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• During the Northern Song Dynasty: The Birth of the West: 2 of 6: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century by Paul Collins.

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  May 21 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Pope Sylvester II and the Devil in an illustration of c. 1460.  Pope Sylvester II or Silvester II (c.  946 – 12 May 1003) was Pope from 2 April 999 to his death in 1003. Originally known as Gerbert of Aurillac (Latin: Gerbertus Aureliacensis or de Aurillac; French: Gerbert d'Aurillac),[n 1] he was a prolific scholar and teacher.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow During the Northern Song Dynasty: The Birth of the West: 2 of 6: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century by Paul Collins. https://www.amazon.com/Birth-West-Germany-Creation-Century/dp/1610393686/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526870390&sr=1-1&keywords=birth+of+the+west From Booklist Under the Carolingian rulers, and especially under Charlemagne, medieval western Europe enjoyed a period of relative political stability and a modest cultural renaissance. After the death of Charlemagne, in 814, much of the area reverted to internecine internal wars while Viking raiders plundered both coastal and inland regions. Collins, an ordained Catholic priest and radio and TV presenter, asserts that the tenth century brought order out of this chaos, transformed the basic institutions of medieval society, and laid the foundations for the future nation-states of western Europe. Although the apogee of the temporal power of the Papacy would come two centuries later, Collins illustrates how the church played an essential role in the achievements of the tenth century, which included forming a largely successful working relationship with Germanic kings. Collins provides a broad panorama of the age, presenting characters great and small, including kings, magnates, popes, and peasants. This is a well-done study suitable for both scholars and general readers. --Jay Freeman Review Stephen O'Shea, Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada) “The Birth of the West offers a refreshing breather from the ambient buzzkill of our era.… [Collins] is not your usual Western-civ cheerleader, jumping up and down about the glory that was Greece … his is a wider tour d'horizon, encompassing also Mulsim Spain, Ireland, Briatin, Poland, and Hungary.… Stimulating, encyclopedic, and often downright funny, this is a book worth remembering.”...more

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• During the Northern Song Dynasty: The Birth of the West: 1 of 6: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century by Paul Collins.

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  May 21 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Jean-Paul Laurens, Le Pape Formose et Étienne VII ("Pope Formosus and Stephen VII"), 1870.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow During the Northern Song Dynasty: The Birth of the West: 1 of 6: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century by Paul Collins. https://www.amazon.com/Birth-West-Germany-Creation-Century/dp/1610393686/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526870390&sr=1-1&keywords=birth+of+the+west From Booklist Under the Carolingian rulers, and especially under Charlemagne, medieval western Europe enjoyed a period of relative political stability and a modest cultural renaissance. After the death of Charlemagne, in 814, much of the area reverted to internecine internal wars while Viking raiders plundered both coastal and inland regions. Collins, an ordained Catholic priest and radio and TV presenter, asserts that the tenth century brought order out of this chaos, transformed the basic institutions of medieval society, and laid the foundations for the future nation-states of western Europe. Although the apogee of the temporal power of the Papacy would come two centuries later, Collins illustrates how the church played an essential role in the achievements of the tenth century, which included forming a largely successful working relationship with Germanic kings. Collins provides a broad panorama of the age, presenting characters great and small, including kings, magnates, popes, and peasants. This is a well-done study suitable for both scholars and general readers. --Jay Freeman Review Stephen O'Shea, Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada) “The Birth of the West offers a refreshing breather from the ambient buzzkill of our era.… [Collins] is not your usual Western-civ cheerleader, jumping up and down about the glory that was Greece … his is a wider tour d'horizon, encompassing also Mulsim Spain, Ireland, Briatin, Poland, and Hungary.… Stimulating, encyclopedic, and often downright funny, this is a book worth remembering.”...more

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• Jimmy Walker steals the scenes: City of Ambition: 2 of 2: FDR, LaGuardia, and the Making of Modern New York by Mason B. Williams

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  May 21 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) flying over southern Manhattan Island, New York City (USA), 1930. Date 1930 Source U.S. Naval Historical Center, Photo #: NH 944 [1] Author USN) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Jimmy Walker steals the scenes: City of Ambition: 2 of 2: FDR, LaGuardia, and the Making of Modern New York by Mason B. Williams https://www.amazon.com/City-Ambition-Guardia-Making-Modern/dp/0393066916/ref=mthardcover?encoding=UTF8&me= Two political titans forge a modern city and a vibrant public sector in this history of strong leadership at a time of national crisis. City of Ambition is a brilliant history of the New Deal and its role in the making of modern New York City. The story of a remarkable collaboration between Franklin Roosevelt and Fiorello La Guardia, this is a case study in creative political leadership in the midst of a devastating depression. Roosevelt and La Guardia were an odd couple: patrician president and immigrant mayor, fireside chat and tabloid cartoon, pragmatic Democrat and reform Republican. But together, as leaders of America’s two largest governments in the depths of the Great Depression, they fashioned a route to recovery for the nation and the master plan for a great city. Roosevelt and his “Brain Trust”―shrewd, energetic advisors such as Harold Ickes and Harry Hopkins―sought to fight the Depression by channeling federal resources through America’s cities and counties. La Guardia had replaced Tammany Hall cronies with policy experts, such as the imperious Robert Moses, who were committed to a strong public sector. The two leaders worked closely together. La Guardia had a direct line of communication with FDR and his staff, often visiting Washington carrying piles of blueprints. Roosevelt relied on the mayor as his link to the nation’s cities and their needs. The combination was potent. La Guardia’s Gotham became a laboratory for New Deal reform. Roosevelt’s New Deal transformed city initiatives into major programs such as the Works Progress Administration, which changed the physical face of the United States. Together they built parks, bridges, and schools; put the unemployed to work; and strengthened the Progressive vision of government as serving the public purpose. Today everyone knows the FDR Drive as a main route to La Guardia Airport. The intersection of steel and concrete speaks to a pair of dynamic leaders whose collaboration lifted a city and a nation. Here is their story. 8 pages of photographs...more

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• Jimmy Walker steals the scenes: City of Ambition: 1 of 2: FDR, LaGuardia, and the Making of Modern New York by Mason B. Williams

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  May 21 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Jimmy Walker steals the scenes: City of Ambition: 2 of 2: FDR, LaGuardia, and the Making of Modern New York by Mason B. Williams) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Jimmy Walker steals the scenes: City of Ambition: 1 of 2: FDR, LaGuardia, and the Making of Modern New York by Mason B. Williams https://www.amazon.com/City-Ambition-Guardia-Making-Modern/dp/0393066916/ref=mthardcover?encoding=UTF8&me= Two political titans forge a modern city and a vibrant public sector in this history of strong leadership at a time of national crisis. City of Ambition is a brilliant history of the New Deal and its role in the making of modern New York City. The story of a remarkable collaboration between Franklin Roosevelt and Fiorello La Guardia, this is a case study in creative political leadership in the midst of a devastating depression. Roosevelt and La Guardia were an odd couple: patrician president and immigrant mayor, fireside chat and tabloid cartoon, pragmatic Democrat and reform Republican. But together, as leaders of America’s two largest governments in the depths of the Great Depression, they fashioned a route to recovery for the nation and the master plan for a great city. Roosevelt and his “Brain Trust”―shrewd, energetic advisors such as Harold Ickes and Harry Hopkins―sought to fight the Depression by channeling federal resources through America’s cities and counties. La Guardia had replaced Tammany Hall cronies with policy experts, such as the imperious Robert Moses, who were committed to a strong public sector. The two leaders worked closely together. La Guardia had a direct line of communication with FDR and his staff, often visiting Washington carrying piles of blueprints. Roosevelt relied on the mayor as his link to the nation’s cities and their needs. The combination was potent. La Guardia’s Gotham became a laboratory for New Deal reform. Roosevelt’s New Deal transformed city initiatives into major programs such as the Works Progress Administration, which changed the physical face of the United States. Together they built parks, bridges, and schools; put the unemployed to work; and strengthened the Progressive vision of government as serving the public purpose. Today everyone knows the FDR Drive as a main route to La Guardia Airport. The intersection of steel and concrete speaks to a pair of dynamic leaders whose collaboration lifted a city and a nation. Here is their story. 8 pages of photographs...more

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• The doomed: Mission to Paris: 2 of 2: A Novel (Night Soldiers Book 12) by Alan Furst.

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  May 21 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Français : René Le Bègue, deuxième du Critérium Paris-Nice 1938, sur Talbot (épreuve de vitesse-freinage). Date 8 November 2017 Source L'Automobile sur la Côte d'azur, août 1938 Author L'Automobile sur la Côte d'azur) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The doomed: Mission to Paris: 2 of 2: A Novel (Night Soldiers Book 12) by Alan Furst. Review “This is the romantic Paris to make a tourist weep … The brilliant historical flourishes seem to create – or recreate – a world … In Furst’s densely populated books, hundred of minor characters – clerks, chauffeurs, soldiers, whores – all whirl around his heroes in perfect focus for a page or two, then dot by dot, face by face, they vanish, leaving a heartbreaking sense of the vast Homeric epic that was World War II and the smallness of almost every life that was caught up in it.” —The New York Times Book Review “Alan Furst again shows why he is a grandmaster of the historical espionage genre. Furst not only vividly re-creates the excitement and growing gloom of the City of Light in 1938-39, as war with Nazi Germany looms, but also demonstrates a profound knowledge of the political divisions and cultural sensibilities of that bygone era … As summer or subway reading goes, it doesn't get more action-packed and grippingly atmospheric than this.” —The Boston Globe “Between them, Fredric and Paris make this a book no reader will put down to the final page. Furst evokes the city and the prewar anxiety with exquisite tension that is only a bit relieved by Fredric’s encounters with several women, each a vivid and attractive character. Critics compare Furst to Graham Greene and John le Carré, but the time has come for this much-published author (this is his ninth World War II novel after Spies of the Balkans) to occupy his own pinnacle as a master of historical espionage.” —Library Journal (starred) “Furst conveys a strong sense of the era, when responding to a knock might open the door to the end of one’s days. The novel recalls a time when black and white applied to both movies and moral choices. It’s a tale with wide appeal.” —Kirkus (starred) “[Furst] is most at home in Paris, which is why legions of his fans, upon seeing only the title of his latest book, will immediately feel pulses quicken … Furst has been doing this and doing it superbly for a long time now … Long ago Furst made the jump from genre favorite to mainstream bestsellerdom; returning to his signature setting, Paris, he only stands to climb higher.” —Booklist (starred) “Alan Furst’s writing reminds me of a swim in perfect water on a perfect day, fluid and exquisite. One wants the feeling to go on forever, the book to never end … Like Graham Greene, Furst creates believable characters caught up, with varying degrees of willingness, in the parade of political life. And because they care, the reader does, too … Furst is one of the finest spy novelists working today, and, from boudoir to the beach, Mission to Paris is perfect summer reading.” —Publisher’s Weekly...more

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• The doomed: Mission to Paris: 1 of 2: A Novel (Night Soldiers Book 12) by Alan Furst.

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  May 21 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Autres noms Pierre-Albert Marquet; Pierre Léopold Albert Marquet Description peintre et écrivain français Date de naissance/décès 27 mars 1875 13 juin 1947 Lieu de naissance/décès Bordeaux Paris) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The doomed: Mission to Paris: 1 of 2: A Novel (Night Soldiers Book 12) by Alan Furst. Review “This is the romantic Paris to make a tourist weep … The brilliant historical flourishes seem to create – or recreate – a world … In Furst’s densely populated books, hundred of minor characters – clerks, chauffeurs, soldiers, whores – all whirl around his heroes in perfect focus for a page or two, then dot by dot, face by face, they vanish, leaving a heartbreaking sense of the vast Homeric epic that was World War II and the smallness of almost every life that was caught up in it.” —The New York Times Book Review “Alan Furst again shows why he is a grandmaster of the historical espionage genre. Furst not only vividly re-creates the excitement and growing gloom of the City of Light in 1938-39, as war with Nazi Germany looms, but also demonstrates a profound knowledge of the political divisions and cultural sensibilities of that bygone era … As summer or subway reading goes, it doesn't get more action-packed and grippingly atmospheric than this.” —The Boston Globe “Between them, Fredric and Paris make this a book no reader will put down to the final page. Furst evokes the city and the prewar anxiety with exquisite tension that is only a bit relieved by Fredric’s encounters with several women, each a vivid and attractive character. Critics compare Furst to Graham Greene and John le Carré, but the time has come for this much-published author (this is his ninth World War II novel after Spies of the Balkans) to occupy his own pinnacle as a master of historical espionage.” —Library Journal (starred) “Furst conveys a strong sense of the era, when responding to a knock might open the door to the end of one’s days. The novel recalls a time when black and white applied to both movies and moral choices. It’s a tale with wide appeal.” —Kirkus (starred) “[Furst] is most at home in Paris, which is why legions of his fans, upon seeing only the title of his latest book, will immediately feel pulses quicken … Furst has been doing this and doing it superbly for a long time now … Long ago Furst made the jump from genre favorite to mainstream bestsellerdom; returning to his signature setting, Paris, he only stands to climb higher.” —Booklist (starred) “Alan Furst’s writing reminds me of a swim in perfect water on a perfect day, fluid and exquisite. One wants the feeling to go on forever, the book to never end … Like Graham Greene, Furst creates believable characters caught up, with varying degrees of willingness, in the parade of political life. And because they care, the reader does, too … Furst is one of the finest spy novelists working today, and, from boudoir to the beach, Mission to Paris is perfect summer reading.” —Publisher’s Weekly...more

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• An Old Cold War Mole: Circle of Treason: 2 of 2: A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed by Sandra Grimes and Jeanne Vertefeuille

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  May 21 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Replacement of the mailbox used by Ames: a horizontal chalk mark above the USPS logo would signal a needed meeting. Garfield St and Garfield Terrace NW. Original in the Spy Museum.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow An Old Cold War Mole: Circle of Treason: 2 of 2: A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed by Sandra Grimes and Jeanne Vertefeuille https://www.amazon.com/Circle-Treason-Account-Traitor-Betrayed/dp/1591143969/ref=laB009ZZMNT21_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526867586&sr=1-1 While there have been other books about Aldrich Ames, Circle of Treason is the first account written by CIA agents who were key members of the CIA team that conducted the intense "Ames Mole Hunt." Sandra Grimes and Jeanne Vertefeuille were two of the five principals of the CIA team tasked with hunting one of their own and were directly responsible for identifying Ames as the mole, leading to his arrest and conviction. One of the most destructive traitors in American history, CIA officer Aldrich Ames provided information to the Soviet Union that contributed to the deaths of at least ten Soviet intelligence officers who spied for the United States. In this book, the two CIA officers directly responsible for tracking down Ames chronicle their involvement in the hunt for a mole. Considering it their personal mission, Grimes and Vertefeuille dedicated themselves to identifying the traitor responsible for the execution or imprisonment of the Soviet agents with whom they worked. Their efforts eventually led them to a long-time acquaintance and coworker in the CIA's Soviet-East European division and Counterintelligence Center, Aldrich Ames. Not only is this the first book to be written by the CIA principals involved, but it is also the first to provide details of the operational contact with the agents Ames betrayed. The book covers the political aftermath of Ames's arrest, including the Congressional wrath for not identifying him sooner, the FBI/CIA debriefings following Ames's plea bargain, and a retrospective of Ames the person and Ames the spy. It is also the compelling story of two female agents, who overcame gender barriers and succeeded in bringing Ames to justice in a historically male-oriented organization. Now retired from the CIA, Grimes and Vertefeuille are finally able to tell this inside story of the CIA's most notorious traitor and the men he betrayed....more

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• An Old Cold War Mole: Circle of Treason: 1 of 2: A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed by Sandra Grimes and Jeanne Vertefeuille

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  May 21 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:A young Aldrich Ames in the 1958 McLean High School yearbook ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow An Old Cold War Mole: Circle of Treason: 1 of 2:  A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed by Sandra Grimes and Jeanne Vertefeuille https://www.amazon.com/Circle-Treason-Account-Traitor-Betrayed/dp/1591143969/ref=laB009ZZMNT21_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526867586&sr=1-1 While there have been other books about Aldrich Ames, Circle of Treason is the first account written by CIA agents who were key members of the CIA team that conducted the intense "Ames Mole Hunt." Sandra Grimes and Jeanne Vertefeuille were two of the five principals of the CIA team tasked with hunting one of their own and were directly responsible for identifying Ames as the mole, leading to his arrest and conviction. One of the most destructive traitors in American history, CIA officer Aldrich Ames provided information to the Soviet Union that contributed to the deaths of at least ten Soviet intelligence officers who spied for the United States. In this book, the two CIA officers directly responsible for tracking down Ames chronicle their involvement in the hunt for a mole. Considering it their personal mission, Grimes and Vertefeuille dedicated themselves to identifying the traitor responsible for the execution or imprisonment of the Soviet agents with whom they worked. Their efforts eventually led them to a long-time acquaintance and coworker in the CIA's Soviet-East European division and Counterintelligence Center, Aldrich Ames. Not only is this the first book to be written by the CIA principals involved, but it is also the first to provide details of the operational contact with the agents Ames betrayed. The book covers the political aftermath of Ames's arrest, including the Congressional wrath for not identifying him sooner, the FBI/CIA debriefings following Ames's plea bargain, and a retrospective of Ames the person and Ames the spy. It is also the compelling story of two female agents, who overcame gender barriers and succeeded in bringing Ames to justice in a historically male-oriented organization. Now retired from the CIA, Grimes and Vertefeuille are finally able to tell this inside story of the CIA's most notorious traitor and the men he betrayed....more

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• Paris not burning: The Blood of Free Men: 2 of 2: The Liberation of Paris, 1944 by Michael Neiberg.

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  May 21 2018

  AUTHOR. (PHOTO: American troops of the 28th Infantry Division march down the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, Paris, in the Victory Parade on 29 August 1944.) HTTP://JOHNBATCHELORSHOW.COM/CONTACT HTTP://JOHNBATCHELORSHOW.COM/SCHEDULES TWITTER: @BATCHELORSHOW Paris not burning: The Blood of Free Men: 2 of 2: The Liberation of Paris, 1944 by Michael Neiberg. Review Publishers Weekly, starred review “[A] vivid account…. Neiberg skillfully describes six days of disorganized but bloody urban warfare between poorly armed Frenchmen and mostly unenthusiastic Germans until a French regiment, in defiance of Allied orders, entered the city. While hardly a great victory and followed by a nasty vengeance against collaborators, Paris's liberation produced ecstatic delight throughout the West, making it one of the few feel-good stories of the war, and Neiberg, with a close-up and evocative narrative, delivers a thoroughly satisfying history.” Dennis Showalter, author of Hitler's Panzers “Michael Neiberg's talents as a scholar and storyteller brilliantly present the complex realities underlying the liberation of Paris in 1944, when the City of Light regained its freedom through the risks and sacrifices of its people.” Kirkus Reviews “Neiberg's taut narrative explains how the liberation played out.... An evenhanded, efficient account of one of World War II's signature moments.”...more

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• Paris not burning: The Blood of Free Men: 1 of 2: The Liberation of Paris, 1944 by Michael Neiberg.

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  May 21 2018

  AUTHOR. (PHOTO: German tank (Hotchkiss H35) moving in downtown Paris on August 19 1944 during the battle for Paris. Screenshot from en:La Liberation de Paris, September 1st, 1944. there is no known copyright for this 1944 underground propaganda work but the producer is the Le Comite de Liberation du Cinema Francais which disbanded shortly after. original movie file cand be found as public domain material at https://archive.org/details/LaLiberationdeParis1944 Date 2 December 2010 18:45:13(UTC) (Original uploaded at 2007-07-05 02:51:00) Source Original uploaded on en.wikipedia Author Original uploaded by Paris By Night (Transfered by מתניה)) HTTP://JOHNBATCHELORSHOW.COM/CONTACT HTTP://JOHNBATCHELORSHOW.COM/SCHEDULES TWITTER: @BATCHELORSHOW Paris not burning: The Blood of Free Men: 1 of 2: The Liberation of Paris, 1944 by Michael Neiberg. Review Publishers Weekly, starred review “[A] vivid account…. Neiberg skillfully describes six days of disorganized but bloody urban warfare between poorly armed Frenchmen and mostly unenthusiastic Germans until a French regiment, in defiance of Allied orders, entered the city. While hardly a great victory and followed by a nasty vengeance against collaborators, Paris's liberation produced ecstatic delight throughout the West, making it one of the few feel-good stories of the war, and Neiberg, with a close-up and evocative narrative, delivers a thoroughly satisfying history.” Dennis Showalter, author of Hitler's Panzers “Michael Neiberg's talents as a scholar and storyteller brilliantly present the complex realities underlying the liberation of Paris in 1944, when the City of Light regained its freedom through the risks and sacrifices of its people.” Kirkus Reviews “Neiberg's taut narrative explains how the liberation played out.... An evenhanded, efficient account of one of World War II's signature moments.”...more

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• "Medal of Honor: The History." 2014. Conversation with Producer Ed Hooper.

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  May 20 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:At the Battle of Missionary Ridge on November 25, 1863, during the Chattanooga Campaign, the 18-year-old MacArthur inspired his regiment by seizing and planting the regimental flag on the crest of Missionary Ridge 35°1′7.15″N 85°15′51.02″W at a particularly critical moment, shouting "On Wisconsin." For these actions, he was awarded the Medal of Honor.   ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Medal of Honor: The History." 2014. Conversation with Producer Ed Hooper. https://www.amazon.com/Medal-Honor-History-Gary-Sinise/dp/B00VHJK6KM  Narrated by Gary Sinise, this documentary showcases the medal itself and how it rose from a decoration no one wanted, to become the nation's highest honor. Featuring interviews with service branch historians and the U.S. Senate historian, the film illustrates how a medal is created at the mint. This is the first time a history of the medal has been assembled anywhere....more

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• 1933 vs 2013: The New Deal & Modern American Conservatism: A Defining Rivalry (Hoover Institution Press Publication) by Gordon Lloyd and David Davenport

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  May 20 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: New Deal N.R.A. 3-cent 1933 issue U.S. stamp. The National Recovery Administration was a prime New Deal agency established by U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) in 1933. Date 15 August 1933 Source U.S. Postal Service; National Postal Museum Author Bureau of Engraving and Printing ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow 1933 vs 2013: The New Deal & Modern American Conservatism: A Defining Rivalry (Hoover Institution Press Publication) by Gordon Lloyd and David Davenport https://www.amazon.com/New-Deal-Modern-American-Conservatism/dp/0817916857/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526788554&sr=1-1&keywords=american+conservatism+davenport Providing an often-overlooked historical perspective, Gordon Lloyd and David Davenport show how the New Deal of the 1930s established the framework for today’s U.S. domestic policy and the ongoing debate between progressives and conservatives. They examine the pivotal issues of the dispute, laying out the progressive-conservative arguments between Hoover and Roosevelt in the 1930s and illustrating how those issues remain current in public policy today. The authors detail how Hoover, alarmed by the excesses of the New Deal, pointed to the ideas that would constitute modern U.S. conservatism and how three pillars—liberty, limited government, and constitutionalism—formed his case against the New Deal and, in turn, became the underlying philosophy of conservatism today. Illustrating how the debates between Franklin Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover were conducted much like the campaign rhetoric of liberals and conservatives in 2012, Lloyd and Davenport assert that conservatives must, to be a viable part of the national conversation, “go back to come back”—because our history contains signposts for the way forward. ...more

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• Darwin's allies: The Last of the Tribe: 2 of 2: The Epic Quest to Save a Lone Man in the Amazon by Monte Reel

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  May 20 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:The gravesite of Paul DuChaillu in Woodlawn Cemetery ) Darwin's allies: The Last of the Tribe: 2 of 2: The Epic Quest to Save a Lone Man in the Amazon by Monte Reel https://www.amazon.com/Between-Man-Beast-Adventure-Victorian/dp/0307742431/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

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• Darwin's allies: The Last of the Tribe: 1 of 2: The Epic Quest to Save a Lone Man in the Amazon by Monte Reel

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  May 20 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:French explorer Paul du Chaillu at close quarters with a gorilla. Explorations and adventures in Equatorial Africa, British original edition, p.71) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Darwin's allies: The Last of the Tribe: 1 of 2:  The Epic Quest to Save a Lone Man in the Amazon by Monte Reel https://www.amazon.com/Last-Tribe-Epic-Quest-Amazon/dp/1416594744/ref=laB004APWCDO1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526787712&sr=1-1...more

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• The Last 100 Days: 2 of 2: FDR at War and at Peace by David B. Woolner

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  May 20 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:The last photograph of President Roosevelt, taken at Warm Springs, GA by Nicholas Robbins for Elizabeth Shoumatoff. FDR died the following day. April 12, 1945 Date 11 April 1945 Source 03-46 Author FDR Presidential Library & Museum Camera location 32° 52′ 03.95″ N, 84° 42′ 48.04″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Last 100 Days: 2 of 2: FDR at War and at Peace by David B. Woolner https://www.amazon.com/Last-100-Days-FDR-Peace/dp/0465048714/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526692314&sr=1-1...more

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• The Man He Became: 2 of 2: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency by James Tobin

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  May 20 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Unknown or not provided Record creator Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 Title  Franklin D. Roosevelt, Otis Moore, and Ed Doyle in Warm Springs, Georgia Date 1931 Current location  National Archives and Records Administration Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q518155 Franklin D. Roosevelt Library (NLFDR), 4079 Albany Post Road, Hyde Park, NY, 12538-1999.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Man He Became: 2 of 2: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency by James Tobin https://www.amazon.com/Man-He-Became-Defied-Presidency/dp/0743265165/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526692522&sr=1-1&keywords=man+he+became+tobin](https://www.amazon.com/Man-He-Became-Defied-Presidency/dp/0743265165/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526692522&sr=1-1&keywords=man+he+became+tobin](https://www.amazon.com/Man-He-Became-Defied-Presidency/dp/0743265165/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526692522&sr=1-1&keywords=man+he+became+tobin))...more

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• Russia's Lunar Mission. Anatoly Zak @RussianSpaceWeb David Livingston SpaceShow.com

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  May 20 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Deep Space Transport The National Aeronautics and Space Administration - NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Deep Space Transport ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Russia's Lunar Mission.  Anatoly Zak @RussianSpaceWeb David Livingston SpaceShow.com http://www.russianspaceweb.com/imp-che.html#2018 In April 2018, NASA, ESA and JAXA tentatively agreed that Japan would continue its work aimed at contributing the life-support system for the lunar outpost's main habitation module, which by that time was dubbed I-Hab, which probably a short for the international habitation module. NASA promised to contribute a power-supply system and a number of secondary items for the module, while the Canadian Space Agency, CSA, also looked at its potential contributions, most likely related to robotics. In May 2018, the partners planned to begin two parallel efforts, known as Phase A and B1, further advancing the design of the habitation module, starting a development process aiming its launch for the middle of 2024. However, by that time, such a deadline seemed increasingly difficult to reach due to continuous delays on the political side of the LOP-G program. A number of related small projects was also initiated to benefit the module's design, for example, the study of a new single-loop cooling system, as well as the work on the new-generation light-weight cold plates for mounting electronics and other light-weight structures. The next major milestone in the module development, known as System Requirements Review, SRR, could be held in May or June 2019. As with other components of the outpost, the partners planned that these next phases of the habitation module design would be conducted under contracts awarded to the industry on a competitive basis....more

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• 4 years ago: China's air, water and soil are poisoned & What is to be done?. Elizabeth @LizEconomy

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  May 20 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Sanlitun , Beijing, China Date 22 February 2014, 22:47 Source Beijing Air Pollution... Author Kentaro IEMOTO from Tokyo, Japan ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow 4 years ago: China's air, water and soil are poisoned & What is to be done?. Elizabeth @LizEconomy https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-03-13/china-wakes-up-to-its-environmental-catastrophe

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• Memories of Sputnik 3, May 1958. Anatoly Zak @RussianSpaceWeb David Livingston Spaceshow.com

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  May 20 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Sputnik 3 in the Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics in Kaluga.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Memories of Sputnik 3, May 1958. Anatoly Zak @RussianSpaceWeb David Livingston Spaceshow.com http://www.russianspaceweb.com/sputnik3.html The Object D was conceived as a multi-functional science laboratory with an ambitious array of instruments onboard. It was expected to measure the density and ion composition of the Earth's atmosphere and its magnetic field, and to study solar radiation and cosmic rays. The first satellite also promised a wealth of engineering data, which could later help in the development of attitude- and thermal control systems for future spacecraft, as well as information on the interaction of satellites with the upper atmosphere....more

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• The de-orbiting end of ISS. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  May 20 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Image above: This picture, recorded by one of the Expedition 31 crew members aboard the International Space Station, features Aurora Australis with star streaks while the vehicle was over the South Pacific Ocean. Image credit: NASA) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The de-orbiting end of ISS. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com http://behindtheblack.com/?s=de-orbiting+iss NASA inspector general weighs in on ISS’s future May 16, 2018 at 2:38 pm Robert Zimmerman The inspector general for NASA, Paul Martin, is testifying today before Congress on ISS. His prepared statement [pdf] includes several blunt assessements concerning the station’s future. First and most important, he has doubts that transitioning the station to private ownership will work....more

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• The first interplanetary cubesats.. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  May 20 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: A pair of CubeSats, with the Earth's limb in the background, is seen moments after being ejected from a small satellite deployer outside of the space station's Kibo lab module. Date Taken on 16 May 2017 Source https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/34354400620/ Author NASA) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The first interplanetary cubesats.. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com http://behindtheblack.com/?s=cubesats Mars cubesats take picture of Earth and Moon May 16, 2018 at 12:36 am Robert Zimmerman One of the two MarCO cubesats heading to Mars on the first interplanetary cubesat mission, has taken its a picture of the Earth and the Moon. NASA set a new distance record for CubeSats on May 8 when a pair of CubeSats called Mars Cube One (MarCO) reached 621,371 miles (1 million kilometers) from Earth. One of the CubeSats, called MarCO-B (and affectionately known as “Wall-E” to the MarCO team) used a fisheye camera to snap its first photo on May 9. That photo is part of the process used by the engineering team to confirm the spacecraft’s high-gain antenna has properly unfolded. As a bonus, it captured Earth and its moon as tiny specks floating in space. In a few weeks the two cubesats will make a mid-course correction, also the first time a cubesat has attempted such a thing....more

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• Millennials in retirement. @GeneMarks @WashingtonPost

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  May 19 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:A farmer and his two sons during a dust storm in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, April 1936. Iconic photo taken by Arthur Rothstein. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Millennials in retirement. @GeneMarks @WashingtonPost https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-small-business/wp/2018/05/10/study-workers-now-prefer-retirement-benefits-over-health-care-plans/?utm_term=.a06535c61fc4

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• Small Business of the Royal Wedding. @GeneMarks

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  May 19 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: The official ball held the Royal palace of Athens on 27th October 1889 to celebrate the wedding of Constantine, crown prince of Greece, with princess Sophia of Prussia Date 31 July 2013, 13:51:53 Source http://www.old-print.com/cgi-bin/item/J6751856135/search/31-Print-Athens-Royal-Wedding-State-Ball-Royal-Palace-1889-135J675-Old-Original# Author Unknown ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Small Business of the Royal Wedding. @GeneMarks https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-small-business/wp/2018/05/17/some-small-businesses-in-the-u-k-and-the-u-s-are-having-a-very-royal-time/?utm_term=.8d695620794d...more

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• Communist China is the Jesse James of the WTO. @GordonCChang

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  May 19 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:James' farm in Kearney, Missouri, pictured in March 2010 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Communist China is the Jesse James of the WTO. @GordonCChang  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/theworldpost/wp/2018/05/15/china-us/?utm_term=.bf816b1c2799

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• The New American Civil War: Woodrow Wilson and the origins of disunity. Michael Michael Vlahos, Naval War College. @JHUWorldCrisis.

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  May 19 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Eine Kabinettssitzung, um 1920 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The New American Civil War: Woodrow Wilson and the origins of disunity. Michael  Michael Vlahos, Naval War College. @JHUWorldCrisis.

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• PacWatch: "Like a weird little Disney ride" beneath the mean streets of LA. @JeffBliss1

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  May 19 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow PacWatch: "Like a weird little Disney ride" beneath the mean streets of LA. @JeffBliss1 https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/18/elon-musk-promises-1-rides-for-boring-companys-la-tunnels.html

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• The End of Work: 1 of 2: Why Your Passion Can Become Your Job by John Tamny

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  May 19 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: A scene from Karel Čapek's 1920 play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), showing three robots) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The End of Work: 1 of 2: Why Your Passion Can Become Your Job by John Tamny  https://www.amazon.com/End-Work-Your-Passion-Become/dp/1621577775/ref=tmmhrdswatch0?encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= We don't criticize business majors for focusing on business even though over 99% will never even be interviewed by Goldman Sachs. We similarly don't criticize journalism majors for focusing on journalism even though even fewer will ever darken the doors of the New York Times. But when individuals are talented and - yes - intelligent enough to rate a scholarship that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, we tell them to cast a wide net while in school to develop other skills for life after football. The thinking is wrongheaded, and is rooted in a 20th-century view of work that no longer applies, and that ignores what appeals to employers. The opinion piece can be found here. It reads as positive that the Supreme Court would hand to the states oversight of sports betting, but why is such a benign act among individuals something states should have control over? It seems like mob rule on the state level will take the place of federal control. Figure that the SCOTUS ruling doesn't make gambling legal in all fifty states; it just means states can 'grant' us the right to do what we already do. That's what's disturbing. While drugs and gambling would be legal in a sane world, the fact that they're illegal doesn't mean that people act as they are. Sports betting is widely done, and drugs are widely used. If states make either legal, they won't be making us freer as much as they'll legalize what is already a fact so that they can tax it. They'll 'grant' us freedoms in order to increase the size of government with predictable results. The opinion piece can be found here. Bryce Covert is the latest pundit to fall for the silly notion that wages in the U.S. have stagnated since the 1970s. Implicit in what is laughable is that markets aren't just stupid, but that they're stupid for decades as they fail to incorporate the information that most informs human migration. In short, if Covert's wage assumptions were true then it would also be true that there would be no immigration issue for each side to play politics with. That immigrants have come by the tens of millions since the 1970s (a happy development in my mind) is the surest sign that wages have risen substantially since then. Having fallen for what's untrue, Covert concludes that fewer freedoms for the shareholders without which there are no companies and no jobs is the answer. Reliant on bad information, it's no surprise that her conclusions are even worse. The opinion piece can be found here. It's popular to say that "grit" is the path to success. No, avoidance of grit is. Grit didn't make Warren Buffett, nor does is make basketball savant LeBron James. Both work endlessly, but their genius isn't pursuit of grit. It was finding work that didn't feel like work to them. That's why robots and automation are so crucial to progress. They won't force us into breadlines as much as they'll free us to specialize. The division of labor among humans elevates every human, and robots will trump the human division of labor many times over. Precisely because they'll represent hundreds of new hands as opposed to two per human, our ability to specialize (and avoid grit) in the future will be much greater. Robots will greatly enable human success precisely because they'll free humans from unnecessary work. The opinion piece can be found here....more

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• The End of Work: 2 of 2: Why Your Passion Can Become Your Job by John Tamny

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  May 19 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Articulated welding robots used in a factory are a type of industrial robot ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The End of Work: 2 of 2: Why Your Passion Can Become Your Job by John Tamny  https://www.amazon.com/End-Work-Your-Passion-Become/dp/1621577775/ref=tmmhrdswatch0?encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Bryce Covert is the latest pundit to fall for the silly notion that wages in the U.S. have stagnated since the 1970s. Implicit in what is laughable is that markets aren't just stupid, but that they're stupid for decades as they fail to incorporate the information that most informs human migration. In short, if Covert's wage assumptions were true then it would also be true that there would be no immigration issue for each side to play politics with. That immigrants have come by the tens of millions since the 1970s (a happy development in my mind) is the surest sign that wages have risen substantially since then. Having fallen for what's untrue, Covert concludes that fewer freedoms for the shareholders without which there are no companies and no jobs is the answer. Reliant on bad information, it's no surprise that her conclusions are even worse. The opinion piece can be found here. It's popular to say that "grit" is the path to success. No, avoidance of grit is. Grit didn't make Warren Buffett, nor does is make basketball savant LeBron James. Both work endlessly, but their genius isn't pursuit of grit. It was finding work that didn't feel like work to them. That's why robots and automation are so crucial to progress. They won't force us into breadlines as much as they'll free us to specialize. The division of labor among humans elevates every human, and robots will trump the human division of labor many times over. Precisely because they'll represent hundreds of new hands as opposed to two per human, our ability to specialize (and avoid grit) in the future will be much greater. Robots will greatly enable human success precisely because they'll free humans from unnecessary work. The opinion piece can be found here....more

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• "Indiana" Hoenlein and the border of the Northern Kingdom of Israel and Aram-Damascus. Yardenna Alexandre. Malcolm Hoenlein

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  May 19 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: Approximate map showing the Kingdoms of Israel (blue) and Judah (orange), ancient Southern Levant borders and ancient cities such as Urmomium and Jerash. The map shows the region in the 9th century BCE. Italiano: Il regno di Giuda e quello di Israele nell'età del ferro (VIII secolo a.C.). 日本語: 紀元前830年代のユダ王国（黄色）. Русский: Царство Иудея 927 по 526 гг. до н. э. Отсюда иудеи были сосланы завоевателями в Вавилонский регион. Bahasa Indonesia: Peta kerajaan-kerajaan di daerah tersebut pada abad 9 SM. Simple English: The northern Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judah to the south. Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски: Karta Sjevernog i JUžnog Kraljevstva. Samarija je bila glavni grad Kraljevstva Izrael (plavo). 830-e pne.,. Latviešu: Izraēlas un Jūdejas karalistes. Jūdejas karaliste (dzeltenā) ap 830. gadu p.m.ē. Date 12 July 2010, 19:42 (UTC) Source  OldtidensIsrael&_Judea.svg http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/map-of-israel-and-judah-733-bce Author  OldtidensIsrael&_Judea.svg: FinnWikiNo derivative work: Richardprins (talk)) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Indiana" Hoenlein and the border of the Northern Kingdom of Israel and Aram-Damascus. Yardenna Alexandre. Malcolm Hoenlein...more

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• Heidelberg University rejects anti-semtism in a close vote. @BenWeinthal @FDD

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  May 19 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: University Library Date Taken on 22 October 2012 Source https://www.panoramio.com/photo/84227220 Author Piotr Kubowicz) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Heidelberg University rejects anti-semtism in a close vote. @BenWeinthal @FDD Benjamin Weinthal is a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. A widely published journalist based in Berlin, he serves as FDD's eyes and ears in Europe. Benjamin’s investigative reporting has uncovered valuable information on Iran’s energy links to European firms, as well as Hamas and Hezbollah’s terror-finance operations in Europe. He has also examined the growth of the Islamic State in Europe, growing anti-Semitism on the Continent, and neo-Nazism. · http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/benjamin-weinthal-students-at-germanys-oldest-university-reject-antisemitic-bds-campaign/...more

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• The Democrats launched the counterintelligence apparatus against the Republican candidate: 2 of 2: & What is to be done? @AndrewCMcCarthy @ThadMcCotter

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  May 19 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:At the 1958 World’s Fair in Brussels, Belgium, a curious meeting took place. The man in the short athletic jacket is an American Airman. He scheduled a tourist trip to the fair to meet the man in the suit on his right -- who was a general in the Czechoslovakian Air Force. Since most people at the fair had cameras, photographing their meeting was simple. (U.S. Air Force photo) ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Democrats launched the counterintelligence apparatus against the Republican candidate: 2 of 2: & What is to be done? @AndrewCMcCarthy @ThadMcCotter https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/crossfire-hurricane-new-york-times-report-buries-lede/...more

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• The Democrats launched the counterintelligence apparatus against the Republican candidate: 1 of 2: & What is to be done? @AndrewCMcCarthy @ThadMcCotter

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  May 19 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:This map was used to track locations of meetings in St. Mihiel, France, with various OSI counterintelligence contacts during the early days of the Cold War. (U.S. Air Force photo) ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Democrats launched the counterintelligence apparatus against the Republican candidate: 1 of 2:  & What is to be done? @AndrewCMcCarthy @ThadMcCotter https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/crossfire-hurricane-new-york-times-report-buries-lede/...more

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• The Last 100 Days: 1 of 2: FDR at War and at Peace by David B. Woolner

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  May 19 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: FDR at his work table near the hearth at the "Little White House" in Warm Springs, Georgia. This photo was taken by his friend Margaret "Daisy" Suckley, a few days before he died on April 12, 1945. Date April 1945 Source 73-113:136 Author FDR Presidential Library & Museum) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Last 100 Days: 1 of 2: FDR at War and at Peace by David B. Woolner https://www.amazon.com/Last-100-Days-FDR-Peace/dp/0465048714/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526692314&sr=1-1...more

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• The Man He Became: 1 of 2: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency by James Tobin

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  May 19 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Unknown or not provided Record creator Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 Title  Franklin D. Roosevelt, Hugh Love, and Arthur Carpenter Jr. in Warm Springs, Georgia Date 19 November 1931 Current location  National Archives and Records Administration Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q518155 Franklin D. Roosevelt Library (NLFDR), 4079 Albany Post Road, Hyde Park, NY, 12538-1999.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Man He Became: 1 of 2: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency by James Tobin [ https://www.amazon.com/Man-He-Became-Defied-Presidency/dp/0743265165/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526692522&sr=1-1&keywords=man+he+became+tobin](https://www.amazon.com/Man-He-Became-Defied-Presidency/dp/0743265165/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526692522&sr=1-1&keywords=man+he+became+tobin) ...more

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• On the front line of the Gaza provocation. Malcolm Hoenlein, Richard Kemp.

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  May 18 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:View of Gaza Strip from Israel - October 2009 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow On the front line of the Gaza provocation. Malcolm Hoenlein, Richard Kemp.

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• Sanctioning Iran Central Bank after 8 years of Obama dithering. Malcolm Hoenlein @ThadMcCotter

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  May 18 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Sanctioning Iran Central Bank after 8 years of Obama dithering. Malcolm Hoenlein @ThadMcCotter

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• Turkey bankrolls Palestinian violence & What is to be done? @Jschanzer @FDD Malcolm Hoenlein

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  May 18 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:· https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/opinion/gaza-palestinians-protests.html ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Turkey bankrolls Palestinian violence & What is to be done? @Jschanzer @FDD Malcolm Hoenlein  · https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/opinion/gaza-palestinians-protests.html

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• Congress hearts the troubled and leaderless VA. @FRoseDC

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  May 18 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Spokane VA) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Congress hearts the troubled and leaderless VA. @FRoseDC https://www.militarytimes.com/veterans/2018/05/16/sweeping-veterans-policy-bill-passed-overwhelmingly-in-the-house/   https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-house-search-for-va-secretary-narrows-to-two-retired-generals-1526416708

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• Because Seattle: making it a felony to resist a head tax. @veroderugy @Mercatus

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  May 18 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Seattle homeless with six dogs) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Because Seattle: making it a felony to resist a head tax.  @veroderugy @Mercatus https://www.creators.com/read/veronique-de-rugy/05/18/the-seattle-head-tax-is-idiotic

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• Trump revelations of an FBI informant in the Trump campaign. @SebGorka

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  May 18 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Trump revelations of an FBI informant in the Trump campaign. @SebGorka

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• North Korea confounded by the Trump Administration that means what it says. @SebGorka

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  May 18 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Tired USAF and Royal Australian Air Force Mustang pilots are debriefed after an attack on communist forces southeast of Seoul in February 1951. (U.S. Air Force photo)) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow North Korea confounded by the Trump Administration that means what it says. @SebGorka https://radio.foxnews.com/2018/05/16/ambassador-john-bolton-responds-to-north-korea-calling-him-out-tracking-down-white-house-leaks/ Said Bolton to Fox News radio on Wednesday: "We are trying to be both optimistic and realistic at the same time. I think that's where the president is. We are going to do everything we can to come to a successful meeting, but we are not going to back away from the objective of that meeting, which is complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of North Korea."...more

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• The Taliban plunders Afghanistan provincial capitals at will & What is to be done?

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  May 18 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: 2013:Women’s photojournalism course in Farah City, Afghanistan  U.S. Navy Lt. j.g. Matthew Stroup, right, public affairs officer for Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Farah, and U.S. Army Spc. Kaleb Propst, a PRT security force team member, interact with local children during a visit to a local returnee and refugee village, Feb. 9. PRT Farah visited the returnee and refugee village on the outskirts of Farah City to conduct a site survey and deliver humanitarian assistance. PRT Farah's mission is to train, advise and assist Afghan government leaders at the municipal, district and provincial levels in Farah province, Afghanistan. Their civil military team is comprised of members of the U.S. Navy, U.S. Army, the U.S. Department of State and the Agency for International Development (USAID). (U.S. Navy photo by HMC Josh Ives/released)) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Taliban plunders Afghanistan provincial capitals at will & What is to be done? https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2018/05/talibans-2018-offensive-encompasses-all-regions-of-afghanistan.php...more

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• Hamas fails to breach the Israeli border. @JSchanzer

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  May 18 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: GAza ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Hamas fails to breach the Israeli border. @JSchanzer  http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/schanzer-jonathan-palestinian-nationalism-is-at-its-lowest-point-ever/

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• Harry Truman and Donald Trump vs the Anti-Israel voices in the US State Department. @MichaelLedeen

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  May 18 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Karry Truman on Time ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Harry Truman and Donald Trump vs the Anti-Israel voices in the US State Department. @MichaelLedeen https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/270195/trump-truman-and-israel-michael-ledeen

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• The Keystone State is critical to the Midterms 2018. @LaraMBrownPHD .

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  May 18 2018

  (Photo:Pennsylvania - The Keystone State ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact The Keystone State is critical to the Midterms 2018. @LaraMBrownPHD . http://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/387569-partisan-fractures-in-pennsylvanias-primary

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• Treasury sanctions Iran's money managers in Tehran and Baghdad. Entifadh Qanbar, @eqanbar The Future Foundation in Washington D.C.

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  May 18 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: A view of Baghdad from the print collection in Travels in Asia and Africa, etc. (ed. J. P. Berjew, British Library)) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Treasury sanctions Iran's money managers in Tehran and Baghdad. Entifadh Qanbar, @eqanbar  The Future Foundation in Washington D.C.  https://home.treasury.gov/index.php/news/press-releases/sm0385

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• Canine glory: No Better Friend: 2 of 2: One Man, One Dog, and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage and Survival in WWII by Robert Weintraub

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  May 18 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: British Women and Children Interned in a Japanese Prison Camp, Syme Road, Singapore image: The interior of a wooden hut with two large windows behind giving onto sunlit green foliage. In the centre of the floor is a tin bath full of water. On the right two women talk. Beyond them another woman supervises a child washing. Seven girls can be seen around the room at various activities and a lone baby sits on the floor. Lines of white washing are spread across the bunks. The women and children are severely emaciated. Date 1945 (Second World War) Source http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//140/media-140953/large.jpg ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Canine glory: No Better Friend: 2 of 2: One Man, One Dog, and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage and Survival in WWII by Robert Weintraub https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00X4RGIJS/ref=dbsadefrwthschvapitaftp1i0...more

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• China One Belt, One Road ensnares small nations in severe indebtedness. @RHFontaine

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  May 17 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Sri Lanka) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow China One Belt, One Road ensnares small nations in severe indebtedness. @RHFontaine http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/05/16/on-chinas-new-silk-road-democracy-pays-a-toll/

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• China is winning the trade talks. @AlanTonelson @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  May 17 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: Interior view of the China Trade Room at Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House as it appeared during Henry Davis Sleeper's lifetime. Watercolor on paper. Date 1928 Source https://www.historicnewengland.org/ Author William Bruce Ellis Ranken (1881-1941) ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow China is winning the trade talks. @AlanTonelson @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-world-apart-charting-the-gulf-between-chinese-and-u-s-tariffs-1526376603?tesla=y...more

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• What if China invades Taiwan? Rick Fisher, Strategy and Assessment Center. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  May 17 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Taipei ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow What if China invades Taiwan? Rick Fisher, Strategy and Assessment Center. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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• One year after Mueller, Trump and the GOP prosper. @MonicaCrowley

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  May 17 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: One year after Mueller, Trump and the GOP prosper. @MonicaCrowley) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow One year after Mueller, Trump and the GOP prosper. @MonicaCrowley

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• North Korea plays the peace or provocation game & What is to be done? Anthony Ruggiero @_ARuggiero @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  May 17 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow North Korea plays the peace or provocation game & What is to be done? Anthony Ruggiero @_ARuggiero @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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• Rumors of Trump trade concessions to China. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  May 17 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Storage of opium at a British East India Company warehouse ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Rumors of Trump trade concessions to China. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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• There are no human rights in North Korea. Greg Scarlatoiu @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  May 17 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Pyongyang) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow There are no human rights in North Korea. Greg Scarlatoiu @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast Committee for Human Rights in North Korea. : https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-05-14/trump-needs-to-push-kim-on-human-rights

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• Xi Jinping yanks Kim back from Trump. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast. Charles Burton, Brock University.

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  May 17 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Xi Jinping yanks Kim back from Trump. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast. Charles Burton, Brock University.

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• Why didn’t NASA build reusable boosters like SpaceX and Blue Origen? Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  May 17 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Why didn’t NASA build reusable boosters like SpaceX and Blue Origen? Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com Block 5 Falcon 9 first stage returns to port May 16, 2018 at 9:35 am Robert Zimmerman SpaceX’s first Block 5 first stage for its Falcon 9 rocket, designed to fly a minimum of ten times, has returned to port after its first flight last week. This is the most interesting detail revealed: While not visible, the most significant improvements are likely to be found at the base of the first stage’s octaweb – now assembled with bolts instead of welds – in the form of a dramatically improved heat shield around its nine Merlin 1D engines (also upgraded, of course). One of the Falcon recovery technicians showed some exceptional interest in the shield and Merlins, likely documenting their condition in extreme detail to inform engineering reviews of the pathfinder rocket after its first flight test. The pictures show those bolts quite clearly....more

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• A Little Helicopter on Mars. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Exposure of silica-rich dust uncovered by the Spirit rover ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow A Little Helicopter on Mars. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com NASA will fly a test drone on 2020 Mars rover mission May 11, 2018 at 4:02 pm Robert Zimmerman NASA today announced that a test drone, dubbed Mars Helicopter, will be flown on the 2020 Mars rover mission. Once the rover is on the planet’s surface, a suitable location will be found to deploy the helicopter down from the vehicle and place it onto the ground. The rover then will be driven away from the helicopter to a safe distance from which it will relay commands. After its batteries are charged and a myriad of tests are performed, controllers on Earth will command the Mars Helicopter to take its first autonomous flight into history. “We don’t have a pilot and Earth will be several light minutes away, so there is no way to joystick this mission in real time,” said Aung. “Instead, we have an autonomous capability that will be able to receive and interpret commands from the ground, and then fly the mission on its own.” The full 30-day flight test campaign will include up to five flights of incrementally farther flight distances, up to a few hundred meters, and longer durations as long as 90 seconds, over a period. On its first flight, the helicopter will make a short vertical climb to 10 feet (3 meters), where it will hover for about 30 seconds. As a technology demonstration, the Mars Helicopter is considered a high-risk, high-reward project. If it does not work, the Mars 2020 mission will not be impacted. If it does work, helicopters may have a real future as low-flying scouts and aerial vehicles to access locations not reachable by ground travel. The only word I can think of to express my thoughts on this is “Cool!”...more

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• Trump does right and jettisons the failed JCPOA. @RichardAEpstein

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  May 17 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Trump does right and jettisons the failed JCPOA. @RichardAEpstein President Trump’s dramatic decision to withdraw from the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, marks a sea-change in American foreign policy in the Middle East. Under the deal, the United States and its allies had agreed to lift economic sanctions against Iran in exchange for its halting of the development of nuclear weapons for a fifteen-year period. Trump denounced the deal as “horrible,” while the United Kingdom, France, and Germany all lamented the breakdown of the agreement. They urged the Iranians to keep to their half of the bargain, even as the United States was poised to impose additional sanctions on Iran and indeed on any country that sought to do business with Iran… https://www.hoover.org/research/trump-right-iran...more

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• Britain returns to the Pacific. 2 of 2. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs.

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  May 17 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Sydney Harbour i 1932 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Britain returns to the Pacific. 1 of 2. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs.   Britain Comes Home to the World, But Where Is Its Plan? Analysis. By GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs Indo-Pacific staff. Britain intends to de-ploy the HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier battle group to the Pacific by 2021. By early May 2018, the Royal Navy had just concluded a series of military exercises with units from the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force. The UK had already re-discovered its “East of Suez” rôle with its military deployments in Afghanistan over the past two decades, and had awakened its naval base in Bahrain, at Mina Salman. UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson in July 2017 spoke of Britain’s desire for a re-newed and strong relationship with Australia, and presumably with other Common-wealth members in the Indo- Pacific region, once it is free of its commitments to the Eu-ropean Union (EU). Now, of course, Britain must come cap-in-hand back to its family in the Indo-Pacific it had once dominated. Worse, despite the reality that many Commonwealth states in the Indo-Pacific have strong familial feelings for the UK (none more so than Australia and New Zealand, and, in the north-western Pacific, Canada), the UK has returned impover-ished to the bosom of its family. It had progressively spent its vigor and resources on the EU, so that now its defense capabilities and budget meant that it would have to look its Indo-Pacific partners directly in the eye. Britain could not expect to resume its regional rôle with the same paternalism it had en-joyed even through the 1950s....more

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• Britain returns to the Pacific. 1 of 2. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs.

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  May 17 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Sydney Cove fra Dawes Point, 1817 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Britain returns to the Pacific. 1 of 2.  Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs.   Britain Comes Home to the World, But Where Is Its Plan? Analysis. By GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs Indo-Pacific staff. Britain intends to de-ploy the HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier battle group to the Pacific by 2021. By early May 2018, the Royal Navy had just concluded a series of military exercises with units from the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force. The UK had already re-discovered its “East of Suez” rôle with its military deployments in Afghanistan over the past two decades, and had awakened its naval base in Bahrain, at Mina Salman. UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson in July 2017 spoke of Britain’s desire for a re-newed and strong relationship with Australia, and presumably with other Common-wealth members in the Indo- Pacific region, once it is free of its commitments to the Eu-ropean Union (EU). Now, of course, Britain must come cap-in-hand back to its family in the Indo-Pacific it had once dominated. Worse, despite the reality that many Commonwealth states in the Indo-Pacific have strong familial feelings for the UK (none more so than Australia and New Zealand, and, in the north-western Pacific, Canada), the UK has returned impover-ished to the bosom of its family. It had progressively spent its vigor and resources on the EU, so that now its defense capabilities and budget meant that it would have to look its Indo-Pacific partners directly in the eye. Britain could not expect to resume its regional rôle with the same paternalism it had en-joyed even through the 1950s....more

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• Building Habitats on the Moon: 2 of 2: Engineering Approaches to Lunar Settlements by Haym Benaroya

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  May 17 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Concept art from NASA showing astronauts entering a lunar outpost ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Building Habitats on the Moon: 2 of 2: Engineering Approaches to Lunar Settlements by Haym Benaroya https://www.amazon.com/Building-Habitats-Moon-Engineering-Settlements/dp/3319682423/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526434675&sr=1-1&keywords=moon+benaroya

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• Tales of the New Cold War: A public debate: 2 of 2: of US vs Russia in 2018. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.

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  May 16 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: March, 2015 Date 4 March 2015, 15:09 Source OSCE SMM monitoring the movement of heavy weaponry in eastern Ukraine Author OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine)) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Tales of the New Cold War: A public debate: 2 of 2: of US vs Russia in 2018. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4dJcdM2Dkg&feature=youtu.be The Harriman Institute and New York University’s Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia hosted a debate between Stephen F. Cohen (Professor Emeritus of Russian Studies at New York University and Professor Emeritus of Politics at Princeton University) and Michael McFaul (Professor, Department of Political Science, Stanford University.)...more

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• Tales of the New Cold War: A public debate: 1 of 2: of US vs Russia in 2018. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.

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  May 16 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: Russian BMP-2 of the 58th Army of the North Caucasus Military District in South Ossetia during the 2008 South Ossetia War. Date August 2008 Source Yana Amelina (Яна Амелина) Author Yana Amelina (Амелина Я. А.)) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Tales of the New Cold War: A public debate: 1 of 2: of US vs Russia in 2018. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4dJcdM2Dkg&feature=youtu.be The Harriman Institute and New York University’s Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia hosted a debate between Stephen F. Cohen (Professor Emeritus of Russian Studies at New York University and Professor Emeritus of Politics at Princeton University) and Michael McFaul (Professor, Department of Political Science, Stanford University.)...more

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• Albany Babylon @HarrySiegel.

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  May 16 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: NY State Capital Building) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Albany Babylon @HarrySiegel. http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/power-control-article-1.3985202

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• The Theresa May government is realistic about the end of the Iran Deal. @MaryKissel

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  May 16 2018

  AUTHOR. (PhotoMay with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., 27 January 2017 : ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Theresa May government is realistic about the end of the Iran Deal. @MaryKissel https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-nuclear-europe/europe-offers-no-guarantees-but-vows-to-keep-iran-deal-alive-idUSKCN1IG1H1

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• Schumer 's sabotage and the Nuclear Option in the Senate. @LizPeek

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  May 16 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: )Schumer 's sabotage and the Nuclear Option in the Senate. @LizPeek http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Schumer 's sabotage and the Nuclear Option in the Senate. @LizPeek http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/05/15/trump-is-right-mcconnell-should-shut-down-democratic-obstruction-in-senate.html

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• The inequitable China trade & What is to be done about Bejing tariffs on electric toothbrushes? @LizPeek

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  May 16 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The inequitable China trade & What is to be done about Bejing tariffs on electric toothbrushes? @LizPeek https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-world-apart-charting-the-gulf-between-chinese-and-u-s-tariffs-1526376603

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• Seattle condemns success: 2 of 2. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  May 16 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Seattle -- a classic shot from Kerry park Date 14 August 2010, 19:50 Source Seattle Summers Uploaded by X-Weinzar Author Bala from Seattle, USA Camera location 47° 37′ 44.33″ N, 122° 21′ 36.4″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Seattle condemns success: 2 of 2. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst https://www.hoover.org/research/senseless-seattle-2?utmsource=hdr&utmmedium=email&utmcampaign=2018-05-08&utmsource=Hoover+Daily+Report&utmcampaign=bbbcc1e017-HDR&utmmedium=email&utmterm=021b1edff3c-bbbcc1e017-72527561...more

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• Seattle condemns success: 1 of 2. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  May 16 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Seattle from the Columbia Center, the highest building in the city[71]  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Seattle condemns success: 1 of 2.  @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst https://www.hoover.org/research/senseless-seattle-2?utmsource=hdr&utmmedium=email&utmcampaign=2018-05-08&utmsource=Hoover+Daily+Report&utmcampaign=bbbcc1e017-HDR&utmmedium=email&utmterm=021b1edff3c-bbbcc1e017-72527561...more

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• The IRGC and the Shia Crescent & What is to be done? @MPPregent

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  May 16 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: The IRGC and the Shia Crescent & What is to be done? @MPPregent) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The IRGC and the Shia Crescent & What is to be done? @MPPregent https://twitter.com/MPPregent/status/995364514219659264

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• Ending the Iran deal restores American leverage over the Mullahs. @MPPregent

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  May 16 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Ending the Iran deal restores American leverage over the Mullahs. @MPPregent  https://www.c-span.org/video/?445386-3/washington-journal-michael-pregent-discusses-us-withdrawal-iran-nuclear-deal&live=

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• Building Habitats on the Moon: 1 of 2: Engineering Approaches to Lunar Settlements by Haym Benaroya

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  May 16 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: S89-26097 (March 1989) --- An inflatable habitat similar to this could represent part of an outpost, forerunner to a permanent inhabited lunar base. Twenty years after the original manned Moon landing, a group of scientists and engineers at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) are considering the return to the Moon. The return would not be merely to explore but to learn to live and work on another planetary surface. Since 1986, a number of concepts for going to the Moon, living on its surface and adapting to its unique environment have been developed at JSC by designers who drew on experience reaching many years into the past. The habitation system depicted here may be different than represented. Actual scenarios and elements will be based on long-term strategies of the civilian space program, technological advances and public and Congressional input. The artist has depicted here, along with the inflatable habitat a construction shack and related solar shield, connecting tunnel regolith bags for radiation protection, thermal radiation experimental six-legged walker, solar power system for the lunar oxygen pilot plant and other elements. This concept was developed during the Lunar Base Systems Study undertaken by the Advanced Programs Office in the Engineering Office at JSC during the period 1986 to 1988. The study was performed by the Advanced Programs personnel with contractor support from Eagle Engineering, Inc. and Lockheed Engineering and Sciences Co. Date 1 March 1989 Source http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/exploration/lunarexploration/hires/s89_26097.jpg ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Building Habitats on the Moon: 1 of 2:  Engineering Approaches to Lunar Settlements by Haym Benaroya https://www.amazon.com/Building-Habitats-Moon-Engineering-Settlements/dp/3319682423/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526434675&sr=1-1&keywords=moon+benaroya...more

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• Canine glory: No Better Friend: 1 of 2: One Man, One Dog, and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage and Survival in WWII by Robert Weintraub

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  May 16 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Lieutenant General Arthur Percival (right) goes to negotiate the capitulation of Allied forces in Singapore on 15 February 1942; the Japanese officer in the centre is Lieutenant Colonel Ichiji Sugita.  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Canine glory: No Better Friend: 1 of 2: One Man, One Dog, and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage and Survival in WWII by Robert Weintraub https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00X4RGIJS/ref=dbsadefrwthschvapitaftp1i0...more

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• The unlikely rise of North Korea capitalism. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @ThadMcCotter

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  May 15 2018

  AUTHOR. (PhotoMural of Kim Il-sung outside Songdowon Hotel, Wonsan: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The unlikely rise of North Korea capitalism. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @ThadMcCotter

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• Taliban surge in Farah City, Western Afghanistan. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn

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  May 15 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:U.S. Army 1st Lt. Robert Wolfe provides rooftop security during a meeting in Farah City, Afghanistan, Feb. 25, 2013. Wolfe, a platoon leader, is assigned to Provincial Reconstruction Team Farah. U.S. Navy photo by Lt. j.g. Matthew Stroup - Download Hi-Res ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Taliban surge in Farah City, Western Afghanistan. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2018/05/taliban-storms-police-bases-in-western-afghanistan.php...more

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• Gaza vs Egypt. @AaronKleinShow

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  May 15 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Gaza Strip Barrier near the Karni Crossing  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Gaza vs Egypt. @AaronKleinShow http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2018/05/14/klein-media-aiding-hamas-by-distorting-gaza-riot-coverage/

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• Gaza falsehoods around the news world. @AaronKleinShow.

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  May 15 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Gaza falsehoods around the news world. @AaronKleinShow.  http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2018/05/14/klein-media-aiding-hamas-by-distorting-gaza-riot-coverage/

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• Normalizing the TV cartoon version of the Trump White House. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  May 15 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Normalizing the TV cartoon version of the Trump White House. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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• The Blue Wave hesitates. @DavidMDrucker @ JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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  May 15 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Blue Wave hesitates. @DavidMDrucker @ JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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• Paris knife attack was a Chechen from ISIS. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio

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  May 15 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Panorama from third floor of the Eiffel Tower, Paris. Date 20 April 2013, 22:28 Source A standard panorama from the Eiffel Tower (level 3) at night facing SE Author Alexander Kachkaev Camera location 48° 51′ 29.61″ N, 2° 17′ 40.52″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Paris knife attack was a Chechen from ISIS. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2018/05/paris-knife-terrorist-swore-allegiance-to-isis-leader-before-attack.php...more

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• ZTE is doomed as a serial thief and sanctions-buster. @ThadMcCotter @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  May 15 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:ZTE at Mobile World Congress 2015 Barcelona ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow ZTE is doomed as a serial thief and sanctions-buster. @ThadMcCotter @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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• February 18, 2014: 2 of 2: Before the fall of Yanukovych and Ukraine. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.

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  May 15 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Kiev 2014.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow February 18, 2014: 2 of 2: Before the fall of Yanukovych and Ukraine. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.

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• February 18, 2014: 1 of 2: Before the fall of Yanukovych and Ukraine. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.

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  May 15 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Kiev 2014) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow February 18, 2014: 1 of 2: Before the fall of Yanukovych and Ukraine. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.

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• Sea-faring supremacy: The Sea and Civilization: 4 of 4: A Maritime History of the World by Lincoln Paine.

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  May 14 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Nicholas Pocock (1740–1821) Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q1859751 Description  Trafalgar Battle - 21st of Octaber 1805 - Situation at 17h Date 19th century Medium oil Current location Unknown Source/Photographer Unknown ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Sea-faring supremacy: The Sea and Civilization: 4 of 4: A Maritime History of the World by Lincoln Paine. https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Civilization-Maritime-History-World/dp/1101970359/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526261830&sr=1-1&keywords=sea+civilization+paine...more

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• Sea-faring supremacy: The Sea and Civilization: 3 of 4: A Maritime History of the World by Lincoln Paine.

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  May 14 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Image from the Bayeux Tapestry showing Harold Godwinson's ship approaching a beach, probably in the Somme Estuary[19] ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Sea-faring supremacy: The Sea and Civilization: 3 of 4: A Maritime History of the World by Lincoln Paine. https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Civilization-Maritime-History-World/dp/1101970359/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526261830&sr=1-1&keywords=sea+civilization+paine...more

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• TR walks a beat: Island of Vice: 2 of 2: Theodore Roosevelt's Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York by Richard Zacks.

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  May 14 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:A steam train on the Third Avenue El, over the Bowery, New York City, 1896. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow TR walks a beat: Island of Vice: 2 of 2: Theodore Roosevelt's Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York by Richard Zacks. https://www.amazon.com/Island-Vice-Theodore-Roosevelts-Sin-Loving/dp/0767926196/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526264370&sr=1-1&keywords=island+of+vice+zacks

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• TR walks a beat: Island of Vice: 1 of 2: Theodore Roosevelt's Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York by Richard Zacks.

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  May 14 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: "Bandit's Roost, 1890, New York City." Photograph by Jacob Riis, featured in his book How the Other Half Lives (1890) Date 11 September 2011 Source http://www.studenthandouts.com/01-Web-Pages/01-Picture-Pages/10.07-Industrial-Revolution/1-Riis-Bandits-Roost-New-York-City-Slum-1890.htm Author  Jacob Riis (1849–1914) Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q379211 s:en:Author:Jacob Riis  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow TR walks a beat: Island of Vice: 1 of 2: Theodore Roosevelt's Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York by Richard Zacks. https://www.amazon.com/Island-Vice-Theodore-Roosevelts-Sin-Loving/dp/0767926196/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526264370&sr=1-1&keywords=island+of+vice+zacks...more

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• Sea-faring supremacy: The Sea and Civilization: 2 of 4: A Maritime History of the World by Lincoln Paine.

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: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 Sea-faring supremacy: The Sea and Civilization: 2 of 4: A Maritime History of the World by Lincoln Paine. https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Civilization-Maritime-History-World/dp/1101970359/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526261830&sr=1-1&keywords=sea+civilization+paine...more

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• Sea-faring supremacy: The Sea and Civilization: 1 of 4: A Maritime History of the World by Lincoln Paine.

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Assyrian warship British Museum notice: "Assyrian warship 700-692 BC From Nineveh, South-West Palace, Room VII, panel 11 English: This ship was by Sennacherib. It is a bireme (dieris greek διήρης), with two levels of oars. Shields are fastened around the superstructure, as on the fortifications of some city walls. The pointed bow is a ram, for holding enemy ships" WA 124772 British Museum Español: Grabado de un barco de guerra fenicio, en torno a 700-692 a. C. Es un birreme (dieris) con dos filas de remeros. Representa la huida del rey Luli de Sidón en el ataque de Sargón II de Asiria a la ciudad. Originalmente, parte del palacio de Senaquerib, actualmente en el Museo Británico – Palacio Suroeste, Sala VII, panel 11 Français : Navire de guerre phénicien sur un fragment de bas-relief de Ninive (Assyrie), VIIe siècle av. J.-C., British Museum. Date 13 August 2005 (according to Exif data) Source No machine-readable source provided. Own work assumed (based on copyright claims). Author No machine-readable author provided. World Imaging assumed (based on copyright claims). ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Sea-faring supremacy: The Sea and Civilization: 1 of 4: A Maritime History of the World by Lincoln Paine. https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Civilization-Maritime-History-World/dp/1101970359/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526261830&sr=1-1&keywords=sea+civilization+paine...more

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• Working-class hero: The Man Who Saved the Union: 2 of 2: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace by H. W. Brands

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: General Ulysses S. Grant, Mammoth-plate albumen print Date circa 1865 Source Bonhams 1793 Author  Alexander Gardner (1821–1882) Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q661176 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Working-class hero: The Man Who Saved the Union: 2 of 2: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace by H. W. Brands https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Saved-Union-Ulysses/dp/0307475158/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526261218&sr=1-1&keywords=Brands+Grant...more

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• Working-class hero: The Man Who Saved the Union: 1 of 2: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace by H. W. Brands

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:General Ulysses S. Grant and Staff of Eleven, Recognized, Captain Frederick R. Munther.  Original Caption: Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and staff of eleven, recognized, Capt. Frederick R. Munther U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: NWDNS-111-B-46 From:: Series: Mathew Brady Photographs of Civil War-Era Personalities and Scenes, (Record Group 111) Photographer: Brady, Mathew, 1823 (ca.) - 1896 Coverage Dates: ca. 1860 - ca. 1865 Subjects: American Civil War, 1861-1865 Brady National Photographic Art Gallery (Washington, D.C.) strong>Persistent URL: catalog.archives.gov/id/524465 Repository: Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Working-class hero: The Man Who Saved the Union: 1 of 2: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace by H. W. Brands https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Saved-Union-Ulysses/dp/0307475158/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526261218&sr=1-1&keywords=Brands+Grant...more

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• The second murdered president: Destiny of the Republic: 2 of 2: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard.

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: The dying:  Cover of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper from July 23. 1881 depicts James A. Garfield comforted by his wife and child after he was shot by Charles Guiteau. Date 23 July 1881 Source http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/38468 Author Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, July 23, 1881) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The second murdered president: Destiny of the Republic: 2 of 2: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard. https://www.amazon.com/Destiny-Republic-Madness-Medicine-President/dp/0767929713/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526260748&sr=1-1&keywords=candice+Millard...more

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• The second murdered president: Destiny of the Republic: 1 of 2: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard.

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: The shooting) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The second murdered president: Destiny of the Republic: 1 of 2: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard. https://www.amazon.com/Destiny-Republic-Madness-Medicine-President/dp/0767929713/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526260748&sr=1-1&keywords=candice+Millard

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• The Second American Revolution: A Disease in the Public Mind: 2 of 2: A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War by Thomas Fleming

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Fort Sumter under attack, April 1861. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Second American Revolution: A Disease in the Public Mind: 2 of 2: A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War by Thomas Fleming https://www.amazon.com/Disease-Public-Mind-Understanding-Fought/dp/0306822954/ref=laB000APKRYY1_10?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526260286&sr=1-10

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• The Second American Revolution: A Disease in the Public Mind: 1 of 2: A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War by Thomas Fleming

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: John Brown hanging) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Second American Revolution: A Disease in the Public Mind: 1 of 2:  A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War by Thomas Fleming https://www.amazon.com/Disease-Public-Mind-Understanding-Fought/dp/0306822954/ref=laB000APKRYY1_10?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526260286&sr=1-10

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• Irregular sun: Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  May 13 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ALMA observes a giant sunspot at 1.25 mm wavelength[15]) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Irregular sun: Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com Sunspot update for April 2018: Heading into solar minimum May 7, 2018 at 9:00 am Robert Zimmerman On Sunday NOAA posted its monthly update of the solar cycle, covering sunspot activity for April 2018. Below is my annotated version of that graph. While there was an uptick in sunspots in April, compared to the almost complete inactivity in March (the least active month for sunspots in a decade), the uptick did little to change the general trend. Sunspot activity is now comparable to what we saw in early 2008 (as indicated by the yellow line). This was just before the arrival of the previous solar minimum, which happened to also be one of the longest and deepest on record....more

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• Congress micro-manages Big Space. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: Exploration Gateway Platform Component make up Date 2 December 2011 Source http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/12/exploration-gateway-platform-hosting-reusable-lunar-lander-proposed/ Author NASA ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Congress micro-manages Big Space. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com http://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/house-committee-boosts-nasa-budget-while-micromanaging-its-projects/ A NASA budget proposal released earlier this week by the House Appropriations Committee boosts NASA’s budget to $21.5 billion, while also micro-managing some of NASA’s planetary projects. The bill, though, does specify funding for some programs. It calls for spending $545 million on the Europa Clipper mission and $195 million for a follow-on lander. NASA requested only $264.7 million for Europa Clipper and nothing for the lander. NASA said in the budget proposal it was seeking to launch Europa Clipper in 2025 on a commercial vehicle, while the bill calls for the use of the Space Launch System and a launch by 2022. In its budget proposal, NASA estimated needing $565 million in 2019 to keep Europa Clipper on track for a 2022 launch but warned of “potential impacts to the rest of the Science portfolio” if funded at that level. The bill also included $3.5 billion for SLS/Orion, continuing that boondoggle as it continues to fall behind schedule and go over budget. Also in the bill was a half billion dollars for LOP-G, confirming Congress’s desire to get this new boondoggle running, even though the rocket and capsule necessary to fly it, SLS/Orion, hasn’t even come close to completion after almost two decades of work and almost $40 billion so far in spending. Overall, this NASA budget proposal illustrates once again why we have Trump. Congress is corrupt, is only interested in distributing money to its corporate buddies, and doesn’t care if that cash ever produces anything. In fact, it appears they prefer that nothing ever get built, as a real space effort would carry risk, and we can’t have that!...more

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• Walking to the Hanoi Hilton: Through the Valley: 4 of 4: My Captivity in Vietnam by William Reeder Jr.

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: Vietnam War 1973 - American POW soliders line up at the Hanoi Hilton  American POW soliders line up at the Hanoi Hilton prior to their release March 29, 1973 in Hanoi, Vietnam. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images)) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Walking to the Hanoi Hilton: Through the Valley: 4 of 4: My Captivity in Vietnam by William Reeder Jr. [](https://www.amazon.com/Through-Valley-My-Captivity-Vietnam/dp/1591145864/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525921016&sr=1-1&keywords=through+the+valley+reader](https://www.amazon.com/Through-Valley-My-Captivity-Vietnam/dp/1591145864/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525921016&sr=1-1&keywords=through+the+valley+reader](https://www.amazon.com/Through-Valley-My-Captivity-Vietnam/dp/1591145864/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525921016&sr=1-1&keywords=through+the+valley+rea) [https://www.amazon.com/Through-Valley-My-Captivity-Vietnam/dp/1591145864/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525921016&sr=1-1&keywords=through+the+valley+reader](https://www.amazon.com/Through-Valley-My-Captivity-Vietnam/dp/1591145864/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525921016&sr=1-1&keywords=through+the+valley+reader](https://www.amazon.com/Through-Valley-My-Captivity-Vietnam/dp/1591145864/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525921016&sr=1-1&keywords=through+the+valley+rea](https://www.amazon.com/Through-Valley-My-Captivity-Vietnam/dp/1591145864/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525921016&sr=1-1&keywords=through+the+valley+reader](https://www.amazon.com/Through-Valley-My-Captivity-Vietnam/dp/1591145864/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525921016&sr=1-1&keywords=through+the+valley+reader](https://www.amazon.com/Through-Valley-My-Captivity-Vietnam/dp/1591145864/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525921016&sr=1-1&keywords=through+the+valley+rea)...more

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• The war was almost over: Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: Troops from the 1st New Guinea Battalion on patrol in New Britain, 7 February 1945, during World War II. Date 7 February 1945 Source  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The war was almost over: Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Shangri-Survival-Adventure-Incredible-ebook/dp/B004HD61L8/ref=sr1fkmr0_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526173260&sr=1-1-fkmr0&keywords=zuckoff+shari-la...more

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• Rising Again of the World Island of Eurasia & What is to be done? Russell Berman.

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Eurasia (orthographic projection) ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Rising Again of the World Island of Eurasia & What is to be done? Russell Berman. https://www.hoover.org/research/new-world-order?utmsource=hdr&utmmedium=email&utmcampaign=2018-04-26&utmsource=Hoover+Daily+Report&utmcampaign=3e981c9355-HDR&utmmedium=email&utmterm=021b1edff3c-3e981c9355-72527561

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• Never seen before: "A galaxy lacking dark matter." Pieter van Dokkum, Sol Goldman Professor of Astronomy. @Yale

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: Strong gravitational lensing as observed by the Hubble Space Telescope in Abell 1689 indicates the presence of dark matter—enlarge the image to see the lensing arcs.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Never seen before: "A galaxy lacking dark matter." Pieter van Dokkum, Sol Goldman Professor of Astronomy. @Yale   "A galaxy lacking dark matter." Pieter van Dokkum, Shany Danieli, Yotam Cohen, Allison Merritt, Aaron J. Romanowsky, Roberto Abraham, Jean Brodie, Charlie Conroy, Deborah Lokhorst, Lamiya Mowla, Ewan O’Sullivan & Jielai Zhang matterhttps://www.nature.com/articles/nature25767 Studies of galaxy surveys in the context of the cold dark matter paradigm have shown that the mass of the dark matter halo and the total stellar mass are coupled through a function that varies smoothly with mass. Their average ratio Mhalo/Mstars has a minimum of about 30 for galaxies with stellar masses near that of the Milky Way (approximately 5 × 1010 solar masses) and increases both towards lower masses and towards higher masses1,2. The scatter in this relation is not well known; it is generally thought to be less than a factor of two for massive galaxies but much larger for dwarf galaxies3,4. Here we report the radial velocities of ten luminous globular-cluster-like objects in the ultra-diffuse galaxy5 NGC1052–DF2, which has a stellar mass of approximately 2 × 108 solar masses. We infer that its velocity dispersion is less than 10.5 kilometres per second with 90 per cent confidence, and we determine from this that its total mass within a radius of 7.6 kiloparsecs is less than 3.4 × 108 solar masses. This implies that the ratio Mhalo/Mstars is of order unity (and consistent with zero), a factor of at least 400 lower than expected2. NGC1052–DF2 demonstrates that dark matter is not always coupled with baryonic matter on galactic scales....more

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• Then the rains came: Back to the Garden: 3 of 3: The Story of Woodstock and How It Changed a Generation by Pete Fornatale

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:A rainy day (August 15, 1969) ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Then the rains came: Back to the Garden: 3 of 3: The Story of Woodstock and How It Changed a Generation by Pete Fornatale https://www.amazon.com/Back-Garden-Woodstock-Changed-Generation/dp/1416591206/ref=sr1fkmr0_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526171482&sr=1-1-fkmr0&keywords=pete+forestale+back+to+the+garden

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• Then the rains came: Back to the Garden: 2 of 3: The Story of Woodstock and How It Changed a Generation by Pete Fornatale

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: Part of the crowd on the first day of the festival) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Then the rains came: Back to the Garden: 2 of 3: The Story of Woodstock and How It Changed a Generation by Pete Fornatale https://www.amazon.com/Back-Garden-Woodstock-Changed-Generation/dp/1416591206/ref=sr1fkmr0_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526171482&sr=1-1-fkmr0&keywords=pete+forestale+back+to+the+garden

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• Then the rains came: Back to the Garden: 1 of 3: The Story of Woodstock and How It Changed a Generation by Pete Fornatale

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: Max Yasgur's dairy farm in 1968) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Then the rains came: Back to the Garden: 1 of 3: The Story of Woodstock and How It Changed a Generation by Pete Fornatale https://www.amazon.com/Back-Garden-Woodstock-Changed-Generation/dp/1416591206/ref=sr1fkmr0_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526171482&sr=1-1-fkmr0&keywords=pete+forestale+back+to+the+garden

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• Fall of Palestine: State of Failure: 2 of 2: Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, and the Unmaking of the Palestinian State by Jonathan Schanzer

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Land of Israel ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Fall of Palestine: State of Failure: 2 of 2: Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, and the Unmaking of the Palestinian State by Jonathan Schanzer https://www.amazon.com/State-Failure-Mahmoud-Unmaking-Palestinian-ebook/dp/B00CGFJ0XU/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526170923&sr=1-1&keywords=Schanzer+abbas

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• Fall of Palestine: State of Failure: 1 of 2: Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, and the Unmaking of the Palestinian State by Jonathan Schanzer

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:The new era in Palestine. The arrival of Herbert Samuel as the first High Commissioner for Palestine in 1920. Samuel had promoted Zionism within the British Cabinet, beginning with his 1915 memorandum entitled The Future of Palestine. Beside him are Lawrence of Arabia, Emir Abdullah, Air Marshal Salmond and Wyndham Deedes.  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Fall of Palestine: State of Failure: 1 of 2: Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, and the Unmaking of the Palestinian State by Jonathan Schanzer https://www.amazon.com/State-Failure-Mahmoud-Unmaking-Palestinian-ebook/dp/B00CGFJ0XU/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526170923&sr=1-1&keywords=Schanzer+abbas...more

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• It was the best of times: The Weekend That Changed Wall Street: And How the Fallout Is Still Impacting Our World by Maria Bartiromo and Catherine Whitney

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: "The Storming of the Bastille", Visible in the center is the arrest of Bernard René Jourdan, m de Launay (1740-1789).) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow It was the best of times: The Weekend That Changed Wall Street: And How the Fallout Is Still Impacting Our World by Maria Bartiromo and Catherine Whitney https://www.amazon.com/Weekend-That-Changed-Wall-Street/dp/1591844363/ref=laB001HMM93G1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526170754&sr=1-3...more

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• NASA Lessons Learned, 1989-2018: 2 of 2: Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto by Alan Stern and David Grinspoon. David Livingston @SpaceShow @DrFunkySpoon

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  May 12 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Pluto's "encounter hemisphere" viewed by New Horizons on July 13, 2015 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow NASA Lessons Learned, 1989-2018: 2 of 2: Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto by Alan Stern and David Grinspoon. David Livingston @SpaceShow @DrFunkySpoon https://www.amazon.com/Chasing-New-Horizons-Inside-Mission/dp/1250098963/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526108095&sr=1-1&keywords=alan+stern+david+grinspoon Called "spellbinding" (Scientific American) and "thrilling…a future classic of popular science" (PW), the up close, inside story of the greatest space exploration project of our time, New Horizons’ mission to Pluto, as shared with David Grinspoon by mission leader Alan Stern and other key players. On July 14, 2015, something amazing happened. More than 3 billion miles from Earth, a small NASA spacecraft called New Horizons screamed past Pluto at more than 32,000 miles per hour, focusing its instruments on the long mysterious icy worlds of the Pluto system, and then, just as quickly, continued on its journey out into the beyond. Nothing like this has occurred in a generation―a raw exploration of new worlds unparalleled since NASA’s Voyager missions to Uranus and Neptune―and nothing quite like it is planned to happen ever again. The photos that New Horizons sent back to Earth graced the front pages of newspapers on all 7 continents, and NASA’s website for the mission received more than 2 billion hits in the days surrounding the flyby. At a time when so many think that our most historic achievements are in the past, the most distant planetary exploration ever attempted not only succeeded in 2015 but made history and captured the world’s imagination. How did this happen? Chasing New Horizons is the story of the men and women behind this amazing mission: of their decades-long commitment and persistence; of the political fights within and outside of NASA; of the sheer human ingenuity it took to design, build, and fly the mission; and of the plans for New Horizons’ next encounter, 1 billion miles past Pluto in 2019. Told from the insider’s perspective of mission leader Dr. Alan Stern and others on New Horizons, and including two stunning 16-page full-color inserts of images, Chasing New Horizons is a riveting account of scientific discovery, and of how much we humans can achieve when people focused on a dream work together toward their incredible goal....more

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• NASA Lessons Learned, 1989-2018: 1 of 2: Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto by Alan Stern and David Grinspoon. David Livingston @SpaceShow @DrFunkySpoon

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  May 12 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: View of Mission Operations at the Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland (July 14, 2015).) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow NASA Lessons Learned, 1989-2018: 1 of 2: Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto by Alan Stern and David Grinspoon. David Livingston @SpaceShow @DrFunkySpoon https://www.amazon.com/Chasing-New-Horizons-Inside-Mission/dp/1250098963/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526108095&sr=1-1&keywords=alan+stern+david+grinspoon Called "spellbinding" (Scientific American) and "thrilling...a future classic of popular science" (PW), the up close, inside story of the greatest space exploration project of our time, New Horizons’ mission to Pluto, as shared with David Grinspoon by mission leader Alan Stern and other key players. On July 14, 2015, something amazing happened. More than 3 billion miles from Earth, a small NASA spacecraft called New Horizons screamed past Pluto at more than 32,000 miles per hour, focusing its instruments on the long mysterious icy worlds of the Pluto system, and then, just as quickly, continued on its journey out into the beyond. Nothing like this has occurred in a generation―a raw exploration of new worlds unparalleled since NASA’s Voyager missions to Uranus and Neptune―and nothing quite like it is planned to happen ever again. The photos that New Horizons sent back to Earth graced the front pages of newspapers on all 7 continents, and NASA’s website for the mission received more than 2 billion hits in the days surrounding the flyby. At a time when so many think that our most historic achievements are in the past, the most distant planetary exploration ever attempted not only succeeded in 2015 but made history and captured the world’s imagination. How did this happen? Chasing New Horizons is the story of the men and women behind this amazing mission: of their decades-long commitment and persistence; of the political fights within and outside of NASA; of the sheer human ingenuity it took to design, build, and fly the mission; and of the plans for New Horizons’ next encounter, 1 billion miles past Pluto in 2019. Told from the insider’s perspective of mission leader Dr. Alan Stern and others on New Horizons, and including two stunning 16-page full-color inserts of images, Chasing New Horizons is a riveting account of scientific discovery, and of how much we humans can achieve when people focused on a dream work together toward their incredible goal....more

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• The New American Civil War: Blue State despair writes books & What is to be done? Michael Michael Vlahos, Naval War College. Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis

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  May 12 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: Sen. Joseph McCarthy chats with his attorney Roy Cohn during Senate Subcommittee hearings on the McCarthy-Army dispute Date 1954 Source Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c14995 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The New American Civil War: Blue State despair writes books & What is to be done? Michael  Michael Vlahos, Naval War College. Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels by Jon Meacham (Author) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399589813/ref=dbsadefrwtbiblvppii0...more

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• The undiscovered country is electric/electrified automobiles. Lou Ann Hammond @Drivingthenatio

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Deutsch: Car2Go Ladestation in Stuttgart mit einem elektro-Smart der dritten Generation. English: Car2Go electric charging station in Stuttgart with a 3rd generation Smart electric car. Date Taken on 23 August 2013, 09:30:42 Source Own work Author Julian Herzog (Website) Equipment Nikon D5000 with AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-105 mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The undiscovered country is electric/electrified automobiles. Lou Ann Hammond @Drivingthenatio https://www.drivingthenation.com/top-ten-reasons-to-buy-electric-or-plug-in-vehicles/ 1. Federal Tax Credit – You can get as much as $7,500 on an electrified vehicle. Each model is allowed a certain number of cars to qualify for the FTC, so make sure the Federal Tax Credit is still available before you purchase. 2. State Tax Credit – The same goes for the State Tax Credit; each model is allowed a certain number of cars to qualify for the STC so make sure the State Tax Credit is still available before purchase. You can also get certain city credits or low-income discounts. There are certain jurisdictions that have a “Replace Your Ride” program that will give you discounts on the car to retire and replace an old vehicle with a low-emission vehicle, depending on income level and vehicle model. California is known as the State that leads in regulations, but they are also the State that leads in credits and discounts. Below is a list of known tax credits and discounts in California, which will give you an idea of some of the benefits that might be available in other States. The National Conference of State legislatures is where I got the information. That website lists all credits and discounts for all States....more

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• Homeless California thousands threaten helpless California millions & What is to be done? @JeffBliss1

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Homeless guys with dogs Haight Street San Francisco, CA ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Homeless California thousands threaten helpless California millions & What is to be done? @JeffBliss1 Gov. Jerry Brown earmarks historic budget surplus funds to help ease California's homelessness crisis FRIDAY, MAY 11, 2018, 10:29 AM PT California has collected an unexpected $8 billion in tax revenue in recent months, and Gov. Jerry Brown today proposed a $359-million boost to ease the state’s burgeoning homelessness crisis...more

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• The End of Work: Why Your Passion Can Become Your Job by @JohnTamny

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: Description  Tags: factory, tableau, factory, paper factory, men, machine Date 1930 Source http://www.fortepan.hu/photo/download/fortepan40728.jpg Author FOTO:Fortepan — ID 26037: Nuvola filesystems folder home.svgInkscape.svgInformation icon.svg Adományozó/Donor: Simon Tibor. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The End of Work: Why Your Passion Can Become Your Job by @JohnTamny  https://www.amazon.com/End-Work-Your-Passion-Become/dp/1621577775/ref=sr11?ie=UTF8&qid=1526038620&sr=8-1&keywords=John+Tamny On Monday my latest book, The End of Work was released. All of you readers are expected to buy several copies of it for young people you know, and most of all for parents and grandparents worried about the future for their children and grandchildren. It's going to be amazing. Unlike in the past, there are remunerative jobs for all sorts of skill sets that didn't exist even five years ago. The book is a response to all the overdone pessimism about opportunity. What's apparent today is that unlike the historical norm, there's a job for every hobby and passion. People can really and truly pursue their bliss today, and this truth is going to get even better if robots and automation turn out to be as consequential as they're expected to be. Here's a link to the book on Amazon if you're interested....more

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• Trump forces the Europeans to address the flaws in the Iran Deal. @DanHenninger

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: Secretary Kerry, Energy Secretary Moniz Stand With Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif and Vice President of Iran for Atomic Energy Salehi Before Meeting in Switzerland  U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif chat while flanked by U.S. Energy Secretary Dr. Ernest Moniz, far left, and Dr. Ali Akbar Salehi, the Vice President of Iran for Atomic Energy and President of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, far right, on March 16, 2015, in Lausanne, Switzerland, before a discussion about the future of Iran's nuclear program. [State Department Photo/Public Domain]) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Trump forces the Europeans to address the flaws in the Iran Deal. @DanHenninger https://www.wsj.com/articles/its-trumps-iran-deal-now-1525905435...more

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• 2007 California forest fire before the Supreme Court & What is to be done? @adamjwhitedc

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: A NASA image of the Esperanza Fire.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow 2007 California forest fire before the Supreme Court & What is to be done? @adamjwhitedc  https://www.weeklystandard.com/adam-j-white/prosecutorial-fraud-arrives-at-the-supreme-court In Sierra Pacific v U.S., the court can undo an injustice committed by the DoJ. Atop the attorney general’s conference room reads an inscription: “The United States wins its point whenever justice is done its citizens in the courts.” It serves to remind the attorney general, the solicitor general, and their colleagues that their highest obligation is not to win cases, but to ensure that justice is done. It must weigh on their minds especially heavily these days, as the solicitor general’s office considers how next to act in a case involving astonishing injustice perpetrated by Department of Justice subordinates in a major federal lawsuit brought by the federal government....more

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• Arab states rally to Israel in the fresh battle with Iran. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:CIA map of Golan Heights and vicinity, October 1994 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Arab states rally to Israel in the fresh battle with Iran. Malcolm Hoenlein @Confofpres

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• Confirmation of the collision of the magnificent Magellanic clouds. Ken Croswell

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Confirmation of the collision of the magnificent Magellanic clouds. Ken Croswell       See https://www.newscientist.com/article/2166832-shredded-galaxy-is-disintegrating-before-our-eyes-after-smash-up/ . Ken Croswell, author THE ALCHEMY OF THE HEAVENS           Full text: Shredded Galaxy Is Disintegrating Before Our Eyes After Smash-Up After a collision with a neighbouring galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud may lose its ability to give birth to new stars, causing it to grow dim by Ken Croswell...more

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• The Great Powers battle over North Korea. Gregory Copley Defense & Foreign Affairs

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:U.S. Air Force attacking railroads south of Wonsan on the eastern coast of North Korea  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Great Powers battle over North Korea. Gregory Copley Defense & Foreign Affairs "...In summary, everything about the “bilateral” US-DPRK talks ripples through a broader, global agenda, for all players, not just Washington and Pyongyang. Pres. Trump’s seemingly unambitious approach to the talks — “if we don’t get an agreement, we simp-ly walk away” — has added impetus to the DPRK’s need to gain something from the process. But, in fact, Pyongyang has already gained considerably in its negotiating posi-tion, and ability to be able to open relations internationally, even if the Trump-Kim talks fail to give an immediate iconic result (which is likely, apart from the “normalization” the-atrics). What the process has begun to give is the cosmetic that now it is the DPRK which drives for a denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. It calls the bluff of the US, but, in fact, extends into the distant future before North Korea would, in fact, be obliged to abandon its comprehensive strategic capability. Similarly, there would be no likelihood that the US would not have to meaningfully reduce its regional posture. But what this process does is that it enables (a) an end to the Korean War in a formal sense, and (b) increasing normalization in DPRK-ROK relations, enabling a phased process by which logistical lines through the DPRK could enhance trade from the ROK through to Western Europe via Russia. The new process will have some tangible outcomes in that the DPRK will achieve a greater degree of separation from Beijing, but this will also reduce Beijing’s responsibil-ity for the DPRK economy, without seeing the DPRK move out of substantial influence from Beijing. It seems that Pres. Xi Jinping can accept that, because it is, in fact, a very comfortable trade-off for the PRC. And the PRC would benefit, as well, from a more stable and economically growing neighborhood, which would include a more prosperous Russian Far East. Certainly, in the long run, if the process leads (as it almost certainly will) to a Russia-Japan normalization, then the PRC would have to consider the revived Pacific strength of Russia as a possible/probable long-term strategic constraint. It would also have to figure that Japan itself would have an improved strategic capability, but that Japan itself might be constrained by the growth of Russian Asian strength. And Beijing is still warily attempting to determine whether the new closeness of the DPRK and ROK might mean a reduction in US influence on the Peninsula, or whether the US has, in fact, been able to strengthen its overall posture in the region, particularly with the ROC and the First Island Chain. The net effect of the Trump initiative to engage with Kim Jong-Un — and it was, indeed, entirely a Trump- generated phenomenon, supported strongly by Japan and Russia — will be portrayed as a win-win by all players. Certainly, there is likely to be a reduction in Korean Peninsula tensions, even as a result of the “normalization” of relations between the DPRK and the ROK. "...more

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• In Syria, is Iran concerned about a US retaliation? @BlaiseMisztal

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  AUTHOR. (PhotoEnglish: Iran, Russia, Syria agreed to promote cooperation in their fight against Takfiri groups in Syria. فارسی: وزرای دفاع ایران و سوریه و روسیه در نشست ویژه مبارزه با تروریسم گروه های تکفیری در سوریه Date 10 June 2016 Source https://www.tasnimnews.com/fa/media/1395/03/21/1100848/%D9%86%D8%B4%D8%B3%D8%AA-%D8%B3%D9%87-%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A8%D9%87-%D9%88%D8%B2%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D8%AF%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B9-%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%87-%D9%88-%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%87 Author Mohammad Agah: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow In Syria, is  Iran concerned about a US retaliation? @BlaiseMisztal Blaise Misztal is the director of BPC’s national security program. He previously served as the project’s associate director and senior policy analyst. At BPC, Misztal has researched a variety national security issues, including Iran and its nuclear program, Turkey, cybersecurity, stabilizing fragile states, and public diplomacy in the 21st century. Prior to joining BPC, Misztal spent a year as a Nuffield Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University. He was selected as a future leader by the Foreign Policy Initiative in 2010 and named as a national security fellow by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in 2011. Related Articles: · https://www.rollcall.com/news/opinion/opinion-iran-not-art-deal · https://bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/timing-of-iran-message-hints-at-trump-policy-strategy-on-north-korea/ · https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogin/wp/2018/05/09/trumps-new-iran-strategy-succeeds-or-fails-in-syria/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.4edc3fb97d92...more

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• Walking to the Hanoi Hilton: Through the Valley: 3 of 4: My Captivity in Vietnam by William Reeder Jr.

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: Gun camera photo shows a North Vietnamese MiG-17-fighter) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Walking to the Hanoi Hilton: Through the Valley: 3 of 4: My Captivity in Vietnam by William Reeder Jr. https://www.amazon.com/Through-Valley-My-Captivity-Vietnam/dp/1591145864/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525921016&sr=1-1&keywords=through+the+valley+reader](https://www.amazon.com/Through-Valley-My-Captivity-Vietnam/dp/1591145864/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525921016&sr=1-1&keywords=through+the+valley+reader](https://www.amazon.com/Through-Valley-My-Captivity-Vietnam/dp/1591145864/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525921016&sr=1-1&keywords=through+the+valley+reader))...more

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• War of the North Briefing: Israel IDF has badly damaged the IRGC weaponry.

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: Iranian 333 mm long-range Fajr-5 rockets, artillery and animated multiple rocket launchers Date 6 February 2017 Source https://www.tasnimnews.com/fa/media/1395/11/18/1319764/رونمایی-از-پنج-دستاورد-رزمی-دفاعی-با-حضور-وزیر-دفاع Author Tasnimnews Agency ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow War of the North Briefing: Israel IDF has badly damaged the IRGC weaponry. @Jacquesneriah Col. (ret.) Dr. Jacques Neriah, a special analyst for the Middle East at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, was formerly Foreign Policy Advisor to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Deputy Head for Assessment of Israeli Military Intelligence. ·http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/is-washington-too-focused-on-irans-nuclear-program · https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-security-cabinet-meets-as-iranian-official-warns-revenge-will-come/ · https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-has-the-upper-hand-over-iran-in-syria-but-the-ayatollahs-wont-give-up/ · https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-may-10-2018/...more

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• Kim is a deceiver just like his father and grandfather. @_ARuggiero

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Kim is a deceiver just like his father and grandfather. @_ARuggiero  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Kim is a deceiver just like his father and grandfather. @_ARuggiero https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/05/10/trump-north-korea-kim-jong-un-nobel-prize-218357

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• Secondary sanctions end the airplane deals to Iran. @eottolenghi @FD

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Aerial view of the Airbus plant Lagardère. In the background the Aéroconstellation area with the Aeroscopia museum and the association Ailes Anciennes Toulouse.  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Secondary sanctions end the airplane deals to Iran. @eottolenghi  @FD Emanuele Ottolenghi is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and an expert at its Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance focused on Hezbollah's Latin America illicit threat networks and Iran's history of sanctions evasion. His research has examined Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, including its links to the country’s energy sector and procurement networks. His areas of expertise also include the EU's Middle East policymaking, transatlantic relations, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and Israel's domestic politics. He is author of The Pasdaran: Inside Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iran: The Looming Crisis, and Under a Mushroom Cloud: Europe, Iran and the Bomb. Related Articles: · http://www.aei.org/publication/ending-the-iran-nuclear-deal-isnt-enough-trump-must-wage-economic-warfare/print/? · http://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/386289-deal-or-no-deal-trump-should-punish-irans-aviation-sector · http://www.ilanberman.com/21159/the-end-of-the-jcpoa-era...more

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• Hezbollah rocketeers of Lebanon fear Israeli retaliation. Hanin Ghaddar @haningdr @WashInstitute

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: Grapesofwrath) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Hezbollah rocketeers of Lebanon fear Israeli retaliation. Hanin Ghaddar @haningdr @WashInstitute On how Hezbollah legitimized its weapons via the ballots هل صار سلاح حزب الله شرعياً؟ http://daraj.com/Article/5966/-- هل-صار-سلاح-حزب-الله-شرعياً- #darajmedia via @darajmedia

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• The Iranian people will free Iran. @MichaeLedeen @FDD

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: Protesters mobilising in Tehran before mass protests on 13 June) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Iranian people will free Iran. @MichaeLedeen @FDD  https://pjmedia.com/michaelledeen/the-issue-is-iran-not-the-deal/

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• Europe whines about Trump yet privately cheers America as Shane. @VDHanson @HooverInst

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  May 11 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Alan Ladd (1913-1964) with Ben Johnson (1918-1996) who played tough guy Chris Calloway.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Europe whines about Trump yet privately cheers America as Shane. @VDHanson @HooverInst https://www.hoover.org/research/america-weird?utmsource=hdr&utmmedium=email&utmcampaign=2018-05-09&utmsource=Hoover+Daily+Report&utmcampaign=c67f86ed1c-HDR&utmmedium=email&utmterm=021b1edff3c-c67f86ed1c-72527561 n particular, America serves a variety of crucial roles within the West. It offers a psychological and ideological check on European socialism, in that America’s greater economic robustness and continued military superiority remind Europe that its drift toward statism will only make it less competitive and result in an unhealthy dependency on U.S. arms. The worst thing that the United States could do to Europe would be to emulate Europe’s own protocols, and thereby reinforce Europe’s own worst tendencies while depriving it of a savior in extremis. Certainly, former British colonies such as Australia, Canada, and New Zealand ultimately rely on U.S. guarantees of their security, given that they can no longer depend on strength of the United Kingdom....more

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• "Diplomatically, he will be a game-changer..." @SebGorka

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: President Donald J. Trump departs from the Pentagon alongside Secretary of Defense James Mattis on Jan. 27, 2017, in Washington, D.C. (DOD photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Jette Carr) Date 27 January 2017, 16:48 Source 170127-D-GY869-031 Author James Mattis) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Diplomatically, he will be a game-changer..."  @SebGorka https://news.usni.org/2018/05/09/mattis-u-s-left-nuclear-deal-due-ongoing-iranian-missile-tests-military-aggression Testifying Wednesday before the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee, he said of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on Iran’s nuclear program, “we found it inadequate for the long-term effort” to bring Iran back into compliance with international norms of behavior. “We will continue to work alongside our allies and partners to ensure that Iran can never acquire a nuclear weapon, and will work with others to address the range of Iran’s malign influence,” Mattis said. In recent weeks, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel met with Trump to urge him to remain in the deal but work with them in improving it. Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May took the same position in writing Trump. In addition to those nations, Russia and China also participated in the negotiations and signed. There was no vote in the Senate to ratify the agreement as a treaty when the deal was reached in July 2015. At the hearing, Mattis added that the administration has been in office since January 2017, so “this was not a hasty decision.” By re-imposing the sanctions that were in place when the agreement was signed, “we now have the opportunity to move forward” in strengthening any future agreement with Tehran over its nuclear program. He said the decision also demonstrates to North Korea the United States’ seriousness about nuclear negotiations. National Security Advisor John Bolton, speaking at a White House press briefing Tuesday, said, “this deal [with Tehran] was fundamentally flawed” because “it does not do what it purports to do:” stopping Iran from “developing deliverable nuclear weapons.” Bolton called the inspection provisions in the 2015 agreement severely lacking in allowing the United States and other signatories “to have confidence that we’ve detected all of Iran’s nuclear-related activities.” He added, “the only sure way to get on the path to stopping Iran from developing nuclear weapons and delivery capabilities was to get out of the deal.” In announcing the United States’ plans, Trump, quoting former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, said the nation must always negotiate from a position of strength. “This was a horrible, one-sided deal that should have never, never been made,” Trump said. “It didn’t bring calm, it didn’t bring peace, and it never will.” Talking to the press after Trump’s short address, Bolton said the message to North Korea “is the president wants a real deal; that’s what we’re asking for, what Secretary [Mike] Pompeo will be discussing with people in North Korea.” Those talks ended Wednesday. Mattis said at the Senate hearing, “there is some reason for optimism” in looking at the upcoming summit between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Panmunjom. “These talks can be fruitful.” When asked if the Pentagon was developing new operational plans for the Middle East in wake of the decision to leave the Iran deal, Mattis said, “we maintain military options because of Iran’s threats,” including its “death to America” rallies and propaganda. He cited his experience as U.S. Central Command’s top officer, adding, “we are always updating those plans … as rapidly as needed.” He said in answering a later question that he did not expect to request additional funds for CENTCOM at this time as a result of leaving the deal. Although Bolton branded Tehran as “the central banker of international terrorism,” he dismissed the ideas that the United States was moving to a war footing or seeking regime change in Tehran by pulling out of the agreement. Zeroing in on the nuclear issue’s importance in any negotiation, he said, “when you’re serious about eliminating the threat of nuclear proliferation, you have to address the aspects that permit an aspiring nuclear weapons state to get there. The Iran deal did not do that. A deal that we hope to reach, the president is optimistic we can reach, with North Korea will address those issues.” Bolton said later, “verification and compliance aspects of any proliferation or arms control deal are absolutely essential” in any agreement. Related Mattis Dismisses a Run for President ; Shares Thoughts on Iran Nuclear Deal, ISIS Mattis Dismisses a Run for President ; Shares Thoughts on Iran Nuclear Deal, ISIS April 22, 2016 In "Budget Industry" Mattis Wants Sub-Launched Nuclear Cruise Missile to Curb Russia   Mattis Wants Sub-Launched Nuclear Cruise Missile to Curb Russia   February 6, 2018 In "Aviation" SECDEF Mattis Unveils New 'Lethal' National Defense Strategy Focused on Great Power Competition SECDEF Mattis Unveils New 'Lethal' National Defense Strategy Focused on Great Power Competition January 19, 2018 In "Budget Industry" Like What You've Been Reading? Get Proceedings Today Article Keywords: Defense Secretary James Mattis, Iran, Iran Nuclear Deal, John Bolton, North Korea, President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Categories: Foreign Forces, News & Analysis John Grady About John Grady John Grady, a former managing editor of Navy Times, retired as director of communications for the Association of the United States Army. His reporting on national defense and national security has appeared on Breaking Defense, GovExec.com, NextGov.com, DefenseOne.com, Government Executive and USNI News. View all posts by John Grady → Post navigation← Craparotta to Lead Marine Corps Forces Pacific; Smith to Command III MEFMattis Defends Trump Administration’s Call for Low-Yield Nuclear Weapons → Facebook Twitter LinkedIn RSS YouTube Instagram Flickr USNI Sign up for USNI News Get USNI News updates delivered to your inbox Email Address *  First Name  Last Name  Title  = required field Frequency  Daily  Weekly  Monthly  All  None Categories Aviation Budget Industry China Documents Education Legislation Fleet Tracker Foreign Forces Long Form Merchant Marine Military Personnel News & Analysis Piracy Russia Space Special Operations Forces Submarine Forces Surface Forces Survey The Basics Timelines U.S. Air Force U.S. Army U.S. Coast Guard U.S. Marine Corps U.S. Navy Veterans Affairs warship...more

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• Speaking of Trump & the Nobel Peace Prize. @SebGorka

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: 日本語: 1974年（昭和49年）、佐藤栄作に贈られたノーベル平和賞の金メダル。国立公文書館所蔵（請求番号:寄贈01854100）。 English: Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Eisaku Satō Date 2 July 2016, 15:59:36 Source Own work Author Awalin) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Speaking of Trump & the Nobel Peace Prize. @SebGorka https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-tweets-korea-and-the-rocket-man-1525974240?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb The New York Times, perhaps caught up in the exciting possibilities of a Trump-Kim detente, is even exploring the idea of a Nobel Peace Prize for the President: Critics of the president and his often inflammatory rhetoric balk at the idea of Mr. Trump receiving one of the world’s most prestigious diplomatic awards. But some laureates and historians of the prize acknowledge that there are instances where such an honor was bestowed on contentious politicians in order to acknowledge and encourage efforts for peace. “Part of the strength of the Nobel Peace Prize is that it is controversial,” said Berit Reiss-Andersen, the chairwoman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awards the prize after roughly eight months of deliberation over hundreds of nominations. “If it was a global consensus prize, it wouldn’t have the relevance and the authority that it actually has today.”...more

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• Walking to the Hanoi Hilton: Through the Valley: 2 of 4: My Captivity in Vietnam by William Reeder Jr.

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Walking to the Hanoi Hilton: Through the Valley: 2 of 4: My Captivity in Vietnam by William Reeder Jr. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Walking to the Hanoi Hilton: Through the Valley: 2 of 4: My Captivity in Vietnam by William Reeder Jr. https://www.amazon.com/Through-Valley-My-Captivity-Vietnam/dp/1591145864/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525921016&sr=1-1&keywords=through+the+valley+reader](https://www.amazon.com/Through-Valley-My-Captivity-Vietnam/dp/1591145864/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525921016&sr=1-1&keywords=through+the+valley+reader](https://www.amazon.com/Through-Valley-My-Captivity-Vietnam/dp/1591145864/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525921016&sr=1-1&keywords=through+the+valley+reader))...more

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• North Korea predation spreads. Bruce Bechtol, author, North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa: Enabling Violence and Instability by Bruce E. Bechtol Jr.

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Museum of American War Atrocities. Alleged American war atrocities against the Korean people is the main theme of the museum. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow North Korea predation spreads. Bruce Bechtol, author, North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa: Enabling Violence and Instability by Bruce E. Bechtol Jr. http://kentuckypress.com/live/title_detail.php?titleid=5445#.Wu1qfTGWyM9...more

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• Lynne Blankenbeker for the 2nd District of New Hampshire.

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Concord NH ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Lynne Blankenbeker for the 2nd District of New Hampshire. @BlankenbekerNH https://www.blankenbeker.com/about Lynne Blankenbeker is an accomplished Nurse, Veteran, Legislator, and Attorney. She has dedicated herself to caring for members of the military, veterans and their families. A Captain in the Navy Reserves, Lynne has deployed three times in support of Operations in the Middle East. She has most recently served two active duty tours in DC; one at the Pentagon and one at the Defense Health Headquarters. ​ Upon graduation from nursing school, Lynne was initially commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant through Air Force ROTC. While serving on active duty, Lynne deployed to the Middle East in 1990 as an operating room and trauma flight nurse, in support of Operations Desert Storm and Desert Shield. At the conclusion of Desert Storm, Lynne became an inactive reservist while raising her daughter and working as a nurse. She again answered our nation’s call by joining the Navy Reserve Nurse Corps in 2000 and, following the terrorist attacks on 9/11, Lynne was deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. Lynne is currently the commanding officer of the Navy Reserve Medical Unit assigned to Navy Medical Center San Diego.   ​ In 2009, she ran for and won a special election for the New Hampshire House of Representatives, beating the former Mayor of Concord in a heavily Democrat district by 17 votes. In the legislature she worked on veterans and public health issues in addition to playing a key role in balancing the state’s biennial budget. Lynne won re-election in 2010, but was unable to run again in 2012 due to being recalled to active duty in 2011 to Kandahar, Afghanistan. In 2012, she was selected by the New Hampshire Federation of Republican Women as their Woman of the Year, an award that she accepted remotely from Afghanistan. ​ Lynne’s most recent recall to active duty was as a key healthcare policy adviser at the Pentagon and Defense Health Headquarters ensuring that our medical teams are properly trained to deliver the best care possible to our wounded service members. Lynne resides in Concord with her husband Dennis, and is the proud mother of her daughter Shannon who recently completed law school at Baylor University....more

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• SEC bullies without justice. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  May 11 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission headquarters in Washington, D.C., near Union Station ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow SEC bullies without justice. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst The Constitution lays out the principle of the separation of powers in three simple steps. Article I gives Congress the power to make the laws of the United States. Article II entrusts the President to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, usually through the actions of other executive branch individuals. Article III then charges the federal courts with applying the laws passed by Congress and enforced by the executive branch when deciding cases and ordering remedies. This constitutional structure avoids concentrating excessive power in any one branch. But thanks to the rise of the administrative state, executive agencies like the Securities and Exchange Commission are taking over responsibility for all three functions. The agency promulgates extensive regulations that have the force of law, which it then enforces against individual defendants, often in an SEC tribunal, not in an Article III court. This cozy arrangement is now being tested in Lucia v. Securities and Exchange Commission, argued last week before the Supreme Court… https://www.hoover.org/research/miscarriage-justice-sec...more

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• Europe rejects the Trump rejection of the Iran deal. 2 of 2: Robert Guest @economist

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  May 11 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:SS-20 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Europe rejects the Trump rejection of the Iran deal. 2 of 2: @RobertGuest @economist https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21741546-complacent-reckless-leaders-have-forgotten-how-valuable-it-restrain-nuclear

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• Europe rejects the Trump rejection of the Iran deal. 1 of 2: @RobertGuest @economist

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  May 11 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Gorbachev and Reagan sign the INF Treaty) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Europe rejects the Trump rejection of the Iran deal. 1 of 2: Robert Guest @economist https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21741546-complacent-reckless-leaders-have-forgotten-how-valuable-it-restrain-nuclear

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• West Virginia Republican voting was badly reported just like 2016. @SalenaZito @WashingtonExaminer

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  May 11 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Saturday afternoon street scene, Welch, McDowell County, 1946 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow West Virginia Republican voting was badly reported just like 2016. @SalenaZito @WashingtonExaminer https://www.amazon.com/Great-Revolt-Populist-Coalition-Reshaping/dp/1524763683

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• Idaho goes confidently to the polls. Stephen Yates, YatesforIdaho.com @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  May 11 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Reynolds Creek Experimental Watershed in the Owyhee Mountains, about 50 miles (80 km) southwest of Boise, Idaho ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Idaho goes confidently to the polls. Stephen Yates, YatesforIdaho.com @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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• Can Mnuchin, Kudlow, and Ross solve the Chinese Communist Party's mercantilism and thievery?@GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  May 10 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Can Mnuchin, Kudlow, and Ross solve the Chinese Communist Party's mercantilism and thievery?@GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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• How does the Iran deal exit connect with the North Korea deal start? @JoshRogin @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  May 10 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow How does the Iran deal exit connect with the North Korea deal start? @JoshRogin @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogin/wp/2018/05/09/trumps-new-iran-strategy-succeeds-or-fails-in-syria/?utm_term=.d18d77ca127a Trump’s new Iran strategy succeeds or fails in Syria

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• Rosenstein is two-faced and ineffective with both. @WJMcGurn

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  May 10 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Rosenstein is two-faced and ineffective with both. @WJMcGurn https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-two-rod-rosensteins-1525731897

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• Trump delivers on the campaign promise to end the failed Iran deal. @MonicaCrowley

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  May 10 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Trump delivers on the campaign promise to end the failed Iran deal. @MonicaCrowley

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• What are the US Air Force strategic assets that an answer a North Korean attack? Peter Huessy, Director of Strategic Deterrent Studies, Mitchell Institute of the Air Force Association

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  May 10 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow What are the US Air Force strategic assets that an answer a North Korean attack? Peter Huessy, Director of Strategic Deterrent Studies, Mitchell Institute of the Air Force Association

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• Trump and Kim will meet in Singapore. Tara O, Institute of Corean-American Studies. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  May 10 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Trump and Kim will meet in Singapore. Tara O, Institute of Corean-American Studies. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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• The James Webb Space Elephant. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  May 10 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Test unit of the sunshield stacked and expanded at the Northrop Grumman facility in California, 2014) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The James Webb Space Elephant.  Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com During ground tests of the James Webb Space Telescope engineers have discovered an additional quite astonishing problem that will certainly delay the project again. In a presentation at a meeting of the National Academies’ Space Studies Board here May 3, Greg Robinson, the JWST program director at NASA Headquarters, said some “screws and washers” appear to have come off the spacecraft during recent environmental testing at a Northrop Grumman facility in Southern California. Technicians found the items after the spacecraft element of JWST, which includes the bus and sunshield but not its optics and instruments, was moved last weekend from one chamber for acoustics tests to another to prepare for vibration testing. “Right now we believe that all of this hardware — we’re talking screws and washers here — come from the sunshield cover,” he said. “We’re looking at what this really means and what is the recovery plan.” The problem, he said, was only a couple of days old, and he had few additional details about the problem. “It’s not terrible news, but it’s not good news, either,” he said. [emphasis mine] The absurd spin expressed by the program director above is garbage. This is unbelievable and entirely unacceptable. On spacecraft, especially those that are not planned for in-space maintenance like Webb, screws are routinely sealed with some form of glue so that they will not unscrew themselves during the vibrations of launch. This is standard space engineering and has been for more than a half century. That some screws came off Webb during testing suggests a quality control problem at Northrop Grumman that is beyond comprehension....more

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• Reusability is the success. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com.

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  May 10 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Reusability is the success. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com.

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• Trump and the Jobs Boom. @LizPeek

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  May 10 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Trump and the Jobs Boom. @LizPeek https://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2018/05/04/the-april-jobs-report-in-12-charts/ 4 COMMENTS The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 3.9% in April, hitting the lowest level since December 2000, as employers picked up the pace of hiring by adding 164,000 jobs. Wider measures of unemployment also declined last month, including the broadest rate of underemployment that includes those so discouraged that they have stopped looking for work and part-time workers who want full-time work. That broad rate reached the lowest level since 2001....more

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• The fractured Democrats & What is to be done? @LizPeek

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  May 10 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Wood engraving illustrating the Charleston convention 1860) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The fractured Democrats & What is to be done? @LizPeek https://www.wsj.com/graphics/divisions-among-the-democrats/?mod=article_inline

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• Why were we in Vietnam? A Noble Cause: 2 of 2: American Battlefield Victories In Vietnam Kindle Edition by Douglas Niles (Author)

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  May 10 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Why were we in Vietnam? A Noble Cause: 2 of 2: American Battlefield Victories In Vietnam Kindle Edition by Douglas Niles (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Noble-Cause-American-Battlefield-Victories-ebook/dp/B00TY3ZN8I/ref=sr11?ie=UTF8&qid=1525824694&sr=8-1&keywords=Noble+cause+niles Celebrating the skill and bravery of the United States armed forces and their South Vietnamese allies, A Noble Cause presents a gripping chronicle of both large and small unit successful combat engagements, including the Battle of Dong Xoai (1965); the Battle of Ia Drang Valley (1965), the first major ground battle of the Vietnam War; the Battle of Loc Ninh (1967) by the Cambodian border; the Battle of Khe Sanh (1967–1968) leading up to the Tet Offensive; the Battle of Dong Ha (1968); the bloody siege on Hamburger Hill (1969); and the Battle of An Loc (1972), sixty-five miles north of Saigon, which contributed to the failure of the Vietcong’s Eastertide Offensive. A Noble Cause chronicles the crucial strategic decisions that led to victory—often against steep odds—and honors the bravery of every soldier who stood his ground, faced the enemy, and gave his all....more

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• Walking to the Hanoi Hilton: Through the Valley: 1 of 4: My Captivity in Vietnam by William Reeder Jr.

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  May 10 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Walking to the Hanoi Hilton: Through the Valley: 1 of 4: My Captivity in Vietnam by William Reeder Jr. [ https://www.amazon.com/Through-Valley-My-Captivity-Vietnam/dp/1591145864/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525921016&sr=1-1&keywords=through+the+valley+reader](https://www.amazon.com/Through-Valley-My-Captivity-Vietnam/dp/1591145864/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525921016&sr=1-1&keywords=through+the+valley+reader) ...more

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• Gaza threatens Southern Israel & What is to be done? @AaronKleinShow

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  May 09 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Gaza threatens Southern Israel & What is to be done? @AaronKleinShow

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• Iran threatens northern Israel & What is to be done? @AaronKleinShow

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  May 09 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Iran threatens northern Israel & What is to be done? @AaronKleinShow

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• Ending the Iran Deal & the European Allies. @rich_goldberg @ThadMcCotter

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  May 09 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Ending the Iran Deal & the European Allies. @rich_goldberg @ThadMcCotter

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• Ending the Iran Deal & and the Middle East. @rich_goldberg @ThadMcCotter

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  May 09 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Ending the Iran Deal & and the Middle East. @rich_goldberg @ThadMcCotter

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• Europe and the Democrats complain emptily at the end of the failed Iran deal. @MaryKissel

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  May 09 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Europe and the Democrats complain emptily at the end of the failed Iran deal. @MaryKissel https://www.wsj.com/articles/after-obamas-iran-deal-1525821110

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• The unknown country road ahead for trade talks with China. @Larry_Kudlow, Director of NEC.

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  May 09 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The unknown country road ahead for trade talks with China. @Larry_Kudlow, Director of NEC. http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-china-trade-war-trip-mnuchin-ross-navarro-lighthizer-2018-5

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• Why did Kim Jung Un again dash secretly to Xi Jinping in China? @GordonCChang

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  May 09 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Why did Kim Jung Un again dash secretly to Xi Jinping in China? @GordonCChang

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• Trump economy surges for to a 45-year high for small businesses. @StephenMoore @Heritage

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  May 09 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Trump economy surges for to a 45-year high for small businesses. @StephenMoore @Heritage https://finance.yahoo.com/news/small-business-optimism-climbs-earnings-jump-time-high-nfib-says-100017769.html Small business optimism climbs as profit levels jump to all-time high, NFIB says

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• China's miracle makes Americans richer: @JohnTamny

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  May 09 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow China's miracle makes Americans richer: @JohnTamny https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2018/04/17/hopingucirvinewilldotheworldafavorandtakepeternavarroback103234.html

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• Nine Days in May: 3 of 3: The Battles of the 4th Infantry Division on the Cambodian Border, by Warren K. Wilkins

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  May 09 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:The 1st Battalion, 503rd U.S. Infantry battles for Hill 882, southwest of Dak To ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Nine Days in May: 3 of 3: The Battles of the 4th Infantry Division on the Cambodian Border, by Warren K. Wilkins https://www.amazon.com/Nine-Days-May-Infantry-Cambodian/dp/0806157151/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525405534&sr=1-1 Moving through the jungle near the Cambodian border on May 18, 1967, a company of American infantry observed three North Vietnamese Army regulars, AK-47s slung over their shoulders, walking down a well-worn trail in the rugged Central Highlands. Startled by shouts of “Lai day, lai day” (“Come here, come here”), the three men dropped their packs and fled. The company commander, a young lieutenant, sent a platoon down the trail to investigate. Those few men soon found themselves outnumbered, surrounded, and fighting for their lives. Their first desperate moments marked the beginning of a series of bloody battles that lasted more than a week, one that survivors would later call “the nine days in May border battles.” Nine Days in May is the first full account of these bitterly contested battles. Part of Operation Francis Marion, they took place in the Ia Tchar Valley and the remote jungle west of Pleiku. Fought between three American battalions and two North Vietnamese Army regiments, this prolonged, deadly encounter was one of the largest, most savage actions seen by elements of the storied 4th Infantry Division in Vietnam. Drawing on interviews with the participants, Warren K. Wilkins recreates the vicious fighting in gripping detail. This is a story of extraordinary courage and sacrifice displayed in a series of battles that were fought and won within the context of a broader, intractable strategic stalemate. When the guns finally fell silent, an unheralded American brigade received a Presidential Unit Citation and earned three of the twelve Medals of Honor awarded to soldiers of the 4th Infantry Division in Vietnam....more

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• Why were we in Vietnam? A Noble Cause: 1 of 2: American Battlefield Victories In Vietnam Kindle Edition by Douglas Niles (Author)

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  May 09 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Two U.S. Marine Corps amphibious tractors are moving along the beach in the foreground, with a UH-1 helicopter approaching at right. USS Washtenaw County (LST-1166) is in the background during Operation Deckhouse Five.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Why were we in Vietnam? A Noble Cause: 1 of 2:  American Battlefield Victories In Vietnam Kindle Edition by Douglas Niles (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Noble-Cause-American-Battlefield-Victories-ebook/dp/B00TY3ZN8I/ref=sr11?ie=UTF8&qid=1525824694&sr=8-1&keywords=Noble+cause+niles Celebrating the skill and bravery of the United States armed forces and their South Vietnamese allies, A Noble Cause presents a gripping chronicle of both large and small unit successful combat engagements, including the Battle of Dong Xoai (1965); the Battle of Ia Drang Valley (1965), the first major ground battle of the Vietnam War; the Battle of Loc Ninh (1967) by the Cambodian border; the Battle of Khe Sanh (1967–1968) leading up to the Tet Offensive; the Battle of Dong Ha (1968); the bloody siege on Hamburger Hill (1969); and the Battle of An Loc (1972), sixty-five miles north of Saigon, which contributed to the failure of the Vietcong’s Eastertide Offensive. A Noble Cause chronicles the crucial strategic decisions that led to victory—often against steep odds—and honors the bravery of every soldier who stood his ground, faced the enemy, and gave his all....more

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• Untax the rich and grow the jobs and GDP. @JohnTamny @RealClearMarkets

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  May 09 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Scrooge ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Untax the rich and grow the jobs and GDP. @JohnTamny @RealClearMarkets https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/04/24/thegreattaxmigration_136885.html

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• Large-scale dog-and-pony airstrike on Syria. Tyler Rogoway @Thewarzone

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  May 08 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:010614-N-8894M-001 Pacific Ocean (Jun.16, 2001) -- The Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyer USS Higgins (DDG 76) maneuvers at high speed during routine operations near San Diego, California. Date 16 June 2001 Source From: http://www.news.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=3156 crop is from http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/01076.htm (Navsource is not a US Navy website) Author U.S. Navy Photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Frederick McCahan. (RELEASED) Permission (Reusing this file)  License: public domain ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Large-scale dog-and-pony airstrike on Syria. Tyler Rogoway @Thewarzone...more

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• Russia demonstrates anti-ship missiles off Syria and what is t be done? Tyler Rogoway @Thewarzone

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  May 08 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: Russian Air Force Su-30MKM Date 17 August 2001 Source http://www.airliners.net/photo/Russia---Air/Sukhoi-Su-30MK/0190584/L/ Author Dmitry Avdeev) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Russia demonstrates anti-ship missiles off Syria and what istot be done? Tyler Rogoway @Thewarzone http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/20602/russian-su-30sm-fighter-jet-crashed-off-the-syrian-coast-killing-both-crew

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• North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa: Enabling Violence and Instability by Bruce E. Bechtol Jr. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @ThadMcCotter

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  May 08 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: 122mm Sonyon 323 - North Korea Victory Day-2013 Date 26 July 2013, 23:08:30 Source https://www.flickr.com/photos/rapidtravelchai/9465924432/ Author Stefan Krasowski Camera location 39° 01′ 22.3″ N, 125° 46′ 25.96″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa: Enabling Violence and Instability by Bruce E. Bechtol Jr. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @ThadMcCotter...more

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• China aims to conquer. @ThadMcCotter@GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  May 08 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Earliest known representation of a gun (a fire lance) and a grenade (upper right), from the cave murals of Dunhuang, China, 10th century.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow China aims to conquer. @ThadMcCotter@GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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• The Day after the Iran Deal Ends. @DavidMDrucker @ThadMcCotter

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  May 08 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks with "CBS Evening News" Anchor Scott Pelley before an interview at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York, N.Y., on August 11, 2015, focused on the Iranian nuclear deal negotiated by the United States, Iran, the European Union, and the P5+1 nations. [State Department photo/ Public Domain] Date 11 August 2015, 14:16 Source Secretary Kerry Speaks on 'CBS Evening News' Set in New York With Anchor Pelley Before Interview Focused on Iran Nuclear Deal Author U.S. Department of State from United States ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Day after the Iran Deal Ends. @DavidMDrucker @ThadMcCotter...more

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• ISIS advances against Assad. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn

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  May 08 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Southern Damascus ISIS agitprop from Long War Journal) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow ISIS advances against Assad. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2018/05/islamic-state-continues-to-battle-assad-regime-allies.php

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• Mueller struggles with Flynn, Manafort, and the Russian Trolls: 2 of 2: @ThadMcCotter @AndrewCMcCarthy

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  May 08 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden meet with senior advisors in the Oval Office to discuss the shootings in Aurora, Colorado, July 20, 2012. Pictured, from left, are: Kathryn Ruemmler, Counsel to the President, and FBI Director Robert Mueller. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) Date 20 July 2012, 14:22 Source P072012PS-0298 Author The White House from Washington, DC ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Mueller struggles with Flynn, Manafort, and the Russian Trolls: 2 of 2: @ThadMcCotter @AndrewCMcCarthy https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/robert-mueller-tough-week-court-manafort/...more

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• Mueller struggles with Flynn, Manafort, and the Russian Trolls: 1 of 2: @ThadMcCotter @AndrewCMcCarthy

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  May 08 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:President Bush Nominates Robert S. Mueller as Director of the FBI President George W. Bush announces Robert Mueller to be director of the FBI during an ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Mueller struggles with Flynn, Manafort, and the Russian Trolls: 1 of 2: @ThadMcCotter @AndrewCMcCarthy https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/robert-mueller-tough-week-court-manafort/

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• The jobs boom do not lead to wage increases. @McTagueJ

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  May 08 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Workers assemble Volkswagen Golf 6 cars at the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg, Germany. Volkswagen and other German automakers are among those driving Germany's economic boom. Sean Gallup/Getty Images) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The jobs boom do not lead to wage increases. @McTagueJ https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/april-2018-jobs-report-analysis The pace of hiring is beginning to slow. After the longest stretch of uninterrupted job growth on record, many economists believe the pace of hiring will begin to slow as employers increasingly struggle to find new workers. The U.S. economy added 164,000 jobs in April, compared to a monthly average of 191,000 additions over the past year. The unemployment rate will likely fall further. The jobless rate fell to 3.9% in April after sitting at 4.1% for six consecutive months. The fall was driven in part by the decline in the labor force participation rate, a which some economists worry could signal that people are feeling less optimistic about job prospects. Still, economists expect the unemployment rate will decline further in the months ahead--with the Fed forecasting a 3.6% rate next year--as the labor market continues to tighten....more

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• The DOD deceives the DOD about the Taliban. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn

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  May 08 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: President Ronald Reagan meeting with Afghan Mujahideen leaders in the Oval Office in 1983 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The DOD deceives the DOD about the Taliban. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2018/05/desperate-taliban-has-lost-ground-pentagon-spokesperson-wrongly-claims.php

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• Iran and North Korea failures: The Second Nuclear Age: 2 of 2: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics by Paul Bracken

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  May 08 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:A truck-mounted launch system (TEL) armed with 4 Babur cruise missiles on display at the IDEAS 2008 defence exhibition in Karachi, Pakistan.  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Iran and North Korea failures: 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/dp/1250037352/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525738843&sr=1-1 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....more

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

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:The televised screen-shot of Chagai-I on 28 May 1998.  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Iran and North Korea failures: 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/dp/1250037352/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525738843&sr=1-1 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....more

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• National Fixer-Upper: The Hidden White House: 2 of 2: Harry Truman and the Reconstruction of America’s Most Famous Residence by Robert Klara

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  May 07 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Workers inside Ductwork during the Renovation of the White House, 07/19/1951 Description  General notes: To underscore the size of the massive new ventilation system being installed above the tunnel in the new White House basement, the photographer placed workmen inside the illuminated ductwork. All are unidentified. Date 19 July 1951 Current location  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. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow National Fixer-Upper: The Hidden White House: 2 of 2: Harry Truman and the Reconstruction of America’s Most Famous Residence by Robert Klara https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-White-House-Reconstruction-Residence/dp/1250000270/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525645237&sr=1-1&keywords=white+house+klara...more

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• National Fixer-Upper: The Hidden White House: 1 of 2: Harry Truman and the Reconstruction of America’s Most Famous Residence by Robert Klara

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Southwest View of the North Portico of the White House during the Renovation, 06/05/1951 Description  General notes: The southwest view of the North Portico of the White House during the renovation. The old worn sandstone steps have been removed and will be replaced by stone steps. Date 5 June 1951 Current location  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. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow National Fixer-Upper: The Hidden White House: 1 of 2:  Harry Truman and the Reconstruction of America’s Most Famous Residence by Robert Klara https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-White-House-Reconstruction-Residence/dp/1250000270/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525645237&sr=1-1&keywords=white+house+klara...more

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• June, 1967: Like Dreamers: 2 of 2: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation by Yossi Klein Halevi

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  May 07 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: 1967. Description Only three days pased since the IDF conqered the old City of Jerusalem and freed the Holy place for the Jews like the Western Wall, thousands of Jews from all the country pilgrimage to the spot which for many years was out for the Jews. Photo shows: A soldier who receive a short leave put on tefilin with the help. Depicted place Jerusalem (Israel) Date 1967 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow June, 1967: Like Dreamers:  2 of 2: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation by Yossi Klein Halevi https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060545771/ref=dbsadefrwtbiblvppii1...more

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• June, 1967: Like Dreamers: 1 of 2: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation by Yossi Klein Halevi (Author)

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: Israeli policemen meet a Jordanian legionnaire near the Mandelbaum Gate on the ceasefire line that went through Jerusalem between 1949 and June 1967 العربية: شرطي إسرائيلي يلتقي بجندي أردني قرب بوابة مندلباوم على خط الهدنة الذي كان يفصل مدينة القدس بين 1949 وحزيران/يونيو 1967 עברית: שוטר ישראלי פוגש לגיונר ירדני ליד שער מנדלבאום על קו הפסקת האש שחצה את ירושלים בין 1949 ויוני 1967 Date circa 1950 Source A Photographed History of Israel Author Unknown ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow June, 1967: Like Dreamers: 1 of 2:  The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation by Yossi Klein Halevi https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060545771/ref=dbsadefrwtbiblvppii1...more

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• First Cold War: Blind over Cuba: 2 of 2: The Photo Gap and the Missile Crisis (Foreign Relations and the Presidency) by David M. Barrett and Max Holland

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  May 07 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:A U.S. Navy Lockheed SP-2H Neptune (BuNo 140986) of patrol squadron VP-18 Flying Phantoms flying over a Soviet freighter. The freighter is most probably the Okhotsk, which left the port at Nuevita carrying 12 IL-28 airplanes on 5 December 1962 ; see [1], [2], [3]. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow First Cold War: Blind over Cuba: 2 of 2:  The Photo Gap and the Missile Crisis (Foreign Relations and the Presidency) by David M. Barrett and Max Holland https://www.amazon.com/Blind-over-Cuba-Relations-Presidency/dp/1603447687/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525644315&sr=1-1&keywords=blind+over+cuba+holland...more

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• First Cold War: Blind over Cuba: 1 of 2: The Photo Gap and the Missile Crisis (Foreign Relations and the Presidency) by David M. Barrett and Max Holland

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: More details President Kennedy signs the Proclamation for Interdiction of the Delivery of Offensive Weapons to Cuba at the Oval Office on October 23, 1962.[56] Originally from en.wikipedia; description page is/was here. ST-459-10-62 23 October 1962 President Kennedy signs the Proclamation for Interdiction of the Delivery of Offensive Weapons to Cuba. White House, Oval Office. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow First Cold War: Blind over Cuba: 1 of 2: The Photo Gap and the Missile Crisis (Foreign Relations and the Presidency) by David M. Barrett and Max Holland https://www.amazon.com/Blind-over-Cuba-Relations-Presidency/dp/1603447687/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525644315&sr=1-1&keywords=blind+over+cuba+holland...more

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• Energy Superpower: The Frackers: 2 of 2: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters by Gregory Zuckerman by Gregory Zuckerman.

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  May 07 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: Middle of the fracking process while fracking the Bakken in North Dakota Date 11 August 2011, 05:58:27 Source Own work Author Joshua Doubek ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Energy Superpower: The Frackers: 2 of 2: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters by Gregory Zuckerman by Gregory Zuckerman. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FIW06QM/ref=dbsadefrwthschvapitaftp1i4

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• Energy Superpower: The Frackers: 1 of 2: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters by Gregory Zuckerman by Gregory Zuckerman.

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  May 07 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Description  English: Halliburton Frack Job in the Bakken Date 9 August 2011, 07:09:52 Source Own work Author Joshua Doubek) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Energy Superpower: The Frackers: 1 of 2:  The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters by Gregory Zuckerman by Gregory Zuckerman. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FIW06QM/ref=dbsadefrwthschvapitaftp1i4

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• Crows can live for 59 years: Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness by Lyanda Lynn Haupt

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  May 07 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Japan; Print; Prints Date mid- 1810s Medium Part of an album of woodblock prints (surimono); ink and color on paper Dimensions 8 1/4 x 7 1/4 in. (21 x 18.4 cm) Current location  Metropolitan Museum of Art Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q160236 Asian Art Accession number JP2373 Credit line H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Crows can live for 59 years: Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness by Lyanda Lynn Haupt https://www.amazon.com/Crow-Planet-Essential-Wisdom-Wilderness/dp/0316019119/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525647326&sr=1-1&keywords=crow+planet...more

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• 4 years ago: The US threatens Russia at the start of Ukraine Crisis: 4/28/14. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.

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  May 07 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Overview of the occupation of central Kiev by protestors in early February 2014 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow 4 years ago: The US threatens Russia at the start of Ukraine Crisis: 4/28/14. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.

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• 4 years ago: Temp workers in America. Michael Grabell @ProPublica

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  May 07 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: Alaska Mercantile Company's warehouses and main store, Nome, October 1, 1906 Description  English: Caption on image: Rear view of Alaska Mercantile Co.'s warehouses 4, 5, 6 and Main store, Nome, Alaska, Oct. 1st 1906. F.H. Nowell, 5265 Subjects (LCTGM): Warehouses--Alaska--Nome; Stores & shops--Alaska--Nome; Railroad tracks--Alaska--Nome Subjects (LCSH): Alaska Mercantile Company Depicted place Nome Date 1906 Medium  English: Silver gelatin, b&w : 8 x 10 in. Photographer  English: Frank H. Nowell) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow 4 years ago: Temp workers in America. @MichaelGrabell @ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/us-lags-behind-world-in-temp-worker-protections But Herrera works in the United States, which has some of the weakest labor protections for temp workers in the developed world, according to data compiled by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which produces research on behalf of 34 of the world’s industrialized nations. Since the 2007-09 recession, temp work has been one of the fastest growing segments of the economy. But a ProPublica investigation into this burgeoning industry over the past year has documented an array of problems. Temps have worked for the same company for as long as 11 years, never getting hired on full-time. Companies have assigned temps to the most dangerous jobs. In several states, data showed that temps are three times more likely than regular workers to suffer amputations on the job. And even some of the country’s largest companies have relied on immigrant labor brokers and fly-by-night temp agencies that have cheated workers out of their wages....more

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

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  May 06 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: The Frick Collection) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Two bullets struck Frick: More Powerful Than Dynamite: 2 of 2: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy by Thai Jones https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007DD9OSG/ref=dbsadefrwthschvapitaftp1i0 In the year that saw the start of World War I, the United States was itself on the verge of revolution: industrial depression in the east, striking coal miners in Colorado, and increasingly tense relations with Mexico. "There was blood in the air that year," a witness later recalled, "there truly was." In New York, the year had opened with bright expectations, but 1914 quickly tumbled into disillusionment and violence. For John Purroy Mitchel, the city's new "boy mayor," the trouble started in January, when a crushing winter caused homeless shelters to overflow. By April, anarchist throngs paraded past industrialists' mansions, and tens of thousands filled Union Square demanding "Bread or Revolution." Then, on July 4, 1914, a detonation destroyed a seven-story Harlem tenement. It was the largest explosion the city had ever known. Among the dead were three bombmakers; incited by anarchist Alexander Berkman, they had been preparing to dynamite the estate of John D. Rockefeller Jr., son of a plutocratic dynasty and widely vilified for a massacre of his company's striking workers in Colorado earlier that spring. More Powerful Than Dynamite charts how anarchist anger, progressive idealism, and plutocratic paternalism converged in that July explosion. Its cast ranges from celebrated figures such as Emma Goldman, Upton Sinclair, and Andrew Carnegie to the fascinating and heretofore little known: Frank Tannenbaum, a homeless teenager who dared to lead his followers into the city's churches; police inspector Max Schmittberger, too honest for his department and too crooked for everyone else; and Becky Edelsohn, a young anarchist known for her red tights and for spitting in millionaires' faces. Historian and journalist Thai Jones creates a fascinating portrait of a city on the edge of chaos coming to terms with modernity. Alexander Berkman plotted to murder Frick. On July 23, 1892 Berkman, armed with a revolver and a sharpened steel file, entered Frick's office in downtown Pittsburgh.[3] Frick, realizing what was happening, attempted to rise from his chair while Berkman pulled a revolver and fired at nearly point-blank range. The bullet hit Frick in the left earlobe, penetrated his neck near the base of the skull, and lodged in his back. The impact knocked Frick down, and Berkman fired again, striking Frick for a second time in the neck and causing him to bleed extensively. Carnegie Steel vice president (later, president) John George Alexander Leishman, who was with Frick, was then able to grab Berkman’s arm and prevented a third shot, probably saving Frick's life.[citation needed] Frick was seriously wounded, but rose and (with the assistance of Leishman) tackled his assailant.[11] All three men crashed to the floor, where Berkman managed to stab Frick four times in the leg with the pointed steel file before finally being subdued by other employees, who had rushed into the office.[citation needed] Frick was back at work in a week; Berkman was charged and found guilty of attempted murder. Berkman's actions in planning the assassination clearly indicated a premeditated intent to kill, and he was sentenced to 22 years in prison.[3] Negative publicity from the attempted assassination resulted in the collapse of the strike.[12] Approximately 2,500 men lost their jobs, and most of the workers who stayed had their wages halved.[13]...more

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

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Two bullets struck Frick: More Powerful Than Dynamite: 1 of 2:  Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy by Thai Jones [ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007DD9OSG/ref=dbsadefrwthschvapitaftp1i0](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007DD9OSG/ref=dbsadefrwthschvapitaftp1i0) In the year that saw the start of World War I, the United States was itself on the verge of revolution: industrial depression in the east, striking coal miners in Colorado, and increasingly tense relations with Mexico. "There was blood in the air that year," a witness later recalled, "there truly was." In New York, the year had opened with bright expectations, but 1914 quickly tumbled into disillusionment and violence. For John Purroy Mitchel, the city's new "boy mayor," the trouble started in January, when a crushing winter caused homeless shelters to overflow. By April, anarchist throngs paraded past industrialists' mansions, and tens of thousands filled Union Square demanding "Bread or Revolution." Then, on July 4, 1914, a detonation destroyed a seven-story Harlem tenement. It was the largest explosion the city had ever known. Among the dead were three bombmakers; incited by anarchist Alexander Berkman, they had been preparing to dynamite the estate of John D. Rockefeller Jr., son of a plutocratic dynasty and widely vilified for a massacre of his company's striking workers in Colorado earlier that spring. More Powerful Than Dynamite charts how anarchist anger, progressive idealism, and plutocratic paternalism converged in that July explosion. Its cast ranges from celebrated figures such as Emma Goldman, Upton Sinclair, and Andrew Carnegie to the fascinating and heretofore little known: Frank Tannenbaum, a homeless teenager who dared to lead his followers into the city's churches; police inspector Max Schmittberger, too honest for his department and too crooked for everyone else; and Becky Edelsohn, a young anarchist known for her red tights and for spitting in millionaires' faces. Historian and journalist Thai Jones creates a fascinating portrait of a city on the edge of chaos coming to terms with modernity. Alexander Berkman plotted to murder Frick. On July 23, 1892 Berkman, armed with a revolver and a sharpened steel file, entered Frick's office in downtown Pittsburgh.[3] Frick, realizing what was happening, attempted to rise from his chair while Berkman pulled a revolver and fired at nearly point-blank range. The bullet hit Frick in the left earlobe, penetrated his neck near the base of the skull, and lodged in his back. The impact knocked Frick down, and Berkman fired again, striking Frick for a second time in the neck and causing him to bleed extensively. Carnegie Steel vice president (later, president) John George Alexander Leishman, who was with Frick, was then able to grab Berkman’s arm and prevented a third shot, probably saving Frick's life.[citation needed] Frick was seriously wounded, but rose and (with the assistance of Leishman) tackled his assailant.[11] All three men crashed to the floor, where Berkman managed to stab Frick four times in the leg with the pointed steel file before finally being subdued by other employees, who had rushed into the office.[citation needed] Frick was back at work in a week; Berkman was charged and found guilty of attempted murder. Berkman's actions in planning the assassination clearly indicated a premeditated intent to kill, and he was sentenced to 22 years in prison.[3] Negative publicity from the attempted assassination resulted in the collapse of the strike.[12] Approximately 2,500 men lost their jobs, and most of the workers who stayed had their wages halved.[13]...more

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• Arabian Nights: The Honored Dead: A Story of Friendship, Murder, and the Search for Truth in the Arab World by Joseph Braude

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  May 06 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Casablanca in 1930—seen from Boulevard de la Gare, now Muhammad El-Khamis Street) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Arabian Nights: The Honored Dead: A Story of Friendship, Murder, and the Search for Truth in the Arab World by Joseph Braude https://www.amazon.com/Honored-Dead-Friendship-Murder-Search/dp/0385527039/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525574574&sr=1-1&keywords=honored+dead

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

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  May 06 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:President Eisenhower with Wernher von Braun, 1960 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Stealthy Management: 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

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

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  May 06 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:U.S. President Eisenhower visits Taiwan and its President Chiang Kai-shek at Taipei. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Stealthy Management: 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

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• 5 months ago: John Bolton on Jerusalem.:"What Trump did merely recognized reality. We have found the capital of Israel, and it turns out it's Jerusalem."

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  May 06 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: Old Jerusalem Al-Jabsha Street stairs and arches. The ramps in the middle of the streets are to accommodate carts. On the right, entrance to the Greco-Orthodox monastery of St. Spyridon Français : Vieille ville de Jérusalem, quartier chrétien, rue Al-Jabsha - sur la droite, l'entrée du monastère gréco-orthodoxe de St. Spyridon Date 8 October 2010, 10:36 Source Own work ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow 5 months ago: John Bolton on Jerusalem.:"What Trump did merely recognized reality. We have found the capital of Israel, and it turns out it's Jerusalem." Jerusalem has always been the capital of the State of Israel. @AmbJohnBolton @ThadMcCotter http://triblive.com/opinion/featuredcommentary/13039875-74/john-bolton-trumps-jerusalem-declaration-long-overdue Update Description...more

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• 9 months ago: John Bolton on North North Korea: ""I think the regime in North Korea is much more fragile that people think." @AmbJohnBolton @ThadMcCotter

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  May 06 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: UN delegate Lieut. Gen. William K. Harrison, Jr. (seated left), and Korean People’s Army and Chinese People’s Volunteers delegate Gen. Nam Il (seated right) signing the Korean War armistice agreement at P’anmunjŏm, Korea, July 27, 1953. 中文（简体）‎: 《朝鲜停战协定》签署现场，1953年7月27日。左侧坐者为联合国军代表团首席代表、美国陆军中将威廉·凯·海立胜，右侧坐者为朝鲜人民军与中国人民志愿军代表团首席代表、朝鲜人民军大将南日。 Date 27 July 1953 Source http://www.britannica.com/media/full/160426 (a crop of NARA FILE #: 080-G-625728, WAR & CONFLICT BOOK #: 1517) Author U.S. Department of Defense (F. Kazukaitis. U.S. Navy) ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow 9 months ago: John Bolton on North North Korea: ""I think the regime in North Korea is much more fragile that people think." @AmbJohnBolton @ThadMcCotter Last exit for North Korea and Afghanistan. @AmbJohnBolton @ThadMcCotter Former National Security Advisor Susan Rice acknowledged last week that America's policies regarding North Korea's nuclear-weapons program over the last three administrations had failed. She said, rightly, "You can call it a failure. I accept that characterization of the efforts of the United States over the last two decades." Former Vice President Al Gore said much the same. They should know. They served under President Bill Clinton, who started things rolling downhill with the Agreed Framework of 1994. This misbegotten deal provided Pyongyang 500,000 tons of heavy fuel oil annually and two light-water nuclear reactors in exchange for the North's promise to abandon its nuclear-weapons efforts. Pyongyang violated its promise before the ink was dry. In 1999, former Secretary of State James Baker denounced Clinton's approach as "a policy of appeasement." Baker's characterization also applies to much of the subsequent U.S. diplomacy. North Korea has always been willing to promise to abandon its nuclear ambitions to get tangible economic benefits. It just never gets around to honoring its commitments. After 25 years of failure, we need not tarry long (or at all) on more diplomacy with Pyongyang. Fred Ikle once characterized the North as capable of "boundless mendacity." He was being charitable. Talking to North Korea is worse than a mere waste of time. Negotiations legitimize the dictatorship, affording it more time to enhance its nuclear and ballistic-missile capabilities. Today, only one diplomatic option remains, and it does not involve talking to Pyongyang. Instead, President Trump should urge President Xi Jinping that reunifying the Korean Peninsula is in China's national interest. This is a hard argument to make, requiring reversal of decades of Chinese policy. It should have been broached years ago, but it is still doable. There is now growing awareness in China that maintaining the two Koreas, especially given the current nuclear crisis, does not benefit China long-term. Historically, the Korean Peninsula's 1945 partition was always intended to be temporary. Kim Il-Sung's 1950 invasion of South Korea and three years of ultimately inconclusive war resulted in hardening the bifurcation into its current manifestation. Beijing has backed the status quo, believing that North Korea provided a buffer between Chinese territory and U.S. military forces. Maintaining its satellite, however, has been expensive and risky. China has long supplied more than 90 percent of the North's energy needs, and vast quantities of food and other assistance to sustain Pyongyang's gulag. China has also expended enormous political and diplomatic energy, costing it precious international credibility, to protect the North's erratic regime. Initially, China saw the North's nuclear and ballistic-missile programs as a problem for America, Japan and South Korea rather than itself. That notion has disappeared, however, under the harsh prospect that today's nuclear crisis will be merely the first of many with North Korea. Moreover, Japan is now increasingly likely to seek its own nuclear capability, a nightmare for China in some respects more troubling than America. Confronted by this new, deeply threatening reality, Beijing's views on Korean reunification are ripe for change. China has never applied its uniquely strong economic leverage on Pyongyang because it feared so doing could cause catastrophic collapse of the North's regime. That would in turn produce two unacceptable consequences: massive Korean refugee flows across the border into China, and American and South Korean troops crossing the DMZ and quickly reaching the Yalu and Tumen Rivers....more

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• Dealing with Devils: Escape from North Korea: 2 of 2: The Untold Story of Asia's Underground Railroad by Melanie Kirkpatrick

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: "We are pretty sure now that the communists wanted peace, not because of a two-year stalemate on the ground, but to get airpower off their back." Gen. O.P. Weyland, Far East Air Forces Commander  Facing increasing UN air power pressure, the communists finally signed a ceasefire on July 27, 1953, ending the fighting in Korea. The U.S. Air Force emerged from the Korean War as a proven force, ready to face future Cold War challenges. In the fight to resist communist aggression, 1,198 USAF Airmen gave their lives.  Peace negotiations began on July 10, 1951, in Kaesong, a city near the 38th parallel and now part of North Korea. For two years, negotiations stalled over the prisoner of war issue. Talks were deadlocked and troops faced a stalemate on the ground, but air power still gave the UN effective leverage. Air attacks made continuing the war too costly for the communists, and they signed an armistice on July 27, 1953. The end of combat created the famous Demilitarized Zone or "DMZ" as a buffer zone between the two Koreas. This zone has become the world's most fortified international frontier, and has been the scene of several small-scale but violent North Korean incursions over the years. The zone completely divides the peninsula. It is 4 kilometers wide, or 2 kilometers on either side of the border. While the armistice ended the fighting, there is still no peace treaty officially ending the war in Korea. Since 1953, U.S. forces have remained on guard in South Korea and Japan, ready to defend South Korea against aggression from the north.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Dealing with Devils: Escape from North Korea: 2 of 2:  The Untold Story of Asia's Underground Railroad by Melanie Kirkpatrick “With the perfect, hypnotic flow of a consummate journalist, Melanie Kirkpatrick has created an encyclopedic, magnificently researched and reported portrait of the dramatic resistance to the slow-motion holocaust that is taking place in North Korea as you read this. Her account is as captivating as a thriller, but unlike a thriller it is morally compelling. What elevates it to the ranks of the finest books is the skill of its author and the selfless urgency of her appeal. Many a prize has been awarded to books not half as deserving.” — Mark Helprin, Author of Winter’s Tale and A Soldier of the Great War “Escape from North Korea should be assigned reading for anyone—policymaker, academic, or journalist alike—who think they know anything about the Kim family dictatorship. Melanie Kirkpatrick shows how “the new Underground Railroad” is not only providing an escape route from the prison camp that is North Korea, but something even more important as well. She shows how that escape route, aided and expanded, can bring down North Korea’s despotic regime and free its entire people. Kirkpatrick combines exhaustive reporting with insightful analysis in a powerful and compelling tale of repression and freedom.” — John R. Bolton, Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations “A riveting, meticulously researched account of the harrowing journey North Koreans must take to reach freedom. Kirkpatrick describes in detail the secret network of safe houses, transit routes and brokers that have emerged in China and other countries to enable North Koreans to escape. Similar to the Underground Railroad in the United States that liberated slaves, the network achieves inspiring successes and tragic failures. The book will interest both the general public and serve as a powerful tool for policymakers, academics and advocates interested in lending support to one of the world’s most persecuted people.” — Roberta Cohen, Co-chair of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea https://www.amazon.com/Escape-North-Korea-Underground-Railroad/dp/1594037299/ref=sr1sc_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1482892822&sr=1-1-spell&keywords=escape+north+korea+mirkpatrick...more

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• Dealing with Devils: Escape from North Korea: 1 of 2: The Untold Story of Asia's Underground Railroad by Melanie Kirkpatrick

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: During the Korean War, Koreans from Hamhung identify the bodies of some 300 political prisoners who were killed by the North Korean Army by being forced into caves which were subsequently sealed off so that they died of suffocation. October 19, 1950. Lt. Winslow. (Army) NARA FILE #: 111-SC-351359 WAR & CONFLICT BOOK #: 1508 Date  Source http://www.defenseimagery.mil/imageRetrieve.action?guid=2f8c2c2b7d7a58fd9921c747e04f403c4a7c51c7&t=2 Author Lt. Winslow Permission (Reusing this file)  Public domain photograph from defenseimagery.mil.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Dealing with Devils: Escape from North Korea: 1 of 2: The Untold Story of Asia's Underground Railroad by Melanie Kirkpatrick “With the perfect, hypnotic flow of a consummate journalist, Melanie Kirkpatrick has created an encyclopedic, magnificently researched and reported portrait of the dramatic resistance to the slow-motion holocaust that is taking place in North Korea as you read this. Her account is as captivating as a thriller, but unlike a thriller it is morally compelling. What elevates it to the ranks of the finest books is the skill of its author and the selfless urgency of her appeal. Many a prize has been awarded to books not half as deserving.” — Mark Helprin, Author of Winter’s Tale and A Soldier of the Great War “Escape from North Korea should be assigned reading for anyone—policymaker, academic, or journalist alike—who think they know anything about the Kim family dictatorship. Melanie Kirkpatrick shows how “the new Underground Railroad” is not only providing an escape route from the prison camp that is North Korea, but something even more important as well. She shows how that escape route, aided and expanded, can bring down North Korea’s despotic regime and free its entire people. Kirkpatrick combines exhaustive reporting with insightful analysis in a powerful and compelling tale of repression and freedom.” — John R. Bolton, Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations “A riveting, meticulously researched account of the harrowing journey North Koreans must take to reach freedom. Kirkpatrick describes in detail the secret network of safe houses, transit routes and brokers that have emerged in China and other countries to enable North Koreans to escape. Similar to the Underground Railroad in the United States that liberated slaves, the network achieves inspiring successes and tragic failures. The book will interest both the general public and serve as a powerful tool for policymakers, academics and advocates interested in lending support to one of the world’s most persecuted people.” — Roberta Cohen, Co-chair of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea https://www.amazon.com/Escape-North-Korea-Underground-Railroad/dp/1594037299/ref=sr1sc_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1482892822&sr=1-1-spell&keywords=escape+north+korea+mirkpatrick...more

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• 3 months ago, John Bolton on the media, "The Wall Street Journal call the mainstream media, during the Obama Administration,they called them ' stenographers for the White House.' That hasn't changed." @AmbJohnBolton @ThadMcCotter

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  May 06 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow 3 months ago, John Bolton on the media, "The Wall Street Journal call the mainstream media, during the Obama Administration,they called them ' stenographers for the White House.' That hasn't changed." @AmbJohnBolton @ThadMcCotter What was Susan Rice thinking? @AmbJohnBolton @ThadMcCotter http://triblive.com/opinion/featuredcommentary/13266369-74/john-boltons-trib-exclusive-fallout-from-the-memo-wars "…Much as it grates on my every instinct as a former Justice and State Department official, I believe we need massive disclosure of the underlying evidence in all the contentious areas described above. Just as a starter, we should provide full public access to all the testimony taken and documents produced for Congress. More will have to come from the Justice Department, perhaps jeopardizing future criminal prosecutions, but there are occasions where the public is better served by illustration than by prosecution. This is one of them. Plainly, significant aspects of these materials (such as applications to the foreign-intelligence court) will raise legitimate fears of harming intelligence and law-enforcement capabilities. Few arguments against public disclosure are more compelling than well-grounded concerns to protect the sources and methods used to gather intelligence and conduct criminal investigations. It is also true, as I have myself experienced, that these legitimate government interests can be used for blatantly political purposes. Deciding what to declassify will be an arduous task, but that is a reason to begin the review process now — not delay it. Animosities are so high that not even full disclosure may be enough to resolve the current disputes and restore faith to critical government institutions. And no matter how carefully analyzed, the disclosures will inevitably impair some legitimate government endeavors. But the most important government interest here is restoring the citizenry's faith in its government. That interest above all must prevail…."...more

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• 9 months ago: John Bolton, "To me, the abrogation of the Iran nuclear deal is critical to undermining the overall grand strategy that Iran is pursuing." @AmbJohnBolton @ThadMcCotter

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow 9 months ago: John Bolton, "To me, the abrogation of the Iran nuclear deal is critical to undermining the overall grand strategy that Iran is pursuing." @AmbJohnBolton @ThadMcCotter There are four basic elements to the development and implementation of the campaign plan to decertify and abrogate the Iran nuclear deal: 1. Early, quiet consultations with key players such as the U.K., France, Germany, Israel, and Saudi Arabia, to tell them we are going to abrogate the deal based on outright violations and other unacceptable Iranian behavior, and seek their input. 2. Prepare the documented strategic case for withdrawal through a detailed white paper (including declassified intelligence as appropriate) explaining why the deal is harmful to U.S. national interests, how Iran has violated it, and why Iran’s behavior more broadly has only worsened since the deal was agreed. 3. A greatly expanded diplomatic campaign should immediately follow the announcement, especially in Europe and the Middle East, and we should ensure continued emphasis on the Iran threat as a top diplomatic and strategic priority. 4. Develop and execute Congressional and public diplomacy efforts to build domestic and foreign support. Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/450890/iran-nuclear-deal-exit-strategy-john-bolton-memo-trump...more

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• Perfectly suits the news: And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life. by Charles J. Shields

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  May 05 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Dresden, Teilansicht des zerstörten Stadtzentrums über die Elbe nach der Neustadt. In der Bildmitte der Neumarkt und die Ruine der Frauenkirche.  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Perfectly suits the news:  And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life. by Charles J. Shields https://www.amazon.com/So-Goes-Kurt-Vonnegut-Life/dp/125001218X From the author of Mockingbird―the first authoritative biography of Kurt Vonnegut Jr., a writer who forever altered American literature In 2006, Charles Shields reached out to Kurt Vonnegut in a letter asking for his endorsement for a planned biography. The first response was no ("A most respectful demurring by me for the excellent writer Charles J. Shields, who offered to be my biographer"). Unwilling to take no for an answer, propelled by a passion for his subject, and already deep into his research, Shields wrote again and this time, to his delight, the answer came back: "O.K." For the next year―a year that ended up being Vonnegut's last―Shields had unprecedented access to Vonnegut and his letters. While millions know Vonnegut as a counterculture guru, antiwar activist, and satirist of American culture, few outside his closest friends and family knew the full arc of his extraordinary life. And So It Goes changes that, painting the portrait of a man who made friends easily but always felt lonely, sold millions of books but never felt appreciated, and described himself as a humanist but fought with humanity at large. As a former public relations man, Vonnegut crafted his image carefully―the avuncular, curly-haired humorist―though he admitted, "I myself am a work of fiction." The extremely wide and overwhelmingly positive review coverage for And So It Goes has been nothing less than extraordinary and confirm it as the definitive biography of Kurt Vonnegut....more

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• Unsolved war: 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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  AUTHOR. (Photo:North American F-51D-25-NT Mustangs of the 67th Fighter-Bomber Squadron. Serials 44-84916 and 44-75000 identifiable) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Unsolved war: 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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• Unsolved war: 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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  AUTHOR. (Photo: North American F-86F-25-NH Sabres of the 4th FIW over Korea. Serial 52-5346 identifiable) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Unsolved war: 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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• GAO dissects NASA's Titanics. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  May 05 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Rudder with central and port wing propellers[c] for scale note the man at bottom of the photo ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow GAO dissects NASA's Titanics. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com GAO predicts more delays and cost increases in NASA’s big projects May 3, 2018 at 10:30 am Robert Zimmerman The Government Accountability Office is predicting more delays and cost increases for most of NASA’s big projects in its tenth annual report. The cost and schedule performance” of NASA’s major projects “has deteriorated, but the extent of cost deterioration is unknown” because NASA does not have a cost estimate for Orion. Orion is “one of the largest projects in the portfolio” and NASA “expects cost growth.” As for schedule, “the average launch delay for the portfolio was 12 months, the highest delay GAO has reported in its 10 years” of making these assessments. GAO said the 12-month average delay is up from 7 months in last year’s assessment. Further, NASA faces the risk of more cost and schedule growth because of “new, large, complex projects that will enter the portfolio and expensive projects remaining the portfolio longer than expected.” Europa Clipper, the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway, and Europa Lander are cited as examples of those future large, complex projects. GAO did give NASA credit for putting processes in place to control the costs of Europa Clipper and WFIRST. GAO identified nine existing projects as the biggest contributors to the poor cost and schedule performance: SLS, Exploration Ground Systems (EGS), the Space Network Ground Segment Sustainment (SGSS) cited in the 2017 report, Mars 2020, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), ICESat-2, NISAR, ICON, and GRACE-FO (GRACE-Follow On). Orion has cost already cost the taxpayer about $15 billion, all of which will only buy the taxpayer three capsules (two unmanned test flights and a single manned flight). And yet they don’t have enough money yet, and NASA can’t provide a total cost estimate? To me, this appears to be outright theft. Building three capsules simply shouldn’t cost that much. (Note: the report claims Orion has cost about $6.6 billion. My number above comes from actual appropriations by Congress specifically for Orion. I think my number is a far more accurate reflection of the project’s true cost.) Though the report expresses concerns about schedule delays in the commercial crew program, it is with the NASA-run projects that the report finds the worst cost overruns and delays. All of the usual suspects above come in for criticism: Webb, WFIRST, SLS (and its associated ground facilities), Orion, LOP-G. I will make a prediction: All these NASA projects will be cited for further cost overruns and further delays in next year’s GAO report. By that time, we shall have also seen the first test flights of the commercial crew capsules by Boeing and SpaceX....more

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• Abbas anti-semitisim and Holocaust denial embraced by the PA. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_Pres

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  May 05 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Abbas with Ariel Sharon and George W. Bush in Aqaba, Jordan, 4 June 2003) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Abbas anti-semitisim and Holocaust denial embraced by the PA. Malcolm Hoenlein @ConfofPres

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• Lessons learned by taking in refugee school children in Florida. @Paul_E_Peterson @HooverInst

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  May 05 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Haiti: Earthquake 2010 | People standing amid the rubble of … | Flickr ... Haiti: Earthquake 2010 | by EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operation ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Lessons learned by taking in refugee school children in Florida. @PaulEPeterson @HooverInst Effects Of Refugee Students On Non-Refugee Students by Paul E. Peterson via The Education Exchange After a devastating earthquake struck Haiti in January 2010, thousands of Haitians moved to the U.S. and enrolled their children in school here. David Figlio, Dean of the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss his research on the impact these Haitian refugee students had on the non-refugee students who were already attending those schools....more

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• Fission power plant for larger solar system probes. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: Cassini-Huygens assembly ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Fission power plant for larger solar system probes. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com http://behindtheblack.com/?s=fission NASA has successfully completed a full test of a new small fission power plant that it hopes to use in future space missions. The prototype power system uses a solid, cast uranium-235 reactor core, about the size of a paper towel roll. Passive sodium heat pipes transfer reactor heat to high-efficiency Stirling engines, which convert the heat to electricity. According to David Poston, the chief reactor designer at NNSA’s Los Alamos National Laboratory, the purpose of the recent experiment in Nevada was two-fold: to demonstrate that the system can create electricity with fission power, and to show the system is stable and safe no matter what environment it encounters. “We threw everything we could at this reactor, in terms of nominal and off-normal operating scenarios and KRUSTY passed with flying colors,” said Poston. The Kilopower team conducted the experiment in four phases. The first two phases, conducted without power, confirmed that each component of the system behaved as expected. During the third phase, the team increased power to heat the core incrementally before moving on to the final phase. The experiment culminated with a 28-hour, full-power test that simulated a mission, including reactor startup, ramp to full power, steady operation and shutdown. Throughout the experiment, the team simulated power reduction, failed engines and failed heat pipes, showing that the system could continue to operate and successfully handle multiple failures. This power plant appears similar in concept to the fission RTG nuclear fuel systems that have been used routinely for decades on unmanned planetary probes such as the two Voyager spacecraft, New Horizons, and on Curiosity. This new system however provides significantly more power, as much as ten kilowatts compared to the approximate two hundred watts provided by RTGs. Such a system will be essential for future bases on both Mars and the Moon, where solar power is not the best option. I should also add that such a system might possibly have applications here on Earth. Developed properly, it could provide a practical power source for out-of-the-way locations not on the grid. If made cheap enough, it might also provide electrical customers a cheaper and competitive alternative that will allow them to remove themselves from the grid entirely....more

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• "Russia cloaking itself as a neutral peace-maker in Syria." @AnnaBorsch @WashInstitute Malcolm Hoenlein

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: Vladimir Putin visited Khmeimim Air Base in Syria • President of Russia At the Khmeimim air base in Syria. With the Aerospace Force pilots who took part) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Russia cloaking itself as a neutral peace-maker in Syria." @AnnaBorsch @WashInstitute Malcolm Hoenlein

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• Nine Days in May:2 of 3: The Battles of the 4th Infantry Division on the Cambodian Border, by Warren K. Wilkins

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Bình Dương, Phước Long and Bình Long provinces in map of South Vietnam ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Nine Days in May:2 of 3: The Battles of the 4th Infantry Division on the Cambodian Border, by Warren K. Wilkins https://www.amazon.com/Nine-Days-May-Infantry-Cambodian/dp/0806157151/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525405534&sr=1-1 Moving through the jungle near the Cambodian border on May 18, 1967, a company of American infantry observed three North Vietnamese Army regulars, AK-47s slung over their shoulders, walking down a well-worn trail in the rugged Central Highlands. Startled by shouts of “Lai day, lai day” (“Come here, come here”), the three men dropped their packs and fled. The company commander, a young lieutenant, sent a platoon down the trail to investigate. Those few men soon found themselves outnumbered, surrounded, and fighting for their lives. Their first desperate moments marked the beginning of a series of bloody battles that lasted more than a week, one that survivors would later call “the nine days in May border battles.” Nine Days in May is the first full account of these bitterly contested battles. Part of Operation Francis Marion, they took place in the Ia Tchar Valley and the remote jungle west of Pleiku. Fought between three American battalions and two North Vietnamese Army regiments, this prolonged, deadly encounter was one of the largest, most savage actions seen by elements of the storied 4th Infantry Division in Vietnam. Drawing on interviews with the participants, Warren K. Wilkins recreates the vicious fighting in gripping detail. This is a story of extraordinary courage and sacrifice displayed in a series of battles that were fought and won within the context of a broader, intractable strategic stalemate. When the guns finally fell silent, an unheralded American brigade received a Presidential Unit Citation and earned three of the twelve Medals of Honor awarded to soldiers of the 4th Infantry Division in Vietnam....more

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• Escalation on the Iran-Israeli front. Mike Doran @HudsonInstitute

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  AUTHOR. (PhotoDestroyed area in Aleppo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Escalation on the Iran-Israeli front. Mike Doran @HudsonInstitute Michael Doran is a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute. He specializes in Middle East security issues. In the administration of President George W. Bush, Doran served in the White House as a senior director in the National Security Council, where he was responsible for helping to devise and coordinate United States strategies on a variety of Middle East issues, including Arab-Israeli relations and U.S. efforts to contain Iran and Syria. He also served in the Bush administration as a senior advisor in the State Department and a deputy assistant secretary of defense in the Pentagon. Related Articles: · http://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/385700-israels-intelligence-coup-accentuates-irans-nuclear-threat · http://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/385591-the-details-reveal-the-true-danger-of-irans-secret-nuclear-program · http://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/an-extraordinary-intelligence-feat/...more

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• What will Berlin and Paris do about the failed Iran Deal? @rich_goldberg

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Berlin became the capital of the German Empire in 1871 and expanded rapidly in the following years. (Unter den Linden in 1900) ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow What will Berlin and Paris do about the failed Iran Deal? @rich_goldberg https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/iran-nuclear-deal-israeli-intelligence-report-reinstate-sanctions/

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• America's Intelligence Community loses its way. @MichaelLedeen @FDD

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  May 05 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Aerial view of the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters, Langley, Virginia.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow America's Intelligence Community loses its way. @MichaelLedeen @FDD https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/270045/former-cia-chief-blames-trump-creating-post-truth-michael-ledeen

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• Hizbollah is also a threat in the War of the North. @NeriZilber Malcolm Hoenlein

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  May 05 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:File:Hezbollah guys.jpg - Wikimedia Commons File:Hezbollah guys.jpg ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Hizbollah is also a threat in the War of the North. @NeriZilber Malcolm Hoenlein Neri Zilber, a journalist and analyst on Middle East politics and culture, is an adjunct fellow of The Washington Institute. He was previously a visiting scholar at the Institute in 2014-2015, where his research focused on the Middle East Peace Process, with particular emphasis on Palestinian economics and state-building. Articles: · https://www.the-american-interest.com/2018/04/30/bracing-israel-iran-confrontation-syria/ · http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/state-with-no-army-army-with-no-state · https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5248904,00.html...more

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• Japan seeks maximum pressure on North Korea & What is to be done? @JoshRogin @WashingtonPost

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  May 04 2018

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogin/wp/2018/05/03/japanese-abductee-families-to-trump-dont-forget-us/?utm_term=.494338e1b9b1AUTHOR. (Photo:Tokyo ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Japan seeks maximum pressure on North Korea & What is to be done? @JoshRogin @WashingtonPost https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogin/wp/2018/05/03/japanese-abductee-families-to-trump-dont-forget-us/?utm_term=.494338e1b9b1

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• Why are we in Afghanistan? @SebGorka

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  May 04 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: US, Afghan forces conduct checkpoint operations near COP Y… | Flickr ... US, Afghan forces conduct checkpoint operations near COP Yosef Khel [Image 12 of 14) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Why are we in Afghanistan? @SebGorka https://taskandpurpose.com/were-the-mujahideen-in-afghanistan/

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• Trump aims at North Korea: "A bad deal is not an option." @SebGorka

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Old fortress wall of Daegu in Dalseong Park. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Trump aims at North Korea: "A bad deal is not an option." @SebGorka "Right now," said Mike Pompeo, "we have an unprecedented opportunity to change the course of history on the Korean Peninsula... It's time to solve this once and for all. A bad deal is not an option. The American people are counting on us to get this right. We are committed to the permanent, verifiable, irreversible dismantling of North Korea's weapons of mass destruction program, and to do so without delay."...more

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• China industrial policy of theft and bullying cannot secure China's economy. @DanielGriswold

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  May 04 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:The Manchu cavalry charging Ming infantry in the battle of Sarhu in 1619 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow China industrial policy of theft and bullying cannot secure China's economy.  @DanielGriswold http://thehill.com/opinion/international/385865-america-holds-the-best-cards-heading-into-china-trade-talks

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• Iran's secret nuclear weapons program no longer secret. @AmbDermer Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_prest

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  May 04 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Deutsch: Iran Talks. Abschluss Iran Verhandlungen. UNO. Wien, 14.07.2015, Foto: Dragan Tatic English: Iran nuclear deal: agreement iin Vienna. فارسی: مذاکرات نهایی تیم مذاکره‌کننده هسته‌ای ایران با وزیران خارجه کشورهای عضو 1+5 پیش از توافق نهایی بر سر برنامه هسته‌ای ایران به به برنامه جامع اقدام مشترک (برجام) نامگذاری شد؛ واقع در هتل کوبورگ وین. Date 14 July 2015, 09:37 Source Iran Talks Author Bundesministerium für Europa, Integration und Äusseres ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Iran's secret nuclear weapons program no longer secret. @AmbDermer Malcolm Hoenlein @Confofprest Israel's Ambassador to the United States: Ron Dermer was born and raised in Miami Beach, Florida. He earned a degree in Finance and Management from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) from Oxford University. For three years, he was a columnist for the Jerusalem Post.  · https://www.voanews.com/a/us-backs-israeli-claims-on-new-and-compelling-evidence-against-iran/4371917.html · https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5247833,00.html · http://jcpa.org/article/netanyahus-wake-up-call-to-the-world-on-the-iranian-nuclear-program/ · https://www.wsj.com/articles/israel-and-its-neighbors-need-an-iran-deal-overhaul-1525125521...more

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• What is the Kazakhstan promise for the 21st century? @CliffordDMay @FDD

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: View of Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan Date 19 April 2012 Source Own work Author Interfase Camera location 43° 14′ 33.58″ N, 76° 57′ 18.62″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow What is the Kazakhstan promise for the 21st century? @CliffordDMay @FDD https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/1/a-little-pivot-to-central-asia/

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• Nine Days in May: 1 of 3: The Battles of the 4th Infantry Division on the Cambodian Border, by Warren K. Wilkins

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  May 04 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Members of Co. C, 1st Bn, 8th Inf, 1st Bde, 4th Inf Div, descend the side of Hill 742, located five miles northwest of Dak To during Operation MacArthur. Date 1967-11-14-17 Source http://www.history.army.mil/art/A&I/vietnam/vn-inf.htm Author US Army ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Nine Days in May: 1 of 3: The Battles of the 4th Infantry Division on the Cambodian Border, by Warren K. Wilkins https://www.amazon.com/Nine-Days-May-Infantry-Cambodian/dp/0806157151/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525405534&sr=1-1 Moving through the jungle near the Cambodian border on May 18, 1967, a company of American infantry observed three North Vietnamese Army regulars, AK-47s slung over their shoulders, walking down a well-worn trail in the rugged Central Highlands. Startled by shouts of “Lai day, lai day” (“Come here, come here”), the three men dropped their packs and fled. The company commander, a young lieutenant, sent a platoon down the trail to investigate. Those few men soon found themselves outnumbered, surrounded, and fighting for their lives. Their first desperate moments marked the beginning of a series of bloody battles that lasted more than a week, one that survivors would later call “the nine days in May border battles.” Nine Days in May is the first full account of these bitterly contested battles. Part of Operation Francis Marion, they took place in the Ia Tchar Valley and the remote jungle west of Pleiku. Fought between three American battalions and two North Vietnamese Army regiments, this prolonged, deadly encounter was one of the largest, most savage actions seen by elements of the storied 4th Infantry Division in Vietnam. Drawing on interviews with the participants, Warren K. Wilkins recreates the vicious fighting in gripping detail. This is a story of extraordinary courage and sacrifice displayed in a series of battles that were fought and won within the context of a broader, intractable strategic stalemate. When the guns finally fell silent, an unheralded American brigade received a Presidential Unit Citation and earned three of the twelve Medals of Honor awarded to soldiers of the 4th Infantry Division in Vietnam....more

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• Shape of Things to Come in Uber Robot Air. @PappalardoJoe

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  May 04 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Shape of Things to Come in Uber Robot Air. @PappalardoJoe https://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/a20122610/uber-elevate-flying-taxi-dallas-bell-helicopter/

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• The population bomb that failed. @WJMcGurn

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  May 04 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: A large increase in global food production since the 1960s and a slowing of population growth have, within the current context of continued depletion of non-renewable resources, averted the scale of food shortage, famine and catastrophe foretold by the Ehrlichs.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The population bomb that failed. @WJMcGurn https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-population-bomb-was-a-dud-1525125341

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• UN abuse of power in Guatemala & What is to be done about the suspect Kremlin bad acting? @MaryAnastasiaOG

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  May 04 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Maya city of Tikal ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow UN abuse of power in Guatemala & What is to be done about the suspect Kremlin bad acting? @MaryAnastasiaOG https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-crisis-in-guatemala-abetted-by-the-u-n-1524420935 https://www.wsj.com/articles/russias-dubious-guatemala-story-1523817541

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• Mexico election between a known corporatist and an unknown progressive. Mary Anastasia O'Grady @WSJOpinion @MaryAnastasiaOG

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  May 04 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Mexico election between a known corporatist and an unknown progressive. Mary Anastasia O'Grady @WSJOpinion @MaryAnastasiaOG https://www.wsj.com/articles/mexicos-two-man-race-1525034856 https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-crisis-in-guatemala-abetted-by-the-u-n-1524420935 https://www.wsj.com/articles/russias-dubious-guatemala-story-1523817541...more

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• Small town America recruits the Millennials & What is to be done? @SalenaZito @LaraMBrownPHD

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  May 04 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Downtown Janesville looking south on Main Street (2004) ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Small town America recruits the Millennials & What is to be done? @SalenaZito @LaraMBrownPHD

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• The North Korea Peace Now Rodeo. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @BruceKlingner

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  May 03 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: North Koreans bowing to statues of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il at the Mansu Hill Grand Monument in Pyongyang) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The North Korea Peace Now Rodeo. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @BruceKlingner

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• North Korea is part of a chain of rogue nuke states & What is to be done? @EliLake @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeastc

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  May 03 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow North Korea is part of a chain of rogue nuke  states & What is to be done? @EliLake @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeastc

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• China plans to militarize the moon. Rick Fisher, International Assessment and Strategy Center. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  May 03 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Image above: On July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 Commander Neil A. Armstrong leads astronauts Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., from the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building to the transfer van for the eight-mile trip to Pad 39A. Image credit: NASA) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow China plans to militarize the moon. Rick Fisher, International Assessment and Strategy Center. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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• The Chinese industrial policy is theft. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  May 03 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Seagate Wuxi China Factory Tour | Workers perform final test… | Flick ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Chinese industrial policy is theft. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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• The risks of the Trump Administration negotiating with Beijing. @AlanTonelson @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  May 03 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Description  English: View of Pudong apartments in the background of skyscrapers, seen from HongTa (St. Regi's) hotel Date 15 October 2012, 15:51:35 Source Own work Author Jacob.jose) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The risks of the Trump Administration negotiating with Beijing. @AlanTonelson @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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• The rich Federal lands of Idaho & What is to be done? Stephen Yates, candidate for Lt. Governor of Idaho. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  May 03 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Shoshone Falls in south central Idaho ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The rich Federal lands of Idaho & What is to be done? Stephen Yates, candidate for Lt. Governor of Idaho. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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• PA Abbas speaks anti-semitic hate & What is to be done? @MonicaCrowley

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  May 03 2018

  http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-palestinian-abbas-tirade-20180502-story.htmlAUTHOR. (Photo:File:Il centro di Ramallah.JPG - Wikimedia Commons File:Il centro di Ramallah.JPG ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow PA Abbas speaks anti-semitic hate & What is to be done? @MonicaCrowley http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-palestinian-abbas-tirade-20180502-story.html

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• Would you advise President Trump to answer the Special Counsel's questions? @AndrewCMcCarthy @ThadMcCotter

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  May 03 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: File:Robert Mueller, 2012.jpg - Wikimedia Commons) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Would you advise President Trump to answer the Special Counsel's questions? @AndrewCMcCarthy @ThadMcCotter https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/robert-mueller-questions-trump-decline-interview/

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• Can Iran fashion a nuclear warhead for a ballistic missile? Henry Sokolski

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  May 03 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: File:Zolfaqar in inaugurated the mass production line day 10.jpg ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Can Iran fashion a nuclear warhead for a ballistic missile? Henry Sokolski

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• Indispensable & Inexhaustible: The Return of George Washington: 4 of 4: Uniting the States, 1783-1789. by Edward J. Larson

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  May 03 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Abbie Rowe, 1905-1967, Photographer (NARA record: 8451352) Record creator National Archives and Records Administration. Office of Presidential Libraries. Harry S. Truman Library. (04/01/1985 - ) Title President Truman places a wreath at the tomb of George Washington at Mt. Vernon. Date 22 February 1947 Current location  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.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Indispensable & Inexhaustible: The Return of George Washington: 4 of 4: Uniting the States, 1783-1789. by Edward J. Larson https://www.amazon.com/Return-George-Washington-Uniting-1783-1789-ebook/dp/B00I2PD9GW/ref=laB000APC5DK1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524702850&sr=1-7...more

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• Googlers protest the Vietnam War. @DeffTechPat

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  May 03 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Vietnam War protests at the Pentagon, October 1967 image ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Googlers protest the Vietnam War. @DefTechPat https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2018/04/google-pursuing-pentagons-giant-cloud-contract-quietly-fearing-employee-revolt/147440/

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• How did the dust-cloud-created planetesimals turn into rocket planets? Ken Croswell.

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  May 03 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Birth of an Earth-like Planet (Artist concept)  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow How did the dust-cloud-created planetesimals turn into rocket planets? Ken Croswell.

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• The Pentagon quest in the AI Race. @DefTechPat

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  May 03 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Pentagon quest in the AI Race. @DefTechPat

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• Curiosity detours and Opportunity winters. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  May 02 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:NASA's Curiosity rover finds strange bedrock on Mars - SpaceFlight ... NASA Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity Mount Sharp Gale Crater Wheel damage NASA photo ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Curiosity detours and Opportunity winters. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com http://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/mars-rover-update-april-27-2018/ Mars rover update: April 27, 2018 April 27, 2018 at 10:11 am Robert Zimmerman Summary: Curiosity’s exploration of Vera Rubin Ridge is extended, while an attempt by Opportunity to climb back up Perseverance Valley to reach an interesting rock outcrop fails. For a list of past updates beginning in July 2016, see my February 8, 2018 update....more

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• Earth's Magnetic Field not flipping tonight, perhaps. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  May 02 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: )Drawing of a magnetic field by French philosopher René Descartes, from his Principia Philosophiae, 1644. This was one of the first drawings of the concept of a magnetic field. It shows the magnetic field of the Earth (D) attracting several round lodestones (I, K, L, M, N) and illustrates his theory of magnetism. Descartes proposed that magnetic attraction was caused by the circulation of tiny helical particles, "threaded parts" (shown), which circulated through parallel threaded pores in magnets, in through the South pole (A), out through the North pole (B), and then through the space around the magnet (G, H) back to the South pole. Oppositely threaded particles circulated in the opposite direction. When the "threaded parts" came near a lodestone or piece of iron, they passed through its pores, causing magnetic force. Alterations to image: cropped, and cloned out intruding text around edges of drawing http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Earth's Magnetic Field not flipping tonight, perhaps. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com http://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/scientists-claim-earths-magnetic-field-not-about-to-flip/ Scientists claim Earth’s magnetic field not about to flip May 1, 2018 at 8:29 am Robert Zimmerman The uncertainty of science: Using computer models and data from the past two changes in the Earth’s magnetic field, some scientists now claim that the weakening of the magnetic field in the past two centuries does not herald an upcoming flip in polarity. To calculate the likelihood of a full field switch, Holme and his colleagues looked at the magnetic alignment of rock particles deposited in and before the two most recent excursions – the Laschamp event, approximately 41,000 years ago, and the Lake Mono event, which occurred 34,000 years ago. The scientists found that the strength of the Earth’s magnetic field several thousand years before the two wobbles – at 49,000 and 46,000 years ago – were pretty much the same as they are now. However, they were accompanied by SAA-style weak areas of much greater magnitude. This, suggests Holme’s teams, considerably reduces the chances of anything drastic happening now. “There has been speculation that we are about to experience a magnetic polar reversal or excursion,” says Holmes. “However, by studying the two most recent excursion events, we show that neither bear resemblance to current changes in the geomagnetic field and therefore it is probably unlikely that such an event is about to happen. “Our research suggests instead that the current weakened field will recover without such an extreme event, and therefore is unlikely to reverse.” Can I express my skepticism? This research is interesting, but there is no way it could provide enough data for anyone to trust such a prediction. We have zero knowledge of the behavior of the magnetic field during a polarity switch, and to claim that this data gives us enough information to say that we do understand that behavior is an overstatement of stupendous proportions. Just as we don’t really understand the mechanics of the Sun’s magnetic field, causing it to flip polarity every 11 years, we certainly don’t understand the Earth’s either. The Earth’s magnetic field is going to do what it is going to do, and when it does, we will then maybe get an inkling as to why it does it....more

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• 3 years ago: John Bolton on the Iran Deal: "Any president who was awake would reject this deal."

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  May 02 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Iran Deal2015) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow 3 years ago: John Bolton on the Iran Deal: "Any president who was awake would reject this deal."

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• Tales of the New Cold War: Ukraine parades its anti-semitism and Neo-Nazism: 2 of 2: Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.

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  May 02 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Execution of Poles in Kórnik, 20 October 1939 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Tales of the New Cold War: Ukraine parades its anti-semitism and Neo-Nazism: 2 of 2: Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com. http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/18922/it-looks-like-javelin-anti-tank-missiles-are-headed-to-battlefield-ukraine http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30655184

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• Tales of the New Cold War: Ukraine parades its anti-semitism and Neo-Nazism: 1 of 2: Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.

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  May 02 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: Executions of Jews by German army mobile killing units (Einsatzgruppen) near Ivangorod Ukraine. The photo was mailed from the Eastern Front to Germany and intercepted at a Warsaw post office by a member of the Polish resistance collecting documentation on Nazi war crimes. The original print was owned by Tadeusz Mazur and Jerzy Tomaszewski and now resides in Historical Archives in Warsaw. The original German inscription on the back of the photograph reads, "Ukraine 1942, Jewish Action [operation], Ivangorod."…  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Tales of the New Cold War: Ukraine parades its anti-semitism and Neo-Nazism: 1 of 2: Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com. http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/18922/it-looks-like-javelin-anti-tank-missiles-are-headed-to-battlefield-ukraine http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30655184...more

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• The Blue Wave is leaking Millennials. @LizPeek

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  May 02 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Shades Of Blue Wave Smashing ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Blue Wave is leaking Millennials. @LizPeek https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-millennials/exclusive-democrats-lose-ground-with-millennials-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKBN1I10YH

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• China games the Trump Administration on trade and tariffs.

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  May 02 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Port of Miami ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow China games the Trump Administration on trade and tariffs. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/china-is-trying-to-lure-trump-into-a-bad-deal-on-trade/2018/04/26/25a3390e-498f-11e8-827e-190efaf1f1eestory.html?utmterm=.d7da8f26df4c China is trying to lure Trump into a bad deal on trade By Josh Rogin Columnist April 26 at 7:33 PM  A senior Trump administration delegation is heading to China next week to discuss a possible deal to avert a trade war, but Beijing still refuses to address the real problems in the U.S.-China economic relationship. The Chinese plan is to offer the Americans flimsy, short-term concessions that will tempt President Trump to declare victory before the fight begins. He must not fall into the trap.......more

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• Steel tariffs cost every part of the American economy. @christinemcdan @Mercatus

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  May 02 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Storck Harbour scene ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Steel tariffs cost every part of the American economy. @christinemcdan @Mercatus  https://www.mercatus.org/bridge/commentary/americans-hurt-trade-restrictions

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• The Millken Conference radiates confidence in the American economy. @LizPeek

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  May 02 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: View from the Milken Institute School of Public health GWU Date Unknown date Source Flickr -- View from School of Public Health Author Ted Eytan ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Millken Conference radiates confidence in the American economy. @LizPeek https://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2018/04/27/despite-attempts-to-fix-the-data-first-quarter-gdp-may-still-mislead/

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• Indispensable & Inexhaustible: The Return of George Washington: 3 of 4: Uniting the States, 1783-1789. by Edward J. Larson

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  May 02 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Houdon's bust of Washington. I was reading the Compleated Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, and happened to read about Jean-Antoine Houdon coming to America in 1785 to do this bust, traveling.. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Indispensable & Inexhaustible: The Return of George Washington: 3 of 4: Uniting the States, 1783-1789. by Edward J. Larson https://www.amazon.com/Return-George-Washington-Uniting-1783-1789-ebook/dp/B00I2PD9GW/ref=laB000APC5DK1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524702850&sr=1-7...more

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• The New American Civil War: Nationalists vs Wilsonians. Michael Michael Vlahos, Naval War College. @WorldCrisisJHU

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  May 02 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Wilson on a speaking tour ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The New American Civil War: Nationalists vs Wilsonians. Michael  Michael Vlahos, Naval War College. @WorldCrisisJHU

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• Libertarian paternalism and the authority of the Administrative State to nudge. @RichardAEpstein

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  May 02 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Quinn Dombrowski Follow Motherly nudge ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Libertarian paternalism and the authority of the Administrative State to nudge.  @RichardAEpstein One of the great academic debates of our time revolves around how people make choices. On the one side, neoclassical theory assumes that individuals generally act in sensible ways in order to advance their individual self-interest. They are motivated to control aggression and monopoly, and to let private parties in competitive markets strike what bargains they like. In recent years, this neoclassical approach has come under attack from the field of behavioral economics. Its proponents argue that the neoclassical model of behavior, premised on the fact that human beings are rational decision-makers, does not sufficiently account for the many false heuristics and biases that lead people astray as they make decisions… https://www.hoover.org/research/false-allure-libertarian-paternalism...more

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• Comey played along with the Obama fix for HRC. 2 of 2. @AndrewCMcCarthy @ThadMcCotter

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  May 01 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Comey played along with the Obama fix for HRC. 2 of 2. @AndrewCMcCarthy @ThadMcCotter https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/04/comey-confirms-in-clinton-emails-caper-the-fix-was-in/

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• Comey played along with the Obama fix for HRC. 1 of 2. @AndrewCMcCarthy @ThadMcCotter

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  May 01 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Comey played along with the Obama fix for HRC. 1 of 2. @AndrewCMcCarthy @ThadMcCotter https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/04/comey-confirms-in-clinton-emails-caper-the-fix-was-in/

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• The facts about the Bin Laden files and the falsehoods of the Obama administration. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio

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  May 01 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: Osama bin Laden Compound Date 4 May 2011 Source Flickr Author Sajjad Ali Qureshi Object location 34° 10′ 09.45″ N, 73° 14′ 33.28″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The facts about the Bin Laden files and the falsehoods of the Obama administration. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio

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• The Libya scenario for North Korea's Kim. @GordonCChang @ThadMcCotter

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  May 01 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Kim Jong-un ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Libya scenario for North Korea's Kim. @GordonCChang @ThadMcCotter http://nationalinterest.org/feature/here-why-north-korea-will-give-its-nuclear-weapons-25625

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• North Korea's human rights horror & What is to be done? @DavidMaxwell161 @GordonCChang

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  May 01 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:https://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/fs/2017/273755.htm#14 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow North Korea's human rights horror & What is to be done? @DavidMaxwell161 @GordonCChang

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• Afghanistan is an $800 Billion failure. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn

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  May 01 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: Street scene in Kabul City Date 30 May 2012, 13:06 Source Kabul City Author Kandaray from Afghanistan) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Afghanistan is an $800 Billion failure. @BillRoggio @@ThomasJoscelyn https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kgdve/the-pentagon-spent-dollar60-million-on-a-power-station-in-afghanistan-that-doesnt-work

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• Millennials trend away from Democrats & What is to be done? @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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  May 01 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Oct. 27, 2015 "The President participates in a group selfie in the East Room with the United States Women's National Soccer Team celebrating their victory in the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup." (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson) Date 27 October 2015, 11:40 Source P102715LJ-0329 Author The White House from Washington, DC) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Millennials trend away from Democrats & What is to be done? @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter http://www.newsweek.com/democrats-losing-millennial-support-midterms-906014...more

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• Gaza attacks while waiting for the US Embassy in Jerusalem. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf-of-pres @ThadMcCotter

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  May 01 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: US Consulate in Jerusalem, 18 Agron Road. Date 19 July 2009 Source Own work Author Magister Object location 31° 46′ 35.59″ N, 35° 13′ 12.41″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Gaza attacks while waiting for the US Embassy in Jerusalem. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf-of-pres @ThadMcCotter

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• US Air Force satellite-air-strikes on Syria. @PappalardoJoe

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  May 01 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:http://www.dodmedia.osd.mil/ From the Depart of Defense image search website - Defense Visual Information Center. Picture comes up if you search for Al Udeid ID: DF-SD-07-08098 Service Depicted: Air Force 040818-F-4884R-024 An aerial overhead view of"Ops Town"at at Al Udeid Air Base (AB), Al Rayyan Province, Qatar (QAT), taken from a US Air Force (USAF) KC-135 Stratotanker during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. Camera Operator: TSGT SCOTT REED, USAF  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow US Air Force satellite-air-strikes on Syria.  @PappalardoJoe https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a19980968/syrian-airstrike-from-space/...more

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• War-footing on the Golan Heights. Malcolm Hoenlein, Confirmed_of_pres @ThadMcCotter

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  May 01 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Golan) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow War-footing on the Golan Heights. Malcolm Hoenlein, Confirmedofpres @ThadMcCotter

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• House-hunting for patriots. The Founders at Home: 2 of 2: The Building of America, 1735-1817 by Myron Magnet

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  May 01 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: East side of Stratford Hall (looking through the East Garden)) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow House-hunting for patriots. The Founders at Home: 2 of 2: The Building of America, 1735-1817 by Myron Magnet https://www.amazon.com/Founders-Home-Building-America-1735-1817-ebook/dp/B00COQ6XCM/ref=laB001H6MRPW1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525132656&sr=1-3 Through the Founders’ own voices—and in the homes they designed and built to embody the ideal of domestic happiness they fought to achieve—we come to understand why the American Revolution, of all great revolutions, was the only enduring success. The Founders were vivid, energetic men, with sophisticated worldviews, and this magnificent reckoning of their successes draws liberally from their own eloquent writings on their actions and well-considered intentions. Richly illustrated with America’s historical and architectural treasures, this volume also considers the houses the Founders built with such care and money to reflect their vision for the fledgling nation. That so many great thinkers—Washington, Madison, Hamilton, Jefferson, John Jay, the Lees of Stratford Hall, and polemicist William Livingston—came together to accomplish what rightly seemed to them almost a miracle is a standing historical mystery, best understood by pondering the men themselves and their profound and world-changing ideas. Through impressive research and an intimate understanding of these iconic patriots, award-winning author Myron Magnet offers fresh insight into why the American experiment resulted in over two centuries of unexampled freedom and prosperity....more

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• House-hunting for patriots. The Founders at Home: 1 of 2: The Building of America, 1735-1817 by Myron Magnet

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  May 01 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Liberty Hall, also known as the William Livingston House, is located Union, New Jersey. This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 72000807 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow House-hunting for patriots. The Founders at Home: 1 of 2:  The Building of America, 1735-1817 by Myron Magnet https://www.amazon.com/Founders-Home-Building-America-1735-1817-ebook/dp/B00COQ6XCM/ref=laB001H6MRPW1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525132656&sr=1-3 Through the Founders’ own voices—and in the homes they designed and built to embody the ideal of domestic happiness they fought to achieve—we come to understand why the American Revolution, of all great revolutions, was the only enduring success. The Founders were vivid, energetic men, with sophisticated worldviews, and this magnificent reckoning of their successes draws liberally from their own eloquent writings on their actions and well-considered intentions. Richly illustrated with America’s historical and architectural treasures, this volume also considers the houses the Founders built with such care and money to reflect their vision for the fledgling nation. That so many great thinkers—Washington, Madison, Hamilton, Jefferson, John Jay, the Lees of Stratford Hall, and polemicist William Livingston—came together to accomplish what rightly seemed to them almost a miracle is a standing historical mystery, best understood by pondering the men themselves and their profound and world-changing ideas. Through impressive research and an intimate understanding of these iconic patriots, award-winning author Myron Magnet offers fresh insight into why the American experiment resulted in over two centuries of unexampled freedom and prosperity....more

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• 5 years ago: Waiting out the Obamacare silence. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Apr 30 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: President Barack Obama delivers remarks at an Affordable Care Act event at Temple Emanu-El in Dallas, Texas, Nov. 6, 2013. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow 5 years ago: Waiting out the Obamacare silence. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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• American Tempest: How the Boston Tea Party Sparked a Revolution by Harlow Giles Unger and William Hughes

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  Apr 30 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: A scene from The Boston Tea Party (1915), showing Colonists disguised as Native Americans removing tea from the hold of a ship. Date 2 April 1915 Source (1915-04-01). "The Boston Tea Party". The Edison Kinetogram 11: 8. Orange, N.J.: Thomas A. Edison Inc.. Author Eugene Nowland Permission (Reusing this file)  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow American Tempest: How the Boston Tea Party Sparked a Revolution by Harlow Giles Unger and William Hughes https://www.amazon.com/American-Tempest-Boston-Sparked-Revolution/dp/0306819627/ref=tmmhrdswatch0?encoding=UTF8&qid=1525056799&sr=1-13...more

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• No peace at the grocery store: The Food Police: A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your Plate by Jayson Lusk

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  Apr 30 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:New Whole Foods Market - North Miami ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow No peace at the grocery store: The Food Police: A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your Plate by Jayson Lusk https://www.amazon.com/Food-Police-Well-Fed-Manifesto-Politics/dp/0307987035/ref=sr1fkmr0_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525056259&sr=1-1-fkmr0&keywords=food+police+jayson+lust

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• A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness by Nassir Ghaemi

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  Apr 30 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: FDR and Churchill at a press conference during the Casablanca Conference. January 24, 1943) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness by Nassir Ghaemi

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• Seven Mozart Librettos: A Verse Translation by J. D. McClatchy

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  Apr 30 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Deutsch: Eröffnungsvorstellung im neuen Haus der Wiener Hofoper mit „Don Giovanni“, Innenansicht mit Blick auf die Bühne, 25. Mai 1869, zeitgenössisches Aquarell. Kunsthistorisches Museum Date 1869 Source [1] Author Unknownwikidata:Q4233718 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Seven Mozart Librettos: A Verse Translation by J. D. McClatchy https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Mozart-Librettos-Verse-Translation/dp/0393066096/ref=sr110?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525055386&sr=1-10...more

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• Machiavelli Awakens: The Garments of Court and Palace: 2 of 2: Machiavelli and the World That He Made by Philip Bobbitt

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  Apr 30 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Cesare Borgia, used as an example of a successful ruler in The Prince ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Machiavelli Awakens: The Garments of Court and Palace: 2 of 2: Machiavelli and the World That He Made by Philip Bobbitt https://www.amazon.com/Garments-Court-Palace-Machiavelli-World/dp/0802120741/ref=sr15?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525053796&sr=1-5&keywords=philip+bobbitt The Prince, a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli is widely regarded as the single most influential book on politics—and in particular on the the politics of power—ever written. In this groundbreaking book, Philip Bobbitt explores this often misunderstood work in the context of the time. He describes The Prince as one half of a masterpiece that, along with Machiavelli’s often neglected Discourses prophesies the end of the feudal era and describes the birth of the neoclassical Renaissance State. Using both Renaissance examples and cases drawn from our current era, Bobbitt situates Machiavelli’s work as a turning point in our understanding of the relation between war and law as these create and maintain the State. This is a fascinating history and commentary by the man Henry Kissinger called "the outstanding political philosopher of our time."...more

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• Machiavelli Awakens: The Garments of Court and Palace: 1 of 2: Machiavelli and the World That He Made by Philip Bobbitt

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici to whom the final version of The Prince was dedicated ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Machiavelli Awakens: The Garments of Court and Palace: 1 of 2: Machiavelli and the World That He Made by Philip Bobbitt https://www.amazon.com/Garments-Court-Palace-Machiavelli-World/dp/0802120741/ref=sr15?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525053796&sr=1-5&keywords=philip+bobbitt The Prince, a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli is widely regarded as the single most influential book on politics—and in particular on the the politics of power—ever written. In this groundbreaking book, Philip Bobbitt explores this often misunderstood work in the context of the time. He describes The Prince as one half of a masterpiece that, along with Machiavelli’s often neglected Discourses prophesies the end of the feudal era and describes the birth of the neoclassical Renaissance State. Using both Renaissance examples and cases drawn from our current era, Bobbitt situates Machiavelli’s work as a turning point in our understanding of the relation between war and law as these create and maintain the State. This is a fascinating history and commentary by the man Henry Kissinger called "the outstanding political philosopher of our time."...more

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• The curse of light pollution: The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light by Paul Bogard

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  Apr 30 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Death Valley) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The curse of light pollution: The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light by Paul Bogard https://www.amazon.com/End-Night-Searching-Darkness-Artificial/dp/0316182915/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525053316&sr=1-1&keywords=paul+bogard+night

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• Testing Einstein's Theory of General Relativity. Ken Croswell.

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  Apr 30 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Einstein cross: four images of the same astronomical object, produced by a gravitational lens) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Testing Einstein's Theory of General Relativity. Ken Croswell.

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• 5 years ago: Professor Richard Epstein in India. @RichardAEpstein. @HooverInst

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  Apr 30 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Municipal Corporation Building, Bombay in 1950 – Victoria Terminus partly visible on far right. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow 5 years ago: Professor Richard Epstein in India. @RichardAEpstein. @HooverInst

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• Remembering the Iraq Tragedy: We Meant Well: 2 of 2: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People (American Empire Project) by Peter Van Buren

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  Apr 30 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Nouri al-Maliki meets with George W. Bush, June 2006  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Remembering the Iraq Tragedy: We Meant Well: 2 of 2: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People (American Empire Project) by Peter Van Buren https://www.amazon.com/We-Meant-Well-American-Project/dp/0805096817/ref=laB004RJF4O21_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525052439&sr=1-1 "One diplomat's darkly humorous and ultimately scathing assault on just about everything the military and State Department have done―or tried to do―since the invasion of Iraq. The title says it all."―The New York Times Charged with rebuilding Iraq, would you spend taxpayer money on a sports mural in Baghdad's most dangerous neighborhood to promote reconciliation through art? How about an isolated milk factory that cannot get its milk to market? Or a pastry class training women to open cafés on bombed-out streets that lack water and electricity? As Peter Van Buren shows, we bought all these projects and more in the most expensive hearts-and-minds campaign since the Marshall Plan. We Meant Well is his eyewitness account of the civilian side of the surge―that surreal and bollixed attempt to defeat terrorism and win over Iraqis by reconstructing the world we had just destroyed. Leading a State Department Provincial Reconstruction Team on its quixotic mission, Van Buren details, with laser-like irony, his yearlong encounter with pointless projects, bureaucratic fumbling, overwhelmed soldiers, and oblivious administrators secluded in the world's largest embassy, who fail to realize that you can't rebuild a country without first picking up the trash. A work of "scathing, gallows humor" (The Boston Globe), We Meant Well is a tragicomic voyage of ineptitude and corruption that leaves its writer―and readers―appalled and disillusioned, but wiser....more

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• Remembering the Iraq Tragedy: We Meant Well: 1 of 2: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People (American Empire Project) by Peter Van Buren

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  Apr 30 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:A Marine Corps M1 Abrams tank patrols a Baghdad street after its fall in 2003 during Operation Iraqi Freedom. ) ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Remembering the Iraq Tragedy: We Meant Well: 1 of 2:  How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People (American Empire Project) by Peter Van Buren https://www.amazon.com/We-Meant-Well-American-Project/dp/0805096817/ref=laB004RJF4O21_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525052439&sr=1-1 "One diplomat's darkly humorous and ultimately scathing assault on just about everything the military and State Department have done―or tried to do―since the invasion of Iraq. The title says it all."―The New York Times Charged with rebuilding Iraq, would you spend taxpayer money on a sports mural in Baghdad's most dangerous neighborhood to promote reconciliation through art? How about an isolated milk factory that cannot get its milk to market? Or a pastry class training women to open cafés on bombed-out streets that lack water and electricity? As Peter Van Buren shows, we bought all these projects and more in the most expensive hearts-and-minds campaign since the Marshall Plan. We Meant Well is his eyewitness account of the civilian side of the surge―that surreal and bollixed attempt to defeat terrorism and win over Iraqis by reconstructing the world we had just destroyed. Leading a State Department Provincial Reconstruction Team on its quixotic mission, Van Buren details, with laser-like irony, his yearlong encounter with pointless projects, bureaucratic fumbling, overwhelmed soldiers, and oblivious administrators secluded in the world's largest embassy, who fail to realize that you can't rebuild a country without first picking up the trash. A work of "scathing, gallows humor" (The Boston Globe), We Meant Well is a tragicomic voyage of ineptitude and corruption that leaves its writer―and readers―appalled and disillusioned, but wiser....more

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• 69 A.D.: The Year of Four Emperors by Gwyn Morgan.

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  Apr 29 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Imperial Roman legionaries in tight formation, a relief from Glanum, a Roman town in what is now southern France that was inhabited from 27 BC to 260 AD (when it was sacked by invading Alemanni) ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow 69 A.D.: The Year of Four Emperors by Gwyn Morgan. https://www.amazon.com/69-AD-Year-Four-Emperors/dp/0195124685/ref=mthardcover?encoding=UTF8&me=https://www.amazon.com/69-AD-Year-Four-Emperors/dp/0195124685/ref=mthardcover?encoding=UTF8&me= The Year of Four Emperors, so the ancient sources assure us, was one of the most chaotic, violent and frightening periods in all Roman history: a time of assassinations and civil wars, of armies so out of control that they had no qualms about occupying the city of Rome, and of ambitious men who seized power only to lose it, one after another.  In 69 AD, Gwyn Morgan offers a fresh look at this period, based on two considerations to which insufficient attention has been paid in the past. First, that we need to unravel rather than cherry-pick between the conflicting accounts of Tacitus, Plutarch and Suetonius, our three main sources of information. And second, that the role of the armies, as distinct from that of their commanders, has too often been exaggerated. The result is a remarkably accurate and insightful narrative history, filled with colorful portraits of the leading participants and new insights into the nature of the Roman military Morgan ranges from the suicide of Nero in June 68 to the triumph of Vespasian in December 69. In between, three other emperors hold power. We meet Galba, old, tightfisted and conservative, who was declared emperor in June 68 and assassinated in January 69. Otho, once Nero's boon companion, who was responsible for murdering Galba, seized power in a coup in Rome in January 69 and, to everybody's surprise, committed suicide three months later in a vain attempt to end the civil wars. Vitellius, as indolent as he was extravagant, who was put forward by two ambitious lieutenants, recognized by the senate in Rome once they heard of Otho's death in April, and cut down by Vespasian's partisans in the last days of December. And then there is Vespasian, the candidate who looked least likely to succeed, but (according to Tacitus) was still the first to be improved by becoming emperor. A strikingly vivid account of ancient Rome, 69 AD is an original and compelling account of one of the best known but perhaps least understood periods in all Roman history....more

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• The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer by David Leavitt

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  Apr 29 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Passport photo of Alan Turing at age 16) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer by David Leavitt https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Knew-Too-Much/dp/0393329097/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524976276&sr=1-1&keywords=david+leavitt+turing To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary computer. Then, attempting to break a Nazi code during World War II, he successfully designed and built one, thus ensuring the Allied victory. Turing became a champion of artificial intelligence, but his work was cut short. As an openly gay man at a time when homosexuality was illegal in England, he was convicted and forced to undergo a humiliating "treatment" that may have led to his suicide. With a novelist's sensitivity, David Leavitt portrays Turing in all his humanity―his eccentricities, his brilliance, his fatal candor―and elegantly explains his work and its implications....more

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

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  Apr 29 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:A portrait of the 13-year-old Beethoven by an unknown Bonn master (c. 1783) ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Beethoven: The Universal Composer (Eminent Lives) by Edmund Morris https://www.amazon.com/Beethoven-Universal-Composer-Eminent-Lives/dp/0060759755/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524974623&sr=1-1&keywords=edmund+morris+beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was a composer of universal genius whose popularity, extraordinary even during his lifetime, has never ceased to grow and now encircles the globe. His most famous works are as beloved in Beijing as they are in Boston. A lifelong devotee, Edmund Morris, the author of three bestselling presidential biographies, brings the great composer to life as a man of astonishing complexity and overpowering intelligence—a gigantic, compulsively creative personality unable to tolerate constraints. But Beethoven's achievement rests in his immortal music, whose grandeur and beauty were conceived "on the other side of silence."...more

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• Prepping for a SCOTUS nomination: Scorpions: The Battles a nd Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices by Noah Feldman.

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  Apr 29 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Chief Justice Marshall ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Prepping for a SCOTUS nomination: Scorpions: The Battles a nd Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices by Noah Feldman. A tiny, ebullient Jew who started as America's leading liberal and ended as its most famous judicial conservative. A Klansman who became an absolutist advocate of free speech and civil rights. A backcountry lawyer who started off trying cases about cows and went on to conduct the most important international trial ever. A self-invented, tall-tale Westerner who narrowly missed the presidency but expanded individual freedom beyond what anyone before had dreamed.  Four more different men could hardly be imagined. Yet they had certain things in common. Each was a self-made man who came from humble beginnings on the edge of poverty. Each had driving ambition and a will to succeed. Each was, in his own way, a genius.  They began as close allies and friends of FDR, but the quest to shape a new Constitution led them to competition and sometimes outright warfare. SCORPIONS tells the story of these four great justices: their relationship with Roosevelt, with each other, and with the turbulent world of the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. It also serves as a history of the modern Constitution itself....more

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• Climate is destiny: "The Third Horseman: 2 of 2: A Story of Weather, War, and the Famine History Forgot" by William Rosen

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  Apr 29 2018

  AUTHOR. (PHOTO: An interpretation of the battle of Bannockburn--first day ) HTTP://JOHNBATCHELORSHOW.COM/CONTACT HTTP://JOHNBATCHELORSHOW.COM/SCHEDULES TWITTER: @BATCHELORSHOW Climate is destiny: "The Third Horseman: 2 of 2: A Story of Weather, War, and the Famine History Forgot" by William Rosen “A kink in Europe’s climate during the fourteenth century indirectly triggered a seven-year cataclysm that left six million dead, William Rosen reveals in this rich interweaving of agronomy, meteorology, economics and history.... Rosen deftly delineates the backstory and the perfect storm of heavy rains, hard winters, livestock epidemics, and war leading to the catastrophe.” --Nature “Rosen... delights in the minutiae of history, down to the most fascinating footnotes... Engrossing.... A work that glows from the author’s relish for his subject.” --Kirkus “Rosen (The Most Powerful Idea in the World) argues persuasively that natural disasters are most catastrophic when humankind’s actions give them a push. The depredations committed in battle by Englishmen and Scots were augmented by years of bad weather: the result was that people died in droves. The interactions Rosen describes have been studied but are seldom incorporated into popular history, and the author never overreaches in his conclusions, providing a well-grounded chronicle.... This book will appeal foremost to history lovers, but it should also interest anyone who enjoys a well-documented story.” --Library Journal “William Rosen is a good enough writer to hold interest and maintain the fraught relations between nature and politics as a running theme. He ends The Third Horseman with a stark observation: in some ways, global ecology is more precarious nowadays than it was in the 1300s.” —Milwaukee Express “Rosen is a terrific storyteller and engaging stylist; his vigorous recaps of famous battles and sketches of various colorful characters will entertain readers not unduly preoccupied by thematic rigor.... Rosen’s principal goal, however, is not to horrify us, but to make us think.... While vividly re-creating a bygone civilization, he invites us to look beyond our significant but ultimately superficial differences and recognize that we too live in fragile equilibrium with the natural world whose resources we recklessly exploit, and that like our medieval forebears we may well be vulnerable to ‘a sudden shift in the weather.’” —The Daily Beast https://www.amazon.com/Third-Horseman-Weather-Famine-History/dp/0143127144/ref=laB001ILIG3S1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1483060218&sr=1-3...more

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• Climate is destiny: "The Third Horseman: 1 of 2: A Story of Weather, War, and the Famine History Forgot" by William Rosen

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  Apr 29 2018

  AUTHOR. (PHOTO: A depiction of the Battle of Bannockburn from a 1440s manuscript of Walter Bower's Scotichronicon. This is the earliest known depiction of the battle.) HTTP://JOHNBATCHELORSHOW.COM/CONTACT HTTP://JOHNBATCHELORSHOW.COM/SCHEDULES TWITTER: @BATCHELORSHOW Climate is destiny: "The Third Horseman: 1 of 2:  A Story of Weather, War, and the Famine History Forgot" by William Rosen “A kink in Europe’s climate during the fourteenth century indirectly triggered a seven-year cataclysm that left six million dead, William Rosen reveals in this rich interweaving of agronomy, meteorology, economics and history.... Rosen deftly delineates the backstory and the perfect storm of heavy rains, hard winters, livestock epidemics, and war leading to the catastrophe.” --Nature “Rosen... delights in the minutiae of history, down to the most fascinating footnotes... Engrossing.... A work that glows from the author’s relish for his subject.” --Kirkus “Rosen (The Most Powerful Idea in the World) argues persuasively that natural disasters are most catastrophic when humankind’s actions give them a push. The depredations committed in battle by Englishmen and Scots were augmented by years of bad weather: the result was that people died in droves. The interactions Rosen describes have been studied but are seldom incorporated into popular history, and the author never overreaches in his conclusions, providing a well-grounded chronicle.... This book will appeal foremost to history lovers, but it should also interest anyone who enjoys a well-documented story.” --Library Journal “William Rosen is a good enough writer to hold interest and maintain the fraught relations between nature and politics as a running theme. He ends The Third Horseman with a stark observation: in some ways, global ecology is more precarious nowadays than it was in the 1300s.” —Milwaukee Express “Rosen is a terrific storyteller and engaging stylist; his vigorous recaps of famous battles and sketches of various colorful characters will entertain readers not unduly preoccupied by thematic rigor.... Rosen’s principal goal, however, is not to horrify us, but to make us think.... While vividly re-creating a bygone civilization, he invites us to look beyond our significant but ultimately superficial differences and recognize that we too live in fragile equilibrium with the natural world whose resources we recklessly exploit, and that like our medieval forebears we may well be vulnerable to ‘a sudden shift in the weather.’” —The Daily Beast https://www.amazon.com/Third-Horseman-Weather-Famine-History/dp/0143127144/ref=laB001ILIG3S1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1483060218&sr=1-3...more

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• 40 years later, can the Kingdom survive? Strange Rebels: 2 of 2. 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century by Christian Caryl.

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  Apr 29 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Jabal al-Nour is where Muhammad is believed to have received the first revelation of God through the Archangel Gabriel) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow, 40 years later, can the Kingdom survive? Strange Rebels:  2 of 2. 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century by Christian Caryl. Few moments in history have seen as many seismic transformations as 1979. That single year marked the emergence of revolutionary Islam as a political force on the world stage, the beginning of market revolutions in China and Britain that would fuel globalization and radically alter the international economy, and the first stirrings of the resistance movements in Eastern Europe and Afghanistan that ultimately led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. More than any other year in the latter half of the twentieth century, 1979 heralded the economic, political, and religious realities that define the twenty-first. In Strange Rebels, veteran journalist Christian Caryl shows how the world we live in today—and the problems that plague it—began to take shape in this pivotal year. 1979, he explains, saw a series of counterrevolutions against the progressive consensus that had dominated the postwar era. The year’s epic upheavals embodied a startling conservative challenge to communist and socialist systems around the globe, fundamentally transforming politics and economics worldwide. In China, 1979 marked the start of sweeping market-oriented reforms that have made the country the economic powerhouse it is today. 1979 was also the year that Pope John Paul II traveled to Poland, confronting communism in Eastern Europe by reigniting its people’s suppressed Catholic faith. In Iran, meanwhile, an Islamic Revolution transformed the nation into a theocracy almost overnight, overthrowing the Shah’s modernizing monarchy. Further west, Margaret Thatcher became prime minister of Britain, returning it to a purer form of free-market capitalism and opening the way for Ronald Reagan to do the same in the US. And in Afghanistan, a Soviet invasion fueled an Islamic holy war with global consequences; the Afghan mujahedin presaged the rise of al-Qaeda and served as a key factor—along with John Paul’s journey to Poland—in the fall of communism. Weaving the story of each of these counterrevolutions into a brisk, gripping narrative, Strange Rebels is a groundbreaking account of how these far-flung events and disparate actors and movements gave birth to our modern age. https://www.amazon.com/Strange-Rebels-1979-Birth-Century/dp/0465018386/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1515534600&sr=1-1&keywords=christian+caryl...more

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• 40 years later, can the Kingdom survive? Strange Rebels: 1 of 2: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century by Christian Caryl. 1 of 2.

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  Apr 29 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Mecca, as seen from Jabal al-Nour, 2009  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow, 40 years later, can the Kingdom survive? Strange Rebels: 1 of 2: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century by Christian Caryl. 1 of 2. Few moments in history have seen as many seismic transformations as 1979. That single year marked the emergence of revolutionary Islam as a political force on the world stage, the beginning of market revolutions in China and Britain that would fuel globalization and radically alter the international economy, and the first stirrings of the resistance movements in Eastern Europe and Afghanistan that ultimately led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. More than any other year in the latter half of the twentieth century, 1979 heralded the economic, political, and religious realities that define the twenty-first. In Strange Rebels, veteran journalist Christian Caryl shows how the world we live in today—and the problems that plague it—began to take shape in this pivotal year. 1979, he explains, saw a series of counterrevolutions against the progressive consensus that had dominated the postwar era. The year’s epic upheavals embodied a startling conservative challenge to communist and socialist systems around the globe, fundamentally transforming politics and economics worldwide. In China, 1979 marked the start of sweeping market-oriented reforms that have made the country the economic powerhouse it is today. 1979 was also the year that Pope John Paul II traveled to Poland, confronting communism in Eastern Europe by reigniting its people’s suppressed Catholic faith. In Iran, meanwhile, an Islamic Revolution transformed the nation into a theocracy almost overnight, overthrowing the Shah’s modernizing monarchy. Further west, Margaret Thatcher became prime minister of Britain, returning it to a purer form of free-market capitalism and opening the way for Ronald Reagan to do the same in the US. And in Afghanistan, a Soviet invasion fueled an Islamic holy war with global consequences; the Afghan mujahedin presaged the rise of al-Qaeda and served as a key factor—along with John Paul’s journey to Poland—in the fall of communism. Weaving the story of each of these counterrevolutions into a brisk, gripping narrative, Strange Rebels is a groundbreaking account of how these far-flung events and disparate actors and movements gave birth to our modern age. https://www.amazon.com/Strange-Rebels-1979-Birth-Century/dp/0465018386/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1515534600&sr=1-1&keywords=christian+caryl...more

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• Ukraine Before Crimea and Donbas revolted: January 29, 2014 Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.

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  Apr 29 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Clashes in Kyiv, Ukraine. Events of February 18, 2014-4) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Ukraine Before Crimea and Donbas revolted: January 29, 2014 Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.

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• Seize Freedom!: American Truths and Renewal in a Chaotic Age (Culture of Enterprise) by Thaddeus G. McCotter

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  Apr 29 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Acropolis of Athens, with the Roman-era Odeon of Herodes Atticus seen on bottom left http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Seize Freedom!: American Truths and Renewal in a Chaotic Age (Culture of Enterprise) by Thaddeus G. McCotter

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• A Thousand Hills to Heaven: Love, Hope, and a Restaurant in Rwanda by Josh Ruxin

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  Apr 29 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Kigali ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow A Thousand Hills to Heaven: Love, Hope, and a Restaurant in Rwanda by Josh Ruxin https://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Hills-Heaven-Restaurant-Rwanda/dp/0316232912/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524969265&sr=1-1&keywords=ruxin+thousand+hills Newlyweds Josh and Alissa were at a party and received a challenge that shook them to the core: do you think you can really make a difference? Especially in a place like Rwanda, where the scars of genocide linger and poverty is rampant? While Josh worked hard bringing food and health care to the country's rural villages, Alissa was determined to put their foodie expertise to work. The couple opened Heaven, a gourmet restaurant overlooking Kigali, which became an instant success. Remarkably, they found that between helping youth marry their own local ingredients with gourmet recipes (and mix up "the best guacamole in Africa") and teaching them how to help themselves, they created much-needed jobs while showing that genocide's survivors really could work together. While first a memoir of love, adventure, and family, A THOUSAND HILLS TO HEAVEN also provides a remarkable view of how, through health, jobs, and economic growth, our foreign aid programs can be quickly remodeled and work to end poverty worldwide....more

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• Egypt continues at profound risk: Motherland Lost: 2 of 2z: The Egyptian and Coptic Quest for Modernity (Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism.) by Samuel Tadros.

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  Apr 29 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Entry of General Bonaparte into Alexandria, oil on canvas, 365 cm × 500 cm (144 in × 197 in), ca. 1800, Versailles ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Egypt continues at profound risk: Motherland Lost:  2 of 2z: The Egyptian and Coptic Quest for Modernity (Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism.) by Samuel Tadros. In Motherland Lost, Samuel Tadros provides a clear understanding of the Copts—the native Egyptian Christians—and their crisis of modernity in conjunction with the overall developments in Egypt as it faced its own struggles with modernity. He argues against the dominating narratives that have up to now shaped our understanding of the Coptic predicament--their eternal persecution, from the Roman and Byzantine emperors to the rule of Islam, and the National Unity discourse--asserting rather that it is due to the crisis of modernity. Linking the Egyptian and Coptic stories, the book argues that the plight of Copts today is inseparable from the crisis of modernity and the answers developed to address that crisis by the Egyptian state and intellectuals, as well as by the Coptic Church and laypeople. The author asserts that the answers developed by Egyptian intellectuals and state modernizers to the challenge modernity poses revolved around the problem of Islam. The Copts, then, although affected, like their fellow Egyptians, by the challenge of modernity, were faced with a separate crisis: a specific challenge to their ancient church and the need for a new orientation and revival to be able to deal with modernity and its discontents. Tadros concludes that the prospects for Copts in Egypt appear bleak and are leading to a massive Coptic exodus from Egypt. https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Martyrdom-Suicide-Shooters-Self-Destructive/dp/0230342132/ref=laB002BM846W1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1495688265&sr=1-1...more

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• Egypt continues at profound risk: Motherland Lost: 1 of 2: The Egyptian and Coptic Quest for Modernity (Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism.) by Samuel Tadros.

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  Apr 29 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Alexandria, July 11, 1882. The British fleet under the command of Admiral Seymour bombarded the city. Featured warships "Sultan" and "Alexandra". ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Egypt continues at profound risk: Motherland Lost:  1 of 2: The Egyptian and Coptic Quest for Modernity (Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism.) by Samuel Tadros. In Motherland Lost, Samuel Tadros provides a clear understanding of the Copts—the native Egyptian Christians—and their crisis of modernity in conjunction with the overall developments in Egypt as it faced its own struggles with modernity. He argues against the dominating narratives that have up to now shaped our understanding of the Coptic predicament--their eternal persecution, from the Roman and Byzantine emperors to the rule of Islam, and the National Unity discourse--asserting rather that it is due to the crisis of modernity. Linking the Egyptian and Coptic stories, the book argues that the plight of Copts today is inseparable from the crisis of modernity and the answers developed to address that crisis by the Egyptian state and intellectuals, as well as by the Coptic Church and laypeople. The author asserts that the answers developed by Egyptian intellectuals and state modernizers to the challenge modernity poses revolved around the problem of Islam. The Copts, then, although affected, like their fellow Egyptians, by the challenge of modernity, were faced with a separate crisis: a specific challenge to their ancient church and the need for a new orientation and revival to be able to deal with modernity and its discontents. Tadros concludes that the prospects for Copts in Egypt appear bleak and are leading to a massive Coptic exodus from Egypt. https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Martyrdom-Suicide-Shooters-Self-Destructive/dp/0230342132/ref=laB002BM846W1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1495688265&sr=1-1...more

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• Bolton: "...the nexus of Clinton Foundation, on the one hand, and official government decisions..." May, 2015. @AmbJohnBolton

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  Apr 28 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:.. Support the Clinton Foundation | by Hail Merry Foods ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Bolton: "...the nexus of Clinton Foundation, on the one hand, and official government decisions..."  May, 2015. @AmbJohnBolton

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• May, 2015: John Bolton on Iran, North Korea, China, and the JCPOA and a nuke arms race in the Middle East. @AmbJohnBolton

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  Apr 28 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: October 2015: Ambassadors Shannon and Mull Participate in the First Joint Commission meeting under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action in Vienna  Ambassador Tom Shannon, Counselor of the Department, and Ambassador Stephen Mull, Lead Coordinator for Iran Nuclear Implementation, participate in the First Joint Commission meeting under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) at the United Nations Office in Vienna, Austria, on October 19, 2015. Attending the meeting are the participants to the JCPOA, including all of the members of the P5+1 (China, France, Germany, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States), the European Union, and Iran. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow May, 2015: John Bolton on Iran, North Korea, China, the JCPOA and a nuke arms race in the Middle East. @AmbJohnBolton...more

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• More mysteries of the vanishing Neanderthals. @MBalter

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  Apr 28 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Reconstruction of the La Chapelle-aux-Saints individual, by J. H. McGregor (American Museum of Natural History, 1915) ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow More mysteries of the vanishing Neanderthals. @MBalter http://www.sciencemag.org/content/337/6101/1443.full?sid=d9f035d2-b47f-430a-9de9-86b712886bbbv Did Neandertals Truly Bury Their Dead? Michael Balter Science 21 September 2012: 1443-1444. [DOI:10.1126/science.337.6101.1443]...more

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• 25 million-year search for the beginnings of homo sapiens. @Mbalter.

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  Apr 28 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: The dragon blood tree is considered a remnant of the Mio-Pliocene Laurasian subtropical forests that are now almost extinct in North Africa.[13]) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow 25 million-year search for the beginnings of homo sapiens. @Mbalter. http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2013/05/fossils-may-pinpoint-critical-split-between-apes-and-monkeys?ref=hp

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• What is a Patent Troll & What is to be done? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Apr 28 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow What is a Patent Troll & What is to be done? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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• Israel at 70: The Israel Test: Why the World's Most Besieged State is a Beacon of Freedom and Hope for the World Economy by George Gilder and Joe Lieberman.

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  Apr 28 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: nglish: The old train station of Jerusalem was revived with many shops and restaurants; Jerusalem, Israel Deutsch: Der alte Bahnhof von Jerusalem wurde renoviert und durch Restaurants und Läden wieder mit Leben gefüllt Date 1 January 2018, 19:05:41 Source Own work Author Jcornelius Camera location 31° 46′ 03.17″ N, 35° 13′ 27.56″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Israel at 70: The Israel Test: Why the World's Most Besieged State is a Beacon of Freedom and Hope for the World Economy by George Gilder and Joe Lieberman. https://www.amazon.com/Israel-Test-Besieged-Freedom-Economy/dp/1594036128/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524889360&sr=1-1&keywords=israel+test++george+gilder...more

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• USS Antares first spots the Japanese mini-sub at Pearl Harbor: Uncommon Warriors: 200 Years of the Most Unusual American Naval Vessels by Ken W Sayers

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  Apr 28 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Ko-hyoteki class submarine grounded in the surf on Oahu after the Attack on Pearl Harbor, December 1941. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow USS Antares first spots the Japanese mini-sub at Pearl Harbor: Uncommon Warriors: 200 Years of the Most Unusual American Naval Vessels by Ken W Sayers. https://www.amazon.com/Uncommon-Warriors-Unusual-American-Vessels/dp/1591147603/ref=laB001K8O8X61_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524888465&sr=1-1...more

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• Indispensable & Inexhaustible: The Return of George Washington: 2 of 4: Uniting the States, 1783-1789. by Edward J. Larson

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  Apr 28 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Signing of the U.S. Constitution by Howard Chandler Christy, 1940 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Indispensable & Inexhaustible: The Return of George Washington: 2 of 4: Uniting the States, 1783-1789. by Edward J. Larson https://www.amazon.com/Return-George-Washington-Uniting-1783-1789-ebook/dp/B00I2PD9GW/ref=laB000APC5DK1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524702850&sr=1-7

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• Bad actor Iran disorders the global energy markets. @ProfBShaffer Malcolm Hoenlein@Conf_of_pres

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  Apr 28 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Iran's Oil and Gas Fields and Infrastructures) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Bad actor Iran disorders the global energy markets. @ProfBShaffer  Malcolm Hoenlein@Confofpres https://uk.investing.com/news/commodities-news/oil-climbs-on-saudi-price-ambitions-and-us-stocks-draw-1134060 · https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Kurdish-Iranian-groups-support-of-protests-for-democracy-in-Iran-521523

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• Small Business America: Goats & yoga is the new new. @GeneMarks

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  Apr 28 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: The White House 2003 Christmas decoration using "Three Billy Goats Gruff" as the theme) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Small Business America: Goats & yoga is the new new. @GeneMarks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvj6voiH5S0

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• The lowest jobless claims in America since Richard Nixon, 1969. @GeneMarks @WashingtonPost

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  Apr 28 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: President Richard Nixon enjoys opening day at RFK Stadium. The Washington Senators manager is Ted Williams. New York's manager is Ralph Houk. Hand on Williams's shoulder is baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn. Bob Short is between Nixon and Houk. Man in front with button is American League president, Joe Cronin. Man in uniform is Nixon aide Jack Brennan. Date 7 April 1969 Source Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Archives Author Robert L. Knudsen, White House photographer ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The lowest jobless claims in America since Richard Nixon, 1969. @GeneMarks @WashingtonPost https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-jobless-claims-drop-to-lowest-level-since-1969-1524746109?mod=cxpicks&cxnavSource=cxpicks&cxtag=poptarget&cxartPos=2#cxrecss Initial jobless claims, a measure of layoffs across the U.S., fell 24,000 to a seasonally adjusted 209,000 in the week through April 21, the Labor Department said Thursday. That was the lowest level since Dec. 6, 1969, early in the Nixon administration....more

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• Anti-semitism in America, 2018. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_Pres

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  Apr 28 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Jews (identified by the mandatory Jewish badge and Jewish hat) being burned during the Black Death in 1348.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Anti-semitism in America, 2018. Malcolm Hoenlein @ConfofPres

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• Mars Trace Gas Orbiter begins the search for methane. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Apr 27 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Mars Trace Gas Orbiter begins the search for methane.  Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com http://behindtheblack.com/?s=gas+orbiter Europe’s Trace Gas Orbiter has released its first image after reaching its planned science orbit. The image is posted above, reduced in resolution to show here. It shows a portion of the rim of Korolev Crater, a rare large crater located in the vast northern plains of Mars. Because it is so far north, it has ice on the rim which looks almost like glacial flows in this image....more

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• China tied with the US in the rocket race. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Apr 27 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Long March 5 Y2 was transporting from assembly building to 101 launch site in Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Center ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow China tied with the US in the rocket race.  Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com http://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/chinas-long-march-11-rocket-launches-five-earth-observation-satellites/ China’s Long March 11 rocket today launched five Earth observation satellites. The rocket appears designed to compete with some of the smallsat rockets being developed by private companies in the U.S. and elsewhere. The Long March-11 (Chang Zheng-11) is a small solid-fueled quick-reaction launch vehicle developed by the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT) with the goal to provide an easy to operate quick-reaction launch vehicle, that can remain in storage for long period and to provide a reliable launch on short notice. LM-11 is a four stage solid-fueled launch vehicle equipped with a reaction control system on the fourth stage. The vehicle has a length of 20.8 meters, 2.0 meters in diameter and a liftoff mass of 58,000 kg. At launch it develops 120.000 kg/f, launching a 350 kg cargo into a 700 km SSO. The CZ-11 can use two types of fairing with 1.6 meters or 2.0 meters. LM-11’s first launch took place on September 25, 2015, when successfully orbited the Pujiang-1 and the three Tianwang small sats from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. Update: I had initially left off Russia’s Rokot launch of a new European Earth observation satellite late yesterday. The standings below have therefore been updated. The leaders in the 2018 launch standings: 12 China 8 SpaceX 5 Russia 4 ULA Europe, India, and Japan are all tied at 3. The U.S. and China are now tied at 12 in the national standings....more

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• The world without the Iran Deal. Benham ben Talablu @FDD

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  Apr 27 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Contemporary portrait of Karim Khan Zand, the founder of dynasty (1751).) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The world without the Iran Deal. Benham ben Talablu @FDD

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• North Korea's nuke test tunnel collapses & What is to be done? Bruce Bechtol @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast Behnam ben Taleblu

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  Apr 27 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulguksa Samuel Orchard from Australia - Bulguksa Uploaded by Caspian blue ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow North Korea's nuke test tunnel collapses & What is to be done? Bruce Bechtol @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast Behnam ben Taleblu

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• Russians plant the flag in Syria. Ilan Berman. Malcolm Hoenlein.

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  Apr 27 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Batu Khan consolidates the Golden Horde ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Russians plant the flag in Syria. Ilan Berman. Malcolm Hoenlein.

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• The history of Morocco and the Jews. Laziza Dalil, Executive Vice President of the Moroccan NGO, Association Mimouna

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  Apr 27 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: AJewishhouseinMogadorbyDarondeau18071841. Date between 1807 and 1841 Source "Sur les Traces de Castello Real" Omar Lakhdar p.192 Author Darondeau (1807-1841)) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The history of Morocco and the Jews. Laziza Dalil, Executive Vice President of the Moroccan NGO, Association Mimouna

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• What is jamming our gunships in Syria & What is to be done? @SebGorka

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  Apr 27 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: composite image - An AC-130U gunship from the 4th Special Operations Squadron, flies near Hurlburt Field, Fla., Aug. 20. The AC-130 gunship's primary missions are close air support, air interdiction and force protection http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow What is jamming our gunships in Syria & What is to be done? @SebGorka

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• New Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to the Korean battlements. @SebGorka

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  Apr 27 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Main Palace of Gyeongbokgung Palace ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow New Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to the Korean battlements. @SebGorka

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• Turkey's failing economy and Erdogan's desperate snap election. Aykan Erdemir. Malcolm Hoenlein

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  Apr 27 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Yılankale, kleinarmenische Burg beim gleichnamigen Ort westlich Ceyhan, Südtürkei, von Süden http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Turkey's failing economy and Erdogan's desperate snap election. Aykan Erdemir. Malcolm Hoenlein

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• Rejecting the Iran Deal, what about the day after? @AmbDennisRoss Malcolm Hoenlein

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  Apr 27 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Bam Castle can be traced back to Achaemenid Empire, and designated as the World Heritage Site. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Rejecting the Iran Deal, what about the day after? @AmbDennisRoss Malcolm Hoenlein

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• The Return of Mark "Deep Throat" Felt & What is to be done? @WJMcGurn

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  Apr 27 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:The Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. Felt saw all the FBI's files on its investigation of the break-in there in 1972.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Return of Mark "Deep Throat" Felt & What is to be done? @WJMcGurn https://www.wsj.com/articles/mccabe-the-new-deep-throat-1523915645

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• Because Trump, says the Smart Set. @WJMcCurn.

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  Apr 27 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: President Donald J. Trump is applauded at the conclusion of a roundtable discussion on tax. Photo Credit: Official White House http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Because Trump, says the Smart Set. @WJMcCurn. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-elitists-trump-excuse-1524524140

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• Revolution Song: 3 of 3: A Story of American Freedom by Russell Shorto

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  Apr 27 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Stonington lighthouse ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Revolution Song: 3 of 3: A Story of American Freedom by Russell Shorto https://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Song-Story-American-Freedom/dp/0393245543/ref=laB000APY7721_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524583112&sr=1-3 “Shorto’s achievement is a remarkable one. The intertwined stories of Revolution Song give a sense of how far-reaching a phenomenon the War of Independence was. It leaves to readers the pleasure of judging what each of the figures in the book―or perhaps the combination of them all―contributed to an event that changed the world.” New York Times Book Review “An engaging piece of historical detective work and narrative craft.” Chicago Tribune “Russell Shorto’s engaging new book appears at a moment when basic concepts of rights and equality are routinely disparaged. As if in response to our troubled political culture, he invites readers to return to the American Revolution to understand better how an 18th-century commitment to freedom took root and became a fundamental, unifying value in our nation’s history. . . . [Shorto has] produced a compelling work that reads almost like a good detective story. . . . Shorto deserves praise for reminding us of the complexity of freedom’s claims.” Brian Greer, American Scholar “How did the teenaged daughter of a British officer view the American Revolution, from behind enemy lines in New York? What did that contest mean to a shrewd, contemplative Iroquois warrior? Russell Shorto has emerged from the archives with a bold, largely neglected cast. He has set them free in a rich, prismatic narrative, as intensely vivid as it is seamlessly constructed.” Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Witches: Salem, 1692 “Brilliant, captivating and fast-paced, Revolution Song is a wonderfully original take on the American Revolution that reads like a thriller. I couldn’t put this book down.” Amy Chua, Yale Law School professor and author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother “With symphonic sweep, cinematic detail and compelling, superbly researched real-life characters, Shorto shows how our struggle for freedom began and why it remains so sadly unfinished. If Spielberg wrote history, this is how it would read.” Howard Fineman, NBC News analyst and author of The Thirteen American Arguments “Amazing: Russell Shorto shows us what a diverse, fascinating, cosmopolitan place this country has been since its founding.” Charles C. Mann, author of 1491 “An engaging, readable and surprisingly complete account of the American Revolution. A tour de force.” Gordon S. Wood, author of The Radicalism of the American Revolution “Russell Shorto has long had an astonishing talent for adjusting the focus in ways that make familiar swaths of history seem intriguingly foreign and fresh. With Revolution Song, he’s worked his magic again. Through his vigorous language, his mastery of archival sources and the pleasing interweave of his six carefully chosen characters, Shorto has composed a powerful polyphonic story, simultaneously grand and intimate, that makes us hear (and see and feel) the tumult of our nation’s founding as never before.” Hampton Sides, New York Times best-selling author of In the Kingdom of Ice...more

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• Hard Science and Gaia: Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Apr 26 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: A map of the sky by star density. Gaia is a space observatory of the European Space Agency (ESA) designed for astrometry: measuring the positions and distances of stars with unprecedented precision.[7][8] The mission aims to construct the largest and most precise 3D space catalog ever made, totalling approximately 1 billion astronomical objects, mainly stars but also planets, comets, asteroids and quasars among others. The spacecraft will monitor each of its target objects about 70 times[9] over a period of five years to study the precise position and motion of each target.[10][11] The spacecraft has enough consumables to operate for approximately nine years, and its detectors are not degrading as fast as initially expected. The mission could therefore be extended.[2] The Gaia targets represent approximately 1% of the Milky Way population[9] with all stars brighter than magnitude 20 in a broad photometric band that covers most of the visual range.[12] Additionally, Gaia is expected to detect thousands to tens of thousands of Jupiter-sized exoplanets beyond the Solar System,[13] 500,000 quasars and tens of thousands of new asteroids and comets within the Solar System.[14][15][16]) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Hard Science and Gaia: Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com http://behindtheblack.com/?s=gaia The science team for the space telescope Gaia, designed to map the positions of billions of stars, have released the probe’s second catalog, producing a 3D map of 1.7 billion stars in the Milky Way The new data release, which covers the period between 25 July 2014 and 23 May 2016, pins down the positions of nearly 1.7 billion stars, and with a much greater precision. For some of the brightest stars in the survey, the level of precision equates to Earth-bound observers being able to spot a Euro coin lying on the surface of the Moon. With these accurate measurements it is possible to separate the parallax of stars – an apparent shift on the sky caused by Earth’s yearly orbit around the Sun – from their true movements through the Galaxy. The new catalogue lists the parallax and velocity across the sky, or proper motion, for more than 1.3 billion stars. From the most accurate parallax measurements, about ten per cent of the total, astronomers can directly estimate distances to individual stars. The catalog provides much more information than this. For example: As well as positions, the data include brightness information of all surveyed stars and colour measurements of nearly all, plus information on how the brightness and colour of half a million variable stars change over time. It also contains the velocities along the line of sight of a subset of seven million stars, the surface temperatures of about a hundred million and the effect of interstellar dust on 87 million. Gaia also observes objects in our Solar System: the second data release comprises the positions of more than 14 000 known asteroids, which allows precise determination of their orbits. A much larger asteroid sample will be compiled in Gaia’s future releases. Further afield, Gaia closed in on the positions of half a million distant quasars, bright galaxies powered by the activity of the supermassive black holes at their cores. These sources are used to define a reference frame for the celestial coordinates of all objects in the Gaia catalogue, something that is routinely done in radio waves but now for the first time is also available at optical wavelengths. I guarantee that many theories about specific strange stars, such as the plethora of different types of variable stars, are going to change drastically with this new and precise information. At the article they describe just one example relating to white dwarf stars....more

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• Congress in Outer Space. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Apr 26 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Photo of William Lundigan as Edward McCauley from the television program Men into Space.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Congress in Outer Space. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com http://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/house-passes-law-reforming-commercial-space-licensing-rules/ The House yesterday passed a new law to reform the commercial space licensing rules. Essentially, the bill shifts a majority of commercial space regulation to the Department of Commerce, and matches somewhat closely the recommendations being put forth by the Trump administration. The bill appears to be almost identical to the version I analyzed in great detail in an op-ed for The Federalist last year. It has the same positives and negatives. While it definitely aims at simplifying the licensing process for space (abolishing such agencies as NOAA’s Office of Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs that recently tried to claim it had the right to license all photograph of Earth from space.), it does not appear to completely make Commerce that “one-stop shop” for all licensing, allowing the FAA and FCC to retain their space licensing responsibilities. Moreover, it appears, as I noted in my op-ed, to avoid the more essential legal problems, such as the Outer Space Treaty, that hamper private space today and will hamper private space even more in the future. Regardless, it does appear that the turf war over licensing between Commerce and the FAA is over. Though the law still must get through the Senate, it does appear that Commerce has mostly won. It will get the majority of this bureaucratic bauble. What that bureaucracy will do with it, however, is the real question....more

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• Why do Trump-voting Democrats tune out Russiagate? @SalenaZito

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  Apr 26 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Allentown Symphony Hall, located on Allentown's North Sixth Street, was originally built in the late 19th century as a market. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Why do Trump-voting Democrats tune out Russiagate? @SalenaZito The Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics by Salena Zito and Brad Todd https://www.amazon.com/Great-Revolt-Populist-Coalition-Reshaping/dp/1524763683/ref=laB078X5VFJ31_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524757492&sr=1-1...more

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• Blue State Tax-Payers voting with their feet & What is to be done? @StephenMoore

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  Apr 26 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:The Illinois State Capitol as seen from Capitol Avenue  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Blue State Tax-Payers voting with their feet & What is to be done? @StephenMoore https://www.wsj.com/articles/so-long-california-sayonara-new-york-1524611900

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• The Kim regime deceives about its nuke test site and missile tests. Bruce Bechtol. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Apr 26 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Kim regime deceives about its nuke test site and missile tests.  Bruce Bechtol. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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• The failing shadow banking system in distressed China. Andrew Collier, Orient Capital Research, Hong Kong. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Apr 26 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The failing shadow banking system in distressed China.  Andrew Collier, Orient Capital Research, Hong Kong. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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• The tragedy of Hindu persecution of nomadic Moslem shepherds. Sadanand Dhume @AEI @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Apr 26 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The tragedy of Hindu persecution of nomadic Moslem shepherds. Sadanand Dhume @AEI @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast https://www.wsj.com/articles/hindu-extremists-shrug-off-a-depraved-crime-1524178275?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTjJNMk9EQmhPR1JsT1dWbSIsInQiOiJmdWdBREFkZ0VNS04weFVcL1lsV3lOR0VSeFVJU2pnYXptbnpwSnZkU1pUNGxvVXlRb2E1cVA4eTZtOGNvSGZNZ2lNZ29XR1QwYU1WY1Y4dXZuR2RMdlkydk93TlRCZ0dvNjEweE5BRGRkZkk3cFwvWDYwVVVLaTdCQXNFb1wvVzZpMSJ9...more

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• China PLA Navy challenges Australian warships. James Holmes, @NavalWarCollege @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Apr 26 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow China PLA Navy challenges Australian warships. James Holmes, @NavalWarCollege @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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• What xi of China wants from the Korean summits. @MatJunsuk @FDD @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Apr 26 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow What xi of China wants from the Korean summits. @MatJunsuk @FDD @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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• Macron of France is besotted with Trump of America. @MonicaCrowley

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  Apr 26 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Macron of France is besotted with Trump of America. @MonicaCrowley https://www.wsj.com/articles/macron-extols-u-s-french-efforts-against-tyranny-terrorism-1524670729

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• Expect repetitive "drivel" from the South Korean summit with North Korea. Sung-Yoon Lee, professor at The Fletcher School at Tufts University

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  Apr 26 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Expect repetitive "drivel" from the South Korean summit with North Korea. Sung-Yoon Lee, professor at The Fletcher School at Tufts University

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• South Korea rejects American missile defense. Tara O, Institute for Corean-American Studies @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Apr 26 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow South Korea rejects American missile defense. Tara O,  Institute for Corean-American Studies @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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• Indispensable & Inexhaustible: The Return of George Washington: 1 of 4: Uniting the States, 1783-1789. by Edward J. Larson

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  Apr 26 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Indispensable & Inexhaustible: The Return of George Washington: 1 of 4: Uniting the States, 1783-1789. by Edward J. Larson https://www.amazon.com/Return-George-Washington-Uniting-1783-1789-ebook/dp/B00I2PD9GW/ref=laB000APC5DK1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524702850&sr=1-7

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• Revolution Song: 2 of 3: A Story of American Freedom by Russell Shorto

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  Apr 26 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Revolution Song: 2 of 3: A Story of American Freedom by Russell Shorto https://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Song-Story-American-Freedom/dp/0393245543/ref=laB000APY7721_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524583112&sr=1-3 “Shorto’s achievement is a remarkable one. The intertwined stories of Revolution Song give a sense of how far-reaching a phenomenon the War of Independence was. It leaves to readers the pleasure of judging what each of the figures in the book―or perhaps the combination of them all―contributed to an event that changed the world.” New York Times Book Review “An engaging piece of historical detective work and narrative craft.” Chicago Tribune “Russell Shorto’s engaging new book appears at a moment when basic concepts of rights and equality are routinely disparaged. As if in response to our troubled political culture, he invites readers to return to the American Revolution to understand better how an 18th-century commitment to freedom took root and became a fundamental, unifying value in our nation’s history. . . . [Shorto has] produced a compelling work that reads almost like a good detective story. . . . Shorto deserves praise for reminding us of the complexity of freedom’s claims.” Brian Greer, American Scholar “How did the teenaged daughter of a British officer view the American Revolution, from behind enemy lines in New York? What did that contest mean to a shrewd, contemplative Iroquois warrior? Russell Shorto has emerged from the archives with a bold, largely neglected cast. He has set them free in a rich, prismatic narrative, as intensely vivid as it is seamlessly constructed.” Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Witches: Salem, 1692 “Brilliant, captivating and fast-paced, Revolution Song is a wonderfully original take on the American Revolution that reads like a thriller. I couldn’t put this book down.” Amy Chua, Yale Law School professor and author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother “With symphonic sweep, cinematic detail and compelling, superbly researched real-life characters, Shorto shows how our struggle for freedom began and why it remains so sadly unfinished. If Spielberg wrote history, this is how it would read.” Howard Fineman, NBC News analyst and author of The Thirteen American Arguments “Amazing: Russell Shorto shows us what a diverse, fascinating, cosmopolitan place this country has been since its founding.” Charles C. Mann, author of 1491 “An engaging, readable and surprisingly complete account of the American Revolution. A tour de force.” Gordon S. Wood, author of The Radicalism of the American Revolution “Russell Shorto has long had an astonishing talent for adjusting the focus in ways that make familiar swaths of history seem intriguingly foreign and fresh. With Revolution Song, he’s worked his magic again. Through his vigorous language, his mastery of archival sources and the pleasing interweave of his six carefully chosen characters, Shorto has composed a powerful polyphonic story, simultaneously grand and intimate, that makes us hear (and see and feel) the tumult of our nation’s founding as never before.” Hampton Sides, New York Times best-selling author of In the Kingdom of Ice...more

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• Lessons learned from the Iran Deal's safeguards and monitors. Henry Sokolski Non_Proliferation Policy Center. @CNS_Updates

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  Apr 26 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Lessons learned from the Iran Deal's safeguards and monitors. Henry Sokolski NonProliferation Policy Center. @CNSUpdates https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3Doa8tCks5qLk%26list%3DPLMbsJ5y3W20Dr9ATAw8i7ElHub-ENY0tM%26index%3D13&source=gmail&ust=1524787438423000&usg=AFQjCNEMYUYutQj5yZkjFMBLLpZXhicOoQ

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• The Kingdom seeks nuclear reactors & What is to be done? Henry Sokolski, Non-Proliferation Policy Center

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  Apr 26 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Kingdom seeks nuclear reactors & What is to be done? Henry Sokolski, Non-Proliferation Policy Center. http://npolicy.org/article.php?aid=1385&rid=4

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• The unpredictable perils of foreign policy work in the White House. @JoshRogin

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  Apr 25 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The unpredictable perils of foreign policy work in the White House. @JoshRogin https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogin/wp/2018/04/17/why-president-trump-cant-get-the-best-people/?utm_term=.f5426c0a0901

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• "Great Wall of Sand" to the Korean front line. @JoshRogin @WashingtonPost

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  Apr 25 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Great Wall of Sand" to the Korean front line. @JoshRogin @WashingtonPost https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogin/wp/2018/04/24/pompeo-planning-to-switch-australia-ambassador-nominee-to-south-korea/?utm_term=.f9a513da5fc6 Pompeo planning to switch Australia ambassador nominee to South Korea By Josh Rogin April 24 at 2:38 PM During his confirmation hearing to become secretary of state, CIA Director Mike Pompeo promised to fill the role of U.S. ambassador to South Korea quickly. Now he plans to pull the nomination of President Trump’s proposed ambassador to Australia and move that nominee to the position in Seoul....more

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• Tales of the New Cold War: Russia is not a criminal state. 1 of 2: Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.

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  Apr 25 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: CIA reference photograph of Soviet medium-range ballistic missile (SS-4 in U.S. documents, R-12 in Soviet documents) in Red Square, Moscow.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Tales of the New Cold War: Russia is not a criminal state. 1 of 2: Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.

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• Tales of the New Cold War: Russia is not a criminal state. 2 of 2: Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.

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  Apr 25 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:A U-2 reconnaissance photograph of Cuba, showing Soviet nuclear missiles, their transports and tents for fueling and maintenance. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Tales of the New Cold War: Russia is not a criminal state. 2 of 2: Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.

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• Countdown to a New NAFTA or lose the Old NAFTA. @StephenMoore

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  Apr 25 2018

  https://www.creators.com/read/stephen-moore/04/18/the-need-for-naftaAUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Countdown to a New NAFTA or lose the Old NAFTA. @StephenMoore https://www.creators.com/read/stephen-moore/04/18/the-need-for-nafta

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• The end of Medicaid as we know it. @NaomiGoldstein1

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  Apr 25 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The end of Medicaid as we know it. @NaomiGoldstein1 https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2018-04-23/work-requirements-give-republicans-cover-to-expand-medicaid

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• Tens of thousands of tons of plutonium for the next 24,000 years. @ScotPaltrow

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  Apr 25 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Tens of thousands of tons of plutonium for the next 24,000 years. @ScotPaltrow

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• Recession cures all trade deficits. @Veroderugy

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  Apr 25 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Recession cures all trade deficits. @Veroderugy  https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/10/opinion/trump-china-trade-deficit.html

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• Tammany Hall Never Sleeps: The NYPD is non-transparent & What is to be done? @HarrySiegel

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  Apr 25 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Tammany Hall Never Sleeps: The NYPD is non-transparent & What is to be done? @HarrySiegel http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/nypd-article-1.3946276

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• What does $75 oil mean for the energy powers? @ProfBShaffer Georgetown University

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  Apr 25 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow What does $75 oil mean for the energy powers? @ProfBShaffer Georgetown University http://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/384386-higher-oil-prices-no-longer-all-bad-for-us-economy

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• Revolution Song: 1 of 3: A Story of American Freedom by Russell Shorto

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  Apr 25 2018

  AUTHOR. (PHOTO: George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville) HTTP://JOHNBATCHELORSHOW.COM/CONTACT HTTP://JOHNBATCHELORSHOW.COM/SCHEDULES TWITTER: @BATCHELORSHOW Revolution Song: 1 of 3:  A Story of American Freedom by Russell Shorto https://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Song-Story-American-Freedom/dp/0393245543/ref=laB000APY7721_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524583112&sr=1-3 “Shorto’s achievement is a remarkable one. The intertwined stories of Revolution Song give a sense of how far-reaching a phenomenon the War of Independence was. It leaves to readers the pleasure of judging what each of the figures in the book―or perhaps the combination of them all―contributed to an event that changed the world.” New York Times Book Review “An engaging piece of historical detective work and narrative craft.” Chicago Tribune “Russell Shorto’s engaging new book appears at a moment when basic concepts of rights and equality are routinely disparaged. As if in response to our troubled political culture, he invites readers to return to the American Revolution to understand better how an 18th-century commitment to freedom took root and became a fundamental, unifying value in our nation’s history. . . . [Shorto has] produced a compelling work that reads almost like a good detective story. . . . Shorto deserves praise for reminding us of the complexity of freedom’s claims.” Brian Greer, American Scholar “How did the teenaged daughter of a British officer view the American Revolution, from behind enemy lines in New York? What did that contest mean to a shrewd, contemplative Iroquois warrior? Russell Shorto has emerged from the archives with a bold, largely neglected cast. He has set them free in a rich, prismatic narrative, as intensely vivid as it is seamlessly constructed.” Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Witches: Salem, 1692 “Brilliant, captivating and fast-paced, Revolution Song is a wonderfully original take on the American Revolution that reads like a thriller. I couldn’t put this book down.” Amy Chua, Yale Law School professor and author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother “With symphonic sweep, cinematic detail and compelling, superbly researched real-life characters, Shorto shows how our struggle for freedom began and why it remains so sadly unfinished. If Spielberg wrote history, this is how it would read.” Howard Fineman, NBC News analyst and author of The Thirteen American Arguments “Amazing: Russell Shorto shows us what a diverse, fascinating, cosmopolitan place this country has been since its founding.” Charles C. Mann, author of 1491 “An engaging, readable and surprisingly complete account of the American Revolution. A tour de force.” Gordon S. Wood, author of The Radicalism of the American Revolution “Russell Shorto has long had an astonishing talent for adjusting the focus in ways that make familiar swaths of history seem intriguingly foreign and fresh. With Revolution Song, he’s worked his magic again. Through his vigorous language, his mastery of archival sources and the pleasing interweave of his six carefully chosen characters, Shorto has composed a powerful polyphonic story, simultaneously grand and intimate, that makes us hear (and see and feel) the tumult of our nation’s founding as never before.” Hampton Sides, New York Times best-selling author of In the Kingdom of Ice ...more

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• Leaker and deceiver Andrew McCabe, ex-FBI. 2 of 2. @AmdrewCMcCarthy @Thaddeus McCotter

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  Apr 24 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Leaker and deceiver Andrew McCabe, ex-FBI.  2 of 2. @AmdrewCMcCarthy @Thaddeus McCotter https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/04/andrew-mccabe-collusion-obama-justice-department-clinton-campaign/

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• Leaker and deceiver Andrew McCabe, ex-FBI. 1 of 2. @AmdrewCMcCarthy @Thaddeus McCotter

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  Apr 24 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Leaker and deceiver Andrew McCabe, ex-FBI. 1 of 2. @AmdrewCMcCarthy @Thaddeus McCotter

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• Who is Stefan Halper of the Russiagate scandal? Chuck Ross @TheDailyCaller

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  Apr 24 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Who is Stefan Halper of the Russiagate scandal? Chuck Ross @TheDailyCaller

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• What does Kim want? What does Xi want? What does Trump want? @GordonChang @ThadMcCotter

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  Apr 24 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow What does Kim want?  What does Xi want? What does Trump want? @GordonChang @ThadMcCotter

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• The Taliban overrun Helmand Province. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn

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  Apr 24 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Taliban overrun Helmand Province. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2018/04/in-helmand-taliban-dominates-security-situation.php

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• The long shadow of the Watergate retreat from US geopolitical leadership. Gregory Copley Defense & Foreign Affairs.

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  Apr 24 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Characteristic architecture of the Watergate complex) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The long shadow of the Watergate retreat from US geopolitical leadership. Gregory Copley Defense & Foreign Affairs. Reflections Caused by Demonic Visitations When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights, Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty’s best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have express’d Even such a beauty as you master now. So all their praises are but prophecies Of this our time, all you prefiguring; And, for they look’d but with divining eyes, They had not skill enough your worth to sing: For we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise. — William Shakespeare’s sonnet to the “Chronicle of Wasted Time”. Analysis. By Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs. Demons visit old men in the darkness of early morning when stillness and quiet is absolute. They mean no harm. It is only at this time that the honesty of those they visit cannot be al-loyed with excuses, or distracted by the optimism of dawn. Old men can then see laid before them the chronicles of their wasted time and wasted opportunities; the pettinesses and vanities which forever marred their characters along the paths of early life; and the futility of the self-deception which marks the daylight hours and damns — and dams — the path to something greater. The breaking dawn relieves the siege of demons, restoring optimism and the vision of earthly beauty. Yet it is the shapes which old men see in the black which are real, and it is the colors of day which are the cloak. It is in darkness and privacy that demons can exert uncompromising truth in full meas-ure. They come only to the most fortunate, and even there they find few with energy still left to welcome them. They offer a chance to waste time no more; to restore fire to the blood that it might resist the obsessive greed of those younger and those still immortal. They offer redemption for those who will take it. In the Chronicle of Wasted Time and wasted opportunities of my own knowing it is pos-sible to see how societies have betrayed themselves through those vanities and ambi-tions to satisfy immediate lusts, when the larger skein went unseen. And we, which now behold these present days, “have eyes to see, ... but lack the tongues” to warn. When personal ambition, greed, and vanity are put ahead of the greatness of society — when immediate and personal gratification and material, visceral self-regard outweigh the deeper identity of the individual with kin and land — then the paths of history are distorted and curtailed. I was fresh to the United States when I saw what seemed the incomprehensible and disproportionate venom of the Watergate scandal break in 1972. It allowed the ambi-tious to advance their careers at the cost of the West’s strategic position. The Soviets used that event to strengthen their own position — postponing the revival of the Russian people — but those in the US who made Watergate the launch of their careers, regard-less of the damage to their country, showed how history can be distracted from its path by the teeming insatiability of ants. Most of humanity is unconcerned with the larger framework of history. Theirs is a pat-tern of behavior to ensure individual survival and happiness. Most react rather than initi-ate; follow rather than lead. Thinking only what others have thought for them. Follow an instinctive path of work, consumption, sleep, reproduction, and death. And this life is ei-ther secure or insecure, happy or not: dependent on the level of trust they have in the hierarchical structures of their society and geopolitical entity. But others, who aspire differently, seek either society’s wellbeing or their own ad-vantage. What is significant is that most who are driven by personal ambition tend to be more short-term in their actions and more material in their grasping. The self-serving populism of US Pres. Jimmy Carter (1977-81) caused — as did the Watergate coup which toppled Pres. Richard Nixon — a severe and permanent disloca-tion of US strategic momentum. It was the start of the global retrenchment of the United States and it prolonged the Cold War. And what was significant, in hindsight, is that Nixon was driven by the substance of strategy — what he could do with power — while Carter was driven by personal ambition and what power could do for him. Part of the strategic decline of the US and Western strategic positions caused by Wa-tergate and Carter was arrested by the Presidency of Ronald Reagan (1981-89), who showed how a firm vision of strategic outcomes could drive policies. He, along with UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and a now-vibrant Russian nationalist movement, ended the Cold War, even if Reagan’s vision of a post-Cold War world was not under-stood by his successor, Pres. George H. W. Bush. And if ego was the primary driver, in very different expressions, for presidents Bill Clin-ton (1993-2001) and George W. Bush (2001- 2009), both extremely damaging to US global strategic posture, then the presidency of Barack Obama (2009-2017) was one in which ego was expressed — if results are the measure of intention — in a deep-seated animus toward the US and the West. How and why electorates supported these candidates had much to do with the geo-demographics of the United States, essentially by the early 21st Century moving toward urban population domination of the nation-state. This soon polarized US society, provid-ing deep schisms between urban-globalist-materialist populations — people driven largely by immediate, personal reward, and material benefits — and regional-nationalist people driven by identification with a larger and more deep-rooted vision of society. It was a pattern mirrored in many societies around the world. It was the schism in US society which allowed the regional-nationalists to narrowly seize the Presidency with Donald Trump (2017- ). But the internal US war against Trump which then erupted highlighted the reality that those against him would — as with Wa-tergate — rather see the destruction of their nation-state than to cede him power. We do not know how this civil war will play itself out. But we know that, in another half-century, there will be old men visited by demons ask-ing why they allowed the feeding frenzies of immediate gratification and hubris to blind them to the historical impact of their actions. Blood-lust is a poor substitute for strategy. Especially the blood lust of ants swarming over the wounded body of US and Western societies. We are undone, as ever, by ourselves....more

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• "Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Temple of Mole Rats.

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  Apr 24 2018

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

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• Tiny ISIS Attacks Kabul. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Tiny ISIS Attacks Kabul.  @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio

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• The Fire Kites of Gaza. @ThadMcCotterMalcolm Hoenlein

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  Apr 24 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Fire Kites of Gaza. @ThadMcCotterMalcolm Hoenlein

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• Washington partisanship is uniform dysfunction. @ThadMcCotter @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund

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  Apr 24 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Washington partisanship is uniform dysfunction. @ThadMcCotter @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund

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• Is the Trump-Kim summit a win? @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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  Apr 24 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Is the Trump-Kim summit a win? @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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• Gatsby's Mr. Wolfsheim: Rothstein: 2 of 2: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series, by David Pietrusza

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  Apr 24 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:"Shoeless" Joe Jackson ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Gatsby's Mr. Wolfsheim: Rothstein: 2 of 2: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series, by David Pietrusza

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• Gatsby's Mr. Wolfsheim: Rothstein: 1 of 2: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series, by David Pietrusza

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Infielders Swede Risberg (left) and Buck Weaver during their 1921 trial ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Gatsby's Mr. Wolfsheim: Rothstein: 1 of 2: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series, by David Pietrusza

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• Unending Afghanistan and Iraq: 500 Days: 2 of 2: Secrets and Lies in the Terror Wars by Kurt Eichenwald

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  Apr 23 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:A U.S. Navy Corpsman searches for Taliban fighters in the spring of 2005. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Unending Afghanistan and Iraq: 500 Days: 2 of 2: Secrets and Lies in the Terror Wars by Kurt Eichenwald https://www.amazon.com/500-Days-Secrets-Lies-Terror/dp/1451669399/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524447989&sr=1-1&keywords=kurt+Eichenwald+500+days KURT EICHENWALD—NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF CONSPIRACY OF FOOLS—RECOUNTS THE FIRST 500 DAYS AFTER 9/11 IN A COMPREHENSIVE, COMPELLING PAGE-TURNER..  In 500 Days, master chronicler Kurt Eichenwald lays bare the harrowing decisions, deceptions, and delusions of the eighteen months that changed the world forever, as leaders raced to protect their citizens in the wake of 9/11.  Eichenwald’s gripping, immediate style and true-to-life dialogue puts readers at the heart of these historic events, from the Oval Office to Number 10 Downing Street, from Guantanamo Bay to the depths of CIA headquarters, from the al-Qaeda training camps to the torture chambers of Egypt and Syria. He reveals previously undisclosed information from the terror wars, including never-before-reported details about warrantless wiretapping, the anthrax attacks and investigations, and conflicts between Washington and London.  With his signature fast-paced narrative style, Eichenwald exposes a world of secrets and lies that has remained hidden for far too long....more

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• Unending Afghanistan and Iraq: 500 Days: 1 of 2: Secrets and Lies in the Terror Wars by Kurt Eichenwald

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:A U.S. Navy Corpsman searches for Taliban fighters in the spring of 2005.  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Unending Afghanistan and Iraq: 500 Days: 1 of 2: Secrets and Lies in the Terror Wars by Kurt Eichenwald https://www.amazon.com/500-Days-Secrets-Lies-Terror/dp/1451669399/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524447989&sr=1-1&keywords=kurt+Eichenwald+500+days KURT EICHENWALD—NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF CONSPIRACY OF FOOLS—RECOUNTS THE FIRST 500 DAYS AFTER 9/11 IN A COMPREHENSIVE, COMPELLING PAGE-TURNER..  In 500 Days, master chronicler Kurt Eichenwald lays bare the harrowing decisions, deceptions, and delusions of the eighteen months that changed the world forever, as leaders raced to protect their citizens in the wake of 9/11.  Eichenwald’s gripping, immediate style and true-to-life dialogue puts readers at the heart of these historic events, from the Oval Office to Number 10 Downing Street, from Guantanamo Bay to the depths of CIA headquarters, from the al-Qaeda training camps to the torture chambers of Egypt and Syria. He reveals previously undisclosed information from the terror wars, including never-before-reported details about warrantless wiretapping, the anthrax attacks and investigations, and conflicts between Washington and London.  With his signature fast-paced narrative style, Eichenwald exposes a world of secrets and lies that has remained hidden for far too long....more

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• Before the President-for-Life: The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers by Richard McGregor.

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Mao in 1938, writing On Protracted War  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Before the President-for-Life: The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers by Richard McGregor. https://www.amazon.com/Party-Secret-Chinas-Communist-Rulers/dp/0061708763/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524446626&sr=1-1&keywords=richard+mcgregor+the+party “Few outsiders have any realistic sense of the innards, motives, rivalries, and fears of the Chinese Communist leadership. But we all know much more than before, thanks to Richard McGregor’s illuminating and richly-textured look at the people in charge of China’s political machinery.... Invaluable.” — James Fallows, National Correspondent for The Atlantic The Party is Financial Times reporter Richard McGregor’s eye-opening investigation into China’s Communist Party, and the integral role it has played in the country’s rise as a global superpower and rival to the United States. Many books have examined China’s economic rise, human rights record, turbulent history, and relations with the U.S.; none until now, however, have tackled the issue central to understanding all of these issues: how the ruling communist government works. The Party delves deeply into China’s secretive political machine....more

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• The endlessly American game: Stan Musial: An American Life by George Vecsey and Scott Brick.

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  Apr 23 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Musial in 1957  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The endlessly American game: Stan Musial: An American Life by George Vecsey and Scott Brick. https://www.amazon.com/Stan-Musial-An-American-Life/dp/B00502PCA6/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524445660&sr=1-1&keywords=stan+musial+vescey When baseball fans voted on the top 25 players of the 20th century in 1999, Stan Musial didn't make the cut. This glaring omission - later rectified by a panel of experts - aised an important question: How could a first-ballot Hall of Famer, widely considered one of the greatest hitters in baseball history, still rank as the most underrated athlete of all time?...more

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• Insurgency wins: The Swamp Fox: 2 of 2: Lessons in Leadership from the Partisan Campaigns of Francis Marion, by Scott D. Aiken

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: Banastre Tarleton) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Insurgency wins: The Swamp Fox: 2 of 2: Lessons in Leadership from the Partisan Campaigns of Francis Marion, by Scott D. Aiken https://www.amazon.com/Swamp-Fox-Leadership-Partisan-Campaigns/dp/1612511139/ref=sr17?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524445346&sr=1-7&keywords=swamp+fox As one of the Patriot leaders in the Carolinas, the partisan campaign conducted by Brigadier General Francis Marion and his irregular force during the American Revolution prevented South Carolina from completely succumbing to British control during the period between the capture of Charleston in May 1780 and the start of Major General Nathanael Greene's campaign to recover the Southern Colonies in December 1780. During substantial segments of this period he alone held eastern South Carolina from the British and became known as "The Swamp Fox" for his exploits and elusiveness in harassing the British with his guerilla tactics.  Upon the arrival of Greene's Continental Army of the Southern Department, Marion's forces then reverted in part to an important supporting role in South Carolina for the duration of the war. He later assisted in the establishment of the authority of the State of South Carolina and contributed to its post-conflict termination. If General Marion had not taken action during the American Revolution, there is a good possibility that eastern South Carolina would have succumbed to British intent. That, coupled with the British occupation of Charleston, may have provided the British with the requisite momentum needed to conquer the South. Thankfully, General Marion's call to action both militarily and politically prevented such momentum from existing.  The multifaceted aspect of the American Revolution serves as an excellent case study for the conflicts of the twenty-first century: joint and combined operations, civil war, insurgency/counterinsurgency, global superpowers, civil-military relations, this conflict's got it all! Many of Marion's partisan actions were forerunners of today's tactics, showing his great innovativeness and foresight as a military leader. His incessant activities diverted British and Loyalist forces, inflicted British and Loyalist casualties, supported operations of the Continental Army during its Southern Campaign, and sustained the American Revolution in South Carolina. He was extremely effective across the range of military operations, from guerilla warfare to storming forts. He was equally inept in what today would be considered information operations and even participating in the linear tactics of the day in pitched battles. Such similarity makes Marion's partisan campaign worth study by current military and political leaders. Aiken's portrayal of Brigadier General Marion's partisan actions describes the forerunners of tactics common of today's global security environment, tactics used by, and against, United States forces....more

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• Insurgency wins: The Swamp Fox: 1 of 2: Lessons in Leadership from the Partisan Campaigns of Francis Marion, by Scott D. Aiken

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: General Marion Inviting a British Officer to Share His Meal by John Blake White; his slave Oscar Marion kneels at the left of the group.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Insurgency wins: The Swamp Fox: 1 of 2: Lessons in Leadership from the Partisan Campaigns of Francis Marion, by Scott D. Aiken https://www.amazon.com/Swamp-Fox-Leadership-Partisan-Campaigns/dp/1612511139/ref=sr17?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524445346&sr=1-7&keywords=swamp+fox As one of the Patriot leaders in the Carolinas, the partisan campaign conducted by Brigadier General Francis Marion and his irregular force during the American Revolution prevented South Carolina from completely succumbing to British control during the period between the capture of Charleston in May 1780 and the start of Major General Nathanael Greene's campaign to recover the Southern Colonies in December 1780. During substantial segments of this period he alone held eastern South Carolina from the British and became known as "The Swamp Fox" for his exploits and elusiveness in harassing the British with his guerilla tactics.  Upon the arrival of Greene's Continental Army of the Southern Department, Marion's forces then reverted in part to an important supporting role in South Carolina for the duration of the war. He later assisted in the establishment of the authority of the State of South Carolina and contributed to its post-conflict termination. If General Marion had not taken action during the American Revolution, there is a good possibility that eastern South Carolina would have succumbed to British intent. That, coupled with the British occupation of Charleston, may have provided the British with the requisite momentum needed to conquer the South. Thankfully, General Marion's call to action both militarily and politically prevented such momentum from existing.  The multifaceted aspect of the American Revolution serves as an excellent case study for the conflicts of the twenty-first century: joint and combined operations, civil war, insurgency/counterinsurgency, global superpowers, civil-military relations, this conflict's got it all! Many of Marion's partisan actions were forerunners of today's tactics, showing his great innovativeness and foresight as a military leader. His incessant activities diverted British and Loyalist forces, inflicted British and Loyalist casualties, supported operations of the Continental Army during its Southern Campaign, and sustained the American Revolution in South Carolina. He was extremely effective across the range of military operations, from guerilla warfare to storming forts. He was equally inept in what today would be considered information operations and even participating in the linear tactics of the day in pitched battles. Such similarity makes Marion's partisan campaign worth study by current military and political leaders. Aiken's portrayal of Brigadier General Marion's partisan actions describes the forerunners of tactics common of today's global security environment, tactics used by, and against, United States forces....more

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• One of one: Wonder Girl: The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias by Don Van Natta.

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: Lloyd Gullickson, Glenna Collett-Vare, Babe Ruth, and Zaharias in a charity golf event for All Children's Hospital, 1934.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow One of one: Wonder Girl: The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias by Don Van Natta. https://www.amazon.com/Wonder-Girl-Magnificent-Sporting-Didrikson/dp/0316067490/ref=laB001HCRZS01_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524445164&sr=1-1...more

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• 7 months ago; If Xi fumbles, Putin is ready to acquire the Korea portfolio: Putin moves to take charge of the unfinished Korean War. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

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  Apr 23 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Three commanders of PVA during the Korean War. From left to right: Chen Geng (1952), Peng Dehuai (1950–1952) and Deng Hua (1952–1953)) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow 7 months ago; If Xi fumbles, Putin is ready to acquire the Korea portfolio: Putin moves to take charge of the unfinished Korean War. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs On Saturday, North Koreans will celebrate the anniversary of their country's founding, and experts think the country may mark the holiday with a full-range test of an intercontinental ballistic missile. South Korean media earlier this week reported that a North Korean ICBM appeared to be on the move, and CNN cited the South Korean prime minister on Thursday as saying that "some believe" a launch Saturday was possible. Also this week, North Korea said the US could expect more "gift packages" in the form of further missile testing. With only two successful tests on record, North Korea's latest ICBM is in need of further trials. But firing a ballistic missile thousands of miles across the globe could have disastrous consequences if not executed properly. North Korea fired a missile over Japan in late August, and geography dictates that Pyongyang will most likely have to do so again to complete a full-range ICBM test. An unannounced missile heading toward the US mainland from North Korea could cause a nuclear retaliation, so Pyongyang would most likely try to aim the missile elsewhere. Possible trajectories may send the missile south toward the pole or into the Pacific south of the US. Even unarmed, the missile's reentry vehicle would pose a huge threat to maritime life and traffic as it blazes through the atmosphere at many times the speed of sound. But there's no guarantee the launch would be unarmed. In 1966, as the US and the outside world doubted China could build a functional nuclear-armed ICBM without outside help, Beijing launched a missile at full range with a nuclear payload. http://www.businessinsider.com/north-korea-expected-icbm-launch-full-range-september-9-2017-9...more

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• 1 year ago: What China fears isn't Korea: PRC depopulation and disorder & What is to be done. Gregory Copley Defense & Foreign Affairs. @GordonGChang

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow 1 year ago: What China fears isn't Korea: PRC depopulation and disorder & What is to be done. Gregory Copley Defense & Foreign Affairs. @GordonGChang "...So, then, what are the characteristics of the emerging framework, and how can we plan for it? First, the characteristics: · The core populations of “advanced industrial societies” are already reducing dramatically, a factor disguised by inward migration and urbanization, dramatically affecting the nature, political patterns, and efficiencies of these societies3; · The overall global population of the world is tipping toward substantial decline within the coming decades, as reproduction rates decline even in Africa and South Asia4; · Declining core population levels in major industrial states, in particular, compounds the transformation of economies, particularly urban-dominated economies, which rely on real estate valuations to generate credit. In other words, perceived economic value is reduced. Bearing in mind that asset values represent the core leveraging for fundraising and for taxation, this will in turn diminish R&D and project funding, will lead to greater debt financing and currency creation, inflation, and ultimately greater protectionism and systemic collapse, unless alternate economic models are created (ie: not dependent upon increasing consumer scale); · The reality is that the possibilities of linear extrapolation of current technologies or the creation of sufficient breakthrough technologies are unlikely to occur because of transformations of population and economic patterns5; · The transformation of societies and power balances will result in a continuation of the pattern of declining prestige of, and trust in governments, requiring governments to engage in more systemic suppression of populations in order to sustain order. “Democracy”, in other words and as we knew it a half-century ago or even 20 years ago, is dead, although the word will be used increasingly to legitimize authoritarian governance, and “political correctness”. It is also critical to recognize that prestige and trust — psychological values — also determine the viability of currency and credit systems, with a “crisis of trust” leading toward greater caution in trade. In this context, it is worth remembering that internal disarray in any society creates a distraction or vacuum which allows other societies to flourish. Internal disarray also often causes leaders to lash out at external distractions in the hope of clinging longer to power; · The great tool of “gross domestic product” (GDP) as a means of determining viability has already become brutish, imprecise, infinitely variable in its interpretation, and underpinned by the shifting sands of currencies of questionable prestige. Moreover, GDP was designed to fit the rigid structure of the post-World War II-defined “modern Westphalian state”, something which, by the early 21st Century, the urban societies were anxious to dismiss. Vitiating the sovereign nation-state reduces (or eradicates) the meaning of GDP and other standards of wealth/power measurement. Whither, then, the objectivity of economic planning?"...more

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• 10 months ago: China depends upon Kim regime trade: 90 percent of North Korea trade is China. @ AnthonyRuggeiro @FDD @ELALUSA Report w/Malcolm Hoenlein @Confof_pres.

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:U.S. M46 Patton tanks, painted with tiger heads thought to demoralize Chinese forces ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow 10 months ago: China depends upon Kim regime trade: 90 percent of North Korea trade is China. @ AnthonyRuggeiro @FDD @ELALUSA Report w/Malcolm Hoenlein @Confof_pres. Coming after Pyongyang's two intercontinental ballistic missile tests in July, and days before as Trump promised to meet any North Korean threats with “fire and fury,” “the new U.N. resolution provides the framework for stringent sanctions, but in and of itself, it doesn't impose any economic pressure,” said Edward Fishman, a State Department official who worked on U.S. sanctions policy in the Obama administration. “The key will be whether countries like China and Russia actually enforce this U.N. resolution.” 90 percent of North's trade is with China Anthony Ruggiero, who worked on sanctions at the Treasury Department and is now with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, told VOA Korean that much depends on how effectively China enforces the sanctions, particularly those aimed at “reining in the activities of Chinese companies who have collaborated with North Korea and North Korean brokers in China.” According to South Korean statistics, China accounts for an average of 90 percent of total trade with North Korea. “Over the last 11 years, we have not seen the level of sanctions necessary, and we know that non-North Koreans are facilitating North Korea's sanctions evasion,” said Ruggiero, who regretted that U.N. sanctions are focusing primarily on the North Koreans. The resolution added nine people to the U.N. blacklist. All of them are now subject to a global asset freeze and travel ban. All are North Koreans, four in Russia and five in China, who are either officials or representatives of companies and banks, said Ruggiero. “If we want to know why U.N. sanctions are not working, it's because North Korea is able to operate inside China and Russia,” he said. “What (China and Russia) are going to have to do is, they are going to have to stop their nationals and entities and banks from facilitating North Korea's sanctions evasion.” Another critic of the new measures, Larry Niksch, a former Asia expert at the U.S. Congressional Research Service, said China's enforcement of other sanctions has been “spotty at best.” He pointed out the continued existence of “informal, unreported smuggling” across China's border with North Korea, and added, "so the actual reduction in exports is going to be, it seems to me, far less than $1 billion, and that will not hurt the regime in any severe way at all.” • http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/anthony-ruggiero-will-new-sanctions-restrain-kim-jong-un-maybe-not/ • http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/anthony-ruggiero-how-north-korea-cheats-sanctions/ • http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/anthony-ruggiero-how-americas-friends-aid-north-koreas-missile-program/...more

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• Winning Korea is winning the Silk Road: Empires of the Silk Road: 2 of 2: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present 1by Christopher I. Beckwith

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:  U.S. Army soldiers assigned to the 24th Infantry Regiment move up to the firing line in Korea, July 18, 1950. U.S. Army photo) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Winning Korea is winning the Silk Road: Empires of the Silk Road: 2 of 2: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present 1by Christopher I. Beckwith

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• Winning Korea is winning the Silk Road: Empires of the Silk Road: 1 of 2: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present 1by Christopher I. Beckwith

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  Apr 22 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: Vought F4U-4 Corsair fighters of U.S. Navy fighter squadrons VF-114 Executioners (V-4XX) and VF-113 Stingers (V-3XX, on the catapult), assigned to Carrier Air Group 11 (CVG-11), on the aircraft carrier USS Philippine Sea (CV-47) during the Korean War in 1951/52. Another Essex-class carrier of Task Force 77 is visible in the background. Date 1951/52 Source U.S. DefenseImagery [1] photo VIRIN: HA-SN-98-06975 Author USN) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Winning Korea is winning the Silk Road: Empires of the Silk Road: 1 of 2: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present 1by Christopher I. Beckwith...more

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• Get between the enemy (Kim) and his base (PRC): Sun Tzu at Gettysburg: 2 of 2: Ancient Military Wisdom in the Modern World by Bevin Alexander.

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: Staff Sgt. James Fleming, a B-29 tail gunner who flew 56 missions in Korea (front row, first on right), in 1951 wearing the same B-11 flight jacket and unofficial flight cap now on display at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. (U.S. Air Force photo) ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Get between the enemy (Kim) and his base (PRC): Sun Tzu at Gettysburg: 2 of 2: Ancient Military Wisdom in the Modern World by Bevin Alexander.  Ten major battles or campaigns that could have been won by using the principles of The Art of War. Imagine the impact on world history if Robert E. Lee had listened to General Longstreet at Gettysburg and withdrawn to higher ground instead of sending Pickett uphill against the entrenched Union line. Or if Napoléon, at Waterloo, had avoided mistakes he'd never made before. The advice that would have changed the outcome of these crucial battles is found in a book on strategy written centuries before Christ was born. Lee, Napoléon, and Adolf Hitler never read Sun Tzu's The Art of War; the book only became widely available in the West in the mid-twentieth century. But as Bevin Alexander shows, Sun Tzu's maxims often boil down to common sense, in a particularly pure and clear form. The lessons of contemporary military practice, or their own experience, might have guided these commanders to success. It is stunning to see, however, the degree to which the precepts laid down 2,400 years ago apply to warfare of the modern era. Maps https://www.amazon.com/Sun-Tzu-Gettysburg-Ancient-Military/dp/0393078132/ref=mthardcover?encoding=UTF8&me...more

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• Get between the enemy (Kim) and his base (PRC): Sun Tzu at Gettysburg: 1 of 2: Ancient Military Wisdom in the Modern World by Bevin Alexander.

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  Apr 22 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Egypt (there were no Egyptian forces involved in the fighting!) troops about to board U.S. Army Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw helicopters to be transported to the front lines at the 6th Transportation Helicopter Company, Eighth Army, Korea. Date 24 December 1953 (does not concede with the caption, as the Korean War ended in July 1953) Source NARA FILE#: 111-SC-422077, www.defenseimagery.mil photo no. HA-SN-98-07085 [1] Author Camera Operator: PFC E. E. Green, U.S. Army) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Get between the enemy (Kim) and his base (PRC): Sun Tzu at Gettysburg: 1 of 2: Ancient Military Wisdom in the Modern World by Bevin Alexander.  Ten major battles or campaigns that could have been won by using the principles of The Art of War. Imagine the impact on world history if Robert E. Lee had listened to General Longstreet at Gettysburg and withdrawn to higher ground instead of sending Pickett uphill against the entrenched Union line. Or if Napoléon, at Waterloo, had avoided mistakes he'd never made before. The advice that would have changed the outcome of these crucial battles is found in a book on strategy written centuries before Christ was born. Lee, Napoléon, and Adolf Hitler never read Sun Tzu's The Art of War; the book only became widely available in the West in the mid-twentieth century. But as Bevin Alexander shows, Sun Tzu's maxims often boil down to common sense, in a particularly pure and clear form. The lessons of contemporary military practice, or their own experience, might have guided these commanders to success. It is stunning to see, however, the degree to which the precepts laid down 2,400 years ago apply to warfare of the modern era. Maps https://www.amazon.com/Sun-Tzu-Gettysburg-Ancient-Military/dp/0393078132/ref=mthardcover?encoding=UTF8&me...more

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• 1 month ago: Kim regime is out of time:

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  Apr 22 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Last type in US service: M4A3(76)W HVSS Sherman used as artillery in firing position during the Korean War.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow 1 month ago: Kim regime is out of time:   North Korea cannot sustain combat more than two weeks. Bruce Bechtol, author, "North Korean and Security in the Kim Jung-un Era." @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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• 6 months ago: Trump negotiation with North Korea begins with maximum force.

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  Apr 22 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo Air Force Reserve members of the 728th Bomb Squadron, 452nd Bomb Group. The group was ordered to active duty for combat in Korea in August 1950. (U.S. Air Force photo)) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow 6 months ago; Trump negotiation with North Korea begins with maximum force. Ronald Reagan, Theodore Roosevelt and Chester Nimitz disrupt North Korea and China. @GordonGChang Bruce Bechtol, author, "Security in Northeast Asia in the Kim Jung-Un Era." The U.S. Navy announced Wednesday it will carry out a rare exercise involving three aircraft carriers to send a message to North Korea. The Navy will conduct air defense drills, sea surveillance, defensive air combat training and other drills over the Sea of Japan, located east of the Korean peninsula, according to a statement. “Multiple carrier strike force operations are very complex, and this exercise in the Western Pacific is a strong testament to the U.S. Pacific Fleet’s unique ability and ironclad commitment to the continued security and stability of the region,” Adm. Scott Swift said in a statement. http://thehill.com/news-by-subject/defense-homeland-security/359541-navy-to-carry-out-rare-exercise-over-sea-of-japan...more

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• Kim Regime is frightened: North Korea and Regional Security in the Kim Jong-un Era: 2 of 2: A New International Security Dilemma (Palgrave Pivot) Feb 24, 2014 by Bruce E. Bechtol Jr.

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  Apr 22 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: A former North Korean soldier shouts for joy upon reaching Seoul, South Korea, and freedom. Many North Korean and Chinese POWs renounced communism and chose to be released to new lives in South Korea and Taiwan. (U.S. Air Force photo) ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Kim Regime is frightened: North Korea and Regional Security in the Kim Jong-un Era: 2 of 2: A New International Security Dilemma (Palgrave Pivot)Feb 24, 2014 by Bruce E. Bechtol Jr. This study is one of the very first to analyze North Korea and the challenges that it presents to international security and community, by looking through the prism of the first two years of the Kim Jong-un regime. Bruce E. Bechtol Jr. is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Angelo State University, USA and a retired U.S. Marine. He is currently the President of the International Council on Korean Studies, and is the author or editor of five previous books and numerous articles....more

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• Kim Regime is frightened: North Korea and Regional Security in the Kim Jong-un Era: 1 of 2: A New International Security Dilemma (Palgrave Pivot)Feb 24, 2014 by Bruce E. Bechtol Jr.

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  Apr 22 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Imágenes sobre la Guerra de Corea (1950-53) por el momento 10, se.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Kim Regime is frightened  North Korea and Regional Security in the Kim Jong-un Era: 1 of 2: A New International Security Dilemma (Palgrave Pivot) Feb 24, 2014 by Bruce E. Bechtol Jr. This study is one of the very first to analyze North Korea and the challenges that it presents to international security and community, by looking through the prism of the first two years of the Kim Jong-un regime. Bruce E. Bechtol Jr. is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Angelo State University, USA and a retired U.S. Marine. He is currently the President of the International Council on Korean Studies, and is the author or editor of five previous books and numerous articles....more

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• 9 months ago: Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) is how to defeat North Korea. Bruce Bechtol. @GordonGChang

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  Apr 22 2018

  AUTHOR. (PHOTO:Private (Pte) Chris Bell-Chambers, a member of the Sniper Section, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), smiles and waves to a group of Korean children who have emerged from their hiding place after their village has been cleared of enemy forces. Snow lies on the ground and on the roofs of houses in the village. The rifle Pte Bell-Chambers is carrying on his shoulder is a .303 inch Short Magazine Lee Enfield (SMLE) No.1 MkIII*(HT). ) HTTP://JOHNBATCHELORSHOW.COM/CONTACT HTTP://JOHNBATCHELORSHOW.COM/SCHEDULES TWITTER: @BATCHELORSHOW 9 months ago: Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) is how to defeat North Korea. Bruce Bechtol. @GordonGChang North Korea and Regional Security in the Kim Jong-un Era: A New International Security Dilemma (Palgrave Pivot) by Bruce E. Bechtol Jr. Bruce E. Bechtol Jr. is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Angelo State University, USA and a retired U.S. Marine. He is currently the President of the International Council on Korean Studies, and is the author or editor of five previous books and numerous articles. https://www.amazon.com/North-Korea-Regional-Security-Jong-un/dp/1137400064/ref=sr13?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1501128089&sr=1-3...more

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• 8 months ago: US strangles North Korea’s money. Bruce Bechtol, author, North Asia and Security in the Kim Jung-un Era. @GordonGChang

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  Apr 22 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: Mao at Stalin's side on a ceremony arranged for Stalin's 71th birthday in Moscow in December 1949. Behind between them is Marshal of the Soviet Union Nikolai Bulganin. on the right hand of Stalin is Walter Ulbricht of East Germany and at the edge Mongolia's Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal. Suomi: Tuimailmeinen Mao suojelijansa ja kilpailijansa Stalinin vieressä Stalinin 71-vuotispäivän kunniaksi järjestetyssä seremoniassa Moskovassa joulukuussa 1949. Keskellä takana Neuvostoliiton marsalkka Bulganin. Stalinin oikealla puolella Itä-Saksan Walter Ulbricht ja laidassa Mongolian Tsedenbal. 中文: 毛泽东与斯大林在1949年12月莫斯科举办的斯大林71岁寿辰庆典上。毛泽东与斯大林之间是布尔加宁，斯大林右方是东德领导人乌布利希，乌布利希右方边缘是蒙古人民共和国领导人泽登巴尔。 Date 21 December 1949 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow 8 months ago: US strangles North Korea’s money. Bruce Bechtol, author, North Asia and Security in the Kim Jung-un Era. @GordonGChang https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-signed-presidential-directive-ordering-actions-to-pressure-north-korea/2017/09/30/97c6722a-a620-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14story.html?utmterm=.422fcd6d8e76...more

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• How the New Deal damaged growth in the USA: @RichardAEpstein, @Hooverinst

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  Apr 22 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: 1935 cartoon by Vaughn Shoemaker in which he parodied the New Deal as a card game with alphabetical agencies) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow How the New Deal damaged growth in the USA: @RichardAEpstein, @Hooverinst http://www.hoover.org/research/real-cause-american-growth  "...Judging from all the hype, the economic book of 2016 is Robert Gordon’s The Rise and Fall of American Growth. Gordon’s book offers the definitive account of how the many technological innovations between 1870 and 1940 dramatically improved life in the United States. But the book is utterly silent on why American society was capable of making such a radical transformation during that period. Gordon’s book has attracted much attention because of his warning that America is not likely to again see such dramatic improvements in the standard of living. The question is why. A big part of the answer is that these innovations coincided with a period of American history when laissez-faire capitalism was at its peak. Growth started to decline because of the massive expansion of the government occasioned by the New Deal, which put a strain on the free market…...more

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• What does the Kim regime want? Kim advertises beachfront property for sale. @pearswick James Pearson @Reuters

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  Apr 21 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: North Korean children hold up red scarves to be tied around their necks during an induction ceremony into the Korean Children's Union, the first political organization for North Koreans, held at a stadium in Pyongyang on Friday, April 12, 2013. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder) Date 12 April 2013, 09:17:03 Source Template:Open Source Author David Guttenfelder ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow What does the Kim regime want? Kim advertises beachfront property for sale. @pearswick James Pearson @Reuters North Korea’s development plans for Wonsan have mushroomed since they were first announced in 2014. Examined here in detail for the first time, they run across 160 pages in nearly 30 brochures produced by the Wonsan Zone Development Corporation in Korean, Chinese, Russian and English in 2015 and 2016. Tourism is one of a shrinking range of North Korean cash sources not targeted by United Nations sanctions, and the brochures advertise to foreign investors some $1.5 billion worth of potential ventures in the Wonsan Special Tourist Zone, an area covering more than 400 square km (150 square miles). Kim has already constructed a ski resort and a new airport there. According to one brochure, the Zone includes approximately 140 historical relics, 10 sand beaches, 680 tourist attractions, four mineral springs, several bathing resorts and natural lakes and “more than 3.3 million tons of mud with therapeutic properties for neuralgia and colitis.” The projects that Kim is inviting investors to help build include a $7.3 million department store, a $197 million city centre development, and a $123 million golf course (including a $62.5 million fee to lease the land). Earlier this year Kim sent 16 of his officials to Spain to get ideas for Wonsan. They visited Marina d'Or, one of the Mediterranean country’s biggest holiday complexes, and the Terra Mitica (Mythical Land) theme park in Benidorm. Terra Mitica caters to fans “of extreme sensations,” according to its website. “They saw such places with their own eyes and filmed some of them,” said a spokesman at the North Korean embassy in Madrid. Both parks confirmed the visits; a spokeswoman for Terra Mitica said the North Koreans were impressed by its themes including the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Greece and Rome. No major foreign partner has said they will back Kim’s Wonsan projects. The new airport, completed in 2015, has yet to open to international flights. America recently banned its citizens from visiting North Korea. International sanctions now ban all joint ventures with the state. https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/northkorea-tourism-wonsan/?utmsource=Sailthru&utmmedium=email&utmcampaign=US%20Reuters%20News%20Now%202017-10-10&utmterm=US%20Reuters%20News%20Now...more

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• War start: Anonymous Soldiers: 6 of 6: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947 by Bruce Hoffman

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  Apr 21 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:The Irgun museum in Tel Aviv. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow War start: Anonymous Soldiers: 6 of 6: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947 by Bruce Hoffman https://www.amazon.com/Soldiers-Struggle-Israel-1917-1947/dp/0307741613/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524072872&sr=1-1&keywords=Bruce+Hoffman+soldiers In this groundbreaking work, Bruce Hoffman—America’s leading expert on terrorism—brilliantly re-creates the crucial thirty-year period that led to the birth of Israel. Drawing on previously untapped archival resources in London, Washington, D.C., and Jerusalem, Anonymous Soldiers shows how the efforts of two militant Zionist groups brought about the end of British rule in the Middle East. Hoffman shines new light on the bombing of the King David Hotel, the assassination of Lord Moyne in Cairo, the leadership of Menachem Begin, the life and death of Abraham Stern, and much else. Above all, he shows exactly how the underdog “anonymous soldiers” of Irgun and Lehi defeated the British and set in motion the chain of events that resulted in the creation of the formidable nation-state of Israel.  One of the most detailed and sustained accounts of a terrorist and counterterrorist campaign ever written, Hoffman has crafted the definitive account of the struggle for Israel—and an impressive investigation of the efficacy of guerilla tactics. Anonymous Soldiers is essential to anyone wishing to understand the current situation in the Middle East....more

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• War start: Anonymous Soldiers: 5 of 6: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947 by Bruce Hoffman

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  Apr 21 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: The King David Hotel after the bombing, photo from The Palestine Post) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow War start: Anonymous Soldiers: 5 of 6: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947 by Bruce Hoffman https://www.amazon.com/Soldiers-Struggle-Israel-1917-1947/dp/0307741613/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524072872&sr=1-1&keywords=Bruce+Hoffman+soldiers In this groundbreaking work, Bruce Hoffman—America’s leading expert on terrorism—brilliantly re-creates the crucial thirty-year period that led to the birth of Israel. Drawing on previously untapped archival resources in London, Washington, D.C., and Jerusalem, Anonymous Soldiers shows how the efforts of two militant Zionist groups brought about the end of British rule in the Middle East. Hoffman shines new light on the bombing of the King David Hotel, the assassination of Lord Moyne in Cairo, the leadership of Menachem Begin, the life and death of Abraham Stern, and much else. Above all, he shows exactly how the underdog “anonymous soldiers” of Irgun and Lehi defeated the British and set in motion the chain of events that resulted in the creation of the formidable nation-state of Israel.  One of the most detailed and sustained accounts of a terrorist and counterterrorist campaign ever written, Hoffman has crafted the definitive account of the struggle for Israel—and an impressive investigation of the efficacy of guerilla tactics. Anonymous Soldiers is essential to anyone wishing to understand the current situation in the Middle East....more

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• Before the Syrian crisis: The Fall of the Ottomans: 6 of 6: The Great War in the Middle East. by Eugene Rogan

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  Apr 21 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Yeni Cami and Eminönü bazaar, Constantinople, c. 1895 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Before the Syrian crisis: The Fall of the Ottomans: 6 of 6: The Great War in the Middle East. by Eugene Rogan https://www.amazon.com/Fall-Ottomans-Great-Middle-East/dp/0465097421/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524072317&sr=1-1&keywords=rogan+ottomans "To have written a page-turner as well as an accurate and comprehensive history of the Ottoman struggle for survival is a remarkable achievement." --Wall Street Journal By 1914 the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward war, and they pulled the Middle East along with them into one of the most destructive conflicts in human history. In The Fall of the Ottomans, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan brings the First World War and its immediate aftermath in the Middle East to vivid life, uncovering the often ignored story of the region's crucial role in the conflict. Unlike the static killing fields of the Western Front, the war in the Middle East was fast-moving and unpredictable, with the Turks inflicting decisive defeats on the Entente in Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, and Gaza before the tide of battle turned in the Allies' favor. The postwar settlement led to the partition of Ottoman lands, laying the groundwork for the ongoing conflicts that continue to plague the modern Arab world. A sweeping narrative of battles and political intrigue from Gallipoli to Arabia, The Fall of the Ottomans is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the Great War and the making of the modern Middle East....more

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• Before the Syrian crisis: The Fall of the Ottomans: 5 of 6: The Great War in the Middle East. by Eugene Rogan

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Abdülmecid II was the last caliph of Islam and a member of the Ottoman dynasty. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Before the Syrian crisis: The Fall of the Ottomans: 5 of 6: The Great War in the Middle East. by Eugene Rogan https://www.amazon.com/Fall-Ottomans-Great-Middle-East/dp/0465097421/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524072317&sr=1-1&keywords=rogan+ottomans "To have written a page-turner as well as an accurate and comprehensive history of the Ottoman struggle for survival is a remarkable achievement." --Wall Street Journal By 1914 the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward war, and they pulled the Middle East along with them into one of the most destructive conflicts in human history. In The Fall of the Ottomans, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan brings the First World War and its immediate aftermath in the Middle East to vivid life, uncovering the often ignored story of the region's crucial role in the conflict. Unlike the static killing fields of the Western Front, the war in the Middle East was fast-moving and unpredictable, with the Turks inflicting decisive defeats on the Entente in Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, and Gaza before the tide of battle turned in the Allies' favor. The postwar settlement led to the partition of Ottoman lands, laying the groundwork for the ongoing conflicts that continue to plague the modern Arab world. A sweeping narrative of battles and political intrigue from Gallipoli to Arabia, The Fall of the Ottomans is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the Great War and the making of the modern Middle East....more

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• 7 months ago: Is China blinking on the Kim regime? 6 months ago: Why does China protect North Korea & What is to be done? @MichaelAuslin @HooverInst

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  Apr 21 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: North Korea) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow 7 months ago: Is China blinking on the Kim regime? 6 months ago: Why does China protect North Korea & What is to be done? @MichaelAuslin @HooverInst Finally, the role of China should not be underestimated in any potential military scenario in Korea. Washington may desire and even plan for a limited conflict, but any threat to the continued existence of North Korea is more likely than not to induce Beijing to get involved. While Chinese President Xi Jinping has no love lost for Kim Jong-un, China appears unwilling to let North Korea disappear as a buffer state between it and the democratic, liberal, largely Western-leaning South Korea. It is thus entirely possible that Beijing would order Chinese forces into North Korea to secure Pyongyang and set up a puppet regime. That could put U.S. and Chinese forces in close proximity, or put Chinese forces potentially at risk from U.S. airstrikes in North Korea, either of which scenario would force Washington policymakers to make a difficult choice about how or whether to continue military operations. The highest priority of the North Korean regime is survival, and to that end, it has developed a set of interlocking defensive and offensive capabilities that would challenge allied conventional military strategies. In the end, the North Korean regime would be unlikely to survive a campaign waged with the full conventional strength of the United States and South Korea, but it would seek to impose such significant physical costs on South Korea, Japan, and U.S. territories, that Washington and Seoul would hesitate to wage preventive or preemptive war, and might even refrain from an overwhelming response to North Korean aggression. With the anticipated risks to South Korea, Japan, and U.S. interests of any type of preventive or preemptive war, North Korea has shaped the pre-hostilities environment in a way that removes confidence in any reasonable conventional military option to remove the threat it poses, short of a major theater war. https://www.hoover.org/research/war-games-korean-peninsula...more

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• 6 weeks ago: North Korea runs guns and WMD to Syria and Africa. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @ThadMcCotter

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  Apr 21 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Knocked out North Korean T-34 during the Korean War in September 1950 near Seoul after the amphibious landings at Inchon. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow 6 weeks ago: North Korea runs guns and WMD to Syria and Africa. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @ThadMcCotter https://www.npr.org/2018/03/03/590546378/report-accuses-north-korea-of-fueling-syrias-chemical-weapons-program North Korea has been fueling Syria's chemical weapons program, according to a report leaked from the United Nations this week. This news comes amid renewed accusations that the Syrian regime has been using chemical weapons again against its own civilians, most recently chlorine gas in Eastern Ghouta. The leaked report highlights how this relationship helps Syria maintain chemical weapons and helps North Korea gain cash for its military proliferation. Syria and North Korea are two countries seemingly cut off from the world but not each other....more

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• 6 Months Ago: Solving North Korea with tough-talking escalation. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs.

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  Apr 21 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:"Marines of the 1st Marine Division pay their respects to fallen buddies during memorial services at the division's cemetery at Hamhung, Korea, following the break-out from Chosin Reservoir." From the Photograph Collection (COLL/3948), Marine Corps Archives & Special Collections OFFICIAL USMC PHOTO Date  Source 1st Marine Division Cemetery, Hamhung, Korea, 13 December 1950 Author USMC Archives from Quantico, USA ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow 6 Months Ago: Solving North Korea with tough-talking escalation. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs. President Trump on Tuesday sternly warned North Korea against making threats to the U.S., responding to reports that Pyongyang has expanded its nuclear capabilities. “North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States,” Trump told reporters at his New Jersey golf club. “He has been very threatening beyond a normal state, and as I said they will be met with fire, fury and frankly power, the likes of which this world has never seen before.” His provocative comments came after The Washington Post, citing a U.S. intelligence assessment, reported that North Korea crossed a major threshold in its quest to become a nuclear power by successfully producing a miniaturized nuclear warhead that can fit onto a missile. If true, the development would cross the Trump administration’s red line on North Korea’s nuclear program. http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/345777-trump-warns-north-korea-it-will-be-met-with-fire-and-fury-if-it The Korean Peninsula “Crisis” Inches Toward the End Game Analysis. By GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs Staff. The People’s Republic of China, the DPRK (North Korea), and the United States each progressed their strategic negotiating positions to resolve “the North Korea crisis” with events over the weekend of August 5-6, 2017. Each state — along with Russia, Japan, the Republic of Korea (ROK: South Korea), and the Republic of China (ROC: Taiwan) — has a vital interest in how the “crisis” resolves itself. It could reach a pivotal point — either with a return to meaningful Six Party Talks1 or through bilateral (US-DPRK) talks — before the end of 2017, with a view to “normalizing” relations soon thereafter between the DPRK and the bulk of the international community. But there remained, as of early August 2017, the reality that the DPRK needed to complete one critical step in its negotiating platform. It needed international (specifically US) public recognition of the viability of its nuclear weapons capabilities, including the delivery mechanisms (particularly IRBM, MRBM, and ICBM formats) so that its deterrent forces would become an accepted part of the equation going forward. Until now, the US-led posture has been to: • (a) Deny the DPRK the ability to develop a nuclear weapons capability, and • (b) Deny the DPRK the ability to deliver such weapons. At this point, the DPRK has been able to demonstrate unambiguously that it has developed credible nuclear weapons, as opposed to merely demonstrating the ability to achieve a nuclear explosion. However, the US (as the key target for this message) has only obliquely recognized this capability. The DPRK has also been able to demonstrate its ability to field a range of ballistic delivery vehicles, up to inter-continental ballistic missile (ICBM) capability, but the US has — in its open declarations — rejected the idea that this might be viable. Hence, the demonstrations by the DPRK of two unarmed prototypes of its Hwasong-14 ICBM on July 4, 2017 (single-stage), and July 28, 2017 (two-stage), seem likely to be followed by more such demonstrations until the Western media (as a critical determinant in the equation) accepts the DPRK’s capability as fact. The Hwasong-14 capability provides a very simple, single-warhead system, but it is a nuclear-capable ICBM. But the US has yet to accept that the DPRK has a fielded, viable nuclear deterrent force. The DPRK clearly would not feel confident about negotiating any form of normalization with its perceived adversaries until the viability — the “settled truth” — of that deterrence was acknowledged. That point, by early August 2017, may have become foreseeable. At that point, Pyongyang could be expected to accept negotiations as to the way forward, including the provision of a code o......more

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• 5 months ago: Beijing vs the end of the North Korea threat. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs.

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  Apr 21 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: Hundreds of thousands of Koreans fled south in mid-1950 after the North Korean army struck across the border. Rumors spread among U.S. troops that the refugee columns harbored North Korean infiltrators. Date 1950 Source U.S. Defense Department Author U.S. Defense Department) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow 5 months ago: Beijing vs the end of the North Korea threat. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs. BEIJING — A Chinese county along the border with North Korea is constructing refugee camps intended to house thousands of migrants fleeing a possible crisis on the Korean Peninsula, according to an internal document that appears to have been leaked from China’s main state-owned telecommunications company. Three villages in Changbai County and two cities in the northeastern border province of Jilin, have been designated for the camps, according to the document from China Mobile. The document appeared last week on Weibo, a microblogging site. The camps are an unusual, albeit tacit, admission by China that instability in North Korea is increasingly likely, and that refugees could swarm across the Tumen River, a narrow ribbon of water that divides the two countries. For decades, Chinese policy on North Korea has centered on maintaining stability in a neighboring country known for its repression and volatility. Despite international sanctions and condemnation, the North in recent months has intensified a program to test nuclear weapons and missiles, increasing the potential for internal instability or the chance of an attack by the United States. Continue reading the main story RELATED COVERAGE North Korean Submarine Missile Threat Prompts U.S.-Led Military Drills DEC. 11, 2017 A North Korean Defector Is Spurned, for Decades, by South Korea DEC. 9, 2017 Advertisement Continue reading the main story Lu Kang, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, told reporters on Monday that he was unaware of the plan for the refugee camps, but he did not deny their existence. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/11/world/asia/china-north-korea-border.html?_r=0...more

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• 4 Weeks Ago: The US and South Korea lack the will to denuclearize North Korea. Bruce Thornton @HooverInst @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Apr 21 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: A T-34-85 Medium Tank.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow 4 Weeks Ago: The US and South Korea lack the will to denuclearize North Korea. Bruce Thornton @HooverInst @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269568/will-trump-play-north-koreas-rigged-game-bruce-thornton?utmsource=Hoover+Daily+Report&utmcampaign=7bec190d2a-HDR&utmmedium=email&utmterm=0_21b1edff3c-7bec190d2a-72527561...more

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• 2 months ago: How Trump aims to solve North Korea and undermine China's One Belt, One Road imperialism in Asia. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs.`

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  Apr 21 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Soviet troops in Korea, October 1945 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow 2 months ago: How Trump aims to solve North Korea and undermine China's One Belt, One Road imperialism in Asia. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs.`

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• 1 Month Ago: China Xi counters US Trump in the game of Kim Regime. Gregory Copley Defense & Foreign Affairs.

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  Apr 21 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:M24 Chaffee light tanks of the 25th Infantry Division, U.S. Army, wait for an assault of North Korean T-34-85 tanks at Masan. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow 1 Month Ago: China Xi counters US Trump in the game of Kim Regime. Gregory Copley Defense & Foreign Affairs. https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/28/politics/trump-kim-china-summit-intl/index.html

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• War start: Anonymous Soldiers: 4 of 6: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947 by Bruce Hoffman

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  Apr 20 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:The ship Parita unloading immigrants at the beach in Tel Aviv ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow War start: Anonymous Soldiers: 4 of 6: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947 by Bruce Hoffman https://www.amazon.com/Soldiers-Struggle-Israel-1917-1947/dp/0307741613/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524072872&sr=1-1&keywords=Bruce+Hoffman+soldiers In this groundbreaking work, Bruce Hoffman—America’s leading expert on terrorism—brilliantly re-creates the crucial thirty-year period that led to the birth of Israel. Drawing on previously untapped archival resources in London, Washington, D.C., and Jerusalem, Anonymous Soldiers shows how the efforts of two militant Zionist groups brought about the end of British rule in the Middle East. Hoffman shines new light on the bombing of the King David Hotel, the assassination of Lord Moyne in Cairo, the leadership of Menachem Begin, the life and death of Abraham Stern, and much else. Above all, he shows exactly how the underdog “anonymous soldiers” of Irgun and Lehi defeated the British and set in motion the chain of events that resulted in the creation of the formidable nation-state of Israel.  One of the most detailed and sustained accounts of a terrorist and counterterrorist campaign ever written, Hoffman has crafted the definitive account of the struggle for Israel—and an impressive investigation of the efficacy of guerilla tactics. Anonymous Soldiers is essential to anyone wishing to understand the current situation in the Middle East....more

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• War start: Anonymous Soldiers: 3 of 6: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947 by Bruce Hoffman

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  Apr 20 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Ze'ev Jabotinsky, who formulated the movement's ideology and was Supreme Commander of the Etzel ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow War start: Anonymous Soldiers: 3 of 6: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947 by Bruce Hoffman https://www.amazon.com/Soldiers-Struggle-Israel-1917-1947/dp/0307741613/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524072872&sr=1-1&keywords=Bruce+Hoffman+soldiers In this groundbreaking work, Bruce Hoffman—America’s leading expert on terrorism—brilliantly re-creates the crucial thirty-year period that led to the birth of Israel. Drawing on previously untapped archival resources in London, Washington, D.C., and Jerusalem, Anonymous Soldiers shows how the efforts of two militant Zionist groups brought about the end of British rule in the Middle East. Hoffman shines new light on the bombing of the King David Hotel, the assassination of Lord Moyne in Cairo, the leadership of Menachem Begin, the life and death of Abraham Stern, and much else. Above all, he shows exactly how the underdog “anonymous soldiers” of Irgun and Lehi defeated the British and set in motion the chain of events that resulted in the creation of the formidable nation-state of Israel.  One of the most detailed and sustained accounts of a terrorist and counterterrorist campaign ever written, Hoffman has crafted the definitive account of the struggle for Israel—and an impressive investigation of the efficacy of guerilla tactics. Anonymous Soldiers is essential to anyone wishing to understand the current situation in the Middle East....more

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• Before the Syrian crisis: The Fall of the Ottomans: 4 of 6: The Great War in the Middle East. by Eugene Rogan

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  Apr 20 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:French troops land at Lemnos, 1915. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Before the Syrian crisis: The Fall of the Ottomans: 4 of 6: The Great War in the Middle East. by Eugene Rogan https://www.amazon.com/Fall-Ottomans-Great-Middle-East/dp/0465097421/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524072317&sr=1-1&keywords=rogan+ottomans "To have written a page-turner as well as an accurate and comprehensive history of the Ottoman struggle for survival is a remarkable achievement." --Wall Street Journal By 1914 the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward war, and they pulled the Middle East along with them into one of the most destructive conflicts in human history. In The Fall of the Ottomans, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan brings the First World War and its immediate aftermath in the Middle East to vivid life, uncovering the often ignored story of the region's crucial role in the conflict. Unlike the static killing fields of the Western Front, the war in the Middle East was fast-moving and unpredictable, with the Turks inflicting decisive defeats on the Entente in Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, and Gaza before the tide of battle turned in the Allies' favor. The postwar settlement led to the partition of Ottoman lands, laying the groundwork for the ongoing conflicts that continue to plague the modern Arab world. A sweeping narrative of battles and political intrigue from Gallipoli to Arabia, The Fall of the Ottomans is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the Great War and the making of the modern Middle East....more

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• Before the Syrian crisis: The Fall of the Ottomans: 3 of 6: The Great War in the Middle East. by Eugene Rogan

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  Apr 20 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Panoramic view of the Allied fleet in the Dardanelles) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Before the Syrian crisis: The Fall of the Ottomans: 3 of 6: The Great War in the Middle East. by Eugene Rogan https://www.amazon.com/Fall-Ottomans-Great-Middle-East/dp/0465097421/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524072317&sr=1-1&keywords=rogan+ottomans "To have written a page-turner as well as an accurate and comprehensive history of the Ottoman struggle for survival is a remarkable achievement." --Wall Street Journal By 1914 the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward war, and they pulled the Middle East along with them into one of the most destructive conflicts in human history. In The Fall of the Ottomans, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan brings the First World War and its immediate aftermath in the Middle East to vivid life, uncovering the often ignored story of the region's crucial role in the conflict. Unlike the static killing fields of the Western Front, the war in the Middle East was fast-moving and unpredictable, with the Turks inflicting decisive defeats on the Entente in Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, and Gaza before the tide of battle turned in the Allies' favor. The postwar settlement led to the partition of Ottoman lands, laying the groundwork for the ongoing conflicts that continue to plague the modern Arab world. A sweeping narrative of battles and political intrigue from Gallipoli to Arabia, The Fall of the Ottomans is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the Great War and the making of the modern Middle East....more

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• The immediate Iran threat on the Golan Heights. @LTCJonathan @MonicaCrowley Malcolm Hoenlein

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  Apr 20 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The immediate Iran threat on the Golan Heights. @LTCJonathan @MonicaCrowley Malcolm Hoenlein

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• Building the Gaza Strip Berm and Wall to stop the Attack Tunnels. @LTCJonathan @MonicaCrowley Malcolm Hoenlein

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  Apr 20 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Building the Gaza Strip Berm and Wall to stop the Attack Tunnels. @LTCJonathan @MonicaCrowley Malcolm Hoenlein

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• A Diamond as Big as the Planet Mercury. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Apr 20 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow A Diamond as Big as the Planet Mercury. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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• SpaceX in LA. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Apr 20 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow SpaceX in LA. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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• The Appalachian Trail of Israel is a 680 mile-long walk for the spirit. @MonicaCrowley Aryeh Green. Malcolm Hoenlein

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  Apr 20 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Appalachian Trail of Israel is a 680 mile-long walk for the spirit. @MonicaCrowley Aryeh Green.  Malcolm Hoenlein My Israel Trail: Finding Peace in the Promised Land Paperback – May 1, 2018 by Aryeh Green (Author) [ https://www.amazon.com/My-Israel-Trail-Finding-Promised/dp/1462122019](https://www.amazon.com/My-Israel-Trail-Finding-Promised/dp/1462122019)

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• Israel at the barbecue on Independence Day, 2018. @MonicaCrowley Malcolm Hoenlein

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  Apr 20 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Israel at the barbecue on Independence Day, 2018. @MonicaCrowley Malcolm Hoenlein

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• On the Road in Springtime from Krakow to Jerusalem. @MonicaCrowley Malcolm Hoenlein

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  Apr 20 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow On the Road in Springtime from Krakow to Jerusalem. @MonicaCrowley Malcolm Hoenlein

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• Israel's national bird is the building crane. @MonicaCrowley Malcolm Hoenlein. Eli Groner, Director General of the Prime Minister's Office.

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  Apr 20 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Israel's national bird is the building crane. @MonicaCrowley Malcolm Hoenlein. Eli Groner, Director General of the Prime Minister's Office.

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• Europe, Syria, Russia & the fate of the Iran (JCPOA) Deal. @Monica Crowley Benham ben Taleblu @FDD Malcolm Hoenlein

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  Apr 19 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Secretary Kerry Shakes Hands With Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif Before They Hold One-on-One Meeting in Vienna Amid Negotiations About Future of Iran's Nuclear Program  U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry shakes hands with Foreign Minister Javad Zarif of Iran in Vienna, Austria, on November 23, 2014, before the two begin a one-on-one meeting amid broader negotiations about the future of Iran's nuclear program. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Europe, Syria, Russia & the fate of the Iran (JCPOA) Deal. @Monica Crowley Benham ben Taleblu @FDD Malcolm Hoenlein...more

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• The UN is overburdened by the twinned crises of Gaza and Syria. @nmladenov Nickolay E. Mladenov @MonicaCrowley Malcolm Hoenlein

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  Apr 19 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: Watchtower, Rafah, Gaza Strip border with Egypt, April 2009. Date 14 April 2009 Source Flickr: Watch Tower, Rafa, Gaza/Egypt Author Marius Arnesen Permission (Reusing this file)  From the Flickr image page: Gaza 2009 Project by Marius Arnesen is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Norway License. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The UN is overburdened by the twinned crises of Gaza and Syria. @nmladenov Nickolay E. Mladenov @MonicaCrowley Malcolm Hoenlein...more

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• At the Druze-Golan frontier, staring at Syria, Iran, Russia, Hezbollah. @MonicaCrowley Malcolm Hoenlein

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  Apr 19 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Majdal Shams 2012 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow At the Druze-Golan frontier, staring at Syria, Iran, Russia, Hezbollah. @MonicaCrowley Malcolm Hoenlein

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• On the road to Jerusalem: Live fire exercises at the Gaza Strip berm and wall. @MonicaCrowley Malcolm Hoenlein

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  Apr 19 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: A bulldozer pushes up dirt Aug. 13 to create a berm along the Iraq and Syrian border in order to control people crossing the border illegally. Marines with Support Platoon, Company A, 3rd Combat Engineer Battalion, Regimental Combat Team 5 added approximately 30,000 yards of berm to the border, which now stretches along the entire Iraq and Syrian border. The purpose of the berm is to alleviate pressure on the Iraqi Security Forces and allow them to grow and become more established so they can better protect the people. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow On the road to Jerusalem: Live fire exercises at the Gaza Strip berm and wall. @MonicaCrowley Malcolm Hoenlein...more

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• After the US strike on Syria, why are the Iranians threatening Israel? @ClawsonPatrick @MonicaCrowley Malcolm Hoenlein

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  Apr 19 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei casting his vote for 2017 presidential and local election Date 19 May 2017) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow After the US strike on Syria, why are the Iranians threatening Israel? @ClawsonPatrick @MonicaCrowley Malcolm Hoenlein

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• Why is Iran building bases "right over the Golan Heights?" @DrDoreGold @MonicaCrowley Malcolm Hoenlein

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  Apr 19 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: Druze village Mas'ada. Lake Ram. Golan Heights. Israel. Русский: Деревня друзов Мас'ада. Озеро Рам. Голанские высоты. Израиль. עברית: כפר דרוזי מסעדה. אגם רם. רמת הגולן. ישראל. Date 30 November 1899 Source Own work Author Staselnik Camera location 33° 14′ 42.36″ N, 35° 45′ 08.78″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Why is Iran building bases "right over the Golan Heights?"  @DrDoreGold @MonicaCrowley Malcolm Hoenlein...more

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• Why is Hamas launching provocations in Gaza? @MonicaCrowley

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  Apr 19 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Gaza from Israel ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Why is Hamas launching provocations in Gaza? @MonicaCrowley

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• On the road to Jerusalem: A whole lot of building going on. @MonicaCrowley Malcolm Hoenlein

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  Apr 19 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:JErusalem ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow On the road to Jerusalem: A whole lot of building going on. @MonicaCrowley Malcolm Hoenlein

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• War start: Anonymous Soldiers: 2 of 6: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947 by Bruce Hoffman

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  Apr 19 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: TSynagogue desecrated during the riots 1929) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow War start: Anonymous Soldiers: 2 of 6: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947 by Bruce Hoffman https://www.amazon.com/Soldiers-Struggle-Israel-1917-1947/dp/0307741613/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524072872&sr=1-1&keywords=Bruce+Hoffman+soldiers In this groundbreaking work, Bruce Hoffman—America’s leading expert on terrorism—brilliantly re-creates the crucial thirty-year period that led to the birth of Israel. Drawing on previously untapped archival resources in London, Washington, D.C., and Jerusalem, Anonymous Soldiers shows how the efforts of two militant Zionist groups brought about the end of British rule in the Middle East. Hoffman shines new light on the bombing of the King David Hotel, the assassination of Lord Moyne in Cairo, the leadership of Menachem Begin, the life and death of Abraham Stern, and much else. Above all, he shows exactly how the underdog “anonymous soldiers” of Irgun and Lehi defeated the British and set in motion the chain of events that resulted in the creation of the formidable nation-state of Israel.  One of the most detailed and sustained accounts of a terrorist and counterterrorist campaign ever written, Hoffman has crafted the definitive account of the struggle for Israel—and an impressive investigation of the efficacy of guerilla tactics. Anonymous Soldiers is essential to anyone wishing to understand the current situation in the Middle East....more

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