater filled with sand without rocks, don’t yet know exactly where they are.

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  Dec 01 2018

  Interactive imagemap of the global topography of Mars, overlain with locations of Mars landers and rovers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InSight: Hover your mouse to see the names of over 25 prominent geographic features, and click to link to them. Coloring of the base map indicates relative elevations, based on data from the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter on NASA's Mars Global Surveyor. Whites and browns indicate the highest elevations (+12 to +8 km); followed by reds and pinks (+3 to +8 km); yellow is 0 km; greens and blues are lower elevation (down to −8 km). Axes are latitude and longitude; Poles are not shown. Permissions: Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. This interactive imagemap template was originally designed to be included in the article "List of artificial objects on Mars". It is not an article! To use it in an article, use the code {{Features and artificial objects on Mars}}. The above documentation is transcluded from Template: Features and artificial objects on Mars/doc. (edit | history) Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (create | mirror) and test cases (create) pages. Please add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Robert Zimmerman: Insight landed on Mars earlier this week successfully. Just a lander; its mission is to probe into the interior of Mars to do seismographic readings and to find the temperature of the interior. They landed in a small crater filled with sand without rocks, don’t yet know exactly where they are or the depth of the sand in it. Good for the instruments: heat probe can penetrate the surface. [The Phobosians are laughing.] Ice cliffs of Mars: eight, where the underlying layers of ice were revealed and easily accessible....more

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• Robert Zimmerman: A cube sat is about 10cm across . . . China is putting up its own GPS – rushing to get its BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) constellation up this year.

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  Dec 01 2018

  Photo: Beidou Navigation Satellite System 2012. Coverage poylgon of BeiDou Navigation Satellite System since 2012: 55°E - 180°E, 55°S - 55°N Permissions: 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 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com & author,Genesis: The Miraculous story of Apollo 8, anent cube sats. A cube sat is about 10cm across, 4” square; the size of a golf ball. Surrey Satellite Technology, English, help universities build sats with their students. Will launch one in 2021 to test technology in lunar space, as a precursor to a 2023 launch carrying a more robust payload; all for communications for private use and governmental, to be used on the Moon. Investors now know that they can get a rocket to launch this particular satellite – it doesn't have to go as a secondary payload. NASA will take advantage of it. The only regs have to do with some specifics of launching. Small sat in India, its sixth launch of the year: competing with Rocket lab or Virgin Orbital. China is putting up its own GPS – rushing to get its BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) constellation up this year. The US has the premier system; Russians, next, and the EU is putting up its own, called Galileo. Indians, also: covering only India. South Korea bldg a small rocket engine, launched a first-stage, suborbital flight this week. Almost every satellite in orbit today will probably be replaced by multiple small sats. ...more

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• Five lessons to remember (never to forget) of the Great War, 1914-1918. 1 of 2: Michel Viahos. @JHUWorld Crisis.

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  Dec 01 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: French bayonet charge, Battle of the Frontiers; by the end of August, French casualties exceeded 260,000, including 75,000 dead. Georges Scott - L'Illustration & RMN Dessin de Georges Scott représentant une charge à la baïonnette. Public Domain File:Georges Scott, A la baïonnette !.jpg Created: 31 December 1913) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Five lessons to remember (never to forget) of the Great War, 1914-1918. 1 of 2:  Michel Viahos. @JHUWorld Crisis. 1.  The narrative everyone knows — in fact the only reified public narrative we have on the Great War. It is, to wit: It was a horrible, terrible, reach-for-your-handkerchiefs tragedy. It was, of course, all this and more, but that is our current collective takeaway — and worth preserving. 2.  People were ready and eager for war in 1914. They relished the prospect and onset of great struggle and sacrifice. When people want to fight, and more important, like the idea of fighting, you (meaning, the nation) is in real trouble. 3.  Elites were dialing it in. They had offloaded the whole thing — planning, mobilization, war management — to the general staffs. To ruling elites, war would take care of itself. Well you know, it did just that....more

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• Five lessons to remember (never to forget) of the Great War, 1914-1918. 2 of 2: Michel Viahos. @JHUWorld Crisis.

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  Dec 01 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Trenches of the 11th Cheshire Regiment at Ovillers-la-Boisselle, on the Somme, July 1916 John Warwick Brooke - This is photograph Q 3990 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 1900-13) A German trench occupied by British Soldiers near the Albert-Bapaume road at Ovillers-la-Boisselle, July 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. The men are from A Company, 11th Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment. Permission details This work created by the United Kingdom Government is in the public domain. This is because it is one of the following: It is a photograph taken prior to 1 June 1957; or It was published prior to 1968; or It is an artistic work other than a photograph or engraving (e.g. a painting) which was created prior to 1968. HMSO has declared that the expiry of Crown Copyrights applies worldwide (ref: HMSO Email Reply) More information. See also Copyright and Crown copyright artistic works.View more Public Domainview terms File:Cheshire Regiment trench Somme 1916.jpg Created: 1 July 1916 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Stamps.com Five lessons to remember (never to forget) of the Great War, 1914-1918. 2 of 2: Michel Viahos. @JHUWorld Crisis. 4.  Once fatefully enjoined, modern war — big war, general war — always takes you to a place that your pathetic prewar imagination could never imagine. War always takes you somewhere so terrible that you start pinching yourself: How could this have happened? How could it get so bad? 5.  The unintended, wholly surprising, even shocking transformation of men in such war. I call it the Ernst Junger effect. As he wrote in the greatest war memoir of all time: "Bravery, fearless risking of one's own life, is always inspiring. We too found ourselves picked up by this wild fury, and scrabbling around to grab a few hand grenades, rushed to form part of this berserker's progress....more

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• Bricks & Clicks sensation for high-end and Fair Trade verified organic cotton by Boll & Branch. Scott Tannen @BollandBranch

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  Dec 01 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Cotton plant, Chinawal village, India Date 8 October 2014 Source Own work Author ABHIJEET Licensing[edit] I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license: w:en:Creative Commons attribution share alike This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 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 attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). share alike – If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Bricks & Clicks sensation for high-end and Fair Trade verified organic cotton by Boll & Branch. Scott Tannen @BollandBranch https://www.housebeautiful.com/shopping/best-stores/a25327560/boll-and-branch-flagship-store-new-jersey/...more

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• #TheScalaReport: Have you chatted with a billboard recently? Digital Out-of-Home Advertising (DOOH) is the new new for Bladerunner cities. Chris Riegel @ScalaInc

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:The celebrated smoking Camel cigarette billboard in Times Square was designed by Douglas Leigh and mounted on the Hotel Claridge. (Photo, 1948) Nationaal Archief - Rokend Camel-reclamebord / Smoking billboard Uploaded by oaktree_b 191-0803 Nationaal Archief/Willem van de Poll Nederlands: Reclamebord met echte rook voor sigarettenmerk Camel op Times Square New York, juni 1948 English: Smoking billboard at Times Square, New York, 1948. Hebt u meer informatie over deze foto, laat het ons weten. Laat een reactie achter (als u ingelogd bent bij Flickr) of stuur een mailtje naar: info@nationaalarchief.nl Please help us gain more knowledge on the content of our collection by simply adding a comment with information. If you do not wish to log in, you can write an e-mail to: info@nationaalarchief.nl Meer foto’s van het Nationaal Archief zijn te vinden in de fotocollectie op gahetna.nl: www.gahetna.nl/collectie/afbeeldingen/fotocollectie/ Permission details Nationaal Archief @ Flickr CommonsView more Public Domainview terms File:Rokend Camel-reclamebord Smoking billboard.jpg Created: 15 January 2012 Location: 40° 45′ 26.7″ N, 73° 59′ 9.72″ W ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow #TheScalaReport: Have you chatted with a billboard recently? Digital Out-of-Home Advertising (DOOH)  is the new new for Bladerunner cities. Chris Riegel @ScalaInc  https://www.economist.com/business/2018/11/08/billboards-are-an-old-but-booming-ad-mediumBillboard owners are also making hay from the location data that are pouring off people’s smartphones. Information about their owners’ whereabouts and online browsing gets aggregated and anonymised by carriers and data vendors and sold to media owners. They then use these data to work out when different demographic groups—“business travellers”, say—walk by their ads. That knowledge is added to insights into traffic, weather and other external data to produce highly relevant ads. dooh providers can deliver ads for coffee when it is cold and fizzy drinks when it is warm. Billboards can be programmed to show ads for allergy medication when the air is full of pollen....more

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• Why Amazon and Google crowd together in the supercities. @RyanAvent @Economist

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  Dec 01 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Scene from "East is West" a 1922 film. Original work is pre 1923 and is in the public domain Date 1922 Source [1] Author Associated First National Licensing[edit] Public domain This media file is in the public domain i) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow stamps.com Why Amazon and Google crowd together in the supercities. @RyanAvent @Economist

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• Broken promises at the VA for veterans on the Forever GI Bill. @FRoseDC

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  Dec 01 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the G.I. Bill in the Oval Office, with (l to r) Bennett “Champ” Clark, J. Hardin Peterson, John Rankin, Paul Cunningham, Edith N. Rogers, J.M. Sullivan, Walter George, John Stelle, Robert Wagner, (unknown), and Alben Barkley; June 22, 1944 Date 22 June 1944 Source FDR Library https://fdrlibrary.wordpress.com/tag/g-i-bill-of-rights/ Author Not provided Licensing[edit] Public domain This work is in the public domain in) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Broken promises at the VA for veterans on the Forever GI Bill. @FRoseDC https://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/pressrelease.cfm?id=5154...more

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• Chinese geneticist claims to have performed a gene-editing that lead to twin females & What is to be done? @HenryIMiller

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: Cropped and digitally remastered version of another file masquerading as DickinsoniaCostata*.png (Can't remember which number should replace the *!) Date 9 April 2007 (original upload date) Source Own work assumed, due to credit. Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons. Author Verisimilus at English Wikipedia Licensing[edit] Verisimilus at English Wikipedia, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publishes it under the following licenses: GNU head Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License. w:en:Creative Commons attribution share alike This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Attribution: Verisimilus at English Wikipedia You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). share alike – If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow stamps.com Chinese geneticist claims to have performed a gene-editing that lead to twin females & What is to be done? @HenryIMiller http://www.henrymillermd.org/21825/let-hope-the-chinese-gene-editing-fiasco-doesnt...more

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• Pacific Watch: Compare and contrast the Alaska earthquake/tsunami 2018 with the same 1964. @JeffBliss1

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: Alaska Earthquake March 27, 1964. Wreckage of Government Hill School in Anchorage. The south wing of the building, shown here, collapsed into a graben at the head of the landslide. Slip of the graben block is shown by displacement of the roofline. Date March 1964 Source Photo by W.R. Hansen, 1964. - ID. Alaska Earthquake no. 62 - ake00062 - U.S. Geological Survey USGS - Public domain image Author W.R. Hansen, U.S. Geological Survey Licensing[edit] Public domain This image is in the public domain i ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Pacific Watch: Compare and contrast the Alaska earthquake/tsunami 2018 with the same 1964. @JeffBliss1...more

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• Airbnb surrenders to BDS & What is to be done? @EVKontorovich Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: Said Taha Bey, commander of Egyptian forces in the Faluja pocket, heading to negotiate his surrender, 1948-11-11 Unknown - "תולדות מלחמת הקוממיות" (originally uploaded to Hebrew Wikipedia by Avi1111 on July 22, 2010) Said Taha Bey, commander of Egyptian forces in the Faluja pocket, heading to negotiate his surrender Permission details This work or image is now in the public domain because its term of copyright has expired in Israel (details). According to Israel9;s copyright statute from 2007 (translation), a work is released to the public domain on 1 January of the 71st year after the author's death (paragraph 38 of the 2007 statute) with the following exceptions: A photograph taken on 24 May 2008 or earlier — the old British Mandate act applies, i.e. on 1 January of the 51st year after the creation of the photograph (paragraph 78(i) of the 2007 statute, and paragraph 21 of the old British Mandate act). If the copyrights are owned by the State, not acquired from a private person, and there is no special agreement between the State and the author — on 1 January of the 51st year after the creation of the work (paragraphs 36 and 42 in the 2007 statute). See also category: PD Israel & British Mandate. العربية | Deutsch | English | עברית | հայերեն | македонски | русский | Ελληνικά | 中文 | 中文（简体）‎ | +/−View more Public Domainview terms File:Said Taha Bey, commander of Egyptian forces in the Faluja pocket, heading to negotiate his surrender, 1948-11-11.jpg Created: 11 November 1948) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Airbnb surrenders to BDS & What is to be done? @EVKontorovich Malcolm Hoenlein @Confofpres...more

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• Inside the Mueller interrogation chamber with Kafka, Camus, Doestoyevsky. Jerome Corsi, author, Silent No More: How I Became a Political Prisoner of Mueller's "Witch Hunt" by Jerome R. Corsi Ph.D (Author)

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: Parade of the 13th DBLE through Roman ruins in Lambaesis, Algeria; Legionnaires with 7.5mm MAS 36 rifles, officers and NCOs with 9mm MAT 49 submachine guns; the side arms are probably 9mm MAS Model 1950 automatic pistols Date circa 1958 Source Private collection of Lieutenant-colonel Paul Lucien Paschal (1919-1994) Author Richard Bareford Licensing[edit] Public domain I, the copyright holder of this work, release this work into the public domain. This applies worldwide. In some countries this may not be legally possible; if so: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Inside the Mueller interrogation chamber with Kafka, Camus, Dostoyevsky. Jerome Corsi, author, Silent No More: How I Became a Political Prisoner of Mueller's "Witch Hunt" by Jerome R. Corsi Ph.D (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Silent-No-More-Political-Prisoner/dp/1642932175/ref=sr1cc_4?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1543629455&sr=1-4-catcorr&keywords=Corsi+Mueller In Silent No More: How I Became a Political Prisoner of Mueller’s "Witch Hunt", New York Times bestselling author of Killing the Deep State Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D. meticulously details the psychological torment he was subjected to in what the media has simply called, “The Mueller Investigation.” In late 2018, in an FBI closed conference room with no windows, Dr. Corsi was confronted for hours upon hours at a time by detailed questioning about events that occurred in 2016. Dr. Corsi’s inquisition was worthy of the Gestapo or KGB, designed to break even the most cooperating witness. Over a period of two months, three of Mueller’s top prosecutors and an army of FBI agents—up to nine government officials at a time—questioned Dr. Corsi with his attorney, David Gray.   Throughout this harrowing ordeal, Dr. Corsi handed over his personal computers, his cell phone, all of his email accounts, his Twitter account, and his Google account. Finding no “smoking gun,” Mueller’s prosecutors blew up the meetings. Dr. Corsi refused to lie to the prosecutors to give them the ammunition they needed to prosecute Roger Stone, and as a result he was told he would be charged with a criminal offense for lying to the FBI and the Special Prosecutor. At seventy-two years of age, Dr. Corsi was subjected to extreme mental anguish, imagining that he may never see his family again as a free man. Rather than conducting an honest investigation, Mueller’s Special Prosecutors reinforced a prefabricated narrative aiming to charge President Trump with Treason. Silent No More: How I Became a Political Prisoner of Mueller’s "Witch Hunt" exposes the inner workings of this governmental escapade, and clearly states why Mueller has no case against the President.  Dr. Corsi creates a compelling case indicating that the entire matter is an investigation in search of a crime—to force lying testimony from witnesses if that’s what it takes to achieve Deep State political objectives....more

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• The Spy and the Traitor: 3 of 3: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War Hardcover – September 18, 2018 by Ben Macintyre (Author)

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Troops of the 6th Guards Motor Rifle Division on parade in Bernau, 1985 ALDOR46 - Own work 6-я гв. мсд. Под Боевым Знаменем Полковник Дорофеев А.А. и подполковник Кулаков В.Ф.. 1985 Бернау. CC BY-SA 3.0 File:6-я гв. мсд. Под Боевым Знаменем Полковник Дорофеев А.А. и подполковник Кулаков В.Ф.. 1985 Бернау..jpg Created: 5 January 2014 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Spy and the Traitor: 3 of 3: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War Hardcover – September 18, 2018 by Ben Macintyre (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Spy-Traitor-Greatest-Espionage-Story/dp/1101904194 The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War....more

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• Reignited global anti-Semitism & What is to be done? @AmbDaniDayan Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: Members of the constituent assembly meeting at the Tel Aviv museum for the ceremony of Declaration of the Independence of the State of Israel. טקס ההכרזה על מדינת ישראל, במוזיאון תל אביב, שד' רוטשילד. במרכז השולחן, רהמ דוד בן גוריון ומועצת העם בטקס הקראת מגילת העצמאות Photo: Zoltan Kluger (1896–1977) Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q7035699 , 05/14/1948 Date 14 May 1948, 09:19:22 Source https://www.flickr.com/photos/governmentpressoffice/7078972785/ Emblem of Israel alternative blue-gold.svg This is available from National Photo Collection of Israel, Photography dept. Goverment Press Office (link), under the digital ID D836-086. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. English | עברית | македонски | русский | +/− Flag of Israel.svg Author https://www.flickr.com/people/69061470@N05 Licensing[edit] w:en:Creative Commons attribution share alike This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.  Attribution: Government Press Office (Israel) 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 attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). share alike – If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. OTRS Wikimedia This work is free and may be used by anyone for any purpose. If you wish to use this content, you do not need to request permission as long as you follow any licensing requirements mentioned on this page. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Reignited global anti-Semitism & What is to be done? @AmbDaniDayan Malcolm Hoenlein @Confofpres ● https://www.najah.edu/en/community/community-news/2018/10/30/results-of-palestinian-public-opinion-poll-no-57/ ● https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2018/10/gaza-illegal-migration-algeria-morroco-europe.html ● https://www.timesofisrael.com/top-palestinian-body-calls-for-revoking-recognition-of-israel-nixing-agreements/ ● https://www.timesofisrael.com/omani-fm-visits-ramallah-after-netanyahus-visit-to-muscat/ ● https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/hrw-report-abuse-pa-hamas-system-designed-broken-181025130302123.html ● https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-palestinians-worst-enemy-is-their-own-leaders-1540936966 ● https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20181030-bds-15-arab-islamic-countries-cooperate-with-israel/ ● https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/fikraforum/view/new-polls-show-most-gazans-want-jobs-not-mobs ● https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bahrain-summit-oman/oman-says-time-to-accept-israel-in-region-offers-help-for-peace-idUSKCN1N10BH ● http://english.wafa.ps/page.aspx?id=QvW7kba96591508464aQvW7kb ● http://jcpa.org/iran-pushes-for-escalation-of-violence-in-gaza/...more

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• There will be no peace process unless Abbas abandons payments to the jailed terrorists. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @DavidMakovsky

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  Dec 01 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Nederlands: Collectie / Archief : Fotocollectie Van de Poll Reportage / Serie : Midden-Oosten 1950-1955: Jordanië Beschrijving : Landschap langs de weg van Ramallah naar Nablus Annotatie : Ten tijde van de opname lag deze plaats in Jordanië Datum : 1950 Locatie : Israël, Jordanië, Nablus Trefwoorden : bergen, landschappen, panorama, wegen Fotograaf : Poll, Willem van de Auteursrechthebbende : Nationaal Archief  Materiaalsoort : Negatief (zwart/wit) Nummer archiefinventaris : bekijk toegang 2.24.14.02 Bestanddeelnummer : 255-5559 Date 1950 Source http://proxy.handle.net/10648/aee29b0c-d0b4-102d-bcf8-003048976d84 Author Willem van de Poll  This is an image from the Nationaal Archief, the Dutch National Archives, donated in the context of a partnership program.  This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. Deutsch | English | Français | Nederlands | Bahasa Indonesia | Українська | +/− Licensing[edit] Creative Commons CC-Zero This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. The person who associated a work with this deed has dedicated the work to the public domain by waiving all of his or her rights to the work worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow There will be no peace process unless Abbas abandons payments to the jailed terrorists. Malcolm Hoenlein @Confofpres @DavidMakovsky...more

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• Tehran deploys Syrian and Hezbollah regiments to the edge of the Golan. Malcolm Hoenlein @Confofpres

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Location of the Golan Heights View author information Public Domain File:Golan Heights Map.PNG Uploaded: 28 June 2005 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Tehran deploys Syrian and Hezbollah regiments to the edge of the Golan. Malcolm Hoenlein @Confofpres

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• @ElinSuleymanov: Formula One + The Christian Broadcasting Network sent a reporter to Baku; he learned Azerbaijan is ecumenical, open, tolerant. Every faith is welcome, everyone can easily practice his faith. Muslims, Christians, Jews pray together.

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  Photo: Formula 1. Grand prix of Europe. Baku 2016. Permissions: azermarka.az. This work is not an object of copyright according to the law of Azerbaijan Republic No.: 115-1Q of 5 June 1996 on Copyright and Neighbouring right; this image is in the public domain worldwide. Wikimedia Commons. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Elin Suleymanov, Ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan to Washington, recounts the excitement of Formula One racing in Baku and Abu Dhabi. The best drivers in the Solar System in fabulous-looking cars. The Abu Dhabi organizers did and excellent job; the track was terrific; there was one crash, an accident; thank God, the driver was fine. Our track in Baku, one of the most widely-viewed in the world, according to the UK Independent, goes through and around our downtown; it's called the Baku City Circuit. Quite a new experience for Azerbaijan, very exciting. It highlighted the touristic potential of Azerbaijan, and showed that Baku can quite successfully entertain a major international event. Lewis Hamilton won – again. He’s a great driver, on two different tracks. Great that he could maintain his lead in both. Oops – Mercedes beat Ferrari. The contested election in the Republic of Georgia: Salome Zurabishvili. We have very strong relations with Georgia, a strategic partnership that we value. There’s a significant Azerbaijani population living there. The US has the same views of Georgia. The Christian Broadcasting Network sent a reporter, the Rev Johnnie Moore*, to Baku to interview Amb Suleymanov, and he learned that Azerbaijan sis ecumenical, open, tolerant. Every faith is welcome, every person can easily practice his faith. Muslims, Christians. Jews pray together. The Muslim word is diverse, moving forward.    .. .. ..   *Why Rev. Johnnie Moore Is Praising This Muslim-Majority Nation as a 'Model' for Other Countries / http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/2018/november/why-rev-johnnie-moore-is-praising-this-muslim-majority-nation-as-a-model-for-other-countries    Rev. Johnnie Moore, founder of the interdenominational Congress of Christian Leaders, is singing the praises of Azerbaijan after wrapping up a multi-day visit to the Islamic nation. Moore says he was encouraged by how people of various faiths and backgrounds seemed to peacefully co-exist in the country, which boasts a more than 90 percent Muslim population. "I met Sunni and Shia young people who pray together, orthodox and evangelical Christians who serve together," he wrote in a statement. "And I observed the valued and indispensable role a thriving Jewish community plays in a country whose population is over 90 percent Muslim but whose people have celebrated a longstanding relationship between their nation and the State of Israel." Moore was joined by Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Both men are frequent collaborators on interfaith initiatives worldwide and Moore said he was impressed by the multiculturalism he witnessed during their visit. "No doubt, Azerbaijan has its imperfections as well," Moore acknowledged. "But I came to specifically assess firsthand the spirit of multiculturalism that undergirds Azeri society, which should be celebrated and which can be a model for many countries in the world." He indicated this was particularly poignant given Azerbaijan's history as a former Soviet republic. "It was profound to sit these last few days with Muslim, Jewish and Christian citizens who haven't forgotten the mutual suffering they endured together as devoutly religious under the atheistic, Soviet era," Moore said. "They cherish what they have now knowing what little they had, then.” He noted that Azerbaijan lies in stark contrast to nations like Iraq and Afghanistan, where religion is wielded like a weapon against the people by terror groups like the Islamic State. It's a brutal phenomenon he hopes to help bring to an end. "Having witnessed firsthand the devastation wrought by the alternative in 2014 by Daesh (ISIS) in Iraq, I decided I would work with all my might to prevent future extremism by finding good partners, encouraging moderation, identifying best practices and building trust through friendship between many religious communities throughout the world, especially between Muslims, Christians and Jews," Moore wrote. "The fact is that we have allowed our world to become a place where religion is too easily weaponized," he observed. "Rather than being a blessing to the world that God intended, religion has been used as a tool to sow chaos, division, and worse. Even in our most developed and enlightened societies, we are losing the ability to get along with those different than us." "For the sake of our children, we must find another way, where the name of God is revered, not defiled by our mistreatment of others who are also made in His image," he concluded....more

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• Why does Mueller point to Michael Cohen and the infamous June 9, 2016 meeting in Trump Tower? @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO

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  Nov 30 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Moscow, housing, Schosse Entuziastov; Architect: Orlov; Year: 1938 Datum 1941. or earlier Izvor XXX Years of Architecture in Soviet Russia, M, 1950 Autor Academy of Architecture publication, unsigned photograph Dopuštenje (Naknadno korištenje ove datoteke)  PD in Russia. Pre-WW2 photographs Public domain This file is a Ukrainian or Ukrainian SSR work and it is presently in the public domain in Ukraine ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Why does Mueller point to Michael Cohen and the  infamous June 9, 2016 meeting in Trump Tower? @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/11/michael-cohen-guilty-plea-false-statements-trump-tower-meeting/...more

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• Michael Cohen pleads to a lie about no crime. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO

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  Nov 30 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Русский: Площадь Земляной вал Date between 1938 and 1938 Source https://pastvu.com/p/68922 Author Unknown Licensing[edit] Public domain This work is in the public domain in Russia according to article 1281 of Book IV of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation No. 230-FZ of December 18, 2006 and article 6 of Law No. 231-FZ of the Russian Federation of December 18, 2006 (the Implementation Act for Book IV of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation). ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Michael Cohen pleads to a lie about no crime. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/11/michael-cohen-guilty-plea-false-statements-trump-tower-meeting/ For those who’ve been predicting an imminent end of the Mueller investigation, my sense is that this is not a “tying up the loose ends” guilty plea. There is a strategy here of proving collusion . . . even if Mueller cannot prove a collusion crime. (As we’ve frequently noted, collusion is a hopelessly vague term, referring to concerted activity that could be legal or illegal; it must be distinguished from conspiracy, which is an agreement to commit a crime — along with the activity in furtherance of that agreement.)......more

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• The Trump Administration must maintain a strategic alliance with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. @SebGorka

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  Nov 30 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Unknown or not provided Record creator Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 Title  Franklin D. Roosevelt and King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia at Great Bitter Lake in Egypt Date 14 February 1945 Collection  National Archives and Records Administration Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q518155 Franklin D. Roosevelt Library (NLFDR), 4079 Albany Post Road, Hyde Park, NY, 12538-1999. Record ID  NARA Logo created 2010.svg This media is available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 197295. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. English | Español | Français | Italiano | Македонски | മലയാളം | Nederlands | Polski | Português | Русский | Slovenščina | Türkçe | Українська | Tiếng Việt | 中文（简体） | 中文（繁體） | +/− Record group: Collection FDR-PHOCO: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Public Domain Photographs, 1882 - 1962 (National Archives Identifier: 1184 ) Series: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Public Domain Photographs, compiled 1882 - 1962 (National Archives Identifier: 195301 ) NAIL Control Number: NLR-PHOCO-A-491642008(256) Source U.S. National Archives and Records Administration Other versions  Please do not overwrite this file: any restoration work should be uploaded with a new name and linked in this page's "other versions=" parameter, so that this file represents the exact file found in the NARA catalog record to which it links. The metadata on this page was imported directly from NARA's catalog record; additional descriptive text may be added by Wikimedians to the template below with the "description=" parameter, but please do not modify the other fields. (Note: Editors who post this notice are strongly encouraged to add details explaining how it applies to this file.) ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Trump Administration must maintain a strategic alliance with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. @SebGorka...more

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• The Russian Bear makes Eastern Europe and the Black Sea Basin tremble & What is to be done? @SebGorka

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Stalin and Ribbentrop at the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact on 23 August 1939. Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-H27337 / CC-BY-SA 3.0 For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. ADN-ZB/Archiv Sowjetunion, August 1939, Im Moskauer Kreml wird am 23.8.1939 ein Nichtangriffsvertrag zwischen dem deutschen Reich und der UdSSR unterzeichnet. Nach der Unterzeichnung im Gespräch J.W. Stalin und der deutsche Reichsaußenminister Joachim von Ribbentrop (r.). CC BY-SA 3.0 de File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-H27337, Moskau, Stalin und Ribbentrop im Kreml.jpg Created: 23 August 1939 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Russian Bear makes Eastern Europe and the Black Sea Basin tremble & What is to be done? @SebGorka...more

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• Trump is candid and blunt like Winston Churchill. @VDHanson @HooverInst

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: Winston Churchill As Prime Minister 1940-1945 Home Front: Churchill at the Foreign Office for the signing of the Anglo-Soviet Alliance. From left to right: Mr Sabolev, Under Secretary of the Soviet Foreign Office, M Maisky, Soviet Ambassador, Mr M V Molotov, Peoples Commissar for Foreign Affaires, Mr Anthony Eden, British Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Date between 1940 and 1945 Source http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//38/media-38670/large.jpg IWMLondonThumbnail.jpg This is photograph CH 5699 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums. Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Author Royal Air Force official photographer Permission (Reusing this file)  This image was created and released by the Imperial War Museum on the IWM Non Commercial Licence. Photographs taken, or artworks created, by a member of the forces during their active service duties are covered by Crown Copyright provisions. Faithful reproductions may be reused under that licence, which is considered expired 50 years after their creation. Part of Air Ministry Second World War Official Collection Subjects  Associated people and organisations Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer, Eden, Anthony, Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Scriabin Associated places Whitehall, Westminster, London, England, UK Associated events Anglo-Soviet Alliance 1941, International Diplomacy Associated themes British Home Front 1939-1945 Associated keywords Diplomacy, Government, central Category photographs Image Sorted yes Licensing[edit] This image is in the public domain ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Trump is candid and blunt like Winston Churchill. @VDHanson @HooverInst https://amgreatness.com/2018/11/25/the-costs-of-presidential-candor/?utmsource=Hoover+Daily+Report&utmcampaign=b540873088-HDRCOPY01&utmmedium=email&utmterm=0_21b1edff3c-b540873088-72527561...more

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• Iran struggles under the US sanctions & What is to be done? @MichaelRubin1971 @AEI

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: Iranian Cavalery, 1930. Date 1930 Source www.worldisround.com/articles/325894/index.htm Author Unknown Permission (Reusing this file)  Public domain This work is now in the public domain  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Iran struggles under the US sanctions & What is to be done? @MichaelRubin1971 @AEI       https://www.wsj.com/articles/france-and-germany-step-in-to-circumvent-iran-sanctions-1543251650 · https://nationalinterest.org/blog/middle-east-watch/it-or-not-regime-change-coming-iran-36157 · https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/28/we-are-desperate-economic-crisis-hits-ordinary-iranians · http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/iransource/impeaching-the-foreign-minister-won-t-solve-iran-s-woes · https://thehill.com/opinion/international/416498-its-time-to-move-the-us-embassy-to-yemen-out-of-saudi-arabia ....more

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• Moscow is strategic and purposeful in Ukraine. @AnnaBorsch @WashInstitute Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Image from page 595 of "A history of mediaeval and modern Europe for secondary schools" (1914)  Identifier: historyofmediaev00davi Title: A history of mediaeval and modern Europe for secondary schools Year: 1914 (1910s) Authors: Davis, William Stearns, 1877-1930 McKendrick, Norman Shaw, 1876- jt. auth Subjects: Publisher: Boston, New York [etc.] Houghton Mifflin Company Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: the Czarsstatesmen always crave. France, Italy, and Germany havetheir fears and interests in the nearer Orient also. As a resultthe Turkish Empire has been left to misrule and misery: while(especially in the Balkan peninsula) the various Christian 1 Naturally the only government known until lately in Turkey has been anunmitigated despotism; but the Turks have not even made that despotismefficient. There have been capable sultans, but they have been grievously hin-dered in their schemes by the worthless officials through whom they were obligedto work. One of the great difficulties of good government in Turkey has been thefact that the unfriendly races, Greeks, Bulgarians, Armenians, Turks, Kurds,Arabs, etc., have all lived mixed in together, in the same city, or in adjacentvillages, and it has been impossible to adjust laws and institutions to the needsof different races in easily separated districts. The Turks have been no rulersto find an outlet to this problem. 54o HISTORY OF EUROPE Text Appearing After Image: peoples— subject to Turkish tyranny — have time and againturned on their oppressor in bloody uprisings. The revolt of Greece1 was the first move in the ejecting ofthe Turks from Europe. In 1853, Czar Nicholas I of Russia,believing that the Sick Man of Europe (as he styled the sultan) was close to polit-ical death, and that theother Powers would notinterfere, declared war onTurkey and put his armiesin motion. The czar, how-ever, was mistaken in hishopes. France and Eng-land saw their interests inthe East menaced, andcame to the aid of theTurks. The Crimean War2which followed (1854-56)was neither very desperate nor decisive, but the allies provedtoo powerful for the Russians, and they were compelled tomake the. Peace of Paris (1856), which practically left theTurks as they were — of course, with solemn promises bythem of reforms. In 1876, the Christian principality of Servia (a vassal stateof Turkey in the Balkans) declared war on the sultan, allegingsympathy for the cruelties pra Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Moscow is strategic and purposeful in Ukraine. @AnnaBorsch @WashInstitute Malcolm Hoenlein @Confofpres https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ready-resume-attacks-syria-deal-turkey-risk-1235641 · https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-air-force/2018/11/26/americans-and-russians-have-exchanged-gunfire-in-syria-more-than-once/ · https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine-is-moscows-guinea-pig-1543447350 · https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/26/world/europe/russia-ukraine-kerch-strait.html?module=inline · https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm553 · https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/jns/us-increases-pressure-on-iran-warns-other-players-not-to/article_0b931718-ff93-528c-bf69-fb4bb7e2698b.html...more

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• Beirut Rules: 1 of 2: The Murder of a CIA Station Chief and Hezbollah's War Against America Hardcover – October 23, 2018 by Fred Burton (Author), Samuel Katz (Author)

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:An aerial view of the stadium used as an ammunition supply site for the PLO after Israeli airstrikes in 1982 PHAN ROBERT FEARY - http://www.dodmedia.osd.mil/Assets/1984/Navy/DN-SN-84-03605.JPEG An aerial view of the stadium used as an ammunition supply site for the Palestine Liberation Organization during a confrontation with the Israelis. Marines have been deployed here to participate in a multinational peacekeeping operation. Permission details This image or file is in the public domain because it contains materials that originally came from the United States Marine Corps. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.View more Public Domainview terms File:Lebanon PLO ammunition stadium 1982.jpg Created: 1 October 1982 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Beirut Rules: 1 of 2: The Murder of a CIA Station Chief and Hezbollah's War Against America Hardcover – October 23, 2018 by Fred Burton (Author), Samuel Katz (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Beirut-Rules-Station-Hezbollahs-Against/dp/1101987464...more

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• Dawn 2007-2018: Destination Vesta. 1 of 2: Dr. Marc Rayman, @NASAJPL David Livingston, SpaceShow.com

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Vesta is a colorful world; craters of a variety of ages make splashes of lighter and darker brown against its surface. This photo was processed from data acquired on July 24, 2011, from a distance of about 5200 kilometers, during the third "rotation characterization" observation by Dawn. NASA / JPL / MPS / DLR / IDA / Björn Jónsson - https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/images/9-small-bodies/2013/20130819vestargb201107240835.png (description; see also other side) Public Domain File:Vesta in natural color.jpg Created: 24 July 2011 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Dawn 2007-2018: Destination Vesta. 1 of 2: Dr. Marc Rayman, @NASAJPL David Livingston, SpaceShow.com https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasas-dawn-mission-ends-but-its-legacy-lives-on/...more

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• Dawn 2007-2018: Destination Ceres. 2 of 2: Dr. Marc Rayman, @NASAJPL David Livingston, SpaceShow.com

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: Piazzi's book Della scoperta del nuovo pianeta Cerere Ferdinandea, outlining the discovery of Ceres, dedicated the new "planet" to Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies. Giuseppe Piazzi (author of woodprint unknown) - http://scienceblogs.de/astrodicticum-simplex/2010/06/20/pluto-ist-kein-planet-und-das-ist-gut-so/ Front cover of Piazzi's book "Della scoperta del nuovo pianeta Cerere Ferdinandea, ottavo tra i primarj del nostro sistema solare" ("On the discovery of the new planet Ceres Ferdinandea, the eighth of those known in our solar system") describing his discovery of Ceres) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Dawn 2007-2018: Destination Ceres. 2 of 2: Dr. Marc Rayman, @NASAJPL David Livingston, SpaceShow.com https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasas-dawn-mission-ends-but-its-legacy-lives-on/...more

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• Midwest Trump voters and the GM closings. @SalenaZito @LaraMBrownPHD

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  Nov 30 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Svenska: Bilden visar en del av lagret av nyimporterade GM-bilar, och för lastvagnarnas del är det bara en mindre antal som hade fabriksmonterade amerikanska hytter. Till vänster syns vedstaplar för beredskapstiden. Date 1940s Source Bilar i våra hjärtan Author ingen uppgift Licensing[edit] Public domain This Swedish photograph is in the public domain in Sweden because one of the following applies: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Midwest Trump voters and the GM closings. @SalenaZito @LaraMBrownPHD...more

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• The US can take China to the WTO to resolve the conflicts. @Veroderugy @Mercatus

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: Accession of the Republic of Seychelles to the World Trade Organization signing ceremony in Geneva. Русский: Церемония подписания в Женеве протокола о вступлении Сейшельских Островов во Всемирную торговую организацию. Date 10 December 2014, 13:59 Source General Council Author Susana Villalba / Information and External Relations Division of World Trade Organization Other versions  Image extraction process This file has an extracted image: File:Jonathan Fried, December 2014 (16035421692) (cropped).jpg. Extracted version Licensing[edit] w:en:Creative Commons attribution share alike This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.  You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). share alike – If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The US can take China to the WTO to resolve the conflicts. @Veroderugy @Mercatus...more

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• The Spy and the Traitor: 2 of 3: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War Hardcover – September 18, 2018 by Ben Macintyre (Author)

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: American tanks face an East German water cannon at Checkpoint Charlie. Public Affairs Directorate, U.S. European Command - https://www.flickr.com/photos/eucom/4074354449/ Soldiers from the U.S. Army Berlin Command face off against police from the former East Germany during one of several standoffs at Checkpoint Charlie in 1961. On several occasions that year, a U.S. quick reaction force of tanks and infantry Soldiers stood watch as armed military policemen escorted U.S. personnel across the border into East Berlin. (U.S. Army Photo) Public Domain File:EUCOM Checkpoint Charlie Standoff 1961.jpg Created: 31 December 1960) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Spy and the Traitor: 2 of 3: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War Hardcover – September 18, 2018 by Ben Macintyre (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Spy-Traitor-Greatest-Espionage-Story/dp/1101904194 The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War....more

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• Trump vs GM, Mary Barra and John Kasich. @MonicaCrowley

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  Nov 29 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: The Veterinary Hospital at Ohio State University, looking north. Date 1900 Source Ohio State University Knowledge Bank Author Published by Ohio State University Licensing[edit] Public domain This media file is in the public domain in the United States. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Trump vs GM, Mary Barra and John Kasich. @MonicaCrowley

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• Nancy Pelosi is speaker and Hillary Clinton is itching to run. @MonicaCrowley

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Baltimore après l'incendie de 1904 Date 9 February 1904 Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Baltimorefireaftermath.jpg Author Fred Pridham Permission (Reusing this file)  image obtenue de Baltimore County Public Library (http://external.bcpl.lib.md.us/hcdo/cfdocs/photopage.cfm?id=16415) ce qui indique qu'elle est dans le domaine publique. Voir aussi : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Baltimorefireaftermath.jpg Licensing[edit] Public domain This media file is in the public domain in the United States.  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Nancy Pelosi is speaker and Hillary Clinton is itching to run. @MonicaCrowley...more

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• @CleoPaskal: The trilateral workings of India, Japan and the US don't quite include the decade-old Quad, since Australia is not really in this due to concern about Chinese money influencing political activities inside Australia.

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  Photo: President Donald J. Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi | July 7, 2017 (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead) Permissions: Public domain. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules . Twitter: @BatchelorShow Cleo Paskal, visiting Trudeau Fellow, University of Montreal, and associate Fellow, Chatham House, reports that Mattis and Pompeo were in Delhi in September; signed agreements. Note the US-India-Japan alliance. India is being given a lot of latitude – it’s developing an Iranian poet – because it's seen as a critical factor in Asian development. Began as a bilateral with Trump and Abe, then expanded into a trilateral to include Modi. Japan also got a waiver for importation of Iranian oil. Need to take into account the economic realities of some of the counties. Not part of the decade-old Quad; Australia is not quite in this: concern about Chinese money influencing political activities inside Australia. Australia and PNG. At the core of the Quad, is it truly [joint] agreements, or a group of bilaterals? https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/trump-to-have-trilateral-meeting-with-modi-abe-at-g20/articleshow/66837470.cms...more

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• @AlanTonelson & @GordonGChang: The only long-term solution to IP theft and trade violations is that we disengage our economies. If manufacturers think there’ll be a deal, they'll stay; if not, they’ll move their supply chains and leave China

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  Photo: A Han-dynasty (202 BC – 220 AD) -era Chinese pottery model of two men operating a winnowing machine with a crank handle and a tilt hammer used to pound grain. Brilliant and exemplary Chinese inventions of yore: metallurgy, boreholes, natural gas, tilling, irrigation, et al. See below.* Permissions: This work is free and may be used by anyone for any purpose. *During the Han dynasty (206 BCE – 220 CE) in China, there were great innovations in metallurgy. In addition to Zhou-dynasty China's (c. 1050 – 256 BCE) previous inventions of the blast furnace and cupola furnace to make pig iron and cast iron, respectively, the Han period saw the development of steel and wrought iron by use of the finery forge and puddling process. With the drilling of deep boreholes into the earth, the Chinese used not only derricks to lift brine up to the surface to be boiled into salt, but also set up bamboo-crafted pipeline transport systems which brought natural gas as fuel to the furnaces. Smelting techniques were enhanced with inventions such as the waterwheel-powered bellows; the resulting widespread distribution of iron tools facilitated the growth of agriculture. For tilling the soil and planting straight rows of crops, the improved heavy-moldboard plough with three iron plowshares and sturdy multiple-tube iron seed drill were invented in the Han, which greatly enhanced production yields and thus sustained population growth. The method of supplying irrigation ditches with water was improved with the invention of the mechanical chain pump powered by the rotation of a waterwheel or draft animals, which could transport irrigation water up elevated terrains. The waterwheel was also used for operating trip hammers in pounding grain and in rotating the metal rings of the mechanical-driven astronomical armillary sphere representing the celestial sphere around the Earth. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Alan Tonelson, independent economic policy analyst who blogs at RealityChek and tweets at @AlanTonelson, answers questions on Buenos Aires. Trump’s position is that China must change, or the tariffs will continue. Gordon: The only long-term solution to IP theft and trade violations is that we disengage our economies. If mfrs think there’ll be a deal, they'll stay; if not, they’ll move their supply chains and leave China. Alan: Even if Xi had an epiphany and repented completely, there’d be no way for the US reliably to verify any of it US corporations in China have a long history of being very afraid of criticizing China’s IP theft and forced relinquishment of manufacturing secrets. GC: The only practical solution to China’s continuous theft is disengagement. Anent Saturday’s meeting between Pres Trump and Pres Xi: is there a way forward? AT: Yes, politically, because American elite public opinion has such a poor understanding to what these negotiations are about, so any deal. GC: I think about a year from now a large number of Americans and of policy elites will come to the Tonelson position – that we must disengage. By trading with the Chinese we’re giving them the money to build up their military and commit all sorts of crimes against humanity in the Northwest with the Uyghurs. . . . It's Trump’s job to make sure that the incentives to general Motors are not to export jobs to China. AT: Today the Fed suggested going to a neutral status, and the market rallied. JB: Does that affect the BA meeting? AT: Yes – he has so determinedly used the stock mkt in his record; so now I think he’ll feel freer to hang tough because the financial penalty won't be as great. Nothing will be resolved at the dinner table, except perhaps some very general statements.  https://nationalinterest.org/feature/g-20-it%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98now-or-never%E2%80%99-%E2%80%98fight-century%E2%80%99-between-donald-trump-and-xi-jinping-37342...more

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• Hong Kong and Melbourne await the G-20 showdown between the PRC and the US. Andrew Collier, managing director of Orient Capital Research in Hong Kong and author of Shadow Banking and the Rise of Capitalism in China.

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Flinders Street Station and the intersection of Flinders & Swanston Streets in 1927 View author information Public Domain File:Swanston and Flinders St intersection 1927.jpg Uploaded: 22 February 2006 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Hong Kong and Melbourne await the G-20 showdown between the PRC and the US.  Andrew Collier, managing director of Orient Capital Research in Hong Kong and author of Shadow Banking and the Rise of Capitalism in China....more

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• North Korea turns quiet & What is to be done? Bruce Bechtol, author, North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa: Enabling Violence and Instability

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nbsbnoss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=North+Korean+Military+Proliferation+in+the+Middle+East+and+Africa%3A+Enabling+Violence+and+Instability ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow North Korea turns quiet & What is to be done? Bruce Bechtol, author, North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa: Enabling Violence and Instability https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nbsbnoss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=North+Korean+Military+Proliferation+in+the+Middle+East+and+Africa%3A+Enabling+Violence+and+Instability...more

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• The underground Shanghai piracy market of stolen IP and bootleg goods. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: Jiujiang Road, Shanghai, late 1920s Unknown - en.wikipedia.org Upload Tool Operator: Flominator (Flominator) Image contributor(s): Nishishei 04:46, 10 February 2006 Nishishei 800x572 (104,044 bytes) (1920s Shanghai, Jiujiang Road. ) 1920s Shanghai, Jiujiang Road. Permission details PDView more Public Domainview terms File:Shanghai1920s.jpg Created: 1920s date QS:P,+1920-00-00T00:00:00Z/8 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The underground Shanghai piracy market of stolen IP and bootleg goods. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast...more

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• PRC is stealing Uyghur Moslem children & What is to be done? @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @NuryTurkel.

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  Nov 29 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Leichenzug in Peking Info non-talk.svg Original caption  For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Info non-talk.svg China, Peking, Leichenzug " San " Date 1900 Photographer Salzmann, E.v. Institution  German Federal Archives Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q685753 Deutsches Ausland-Institut (Bild 137) Accession number Bild 137-009055 Source  Logo Bundesarchiv This image was provided to Wikimedia Commons by the German Federal Archive (Deutsches Bundesarchiv) as part of a cooperation project. The German Federal Archive guarantees an authentic representation only using the originals (negative and/or positive), resp. the digitalization of the originals as provided by the Digital Image Archive. Licensing[edit] w:en:Creative Commons attribution share alike This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany license. Flag of Germany.svg Attribution: Bundesarchiv, Bild 137-009055 / Salzmann, E.v. / CC-BY-SA 3.0 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 attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). share alike – If you alter, transform, or bu ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow PRC is stealing Uyghur Moslem children & What is to be done? @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @NuryTurkel....more

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• Mueller is in no hurry to report before Spring. @AndrewCMcCarthy

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  Nov 29 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Camille Pissarro, The Garden of the Tuileries on a Spring Morning, 1899 Camille Pissarro - Metropolitan Museum of Art, online database: entry 110001761 Pissarro festménye a New York-i Metropolitan Múzeumban Public Domain File:The Garden of the Tuileries on a Spring Morning.JPG Created: 1899date QS:P571,+1899-00-00T00:00:00Z/9  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Mueller is in no hurry to report before Spring.  @AndrewCMcCarthy https://video.foxnews.com/v/5971822001001/...more

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• What does Mueller want from Manafort & What is to be done?. @AndrewCMcCarthy

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  Nov 29 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Moscow, housing, Schosse Entuziastov; Architects: Guryev-Gurevich, Saltsmann; Year: 1935 Дата 1941 or earlier Источник XXX Years of Architecture in Soviet Russia, M, 1950 Автор Academy of Architecture publication, unsigned photograph Права (Повторное использование этого файла)  PD in Russia. Pre-WW2 photographs Public domain This work is in the public domain in Russia a) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow What does Mueller want from Manafort & What is to be done?. @AndrewCMcCarthy https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/11/evaluating-paul-manaforts-alleged-violation-of-his-plea-agreement/ Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office has informed a federal court that Paul Manafort violated his plea agreement by repeatedly lying to investigators. Prosecutors thus consider the agreement null and void and have asked the court to set a sentencing date immediately. The alleged breach was outlined in a brief submission to district judge Amy Berman Jackson in Washington, and reported by the New York Times Monday evening. The submission by Andrew Weissmann and other lawyers on Mueller’s team does not describe Manafort’s allegedly false statements, other than to say that they involve “a variety of subject matters.” Prosecutors are planning to file a sentencing memorandum “that sets forth the nature of the defendant’s crimes and lies, including those after signing the plea agreement.” In the submission, prosecutors acknowledge that Manafort “believes he has provided truthful information and does not agree with the government’s characterization or that he has breached the agreement.” On the surface, it doesn’t seem that Manafort’s dispute can get him very far. But when we look closer, we realize that this is about more than a plea; it is about a pardon…....more

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• NASA approves the next steps for man-rating SpaceX's Dragon capsule. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Nov 29 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Interior of the Dragon 2 capsule, showing the seat configuration NASA/Dmitri Gerondidakis - http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=69276 HAWTHORNE, Calif. - A look through the open hatch of the Dragon V2 reveals the layout and interior of the seven-crew capacity spacecraft. SpaceX unveiled the new spacecraft during a ceremony at its headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif. The Dragon V2 is designed to carry people into Earth's orbit and was developed in partnership with NASA's Commercial Crew Program under the Commercial Crew Integrated Capability agreement. SpaceX is one of NASA's commercial partners working to develop a new generation of U.S. spacecraft and rockets capable of transporting humans to and from Earth's orbit from American soil. Ultimately, NASA intends to use such commercial systems to fly U.S. astronauts to and from the International Space Station. Public Domain File:Dragon V2 interior.2.jpg Created: 30 May 2014 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow NASA approves the next steps for man-rating SpaceX's Dragon capsule. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com...more

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• The Spy and the Traitor:1 of 3: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War Hardcover – September 18, 2018 by Ben Macintyre (Author)

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: Soviet tanks face U.S. tanks at Checkpoint Charlie, October 27, 1961 National Archives - http://nsarchive.chadwyck.com/bcphotox.htm Soviet tanks face U.S. tanks at Checkpoint Charlie Public Domain File:Checkpoint Charlie 1961-10-27.jpg Created: 27 October 1961) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Spy and the Traitor:1 of 3: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War Hardcover – September 18, 2018 by Ben Macintyre (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Spy-Traitor-Greatest-Espionage-Story/dp/1101904194 The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War....more

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• Landing on Mars. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Nov 29 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: True color image of Mars taken by the OSIRIS instrument on the ESA Rosetta spacecraft during its February 2007 flyby of the planet. The image was generated using the OSIRIS orange (red), green, and blue filters. Alternative description: The first true-colour image generated using the OSIRIS orange (red), green and blue colour filters. The image was acquired on 24 February 2007 at 19:28 CET from a distance of about 240 000 km; image resolution is about 5 km/pixel. Español: Imagen de color verdadero de Marte, tomada en febrero de 2007 por el instrumento OSIRIS de la sonda espacial Rosetta que fue lanzada por la ESA. La imagen se creó utilizando los filtros naranja (rojo), verde y azul de OSIRIS. Polski: Fotografia Marsa w rzeczywistych kolorach wykonana przez instrument OSIRIS należącej do Europejskiej Agencji Kosmicznej sondy Rosetta podczas jej przelotu obok tej planety w lutym 2007 roku. Do wykonania fotografii użyto filtrów pomarańczowego (czerwonego), zielonego oraz niebieskiego, w które wyposażono OSIRIS-a. العربية: صُورة لِكوكب المرِّيخ بِالألوان الطبيعيَّة مُلتقطة بِواسطة أداة أوزيريس المُثبتة على مركبة روزيتا الفضائيَّة التابعة لِوكالة الفضاء الأوروپيَّة خِلال عُبُورها على مقرُبةٍ من الكوكب المذكور في شهر شُباط (فبراير) سنة 2007. وُلِّدت هذه الصُورة باستخدام المُرشحات البُرتُقاليَّة (الحمراء)، والخضراء، والزرقاء. وصفٌ بديل: الصُورة الأولى ذات الألوان الطبيعيَّة المُولَّدة باستخدام المُرشحات البُرتُقاليَّة (الحمراء)، والخضراء، والزرقاء، الخاصَّة بِأداة أوزيريس. استُحصلت هذه الصُورة يوم 24 شُباط (فبراير) 2007 في تمام الساعة 19:28 بِتوقيت أوروپَّا الوُسطى من على مسافة تُقدَّر بِحوالي 240 000 كلم؛ دقَّة الصُور تُعادل حوالي 5 كلم\پكسل. Date 25 February 2007 Source http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2007/02/True-colourimageofMarsseenbyOSIRIS Author ESA - European Space Agency & Max-Planck Institute for Solar System Research for OSIRIS Team ESA/MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/RSSD/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA Other versions  Image extraction process This file has an extracted image: File:Mars Wikivoyage banner.jpg. Extracted version Licensing w:en:Creative Commons attribution share alike This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO license.  You are free:) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Landing on Mars. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-marco-cubesat-success/...more

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• Embers of War: 2 of 2: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall.

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  Nov 29 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Français : Hanoï dans les années 1940. Tiếng Việt: Hà-nội thập-niên 1940. Date 9 February 2014, 06:20:09 Source Collection of Mạnh-Hải. Author Musée Annam Permission (Reusing this file)  Public domain This media file is in the public domain in the United States. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Embers of War: 2 of 2: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall. “[Logevall] masterfully presents the war’s roots in the U.S. reaction to the French colonial experience.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Fredrik Logevall has gleaned from American, French, and Vietnamese sources a splendid account of France’s nine-year war in Indochina and the story of how the American statesmen of the period allowed this country to be drawn into the quagmire.”—Neil Sheehan, author of A Bright Shining Lie, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award “Fredrik Logevall is a wonderful writer and historian. In his new book on the origins of the American war in Vietnam, he gives a fascinating and dramatic account of the French war and its aftermath, from the perspectives of the French, the Vietnamese, and the Americans. Using previously untapped sources and a deep knowledge of diplomatic history, Logevall shows to devastating effect how America found itself on the road to Vietnam.”—Frances FitzGerald, author of Fire in the Lake, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award “In a world full of nascent, potentially protracted wars, Fredrik Logevall’s Embers of War is manifestly an important book, illuminating the long, small-step path we followed into the quagmire of Vietnam. But I was also struck by the quality of Logevall’s writing. He has the eye of a novelist, the cadence of a splendid prose stylist, and a filmmaker’s instinct for story. Embers of War is not just an important book of history, it is an utterly compelling read.”—Robert Olen Butler, author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, winner of the Pulitzer Prize “Embers of War is a truly monumental achievement. With elegant prose, deft portraits of the many fascinating characters, and remarkable sensitivity to the aspirations and strategies of the various nations involved, Logevall skillfully guides us through the complexities of the First Indochina War and demonstrates how that conflict laid the basis for America's war in Vietnam.”—George C. Herring, author of America’s Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975 “In this vividly written, richly textured history, Fredrik Logevall demolishes the fiction, too long indulged by too many Americans, that the Vietnam War appeared out of nowhere to besmirch the 1960s. Here we have the full backstory—the uneasy collaboration between France and the United States that paved the way for epic tragedy. Embers of War is a magisterial achievement.”—Andrew J. Bacevich, author of Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War and Professor of International Relations and History, Boston University “For too long, Americans have debated the Vietnam War as though it started in the 1960s. As Fredrik Logevall masterfully demonstrates in Embers of War, the American imbroglio has deep roots in the 1940s and 1950s. This is a deeply researched, elegantly written account that will instantly become the standard book on a poorly understood and decisively important event in world history.”—Mark Lawrence, author of The Vietnam War: A Concise International History, and Associate Professor of History and Senior Fellow at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at The University of Texas at Austin Read less About the Author Fredrik Logevall is John S. Knight Professor of International Studies and professor of history at Cornell University, where he serves as director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. https://www.amazon.com/Embers-War-Empire-Americas-Vietnam/dp/0375756477/ref=laB001IXMD9Y1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1507141405&sr=1-1...more

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• The fate of Citizens United on the Roberts Court. RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Nov 28 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: Interior of the old Supreme Court of Canada courtroom. Ottawa, Canada. Date April 1890 Source  Library and Archives Canada.JPG This image is available from Library and Archives Canada under the reproduction reference number PA-027194 and under the MIKAN ID number 3422514 This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information.  Library and Archives Canada does not allow free use of its copyrighted works. See Category:Images from Library and Archives Canada. Flag of Canada.svg Author  William James Topley (1845–1930) Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q12071246 Permission (Reusing this file)  Copyright expired. As public domain in Canada prior to 1996, also public domain in the United States. (As per Commons:Licensing: Uploads of non-U.S. works are allowed only on the Commons if the work is covered by a free license valid in both the U.S. and the country of origin of the work, or if it is in the public domain in both countries.) Public domain This Canadian work is in the public domain in Canada because its copyright has expired due to one of the following: 1. it was subject to Crown copyright and was first published more than 50 years ago, or) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The fate of Citizens United on the Roberts Court. RichardAEpstein @HooverInst...more

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• Only billionaires for president forever & why not? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Nov 28 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Old Hearst pier (built 1878) and the San Simeon waterfront, c. 1890s. Sebastian Store (established 1852, dark wood) is at center. The white Spanish-style stucco building at right center is a Hearst warehouse, still in use. The ridge in background is the future site of Hearst Castle. Unknown - http://cambriahistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Sebastians-Store-fromoldpier.jpg Hearst Pier, San Simeon CA. Sebastian store (center, dark wood) & Hearst warehouses and buildings on/near waterfront. Permission details This image might not be in the public domain outside of the United States; this especially applies in the countries and areas that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works, such as Canada, Mainland China (not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany, Mexico, and Switzerland. The creator and year of publication are essential information and must be provided. See Wikipedia:Public domain and Wikipedia:Copyrights for more details.View more Public Domainview terms File:Hearst pier, San Simeon.jpg Created: Unknown dateUnknown dateUnknown date, likely late 19th century, 1890s? Store moved to this location c. 1883) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Only billionaires for president forever & why not? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst  https://www.hoover.org/research/billionaires-president ...more

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• The Bezos Washington Post vs Saudi Arabia and Trump & What is to be done? @ChristianWhiton

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  Nov 28 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:The Washington Post building in 1948  Abbie Rowe, 1905-1967, Photographer (NARA record: 8451352) - U.S. National Archives and Records Administration General notes: E Street NW between 13th and 14th streets, although the traffic is on the Pennsylvania Avenue segment now realigned for "Freedom Plaza." The building at right still houses the National Theatre, but the others have been replaced by the JWMarriott Hotel. Public Domain File:Sign, "Welcome Home From the Crow-Eaters," on the front of the Washington Post Building in Washington, DC. President... - NARA - 199955.jpg Created: 5 November 1948date QS:P571,+1948-11-05T00:00:00Z/11 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Bezos Washington Post vs Saudi Arabia and Trump & What is to be done? @ChristianWhiton  Christian Whiton was a State Department senior adviser in the Donald J. Trump and George W. Bush administrations. He is the author of “Smart Power: Between Diplomacy and War.” https://dailycaller.com/2018/11/27/khashoggi-washington-post...more

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• Preparing the US Navy to best China and Russia is the certain way to keep the peace. @JerryHendrixII

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  Nov 28 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:HMS Hood in Sydney Harbour shortly after arriving with the other ships of the Special Service Squadron on 9 April 1924 Not stated - This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. HMS Hood in Sydney Harbour shortly after arriving with the other ships of the Royal Navy's Special Services Squadron. Permission details The copyright has expired on this image as is was made more than 50 years ago. Its copyright status in the AWM's online database is listed as 'Copyright expired - public domain'.View more Public Domainview terms File:HMS Hood in Sydney Harbour.jpeg Created: 9 April 1924 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Preparing the US Navy to best China and Russia is the certain way to keep the peace. @JerryHendrixII https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2018/11/12/the-navy-we-need/....more

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• Tunku Varadarajan (@tunkuv): The Sentinel Islanders in the midst of the vast Bay of Bengal are descended from Africans who arrived at the North Sentinel Islands 50,000 years ago and still are in a Stone Age state of existence

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  Photo: Group of Andaman Men and Women in Costume, Some Wearing Body Paint And with Bows and Arrows, Catching Turtles from Boat on Water. 1903 or earlier; Smithsonian Institution, National Anthropological Archive. Authors: Murray, Colin (?). Bourne and Shepherd Permissions: 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 less. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules  Twitter: @BatchelorShow Tunku Varadarajan (@tunkuv), executive editor, Hoover Institution, explains the tale of John Chau. The Sentinel Islanders are descended from Africans who arrived at the North Sentinel Islands 50,000 [30,000?] years ago and still are in a Stone Age state of existence.* No one knows how many, nor what their language is. The Indian government prevents all visitors from entering.  John Chau decided that the islands were God-forsaken and needed Christian conversion. As the young missionary arrived by kayak, the Sentinelese killed him with bows and arrows.  “Eyes on, hands off” is the Indian government policy to prevent the intrusion of deadly diseases such as even the common cold. John Chau was the first to set foot on the island since 2006; they’d run out of fuel and were promptly killed and their bodies sprung up like scarecrows. John Chau had an Instagram account filled with attractive pictures of him all over the world. A likeable fellow. Nonetheless, he wrote that the Sentinel Islands were Satan’s last stronghold. *North Sentinel Island is part of the far-flung Andaman Islands in the vast Bay of Bengal. The region is home to five Stone Age tribes — which anthropologists believe to be the last of their kind and are dwindling in numbers....more

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• @PaulR_Gregory : Putin’s millionaire buddy got the contract to build the Kerch bridge*; Russia is blocking the water with a huge cargo ship anchored directly under the bridge – but the bridge is so badly built that it’s already sinking.

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  Nov 28 2018

  Photo: Wikipedia map of the Sea of Azov. Note the word Kerch at the southern isthmus. Permissions: Public domain.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules  Twitter: @BatchelorShow Paul Gregory (@PaulR_Gregory), Hoover Institution, covers the vid posted by the FSB of three captured sailors from an Ukrainskii naval vessel saying that this was a casus belli we generated at the direction of Kiyev. One is reading from a script; the men seemed to be under physical and emotional pressure to say this. We know from radio intercept that this action was directed by Medvedev and Putin, himself. The bigger picture is that Putin has decided he can bolster his sagging public opinion numbers by giving a gift to the Russian people: “The Sea of Azov is now ours!” Putin was trying to goad Poroshenko to cancel upcoming elections – a disaster, so he’s simply created martial law. What we see is that Russia can ride roughshod over Ukraine and he international order, which puts Trump in an awkward place at the upcoming G20. Take the Sea of Azov, expand to control the Black Sea – from Bulgaria and Rumania to Turkey and Georgia; were he to gain control of the Black Sea, that’d be more advantageous than marching into Kiyev. Putin’s millionaire buddy got the contract to build the Kerch bridge*; Russia is blocking the water with a huge cargo ship anchored directly under the bridge – but the bridge is so badly built that it’s already sinking. * The new bridge that straddles the Kerch Strait between Crimea and southern Russia....more

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• Elizabeth Peek (@lizpeek): I think [Hillary] would like to run; wants the Democratic party to be so fractured that they turn to her as the central figure. Imagine Kamala Harris, Beto O’Rourke, all the others, ceding space to her? Highly entertaining.

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  Nov 28 2018

  Photo: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton smiles after receiving a Hawaiian flower lei upon her arrival at Hickam Air Force Base Hawaii. Clinton is kicking off her 2010 diplomacy agenda with a stop in Hawaii to give a policy speech and a one-on-one meeting with her Japanese counterpart. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech Sgt. Jerome S. Tayborn) Permissions: Public domain, work by a member of the US armed forces (15wing.af.mi).   http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Elizabeth Peek (@lizpeek), Fox News, investigates: Who’s the fairest of them all for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination? Adam Schiff will investigate Trump, Khashoggi, everything. Democratic competition for impeachment? Americans elected this government in order to break up a log jam and get something done. We have four committees investigating some aspect of Pres Trump. Concerning MBS, there are lots of bad guys. Iran again called for the extermination of Israel the other day; Saudis aren't choir boys, but are geopolitically important. Democrats need to have a policy platform more interesting than impeaching Pres Trump. Hillary Clinton told Europe that unless it solves its migrant problem, there will be no slowing right-wing populism. Is Hillary back as a candidate? She’s not more powerful than formerly; in the #MeToo era, she has a full baggage train with her husband’s past with women. For years, the Clintons have funded her activities from Clinton Foundation donations, which are now down precipitously. I think she’d like to run; wants the Democratic party to be so fractured that they turn to her as the central figure, But imagine Kamala Harris, Beto O’Rourke, all the others, ceding space to her? Highly entertaining....more

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• Elizabeth Peek (@lizpeek): What GM is doing is getting rid of some small-car product because consumers around the world have been favoring SUVs and trucks. Trump says, “Bring your Chinese manufacturing to Ohio.”

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  Nov 28 2018

  Photo: Renaissance Center, the headquarters of General Motors in Detroit, Michigan. Photo by Ritcheypro. Permissions: All free photos on this site are public domain. Please consider giving a credit hyperlink to https://www.goodfreephotos.com if you use the photos on this site using the attribution code in the below box: Photo via Good Free Photos http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Elizabeth Peek (@lizpeek), Fox News, on General Motors vs. Trump. The American economy is firing on all cylinders. As GM announces its intention to close multiple factories and take away 15,000 jobs in the US and Canada, Pres Trump is threatening to cut off governmental subsidies for GM for electric cars. The GM board exists because of governmental actions during the great recession; Pres Trump is very unhappy with the board. It’s become politic all because Trump promised to increase jobs. As for subsidies for electric carmakers, not clear that he can remove that. What GM is doing is getting rid of some small-car product because consumers around the world have been favoring SUVs and trucks. I think their assembly line is set up to make the wrong kind of cars. Mary Barra, CEO, tried to explain the problem. I think there’s more to learn about this. Trump says, “Bring your Chinese mfrg to Ohio.”...more

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• Embers of War:1 of 2: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall.

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  Nov 28 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Français : Hanoï dans les années 1940. Tiếng Việt: Hà-nội thập-niên 1940. Date 9 February 2014, 06:20:09 Source Collection of Mạnh-Hải. Author Musée Annam Permission (Reusing this file)  Public domain This media file is in the public domain in the United States. This applies to U.S. works where the copyright has expired, often because its first publication occurred prior to January 1, 1923. See this page for further explanation.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Embers of War:1 of 2:  The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall. https://www.amazon.com/Embers-War-Empire-Americas-Vietnam/dp/0375756477/ref=laB001IXMD9Y1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1507141405&sr=1-1 “[Logevall] masterfully presents the war’s roots in the U.S. reaction to the French colonial experience.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Fredrik Logevall has gleaned from American, French, and Vietnamese sources a splendid account of France’s nine-year war in Indochina and the story of how the American statesmen of the period allowed this country to be drawn into the quagmire.”—Neil Sheehan, author of A Bright Shining Lie, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award “Fredrik Logevall is a wonderful writer and historian. In his new book on the origins of the American war in Vietnam, he gives a fascinating and dramatic account of the French war and its aftermath, from the perspectives of the French, the Vietnamese, and the Americans. Using previously untapped sources and a deep knowledge of diplomatic history, Logevall shows to devastating effect how America found itself on the road to Vietnam.”—Frances FitzGerald, author of Fire in the Lake, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award “In a world full of nascent, potentially protracted wars, Fredrik Logevall’s Embers of War is manifestly an important book, illuminating the long, small-step path we followed into the quagmire of Vietnam. But I was also struck by the quality of Logevall’s writing. He has the eye of a novelist, the cadence of a splendid prose stylist, and a filmmaker’s instinct for story. Embers of War is not just an important book of history, it is an utterly compelling read.”—Robert Olen Butler, author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, winner of the Pulitzer Prize “Embers of War is a truly monumental achievement. With elegant prose, deft portraits of the many fascinating characters, and remarkable sensitivity to the aspirations and strategies of the various nations involved, Logevall skillfully guides us through the complexities of the First Indochina War and demonstrates how that conflict laid the basis for America's war in Vietnam.”—George C. Herring, author of America’s Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975 “In this vividly written, richly textured history, Fredrik Logevall demolishes the fiction, too long indulged by too many Americans, that the Vietnam War appeared out of nowhere to besmirch the 1960s. Here we have the full backstory—the uneasy collaboration between France and the United States that paved the way for epic tragedy. Embers of War is a magisterial achievement.”—Andrew J. Bacevich, author of Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War and Professor of International Relations and History, Boston University “For too long, Americans have debated the Vietnam War as though it started in the 1960s. As Fredrik Logevall masterfully demonstrates in Embers of War, the American imbroglio has deep roots in the 1940s and 1950s. This is a deeply researched, elegantly written account that will instantly become the standard book on a poorly understood and decisively important event in world history.”—Mark Lawrence, author of The Vietnam War: A Concise International History, and Associate Professor of History and Senior Fellow at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at The University of Texas at Austin Read less About the Author Fredrik Logevall is John S. Knight Professor of International Studies and professor of history at Cornell University, where he serves as director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies....more

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• The Impeachment of Trump Library at the beginning. @AndrewCMcCarthy @ThadMcCotter

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  Nov 28 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: The Dead-Letter Office at Washington, a wood engraving sketched by Theodore R. Davis and published in Harper's Weekly, February 22, 1868. Date 22 February 1868 Source Harper's Weekly Author Theodore R. Davis Licensing[edit] 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: Public domain This media file is in the public domain in the United States.  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Impeachment of Trump Library at the beginning. @AndrewCMcCarthy @ThadMcCotter https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/new-books-on-impeachment-cass-sunstein-laurence-tribe-josua-matz/ In the new Fall 2018 edition of one of our favorite magazines, Claremont Review of Books, I am proud to have a review of a couple of interesting new books on the subject of impeachment, Cass Sunstein’s Impeachment: A Citizen’s Guide; and a joint effort by Laurence Tribe and Joshua Matz called To End a Presidency — The Power of Impeachment. I begin with something of a lament about my own impeachment book, published four years ago: Collusion! Obstruction! And what about the Emoluments Clause! Donald J. Trump’s antagonists began talking about impeaching him within days of his 2016 election victory. But on what grounds? Since “collusion with Russia” is not a crime, can the president “obstruct justice” by carrying out an undeniably constitutional act, such as firing the director of the FBI—the agency investigating the, er, collusion? Even if we assume, for argument’s sake, that the president could be criminally charged for such an act, isn’t there some Justice Department rule against indicting a sitting president? If he may not be indicted at all, why is a special prosecutor investigating him? And if he may not be indicted for lawful exercises of his Article II prerogatives—dismissing subordinates, criticizing investigations’ merits and investigators’ motives, pardoning political allies—could he still be impeached over them? These are difficult, important questions. In deliberating over the Constitution, nothing bedeviled the framers more than the new office they were creating, the presidency of the United States. If the nation were to survive and thrive, the chief executive would have to possess powers so awesome they could, if abused, destroy the nation, eviscerating its founding ideals of liberty and self-determination. With Americans having just thrown off one monarch, an essential objective of the Constitution was to forestall the rise of another. The president would have to be checked by powers commensurate with his own. Today, we metaphorically refer to the ultimate check, impeachment, as a “nuclear option.” To James Madison it was, in a word, “indispensable.”......more

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• GM cars cannot compete with Toyota and Honda cars. Lou Ann Hammond DrivingtheNation.com

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  Nov 28 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: General Motors exhibit at Century 21 Exposition (World's Fair), Seattle, Washington, USA, 1962. Item 78914, City Light Photographic Negatives (Record Series 1204-01), Seattle Municipal Archives. Date 20 April 1962, 14:02:12 Source Flickr: General Motors exhibit at World's Fair, 1962 Author Seattle Municipal Archives Permission (Reusing this file)  Checked copyright icon.svg This image, which was originally posted to Flickr, was uploaded to Commons using Flickr upload bot on 20 October 2012, 02:51 by Jmabel. On that date, it was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the license indicated. w:en:Creative Commons attribution This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.   ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow GM cars cannot compete with Toyota and Honda cars. Lou Ann Hammond DrivingtheNation.com...more

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• The Enemy of the People & What is to be done? @AndrewCMcCarthy @ThadMcCotter

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: Abbie Rowe (1905–1967) Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q17505865 Title  Removing Debris from the Renovation of the White House, 02/27/1950 Description  General notes: On the left, a truck crane is lifting a 40-foot beam through the southwest window of Room 20 on the second floor of the White House. On the right, debris from the hopper is being loaded on a truck. Date 27 February 1950 Collection  National Archives and Records Administration Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q518155 Harry S. Truman Library (NLHST), 500 West U.S. Highway 24, Independence, MO, 64050-1798. PHONE: 816-268-8272; FAX: 816-268-8295; EMAIL:truman.reference@nara.gov. Record ID  NARA Logo created 2010.svg This media is available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 6982091. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. English | Español | Français | Italiano | Македонски | മലയാളം | Nederlands | Polski | Português | Русский | Slovenščina | Türkçe | Українська | Tiếng Việt | 中文（简体） | 中文（繁體） | +/− Record group: Collection HST-AVC: Audiovisual Collection, 1957 - 2006 (National Archives Identifier: 1207 ) Series: Photographs Relating to the Administration, Family, and Personal Life of Harry S. Truman, compiled 1957 - 2004, documenting the period 1849 - 2004 Source  [1] U.S. National Archives and Records Administration Other versions  Please do not overwrite this file: any restoration work should be uploaded with a new name and linked in this page's "other versions=" parameter, so that this file represents the exact file found in the NARA catalog record to which it links. The metadata on this page was imported directly from NARA's catalog record; additional descriptive text may be added by Wikimedians to the template below with the "description=" parameter, but please do not modify the other fields. (Note: Editors who post this notice are strongly encouraged to add details explaining how it applies to this file.) ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Enemy of the People & What is to be done? @AndrewCMcCarthy @ThadMcCotter In commentary about the media that is sometimes withering and sometimes unhinged, the president uses the term “the enemy of the people.” The epithet has gotten under the skin of many journalists. Some of them worry aloud about being targeted for retribution, a concern that is overwrought as applied to Trump partisans generally, but that cannot be dismissed out of hand — Cesar Sayoc’s attempted pipe-bomb rampage against Trump critics, like James Hodgkinson’s gunfire spree against Republican congressmen, reminds us that no one has the market cornered on evil and dementia. But who exactly is “the enemy of the people”? Trump maintains that he is not referring to the entire press, only to “fake news” coverage by mainstream-media outlets. Is such line-drawing appropriate? Even if the public at large may validly make such distinctions, should they be drawn by a president of the United States, or does that specter imperil constitutional free-press protections?......more

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• After Khashoggi, the nuclear arms race in the Middle East accelerates. @JedBabbin

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  Nov 28 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: The Royal Navy during the Second World War The Emir Mansur, son of King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia, with Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, Commander in Chief Mediterranean Fleet, and Captain Barry, Captain of HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH, on the quarterdeck of the flagship HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH during the Emir's visit to the fleet at Alexandria. Two of the battleship's twin 15 inch gun turrets and its super structure can be seen in the background. Note the crew lined up for inspection round the edge of the deck. Date between 1939 and 1945 Source http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//29/media-29434/large.jpg IWMLondonThumbnail.jpg This is photograph A 9618 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums. Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Author Allen, E E (Lt), Royal Navy official photographer Permission (Reusing this file)  This image was created and released by the Imperial War Museum on the IWM Non Commercial Licence. Photographs taken, or artworks created, by a member of the forces during their active service duties are covered by Crown Copyright provisions. Faithful reproductions may be reused under that licence, which is considered expired 50 years after their creation. Part of Admiralty Official Collection Subjects  Associated people and organisations Cunningham, Andrew Browne, Royal Navy, QUEEN ELIZABETH (HMS) Associated places Alexandria, Egypt Associated themes Royal Navy 1939-1945 Associated keywords Ceremony, Royalty Category photographs Image Sorted yes Licensing[edit] This image is in the public domain because it is a mere mechanical scan or photocopy of a public domain original, or – from the available evidence – is so similar to such a scan or photocopy that no copyright protection can be expected to arise. The original itself is in the public domain for the following reason: Public domain This work created by the United Kingdom Government is in the public domain. This is because it is one of the following: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow After Khashoggi, the nuclear arms race in the Middle East accelerates. @JedBabbin https://spectator.org/saudis-going-nuclear-a-partial-case-can-be-made/...more

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• Road to Disaster: 4 of 4: A New History of America's Descent into Vietnam by Brian VanDeMark

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  Nov 28 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: Photo of MACV HQ, Tan Son Nhut, Saigon from p 62 of Vietnam Studies Command and Control 1950-1969 by Major General George S. Eckhardt, Department of the Army, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 72-600186 Date 1974 Source http://www.history.army.mil/books/Vietnam/Comm-Control/ch03.htm Author US Army Licensing[edit] Public domain This image is a work of a U.S. Army soldier or employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Road to Disaster: 4 of 4: A New History of America's Descent into Vietnam by Brian VanDeMark https://www.amazon.com/Road-Disaster-History-Americas-Descent-ebook/dp/B074SGPRZ4/ref=sr11?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1542770180&sr=1-1&keywords=brian+vandemark "The most thoughtful and judicious one-volume history of the war and the American political leaders who presided over the difficult and painful decisions that shaped this history. The book will stand for the foreseeable future as the best study of the tragic mistakes that led to so much suffering."—Robert Dallek Many books have been written on the tragic decisions regarding Vietnam made by the young stars of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Yet despite millions of words of analysis and reflection, no historian has been able to explain why such decent, brilliant, and previously successful men stumbled so badly. That changes with Road to Disaster. Historian Brian VanDeMark draws upon decades of archival research, his own interviews with many of those involved, and a wealth of previously unheard recordings by Robert McNamara and Clark Clifford, who served as Defense Secretaries for Kennedy and Johnson. Yet beyond that, Road to Disaster is also the first history of the war to look at the cataclysmic decisions of those in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations through the prism of recent research in cognitive science, psychology, and organizational theory to explain why the "Best and the Brightest" became trapped in situations that suffocated creative thinking and willingness to dissent, why they found change so hard, and why they were so blind to their own errors. An epic history of America’s march to quagmire, Road to Disaster is a landmark in scholarship and a book of immense importance....more

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• Charles Burton: If Xi fulfilled the 142 demands, China would become a nation based on intl norms of governance & the right of citizens to participate in political & economic decisions that impinge on them! However, Xi would be out of job. @cburton001

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  Nov 27 2018

  Photo: Goddess of Democracy HK: Replica of the statue "Goddess of Democracy" from the Tiananmen square protests in 1989. Photo taken in Victoria Park, Hong Kong, during the commemoration event for the 21st anniversary of the massacre. Permissons: I, the copyright holder of this work [MarsmanRom & Isa Ng], release this work into the public domain. This applies worldwide. I grant anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Charles Burton (@cburton001), professor at Brock University, speaks on the upcoming G20 meeting in Buenos Aires. Meeting between the president of the US and the president for life of China. . . . Consider rampant intellectual property theft, technology transfer, unfair restricted access to Chinese markets, lack of respect for intl rules and norms – I don’t think Mr Xi will be prepared to move on any of them. He may offer to buy more natural gas and propose more market access to US firms, or buy more agricultural products, but not address the fundamental incompatibility of the two political economies — the Communist ideology of that regime, the nationalist, authoritarian, unrespecting of liberal freedoms or the ideology that makes the United States a great country. Political pressure inside the CCP? Xi overextended himself in his hubris to say that China could become the global hegemon, and that trade and international values that inform international institutions could be converted over to a Chinese model in a relatively short period of time. Within the Party, concern that if he makes too many concessions he’ll look weak, or not enough and the Chinese economy will take a worse and worse hit. He’s between a rock and a hard place and frankly I don't think he’s going to survive this. He thinks the US is in decline, China will assume global economic power with the Belt and Road program; and thinking like a Marxist, the superstructure will follow, and the norms that govern intl behavior will change from the current norms that inform the IMF, and World Bank, and UN, and the WTO, to ones that Mr Xi defines as the common destiny of Mankind, which really means the Chinese destiny of Mankind with everything passing through Beijing. I don’t think he’d get the agreement of his military to engage in a war that China would definitely lose. I ‘m not sure he’ll survive this as president of China. If he succeeded, in Belt and Road program and using various funding sources, and forces poorer countries to take loans they cannot repay, there could be a lot of resentment against the Chinese state. China’s rise by 2050 would come not without conflict. If he did fulfill the 142 demands the US has for him, China would become a nation based on intl norms of governance and the right of citizens to participate in political and economic decisions that impinge on them. However, Mr Xi would be out of job....more

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• More Powerful Than Dynamite: 1 of 2: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy. by Thai Jones

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  Nov 27 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: Star Theatre, northeast corner of 13th Street and Broadway Date 1900 Source New York Public Library Digital Gallery, 809929 Catalog Call Number: PC NEW YC-The Digital ID: 809929 Record ID: 705872 Author Rudolph M. De Leeuw, Both Sides of Broadway, from Bowling Green to Central Park, New York City (New York: De Leeuw Riehl Pub. Co., 1910) Licensing[edit] Public domain This media file is in the public domain in the United States. This applies to U.S. works where the copyright has expired, often because its first publication occurred prior to Januar ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow More Powerful Than Dynamite: 1 of 2: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy. by Thai Jones “Jobless, homeless, hungry, desperate. Remarkable how those words resonate through the years in the richest and most powerful country in world history. Their significance is dramatically highlighted in this compelling and vivid portrayal of the currents that swept the country a century ago, and have come back to haunt and inspire us once again today. More Powerful Than Dynamite is an impressive piece of work.” ―Noam Chomsky “Almost exactly a century before Occupy Wall Street launched a cause and gripped a nation, a different kind of radical movement in New York City was stirring, stunning, and scaring the country. Thai Jones, a brilliant historian and breathtaking writer, tells this compelling story in MORE POWERFUL THAN DYNAMITE. In his hands, the past is indeed prologue.” ―Samuel G. Freedman, author of Jew Vs. Jew “New York was as divided by class, race, and ideology a century ago as it is in our own time. That the city actually exploded in 1914 is not surprising. What is surprising is how subtly, persuasively, and imaginatively Thai Jones has interpreted the period and brought a rich cast of characters to life. More Powerful Than Dynamite is an exciting book.” ―Kenneth T. Jackson, Columbia University, editor of The Encyclopedia of New York City...more

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• More Powerful Than Dynamite: 2 of 2: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy. by Thai Jones

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  Nov 27 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: 5th Avenue north of 66th Street, New York City, New York, around 1900. From the Witteman Collection Date circa 1900 Source http://2.bp.blogspot.com/ Author Unknown Licensing[edit] Public domain This work is in the public domain  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow More Powerful Than Dynamite: 2 of 2: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy. by Thai Jones “Jobless, homeless, hungry, desperate. Remarkable how those words resonate through the years in the richest and most powerful country in world history. Their significance is dramatically highlighted in this compelling and vivid portrayal of the currents that swept the country a century ago, and have come back to haunt and inspire us once again today. More Powerful Than Dynamite is an impressive piece of work.” ―Noam Chomsky “Almost exactly a century before Occupy Wall Street launched a cause and gripped a nation, a different kind of radical movement in New York City was stirring, stunning, and scaring the country. Thai Jones, a brilliant historian and breathtaking writer, tells this compelling story in MORE POWERFUL THAN DYNAMITE. In his hands, the past is indeed prologue.” ―Samuel G. Freedman, author of Jew Vs. Jew “New York was as divided by class, race, and ideology a century ago as it is in our own time. That the city actually exploded in 1914 is not surprising. What is surprising is how subtly, persuasively, and imaginatively Thai Jones has interpreted the period and brought a rich cast of characters to life. More Powerful Than Dynamite is an exciting book.” ―Kenneth T. Jackson, Columbia University, editor of The Encyclopedia of New York City...more

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• "Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Beka of one-half shekel weight, Fifth Century BCE. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotter

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  Nov 27 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: Jerusalem, between 1890 and 1900. Deutsch: Jerusalem, zwischen 1890 und 1900. Italiano: Gerusalemme, fra il 1890 e il 1900. Source[edit] Bibliothek des US-Kongress, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.02685 Licensing[edit] Public domain  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 less. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Beka of one-half shekel weight, Fifth Century BCE.  Malcolm Hoenlein @Confofpres @ThadMcCotter https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/israel/2018/november/beka-weight-from-the-first-temple-period-discovered-in-jerusalem...more

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• Who are the Red China appeasers & What is to be done? @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @ThadMcCotter

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  Nov 27 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Engagement between British and Chinese ships in the First Battle of Chuenpi, 1839. Miller - http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/129008.html Watercolor of HMS Volage and HMS Hyacinth confront Chinese war junks at Chuenpee, 3 November 1839. Public Domain File:Volage & Hyacinth in Chuenpee.jpg Created: 19th century date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Who are the Red China appeasers & What is to be done? @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @ThadMcCotter...more

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• Will the 116th Congress be the Impeachment Congress & What is to be done? @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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  Nov 27 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English:  Identifier: picturesquewas00moor (find matches) Title: Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments .. Year: 1884 (1880s) Authors: Moore, Joseph West Subjects: Washington (D.C.) Publisher: Providence : J.A. & R.A. Reid Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: A FEW MOMENTS OF LEISURE. Text Appearing After Image: CHAPTER IV. THE CAPITOL—ADOPTION OF THE PLAN—LAYING OF THE CORNER-STONE BYPRESIDENT WASHINGTON —THE ARCHITECTS — PARTIAL DESTRUCTION OFTHE EDIFICE BY BRITISH TROOPS —THE OLD CAPITOL—THE PRESENT MA-JESTIC EDIFICE—ITS GREAT DOME, STATUE OF FREEDOM, BRONZE DOORSAND STATUARY —THE EASTERN AND ^VESTERN PARKS — NAVAL MONU-MENT—THE BOTANICAL GARDEN —VIEW FROM THE CAPITOL DOME. THE commissioners appointed to lay out the capital city weredirected to procure suitable buildings for the accommoda-tion of Congress, and of the President, and for the publicoffices of the government of the United States ; and, shortlyafter the city was surveyed, they entered upon this portion of theirduties. On LEnfants design the Federal House for Congresswas designated as the Capitol, and this name, meeting with theapproval of President Washington, was adopted. It had been ascer-tained that the hill in the eastern section w^as the central point ofthe city, and therefore it was decided to erect Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. Date 1884 Source https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14772687252/ Source book page: https://archive.org/stream/picturesquewas00moor/picturesquewas00moor#page/n71/mode/1up Author Moore, Joseph West Permission (Reusing this file)  At the time of upload, the image license was automatically confirmed using the Flickr API. For more information see Flickr API detail. Flickr tags  bookid:picturesquewas00moor bookyear:1884 bookdecade:1880 bookcentury:1800 bookauthor:MooreJoseph_West booksubject:WashingtonDC_ bookpublisher:ProvidenceJAR_AReid bookcontributor:UniversityofCalifornia_Libraries booksponsor:MSN bookleafnumber:71 bookcollection:cdl bookcollection:americana Flickr posted date 29 July 2014  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Will the 116th Congress be the Impeachment Congress & What is to be done?  @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter...more

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• Beverly Hills City Council decries Airbnb for ant-semiotic boycott. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotter

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  Nov 27 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: Linen postcard image of the Brown Derby restaurant (built in 1931 {1} and demolished in 1983 {1} ) at 9737 Wilshire, Beverly Hills, California. This postcard was produced prior to 1978 and has no copyright markings. The image has been cropped. This branch of the restaurant began in 1931; by 1980, it had been closed and the building demolished in 1983. United States Copyright Office page 2 "Visually Perceptible Copies The notice for visually perceptible copies should contain all three elements described below. They should appear together or in close proximity on the copies. 1 The symbol © (letter C in a circle); the word “Copyright”; or the abbreviation “Copr.” 2 The year of first publication. If the work is a derivative work or a compilation incorporating previously published material, the year date of first publication of the derivative work or compilation is sufficient. Examples of derivative works are translations or dramatizations; an example of a compilation is an anthology. The year may be omitted when a pictorial, graphic, or sculptural work, with accompanying textual matter, if any, is reproduced in or on greeting cards, postcards, stationery, jewelry, dolls, toys, or useful articles. 3 The name of the copyright owner, an abbreviation by which the name can be recognized, or a generally known alternative designation of owner.1 Example © 2007 Jane Doe." Date circa 1930 's Source eBay item postcard front postcard back Author ColourPicture Publications Uploaded by We hope at en.wikipedia Licensing[edit] PD-icon.svg This work is in the public domain i ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Beverly Hills City Council decries Airbnb for ant-semiotic boycott. Malcolm Hoenlein @Confofpres @ThadMcCotter https://patch.com/california/beverlyhills/beverly-hills-condemns-airbnb-removing-west-bank-listings...more

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• Trump and Ohio vs General Motors and China. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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  Nov 27 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Springfield, Ohio, United States. Date circa 1900 Source Unknown Author Unknown Licensing[edit] 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: Public domain This media file is in the public domain in the United States) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Trump and Ohio vs General Motors and China. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter...more

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• "When we think of ISIS, we know it’s extremist and psychopathic. However, the Delegated Committee issued a fatwah beyond extreme, excommunicating Muslims worldwide, including many in ISIS. They had to rescind it." @thomasjoscelyn, @billroggio

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  Nov 27 2018

  Map: regions within Somalia claimed by separatists. Permissions: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. You are free: •to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work •to remix – to adapt Permissions: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. You are free: •to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work •to remix – to adapt the work. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Tom Joscelyn, Long War Journal and FDD; and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD; in re: In no fashion is ISIS or the Taliban defeated. The Delegated Committee of ISIS is the most powerful group within ISIS. See: the “wiring diagram.” When we think of ISIS, we know it’s extremist and psychopathic. However, the Delegated Committee issued a fatwah beyond extreme, excommunicating Muslims worldwide, incl many in ISIS. Had to rescind it.  State Department adds chair of Islamic State’s delegated committee to terror list BY THOMAS JOSCELYN | November 21, 2018 | @thomasjoscelyn  https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2018/11/state-department-adds-chair-of-islamic-states-delegated-committee-to-terror-list.php  Air strikes in Somalia: AFRICOM launches 2 more strikes against Shabaab in central Somalia. The US military is clearly targeting Shabaab in Mudug province. There have been five strikes there in the past four days and 50 Shabaab fighters are reported to have been killed in the attacks. Trump Adm inherited the Obama Adm program of fighting from the air, put that program on steroids. There’s no security force capable of [winning] over these groups....more

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• "DoD estimates that there are about 15,000 fighters across all of Syria. I’m at a loss for words to describe how stupid this number is. There are at least 100,000 Taliban fighters + support personnel." @thomasjoscelyn, @billroggio

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  Nov 27 2018

  Photo: Martyrdom-seeking muhajedeen of the Islamic Emirate during preparations for Al Khandaq operations. Permissions: Islamic State photo. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow 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: Eastern Syria: US launching a counterattack against the defeated Islamic State after a damaging IS attack against Free Syrian troops. DoD estimates that there are about 15,000 fighters across all of Syria. Operating in Palmyra and the south; still have a structure in place. Instead of being a physical caliphate, have returned to guerilla warfare roots. Have a prolific engine capable of attacking, Have many sources of income – they tried to maintain control of eastern Syria has a significant oil output, which they traded to Turkey and Assad! But they're still taxing, and getting donations. Issued a gory video threatening families of SDF and Kurdish fighters; beheaded one fighter on screen to intimidate the Kurdish families and their families. These videos have been effective in Iraq. US DoD estimates of Taliban numbers: 25-35,000 fighters; Haqqani: 3,500-5,000; ergo, a total of maybe 40,000. US DoD is guessing there are 315,000 Afghan fighters and ___ NATO. I’m at a loss for words to describe how stupid this number is. Taliban are fighting in every province and have the initiative there. The numerical estimates haven't changed in years. In truth, there are at least 100,000 Taliban fighters plus support personnel. The bad numbers are a result of laziness. In Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, all the insurgent forge are grossly underestimated. Why is the Trump Adm permitting this? Who benefits from underreporting? Analysis: US military grossly underestimates Taliban, al Qaeda force levels in Afghanistan BY BILL ROGGIO | November 26, 2018 / The US military's official estimate of the number of fighters in the Taliban's ranks needs to be at least doubled given the level and intensity of fighting in Afghanistan, as well as the number of Taliban casualties claimed by the Afghan security forces. https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2018/11/analysis-us-military-grossly-underestimates-taliban-al-qaeda-force-levels-in-afghanistan.php...more

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• Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage by Douglas Waller (Author)

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  Nov 27 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Frankreich, Offizier gibt Anleitung Info non-talk.svg Archive description  Description provided by the archive when the original description is incomplete or wrong. You can help by reporting errors and typos at Commons:Bundesarchiv/Error reports. Frankreich.- Offizier erläutert Unteroffizieren (einer Artillerie-Einheit?) an Hand der Karte  die Aufgabe; PK 670 Depicted place France Date 1941 Photographer Harren Institution  German Federal Archives Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q685753 Propagandakompanien der Wehrmacht - Heer und Luftwaffe (Bild 101 I) Accession number Bild 101I-063-2185-11A Source  Logo Bundesarchiv This image was provided to Wikimedia Commons by the German Federal Archive (Deutsches Bundesarchiv) as part of a cooperation project. The German Federal Archive guarantees an authentic representation only using the originals (negative and/or positive), resp. the digitalization of the originals as provided by the Digital Image Archive. Licensing[edit] w:en:Creative Commons attribution share alike This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany license. Flag of Germany.svg Attribution: Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-063-2185-11A / Harren / CC-BY-SA 3.0 You are free:) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage by Douglas Waller (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Bill-Donovan-Spymaster-Espionage/dp/1416576207 Now in paperback: “Entertaining history…Donovan was a combination of bold innovator and imprudent rule bender, which made him not only a remarkable wartime leader but also an extraordinary figure in American history” (The New York Times Book Review). He was one of America’s most exciting and secretive generals—the man Franklin Roosevelt made his top spy in World War II. A mythic figure whose legacy is still intensely debated, “Wild Bill” Donovan was director of the Office of Strategic Services (the country’s first national intelligence agency) and the father of today’s CIA. Donovan introduced the nation to the dark arts of covert warfare on a scale it had never seen before. Now, veteran journalist Douglas Waller has mined government and private archives throughout the United States and England, drawn on thousands of pages of recently declassified documents, and interviewed scores of Donovan’s relatives, friends, and associates to produce a riveting biography of one of the most powerful men in modern espionage. William Joseph Donovan’s life was packed with personal drama. The son of poor Irish Catholic parents, he married into Protestant wealth and fought heroically in World War I, where he earned the nickname “Wild Bill” for his intense leadership and the Medal of Honor for his heroism. After the war he made millions as a Republican lawyer on Wall Street until FDR, a Democrat, tapped him to be his strategic intelligence chief. A charismatic leader, Donovan was revered by his secret agents. Yet at times he was reckless—risking his life unnecessarily in war zones, engaging in extramarital affairs that became fodder for his political enemies—and he endured heartbreaking tragedy when family members died at young ages. Wild Bill Donovan reads like an action-packed spy thriller, with stories of daring young men and women in his OSS sneaking behind enemy lines for sabotage, breaking into Washington embassies to steal secrets, plotting to topple Adolf Hitler, and suffering brutal torture or death when they were captured by the Gestapo. It is also a tale of political intrigue, of infighting at the highest levels of government, of powerful men pitted against one another. Donovan fought enemies at home as often as the Axis abroad. Generals in the Pentagon plotted against him. J. Edgar Hoover had FBI agents dig up dirt on him. Donovan stole secrets from the Soviets before the dawn of the Cold War and had intense battles with Winston Churchill and British spy chiefs over foreign turf. Separating fact from fiction, Waller investigates the successes and the occasional spectacular failures of Donovan’s intelligence career. It makes for a gripping and revealing portrait of this most controversial spymaster....more

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• The Ancient Maritime Silk Road. Andrew Lawler @ScienceMagazine

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  Nov 27 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:  More details The economically important Silk Road was blocked from Europe by the Ottoman Empire in c. 1453 with the fall of the Byzantine Empire. This spurred exploration, and a new sea route around Africa was found, triggering the Age of Discovery.  Wholeworld-landandoceans12000.jpg: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center derivative work: Splette (talk) and one more author - Wholeworld-landandoceans12000.jpg Extent of Silk Route/Silk Road. Red is land route and the blue is the sea/water route. Public Domain File:Silk route.jpg Created: 27 May 2010 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Ancient Maritime Silk Road.  Andrew Lawler @ScienceMagazine https://www.andrewlawler.com/sailing-sinbads-seas/...more

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• 4/4 Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze, by Peter Harmsen.

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  Nov 26 2018

  Bloody Saturday, Shanghai: Baby crying on a platform of Shanghai's South Station after aerial bombing by Japanese forces. 28 August 1937. This terrified baby was one of the only human beings left alive in Shanghai's South Station after the brutal Japanese bombing in China.  Photographer: H. S. Wong (1900–1981) Permissions: This image is now in the public domain in China because its term of copyright has expired. According to copyright laws of the People's Republic of China(with legal jurisdiction in the mainland only, excluding Hong Kong and Macao) and the Republic of China (currently with jurisdiction in Taiwan, the Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu, etc.), all photographs and cinematographic works, and all works whose copyright holder is a juristic person, enter the public domain 50 years after they were first published, or if unpublished 50 years from creation, http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow “In the voluminous literature on World War II, few books treat the Sino-Japanese War, and few of those are accessible to non-specialists. Thankfully, seasoned East Asian correspondent Peter Harmsen has written an engrossing study that goes far to fill the gap in the historiography of a neglected theater of operations and the first large-scale urban battle of the war.” ―Michigan War Studies Review This deeply researched book describes one of the great forgotten battles of the 20th century. At its height it involved nearly a million Chinese and Japanese soldiers while sucking in three million civilians as unwilling spectators and victims. It turned what had been a Japanese adventure in China into a general war between the two oldest and proudest civilizations of the Far East. Ultimately, it led to Pearl Harbor and to seven decades of tumultuous history in Asia. The Battle of Shanghai was a pivotal event that helped define and shape the modern world. Actors from a variety of nations were present in Shanghai during the three fateful autumn months when the battle raged. The rich cast included China's ascetic Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his Japanese adversary, General Matsui Iwane, who wanted Asia to rise from disunity, but ultimately pushed it toward its deadliest conflict ever. Claire Chennault, later of Flying Tiger fame, was among the figures emerging in the course of the campaign, as was First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. In an ironic twist, Alexander von Falkenhausen, a stern German veteran of the Great War, abandoned his role as a mere advisor to the Chinese army and led it into battle against the Japanese invaders. In its sheer scale, the struggle for China’s largest city was a sinister forewarning of what was in store for the rest of mankind only a few years thence. It demonstrated how technology had given rise to new forms of warfare, or had made old forms even more lethal. Amphibious landings, tank assaults, aerial dogfights and, most importantly, urban combat, all happened in Shanghai in 1937. It was a dress rehearsal for World War II―or perhaps more correctly it was the inaugural act in the war―the first major battle in the global conflict.   https://www.amazon.com/Shanghai-1937-Stalingrad-Yangtze-2013-04-30/dp/B017WQARQQ/ref=sr12?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1535941699&sr=1-2&keywords=shanghai+1937...more

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• 3/4 Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze, by Peter Harmsen.

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  Nov 26 2018

  Photo: Shanghai, 1910 Permissions: From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow “In the voluminous literature on World War II, few books treat the Sino-Japanese War, and few of those are accessible to non-specialists. Thankfully, seasoned East Asian correspondent Peter Harmsen has written an engrossing study that goes far to fill the gap in the historiography of a neglected theater of operations and the first large-scale urban battle of the war.” ―Michigan War Studies Review This deeply researched book describes one of the great forgotten battles of the 20th century. At its height it involved nearly a million Chinese and Japanese soldiers while sucking in three million civilians as unwilling spectators and victims. It turned what had been a Japanese adventure in China into a general war between the two oldest and proudest civilizations of the Far East. Ultimately, it led to Pearl Harbor and to seven decades of tumultuous history in Asia. The Battle of Shanghai was a pivotal event that helped define and shape the modern world. Actors from a variety of nations were present in Shanghai during the three fateful autumn months when the battle raged. The rich cast included China's ascetic Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his Japanese adversary, General Matsui Iwane, who wanted Asia to rise from disunity, but ultimately pushed it toward its deadliest conflict ever. Claire Chennault, later of Flying Tiger fame, was among the figures emerging in the course of the campaign, as was First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. In an ironic twist, Alexander von Falkenhausen, a stern German veteran of the Great War, abandoned his role as a mere advisor to the Chinese army and led it into battle against the Japanese invaders. In its sheer scale, the struggle for China’s largest city was a sinister forewarning of what was in store for the rest of mankind only a few years thence. It demonstrated how technology had given rise to new forms of warfare, or had made old forms even more lethal. Amphibious landings, tank assaults, aerial dogfights and, most importantly, urban combat, all happened in Shanghai in 1937. It was a dress rehearsal for World War II―or perhaps more correctly it was the inaugural act in the war―the first major battle in the global conflict.   https://www.amazon.com/Shanghai-1937-Stalingrad-Yangtze-2013-04-30/dp/B017WQARQQ/ref=sr12?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1535941699&sr=1-2&keywords=shanghai+1937...more

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• 2/4 Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze, by Peter Harmsen.

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  Nov 26 2018

  Permissions:  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow “In the voluminous literature on World War II, few books treat the Sino-Japanese War, and few of those are accessible to non-specialists. Thankfully, seasoned East Asian correspondent Peter Harmsen has written an engrossing study that goes far to fill the gap in the historiography of a neglected theater of operations and the first large-scale urban battle of the war.” ―Michigan War Studies Review This deeply researched book describes one of the great forgotten battles of the 20th century. At its height it involved nearly a million Chinese and Japanese soldiers while sucking in three million civilians as unwilling spectators and victims. It turned what had been a Japanese adventure in China into a general war between the two oldest and proudest civilizations of the Far East. Ultimately, it led to Pearl Harbor and to seven decades of tumultuous history in Asia. The Battle of Shanghai was a pivotal event that helped define and shape the modern world. Actors from a variety of nations were present in Shanghai during the three fateful autumn months when the battle raged. The rich cast included China's ascetic Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his Japanese adversary, General Matsui Iwane, who wanted Asia to rise from disunity, but ultimately pushed it toward its deadliest conflict ever. Claire Chennault, later of Flying Tiger fame, was among the figures emerging in the course of the campaign, as was First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. In an ironic twist, Alexander von Falkenhausen, a stern German veteran of the Great War, abandoned his role as a mere advisor to the Chinese army and led it into battle against the Japanese invaders. In its sheer scale, the struggle for China’s largest city was a sinister forewarning of what was in store for the rest of mankind only a few years thence. It demonstrated how technology had given rise to new forms of warfare, or had made old forms even more lethal. Amphibious landings, tank assaults, aerial dogfights and, most importantly, urban combat, all happened in Shanghai in 1937. It was a dress rehearsal for World War II―or perhaps more correctly it was the inaugural act in the war―the first major battle in the global conflict.   https://www.amazon.com/Shanghai-1937-Stalingrad-Yangtze-2013-04-30/dp/B017WQARQQ/ref=sr12?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1535941699&sr=1-2&keywords=shanghai+1937...more

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• 1/4 Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze, by Peter Harmsen.

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  Nov 26 2018

  Postcard: Shanghai. A Chinese funeral, 1908.   In 1931 Japan occupied Manchuria ("Dongbei"; Manchu-gwo) after the Manchurian Incident, and in 1937 it launched a full-scale invasion of China. The U.S. undertook large-scale military and economic aid to China and demanded Japanese withdrawal. Instead of withdrawing, Japan took over French Indochina in 1940-41; the US, Britain and the Netherlands cut off oil imports in 1941, which accounted for over 90% of Japan's oil supply. Permissions: This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1923. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow “In the voluminous literature on World War II, few books treat the Sino-Japanese War, and few of those are accessible to non-specialists. Thankfully, seasoned East Asian correspondent Peter Harmsen has written an engrossing study that goes far to fill the gap in the historiography of a neglected theater of operations and the first large-scale urban battle of the war.” ―Michigan War Studies Review This deeply researched book describes one of the great forgotten battles of the 20th century. At its height it involved nearly a million Chinese and Japanese soldiers while sucking in three million civilians as unwilling spectators and victims. It turned what had been a Japanese adventure in China into a general war between the two oldest and proudest civilizations of the Far East. Ultimately, it led to Pearl Harbor and to seven decades of tumultuous history in Asia. The Battle of Shanghai was a pivotal event that helped define and shape the modern world. Actors from a variety of nations were present in Shanghai during the three fateful autumn months when the battle raged. The rich cast included China's ascetic Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his Japanese adversary, General Matsui Iwane, who wanted Asia to rise from disunity, but ultimately pushed it toward its deadliest conflict ever. Claire Chennault, later of Flying Tiger fame, was among the figures emerging in the course of the campaign, as was First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. In an ironic twist, Alexander von Falkenhausen, a stern German veteran of the Great War, abandoned his role as a mere advisor to the Chinese army and led it into battle against the Japanese invaders. In its sheer scale, the struggle for China’s largest city was a sinister forewarning of what was in store for the rest of mankind only a few years thence. It demonstrated how technology had given rise to new forms of warfare, or had made old forms even more lethal. Amphibious landings, tank assaults, aerial dogfights and, most importantly, urban combat, all happened in Shanghai in 1937. It was a dress rehearsal for World War II―or perhaps more correctly it was the inaugural act in the war―the first major battle in the global conflict.   https://www.amazon.com/Shanghai-1937-Stalingrad-Yangtze-2013-04-30/dp/B017WQARQQ/ref=sr12?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1535941699&sr=1-2&keywords=shanghai+1937...more

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• 4 / 4 Oliver Hazard Perry: Honor, Courage, and Patriotism in the Early U.S. Navy, by David Curtis Skaggs

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  Perry (standing) after abandoning his flagship, the Lawrence, in a 1911 painting by Edward Percy Moran. Permissions: Public Domain Edward Percy Moran - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3g06893. Created: 31 December 1910. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Hailed for his decisive victory over a Royal Navy squadron on Lake Erie in September 1813 and best known for his after-action report proclamation We have met the enemy and they are ours, Oliver Hazard Perry was one the early U.S. Navy's most famous heroes. In this modern, scholarly reassessment of the man and his career, Professor David Skaggs emphasizes Perry's place in naval history as an embodiment of the code of honor, an exemplar of combat courage, and a symbol of patriotism to his fellow officers and the American public. It is the first biography of Perry to be published in more than a quarter of a century and the first to offer an even-handed analysis of his career. After completing a thorough examination of primary sources, Skaggs traces Perry's development from a midshipman to commodore where he personified the best in seamanship, calmness in times of stress, and diplomatic skills. But this work is not a hagiographic treatment, for it offers a candid analysis of Perry's character flaws, particularly his short temper and his sometimes ineffective command and control procedures during the battle of Lake Erie. Skaggs also explains how Perry's short but dramatic naval career epitomized the emerging naval professionalism of the young republic, and he demonstrates how the Hero of Lake Erie fits into the most recent scholarship concerning the role of post-revolutionary generation in the development of American national identity. Finally, Skaggs explores in greater detail than anyone before the controversy over the conduct of his Lake Erie second, Jesse Duncan Elliott, that raged on for over a quarter century after Perry's death in 1819 . https://www.amazon.com/Oliver-Hazard-Perry-Patriotism-Biography/dp/1591147921/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1536023081&sr=1-1&keywords=skaggs+perry...more

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• 3/4 Oliver Hazard Perry: Honor, Courage, and Patriotism in the Early U.S. Navy, by David Curtis Skaggs

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  Engraving: U.S. Frigate Boston in the Mediterranean, circa 1802; a ship that would have been familiar to Oliver Hazard Perry. Through his father's influence, Perry was appointed a midshipman in the United States Navy, at the age of thirteen, on April 7, 1799. Perry sailed aboard USS General Greene, of which his father was commanding officer, on her maiden voyage in June 1799. The ship made its first stop in Cuba, charged with receiving American merchant ships and providing escort from Havana to the United States. Perry's service aboard General Greene continued during the Quasi-War with France. He first experienced combat on February 9, 1800, off the coast of the French colony of Haiti, which was in a state of rebellion Permissions: This file is a work of a sailor or employee of the U.S. Navy, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Oliver Hazard Perry: Honor, Courage, and Patriotism in the Early U.S. Navy, by David Curtis Skaggs Hailed for his decisive victory over a Royal Navy squadron on Lake Erie in September 1813 and best known for his after-action report proclamation We have met the enemy and they are ours, Oliver Hazard Perry was one the early U.S. Navy's most famous heroes. In this modern, scholarly reassessment of the man and his career, Professor David Skaggs emphasizes Perry's place in naval history as an embodiment of the code of honor, an exemplar of combat courage, and a symbol of patriotism to his fellow officers and the American public. It is the first biography of Perry to be published in more than a quarter of a century and the first to offer an even-handed analysis of his career. After completing a thorough examination of primary sources, Skaggs traces Perry's development from a midshipman to commodore where he personified the best in seamanship, calmness in times of stress, and diplomatic skills. But this work is not a hagiographic treatment, for it offers a candid analysis of Perry's character flaws, particularly his short temper and his sometimes ineffective command and control procedures during the battle of Lake Erie. Skaggs also explains how Perry's short but dramatic naval career epitomized the emerging naval professionalism of the young republic, and he demonstrates how the Hero of Lake Erie fits into the most recent scholarship concerning the role of post-revolutionary generation in the development of American national identity. Finally, Skaggs explores in greater detail than anyone before the controversy over the conduct of his Lake Erie second, Jesse Duncan Elliott, that raged on for over a quarter century after Perry's death in 1819. https://www.amazon.com/Oliver-Hazard-Perry-Patriotism-Biography/dp/1591147921/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1536023081&sr=1-1&keywords=skaggs+perry...more

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• 2/4 Oliver Hazard Perry: Honor, Courage, and Patriotism in the Early U.S. Navy, by David Curtis Skaggs

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  Engraving :   U.S. Frigate Boston in the Mediterranean, circa 1802; a ship that would have been familiar to Oliver Hazard Perry. Through his father's influence, Perry was appointed a midshipman in the United States Navy, at the age of thirteen, on April 7, 1799. Perry sailed aboard USS General Greene, of which his father was commanding officer, on her maiden voyage in June 1799. The ship made its first stop in Cuba, charged with receiving American merchant ships and providing escort from Havana to the United States. Perry's service aboard General Greene continued during the Quasi-War with France. He first experienced combat on February 9, 1800, off the coast of the French colony of Haiti, which was in a state of rebellion Permissions: This file is a work of a sailor or employee of the U.S. Navy, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Oliver Hazard Perry: Honor, Courage, and Patriotism in the Early U.S. Navy, by David Curtis Skaggs Hailed for his decisive victory over a Royal Navy squadron on Lake Erie in September 1813 and best known for his after-action report proclamation We have met the enemy and they are ours, Oliver Hazard Perry was one the early U.S. Navy's most famous heroes. In this modern, scholarly reassessment of the man and his career, Professor David Skaggs emphasizes Perry's place in naval history as an embodiment of the code of honor, an exemplar of combat courage, and a symbol of patriotism to his fellow officers and the American public. It is the first biography of Perry to be published in more than a quarter of a century and the first to offer an even-handed analysis of his career. After completing a thorough examination of primary sources, Skaggs traces Perry's development from a midshipman to commodore where he personified the best in seamanship, calmness in times of stress, and diplomatic skills. But this work is not a hagiographic treatment, for it offers a candid analysis of Perry's character flaws, particularly his short temper and his sometimes ineffective command and control procedures during the battle of Lake Erie. Skaggs also explains how Perry's short but dramatic naval career epitomized the emerging naval professionalism of the young republic, and he demonstrates how the Hero of Lake Erie fits into the most recent scholarship concerning the role of post-revolutionary generation in the development of American national identity. Finally, Skaggs explores in greater detail than anyone before the controversy over the conduct of his Lake Erie second, Jesse Duncan Elliott, that raged on for over a quarter century after Perry's death in 1819. https://www.amazon.com/Oliver-Hazard-Perry-Patriotism-Biography/dp/1591147921/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1536023081&sr=1-1&keywords=skaggs+perry...more

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• 1/4 Oliver Hazard Perry: Honor, Courage, and Patriotism in the Early U.S. Navy, by David Curtis Skaggs

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  Portrait: Oliver Hazard Perry (1785-1819), The Hero of Lake Erie. Painted by Gilbert Stuart, 1818. Perry served in the West Indies during the Quasi War of 1798–1800 against France, in the Mediterranean during the Barbary Wars of 1801–1815, and in the Caribbean fighting piracy and the slave trade, but is most noted for his heroic role in the War of 1812 during the 1813 Battle of Lake Erie. Permissions: This image is in the public domain in the United States in that it was first published prior to January 1, 1923. This file has been reviewed by a human, (User:ShakespeareFan00), who has confirmed that it is suitable for Commons. This file is a candidate to be copied to Wikimedia Commons. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Oliver Hazard Perry: Honor, Courage, and Patriotism in the Early U.S. Navy, by David Curtis Skaggs Hailed for his decisive victory over a Royal Navy squadron on Lake Erie in September 1813 and best known for his after-action report proclamation We have met the enemy and they are ours, Oliver Hazard Perry was one the early U.S. Navy's most famous heroes. In this modern, scholarly reassessment of the man and his career, Professor David Skaggs emphasizes Perry's place in naval history as an embodiment of the code of honor, an exemplar of combat courage, and a symbol of patriotism to his fellow officers and the American public. It is the first biography of Perry to be published in more than a quarter of a century and the first to offer an even-handed analysis of his career. After completing a thorough examination of primary sources, Skaggs traces Perry's development from a midshipman to commodore where he personified the best in seamanship, calmness in times of stress, and diplomatic skills. But this work is not a hagiographic treatment, for it offers a candid analysis of Perry's character flaws, particularly his short temper and his sometimes ineffective command and control procedures during the battle of Lake Erie. Skaggs also explains how Perry's short but dramatic naval career epitomized the emerging naval professionalism of the young republic, and he demonstrates how the Hero of Lake Erie fits into the most recent scholarship concerning the role of post-revolutionary generation in the development of American national identity. Finally, Skaggs explores in greater detail than anyone before the controversy over the conduct of his Lake Erie second, Jesse Duncan Elliott, that raged on for over a quarter century after Perry's death in 1819. https://www.amazon.com/Oliver-Hazard-Perry-Patriotism-Biography/dp/1591147921/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1536023081&sr=1-1&keywords=skaggs+perry...more

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• Mightier Than the Sword: 1 of 2: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America. by David S. Reynolds

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  Nov 26 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: 1891 map of New Orleans US copyright expired Licensing[edit] Public domain This media file is in the public domain in the United States. This applies to U.S. works where the copyright has expired, often because its first publication occurred prior to January 1, 1923. See this page for further explanation.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Mightier Than the Sword: 1 of 2: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America. by David S. Reynolds https://www.amazon.com/Mightier-than-Sword-Battle-America-ebook/dp/B00540Y9X0/ref=sr14?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1543197917&sr=1-4&keywords=Mightier+than+the+sword “Fascinating . . . a lively and perceptive cultural history.” ―Annette Gordon-Reed, The New Yorker In this wide-ranging, brilliantly researched work, David S. Reynolds traces the factors that made Uncle Tom’s Cabin the most influential novel ever written by an American. Upon its 1852 publication, the novel’s vivid depiction of slavery polarized its American readership, ultimately widening the rift that led to the Civil War. Reynolds also charts the novel’s afterlife―including its adaptation into plays, films, and consumer goods―revealing its lasting impact on American entertainment, advertising, and race relations....more

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• Mightier Than the Sword: 2 of 2: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America. by David S. Reynolds

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  Nov 26 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Mightier Than the Sword: 2 of 2: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America. by David S. Reynolds https://www.amazon.com/Mightier-than-Sword-Battle-America-ebook/dp/B00540Y9X0/ref=sr14?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1543197917&sr=1-4&keywords=Mightier+than+the+sword “Fascinating . . . a lively and perceptive cultural history.” ―Annette Gordon-Reed, The New Yorker In this wide-ranging, brilliantly researched work, David S. Reynolds traces the factors that made Uncle Tom’s Cabin the most influential novel ever written by an American. Upon its 1852 publication, the novel’s vivid depiction of slavery polarized its American readership, ultimately widening the rift that led to the Civil War. Reynolds also charts the novel’s afterlife―including its adaptation into plays, films, and consumer goods―revealing its lasting impact on American entertainment, advertising, and race relations....more

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• The Victims Return: 1 of 2: Survivors of the Gulag after Stalin by Stephen F. Cohen

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  Nov 26 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:The Kolyma basin Kmusser - Own work This is a map of the Kolyma River Watershed, based on USGS data. CC BY-SA 2.5 File:Kolymarivermap.png Created: 17 September 2001 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Victims Return: 1 of 2: Survivors of the Gulag after Stalin by Stephen F. Cohen https://www.amazon.com/Victims-Return-Survivors-Gulag-Stalin/dp/1933002409/ref=sr12?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1543197425&sr=1-2&keywords=Stephen+Cohen+Survivor%27s+Return Joseph Stalin's reign of terror in the Soviet Union has been called "the other holocaust." Over the course of 24 years, more innocent men, women, and children perished than died in Hitler's murder of European Jews. This book originated 30 years ago when Stephen F. Cohen, a professor of Russian studies and history at New York University, first began researching the lives of those victims released after Stalin's death. There was precious little information available, and many of the victims were still afraid, but Cohen persisted, and through the years accumulated the remarkable stories of their return to society....more

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• The Victims Return: 2 of 2: Survivors of the Gulag after Stalin by Stephen F. Cohen

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  Nov 26 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Prisoners at a Kolyma gold mine From the 1934 documentary film "Kolyma". Courtesy of the Central Russian Film and Photo Archive.; Originally from en.wikipedia; description page is/was here. Goldmine at Kolyma Gulag, Siberia Public Domain File:Kolyma-goldmine.jpg Created: 1934, ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Victims Return: 2 of 2: Survivors of the Gulag after Stalin by Stephen F. Cohen https://www.amazon.com/Victims-Return-Survivors-Gulag-Stalin/dp/1933002409/ref=sr12?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1543197425&sr=1-2&keywords=Stephen+Cohen+Survivor%27s+Return Joseph Stalin's reign of terror in the Soviet Union has been called "the other holocaust." Over the course of 24 years, more innocent men, women, and children perished than died in Hitler's murder of European Jews. This book originated 30 years ago when Stephen F. Cohen, a professor of Russian studies and history at New York University, first began researching the lives of those victims released after Stalin's death. There was precious little information available, and many of the victims were still afraid, but Cohen persisted, and through the years accumulated the remarkable stories of their return to society....more

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• 7/7 Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics, by Nicholas Wapshott

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  Nov 25 2018

  Photos: Campaign poster showing William McKinley holding U.S. flag and standing on gold coin "sound money", held up by group of men, in front of ships "commerce" and factories "civilization". The gold standard formed the financial basis of the international economy from 1870 to 1914. Permissions: Public Domain. Created: between 1895 and 1900. Public domain works must be out of copyright in both the United States and in the source country of the work in order to be hosted on the Commons. If the work is not a U.S. work, the file must have an additional copyright tag indicating the copyright status in the source country. Participants: John Taylor, Hoover; Michael Boskin, Hoover; Russell Roberts, Hoover; Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal; Nicholas Henry Wapshott (@NWapshott), author. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics, by Nicholas Wapshott “I defy anybody―Keynesian, Hayekian, or uncommitted―to read [Wapshott’s] work and not learn something new.”―John Cassidy, The New Yorker As the stock market crash of 1929 plunged the world into turmoil, two men emerged with competing claims on how to restore balance to economies gone awry. John Maynard Keynes, the mercurial Cambridge economist, believed that government had a duty to spend when others would not. He met his opposite in a little-known Austrian economics professor, Freidrich Hayek, who considered attempts to intervene both pointless and potentially dangerous. The battle lines thus drawn, Keynesian economics would dominate for decades and coincide with an era of unprecedented prosperity, but conservative economists and political leaders would eventually embrace and execute Hayek's contrary vision. From their first face-to-face encounter to the heated arguments between their ardent disciples, Nicholas Wapshott here unearths the contemporary relevance of Keynes and Hayek, as present-day arguments over the virtues of the free market and government intervention rage with the same ferocity as they did in the 1930s. .....more

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• 6/7 Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics, by Nicholas Wapshott

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  Nov 25 2018

  Photos: The Great Depression with its periods of worldwide economic hardship formed the backdrop against which the Keynesian Revolution took place. The image is Florence Owens Thompson by photographer Dorothea Lange taken in March 1936. Portrait shows Florence Thompson with several of her children in a photograph known as "Migrant Mother". The Library of Congress caption reads: "Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California."; In the 1930s, the FSA employed several photographers to document the effects of the Great Depression on the population of America. Many of the photographs can also be seen as propaganda images to support the U.S. government's policy distributing support to the worst affected, poorer areas of the country. Lange's image of a supposed migrant pea picker, Florence Owens Thompson, and her family has become an icon of resilience in the face of adversity. However, it is not universally accepted that Florence Thompson was a migrant pea picker. In the book Photographing Farmworkers in California (Stanford University Press, 2004), author Richard Steven Street asserts that some scholars believe Lange's description of the print was "either vague or demonstrably inaccurate" and that Thompson was not a farmworker, but a Dust Bowl migrant. Nevertheless, if she was a "Dust Bowl migrant", she would have left a farm as most potential Dust Bowl migrants typically did and then began her life as such. Thus any potential inaccuracy is virtually irrelevant. The child to the viewer's right was Thompson's daughter, Katherine (later Katherine McIntosh), 4 years old (Leonard, Tom, "Woman whose plight defined Great Depression warns tragedy will happen again ", article, The Daily Telegraph, December 4, 2008) Permissions: This image is a work of an employee of the United States Farm Security Administration or Office of War Information domestic photographic units, taken as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States. Participants: John Taylor, Hoover; Michael Boskin, Hoover; Russell Roberts, Hoover; Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal; Nicholas Henry Wapshott (@NWapshott), author. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics, by Nicholas Wapshot t “I defy anybody―Keynesian, Hayekian, or uncommitted―to read [Wapshott’s] work and not learn something new.”―John Cassidy, The New Yorker As the stock market crash of 1929 plunged the world into turmoil, two men emerged with competing claims on how to restore balance to economies gone awry. John Maynard Keynes, the mercurial Cambridge economist, believed that government had a duty to spend when others would not. He met his opposite in a little-known Austrian economics professor, Freidrich Hayek, who considered attempts to intervene both pointless and potentially dangerous. The battle lines thus drawn, Keynesian economics would dominate for decades and coincide with an era of unprecedented prosperity, but conservative economists and political leaders would eventually embrace and execute Hayek's contrary vision. From their first face-to-face encounter to the heated arguments between their ardent disciples, Nicholas Wapshott here unearths the contemporary relevance of Keynes and Hayek, as present-day arguments over the virtues of the free market and government intervention rage with the same ferocity as they did in the 1930s. .....more

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• 5/7 Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics, by Nicholas Wapshott

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  Photos: LSE (London School of Economics) main entrance, the Old Building. Author: Umezo KAMATA, 21 January 2005. Permissions: This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. Participants: John Taylor, Hoover; Michael Boskin, Hoover; Russell Roberts, Hoover; Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal; Nicholas Henry Wapshott (@NWapshott), author. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics, by Nicholas Wapshot t “I defy anybody―Keynesian, Hayekian, or uncommitted―to read [Wapshott’s] work and not learn something new.”―John Cassidy, The New Yorker As the stock market crash of 1929 plunged the world into turmoil, two men emerged with competing claims on how to restore balance to economies gone awry. John Maynard Keynes, the mercurial Cambridge economist, believed that government had a duty to spend when others would not. He met his opposite in a little-known Austrian economics professor, Freidrich Hayek, who considered attempts to intervene both pointless and potentially dangerous. The battle lines thus drawn, Keynesian economics would dominate for decades and coincide with an era of unprecedented prosperity, but conservative economists and political leaders would eventually embrace and execute Hayek's contrary vision. From their first face-to-face encounter to the heated arguments between their ardent disciples, Nicholas Wapshott here unearths the contemporary relevance of Keynes and Hayek, as present-day arguments over the virtues of the free market and government intervention rage with the same ferocity as they did in the 1930s. .....more

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• 4/7 Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics, by Nicholas Wapshott

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  Photos: Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich August von Hayek, Joseph Schumpeter Permissions: Mises: Released by en:Mises_Institute and has GFDL licence. Hayek: Image available for free publishing from the Volkswirtschaftliches Institut, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. Copyrighted free use. Schumpeter: Image available for free publishing from the Volkswirtschaftliches Institut, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. Copyrighted free use. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. Participants: John Taylor, Hoover; Michael Boskin, Hoover; Russell Roberts, Hoover; Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal; Nicholas Henry Wapshott (@NWapshott), author. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics, by Nicholas Wapshott “I defy anybody―Keynesian, Hayekian, or uncommitted―to read [Wapshott’s] work and not learn something new.”―John Cassidy, The New Yorker As the stock market crash of 1929 plunged the world into turmoil, two men emerged with competing claims on how to restore balance to economies gone awry. John Maynard Keynes, the mercurial Cambridge economist, believed that government had a duty to spend when others would not. He met his opposite in a little-known Austrian economics professor, Freidrich Hayek, who considered attempts to intervene both pointless and potentially dangerous. The battle lines thus drawn, Keynesian economics would dominate for decades and coincide with an era of unprecedented prosperity, but conservative economists and political leaders would eventually embrace and execute Hayek's contrary vision. From their first face-to-face encounter to the heated arguments between their ardent disciples, Nicholas Wapshott here unearths the contemporary relevance of Keynes and Hayek, as present-day arguments over the virtues of the free market and government intervention rage with the same ferocity as they did in the 1930s. .. .. .....more

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• 3/7 Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics, by Nicholas Wapshott

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  Photo: Petra Treasury in southern Jordan, a stunningly beautiful as well as highly utilitarian ancient center. Permissions: The image is released free of copyrights under Creative Commons CC0. You may download, modify, distribute, and use them royalty free for anything you like, even in commercial applications. Attribution is not required. Participants: John Taylor, Hoover; Michael Boskin, Hoover; Russell Roberts, Hoover; Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal; Nicholas Henry Wapshott (@NWapshott), author. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics Oct 11, 2011; by Nicholas Wapshott “I defy anybody―Keynesian, Hayekian, or uncommitted―to read [Wapshott’s] work and not learn something new.”―John Cassidy, The New Yorker As the stock market crash of 1929 plunged the world into turmoil, two men emerged with competing claims on how to restore balance to economies gone awry. John Maynard Keynes, the mercurial Cambridge economist, believed that government had a duty to spend when others would not. He met his opposite in a little-known Austrian economics professor, Freidrich Hayek, who considered attempts to intervene both pointless and potentially dangerous. The battle lines thus drawn, Keynesian economics would dominate for decades and coincide with an era of unprecedented prosperity, but conservative economists and political leaders would eventually embrace and execute Hayek's contrary vision. From their first face-to-face encounter to the heated arguments between their ardent disciples, Nicholas Wapshott here unearths the contemporary relevance of Keynes and Hayek, as present-day arguments over the virtues of the free market and government intervention rage with the same ferocity as they did in the 1930s. .. .. .....more

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• 2/7 Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics, by Nicholas Wapshott

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  Photo: The Road to Serfdom cartoon book. Published in 1957? See also:  The Tuttle Twins and the Road to Surfdom, by Connor Boyack (November 14, 2016); for children Permissions: Under Creative Commons (Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0): you are free to: Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format; Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially; terms: Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made [no change made]. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. No additional restriction. The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license term. Participants: John Taylor, Hoover; Michael Boskin, Hoover; Russell Roberts, Hoover; Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal; Nicholas Henry Wapshott (@NWapshott), author. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics Oct 11, 2011; by Nicholas Wapshott “I defy anybody―Keynesian, Hayekian, or uncommitted―to read [Wapshott’s] work and not learn something new.”―John Cassidy, The New Yorker As the stock market crash of 1929 plunged the world into turmoil, two men emerged with competing claims on how to restore balance to economies gone awry. John Maynard Keynes, the mercurial Cambridge economist, believed that government had a duty to spend when others would not. He met his opposite in a little-known Austrian economics professor, Freidrich Hayek, who considered attempts to intervene both pointless and potentially dangerous. The battle lines thus drawn, Keynesian economics would dominate for decades and coincide with an era of unprecedented prosperity, but conservative economists and political leaders would eventually embrace and execute Hayek's contrary vision. From their first face-to-face encounter to the heated arguments between their ardent disciples, Nicholas Wapshott here unearths the contemporary relevance of Keynes and Hayek, as present-day arguments over the virtues of the free market and government intervention rage with the same ferocity as they did in the 1930s. .. .. .....more

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• 1/7 Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics, by Nicholas Wapshott

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  Photo: Friedrich August von Hayek, 27th January 1981, the 50th Anniversary of his first lecture at LSE, 1981. Professor of Economic Science at LSE 1931-1950. In 1932, Hayek had suggested that private investment in the public markets was a better road to wealth and economic co-ordination in Britain than government spending programs as argued in an exchange of letters with John Maynard Keynes, co-signed with Lionel Robbins and others in The Times. Hayek won the Nobel prize for Economic Sciences in 1974. Permissions: No known copyright restrictions http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Participants: John Taylor, Hoover; Michael Boskin, Hoover; Russell Roberts, Hoover; Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal; Nicholas Henry Wapshott (@NWapshott), author. Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics Oct 11, 2011; by Nicholas Wapshott “I defy anybody―Keynesian, Hayekian, or uncommitted―to read [Wapshott’s] work and not learn something new.”―John Cassidy, The New Yorker As the stock market crash of 1929 plunged the world into turmoil, two men emerged with competing claims on how to restore balance to economies gone awry. John Maynard Keynes, the mercurial Cambridge economist, believed that government had a duty to spend when others would not. He met his opposite in a little-known Austrian economics professor, Freidrich Hayek, who considered attempts to intervene both pointless and potentially dangerous. The battle lines thus drawn, Keynesian economics would dominate for decades and coincide with an era of unprecedented prosperity, but conservative economists and political leaders would eventually embrace and execute Hayek's contrary vision. From their first face-to-face encounter to the heated arguments between their ardent disciples, Nicholas Wapshott here unearths the contemporary relevance of Keynes and Hayek, as present-day arguments over the virtues of the free market and government intervention rage with the same ferocity as they did in the 1930s. .. .. .....more

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• The Infinity Puzzle: 5 of 5: Quantum Field Theory and the Hunt for an Orderly Universe Nov 29, 2011 by Frank Close

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  Nov 24 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Image from page 64 of "Elementary physics and chemistry: third stage" (1900)  Identifier: elementaryphysic03greg Title: Elementary physics and chemistry: third stage Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors: Gregory, R. A Simmons, A. T Subjects: Science Publisher: London: MacMillan Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: e of its dissolvedmaterial to build up their solid parts. Amount of dissolved material in different kinds of water.—Themass of a gallon of pure water is 70,000 grains, that is, 10 lbs.avoirdupois. It has been found by careful experiment that agallon of water from the Dee, near Aberdeen, which flows SOLIDS INTHAMES WATER,235 GRAINS SOLIDS IN SEA WATER,2450 GRAINS Fig. 18.—Comparative masses of a gallonof pure water, and of the solids found inthis quantity of river and sea waters. NATURAL WATERS. 53 over a granite country, only contains three grains of dissolvedsalts. The amount dissolved in the same quantity of Thames water,at London Bridge, is about twenty-three and a half (23^) grains. The amount of dissolved material in sea water is very muchgreater. The actual quantity varies a Httle, depending uponwhere the specimen of sea water examined is obtained. A goodaverage result is as follows. A gallon of sea water containsabout 2450 grains of soluble matter. Put in another way it can Text Appearing After Image: Fig. 19.—Salt is sometimes obtained by evaporating sea water in shallow pits. be said that one hundred pounds of sea water contain three anda half pounds of dissolved substances. In some places thecommon salt and other dissolved salts in sea water are obtainedby evaporating the water in shallow pits, as shown in Fig. 19. To BE Remembered. Rain water is water which has been naturally distilled and is there-fore free from dissolved matter. In its passage through the air rain water takes up carbon dioxide, andthis aids it in dissolving solid matter from rocks and soils. If the rocks through which the water passes contain substances which 54 ELEMENTARY THYSICS AND CHEMISTRY. are easily soluble, it will contain much dissolved material; while waterwhich has passed over harder rocks contains liitle dissolved matter. Sea water contains a much Inrger amount of dissolved matter thanriver or spring water ; for while rivers pour their water into it, this wateris evaporated and the dissolved sol Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Infinity Puzzle: 1 of 5: Quantum Field Theory and the Hunt for an Orderly Universe Nov 29, 2011 by Frank Close Speculation is rife that by 2012 the elusive Higgs boson will be found at the Large Hadron Collider. If found, the Higgs boson would help explain why everything has mass. But there's more at stake—what we're really testing is our capacity to make the universe reasonable. Our best understanding of physics is predicated on something known as quantum field theory. Unfortunately, in its raw form, it doesn't make sense—its outputs are physically impossible infinite percentages when they should be something simpler, like the number 1. The kind of physics that the Higgs boson represents seeks to “renormalize” field theory, forcing equations to provide answers that match what we see in the real world. The Infinity Puzzle is the story of a wild idea on the road to acceptance. Only Close can tell it....more

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• The Infinity Puzzle: 4 of 5: Quantum Field Theory and the Hunt for an Orderly Universe Nov 29, 2011 by Frank Close

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  AUTHOR. (Photo Physics, chemistry, and biology buildings, Williams College, Mass. file_downloadDOWNLOAD save_alt Thumbnail 200x200 save_alt Small 640x503 save_alt Medium 1024x805 save_alt Original 1024x805 crop_originalORDER PRINT share code label_outline Tags williams collegeuniversities and collegeseducational facilitiesunited statesmassachusettswilliamstowndry plate negativeswilliamstown massphysicschemistrybiologybuildingsbiology buildingswilliamscollegemass date_range Date 01/01/1900 person Contributors Detroit Publishing Co., publisher place Location Williamstown (Mass.), 42.71194, -73.20361 Map data ©2018 Google Terms of Use Report a map error create Source Library of Congress link Link http://www.loc.gov/ copyright Rights advisory Public Domain. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Infinity Puzzle: 1 of 5: Quantum Field Theory and the Hunt for an Orderly Universe Nov 29, 2011 by Frank Close Speculation is rife that by 2012 the elusive Higgs boson will be found at the Large Hadron Collider. If found, the Higgs boson would help explain why everything has mass. But there's more at stake—what we're really testing is our capacity to make the universe reasonable. Our best understanding of physics is predicated on something known as quantum field theory. Unfortunately, in its raw form, it doesn't make sense—its outputs are physically impossible infinite percentages when they should be something simpler, like the number 1. The kind of physics that the Higgs boson represents seeks to “renormalize” field theory, forcing equations to provide answers that match what we see in the real world. The Infinity Puzzle is the story of a wild idea on the road to acceptance. Only Close can tell it....more

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• The Infinity Puzzle: 3 of 5: Quantum Field Theory and the Hunt for an Orderly Universe Nov 29, 2011 by Frank Close

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: Albert Einstein at a session of the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation (League of Nations) of which he was a member from 1922 to 1932. Unknown - United Nations Archives in Geneva, League of Nations Pictures, File CM 067. Uploaded by Martin Grandjean with permission. International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation (League of Nations). Plenary session in the Palais Wilson, between 1924 and 1927. CC BY-SA 4.0 File:League of Nations Commission 067.tif Created: 31 December 1923 Location: 46° 12′ 53.64″ N, 6° 9′ 1.9″ E) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Infinity Puzzle: 1 of 5: Quantum Field Theory and the Hunt for an Orderly Universe Nov 29, 2011 by Frank Close Speculation is rife that by 2012 the elusive Higgs boson will be found at the Large Hadron Collider. If found, the Higgs boson would help explain why everything has mass. But there's more at stake—what we're really testing is our capacity to make the universe reasonable. Our best understanding of physics is predicated on something known as quantum field theory. Unfortunately, in its raw form, it doesn't make sense—its outputs are physically impossible infinite percentages when they should be something simpler, like the number 1. The kind of physics that the Higgs boson represents seeks to “renormalize” field theory, forcing equations to provide answers that match what we see in the real world. The Infinity Puzzle is the story of a wild idea on the road to acceptance. Only Close can tell it....more

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• The Infinity Puzzle: 2 of 5: Quantum Field Theory and the Hunt for an Orderly Universe Nov 29, 2011 by Frank Close

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: Deutsch: Aerial View of the CERN Tarehe 15 Julai 2008 Chanzo CERN Document Server Mwandishi Maximilien Brice (CERN) Ruhusa (Kutumia faili tena)  This photograph was produced by CERN. Their website states: "So, encouraged and supported by our experiment outreach teams, we have made our first collection available under a Creative Commons licence. We chose the CC-BY-SA licence, to ensure credit is given to CERN for the photos (“BY”) and that modified versions also get shared freely (“Share Alike”)." To the uploader: You must provide a link (URL) to the original file and the authorship information if available. w:en:Creative Commons sifa share alike This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.  Uko huru: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: sifa – You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). share alike – If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Infinity Puzzle: 1 of 5: Quantum Field Theory and the Hunt for an Orderly Universe Nov 29, 2011 by Frank Close Speculation is rife that by 2012 the elusive Higgs boson will be found at the Large Hadron Collider. If found, the Higgs boson would help explain why everything has mass. But there's more at stake—what we're really testing is our capacity to make the universe reasonable. Our best understanding of physics is predicated on something known as quantum field theory. Unfortunately, in its raw form, it doesn't make sense—its outputs are physically impossible infinite percentages when they should be something simpler, like the number 1. The kind of physics that the Higgs boson represents seeks to “renormalize” field theory, forcing equations to provide answers that match what we see in the real world. The Infinity Puzzle is the story of a wild idea on the road to acceptance. Only Close can tell it....more

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• The Infinity Puzzle: 1 of 5: Quantum Field Theory and the Hunt for an Orderly Universe Nov 29, 2011 by Frank Close

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: This map showing the location of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. It was created from OpenStreetMap project data, collected by the community. This map may be incomplete, and may contain errors. Don't rely solely on it for navigation. Date 11 September 2008 Source http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=46.2741&lon=6.0612&zoom=12 Author OpenStreetMap contributors Permission (Reusing this file)  All OpenStreetMap data and maps are Creative Commons "CC-BY-SA 2.0" licensed Other versions  File:Location Large Hadron Collider.PNG Licensing[edit] w:en:Creative Commons attribution share alike This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Infinity Puzzle: 1 of 5: Quantum Field Theory and the Hunt for an Orderly Universe Nov 29, 2011 by Frank Close Speculation is rife that by 2012 the elusive Higgs boson will be found at the Large Hadron Collider. If found, the Higgs boson would help explain why everything has mass. But there's more at stake—what we're really testing is our capacity to make the universe reasonable. Our best understanding of physics is predicated on something known as quantum field theory. Unfortunately, in its raw form, it doesn't make sense—its outputs are physically impossible infinite percentages when they should be something simpler, like the number 1. The kind of physics that the Higgs boson represents seeks to “renormalize” field theory, forcing equations to provide answers that match what we see in the real world. The Infinity Puzzle is the story of a wild idea on the road to acceptance. Only Close can tell it....more

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• Hotel Mars: Mission to Mercury. David T. Blewett, Johns Hopkins Univ. Applied Physics Lab, Space Exploration Sector, Planetary Exploration Group (SRE). David Livingston, SpaceShow.com

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  Nov 24 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: PIA19420: The Ups and Downs of Mercury's Topography http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19420 Measurements from MESSENGER's MLA instrument during the spacecraft's greater than four-year orbital mission have mapped the topography of Mercury's northern hemisphere in great detail. The view shown here is an interpolated shaded relief map of these data. The lowest regions are shown in purple, and the highest regions are shown in red. The difference in elevation between the lowest and highest regions shown here is roughly 10 kilometers! Among the prominent features visible here are the smooth northern volcanic plains and the enigmatic northern rise. The low-lying craters near the north pole host radar-bright materials, thought to be water ice. Linear artifacts can be seen in some areas of this map. These are due to individual MLA tracks that need minor adjustments in order to fit the rest of the data. Crossover analysis and better knowledge of the spacecraft position can be used to adjust these tracks and improve the map. Instrument: Mercury Laser Altimeter (MLA) Center Latitude: 90° Center Longitude: 0° E Latitude Range: 45° to 90° N The MESSENGER spacecraft is the first ever to orbit the planet Mercury, and the spacecraft's seven scientific instruments and radio science investigation are unraveling the history and evolution of the Solar System's innermost planet. In the mission's more than four years of orbital operations, MESSENGER has acquired over 250,000 images and extensive other data sets. MESSENGER's highly successful orbital mission is about to come to an end, as the spacecraft runs out of propellant and the force of solar gravity causes it to impact the surface of Mercury in April 2015. Date 16 April 2015 Source http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA19420.jpg Author NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington Licensing[edit] Public domain This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was solely created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". (See Template:PD-USGov, NASA copyright policy page or JPL Image Use Policy.) NASA logo.svg Dialog-warning.svg Warnings: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Hotel Mars: Mission to Mercury. 1 of 2: David T. Blewett, Johns Hopkins Univ. Applied Physics Lab, Space Exploration Sector, Planetary Exploration Group (SRE). David Livingston, SpaceShow.com...more

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• Hotel Mars: Mission to Mercury. 2 of 2: David T. Blewett, Johns Hopkins Univ. Applied Physics Lab, Space Exploration Sector, Planetary Exploration Group (SRE). David Livingston, SpaceShow.com

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  Nov 24 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:North Pole of planet Mercury. This image is a composite. Original caption: “NASA The dark region at the center of this image, pieced together from photographs taken by NASA's Messenger spacecraft, includes the north pole of Mercury. Because Mercury's spin axis is almost exactly vertical, sunlight never reaches the bottoms of craters near the poles, and water ice can persist in the ultra cold temperatures there. ” Date November 2012 Source https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/30/science/space/mercury-home-to-ice-messenger-spacecraft-findings-suggest.html Author NASA Permission (Reusing this file)  Public domain This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was solely created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". (See Template:PD-USGov, NASA copyright policy page or JPL Image Use Policy.) ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Hotel Mars: Mission to Mercury. 2 of 2: David T. Blewett, Johns Hopkins Univ. Applied Physics Lab, Space Exploration Sector, Planetary Exploration Group (SRE). David Livingston, SpaceShow.com...more

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• Reawakening New Guinea's Manus Island to counter the PRC threat to the Pacific. @JerryHendrixII

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  Nov 24 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Ships in Seeadler Harbour, Manus Island, in the Admiralty Islands, circa in 1945. Los Negros island is in the foreground. Date circa 1945 Source U.S. Navy photo [1] in Chapter XVII: Logistic Support at Seeadler and at Sea - Service Unit at Seeadler--Oilers with the Fast Carrier Group--Ammunition, Smoke, Water, Provisions, Salvage in Beans, Bullets, and Black Oil by Rear Adm. Worrall Reed Carter, USN (Retired) Author U.S. Navy Camera location 2° 01′ 48.47″ S, 147° 23′ 32.21″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap. View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth info Licensing[edit] Public domain Ibiblio Logo The content of this web site is made up, primarily, of "public domain" (non-copyright) materials in English: Official government histories (United States and British Commonwealth/Empire); Source documents (diplomatic messages, Action Reports, logs, diaries, etc.; and Primary references (manuals, glossaries, etc. Wherever possible, hyperlinks between these histories and documents have been included. "Order of Battle" information compiled by the HyperWar authors. This currently includes pages for each of the ships in the U.S. Fleet; a start on pages for U.S. Army Divisions; and a smaller start on pages for U.S. Marine Corps Divisions. ibiblio.org is a collaboration of the Center for the Public Domain and The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. For more information about Hyperwar see: Ibiblio.org Hyperwar) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Reawakening New Guinea's Manus Island to counter the PRC threat to the Pacific. @JerryHendrixII https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/china-has-impressive-a2ad-capabilities-smart-positioning-can-let-navy-avoid-them-35702...more

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• New American Civil War: Urban Blue globalism seeks to erase the honor of Rural Red nationalism. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Nov 24 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Thomas Crawford (1814–1857) Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q1863438 Frederick Catherwood (1799–1854) Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q33567 s:en:Author:Frederick Catherwood Creator:G. ThomasCreator:Francis MichelinCreator:Bartlett & Welford Title  Proposed Colossal Statue of George Washington for the City of New York Description  Print; Prints Date 1845 Medium Lithograph with tint stone Dimensions  image: 16 1/4 x 13 3/8 in. (41.3 x 34 cm) sheet: 21 7/8 x 17 1/2 in. (55.5 x 44.4 cm) Collection  Metropolitan Museum of Art Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q160236 Current location  Drawings and Prints Accession number  54.90.721 Credit line The Edward W. C. Arnold Collection of New York Prints, Maps and Pictures, Bequest of Edward W. C. Arnold, 1954 Source/Photographer  https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/380803  This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons by as part of a project by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. See the Image and Data Resources Open Access Policy বাংলা | Deutsch | English | Esperanto | español | македонски | português | සිංහල | українська | +/− Permission (Reusing this file)  Creative Commons CC-Zero This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. The person who associated a work with this deed has dedicated the work to the public domain by waiving all of his or her rights to the work worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow New American Civil War: Urban Blue globalism seeks to erase the honor of Rural Red nationalism. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis The Republican Workers Party: How the Trump Victory Drove Everyone Crazy, and Why It Was Just What We Needed by F.H. Buckley (Author) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1641770066/ref=dbsadefrwtbiblvppii0 Soul of a Democrat: The Seven Core Ideals That Made Our Party - And Our Country - Great by Thomas B. Reston https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Democrat-Seven-Ideals-Country-ebook/dp/B0776Z7ZKL/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1542943402&sr=1-1&keywords=Thomas+B.+Reston...more

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• 16/16: _Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans,_ by Malcolm Gaskill and Gildart Jackson

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  Nov 23 2018

  raving: Portrait of King Philip or Metacom. Source Title: The history of Philip's War, commonly called the Great Indian War, of 1675 and 1676 ... By Benjamin Church. Boston: S. G. Drake, 1827. "Samuel Gardner Drake, one of the first antiquarian booksellers in North America and an American Indian historian, reprinted Church's history in 1825." “King Philip 1827 Benjamin Church Samuel Drake” Permissions: This media file is in the public domain in the United States. This applies to U.S. works where the copyright has expired, often because its first publication occurred prior to January 1, 1923. See this page for further explanation http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans by Malcolm Gaskill. In the 1600s, over 350,000 intrepid English men, women, and children migrated to America, leaving behind their homeland for an uncertain future. Whether they settled in Jamestown, Salem, or Barbados, these migrants—entrepreneurs, soldiers, and pilgrims alike—faced one incontrovertible truth: England was a very, very long way away. In Between Two Worlds, celebrated historian Malcolm Gaskill tells the sweeping story of the English experience in America during the first century of colonization. Following a large and varied cast of visionaries and heretics, merchants and warriors, and slaves and rebels, Gaskill brilliantly illuminates the often traumatic challenges the settlers faced. The first waves sought to recreate the English way of life, even to recover a society that was vanishing at home. But they were thwarted at every turn by the perils of a strange continent, unaided by monarchs who first ignored then exploited them. As these colonists strove to leave their mark on the New World, they were forced—by hardship and hunger, by illness and infighting, and by bloody and desperate battles with Indians—to innovate and adapt or perish. As later generations acclimated to the wilderness, they recognized that they had evolved into something distinct: no longer just the English in America, they were perhaps not even English at all. These men and women were among the first white Americans, and certainly the most prolific. And as Gaskill shows, in learning to live in an unforgiving world, they had begun a long and fateful journey toward rebellion and, finally, independence https://www.amazon.com/Between-Two-Worlds-English-Americans/dp/046501111X/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511574771&sr=1-1&keywords=between+two+worlds+gaskill...more

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• 15/16: _Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans,_ by Malcolm Gaskill and Gildart Jackson

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  Nov 23 2018

  Painting: In Virginia, Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676 was fuelled by large numbers of former indentured servants who were angered by the colonial government’s refusal to claim more lands from the Indian population for their use. Black slavery served to reduce the dependence of landholders on what was thought of as more unreliable labour in the form of white indentured servants. Bacon's Rebellion saw more struggles in Jamestown. The settlers were unhappy about their tobacco being sold only to English merchants due to the Navigation Acts, high taxes, and attacks on outlying plantations by American Indians on the frontiers. Nathaniel Bacon got about 1,000 settlers to join him and take care of the "Indian Problem." Bacon forced Governor Berkeley to give him an official commission to attack the American Indians to blame. Bacon and his followers, however, did not differentiate between those tribes responsible for the attacks and those who were loyal to the English. Governor Berkeley declared Bacon a rebel and civil war erupted in the colony. In September, Bacon and his followers set fire to Jamestown, destroying 16 to 18 houses, the church and the statehouse. Not long after, in October, the Rebellion began its end with the death of Nathaniel Bacon of the "bloody flux." Eventually, many of the rebels were captured and 23 were hanged by Governor Berkeley. As a result of Bacon's Rebellion, another treaty was signed between the English and the Virginia Indians. More tribes were part of this treaty than the one of 1646. The treaty set up more reservation lands and reinforced a yearly tribute payment of fish and game that the tribes had to make to the English. Permissions: Public domain: NPS/National Parks Service Image http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans by Malcolm Gaskill. In the 1600s, over 350,000 intrepid English men, women, and children migrated to America, leaving behind their homeland for an uncertain future. Whether they settled in Jamestown, Salem, or Barbados, these migrants—entrepreneurs, soldiers, and pilgrims alike—faced one incontrovertible truth: England was a very, very long way away. In Between Two Worlds, celebrated historian Malcolm Gaskill tells the sweeping story of the English experience in America during the first century of colonization. Following a large and varied cast of visionaries and heretics, merchants and warriors, and slaves and rebels, Gaskill brilliantly illuminates the often traumatic challenges the settlers faced. The first waves sought to recreate the English way of life, even to recover a society that was vanishing at home. But they were thwarted at every turn by the perils of a strange continent, unaided by monarchs who first ignored then exploited them. As these colonists strove to leave their mark on the New World, they were forced—by hardship and hunger, by illness and infighting, and by bloody and desperate battles with Indians—to innovate and adapt or perish. As later generations acclimated to the wilderness, they recognized that they had evolved into something distinct: no longer just the English in America, they were perhaps not even English at all. These men and women were among the first white Americans, and certainly the most prolific. And as Gaskill shows, in learning to live in an unforgiving world, they had begun a long and fateful journey toward rebellion and, finally, independence https://www.amazon.com/Between-Two-Worlds-English-Americans/dp/046501111X/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511574771&sr=1-1&keywords=between+two+worlds+gaskill...more

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• 14/16: _Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans,_ by Malcolm Gaskill and Gildart Jackson

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  Watercolor: Ceremony of Secotan warriors in North Carolina. Watercolour painted by English colonist John White in 1585. Permissions: This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or less. File:North carolina algonkin-rituale01.jpg. Created: 31 December 1584. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans by Malcolm Gaskill. In the 1600s, over 350,000 intrepid English men, women, and children migrated to America, leaving behind their homeland for an uncertain future. Whether they settled in Jamestown, Salem, or Barbados, these migrants—entrepreneurs, soldiers, and pilgrims alike—faced one incontrovertible truth: England was a very, very long way away. In Between Two Worlds, celebrated historian Malcolm Gaskill tells the sweeping story of the English experience in America during the first century of colonization. Following a large and varied cast of visionaries and heretics, merchants and warriors, and slaves and rebels, Gaskill brilliantly illuminates the often traumatic challenges the settlers faced. The first waves sought to recreate the English way of life, even to recover a society that was vanishing at home. But they were thwarted at every turn by the perils of a strange continent, unaided by monarchs who first ignored then exploited them. As these colonists strove to leave their mark on the New World, they were forced—by hardship and hunger, by illness and infighting, and by bloody and desperate battles with Indians—to innovate and adapt or perish. As later generations acclimated to the wilderness, they recognized that they had evolved into something distinct: no longer just the English in America, they were perhaps not even English at all. These men and women were among the first white Americans, and certainly the most prolific. And as Gaskill shows, in learning to live in an unforgiving world, they had begun a long and fateful journey toward rebellion and, finally, independence https://www.amazon.com/Between-Two-Worlds-English-Americans/dp/046501111X/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511574771&sr=1-1&keywords=between+two+worlds+gaskill...more

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• 13/16: _Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans,_ by Malcolm Gaskill and Gildart Jackson

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  Nov 23 2018

  Engraving: A Small Colonial Jamestown House, Built around 1630 Permissions: Hudson - Photo courtesy National Park Service. Research by A. Lawrence Kocher. 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 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans by Malcolm Gaskill. In the 1600s, over 350,000 intrepid English men, women, and children migrated to America, leaving behind their homeland for an uncertain future. Whether they settled in Jamestown, Salem, or Barbados, these migrants—entrepreneurs, soldiers, and pilgrims alike—faced one incontrovertible truth: England was a very, very long way away. In Between Two Worlds, celebrated historian Malcolm Gaskill tells the sweeping story of the English experience in America during the first century of colonization. Following a large and varied cast of visionaries and heretics, merchants and warriors, and slaves and rebels, Gaskill brilliantly illuminates the often traumatic challenges the settlers faced. The first waves sought to recreate the English way of life, even to recover a society that was vanishing at home. But they were thwarted at every turn by the perils of a strange continent, unaided by monarchs who first ignored then exploited them. As these colonists strove to leave their mark on the New World, they were forced—by hardship and hunger, by illness and infighting, and by bloody and desperate battles with Indians—to innovate and adapt or perish. As later generations acclimated to the wilderness, they recognized that they had evolved into something distinct: no longer just the English in America, they were perhaps not even English at all. These men and women were among the first white Americans, and certainly the most prolific. And as Gaskill shows, in learning to live in an unforgiving world, they had begun a long and fateful journey toward rebellion and, finally, independence https://www.amazon.com/Between-Two-Worlds-English-Americans/dp/046501111X/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511574771&sr=1-1&keywords=between+two+worlds+gaskill...more

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• 12/16: _Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans,_ by Malcolm Gaskill and Gildart Jackson

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  Nov 23 2018

  Engraving: Soldiers in King Philip's war; being a critical account of that war, with a concise history of the Indian wars of New England from 1620-1677, official lists of the soldiers of Massachusetts colony serving in Philip's war, and sketches of the principal officers, copies of ancient documents and records relating to the war, also lists of the Narraganset grantees of the united colonies, Massachusetts, Plymouth, and Connecticut; with an appendix, 3d ed., with additional appendix containing corrections and new material Permissions: The uploading organization determined that no known copyright restrictions exist. It was reviewed on 30 September 2015 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the No known copyright restrictions. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans by Malcolm Gaskill. In the 1600s, over 350,000 intrepid English men, women, and children migrated to America, leaving behind their homeland for an uncertain future. Whether they settled in Jamestown, Salem, or Barbados, these migrants—entrepreneurs, soldiers, and pilgrims alike—faced one incontrovertible truth: England was a very, very long way away. In Between Two Worlds, celebrated historian Malcolm Gaskill tells the sweeping story of the English experience in America during the first century of colonization. Following a large and varied cast of visionaries and heretics, merchants and warriors, and slaves and rebels, Gaskill brilliantly illuminates the often traumatic challenges the settlers faced. The first waves sought to recreate the English way of life, even to recover a society that was vanishing at home. But they were thwarted at every turn by the perils of a strange continent, unaided by monarchs who first ignored then exploited them. As these colonists strove to leave their mark on the New World, they were forced—by hardship and hunger, by illness and infighting, and by bloody and desperate battles with Indians—to innovate and adapt or perish. As later generations acclimated to the wilderness, they recognized that they had evolved into something distinct: no longer just the English in America, they were perhaps not even English at all. These men and women were among the first white Americans, and certainly the most prolific. And as Gaskill shows, in learning to live in an unforgiving world, they had begun a long and fateful journey toward rebellion and, finally, independence https://www.amazon.com/Between-Two-Worlds-English-Americans/dp/046501111X/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511574771&sr=1-1&keywords=between+two+worlds+gaskill...more

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• 11/16: _Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans,_ by Malcolm Gaskill and Gildart Jackson

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  Map: A new map of the English empire in America : viz. Virginia, Maryland, Carolina, New York, New Iarsey, New England, Pennsylvania, Newfoundland, New France &c. Morden, Robert (d. 1703), Cartographer ; Harris, John (fl. 1680-1740), Engraver ; Senex, John (d. 1740), Cartographer Permissions: http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/ Rights advisory Public Domain; Creative Commons. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans by Malcolm Gaskill. In the 1600s, over 350,000 intrepid English men, women, and children migrated to America, leaving behind their homeland for an uncertain future. Whether they settled in Jamestown, Salem, or Barbados, these migrants—entrepreneurs, soldiers, and pilgrims alike—faced one incontrovertible truth: England was a very, very long way away. In Between Two Worlds, celebrated historian Malcolm Gaskill tells the sweeping story of the English experience in America during the first century of colonization. Following a large and varied cast of visionaries and heretics, merchants and warriors, and slaves and rebels, Gaskill brilliantly illuminates the often traumatic challenges the settlers faced. The first waves sought to recreate the English way of life, even to recover a society that was vanishing at home. But they were thwarted at every turn by the perils of a strange continent, unaided by monarchs who first ignored then exploited them. As these colonists strove to leave their mark on the New World, they were forced—by hardship and hunger, by illness and infighting, and by bloody and desperate battles with Indians—to innovate and adapt or perish. As later generations acclimated to the wilderness, they recognized that they had evolved into something distinct: no longer just the English in America, they were perhaps not even English at all. These men and women were among the first white Americans, and certainly the most prolific. And as Gaskill shows, in learning to live in an unforgiving world, they had begun a long and fateful journey toward rebellion and, finally, independence https://www.amazon.com/Between-Two-Worlds-English-Americans/dp/046501111X/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511574771&sr=1-1&keywords=between+two+worlds+gaskill ....more

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• 10/16: _Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans,_ by Malcolm Gaskill and Gildart Jackson

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  Nov 23 2018

  Painting: Mary Dyer being led to the gallows in Boston in 1660, From the collection of the Newport Historical Society; painted c. 1905, published in McClure's 1907 (link)    Permissions: Pubic domain.   The Quakers (Religious Society of Friends) demanded that they be permitted to practice their own religion in Puritan Boston, without the threat of persecution, death or banishment. In all, from 1656 to 1661, at least forty Quakers came to New England to protest Puritan religious domination and persecution. The first known Quakers to arrive in Boston and challenge Puritan religious domination were Mary Fisher and Ann Austin, one of the Valiant Sixty, the group of early itinerant Quaker preachers whose mission was to spread the spiritual message of the founder of the Quakers, George Fox.*  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans by Malcolm Gaskill. In the 1600s, over 350,000 intrepid English men, women, and children migrated to America, leaving behind their homeland for an uncertain future. Whether they settled in Jamestown, Salem, or Barbados, these migrants—entrepreneurs, soldiers, and pilgrims alike—faced one incontrovertible truth: England was a very, very long way away. In Between Two Worlds, celebrated historian Malcolm Gaskill tells the sweeping story of the English experience in America during the first century of colonization. Following a large and varied cast of visionaries and heretics, merchants and warriors, and slaves and rebels, Gaskill brilliantly illuminates the often traumatic challenges the settlers faced. The first waves sought to recreate the English way of life, even to recover a society that was vanishing at home. But they were thwarted at every turn by the perils of a strange continent, unaided by monarchs who first ignored then exploited them. As these colonists strove to leave their mark on the New World, they were forced—by hardship and hunger, by illness and infighting, and by bloody and desperate battles with Indians—to innovate and adapt or perish. As later generations acclimated to the wilderness, they recognized that they had evolved into something distinct: no longer just the English in America, they were perhaps not even English at all. These men and women were among the first white Americans, and certainly the most prolific. And as Gaskill shows, in learning to live in an unforgiving world, they had begun a long and fateful journey toward rebellion and, finally, independence https://www.amazon.com/Between-Two-Worlds-English-Americans/dp/046501111X/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511574771&sr=1-1&keywords=between+two+worlds+gaskill ..  ..  ..   These two women entered Boston's harbor on the Swallow, a ship from Barbados in July of 1656. The Puritans of Boston greeted Fisher and Austin as if they carried the plague and severely brutalized them. The two were strip searched, accused of witchcraft, jailed, deprived of food, and were forced to leave Boston on the Swallow when it next left Boston eight weeks later. Almost immediately after their arrival, Fisher and Austin's belongings were confiscated, and the Puritan executioner burned their trunk full of Quaker pamphlets and other writings. Shortly after they arrived in Boston, eight more Quakers arrived on a ship from England. This group of eight was imprisoned and beaten. While they were in prison, an edict was passed in Boston that any ship's captain who carried Quakers into Boston would be fined heavily. The Puritan establishment forced the captain, who had brought the group of eight Quakers to Boston, to take them back to England, under a bond of £500. * In 1658 Fisher felt prompted to travel in a group of six Quakers to the Mediterranean and to visit the Ottoman Empire to expound her Quaker faith to the Sultan Mehmed IV. When their ship reached Smyrna, she asked the English Consul there how to contact the Sultan. He told her that to proceed would be unwise, and tricked the party of Quakers into boarding a ship bound for Venice. Realising this when at sea, Fisher asked the captain to land her on the Morean coast of Greece. She then travelled alone and on foot across Macedonia and Thrace until she reached the Sultan, who was encamped with his army at Adrianople. There she persuaded Köprülü Mehmed Pasha, the Grand Vizier, to arrange an audience for her with the Sultan, describing herself as an ambassador of "The Most High God". At the subsequent audience, according to her account, the Sultan received her ministry "testifying to the Universal Light", attentively. Afterwards, declining his offer of an armed escort to protect her, she made her way alone to Constantinople and then back to England. Her experience in a Muslim country compared to her experiences in Christian countries left a deep impression on her. She wrote: Now returned into England... have I borne my testimony for the Lord before the king unto whom I was sent, and he was very noble unto me and so were all that were about him... they do dread the name of God, many of them... There is a royal seed amongst them which in time God will raise. They are more near Truth than many nations; there is a love begot in me towards them which is endless, but this is my hope concerning them, that he who hath raised me to love them more than many others will also raise his seed in them unto which my love is. Nevertheless, though they be called Turks, the seed of them is near unto God, and their kindness hath in some measure been shown towards his servants. ...more

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• 9/16: _Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans,_ by Malcolm Gaskill and Gildart Jackson

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  Nov 23 2018

  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans by Malcolm Gaskill. In the 1600s, over 350,000 intrepid English men, women, and children migrated to America, leaving behind their homeland for an uncertain future. Whether they settled in Jamestown, Salem, or Barbados, these migrants—entrepreneurs, soldiers, and pilgrims alike—faced one incontrovertible truth: England was a very, very long way away. In Between Two Worlds, celebrated historian Malcolm Gaskill tells the sweeping story of the English experience in America during the first century of colonization. Following a large and varied cast of visionaries and heretics, merchants and warriors, and slaves and rebels, Gaskill brilliantly illuminates the often traumatic challenges the settlers faced. The first waves sought to recreate the English way of life, even to recover a society that was vanishing at home. But they were thwarted at every turn by the perils of a strange continent, unaided by monarchs who first ignored then exploited them. As these colonists strove to leave their mark on the New World, they were forced—by hardship and hunger, by illness and infighting, and by bloody and desperate battles with Indians—to innovate and adapt or perish. As later generations acclimated to the wilderness, they recognized that they had evolved into something distinct: no longer just the English in America, they were perhaps not even English at all. These men and women were among the first white Americans, and certainly the most prolific. And as Gaskill shows, in learning to live in an unforgiving world, they had begun a long and fateful journey toward rebellion and, finally, independence https://www.amazon.com/Between-Two-Worlds-English-Americans/dp/046501111X/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511574771&sr=1-1&keywords=between+two+worlds+gaskill...more

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• 8/16: _Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans,_ by Malcolm Gaskill and Gildart Jackson

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  Nov 23 2018

  Painting: The Burning of Jamestown by Howard Pyle (signature lower right corner). It depicts the burning of Jamestown, Virginia, during Bacon's Rebellion (1676-77 AD); used to illustrate the article "Jamestown" in Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History: from 458 A.D. to 1905 (1905). Permissions: This image is in the public domain because it is a mere mechanical scan or photocopy of a public domain original, or – from the available evidence – is so similar to such a scan or photocopy that no copyright protection can be expected to arise. The original itself is in the public domain for the following reason: This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or less. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1923. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans by Malcolm Gaskill.  In the 1600s, over 350,000 intrepid English men, women, and children migrated to America, leaving behind their homeland for an uncertain future. Whether they settled in Jamestown, Salem, or Barbados, these migrants—entrepreneurs, soldiers, and pilgrims alike—faced one incontrovertible truth: England was a very, very long way away.  In Between Two Worlds, celebrated historian Malcolm Gaskill tells the sweeping story of the English experience in America during the first century of colonization. Following a large and varied cast of visionaries and heretics, merchants and warriors, and slaves and rebels, Gaskill brilliantly illuminates the often traumatic challenges the settlers faced. The first waves sought to recreate the English way of life, even to recover a society that was vanishing at home. But they were thwarted at every turn by the perils of a strange continent, unaided by monarchs who first ignored then exploited them. As these colonists strove to leave their mark on the New World, they were forced—by hardship and hunger, by illness and infighting, and by bloody and desperate battles with Indians—to innovate and adapt or perish.  As later generations acclimated to the wilderness, they recognized that they had evolved into something distinct: no longer just the English in America, they were perhaps not even English at all. These men and women were among the first white Americans, and certainly the most prolific. And as Gaskill shows, in learning to live in an unforgiving world, they had begun a long and fateful journey toward rebellion and, finally, independence.   https://www.amazon.com/Between-Two-Worlds-English-Americans/dp/046501111X/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511574771&sr=1-1&keywords=between+two+worlds+gaskill...more

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• 7/16: _Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans,_ by Malcolm Gaskill and Gildart Jackson

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  Nov 23 2018

  Image: John Eliot offering a sermon to Native Americans in their language. John Eliot (c. 1604 – May 21, 1690) was a Puritan missionary to the American Indians whom some called "the apostle to the Indians” and the founder of Roxbury Latin School in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1645. Eliot emigrated to Boston, Massachusetts, arranging passage as chaplain on the ship Lyon and arriving on November 3, 1631. Eliot became minister and "teaching elder" at the First Church in Roxbury. From 1637 to 1638 Eliot participated in both the civil and church trials of Anne Hutchinson during the Antinomian Controversy. Eliot disapproved of Hutchinson's views and actions, and was one of the two ministers representing Roxbury in the proceedings which led to her excommunication and exile. In 1645, Eliot founded the Roxbury Latin School. He and fellow ministers Thomas Weld (also of Roxbury), Thomas Mayhew of Martha's Vineyard, and Richard Mather of Dorchester, are credited with editing the Bay Psalm Book, the first book published in the British North American colonies (1640). From 1649 to 1674, Samuel Danforth assisted Eliot in his Roxbury ministry Permissions: Public domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans by Malcolm Gaskill.  In the 1600s, over 350,000 intrepid English men, women, and children migrated to America, leaving behind their homeland for an uncertain future. Whether they settled in Jamestown, Salem, or Barbados, these migrants—entrepreneurs, soldiers, and pilgrims alike—faced one incontrovertible truth: England was a very, very long way away.  In Between Two Worlds, celebrated historian Malcolm Gaskill tells the sweeping story of the English experience in America during the first century of colonization. Following a large and varied cast of visionaries and heretics, merchants and warriors, and slaves and rebels, Gaskill brilliantly illuminates the often traumatic challenges the settlers faced. The first waves sought to recreate the English way of life, even to recover a society that was vanishing at home. But they were thwarted at every turn by the perils of a strange continent, unaided by monarchs who first ignored then exploited them. As these colonists strove to leave their mark on the New World, they were forced—by hardship and hunger, by illness and infighting, and by bloody and desperate battles with Indians—to innovate and adapt or perish.  As later generations acclimated to the wilderness, they recognized that they had evolved into something distinct: no longer just the English in America, they were perhaps not even English at all. These men and women were among the first white Americans, and certainly the most prolific. And as Gaskill shows, in learning to live in an unforgiving world, they had begun a long and fateful journey toward rebellion and, finally, independence.   https://www.amazon.com/Between-Two-Worlds-English-Americans/dp/046501111X/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511574771&sr=1-1&keywords=between+two+worlds+gaskill...more

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• 6/16: _Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans,_ by Malcolm Gaskill and Gildart Jackson

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  Engraving: A Catalogue of the Severall Sects and Opinions in England and other Nations: With a briefe Rehearsall of their false and dangerous Tenents, a propaganda broadsheet denouncing English dissenters from 1647. English Dissenters, or English Separatists, were Protestant Christians who separated from the Church of England in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Permissions: Public domain. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans by Malcolm Gaskill.  In the 1600s, over 350,000 intrepid English men, women, and children migrated to America, leaving behind their homeland for an uncertain future. Whether they settled in Jamestown, Salem, or Barbados, these migrants—entrepreneurs, soldiers, and pilgrims alike—faced one incontrovertible truth: England was a very, very long way away.  In Between Two Worlds, celebrated historian Malcolm Gaskill tells the sweeping story of the English experience in America during the first century of colonization. Following a large and varied cast of visionaries and heretics, merchants and warriors, and slaves and rebels, Gaskill brilliantly illuminates the often traumatic challenges the settlers faced. The first waves sought to recreate the English way of life, even to recover a society that was vanishing at home. But they were thwarted at every turn by the perils of a strange continent, unaided by monarchs who first ignored then exploited them. As these colonists strove to leave their mark on the New World, they were forced—by hardship and hunger, by illness and infighting, and by bloody and desperate battles with Indians—to innovate and adapt or perish.  As later generations acclimated to the wilderness, they recognized that they had evolved into something distinct: no longer just the English in America, they were perhaps not even English at all. These men and women were among the first white Americans, and certainly the most prolific. And as Gaskill shows, in learning to live in an unforgiving world, they had begun a long and fateful journey toward rebellion and, finally, independence.   https://www.amazon.com/Between-Two-Worlds-English-Americans/dp/046501111X/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511574771&sr=1-1&keywords=between+two+worlds+gaskill...more

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• 5/16: _Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans,_ by Malcolm Gaskill and Gildart Jackson

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  Painting: Delwedd: Assertion of Liberty of Conscience by the Independents of the Westminster Assembly of Divines, 1644.   A meeting of the Westminster Assembly on 21 February 1644. Philip Nye, a member of the independent party, argues that the form of church government advocated by the presbyterians, under which local congregations submit to higher assemblies of elders, was "thrice over pernicious, to civil states and kingdoms". He was immediately "cryed down", according to Robert Baillie, who kept a journal of the proceedings. The painting depicts many individuals who were not members of the Assembly, because when issues of particular interest were debated, non-members would attend as spectators. Josias Shute, however, died before the Assembly met. Permissions: his work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or less. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1923. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans by Malcolm Gaskill.  In the 1600s, over 350,000 intrepid English men, women, and children migrated to America, leaving behind their homeland for an uncertain future. Whether they settled in Jamestown, Salem, or Barbados, these migrants—entrepreneurs, soldiers, and pilgrims alike—faced one incontrovertible truth: England was a very, very long way away.  In Between Two Worlds, celebrated historian Malcolm Gaskill tells the sweeping story of the English experience in America during the first century of colonization. Following a large and varied cast of visionaries and heretics, merchants and warriors, and slaves and rebels, Gaskill brilliantly illuminates the often traumatic challenges the settlers faced. The first waves sought to recreate the English way of life, even to recover a society that was vanishing at home. But they were thwarted at every turn by the perils of a strange continent, unaided by monarchs who first ignored then exploited them. As these colonists strove to leave their mark on the New World, they were forced—by hardship and hunger, by illness and infighting, and by bloody and desperate battles with Indians—to innovate and adapt or perish.  As later generations acclimated to the wilderness, they recognized that they had evolved into something distinct: no longer just the English in America, they were perhaps not even English at all. These men and women were among the first white Americans, and certainly the most prolific. And as Gaskill shows, in learning to live in an unforgiving world, they had begun a long and fateful journey toward rebellion and, finally, independence.   https://www.amazon.com/Between-Two-Worlds-English-Americans/dp/046501111X/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511574771&sr=1-1&keywords=between+two+worlds+gaskill...more

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• 4/16: _Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans,_ by Malcolm Gaskill and Gildart Jackson

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  Map: English settlements on the Atlantic seaboard stretched from Newfoundland in the north, down through Maine and New Hampshire, into Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania, and from there into the southern colonies of Maryland, Virginia, and the Carolinas. Bermuda and the Caribbean islands, principally Barbados and Jamaica, complete the picture. Life at a fishing station on the Avalon Peninsula of southeastern Newfoundland was very different from life in one of the ordered townships of New England, a lonely settlement of the James River, or a seething West Indian sugar field. Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans by Malcolm Gaskill.  In the 1600s, over 350,000 intrepid English men, women, and children migrated to America, leaving behind their homeland for an uncertain future. Whether they settled in Jamestown, Salem, or Barbados, these migrants—entrepreneurs, soldiers, and pilgrims alike—faced one incontrovertible truth: England was a very, very long way away.  In Between Two Worlds, celebrated historian Malcolm Gaskill tells the sweeping story of the English experience in America during the first century of colonization. Following a large and varied cast of visionaries and heretics, merchants and warriors, and slaves and rebels, Gaskill brilliantly illuminates the often traumatic challenges the settlers faced. The first waves sought to recreate the English way of life, even to recover a society that was vanishing at home. But they were thwarted at every turn by the perils of a strange continent, unaided by monarchs who first ignored then exploited them. As these colonists strove to leave their mark on the New World, they were forced—by hardship and hunger, by illness and infighting, and by bloody and desperate battles with Indians—to innovate and adapt or perish. As later generations acclimated to the wilderness, they recognized that they had evolved into something distinct: no longer just the English in America, they were perhaps not even English at all. These men and women were among the first white Americans, and certainly the most prolific. And as Gaskill shows, in learning to live in an unforgiving world, they had begun a long and fateful journey toward rebellion and, finally, independence.   https://www.amazon.com/Between-Two-Worlds-English-Americans/dp/046501111X/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511574771&sr=1-1&keywords=between+two+worlds+gaskill...more

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• 3/16: _Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans,_ by Malcolm Gaskill and Gildart Jackson

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  Nov 23 2018

  Print: A puritan husband and wife walking through snow on their way to church, he carrying a rifle, she a prayer book or bible. Permissions: tp://www.loc.gov/ Copyright rights advisory: Public Domain. Thomas Gold Appleton, 1812-1884, engraver ; George Henry Boughton, 1834-1905, artist Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans by Malcolm Gaskill.  In the 1600s, over 350,000 intrepid English men, women, and children migrated to America, leaving behind their homeland for an uncertain future. Whether they settled in Jamestown, Salem, or Barbados, these migrants—entrepreneurs, soldiers, and pilgrims alike—faced one incontrovertible truth: England was a very, very long way away.  In Between Two Worlds, celebrated historian Malcolm Gaskill tells the sweeping story of the English experience in America during the first century of colonization. Following a large and varied cast of visionaries and heretics, merchants and warriors, and slaves and rebels, Gaskill brilliantly illuminates the often traumatic challenges the settlers faced. The first waves sought to recreate the English way of life, even to recover a society that was vanishing at home. But they were thwarted at every turn by the perils of a strange continent, unaided by monarchs who first ignored then exploited them. As these colonists strove to leave their mark on the New World, they were forced—by hardship and hunger, by illness and infighting, and by bloody and desperate battles with Indians—to innovate and adapt or perish.  As later generations acclimated to the wilderness, they recognized that they had evolved into something distinct: no longer just the English in America, they were perhaps not even English at all. These men and women were among the first white Americans, and certainly the most prolific. And as Gaskill shows, in learning to live in an unforgiving world, they had begun a long and fateful journey toward rebellion and, finally, independence.   https://www.amazon.com/Between-Two-Worlds-English-Americans/dp/046501111X/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511574771&sr=1-1&keywords=between+two+worlds+gaskill...more

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• 2/16: _Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans,_ by Malcolm Gaskill and Gildart Jackson

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  Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans by Malcolm Gaskill.  In the 1600s, over 350,000 intrepid English men, women, and children migrated to America, leaving behind their homeland for an uncertain future. Whether they settled in Jamestown, Salem, or Barbados, these migrants—entrepreneurs, soldiers, and pilgrims alike—faced one incontrovertible truth: England was a very, very long way away.  In Between Two Worlds, celebrated historian Malcolm Gaskill tells the sweeping story of the English experience in America during the first century of colonization. Following a large and varied cast of visionaries and heretics, merchants and warriors, and slaves and rebels, Gaskill brilliantly illuminates the often traumatic challenges the settlers faced. The first waves sought to recreate the English way of life, even to recover a society that was vanishing at home. But they were thwarted at every turn by the perils of a strange continent, unaided by monarchs who first ignored then exploited them. As these colonists strove to leave their mark on the New World, they were forced—by hardship and hunger, by illness and infighting, and by bloody and desperate battles with Indians—to innovate and adapt or perish.  As later generations acclimated to the wilderness, they recognized that they had evolved into something distinct: no longer just the English in America, they were perhaps not even English at all. These men and women were among the first white Americans, and certainly the most prolific. And as Gaskill shows, in learning to live in an unforgiving world, they had begun a long and fateful journey toward rebellion and, finally, independence.   https://www.amazon.com/Between-Two-Worlds-English-Americans/dp/046501111X/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511574771&sr=1-1&keywords=between+two+worlds+gaskill...more

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• 1/16: _Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans,_ by Malcolm Gaskill and Gildart Jackson

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  Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans by Malcolm Gaskill.  In the 1600s, over 350,000 intrepid English men, women, and children migrated to America, leaving behind their homeland for an uncertain future. Whether they settled in Jamestown, Salem, or Barbados, these migrants—entrepreneurs, soldiers, and pilgrims alike—faced one incontrovertible truth: England was a very, very long way away.  In Between Two Worlds, celebrated historian Malcolm Gaskill tells the sweeping story of the English experience in America during the first century of colonization. Following a large and varied cast of visionaries and heretics, merchants and warriors, and slaves and rebels, Gaskill brilliantly illuminates the often traumatic challenges the settlers faced. The first waves sought to recreate the English way of life, even to recover a society that was vanishing at home. But they were thwarted at every turn by the perils of a strange continent, unaided by monarchs who first ignored then exploited them. As these colonists strove to leave their mark on the New World, they were forced—by hardship and hunger, by illness and infighting, and by bloody and desperate battles with Indians—to innovate and adapt or perish.  As later generations acclimated to the wilderness, they recognized that they had evolved into something distinct: no longer just the English in America, they were perhaps not even English at all. These men and women were among the first white Americans, and certainly the most prolific. And as Gaskill shows, in learning to live in an unforgiving world, they had begun a long and fateful journey toward rebellion and, finally, independence.   https://www.amazon.com/Between-Two-Worlds-English-Americans/dp/046501111X/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511574771&sr=1-1&keywords=between+two+worlds+gaskill ...more

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• Waiting for Nancy Pelosi & What is to be done? @SalenaZito

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  Nov 23 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: Main Navy Building (foreground) and the Munitions Building were temporary structures built during World War I on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The buildings remained in use for several decades, and the Secretary of War was headquartered in the Munitions Building from 1936 until the Pentagon opened in 1943. Date 1918 Source http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/pl-usa/pl-dc/nav-fac/mn-mun-c.htm Author United States Navy Licensing[edit] Public domain This file is a work of a sailor or employee of the U.S. Navy, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Waiting for Nancy Pelosi & What is to be done? @SalenaZito...more

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• Scala Report: How does North America compare in the 2018 Global Competitiveness Report? Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHE @ScalaInc #TheScalaReport

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  Nov 23 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Hippolyte Sebron (1801–1879) Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q3136129 Title  Table Rock, Niagara Falls Date circa 1850 Collection  Royal Ontario Museum Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q649250 Source/Photographer Retrieved from http://www.pbase.com/bmcmorrow/image/121396534, photo by Brian J. McMorrow Licensing[edit] 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: Public domain  This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Scala Report: How does North America compare in the 2018 Global Competitiveness Report? Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHE @ScalaInc #TheScalaReport http://www3.weforum.org/docs/GCR2018/05FullReport/TheGlobalCompetitivenessReport2018.pdf?mod=article_inline...more

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• Half of Iran's population are ethnic minorities -- Azerbaijanis, Kurds, Ahvaz Arabs, Baluch -- looking to be rid of the Tehran dictatorship. @ProfBShaffer @azembassyus @Georgetown

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  Nov 23 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:The Fist of Osman, Lake Urmia's smallest island[16] M karzarj at the English language Wikipedia Osman Fist island, Urmia Lake. CC BY-SA 3.0 File:UrmiaLake.jpg Created: 9 October 2006 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Half of Iran's population are ethnic minorities -- Azerbaijanis, Kurds, Ahvaz Arabs, Baluch -- looking to be rid of the Tehran dictatorship. @ProfBShaffer @azembassyus @Georgetown https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-shaffer-iran-commentary/commentary-the-missing-catalyst-for-iranian-democracy-idUKKCN1NQ21H Commentary: The missing catalyst for Iranian democracy. Just before imposing new sanctions on Iran, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the country’s “cabinet is in disarray, and the Iranian people are raising their voices even louder against a corrupt and hypocritical regime.” While this is clearly true, it’s also true that sanctions alone are unlikely to topple the government or force democratic reforms. For that to happen, foreign governments and domestic opposition leaders must take another critical step – to finally acknowledge the impo,,,...more

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• Road to Disaster: 3 of 4: A New History of America's Descent into Vietnam by Brian VanDeMark

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  Nov 23 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: JapanesetroopsenteringSaigonin_1941 Date 1941 Source "Chronique de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale" Author Japanese Army Public domain This photograph is in the public domain in Japan because its copyright has expired according to Article 23 of the 1899 Copyright Act of Japan (English translation) and Article 2 of Supplemental Provisions of Copyright Act of 1970. This is when the photograph meets one of the following conditions: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Road to Disaster: 3 of 4: A New History of America's Descent into Vietnam by Brian VanDeMark https://www.amazon.com/Road-Disaster-History-Americas-Descent-ebook/dp/B074SGPRZ4/ref=sr11?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1542770180&sr=1-1&keywords=brian+vandemark "The most thoughtful and judicious one-volume history of the war and the American political leaders who presided over the difficult and painful decisions that shaped this history. The book will stand for the foreseeable future as the best study of the tragic mistakes that led to so much suffering."—Robert Dallek Many books have been written on the tragic decisions regarding Vietnam made by the young stars of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Yet despite millions of words of analysis and reflection, no historian has been able to explain why such decent, brilliant, and previously successful men stumbled so badly. That changes with Road to Disaster. Historian Brian VanDeMark draws upon decades of archival research, his own interviews with many of those involved, and a wealth of previously unheard recordings by Robert McNamara and Clark Clifford, who served as Defense Secretaries for Kennedy and Johnson. Yet beyond that, Road to Disaster is also the first history of the war to look at the cataclysmic decisions of those in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations through the prism of recent research in cognitive science, psychology, and organizational theory to explain why the "Best and the Brightest" became trapped in situations that suffocated creative thinking and willingness to dissent, why they found change so hard, and why they were so blind to their own errors. An epic history of America’s march to quagmire, Road to Disaster is a landmark in scholarship and a book of immense importance....more

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• Pacific Watch: How did Pepperdine University "shelter in place" and survive the Woolsey Fire? @JeffBliss1

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  Nov 22 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:  More details Smoke billows on a hill near Pepperdine University's Theme Tower. Eric Winchester - Own work Smoke from a wildfire in the Santa Monica Mountains — near Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. Public Domain File:Pepperdinefire.jpg Uploaded: 25 July 2008) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Pacific Watch: How did Pepperdine University "shelter in place" and survive the Woolsey Fire? @JeffBliss1...more

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• The Democrats "will run on an investigation agenda." @MonicaCrowley

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  Nov 22 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Unknown Formerly attributed to Jan Weesop (fl. 1641–1652) Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q20035857 Title  English: The Execution of Charles I of England Object type painting Date circa 1649 Medium oil on canvas Dimensions Height: 163.2 cm (64.2 ″); Width: 296.8 cm (116.8 ″) Collection  Scottish National Gallery Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q942713 Source/Photographer https://www.nationalgalleries.org/collection/advanced-search/u/artist/unknown/object/charles-i-1600-1649-reigned-1625-1649-the-execution-of-charles-i-pgl-208 Licensing[edit] This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Democrats "will run on an investigation agenda." @MonicaCrowley...more

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• Acosta is no gentleman & What is to be done? @WJMcGurn

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  Nov 22 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:  Nicolas Lancret (1690–1743) Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q188172 Nicolas Lancret: Q19308072 Title  English: The Seat of Justice in the Parlement of Paris in 1723 Français : Le lit de justice tenu au parlement à la majorité de Louis XV (22 février 1723) Object type painting Date circa 1724 Medium oil on canvas Dimensions Height: 56 cm (22 ″); Width: 81.5 cm (32 ″) Collection  Louvre Museum Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q19675 (Inventory) Current location  Department of Paintings of the Louvre Room 918 Accession number  RF 1949 32 (Department of Paintings of the Louvre) References  Joconde database: entry 000PE001658 Musée du Louvre, Atlas database: entry 10648 Authority control  wikidata:Q19308072: Q19308072 Atlas: 10648 Joconde: 000PE001658 Source/Photographer Web Gallery of Art: Inkscape.svg Image Information icon.svg Info about artwork Permission (Reusing this file)  This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: Public domain  This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or less.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Acosta is no gentleman & What is to be done? @WJMcGurn https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-jim-acosta-hour-1542672868...more

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• @DrTaraO, @PacificForum: Young soldier with a bullet in his head; Pres Moon signed South Korea up to get North Korean permission before launching a medevac helo. The kid died. The agreement is called “a surrender document.”

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  Nov 22 2018

  Photo: CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea (May, 6, 2015) - Two UH-60 Blackhawks from the 2nd Combat Aviation Brigade prepare to land at the Rodriguez Live Fire Complex in the Republic of Korea. Photo by: Sgt. Jesse Smith Permissions: This photograph is considered public domain and has been cleared for release. If you would like to republish please give the photographer appropriate credit. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Tara O, adjunct Fellow at the Pacific Forum and fellow at the Institute for Corean-American Studies, reports on how Private Kim at a guard post fund with a bullet wound to his head; South Korea called a medevac helo – but since September has had to notify North Korea, and wait for approvals and many calls. Approval came after the soldier was dead. Why does South Korea have to get North Korean permission to evacuate a wounded soldier? ROK Minister of Defense defended North Korea. The September agreement favors the North over the South. Called “a surrender document.” Moon gave up instruments of national policy: The two sides agree to preclude the use of mil force under any circumstances.” South Korea must also consult with North Korea before any military build-up” (buy a weapon) and “before any military exercises.” Also for reconnaissance and blockades. These all favor the attacker, not the defender. The general public doesn’t understand this, thinks it's a peace document. Guard posts being exploded to be destroyed. Conscription being reduced. https://eastasiaresearch.org/2018/11/13/is-the-moon-jae-in-administration-of-south-korea-giving-up-its-territory-sovereignty-and-national-security-the-2018-south-korea-north-korea-military-agreement-indicates-as-such/ http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201811210037.html  https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asiapacific/as-clock-ticks-south-korea-looks-for-a-leap-of-faith-from-washington-over-north-korea/2018/11/20/ce640cc6-ebdd-11e8-9236-bb94154151d2story.html?utm_term=.19fb99af8ed6...more

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• Fraser Howie: We thought WTO accession would bring China into a fairer system, but China just gamed it. . . . Filipinos bear signs, XI GO HOME. China seems to be tone-deaf. “We’re big and you’re small so we’ll do whatever we want.” (@SCMPNews)

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  Image: Xi Jin-ping, nicknamed Winnie the Pooh (although to his displeasure), a bit flattened by his economic and geopolitical missteps of late. Permissions: The photos on Max Pixel be freely distributed with a Creative Commons Zero - CC0. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Fraser Howie, co-author of Red Capitalism: The Fragile Financial Foundation of China's Extraordinary Rise, in re: Buenos Aires. Will there be reason to give thanks after BA? No, few thanks to be given – the trade war or tariff issues are only part of a much bigger conflict. We thought WTO accession would bring China into a fairer system, but China just gamed that. Around the world a lot of capitals are really frustrated but said nothing; Trump broke the dam, and now [many nations are speaking up]. Singapore is 20 x 40 miles; highly dependent on having many friends. The model of the last 40 years is fundamentally changing, Asia just doesn't know what to do. In 2017 the Trump Adm was trying to accommodate Beijing, but China pushed too far. . . Xi has taken China down a very authoritarian road; depends on how he winds thing back over years. Filipinos bear signs, XI GO HOME. China seems to be tone-deaf. China seems to say, “We’re big and you’re small so we’ll do whatever we want.” But it doesn't work that way. The Chinese foreign minister actually said that! China is very bad at playing a soft-power relationship. Bureaucrats on the ground in China not only are unfair to foreigners, they treat their compatriots badly. https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Trade-War/China-blames-excuses-for-lack-of-agreement-at-APEC https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/2174232/all-eyes-buenos-aires-beijing-and-washington-hammer-out...more

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• Peter Huessy (@HuessyPeter): The US has nothing but 1200-km sea-launched missiles. We have nothing to counter China. China won't even talk to us about arms control. We have no idea how many nukes they have, or subs, or bombers, or ICBMs. (@hobeyoco)

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  Nov 22 2018

  Photo: Members of a Chinese military honor guard march during a welcome ceremony for Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine Gen. Peter Pace at the Ministry of Defense in Beijing, China. Permissions: This image or file is a work of a U.S. Air Force Airman or employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image or file is in the public domain in the United States. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Peter Huessy, director of Strategic Deterrent Studies, Mitchell Institute of the Air Force Association, in re: INF Treaty: Russia has been in violation for some time, but China isn't even a participant. How can the treaty provide any security to anyone? When we signed it in 1980, it dealt with thousands of Russian missiles in Europe and Asia. China loves the treaty because it keeps the US tied up. The number of conventional missiles deployed in China covers Japan, Taiwan and the Pacific out for thousands of kilometers. The US has nothing but 1200-km sea-launched missiles. We have nothing to counter China. China won't even talk to us about arms control. We have no idea how many nukes they have, or subs, or bombers, or ICBMs. Consider also their allies, and rogue states with CBW [chemical & biological weapons]. Think of Reagan’s “Trust but verify” – we can’t verify...more

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• Arthur Waldron: On Jan 1, the current 10% tariffs go up to 25%. VP Pence basically told the Chinese, we’re not going to change; you’ll have to, and we’ll keep increasing the tariffs until you do. @PennSAS

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  Nov 22 2018

  Photo: A Chinese warrior Permissions: The pictures on Max Pixel be freely distributed with a Creative Commons Zero - CC0. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules . Twitter: @BatchelorShow Arthur Waldron @PennSAS . . . Disengagement is the most important approach at this point. Agree! Cease military collaboration. Withdraw. We got in by mistake, and now we’ve got to get out.  http://time.com/5459770/xi-jinping-duterte-china-philippines-visit/

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• Such Men as These: 1 of 2: The Story of the Navy Pilots Who Flew the Deadly Skies over Korea by David Sears

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  Nov 22 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: Water-carriers at a neighbourhood well, Korea c.1900; p.327; The passing of Korea (book) Date 20 July 2010, 17:07 (UTC) Source  Thepassingof_Korea.djvu Author  Thepassingof_Korea.djvu: Homer Hulbert. Original uploader was Ryuch at en.wikisource derivative work: — billinghurst sDrewth Permission (Reusing this file)  Public domain This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1923.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Such Men as These: 1 of 2: The Story of the Navy Pilots Who Flew the Deadly Skies over Korea by David Sears https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003K15524/ref=dbsadefrwthschvapitaftp1i0 In 1951, James Michener went to Korea to report on a little known aspect of America's stalemated war: navy aviators. His research inspired novel about these pilots became an overnight bestseller and, perhaps, the most widely read book ever written about aerial combat. Using Michener's notes, author David Sears tracked down the actual pilots to tell their riveting, true-life stories. From the icy, windswept decks of aircraft carriers, they penetrated treacherous mountain terrain to strike heavily defended dams, bridges, and tunnels, where well entrenched Communist anti-aircraft gunners waited to shoot them down. Many of these men became air combat legends, and one, Neil Armstrong, the first astronaut to walk on the moon. Such Men As These brims with action-packed accounts of combat and unforgettable portraits of the pilots whose skill and sacrifice made epic history....more

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• Such Men as These: 2 of 2: The Story of the Navy Pilots Who Flew the Deadly Skies over Korea by David Sears

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  Nov 22 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: Placer gold-mining, Korea, c1900; /355. The passing of Korea (book) Date 27 July 2010, 13:59 (UTC) Source  Thepassingof_Korea.djvu Author  Thepassingof_Korea.djvu: Homer Hulbert. Original uploader was Ryuch at en.wikisource derivative work: — billinghurst sDrewth Permission (Reusing this file)  Public domain This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1923. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Such Men as These: 2 of 2: The Story of the Navy Pilots Who Flew the Deadly Skies over Korea by David Sears https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003K15524/ref=dbsadefrwthschvapitaftp1i0 In 1951, James Michener went to Korea to report on a little known aspect of America's stalemated war: navy aviators. His research inspired novel about these pilots became an overnight bestseller and, perhaps, the most widely read book ever written about aerial combat. Using Michener's notes, author David Sears tracked down the actual pilots to tell their riveting, true-life stories. From the icy, windswept decks of aircraft carriers, they penetrated treacherous mountain terrain to strike heavily defended dams, bridges, and tunnels, where well entrenched Communist anti-aircraft gunners waited to shoot them down. Many of these men became air combat legends, and one, Neil Armstrong, the first astronaut to walk on the moon. Such Men As These brims with action-packed accounts of combat and unforgettable portraits of the pilots whose skill and sacrifice made epic history....more

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• The Tragic California Fires & What is to be done? @RichardAEpstein

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  Nov 22 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: A petrified log forming a tree bridge in the Petrified Forest of Arizona, ca.1900 Photograph of a petrified log forming a tree bridge across a ravine in the Petrified Forest of Arizona, ca.1900. Small foliated trees grow nearby. A river or road is visible in the flat desert in the distance. The suns rays pierce the cloudy sky above. Call number: CHS-3363 Photographer: Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 Filename: CHS-3363 Coverage date: circa 1900 Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 Format: glass plate negatives Type: images Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections Accession number: 3363 Microfiche number: 1-87-11 Archival file: chs_Volume94/CHS-3363.tiff Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Geographic subject (country): USA Format (aacr2): 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm. Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Subject (adlf): petrified forests Project: USC Repository email: specol@usc.edu Contributing entity: California Historical Society Date created: circa 1900 Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs Geographic subject (state): Arizona Legacy record ID: chs-m15999; USC-1-1-1-14226 Geographic subject: forests: Petrified Forest Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343. Subject (file heading): Natural features -- Parks -- Arizona -- Petrified Forest Subject (lcsh): Deserts; Forests and forestry Subject: Petrified Forest Date circa 1900 (date created) Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/14925 Author Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 Licensing[edit] Public domain  The author died in 1946, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or less.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Tragic California Fires & What is to be done? @RichardAEpstein  https://www.hoover.org/research/californias-forest-fire-tragedy...more

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• Mars landings 2020. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Nov 22 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Mars landings 2020. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-picks-mars-2020-landing-site-jezero-crater/

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• SpaceX chooses Starship for the planets. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Nov 22 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Target: Dwarf Planets Views: 4,194 Full-Res TIFF: PIA17307.tif Full-Res JPG: PIA17307.jpg Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow SpaceX chooses Starship for the planets. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/musk-renames-bfr/

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• Road to Disaster: 2 of 4: A New History of America's Descent into Vietnam by Brian VanDeMark

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  Nov 22 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Public Domain. Suggested credit: Underwood/Library of Congress via pingnews. Additional information from source: TITLE: Street in Saigon, capital and commercial centre of French Cochin China CALL NUMBER: STEREO FOREIGN GEOG FILE - Viet Nam [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-120617 (b&w film copy neg. of half stereo) No known restrictions on publication. MEDIUM: 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. CREATED/PUBLISHED: New York, N.Y. : Underwood & Underwood, c1915. CREATOR: Underwood & Underwood. NOTES: J200166 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. U-90876. No. 11713. SUBJECTS: Streets--Vietnam--Ho Chi Minh City--1910-1920. FORMAT: Photographic prints 1910-1920. Stereographs 1910-1920. REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID: (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3c20617 hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c20617 CARD #: 98507482 Date circa 1915 Source Saigon Street, Vietnam by Underwood, ca. 1915 (LOC) Author David Shapinsky from Washington, D.C., United States Licensing[edit] w:en:Creative Commons attribution share alike This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.  You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). share alike – If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. Checked copyright icon.svg This image was originally posted to Flickr by pingnews.com at https://www.flickr.com/photos/39735679@N00/501543678. It was reviewed on 1 November 2007 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-sa-2.0.  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Road to Disaster: 2 of 4: A New History of America's Descent into Vietnam by Brian VanDeMark https://www.amazon.com/Road-Disaster-History-Americas-Descent-ebook/dp/B074SGPRZ4/ref=sr11?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1542770180&sr=1-1&keywords=brian+vandemark "The most thoughtful and judicious one-volume history of the war and the American political leaders who presided over the difficult and painful decisions that shaped this history. The book will stand for the foreseeable future as the best study of the tragic mistakes that led to so much suffering."—Robert Dallek Many books have been written on the tragic decisions regarding Vietnam made by the young stars of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Yet despite millions of words of analysis and reflection, no historian has been able to explain why such decent, brilliant, and previously successful men stumbled so badly. That changes with Road to Disaster. Historian Brian VanDeMark draws upon decades of archival research, his own interviews with many of those involved, and a wealth of previously unheard recordings by Robert McNamara and Clark Clifford, who served as Defense Secretaries for Kennedy and Johnson. Yet beyond that, Road to Disaster is also the first history of the war to look at the cataclysmic decisions of those in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations through the prism of recent research in cognitive science, psychology, and organizational theory to explain why the "Best and the Brightest" became trapped in situations that suffocated creative thinking and willingness to dissent, why they found change so hard, and why they were so blind to their own errors. An epic history of America’s march to quagmire, Road to Disaster is a landmark in scholarship and a book of immense importance....more

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• Schumer's and Pelosi's magical thinking of Democratic unity. @LizPeek @FoxNews

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  Nov 21 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:ammany Ring by Thomas Nast; "Who stole the people's money?" / "'Twas him." Thomas Nast. cropped by Beyond My Ken Uploaded by Beyond My Ken at en.wikipedia - Political cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly [1] Boss Tweed and the Tammany Ring, caricatured by Thomas Nast. Public Domain File:Tammany Ring, Nast crop.jpg Created: 19 August 1871 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Schumer's and Pelosi's magical thinking of Democratic unity. @LizPeek @FoxNews https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/liz-peek-democrats-are-in-disarray-does-that-spell-trouble-for-2020...more

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• Main Street welcomes Santa Claus; Wall Street holds a firesale. @LizPeek @FoxNews.

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  Nov 21 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: Christmas Tree in 1900. Date  Source  This file is lacking source information. Please edit this file's description and provide a source. Author  This file is lacking author information. Licensing[edit] Public domain This media file is in the public domain in the United States. This applies to U.S. works where the copyright has expired, often because its first publication occurred prior to January 1) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Main Street welcomes Santa Claus; Wall Street holds a firesale. @LizPeek @FoxNews....more

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• Tales of the New Cold War: 1 of 2: After five years of American-directed isolation, Russia's diplomatic achievements. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.

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  Nov 21 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: [General view from Walkendorff's Tower, Bergen, Norway] [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color. Notes: Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J--foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. 7002. Forms part of: Landscape and marine views of Norway in the Photochrom print collection. Subjects: Norway--Bergen. Format: Photochrom prints--Color--1890-1900. Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Part Of: Landscape and marine views of Norway (DLC) 2001699563 More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pgz Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.06105 Call Number: LOT 13432, no. 003 [item] Date  Source [General view from Walkendorff's Tower, Bergen, Norway (LOC)] Uploaded by Diaa_abdelmoneim Author The Library of Congress Permission (Reusing this file)  https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/195_copr.html#noknown Licensing[edit] This image was taken from Flickr's The Commons. The uploading organization may have various reasons for determining that no known copyright restrictions exist, such as:) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Tales of the New Cold War: 1 of 2: After five years of American-directed isolation, Russia's diplomatic achievements. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/10/25/nato-holds-biggest-exercises-since-cold-war-counter-russia-arctic/...more

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• Tales of the New Cold War: 2 of 2: After five years of American-directed isolation, Russia's diplomatic achievements. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.

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  Nov 21 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: [Eide Hardanger, Hardanger Fjord, Norway] [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color. Notes: Photo shows Eide, later part of Granvin. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009) Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J--foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. 7020. Forms part of: Landscape and marine views of Norway in the Photochrom print collection. Subjects: Norway--Hardangerfjord. Format: Photochrom prints--Color--1890-1900. Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Part Of: Landscape and marine views of Norway (DLC) 2001699563 More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pgz Persistent URL: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.06126 Call Number: LOT 13432, no. 024 [item] Date 1 January 1890, 00:00:00 Source https://www.flickr.com/photos/libraryofcongress/3175015020/ Author The Library of Congress Permission (Reusing this file)  At the time of upload, the image license was automatically confirmed using the Flickr API. For more information see Flickr API detail. Other versions  jpg 3,415 × 2,512 tif 3,415 × 2,512 Flickr sets  Photochrom Travel Views Flickr tags  Library of Congress dc:identifier http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.06126 xmlns:dc http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/ Hardangerfjorden Vestlandet Eide Hordaland Norway photochrom color colorized granvin kommune fjords landscapes Detroit Publishing Company Licensing[edit] This image was taken from Flickr's The Commons. The uploading organization may have various reasons for determining that no known copyright restrictions exist, such as: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Tales of the New Cold War: 2 of 2: After five years of American-directed isolation, Russia's diplomatic achievements. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/10/25/nato-holds-biggest-exercises-since-cold-war-counter-russia-arctic/...more

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• @StephenMoore: JFK was the first modern supply-side, tax-cutting president. Last year, even with only the first year of the tax cut kicking in, more federal revenues were raised than at any other time in history.

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  Nov 21 2018

  Photo: President Donald J. Trump celebrates the passage of the Tax Cuts Act with Vice President Mike Pence, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan | December 20, 2017 (Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian) Permissions: Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. This image is a work of an employee of the Executive Office of the President of the United States, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules . Twitter: @BatchelorShow Steve Moore (@StephenMoore), Heritage Foundation and author, Trumponomics, in re: Trumponomics: how we got here to these startling numbers that had been said to be impossible. What explains it? Larry Kudlow wrote a book two years ago on John F Kennedy’s policies – JFK was the first modern supply-side, tax-cutting president. Soundest way to [resuscitate] the economy is to reduce the tax rates now. Most Democrats voted for the Kennedy tax cut. Larry and Steve and Art Laffer presented this to Candidate Trump, who initially was not familiar with it but listened carefully. He always said he wanted to make sure that the bz tax rates came down, esp for the 27 million small businesses in this county. The tax cut and deregulation have been like injecting steroids. I said, “Mr President, this is working better than we thought it would.” Ultimately, we’d like to see a flat tax. Last year, even with only the first year of the tax cut kicking in, more federal revenues were raised than at any other time in history. . . . I saw a stat that food stamps, now called SNAP, have gone to their lowest numbers is a long time. . . . The tax cut is picking up steam in 2019. . . ....more

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• @StephenMoore: Trumponomics is roaring ahead at almost 3.5%, said to have been impossible by the previous Administration. Growing in a way that’s the envy of the planet.

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  Nov 21 2018

  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Steve Moore, Heritage Foundation and author, Trumponomics, in re: Greg Ip (no fan of Trump) published in the Wall Street Journal tonight: the US economy is firing on all cylinders. He notes that the US GDP is growing at 3%, which was formally pronounced impossible by the previous Administration. Consumer confidence, consumer spending, industrial growth. In fact, it looks closer to 3.5%. Yes, I’m a bit nervous about today’s stock market decline and the housing market, but there’s no recession in sight. This is Trump’s policies. The Fed has pronounced that it’ll keep raisin rates again ad again in 2019 – and that’s unnecessary. Art Laffer, Larry Kudlow and Steve Moore have said: Growth does not cause inflation. What impels this economy? Deregulation tax cut, and energy policies – we’re producing so much today; the broader point is that it's not any one thing, it’s the fact that we have a president who put this country first, and he’s pro-business. Business owner say, I know that if I expand, put up a new building, the govt won't come along and whack me in the head. Trumponomics – the people the president has put in key positions are also pro-business. Whatever he’s doing, it's working. The animal spirits have been unleashed by Trump, and they won't be stuffed back in a bottle in 12019. JB: If you create conditions where the American people get to make their own decisions. Liberals always say why we can't-- but, yes we can. . . . Is anyone complaining about not paying $2.50 a gallon? . . . We borrowed a lot of policies from Reagan....more

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• Who benefits when Nissan-Renault's Carlos Ghosn is arrested at a Tokyo Airport? Lou Ann Hammond, DrivingtheNation.com

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  Nov 21 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: Matsuzumicho Over-road Bridge in 1930s 日本語: 1930年代の松住町架道橋 Date mid 1932 Source  English: Japanese magazine "Historical Photograph, August 1932 issue" published by Rekishi-Shasin Kai. This file was scanned and edited by the uploader, Abasaa. 日本語: 歴史写真会「歴史写真（昭和7年8月号）」」より。 ファイルはあばさーによりスキャンおよび編集されました。 Author Unknown Licensing[edit] Public domain This photograph is in the public domain in Japan because its copyright has expired according to Article 23 of the 1899 Copyright Act of Japan (English translation) and Article 2 of Supplemental Provisi) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Who benefits when Nissan-Renault's Carlos Ghosn is arrested at a Tokyo Airport? Lou Ann Hammond, DrivingtheNation.com...more

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• How is it that one US District Judge can instantly negate the immigration order of POTUS? @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO

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  Nov 21 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Market Street, San Francisco, with parade by the Ringling Brothers Circus, September 1900. Date September 1900 Source [1] Author Photographer not credited Permission (Reusing this file)  Public domain This media file is in the public domain in the United States. This applies to U.S. works where the copyright has expired, often because its first publication occurred prior to January 1, 1923. See this page for further explanation. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow  How is it that one US District Judge can instantly negate the immigration order of POTUS? @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/san-francisco-based-obama-judge-blocks-trump-asylum-order/ It took a few more days than I expected, but a San Francisco-based federal judge appointed by President Obama issued an order last night barring the administration from enforcing the asylum restrictions President Trump announced on November 9. U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar ruled that the president had unlawfully attempted to rewrite congressional law. (Mind you, these are the same federal judges who are striving to enshrine President Obama’s DACA program, an actual presidential rewrite of congressional law.) Judge Tigar claims that by temporarily prohibiting illegal aliens from seeking asylum and requiring that asylum be sought at official ports of entry, the president imposed conditions “that Congress has expressly forbidden.” To the contrary, Trump was acting pursuant to a sweeping grant of legislative authority (Section 1182(f) of the immigration laws) which, the Supreme Court held only five months ago, vests the president with power to suspend entry and impose entry conditions when, in his judgment, the national interests require it…....more

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• LBJ, Westmoreland, Khe Sanh and the facts about a nuclear weapon option. @greggjonesbooks

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  Nov 21 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: View of a B-52 strike near the U.S. Marine Corps base Khe Sanh, in 1968. Date 1968 Source Official U.S. Marine Corps photograph in Close Air Support and the Battle for Khe Sanh [1], p. 109. Author USMC Licensing[edit] Public domain This image or file is in the public domain because it contains materials that originally came from the United States Marine Corps. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow LBJ, Westmoreland, Khe Sanh and the facts about a nuclear weapon option.  @greggjonesbooks  https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2018/10/24/sensational-story-lbj-saving-america-nuclear-war-vietnam-wrong...more

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• Road to Disaster: 1 of 4: A New History of America's Descent into Vietnam by Brian VanDeMark

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  Nov 21 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: The scene shows the arrival at the “Porte de Chine” of the military commander of Guangxi, Marshal Su Yuan Chuan (蘇元春)[Su Yuanchun] and his official entourage on 16 July 1900. The procession of sedan chairs, guarded by soldiers, had just passed through the outer gatehouse into French Indo-China (Vietnam). Marshal Su had been invited as a guest to celebrate the inaugural train of the railway connecting Hanoi with Dang Dong (同登 Tongdeng ) , close to the Nam-Quan (南關) frontier post between China and Vietnam. The large main gate, located behind the small outer gatehouse, survives today as a heritage building near today’s Friendship Pass (友誼關 s:友谊关 Youyiguan.) Date 9 March 2014, 11:40:33 Source Scan from 22 September 1900 edition of "L'Illustration (copyright expired) Author photographer unknown. Description researched by P.A. Crush Camera location 21° 32′ 24″ N, 106° 25′ 12″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap. View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth info Known today as Friendship Pass (友誼關 s:友谊关 Youyiguan.) Licensing[edit] Public domain This media file is in the public domain in the United States. This applies to U.S. works where the copyright has expired, often because its first publication occurred prior to January 1, 1923. See this page for further explanation.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Road to Disaster: 1 of 4: A New History of America's Descent into Vietnam by Brian VanDeMark https://www.amazon.com/Road-Disaster-History-Americas-Descent-ebook/dp/B074SGPRZ4/ref=sr11?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1542770180&sr=1-1&keywords=brian+vandemark "The most thoughtful and judicious one-volume history of the war and the American political leaders who presided over the difficult and painful decisions that shaped this history. The book will stand for the foreseeable future as the best study of the tragic mistakes that led to so much suffering."—Robert Dallek Many books have been written on the tragic decisions regarding Vietnam made by the young stars of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Yet despite millions of words of analysis and reflection, no historian has been able to explain why such decent, brilliant, and previously successful men stumbled so badly. That changes with Road to Disaster. Historian Brian VanDeMark draws upon decades of archival research, his own interviews with many of those involved, and a wealth of previously unheard recordings by Robert McNamara and Clark Clifford, who served as Defense Secretaries for Kennedy and Johnson. Yet beyond that, Road to Disaster is also the first history of the war to look at the cataclysmic decisions of those in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations through the prism of recent research in cognitive science, psychology, and organizational theory to explain why the "Best and the Brightest" became trapped in situations that suffocated creative thinking and willingness to dissent, why they found change so hard, and why they were so blind to their own errors. An epic history of America’s march to quagmire, Road to Disaster is a landmark in scholarship and a book of immense importance....more

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• The VA vs Big Data & What is to be done? FroseDC, host, "Government Matters, WJLA.

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  Nov 21 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: [View down East Capitol Street from the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C., with Carroll Row on the right] file_downloadDOWNLOAD save_alt Thumbnail 200x200 save_alt Small 640x417 save_alt Original 640x417 crop_originalORDER PRINT share code description Summary Photograph shows Carroll Row, a block of five houses at 1st & A Street, SE, razed in 1887 for construction of the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building. Includes the sign "Architect." label_outline Tags carroll row washington dcwashington dcvieweastcapitolstreeteast capitol streetwashingtoncarrollrowcarroll rowrightunited states capitollibrary of congress photos date_range Date 01/01/1880 person Contributors Jarvis, J. F. (John F.), 1850- place Location Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 38.90719, -77.03687 Map data ©2018 Google Terms of Use Report a map error create Source Library of Congress link Link http://www.loc.gov/ copyright Rights advisory Public Domain) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The VA vs Big Data & What is to be done? FroseDC, host, "Government Matters, WJLA. https://govmatters.tv/under-secretary-of-benefits-at-veterans-affairs-lays-out-priorities/ https://www.govexec.com/management/2018/11/unions-sue-va-over-official-time-edict/152847/...more

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• "O-Rex" Mission to asteroid Bennu to "Hoover up" a sample return. @PappalardoJoe

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  Nov 20 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: More details This “super-resolution” view of asteroid Bennu was created using eight images obtained by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on Oct. 29, 2018 from a distance of about 205 miles (330 km). The spacecraft was moving as it captured the images with the PolyCam camera, and Bennu rotated 1.2 degrees during the nearly one minute that elapsed between the first and the last snapshot. The team used a super-resolution algorithm to combine the eight images and produce a higher resolution view of the asteroid. Bennu occupies about 100 pixels and is oriented with its north pole at the top of the image. NASA Goddard - https://www.asteroidmission.org/20181029t1019ut_bennu/ Public Domain File:Bennu 330km 181029.jpg Created: 29 October 2018  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "O-Rex" Mission to asteroid Bennu to "Hoover up" a sample return. @PappalardoJoe  https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a24892785/cape-canaveral-spaceplanes/...more

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• The US military has lost its "edge" over China and Russia & What is to be done? Admiral Gary Roughead, USN (ret.) @HooverInst

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  Nov 20 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:The Royal Navy's HMS Dreadnought, the world's first dreadnought U.S. Navy - U.S. Naval Historical Center HMS Dreadnought (British Battleship, 1906) underway, circa 1906-07; Removed caption read: Photo # NH 61017 HMS Dreadnought (British battleship, 1906) Public Domain File:HMS Dreadnought 1906 H61017.jpg Created: 1 July 1906 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The US military has lost its "edge" over China and Russia & What is to be done? Admiral Gary Roughead, USN (ret.) @HooverInst http://www.usip.org/sites/default/files/2018-11/providing-for-the-common-defense.pdf  "The security and wellbeing of the United States are at greater risk than at any time in decades. America’s military superiority—the hard-power backbone of its global influence and national security—has eroded to a dangerous degree. Rivals and adversaries are challenging the United States on many fronts and in many domains. America’s ability to defend its allies, its partners, and its own vital interests is increasingly in doubt. If the nation does not act promptly to remedy these circumstances, the consequences will be grave and lasting...."...more

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• Hamas rockets and the Netanyahu government wobbles. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres@ThadMcCotter

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  Nov 20 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Hamas rockets and the Netanyahu government wobbles. Malcolm Hoenlein @Confofpres@ThadMcCotter

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• Is the Republican Senate an advantage for Trump?? @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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  Nov 20 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Is the Republican Senate an advantage for Trump?? @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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• What does the Republican House do in its irrelevancy for the next two years? @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow What does the Republican House do in its irrelevancy for the next two years? @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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• @Alan Tonelson: In Argentina, there could be a trade truce [betw China and the US], but [not likely with] China’s ambitions to control most of the industries of the future: high-tech industries that are targetted by its predatory trade practices.

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  Photo: Professor Peter Navarro discusses his work, Death by China, arguing China cheats in the world trade system at University of Michigan in 2012 Permissions: Creative Commons.  See below. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules . Twitter: @BatchelorShow Alan Tonelson, RealityCheck blog (@Alan Tonelson): China has been a RICO for decades. It can be corrected with blunt information. The US is scheduled to impose $250 billion in tariffs on January first. In Buenos Aires, there could be some kind of a trade truce while the negotiators try to work something out; but I wouldn’t put big money on that since the US and Chinese positions remain so far apart, esp concerning China’s ambitions to control most of the world’s industries of the future: the high-tech industries that are targetted by its predatory trade practices. . . . Permissions: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work; under the following conditions: attribution – You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). This video, screenshot or audio excerpt was originally uploaded on YouTube under a CC license. Their website states: "YouTube allows users to mark their videos with a Creative Commons CC BYlicense." To the uploader: You must provide a link (URL) to the original file and the authorship information if available: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ProfessorPeterNavarrooftheBusinessSchoolatUniversityofCalifornia,Irvinetalkshiswork%22DeathbyChina%22andhowChinacheatsintheworldtradesystem@UniversityofMichigan-4.jpg...more

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• "Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Artifacts of the First Temple.

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Artifacts of the First Temple.

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• Gordon Chang (@GordonGChang) & Thaddeus McCotter (@ThadMcCotter): Pres Trump said, “We have great respect for China and President Xi, but China has taken advantage of us for many, many years, and those days are over.”

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  Photo: Portrait of the leaders of the member economies of APEC at the APEC Vietnam 2017 Summit.Date 11 November 2017 Permissions: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work; under the following conditions: attribution – You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). This image was originally posted to Flickr by Presidencia de la República Mexicana at https://flickr.com/photos/90642778@N05/38270853586. It was reviewed on 11 November 2017 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules . Twitter: @BatchelorShow Pence said, the US won’t change its position. Xi understands that China has to change, but it won’t and can't. Thus, this confrontation will last for quite some time, and the US will not lose. Xi is beginning to understand this and is nervous. Xi can make life miserable for some of our companies. China has stolen Micron Technologies’s newest chip, worth $8.9 billion. They're trying to cripple our economy and put us in penury. . . ....more

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• Why doesn't the US target IRGC Qods Force Suleimani the way Churchill targeted Heydrich and FDR targeted Yamamoto? @BillRoggio @Thomas Jocelyn @FDD

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Why doesn't the US target IRGC Qods Force Suleimani the way Churchill targeted Heydrich and FDR targeted Yamamoto? @BillRoggio @Thomas Jocelyn @FDD https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2018/11/al-qaeda-linked-operations-room-continues-to-attack-assad-regime.php

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• Al Qaeda in Syria reignites attacks on Assad. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Al Qaeda in Syria reignites attacks on Assad. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2018/11/al-qaeda-linked-operations-room-continues-to-attack-assad-regime.php

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• The Second Nuclear Age: 1 of 2: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics by Paul Bracken.

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Second Nuclear Age: 1 of 2: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics by Paul Bracken. https://www.amazon.com/Second-Nuclear-Age-Strategy-Politics-ebook/dp/B0085UEQG6/ref=sr11?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1528077983&sr=1-1&keywords=paul+bracken+second+age A leading international security strategist offers a compelling new way to "think about the unthinkable." The cold war ended more than two decades ago, and with its end came a reduction in the threat of nuclear weapons—a luxury that we can no longer indulge. It's not just the threat of Iran getting the bomb or North Korea doing something rash; the whole complexion of global power politics is changing because of the reemergence of nuclear weapons as a vital element of statecraft and power politics. In short, we have entered the second nuclear age. In this provocative and agenda-setting book, Paul Bracken of Yale University argues that we need to pay renewed attention to nuclear weapons and how their presence will transform the way crises develop and escalate. He draws on his years of experience analyzing defense strategy to make the case that the United States needs to start thinking seriously about these issues once again, especially as new countries acquire nuclear capabilities. He walks us through war-game scenarios that are all too realistic, to show how nuclear weapons are changing the calculus of power politics, and he offers an incisive tour of the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia to underscore how the United States must not allow itself to be unprepared for managing such crises. Frank in its tone and farsighted in its analysis, The Second Nuclear Age is the essential guide to the new rules of international politics. “Mr. Bracken's view is a powerful one. . . . The questions [he] raises about the sustainability of current American foreign policy thinking are particularly timely. Nuclear strategy must come out of its post-Cold War retirement. We are once again in a world where nuclear weapons count.” ―Walter Russell Mead, The Wall Street Journal...more

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

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Second Nuclear Age: 2 of 2: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics by Paul Bracken. https://www.amazon.com/Second-Nuclear-Age-Strategy-Politics-ebook/dp/B0085UEQG6/ref=sr11?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1528077983&sr=1-1&keywords=paul+bracken+second+age A leading international security strategist offers a compelling new way to "think about the unthinkable." The cold war ended more than two decades ago, and with its end came a reduction in the threat of nuclear weapons—a luxury that we can no longer indulge. It's not just the threat of Iran getting the bomb or North Korea doing something rash; the whole complexion of global power politics is changing because of the reemergence of nuclear weapons as a vital element of statecraft and power politics. In short, we have entered the second nuclear age. In this provocative and agenda-setting book, Paul Bracken of Yale University argues that we need to pay renewed attention to nuclear weapons and how their presence will transform the way crises develop and escalate. He draws on his years of experience analyzing defense strategy to make the case that the United States needs to start thinking seriously about these issues once again, especially as new countries acquire nuclear capabilities. He walks us through war-game scenarios that are all too realistic, to show how nuclear weapons are changing the calculus of power politics, and he offers an incisive tour of the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia to underscore how the United States must not allow itself to be unprepared for managing such crises. Frank in its tone and farsighted in its analysis, The Second Nuclear Age is the essential guide to the new rules of international politics. “Mr. Bracken's view is a powerful one. . . . The questions [he] raises about the sustainability of current American foreign policy thinking are particularly timely. Nuclear strategy must come out of its post-Cold War retirement. We are once again in a world where nuclear weapons count.” ―Walter Russell Mead, The Wall Street Journal...more

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• The Quantum Universe: (And Why Anything That Can Happen, Does. by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Quantum Universe: (And Why Anything That Can Happen, Does. by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Universe-Anything-That-Happen/dp/0306821443/ref=laB003DRUAIO1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1518307614&sr=1-2 In The Quantum Universe, Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw approach the world of quantum mechanics in the same way they did in Why Does E=mc2? and make fundamental scientific principles accessible—and fascinating—to everyone. The subatomic realm has a reputation for weirdness, spawning any number of profound misunderstandings, journeys into Eastern mysticism, and woolly pronouncements on the interconnectedness of all things. Cox and Forshaw's contention? There is no need for quantum mechanics to be viewed this way. There is a lot of mileage in the “weirdness” of the quantum world, and it often leads to confusion and, frankly, bad science. The Quantum Universe cuts through the Wu Li and asks what observations of the natural world made it necessary, how it was constructed, and why we are confident that, for all its apparent strangeness, it is a good theory. The quantum mechanics of The Quantum Universe provide a concrete model of nature that is comparable in its essence to Newton's laws of motion, Maxwell's theory of electricity and magnetism, and Einstein's theory of relativity....more

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• Best of Gregory Copley: Trump & Turnbull Celebrating One Hundred Years of Australia-US Alliance. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs.

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  Postcard: Australians welcome Americans Permissions: his media file is in the public domain in the United States. This applies to U.S. works where the copyright has expired, often because its first publication occurred prior to January 1, 1923. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Trump & Turnbull Celebrating One Hundred Years of Australia-US Alliance. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-australia-idUSKBN18102R U.S. President Donald Trump (L) and Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (R) deliver brief remarks to reporters as they meet ahead of an event commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea, aboard the USS Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York, U.S. Thursday's get-together with Turnbull was delayed because of Trump's hastily arranged White House celebration with Republicans from the U.S. House of Representatives after they narrowly passed a healthcare bill that would repeal and replace the 2010 Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare. The measure has yet to come before the Senate/ Trump and Turnbull were all smiles as they answered questions about the January phone call and the refugee deal during a picture-taking session. "We get along great. We have a fantastic relationship, I love Australia, I always have," Trump said. Turnbull added: "We can put the refugee deal behind you and move on." Trump said the refugee deal had been "worked out for a long time" and that reporters had exaggerated the phone call. "We had a great call," he said, adding, "I mean, we're not babies." "Young at heart," added Turnbull...."...more

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• Best of Gregory Copley: Live Fire Exercise Duelling in North Korea. ANZAC Day. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs.

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  Photo: A South Korean navy band performs to welcome the crew of the attack submarine USS Cheyenne (SSN 773) as the sub arrives in Busan, South Korea, March 20, 2013. The Cheyenne stopped in Busan for a scheduled port visit while participating in exercise Foal Eagle 2013. Foal Eagle is a combined U.S.-South Korea field training exercise held annually in South Korea to ensure the operational readiness of air, space and cyberspace operations in the Korean theater of operations. Permissions: Public domain photograph from defenseimagery.mil. his image is a work of a U.S. military or Department of Defense employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules . Twitter: @BatchelorShow Live Fire Exercise Duelling in North Korea. ANZAC Day. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs. HONG KONG — North Korea staged huge artillery drills on Tuesday to mark the 85th anniversary of the founding of the nation’s military, as China pressed its efforts to tamp down tensions over signs that Pyongyang was preparing for a nuclear test. The long-range artillery drills were conducted near Wonsan, along North Korea’s east coast, according to the South Korean military. They coincided with military maneuvers by the United States and its allies as well as the arrival of the U.S.S. Michigan, a submarine armed with Tomahawk cruise missiles, in the port city of Busan in South Korea. The United States Navy described the arrival of the submarine as “routine,” but its presence reflected the heightened military readiness on both sides of the Korean Peninsula. In addition to holding joint naval exercises in the Yellow Sea, the United States and South Korea have been staging military maneuvers in Pocheon, northeast of Seoul, demonstrating some of their latest weapons. A North Korean state newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, said last week that the joint maneuvers were taking the tense situation on the peninsula to the “verge of explosion.”… https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/25/world/asia/north-korea-military-anniversary-artillery-drills.html TOKYO — North Korea’s military conducted huge live-fire drills Tuesday and issued new warnings that it would defend itself against the “American imperialists,” amid high tensions and a military buildup in the region. But the United States and its South Korean and Japanese allies showed their muscle as well by conducting military exercises of their own. In addition, one of the largest U.S. guided-missile submarines showed up in the South Korean port of Busan, presaging the imminent arrival in the region of a naval strike group led by an aircraft carrier. The military buildup on both sides comes amid heightened tensions over North Korea's nuclear and missile programs, and warnings from the Trump administration that “all options are on the table” for dealing with the regime in Pyongyang.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/north-korea-carries-out-huge-live-fire-drills-as-us-warships-gather/2017/04/25/353044e4-2991-11e7-86b7-5d31b5fdc114story.html?hpid=hphp-top-table-mainnkoreasenate-0544pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utmterm=.1b7a5591622d...more

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• Best of @RichardAEpstein: In defense of NAFTA trade and in doubt of China trade. @HooverInst

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  Image: Intellectual property theft . . . the FBI—working with its investigative partners at the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (NIPRCC)—will play an integral part in a new strategy that involves partnering more closely with businesses in an effort to combat IP theft. Permissions: Public domain: https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/countering-the-growing-intellectual-property-theft-threat  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules  Twitter: @BatchelorShow In defense of NAFTA trade and in doubt of China trade. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst . . . Each of these three pieces benefits the United States. Therefore, so does the package taken as a whole. Trump thinks that the trade deficit means that the United States has somehow lost in international trade. But he would never go so far as to say that other nations should shut down their trade with the United States because we run a trade surplus with them. In both domestic and international markets, we shouldn’t impose any external “fairness” constraint on the outcome of voluntary transactions.  The situation with China is far different, because the Chinese only pay lip service to free trade in setting their trade policy. Their chief misdeed is to engage in the widespread theft of intellectual property, which includes the theft of trade secrets, the infringement of patents, and the shipment of counterfeit goods into international markets. The second vice is that China often ties the entrance of American firms into the Chinese market to the willingness of those firms to share their intellectual property with their local Chinese partners who can, of course, use that property in unrelated transactions to obtain an illicit comparative advantage. These classic hold-up games often lead to a major decline in trade. No state inside the United States is allowed to condition the entry of out-of state businesses into their market on the condition that they surrender intellectual property or agree to special taxes, or to sacrifice access to federal courts. The dominant nondiscrimination rule under the United States Constitution precludes the states from taking these one-sided actions. The result is that the domestic market is free from counterproductive trade wars among the states. The hard question is what to do in response to outright theft and these illicit tie-in arrangements. Trump has threatened to initiate an enforcement action under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 to unilaterally “impose trade sanctions on foreign countries that either violate trade agreements or engage in other unfair trade practices.” The problem here is that proceeding under this section puts the United States at risk of violating the World Trade Organization’s elaborate system of adjudication to sort these matters out. Stopping unilateral action cuts out the risk of abuse by home countries in favor of their own goods. But the flip side here is that it allows chronic abusers like the Chinese to string out proceedings, which in turn allows them to reap gains from their illicit practices for an indefinite period. The Chinese insist that any sanctions from the Trump administration would lead to a trade war that neither side could win, given the certainty that the Chinese would retaliate in kind against any unilateral American action. But doing nothing is an implicit ratification of the status quo ante of China’s ongoing trade abuses. At the same time, the Trump administration needs China at the table to discuss its actions in the South China Sea and how best to contain North Korea...." http://www.hoover.org/research/trumps-flawed-protectionism?utmsource=hdr&utmmedium=email&utm_campaign=2017-08-22...more

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• Best of @RichardAEpstein: UAW vs Nissan in Mississippi, & What is to be done? @HooverInst

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  Photo: Carlos Ghosn answers reporters' questions at the Nissan factory in Kyushu, Japan. (September 2011) Picture by Bertel Schmitt Permissions: I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. You are free:• to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work• to remix – to adapt the work Carlos Ghosn, KBE, is a Brazilian-Lebanese-French businessman born in Porto Velho, Brazil, who is currently the chairman and CEO of France-based Renault, chairman and former CEO of Japan-based Nissan, and chairman of Mitsubishi Motors. From June 2013 to June 2016, Ghosn was chairman of Russia-based automobile manufacturer AvtoVAZ Ghosn is also chairman and CEO of the Renault–Nissan–Mitsubishi Alliance, the strategic partnership overseeing Nissan, Mitsubishi and Renault through a unique cross-shareholding agreement. The Alliance, which includes AvtoVAZ, has held approximately 10% of the global market share since 2010, and as of 2017 is the third largest automobile group worldwide, having previously been the fourth largest automobile group worldwide since 2010. After his radical restructuring of Renault that returned the company to profitability in the late 1990s Ghosn became known as "Le Cost Killer". In the early 2000s, for orchestrating one of the auto industry's most aggressive downsizing campaigns and spearheading the turnaround of Nissan from its near bankruptcy in 1999, he earned the nickname "Mr. Fix It". Following the Nissan financial turnaround, in 2002 Fortune awarded him Asia Businessman of the Year. In 2003 Fortune identified him as one of the 10 most powerful people in business outside the U.S., and its Asian edition voted him Man of the Year. Surveys jointly published by the Financial Times and PricewaterhouseCoopers named him the fourth-most respected business leader in 2003, and the third-most respected business leader in 2004 and in 2005. He quickly achieved celebrity status in Japan and in the business world, and his life has been chronicled in a Japanese manga comic book. Ghosn has been asked to run at least two other automakers, General Motors and Ford. His decision to spend €4 billion (more than $5 billion) so Renault and Nissan could jointly develop an entire lineup of electric cars including the Nissan Leaf, billed as "the world's first affordable zero-emission car", is one of the four subjects of the 2011 documentary Revenge of the Electric Car. Ghosn stepped down as CEO of Nissan on April 1, 2017, while remaining chairman of the company. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules  Twitter: @BatchelorShow    UAW vs Nissan in Mississippi & What is to be done? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst Whatever the defects of the American labor, they pale in comparison to the situation in France and other European countries. The key difference in the two systems is that most of the elaborate French law on employment is embedded in a huge work code, the Code du Travail, which, from its inception in the early years of the 20th century, was a socialist document treating all employers as enemies of the working class whose conduct had to be checked every step of the way. The current tome contains 3,324 pages, with detailed rules for every aspect of the employment relationship, from hiring to firing. Squeezing the entire employer-employee relationship into a nationwide omnibus code makes it impossible for individual firms like Nissan to finesse the brunt of the labor law by beating back a union’s organizing drive. In France, the only path forward is to tackle the entire code through reform legislation… http://www.hoover.org/research/labor-lessons-canton...more

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• Ike's Bluff: 1 of 2: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World by Evan Thomas

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Ike's Bluff: 1 of 2: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World by Evan Thomas https://www.amazon.com/Ikes-Bluff-President-Eisenhowers-Secret/dp/0316091030/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525573999&sr=1-1&keywords=Ike%27s+bluff Upon assuming the presidency in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower set about to make good on his campaign promise to end the Korean War. Yet while Eisenhower was quickly viewed by many as a doddering lightweight, behind the bland smile and simple speech was a master tactician. To end the hostilities, Eisenhower would take a colossal risk by bluffing that he might use nuclear weapons against the Communist Chinese, while at the same time restraining his generals and advisors who favored the strikes. Ike's gamble was of such magnitude that there could be but two outcomes: thousands of lives saved, or millions of lives lost. A tense, vivid and revisionist account of a president who was then, and still is today, underestimated, IKE'S BLUFF is history at its most provocative and thrilling....more

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• Ike's Bluff: 2 of 2: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World by Evan Thomas

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Ike's Bluff: 2 of 2: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World by Evan Thomas https://www.amazon.com/Ikes-Bluff-President-Eisenhowers-Secret/dp/0316091030/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525573999&sr=1-1&keywords=Ike%27s+bluff Upon assuming the presidency in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower set about to make good on his campaign promise to end the Korean War. Yet while Eisenhower was quickly viewed by many as a doddering lightweight, behind the bland smile and simple speech was a master tactician. To end the hostilities, Eisenhower would take a colossal risk by bluffing that he might use nuclear weapons against the Communist Chinese, while at the same time restraining his generals and advisors who favored the strikes. Ike's gamble was of such magnitude that there could be but two outcomes: thousands of lives saved, or millions of lives lost. A tense, vivid and revisionist account of a president who was then, and still is today, underestimated, IKE'S BLUFF is history at its most provocative and thrilling....more

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• The Generals: 1 of 2: American Military Command from World War II to Today by Thomas E. Ricks

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Aerial view of the port of Casablanca, Morocco, at the time of the Allied landings in North Africa. Note the sunken ship in the center of the harbour and the French battleship Jean Bart on the left. Date circa 9 November 1942 Source  US-LibraryOfCongress-BookLogo.svg This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID fsa.8e00763. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. العربية | čeština | Deutsch | English | español | فارسی | suomi | français | עברית | magyar | italiano | македонски | മലയാളം | Nederlands | polski | português | português do Brasil | русский | slovenčina | slovenščina | Türkçe | українська | 中文 | 中文（简体）‎ | 中文（繁體）‎ | +/− Author Office of War Information Other versions  frame removed Licensing[edit] Public domain This work is in the public domain in the United State