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• The agreement between Pope Francis and the Chinese Communist Party is a very bad idea. Giving this authority to a Communist atheist government is insane— Bill McGurn, Wall Street Journal editorial board

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  Sep 26 2018

  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Bill McGurn, Wall Street Journal editorial board discusses the provisional agreement between Pope Francis and the Chinese Communist Party. Jesuit missionaries arrived in China in the Sixteenth Century; the CCP in 1955 cut off relations with the Vatican and appointed its own bishops. Until this year, the Patriotic Bishops wouldn’t acknowledge the Pope as the head of the Church; now, the Vatican will appoint some bishops. The CCP is hostile to all faiths – Catholics, Protestants. Muslims, Buddhists. Christians tend to meet in homes to read the Bible, which drives the Party crazy because it can't control the people. I find the just-signed agreement to be a very bad idea. Giving this authority to a Communist atheist government is insane. The absurdity of . . . they want to eliminate “foreign ideas” – meaning Western; whereas Marxism is the most pernicious Western idea to infect China.  In the 1980s Bill attended a Mass in Shanghai; a shabby church. A woman in front of him kneeling was wearing tire-tread sandals – and Bill first felt sorry for her, then realized that she’d survived all the persecutions and was still going strong. .....more

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• Everyone in the Caspian Basin has the same vision: natural resources and other goods travelling across the Caspian to the Port of Baku and thence to Europe and the rest of the world. —H E Elin Suleymanov, ambassador of Azerbaijan to the United States

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  Sep 26 2018

  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules . Twitter: @BatchelorShow H E Elin Suleymanov, ambassador of Azerbaijan to the United States, in re: Today’s meeting of the Caspian Business Forum of New York at the Harvard Club.  Met the ambassador from Kazakhstan, H E Erzhan Kazykhanov. Everybody in the region, the Caspian Basin, has the same vision – natural resources and other goods travelling across the Caspian to the New Port of Baku and thence on to Europe and the rest of the world. This will reduce various nations’s overdependence on any one source, and at the same time make possible the introduction of a knowledge economy to Azerbaijanis and much of Central Asia.  Georgia: SOCAR [the Azerbaijani national oil company] is the largest single taxpayer in Georgia. Armenia is warmly invited to join the regional prosperity. The Diplomatic University in Baku is the only green campus on the Caspian....more

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• California Democratic Party battles a Common Sense Democratic Superintendent of School Instruction: Lee Ohanian @HooverInst

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  Sep 26 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow California Democratic Party battles a Common Sense Democratic Superintendent of School Instruction: Lee Ohanian @HooverInst https://www.hoover.org/research/david-versus-goliath-school-reformer-takes-democratic-party-and-unions?utmsource=hdr&utmmedium=email&utmcampaign=2018-09-18&utmsource=Hoover+Daily+Report&utmcampaign=a510f3fc4a-HDRCOPY01&utmmedium=email&utmterm=021b1edff3c-a510f3fc4a-72527561...more

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• POTUS vs Iran at the UN: "He will have to marshal impressive details to prove to the Europeans that Iran is a threat..." Behnam ben Taleblu @FDD

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  Sep 26 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow POTUS vs Iran at the UN: "He will have to marshal impressive details to prove to the Europeans that Iran is a threat..." Behnam ben Taleblu @FDD

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• $80 oil and the trend is higher: "US, production and the ability to produce is up, but, pipeline bottlenecks..." @ProfBShaffer @Georgetown

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  Sep 26 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow $80 oil and the trend is higher: "US, production and the ability to produce is up, but, pipeline bottlenecks..." @ProfBShaffer @Georgetown

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• The FBI coverup: "...because these other governments, probably Australia, and probably Britain, participate din helping write the dossier..." @JedBabbin

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  Sep 26 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The FBI coverup: "...because these other governments, probably Australians, and probably the British, participate din helping write the dossier..."  @JedBabbin https://spectator.org/the-lingering-stench-of-coverup-at-justice-and-the-fbi/

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• Lessons from Iran-Contra: The Senate makes its own rules. @MichaelLedeen.

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  Sep 26 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Lessons from Iran-Contra: The Senate makes its own rules. @MichaelLedeen.  https://pjmedia.com/michaelledeen/when-senators-dont-want-you-to-testify/

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• Kavanaugh at the Senate:"...and Trump's personal approval rating is going up..." @LizPeek

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  Sep 26 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Kavanaugh at the Senate:"...and Trump's personal approval rating is going up..." @LizPeek

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• Trump at the UNGA:"What he laid out today was the case for making America first..." @LizPeek @FNC

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  Sep 26 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Trump at the UNGA:"What he laid out today was the case for making America first..."  @LizPeek @FNC

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• "(Professor Jill Lepore) says (Harding) sounds completely foolish." 2 of 2 " Then it turns out under both Harding and under Coolidge... what you discover the growth records in the stock market, the GDP..." @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Sep 26 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "(Professor Jill Lepore) says (Harding) sounds completely foolish." 2 of 2 " Then it turns out under both Harding and under Coolidge... what you discover the growth records in the stock market, the GDP..." @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore. https://www.hoover.org/research/jill-lepores-slanted-truths?utmsource=hdr&utmmedium=email&utmcampaign=2018-09-25&utmsource=Hoover+Daily+Report&utmcampaign=952b0d7760-HDRCOPY01&utmmedium=email&utmterm=021b1edff3c-952b0d7760-72527561...more

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• "(Professor Jill Lepore) says (Harding) sounds completely foolish." 1 of 2 " Then it turns out under both Harding and under Coolidge... what you discover the growth records in the stock market, the GDP..." @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Sep 26 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "(Professor Jill Lepore) says (Harding) sounds completely foolish." 1 of 2 "  Then it turns out under both Harding and under Coolidge... what you discover the growth records in the stock market, the GDP..."   @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore. https://www.hoover.org/research/jill-lepores-slanted-truths?utmsource=hdr&utmmedium=email&utmcampaign=2018-09-25&utmsource=Hoover+Daily+Report&utmcampaign=952b0d7760-HDRCOPY01&utmmedium=email&utmterm=021b1edff3c-952b0d7760-72527561...more

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• Countdown Midterm: "If Donald Trump's not on the ballot...will they come out to vote for a Republican candidate?" @HooverWhalen @HoooverInst

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  Sep 26 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Countdown Midterm: "If Donald Trump's not on the ballot...will they come out to vote for a Republican candidate?" @HooverWhalen @HoooverInst Area45 https://www.forbes.com/sites/billwhalen/2018/09/20/seven-considerations-with-less-than-seven-weeks-until-election-day/#43da25172ca4

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• "(Rosenstein) expected to be lauded and cheered and praised for removing, or for justifying a removal, of Comey..." @AndrewCMcCarthy @ThadMcCotter

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  Sep 25 2018

  https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/rod-rosenstein-resistance-president-trump/ AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "(Rosenstein) expected to be lauded and cheered and praised for removing, or for justifying a removal, of Comey..." @AndrewCMcCarthy @ThadMcCotter Rosenstein is even a weasel when repudiating his weasel moves. Here (with my italics) is the deputy attorney general’s non-denial denial of a New York Times report Friday that he brainstormed about ousting President Trump in May 2017: The New York Times’s story is inaccurate and factually incorrect. . . . I will not further comment on a story based on anonymous sources who are obviously biased against the department and are advancing their own personal agenda. But let me be clear about this: Based on my personal dealings with the president, there is no basis to invoke the 25th Amendment. Let’s parse this. The Times story “is inaccurate and factually incorrect.” Rosenstein won’t say exactly what is wrong in the report. He is careful not to say that the gist of the report is wrong — he just hopes that, if he sounds indignant enough, you will hear it that way. The Times may have gotten a few details wrong, but you can bet the story is essentially true…. https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/rod-rosenstein-resistance-president-trump/...more

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• "Kavanaugh: "McConnell's going to have to allow somewhat of a robust debate, for a few days, to go on. But you could have a vote by the end of next week..." @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @@ThadMcCotter

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  Sep 25 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Kavanaugh: "McConnell's going to have to allow somewhat of a robust debate, for a few days, to go on.  But you could have a vote by the end of next week..." @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @@ThadMcCotter

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• South Korea appeases North Korea: "They want to eliminate all the guard posts in the DMZ..." @DavidMaxwell1`61 @ThadMcCotter @FCC

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  Sep 25 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow South Korea appeases North Korea: "They want to eliminate all the guard posts in the DMZ..."  @DavidMaxwell1`61 @ThadMcCotter @FCC https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/24/trump-plans-new-kim-summit-a-year-after-threat-to-destroy-north-korea

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• J Batchelor: Rosenstein alluded to the 25th Amendment. Did he seriously suggest that the president could be removed, and he (Rosenstein) would wear a wire? J Fund: Why the leak now? Who benefits?

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  Sep 25 2018

  JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules . Twitter: @BatchelorShow .. David M Drucker, Washington Examiner, & John Fund, NRO, bat back and forth the matter of Rosenstein’s alluding to the 25 Amendment. Did he seriously suggest that the president could be removed, and he (Rosenstein) would wear a wire? DMD: That doesn't make sense to me. Trump’s been measured, on an even keel; doesn't fit with how he handles himself. JF: Let’s look deeper —why does it leak now? Cui bono? Perhaps because Trump’s enemies have learned that it’s easy to provoke him; DMD: So many have called for Rosenstein’s head using the McCabe memos. JF: McCabe is the one person proven to have lied to his superiors and therefore fired. Why should we believe his unproven memos? . . Dossiers and FISA warrants can be scrubbed; should be, and be released. . . . No Mueller report before the election....more

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• Cliff May, FDD: "Should we have economic relations with what we know are criminal regimes? The WTO theory was that that’d transform them into Disneyland. Didn’t work, obviously. Why should despots benefit from the economic dynamism of free nations?"

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  Sep 25 2018

  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow .. Cliff May, FDD f0under, discusses, “Criminal regimes against the rest of us; Why should despots benefit from the economic dynamism of free nations?” The global village says that the US does business with China. Russia, and in past with Venezuela Argentina under the Kirchners – we know these to be untrustworthy. Should we have relations with what we know are criminal regimes? The WTO theory was that that would transform them into Disneyland. Didn’t work, obviously. Russia is a kleptocracy; “essentially a RICO.” What should we do about Russia? Not what Germany wants to do with Nordsteam2, a pipeline circumventing East Europe and making germane more dependent than ever on Russia. China: has stolen hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of IP; companies that’d never kowtow to Washington are doing so to China – Google, et al. Meanwhile, China has a million Uyghyrs in concentration camps as it steals their children for re-education/propaganda schools. Our European allies think the US double-crossed them by withdrawing from the JCPOA – but they knew perfectly well that it was never a treaty and that most Americans did not support it. Because we have a dollar-based economic system, we still have a lot of pull. .. Criminal regimes against the rest of us; Why should despots benefit from the economic dynamism of free nations? 19 September 2018 - The Washington Times Imagine you live in a nice, quiet town and aim to keep it that way. You own a business. Your customers are friendly. Your vendors are honest. People respect one another. They abide by the rules. Then, one day, criminals move into the neighborhood. Do you welcome the thugs, thieves and murderers, conduct business with them and attempt to integrate them into your village? I suspect your answer is no. So why should it be different in the global village? Here’s one reason: Many people – Republicans, Democrats and our European allies among them – have long believed that commerce is transformative; that those with whom we trade, cease to be rogues sooner or later; that they become moderates, partners, friends, and members-in-good-standing of the international community. It’s a comforting theory. But it doesn’t hold water. Example No. 1: Nixon went to China in 1972. Over the years since, trade between the two countries has flourished. In 2001, China joined the World Trade Organization as a “developing nation,” a status that gives it special privileges and which it retains to this day -- despite the fact that it’s now the second largest economy in the world. Meanwhile, China has been stealing hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of American intellectual property, bullying and cheating U.S. businesses in China, and developing weapons of “cyber-enabled economic warfare.” What’s more, the Chinese government egregiously violates the most fundamental rights of its own citizens, not least Tibetans, Muslims and Christians. Example No. 2: The leading industrialized nations in the world – the U.S., Canada, Britain, Japan, German, France and Italy -- belong to an organization now known as the G7. It had been the G8 but Russia’s membership was suspended four years ago after President Vladimir Putin stole Crimea from Ukraine. More recent crimes for which Russia is credibly accused include the poisoning of a former Russian spy with a military-grade nerve agent near his home in southern England. Nevertheless, Germany’s leaders are eager for a project called Nord Stream 2, a natural gas pipeline that would circumvent Ukraine, enrich Russia and make Germany more dependent on Russia. Example No. 3: President Obama’s Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action makes sense if you believe that Iran’s rulers will remove “Death to America!” from their to-do list in exchange for bundles of cash and unprecedented new economic opportunities. To date, however, the billions of dollars that have flowed to Iran under the JCPOA have been spent to further Tehran’s imperialist ambitions in the Middle East, including through terrorism and running Shia militias in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Lebanon. In July, a regime plot to slaughter members of an Iranian opposition group attending a rally near Paris was foiled. (An Iranian diplomat was among those subsequently arrested.) This month, the regime fired a missile into neighboring Iraq, killing six members of the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran. Ignoring all this and more, the European Union is doing what it can to undermine the sanctions the Trump administration, having withdrawn from the JCPOA, has begun re-imposing on Iran’s rulers. Recently, the EU promised to provide 50 million euros in aid to the Islamic Republic. I know: Our European friends feel they’ve been double-crossed. One American president persuaded them to support the JCPOA, the next denounced it as foolish and naïve. But this cannot have come as a huge surprise given that most members of Congress and a majority of the electorate disapproved the JCPOA. That brings us to storm clouds now gathering on the horizon. Gal Luft, co-director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS), calculates that the U.S. currently imposes sanctions and other punitive economic measures “against one tenth of the world's countries.” Also, thousands of individuals, many rich and powerful, “from scores of countries are included in the Treasury Department's list of Specially Designated Nationals who are effectively blocked from the U.S.-dominated global financial system.” These regimes and individuals, Mr. Luft observes, have begun “joining forces to create a parallel financial system which would be out of reach of America's long arm. Should they succeed, the impact on America's global posture would be transformational.” Preventing that ought to be a priority for the Trump administration. Democrats should be on board. If not, the next Democratic occupant of the White House may find that the levers of international economic power used by his or her predecessors are no longer operational. Europeans should be enlightened enough to reconsider what they’ve been framing as measures to defend their economic sovereignty. By now it should be obvious that the world’s criminal regimes do not respond to diplomatic entreaties, no matter how charming the diplomats delivering them. The measures the U.S. has been taking against malevolent actors are often characterized as “economic warfare.” In most cases, however, sanctions are merely a way to deny outlaws access to America’s financial system and markets. Where is it written that they’re entitled to hitch their wagons to our horses? If our sworn enemies, in league with our disgruntled allies, foreclose the economic option, we will be faced with a stark choice: do nothing about overseas villains or use military force against them. A better approach, from both a moral and strategic perspective, would be to use the combined economic power of America and its allies to contain and restrain the bad guys. Perhaps we might consider creating an economic NATO, an organization of free nations committed to our common defense. The goal would be to make the neighborhood of the global village in which we live safer and more civilized; a place where the world’s thugs, thieves and murderers are not welcome. Clifford D. May is president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) and a columnist for the Washington Times....more

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• China sinks to 6.1%: "...then China's reputation as a reliable supplier of products becomes jeopardized..." @AlanTonelson RealityChek. @ThadMcCotter

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  Sep 25 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow China  sinks to 6.1%: "...then China's reputation as a reliable supplier of products becomes jeopardized..." @AlanTonelson RealityChek. @ThadMcCotter https://nationalinterest.org/feature/why-trump-right-target-china-tariffs-31842?page=0%2C1

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• “The Pakistani ISI harbors Haqqanis, an Afghan guerrilla insurgent group fighting NATO; this renders Islamabad complicit in attacks on US forces. State, DoD, NSC—everybody knows this.” —Cliff May, FDD

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  Sep 25 2018

  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules . Twitter: @BatchelorShow .. Tom Joscelyn, Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies; & Senior Editor for FDD's Long War Journal; in re: Amaq News Agency (run by ISIS) reports on attack on IRGC members and civilians parade by a group in Ahvaz. First, the agency reported that Rouhani was present, then that was retracted; then later issued a video showing three of the perpetrators. Amaq points to agents of the Saudi state, not ISIS. . . . Haqqanis are closely aligned with al Qaeda—and Pakistani ISI. If Pakistan is harboring senior Haqqani leadership (it is), that makes Pakistan directly complicit in what the Haqqanis are doing. Of course, State Dept, DoD, and the whole US govt is completely aware of this. Why are we involved in Pakistan? [Do not expect a] change in Pakistani behavior. ..  ..  ..   Iran. https://www.longwarjournal.org Islamic State video allegedly shows perpetrators of attack on Iranian military parade   The Islamic State's Amaq News Agency has released a short video allegedly showing three of the men responsible for yesterday's attack on a military parade in Ahvaz,...more

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• "Dennis sort of knows that what he's doing is slightly self-destructive, but...it makes for terrific scenes..." Hopper: 2 of 2: A Journey Into the American Dream by Tom Folsom

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  Sep 25 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Dennis sort of knows that what he's doing is slightly self-destructive, but...it makes for terrific scenes..."  Hopper: 2 of 2: A Journey Into the American Dream by Tom Folsom https://www.amazon.com/Hopper-Journey-Into-American-Dream/dp/0062223410/ref=sr1cc_3?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1537833232&sr=1-3-catcorr&keywords=dennis+hopper+folsom As unconventional a biography as Dennis Hopper was a man, Hopper: A Journey into the American Dream by Tom Folsom charts his roller coaster life and career through the lens of the landscape of American popular culture. The chopper-riding hippie outlaw in Easy Rider. The prophetic madman in the jungle in Apocalypse Now. The terrifying psychopath in Blue Velvet. The kid gone wrong in Rebel Without a Cause. The actor taken under the wing of James Dean, a friendship that set Dennis Hopper on his path to becoming a star. A quintessentially American dreamer longing to be the next Orson Welles. The hell-raising director who revolutionized Hollywood. Dennis Hopper’s extraordinary journey takes him to superhero highs and plummeting lows. Capturing the magic and the madness of his American Dream, Hopper is a wild ride through Dennis’s many lives. Written in a rebel spirit, complemented with iconic photographs, and packed with insights from his fellow actors, artists, and friends, Hopper tells the story of a half-century of rebellion waged at the edge of pop culture....more

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• "What he really does, is that he spends the whole life trying to be that cowboy..." Hopper: 1 of 2: A Journey Into the American Dream by Tom Folsom

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  Sep 25 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "What he really does, is that he spends the whole life trying to be that cowboy..."  Hopper: 1 of 2: A Journey Into the American Dream by Tom Folsom [ ](https://www.amazon.com/Hopper-Journey-Into-American-Dream/dp/0062223410/ref=sr1cc_3?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1537833232&sr=1-3-catcorr&keywords=dennis+hopper+folsom)https://www.amazon.com/Hopper-Journey-Into-American-Dream/dp/0062223410/ref=sr1cc_3?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1537833232&sr=1-3-catcorr&keywords=dennis+hopper+folsom As unconventional a biography as Dennis Hopper was a man, Hopper: A Journey into the American Dream by Tom Folsom charts his roller coaster life and career through the lens of the landscape of American popular culture. The chopper-riding hippie outlaw in Easy Rider. The prophetic madman in the jungle in Apocalypse Now. The terrifying psychopath in Blue Velvet. The kid gone wrong in Rebel Without a Cause. The actor taken under the wing of James Dean, a friendship that set Dennis Hopper on his path to becoming a star. A quintessentially American dreamer longing to be the next Orson Welles. The hell-raising director who revolutionized Hollywood. Dennis Hopper’s extraordinary journey takes him to superhero highs and plummeting lows. Capturing the magic and the madness of his American Dream, Hopper is a wild ride through Dennis’s many lives. Written in a rebel spirit, complemented with iconic photographs, and packed with insights from his fellow actors, artists, and friends, Hopper tells the story of a half-century of rebellion waged at the edge of pop culture....more

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• "The amount of money up North is just staggering. I mean, there's gold, there is oil, there are minerals..." Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye: 2 of 2: A Family Field Trip to the Arctic's Edge in Search of Adventure by Zac Unger

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  Sep 24 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "The amount of money up North is just staggering.  I mean, there is gold, there is oil, there are minerals..."  Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye: 2 of 2:  A Family Field Trip to the Arctic's Edge in Search of Adventure by Zac Unger https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AXS6B4S/ref=dbsadefrwthschvapitaftp1i1 “I like to go out for walks, but it’s a little awkward to push the baby stroller and carry a shotgun at the same time.”—housewife from Churchill, Manitoba  Yes, welcome to Churchill, Manitoba. Year-round human population: 943. Yet despite the isolation and the searing cold here at the arctic’s edge, visitors from around the globe flock to the town every fall, driven by a single purpose: to see polar bears in the wild. Churchill is “The Polar Bear Capital of the World,” and for one unforgettable “bear season,” Zac Unger, his wife, and his three children moved from Oakland, California, to make it their temporary home. But they soon discovered that it’s really the polar bears who are at home in Churchill, roaming past the coffee shop on the main drag, peering into garbage cans, languorously scratching their backs against fence posts and front doorways. Where kids in other towns receive admonitions about talking to strangers, Churchill schoolchildren get “Let’s All Be Bear Aware” booklets to bring home. (Lesson number 8: Never explore bad-smelling areas.) Zac Unger takes readers on a spirited and often wildly funny journey to a place as unique as it is remote, a place where natives, tourists, scientists, conservationists, and the most ferocious predators on the planet converge. In the process he becomes embroiled in the controversy surrounding “polar bear science”—and finds out that some of what we’ve been led to believe about the bears’ imminent extinction may not be quite the case. But mostly what he learns is about human behavior in extreme situations . . . and also why you should never even think of looking a polar bear in the eye....more

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• "October and November is a pretty good time, mosquito-wise..." Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye: 1 of 2: A Family Field Trip to the Arctic's Edge in Search of Adventure, Truth, and Mini-Marshmallows by Zac Unger

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  Sep 24 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "October and November is a pretty good time, mosquito-wise..."  Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye: 1 of 2: A Family Field Trip to the Arctic's Edge in Search of Adventure, Truth, and Mini-Marshmallows by Zac Unger https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AXS6B4S/ref=dbsadefrwthschvapitaftp1i1 “I like to go out for walks, but it’s a little awkward to push the baby stroller and carry a shotgun at the same time.”—housewife from Churchill, Manitoba  Yes, welcome to Churchill, Manitoba. Year-round human population: 943. Yet despite the isolation and the searing cold here at the arctic’s edge, visitors from around the globe flock to the town every fall, driven by a single purpose: to see polar bears in the wild. Churchill is “The Polar Bear Capital of the World,” and for one unforgettable “bear season,” Zac Unger, his wife, and his three children moved from Oakland, California, to make it their temporary home. But they soon discovered that it’s really the polar bears who are at home in Churchill, roaming past the coffee shop on the main drag, peering into garbage cans, languorously scratching their backs against fence posts and front doorways. Where kids in other towns receive admonitions about talking to strangers, Churchill schoolchildren get “Let’s All Be Bear Aware” booklets to bring home. (Lesson number 8: Never explore bad-smelling areas.) Zac Unger takes readers on a spirited and often wildly funny journey to a place as unique as it is remote, a place where natives, tourists, scientists, conservationists, and the most ferocious predators on the planet converge. In the process he becomes embroiled in the controversy surrounding “polar bear science”—and finds out that some of what we’ve been led to believe about the bears’ imminent extinction may not be quite the case. But mostly what he learns is about human behavior in extreme situations . . . and also why you should never even think of looking a polar bear in the eye....more

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• A massacre mystery 50,000 years old. A murder? soldiers? Not Homo sapiens sapiens but Homo Neanderthalis! They were ancient Europeans in El Sidrón.

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  Sep 24 2018

  Carl Zimmer, New York Times: Neanderthals lived 250,000 to 30,000 years ago. Short and stocky, very smart, worked together in tribes. Here, there were three grown males, three grown females, three teenagers, and one infant. After 50,000 years some of their DNA is still preserved. The three males shared one genetic marker, perhaps being brothers. We think they died on the surface above the cave, then a big storm opened a shaft into the cave and they all washed in there. There are cut marks on the bones, suggesting cannibalism. If the bones are cracked open, that also suggests cannibalism. In this instance, lots of cut marks, bones are cracked, and some of the stone blades lie next to them. Suggestion of red hair: there’s one gene of hair color, which appears to be for red hair. [Note: current thinking is that red hair among humans comes from Neanderthals.] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidrón_Cave https://www.nytimes.com/column/matter...more

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• “Asperger’s Syndrome: on the autism spectrum—difficulty fitting in socially; can ‘pass’ as almost like others, but cannot understand what’s going on in someone else’s mind” —Amy Harmon @Amy_Harmon, New York Times

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  Sep 24 2018

  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Aspys:  see  wrongplanet.net Kirsten once was coached by a non-Aspy; he explained, “When someone turns away from you, it means he’s not interested and you should stop talking.” . . . Mind-blindness is a way of describing what it’s like to have this condition, the inability to perceive what someone else is thinking. People on the spectrum are, indeed, eager for emotional connection, but find it very hard to respond empathetically when they lack the cues. Is this more normal for young teenaged boys, who often tend to grow hyper focussed? "Navigating Love and Autism." @Amy_Harmon. @NYTimes G The first night they slept entwined on his futon, Jack Robison, 19, who had since childhood thought of himself as “not like the other humans,” regarded Kirsten Lindsmith with undisguised tenderness. She was the only girl ever to have asked questions about his obsessive interests — chemistry, libertarian politics, the small drone aircraft he was building in his kitchen — as though she actually cared to hear his answer. To Jack, who has a form of autism called Asperger syndrome, her mind was uncannily like his. She was also, he thought, beautiful. So far they had only cuddled; Jack, who had dropped out of high school but was acing organic chemistry in continuing education classes, had hopes for something more. Yet when she smiled at him the next morning, her lips seeking his, he turned away This is an excerpt from Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Amy Harmon's new e-book, "Asperger Love," published by the New York Times and Byliner. It is currently available at the Kindle Store on Amazon, among other e-book stores along with Nook and iPad. Amy was recently highlighted on Autism Speaks for her NY Times article, “Navigating Love and Autism”. Temple Grandin calls Amy’s book, "required reading for couples, parents, teachers and counselors,'' Harmon portrays the challenges and successes of one young couple, both on the spectrum, and their struggle to make a romantic relationship work. “I don’t really like kissing,” he said....more

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• Aerospace mysteries of birds in flight: what is the force of a wing beat? And how to measure it in natural flight? A sophisticated movement, almost scooping the air.—James Gorman, NYT [and see the lovely, high-speed video of the parrotlet flying.]

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  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow .. Aerospace mysteries of birds in flight. James Gorman, NYT. "...But, said David Lentink, a Stanford University engineer, researchers had “never measured the aerodynamic force directly of any flying animal.” Dr. Lentink and two colleagues reported last month in the journal Interface that they had solved the problem. " Scientists had found other ways to measure that force indirectly — by observing air flow, for example, and going through some complex calculations. " Dr. Lentink built a box big enough for a bird called a parrotlet to fly from one perch to another. It was equipped with high-speed video recorders and sensors to weigh the box every millisecond. "The sensors would register the added force of a wing beat, and by correlating video and sensor data, the researchers were able to come up with an exact measurement of the wing’s force — two times the bird’s weight on the downstroke, as it turned out. The researchers tested their method against other methods to make sure it was correct. "Engineering was only one part of the experiment, Dr. Lentink said. He wanted to measure natural, untethered flight, and trained the birds with treats so they would enter the box and fly to the place he pointed at. "The birds are never touched through the whole process. “The bird actually does what it wants to do,” he said. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/09/science/training-birds-to-aid-a-scientific-breakthrough.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&bicmp=AD&bicmlukp=WT.mc_id&bicmst=1409232722000&bicmet=1419773522000 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYFtIBf9To4...more

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• "Suddenly Truman realizes that he doesn't need the Soviet Army to come in and attack the Japanese..." Six Months in 1945: 3 of 3: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman--from World War to Cold War by Michael Dobbs

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Suddenly Truman realizes that he doesn't need the Soviet Army to come in and attack the Japanese..."   Six Months in 1945: 3 of 3: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman--from World War to Cold War by Michael Dobbs https://www.amazon.com/Six-Months-1945-Truman-2012-10-16/dp/B01MXF0V4Z/ref=sr12?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1537753413&sr=1-2&keywords=Dobbs+1945 From the author of the best-selling One Minute to Midnight, a riveting account of the pivotal six-month period spanning the end of World War II, the dawn of the nuclear age, and the beginning of the Cold War. When Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill met in Yalta in February 1945, Hitler's armies were on the run and victory was imminent. The Big Three wanted to draft a blueprint for a lasting peace - but instead set the stage for a 44-year division of Europe into Soviet and western spheres of influence. After fighting side by side for nearly four years, their political alliance was rapidly fracturing. By the time the leaders met again in Potsdam in July 1945, Russians and Americans were squabbling over the future of Germany and Churchill was warning about an "iron curtain" being drawn down over the Continent. These six months witnessed some of the most dramatic moments of the 20th century: the cataclysmic battle for Berlin, the death of Franklin Roosevelt, the discovery of the Nazi concentration camps, Churchill's electoral defeat, and the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan. While their armies linked up in the heart of Europe, the political leaders maneuvered for leverage: Stalin using his nation's wartime sacrifices to claim spoils, Churchill doing his best to halt Britain's waning influence, FDR trying to charm Stalin, Truman determined to stand up to an increasingly assertive Soviet superpower. Six Months in 1945 brilliantly captures this momentous historical turning point, chronicling the geopolitical twists behind the descent of the iron curtain, while illuminating the aims and personalities of larger-than-life political giants. It is a vividly rendered story of individual and national interests in fierce competition at a seminal moment in history....more

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• "The Americans, and certainly not the British, were in no position to fight a ground ware with the Soviets…" Six Months in 1945: 2 of 3: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman--from World War to Cold War by Michael Dobbs

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "The Americans, and certainly not the British, were in no position to fight a ground ware with the Soviets…" Six Months in 1945: 2 of 3: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman--from World War to Cold War by Michael Dobbs https://www.amazon.com/Six-Months-1945-Truman-2012-10-16/dp/B01MXF0V4Z/ref=sr12?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1537753413&sr=1-2&keywords=Dobbs+1945 From the author of the best-selling One Minute to Midnight, a riveting account of the pivotal six-month period spanning the end of World War II, the dawn of the nuclear age, and the beginning of the Cold War. When Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill met in Yalta in February 1945, Hitler's armies were on the run and victory was imminent. The Big Three wanted to draft a blueprint for a lasting peace - but instead set the stage for a 44-year division of Europe into Soviet and western spheres of influence. After fighting side by side for nearly four years, their political alliance was rapidly fracturing. By the time the leaders met again in Potsdam in July 1945, Russians and Americans were squabbling over the future of Germany and Churchill was warning about an "iron curtain" being drawn down over the Continent. These six months witnessed some of the most dramatic moments of the 20th century: the cataclysmic battle for Berlin, the death of Franklin Roosevelt, the discovery of the Nazi concentration camps, Churchill's electoral defeat, and the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan. While their armies linked up in the heart of Europe, the political leaders maneuvered for leverage: Stalin using his nation's wartime sacrifices to claim spoils, Churchill doing his best to halt Britain's waning influence, FDR trying to charm Stalin, Truman determined to stand up to an increasingly assertive Soviet superpower. Six Months in 1945 brilliantly captures this momentous historical turning point, chronicling the geopolitical twists behind the descent of the iron curtain, while illuminating the aims and personalities of larger-than-life political giants. It is a vividly rendered story of individual and national interests in fierce competition at a seminal moment in history....more

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• "FDR thought he could charm Stalin. That if he spent enough time with Stalin, he could reach an agreement..." Six Months in 1945: 1 of 3: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman--from World War to Cold War by Michael Dobbs

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  Sep 24 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "FDR thought he could charm Stalin. That if he spent enough time with Stalin, he could reach an agreement..."  Six Months in 1945: 1 of 3: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman--from World War to Cold War by Michael Dobbs https://www.amazon.com/Six-Months-1945-Truman-2012-10-16/dp/B01MXF0V4Z/ref=sr12?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1537753413&sr=1-2&keywords=Dobbs+1945 From the author of the best-selling One Minute to Midnight, a riveting account of the pivotal six-month period spanning the end of World War II, the dawn of the nuclear age, and the beginning of the Cold War. When Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill met in Yalta in February 1945, Hitler's armies were on the run and victory was imminent. The Big Three wanted to draft a blueprint for a lasting peace - but instead set the stage for a 44-year division of Europe into Soviet and western spheres of influence. After fighting side by side for nearly four years, their political alliance was rapidly fracturing. By the time the leaders met again in Potsdam in July 1945, Russians and Americans were squabbling over the future of Germany and Churchill was warning about an "iron curtain" being drawn down over the Continent. These six months witnessed some of the most dramatic moments of the 20th century: the cataclysmic battle for Berlin, the death of Franklin Roosevelt, the discovery of the Nazi concentration camps, Churchill's electoral defeat, and the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan. While their armies linked up in the heart of Europe, the political leaders maneuvered for leverage: Stalin using his nation's wartime sacrifices to claim spoils, Churchill doing his best to halt Britain's waning influence, FDR trying to charm Stalin, Truman determined to stand up to an increasingly assertive Soviet superpower. Six Months in 1945 brilliantly captures this momentous historical turning point, chronicling the geopolitical twists behind the descent of the iron curtain, while illuminating the aims and personalities of larger-than-life political giants. It is a vividly rendered story of individual and national interests in fierce competition at a seminal moment in history....more

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• "When Patrick Henry says, give me liberty or give me death, he is just cribbing from Addison's Cato..." Rome's Last Citizen: 3 of 3: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar by Rob Goodman and Jimmy Soni

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  Sep 24 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "When Patrick Henry says, give me liberty or give me death, he is just cribbing from Addison's Cato..."  Rome's Last Citizen: 3 of 3: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar by Rob Goodman and Jimmy Soni https://www.amazon.com/Romes-Last-Citizen-Legacy-Mortal-ebook/dp/B0085UD4A0/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1537752532&sr=1-1&keywords=cato+soni "Cato, history's most famous foe of authoritarian power, was the pivotal political man of Rome; an inspiration to our Founding Fathers; and a cautionary figure for our times. He loved Roman republicanism, but saw himself as too principled for the mere politics that might have saved it. His life and lessons are urgently relevant in the harshly divided America—and world—of today. With erudition and verve, Rob Goodman and Jimmy Soni turn their life of Cato into the most modern of biographies, a blend of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and Game Change."—Howard Fineman, Editorial Director of The Huffington Post Media Group, NBC and MSNBC News Analyst, and New York Times bestselling author of The Thirteen American Arguments "A truly outstanding piece of work. What most impresses me is the book's ability to reach through the confusing dynastic politics of the late Roman Republic to present social realities in a way intelligible to the modern reader. Rome's Last Citizen entertainingly restores to life the stoic Roman who inspired George Washington, Patrick Henry and Nathan Hale. This is more than a biography: it is a study of how a reputation lasted through the centuries from the end of one republic to the start of another."—David Frum, DailyBeast columnist, former White House speech writer, and New York Times bestselling author of The Right Man Marcus Porcius Cato: aristocrat who walked barefoot and slept on the ground with his troops, political heavyweight who cultivated the image of a Stoic philosopher, a hardnosed defender of tradition who presented himself as a man out of the sacred Roman past—and the last man standing when Rome's Republic fell to tyranny. His blood feud with Caesar began in the chamber of the Senate, played out on the battlefields of a world war, and ended when he took his own life rather than live under a dictator. Centuries of thinkers, writers, and artists have drawn inspiration from Cato's Stoic courage. Saint Augustine and the early Christians were moved and challenged by his example. Dante, in his Divine Comedy, chose Cato to preside over the souls who arrive in Purgatory. George Washington so revered him that he staged a play on Cato's life to revive the spirit of his troops at Valley Forge. Now, in Rome's Last Citizen, Rob Goodman and Jimmy Soni deliver the first modern biography of this stirring figure. Cato's life is a gripping tale that resonates deeply with our own turbulent times. He grappled with terrorists, a debt crisis, endemic political corruption, and a huge gulf between the elites and those they governed. In many ways, Cato was the ultimate man of principle—he even chose suicide rather than be used by Caesar as a political pawn. But Cato was also a political failure: his stubbornness sealed his and Rome's defeat, and his lonely end casts a shadow on the recurring hope that a singular leader can transcend the dirty business of politics. Rome's Last Citizen is a timeless story of an uncompromising man in a time of crisis and his lifelong battle to save the Republic....more

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• "At the outset of the civli war, Cato recognizes that there is an opportunity for victory..." Rome's Last Citizen: 2 of 3: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar by Rob Goodman and Jimmy Soni

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "At the outset of the civli war, Cato recognizes that there is an opportunity for victory..."  Rome's Last Citizen: 2 of 3: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar by Rob Goodman and Jimmy Soni https://www.amazon.com/Romes-Last-Citizen-Legacy-Mortal-ebook/dp/B0085UD4A0/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1537752532&sr=1-1&keywords=cato+soni "Cato, history's most famous foe of authoritarian power, was the pivotal political man of Rome; an inspiration to our Founding Fathers; and a cautionary figure for our times. He loved Roman republicanism, but saw himself as too principled for the mere politics that might have saved it. His life and lessons are urgently relevant in the harshly divided America—and world—of today. With erudition and verve, Rob Goodman and Jimmy Soni turn their life of Cato into the most modern of biographies, a blend of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and Game Change."—Howard Fineman, Editorial Director of The Huffington Post Media Group, NBC and MSNBC News Analyst, and New York Times bestselling author of The Thirteen American Arguments "A truly outstanding piece of work. What most impresses me is the book's ability to reach through the confusing dynastic politics of the late Roman Republic to present social realities in a way intelligible to the modern reader. Rome's Last Citizen entertainingly restores to life the stoic Roman who inspired George Washington, Patrick Henry and Nathan Hale. This is more than a biography: it is a study of how a reputation lasted through the centuries from the end of one republic to the start of another."—David Frum, DailyBeast columnist, former White House speech writer, and New York Times bestselling author of The Right Man Marcus Porcius Cato: aristocrat who walked barefoot and slept on the ground with his troops, political heavyweight who cultivated the image of a Stoic philosopher, a hardnosed defender of tradition who presented himself as a man out of the sacred Roman past—and the last man standing when Rome's Republic fell to tyranny. His blood feud with Caesar began in the chamber of the Senate, played out on the battlefields of a world war, and ended when he took his own life rather than live under a dictator. Centuries of thinkers, writers, and artists have drawn inspiration from Cato's Stoic courage. Saint Augustine and the early Christians were moved and challenged by his example. Dante, in his Divine Comedy, chose Cato to preside over the souls who arrive in Purgatory. George Washington so revered him that he staged a play on Cato's life to revive the spirit of his troops at Valley Forge. Now, in Rome's Last Citizen, Rob Goodman and Jimmy Soni deliver the first modern biography of this stirring figure. Cato's life is a gripping tale that resonates deeply with our own turbulent times. He grappled with terrorists, a debt crisis, endemic political corruption, and a huge gulf between the elites and those they governed. In many ways, Cato was the ultimate man of principle—he even chose suicide rather than be used by Caesar as a political pawn. But Cato was also a political failure: his stubbornness sealed his and Rome's defeat, and his lonely end casts a shadow on the recurring hope that a singular leader can transcend the dirty business of politics. Rome's Last Citizen is a timeless story of an uncompromising man in a time of crisis and his lifelong battle to save the Republic....more

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• "In the time of Cato the Elder, it was assumed that Rome was going through a kind of moral decline.." Rome's Last Citizen:: 1 of 3: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar by Rob Goodman and Jimmy Soni

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  Sep 24 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "In the time of Cato the Elder, it was assumed that Rome was going through a kind of moral decline.." Rome's Last Citizen:: 1 of 3: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar by Rob Goodman and Jimmy Soni [ https://www.amazon.com/Romes-Last-Citizen-Legacy-Mortal-ebook/dp/B0085UD4A0/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1537752532&sr=1-1&keywords=cato+soni](https://www.amazon.com/Romes-Last-Citizen-Legacy-Mortal-ebook/dp/B0085UD4A0/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1537752532&sr=1-1&keywords=cato+soni) "Cato, history's most famous foe of authoritarian power, was the pivotal political man of Rome; an inspiration to our Founding Fathers; and a cautionary figure for our times. He loved Roman republicanism, but saw himself as too principled for the mere politics that might have saved it. His life and lessons are urgently relevant in the harshly divided America—and world—of today. With erudition and verve, Rob Goodman and Jimmy Soni turn their life of Cato into the most modern of biographies, a blend of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and Game Change."—Howard Fineman, Editorial Director of The Huffington Post Media Group, NBC and MSNBC News Analyst, and New York Times bestselling author of The Thirteen American Arguments "A truly outstanding piece of work. What most impresses me is the book's ability to reach through the confusing dynastic politics of the late Roman Republic to present social realities in a way intelligible to the modern reader. Rome's Last Citizen entertainingly restores to life the stoic Roman who inspired George Washington, Patrick Henry and Nathan Hale. This is more than a biography: it is a study of how a reputation lasted through the centuries from the end of one republic to the start of another."—David Frum, DailyBeast columnist, former White House speech writer, and New York Times bestselling author of The Right Man Marcus Porcius Cato: aristocrat who walked barefoot and slept on the ground with his troops, political heavyweight who cultivated the image of a Stoic philosopher, a hardnosed defender of tradition who presented himself as a man out of the sacred Roman past—and the last man standing when Rome's Republic fell to tyranny. His blood feud with Caesar began in the chamber of the Senate, played out on the battlefields of a world war, and ended when he took his own life rather than live under a dictator. Centuries of thinkers, writers, and artists have drawn inspiration from Cato's Stoic courage. Saint Augustine and the early Christians were moved and challenged by his example. Dante, in his Divine Comedy, chose Cato to preside over the souls who arrive in Purgatory. George Washington so revered him that he staged a play on Cato's life to revive the spirit of his troops at Valley Forge. Now, in Rome's Last Citizen, Rob Goodman and Jimmy Soni deliver the first modern biography of this stirring figure. Cato's life is a gripping tale that resonates deeply with our own turbulent times. He grappled with terrorists, a debt crisis, endemic political corruption, and a huge gulf between the elites and those they governed. In many ways, Cato was the ultimate man of principle—he even chose suicide rather than be used by Caesar as a political pawn. But Cato was also a political failure: his stubbornness sealed his and Rome's defeat, and his lonely end casts a shadow on the recurring hope that a singular leader can transcend the dirty business of politics. Rome's Last Citizen is a timeless story of an uncompromising man in a time of crisis and his lifelong battle to save the Republic....more

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• "Cats love to go into boxes and cartons and such, but they don't like to go in the cat-carrier, and why not?..." Cat Sense: 3 of 3: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet by John Bradshaw

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  Sep 24 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Cats love to go into boxes and cartons and such, but they don't like to go in the cat-carrier, and why not?..."  Cat Sense: 3 of 3: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet by John Bradshaw https://www.amazon.com/Cat-Sense-Feline-Science-Better/dp/0465064965/ref=sr1cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1537751584&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=bradshaw+cat+sense Based on cutting edge science, the New York Times bestselling book on the inner lives of cats In Cat Sense, renowned anthrozoologist John Bradshaw takes us further into the mind of the domestic cat than ever before, using cutting-edge scientific research to dispel lingering myths and explain the true nature of our feline friends. Tracing the cat's evolution from lone predator to domesticated companion, Bradshaw shows that although cats and humans have lived together for eight thousand years, cats remain independent, predatory, and wary of contact with their own kind, qualities that often clash with our modern lifestyles. To live in harmony with our cats, Bradshaw explains, we first need to understand their inherited quirks including understanding their body language, and managing both their natural hunting instincts and their relationships with other cats. A must-read for any cat lover, Cat Sense offers humane, penetrating insights about the domestic cat that challenge our most basic assumptions and promise to dramatically improve our pets' lives--and ours....more

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• "You can get a rough idea of what the world looked like to a cat by turning the color down on an old TV..." Cat Sense: 2 of 3: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet by John Bradshaw

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  Sep 24 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "You can get a rough idea of what the world looked like to a cat by turning the color down on an old TV..."  Cat Sense: 2 of 3: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet by John Bradshaw https://www.amazon.com/Cat-Sense-Feline-Science-Better/dp/0465064965/ref=sr1cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1537751584&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=bradshaw+cat+sense Based on cutting edge science, the New York Times bestselling book on the inner lives of cats In Cat Sense, renowned anthrozoologist John Bradshaw takes us further into the mind of the domestic cat than ever before, using cutting-edge scientific research to dispel lingering myths and explain the true nature of our feline friends. Tracing the cat's evolution from lone predator to domesticated companion, Bradshaw shows that although cats and humans have lived together for eight thousand years, cats remain independent, predatory, and wary of contact with their own kind, qualities that often clash with our modern lifestyles. To live in harmony with our cats, Bradshaw explains, we first need to understand their inherited quirks including understanding their body language, and managing both their natural hunting instincts and their relationships with other cats. A must-read for any cat lover, Cat Sense offers humane, penetrating insights about the domestic cat that challenge our most basic assumptions and promise to dramatically improve our pets' lives--and ours....more

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• "Within a few hundred years, the cats start moving in, because the mice, are simply there, they're easy pickings..." Cat Sense: 1 of 3: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet by John Bradshaw

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  Sep 24 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Within a few hundred years, the cats start moving in, because the mice, are simply there, they're easy pickings..."  Cat Sense: 1 of 3:  How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet by John Bradshaw https://www.amazon.com/Cat-Sense-Feline-Science-Better/dp/0465064965/ref=sr1cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1537751584&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=bradshaw+cat+sense Based on cutting edge science, the New York Times bestselling book on the inner lives of cats In Cat Sense, renowned anthrozoologist John Bradshaw takes us further into the mind of the domestic cat than ever before, using cutting-edge scientific research to dispel lingering myths and explain the true nature of our feline friends. Tracing the cat's evolution from lone predator to domesticated companion, Bradshaw shows that although cats and humans have lived together for eight thousand years, cats remain independent, predatory, and wary of contact with their own kind, qualities that often clash with our modern lifestyles. To live in harmony with our cats, Bradshaw explains, we first need to understand their inherited quirks including understanding their body language, and managing both their natural hunting instincts and their relationships with other cats. A must-read for any cat lover, Cat Sense offers humane, penetrating insights about the domestic cat that challenge our most basic assumptions and promise to dramatically improve our pets' lives--and ours....more

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• Alaska’s permafrost is leaving us. Far west of Anchorage: lots of little trees, lichen, mosses; a very flat, beautiful tundra landscape 300 miles from the Arctic Circle. Pockets of water breaking through. —Henry Fountain @HenryFountain

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  Sep 23 2018

  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow .. Photo: Tunda near the Yenisei River in Siberia. Wikimedia commons Deutsch: Tundra bei Dudinka am Jenissej in Sibirien Esperanto: La tundro apud Dudinka sur Jenisejo (Sibirj, Rusio). Русский: Тундра в районе Дудинки, на Енисее (Сибирь). Date 5 August 2000 / Source: Own work / Author: Dr. Andreas Hugentobler .. . . . Pockets of water breaking through: diminution of permafrost, or not? We don't know. Probably some bogs are from warming. Permafrost in the North Slope (Prudhoe Bay) can go 2,100 feet deep. The frozen ground contains much ancient vegetation; it died, froze, and carbon stayed in the vegetation. As it now thaws, microbes get at it, it releases carbon and methane, both being greenhouse gasses. Coal represents very old carbon; when you burn it, it releases ancient carbon into the atmosphere. Feedback loop: as warming increases, some permafrost thaws, some ancient CO2 ends up in atmosphere leading to increased warming, and around again. Alaska goes from being a carbon sink to a carbon source. There are some Native Alaskan villages (60 mi from Bethel) where people leave fairly traditional lives. The farther north you go, the colder it is and the less actual thawing. However, microthawing in the soil even in the Far North. .. .. .. Alaska permafrost in retreat & What is to be done? @HenryFountain @NYTimes Even in colder northern Alaska, where permafrost in some parts of the North Slope extends more than 2,100 feet below the surface, scientists are seeing stark changes. Vladimir E. Romanovsky, a permafrost researcher at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, said that temperatures at a depth of 65 feet have risen by 3 degrees Celsius (about 5.5 degrees Fahrenheit) over decades. Near-surface changes have been even greater. At one northern site, he said, permafrost temperatures at shallow depths have climbed from minus 8 degrees Celsius to minus 3. “Minus 3 is not that far from zero,” Dr. Romanovsky said. If emissions and warming continue at the same rate, he said, near-surface temperatures will rise above freezing around the middle of the century. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/23/climate/alaska-permafrost-thawing.html?_r=1...more

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• Big data comes to literature: References to “1880” peaked in that year & fell to half by 1912, a lag of 32 years. By contrast, “1973” declined to half its peak by 1983, only 10 years later. “We’re forgetting our past faster with each passing year.”

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  Sep 23 2018

  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Photo: The evanescent 1973. (Some things are best left to moulder and go away.) From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. Memories of 1973 | by brizzle born and bred Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0) You are free to: Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms. • Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. • ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original. • No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits. .. It’s been widely considered that the most influential 19th century English novelists were Jane Austen and Walter Scott. Not. Instead, a recent study has found, Jane Austen, author of “Pride and Prejudice, “ and Sir Walter Scott, the creator of “Ivanhoe,” had the greatest effect on other authors in writing style and themes. Novelists read a lot of novels—Dickens copied earlier writers! Major advances in big-data analyses occurred in the last 2 years. Algorithmic warriors use the 20,000 scanned Google Books repository books. —Matthew L. Jockers, the literary quant. “Data-centric specialties are growing fast, giving rise to a new vocabulary. In political science, this quantitative analysis is called political methodology. In history, there is cliometrics, which applies econometrics to history. In literature, stylometry is the study of an author’s writing style, and these days it leans heavily on computing and statistical analysis. Culturomics is the umbrella term used to describe rigorous quantitative inquiries in the social sciences and humanities.” http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/technology/literary-history-seen-through-big-datas-lens.html...more

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• “Chocolate as a holistic superfood: with adaptogenic herbs, antioxidants, minerals, phytoceramides, neurotransmitter-boosting properties, gut-balancing probiotics.” —Kari Molvar

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  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Photo:s . Molvar, New York Times (@Kari_Molvar @NYTimes), reports lavishly on the motive for creating wonderful chocolate formulas— the explosion of the wellness industry, currently a $3 bil market. Chocolate has been embraced as a holistic superfood: chefs commingle it with adaptogenic herbs, antioxidants, minerals, neurotransmitter-boosting properties, skin-plumping phytoceramides, gut-balancing probiotics. Karolina Palmer cooked Freaky Health Chocolates, 1.8-ounce bars at $8. Goji berries, immunity bars. Sundried, slowground beans. When Hershey heats beans at a high heat, all the nutrients are stripped. The Beauty Chef’s Inner Beauty Chocolate Powder ($80), made with bio-fermented greens (chlorella, kale, spinach) and 12 forms of bacteria to support digestion. Mix it into potables. Eat all this fabulous stuff in moderation: not for breakfast! No sugar in it, but treat it as a sweet....more

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• "Summerall, his Fifth Corps are the one who are charged with building this bridge and battering the Germans across the Meuse..." Forty-Seven Days: 3 of 3: How Pershing's Warriors Came of Age to Defeat the German Army in World War I by Mitchell Yockelson

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Summerall, his Fifth Corps are the one who are charged with building this bridge and battering the Germans across the Meuse..." Forty-Seven Days: 3 of 3: How Pershing's Warriors Came of Age to Defeat the German Army in World War I by Mitchell Yockelson https://www.amazon.com/Forty-Seven-Days-Pershings-Warriors-Defeat-ebook/dp/B00Z8VTP7A/ref=sr11?ie=UTF8&qid=1537665041&sr=8-1&keywords=yockelson+47+days “Mitchell Yockelson expands our understanding not only of how World War I ended, but also of how militaries can change and adapt under conditions of great adversity.”—Max Boot, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Savage Wars of Peace The gripping account of the U.S. First Army’s astonishing triumph over the Germans in America’s bloodiest battle of the First World War—the Battle of the Meuse-Argonne. The Battle of the Meuse-Argonne stands as the deadliest clash in American history: More than a million untested American soldiers went up against a better-trained and -experienced German army, costing more twenty-six thousand deaths and leaving nearly a hundred thousand wounded. Yet in forty-seven days of intense combat, those Americans pushed back the enemy and forced the Germans to surrender, bringing the First World War to an end—a feat the British and the French had not achieved after more than three years of fighting. In Forty-Seven Days, historian Mitchell Yockelson tells how General John J. “Black Jack” Pershing’s exemplary leadership led to the unlikeliest of victories. Appointed commander of the American Expeditionary Forces by President Wilson, Pershing personally took command of the U.S. First Army until supplies ran low and the fighting ground to a stalemate. Refusing to admit defeat, Pershing stepped aside and placed gutsy Lieutenant General Hunter Liggett in charge. While Pershing retained command, Liggett reorganized his new unit, resting and resupplying his men, while instilling a confidence in the doughboys that drove them out of the trenches and across no-man’s-land. Also explored are a cast of remarkable individuals, including America’s original fighter ace, Eddie Rickenbacker; Corporal Alvin York, a pacifist who nevertheless single-handedly killed more than twenty Germans and captured 132; artillery officer and future president Harry S. Truman; innovative tank commander George S. Patton; and Douglas MacArthur, the Great War’s most decorated soldier, who would command the American army in the Pacific War and in Korea.  Offering an abundance of new details and insight, Forty-Seven Days is the definitive account of the First Army’s hard-fought victory in World War I—and the revealing tale of how our military came of age in its most devastating battle....more

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• "Even though he had the rank of Brigadier-General, (MacArthur) led from the front..." Forty-Seven Days: 2 of 3: How Pershing's Warriors Came of Age to Defeat the German Army in World War I by Mitchell Yockelson

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  Sep 23 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Even though he had the rank of Brigadier-General, (MacArthur) led from the front..."  Forty-Seven Days: 2 of 3: How Pershing's Warriors Came of Age to Defeat the German Army in World War I by Mitchell Yockelson https://www.amazon.com/Forty-Seven-Days-Pershings-Warriors-Defeat-ebook/dp/B00Z8VTP7A/ref=sr11?ie=UTF8&qid=1537665041&sr=8-1&keywords=yockelson+47+days “Mitchell Yockelson expands our understanding not only of how World War I ended, but also of how militaries can change and adapt under conditions of great adversity.”—Max Boot, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Savage Wars of Peace The gripping account of the U.S. First Army’s astonishing triumph over the Germans in America’s bloodiest battle of the First World War—the Battle of the Meuse-Argonne. The Battle of the Meuse-Argonne stands as the deadliest clash in American history: More than a million untested American soldiers went up against a better-trained and -experienced German army, costing more twenty-six thousand deaths and leaving nearly a hundred thousand wounded. Yet in forty-seven days of intense combat, those Americans pushed back the enemy and forced the Germans to surrender, bringing the First World War to an end—a feat the British and the French had not achieved after more than three years of fighting. In Forty-Seven Days, historian Mitchell Yockelson tells how General John J. “Black Jack” Pershing’s exemplary leadership led to the unlikeliest of victories. Appointed commander of the American Expeditionary Forces by President Wilson, Pershing personally took command of the U.S. First Army until supplies ran low and the fighting ground to a stalemate. Refusing to admit defeat, Pershing stepped aside and placed gutsy Lieutenant General Hunter Liggett in charge. While Pershing retained command, Liggett reorganized his new unit, resting and resupplying his men, while instilling a confidence in the doughboys that drove them out of the trenches and across no-man’s-land. Also explored are a cast of remarkable individuals, including America’s original fighter ace, Eddie Rickenbacker; Corporal Alvin York, a pacifist who nevertheless single-handedly killed more than twenty Germans and captured 132; artillery officer and future president Harry S. Truman; innovative tank commander George S. Patton; and Douglas MacArthur, the Great War’s most decorated soldier, who would command the American army in the Pacific War and in Korea.  Offering an abundance of new details and insight, Forty-Seven Days is the definitive account of the First Army’s hard-fought victory in World War I—and the revealing tale of how our military came of age in its most devastating battle....more

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• "First, Foch has an attitude, because he didn't want Pershing to lead the Americans as an independent force..." Forty-Seven Days: 1 of 3: How Pershing's Warriors Came of Age to Defeat the German Army in World War I by Mitchell Yockelson

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  Sep 23 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "First, Foch has an attitude, because he didn't want Pershing to lead the Americans as an independent force..." Forty-Seven Days: 1 of 3: How Pershing's Warriors Came of Age to Defeat the German Army in World War I by Mitchell Yockelson https://www.amazon.com/Forty-Seven-Days-Pershings-Warriors-Defeat-ebook/dp/B00Z8VTP7A/ref=sr11?ie=UTF8&qid=1537665041&sr=8-1&keywords=yockelson+47+days “Mitchell Yockelson expands our understanding not only of how World War I ended, but also of how militaries can change and adapt under conditions of great adversity.”—Max Boot, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Savage Wars of Peace The gripping account of the U.S. First Army’s astonishing triumph over the Germans in America’s bloodiest battle of the First World War—the Battle of the Meuse-Argonne. The Battle of the Meuse-Argonne stands as the deadliest clash in American history: More than a million untested American soldiers went up against a better-trained and -experienced German army, costing more twenty-six thousand deaths and leaving nearly a hundred thousand wounded. Yet in forty-seven days of intense combat, those Americans pushed back the enemy and forced the Germans to surrender, bringing the First World War to an end—a feat the British and the French had not achieved after more than three years of fighting. In Forty-Seven Days, historian Mitchell Yockelson tells how General John J. “Black Jack” Pershing’s exemplary leadership led to the unlikeliest of victories. Appointed commander of the American Expeditionary Forces by President Wilson, Pershing personally took command of the U.S. First Army until supplies ran low and the fighting ground to a stalemate. Refusing to admit defeat, Pershing stepped aside and placed gutsy Lieutenant General Hunter Liggett in charge. While Pershing retained command, Liggett reorganized his new unit, resting and resupplying his men, while instilling a confidence in the doughboys that drove them out of the trenches and across no-man’s-land. Also explored are a cast of remarkable individuals, including America’s original fighter ace, Eddie Rickenbacker; Corporal Alvin York, a pacifist who nevertheless single-handedly killed more than twenty Germans and captured 132; artillery officer and future president Harry S. Truman; innovative tank commander George S. Patton; and Douglas MacArthur, the Great War’s most decorated soldier, who would command the American army in the Pacific War and in Korea.  Offering an abundance of new details and insight, Forty-Seven Days is the definitive account of the First Army’s hard-fought victory in World War I—and the revealing tale of how our military came of age in its most devastating battle....more

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• "In Chita, I think it was in 1992 that they discovered the burying ground outside the city... it was kept secret..." Women of the Gulag: 3 of 3: Portraits of Five Remarkable Lives by Paul Gregory

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  Sep 23 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "In Chita, I think it was in 1992 that they discovered the burying ground outside the city... it was kept secret..."  Women of the Gulag: 3 of 3: Portraits of Five Remarkable Lives by Paul Gregory https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FIP2C1C/ref=dbsadefrwthschvapitaftp1i0 During the course of three decades, Joseph Stalin’s Gulag, a vast network of forced labor camps and settlements, held many millions of prisoners. People in every corner of the Soviet Union lived in daily terror of imprisonment and execution. In researching the surviving threads of memoirs and oral reminiscences of five women victimized by the Gulag, author Paul R. Gregory has stitched together a collection of stories from the female perspective, a view in short supply. Capturing the fear, paranoia, and unbearable hardship that were hallmarks of Stalin’s Great Terror, Gregory relates the stories of five women from different social strata and regions in vivid prose, from their pre-Gulag lives, through their struggles to survive in the repressive atmosphere of the late 1930s and early 1940s, to the difficulties facing the four who survived as they adjusted to life after the Gulag. These firsthand accounts illustrate how even the wrong word could become a crime against the state. The book begins with a synopsis of Stalin’s rise to power, the roots of the Gulag, and the scheming and plotting that led to and persisted in one of the bloodiest, most egregious dictatorships of the 20th century. During the course of three decades, Joseph Stalin’s Gulag, a vast network of forced labor camps and settlements, held many millions of prisoners. People in every corner of the Soviet Union lived in daily terror of imprisonment and execution. In researching the surviving threads of memoirs and oral reminiscences of five women victimized by the Gulag, author Paul R. Gregory has stitched together a collection of stories from the female perspective, a view in short supply. Capturing the fear, paranoia, and unbearable hardship that were hallmarks of Stalin’s Great Terror, Gregory relates the stories of five women from different social strata and regions in vivid prose, from their pre-Gulag lives, through their struggles to survive in the repressive atmosphere of the late 1930s and early 1940s, to the difficulties facing the four who survived as they adjusted to life after the Gulag. These firsthand accounts illustrate how even the wrong word could become a crime against the state. The book begins with a synopsis of Stalin’s rise to power, the roots of the Gulag, and the scheming and plotting that led to and persisted in one of the bloodiest, most egregious dictatorships of the 20th century....more

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• "(Stalin) came up wth the so-called 5% rule. Which is, if you kill 20 people, and one of them is a true enemy, you've done your job..." Women of the Gulag: 2 of 3: Portraits of Five Remarkable Lives by Paul Gregory

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  Sep 23 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "(Stalin) came up wth the so-called 5% rule. Which is, if you kill 20 people, and one of them is a true enemy, you've done your job..."  Women of the Gulag: 2 of 3: Portraits of Five Remarkable Lives by Paul Gregory https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FIP2C1C/ref=dbsadefrwthschvapitaftp1i0 During the course of three decades, Joseph Stalin’s Gulag, a vast network of forced labor camps and settlements, held many millions of prisoners. People in every corner of the Soviet Union lived in daily terror of imprisonment and execution. In researching the surviving threads of memoirs and oral reminiscences of five women victimized by the Gulag, author Paul R. Gregory has stitched together a collection of stories from the female perspective, a view in short supply. Capturing the fear, paranoia, and unbearable hardship that were hallmarks of Stalin’s Great Terror, Gregory relates the stories of five women from different social strata and regions in vivid prose, from their pre-Gulag lives, through their struggles to survive in the repressive atmosphere of the late 1930s and early 1940s, to the difficulties facing the four who survived as they adjusted to life after the Gulag. These firsthand accounts illustrate how even the wrong word could become a crime against the state. The book begins with a synopsis of Stalin’s rise to power, the roots of the Gulag, and the scheming and plotting that led to and persisted in one of the bloodiest, most egregious dictatorships of the 20th century. During the course of three decades, Joseph Stalin’s Gulag, a vast network of forced labor camps and settlements, held many millions of prisoners. People in every corner of the Soviet Union lived in daily terror of imprisonment and execution. In researching the surviving threads of memoirs and oral reminiscences of five women victimized by the Gulag, author Paul R. Gregory has stitched together a collection of stories from the female perspective, a view in short supply. Capturing the fear, paranoia, and unbearable hardship that were hallmarks of Stalin’s Great Terror, Gregory relates the stories of five women from different social strata and regions in vivid prose, from their pre-Gulag lives, through their struggles to survive in the repressive atmosphere of the late 1930s and early 1940s, to the difficulties facing the four who survived as they adjusted to life after the Gulag. These firsthand accounts illustrate how even the wrong word could become a crime against the state. The book begins with a synopsis of Stalin’s rise to power, the roots of the Gulag, and the scheming and plotting that led to and persisted in one of the bloodiest, most egregious dictatorships of the 20th century....more

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• "They are to go home and send back lists of potential enemies. They are to be placed into two groups. One to be executed, the other to be sent to the Gulag..." Women of the Gulag: 1 of 3: Portraits of Five Remarkable Lives by Paul Gregory

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  Sep 23 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "They are to go home and send back lists of potential enemies.  They are to be placed into two groups.  One to be executed, the other to be sent to the Gulag..."  Women of the Gulag: 1 of 3: Portraits of Five Remarkable Lives by Paul Gregory [ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FIP2C1C/ref=dbsadefrwthschvapitaftp1i0](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FIP2C1C/ref=dbsadefrwthschvapitaftp1i0) During the course of three decades, Joseph Stalin’s Gulag, a vast network of forced labor camps and settlements, held many millions of prisoners. People in every corner of the Soviet Union lived in daily terror of imprisonment and execution. In researching the surviving threads of memoirs and oral reminiscences of five women victimized by the Gulag, author Paul R. Gregory has stitched together a collection of stories from the female perspective, a view in short supply. Capturing the fear, paranoia, and unbearable hardship that were hallmarks of Stalin’s Great Terror, Gregory relates the stories of five women from different social strata and regions in vivid prose, from their pre-Gulag lives, through their struggles to survive in the repressive atmosphere of the late 1930s and early 1940s, to the difficulties facing the four who survived as they adjusted to life after the Gulag. These firsthand accounts illustrate how even the wrong word could become a crime against the state. The book begins with a synopsis of Stalin’s rise to power, the roots of the Gulag, and the scheming and plotting that led to and persisted in one of the bloodiest, most egregious dictatorships of the 20th century. During the course of three decades, Joseph Stalin’s Gulag, a vast network of forced labor camps and settlements, held many millions of prisoners. People in every corner of the Soviet Union lived in daily terror of imprisonment and execution. In researching the surviving threads of memoirs and oral reminiscences of five women victimized by the Gulag, author Paul R. Gregory has stitched together a collection of stories from the female perspective, a view in short supply. Capturing the fear, paranoia, and unbearable hardship that were hallmarks of Stalin’s Great Terror, Gregory relates the stories of five women from different social strata and regions in vivid prose, from their pre-Gulag lives, through their struggles to survive in the repressive atmosphere of the late 1930s and early 1940s, to the difficulties facing the four who survived as they adjusted to life after the Gulag. These firsthand accounts illustrate how even the wrong word could become a crime against the state. The book begins with a synopsis of Stalin’s rise to power, the roots of the Gulag, and the scheming and plotting that led to and persisted in one of the bloodiest, most egregious dictatorships of the 20th century....more

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• "McAlexander was like the Rock of Chickamauga in the Civil War..." First Over There: 3 of 3: Rock of the Marne: The American Soldiers Who Turned the Tide Against the Kaiser in World War I by Stephen L. Harris

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  Sep 23 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "McAlexander was like the Rock of Chickamauga in the Civil War..."  First Over There: 3 of 3: Rock of the Marne: The American Soldiers Who Turned the Tide Against the Kaiser in World War I by Stephen L. Harris https://www.amazon.com/First-Over-There-Davenport-2015-05-12/dp/B01FGOIWSG/ref=sr11?ie=UTF8&qid=1537666379&sr=8-1&keywords=Matthew+J.+Davenport At first light on Tuesday, May 28th, 1918, waves of American riflemen from the US Army's First Division climbed from their trenches, charged across the shell-scarred French dirt of no-man's-land, and captured the hilltop village of Cantigny from the grip of the German Army. Those who survived the enemy machine-gun fire and hand-to-hand fighting held on for the next two days and nights in shallow foxholes under the sting of mustard gas and crushing steel of artillery fire. Thirteen months after the United States entered World War I, these 3,500 soldiers became the first "doughboys" to enter the fight. The operation, the first American attack ever supported by tanks, airplanes, and modern artillery, was ordered by the leader of America's forces in Europe, General John "Black Jack" Pershing, and planned by a young staff officer, Lieutenant Colonel George C. Marshall, who would fill the lead role in World War II 26 years later. Drawing on the letters, diaries, and reports by the men themselves, Matthew J. Davenport's First Over There tells the inspiring, untold story of these soldiers and their journey to victory on the Western Front in the Battle of Cantigny....more

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• "He said the best defense is the river, and if they come across the river, the battle is lost..." 2 of 3: Rock of the Marne: The American Soldiers Who Turned the Tide Against the Kaiser in World War I by Stephen L. Harris

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  Sep 23 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "He said the best defense is the river, and if they come across the river, the battle is lost..." 2 of 3: Rock of the Marne: The American Soldiers Who Turned the Tide Against the Kaiser in World War I by Stephen L. Harris https://www.amazon.com/First-Over-There-Davenport-2015-05-12/dp/B01FGOIWSG/ref=sr11?ie=UTF8&qid=1537666379&sr=8-1&keywords=Matthew+J.+Davenport At first light on Tuesday, May 28th, 1918, waves of American riflemen from the US Army's First Division climbed from their trenches, charged across the shell-scarred French dirt of no-man's-land, and captured the hilltop village of Cantigny from the grip of the German Army. Those who survived the enemy machine-gun fire and hand-to-hand fighting held on for the next two days and nights in shallow foxholes under the sting of mustard gas and crushing steel of artillery fire. Thirteen months after the United States entered World War I, these 3,500 soldiers became the first "doughboys" to enter the fight. The operation, the first American attack ever supported by tanks, airplanes, and modern artillery, was ordered by the leader of America's forces in Europe, General John "Black Jack" Pershing, and planned by a young staff officer, Lieutenant Colonel George C. Marshall, who would fill the lead role in World War II 26 years later. Drawing on the letters, diaries, and reports by the men themselves, Matthew J. Davenport's First Over There tells the inspiring, untold story of these soldiers and their journey to victory on the Western Front in the Battle of Cantigny....more

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• "They just knew that the French Army at that time was going to lose the war..." Rock of the Marne: 1 of 3: The American Soldiers Who Turned the Tide Against the Kaiser in World War I by Stephen L. Harris

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  Sep 23 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "They just knew that the French Army at that time was going to lose the war..."  Rock of the Marne: 1 of 3: The American Soldiers Who Turned the Tide Against the Kaiser in World War I by Stephen L. Harris https://www.amazon.com/First-Over-There-Davenport-2015-05-12/dp/B01FGOIWSG/ref=sr11?ie=UTF8&qid=1537666379&sr=8-1&keywords=Matthew+J.+Davenport At first light on Tuesday, May 28th, 1918, waves of American riflemen from the US Army's First Division climbed from their trenches, charged across the shell-scarred French dirt of no-man's-land, and captured the hilltop village of Cantigny from the grip of the German Army. Those who survived the enemy machine-gun fire and hand-to-hand fighting held on for the next two days and nights in shallow foxholes under the sting of mustard gas and crushing steel of artillery fire. Thirteen months after the United States entered World War I, these 3,500 soldiers became the first "doughboys" to enter the fight. The operation, the first American attack ever supported by tanks, airplanes, and modern artillery, was ordered by the leader of America's forces in Europe, General John "Black Jack" Pershing, and planned by a young staff officer, Lieutenant Colonel George C. Marshall, who would fill the lead role in World War II 26 years later. Drawing on the letters, diaries, and reports by the men themselves, Matthew J. Davenport's First Over There tells the inspiring, untold story of these soldiers and their journey to victory on the Western Front in the Battle of Cantigny....more

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• “Russian surveillance craft shot down, 15 dead. Everyone agrees it was most regrettable; Russia was angry – first at Israel, then found it had been the Syrian army shooting wildly.” —Malcolm Hoenlein [Putin courteously called Netanyahu to clarify]

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  Sep 22 2018

  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow .. Photo: A Russian Air Force Ilyushin Il-20. Russia lost a military IL-20M jet over Syria on Monday. [“Syrian antiaircraft batteries ‘fired indiscriminately and from what we understand did not bother to ensure that no Russian planes were in the air.’"] Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, overseas, discusses the incident over Syria where a Russian surveillance craft was shot down, fifteen Russians dead. Everyone agrees that it was most regrettable; Russia naturally was angry – initially at Israel, then it came out that it was the Syrian army shooting wildly. Putin gallantly called Netanyahu to clarify. Volkswagen leaves Iran. As US pressure increases on Iran: yes, and at the UN. Velyati said strongly that Russia and China are their partners. State Dept survey named Iran as the world’s number-one state sponsor of terrorism. Funds in Africa, weapons to South America. VW pull-out is probably the last major firm to leave Iran. Iran doesn't want a war with Israel. Morocco called on the US to stand against Iran. Appeals coming from more and more countries; Iran is trying to avoid direct confrontation but amplifying its propaganda and terrorism sponsorship worldwide. Ari Fuld was stabbed to death at the Etzion junction. He orginated in Queens, New York; an unprovoked attack; as he was mortally wounded, he chased his attacker and shot him, preventing him from killing others. Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian kleptocrat [billions stashed away], has been heavily engaged in incitement, especially saying that, “Israelis are trying to create a special prayer zone in the al Aqsa mosque”— which is completely untrue, and generates rage among Palestinians and thereby horrifying deeds. [In a specific sense, Abbas {Abu Mazen} caused this murder and likely others.] Abbas as a flamethrower who created fury across the Arab world. Hamas promoting it. The killer of Fuld made a statement that he’d go out and kill a Jew because of the desecration, the crimes against al Aqsa mosque — completely fallacious. The US has cut off much funding to the Palestinian Authority, justifiably since the killer was likely to have got a pension of $1,400 a month in honor of his being a murderer [with US tax dollars]. Hamas sending balloons with hand grenades over Israeli villages....more

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• "The British told (American Admiral Sims in 1917) that if they didn't find a way to contain the U-Boats, they were going to lose the war..." The Baltimore Sabotage Cell: German Agents, American Traitors... by Dwight R. Messimer

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  Sep 22 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Crew of the Deutschland in Baltimore, 1916 picture/Postcard: unknown, scan: user:Concord - Self-scanned The crew of w:de:Deutschland (Handels-U-Boot), w:en:German submarine Deutschland in Baltimore, 1916 Permission details This image might not be in the public domain outside of the United States; this especially applies in the countries and areas that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works, such as Canada, Mainland China (not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany, Mexico, and Switzerland. The creator and year of publication are essential information and must be provided. See Wikipedia:Public domain and Wikipedia:Copyrights for more details. Public Domainhide terms File:U Deutschland.jpg Created: 31 December 1915 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "The British told (American Admiral Sims in 1917) that if they didn't find a way to contain the U-Boats, they were going to lose the war..." 3 of 3:  The Baltimore Sabotage Cell: German Agents, American Traitors... by Dwight R. Messimer https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591141842/ref=dbsadefrwtbiblvppii1 By the summer of 1915 Germany was faced with two major problems in fighting World War I: how to break the British blockade and how to stop or seriously disrupt the British supply line across the Atlantic. Th e solution to the former was to find a way over, through, or under it. Aircraft in those days were too primitive, too short range, and too underpowered to accomplish this, and Germany lacked the naval strength to force a passage through the blockade. But if Germany could build a fleet of cargo U-boats that were large enough to carry meaningful loads and had the range to make a round trip between Germany and the United States without refueling, the blockade might be successfully broken. Since the German navy could not cut Britain's supply line to America, another answer lay in sabotaging munitions factories, depots, and ships, as well as infecting horses and mules at the western end of the supply line. German agents, with American sympathizers, successfully carried out more than fifty attacks involving fires and explosions and spread anthrax and glanders on the East Coast before America's entry into the war on 6 April 1917. Breaking the blockade with a fleet of cargo U-boats provided the lowest risk of drawing America into the war; at the same time, sabotage was incompatible with Germany's diplomatic goal of keeping the United States out of the war. The two solutions were very different, but the fact that both campaigns were run by intelligence agencies--the Etappendienst (navy) and the Geheimdienst (army), through the agency of one man, Paul Hilken, in one American city, Baltimore, make them inseparable. Those solutions created the dichotomy that produced the U-boat Deutschland and the Baltimore Sabotage Cell. Here, Messimer provides the first study of the degree to which U.S. citizens were enlisted in Germany's sabotage operations and debunks many myths that surround the Deutschland....more

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• "(Kapitan Paul Konig) didn't have a clue about that sabotage or what those guys were doing. All he knew was that he had to get that boat back and forth to Germany.." 2 of 3: The Baltimore Sabotage Cell: Dwight R. Messimer

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:View of the Lehigh Valley pier after explosion The New York Herald - This media is available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 31478054. Enemy Activities - Destruction by Enemy in U.S. - View of the debris of the Lehigh Valley pier wrecked by an explosion of munitions on Black Tom Island, New Jersey. Five lives lost: $25,000,000 in property destroyed - The New York Herald, July 30, 1916. Permission details PD-1923View more Public Domainview terms File:View of the debris of the Lehigh Valley pier after Black Tom explosion (cropped).jpg Created: 30 July 1916 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "(Kapitan Paul Konig) didn't have a clue about that sabotage or what those guys were doing.  All he knew was that he had to get that boat back and forth to Germany.." 2 of 3: The Baltimore Sabotage Cell: Dwight R. Messimer https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591141842/ref=dbsadefrwtbiblvppii1 By the summer of 1915 Germany was faced with two major problems in fighting World War I: how to break the British blockade and how to stop or seriously disrupt the British supply line across the Atlantic. Th e solution to the former was to find a way over, through, or under it. Aircraft in those days were too primitive, too short range, and too underpowered to accomplish this, and Germany lacked the naval strength to force a passage through the blockade. But if Germany could build a fleet of cargo U-boats that were large enough to carry meaningful loads and had the range to make a round trip between Germany and the United States without refueling, the blockade might be successfully broken. Since the German navy could not cut Britain's supply line to America, another answer lay in sabotaging munitions factories, depots, and ships, as well as infecting horses and mules at the western end of the supply line. German agents, with American sympathizers, successfully carried out more than fifty attacks involving fires and explosions and spread anthrax and glanders on the East Coast before America's entry into the war on 6 April 1917. Breaking the blockade with a fleet of cargo U-boats provided the lowest risk of drawing America into the war; at the same time, sabotage was incompatible with Germany's diplomatic goal of keeping the United States out of the war. The two solutions were very different, but the fact that both campaigns were run by intelligence agencies--the Etappendienst (navy) and the Geheimdienst (army), through the agency of one man, Paul Hilken, in one American city, Baltimore, make them inseparable. Those solutions created the dichotomy that produced the U-boat Deutschland and the Baltimore Sabotage Cell. Here, Messimer provides the first study of the degree to which U.S. citizens were enlisted in Germany's sabotage operations and debunks many myths that surround the Deutschland....more

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• "The British won the war, and we won the war, because of the British blockade. It was very, very effective..." 1 of 3: The Baltimore Sabotage Cell: German Agents, American Traitors... by Dwight R. Messimer

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  Sep 22 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Deutschland in an image from the New International Encyclopedia  NIEdot400T02.jpg: International Film Service, Inc. derivative work: Bellhalla (talk) - NIEdot400T02.jpg German merchant submarine Deutschland Public Domain File:German submarine Deutschland.jpg Created: 18 May 2009 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "The British won the war, and we won the war, because of the British blockade.  It was very, very effective..." 1 of 3: The Baltimore Sabotage Cell: German Agents, American Traitors... by Dwight R. Messimer https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591141842/ref=dbsadefrwtbiblvppii1 By the summer of 1915 Germany was faced with two major problems in fighting World War I: how to break the British blockade and how to stop or seriously disrupt the British supply line across the Atlantic. Th e solution to the former was to find a way over, through, or under it. Aircraft in those days were too primitive, too short range, and too underpowered to accomplish this, and Germany lacked the naval strength to force a passage through the blockade. But if Germany could build a fleet of cargo U-boats that were large enough to carry meaningful loads and had the range to make a round trip between Germany and the United States without refueling, the blockade might be successfully broken. Since the German navy could not cut Britain's supply line to America, another answer lay in sabotaging munitions factories, depots, and ships, as well as infecting horses and mules at the western end of the supply line. German agents, with American sympathizers, successfully carried out more than fifty attacks involving fires and explosions and spread anthrax and glanders on the East Coast before America's entry into the war on 6 April 1917. Breaking the blockade with a fleet of cargo U-boats provided the lowest risk of drawing America into the war; at the same time, sabotage was incompatible with Germany's diplomatic goal of keeping the United States out of the war. The two solutions were very different, but the fact that both campaigns were run by intelligence agencies--the Etappendienst (navy) and the Geheimdienst (army), through the agency of one man, Paul Hilken, in one American city, Baltimore, make them inseparable. Those solutions created the dichotomy that produced the U-boat Deutschland and the Baltimore Sabotage Cell. Here, Messimer provides the first study of the degree to which U.S. citizens were enlisted in Germany's sabotage operations and debunks many myths that surround the Deutschland....more

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• “A greater normalization of anti-Semitism. In Charlottesville, people were carrying Nazi flags and signs, with assault rifles, shouting at a synagogue, ‘Jews will to replace us’ ” –Michael Masters, Secure Community Network

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  Sep 22 2018

  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Image: Jews burned alive for the alleged host desecration in Deggendorf, Bavaria, in 1338, and in Sternberg, Mecklenburg, in 1492; a woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493). Wikipedia Michael Masters, national director and CEO, Secure Community Network.org, explains the SCAN mission: to enhance the safety and security of the Jewish community in North America. It maintains excellent relations with the FBI, DHS, and state and local forces. Increase in anti-Semitic incidents; Jews are the most-targetted group in the US for religion-motivated hate crimes, at 54%; the next-highest group is 24%. Perpetrators are both Far Right, neo-Nazi groups, and foreign-operated crews. The British Labour Party tolerates an anti-Semite such as Corbyn; in the US, we're also seeing a greater normalization of anti-Semitism. In Charlottesville, SCAN was on the ground in 24 hours: people were carrying Nazi flags and signs, with assault rifles, shouting, “Jews will not replace us.” A California Senate candidate and an Illinois Congressional candidate are [in that camp]. For thousands of years we’ve encountered this. We need to take the lead [in defense]; we have phenomenal law-enforcement partners, but we need to be fully engaged. Our 24/7 duty desk constantly takes in data: dutydesk@securenetwork.org and the phone number is on the website. Our ADL partners report 300-plus pieces of anti-Jewish literature at college campuses. A major increase year on year. The problem is getting worse, but that allows us as a community to realize we needn’t be constrained by fear, but can be empowered and aware, and report events. We need to be vigilant. Volunteers? Every single member of our community should view him- and herself as a volunteer – children, elders, professionals, everyone....more

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• "I describe him as the single most important de-regulatory president in modern American history..." 4 of 4: "Mr. Trump's Wild Ride: The Thrills, Chills, Screams, and Occasional Blackouts of an Extraordinary Presidency" by Major Garrett

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  Sep 22 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English:  Identifier: BooneCountyRecorderVol34_1908 (find matches) Title: Boone County Recorder Year: 1908 (1900s) Authors: Boone County Recorder Subjects: Boone County, Kentucky newspapers Publisher: Boone County Recorder Contributing Library: Boone County Public Library Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: bs — with-out drugs ?Come and See. Do the women of America continu-ally use as much of it as we are told ?Come and See. Was there ever such a person asLydia E. Pinkham, and is there anyMrs. Pinkham now to whom sickwoman are asked to write ? . . .Come and See. Is the vast private correspondencewith sick women conducted bywomen only, and are the letters keptStrictly confidential ?Come and See. Have they really got letters fromover one million, on* hundredthousand women correspondents fCome and See. Have they proof that Lydia E.Pinkhams vegetable Compound hascured-thousands o£ these women ?Come and See. This advertisement is only fordoubters. The great army of womenwho know from their own personalexperience that no medicine in theworld equals Lydia E. PinkhamsVegetable Compound for female illswill still go on using and being ben-efited by ljt; but the poor doubting,suffering woman must, for her ownsake,be taught confide nce,for she alsoBlight just as well regain her health. y selsilii Text Appearing After Image: GREAT AIRSHIP WRECKED ZEPPELIN8 MACHINE. BLOWS UPAND 18 BURNED. Disaster Overtakes Dirigible Balloon■t Echterdingen After Its Re-markable Endurance Flight. HOW IT FEELS TO BE HANGED. SHOWS UP BLUFF CITTLEFIELD RECITES FACT8ABOUT TRUST BUSTING. ONLY HOPE FOR TARIFF REFORM. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "I describe him as the single most important de-regulatory president in modern American history..." 4 of 4: "Mr. Trump's Wild Ride: The Thrills, Chills, Screams, and Occasional Blackouts of an Extraordinary Presidency" by Major Garrett https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250185912/ref=dbsadefrwthschvapithcvp1i0 Major Garrett has been reporting on the White House for nearly two decades, covering four different presidencies for three news outlets. But if he thought that his distinguished journalistic career had prepared him for the unique challenges of covering Donald Trump, he was in for a surprise. Like many others in Washington, Garrett found himself having to unlearn many of his own settled notions about the nature and function of the presidency. He also had to separate the carnival-like noise of the Trump presidency from its underlying substance. For even in its first half, Trump’s tenure has been highly consequential. In Mr. Trump’s Wild Ride, Major Garrett provides what journalists are often said to do, but usually don’t: a true first draft of history. His goal was to sift through the mountains of distracting tweets and shrieking headlines in order to focus on the most significant moments of Trump’s young presidency, the ones that Garrett believes will have a lasting impact. The result is an authoritative, mature, and consistently entertaining account of one of the strangest eras in American political history. A consummate professional with unimpeachable integrity, remarkable storytelling skills, and a deep knowledge of his subject earned through decades of experience, Garrett brings to life the twists and turns of covering this White House and its unconventional occupant with wit, sagacity and style. Mr. Trump’s Wild Ride should place him securely in the first rank of Washington journalists....more

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• "Once fixated, it's very difficult to move President Trump, Candidate Trump, President-Elect Trump, off that fixation..." 3 of 4: "Mr. Trump's Wild Ride: The Thrills, Chills, Screams..." by Major Garrett

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  Sep 22 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: English:  Identifier: chinasopendoorsk00wild (find matches) Title: China's open door; a sketch of Chinese life and history Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors: Wildman, Rounsevelle, 1864-1901 Subjects:  Publisher: Boston, Lothrop Publishing Company Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: y, there being no alter-native, 20,283 chests of opium were handed overto Lin; but every concession made by the Euro-peans for the sake of trade only brought with itfresh humiliation. After obtaining the opiumand partially destroying it, the wily Lin over-reached himself in demanding that sixteen of theleading merchants should be turned over to him forpunishment for having engaged in illegal trade. The English declined, and left Canton in abody for jNlacao. Here, however, they found thatthey were unwelcome guests; and on the 26thAugust, 1839, they, with all they possessed, de-parted for the rocky, inhospitable, pirate-investedisland of Hong Kong. This was, however, goinga step farther than Lin had intended, as he hadno wish to actually lose the lucrative Englishtrade. He promptly entered into negotiationswith Elliot for the return of the obstinate barba-rians to Canton, where it would be easier forhim to squeeze them to his hearts content.The English were foolishly about to consent to Text Appearing After Image: BATTLE OF CHUNPL 151 return, when Lin again overreached himself byinsisting that the English merchants should signa bond consenting to come under Chinese law,and to be tried and punished by it. On receiptof Elliots refusal, he and his fugitive colony wereordered to leave Chinese soil within three days.Having nowhere to go, they decided to once moreappeal to arms. An engagement took place be-tween Lins fleet of war-junks and fire-ships andH. B. M.s Volage and Hyacinth on Novem-ber 3, 1839, at Chunpi, in which the Chinese werebadly worsted. Lin was in no way shocked atthe result, but immediately placed a price uponElliots head. By this time the English govern-ment at home had discovered that if it ever in-tended to do anything to protect its interests inChina, it must commence at once or give up thestruggle. In 1841 Sir Gordon Bremer blockaded Canton,occupied Tinghai on the island of Chusan, andthen proceeded to the mouth of the Peiho, whereCaptain Elliot was met by Kishen, the imperial Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. Date 1900 Source https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14760962261/ Source book page: https://archive.org/stream/chinasopendoorsk00wild/chinasopendoorsk00wild#page/n178/mode/1up Author Wildman, Rounsevelle, 1864-1901 Permission (Reusing this file)  At the time of upload, the image license was automatically confirmed using the Flickr API. For more information see Flickr API detail. Flickr tags  bookid:chinasopendoorsk00wild bookyear:1900 bookdecade:1900 bookcentury:1900 bookauthor:WildmanRounsevelle18641901 bookpublisher:BostonLothropPublishingCompany bookcontributor:TheLibraryofCongress booksponsor:TheLibraryofCongress bookleafnumber:178 bookcollection:libraryof_congress bookcollection:americana Flickr posted date 28 July 2014) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Once fixated, it's very difficult to move President Trump, Candidate Trump, President-Elect Trump, off that fixation..." 3 of 4: "Mr. Trump's Wild Ride: The Thrills, Chills, Screams..." by Major Garrett https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250185912/ref=dbsadefrwthschvapithcvp1i0 Major Garrett has been reporting on the White House for nearly two decades, covering four different presidencies for three news outlets. But if he thought that his distinguished journalistic career had prepared him for the unique challenges of covering Donald Trump, he was in for a surprise. Like many others in Washington, Garrett found himself having to unlearn many of his own settled notions about the nature and function of the presidency. He also had to separate the carnival-like noise of the Trump presidency from its underlying substance. For even in its first half, Trump’s tenure has been highly consequential. In Mr. Trump’s Wild Ride, Major Garrett provides what journalists are often said to do, but usually don’t: a true first draft of history. His goal was to sift through the mountains of distracting tweets and shrieking headlines in order to focus on the most significant moments of Trump’s young presidency, the ones that Garrett believes will have a lasting impact. The result is an authoritative, mature, and consistently entertaining account of one of the strangest eras in American political history. A consummate professional with unimpeachable integrity, remarkable storytelling skills, and a deep knowledge of his subject earned through decades of experience, Garrett brings to life the twists and turns of covering this White House and its unconventional occupant with wit, sagacity and style. Mr. Trump’s Wild Ride should place him securely in the first rank of Washington journalists....more

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• "For Trump, the look is important, the sense of commanding a room is important, the sense of coming in and talking to him plainly about what you want to do and why is also important..." 2 of 4: "Mr. Trump's Wild Ride:..." by Major Garrett

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Donald Trump with Bill Clinton at Trump Tower in 2000 Ralph Alswang, Office of the President - Clinton Presidential Library Donald Trump with Bill Clinton at Trump Tower in 2000 Public Domain File:Donald Trump and Bill Clinton 05.jpg Created: 16 June 2000 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "For Trump, the look is important, the sense of commanding a room is important, the sense of coming in and talking to him plainly about what you want to do and why is also important..." 2 of 4: "Mr. Trump's Wild Ride:..." by Major Garrett https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250185912/ref=dbsadefrwthschvapithcvp1i0 Major Garrett has been reporting on the White House for nearly two decades, covering four different presidencies for three news outlets. But if he thought that his distinguished journalistic career had prepared him for the unique challenges of covering Donald Trump, he was in for a surprise. Like many others in Washington, Garrett found himself having to unlearn many of his own settled notions about the nature and function of the presidency. He also had to separate the carnival-like noise of the Trump presidency from its underlying substance. For even in its first half, Trump’s tenure has been highly consequential. In Mr. Trump’s Wild Ride, Major Garrett provides what journalists are often said to do, but usually don’t: a true first draft of history. His goal was to sift through the mountains of distracting tweets and shrieking headlines in order to focus on the most significant moments of Trump’s young presidency, the ones that Garrett believes will have a lasting impact. The result is an authoritative, mature, and consistently entertaining account of one of the strangest eras in American political history. A consummate professional with unimpeachable integrity, remarkable storytelling skills, and a deep knowledge of his subject earned through decades of experience, Garrett brings to life the twists and turns of covering this White House and its unconventional occupant with wit, sagacity and style. Mr. Trump’s Wild Ride should place him securely in the first rank of Washington journalists....more

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• "Does (Grover Norquist) say that Donald Trump is a fully formed Reagan Republican?.." 1 of 4: "Mr. Trump's Wild Ride: The Thrills, Chills, Screams, and Occasional Blackouts of an Extraordinary Presidency" by Major Garrett

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: 1976. At his home at Rancho del Cielo This media is available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 198600. Ronald Reagan wearing cowboy hat at Rancho del Cielo. Public Domain File:Ronald Reagan with cowboy hat 12-0071M edit.jpg Created: 1976date QS:P571,+1976-00-00T00:00:00Z/9) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Does (Grover Norquist) say that Donald Trump is a fully formed Reagan Republican?.." 1 of 4: "Mr. Trump's Wild Ride: The Thrills, Chills, Screams, and Occasional Blackouts of an Extraordinary Presidency" by Major Garrett https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250185912/ref=dbsadefrwthschvapithcvp1i0 Major Garrett has been reporting on the White House for nearly two decades, covering four different presidencies for three news outlets. But if he thought that his distinguished journalistic career had prepared him for the unique challenges of covering Donald Trump, he was in for a surprise. Like many others in Washington, Garrett found himself having to unlearn many of his own settled notions about the nature and function of the presidency. He also had to separate the carnival-like noise of the Trump presidency from its underlying substance. For even in its first half, Trump’s tenure has been highly consequential. In Mr. Trump’s Wild Ride, Major Garrett provides what journalists are often said to do, but usually don’t: a true first draft of history. His goal was to sift through the mountains of distracting tweets and shrieking headlines in order to focus on the most significant moments of Trump’s young presidency, the ones that Garrett believes will have a lasting impact. The result is an authoritative, mature, and consistently entertaining account of one of the strangest eras in American political history. A consummate professional with unimpeachable integrity, remarkable storytelling skills, and a deep knowledge of his subject earned through decades of experience, Garrett brings to life the twists and turns of covering this White House and its unconventional occupant with wit, sagacity and style. Mr. Trump’s Wild Ride should place him securely in the first rank of Washington journalists....more

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• “What’s shaping up to be the big fight is over the SWIFT system, to keep track of transactions between intl partners and Iranians. Europeans really want to keep that open or create an alternative channel.”—Mike Doran

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  Sep 22 2018

  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Photo: The ancient, Roman Latakia Tetraporticus, or the Triumphal Arch of Septimius Severus, is a tetrapyla built by Septimius Severus in 193 AD in the Saliba neighborhood of Latakia, in northwestern Syria. Image licensing, Wikipedia Commons: Voit kopioida, levittää ja/tai muuttaa tätä asiakirjaa GNU Free Documentation License -lisenssin version 1.2 tai myöhemmän ehtojen alaisena, jotka on julkaistu Free Software Foundation puolesta; ei koske muuttumattomia kohtia, ei etukannen tekstejä eikä kirjankannen tekstejä. Kopio tästä lisenssistä on saatavilla kohdassa GNU Free Documentation License. Teokseen sovelletaan englanninkielisen Wikipedian vastuuvapauslauseketta. Mike Doran, Hudson Institute, covering recent events in Iran: hyperinflation; missiles into Iraq; bellicosity. Nothing different from the past; Iraqi behavior was only to raise the temperature a little, but no imminent collapse or actual war provocation. And the railroad into Iraq? That’s just propaganda, since a railroad can easily be bombed by an enemy. The real threat of the Teheran—Beirut corridor is political and military. Concerning the missile site that the Israelis struck in Syria, what’s noteworthy is the location, near Latakia in the north, where the Russians are; and the Russians had just said they’d rein in the Syrians. [Hah!] How far are the Israelis willing to push this game? What will the Americans do to help? Hyperinflation: no obvious Plan B on the part of the Iranians, and we’re not even in November yet when the sanctions kick in in full force. However, beware of having confidence, since Russia and Iran do not wish success to the Americans. President Trump probably would like a deal, but his terms are unacceptable to Iranians. The regime in Teheran: if it breaks down, what will we see? What I’m looking out for is massive use of violence on the streets, which would indicate desperation on the part of the regime, as though it’s in the fight of its life. . . . Europeans? They can't throw a major lifeline: What Iranians really want, the big money in the JCPOA, was in the oil sales, which require tankers, insurance companies, and all sorts of second- and third-order partners that need the financial system over which the US holds sway. The sanctions will bite significantly. What’s shaping up to be the big fight is over the SWIFT system [Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication], whereby transactions between intl partners and Iranians are kept track of. The Euros really want to keep that open or create an alternative channel. .....more

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• Trust-Busting Today: 2 of 2: "Lower taxes and deregulation will generally produce more growth, and that's exactly what's happened..." @RichardAEpstein @HoooverInst

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  Sep 22 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English:  Identifier: greatnorthwestgu00wins (find matches) Title: The great Northwest : a guide-book and itinerary for the use of tourists and travellers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad, the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company and the Oregon and California Railroad : containing descriptions of states, territories, cities, towns, and places along the routes of these allied systems of transportation, and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, products, and natural features of the great Northwest Year: 1883 (1880s) Authors: Winser, Henry Jacob, 1823-1896 Subjects: Northern Pacific Railroad Company Oregon Railway and Navigation Company Oregon and California Railroad Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ne of whichmachines will sow twelve acres a day. Fifty-two quarts of clean ScotchFife seed wheat are used to the acre. The cost of sowing the ground isseventy-five cents per acre, and the average cost of the seed wheat, uponthe larger farms, has been $1.50 per acre. Seeding having been carefullyattended to, the harrowing, or covering process, demands close attention.The grain must be evenly covered, at a uniform depth, to ensure a goodstand, healthy growth and even maturity. On the so-called bonanza andsystematically conducted farms, one pair of harrow3 follows each seeder,going over the ground from one to five times, according to the condition ofthe soil, until it is well pulverized, the seed evenly covered, and the surfacereasonably smooth. Harvesting on the large farms begins about the 1st of August. Self-binding harvesters, one to every 160 acres, are employed, and one driverand two shockers are required to each machine. The wages during theharvest season are $2 per day and board. Text Appearing After Image: PQ Prairie Farming, 87 The work on a wheat farm only occupies a few weeks in the year, andthe business is attractive on that account, apart from the profits. Afterthe plowing and seeding are finished, the farmer can look on, and seeNature grow and ripen his crop, until the harvest-time comes. By the endof August the years work is practically done. Expensive farm buildingsare not required, for the grain may be threshed in the fields, and hauledimmediately to the nearest railroad station. Very little fencing is neededon a wheat farm. Frequently the cultivated portion is left unenclosed, anda barbed wire fence is put around the pasture lot to secure the cattle. Theoutlay for improvements is comparatively light; and, as the country is openand ready for the plow, the settler makes a crop the first year, and istolerably independent from the start. A village, with school house, post-office, stores and churches, springs up, as if by magic, in the neighborhoodof his home, and he suffers few of  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Trust-Busting Today: 2 of 2: "Lower taxes and deregulation will generally produce more growth, and that's exactly what's happened..." @RichardAEpstein @HoooverInst https://hoover.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de744b88c98cf7f8a268b1808&id=930ddf7efa&e=e61f4bbeb0...more

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• Trust-Busting Today: 1 of 2: "And if you say to Amazon, we're going to force you to change your business; we're going t break you up in some particular way..." @RichardAEpstein @HoooverInst

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  Sep 22 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:The Last Spike, by Thomas Hill, (1881)  Thomas Hill (1829–1908) - Here The painting depicts the ceremony of the driving of the "Last Spike" at Promontory Summit, UT, on May 10, 1869, joining the rails of the Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad. Public Domain File:The Last Spike 1869.jpg Created: 1881date QS:P571,+1881-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Trust-Busting Today: 1 of 2: "And if you say to Amazon, we're going to force you to change your business; we're going t break you up in some particular way..." @RichardAEpstein @HoooverInst https://hoover.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de744b88c98cf7f8a268b1808&id=930ddf7efa&e=e61f4bbeb0...more

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• In Europe: "They're worried about the content of Twitter and Facebook, and they're worried about the manipulation of the content..." @adwooldridge @Economist

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  Sep 22 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Original file ‎(2,370 × 1,728 pixels, file size: 1.71 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg); ZoomViewer: flash/no flash Open in Media ViewerConfiguration Summary[edit] Description  English:  Identifier: wheretospendwint00wine (find matches) Title: Where to spend the winter months. A birdseye view of a trip to Mexico, via Havana Year: 1880 (1880s) Authors: Wineburgh, M. (Michael) Subjects:  Publisher: New York, M. Wineburgh & co. Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: he city ofMexico; a visit to this mining town will amply compensate our traveler. Pa-chuca can be reached by two routes, but as yet no railroad communication hasbeen made to it; we are consequently obliged to travel in diligencias; only,4^those who have already experienced the peculiarities of this style of travelingcan appreciate its various phases. We take the stage or diligenciaat Ometusco, a station on the Vera Cruz and Mexico railroad; the diligenciaruns only three times a week. The second line runs from Cuantitlan, on theVera Ciuz railroad; they start at seven oclock A. M. Here we are suppliedwith an excellent cup of coffee; while we indulge in this early breakfast, themules are being harnessed to the diligencia. The driver is worthy of notewith his tight leather trousers, ornamented with rows of silver buttons, his shortcut roundabout d, la inode bull fight, and his large white sombrero; he cutsa bold figure and drives excellently; by his side an assistant is serving his ap- 50 Text Appearing After Image: 51 prenticeship. Hanging on each side of the coach we perceive quite an assort-ment of whips of various sizes and weights, devoted to the service of eachrespective mule; besides these instruments of torture a collection of stones maybe seen behind the drivers assistant who pelts the foremost mules whichcannot be reached with the whip. When night sets in this assistant runs aheadof the team with a pine torch in each hand. Behind the driver is tjie pes-cante; we prefer this position, which is the cheapest, to the garlicy and pul-que atmosphere of the inside. At last all is ready, the mules are set atliberty and away we go rattling over the pavements, until we strike the mainroad to Pachuca. On either side of us broad fields of wheat and corn, andmaguey meet our gaze. The natives are plowing with very primitive appli-ances and oxen that move like snails. This picture is bordered with moun-tains in the horizon which resemble clouds of a neutral tint; we are now travel-ing through dust onl  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow In Europe: "They're worried about the content of Twitter and Facebook, and they're worried about the manipulation of the content..." @adwooldridge @Economist https://www.economist.com/britain/2018/09/15/a-hunger-for-new-thought...more

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• Salena Zito: “I actually think that Diane Feinstein has united the Republicans more than [has] any other moment in the entire presidency of Donald Trump.”

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  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Engraving, 1855: The house of a hundred princes [US Senators] when there were sixty. Here: Henry Clay speaks in the debate over the Compromise of 1850 in the Old Senate Chamber. Permission: Public domain; Library of Congress & Wikipedia This engraving depicts the Golden Age of the United States Senate in the Old Senate Chamber, site of many of the institution's most memorable events. Here, Henry Clay, "the Great Compromiser," introduces the Compromise of 1850 in his last significant act as a senator. In a desperate attempt to prevent war from erupting, the "Great Triumvirate," of Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, John C. Calhoun of South Carolina, and Clay of Kentucky struggled to balance the interests of the North, South, and West. This image shows all three men, with Clay at center stage, presenting his compromise to the Senate. Daniel Webster is seated to the left of Clay and John C. Calhoun to the left of the chair of the presiding officer, Vice President Millard Fillmore. .. Salena Zito, Washington Examiner & CNN, discusses the GOP and Judge Kavanaugh. Senators Corker, Flake and Collins have been hesitant; would find it regrettable if Dr Ford decides not to accept the invitation to testify to the Senate Committee. If she’s unwilling to come forward, they’re willing to be accommodating to her, meet in public or in private. If she still declines, the vote will occur next week and I think Kavanaugh will [succeed].  This is not something the FBI can investigate – it's not how they do business.  What did we Republicans vote for? We voted for a president who’d support our opinion that the Supreme Court needs conservative voices. That’s what President Trump is doing. I don't know if the Republican Party will stand up to this. Salena: “I actually think that Diane Feinstein has united the Republicans more than any other moment in the entire presidency of Donald Trump.”...more

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• Steve Moore on Laffer Curve: “When you cut a tax rate, & reduce the punishment on saving or investment or work, you get more. When you tax something less, you get more of it; when you tax something more, you get less of it”

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  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Photo: Child laborer in New Jersey, 1910 Steve Moore, Heritage Foundation, clarifies the meaning of the Laffer Curve and how it works now. The US economy is outperforming all other economies in the Solar System. Art Laffer has been popular since the 1980s with his Laffer Curve. Grow the economy faster to get more people into jobs, get corporations to expand their operations and bring some operations back to the United States. Chairman of President’s Council of Economic Advisors recently claimed that the corporate tax cut was already paying for itself; Steve Moore amiably contradicted that, said it was a bit premature. However, astoundingly, “the economy now (according to CBO figures) will produce six Trillion dollars in the next decades as a direct result of the tax cuts already effected. . . . The Republicans are too stupid to talk about the roaring success of the tax cuts. ‘There are two parties: the evil party and the stupid party.’ Unfortunately, I’m a member of he stupid party.” .. .. .. Robert Mundell long ago explained, ''Tax reduction is what I've been pushing for since the early 1970's,'' he said. When income tax rates go above 25 percent, ''people find so many ways to get around them that the high rates become counterproductive.'' .....more

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• “Moon is subverting South Korea” –Gordon Chang; “Who's making money? Maybe people already in power” —Tara O

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  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Photo: The Battle of Inchon (Hangul: 인천상륙작전; Hanja: 仁川上陸作戰) was an amphibious invasion and battle of the Korean War that resulted in a decisive victory and strategic reversal in favor of the United Nations (UN). The operation involved some 75,000 troops and 261 naval vessels, and led to the recapture of the South Korean capital of Seoul two weeks later. The code name for the operation was Operation Chromite. Tara O, adjunct Fellow at the Pacific Forum and Fellow at the Institute for Corean-American Studies, reviews the the Moon-Kim summit. Conversations between the US and the undistinguished dictator of the failed state of North Korea. Also between the undistinguished dictator of the failed state of North Korea and the South. At the latter meeting, rather mysteriously the Unification flag (white, with blue outline of the Korean peninsula) appeared, as did the North Korean flag. One flag did not show up: the flag of the Republic of South Korea. North Korea has always denied that the South is an independent state; and claimed that Moon Jae-in is not an equal. To the North, Seoul is merely a provincial capital. Moon, meanwhile, also avoided saying, “Republic of Korea” or “South Korea.” He said instead, “the south side.” He also has removed the phrase, “Seoul is the sole head of the ROK,” from textbooks! Have the citizens of ROK responded? The older generation, who experienced the war, find it extremely worrisome and dangerous. The younger generation is sold on the notion of “peace.” Moon is subverting South Korea. Who's making money? Maybe people already in power....more

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• Cleo Paskal: "Rising sea level affects supply chains, security situations, military bases. All these become a security sink"

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  Sep 21 2018

  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Image: A Finnish version of a graph showing recent sea level rise; from Wikipedia. Permission* Cleo Paskal*, visiting Trudeau Fellow, University of Montreal, and associate Fellow, Chatham House, and JBS reporter on unexpected places; discusses how American economics have been distorted by the US flood insurance program and flood-plain repair. We’re building in increasingly marginal areas, putting millions of people and millions in infrastructure at risk. The Hong Kong airport has installed dykes to block the incoming sea. Rising sea level affects supply chains, security situations, military bases. All these become a security sink. Redirecting rivers, et al.; critical infrastructure is at risk globally. Further, just-in-time supply chains can lead to [major disruptions]. . . . China set up a monitoring station in Kiribati. Gordon Chang: What happens to a country submerged by rising sea levels? Cleo Paskal: Good question; it’s not answered. Our legal infrastructure doesn't take that into account. There’s no obvious way to take that new variable into account. [See: Peace of Westphalia] https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/news/climate-disruptions-also-politics-economics-environment Cleo Paskal’s areas of expertise include: The confluence of the 'three geos' (geopolitical, geoeconomic and geophysical changes), particularly in the Arctic, South Pacific and India. .. *Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License....more

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• EU weighs regulating Amazon: "Amazon itself has more than a million small businesses that sell their product from the US..." @GeneMarks

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  Sep 21 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Original file ‎(1,912 × 1,362 pixels, file size: 777 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg); ZoomViewer: flash/no flash Open in Media ViewerConfiguration Summary[edit] Description  English:  Identifier: firstcenturyofna01hodg (find matches) Title: First century of national existence; the United States as they were and are.. Year: 1873 (1870s) Authors: Hodge, James Thacher, 1816-1871. (from old catalog) Kettell, Thomas Prentice. (from old catalog) Perkins, Frederick Beecher, 1828-1899. (from old catalog) Richards, Thomas Addison, 1820-1900. (from old catalog) Brockett, Linus Pierpont, 1820-1893. (from old catalog) Barnard, Henry, 1811-1900. (from old catalog) Prescott, George Bartlett, 1830-1894. (from old catalog) Heald, D. A. (Daniel Addison), 1818-1900 Greene, Jacob Lyman, 1837-1908. (from old catalog) Subjects:  Publisher: Hartford, Conn., L, Stebbins Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: of the century, from abroad. Bread of rye, rye-and-Indian, or In-dian meal alone, and Indian puddings,johnny-cake, and the like, were more usedthan at present; for most grinding was doneat the small country mills ; transportationwas slow, difficult, and costly; neither thegreat wheat fields of the east, nor the great-er ones of the west, were yielding their in-crease ; and the great flouring mills that aresupported by them had not grown up.Every ftirmers family, therefore, commonlyused breadstuff of its own i-aising; and buta very small share of that used in the townswas brought from any other than the imme-diate neighborhood. All the labor of preparing the raw mate-rial for food was performed in the family.All the coffee had to be burnt and ground,spices pulverized, salt powdered, yeast made,soap manufactured, meat pickled, etc., etc.,by each housekeeper for herself, or underher immediate supervision. Througliout the extensive western forestfrontier, a large proportion of the inhabi- Text Appearing After Image: KITCHEN- OP 1770. Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. Date 1873 Source https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14577545008/ Source book page: https://archive.org/stream/firstcenturyofna01hodg/firstcenturyofna01hodg#page/n315/mode/1up ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow EU weighs regulating Amazon: "Amazon itself has more than a million small businesses that sell their product from the US..." @GeneMarks https://www.ft.com/content/a8c78888-bc0f-11e8-8274-55b72926558f Amazon launches small business shop https://www.ajc.com/business/amazon-launches-small-business-shop/fzrHrn5uBDe06uPMXGPewN/ Two-thirds of Amazon Prime members would try banking with the retailer, according to Bain study https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/18/most-amazon-prime-members-open-to-a-checking-account-from-tech-giant.html @hugh_son Amazon opens cashierless Amazon Go store in Chicago, its first outside Seattle https://venturebeat.com/2018/09/17/amazon-opens-cashier-less-amazon-go-store-in-chicago-its-first-outside-seattle/ @PSAWERS...more

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• Small Business America: "It's a good economy. The capital is there..." @GeneMarks

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  Sep 21 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below. Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help. Featured picture star This is a featured picture, which means that members of the community have identified it as one of the finest images on the English Wikipedia, adding significantly to its accompanying article. If you have a different image of similar quality, be sure to upload it using the proper free license tag, add it to a relevant article, and nominate it. Wikipedia logo This image was selected as picture of the day on the English Wikipedia for August 23, 2017. Summary[edit] Jean-François Millet: The Gleaners wikidata:Q1368055  Artist  showJean-François Millet (1814–1875) Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q148458 s:en:Author:Jean-François Millet q:en:Jean-François Millet Jean-François Millet: The Gleaners Title  The Gleaners Object type painting Date 1857 Medium oil on canvas Dimensions Height: 83.5 cm (32.8 in); Width: 110 cm (43.3 in) Current location  showMusée d'Orsay Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q23402 Accession number  RF 592 (Musée d'Orsay) Exhibition history  Q17093883 Authority control  Joconde: 000PE002031 Musée d'Orsay: 342 Source/Photographer CgHjAgexUzNOOw at Google Cultural Institute, zoom level maximum Licensing[edit] This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: Public domain  This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or less. Dialog-warning.svg You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States. This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Small Business America: "It's a good economy. The capital is there..."  @GeneMarks Small business report success securing bank loans, according to Private Capital Index https://www.oaoa.com/news/business/article_07bc4028-237e-5adb-a3f2-e88776f01f7a.html @OdessaAmerican Record-low 12% cite economic issues as top U.S. problem https://news.gallup.com/poll/242189/record-low-cite-economic-issues-top-problem.aspx?utmsource=tagrss&utmmedium=rss&utm_campaign=syndication with the minimum wage you get what you pay for https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/sep/16/minimum-wage-small-businesses-you-get-what-you-pay-for U.S. will spare some Apple products from new China tariffs https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-17/u-s-is-said-to-spare-some-apple-goods-from-latest-china-tariffs?srnd=technology-vp...more

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• "Talking about how she was put in a cell for those who were sentenced to be executed..." "Women of the Gulag" Director Marianna Yarovskaya. @PaulR_Gregory

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  Sep 21 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:No higher resolution available. GULag2MuseumMoscowRussia.jpg ‎(800 × 600 pixels, file size: 451 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Open in Media ViewerConfiguration Summary[edit] Description  English: GULag Museum Moscow Russia Esperanto: GULag muzeo en Moskvo, Rusio Русский: Музей ГУЛага (Главное Управление Лагерей)в Москве на ул.Петровка, Россия Date 15 October 2008 Source Own work Author Vladimir OKC Licensing[edit] Public domain I, the copyright holder of this work, release this work into the public domain. This applies worldwide. In some countries this may not be legally possible; if so: I grant anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Talking about how she was put in a cell for those who were sentenced to be executed..."  "Women of the Gulag" Director Marianna Yarovskaya. @PaulR_Gregory  PRODUCERS: MARIANNA YAROVSKAYA, PAUL RODERICK GREGORY. Our subject is Women of the Gulag. The term Gulag, which in Russian is the abbreviation for "Main Camp Administration," has come to mean something larger than the corrective labor camps under the Gulag administration. It signifies the system of repression of the Soviet period, which peaked under Stalin. We use "gulag" broadly to mean the whole mentality of the Soviet repression system, the end point of which was execution or the camps, special settlements, places of exile where the victims of repression "sat".A Pulitzer-winning journalist Anne Applebaum expressed in her interview, "What had happened since 2000 is that history has been gradually re-politicized. The Russians have become sensitive about discussing this sort of crimes of their past. For the Russians, understanding the history of the gulag is absolutely crucial." It is also crucial for the West: "The failure in the West to understand the magnitude of what happened in the USSR and central Europe may not seem to have an immediate implications for the Western way of life, however, in the modern global society, it is important to raise awareness of the global history and politics."Anne Applebaum, in her on-camera statement tells us that Russia "still lacks 'that defining moment, that big monument'" that will help the Russian people come to terms with their past....more

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• Churchill's Bomb: 4 of 4: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race by Graham Farmelo

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  Sep 21 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:H. G. Wells in 1943 View author information Public Domain File:Herbert George Wells in 1943.jpg Uploaded: 3 March 2018  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Churchill's Bomb: 4 of 4: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race by Graham Farmelo https://www.amazon.com/Churchills-Bomb-Graham-Farmelo/dp/0571249795/ref=sr1cc_3?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1537489846&sr=1-3-catcorr&keywords=churchill%27s+bomb+farmelo Churchill's Bomb - from the author of the Costa award-winning biography The Strangest Man - reveals a new aspect of Winston Churchill's life, so far completely neglected by historians: his relations with his nuclear scientists, and his management of Britain's policy on atomic weapons. Churchill was the only prominent politician to foresee the nuclear age and he played a leading role in the development of the Bomb during World War II. He became the first British Prime Minister with access to these weapons, and left office following desperate attempts during the Cold War to end the arms race. Graham Farmelo traces the beginnings of Churchill's association with nuclear weapons to his unlikely friendship with H. G. Wells, who coined the term 'atomic bombs'. In the 1930s, when Ernest Rutherford and his brilliant followers, such as Chadwick and Cockcroft, gave Britain the lead in nuclear research, Churchill wrote several widely read newspaper articles on the huge implications of their work. British physicists, in 1940, first showed that the Bomb was a practical possibility. But Churchill, closely advised by his favourite scientist, the controversial Frederick Lindemann, allowed leadership to pass to the US, where the Manhattan Project made the Bomb a terrible reality. British physicists played only a minor role in this vast enterprise, while Churchill ignored warnings from the scientist Niels Bohr that the Anglo-American policy would lead to a post-war arms race. After the war, the Americans reneged on personal agreements between Roosevelt and Churchill to share research. Clement Attlee, in a fateful decision, ordered the building of a British Bomb to maintain the country's place among the great powers. Churchill inherited it and ended his political career obsessed with the threat of thermonuclear war. Churchill's Bomb is an original and controversial book, full of political and scientific personalities and intrigues, which reveals a little-known side of Britain's great war-leader...more

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• Churchill's Bomb: 3 of 4: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race by Graham Farmelo

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  Sep 21 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:H. G. Wells c. 1918 Unknown - https://archive.org/details/secretsofcreweho00stua Portrait photo of English writer Herbert George Wells (1866-1946). Permission details Public domain works must be out of copyright in both the United States and in the source country of the work in order to be hosted on the Commons. If the work is not a U.S. work, the file must have an additional copyright tag indicating the copyright status in the source country.View more Public Domainview terms File:H. G. Wells Daily Mirror.jpg Created: circa 1918 date QS:P,+1918-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Churchill's Bomb: 3 of 4: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race by Graham Farmelo https://www.amazon.com/Churchills-Bomb-Graham-Farmelo/dp/0571249795/ref=sr1cc_3?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1537489846&sr=1-3-catcorr&keywords=churchill%27s+bomb+farmelo Churchill's Bomb - from the author of the Costa award-winning biography The Strangest Man - reveals a new aspect of Winston Churchill's life, so far completely neglected by historians: his relations with his nuclear scientists, and his management of Britain's policy on atomic weapons. Churchill was the only prominent politician to foresee the nuclear age and he played a leading role in the development of the Bomb during World War II. He became the first British Prime Minister with access to these weapons, and left office following desperate attempts during the Cold War to end the arms race. Graham Farmelo traces the beginnings of Churchill's association with nuclear weapons to his unlikely friendship with H. G. Wells, who coined the term 'atomic bombs'. In the 1930s, when Ernest Rutherford and his brilliant followers, such as Chadwick and Cockcroft, gave Britain the lead in nuclear research, Churchill wrote several widely read newspaper articles on the huge implications of their work. British physicists, in 1940, first showed that the Bomb was a practical possibility. But Churchill, closely advised by his favourite scientist, the controversial Frederick Lindemann, allowed leadership to pass to the US, where the Manhattan Project made the Bomb a terrible reality. British physicists played only a minor role in this vast enterprise, while Churchill ignored warnings from the scientist Niels Bohr that the Anglo-American policy would lead to a post-war arms race. After the war, the Americans reneged on personal agreements between Roosevelt and Churchill to share research. Clement Attlee, in a fateful decision, ordered the building of a British Bomb to maintain the country's place among the great powers. Churchill inherited it and ended his political career obsessed with the threat of thermonuclear war. Churchill's Bomb is an original and controversial book, full of political and scientific personalities and intrigues, which reveals a little-known side of Britain's great war-leader...more

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• Churchill's Bomb: 2 of 4: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race by Graham Farmelo

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:141 Maybury Rd, Woking, where Wells lived from May 1895 until late 1896[31] Wla at Italian Wikipedia - Own work by the original uploader Maybury Hill. The home of the "H.G.wells" in the novel war of the worlds Public Domain File:MayburyRoad h.g.wells house.jpg Created: 1 March 2009  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Churchill's Bomb: 2 of 4: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race by Graham Farmelo https://www.amazon.com/Churchills-Bomb-Graham-Farmelo/dp/0571249795/ref=sr1cc_3?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1537489846&sr=1-3-catcorr&keywords=churchill%27s+bomb+farmelo Churchill's Bomb - from the author of the Costa award-winning biography The Strangest Man - reveals a new aspect of Winston Churchill's life, so far completely neglected by historians: his relations with his nuclear scientists, and his management of Britain's policy on atomic weapons. Churchill was the only prominent politician to foresee the nuclear age and he played a leading role in the development of the Bomb during World War II. He became the first British Prime Minister with access to these weapons, and left office following desperate attempts during the Cold War to end the arms race. Graham Farmelo traces the beginnings of Churchill's association with nuclear weapons to his unlikely friendship with H. G. Wells, who coined the term 'atomic bombs'. In the 1930s, when Ernest Rutherford and his brilliant followers, such as Chadwick and Cockcroft, gave Britain the lead in nuclear research, Churchill wrote several widely read newspaper articles on the huge implications of their work. British physicists, in 1940, first showed that the Bomb was a practical possibility. But Churchill, closely advised by his favourite scientist, the controversial Frederick Lindemann, allowed leadership to pass to the US, where the Manhattan Project made the Bomb a terrible reality. British physicists played only a minor role in this vast enterprise, while Churchill ignored warnings from the scientist Niels Bohr that the Anglo-American policy would lead to a post-war arms race. After the war, the Americans reneged on personal agreements between Roosevelt and Churchill to share research. Clement Attlee, in a fateful decision, ordered the building of a British Bomb to maintain the country's place among the great powers. Churchill inherited it and ended his political career obsessed with the threat of thermonuclear war. Churchill's Bomb is an original and controversial book, full of political and scientific personalities and intrigues, which reveals a little-known side of Britain's great war-leader...more

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• Churchill's Bomb: 1 of 4: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race by Graham Farmelo

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  Sep 21 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Wells studying in London c. 1890 Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science - H.G. Wells , c1890 Uploaded by Fæ Picture taken by Frederick Hollyer IMAGELIBRARY/120 Persistent URL: archives.lse.ac.uk/dserve.exe?dsqServer=lib-4.lse.ac.uk&a... No restrictions File:H. G. Wells, c.1890.jpg Created: 10 September 2009 Location: 51° 30′ 51.9″ N, 0° 7′ 0.88″ W ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Churchill's Bomb: 1 of 4: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race by Graham Farmelo https://www.amazon.com/Churchills-Bomb-Graham-Farmelo/dp/0571249795/ref=sr1cc_3?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1537489846&sr=1-3-catcorr&keywords=churchill%27s+bomb+farmelo Churchill's Bomb - from the author of the Costa award-winning biography The Strangest Man - reveals a new aspect of Winston Churchill's life, so far completely neglected by historians: his relations with his nuclear scientists, and his management of Britain's policy on atomic weapons. Churchill was the only prominent politician to foresee the nuclear age and he played a leading role in the development of the Bomb during World War II. He became the first British Prime Minister with access to these weapons, and left office following desperate attempts during the Cold War to end the arms race. Graham Farmelo traces the beginnings of Churchill's association with nuclear weapons to his unlikely friendship with H. G. Wells, who coined the term 'atomic bombs'. In the 1930s, when Ernest Rutherford and his brilliant followers, such as Chadwick and Cockcroft, gave Britain the lead in nuclear research, Churchill wrote several widely read newspaper articles on the huge implications of their work. British physicists, in 1940, first showed that the Bomb was a practical possibility. But Churchill, closely advised by his favourite scientist, the controversial Frederick Lindemann, allowed leadership to pass to the US, where the Manhattan Project made the Bomb a terrible reality. British physicists played only a minor role in this vast enterprise, while Churchill ignored warnings from the scientist Niels Bohr that the Anglo-American policy would lead to a post-war arms race. After the war, the Americans reneged on personal agreements between Roosevelt and Churchill to share research. Clement Attlee, in a fateful decision, ordered the building of a British Bomb to maintain the country's place among the great powers. Churchill inherited it and ended his political career obsessed with the threat of thermonuclear war. Churchill's Bomb is an original and controversial book, full of political and scientific personalities and intrigues, which reveals a little-known side of Britain's great war-leader...more

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• Thunder in the Argonne 4 of 4: A New History of America's Greatest Battle (Battles and Campaigns) by Douglas V. Mastriano

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  Sep 21 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:U.S. Marines during the offensive U.S. Marines - U.S. National Archives U.S. Marines during the Meuse-Argonne Campaign in World War I. Public Domain File:U.S. Marines during the Meuse-Argonne Campaign.jpg Created: World War I ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Thunder in the Argonne 4 of 4: A New History of America's Greatest Battle (Battles and Campaigns) by Douglas V. Mastriano https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B075H35N3V/ref=dbsadefrwthschvapitaftp1i0 In July 1918, sensing that the German Army had lost crucial momentum, Supreme Allied Commander Ferdinand Foch saw an opportunity to end the First World War. In drafting his plans for a final grand offensive, he assigned the most difficult sector -- the dense Argonne forest and the vast Meuse River valley -- to the American Expeditionary Forces under General John J. Pershing. There, the Doughboys faced thickly defended German lines with terrain deemed impossible to fight through. From September 26 through the November 11 armistice, US forces suffered more than 20,000 casualties a week, but the Allies ultimately prevailed in a decisive victory that helped to end the Great War. In Thunder in the Argonne, Douglas V. Mastriano offers the most comprehensive account of this legendary campaign to date. Not only does he provide American, French, and British perspectives on the offensive, but he also offers -- for the first time in English -- the German view. Mastriano presents a balanced analysis of successes and failures at all levels of command, examining the leadership of the principals while also illuminating acts of heroism by individual soldiers. The Meuse-Argonne Offensive is widely regarded as one of America's finest hours, and the amazing feats of Sergeant Alvin York, Major Charles Whittlesey of the Lost Battalion, and Lieutenant Sam Woodfill -- all accomplished in the midst of this maelstrom -- echo across the ages. Published to coincide with the centennial of the campaign, this engaging book offers a fresh look at the battle that forged the modern US Army...more

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• Thunder in the Argonne 3 of 4: A New History of America's Greatest Battle (Battles and Campaigns) by Douglas V. Mastriano

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  Sep 21 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Lt. Gen. Hunter Liggett, Commander of First Army National Photo Company - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID npcc.19524. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. Brigadier General Hunter Liggett Public Domain File:Hunter Liggett.jpg Created: between 1908 and 1919 date QS:P,+1950-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1908-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1919-00-00T00:00:00Z/9) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Thunder in the Argonne 3 of 4: A New History of America's Greatest Battle (Battles and Campaigns) by Douglas V. Mastriano https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B075H35N3V/ref=dbsadefrwthschvapitaftp1i0 In July 1918, sensing that the German Army had lost crucial momentum, Supreme Allied Commander Ferdinand Foch saw an opportunity to end the First World War. In drafting his plans for a final grand offensive, he assigned the most difficult sector -- the dense Argonne forest and the vast Meuse River valley -- to the American Expeditionary Forces under General John J. Pershing. There, the Doughboys faced thickly defended German lines with terrain deemed impossible to fight through. From September 26 through the November 11 armistice, US forces suffered more than 20,000 casualties a week, but the Allies ultimately prevailed in a decisive victory that helped to end the Great War. In Thunder in the Argonne, Douglas V. Mastriano offers the most comprehensive account of this legendary campaign to date. Not only does he provide American, French, and British perspectives on the offensive, but he also offers -- for the first time in English -- the German view. Mastriano presents a balanced analysis of successes and failures at all levels of command, examining the leadership of the principals while also illuminating acts of heroism by individual soldiers. The Meuse-Argonne Offensive is widely regarded as one of America's finest hours, and the amazing feats of Sergeant Alvin York, Major Charles Whittlesey of the Lost Battalion, and Lieutenant Sam Woodfill -- all accomplished in the midst of this maelstrom -- echo across the ages. Published to coincide with the centennial of the campaign, this engaging book offers a fresh look at the battle that forged the modern US Army...more

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• Thunder in the Argonne 2 of 4: A New History of America's Greatest Battle (Battles and Campaigns) by Douglas V. Mastriano

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: Sedan–Verdun and Vicinity: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, September–November 1918 (c. 1938). View author information Public Domain File:Meuse-Argonne Offensive - Map.jpg Uploaded: 16 June 2005) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Thunder in the Argonne 2 of 4: A New History of America's Greatest Battle (Battles and Campaigns) by Douglas V. Mastriano https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B075H35N3V/ref=dbsadefrwthschvapitaftp1i0 In July 1918, sensing that the German Army had lost crucial momentum, Supreme Allied Commander Ferdinand Foch saw an opportunity to end the First World War. In drafting his plans for a final grand offensive, he assigned the most difficult sector -- the dense Argonne forest and the vast Meuse River valley -- to the American Expeditionary Forces under General John J. Pershing. There, the Doughboys faced thickly defended German lines with terrain deemed impossible to fight through. From September 26 through the November 11 armistice, US forces suffered more than 20,000 casualties a week, but the Allies ultimately prevailed in a decisive victory that helped to end the Great War. In Thunder in the Argonne, Douglas V. Mastriano offers the most comprehensive account of this legendary campaign to date. Not only does he provide American, French, and British perspectives on the offensive, but he also offers -- for the first time in English -- the German view. Mastriano presents a balanced analysis of successes and failures at all levels of command, examining the leadership of the principals while also illuminating acts of heroism by individual soldiers. The Meuse-Argonne Offensive is widely regarded as one of America's finest hours, and the amazing feats of Sergeant Alvin York, Major Charles Whittlesey of the Lost Battalion, and Lieutenant Sam Woodfill -- all accomplished in the midst of this maelstrom -- echo across the ages. Published to coincide with the centennial of the campaign, this engaging book offers a fresh look at the battle that forged the modern US Army...more

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• Thunder in the Argonne 1 of 4: A New History of America's Greatest Battle (Battles and Campaigns) by Douglas V. Mastriano

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  Sep 21 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:German soldiers drawing water Bundesarchiv, Bild 104-0153 / CC-BY-SA 3.0 For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. I. Weltkrieg 1914-1918 Argonnen, Die Conzquelle; Mai 1915 CC BY-SA 3.0 de File:Bundesarchiv Bild 104-0153, Argonnen, Soldaten beim Wasserholen.jpg Created: 1 May 1915 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Thunder in the Argonne 1 of 4: A New History of America's Greatest Battle (Battles and Campaigns) by Douglas V. Mastriano https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B075H35N3V/ref=dbsadefrwthschvapitaftp1i0 In July 1918, sensing that the German Army had lost crucial momentum, Supreme Allied Commander Ferdinand Foch saw an opportunity to end the First World War. In drafting his plans for a final grand offensive, he assigned the most difficult sector -- the dense Argonne forest and the vast Meuse River valley -- to the American Expeditionary Forces under General John J. Pershing. There, the Doughboys faced thickly defended German lines with terrain deemed impossible to fight through. From September 26 through the November 11 armistice, US forces suffered more than 20,000 casualties a week, but the Allies ultimately prevailed in a decisive victory that helped to end the Great War. In Thunder in the Argonne, Douglas V. Mastriano offers the most comprehensive account of this legendary campaign to date. Not only does he provide American, French, and British perspectives on the offensive, but he also offers -- for the first time in English -- the German view. Mastriano presents a balanced analysis of successes and failures at all levels of command, examining the leadership of the principals while also illuminating acts of heroism by individual soldiers. The Meuse-Argonne Offensive is widely regarded as one of America's finest hours, and the amazing feats of Sergeant Alvin York, Major Charles Whittlesey of the Lost Battalion, and Lieutenant Sam Woodfill -- all accomplished in the midst of this maelstrom -- echo across the ages. Published to coincide with the centennial of the campaign, this engaging book offers a fresh look at the battle that forged the modern US Army...more

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• "The committee tried to go the extra mile, show some sensitivity, and give Ford an opportunity to testify..." @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO

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  Sep 20 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: Title: Our overworked Supreme Court Abstract: Illustration shows Supreme Court justices "Woods, Blatchford, Harlan, Gray, Miller, Field, Waite, Bradley [and] Matthews" around a table, struggling to keep up with an overload of cases piling up on the floor, delivered "From the Lower Courts" by mail clerks entering on the left, as well as "Cases Unadjudicated 1880-1882" and "Cases Unadjudicated 1883-", and a cabinet labeled "1885" along the wall in the background. Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph. Notes: J. Keppler.; Illus. from Puck, v. 18, no. 457, (1885 December 9), centerfold.; Caption: It is unequal to the ever-increasing labor thrust upon it - will Congress take prompt measures for the relief of the people?; Copyright 1885 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.; Title from item. Date 1885 Source Library of Congress Catalog: http://lccn.loc.gov/2011661363 Image download: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3b30000/3b34000/3b34900/3b34912r.jpg Original url: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.28151 Author  Joseph Ferdinand Keppler (1838–1894) Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q6283062 s:en:Author:Joseph Ferdinand Keppler q:cs:Joseph Ferdinand Keppler Permission (Reusing this file)  No known restrictions on publication. US-LibraryOfCongress-BookLogo.svg This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppmsca.28151. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "The committee tried to go the extra mile, show some sensitivity, and give Ford an opportunity to testify..." @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/brett-kavanaugh-accuser-must-testify/...more

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• Declassification: "And I was surprised that Comey and McCabe and others were included..." @AndrewCMCCarthy @NRO

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  Sep 20 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:From left to right: minority counsel Fred Thompson, ranking member Howard Baker, and chair Sam Ervin of the Senate Watergate Committee in 1973. taken by the official Senate photographer, a government employee - Sam Ervin Library. http://www.samervinlibrary.org/images/Questioning%20the%20witness.jpg Photo from U.S. Senate Watergate hearings. From left to right: minority counsel Fred Thompson, ranking member Howard Baker, and chair Sam Ervin of the Senate Watergate Committee. Permission details Permission granted on July 19, 2007 by Daniel R. Smith, Dean of Learning Resources and Technology, Curator, Senator Sam J. Ervin, Jr. Library and Museum, Western Piedmont Community College, 1001 Burkemont Avenue, Morganton, NC 28655-4511, Office: LRC-102, Phone: (828) 438-6152, Fax: (828) 438-6184, Email: dsmith@wpcc.edu Daniel R. Smith stated via email: "I grant permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, no Back-Cover Texts, and subject to disclaimers found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Textofthe_GFDL." ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Declassification:  "And I was surprised that Comey and McCabe and others were included..."  @AndrewCMCCarthy @NRO https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/trump-russia-probe-fbi-fisa-application/ https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/carter-page-fisa-redactions-uncovering/...more

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• SCOTUS: "If the Republicans cannot produce 51 votes to get Kavanaugh through this process, and seated on the Supreme Court..." @MonicaCrowley

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  Sep 20 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Original file ‎(3,072 × 1,920 pixels, file size: 1.67 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg); ZoomViewer: flash/no flash Open in Media ViewerConfiguration Summary[edit] Description  English:  Identifier: supremecourtinun03warr (find matches) Title: The Supreme Court in United States history Year: 1922 (1920s) Authors: Warren, Charles, 1868-1954 Subjects: United States. Supreme Court Law Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: . 521, and Rasmussen v. United States (1905), 197U. S. 516; Porto Rico v. Tapia (1918), 245 U. S. 639. The tremendous interesttaken in the decision by the Court as to the status of the new territories is illus-trated by the enormous number of articles in the law journals, 1899-1905,citation of which is not practicable; but see The Causes and Results of our Warloith Spain from a Legal Standpoint, by Judge Elmer B. Adams, Yale Law Journ.(Dec, 1898), VIII; The Final Phase of the Insular Tariff Controversies, by HenryM. Hoyt, ihid. (1905), XIV; The Legal Status of the Philippines, by Lebbeus R.Wilfrey, ibid.; The Hawaiian Case, by Emlin McClain, Harv. Law Rev. (1904),VII; The Decisions of the Supreme Court in the Insular Cases, by John W. Burgess,Pol. Sci. Qu. (1901), XVI; The Insular Cases, by Carman F. Randolph, ColumbiaLaw Rev. (1901), I; The Insular Decisions of 1901, by Edward B. Whitney, ibid.(1902), II. ^ See Edward Douglass White, by John W. Davis, Amer. Bar Ass. Journ. (1921),VIL Text Appearing After Image: o 00 03, ^ w pq CHIEF JUSTICES FULLER AND WHITE 431 ceased to be * foreign country, within the meaning ofthe existing tariff laws of the United States; and sec-ondly, to what extent, if at all, the island fell within therevenue clauses of the Constitution, and the require-ment that duties, imposts and excises should be uni-form throughout the United States. The division ofopinion on the Court was sharp and pronounced. Thefirst view was that of Mr. Justice Brown, alone. Heplowed a lonely furrow and held that, while Porto Ricohad ceased to be foreign country within the meaningof the Dingley Act, yet, as to future legislation (theForaker Act of April 12, 1900), the uniform clause didnot apply; that Porto Rico became by the cession terri-tory appurtenant to the United States, but not a part ofit; and that even over continental and contiguousterritory, the Constitution went only as the result ofexpress Congressional action. As against this. ChiefJustice Fuller and Justices Harlan, Brewer, Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. Date 1922 Source https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14586839260/ Source book page: https://archive.org/stream/supremecourtinun03warr/supremecourtinun03warr#page/n452/mode/1up Author Warren, Charles, 1868-1954 Permission (Reusing this file)  At the time of upload, the image license was automatically confirmed using the Flickr API. For more information see Flickr API detail. Flickr tags  bookid:supremecourtinun03warr bookyear:1922 bookdecade:1920 bookcentury:1900 bookauthor:WarrenCharles18681954 booksubject:UnitedStatesSupreme_Court booksubject:Law bookpublisher:BostonLittleBrown bookcontributor:TheLibraryofCongress booksponsor:TheLibraryofCongress bookleafnumber:452 bookcollection:libraryof_congress bookcollection:americana Flickr posted date 29 July 2014) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow SCOTUS: "If the Republicans cannot produce 51 votes to get Kavanaugh through this process, and seated on the Supreme Court..." @MonicaCrowley...more

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• Trade: "President Trump and his hardline advisers speak for many people hen they say, Enough is enough..." Mark Clifford, former editor South China Morning Post @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Sep 20 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Trade: "President Trump and his hardline advisers speak for many people hen they say, Enough is enough..." Mark Clifford, former editor South China Morning Post @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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• "The question in Beijing seems to be, Who lost America?" @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Sep 20 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "The question in Beijing seems to be, Who lost America?" @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast https://www.ft.com/content/92c8f00e-bbbe-11e8-94b2-17176fbf93f5

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• "When President Trump announced this latest tranche of tariffs Monday..., the Chinese state run media was completely silent..."@AlanTonelson @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Sep 20 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "When President Trump announced this latest tranche of tariffs Monday..., the Chinese state run media was completely silent..."@AlanTonelson @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast https://www.ft.com/content/92c8f00e-bbbe-11e8-94b2-17176fbf93f5

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• Will North Korea honor the agreement? [chuckle] Of course not. Can the North pull off an Olympics? It’d be easier if every guest didn't have to have five minders; & if and only if Moon & the South pay for everything, incl Kim’s hotel. —Bruce Bechtol

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  Sep 20 2018

  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Photo: Gold crown excavated from the Heavenly Horse Tomb. 한국어: 대한민국 국보 제188호 천마총 금관 Cheonmachong, formerly Tomb No.155 in South Korea, is a tumulus located in Gyeongju, South Korea. The name "Cheonmachong" means Sky Horse Tomb. It was built in the style of Silla, excavated in 1973 and is believed to date probably from the Fifth Century but perhaps from the Sixth Century AD. Permissions: Tortfeasor~commonswiki (talk | contribs); Source http://www.nw-photos.com/thumbs/2005/04/050413-25.htmAuthor NW-Photos.com Bruce Bechtol, professor at Angelo State University and author of North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa: Enabling Violence and Instability, on the matter of the Moon-Kim summit. Kim’s multipurpose nuclear site. Plutonium is not their main kind of nuke; it's been HEU. They have both kinds of facilities, but taking Yongbyon down is meaningless. Were I advising Trump, I'd have all of DPRK’s relevant sites be thoroughly inspected by the IAEA. North Koreans did not say they’d declare all their nuclear sites. We don’t know of a lot of them. Except for dismantling the So-hei site, we’re really in the dark about their program. With North Korea, the Devil is in the details. In fact, they've agreed to nothing so far. AND we just made the biggest concession to DPRK we’ve ever done: cut our training in half. Establishing a buffer zone; reduce number of guard posts on the line by eleven [on both sides?]; no-fly zone over the DMZ incl drones, helos and fixed-wing. . . . I agree with the no-fly-zone, to reduce accidental errors; train line: it already exists. Proposal is to have it run to Russia, and thence to Europe. Will make billions for both North and South. Will the North honor the agreement? [chuckle] Of course not. . . . Can the North pull off an Olympics? A. It’d be easier if every guest didn't have to have five minders. B. If and only if Moon and the South pay for everything, incl Kim’s hotel....more

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• Not one guy in the Chinese army wd take a bullet for Xi. Army may not be able to defeat Taiwan, but they sure can defeat Beijing. –Arthur Waldron

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  Sep 20 2018

  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Photo: Chinese soldiers in 1899 (from Wikipedia).    “Not one guy in the Chinese army would take a bullet for Xi. The Mainland army may not be able to defeat Taiwan, but they sure can defeat Beijing.” –Arthur Waldron Arthur Waldron, Lauder Professor of International Relations in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania, explains that there are more and more symptoms of Xi having domestic political problems. He lived in the US for a while; is not necessarily anti-American but surely is China-first. The century of humiliation: the period from 1850 to 1950, when the Communists came in; was completely mythical. . . . There’s not one guy in the Chinese army who’d take a bullet for Xi. They may not be able to defeat Taiwan, but they sure can defeat Beijing....more

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• Elon Musk finds a deep-pocket customer for a Moon adventure. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Sep 20 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Fichier d’origine ‎(2 700 × 1 885 pixels, taille du fichier : 8,77 Mio, type MIME : image/jpeg) Ouvrir dans le Visualiseur de médiasConfiguration  Ce fichier et sa description proviennent de Wikimedia Commons. Accéder au fichier sur Commons Accéder au fichier sur Commons Description[modifier le code] Description  Français : La maison du 2 rue Charles Dubois à Amiens (Somme), où Jules Verne a vécu de 1882 à 1900. Vue du grand salon, appelé aussi "salon de musique". Date 1894 Source Pinsard, Charles. Les rues d'Amiens (notes illustrées d'architecture et d'archéologie d'Amiens) [manuscrit]. - Amiens, fin 19e siècle. - Bibliothèques d'Amiens Métropole, Ms 1332. Auteur Inconnu La date de la prise de vue est donnée par Charles Pinsard dans le texte de son manuscrit. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Elon Musk finds a deep-pocket customer for a Moon adventure. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com https://behindtheblack.com/?s=musk...more

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• Bulletin from Vera Rubin Ridge inside Gale Crater, Mars. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Sep 20 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Bulletin from Vera Rubin Ridge inside Gale Crater, Mars.  Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/curiosity-fails-again-to-drill-into-vera-rubin-ridge/

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• Democrats can't defeat Kavanaugh, only Republicans can: it’s all about vote counts. —Bill McGurn, WSJ

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  Sep 20 2018

  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Bill McGurn, WSJ, disccusses Sen Susan Collins (R-Maine), the maverick senator on whom rests a good deal of the decision to accept Judge Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court. She was adamant about not having voted for Donald Trump in 2016; is often at odds with the Republican majority, and is speaking out forcefully on the allegation against Judge Kavanaugh. Question: is the delay a ploy or not? What the Democrats want is a delay. However, four Senators want to hear more: Bob Corker, Jeff Flake, Lisa Murkowski, and Susan Collins. The Democrats can't defeat Judge Kavanaugh — only the Republicans can. It’s all about vote counts. . . ....more

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• Senate Intell head nurtures & trains Chinese spy. FBI notified her; DiFi did zero. Spy is now happily working in California. Huge national scandal. —M Ledeen

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  Sep 20 2018

  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Photo: Perfidy.  Head of Senate Intell Committee entertains Chinese Communist Party spy for two decades.   Michael Ledeen, FDD, speaks on Senator Diane Feinstein, a prominent member of San Francisco society, who held on to an accusatory letter for months then revealed it in September in order to sandbag a Supreme Court nominati0n. Her chauffeur of twenty years has now been revealed to have been [an official] Chinese spy. FBI reported that to her years ago but she did naught. Now, the alleged Chinese spy is said to be working happily in California. What?! One of her former staffers hired Fusion GPS to employ Christopher Steele, with $50 mil raised to [deploy] it. DiFi was chairman of the Intelligence Committee. She’s currently deep into three major melodramas: Chinese espionage, Russia-related electoral problems, and now Russiagate. What's going on here? She and Schumer are desperately trying to stall Kavanaugh’s accession to the High Court until after the Midterms, when they hope to have won. The matter of Chinese espionage is shocking. [Why is the spy not in prison?] The scale of DiFi’s involvement in the Kavanaugh accusation. FBI has done six full background reports on Kavanaugh’s history, found nary a trace of impropriety....more

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• RNC poll favors Dems; panic! GOP voters languid. “Trump is better at inflaming his enemies than gathering his supporters.” —Joshua Greene, Bloomberg

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  Sep 19 2018

  . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Photo: Republican lassitude about voting in the November Midterms may cede the election to Democrats. Here, a two-toed sloth who reported to a pollster that he had no intention of voting, adding,  "Why bother voting when we all know that our side will win anyway?" Joshua Green, Bloomberg, on a Republican National Committee poll suggesting that the upcoming Midterms will be good for the Democratic Party. Trump supporters refuse to believe this, so may simply not set out to vote — which, of course, terrifies GOP strategists. Those who disdain Trump will vote. All agree that the economy is doing fabulously. Trump is better at inflaming his enemies than at gathering his supporters. The November elections will, wolens nolens, be a referendum on Donald Trump....more

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• Tales of the New Cold War: 2 of 2: What Vladimir Putin is not. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.

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  Sep 19 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Ivan the Terrible killing his son; painting by Ilya Repin Ilya Repin - Own work Public Domain File:Iván el Terrible y su hijo, por Iliá Repin.jpg Created: 31 December 1884  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Tales of the New Cold War: 2 of 2: What Vladimir Putin is not. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-russia/putin-sees-chance-circumstances-behind-downing-of-russian-plane-off-syrian-coast-idUSKCN1LY057...more

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• Tales of the New Cold War: 1 of 2: What Vladimir Putin is not. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.

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  Sep 19 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: he Oprichniki by Nikolai Nevrev. The painting shows the last minutes of boyarin Feodorov, arrested for treason. To mock his alleged ambitions on the Tsar's title, the nobleman was given Tsar's regalia before execution. Nikolai Nevrev - [1] Public Domain File:0NevrevNV Oprichniki BISH.jpg Created: 1870s date QS:P,+1870-00-00T00:00:00Z/8 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Tales of the New Cold War: 1 of 2: What Vladimir Putin is not.  Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-russia/putin-sees-chance-circumstances-behind-downing-of-russian-plane-off-syrian-coast-idUSKCN1LY057...more

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• "The Left… will say, Well, gee, Senator Feinstein, you've had that letter in your possession since early August…" @HooverWhalen

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  Sep 19 2018

  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Photo: Teenaged boy, 1910 "The Left… will say, Well, gee, Senator Feinstein, you've had that letter in your possession since early August…" @HooverWhalen Bill Whalen, writing Area 45 podcast for Hoover, remarks that it’s alleged that when Brett Kavanaugh was seventeen, over thirty-five years ago, he was aggressive against a young woman. Sen Diane Feinstein, who’s held on to her Senatorial seat since 1985, also has held on to the accusatorial letter since July 30 of this year. Why didn’t she release it earlier? After she received the letter, we're told, Dr Ford [the accuser] hired an attorney and took [an irrelevant] lie-detector test. DiFi’s conduct may not affect her electoral chances; her opponent, deLeon, is having an uphill battle. He doesn't have enough traction to win. John Cox against Gavin Newsom: “the sweet spot” – the heart of voters’s concerns. Political reform as a lead plank doesn't quite do it; John Cox thinks it lies in the DMV, where there’s omnipresent misery in adapting to the 2020 ID requirements, the DMV is understaffed and horribly pokey. Also important: Proposition 6, the proposed repeal of last year’s gasoline tax increase....more

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• "I would press the White House to sign a deal with Canada. Let's get that off the table..." @LizPeek @FNC

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  Sep 19 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:WellingtonStreetOttawa_1900s.jpg ‎(800 × 507 pixels, file size: 166 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Open in Media ViewerConfiguration Description  English: Postcard of Wellington Street, across from Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Canada. Date circa 1900 s Source  Logo BAnQ This image is available from Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec under the reference number P547,S1,SS1,SSS8,D136 This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. Boarisch | বাংলা | Česky | Deutsch | Zazaki | English | فارسی | Suomi | Français | हिन्दी | Magyar | Македонски | Nederlands | Português | Русский | ไทย | Tiếng Việt | +/− Flag of Quebec Author Unknown Permission (Reusing this file)  Public domain This Canadian work is in the public domain in Canada because its copyright has expired due to one of the following: 1. it was subject to Crown copyright and was first published more than 50 years ago, or it was not subject to Crown copyright, and 2. it is a photograph that was created prior to January 1, 1949, or 3. the creator died more than 50 years ago. Flag of Canada.svg čeština | Deutsch | English | español | suomi | français | italiano | 日本語 | 한국어 | македонски | Nederlands | português | português do Brasil | +/− Public domain This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1923. Dialog-warning.svg Public domain works must be out of copyright in both the United States and in the source country of the work in order to be hosted on the Commons. If the work is not a U.S. work, the file must have an additional copyright tag indicating the copyright status in the source country. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "I would press the White House to sign a deal with Canada.  Let's get that off the table..."  @LizPeek @FNC http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/09/17/as-midterm-elections-approach-republicans-must-do-this.html...more

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• "Very low odds of a recession in the next three years...any downturn is 2 and a half to seven years away..." @LizPeek @FNC

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Original file ‎(2,592 × 1,944 pixels, file size: 1.81 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg); ZoomViewer: flash/no flash Open in Media ViewerConfiguration Summary[edit] Description  The Appalachian Trail continues on towards its Southern terminus in Northern Georgia here, at Newfound Gap, on the border of Tennessee and North Carolina. This is also the starting point for several popular day hikes in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Photo taken by myself, Scott Basford, on April 20, 2006. Date 20 April 2006 (according to Exif data) Source No machine-readable source provided. Own work assumed (based on copyright claims). Author No machine-readable author provided. Blinutne assumed (based on copyright claims). Licensing[edit] I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following licenses: GNU head Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License. w:en:Creative Commons attribution share alike This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.  You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). share alike – If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. This licensing tag was added to this file as part of the GFDL licensing update. w:en:Creative Commons attribution share alike This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic, 2.0 Generic and 1.0 Generic license.  You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). share alike – If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Very low odds of a recession in the next three years...any downturn is 2 and a half to seven years away..."  @LizPeek @FNC...more

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• Kavanaugh: "I doubt she testifies, because, what would she say?" @VDhanson @HooverInst

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  Sep 19 2018

  Photo:Original file ‎(4,096 × 2,480 pixels, file size: 3.62 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg); ZoomViewer: flash/no flash Open in Media ViewerConfiguration Summary[edit] Description  English: US Senate Chamber (Restored image from glass negative) Date circa 1873 Source  US-LibraryOfCongress-BookLogo.svg This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cwpbh.03299. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. العربية | čeština | Deutsch | English | español | فارسی | suomi | français | עברית | magyar | italiano | македонски | മലയാളം | Nederlands | polski | português | português do Brasil | русский | slovenčina | slovenščina | Türkçe | українська | 中文 | 中文（简体）‎ | 中文（繁體）‎ | +/− Author Brady-Handy Photograph Collection (Library of Congress) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow: Kavanaugh: "I doubt she testifies, because, what would she say?" @VDhanson @HooverInst Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover senior Fellow, on Judge Kavanaugh’s being prepared to see a vote on his joining the Supreme Court on this coming Thursday. However, when a woman who levelled an accusation against him was invited to rtestify before a Congressional committee on Monday, the vote was delayed; now she declines to appear, has suggested major delays (i.e., have the FBI investigate, which it’s not allowed to do in this instance). Accuser cannot identify the date or place of the alleged aggression, which was said to have occurred thirty-six years ago. Her credibility has sunk close to zero. Unsuitable for Congress to have deferred the Thursday vote, but understandable in view of concern for the three or four Republicans who want to jump ship on the vote. Sen Diane Feinstein has had the accusatory letter since July of this year. Accuser’s recollections differ from her psychotherapist’s notes on the matter (which themselves were written two decades after the purported event). DiFi is an 85-yr-old white millionaire married to a billionaire, is in electoral trouble in her district. To boot, her chauffeur of twenty years’ standing, a confidant, has recently been revealed to be a Chinese Communist Party spy! On the matter of the accusation, DiFi says: “About its accuracy, I don't know.”...more

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• Erdogan of Turkey condemns an "interest rate lobby" as a code for anti-semtisim. @AykanErdemir @FDD

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  Sep 19 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:nglish: Tophane Fountain, Istanbul, Turkey Date between 1890 and 1900 Source From Library of Congress. TITLE: [Tophane Fountain, Istanbul, Turkey] CALL NUMBER: FOREIGN GEOG FILE - Turkey [item] [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsca-03042 (digital file from original) No known restrictions on publication. MEDIUM: 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color. CREATED/PUBLISHED: [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900] NOTES: Title devised by Library staff. Caption on item: "Fontaine de Tophane." Print no. "18463." SUBJECTS: Fountains--Turkey--Istanbul--1890-1900. FORMAT: Photochrom prints Color 1890-1900. REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID: (original) ppmsca 03042 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.03042 CARD #: 2003653115 Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by User:Stegop using CommonsHelper. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Erdogan of Turkey condemns an "interest rate lobby" as a code for anti-semtisim. @AykanErdemir @FDD http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/dr-aykan-erdemir-conspiracy-and-cronyism-turkeys-economic-spiral/...more

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• Hotel Mars: Gateway is not a path to the moon colony. Haym Benaroya, Rutgers. David Livingston @Spaceshow.com

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  Sep 19 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: This year's version of the Habitat Demonstration Unit -- the Deep Space Habitat -- with the student-built X-Hab loft on top, a hygiene compartment on one side and airlock on the other. Date 21 January 2012 Source https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasadesertrats/6127812826/in/photostream Author NASA Licensing[edit] Public domain This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was solely created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". (See Template:PD-USGov, NASA copyright policy page or JPL Image Use Policy.) NASA logo.svg Dialog-warning.svg Warnings: Use of NASA logos, insignia and emblems is restricted per U.S. law 14 CFR 1221. The NASA website hosts a large number of images from the Soviet/Russian space agency, and other non-American space agencies. These are not necessarily in the public domain. Materials based on Hubble Space Telescope data may be copyrighted if they are not explicitly produced by the STScI.[1] See also {{PD-Hubble}} and {{Cc-Hubble}}. The SOHO (ESA & NASA) joint project implies that all materials created by its probe are copyrighted and require permission for commercial non-educational use. [2] Images featured on the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) web site may be copyrighted. [3] The National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) site has been known to host copyrighted content. Its photo gallery FAQ states that all of the images in the photo gallery are in the public domain "Unless otherwise noted.") http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Hotel Mars: Gateway is not a path to the moon colony. Haym Benaroya, Rutgers. David Livingston @Spaceshow.com https://www.amazon.com/Building-Habitats-Moon-Engineering-Settlements/dp/3319682423 Designing a habitat for the lunar surface? You will need to know more than structural engineering. There are the effects of meteoroids, radiation, and low gravity. Then there are the psychological and psychosocial aspects of living in close quarters, in a dangerous environment, far away from home. All these must be considered when the habitat is sized, materials specified, and structure designed. This book provides an overview of various concepts for lunar habitats and structural designs and characterizes the lunar environment - the technical and the nontechnical. The designs take into consideration psychological comfort, structural strength against seismic and thermal activity, as well as internal pressurization and 1/6 g. Also discussed are micrometeoroid modeling, risk and redundancy as well as probability and reliability, with an introduction to analytical tools that can be useful in modeling uncertainties. ...more

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• Why did Iran salvo missiles into Iraq to destroy a meeting? @EliLake @BV

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  Sep 18 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Koysinjaq, Iraq Date 23 November 2010 (original upload date) Source https://www.panoramio.com/photo/44099081 Author ✿ Vlinder ✿ Permission (Reusing this file)  w:en:Creative Commons attribution This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.  Attribution: ✿ Vlinder ✿ You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Checked copyright icon.svg This image, which was originally posted to Panoramio, was automatically reviewed on 19 November 2016 by Panoramio upload bot, who confirmed that it was available on Panoramio under the above license on that date. Tags (from Panoramio photo page) Koysinjaq Camera location 36° 04′ 59.37″ N, 44° 37′ 52.85″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap. View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Why did Iran salvo missiles into Iraq to destroy a meeting? @EliLake @BV https://fdd-new.cmail20.com/t/r-l-jjdrdjuy-hjtjhjjuyu-b/...more

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• Have two hundred years of Lockeian Liberalism destroyed the Liberal Order? @BerkowitzPeter @HooverInst

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  Sep 18 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Original file ‎(875 × 1,140 pixels, file size: 567 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Open in Media ViewerConfiguration A portrait of John Locke. Public domain This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or less. Dialog-warning.svg You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States. Note that a few countries have copyright terms longer than 70 years: Mexico has 100 years, Jamaica has 95 years, Colombia has 80 years, and Guatemala and Samoa have 75 years. This image may not be in the public domain in these countries, which moreover do not implement the rule of the shorter term. Côte d'Ivoire has a general copyright term of 99 years and Honduras has 75 years, but they do implement the rule of the shorter term. Copyright may extend on works created by French who died for France in World War II (more information), Russians who served in the Eastern Front of World War II (known as the Great Patriotic War in Russia) and posthumously rehabilitated victims of Soviet repressions (more information). This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. The portrait is from the Library of Congress, reproduction number LC-USZ62-59655. [1], specifically [2]. The LOC says it is a "Lithograph by de Fonroug[…]? after H. Garnier. [No date found on item ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Have two hundred years of Lockeian Liberalism destroyed the Liberal Order? @BerkowitzPeter @HooverInst https://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2018/09/14/anti-liberalzealotryour_immoderation.html...more

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• Germany treats BDS at arm's length & What is to be done? Benjamin Weinthal @FDD

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  Sep 18 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Size of this preview: 800 × 503 pixels. Other resolutions: 320 × 201 pixels | 640 × 402 pixels | 1,024 × 644 pixels | 1,616 × 1,016 pixels. Original file ‎(1,616 × 1,016 pixels, file size: 4.29 MB, MIME type: image/png) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below. Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help. Summary [edit] Description: View of Friedrichstraße in Berlin, around 1900. Source: Scan from a postcard. Photo was taken in 1900. No copyright stated on postcard. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Germany treats BDS at arm's length & What is to be done? Benjamin Weinthal @FDD https://www.jpost.com/BDS-THREAT/Prominent-German-Jews-want-JNF-to-close-account-with-BDS-enabling-bank-567294...more

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• US ignored Soviet lesson, entered Afghanistan. Failure.

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  Sep 18 2018

  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules . Twitter: @BatchelorShow Photo: Artyom Genrikhovich Borovik (12 Sept 1960 — 9 March 2000) (Артем Боровик), a prominent young journalist, was the first Russian to write that the Soviet war in Afghanistan was massively failing. From this, the mothers of the dead and missing boys began to organize, even under the boot of the USSR, eventually forcing the Moscow Kremlin to acknowledge defeat and withdraw. Here: Artyom with his wife, Veronika. Goodreads: Until his death in 2000, Artyom Borovik was considered one of the preeminent journalists in Russia. With “The Hidden War” he provided the world its first glimpse inside the Soviet military machine, capturing the soldiers' terror, helplessness, and despair at waging war in a foreign land against an unseen enemy for unclear purposes. When first published, Borovik's groundbreaking revelations exposed the weaknesses beneath the Soviet Union's aura of military might, creating an enormous controversy both in Russia and around the world. A vital and fascinating portrait of the Soviet empire at the twilight of its power, this is a book that still resonates today. "An honest and graphic account of individual and general disillusionment during the very worst kind of war." -Christopher Hitchens, New York Newsday; "Alternately fascinating and horrific.... A fascinating look at the life and death of Soviet soldiers." -- Bill Wallace, San Francisco Chronicle; "I have read no other account of the war in Afghanistan equal to this ... this is literature." -- Graham Greene ..  ..  . .  Tom Joscelyn, Long War Journal and FDD; and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD; on a province in SE Afghanistan, near Kandahar, where Afghan fighters and al Q come through. This is one of many areas where the Afghan military is losing, A preponderance of bases are being lost by the Afghan military—and this loss didn’t even make the Afghan press. It was shocking to the govt that the Taliban are projecting power so widely around the country. Taliban loot where they win. Afgh mil regyuarly cuts a deal with Taliban or else withdraws toute de suite. In an insurgency, a tie goes to the insurgents. In 1967: “stalemate” in Vietnam meant: loser! Jalaludin Haqqani: one of the most notorious and legendary jihadist figures. Father was also one of Osama bin Laden’s earliest colleagues/mentors/backers. Al Qaeda’s eulogy praises him and “our emirs.” Two jihadist organizations in Syria, the Guardians of Religion and Ansar al-Din, were among the groups praising Haqqani upon his announced death....more

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• Kavanaugh: "He's got his life on the line, obviously, because his professional reputation is at stake..." @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Sep 18 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: Image of US Postage stamp depicting U.S. Supreme Court building, designed by Charles R. Chickering Date 2 August 1950 Source US Post Office Author Bureau of Engraving and Printing, designed by Charles R. Chickering Image rendered for color, tone and clarity by Gwillhickers ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Kavanaugh: "He's got his life on the line, obviously, because his professional reputation is at stake..." @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst...more

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• Kavanaugh: Allen Drury's "Advise and Consent" (1962) on live TV. @JohnFund @DavidMDrucker @ThadMcCotter

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  Sep 18 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Will Geer (Sen. Strickland), Don Murray (Sen. Anderson), Charles Laughton (Sen. Cooley), Walter Pidgeon (Sen. Munson), Malcolm Atterbury (Sen. August), and Paul Ford (Sen. Danta) in the US Senate chamber in Advise and Consent. (uncopyrighted movie trailer screenshot) Source  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVmIJvNSQdg Per "WikiProject-Film Talk Archive #12 (§10): Free Images for Films" (April, 2007), under US Copyright Law (Title 17 USC): "Trailers are considered to have been "published" without copyright notice, so any content that was first released to audiences in the form of the trailer (from before 1964) is considered free. In other words, those brief parts of the film constituting the trailer content are in the public domain.'Of course, it doesn't matter whether a screenshot is physically taken from the film itself or the trailer, so long as there is solid documentation that the particular frame was a part of the original trailer." See also HERE Date  1962 Author  Columbia Pictures (film trailer) Permission (Reusing this file)  See below. Licensing[edit] Public domain This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1923 and 1977 inclusive, without a copyright notice. Unless the author has been dead for several years, it is not in the public domain in countries that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works. This includes Canada, China (not Hong Kong, Macao, or Taiwan Area), Germany, Mexico, Switzerland, and other countries with individual treaties. See also further explanation. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Kavanaugh: Allen Drury's "Advise and Consent" (1962) on live TV. @JohnFund @DavidMDrucker @ThadMcCotter...more

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• Trump orders 20 pages of FISA June 2017 declassified along with all text messages from Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page and Ohr. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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  Sep 18 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: British satire of Franco-American relations after the XYZ Affair in May of 1798; 5 Frenchmen plunder female "America", while six figures representing other European countries look on. John Bull sits laughing on "Shakespeare's Cliff." Date 1 June 1798 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Trump orders 20 pages of FISA June 2017 declassified along with all text messages from Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page and Ohr. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter...more

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• SecState Pompeo warns Iran that November 4 is the end & What is to be done with John Kerry/ Behnam ben Talablu @FDD @ThadMcCotter

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  Sep 18 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:U.S. Department of State Follow Secretary Kerry Meets With Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif in Austria Amid Syria Discussions in Vienna  U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry listens as Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif makes a point to a group of U.S. officials attending a meeting in the Hotel Bristol in Vienna, Austria, on October 29, 2015, focused on the future of Syria. [State Department Photo/Public Domain] ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow SecState Pompeo warns Iran that November 4 is the end & What is to be done with John Kerry/  Behnam ben Talablu @FDD @ThadMcCotter...more

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• Gillum of Florida introduced a February 2016 BDS event supported by CAIR-Florida. @AaronKleinShow

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  Sep 18 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Gillum of Florida introduced a February 2016 BDS event supported by CAIR-Florida.  @AaronKleinShow https://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2018/09/13/andrew-gillum-encouraged-attendees-at-cair-hosted-conference-promoting-boycott-of-israel/

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• Trump walks the talk on $200 Billion tariffs aimed at Red China's piracy. @AlanTonelson @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @ThadMcCotter

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  Sep 18 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Captain Bartho. Roberts with two Ships, Viz the Royal Fortune and Ranger, takes in Sail in Whydah Road on the Coast of Guiney, January 11th. 1721/2.: a copper engraving[1] Date circa 1724 Source Defoe, Daniel; Johnson, Charles (1724) "Capt. Bartho. Roberts, and His Crew" in A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates, London: T. Warner, pp. plate facing p. 202  Author Engraved by Benjamin Cole2 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Trump walks the talk on $200 Billion tariffs aimed at Red China's piracy. @AlanTonelson @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @ThadMcCotter...more

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• Afghan helo shot down; left dead to rot: no effort to retrieve the bodies.

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  Sep 18 2018

  Photo: Replying to @billroggio A segment of the Taliban video of crash site. Note how casually Taliban fighters are walking around the scene at least 10 hours after the crash. Afghan military couldn't or wouldn't secure the crash site.  WARNING: there are bodies in the video, the Taliban does blur most of it. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow .. Tom Joscelyn, Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, & Senior Editor for FDD's Long War Journal; and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD; anent the fact that Afghanistan, like Vietnam, is an endless battle for unclear reasons. Why are we still there? An Afghan transport helo was shot down by Talban in western Afghanistan; five killed. It was shot down at 8 or 9 PM Friday night; however, the Taliban video shows them in daylight. Ergo, for ten to twelve hours, the Afghan military made no effort to retrieve the bodies or the helo; this shows who controls the ground. There was no reaction from the army the US has paid so much to train and equip. See video on LongWarJournal.com Zawahiri says fighting America overseas is same as fighting various entities nearby. / https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2018/09/taliban-claims-to-shoot-down-afghan-military-helicopter.php...more

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• The mystery of a reunited Korea, barbed wire and benefits. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @ThadMcCotter

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  Sep 18 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: A South Korean sentry near the demilitarized zone (Imjingang). Date 17 May 2005 Source Own work Author Johannes Barre, iGEL (talk) Camera location 37° 53′ 24.98″ N, 126° 44′ 20.75″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap. View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The mystery of a reunited Korea, barbed wire and benefits.  @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @ThadMcCotter...more

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• "...Scalia has no patience for anybody on the Court who is not willing to damn the torpedoes..." Scalia: 3 of 3: A Court of One by Bruce Allen Murphy

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  Sep 18 2018

  AUTHOR. (PhotoThe 2009–2010 Court, with President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and retiring justice David Souter with Scalia fourth from right Steve Petteway, Supreme Court photographer. Credit Steve Petteway, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States. Catalog number is 9397-001. - http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2009/09/supremecourtreceptivetofre.html President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden with the members of the Supreme Court and retiring justice David Souter Permission details This work is free and may be used by anyone for any purpose. If you wish to use this content, you do not need to request permission as long as you follow any licensing requirements mentioned on this page. Wikimedia has received an e-mail confirming that the copyright holder has approved publication under the terms mentioned on this page. This correspondence has been reviewed by an OTRS member and stored in our permission archive. The correspondence is available to trusted volunteers as ticket #2010022410049005. If you have questions about the archived correspondence, please use the OTRS noticeboard.: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "...Scalia has no patience for anybody on the Court who is not willing to damn the torpedoes..."   Scalia: 3 of 3: A Court of One by Bruce Allen Murphy https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GEECHQQ/ref=dbsadefrwthschvapitaftp1i0 [Murphy’s] biography of Justice Scalia is patient and thorough, alive both intellectually and morally….Functions as an MRI scan of one of the most influential conservative thinkers of the twentieth century.” (The New York Times): An authoritative, incisive and deeply researched book about of the most controversial Supreme Court justice of our time. Scalia: A Court of One is the compelling story of one of the most polarizing figures to serve on the nation’s highest court. Bruce Allen Murphy shows how Scalia changed the legal landscape through his controversial theories of textualism and originalism, interpreting the meaning of the Constitution’s words as he claimed they were understood during the nation’s Founding period. But Scalia’s judicial conservatism is informed as much by his highly traditional Catholicism and political partisanship as by his reading of the Constitution; his opinionated speeches, contentious public appearances, and newsworthy interviews have made him a lightning rod for controversy. Scalia is “an intellectual biography of one of [the Supreme Court’s] most colorful members” (Chicago Tribune), combined with an insightful analysis of the Supreme Court and its influence on American life over the past quarter century. Scalia began his career practicing law in Cleveland, Ohio, and rose to become the president’s lawyer as the head of the Office of Legal Counsel for President Gerald R. Ford. His sterling academic and legal credentials led to his nomination by President Ronald Reagan to the Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit in 1982. In 1986, he successfully outmaneuvered the more senior Robert Bork to be appointed to the Supreme Court. Scalia’s evident legal brilliance, ambition and personal magnetism led everyone to predict he would unite a new conservative majority under Chief Justice William Rehnquist and change American law in the process. Instead he became a Court of One. Rather than bringing the conservatives together, Scalia drove them apart. He attacked and alienated his more moderate colleagues Sandra Day O’Connor, David Souter, and Anthony Kennedy. Scalia prevented the conservative majority from coalescing for nearly two decades....more

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• "They were looking for the best person who could get confirmed along with William Rehnquist..." Scalia: 2 of 3: A Court of One by Bruce Allen Murphy

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  Sep 18 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo Judge and Mrs. Scalia (left) and President Reagan (right) watch as Chief Justice Warren Burger swears William Rehnquist in as the next Chief Justice, September 26, 1986. Bill Fitz-Patrick, White House Photographer - http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/photographs/supreme.html Justice William Rehnquist is sworn in as Chief Justice by his predecessor, Warren Burger as Judge and Mrs. Antonin Scalia and President Ronald Reagan look on. Permission details This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1978 and March 1, 1989 without a copyright notice, and its copyright was not subsequently registered with the U.S. Copyright Office within 5 years. Unless its author has been dead for several years, it is copyrighted in the countries or areas that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works, such as Canada (50 pma), Mainland China (50 pma, not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 pma), Mexico (100 pma), Switzerland (70 pma), and other countries with individual treaties. See this page for further explanation. If you have questions about the archived correspondence, please use the OTRS noticeboard. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "They were looking for the best person who could get confirmed along with William Rehnquist..."  Scalia: 2 of 3: A Court of One by Bruce Allen Murphy https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GEECHQQ/ref=dbsadefrwthschvapitaftp1i0 [Murphy’s] biography of Justice Scalia is patient and thorough, alive both intellectually and morally….Functions as an MRI scan of one of the most influential conservative thinkers of the twentieth century.” (The New York Times): An authoritative, incisive and deeply researched book about of the most controversial Supreme Court justice of our time. Scalia: A Court of One is the compelling story of one of the most polarizing figures to serve on the nation’s highest court. Bruce Allen Murphy shows how Scalia changed the legal landscape through his controversial theories of textualism and originalism, interpreting the meaning of the Constitution’s words as he claimed they were understood during the nation’s Founding period. But Scalia’s judicial conservatism is informed as much by his highly traditional Catholicism and political partisanship as by his reading of the Constitution; his opinionated speeches, contentious public appearances, and newsworthy interviews have made him a lightning rod for controversy. Scalia is “an intellectual biography of one of [the Supreme Court’s] most colorful members” (Chicago Tribune), combined with an insightful analysis of the Supreme Court and its influence on American life over the past quarter century. Scalia began his career practicing law in Cleveland, Ohio, and rose to become the president’s lawyer as the head of the Office of Legal Counsel for President Gerald R. Ford. His sterling academic and legal credentials led to his nomination by President Ronald Reagan to the Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit in 1982. In 1986, he successfully outmaneuvered the more senior Robert Bork to be appointed to the Supreme Court. Scalia’s evident legal brilliance, ambition and personal magnetism led everyone to predict he would unite a new conservative majority under Chief Justice William Rehnquist and change American law in the process. Instead he became a Court of One. Rather than bringing the conservatives together, Scalia drove them apart. He attacked and alienated his more moderate colleagues Sandra Day O’Connor, David Souter, and Anthony Kennedy. Scalia prevented the conservative majority from coalescing for nearly two decades....more

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• "He loved being in Queens..." Scalia: 1 of 3: A Court of One by Bruce Allen Murphy

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  Sep 18 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: More details President Reagan and his Supreme Court nominee Scalia in the Oval Office, July 7, 1986 Bill Fitz-Patrick, White House Photographer - http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/photographs/supreme.html President Ronald Reagan and Judge Antonin Scalia confer in the Oval Office, July 7, 1986 Permission details This work is free and may be used by anyone for any purpose. If you wish to use this content, you do not need to request permission as long as you follow any licensing requirements mentioned on this page. Wikimedia has received an e-mail confirming that the copyright holder has approved publication under the terms mentioned on this page. This correspondence has been reviewed by an OTRS member and stored in our permission archive. The correspondence is available to trusted volunteers as ticket #2010021810032767. If you have questions about the archived correspondence, please use the OTRS noticeboard. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "He loved being in Queens..."  Scalia: 1 of 3:  A Court of One by Bruce Allen Murphy https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GEECHQQ/ref=dbsadefrwthschvapitaftp1i0 [Murphy’s] biography of Justice Scalia is patient and thorough, alive both intellectually and morally….Functions as an MRI scan of one of the most influential conservative thinkers of the twentieth century.” (The New York Times): An authoritative, incisive and deeply researched book about of the most controversial Supreme Court justice of our time. Scalia: A Court of One is the compelling story of one of the most polarizing figures to serve on the nation’s highest court. Bruce Allen Murphy shows how Scalia changed the legal landscape through his controversial theories of textualism and originalism, interpreting the meaning of the Constitution’s words as he claimed they were understood during the nation’s Founding period. But Scalia’s judicial conservatism is informed as much by his highly traditional Catholicism and political partisanship as by his reading of the Constitution; his opinionated speeches, contentious public appearances, and newsworthy interviews have made him a lightning rod for controversy. Scalia is “an intellectual biography of one of [the Supreme Court’s] most colorful members” (Chicago Tribune), combined with an insightful analysis of the Supreme Court and its influence on American life over the past quarter century. Scalia began his career practicing law in Cleveland, Ohio, and rose to become the president’s lawyer as the head of the Office of Legal Counsel for President Gerald R. Ford. His sterling academic and legal credentials led to his nomination by President Ronald Reagan to the Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit in 1982. In 1986, he successfully outmaneuvered the more senior Robert Bork to be appointed to the Supreme Court. Scalia’s evident legal brilliance, ambition and personal magnetism led everyone to predict he would unite a new conservative majority under Chief Justice William Rehnquist and change American law in the process. Instead he became a Court of One. Rather than bringing the conservatives together, Scalia drove them apart. He attacked and alienated his more moderate colleagues Sandra Day O’Connor, David Souter, and Anthony Kennedy. Scalia prevented the conservative majority from coalescing for nearly two decades....more

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• 2: (2 of 2) Native Americans sit on trillions of dollars’ worth of minerals; have been locked out of all of it by a colonial-minded US Congress. —Terry Anderson

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  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Photo: Millions of acres of Native land were flagrantly stolen, forcing Indigenous peoples into constricting reservations where ancient cultures were crushed, residents were forced to be entirely dependent on skimpy federal largesse; and European settlers confiscated vast swaths of the continent.   .. The wealth of the land, after tribes had been abused and brutally starved by our government . . . Native Americans need to be given jurisdiction of their reservation, which they don't currently have. We need to establish their authority over the land, and the tribes have to create governance structures that function well —not like Venezuela, for example—which some tribes are doing. Trump Adm and Ryan Zinke, Secy of the Interior: we need to have federalism devolving authority back to First Nations. The 1935 Indian Reorganization Act locked Indian lands into trusteeship, made the Feds controllers. If we can get rid of the IRA, that’d be a great step (although dunno if Congress would do that). Indian health care was finally turned over to more local authorities, which improved standards; and that was done without Congressional action. Need to turn over more authority to tribes. I’ve worked with Canadian bands and New Zealand Maories. Many of them are interested in going back to their roots, to old governance structures. The day after Christmas I’ll meet with elders of the Crow tribe. (Crow Reservation of Montana, two hours south of Bozeman.) We provide necessary research and documents, help tribal leaders understand better how to create governance structures that work. A young Navajo man (25 years old) is getting a degree in nanoscience, reads Adam Smith and John Locke; wants to set up good governance. Anwar: $27 billion of mineral assets, yet all Native peoples are locked out of their heritage by Congress. They know well how to live in the modern world; they’re just not allowed to....more

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• 1: (1 of 2) Native Americans sit on trillions of dollars’ worth of minerals; have been locked out of all of it by a colonial-minded US Congress. —Terry Anderson

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  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Photo: Twenty thousand years of dignified living in North America, yet today obliged by a colonialist Congress to be wards of the state.   Here: Indian Chiefs on February 22, 1913, at the groundbreaking ceremony for the National American Indian Memorial .. Terry L. Anderson, senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution; past president of the Property and Environment Research Center in Bozeman, MT, and professor Emeritus at Montana State University. Terry is focussed on Native rights, in the US and internationally. https://www.hoover.org/research/restoring-tribal-economies “Indian Country is anything but healthy and prosperous. In the United States, 20 per cent of reservation households make less than $5,000 annually, and Native Americans are more likely than non-Natives to be assaulted, incarcerated, or to commit suicide. As one of us, Terry Anderson, outlined in testimony before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights last year, the disparities between Native Americans and other Americans are the result of an institutional gap—a lack of property rights, clearly defined jurisdictions, and effective governance structures on Indian reservations. Most Native Americans lack title to their lands, because much of Indian Country is held in trust by the federal government. Without title or decision-making authority, tribal governments must endure lengthy federal approval processes before developing their land or allocating natural resources. This dependency on the federal government has eroded traditional indigenous community structures . . . ” November 2017 was Native American Heritage Month. However, over centuries, the US has abused Natives almost consistently. They were shunted to reservations where they now repose, forbidden to vote – but sitting on trillions of dollars’ worth of natural resources, to which they’re forbidden access. Twenty per cent of Native households make less than $5,000 per year. The source of the poverty is our own government. What is to be done? We live in a sea of wealth surrounding islands of poverty, being American Indian reservations. It started long before the reservations era; in 1832, Chief Justice John Marshall declared Indians to be “wards of the state.” They were declared incompetent; there was established a controlled economy: the federal government controls virtually every aspect of First Nation lives in a colonial-era economy that still exists. Native people do not have property rights, jursisdiction over their own land, control over their own governance. Parcels were allotted to individual Indians, but the no clear property rights and feds are the trustee. Same with tribal lands. This began in 1887 with the Dawes Act, or Allotment Act. Many millions of acres were transferred out of Indian hands into those of white settlers. We’ve created a double failure: the feds failed by infantilizing or imprisoning Indians – which then destroyed traditional structures, and families fell apart. These tribes come from a rich tradition of highly-developed culture; they clearly understood property rights and trade, and have been [disempowered] by the US Congress. “You’re incompetent till we declare you to be competent”—Washington. ....more

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• Searching for Martian Liquid Water: 1 of 2: "We think that Earth and Mars and all the rocky planets formed in similar ways..." Kevin Cannon, @Nature.

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:  This image shows bluish-white frost seen on the Martian surface near NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander. The image was taken by the lander's Surface Stereo Imager on the 131st Martian day, or sol, of the mission (Oct. 7, 2008). Frost is expected to continue to appear in images as fall, then winter approach Mars' northern plains. The Phoenix Mission is led by the University of Arizona, Tucson, on behalf of NASA. Project management of the mission is by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Spacecraft development is by Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver.  Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Texas A&M University) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Searching for Martian Liquid Water: 1 of 2: "We think that Earth and Mars and all the rocky planets formed in similar ways..." Kevin Cannon, @Nature. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature24657 On Mars, clay minerals are widespread in terrains that date back to the Noachian period (4.1 billion to 3.7 billion years ago)1,2,3,4,5. It is thought that the Martian basaltic crust reacted with liquid water during this time to form hydrated clay minerals3,6. Here we propose, however, that a substantial proportion of these clays was formed when Mars’ primary crust reacted with a dense steam or supercritical atmosphere of water and carbon dioxide that was outgassed during magma ocean cooling7,8,9. We present experimental evidence that shows rapid clay formation under conditions that would have been present at the base of such an atmosphere and also deeper in the porous crust. Furthermore, we explore the fate of a primordial clay-rich layer with the help of a parameterized crustal evolution model; we find that the primordial clay is locally disrupted by impacts and buried by impact-ejected material and by erupted volcanic material, but that it survives as a mostly coherent layer at depth, with limited surface exposures. These exposures are similar to those observed in remotely sensed orbital data from Mars1,2,3,4,5. Our results can explain the present distribution of many clays on Mars, and the anomalously low density of the Martian crust in comparison with expectations....more

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• Searching for Martian Liquid Water: 2 of 2: "Clay minerals typically have about 5 to 15 percent water by weight..." Kevin Cannon, @Nature.

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  Sep 17 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Mission: Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Target: Mars Spacecraft: Curiosity Instrument: Mastcam Views: 12,847 Full-Res TIFF: PIA16567.tif Full-Res JPG: PIA16567.jpg Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Searching for Martian Liquid Water: 2 of 2: "Clay minerals typically have about 5 to 15 percent water by weight..."  Kevin Cannon, @Nature. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature24657 On Mars, clay minerals are widespread in terrains that date back to the Noachian period (4.1 billion to 3.7 billion years ago)1,2,3,4,5. It is thought that the Martian basaltic crust reacted with liquid water during this time to form hydrated clay minerals3,6. Here we propose, however, that a substantial proportion of these clays was formed when Mars’ primary crust reacted with a dense steam or supercritical atmosphere of water and carbon dioxide that was outgassed during magma ocean cooling7,8,9. We present experimental evidence that shows rapid clay formation under conditions that would have been present at the base of such an atmosphere and also deeper in the porous crust. Furthermore, we explore the fate of a primordial clay-rich layer with the help of a parameterized crustal evolution model; we find that the primordial clay is locally disrupted by impacts and buried by impact-ejected material and by erupted volcanic material, but that it survives as a mostly coherent layer at depth, with limited surface exposures. These exposures are similar to those observed in remotely sensed orbital data from Mars1,2,3,4,5. Our results can explain the present distribution of many clays on Mars, and the anomalously low density of the Martian crust in comparison with expectations....more

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• "Again, this is not in the Constitution. This is an invention of John Marshall..." Marshall: 3 of 3: The Chief Justice Who Saved the Nation, by Harlow Giles Unger.

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  Sep 17 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:The text of the McCulloch v. Maryland decision, handed down March 6, 1819, as recorded in the minutes of the US Supreme Court http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=21 (McCulloch v. Maryland decision, March 6, 1819, Minutes of the Supreme Court of the United States, SOURCE: http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=21 ) Public Domain File:Mccullochvmaryland.png Uploaded: 10 September 2012  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Again, this is not in the Constitution. This is an invention of John Marshall..."  Marshall: 3 of 3: The Chief Justice Who Saved the Nation, by Harlow Giles Unger.  https://www.amazon.com/John-Marshall-Chief-Justice-Nation/dp/0306824566 New York Journal of Books. “Highly readable… Unger's rigorously researched book offers a window into the everyday life of 18th and 19th century North America…Unger's biography of John Marshall reveals how he saved the nation, but also democracy's fragility. Update Description...more

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• "And nothing in the Constitution gives the Supreme Court the right to do so (to declare an act of Congress unconstitutional)..." " John Marshall: 2 of 3: The Chief Justice Who Saved the Nation, by Harlow Giles Unger.

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Marshall's Chief Justice nomination Daniel Rice - http://riceonhistory.wordpress.com/2011/08/19/john-marshall-chief-justice-nomination/ John Adams's nomination of John Marshall to serve as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "And nothing in the Constitution gives the Supreme Court the right to do so (to declare an act of Congress unconstitutional)..." "  John Marshall: 2 of 3: The Chief Justice Who Saved the Nation, by Harlow Giles Unger.  https://www.amazon.com/John-Marshall-Chief-Justice-Nation/dp/0306824566 New York Journal of Books. “Highly readable… Unger's rigorously researched book offers a window into the everyday life of 18th and 19th century North America…Unger's biography of John Marshall reveals how he saved the nation, but also democracy's fragility. Update Description...more

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• "Actually James Monroe and John Marshall shared the same hut at Valley Forge..." John Marshall: 1 of 3: The Chief Justice Who Saved the Nation, by Harlow Giles Unger.

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:The encampment at Valley Forge in 1778 (1830 engraving by G. Boynton) George W. Boynton (engraving) - Sparkes, Jered "The Life of George Washington" Boston: Tappen & Dennet 1843 "The Cooper Collections of American History" (uploader's private collection) Scanned by the uploader, Centpacrr. Encampment at Valley Forge 1778 (Steel engraving) Public Domain File:Encampment at Valley Forge 1778.jpg Created: 31 December 1829  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Actually James Monroe and John Marshall shared the same hut at Valley Forge..."  John Marshall: 1 of 3: The Chief Justice Who Saved the Nation, by Harlow Giles Unger.  https://www.amazon.com/John-Marshall-Chief-Justice-Nation/dp/0306824566 New York Journal of Books. “Highly readable… Unger's rigorously researched book offers a window into the everyday life of 18th and 19th century North America…Unger's biography of John Marshall reveals how he saved the nation, but also democracy's fragility. Update Description...more

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• Robert Jackson: "By the time he came back from Nuremberg, he became a very conservative justice --always worried about the Soviet threat..." "The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices:" 2 of 2: by Noah Feldman.

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  Sep 17 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Chief U.S. Prosecutor at the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, Germany, Robert H. Jackson,1945-46 View author information Public Domain File:Prosecutor Robert Jackson at Nuremberg Trials.jpg Uploaded: 20 September 2006  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Robert Jackson: "By the time he came back from Nuremberg, he became a very conservative justice --always worried about the Soviet threat..." "The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices:" 2 of 2: 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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• Felix Frankfurter: "When someone asked him to change his name to join a law firm, he said, I think I'll stick with what I've go..." "The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices:" 1 of 2: by Noah Feldman.

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  Sep 17 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Unknown or not provided Record creator Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 Title  Eleanor Roosevelt with Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. and Felix Frankfurter in Hyde Park, New York Date 30 May 1956 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. Record ID  NARA Logo created 2010.svg This media is available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 196249. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. English | Español | Français | Italiano | Македонски | മലയാളം | Nederlands | Polski | Português | Русский | Slovenščina | Türkçe | Українська | Tiếng Việt | 中文（简体） | 中文（繁體） | +/− Record group: Collection FDR-PHOCO: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Public Domain Photographs, 1882 - 1962 (National Archives Identifier: 1184 ) Series: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Public Domain Photographs, compiled 1882 - 1962 (National Archives Identifier: 195301 ) NAIL Control Number: NLR-PHOCO-A-65590(151) Source U.S. National Archives and Records Administration ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Felix Frankfurter: "When someone asked him to change his name to join a law firm, he said, I think I'll stick with what I've go..." "The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices:" 1 of 2:  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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• Why did Progressives oppose Neil Gorsuch, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and John Roberts on the John Roberts court in 2017? @adamjwhitedc @HooverInst

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Marshall on the 1890 $20 Treasury Note, one of 53 people depicted on United States banknotes National Museum of American History - Image by Godot13 A Series 1891 $20 Treasury Note depicting John Marshall with the signatures of Blanche Kelso Bruce and Ellis H. Roberts. Marshall was U.S. Secretary of State (1800–01) and then Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (1801–35). Permission details Use of this image should give credit to the National Numismatic Collection at the Smithsonian Institution. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Why did Progressives oppose Neil Gorsuch, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and John Roberts on the John Roberts court in 2017? @adamjwhitedc @HooverInst Adam J. White is a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, and executive director of the Center for the Study of the Administrative State at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School. http://yalejreg.com/nc/digging-deeper-than-deference/ Of course, Sunstein himself is famously skeptical of the short-lived Schechter Poultry rule’s status as a “conventional” doctrine of constitutional law, a skepticism made famous by his clever quip, “[w]e might say that the conventional doctrine has had one good year, and 211 bad ones (and counting).” But that’s beside the point, which is this: if Gorsuch had doubts about Chevron while on the lower court, and he saw Chevron‘s problems as symptoms of excessive legislative delegation, then how might he work through those paired concerns on the Supreme Court? Perhaps Gorsuch will join the emerging trend of trying to cabin Chevron with a robust “Step Zero,” incorporating the “Major Questions Doctrine,” as exemplified by Chief Justice Roberts and the four more progressive justices in King v. Burwell. Or maybe Gorsuch will eventually join Justice Thomas and others in looking for a new or old version of the nondelegation doctrine that is much less deferential to Congress’s decisions to delegate power? But obviously those would be heavy lifts. King‘s Step Zero approach has yet to be further elaborated (though we can assume that the Court eventually will, and didn’t simply write a ticket good for one ride only). And reform of the broader nondelegation doctrine would take much, much longer (to say the least). So in the meantime, perhaps Gorsuch will continue to work within existing precedent, looking for small opportunities for improvement or reform at the margins, rather than radically changing doctrine. If so, then maybe Sunstein will praise Gorsuch for approaching matters in a spirit of “Burkean minimalism.” Adam J. White is a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, and executive director of the Center for the Study of the Administrative State at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School. Of course, Sunstein himself is famously skeptical of the short-lived Schechter Poultry rule’s status as a “conventional” doctrine of constitutional law, a skepticism made famous by his clever quip, “[w]e might say that the conventional doctrine has had one good year, and 211 bad ones (and counting).” But that’s beside the point, which is this: if Gorsuch had doubts about Chevron while on the lower court, and he saw Chevron‘s problems as symptoms of excessive legislative delegation, then how might he work through those paired concerns on the Supreme Court? Perhaps Gorsuch will join the emerging trend of trying to cabin Chevron with a robust “Step Zero,” incorporating the “Major Questions Doctrine,” as exemplified by Chief Justice Roberts and the four more progressive justices in King v. Burwell. Or maybe Gorsuch will eventually join Justice Thomas and others in looking for a new or old version of the nondelegation doctrine that is much less deferential to Congress’s decisions to delegate power? But obviously those would be heavy lifts. King‘s Step Zero approach has yet to be further elaborated (though we can assume that the Court eventually will, and didn’t simply write a ticket good for one ride only). And reform of the broader nondelegation doctrine would take much, much longer (to say the least). So in the meantime, perhaps Gorsuch will continue to work within existing precedent, looking for small opportunities for improvement or reform at the margins, rather than radically changing doctrine. If so, then maybe Sunstein will praise Gorsuch for approaching matters in a spirit of “Burkean minimalism.”...more

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• Originalism and Scalia: 2 of 2: "So he (Scalia) says, now, what the Constitution says is that the right of individuals to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed..." @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Sep 17 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: More details John Marshall's House in Richmond, Virginia photographer not credited - Historic American Buildings Survey photo via Library of Congress website [1] [2] John Marshall House (Richmond, Virginia) (cropped)) Permission details Historic American Buildings Survey HABS VA,44-RICH,4-1 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Originalism and Scalia: 2 of 2: "So he (Scalia) says, now, what the Constitution says is that the right of individuals to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed…" @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst http://www.hoover.org/research/scalia-maligned “…The death of Antonin Scalia has set up a nasty battle over who shall occupy his vacant seat on the Supreme Court. The battle does not just involve the endless political skirmishes now taking place between the White House and the Senate. It also extends to the larger philosophical debate over the constitutional theory of originalism, with which Justice Scalia was so closely associated. Few of the attacks on originalism and Scalia have been as tasteless and ignorant as “Looking Back,” the broadside that the journalist Jeffrey Toobin recently published in The New Yorker. It is evident that Toobin is out for blood from his opening salvo: “Antonin Scalia, who died this month, after nearly three decades on the Supreme Court, devoted his professional life to making the United States a less fair, less tolerant, and less admirable democracy.” …...more

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• Originalism and Scalia: 1 of 2: "What our friend, Toobin, is trying to do is to delegitimate a Scalia, delegitimate his originalist philosophy..." @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst.

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  Sep 17 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Oak Hill. Unknown, Photographer - http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/displayPhoto.pl?path=/pnp/habshaer/va/va0400/va0446/photos&topImages=161738pr.jpg&topLinks=161738pv.jpg,161738pu.tif&title=HABS%20VA,31-MARSH.V,1-1&displayProfile=0 John Marshall House (Fauquier County, Virginia) (cropped)) Permission details Historic American Buildings Survey http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Originalism and Scalia: 1 of 2: "What our friend, Toobin, is trying to do is to delegitimate a Scalia, delegitimate his originalist philosophy…" @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst. http://www.hoover.org/research/scalia-maligned “…The death of Antonin Scalia has set up a nasty battle over who shall occupy his vacant seat on the Supreme Court. The battle does not just involve the endless political skirmishes now taking place between the White House and the Senate. It also extends to the larger philosophical debate over the constitutional theory of originalism, with which Justice Scalia was so closely associated. Few of the attacks on originalism and Scalia have been as tasteless and ignorant as “Looking Back,” the broadside that the journalist Jeffrey Toobin recently published in The New Yorker. It is evident that Toobin is out for blood from his opening salvo: “Antonin Scalia, who died this month, after nearly three decades on the Supreme Court, devoted his professional life to making the United States a less fair, less tolerant, and less admirable democracy.” …...more

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• R A Epstein on forced nationalizing of US bz (2 of 2) Elizabeth Warren reaches into American corporate boards, directs who's on the board and how it conducts itself. Caveat caveat: Due process and equal protection laws of the Fourteenth Amendment.

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  Sep 16 2018

  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Photo: Stock certificate issued by Delaware, whose regulations are nothing like California’s and will not mix smoothly. Richard A Epstein on how Jerry Brown wants to decide how many females may be on a corporate board in relation to how may males; similar to Elizabeth Warren’s proposed legislation. When there’s govt coercion, need to be sure that people get a fair rate of return. . . .  To boot, many California companies are incorporated in Delaware. When California sets out to impose its regulations, you can imagine the royal Donnybrook. . . . WSJ on Liz Warren: https://www.wsj.com/articles/elizabeth-warrens-corporate-illogic-1536705547?mod=hpopinpos3 https://www.wsj.com/articles/elizabeth-warrens-corporate-illogic-1536705547?mod=hpopinpos3 ....more

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• R A Epstein: forced nationalizing of US bz (1 of 2) Supreme Court decision on labor unions in California: May California impose a contract on one private firm and its workers through nonconsensual compulsory arbitration?

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  Sep 16 2018

  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Photo: XIV Amendment to the Constitution, due process clause: No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. . Richard Epstein, Chicago Law, NYU Law, Hoover Institution, on Gerawan Farming vs Agriculture LRB of California; the Employee Free Choice Act (which didn't pass).  Hoover on forced unionization. https://www.wsj.com/articles/elizabeth-warrens-corporate-illogic-1536705547?mod=hpopinpos3 https://www.hoover.org/research/perils-compulsory-labor-arbitration...more

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• Greenland's Ice Sheet: 2 of 2: "Whether or not we think the same processes are in place in Antarctica, we're not sure of that..." Joseph A. MacGregor, York University,Toronto, Ontaria, Canada.

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Herbert Ponting (1870–1935) Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q127805 Description  English: Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova. In the pack - a lead opening up. Nederlands: Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova. In het pakijs - een uitweg opent zich. Date December 1910 Source/Photographer Original photo print from Ponting's negatives. Private collection of Bruce Parker, London, Ontario, Canada. Additional information  English: Photo used in the book: Scott's Last Expedition..., 1913, Dodd, Mead, and Company, New York. Volume I, page 48. Nederlands: Foto gebruikt in het boek: Scott's Last Expedition..., 1913, Dodd, Mead, and Company, New York. Deel I, bladzijde 48. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Greenland's Ice Sheet: 2 of 2: "Whether or not we think the same processes are in place in Antarctica, we're not sure of that..."  Joseph A. MacGregor, York University,Toronto, Ontaria, Canada. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6273/590.short "Holocene deceleration of the Greenland Ice Sheet" Joseph A. MacGregor1,*, William T. Colgan2,†, Mark A. Fahnestock3, Mathieu Morlighem4, Ginny A. Catania1,5, John D. Paden6, S. Prasad Gogineni6 1Institute for Geophysics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78758, USA. 2Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen DK-1350, Denmark. 3Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA. 4Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA. 5Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA. 6Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA. ↵*Corresponding author. E-mail: joemac@ig.utexas.edu ↵† Present address: Department of Earth and Space Science and Engineering, York University, Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3, Canada.  Hide authors and affiliations Science 05 Feb 2016: Vol. 351, Issue 6273, pp. 590-593 DOI: 10.1126/science.aab1702 Abstract "Recent peripheral thinning of the Greenland Ice Sheet is partly offset by interior thickening and is overprinted on its poorly constrained Holocene evolution. On the basis of the ice sheet’s radiostratigraphy, ice flow in its interior is slower now than the average speed over the past nine millennia. Generally higher Holocene accumulation rates relative to modern estimates can only partially explain this millennial-scale deceleration. The ice sheet’s dynamic response to the decreasing proportion of softer ice from the last glacial period and the deglacial collapse of the ice bridge across Nares Strait also contributed to this pattern. Thus, recent interior thickening of the Greenland Ice Sheet is partly an ongoing dynamic response to the last deglaciation that is large enough to affect interpretation of its mass balance from altimetry. “…The interior of the Greenland Ice Sheet is growing thicker, in contrast to the thinning that is occurring at its edges. Why? MacGregor et al. conclude that more snow is accumulating and that the ice in the interior is flowing more slowly than it did thousands of years ago (see the Perspective by Hvidberg). During the last glacial period, higher rates of atmospheric dust deposition produced softer ice, which flowed more readily than cleaner ice. During most of the Holocene, though, atmospheric dust concentrations were lower, and the less-dusty ice that formed was stiffer, meaning it did not flow or thin so rapidly. Thus, the thickening seen today in the central regions of Greenland is partly a response to changes in ice rheology that occurred thousands of years ago." -- Joseph A. MacGregor, William T. Colgan, Mark A. Fahnestock, Mathieu Morlighem, Ginny A. Catania, John D. Paden, S. Prasad Gogineni "Abstract: Recent peripheral thinning of the Greenland Ice Sheet is partly offset by interior thickening and is overprinted on its poorly constrained Holocene evolution. On the basis of the ice sheet’s radiostratigraphy, ice flow in its interior is slower now than the average speed over the past nine millennia. Generally higher Holocene accumulation rates relative to modern estimates can only partially explain this millennial-scale deceleration. The ice sheet’s dynamic response to the decreasing proportion of softer ice from the last glacial period and the deglacial collapse of the ice bridge across Nares Strait also contributed to this pattern. Thus, recent interior thickening of the Greenland Ice Sheet is partly an ongoing dynamic response to the last deglaciation that is large enough to affect interpretation of its mass balance from altimetry."...more

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• Greenland's Ice Sheet: 1 of 2: "We discovered that the ice sheet used to be faster (flowing) than it is now...and we came up with three different reasons.." Joseph A. MacGregor, York University,Toronto, Ontaria, Canada.

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Image from page 550 of "Northward over the "great ice" : a narrative of life and work along the shores and upon the interior ice-cap of northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891-1897 ..." (1914)  Identifier: northwardovergre01pear Title: Northward over the "great ice" : a narrative of life and work along the shores and upon the interior ice-cap of northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891-1897 ... Year: 1914 (1910s) Authors: Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920 Subjects: Publisher: New York : F. A. Stokes Co. Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: merous sea-birds,—Hak-luyt, Dalrymple. The contrast between individual islands, thoughmarked in each group, is especially noticeable in thecase of Herbert and Northumberland. Though sepa-rated by a channel scarcely more than one mile wide,Herbert is a vertical-sided, fiat-topped mass of varie-gated sandstone without a sea-level glacier, and withbut a small ice-cap ; while Northumberland is a mass Appendix 473 of high summits of gneissose and basaltic rocks ahnostcompletely covered with ice-cap, from which exudenumerous sea-level glaciers. This island presents, inthe close juxtaposition of flowing white ice-domes andragged black cliffs, the most striking contrasts of colourand sky contour. Another feature is the frequent recurrence of sharpconical rocks rising directly from the sea. The leastpronounced of these is Round Island, some thirtymiles east of Cape York. Then come the well-knownConical, Dalrymple, and Bell Rocks ; then the less-known and smaller but equally pronounced Little Text Appearing After Image: LITTLETON ISLAND FROM SITE OF POLARIS HOUSE. Matterhorn at the head of Inglefield Gulf, and Suther-land Island just south of Cape Alexander. In the proximity of the ice-cap to the shore, andthe existence of numerous detached ice-caps or domesseparated completely from the Inland-Ice sheet, thisregion is marked. An impressive feature, too, is the glaciers ; hundredsof these, of all sizes, shapes, and characteristics, flow Still further ex.imples of these peculiar islands are Cocked-Hat Island westof Cape Sabine, Cone Island in Jones Sound, and Sugar Loaf in the bay southof Wilcox Head. 474 Northward over the Great Ice down the numerous fjords, valleys, and ravines of thiscoast from the Great Ice towards the sea. Many ofthem never reach the sea, but waste away in thewarmth of the valleys. Others do attain the sea,stretching unctuous blue ice-cliffs, fifty to one hundredand fifty feet high and one half to ten miles long, alongthe shore and across the heads of bays, from whichevery year is Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Greenland's Ice Sheet: 1 of 2: "We discovered that the ice sheet used to be faster (flowing) than it is now...and we came up with three different reasons.."  Joseph A. MacGregor, York University,Toronto, Ontaria, Canada. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6273/590.short "Holocene deceleration of the Greenland Ice Sheet" Joseph A. MacGregor1,*, William T. Colgan2,†, Mark A. Fahnestock3, Mathieu Morlighem4, Ginny A. Catania1,5, John D. Paden6, S. Prasad Gogineni6 1Institute for Geophysics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78758, USA. 2Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen DK-1350, Denmark. 3Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA. 4Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA. 5Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA. 6Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA. ↵*Corresponding author. E-mail: joemac@ig.utexas.edu ↵† Present address: Department of Earth and Space Science and Engineering, York University, Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3, Canada.  Hide authors and affiliations Science 05 Feb 2016: Vol. 351, Issue 6273, pp. 590-593 DOI: 10.1126/science.aab1702 Abstract "Recent peripheral thinning of the Greenland Ice Sheet is partly offset by interior thickening and is overprinted on its poorly constrained Holocene evolution. On the basis of the ice sheet’s radiostratigraphy, ice flow in its interior is slower now than the average speed over the past nine millennia. Generally higher Holocene accumulation rates relative to modern estimates can only partially explain this millennial-scale deceleration. The ice sheet’s dynamic response to the decreasing proportion of softer ice from the last glacial period and the deglacial collapse of the ice bridge across Nares Strait also contributed to this pattern. Thus, recent interior thickening of the Greenland Ice Sheet is partly an ongoing dynamic response to the last deglaciation that is large enough to affect interpretation of its mass balance from altimetry. “…The interior of the Greenland Ice Sheet is growing thicker, in contrast to the thinning that is occurring at its edges. Why? MacGregor et al. conclude that more snow is accumulating and that the ice in the interior is flowing more slowly than it did thousands of years ago (see the Perspective by Hvidberg). During the last glacial period, higher rates of atmospheric dust deposition produced softer ice, which flowed more readily than cleaner ice. During most of the Holocene, though, atmospheric dust concentrations were lower, and the less-dusty ice that formed was stiffer, meaning it did not flow or thin so rapidly. Thus, the thickening seen today in the central regions of Greenland is partly a response to changes in ice rheology that occurred thousands of years ago." -- Joseph A. MacGregor, William T. Colgan, Mark A. Fahnestock, Mathieu Morlighem, Ginny A. Catania, John D. Paden, S. Prasad Gogineni "Abstract: Recent peripheral thinning of the Greenland Ice Sheet is partly offset by interior thickening and is overprinted on its poorly constrained Holocene evolution. On the basis of the ice sheet’s radiostratigraphy, ice flow in its interior is slower now than the average speed over the past nine millennia. Generally higher Holocene accumulation rates relative to modern estimates can only partially explain this millennial-scale deceleration. The ice sheet’s dynamic response to the decreasing proportion of softer ice from the last glacial period and the deglacial collapse of the ice bridge across Nares Strait also contributed to this pattern. Thus, recent interior thickening of the Greenland Ice Sheet is partly an ongoing dynamic response to the last deglaciation that is large enough to affect interpretation of its mass balance from altimetry."...more

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• California outmigration 140,000/yr, & staggering income inequality: California has the sorry distinction of having the nation's highest poverty rate, 19% –blame housing costs. —Jeff Bliss, Pacific Watch

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  Sep 16 2018

  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Photo: Feral cannabis—growing wild in a ditch in Buffalo County, Nebraska. Marijuana as far as the eye can see: a Canadian company is building a weed campus in the Coachella Valley the size of eight football fields that will grow more than 90 tons of dry cannabis a year — enough to roll as many as 390 million joints. The facility's imposing presence in Cathedral City has been described as equivalent to that of the Nike headquarters in Beaverton, Ore. --Desert Sun .  Jeff Bliss, Pacific Watch, on: Homeless squatting. Guests forbidden to smoke on a Disney ride. The surfboard that hit Jeff in the head. Surfonomics, Mill Valley is blocking 5G antennas out of concern for dangerous frequencies. The middle class is being hollowed out of California – families leaving en masse. Cali has the nation’s highest poverty rate. Go look at the downtown of the state’s biggest cities. Coachella Valley, near Palm Springs: eight football fields of marijuana. .. .. .. "Hollywood Ghost Ship:" More than 60 people were found living illegally in an abandoned comedy theater on Hollywood Boulevard that had no electricity and reeked of human waste. Some residents said they were being charged rent: $400 a month. Disney and Obama Obama was in Orange County this weekend, whipping up a media frenzy with his criticism of Trump and Trumpsters. He basically laid out a "do or die" call to action in typically Red O.C. … where races are tighter than ever. A few things, though: The media made it sound as though thousands packed the venue for his speech. It was easily fewer than 1,000 … probably closer to 700-800. In the era of Trump arena talks, that's piddling. He decried "the division," yet his entire speech was devoted to separating groups/voters. And, most importantly, he talked about a previous visit to Orange County -- specifically, Disneyland, when he was in college in LA (Occidental College). He claimed he'd been tossed out of the Park for smoking on MY ride - Skyway. A number of my fellow Skyway/D-land alumni began discussing this on Saturday (it still hasn't stopped) … and none of us can remember a person's being thrown out of the Park for smoking "cigarettes" (as the former prez claimed). Yes, we threw them out when they tossed objects from the gondolas, did things that endangered guests and employees, and even for smoking dope on the rides … but not for smoking. Heck, a former colleague of mine (who’s African-American) kept a diary/incident log of his days there. He knew the exact date Obama mentioned -- because of the musical act the former prez noted was playing a show in the Park -- and he had written nothing about cigarette smokers’ being tossed from Disneyland. (I don't believe I was there that day, btw). Surfing-related businesses (including clothing, entertainment, tourism, etc.) bring in far more than do all other sports in California -- by huge, huge magnitudes. You'd think a fiscal conservative would appreciate that and mention the fact that surfing contests in California, because they occur in public spaces/beaches, have to pay men and women professionals equally. That could have an even bigger impact on the state, its laws and its economy than a few folks sitting on Apple's board. This goes to the question of: do all men and women sports professionals get paid the same now? Or, how about actors and actresses in Hollywood? I know surfing is a bit of a goof for others, but this issue has real ramifications. We in the surfing community have a word for people who say, "cowabunga." The wealthy enclave of Mill Valley in Marin County voted to block small-cell 5G antennas over concerns about cancer and other health effects. "What 5G does is it adds another cloud to what we refer to as 'electromagnetic smog' into an environment that is already pretty saturated," an activist said. Industry and federal officials have largely dismissed such fears. --Marin Independent Journal .. They were lined up by the dozens clear down the street on a recent afternoon — hot and frustrated in the sun, trying to attend to the most routine (and unavoidable) encounters with local government: renewing a driver’s license. --New York Times California commits to 100% clean electricity by 2045. . . . “This bill and the executive order put California on a path to meet the goals of Paris and beyond,” Brown said at a signing ceremony in state capital Sacramento. “It will not be easy. It will not be immediate. But it must be done.” At least 20 countries and twice as many large cities have made similar pledges, but California — the fifth largest economy in the world — is by far the biggest jurisdiction to do so to date. The electric sector represents 16 percent of the state’s greenhouse gas emissions. More broadly, California has set ambitious goals to slash greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent by 2030, compared to 1990 levels. An important question - Does this apply to electricity generated in California, or to electricity sold in California? If it’s the latter, then California’s electrical rates, already some of the highest in the country, will “necessarily skyrocket,” to coin a phrase. If it’s the former, California won’t achieve anything but making Hollywood and Silicon Valley types feel good, while making out-of-state utilities even richer. One other note: There are no penalties, sanctions, etc., for utilities that don't comply. A GENERATION PLANS AN EXODUS FROM CALIFORNIA . . . Since the recovery began in 2010, California’s net domestic out-migration, according to the American community survey, has almost tripled to 140,000 annually. Over that time, the state has lost half a million net migrants with the bulk of that coming from the Los Angeles-Orange County area. In contrast, during the first years of the decade the Bay Area, particularly San Francisco, enjoyed a renaissance of in-migration, something not seen since before 2000. But that is changing. A recent Redfin report suggests that the Bay Area, the focal point of California’s boom, now leads the country in outbound home searches, which could suggest a further worsening of the trend. Not long ago, California moved from the world's sixth-largest economy to the fifth. But the state also has staggering income inequality. The Census Bureau put out new numbers showing that California retained the sorry distinction of having the nation's highest poverty rate —19 percent, or 7.5 million Californians. Blame housing costs, analysts said. ==O.C. Register | LAist .. A Canadian company is building a weed campus in the Coachella Valley the size of eight football fields that will grow more than 90 tons of dry cannabis a year — enough to roll as many as 390 million joints. The facility's imposing presence in Cathedral City has been described as equivalent to that of the Nike headquarters in Beaverton, Ore. --Desert Sun ,...more

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• Hotel Mars: "...They (US military) have a pretty good idea of the emerging threats posed by some of the recent Chinese developments for Earth orbit in general..." @BrianWeeden @SWFoundation David Livingston @SpaceShow

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: Illustration by Alvim Corréa, from the 1906 French edition of H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds". Date 9 January 2013, 03:46:46 Source H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds" Author Henrique Alvim Correa ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Hotel Mars: "...They (US military) have a pretty good idea of the emerging threats posed by some of the recent Chinese developments for Earth orbit in general..." @BrianWeeden @SWFoundation David Livingston @SpaceShow https://swfound.org/media/206118/swfglobalcounterspace_april2018.pdf "Global Counterspace Capabilities: An Open Source Assessment April 2018.   Editors Brian Weeden Director of Program Planning Secure World Foundation Victoria Samson Washington Office Director Secure World Foundation"...more

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• Hotel Mars: Space Force: "In general, most of the Pentagon bureaucracy is against the idea of a separate service..." @BrianWeeden David Livingston @SpaceShow

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25438/25438-h/25438-h.htm Project Gutenberg copyright analysis: "This etext was produced from Amazing Stories Fact and Science Fiction May 1962 and was first published in Amazing Stories March 1929. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed." Illustration of "Buck Rogers" operating the control board of an "air-ball", a remotely controlled UAV. 1929. Date  Source see above Author Philip Francis Nowlan ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Hotel Mars: Space Force: "In general, most of the Pentagon bureaucracy is against the idea of a separate service..."  @BrianWeeden David Livingston @SpaceShow https://swfound.org/about-us/our-team/dr-brian-weeden/ Dr. Brian Weeden is the Director of Program Planning for Secure World Foundation and has nearly two decades of professional experience in space operations and policy.  Dr. Weeden directs strategic planning for future-year projects to meet the Foundation's goals and objectives, and conducts research on space debris, global space situational awareness, space traffic management, protection of space assets, and space governance. Dr. Weeden also organizes national and international workshops to increase awareness of and facilitate dialogue on space security, stability, and sustainability topics. He is a member and former Chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Space Technologies, and is also a member of the Advisory Committee on Commercial Remote Sensing (ACCRES) to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)....more

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• Troubled KC-46: "It's like a Frankenairplane..." Tyler Rogoway @Thewarzonewire

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:KC-46 aerial refueling tanker conducts receiver compatibility tests with a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III from Joint Base Lewis-McChord as part of Test 003-06. The event marks the nearing completion of "Milestone C" in the new tanker's developmental testing stage. (U.S. Air Force photo by Christopher Okula) USAF Christopher Okula - usaf.mil ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Troubled KC-46: "It's like a Frankenairplane..." Tyler Rogoway @Thewarzonewire http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/23513/kc-46-tanker-hits-major-milestones-but-deficiencies-still-unmitigated-as-delivery-looms...more

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• Waiting for "Top Gun 2: Maverick" in the New Cold War. Tyler Rogoway @Thewarzonewire

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:U.S. Navy Fleet Air Gunnery Unit aircraft from Naval Air Facility El Centro in the late 1950s USN - U.S. Navy Naval Aviation News March 1959 [1] Four fighters of the U.S. Navy Fleet Air Gunnery Unit (FAGU), stationed at the Naval Auxiliary Air Station El Centro, California (USA), in 1958-59. The FAGU trained weapons training officers for the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps squadrons and was located at NAAS El Centro between June 1956 and June 1959. It was diesestblished at MCAS Yuma on 29 February 1960. The four aircraft types flown by the FAGU were the Douglas F4D-1 Skyray (top), the North American FJ-4B Fury (right), the Vought F8U-2 Crusader (left), and the Douglas A4D-2 Skyhawk(bottom). ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Waiting for "Top Gun 2: Maverick" in the New Cold War.  Tyler Rogoway @Thewarzonewire http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/23552/photos-leak-of-what-appears-to-be-mavericks-specially-painted-super-hornet-for-top-gun-2 http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/23310/air-force-puts-out-contract-opportunity-announcement-for-literally-anything-hypersonic http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/23417/story-update-new-details-on-the-rq-4-global-hawk-crash-off-spain...more

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• USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000): "There's no ammo for its guns... The Navy will not buy ammo for them..." Tyler Rogoway @thewarezonwire

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  Sep 16 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: USS Zumwalt underway for the first time conducting at-sea tests and trials in the Atlantic Ocean, 7 December 2015. (U.S. Navy photo courtesy of General Dynamics Bath Iron Works/Released) 151207-N-ZZ999-435 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/56594044@N06/22965290304/ 151207-N-ZZ999-435 ATLANTIC OCEAN (Dec. 7, 2015) The future USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) is underway for the first time conducting at-sea tests and trials in the Atlantic Ocean Dec. 7, 2015. The multimission ship will provide independent forward presence and deterrence, support special operations forces, and operate as an integral part of joint and combined expeditionary forces. (U.S. Navy photo courtesy of General Dynamics Bath Iron Works/Released)) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000): "There's no ammo for its guns... The Navy will not buy ammo for them..."  Tyler Rogoway @thewarezonwire http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/23544/navys-revamped-stealth-destroyer-looks-less-stealthy-as-it-leaves-san-diego-for-trials...more

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• "He (Ayatollah Khamenei) wants to suppress the people... to show the teeth to the people, and show that they can't uprise..." Mohsen Sazegara. Malcom Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Sep 16 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Image from page 79 of "Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map" (1906)  Identifier: cu31924028627036 Title: Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map Year: 1906 (1900s) Authors: Jackson, A. V. Williams (Abraham Valentine Williams), 1862-1937 Subjects: Zoroastrianism Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. Contributing Library: Cornell University Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: :i Echmiadzin in thk 8m Text Appearing After Image: Bazaar of Erivan FROM ERIVAN TO JULFA 21 with long ebon beard and black cowl concealing the face stoodat the foot of my cot. In the uncertain light the form lookedlike that of a giant. I grasped instinctively for my revolver,but a salutation came from the muffled lips, and I saw thatthe newcomer had no malicious intent. He was accompaniedby an elderly woman, robed partly in black, and she noddeda silent greeting. Both used Russian, but spoke very little.We interchanged civilities and cigarettes, but I did not inquireabout the purpose of their journey, nor they about mine. Aswe were to start before daylight, I made no attempt to sleepagain, and in a couple of hours I had resumed my seat in thepost-chaise, followed by the vehicle of my fellow-travellers.The darkness was thick, the snow blinding, and the road wascontinually blocked by trains of camels, caravan succeedingcaravan in endless procession. I counted two hundred ofthese dromedaries in less than a quarter of an hour. Theywere ch Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "He (Ayatollah Khamenei) wants to suppress the people... to show the teeth to the people, and show that they can't uprise..."  Mohsen Sazegara. Malcom Hoenlein @Confofpres Mohsen Sazegara is an Iranian journalist and pro-democracy political activist. Dr. Sazegara held several high-ranking positions in the Government of Mir-Hossein Mousavi, such as deputy prime minister, minister of industry, deputy chairman of the budget and planning department, and many more before becoming disillusioned with the government in 1989 and pushing for reforms. He applied to become a candidate for President of Iran in the 2001 election but was declined. Related articles ● http://jcpa.org/iran-will-deploy-its-fatehin-basij-special-forces-to-suppress-iranian-unrest/ ● https://in.reuters.com/article/usa-iran-court-decision/iran-ordered-to-pay-1047-million-over-1996-truck-bomb-attack-us-judge-idINKCN1LQ2HM ● https://www.apnews.com/bc8c4899c8f14dd3975db042a445e7e7/SOMNIA ● http://jcpa.org/does-the-turmoil-in-iraq-signal-a-nationalist-awakening-against-iran/ ● http://jcpa.org/article/iran-and-turkey-divert-iraqs-river-waters-leaving-iraq-on-the-brink-of-catastrophe/ ● https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/irans-missile-attack-in-iraqi-kurdistan-could-backfire ● https://www.wsj.com/articles/rising-violence-in-basra-highlights-u-s-iran-fight-for-influence-in-iraq-1536525084...more

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• "In order for (the Arab states) to create a coalition against Iran, they need Israel..." Pinhas Inbari, @JerusalemCenter for Public Affairs. Malcom Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres.

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  Sep 16 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Esplanade-vegen seint i 1930-åra. Ed. A Abassi, Aden, late 1930s - http://www.ebay.com/itm/Aden-Yemen-Esplanade-road-Crater-Rare-vintage-postcard-1952-Arabic-peninsula-/321049331263?pt=LHDefaultDomain0&hash=item4ac008063f View of Esplanade Road, Crater (Aden). Cropped from a postcard from the late 1930s, postally used in 1952. Offentleg eigedom File:Aden. Esplanade Road, Crater, late 1930s.jpg Oppretta: 7. januar 2013 Om medieframsynaren | Diskuter denne funksjonen | Hjelp ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "In order for (the Arab states) to create a coalition against Iran, they need Israel..." Pinhas Inbari, @JerusalemCenter for Public Affairs. Malcom Hoenlein @Confofpres. Pinhas Inbari is a veteran Arab affairs correspondent who formerly reported for Israel Radio and Al Hamishmar newspaper, and currently serves as an analyst for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Related Articles ● http://www.pcpsr.org/en/node/733  ●https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/01/saudi-arabia-may-dig-canal-to-turn-qatar-into-an-island ● http://jcpa.org/is-a-schism-developing-in-the-sunni-camp/...more

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• New American Civil War: 2 of 2: "..the New York Times, progressive preschool, the Donna Tartt novels, and certainly NPR, are a way of demonstrating you are in the forefront of globalism…" Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Sep 15 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: Drawing of dead soldiers on the Antietam battlefield during the Civil War, based on a photo by Alexander Gardner; published in Harper's Weekly, 1862, p. 664. Date 1862 Source Library of Congress Website, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-67521 Author Unknown ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow New American Civil War: 2 of 2: "..the New York Times, progressive preschool, the Donna Tartt novels, and certainly NPR, are a way of demonstrating you are in the forefront of globalism…" Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis What If This Were Enough?: Essays Hardcover – October 2, 2018. by Heather Havrilesky (Author) https://www.amazon.com/What-If-This-Were-Enough/dp/0385542887 https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/09/12/leaked-video-google-leaderships-dismayed-reaction-to-trump-election/...more

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• New American Civil War: 1 of 2: "A Red Elite and a Blue Elite, and both of these elites sum up, and represent, what makes the gulf so great..." Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:"Quaker guns" (logs used as ruses to imitate cannons) in former Confederate fortifications at Manassas Junction George N. Barnard - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cwpb.00979. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Confederate winter quarters, 1861-1862. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow New American Civil War: 1 of 2: "A Red Elite and a Blue Elite, and both of these elites sum up, and represent, what makes the gulf so great..." Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/09/12/leaked-video-google-leaderships-dismayed-reaction-to-trump-election/...more

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• “Burning tires in the sea” pollute the air and water, and start land-based fires. —Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents

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  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, concerning Jeremy Corbyn, who’s deliberately using the Labour Party to effect his program against not only Israel but against Jews. “Burning tires in the sea”: they pollute the air and water, and start land-based fires. Hamas also tried to run the blockade. Pipe bomb thrown against Israeli soldiers today; this is not resistance against another power but an effort to divert public attention from the horrible economic situation in Gaza. Turkish border: Kurds are going to join the Syrian forces and fight against the rebels; Erdogan is arming them – a humanitarian disaster. . . . Basijis are garrisoned in Basra; Iraqi people arising against them – “Iran out!” Forty per cent of water going into Iraq is diverted by Turks and Iranians. John Bolton on the ICC....more

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• $6-a-gallon 'Raw Water' [for the witless overpaid]. — Henry Miller, Hoover Institution (@henryimiller):

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  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Photo:  HK 大潭郊野公園 Tai Tam Tuk Raw Water Pumping Station 抽水站 21-Dec-2011 .. Henry Miller, Hoover Institution, henrymillermd.org & @henryimiller, in re: Hurricane.  Science. Get Real with $6-a-Gallon 'Raw Water' (The trend toward 'authenticity' in food has led consumers to some strange places.) Science Shows the Way as Hurricane Approaches 'Fakebook Science' and Democracy Organic Food and Nutritional Placebo Effect .. Buying Organic? You're Getting Ripped Off! False and misleading advertising by the organic agriculture and food industries is out of control and sowing consumer fear, confusion and mistrust. FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb acknowledged as much responding within days to my August 6 Wall Street Journal editorial exposing flagrant organic industry lies and deceptive labeling practices. He tweeted that the FDA would soon "put out more detailed information about what different terms mean on food packaging to help consumers best use claims like organic, antibiotic free, etc." That's great rhetoric, because accurate information and transparency are important to help American consumers make informed food choices and are necessary for free markets to work. But the time for hollow promises and dithering by regulators is long past. What we need is aggressive enforcement of existing consumer-protection laws now. To be clear — and Dr. Gottlieb knows this — false and misleading organic labeling isn't new or a case of first impression for the FDA. As the 2014 Academic Review's Organic Marketing Report clearly shows, it's been happening for a long time. It is deception by design and permeates every aspect of organic marketing. That's what you need to do when you're huckstering a high-priced, inferior product The Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act "requires that labels on packaged food products in interstate commerce not be false or misleading in any way," and since 1992, FDA has been developing policies that allow it to combat the kind of false and misleading claims made by the organic industry. The agency's 2015 labeling guidance (revised in 2018) states that a "GMO-Free" label is false and misleading if "it suggests or implies that a food or ingredient is safer, more nutritious, or otherwise has different attributes than other comparable foods because the food was not genetically engineered." Information on the website of the food giant Nestlé is a textbook case. The statement, "Ingredients derived from GMOs (genetically modified organisms) differ because the process involves scientists selecting a desirable genetic trait and placing it in a different plant species," is simply wrong. Sometimes a gene is simply deleted; but more to the point, since the 1930s, plant breeders have performed "wide cross" hybridizations, in which genes are moved from one species or genus to another, giving rise to plant varieties that cannot and do not exist in nature. Commercial crops derived from wide crosses include common varieties of tomato, potato, oat, rice, wheat, corn, pumpkin and others. Relying on decades of science and regulatory oversight, the FDA . . ....more

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• "What was their factual basis to believe that Carter Page was an agent of a foreign power?" The said to be soon unredacted 33 or 20 or 6 pages… @AndrewCMcCarthy…

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  Sep 15 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Ary Scheffer Description English: A watercolor of King Lear and the Fool from Act III, Scene ii of King Lear Date 1834 Current location Folger Shakespeare Library Accession number ART Box S316 no.1 (size L) Source/Photographer Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Image Collection http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/sp6136 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "What was their factual basis to believe that Carter Page was an agent of a foreign power?" The said to be soon unredacted 33 or 20 or 6 pages… @AndrewCMcCarthy…...more

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• Manafort can talk his way down from ten years, yet says he doesn't have much to say. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO

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  Sep 15 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:King Lear and the Fool in the Storm Object type painting Date circa 1851 Medium oil on canvas Dimensions Height: 136 cm (53.5 in); Width: 173 cm (68.1 in)  with frame: 180 × 218 × 6.5 cm (70.8 × 85.8 × 2.5 in) Current location  Scottish National Gallery Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q942713 not on view Accession number  NG 2585 Credit line Purchased with the assistance of the Art Fund 1993 References National Gallery of Scotland Source/Photographer Art UK Permission (Reusing this file) [1] ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Manafort can talk his way down from ten years, yet says he doesn't have much to say. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/paul-manaforts-guilty-plea/...more

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• Argentina: dollarize vs extreme instability. Peronists [representing inefficient populism] were shoehorned out but are fighting violently to get back in power. —Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ editorial board @MaryAnastasiaOG

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  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Bank note: Billete 10 centavos de Peso Moneda Nacional (Argentina) . Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ editorial board, @MaryAnastasiaOG, anent: Argentina has major budget problems, where the solution is dramatic: in order to roll back the inflation and extreme instability, Mary recommends “dollarizing.” Mauricio Macri finally won the presidency after Kichner. . . His govt went to the IMF for $30 million; at that point, the capital market environment was benign and kind, with low interest rates. Needless to say, that didn’t last. Now they have fiscal and monetary problems. Peronism – a rich word of ambiguous meaning – is essentially a big-govt populism and labor movement: Macri shoehorned them out but, in Congress, they want to get back in power. Problematically, they don’t just block roads—they grow quite violent. Also have a long history of devaluing the peso; then its value drops and they have to issue more pesos. Meanwhile, today Argentine people are in dollars as much as they can be, so the peso is already partially dollarized. Politicians are reluctant to to do this because, once you dollarize formally, you lose the capacity to print pesos and thereby paper over economic woes. Ergo, politicians suffer. Furthermore, Argentina trades a lot with Brazil; if Brazil devalues, it can use the devaluation of the real against Argentina. A central banker’s only job should be to protect the value of the currency....more

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• The Death of Hitler: 3 of 3: The Final Word on the Ultimate Cold Case: The Search for Hitler’s Body

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  Sep 15 2018

  AUTHOR. (PhotoEnglish: Ruins of the Reichstag in Berlin, 3 June 1945. The Reichstag after the allied bombing of Berlin. Datum mezi 1939 a 1945 Zdroj http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//39/media-39747/large.jpg IWMLondonThumbnail.jpg This is photograph BU 8573 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums. Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Autor No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit, Hewitt (Sgt) Svolení (Užití tohoto souboru)  This image was created and released by the Imperial War Museum on the IWM Non Commercial Licence. Photographs taken, or artworks created, by a member of the forces during their active service duties are covered by Crown Copyright provisions. Faithful reproductions may be reused under that licence, which is considered expired 50 years after their creation. Part of War Office Second World War Official Collection Subjects  Associated places Berlin, Germany Associated events Battle of Berlin 1945, Germany, Second World War, Allied Occupation of Germany 1945-1949, Cold War Associated themes German Home Front 1939-1945 Associated keywords Politics, Destruction, Bomb Damage, Architecture Category photographs Image Sorted yes: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Death of Hitler: 3 of 3: The Final Word on the Ultimate Cold Case: The Search for Hitler’s Body https://www.amazon.com/Death-Hitler-Ultimate-Search-Hitlers-ebook/dp/B07B9YYZWG 'Fascinating... Orchestrated like a spy novel... an edge-of-your-seat tale of Adolf Hitler's last days' Journal du Dimanche A dramatic and revelatory new account of the final days in Hitler's bunker, based on new access to Soviet state, military and FSB archives and cutting-edge forensics. On 30 April 1945, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker as the Red Army closed in on Berlin. Within four days the Soviets had recovered his body. But the truth about what the Russian secret services found was hidden from history when, three months later, Stalin officially declared to Churchill and Truman that Hitler was still alive and had escaped abroad. Doubts began to spread like gangrene and continue, even today, to feed wild fantasies about what really happened to him. In 2017, after two years of painstaking negotiations with the Russian authorities, award-winning investigative journalists Jean-Christophe Brisard and Lana Parshina gained access to confidential Soviet files that finally revealed the truth about the incredible hunt for Hitler's body. Their investigation includes new eyewitness accounts of Hitler's final days, exclusive photographic evidence and interrogation records, and exhaustive research into the absurd power struggle that ensued between the Soviet, British and American intelligence agencies. And for the first time since the end of the Second World War, authorised cutting-edge forensic tests are carried out on the human remains recovered from the bunker - a piece of skull with traces of the lethal bullet; a fragment of jaw bone and teeth. In this fascinating investigation as thrilling as any spy novel, Brisard and Parshina debunk all previous conspiracy theories about the death of the Führer. With breathtaking precision and immediacy, they penetrate one of the most powerful and controversial secret services on earth to take us inside the final hours of Hitler's bunker - and solve the most notorious cold case in history....more

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• The Death of Hitler: 2 of 3: The Final Word on the Ultimate Cold Case: The Search for Hitler’s Body

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: Berlin, Ruinen und zerstörte Autos ADN-ZB/Archiv II. Weltkrieg 1939-45 Berlin nach den anglo-amerikanischen Luftangriff am 3. Februar 1945 Ruinen und zerstörte Autos in der Mohrenstraße [Scherl Bilderdienst] Description  Information added by Wikimedia users. English: Ruins of buildings and vehicles lie in Berlin's Mohrenstrasse after the Anglo-American air attacks on the 3rd of February, 1945 Deutsch: Bombenschäden nach einem Luftangriff am 3. Februar 1945 in der Berliner Mohrenstrasse mit den Mohrenkolonnaden. Depicted place Berlin Date February 1945 Photographer Unknown Institution  German Federal Archives Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q685753 Allgemeiner Deutscher Nachrichtendienst - Zentralbild (Bild 183) Accession number Bild 183-J31347 Source  Logo Bundesarchiv This image was provided to Wikimedia Commons by the German Federal Archive (Deutsches Bundesarchiv) as part of a cooperation project. The German Federal Archive guarantees an authentic representation only using the originals (negative and/or positive), resp. the digitalization of the originals as provided by the Digital Image Archive.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Death of Hitler: 2 of 3: The Final Word on the Ultimate Cold Case: The Search for Hitler’s Body https://www.amazon.com/Death-Hitler-Ultimate-Search-Hitlers-ebook/dp/B07B9YYZWG 'Fascinating... Orchestrated like a spy novel... an edge-of-your-seat tale of Adolf Hitler's last days' Journal du Dimanche A dramatic and revelatory new account of the final days in Hitler's bunker, based on new access to Soviet state, military and FSB archives and cutting-edge forensics. On 30 April 1945, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker as the Red Army closed in on Berlin. Within four days the Soviets had recovered his body. But the truth about what the Russian secret services found was hidden from history when, three months later, Stalin officially declared to Churchill and Truman that Hitler was still alive and had escaped abroad. Doubts began to spread like gangrene and continue, even today, to feed wild fantasies about what really happened to him. In 2017, after two years of painstaking negotiations with the Russian authorities, award-winning investigative journalists Jean-Christophe Brisard and Lana Parshina gained access to confidential Soviet files that finally revealed the truth about the incredible hunt for Hitler's body. Their investigation includes new eyewitness accounts of Hitler's final days, exclusive photographic evidence and interrogation records, and exhaustive research into the absurd power struggle that ensued between the Soviet, British and American intelligence agencies. And for the first time since the end of the Second World War, authorised cutting-edge forensic tests are carried out on the human remains recovered from the bunker - a piece of skull with traces of the lethal bullet; a fragment of jaw bone and teeth. In this fascinating investigation as thrilling as any spy novel, Brisard and Parshina debunk all previous conspiracy theories about the death of the Führer. With breathtaking precision and immediacy, they penetrate one of the most powerful and controversial secret services on earth to take us inside the final hours of Hitler's bunker - and solve the most notorious cold case in history....more

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• The Death of Hitler: 1 of 3: The Final Word on the Ultimate Cold Case: The Search for Hitler’s Body

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  Sep 15 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: British and Russian soldiers on the balcony of the ruined Chancellery in Berlin, 5 July 1945. British and Russian soldiers on the balcony of the Chancellery, the spot from which Hitler made many of his speeches. Dátum 1939 és 1945 között Forrás http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//39/media-39749/large.jpg IWMLondonThumbnail.jpg This is photograph BU 8635 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums. Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Szerző No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit, Malindine E G (Capt) Engedély (Fájl újrafelhasználása)  This image was created and released by the Imperial War Museum on the IWM Non Commercial Licence. This image was catalogued as taken by the Army Film and Photographic Unit (AFPU) which operated between 1942—1946.[1] The AFPU was composed of members of the forces during their active service, so their works are covered by Crown Copyright provisions. Faithful reproductions may be reused under that licence, which is considered expired 50 years after their creation. Part of War Office Second World War Official Collection Subjects  Associated people and organisations British Army Associated places Berlin, Germany Associated events Battle of Berlin 1945, Germany, Second World War, Allied Occupation of Germany 1945-1949, Cold War Associated themes British Army 1939-1945, German Home Front 1939-1945 Associated keywords Destruction, Bomb Damage, Architecture ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Death of Hitler:  1 of 3: The Final Word on the Ultimate Cold Case: The Search for Hitler’s Body https://www.amazon.com/Death-Hitler-Ultimate-Search-Hitlers-ebook/dp/B07B9YYZWG 'Fascinating... Orchestrated like a spy novel... an edge-of-your-seat tale of Adolf Hitler's last days' Journal du Dimanche A dramatic and revelatory new account of the final days in Hitler's bunker, based on new access to Soviet state, military and FSB archives and cutting-edge forensics. On 30 April 1945, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker as the Red Army closed in on Berlin. Within four days the Soviets had recovered his body. But the truth about what the Russian secret services found was hidden from history when, three months later, Stalin officially declared to Churchill and Truman that Hitler was still alive and had escaped abroad. Doubts began to spread like gangrene and continue, even today, to feed wild fantasies about what really happened to him. In 2017, after two years of painstaking negotiations with the Russian authorities, award-winning investigative journalists Jean-Christophe Brisard and Lana Parshina gained access to confidential Soviet files that finally revealed the truth about the incredible hunt for Hitler's body. Their investigation includes new eyewitness accounts of Hitler's final days, exclusive photographic evidence and interrogation records, and exhaustive research into the absurd power struggle that ensued between the Soviet, British and American intelligence agencies. And for the first time since the end of the Second World War, authorised cutting-edge forensic tests are carried out on the human remains recovered from the bunker - a piece of skull with traces of the lethal bullet; a fragment of jaw bone and teeth. In this fascinating investigation as thrilling as any spy novel, Brisard and Parshina debunk all previous conspiracy theories about the death of the Führer. With breathtaking precision and immediacy, they penetrate one of the most powerful and controversial secret services on earth to take us inside the final hours of Hitler's bunker - and solve the most notorious cold case in history....more

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• Bezos's New Shepard misses a date & What is to be done? Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Sep 15 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Launch images from the test flight of the New Shepard spacecraft) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Bezos's New Shepard misses a date & What is to be done? Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com https://behindtheblack.com/?s=new+shepard Suborbital rockets in the news Blue Origin delays manned flight tests of New Shepard Orion completes final parachute test Also: Gateway fantasies by NASA The weird shutdown of New Mexico solar observatory...more

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• Hayabusa 2 prepping for the landing on Ryugu. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Sep 15 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: A diagram of active space missions traveling beyond Earth orbit, March 2017. Date 27 February 2017 Source http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/space-images/charts/whats-up-in-the-solar-system-frohn.html (image link) Author Olaf Frohn ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Hayabusa 2 prepping for the landing on Ryugu. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com https://behindtheblack.com/?s=hayabusa Hayabusa-2 landing dress rehearsal cut short NASA resets Opportunity listening plan Oblique view of lunar crater Astronomers use galaxy to measure size of asteroid...more

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• Wild Blue Cyber Yonder: The Air Force steals a march on the service and seeks gamers and hackers. @PappalardoJoe

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  Sep 15 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Wild Blue Cyber Yonder: The Air Force steals a march on the service and seeks gamers and hackers. @PappalardoJoe http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/security/a23116594/air-force-coding-programming-language-mike-kanaan/

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• "The Israeli Palestinian security cooperation on the West Bank is crucial to keeping Hamas out..." David Makovsky @WashInstitute Malcom Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Sep 14 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Identifier: jordanvalleypet01libb (find matches) Title: The Jordan Valley and Petra Year: 1905 (1900s) Authors: Libbey, William Subjects:  Publisher: New York, Putnam Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "The Israeli Palestinian security cooperation on the West Bank is crucial to keeping Hamas out..."  David Makovsky @WashInstitute Malcom Hoenlein @Confofpres...more

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• Don't overthrow a regime till you know who’ll replace it —Mike Eisenstadt, Washington Inst (@meisenstadt58)

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  Sep 14 2018

  Drawing: Diagram of barrel bombs on a CH-47 Chinook helicopter http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Mike Eisenstadt, Washington Institute (@meisenstadt58); anent Syria. The Syrian goal has been to return to itself control of the land. Problems: Turks; massive overcrowding; populations shipped from all over to Idlib (“dead-enders”). Turkey is afraid of refugees’ entering Turkey and wants to keep things as they are. The US is liable to strike very hard; Assad regime may be preparing use chlorine gas. Regime is warning that rebels are taking chemical into Idlib, which is simply not possible, so it’s a tactic to permit the regime to use them. In fact, the true WMD in Syria are barrel bombs, artillery and small arms. . . . Don't overthrow a regime till you know who’ll replace it. Erdogan’s risks in Syria: he’d like to preserve the Idlib status quo, having groups in there under his influence; he hates Assad; Iran is setting up beachheads in Syria from which to launch attacks against Israel. Is Erdogan willing to live with these monsters on his borders? Yup. He has pretty good relations with Salafist groups in there. Michael Eisenstadt is the Kahn Fellow and director of The Washington Institute's Military and Security Studies Program. A specialist in Persian Gulf and Arab-Israeli security affairs, he has published widely on irregular and conventional warfare, and nuclear weapons proliferation in the Middle East. Prior to joining the Institute in 1989, Mr. Eisenstadt worked as a military analyst with the U.S. government. ● https://www.wsj.com/articles/iran-signs-deal-with-syria-to-deepen-military-cooperation-1535376454 ● https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2018/09/iran-syria-reconstruction-russia-china-belt-road-initiative.html ● https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-rebels-exclusive/exclusive-turkey-boosts-arms-to-syrian-rebels-as-idlib-attack-looms-rebel-sources-idUSKCN1LS20I ● https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-turkey/turkey-reinforces-military-in-syrias-idlib-after-ceasefire-call-fails-idUSKCN1LS2NO ....more

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• "It's a show of force that demonstrates to the Russian public, that the Kremlin still has organizing potential..." @IlanBerman Malcom Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Sep 14 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:1900 troop review on Theatre Square, Moscow. Retinue of Nicholas II (the supreme bloodsucker himself is out of the frame). Maly Theatre in background center. Picture taken before present-day Metropol Hotel replaced the classic building on far right. Date 17 April 1900 Source Москва в фотографиях, 2004, ISBN 5874171584 Author A. A. Nasvetevich ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Vostok '18: "It's a show of force that demonstrates to the Russian public, that the Kremlin still has organizing potential..." @IlanBerman Malcom Hoenlein @Confofpres...more

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• Capital investment BOOM! new plants, eqpt, machinery, investment; “A capital-goods boom is not a sugar high.” –Steve Moore, Heritage Fdn (@StephenMoore)

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  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Steve Moore, Heritage Foundation, anent: The US is in an economic boom. A representative of The Resistance (a journo from WaPo) asserted that the boom is due not to Pres Trump but to Pres Obama [what?]. It’s especially a capital goods boom: there’s a big difference between a recovery (which Pres Obama did engender, albeit the weakest in history) and a boom, which we’re in now – consumer and investor confidence, employment rate, GDP rate (over 3% for two quarters), et al. The Home Depot CEO: “This is the best consumer market I’ve seen in 35 years.” Larry Kudlow: capital investment boom – new plants, eqpt, machinery, workers, where businesses expand operations because of optimism about the future. The country now has 7 million more jobs than people to fill them. “A capital-goods boom is not a sugar high.” The main beneficiaries of this are workers: after-tax incomes are now rising for the first time in 20 years. A tight labor market obviously favors workers. Also, employees get more hours, leading to bigger paychecks. Unfortunately, Pres Obama made welfare much more generous and raised taxes, leading to a big increase in the welfare state. If you’re able-bodied, you need to do at least some work in order to get subsidies. Obama issued three regulatory rulings a day – he increased the total by 100 million(??) – which Trump has reduced by the biggest retrenchment ever....more

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• "Now we have to turn our attention to anybody, al Qaeda included, in new theaters such as Africa, that are part of the global jihadi franchise..." @SebGorka

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  Sep 14 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: A sword maker of Damascus, Syria Datum circa 1900 Izvor Studiolum.com Autor uncredited) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Now we have to turn our attention to anybody, al Qaeda included, in new theaters such as Africa, that are part of the global jihadi franchise..." @SebGorka

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• Idlib: "If they do make the wrong strategic calculation, we will see not talk of Red Lines, but action..." @SebGorka @FNC

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  Sep 14 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: توضیح  English:  Identifier: cu31924091762140 (find matches) Title: History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria Year: 1903 (1900s) Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry), 1845-1933 Subjects: Civilization, Ancient History, Ancient Publisher: London : Grolier Society Contributing Library: Cornell University Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Idlib: "If they do make the wrong strategic calculation, we will see not talk of Red Lines, but action..."  @SebGorka @FNC...more

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• Trump economy vs Trump disruptions vs Democrats. @LaraMBrownPHD @SalenaZito

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  Sep 14 2018

  AUTHOR. (PhotoFête de Neuilly, Le Cirque Corvi, c.1900: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Trump economy vs Trump disruptions vs Democrats. @LaraMBrownPHD @SalenaZito

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• "Media leaking strategy:" 2 of 2: Now all their claims have disintegrated. Those who funded the dossier were the Clinton campaign and the DNC. More & more inventions to conceal that.@LeeSmithDc, @RealClearInvestigations

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  Photo: Richard Earlom (1743–1822) Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q2360939 Henry Fuseli (1741–1825) Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q122382 s:en:Author:Henry Fuseli Creator:John & Josiah Boydell William Shakespeare (1564–1616) Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q692 s:en:Author:William Shakespeare q:en:William Shakespeare Title King Lear Casting Out His Daughter Cordelia (Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 1, Scene 1) Description Print; Prints Date 1 August 1792 Medium Stipple engraving; published state Dimensions image: 17 3/8 x 23 11/16 in. (44.1 x 60.1 cm) plate: 19 1/2 x 25 1/8 in. (49.5 x 63.8 cm) sheet: 21 3/4 x 27 15/16 in. (55.3 x 71 cm) Current location Metropolitan Museum of Art Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q160236 Drawings and Prints Accession number 42.119.540 Credit line Gertrude and Thomas Jefferson Mumford Collection, Gift of Dorothy Quick Mayer, 1942 Source/Photographer https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/354230 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Media leaking strategy:" 2 of 2: Now all their claims have disintegrated. Those who funded the dossier were the Clinton campaign and the DNC. More & more inventions to conceal that.@LeeSmithDc, @RealClearInvestigations . . . The second phase – which began roughly a year into the Trump administration – has been more defensive, pushing back against congressional oversight committees that had uncovered irregularities in the FBI’s investigation of Trump. This phase has been marked by the willingness of press outlets to run stories backing off earlier reported leaks that proved to be deeply misleading – including the roots of the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign and the relationship between Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr and the opposition research firm that produced a central document of that probe, the largely discredited “Steele dossier.” This second phase has also included articles and opinion pieces – some written by journalists who have published classified information – dismissing suspicions of an orchestrated campaign against Trump as, to use the phrase invoked in a recent New Yorker article, a “conspiracy theory.” . . . See: https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/09/11/alabyrinthofanti-trumpleaksuponanti-trump_leaks.html...more

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• Washington intervention caused the 2008 collapse. @JohnTamny @RealClearMarkets

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  AUTHOR. (PhotoCrater from the 1962 "Sedan" nuclear test as part of Operation Plowshare. The 104 kiloton blast displaced 12 million tons of earth and created a crater 320 feet deep and 1,280 feet wide. (Look to the size of the roads in the bottom-right of the picture, and the observation deck at the lower-right edge of the crater, for a sense of scale) : ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Washington intervention caused the 2008 collapse.  @JohnTamny @RealClearMarkets https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2018/09/11/dontbefooledtherewasnothingfinancialaboutthe2008crisis_103409.html The retrospectives about 2008 are pouring in, and most continue to promote false narratives. The idea that the Fed's rate policies caused the economy-sapping rush into housing consumption is as easy to discredit as is the idea that housing's moderation caused markets to crater. As for the notion that a failure on the part of the feds to save Lehman being the cause of market upheaval, that's the Silicon Valley equivalent of suggesting that the region was weakened by the failures of Friendster, eToys and Webvan. Seemingly forgotten is that economies and markets gain crucial strength from periods of weakness and business failure. The latter is the only way for the bad and mediocre to be replaced by the good and brilliant. It's a reminder that there was nothing "financial" about '08. Government intervention in the natural workings of markets isn't situationally good. It always brings on peril. Logically it did in '08. The opinion piece can be found here....more

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• "Media leaking strategy:" 1 of 2: “A campaign to undermine President Trump from within the govt through illegal leaks of classified information, then thwart congressional investigators.” @LeeSmithDC, @RealClearInvestigations

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  Sep 14 2018

  Photo: William Shakespeare (1564–1616) Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q692 s:en:Author:William Shakespeare q:en:William Shakespeare Creator:David Garrick Benjamin Wilson (1721–1788) Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q817749 James MacArdell (1729–1765) Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q6138610 Title Mr. Garrick in the Character of King Lear (Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 3, Scene 1) Description Print; Prints Date 1761 Medium Mezzotint Dimensions Sheet (trimmed within plate): 16 1/8 × 20 1/4 in. (41 × 51.4 cm) Current location Metropolitan Museum of Art Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q160236 Drawings and Prints Accession number 53.600.1463 Credit line Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953 Source/Photographer https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/707788 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Media leaking strategy:" 1 of 2: “A campaign to undermine President Trump from within the govt through illegal leaks of classified information, then thwart congressional investigators.” — @LeeSmithDC, @RealClearInvestigations On Monday, the Justice Department released a handful of texts and other documents that included two former officials known for their anti-Trump bias – Peter Strzok and Lisa Page of the FBI – discussing the DOJ’s “media leak strategy.” Strzok now says, through his lawyer, that that strategy was aimed at preventing leaks. Nevertheless, days later he and Page approvingly mention forthcoming news articles critical of Trump associates. “The leaks that have been coming out of the FBI and DOJ since 2016 are unconscionable,” said retired FBI supervisory special agent James Gagliano. “There’s a difference between whistleblowing and leaking for self-serving or partisan purposes.” . . . See: https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/09/11/alabyrinthofanti-trumpleaksuponanti-trump_leaks.html...more

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• What does Kim want? What does Moon want? What does Xi want? What does Trump want? @DavidMaxwell161 @FDD

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: In "Operation Comeback," thousands of Chinese and North Korean Communist POWs were released from Prisoners of War compounds in Korea after renouncing Communism for freedom. Here, an aerial view shows a Chinese litter patients are carried from a C-54 air evacuation plane to a waiting ambulance following a flight from Korea. AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM#: 84916 AC Date  Source http://www.defenseimagery.mil/imageRetrieve.action?guid=16f0866debd4c96cc88daeb0e64b79e2b248514e&t=2 Author Unknown Permission (Reusing this file)  Public domain photograph from defenseimagery.mil. location Unknown VIRIN HF-SN-98-07414 Search DVIDs Gallery page http://www.defenseimagery.mil/imagery.html?&guid=16f0866debd4c96cc88daeb0e64b79e2b248514e) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow What does Kim want? What does Moon want?  What does Xi want? What does Trump want? @DavidMaxwell161 @FDD...more

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• Red China's Big Brother is cradle-to-grave digital surveillance and punishment. Charles Burton, Brock University. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Sep 14 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Publicity photo on the set of the CBS anthology television series Studio One. This was a presentation of George Orwell's 1984. L-R: scenic designer Kim Swados, Norma Crane, Eddie Albert, and director Paul Nickell Date 1953 Source eBay front back Author CBS Television Permission (Reusing this file)  Pre-1978, no mark The photo has no copyright markings on it as can be seen in the links above. United States Copyright Office page 2 "Visually Perceptible Copies The notice for visually perceptible copies should contain all three elements described below. They should appear together or in close proximity on the copies. 1 The symbol © (letter C in a circle); the word “Copyright”; or the abbreviation “Copr.” 2 The year of first publication. If the work is a derivative work or a compilation incorporating previously published material, the year date of first publication of the derivative work or compilation is sufficient. Examples of derivative works are translations or dramatizations; an example of a compilation is an anthology. The year may be omitted when a pictorial, graphic, or sculptural work, with accompanying textual matter, if any, is reproduced in or on greeting cards, postcards, stationery, jewelry, dolls, toys, or useful articles. 3 The name of the copyright owner, an abbreviation by which the name can be recognized, or a generally known alternative designation of owner.1 Example © 2007 Jane Doe.") ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Red China's Big Brother is cradle-to-grave digital surveillance and punishment.  Charles Burton, Brock University. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast...more

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• Burma failure: "Aung San Suu Kyi is, at worst, a participant in the genocide" —Imam Malik Mujahid, Faith Coalition to End Genocide in Burma (stopgenocide.org)

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  Sep 13 2018

  PhotoImage from page 85 of "Burma" (1900) Identifier: cu31924023498557 / Title: Burma / Year: 1900 (1900s) / Authors: Ferrars, Max Ferrars, Bertha / Subjects: Ethnology / Publisher: London : S. Low, Marston & Co., Ltd. / Contributing Library: Cornell University Library / Digitizing Sponsor: MSN / View Book Page: Book Viewer / About This Book: Catalog Entry / View All Images: All Images from Book http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Imam Malik Mujahid, Faith Coalition to End Genocide in Burma (stopgenocide.org) (TheFaithCoalition.org); anent: Rohingya genocide in Burma and the fearful silence of almost the entire world. Why are the Burmese doing this? In 2012, President Obama and Secretary Clinton visited there to much favorable fanfare; then Obama lifted all the sanctions on the [rapacious] junta. Forty-six human rights organizations asked him not to, but he did. As an outcome, what is happening currently is one of the most documented genocides of modern times. There are significant repercussions both inside and around Burma: now the Burmese military is going after the Christian Kachins; and, since nothing negative has happened in response, the military will continue its genocides. China also sees no action, so has put 3 million Uyghurs in concentration camps; and for the same reason India has severely maltreated Bangladeshis. The Burmese army committed mass rape, which it denies. Aung San Suu Kyi is at best a willing prisoner; at worst, a participant in the genocide. She constantly refuses to let the UN investigate. Would new sanctions reverse the crimes? Because 70% of the Burmese economy is spent on the military and full economic sanctions worked in the past, they’ll work now. President Trump can reverse the Obama orders, which lifted the original sanctions and so created conditions favorable to the genocide. The upshot of present US policy is that we’re still supporting a country that’s committing a genocide! We need to rescind Obama’s orders. [See: StopGenocide.org] American Buddhists might do well to become involved and take steps to prevent having their good name besmirched by Burma. In Congress and the Senate, both Foreign Relations Committees have passed resolutions but McConnell* refuses to let them come on to the floor. Uyghurs: Are Chinese authorities using the Burmese crimes as a rationale for crimes in Eastern Turkestan? Apparently yes; they think they can get away with murder. Is the North Korean military assisting in the Burmese persecution? Oh yes, highly likely – and, unfortunately, the Indians also endorse genocide, as they have gravely persecuted Christian tribes in their Northeast. .. .. .. Addison Mitchell McConnell Jr. is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Kentucky, a seat he was first elected to in 1984. A member of the Republican Party, he has additionally served as the Senate Majority Leader since January 3, 2015. ...more

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• Burma failure: Two young Reuters journalists who reported on the Burmese massacre of Rohingya are now sentenced seven years at hard labor. — Paul Mooney, journo based in Bangkok

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  . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Paul Mooney, independent journalist based in Bangkok, on the latest in Burma. Two young men who reported for Reuters on the apparent massacre of Rohingya are now sentenced to long, hard labor of seven years. The Burmese police handed them documents, then arrested the two for holding them. They’ve been charged under the leftover, colonial Official Secrets Act. A few governments have issued statements, and human rights groups have been articulate. Thai people are not paying much attention; and the vast majority of Burmese think the Rohingya, who've been there for at least a thousand years, are there illegally. Crime against humanity: the UN said the Burmese military shd be investigated for genocide. Reuters has publicized this worldwide but the Burmese military hasn’t backed down, as it thinks no one will do anything about it. DPRK is now proliferating weapons to Burma. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-journalists-senate/u-s-senators-urge-pompeo-to-press-for-release-of-reuters-journalists-jailed-in-myanmar-idUSKCN1 LR2LE...more

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• "He identified that this president was being undermined from within..." Who is Rich Higgins & What is to be done? @MonicaCrowley

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  Sep 13 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Creator:William Sharp Benjamin West (1738–1820) Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q313498 Creator:John & Josiah Boydell William Shakespeare (1564–1616) Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q692 s:en:Author:William Shakespeare q:en:William Shakespeare Title  "Off, off, you lendings–Come unbutton here" (Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 3, Scene 4) Object type Print; Prints Description  In one of a series of engravings Boydell published to reproduce paintings displayed in the Shakespeare Gallery, King Lear has been driven out by his daughters and is buffeted by a storm on a heath. As the king displays his unsettled mind by tearing off his clothes, the Duke of Kent begs him to take shelter. Edgar, another outcast disguised as Tom O'Bedlam, sits at lower right near the Fool. Completing the group, the Duke of Gloucester raises a torch against the darkness. The American born painter West made his name in England painting neoclassical subjects admired by George III, together with heroic modern histories, but here uses a swirling baroque mode suited to a subject that contemporaries would have seen as echoing the madness that afflicted their own king from 1788. Date 1793 Medium Etching and engraving Dimensions  image: 17 3/8 x 23 5/16 in. (44.2 x 59.2 cm) sheet: 19 1/4 x 24 7/16 in. (48.9 x 62.1 cm) Current location  Metropolitan Museum of Art Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q160236 Drawings and Prints Accession number  24.63.1869 Credit line Gift of Georgiana W. Sargent, in memory of John Osborne Sargent, 1924 Source/Photographer  https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/339842http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "He identified that this president was being undermined from within…" Who is Rich Higgins & What is to be done? @MonicaCrowley http://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/406080-whistleblower-speaks-out-on-intelligence-communitys-anti-trump...more

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• What does Kim want from a second meeting with Trump? Bruce Bechtol @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: A convoy takes Chinese and North Korean POWs to Inchon, Korea, on their journey to freedom during Operation Comeback. A military band welcomes them. (U.S. Air Force photo)) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow What does Kim want from a second meeting with Trump? Bruce Bechtol @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast "North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa: Enabling Violence and Instability" by Bruce E. Bechtol Jr.  https://www.amazon.com/Korean-Military-Proliferation-Middle-Africa/dp/0813175887 North Korea has posed a threat to stability in Northeast Asia for decades. Since Kim Jong-un assumed power, this threat has both increased and broadened. Since 2011, the small, isolated nation has detonated nuclear weapons multiple times, tested a wide variety of ballistic missiles, expanded naval and ground systems that threaten South Korea, and routinely employs hostile rhetoric. Another threat it poses has been less recognized: North Korea presents a potentially greater risk to American interests by exporting its weapons systems to other volatile regions worldwide. In North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa, Bruce E. Bechtol Jr. analyzes relevant North Korean military capabilities, what arms the nation provides, and to whom, how it skirts its sanctions, and how North Korea's activities can best be contained. He traces illicit networks that lead to state and nonstate actors in the Middle East, including Syria, Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas, and throughout Africa, including at least a dozen nations. The potential proliferation of nuclear and chemical weapons technology and the vehicles that carry it, including ballistic missiles and artillery, represent a broader threat than the leadership in Pyongyang. Including training and infrastructure support, North Korea's profits may range into the billions of dollars, all concealed in illicit networks and front companies so complex that the nation struggles to track and control them. Bechtol not only presents an accurate picture of the current North Korean threat―he also outlines methodologies that Washington and the international community must embrace in order to contain it....more

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• North Korea chemical weapons sales to Syria. Bruce Bechtol @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Sep 13 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: Air War in Korea--An American GI questions a North Korean laborer on bomb damage inflicted on the Chinnampo smelter plant by B-29 Superforts of the U.S. Far East Air Forces Bomber Command. Workers said the plant was completely knocked out. A total of 248 tons of bombs plastered the target during August, 1950. AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM#: 78223 AC Date  Source http://www.defenseimagery.mil/imageRetrieve.action?guid=f6cbbec2dfdee6cae90a8c8208167dbce4053898&t=2 Author Unknown Permission (Reusing this file)  Public domain photograph from defenseimagery.mil. location Unknown VIRIN HF-SN-98-07283 Search DVIDs Gallery page http://www.defenseimagery.mil/imagery.html?&guid=f6cbbec2dfdee6cae90a8c8208167dbce4053898 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow North Korea chemical weapons sales to Syria. Bruce Bechtol @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast "North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa: Enabling Violence and Instability" by Bruce E. Bechtol Jr.  https://www.amazon.com/Korean-Military-Proliferation-Middle-Africa/dp/0813175887 North Korea has posed a threat to stability in Northeast Asia for decades. Since Kim Jong-un assumed power, this threat has both increased and broadened. Since 2011, the small, isolated nation has detonated nuclear weapons multiple times, tested a wide variety of ballistic missiles, expanded naval and ground systems that threaten South Korea, and routinely employs hostile rhetoric. Another threat it poses has been less recognized: North Korea presents a potentially greater risk to American interests by exporting its weapons systems to other volatile regions worldwide. In North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa, Bruce E. Bechtol Jr. analyzes relevant North Korean military capabilities, what arms the nation provides, and to whom, how it skirts its sanctions, and how North Korea's activities can best be contained. He traces illicit networks that lead to state and nonstate actors in the Middle East, including Syria, Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas, and throughout Africa, including at least a dozen nations. The potential proliferation of nuclear and chemical weapons technology and the vehicles that carry it, including ballistic missiles and artillery, represent a broader threat than the leadership in Pyongyang. Including training and infrastructure support, North Korea's profits may range into the billions of dollars, all concealed in illicit networks and front companies so complex that the nation struggles to track and control them. Bechtol not only presents an accurate picture of the current North Korean threat―he also outlines methodologies that Washington and the international community must embrace in order to contain it....more

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• North Korea missile provocations as advertisement to its customers. Bruce Bechtol @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Sep 13 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:A B-29 Superfortress bomber dropping its bombs ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow North Korea missile provocations as advertisement to its customers. Bruce Bechtol @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast "North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa: Enabling Violence and Instability" by Bruce E. Bechtol Jr.  https://www.amazon.com/Korean-Military-Proliferation-Middle-Africa/dp/0813175887 North Korea has posed a threat to stability in Northeast Asia for decades. Since Kim Jong-un assumed power, this threat has both increased and broadened. Since 2011, the small, isolated nation has detonated nuclear weapons multiple times, tested a wide variety of ballistic missiles, expanded naval and ground systems that threaten South Korea, and routinely employs hostile rhetoric. Another threat it poses has been less recognized: North Korea presents a potentially greater risk to American interests by exporting its weapons systems to other volatile regions worldwide. In North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa, Bruce E. Bechtol Jr. analyzes relevant North Korean military capabilities, what arms the nation provides, and to whom, how it skirts its sanctions, and how North Korea's activities can best be contained. He traces illicit networks that lead to state and nonstate actors in the Middle East, including Syria, Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas, and throughout Africa, including at least a dozen nations. The potential proliferation of nuclear and chemical weapons technology and the vehicles that carry it, including ballistic missiles and artillery, represent a broader threat than the leadership in Pyongyang. Including training and infrastructure support, North Korea's profits may range into the billions of dollars, all concealed in illicit networks and front companies so complex that the nation struggles to track and control them. Bechtol not only presents an accurate picture of the current North Korean threat―he also outlines methodologies that Washington and the international community must embrace in order to contain it....more

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• North Korea gun-running to Egypt, Uganda, Eritrea, and sub-Saharan Africa: Bruce Bechtol. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Sep 13 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Identifier: livingstonesstan00jone (find matches) Title: Livingstone's and Stanley's travels in Africa also, the adventures of Mungo Parke, Clapperton, DuChaillu, Baker and other famous explorers, in the land of the palm and the gorilla Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors: Jones, Charles H Subjects: Missions Publisher: New York : Hurst Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow North Korea gun-running to Egypt, Uganda, Eritrea, and Sub Saharan Africa: Bruce Bechtol. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast "North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa: Enabling Violence and Instability" by Bruce E. Bechtol Jr.  https://www.amazon.com/Korean-Military-Proliferation-Middle-Africa/dp/0813175887 North Korea has posed a threat to stability in Northeast Asia for decades. Since Kim Jong-un assumed power, this threat has both increased and broadened. Since 2011, the small, isolated nation has detonated nuclear weapons multiple times, tested a wide variety of ballistic missiles, expanded naval and ground systems that threaten South Korea, and routinely employs hostile rhetoric. Another threat it poses has been less recognized: North Korea presents a potentially greater risk to American interests by exporting its weapons systems to other volatile regions worldwide. In North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa, Bruce E. Bechtol Jr. analyzes relevant North Korean military capabilities, what arms the nation provides, and to whom, how it skirts its sanctions, and how North Korea's activities can best be contained. He traces illicit networks that lead to state and nonstate actors in the Middle East, including Syria, Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas, and throughout Africa, including at least a dozen nations. The potential proliferation of nuclear and chemical weapons technology and the vehicles that carry it, including ballistic missiles and artillery, represent a broader threat than the leadership in Pyongyang. Including training and infrastructure support, North Korea's profits may range into the billions of dollars, all concealed in illicit networks and front companies so complex that the nation struggles to track and control them. Bechtol not only presents an accurate picture of the current North Korean threat―he also outlines methodologies that Washington and the international community must embrace in order to contain it....more

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• Andrew Gillum of Florida speaks against the US Embassy in Jerusalem and speaks in defense of Hamas rockets. @AaronKleinShow @BreitbartNews

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  Sep 13 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:The Ponce De Leon, St. Augustine, Florida date_range Date 01/01/1902 person Contributors Detroit Photographic Co. collections In Collections United States. Photochrome prints, 1890s United States. Photochrome prints, 1890s place Location Saint Augustine Beach (Fla.), -81.26528, 29.85056 create Source Library of Congress link Link http://www.loc.gov/ copyright Rights advisory Public Domain Explore:  ponce de leon ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Andrew Gillum of Florida speaks against the US Embassy in Jerusalem and speaks in defense of Hamas rockets. @AaronKleinShow @BreitbartNews https://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2018/09/06/andrew-gillum-trumps-jerusalem-embassy-move-was-unnecessary-and-a-provocation/ https://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2018/09/06/gillum-israel-uses-gaza-terror-rockets-to-justify-its-actions-against-palestinians/...more

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• "It is time." The end in Afghanistan. @KounalakisM

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  Sep 13 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Photograph of Afghan policemen sporting long-barelled rifles, taken in Kabul, Afghanistan, by John Burke, 1879-80. Burke accompanied the British army into Afghanistan in 1878 and worked steadily in the hostile environment of Afghanistan and the North West Frontier Province, recording military and topographical scenes as well as the peoples of the country during the Second Afghan War (1878-80). Burke also photographed many darbars or meetings that took place between British combat leaders and Afghan chiefs which led to the uneasy peace treaties characteristic of the campaign. His two-year Afghan expedition produced a visual document which resulted in his achieving significance as the photographer of the region of the Great Game (concerning Anglo-Russian territorial rivalry). In the winter of 1879, through to the summer of 1880, the British force called the Kabul Field Force occupied Kabul. Its commander General Roberts was tasked with securing Kabul and maintaining lines of communication via the Khyber Pass with the rest of the British forces, meanwhile negotiations to bring an end to the war and place a new Amir on the throne of Kabul were going on. Burke spent many months in Kabul and took a series of images of its diverse residents. Date 1879 Source The British Library - Online Gallery Auteur John Burke (1843 - 1900) ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "It is time."  The end in Afghanistan. @KounalakisM https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article217947945.html?utmsource=Hoover+Daily+Report&utmcampaign=3580060d02-HDRCOPY01&utmmedium=email&utmterm=0_21b1edff3c-3580060d02-72527561...more

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• Gavin Newsom and Sacramento guiding the Progressives to naming the official state sport as Surfing. @HooverWhalen @HooverInst

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  Sep 13 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:File:Attempting to launch a boat in the surf at Nome, Alaska, ca ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Gavin Newsom and Sacramento guiding the Progressives to naming the official state sport as Surfing. @HooverWhalen @HooverInst https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/bill-whalen/article217881440.html https://www.hoover.org/research/will-corporate-california-go-way-quotas https://www.hoover.org/research/blue-wave-rules-california-even-when-choosing-state-sport...more

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• "The key to their definition was that any planet that exists has got to "clear its orbit of other objects, which is an absurd statement..."" Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Sep 13 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:nglish: PIA19873: Flying Past Pluto (Animation) IMAGE: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19873 https://blogs.nasa.gov/pluto/2015/08/28/to-pluto-and-beyond-animating-new-horizons-flight-through-the-pluto-system/ ANIMATION: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/archive/PIA19873FLYTHROUGHANIMATION_V5.mp4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds_OlZnV9qk This dramatic view of the Pluto system is as NASA's New Horizons spacecraft saw it in July 2015. The animation, made with real images taken by New Horizons, begins with Pluto flying in for its close-up on July 14, 2015; we then pass behind Pluto and see the atmosphere glow in sunlight before the sun passes behind Pluto's largest moon, Charon. The movie ends with New Horizons' departure, looking back on each body as thin crescents. The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, designed, built, and operates the New Horizons spacecraft, and manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. The Southwest Research Institute, based in San Antonio, leads the science team, payload operations and encounter science planning. New Horizons is part of the New Frontiers Program managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Date 14 July 2015 Source http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA19873.jpg Author NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "The key to their definition was that any planet that exists has got to "clear its orbit of other objects, which is an absurd statement..."" Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/science-paper-slams-iau-planet-definition/...more

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• "ISRO (India Space Agency) had event in which they revealed their flight suit..." Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Sep 13 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Dr. Vikram A. Sarabhai, (left) Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and head of India's Department of Atomic Energy and Dr. Thomas O. Paine, NASA Administrator, sign an agreement to cooperate in an unprecedented experiment using a space satellite to bring instructional television programs to some 5,000 Indian villages. The Applications Technology Satellite 6 (ATS 6)satellite launched May 30, 1974, became available to the ISRO for one year on August 1, 1975. ATS 6 acted as a broadcasting station in space, sending health and educational television programs to inexpensive ground stations in remote villages of India. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "ISRO (India Space Research Organization) had an event in which they revealed their flight suit..." Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com...more

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• Tax relief was important on both supply and demand sides, but esp Trump’s promise not to issue unpredictable regs. People converting to full-time jobs with benefits, which is hugely important if you have children. — Sen Jim Talent of Missouri

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  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Post card: Missouri New Capitol Building, river view, Jefferson City, Mo. .. Senator Jim Talent of Missouri, in re: The man from Missouri speaks facts. Missouri is an agricultural and manufacturing state with a good tourism component. We have upward pressure on wages – we’re sharing in the general prosperity. Tax relief was important on both the supply and the demand sides, but especially Trump’s promise not to issue unpredictable and [negative] regulations. People are converting to full-time jobs with benefits, which is hugely important if you have children. .. Addendum: "Supply-side economics is a macroeconomic theory arguing that economic growth can be most effectively created by lowering taxes and decreasing regulation. According to supply-side economics, consumers will then benefit from a greater supply of goods and services at lower prices and employment will increase. It was started by economist Robert Mundell during the Ronald Reagan administration. The Laffer curve is one of the main theoretical constructs of supply-side economics, the idea that lower tax rates when tax level is too high will actually boost government revenue because of higher economic growth."...more

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• Are we safe? Not within acceptable risk, but more than 17 years ago. Trump broke the defense sequester and is rebuilding the military. We’re opposing enemies and supporting friends in the Middle East; the major prize there is Iraq. — Sen Jim Talent

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  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow .. Image: “The major prize in that area is Iraq: the first thing is to get back into Iraq and add those partners.” Here, a suggested reconstruction of the appearance of a Sumerian ziggurat, probably from the Early Bronze Age (21st century BCE). Mesopotamia’s ancient and astonishing history adds context to the incalculable value of todays Iraq. Senator Jim Talent of Missouri, anent the question, Are we safe? Not within acceptable risk, but more so than we were 17 years ago. Trump has broken the defense sequester and begun to rebuild the military. “No enemy in the field has done as much harm to the American military as the sequester did.” ---Secy James Mattis. . . We’re opposing our enemies and supporting our friends in the Middle East; but . . . [dangers and competitors abound], none of which existed 15 years ago. Syria is the breeding ground for future mass-murderers. Bad, bad actors come from bad circumstances, as we see from the history of WWI and WWII. The major prize in that area is Iraq: the first thing is to get back into Iraq and add those partners. At a minimum, get enough inv0lved to keep Iran from having a land bridge to the Mediterranean – make it spend [too much] to get there. There are significant ways to apply pressure to Putin and Xi without getting mired up in Syria. Trump is doing some very good things against the Chinese. We cannot allow Xi, Assad and Putin to consolidate power there. East Asia— the fleet needed to protect the region: 355 ships is the minimum. The biggest and most important American influence is the presence of US naval vessels. Obama reduced the pie by moving vessels out of the Atlantic. We need to delay retirement of some of the Ticonderoga cruisers; we must get holds in the water. Also vital that we bld the missile frigate – it’s lighter, less expensive. Will Congress cooperate? If the president, Secretary and chiefs present the matter in a powerful way, I think Congress with give them basically what they want. Deepest bipartisan concern: China. .. .. .. Addendum: By 1995 the older guided missile cruisers and destroyers were replaced by the Ticonderoga-class cruisers and Arleigh Burke-class destroyers. Nearly all modern frigates are equipped with some form of offensive or defensive missiles, and as such are rated as guided-missile frigates (FFG). Improvements in surface-to-air missiles (e.g., the Eurosam Aster 15) allow modern guided-missile frigates to form the core of many modern navies and to be used as a fleet defense platform, without the need for specialized anti-air warfare frigates....more

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• Russiagate George Papadopolous starts talking about Alexander Downer. @Chuckrossdc @dailycaller

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:The Ivy Market Grill, Henrietta Street, London ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Russiagate George Papadopolous starts talking about Alexander Downer. @Chuckrossdc @dailycaller https://dailycaller.com/2018/09/11/donald-trump-jr-mueller-good-morning-america/

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• What's in the unredacted FISA warrant application & What was the Strzok and Page "media leak strategy?" @AndrewCMcCarthy

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:on  Director Hoover receives the National Security Medal from President Dwight Eisenhower on May 27, 1955, as then-Vice President Richard Nixon and others look on. Date 27 May 1955 Source https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/the-hoover-legacy-40-years-after-part-4 Author FBI.gov ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow What's in the unredacted FISA warrant application & What was the Strzok and Page "media leak strategy?" @AndrewCMcCarthy...more

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• Uncovering a secret private government built by Democratic presidential candidates and rich men. @Chris_C_Horner @CEI

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  Sep 12 2018

  AUTHOR. (PhotoMeet John Doe (1941)  Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan, Spring Byington, James Gleason, Gene Lockhart, Rod La Rocque, and Regis Toomey. Directed by Frank Capra.: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Uncovering a secret private government built by Democratic presidential candidates and rich men.  @ChrisCHorner @CEI https://cei.org/content/cei-report-details-scheme-privately-funding-governors-offices-push-partisan-climate-change...more

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• 'We're in a capital goods boom....And I don't see why that has to stop..." @Larry_Kudlow Director, National Economic Council

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVA-42) at the New York Naval Shipyard. The overhaul lasted from 20 September to 16 December 1960. Date 1960 Source U.S. Navy photo [1] from the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVA-42) 1961 cruise book available at Navysite.de Author USN ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow 'We're in a capital goods boom....And I don't see why that has to stop..."  @Larry_Kudlow Director, National Economic Council...more

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• “New York’s economy is booming. Mayor Bloomberg brought tech to New York for the first time & in record time he created a high-end tech university on Roosevelt Island. Our economy is humming in fashion, finance, tech.” — Liz Peek, The Hill

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  . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Photo: Oscar de la Renta's shop in Manhattan - possibly the most expensive boutique in the country.  .. Elizabeth Peek, Fox News and The Hill, anent the fact that we now have 201,000 new jobs; and finally, after a decade of desuetude, wage growth is accelerating. The NFIB reports an all-time record in small-business optimism – investments in plants, hiring new people. Consumers are feeling terrific, too. People are trading up to better jobs and report of a record high in number of quits (people quit when they see a better prospect, esp higher wages). Fewer regulatins and lower taxes — everything is contributing to gains. A tremendous uptick in consumer confidence. Seventeen years after 9/11, New York looks awfully strong. Credit goes in large part to Mayor Bloomberg: he brought tech to New York for the first time, and, after a few years, New York became third nationally in IPOs; and in record time he created a high-end tech university on Roosevelt Island. Our economy is humming in fashion, finance, tech. What can go wrong and why? A shortage of qualified workers, incl truck drivers. Veteran, trained employees are hard to find. Truck drivers’s wages are up over 10%. Older people will work longer; many people are coming off the sidelines in to the job market. To boot, there are always people with specialized abilities who are queuing up to enter the US....more

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• The Boom: "Not only are wages accelerating...but people are trading up to better jobs..." @LizPeek @FNC

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  AUTHOR. (PhotoUS 25 (Gratiot Avenue) in Detroit in 1941: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Boom: "Not only are wages accelerating...but people are trading up to better jobs..."  @LizPeek @FNC Liz Peek: Angry Obama still doesn't get it as he hits the Campaign Trail Liz Peek, Fox News, September 10, 2018 President Obama is mighty confused. In a fiery campaign speech at the University of Illinois, the former president suggested that Donald Trump was elected in 2016 by the “powerful and the privileged.” He also railed at voters for failing to show up, and for permitting such a damaging “threat to our democracy.”   But here’s the truth: it wasn’t the powerful elites that voted for Donald Trump in Michigan and Ohio. It was blue collar workers who felt they had been overlooked by Obama and by Democrats. Who were offended by the headlong rush into identity politics, and by policies that protected everything but their jobs and their livelihoods. It was voters in Ohio and Pennsylvania, who had seen local industries move overseas, and it was voters in Michigan, who were aggrieved that Hillary Clinton took their votes for granted. The election in 2016 was not unique. Americans also rebuked the president in 2010, when Democrats lost 63 seats in the House – one of the worst pummelings in modern times -- and again in 2012, when Republicans took over the Senate. Voters also pushed back by electing an unprecedented number of GOP candidates in state legislatures and governors’ mansions while Obama occupied the White House. Were those elections the work of lobbyists and other nefarious interests? No, those elections were a wake-up call that Obama and his party failed to heed. They were so busy slicing and dicing the population into groups that could be won over by targeted policies, they forgot to worry about the country overall. President Obama is angry that President Trump is getting credit for the booming economy; he figures he got the ball rolling. He is correct that his administration managed to stave off a depression but for years, even as voters listed jobs and the economy as their number one concerns, Obama’s focus was elsewhere. Nothing better highlights his misguided ambitions and priorities than the Paris Climate accord. Obama embraced that toothless celebration of global cooperation even though it would hobble the U.S. economy and its powerhouse energy industries while enabling the continued expansion of China, by far the world’s biggest carbon emitter. Similarly, Obama’s enthusiasm for the Trans Pacific Partnership, a trade agreement judged by the World Bank as not beneficial to the U.S., reflected his appetite for legacy and indifference to putting America first, as President Trump might say. Under President Trump, the economic expansion, already long in the tooth, has accelerated. There is no denying that his election ushered in an immediate surge in business optimism, which has kicked off a steady rise in capital investment, key to productivity and wage gains....more

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• "Donald Trump is going to be on the campaign trail from now until the Elections...." @LizPeek @FNC

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Eisenhower presidential campaign in Baltimore, Maryland, September 1952 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Donald Trump is going to be on the campaign trail from now until the Elections...." @LizPeek @FNC

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• "The great wealth of the West is now at an end. Yes, it can be rebuilt, but..." 1 of 2: Sovereignty dislodges Anti-Sovereighty (Globalism) in the 21st Century. Gregory Copley.

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  Sep 12 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: The Temple of Hercules Victor, Rome, built in the mid 2nd century BC, most likely by Lucius Mummius Achaicus, who won the Achaean War .) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "The great wealth of the West is now at an end.  Yes, it can be rebuilt, but..."  1 of 2: Sovereignty dislodges Anti-Sovereighty (Globalism) in the 21st Century.  Gregory Copley. Sovereignty in the 21st Century and the Crisis for Identity, Cultures, Nation-States, and Civilizations by Gregory R. Copley...more

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• Hunt for Anonymous: "The places where we should be reading articles by Anonymous from are...places such as North Korea." @Crosett

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Hunt for Anonymous: "The places where we should be reading articles by Anonymous from are...places such as North Korea."  @Crosett https://pjmedia.com/claudiarosett/a-modest-proposal-for-anonymous/ A Modest Proposal for “Anonymous” By Claudia Rosett As a means of spreading mistrust, confusion and distraction within the Trump administration, last week's New York Times Op-ed by "Anonymous" was a master stroke. Vladimir Putin himself could hardly have done better. Suspicion is rife, the administration has been left to rummage through its own ranks for this incognito writer who claims and lauds subversion of the president by his own high-level staff. Relays of senior officials have been left to deny authorship, without being able to prove the truth of their denials unless the real author is discovered....more

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• "The great wealth of the West is now at an end. Yes, it can be rebuilt, but..." 2 of 2: Sovereignty dislodges Anti-Sovereighty (Globalism) in the 21st Century. Gregory Copley.

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Construction on the Flavian Amphitheatre, more commonly known as the Colosseum, began during the reign of Vespasian ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "The great wealth of the West is now at an end. Yes, it can be rebuilt, but..."  2 of 2: Sovereignty dislodges Anti-Sovereighty (Globalism) in the 21st Century. Gregory Copley. Sovereignty in the 21st Century and the Crisis for Identity, Cultures, Nation-States, and Civilizations by Gregory R. Copley...more

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• US Army rearms for a ground war in Europe. @PappalardoJoe @Popmechanics

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  AUTHOR. (PhotoA battery of Katyusha launchers fires at German forces during the Battle of Stalingrad, 6 October 1942: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow US Army rearms for a ground war in Europe. @PappalardoJoe @Popmechanics https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a23062566/us-army-adds-weapons-and-soldiers-to-europes-wwiii-chessboard/?#=

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• Aramco IPO fail, Venezuels petro fail, Turkey lira fail, Brexit unknown. @RealConstable

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: Estación de Servicio Lara, Coro, Estado Falcón, Venezuela) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Aramco IPO fail, Venezuels petro fail, Turkey lira fail, Brexit unknown. @RealConstable https://www.forbes.com/sites/simonconstable/2018/08/31/venezuelas-latest-lurch-into-insanity/#6bc6017d7185

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• Small US firms have been angry for years at lobbyists: Washington’s [kowtowing to megamultinational lobbyists], demand that they either go overseas to mfr or else compete with Chinese-subsidized goods, where they can't possibly win. –Alan Tonelson

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  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact   http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Image: Washington lobbyist , Alan Tonelson, an independent consultant who blogs at RealityChek, anent: The just-announced and soon-coming $200 billion of US tariffs on Chinese goods, under Section 301 of 1974; added up, there’ll be tariffs on all Chinese imports into the US. China, being in an economically awkward position, is depending on US political interests, basically waiting for domestic US powers to protest and move to prevent the tariffs. China is currently facing a problem not seen in decades; inflation. They don’t seem to have a Plan B. . . . US mfg is no monolith: our large firms are spread worldwide, smaller ones are local —and have been ticked off for years in seeing Washington [under the heavy influence of megamultinational firms’s lobbyists] demand that they either go overseas to manufacture or else compete with Chinese-subsidized goods, against which they cannot possibly compete. All this has nothing at all to do with free markets! China as thief, abuser, pirate: no one is pushing back. The only criticism of Pres Trump is that he’s going solo, when he should instead form an alliance with Europe and others. Problem: they, also, engage in protectionist policies and are deeply uneager to press that case lest they be revealed....more

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• Vostok 18, from 11-18 Sept, huge Russian military exercise with 300K personnel. China is sending a regiment, incl many General Staff observers; goal is training to protect Asia from an invading force [the US]. -- Gordon Chang, Daily Beast

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  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact   http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules    Twitter: @BatchelorShow Image: Arms of Chita Oblast, seat of the Vostok 18 military exercises.  Chita Oblast was a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) in southeast Siberia. Its administrative center was the city of Chita (home of the second-largest Buddhist monastery in Russia). .It had extensive international borders with China and Mongolia and internal borders with Irkutsk and Amur Oblasts, as well as with the Buryat and the Sakha Republics. On March 1, 2008, Chita Oblast merged with Agin-Buryat Autonomous Okrug to form Zabaykalsky Krai. ,, Gordon Chang, Daily Beast, anent Vostok 18, from 11 to 18 Sept.,the largest military exercise Russia has run in a long time, with 300,000 personnel. China is sending a regiment and lots of planes and tanks, as well as many General Staff observers. The goal of the exercise is to protect Asia from an invading force (the US). Most important aspect is symbolic: Russia and China are almost allies . . . China has never done land manouevers like this before. . . . Korea is one country with two governments. . . . Japan and many South Koreans want the US to stay; unfortunately, our president wants to leave. Fortunately, he’s trying to slow down the South Korean movement to aid North Korea, but we’re not doing enough. Chinese-Russian border: danger, perhaps not immediately; but in the foreseeable future China will become more overt in its claim [from the Ch‘ing Dynasty] to a great deal of Siberia. “Denuclearization” of Korea to means to Kim: US removes its nukes from South Korea, leaves South Korea entirely, maybe leaves Japan, and only thereafter will Kim consider denuclearizing. Moon Jae-in is not too interested in liberty in South Korea or democratic governance, and surely not in free markets or capitalism; all Moon wants is reunification of the peninsula. .. MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will next month hold its biggest war games since the fall of the Soviet Union, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday, a massive military exercise that will also involve the Chinese and Mongolian armies. The exercise, called Vostok-2018 (East-2018), will take place in central and eastern Russian military districts and involve almost 300,000 troops, more than 1,000 military aircraft, two of Russia's naval fleets, and all of its airborne units, Shoigu said in a statement. The manoeuvres will take place at a time of heightened tension between the West and Russia, which is concerned about what it says is an unjustified build-up of the NATO military alliance on its western flank. NATO says it has beefed up its forces in eastern Europe to deter potential Russian military action after Moscow annexed Ukraine's Crimea in 2014 and backed a pro-Russian uprising in eastern Ukraine. The war games, which will take place from Sept. 11-15, are likely to worry Japan, which has already complained about a Russian military build-up in the Far East, something Moscow has linked to Tokyo's roll-out of the Aegis U.S. missile system. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is due to attend a forum in the Russian city of Vladivostok over the same period, and a Japanese Foreign Ministry official said on Tuesday that Tokyo always paid attention to shifts in Russian-Chinese military cooperation. Shoigu said the war games would be the biggest since a Soviet military exercise, Zapad-81 (West-81) in 1981. "In some ways they will repeat aspects of Zapad-81, but in other ways the scale will be bigger," Shoigu told reporters, while visiting the Russian region of Khakassia. Shoigu said that both Russia's Pacific and Northern Fleets would take part, while the Russian Ministry of Defence has said that Chinese and Mongolian military units will also participate. "A MORE ASSERTIVE RUSSIA" Asked if the cost of holding such a massive military exercise was justified at a time when Russia is faced with higher social spending demands, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said such war games were essential. "The country's ability to defend itself in the current international situation, which is often aggressive and unfriendly towards our country, means (the exercise) is justified," Peskov told reporters on a conference call. When asked if China's involvement meant Moscow and Beijing were moving towards an alliance, Peskov said it showed that the two were cooperating in all areas. China and Russia have taken part in joint military drills before but not on such a large scale. NATO spokesman Dylan White said that Russia had briefed the alliance on the planned exercise in May and that NATO would monitor it. Russia had invited military attaches from NATO countries based in Moscow to observe the war games, an offer he said was under consideration. "All nations have the right to exercise their armed forces, but it is essential that this is done in a transparent and predictable manner," White said in an emailed statement. "Vostok demonstrates Russia’s focus on exercising large-scale conflict. It fits into a pattern we have seen over some time: a more assertive Russia, significantly increasing its defence budget and its military presence." Shoigu this month announced the start of snap combat readiness checks in central and eastern military districts ahead of the planned exercise. "Imagine 36,000 armoured vehicles - tanks, armoured personnel carriers and armoured infantry vehicles - moving and working simultaneously, and that all this, naturally, is being tested in conditions as close as possible to military ones," Shoigu said on Tuesday. (Additional reporting by Katya Golubkova and Andrey Kuzmin in Moscow, Robin Emmott in Brussels and Elaine Lies in Tokyo; Editing by Andrew Bolton) Read more at https://www.thestar.com.my/news/world/2018/08/28/russia-to-hold-biggest-war-games-in-nearly-four-decades--agencies/#xquhBhA6qRFSVmBg.99...more

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• Hunt for Anonymous: "How they think this doesn't undermine the Republic and the Constitution is galling." @SebGorka @TheHill

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Anonymous - Highway Sign image Creative Commons Images Anonymous by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Alpha Stock Images ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Hunt for Anonymous: "How they think this doesn't undermine the Republic and the Constitution is galling."  @SebGorka @TheHill http://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/405783-barack-obama-the-resister-in-chief

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• Iraqis in Basra rise up and burn the hated Iranian consulate & What is to be done? @MichaelPregent @HudsonInstitute

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  https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/09/basra-al-abadi-condemns-unacceptable-iran-consulate-attack-180910153825142.htmlAUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Iraqis in Basra rise up and burn the hated Iranian consulate & What is to be done? @MichaelPregent @HudsonInstitute https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/09/basra-al-abadi-condemns-unacceptable-iran-consulate-attack-180910153825142.html

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• Washington is transfixed by the Woodward and NYT Anonymous show. @DavidMDrucker @WashingtonExaminer @JohnFund @NRO

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Washington is transfixed by the Woodward and NYT Anonymous show. @DavidMDrucker @WashingtonExaminer @JohnFund @NRO

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• Did Obama help or hinder the seven CA CDs that Pelosi aims to win? @DavidMDrucker @WashingtoinExaminer @JohnFund @NRO

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  AUTHOR. (Photo37° 46′ 04.81″ N, 122° 28′ 00.83″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap. View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth info Description  English: Newly instated Nancy Pelosi Drive in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, in honor of the city's longtime congresswoman. Date 3 August 2012 Source Own work Author Haha169: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Did Obama help or hinder the seven CA CDs that Pelosi aims to win?  @DavidMDrucker @WashingtoinExaminer @JohnFund @NRO...more

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• "Or are they working toward inter-operability?" What is the purpose of Russia's massive war game with the PRC, Vostok '18? @PeterZwack

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Or are they working toward inter-operability?" What is the purpose of Russia's massive war game with the PRC, Vostok '18?   @PeterZwack https://nationalinterest.org/feature/russia-and-china’s-growing-military-interaction-surprised-30822 The Russia-Eurasian Fellow at Natl Defense Univ. Senior Army Intel officer in Europe (2006-08) & Afghanistan (08-09). U.S. Defense Attache to Russia (12-14)...more

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• Afghanistan quagmire equals Syria quagmire equals Vietnam quagmire. @JedBabbin

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: U.S. Marines with Company G, 2d Battalion, 7th Marines, direct a concentration of fire at the enemy during Operation Allen Brook Español: Marines de los Estados Unidos con la Compañía G, 2.º Batallón, 7.º de Marines, dirigiendo una concentración de fuego al enemigo durante la Operación Allen Brook. Date 8 May 1968 Source Own work Author U.S. Marines (Official Marine Corps Photo # 371490) (http://www.tecom.usmc.mil/HD/Home_Page.htm) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Afghanistan quagmire equals Syria quagmire equals Vietnam quagmire" I'm feeling very fatalistic too..."   @JedBabbin  https://spectator.org/the-third-quagmire/ The Third Quagmire Tomorrow is the 17th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America. We have been in Afghanistan since a month after the 9/11 attacks that emanated from there with the help of its Taliban government. Our forces, and those of our allies, soon drove the Taliban out of Kabul, but the Taliban have never been defeated. We invaded Iraq in 2003, and some number of our troops are still there to fight the ISIS terrorists. Radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, whose troops fought U.S. troops for a decade, is — like ISIS — undefeated in Iraq....more

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• Al Qaeda seventeen years after 9/11: "In many ways, a win for the Taliban is a win for Al Qaeda." @ThomasJoscelyn @FDD

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld (right) announces the military strikes against al Qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan during a Pentagon press briefing on Oct. 7, 2001. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard B. Myers, U.S. Air Force, joined Rumsfeld for the announcement. The carefully targeted actions are designed to disrupt the use of Afghanistan as a base for terrorist operations and to attack the military capability of the Taliban regime. DoD photo by Terry C. Mitchell. (Released)  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Al Qaeda seventeen years after 9/11: "In many ways, a win for the Taliban is a win for Al Qaeda."  @ThomasJoscelyn @FDD...more

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• "Motivating your followers to think in terms of us and the team. It's not me and them…' " Six Essential Elements of Leadership: 3 of 3: Marine Corps Wisdom of a Medal of Honor Recipient by Col. Wesley L. Fox USMC

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:An undated photo of a Bell UH-1 "Huey" helicopter landing with soldiers of the 101st Airborne Delta Raiders in the A Shau valley near Hue, Vietnam. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Motivating your followers to think in terms of us and the team. It's not me and them…' " Six Essential Elements of Leadership: 3 of 3: Marine Corps Wisdom of a Medal of Honor Recipient by Col. Wesley L. Fox USMC https://www.amazon.com/Six-Essential-Elements-Leadership-Leatherneck/dp/1612510248/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1536624354&sr=1-1&keywords=fox+leadership Col. Wesley Fox is a Medal of Honor recipient who wrote two widely-admired accounts of his wartime experiences in the Marine Corps. His Marine Rifleman: Forty-Three Years in the Corps and Courage and Fear: A Primer are considered classic war memoirs. Drawing on his long experience of being a leader, Fox presents the six essential elements of leadership that all good leaders employ to build successful organizations able to cope with any challenge because they are truly built on loyalty and trust. Impressed by the manner and methods of his most effective fellow Marines to guide and direct, Fox defines leadership is defined as having a strong focus on the strengths of comradeship and its core importance to all individuals and organizations. In his view, managers are concerned with the bottom line and making a profit, while leaders are concerned with their followers, their health, happiness, and daily lives. Recognition of the sources of leaders is addressed and followed with a discussion of the principles of leadership and the historical traits of a leader. The book covers the essential elements of leadership: care, personality, knowledge, motivation, commitment, and communication with a chapter on each element. Finally, Fox provides an account of his personal experience and how his views about leadership were forged by the Marine Corps and by the crucible of combat. He provides many examples of leadership displayed by those with whom he served in battle--his fellow Marine unit leaders. While draw from a military experience, Fox contends that his six elements apply to all who want to pursue leadership. Developed during forty-three years of leading Marines in two wars and in the peace time, his principles are designed to inspire and motivate others in all endeavors....more

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• "To find the enemy and destroy him. US forces had never been in that part of the A Shau Valley..." " Six Essential Elements of Leadership: 2 of 3: Marine Corps Wisdom of a Medal of Honor Recipient by Col. Wesley L. Fox USMC

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  AUTHOR. (Photo:Thừa Thiên–Huế Province ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "To find the enemy and destroy him.  US forces had never been in that part of the A Shau Valley..."  " Six Essential Elements of Leadership: 2 of 3: Marine Corps Wisdom of a Medal of Honor Recipient by Col. Wesley L. Fox USMC https://www.amazon.com/Six-Essential-Elements-Leadership-Leatherneck/dp/1612510248/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1536624354&sr=1-1&keywords=fox+leadership Col. Wesley Fox is a Medal of Honor recipient who wrote two widely-admired accounts of his wartime experiences in the Marine Corps. His Marine Rifleman: Forty-Three Years in the Corps and Courage and Fear: A Primer are considered classic war memoirs. Drawing on his long experience of being a leader, Fox presents the six essential elements of leadership that all good leaders employ to build successful organizations able to cope with any challenge because they are truly built on loyalty and trust. Impressed by the manner and methods of his most effective fellow Marines to guide and direct, Fox defines leadership is defined as having a strong focus on the strengths of comradeship and its core importance to all individuals and organizations. In his view, managers are concerned with the bottom line and making a profit, while leaders are concerned with their followers, their health, happiness, and daily lives. Recognition of the sources of leaders is addressed and followed with a discussion of the principles of leadership and the historical traits of a leader. The book covers the essential elements of leadership: care, personality, knowledge, motivation, commitment, and communication with a chapter on each element. Finally, Fox provides an account of his personal experience and how his views about leadership were forged by the Marine Corps and by the crucible of combat. He provides many examples of leadership displayed by those with whom he served in battle--his fellow Marine unit leaders. While draw from a military experience, Fox contends that his six elements apply to all who want to pursue leadership. Developed during forty-three years of leading Marines in two wars and in the peace time, his principles are designed to inspire and motivate others in all endeavors....more

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• "The only way we could thaw out our C-rations, in January and February, was to build a wood fire...but then..." Six Essential Elements of Leadership: 1 of 3: Marine Corps Wisdom of a Medal of Honor Recipient by Col. Wesley L. Fox USMC

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  Sep 11 2018

  AUTHOR. (PhotoA column of the US 1st Marine Division move through Chinese lines during their breakout from the Chosin Reservoir.: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "The only way we could thaw out our C-rations, in January and February, was to build a wood fire...but then..."  Six Essential Elements of Leadership: 1 of 3: Marine Corps Wisdom of a Medal of Honor Recipient by Col. Wesley L. Fox USMC https://www.amazon.com/Six-Essential-Elements-Leadership-Leatherneck/dp/1612510248/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1536624354&sr=1-1&keywords=fox+leadership Col. Wesley Fox is a Medal of Honor recipient who wrote two widely-admired accounts of his wartime experiences in the Marine Corps. His Marine Rifleman: Forty-Three Years in the Corps and Courage and Fear: A Primer are considered classic war memoirs. Drawing on his long experience of being a leader, Fox presents the six essential elements of leadership that all good leaders employ to build successful organizations able to cope with any challenge because they are truly built on loyalty and trust. Impressed by the manner and methods of his most effective fellow Marines to guide and direct, Fox defines leadership is defined as having a strong focus on the strengths of comradeship and its core importance to all individuals and organizations. In his view, managers are concerned with the bottom line and making a profit, while leaders are concerned with their followers, their health, happiness, and daily lives. Recognition of the sources of leaders is addressed and followed with a discussion of the principles of leadership and the historical traits of a leader. The book covers the essential elements of leadership: care, personality, knowledge, motivation, commitment, and communication with a chapter on each element. Finally, Fox provides an account of his personal experience and how his views about leadership were forged by the Marine Corps and by the crucible of combat. He provides many examples of leadership displayed by those with whom he served in battle--his fellow Marine unit leaders. While draw from a military experience, Fox contends that his six elements apply to all who want to pursue leadership. Developed during forty-three years of leading Marines in two wars and in the peace time, his principles are designed to inspire and motivate others in all endeavors....more

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• “A worn-down Carter holed up in the White House desperately trying to solve the Iran hostage crisis in the final hours of his term . . . He failed to articulate a compelling political vision & was unable to hold his party together” — Julian Zelizer

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  Sep 10 2018

  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules  Twitter: @BatchelorShow Photo: Two American hostages in the 444-day Iranian hostage crisis.  “Carter was established as governor in still-segregated Georgia, then ran for president: on anticorruption, and as a leader of the New South. He was skilled politically, on energy and on Panama . . . then—stagflation.” Carter rode the post-Watergate wave into office, but running as an outsider was easier than governing as one.  On his second day in office, Carter pardoned all the Vietnam War draft evaders. During Carter's term as president, two new cabinet-level departments, the Department of Energy and the Department of Education, were established. He established a national energy policy that included conservation, price control, and new technology. In foreign affairs, Carter pursued the Camp David Accords, the Panama Canal Treaties, the second round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II), and the return of the Panama Canal Zone to Panama. On the economic front he confronted persistent stagflation, a combination of high inflation, high unemployment and slow growth. The end of his presidential tenure was marked by the 1979–1981 Iran hostage crisis, the 1979 energy crisis, the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In response to the invasion, Carter escalated the Cold War by ending détente, imposing a grain embargo against the Soviets, enunciating the Carter doctrine, and leading an international boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. By then, Carter stood alone in the Oval Office as he confronted a battered economy, soaring oil prices, American hostages in Iran, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In 1980, Carter faced a primary challenge from Senator Ted Kennedy, but he won re-nomination at the 1980 Democratic National Convention. Carter lost the general election in an electoral landslide to Republican nominee Ronald Reagan. Polls of historians and political scientists usually rank Carter as a below-average president. Although Carter's unpopularity enabled Ronald Reagan to achieve a landslide victory, ushering in a conservative revolution, during Carter's post-presidential career, he has emerged as an important voice for international diplomacy and negotiation, remaking his image as a statesman for our time...more

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• While Carter was fishing, a hissing swamp rabbit made its way on to the canoe; Carter batted it away with a paddle. A lighthearted anecdote became a massive negative PR campaign: “Bunny Goes Bugs: Rabbit Attacks President” —Julian Zelizer

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  Sep 10 2018

  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules  Twitter: @BatchelorShow Photo: A swamp rabbit (Sylviligus aquaticus), bane of President Carter’s re-election.   Jimmy Carter: A maverick politician from Georgia who rode the post-Watergate wave into office, but whose term was consumed by economic and international crises A peanut farmer from Georgia, Jimmy Carter rose to national power through mastering the strategy of the maverick politician. As the face of the "New South," Carter's strongest support emanated from his ability to communicate directly to voters who were disaffected by corruption in politics. But running as an outsider was easier than governing as one.  Once in power, Carter faced challenges in sustaining a strong political coalition, as he focussed on policies that often antagonized key Democrats—whose support he desperately needed. By 1980, Carter stood alone in the Oval Office as he confronted a battered economy, soaring oil prices, American hostages in Iran, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Carter's unpopularity enabled Ronald Reagan to achieve a landslide victory, ushering in a conservative revolution. However, during Carter's post-presidential career, he has emerged as an important voice for international diplomacy and negotiation, remaking his image as a statesman for our time...more

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• "In that respect, Graham Greene, who was outraged by the film ("The Quiet American"), by the alteration of the screenplay..has the last laugh..." Embers of War: 3 of 3: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall.

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  Sep 10 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Viet Minh troops plant their flag over the captured French headquarters.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "In that respect, Graham Greene, who was outraged by the film ("The Quiet American"), by the alteration of the screenplay..has the last laugh..."  Embers of War: 3 of 3: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall. “[Logevall] masterfully presents the war’s roots in the U.S. reaction to the French colonial experience.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Fredrik Logevall has gleaned from American, French, and Vietnamese sources a splendid account of France’s nine-year war in Indochina and the story of how the American statesmen of the period allowed this country to be drawn into the quagmire.”—Neil Sheehan, author of A Bright Shining Lie, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award “Fredrik Logevall is a wonderful writer and historian. In his new book on the origins of the American war in Vietnam, he gives a fascinating and dramatic account of the French war and its aftermath, from the perspectives of the French, the Vietnamese, and the Americans. Using previously untapped sources and a deep knowledge of diplomatic history, Logevall shows to devastating effect how America found itself on the road to Vietnam.”—Frances FitzGerald, author of Fire in the Lake, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award “In a world full of nascent, potentially protracted wars, Fredrik Logevall’s Embers of War is manifestly an important book, illuminating the long, small-step path we followed into the quagmire of Vietnam. But I was also struck by the quality of Logevall’s writing. He has the eye of a novelist, the cadence of a splendid prose stylist, and a filmmaker’s instinct for story. Embers of War is not just an important book of history, it is an utterly compelling read.”—Robert Olen Butler, author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, winner of the Pulitzer Prize “Embers of War is a truly monumental achievement. With elegant prose, deft portraits of the many fascinating characters, and remarkable sensitivity to the aspirations and strategies of the various nations involved, Logevall skillfully guides us through the complexities of the First Indochina War and demonstrates how that conflict laid the basis for America's war in Vietnam.”—George C. Herring, author of America’s Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975 “In this vividly written, richly textured history, Fredrik Logevall demolishes the fiction, too long indulged by too many Americans, that the Vietnam War appeared out of nowhere to besmirch the 1960s. Here we have the full backstory—the uneasy collaboration between France and the United States that paved the way for epic tragedy. Embers of War is a magisterial achievement.”—Andrew J. Bacevich, author of Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War and Professor of International Relations and History, Boston University “For too long, Americans have debated the Vietnam War as though it started in the 1960s. As Fredrik Logevall masterfully demonstrates in Embers of War, the American imbroglio has deep roots in the 1940s and 1950s. This is a deeply researched, elegantly written account that will instantly become the standard book on a poorly understood and decisively important event in world history.”—Mark Lawrence, author of The Vietnam War: A Concise International History, and Associate Professor of History and Senior Fellow at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at The University of Texas at Austin Read less About the Author Fredrik Logevall is John S. Knight Professor of International Studies and professor of history at Cornell University, where he serves as director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. https://www.amazon.com/Embers-War-Empire-Americas-Vietnam/dp/0375756477/ref=laB001IXMD9Y1_1?...more

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• "Under the right conditions, Dwight Eisenhower was very ready to go in to try to bail out the French at the time of the Dien-Bien-Phu crisis..." Embers of War: 2 of 3: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall.

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  Sep 10 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: One of the ten French M24 Chaffee light tanks, (supplied by the USA) as seen here, deployed at the battle at Dien Bien Phu.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Under the right conditions, Dwight Eisenhower was very ready to go in to try to bail out the French at the time of the Dien Bien Phu crisis..."  Embers of War: 2 of 3: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall. “[Logevall] masterfully presents the war’s roots in the U.S. reaction to the French colonial experience.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Fredrik Logevall has gleaned from American, French, and Vietnamese sources a splendid account of France’s nine-year war in Indochina and the story of how the American statesmen of the period allowed this country to be drawn into the quagmire.”—Neil Sheehan, author of A Bright Shining Lie, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award “Fredrik Logevall is a wonderful writer and historian. In his new book on the origins of the American war in Vietnam, he gives a fascinating and dramatic account of the French war and its aftermath, from the perspectives of the French, the Vietnamese, and the Americans. Using previously untapped sources and a deep knowledge of diplomatic history, Logevall shows to devastating effect how America found itself on the road to Vietnam.”—Frances FitzGerald, author of Fire in the Lake, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award “In a world full of nascent, potentially protracted wars, Fredrik Logevall’s Embers of War is manifestly an important book, illuminating the long, small-step path we followed into the quagmire of Vietnam. But I was also struck by the quality of Logevall’s writing. He has the eye of a novelist, the cadence of a splendid prose stylist, and a filmmaker’s instinct for story. Embers of War is not just an important book of history, it is an utterly compelling read.”—Robert Olen Butler, author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, winner of the Pulitzer Prize “Embers of War is a truly monumental achievement. With elegant prose, deft portraits of the many fascinating characters, and remarkable sensitivity to the aspirations and strategies of the various nations involved, Logevall skillfully guides us through the complexities of the First Indochina War and demonstrates how that conflict laid the basis for America's war in Vietnam.”—George C. Herring, author of America’s Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975 “In this vividly written, richly textured history, Fredrik Logevall demolishes the fiction, too long indulged by too many Americans, that the Vietnam War appeared out of nowhere to besmirch the 1960s. Here we have the full backstory—the uneasy collaboration between France and the United States that paved the way for epic tragedy. Embers of War is a magisterial achievement.”—Andrew J. Bacevich, author of Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War and Professor of International Relations and History, Boston University “For too long, Americans have debated the Vietnam War as though it started in the 1960s. As Fredrik Logevall masterfully demonstrates in Embers of War, the American imbroglio has deep roots in the 1940s and 1950s. This is a deeply researched, elegantly written account that will instantly become the standard book on a poorly understood and decisively important event in world history.”—Mark Lawrence, author of The Vietnam War: A Concise International History, and Associate Professor of History and Senior Fellow at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at The University of Texas at Austin Read less About the Author Fredrik Logevall is John S. Knight Professor of International Studies and professor of history at Cornell University, where he serves as director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. https://www.amazon.com/Embers-War-Empire-Americas-Vietnam/dp/0375756477/ref=laB001IXMD9Y1_1?...more

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• "Roosevelt believed down to his bones that colonialism was responsible for much of what had gone wrong in the world..." Embers of War: 1 of 3: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall.

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  Sep 10 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: News Magazine of the Screen, The (1954/05): French battle fiercely at Dien Bien Phu. (De-Interlaced using Richard Rosenman's Smart De-Interlacer plugin for Photoshop)) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Roosevelt believed down to his bones that colonialism was responsible for much of what had gone wrong in the world..."  Embers of War: 1 of 3: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall. “[Logevall] masterfully presents the war’s roots in the U.S. reaction to the French colonial experience.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Fredrik Logevall has gleaned from American, French, and Vietnamese sources a splendid account of France’s nine-year war in Indochina and the story of how the American statesmen of the period allowed this country to be drawn into the quagmire.”—Neil Sheehan, author of A Bright Shining Lie, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award “Fredrik Logevall is a wonderful writer and historian. In his new book on the origins of the American war in Vietnam, he gives a fascinating and dramatic account of the French war and its aftermath, from the perspectives of the French, the Vietnamese, and the Americans. Using previously untapped sources and a deep knowledge of diplomatic history, Logevall shows to devastating effect how America found itself on the road to Vietnam.”—Frances FitzGerald, author of Fire in the Lake, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award “In a world full of nascent, potentially protracted wars, Fredrik Logevall’s Embers of War is manifestly an important book, illuminating the long, small-step path we followed into the quagmire of Vietnam. But I was also struck by the quality of Logevall’s writing. He has the eye of a novelist, the cadence of a splendid prose stylist, and a filmmaker’s instinct for story. Embers of War is not just an important book of history, it is an utterly compelling read.”—Robert Olen Butler, author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, winner of the Pulitzer Prize “Embers of War is a truly monumental achievement. With elegant prose, deft portraits of the many fascinating characters, and remarkable sensitivity to the aspirations and strategies of the various nations involved, Logevall skillfully guides us through the complexities of the First Indochina War and demonstrates how that conflict laid the basis for America's war in Vietnam.”—George C. Herring, author of America’s Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975 “In this vividly written, richly textured history, Fredrik Logevall demolishes the fiction, too long indulged by too many Americans, that the Vietnam War appeared out of nowhere to besmirch the 1960s. Here we have the full backstory—the uneasy collaboration between France and the United States that paved the way for epic tragedy. Embers of War is a magisterial achievement.”—Andrew J. Bacevich, author of Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War and Professor of International Relations and History, Boston University “For too long, Americans have debated the Vietnam War as though it started in the 1960s. As Fredrik Logevall masterfully demonstrates in Embers of War, the American imbroglio has deep roots in the 1940s and 1950s. This is a deeply researched, elegantly written account that will instantly become the standard book on a poorly understood and decisively important event in world history.”—Mark Lawrence, author of The Vietnam War: A Concise International History, and Associate Professor of History and Senior Fellow at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at The University of Texas at Austin Read less About the Author Fredrik Logevall is John S. Knight Professor of International Studies and professor of history at Cornell University, where he serves as director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. https://www.amazon.com/Embers-War-Empire-Americas-Vietnam/dp/0375756477/ref=laB001IXMD9Y1_1?...more

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• "..but they run into so much trouble in the first half of the race, that they are dead last by the time they are a thousand meters down the course..." " The Boys in the Boat: 3 of 3: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold.... by Daniel James Brown

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  Sep 10 2018

  AUTHOR. (PhotoPolski: Roger Verey podczas Letnich Igrzysk Olimpijskich w Berlinie w 1936 roku Date 23 June 2013, 12:39:19 Source http://www.audiovis.nac.gov.pl/obraz/191884/fee06cd2257c40502ff425c47a108f8f/ Author Anonymous: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "..but they run into so much trouble in the first half of the race, that they are dead last by the time they are a thousand meters down the course..."  "  The Boys in the Boat: 3 of 3: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold.... by Daniel James Brown The #1 New York Times–bestselling story about American Olympic triumph in Nazi Germany and now the inspiration for the PBS documentary “The Boys of ‘36” For readers of Unbroken, out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times—the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class boys from the American West showed the world at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin what true grit really meant. It was an unlikely quest from the start. With a team composed of the sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the University of Washington’s eight-oar crew team was never expected to defeat the elite teams of the East Coast and Great Britain, yet they did, going on to shock the world by defeating the German team rowing for Adolf Hitler. The emotional heart of the tale lies with Joe Rantz, a teenager without family or prospects, who rows not only to regain his shattered self-regard but also to find a real place for himself in the world. Drawing on the boys’ own journals and vivid memories of a once-in-a-lifetime shared dream, Brown has created an unforgettable portrait of an era, a celebration of a remarkable achievement, and a chronicle of one extraordinary young man’s personal quest....more

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• "The whole boat begins to feel like one living thing. All crews aspire to that..." The Boys in the Boat: 2 of 3: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. by Daniel James Brown

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  Sep 10 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Magyar: Waldbühne lelátói az 1936. évi nyári olimpiai játékok alatt. Location: Germany, Berlin Tags: Berlin Olympics, Olympics Title: Waldbühne lelátói az 1936. évi nyári olimpiai játékok alatt. Date 1936 Source http://www.fortepan.hu/photo/download/fortepan24768.jpg Author FOTO:Fortepan — ID 16314: Nuvola filesystems folder home.svgInkscape.svgInformation icon.svg Adományozó/Donor: Vass Károly. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "The whole boat begins to feel like one living thing.  All crews aspire to that..."  The Boys in the Boat: 2 of 3: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. by Daniel James Brown The #1 New York Times–bestselling story about American Olympic triumph in Nazi Germany and now the inspiration for the PBS documentary “The Boys of ‘36” For readers of Unbroken, out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times—the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class boys from the American West showed the world at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin what true grit really meant. It was an unlikely quest from the start. With a team composed of the sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the University of Washington’s eight-oar crew team was never expected to defeat the elite teams of the East Coast and Great Britain, yet they did, going on to shock the world by defeating the German team rowing for Adolf Hitler. The emotional heart of the tale lies with Joe Rantz, a teenager without family or prospects, who rows not only to regain his shattered self-regard but also to find a real place for himself in the world. Drawing on the boys’ own journals and vivid memories of a once-in-a-lifetime shared dream, Brown has created an unforgettable portrait of an era, a celebration of a remarkable achievement, and a chronicle of one extraordinary young man’s personal quest....more

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• "The rivalry between Cal and Washington was...almost bloody at times... almost Ahab like in this quest for this gold medal." The Boys in the Boat: 1 of 3: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. by Daniel James Brown

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  Sep 10 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Olympic Fire in Berlin, 1936 author: Josef Jindřich Šechtl http://sechtl-vosecek.ucw.cz/cml/dir/berlin193635mm.html Uploaded with approval of inheritors of the copyright Date 19 December 2005 (original upload date) Source No machine-readable source provided. Own work assumed (based on copyright claims). Author No machine-readable author provided. Hubicka~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims).) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "The rivalry between Cal and Washington was...almost bloody at times... almost Ahab like in this quest for this gold medal."  The Boys in the Boat: 1 of 3: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. by Daniel James Brown The #1 New York Times–bestselling story about American Olympic triumph in Nazi Germany and now the inspiration for the PBS documentary “The Boys of ‘36” For readers of Unbroken, out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times—the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class boys from the American West showed the world at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin what true grit really meant. It was an unlikely quest from the start. With a team composed of the sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the University of Washington’s eight-oar crew team was never expected to defeat the elite teams of the East Coast and Great Britain, yet they did, going on to shock the world by defeating the German team rowing for Adolf Hitler. The emotional heart of the tale lies with Joe Rantz, a teenager without family or prospects, who rows not only to regain his shattered self-regard but also to find a real place for himself in the world. Drawing on the boys’ own journals and vivid memories of a once-in-a-lifetime shared dream, Brown has created an unforgettable portrait of an era, a celebration of a remarkable achievement, and a chronicle of one extraordinary young man’s personal quest....more

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• "Is it that they have civilized us, or that we have civilized them?" Citizen Canine: 3 of 3: Our Evolving Relationship with Cats and Dogs by David Grimm.

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  Sep 10 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:A photochrom from the late 19th century showing two peddlers selling milk from a dogcart near Brussels, Belgium ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Is it that they have civilized us, or that we have civilized them?"  Citizen Canine: 3 of 3: Our Evolving Relationship with Cats and Dogs by David Grimm. "A fascinating account of how our conceptions of dogs and cats are changing - and what the outcome may mean for their futures. I was gripped throughout."—John Bradshaw, New York Times bestselling author of Dog Sense and Cat Sense “Grimm traces the evolution of today's pets, from once being considered feral beasts and valueless subjects to family members and quasicitizens. The author's research includes fascinating travels across the country interviewing detectives investigating animal cruelty cases, soldiers training military working dogs, and animal law attorneys, and he also visits a wolf sanctuary…Engrossing, enjoyable, and well-researched.”—Library Journal, starred “Grimm, deputy news editor at Science, investigates the ever-changing roles played by cats and dogs throughout history and travels the U.S. speaking to those on the cutting edge of animal science and welfare. [His] most valuable contribution…is his reasoned and well-researched discussion of the pet “personhood” movement, particularly its legal implications for veterinarians, scientific research, and agriculture.”—Publishers Weekly “CITIZEN CANINE is a fascinating journey through time and space, documenting our relationship with our closest domestic friends. Meticulously researched and brilliantly written, Grimm's work is relevant, not just to every dog and cat lover, but anyone interested in how we came to be the humans we are today.” —Dr. Brian Hare, Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, and author of the New York Times Bestseller, The Genius of Dogs...more

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• "You currently have about 2500 dogs in the U.S. military, and a lot of them have been on the front lines..." Citizen Canine: 2 of 3: Our Evolving Relationship with Cats and Dogs by David Grimm.

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  Sep 10 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: Photographer: Jens Hansen Lundager, 1853-1930 Location: Mount Morgan, Queensland, Australia Date: Undated View this image at the State Library of Queensland: http://hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/113081 Information about State Library of Queensland’s collection: http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/resources/picture-queensland You are free to use this image without permission. Please attribute State Library of Queensland. Date 1 January 1925, 00:00:00 Source https://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryqueensland/4423725243/ Author State Library of Queensland, Australia Permission (Reusing this file)  At the time of upload, the image license was automatically confirmed using the Flickr API. For more information see Flickr API detail. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "You currently have about 2500 dogs in the U.S. military, and a lot of them have been on the front lines..."  Citizen Canine: 2 of 3: Our Evolving Relationship with Cats and Dogs by David Grimm. "A fascinating account of how our conceptions of dogs and cats are changing - and what the outcome may mean for their futures. I was gripped throughout."—John Bradshaw, New York Times bestselling author of Dog Sense and Cat Sense “Grimm traces the evolution of today's pets, from once being considered feral beasts and valueless subjects to family members and quasicitizens. The author's research includes fascinating travels across the country interviewing detectives investigating animal cruelty cases, soldiers training military working dogs, and animal law attorneys, and he also visits a wolf sanctuary…Engrossing, enjoyable, and well-researched.”—Library Journal, starred “Grimm, deputy news editor at Science, investigates the ever-changing roles played by cats and dogs throughout history and travels the U.S. speaking to those on the cutting edge of animal science and welfare. [His] most valuable contribution…is his reasoned and well-researched discussion of the pet “personhood” movement, particularly its legal implications for veterinarians, scientific research, and agriculture.”—Publishers Weekly “CITIZEN CANINE is a fascinating journey through time and space, documenting our relationship with our closest domestic friends. Meticulously researched and brilliantly written, Grimm's work is relevant, not just to every dog and cat lover, but anyone interested in how we came to be the humans we are today.” —Dr. Brian Hare, Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, and author of the New York Times Bestseller, The Genius of Dogs...more

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• "Dogs have been with us a lot longer than cats. Somewhere between fifteen and thirty thousand years..." Citizen Canine: 1 of 3: Our Evolving Relationship with Cats and Dogs by David Grimm.

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  Sep 10 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English:  Title: All about dogs : a book for doggy people Identifier: allaboutdogsbook00lane (find matches) Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors: Lane, Charles Henry Subjects: Dogs Publisher: London ; New York : J. Lane Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Dogs have been with us a lot longer than cats.  Somewhere between fifteen and thirty thousand years..."  Citizen Canine: 1 of 3: Our Evolving Relationship with Cats and Dogs by David Grimm. "A fascinating account of how our conceptions of dogs and cats are changing - and what the outcome may mean for their futures. I was gripped throughout."—John Bradshaw, New York Times bestselling author of Dog Sense and Cat Sense “Grimm traces the evolution of today's pets, from once being considered feral beasts and valueless subjects to family members and quasicitizens. The author's research includes fascinating travels across the country interviewing detectives investigating animal cruelty cases, soldiers training military working dogs, and animal law attorneys, and he also visits a wolf sanctuary…Engrossing, enjoyable, and well-researched.”—Library Journal, starred “Grimm, deputy news editor at Science, investigates the ever-changing roles played by cats and dogs throughout history and travels the U.S. speaking to those on the cutting edge of animal science and welfare. [His] most valuable contribution…is his reasoned and well-researched discussion of the pet “personhood” movement, particularly its legal implications for veterinarians, scientific research, and agriculture.”—Publishers Weekly “CITIZEN CANINE is a fascinating journey through time and space, documenting our relationship with our closest domestic friends. Meticulously researched and brilliantly written, Grimm's work is relevant, not just to every dog and cat lover, but anyone interested in how we came to be the humans we are today.” —Dr. Brian Hare, Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, and author of the New York Times Bestseller, The Genius of Dogs...more

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• “DoJ says its desire for investigative secrecy is more important than the president’s capacity to govern. They still won’t tell us what the crime is—that’s ridiculous!” — @AndrewCMcCarthy, @NRO

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  Sep 09 2018

  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules  Twitter: @BatchelorShow Photo: The E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse, home to the FISA Court. Among architectural details, note the setbacks and fenestration reminiscent of a federal prison.  Andrew C McCarthy, III, National Review; former Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (continued)  — Conflict of interest: if a Special Counsel is necessary when the DoJ can't ethically investigate, is it suitable for the Special Counsel to hire only people from the top level of DoJ? What a tangle. Wd need to show that the DoJ is conflicted: there’s no authorization for apppinting a Special Counsel for counterintelligence, which is Russiagate; all we're looking at here is Trump. Mueller himself has shown that there’s no conflict on Russia since he transferred those cases to DoJ. Sixteen months down the road we have no justification....more

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• “DoJ argues that requisites for appointing a Special Counsel are merely hortatory, that there’s no limit to how the DOJ may conduct itself.” — @AndrewCMcCarthy, III, National Review @NRO

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  Sep 09 2018

  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules  Twitter: @BatchelorShow Picture: The Lord High Chancellor of England. “The Law is the true embodiment of everything that's excellent. It has no kind of fault or flaw, and I, my Lords, embody the Law.” --Lord Chancellor, from Iolanthe, by Gilbert & Sullivan. Andy McCarthy explained that Rod Rosenstein, Deputy Attorney Generalm wrote two letters in 2017. Before a Special Counsel can be appointed, AG (here, Deputy AG) is obliged to check: (1) There’s a factual basis for a criminal investigation (precise federal crimes that the [accused] is suspected of committing); (2) There’s a conflict of interest that’d prevent DOJ from ethically investigating; (3) an articulation where the AG explains the factual basis for the investigation, outlines what this is. These become the parameters of the Special C0unsel and define the finite boundaries of the investigation, so it cannot become a witch hunt or an “unguided missile.” In each of the three matters, Rosenstein’s memoranda are factually inadequate. One could argue (and DoJ has) these three are merely hortatory and in truth there’s no limit to how the DOJ may conduct itself. “DoJ argues that the happenstance that regulations have been enacted does not create enforceable rights for anyone else.” Congress would not agree. . . . The fourth FISA warrant for surveillance of Carter Page in June of 2017. Four-fifths of that memo is still redacted. Steele dossier – which the FBI, itself, calls “unverified and salacious” — Seems to be the “factual” basis of the FISA warrant. [Egad.] . . . An allegation doesn’t articulate a crime, and assertion thereof doesn't show that something is true. One may allege that a crime was committed; however, mere collusion is not a crime; need a broken federal law. Ergo, it’s still an unknown crime having to do with Russiagate....more

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• DoJ argues that requisites for appointing a Special Counsel are merely hortatory, that there’s no limit to how the DOJ may conduct itself.” — Andrew C McCarthy, III, National Review

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  Sep 09 2018

  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules  Twitter: @BatchelorShow Picture: The Lord High Chancellor of England. “The Law is the true embodiment of everything that's excellent. It has no kind of fault or flaw, and I, my Lords, embody the Law.” --Lord Chancellor, from Iolanthe, by Gilbert & Sullivan. Andy McCarthy explained that Rod Rosenstein, Deputy Attorney Generalm wrote two letters in 2017. Before a Special Counsel can be appointed, AG (here, Deputy AG) is obliged to check: (1) There’s a factual basis for a criminal investigation (precise federal crimes that the [accused] is suspected of committing); (2) There’s a conflict of interest that’d prevent DOJ from ethically investigating; (3) an articulation where the AG explains the factual basis for the investigation, outlines what this is. These become the parameters of the Special C0unsel and define the finite boundaries of the investigation, so it cannot become a witch hunt or an “unguided missile.” In each of the three matters, Rosenstein’s memoranda are factually inadequate. One could argue (and DoJ has) these three are merely hortatory and in truth there’s no limit to how the DOJ may conduct itself. “DoJ argues that the happenstance that regulations have been enacted does not create enforceable rights for anyone else.” Congress would not agree. . . . The fourth FISA warrant for surveillance of Carter Page in June of 2017. Four-fifths of that memo is still redacted. Steele dossier – which the FBI, itself, calls “unverified and salacious” — Seems to be the “factual” basis of the FISA warrant. [Egad.] . . . An allegation doesn’t articulate a crime, and assertion thereof doesn't show that something is true. One may allege that a crime was committed; however, mere collusion is not a crime; need a broken federal law. Ergo, it’s still an unknown crime having to do with Russiagate....more

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• Transferring Federal Lands to States: "The hunters are very powerful in the states...you might see better management for hunting..." Robert Nelson @PERCTWEETS,

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  Sep 09 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Original Caption: Ranch lands in the Powder River Basin near Colstrip. Long-range plans call for massive strip-mining of the area and the construction of huge power plants capable of producing 200,000 megawatts of power. The power plants would emit more minute separate particles than New York City and Los Angeles combined, 06/1973 U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 412-DA-6670 Photographer: Norton, Boyd Subjects: Environmental protection Natural resources Pollution Billings (Montana, United States) inhabited place Persistent URL: research.archives.gov/description/549156 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. For information about ordering reproductions of photographs held by the Still Picture Unit, visit: www.archives.gov/research/order/still-pictures.html Reproductions may be ordered via an independent vendor. NARA maintains a list of vendors at www.archives.gov/research/order/vendors-photos-maps-dc.html Access Restrictions: Unrestricted Use Restrictions: Unrestricted Date 1 June 1973, 00:00) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Transferring Federal Lands to States: "The hunters are very powerful in the states...you might see better management for hunting..."  Robert Nelson @PERCTWEETS,  http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2017/01/17/can-western-states-afford-a-federal-land-transfer/allow-the-states-to-decide-whether-they-should-get-federal-lands Lays out the case for Western states’ managing Federal lands; & what is to be done. "…Utah is unique among Western states in making such detailed information available, but Wyoming and New Mexico would surely benefit even much more, owing to the large increases in mineral revenues they would receive without having to share with the federal government, which would more than offset the additional cost of taking on new land management responsibilities. The final argument against federal land transfer (often more implicit than explicit) is that, rather than federal efficiency, federal “values” are superior and thus should trump state values. But this argument is paternalistic if not neo-colonial. Some might argue, however, that state political institutions are so flawed that they fail to represent the actual values of the citizens of western states themselves, requiring federal intervention to protect the West against itself. So why not hold a referendum in western states (those wishing to do so) on the question of whether the federal lands (minus certain lands particularly significant for the whole nation) should be transferred to the state? Let’s see at the ballot box if the majority of voters in the West prefer the imposition of national management and its values to what they think they would get from their own state political system…."...more

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• Federal Lands: "Because the Westerners are totally committed to this idea that the lands are open, and they're available for recreation..." Robert Nelson @PERCTWEETS,

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  Sep 09 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Today #mypubliclandsroadtrip heads to a birdwatcher’s paradise - the Pariette Wetlands! The largest wetland managed by BLM Utah, Pariette Wetlands is the oasis of the Uinta Basin. It is surrounded by vast miles of harsh, arid desert, yet Pariette Wetlands provide a green, marshy home for wildlife trying to survive in the desert. The 25 man-made ponds at Pariette were created in 1972 to improve waterfowl production and provide seasonal habitat for other riparian species. Common Pariette birds include whooping cranes, peregrine falcons, bald eagles, waterfowl, egrets, and mallards. This area provides an observation point where birds and other wildlife can be viewed, so bring along binoculars and wildlife viewing guides. Date 12 July 2015, 10:33 Source My Public Lands Roadtrip: Pariette Wetlands in Utah Author Bureau of Land Management ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Transferring Federal Lands to States:: "Because the Westerners are totally committed to this idea that the lands are open, and they're available for recreation..."  Robert Nelson @PERCTWEETS,  http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2017/01/17/can-western-states-afford-a-federal-land-transfer/allow-the-states-to-decide-whether-they-should-get-federal-lands Lays out the case for Western states’ managing Federal lands; & what is to be done. "…Utah is unique among Western states in making such detailed information available, but Wyoming and New Mexico would surely benefit even much more, owing to the large increases in mineral revenues they would receive without having to share with the federal government, which would more than offset the additional cost of taking on new land management responsibilities. The final argument against federal land transfer (often more implicit than explicit) is that, rather than federal efficiency, federal “values” are superior and thus should trump state values. But this argument is paternalistic if not neo-colonial. Some might argue, however, that state political institutions are so flawed that they fail to represent the actual values of the citizens of western states themselves, requiring federal intervention to protect the West against itself. So why not hold a referendum in western states (those wishing to do so) on the question of whether the federal lands (minus certain lands particularly significant for the whole nation) should be transferred to the state? Let’s see at the ballot box if the majority of voters in the West prefer the imposition of national management and its values to what they think they would get from their own state political system…."...more

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• "I remember...President Reagan telling me that Mr. Nixon, with whom he consulted frequently, always gave him excellent advice..." Flight of the Eagle: 6 of 6: The Grand Strategies That Brought America from Colonial Dependence to... by Conrad Black.

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  Sep 09 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Unknown or not provided Record creator President (1981-1989 : Reagan). White House Photographic Office. (1981 - 1989) Title  Photograph of the Four Presidents (Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon) toasting in the Blue Room prior to leaving for Egypt and Sadat's Funeral Date 8 October 1981 - 8 October 1981 Current location  Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q1432360  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "I remember...President Reagan telling me that Mr. Nixon, with whom he consulted frequently, always gave him excellent advice..."  Flight of the Eagle: 6 of 6: The Grand Strategies That Brought America from Colonial Dependence to... by Conrad Black. Like an eagle, American colonists ascended from the gulley of British dependence to the position of sovereign world power in a period of merely two centuries. Seizing territory in Canada and representation in Britain; expelling the French, and even their British forefathers, American leaders George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson paved their nation’s way to independence. With the first buds of public relation techniques—of communication, dramatization, and propaganda—America flourished into a vision of freedom, of enterprise, and of unalienable human rights. In Flight of the Eagle, Conrad Black provides a perspective on American history that is unprecedented. Through his analysis of the strategic development of the United States from 1754-1992, Black describes nine “phases” of the strategic rise of the nation, in which it progressed through grave challenges, civil and foreign wars, and secured a place for itself under the title of “Superpower.” Black discredits prevailing notions that our unrivaled status is the product of good geography, demographics, and good luck. Instead, he reveals and analyzes the specific strategic decisions of great statesmen through the ages that transformed the world as we know it and established America’s place in it. https://www.amazon.com/Flight-Eagle-Strategies-Dependence-Leadership-ebook/dp/B00N01VM1C/ref=laB001HPC3ZC1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1504235770&sr=1-4 #Germany Update Description...more

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• "In fairness to LBJ, he finally did get rid of Westmoreland..but it was too late...." Flight of the Eagle: 6 of 6: The Grand Strategies That Brought America from Colonial Dependence to World Leadership by Conrad Black.

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  Sep 09 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: President Lyndon B. Johnson with Gen. Westmoreland in South Vietnam, Dec. 1967 Date December 1967 Source LBJ Museum & Library http://lbjlibrary.org/collections/photo-archive/photolab-detail.html?id=1311 Author  Yoichi Okamoto (1915–1985) Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q8054507 Permission (Reusing this file)  Public Domain: This image is in the public domain and may be used free of charge without permissions or fees. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "In fairness to LBJ, he finally did get rid of Westmoreland..but it was too late...." Flight of the Eagle: 6 of 6: The Grand Strategies That Brought America from Colonial Dependence to World Leadership by Conrad Black. Like an eagle, American colonists ascended from the gulley of British dependence to the position of sovereign world power in a period of merely two centuries. Seizing territory in Canada and representation in Britain; expelling the French, and even their British forefathers, American leaders George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson paved their nation’s way to independence. With the first buds of public relation techniques—of communication, dramatization, and propaganda—America flourished into a vision of freedom, of enterprise, and of unalienable human rights. In Flight of the Eagle, Conrad Black provides a perspective on American history that is unprecedented. Through his analysis of the strategic development of the United States from 1754-1992, Black describes nine “phases” of the strategic rise of the nation, in which it progressed through grave challenges, civil and foreign wars, and secured a place for itself under the title of “Superpower.” Black discredits prevailing notions that our unrivaled status is the product of good geography, demographics, and good luck. Instead, he reveals and analyzes the specific strategic decisions of great statesmen through the ages that transformed the world as we know it and established America’s place in it. https://www.amazon.com/Flight-Eagle-Strategies-Dependence-Leadership-ebook/dp/B00N01VM1C/ref=laB001HPC3ZC1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1504235770&sr=1-4 #Germany Update Description...more

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• "(Ike) was a bit duplicitous, and Truman was not duplicitous. He was a very straight-forward, plain-talking man…" Flight of the Eagle: 4 of 6: The Grand Strategies That Brought America from Colonial Dependence to World Leadership by Conrad Black.

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  Sep 09 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Unknown or not provided Record creator National Archives and Records Administration. Office of Presidential Libraries. Harry S. Truman Library. (04/01/1985 - ) Title Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower chats with President Harry S. Truman at an airfield in Brussels, Belgium where the President is waiting to fly to Berlin to begin the Potsdam Conference. Ambassador to Belgium Charles Sawyer is at left. Secretary of State James Byrnes is at far right. Date 15 July 1945 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 "(Ike) was a bit duplicitous, and Truman was not duplicitous. He was a very straight-forward, plain-talking man…" Flight of the Eagle: 4 of 6: The Grand Strategies That Brought America from Colonial Dependence to World Leadership by Conrad Black. Like an eagle, American colonists ascended from the gulley of British dependence to the position of sovereign world power in a period of merely two centuries. Seizing territory in Canada and representation in Britain; expelling the French, and even their British forefathers, American leaders George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson paved their nation’s way to independence. With the first buds of public relation techniques—of communication, dramatization, and propaganda—America flourished into a vision of freedom, of enterprise, and of unalienable human rights. In Flight of the Eagle, Conrad Black provides a perspective on American history that is unprecedented. Through his analysis of the strategic development of the United States from 1754-1992, Black describes nine “phases” of the strategic rise of the nation, in which it progressed through grave challenges, civil and foreign wars, and secured a place for itself under the title of “Superpower.” Black discredits prevailing notions that our unrivaled status is the product of good geography, demographics, and good luck. Instead, he reveals and analyzes the specific strategic decisions of great statesmen through the ages that transformed the world as we know it and established America’s place in it. https://www.amazon.com/Flight-Eagle-Strategies-Dependence-Leadership-ebook/dp/B00N01VM1C/ref=laB001HPC3ZC1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1504235770&sr=1-4 #Germany Update Description...more

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• Pacific Watch: Delta Fire, Disney Land trouble, Millennium Tower risks, Oroville Dam costs. @JeffBliss1.

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  Sep 09 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Pacific Watch: Delta Fire, Disney Land trouble, Millennium Tower risks, Oroville Dam costs.  @JeffBliss1. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-delta-fire-20180908-story.html

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• Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway: "Take the people out, keep the communication capacity, and add modules as you need them..." PappalardoJoe @PopMech

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  Sep 09 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway: "Take the people out, keep the communication capacity, and add modules as you need them..." PappalardoJoe @PopMech ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway: "Take the people out, keep the communication capacity, and add modules as you need them..." PappalardoJoe @PopMech https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a22997067/lunar-gateway-nasa/...more

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• New Socialism: 2 of 2: "When people start talking about "the boss," what they mean is that you've got no other place you can go..." @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Sep 09 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Socialist campaign poster from the 1912 presidential campaign, featuring Eugene V. Debs and vice presidential candidate Emil Seidel ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow New Socialism: 2 of 2: "When people start talking about "the boss," what they mean is that you've got no other place you can go..."  @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst https://www.hoover.org/research/intellectual-poverty-new-socialists?utmsource=hdr&utmmedium=email&utmcampaign=2018-09-05&utmsource=Hoover+Daily+Report&utmcampaign=6668f1ab5a-HDRCOPY01&utmmedium=email&utmterm=021b1edff3c-6668f1ab5a-72527561...more

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• New Socialism: 1 of 2: "The entitlements they want to create are those that essentially give you everything for free without any discussion of the correlative taxes..." @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Sep 09 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Socialists in Union Square, New York City on May 1, 1912 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow New Socialism: 1 of 2: "The entitlements they want to create are those that essentially give you everything for free without any discussion of the correlative taxes..."  @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst https://www.hoover.org/research/intellectual-poverty-new-socialists?utmsource=hdr&utmmedium=email&utmcampaign=2018-09-05&utmsource=Hoover+Daily+Report&utmcampaign=6668f1ab5a-HDRCOPY01&utmmedium=email&utmterm=021b1edff3c-6668f1ab5a-72527561...more

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• Good news from Curiosity on Vera Rubin Ridge. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Sep 09 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Soyuz programı kapsamında 1 Ekim 2005'te fırlatılan ve 8 Nisan 2006'da görevini tamamlayan Soyuz TMA-7. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Good news from Curiosity on Vera Rubin Ridge. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com http://behindtheblack.com/?s=vera+rubin+ridge

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• Fresh and severe doubts about Roscosmos quality control & What is to be done? Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Sep 09 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Communists pave the way to the stars. The Soviet miniature sheet of 1964 displaying six historical firsts of the Soviet space program ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShowity control. Fresh and severe doubts about Roscosmos quality control   & What is to be done? Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com http://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/roscosmos-re-inspecting-all-progress-soyuz-capsules/...more

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• By pushing everything to an open battle, through the agonizing confrontation that will ensue it’ll push everything over the edge. We’ll find ourselves in a much bigger [fight] than we expect. —Michael E Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Sep 08 2018

  Photo: Gonzales Coques (1614–1684) Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q1537311 Title English: The Execution of Charles I of England Object type painting Date 17th century Medium oil on canvas Dimensions Height: 137 cm (53.9 in); Width: 215 cm (84.6 in) Current location Musée de Picardie Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q3107709 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow By pushing everything to an open battle, through the agonizing confrontation that will ensue it’ll push everything over the edge. We’ll find ourselves in a much bigger [fight] than we expect. —Michael E Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis The blue elite believes it can overthrow the red and restore previous [structures]. The 25h Amendment! Elites still believe they can take over despite a restiveness that cannot be quelled. As they try to kill the messenger, being Pres Trump . . ....more

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• “The overthrow of a head of state is usually much more than replacing one leader with another; it's a way of delegitimizing the constitutional process.” — Michael E Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Sep 08 2018

  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Photo: Refugees in South Sudan, one of many places where civil war has turned out disastrously “The overthrow of a head of state is usually much more than replacing one leader with another; it's a way of delegitimizing the constitutional process.” — Michael E Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis Here in the US these days, half the populati0n believes the president needs to be replaced while the other half cleaves strongly to keeping him seated till his elected term ends. The unseating of a president is a basis for destroying the entire old order that’s existed since the ratification of the Constitution. The process we're watching now would lead to a new situation in American life: two visions of what America is, with no possibility of resolution. What each side does to the other is “othering.” [In social science terms, similar to what’s called “reification” or “thingmatizing.”] What we’re seeing is not a deus ex machina, but total incapacitation. So far, impeachment has never led to the conviction of a president. We need to strive to avoid 1793 France, where the king was beheaded—and that haunted France for centuries. In our American national life, we rarely before been in such a bipolar situation, where fighting is preferred over other modes of resolution...more

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• Passengers on Emirates who fell ill on the flight to New York: from the current hajj? Flu? If you're within two seats laterally or two rows from someone coughing, you have an 80% likelihood of being infected. @HenryIMiller @PacificResearch

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  Sep 08 2018

  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Image: Your new personal guest on a long flight: influenza virus Passengers on Emirates who fell ill on the flight to New York: from the current hajj? Flu? If you're within two seats laterally or two rows from someone coughing, you have an 80% likelihood of being infected. @HenryIMiller @PacificResearch The hajj is attended by many pilgrims from the Southern Hemisphere, where it's flu season. Is the malady the flu? ’Twas odd that the flight crew was so heavily infected. The incubation time for flu is one to four days. Many of the patients are hospitalized. What to do on a flight? Wear a mask; wash your hands very frequently; take a window seat and don't move around – avoid contact with seat backs, door handles, etc. If you're within two seats laterally, or two rows. from someone coughing, you have an 80% likelihood of being infected. Norovirus: commonly spread on planes. You're in a bubble [actually, locked in a steel cylinder with a small army of strangers]. Dr Miller proposes: Anyone visibly ill should be put in the back in a corner. [Editor suggests carrying and frequently inhaling Thieves essential oil from a small company named Young Living, as it's powerfully anti-microbial.]...more

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• "Pro- and anti-Trumpits are [critical] in the upcoming primaries and elections, even though his name isn’t on the ballot." — @DanHenninger, @WSJOpinion, Wonder Land

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  Sep 08 2018

  Photo: A general election ballot, listing the presidential and vice presidential candidates. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Pro- and anti-Trumpits are [critical] in the upcoming primaries and elections, even though his name isn’t on the ballot." — @DanHenninger, @WSJOpinion, Wonder Land In marginal districts, electoral victory for Trump will require more than the one-third pro-Trumpits now counted. Among the uncertainties, “Trump doubters” voted for him and support his policies, but are worn down in the Hundred Years’ War against him by the media. Will they stay home and concede the election in this weak blue wave?...more

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• “Anyone from any intell agency could have written the anonymous op-ed in the NYT” to undermine Trump in the upcoming primaries. —Liz Peek. Chinese “little distractions” (Tibet, economics) keep public focus off the point: illegitimacy of the regime.

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  Sep 08 2018

  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow .. Elizabeth Peek, Fox and The Hill: A lot of Obama holdovers in the 18 intelligence agencies. Anyone from any one of these could have written the anonymous op-ed in the New York Times. It came out in good time to undermine Pres Trump in the upcoming primaries. He scares the daylights out of Democrats, who are determined to bring him down.

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• “Today’s economic report is so positive, in a long string of positives, that it’s boring.” [Tired of winning yet?] Comprehensive jobless rate counts everyone who says he wants a job; at 7%, is lowest it's ever been. –Michael Farren, Mercatus Center

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  Sep 08 2018

  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Image: WPA poster promoting the benefits of employment .. When Good Economic News Becomes Boring: The August 2018 Jobs Report, by Michael Farren, Research Fellow, Study of American Capitalism @MichaelDFarren The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the August national jobs statistics this morning, continuing a long trend in positive reports. Unemployment remains low, job growth remains strong, and secondary labor market measures continue to show improvement. The good economic news has almost become boring, but a lack of excitement isn’t bad. As problems go, boring economic news is probably one of the best to have. Employment Employers added 201,000 new jobs in August, slightly exceeding economists’ expectations. Employment growth for June and July was revised downward by a total of 50,000 jobs, but June was a surprising outlier in job creation and the revision brings it more in line with the average job growth each month. Revisions of this size are not unusual—last month’s employment estimates for May and June were revised upward by 59,000 total jobs (and the March and April job growth estimates were revised upward by 37,000 before that). This is just the nature of working with the most recent data, which has not had all of the seasonal adjustments added in yet. Unemployment The number of people actively looking for work (those who are ‘officially’ unemployed) fell by 46,000 while the number of people who were working part-time for economic reasons (like an inability to find full-time work, seasonal declines in demand, or unfavorable business conditions) fell by 188,000. The headline unemployment rate (U-3) remained constant at 3.9 percent. Interestingly, the number of people who wanted a job but weren’t actively seeking employment actually rose by 226,000. This led the comprehensive jobless rate to increase slightly to 7.0 percent . . .   https://www.mercatus.org/bridge/commentary/when-good-economic-news-becomes-boring...more

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• "The point I make in the book is the whole concept is wrong, the entire operation..." September Hope: 3 of 3: The American Side of a Bridge Too Far by John C. McManus.

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  Sep 08 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: Cromwell tanks of 2nd Welsh Guards crossing the bridge at Nijmegen in Holland during Operation 'Market Garden', 21 September 1944. Cromwell tanks of 2nd Welsh Guards crossing the bridge at Nijmegen, 21 September 1944. Date 21 November 1944 Source http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//45/media-45492/large.jpg) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "The point I make in the book is the whole concept is wrong, the entire operation..."  September Hope: 3 of 3: The American Side of a Bridge Too Far by John C. McManus. Acclaimed historian John C. McManus, author of The Dead and Those About to Die, explores World War II’s most ambitious invasion, Operation Market Garden, an immense, daring offensive to defeat Nazi Germany before the end of 1944. August 1944 saw the Allies achieve more significant victories than in any other month over the course of the war. The Germans were in disarray, overwhelmed on all fronts. Rumors swirled that the war would soon be over. On September 17, the largest airborne drop in military history commenced over Holland—including two entire American divisions, the 101st and the 82nd. Their mission was to secure key bridges at such places as Son, Eindhoven, Grave, and Nijmegen until British armored forces could relieve them. The Germans, however, proved much stronger than the Allies anticipated. In eight days of ferocious combat, they mauled the airborne, stymied the tanks, and prevented the Allies from crossing the Rhine. September Hope conveys the American perspective like never before, through a vast array of new sources and countless personal interviews to create a truly revealing portrait of this searing human drama. https://www.amazon.com/September-Hope-American-Side-Bridge-ebook/dp/B0072O02MS/ref=laB000APBYRI1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1504938401&sr=1-7...more

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• "They (the Americans) did have a commitment to fighting for the Dutch..." September Hope: 2 of 3: The American Side of a Bridge Too Far by John C. McManus.

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  Sep 08 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: US Army paratroopers are dropped near Grave, Netherlands while livestock graze near gliders that landed earlier. This was the beginning of Operation Market Garden during World War II, which resulted in heavy Allied losses. Nederlands: VS paramilitairen worden gedropt in de buurt van Grave, terwijl het vee graast naast de zweefvliegtuigen die eerder gelandwaren. Dit was het begin van de Operatie Market Garden die resuklteerde in zware verliezen van de geallieerden. Date 17 September 1944 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "They (the Americans) did have a commitment to fighting for the Dutch..."  September Hope: 2 of 3: The American Side of a Bridge Too Far by John C. McManus. Acclaimed historian John C. McManus, author of The Dead and Those About to Die, explores World War II’s most ambitious invasion, Operation Market Garden, an immense, daring offensive to defeat Nazi Germany before the end of 1944. August 1944 saw the Allies achieve more significant victories than in any other month over the course of the war. The Germans were in disarray, overwhelmed on all fronts. Rumors swirled that the war would soon be over. On September 17, the largest airborne drop in military history commenced over Holland—including two entire American divisions, the 101st and the 82nd. Their mission was to secure key bridges at such places as Son, Eindhoven, Grave, and Nijmegen until British armored forces could relieve them. The Germans, however, proved much stronger than the Allies anticipated. In eight days of ferocious combat, they mauled the airborne, stymied the tanks, and prevented the Allies from crossing the Rhine. September Hope conveys the American perspective like never before, through a vast array of new sources and countless personal interviews to create a truly revealing portrait of this searing human drama. https://www.amazon.com/September-Hope-American-Side-Bridge-ebook/dp/B0072O02MS/ref=laB000APBYRI1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1504938401&sr=1-7...more

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• "Montgomery sees it (Operation Market Garden) as a war winner…" September Hope: 1 of 3: The American Side of a Bridge Too Far by John C. McManus.

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  Sep 08 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: Operation 'market Garden' (the Battle For Arnhem)- 17 - 25 September 1944 17 September 1944: Six American paratroopers of the First Allied Airborne Army receive a final briefing from their commanding officer before emplaning. Date between 1939 and 1945) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Montgomery sees it (Operation Market Garden) as a war winner…" September Hope: 1 of 3: The American Side of a Bridge Too Far by John C. McManus. Acclaimed historian John C. McManus, author of The Dead and Those About to Die, explores World War II’s most ambitious invasion, Operation Market Garden, an immense, daring offensive to defeat Nazi Germany before the end of 1944. August 1944 saw the Allies achieve more significant victories than in any other month over the course of the war. The Germans were in disarray, overwhelmed on all fronts. Rumors swirled that the war would soon be over. On September 17, the largest airborne drop in military history commenced over Holland—including two entire American divisions, the 101st and the 82nd. Their mission was to secure key bridges at such places as Son, Eindhoven, Grave, and Nijmegen until British armored forces could relieve them. The Germans, however, proved much stronger than the Allies anticipated. In eight days of ferocious combat, they mauled the airborne, stymied the tanks, and prevented the Allies from crossing the Rhine. September Hope conveys the American perspective like never before, through a vast array of new sources and countless personal interviews to create a truly revealing portrait of this searing human drama. https://www.amazon.com/September-Hope-American-Side-Bridge-ebook/dp/B0072O02MS/ref=laB000APBYRI1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1504938401&sr=1-7...more

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• Anonymous is the Federal workforce, all of it. @MichaelLedeen @FDD

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  Sep 08 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: Aerial view of the en:Bureau of Engraving and Printing in en:Washington, D.C. Date 1918) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Anonymous is the Federal workforce, all of it. @MichaelLedeen @FDD https://pjmedia.com/michaelledeen/anonymous-speaks/.

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• Central America Troubles: Guatemala's Morales tells UN vigilantes to clear out. @MaryAnastasiaOG

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  Sep 08 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Guatemala Ale_Gonzalez / 9 images ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Central America Troubles: Guatemala's Morales tells UN vigilantes to clear out. @MaryAnastasiaOG https://www.wsj.com/articles/guatemalas-president-defends-democracy-against-the-u-n-1536098714

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• "The study of the Administrative State these days is in large part to study the opinions of Judge Kavanaugh on the D.C. Circuit." @AdamJWjiteDC @HooverInst @GeorgeMasonLaw

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  Sep 07 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "The study of the Administrative State these days is in large part to study the opinions of Judge Kavanaugh on the D.C. Circuit."  @AdamJWjiteDC @HooverInst @GeorgeMasonLaw https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-most-dangerous-branch-review-judging-the-judges-1536098871?utmsource=Hoover+Daily+Report&utmcampaign=6668f1ab5a-HDRCOPY01&utmmedium=email&utmterm=0_21b1edff3c-6668f1ab5a-72527561...more

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• "It turned out the documents had been cleared for release..." Cory Booker stunts at the Kavanaugh hearing. @AdamJWjiteDC @HooverInst @GeorgeMasonLaw

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  Sep 07 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:en:E. Barrett Prettyman United States Court House, which houses U.S. District Court for District of Columbia. Located at 333 Constitution Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "It turned out the documents had been cleared for release..."  Cory Booker stunts at the Kavanaugh hearing. @AdamJWjiteDC @HooverInst @GeorgeMasonLaw https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-most-dangerous-branch-review-judging-the-judges-1536098871?utmsource=Hoover+Daily+Report&utmcampaign=6668f1ab5a-HDRCOPY01&utmmedium=email&utmterm=0_21b1edff3c-6668f1ab5a-72527561...more

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• "Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Encampent on the road to Canaan. Malcom Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Sep 07 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:"Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Encampent on the road to Canaan. Malcom Hoenlein @Confofpres  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Encampent on the road to Canaan. Malcom Hoenlein @Confofpres https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/MAGAZINE-have-camps-built-by-the-ancient-israelites-migrating-to-canaan-been-fo-1.6432817

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• "Containing Gaza is a reasonable strategic choice." The paradox of violence and containment in the Gaza Strip. @RobSatloff @WashInstitute

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  Sep 07 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Erez Crossing at the northern end of the Gaza Strip. This is the main crossing point for Palestinians of the Gaza Strip wishing to enter Israel. This photo was taken by me in July 2005 and is put into the public domain. --Zero0000 14:28, 25 July 2005 (UTC) Date 25 July 2005 (original upload date) Source Own work) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Containing Gaza is a reasonable strategic choice."  The paradox of violence and containment in the Gaza Strip. @RobSatloff @WashInstitute...more

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• Iran's rial collapses to 150,000 per dollar & What is to be done? @Mdubowitz @FDD

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  Sep 07 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:File:100 Rials Iranian Bank Note back.jpg ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Iran's rial collapses to 150,000 per dollar & What is to be done? @Mdubowitz @FDD Mark Dubowitz is the chief executive of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), a Washington, D.C.-based nonpartisan policy institute, where he leads projects on Iran, sanctions and nonproliferation. He is an expert on Iran’s nuclear program and global threat network, and is widely recognized as one of the key influencers in shaping sanctions policies to counter the threats from the Islamic Republic. Related articles ● https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-iran-economy-rial/iran-rial-hits-record-low-around-150000-against-dollar-fx-websites-idUKKCN1LL0RG ● http://jcpa.org/iran-will-deploy-its-fatehin-basij-special-forces-to-suppress-iranian-unrest/ ● http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/09/03/irans-secret-weapons-smuggling-air-route-to-lebanon-revealed-by-intel-sources.html  ● https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-03/secret-oil-shipments-could-help-iran-cushion-u-s-sanctions-blow ● http://www.defenddemocracy.org/content/uploads/documents/FDD-Summit-Brian-Hook.pdf ● https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/02/business/japans-oil-distributors-stop-importing-iranian-crude-avoid-u-s-wrath-sources/#.W4_vGM5KgdU ● http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/richard-goldberg1-heres-how-trump-can-bring-iran-back-to-the-table/ ● https://www.voanews.com/a/fears-rise-diapers-vanish-as-iran-currency-hits-new-low/4559929.html...more

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• Jeremy Corbyn a surge of anti-semtisim in European politics, Malcom Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Sep 07 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:.. JCorbyn addressing London's People's Assembly Demonstration in June 2014) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Jeremy Corbyn a surge of anti-semtisim in European politics, Malcom Hoenlein @Confofpres https://www.businessinsider.com/200-anti-semitism-complaints-against-jeremy-corbyn-left-sitting-in-a-folder-2018-9

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• The disorderly Kavanaugh hearings are the product of ideology, partisanship, and Trump-bashing. Michael McConnell @HooverInst

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  Sep 07 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The disorderly Kavanaugh hearings are the product of ideology,  partisanship, and Trump-bashing. Michael McConnell @HooverInst http://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/404670-brett-kavanaugh-will-bring-middle-principles-to-our-polarized-nation?utmsource=Hoover+Daily+Report&utmcampaign=6668f1ab5a-HDRCOPY01&utmmedium=email&utmterm=0_21b1edff3c-6668f1ab5a-72527561

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• @JoshuaGreen, @Bloomberg: Jan 2010, Secy Tim Geitner in his fab Treasury ofc; dour abt the federal rescue (“we’ll never get credit for what we’ve done”) where tax dollars bailed out malfeasants who got off scot-free. Backlash led to today’s politics.

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  Sep 07 2018

  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The political impact of the financial crisis. I submit that Trump wouldn't be president today had there bbeen no backlash against the Obama resolution of he financial crisis. The Wall Street boys, bankers, created the mess; instead of allowing them to pay for their bad deeds, Obama invited them into his office and recued them. Enraged a good deal of the country. . . . Geitner’s concern for moral hazard; but all of the DC honchos decided the protecting them would save the economy from collapse. Bankers got off scot-free. Trump, Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez, all are reactions to the 2008 bailout.   Picture: “One big waste of money justifies another.” “Quite!”...more

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• Security brief: North Korea, Syria, Russia's Vostok 2018. @SebGorka

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  Sep 07 2018

  AUTHOR. (PhotoРусский: СКШУ «Восток-2014». День четвертый: действия мотострелкового подразделения в наступлении (о. Сахалин). Date 22 September 2014, 08:03:20 Source http://мультимедиа.минобороны.рф/multimedia/photo/gallery.htm?id=18339@cmsPhotoGallery Author Алексей Ерешко (Alexey Yereshko): ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Security brief: North Korea, Syria, Russia's Vostok 2018. @SebGorka

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• "The fever dreams of those who do not understand and cannot internalize that Hillary Clinton did not become the president..." @SebGorka

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  Sep 07 2018

  AUTHOR. (PhotoCapricho 43, El sueño de la razón produce monstruos: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "The fever dreams of those who do not understand and cannot internalize that Hillary Clinton did not become the president..."  @SebGorka

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• 16th Annual Defender of Life Gala Dinner: "I know there are a lot of wonderful priests in Ireland, but as a whole the scandals really harmed the (Pro-Life) campaign..." Maria McFadden Marfucci, Human Life Foundation.

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  Sep 07 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: Lobby card from The Quiet Man (1952). Pictured are John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara. Date 1952 Source source Author Republic Pictures Permission (Reusing this file)  Pre-1978, no mark) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow 16th Annual Defender of Life Gala Dinner: "I know there are a lot of wonderful priests in Ireland, but as a whole the scandals really harmed the (Pro-Life) campaign..."  Maria McFadden Marfucci, Human Life Foundation. https://www.humanlifereview.com...more

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• Kavanaugh and the Trump vote. @LaraMBrownPHD @GWU@SalenaZito, @WashingtonExaminer

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  Sep 07 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Trump supporters in Prescott, Arizona wearing shirts with the phrase "I am a Deplorable".) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Kavanaugh and the Trump vote. @LaraMBrownPHD @GWU@SalenaZito, @WashingtonExaminer

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• Shadow-banning and other mysteries of Social Media & What is to be done? @RyanRadia Competitive Enterprise Institute

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  Sep 07 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Shadow-banning and other mysteries of Social Media & What is to be done?  @RyanRadia Competitive Enterprise Institute https://cei.org/blog/real-sin-social-media-companies-not-censorship-getting-bed-government

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• Bill Gertz: US China Ec. Review Commission report on China influencing US policies by giving money to US think tanks – millions of dollars from a quasi-military intell entity. The deal is: say nothing negative about China. Seems to be working.

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  Sep 06 2018

  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow China is running a very intensive global campaign against US institutions. The FBI is charged with countering malign foreign influences . . . Photo: The Vice Chairman of Chinese Communist Party Central Military Commission, Zhang You-xia

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• How does Asia see Pence and not Trump at the ASEAN and AIPEC meetings in November? @WalterLohman @Heritage @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Sep 06 2018

  AUTHOR. (PhotoHow does Asia see Pence and not Trump at the ASEAN and AIPEC meetings in November? @WalterLohman @Heritage @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow How does Asia see Pence and not Trump at the ASEAN and AIPEC meetings in November? @WalterLohman @Heritage @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast Walter Lohman, director at the Asian Studies Center at The Heritage Foundation, on this: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-31/trump-to-skip-asia-summits-as-doubts-over-u-s-commitment-linger...more

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• Vostok '18: extremely large Russian war games in Asia, with China and Mongolia participating. Rick Fisher, International Assessment and Strategy Center

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  Sep 06 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Military parade on Red Square. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Vostok '18: extremely large Russian war games in Asia, with China and Mongolia participating. Rick Fisher, International Assessment and Strategy Center

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• North Korea sanctions: "The Trump Administration has essentially lost that precious leverage that it was using in order to carry out this diplomatic initiative." Rebecca @RLHeinrichs @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Sep 06 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Japanese marines landing from the Unyo at Yeongjong Island which is near Ganghwa. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow North Korea sanctions: "The Trump Administration has essentially lost that precious leverage that it was using in order to carry out this diplomatic initiative." Rebecca @RLHeinrichs @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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• "Threats are most effective before they are actually used." Trump vs Xi in the $200 Billion tariff threat against PRC. @AlanTonelson @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Sep 06 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Great buildings facing harbour constructed since 1891 on reclamation. Part of the City of Victoria, Hong Kong, showing east end of reclamation. Date ᠑,᠘᠙᠙.᠐ - ᠑,᠙᠐᠓.᠐ Picture taken between 1899 and 1903. See below: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Threats are most effective before they are actually used." Trump vs Xi in the $200 Billion tariff threat against PRC. @AlanTonelson @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast...more

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• The Long War against the jihadists is closer to the beginning than to the end. @CliffordDMay @FDD

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  Sep 06 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Long War against the jihadists is closer to the beginning than to the end. @CliffordDMay @FDD http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/may-clifford-d-the-long-war-is-not-getting-shorter/

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• Red China's capital markets are non-transparet and reckless & What is to be done? @JoshRogin @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Sep 06 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Red China's capital markets are non-transparet and reckless & What is to be done? @JoshRogin @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/its-time-to-end-the-china-hustle-on-us-stock-exchanges/2018/08/30/50137c1a-ac8d-11e8-8a0c-70b618c98d3cstory.html?utmterm=.ed592ee85a7a It’s time to end the ‘China hustle’ on U.S. stock exchanges By Josh Rogin Columnist The growing presence of Chinese companies in U.S. stock exchanges poses a dangerous and growing risk for U.S. investors and the American economy as a whole — a problem that has been overlooked for far too long. If President Trump really wants to fix the unfair U.S.-China economic relationship, this is where he should start....more

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• "The loudest voices in the Senate, in opposition to Kavanaugh, are those who are likely to run against Donald Trump in 2020..." @MonicaCrowley

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  Sep 06 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo Dirksen Building: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "The loudest voices in the Senate, in opposition to Kavanaugh, are those who are likely to run against Donald Trump in 2020..."  @MonicaCrowley

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• "If you are an enterprise, you don't produce for profit. You produce for the common good..." What is the Democratic Socialism promoted by Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez? @PaulR_Gregory @HooverInst

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  Sep 06 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: The Strike (1886) by Robert Koehler, often assumed to depict the 1886 strikes in Belgium[1]) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "If you are an enterprise, you don't produce for profit.  You produce for the common good..."  What is the Democratic Socialism promoted by Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez?  @PaulR_Gregory @HooverInst

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• "The leak was not existential or critical in its leakageness..." Quality control fail on ISS.Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Sep 06 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Welcoming New Management to Space Station National Laboratory ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "The leak was not existential or critical in its leakageness..." Quality control fail on ISS.Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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• "What is going to happen with Opportunity is contingent upon...the entire planetary probe community..." Oppy's fate and the swarming planetary probes. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Sep 06 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Opportunity on Mars ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "What is going to happen with Opportunity is contingent upon...the entire planetary probe community..."  Oppy's fate and the swarming planetary probes. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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• "And living stands will be at a level that may the present seem austere..." Learning to heart robots. @JohnTamny

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  Sep 06 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: R2-D2 and friend) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "And living stands will be at a level that may the present seem austere..."  Learning to heart robots.  @JohnTamny https://www.caymanfinancialreview.com/2018/08/21/robots-will-not-put-us-out-of-work-theyll-cause-us-to-fall-in-love-with-it/

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• "The price of US steel being significantly higher than the price of steel world-wide..." The iron grip of steel executives & What is to be done? @VerodeRugy @MErcatus

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  Sep 05 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:TITLE: Filling moulds with steel, Pittsburg, Pa. CALL NUMBER: LOT 12053-2 [item] [P&P]  Check for an online group record (may link to related items) REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-69680 (b&w film copy neg. of half stereo) No known restrictions on publication. MEDIUM: 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. CREATED/PUBLISHED: c1905. NOTES: Stereo copyrighted by Keystone View Co. No. 6414. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Steel industry; Geogr. REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID: (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3b17116 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b17116 CARD #: 2004672975 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "The price of US steel being significantly higher than the price of steel world-wide..." The iron grip of steel executives & What is to be done? @VerodeRugy @Mercatus...more

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• "It's not just the sanctions. It's domestic issues..." Wheel barrels of Rials as Iran slips to Venezuela. Behnam ben Talelblu, @FDD.

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  Sep 05 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Tehran Grand Hotel Date 1900s Source http://cafeclassic3.ir/archive/index.php/thread-84.html Author Unknown) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "It's not just the sanctions.  It's domestic issues..."  Wheel barrels of Rials as Iran slips to Venezuela.  Behnam ben Talelblu, @FDD. https://www.voanews.com/a/iran-s-currency-hits-record-low-versus-us-dollar-for-2nd-straight-day/4558310.html

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• "This wave of Republicans...has gone on for a decade, and why? Because Democrats continued to press policies that were not popular..." @LizPeek

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  Sep 05 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:The Republican National Convention, held in Philadelphia, June, 1900. Date June 19 - 21, 1900 Source Andrews, E. Benjamin. History of the United States, volume V. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 1912. Author E. Benjamin Andrews ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "This wave of Republicans...has gone on for a decade, and why?  Because Democrats continued to press policies that were not popular..."  @LizPeek Tuesday 4 September 2018/ Hour 1, Block B: Elizabeth Peek, The Hill and Fox News, in re: The politics of the Kavanaugh nomination. Democrats are furious that they can’t control Congress or the White House or, as it now appears, the Supreme Court. Today’s circus was embarrassing; some of the Senators [disgraced themselves]. It was such a visible display. GOP’s [ascendance] has been going on for a decade because the Democrats keep pressing for policies that are not popular nationally. Democrats have lost an unprecedented amount of power but seem not to have pondered why. Schumer may give permission to several Senators in Red states to vote for Kavanaugh....more

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• The Democratic Senatorial Caucus Circus comes to the Kavanaugh confirmation hearing. @AdamJWhiteDC @HooverInst

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  Sep 05 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: Dirksen Senate Building room 226 from http://judiciary.senate.gov/information.cfm commons:category:United States Senate Date  Source  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @Batchelorshow The Democratic Senatorial Caucus Circus comes to the Kavanaugh confirmation hearing. @AdamJWhiteDC @HooverInst https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-most-dangerous-branch-review-judging-the-judges-1536098871

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• Kavanaugh and the Ginsberg Rule, the Heller gun right case, and Executive Privilege. @AdamJWhiteDC

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  Sep 05 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Meeting with Bipartisan Senate Leadership on Supreme Court ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Kavanaugh and the Ginsberg Rule, the Heller gun right case, and Executive Privilege. @AdamJWhiteDC https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-most-dangerous-branch-review-judging-the-judges-1536098871

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• "People never tire of a booming economy, nor of rising wages & living standards: drive consumer spending, 2/3 of the US economy; increase in business optimism & spending — elements missing during the Obama years." Liz Peek on the roaring US economy

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  Sep 05 2018

  Jolly image: A version of the high life under a booming economy; 1800s, downstairs among the staff. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Liz Peek, The Hill and Fox News, on the roaring economy. Institute of Intl Finance: 'Economy is booming only in some places.' People never tire of a booming economy, nor of rising wages and living standards. These drive consumer optimism and spending, which are two-thirds of the US economy. Ergo, we have an increase in business optimism and spending — the elements that were missing during the Obama years."...more

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• "...with the end of Old Style Communism, that nationalism was what people wanted..." Turkey between two worlds: 2 of 2: NATA and the Kremlin. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

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  Sep 05 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: The Turkish delegation to the 2nd Maccabiah. Date April 2-7, 1935 Source Israel State Archives / Archive Museum 'Maccabi' / Kfar Maccabiah Author Unknown/Unspecified ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "...with the end of Old Style Communism, that nationalism was what people wanted..."  Turkey between two worlds: 2 of 2:  NATA and the Kremlin. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs "The strategic path along which the US and Turkey are traveling has an element of fatalism about it, given that each side fears the divorce for a range of different rea-sons. Indeed, the North Atlantic Alliance (NATO) fears it, given that there has been no precedent for such a separation, and the entire premise of NATO as a containment mechanism against Russia (it was intended to contain the USSR) would then be open to question. The core of the “inevitability” of the divorce, however, remains the fatal misjudgment by Turkish Pres. Reçep Tayyip Erdoğan as to the US response to his actions, a perception he formed during the former US Administration of Pres. Barack Obama and on what he thought were his links to officials around incoming US Pres. Donald Trump."...more

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• "There's no really formal mechanism for expelling a country from NATO..." Turkey between two worlds: 1 of 2: NATA and the Kremlin. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

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  Sep 05 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: Turkey. Ankara. An old parliament building. Bus in front 1935 Date 1935) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "There's no really formal mechanism for expelling a country from NATO..."  Turkey between two worlds: 1 of 2: NATA and the Kremlin. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs "The strategic path along which the US and Turkey are traveling has an element of fatalism about it, given that each side fears the divorce for a range of different rea-sons. Indeed, the North Atlantic Alliance (NATO) fears it, given that there has been no precedent for such a separation, and the entire premise of NATO as a containment mechanism against Russia (it was intended to contain the USSR) would then be open to question. The core of the “inevitability” of the divorce, however, remains the fatal misjudgment by Turkish Pres. Reçep Tayyip Erdoğan as to the US response to his actions, a perception he formed during the former US Administration of Pres. Barack Obama and on what he thought were his links to officials around incoming US Pres. Donald Trump."...more

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• "There're are consequences to being brave, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't act that way…" The PRC's "Little Distraction" game to suppress adversaries: 2 of 2: @IsaacStoneFish

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  Sep 05 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Crowded boat-landing, China, ca.1900-1919 "A crowded boat-landing in a Chinese city, similar to the one a block from our home." Many wooden boats are lined up along a wooden dock with city buildings in the background.; Captions for this set of lantern slides from the papers of Oliver and Jennie Logan, American Presbyterian missionaries in Hunan, were provided by their daughter Elsa. Subject (aat): general views Photographer: Unidentified Filename: IMP-YDS-RG008-358-0008-0034 Geographic subject: China Subject (unesco): Inland water transport; Urban areas; Buildings Part of collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "There're are consequences to being brave, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't act that way…" The PRC's "Little Distraction" game to suppress adversaries: 2 of 2: @IsaacStoneFish "I spent six months investigating China’s influence at American universities, and found a surprising epidemic of self-censorship. Please find my piece below, where I reveal that Columbia University cancelled several events because they were afraid of offending Beijing." ISF https://newrepublic.com/article/150476/american-elite-universities-selfcensorship-china...more

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• "There are a few Bejing makes examples of. These examples serve as a warning…" The PRC's "Little Distraction" game to suppress adversaries: 1 of 2: @IsaacStoneFish

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  Sep 05 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: File:Xicheng, Beijing, China - panoramio (142).jpg) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "There are a few Bejing makes examples of. These examples serve as a warning…" The PRC's "Little Distraction" game to suppress adversaries: 1 of 2: @IsaacStoneFish "I spent six months investigating China’s influence at American universities, and found a surprising epidemic of self-censorship. Please find my piece below, where I reveal that Columbia University cancelled several events because they were afraid of offending Beijing." ISF https://newrepublic.com/article/150476/american-elite-universities-selfcensorship-china...more

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• "The people of Portland believed that these two men deserved a join funeral, and joint honors, then the should mingle in the earth for eternity..." Knights of the Sea: 2 of 2: The True Story of the Boxer and the Enterprise. by David Hanna

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  Sep 05 2018

  AUTHOR. (PhotoThe capture of HMS Boxer in 1813 was a sea fight off the coast of Maine in the War of 1812. The United States Navy brig USS Enterprise, commanded by Lieutenant William Burrows, defeated the Royal Navy gun-brig HMS Boxer, led by Master Commandant Samuel Blyth: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "The people of Portland believed that these two men deserved a join funeral, and joint honors, then the should mingle in the earth for eternity..."  Knights of the Sea: 2 of 2: The True Story of the Boxer and the Enterprise. by David Hanna "Beautifully written, Knights of the Sea delves deeply into the lives and motivations of the two young, but experienced captains who dueled to the death in the famous sea fight between the HMS Boxer and USS Enterprise, shedding new light on the British and American navies during a critical period in their histories.”Captain Philip Kasky USN (Ret), former commander, USS Suribachi "David Hanna establishes his credibility both as a writer and with the quality and depth of his historical research in Knights of the Sea. His capturing of a little-known maritime battle during the War of 1812 is surprisingly relevant in modern-day exploration of military strategy." Portland Press Herald "In a compact, well-organized and carefully illustrated book, Hanna propels the reader both general and scholarly with sure, swift and colorful prose.” Bangor Daily News "In Hanna’s skilled storytelling, heroic seamen and stout ships come alive in this rousing tale and converge on the Maine coast for a short, bloody sea battle... The well-illustrated Knights of the Sea is a great read for folks interested in Maine or maritime history. Hanna does his heroes and their forgotten war justice." Down East Magazine...more

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• "The commander of the Enterprise, William Burrows, was very methodical in ho he approached his adversary…" Knights of the Sea: 1 of 2: The True Story of the Boxer and the Enterprise and the War of 1812. by David Hanna

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: U.S. en:Schooner ENTERPRIZE Capturing the Tripolitan en:Corsair TRIPOLI, 1 August 1801. From a drawing (circa 1878) by Captain William Bainbridge Hoff, U.S. Navy, in the collection of the Navy department.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "The commander of the Enterprise, William Burrows, was very methodical in ho he approached his adversary…" Knights of the Sea: 1 of 2: The True Story of the Boxer and the Enterprise and the War of 1812. by David Hanna "Beautifully written, Knights of the Sea delves deeply into the lives and motivations of the two young, but experienced captains who dueled to the death in the famous sea fight between the HMS Boxer and USS Enterprise, shedding new light on the British and American navies during a critical period in their histories.”Captain Philip Kasky USN (Ret), former commander, USS Suribachi "David Hanna establishes his credibility both as a writer and with the quality and depth of his historical research in Knights of the Sea. His capturing of a little-known maritime battle during the War of 1812 is surprisingly relevant in modern-day exploration of military strategy." Portland Press Herald "In a compact, well-organized and carefully illustrated book, Hanna propels the reader both general and scholarly with sure, swift and colorful prose.” Bangor Daily News "In Hanna’s skilled storytelling, heroic seamen and stout ships come alive in this rousing tale and converge on the Maine coast for a short, bloody sea battle… The well-illustrated Knights of the Sea is a great read for folks interested in Maine or maritime history. Hanna does his heroes and their forgotten war justice." Down East Magazine...more

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• "In total about 15 million dollars in fake Confederate cash...it would have accounted for about 3% of the money supply...for a single counterfeiter..." A Counterfeiter's Paradise: 2 of 2: The Wicked Lives and Surprising Adventures of ... by Ben Tarnoff

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  Sep 04 2018

  AUTHOR. (PhotoUse of this image should give credit to the National Numismatic Collection, National Museum of American History.: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "In total about 15 million dollars in fake Confederate cash...it would have accounted for about 3% of the money supply...for a single (Samuel Upham) counterfeiter..."  A Counterfeiter's Paradise: 2 of 2: The Wicked Lives and Surprising Adventures of ... by Ben Tarnoff https://www.amazon.com/Counterfeiters-Paradise-Surprising-Adventures-Moneymakers/dp/0143120778/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1536027127&sr=1-1&keywords=tarnoff+counterfeiters "This tale of counterfeiting is a treat for everyone...a delightful history lesson...Admirable and altogether charming."  -The Washington Post As Ben Tarnoff reminds us in this entertaining narrative history, get-rich-quick schemes are as old as America itself. Indeed, the speculative ethos that pervades Wall Street today, Tarnoff suggests, has its origins in the counterfeiters who first took advantage of America's turbulent economy. In A Counterfeiter's Paradise, Tarnoff chronicles the lives of three colorful counterfeiters who flourished in early America, from the colonial period to the Civil War. Driven by desire for fortune and fame, each counterfeiter cunningly manipulated the political and economic realities of his day. Through the tales of these three memorable hustlers, Tarnoff tells the larger tale of America's financial coming-of-age, from a patchwork of colonies to a powerful nation with a single currency....more

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• "Very early Colonial currency - it dates back to 1690 in Massachusetts -- the engraving is very crude..." A Counterfeiter's Paradise: 1 of 2: The Wicked Lives and Surprising Adventures of Three Early American Moneymakers by Ben Tarnoff

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  Sep 04 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: $1 Colonial currency from the Province of Maryland. Signed by John Clapham and Robert Couden. (Friedberg Colonial ref# MD-55).) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Very early Colonial currency - it dates back to 1690 in Massachusetts -- the engraving is very crude..."  A Counterfeiter's Paradise: 1 of 2: The Wicked Lives and Surprising Adventures of Three Early American Moneymakers by Ben Tarnoff https://www.amazon.com/Counterfeiters-Paradise-Surprising-Adventures-Moneymakers/dp/0143120778/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1536027127&sr=1-1&keywords=tarnoff+counterfeiters "This tale of counterfeiting is a treat for everyone...a delightful history lesson...Admirable and altogether charming."  -The Washington Post As Ben Tarnoff reminds us in this entertaining narrative history, get-rich-quick schemes are as old as America itself. Indeed, the speculative ethos that pervades Wall Street today, Tarnoff suggests, has its origins in the counterfeiters who first took advantage of America's turbulent economy. In A Counterfeiter's Paradise, Tarnoff chronicles the lives of three colorful counterfeiters who flourished in early America, from the colonial period to the Civil War. Driven by desire for fortune and fame, each counterfeiter cunningly manipulated the political and economic realities of his day. Through the tales of these three memorable hustlers, Tarnoff tells the larger tale of America's financial coming-of-age, from a patchwork of colonies to a powerful nation with a single currency....more

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• "Some of these U-Boat captains, who were aiming for New York, were very irritated by these guys..." New York at War: 3 of 3: : Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham. by Steven H. Jaffe

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  Sep 04 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:U-505, a type IXC U-boat ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Some of these U-Boat captains, who were aiming for New York, were very irritated by these guys..."  New York at War: 3 of 3: : Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham. by Steven H. Jaffe https://www.amazon.com/New-York-War-Centuries-Intrigue/dp/0465036422/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1536025055&sr=1-1&keywords=new+york+at+war+jaffe “Foreign foes have rarely attacked New York directly, but the city has been profoundly involved in the nation's many military conflicts. As Steven Jaffe shows in this novel and absorbing study, Gotham has been banker and arsenal, staging ground and recruiting post, cheerleader and critic, fortification and tempting target. Seen in a series, the wartime experiences are strikingly different, and Jaffe respects each war story's particularity. But he's also good at spotting commonalities, the most intriguing being the way wars abroad become wars at home, with New York's polyglot citizenry battling over a conflict's legitimacy, or which combatant to back. Highly recommended.” Thomas Fleming, author of 1776: Year of Illusions “Anyone who's ever lived in New York, or visited it, or thought about visiting it will be fascinated by this book. Even historians will be surprised by some chapters. Steven Jaffe has dug deep and come up with literary gold, again and again.” Kenneth T. Jackson, editor-in-chief of The Encyclopedia of New York City “From the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776 to the Battle of the Atlantic in 1943, the great Hudson River metropolis and its huge harbor have been central to the American military experience. New York at War is a page-turner, and it tells an important and fascinating story with authority and distinction.”...more

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• "You literally have the Civl War being fight in the streets..." New York at War: 2 of 3: : Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham. by Steven H. Jaffe

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  Sep 04 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Attack on the Tribune building) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "You literally have the Civl War being fight in the streets..."  New York at War: 2 of 3: : Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham. by Steven H. Jaffe https://www.amazon.com/New-York-War-Centuries-Intrigue/dp/0465036422/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1536025055&sr=1-1&keywords=new+york+at+war+jaffe “Foreign foes have rarely attacked New York directly, but the city has been profoundly involved in the nation's many military conflicts. As Steven Jaffe shows in this novel and absorbing study, Gotham has been banker and arsenal, staging ground and recruiting post, cheerleader and critic, fortification and tempting target. Seen in a series, the wartime experiences are strikingly different, and Jaffe respects each war story's particularity. But he's also good at spotting commonalities, the most intriguing being the way wars abroad become wars at home, with New York's polyglot citizenry battling over a conflict's legitimacy, or which combatant to back. Highly recommended.” Thomas Fleming, author of 1776: Year of Illusions “Anyone who's ever lived in New York, or visited it, or thought about visiting it will be fascinated by this book. Even historians will be surprised by some chapters. Steven Jaffe has dug deep and come up with literary gold, again and again.” Kenneth T. Jackson, editor-in-chief of The Encyclopedia of New York City “From the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776 to the Battle of the Atlantic in 1943, the great Hudson River metropolis and its huge harbor have been central to the American military experience. New York at War is a page-turner, and it tells an important and fascinating story with authority and distinction.”...more

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• "Kidd was originally licensed by the British authorities to sail forth as a privateer against the French enemy..." New York at War: 1 of 3: : Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham. by Steven H. Jaffe

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  Sep 04 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Captain Kidd in New York Harbor, in a c. 1920 painting by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Kidd was originally licensed by the British authorities to sail  forth as a privateer against the French enemy..."   New York at War: 1 of 3: : Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham. by Steven H. Jaffe https://www.amazon.com/New-York-War-Centuries-Intrigue/dp/0465036422/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1536025055&sr=1-1&keywords=new+york+at+war+jaffe “Foreign foes have rarely attacked New York directly, but the city has been profoundly involved in the nation's many military conflicts. As Steven Jaffe shows in this novel and absorbing study, Gotham has been banker and arsenal, staging ground and recruiting post, cheerleader and critic, fortification and tempting target. Seen in a series, the wartime experiences are strikingly different, and Jaffe respects each war story's particularity. But he's also good at spotting commonalities, the most intriguing being the way wars abroad become wars at home, with New York's polyglot citizenry battling over a conflict's legitimacy, or which combatant to back. Highly recommended.” Thomas Fleming, author of 1776: Year of Illusions “Anyone who's ever lived in New York, or visited it, or thought about visiting it will be fascinated by this book. Even historians will be surprised by some chapters. Steven Jaffe has dug deep and come up with literary gold, again and again.” Kenneth T. Jackson, editor-in-chief of The Encyclopedia of New York City “From the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776 to the Battle of the Atlantic in 1943, the great Hudson River metropolis and its huge harbor have been central to the American military experience. New York at War is a page-turner, and it tells an important and fascinating story with authority and distinction.”...more

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• "So, staying in Skinnervillle would have meant more than just rebuilding his business. It would have meant rebuilding an entire village..." American Phoenix: 3 of 3: The Remarkable Story of William Skinner... by Sarah S. Kilborne

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  Sep 04 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "So, staying in Skinnervillle would have meant more than just rebuilding his business.  It would have meant rebuilding an entire village..."  American Phoenix: 3 of 3: The Remarkable Story of William Skinner... by Sarah S. Kilborne https://www.amazon.com/American-Phoenix-Remarkable-William-Disaster/dp/1451671792/ref=sr1fkmr0_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1536023960&sr=1-1-fkmr0&keywords=sarah+kilbourne+american+phoenix The incredible story of nineteenth-century millionaire William Skinner, a leading founder of the American silk industry, who lost everything in a devastating flood—and his improbable, inspiring comeback to the pinnacle of the business world  In 1845 a young, penniless William Skinner sailed in steerage class on a boat that took him from the slums of London to the United States. Endowed with rare knowledge in the art of dyeing and an uncanny business sense, he acquired work in a fledgling silk mill in Massachusetts, quickly rising to prominence in the nation’s new luxury industry. Soon he opened his own factory and began turning out one of the bestselling silk brands in the country. Skinner was lauded as a pioneer in the textile industry and a manufacturer who knew no such word as fail. His business grew to sustain a bustling community filled with men, women, and children, living and working in the mill village of “Skinner-ville,” producing the country’s most glamorous, fashionable thread.  Then, in 1874, disaster struck. Hundreds of millions of gallons of water burst through a nearby dam, destroying everything in its path, including Skinnerville. Within fifteen minutes, Skinner’s entire life’s work was swept away, and he found himself one of the central figures in the worst industrial disaster the nation had yet known.  In this gripping narrative history, Skinner’s great-great-granddaughter, Sarah S. Kilborne, tells an inspiring, unforgettable American story—of a town devastated by unimaginable catastrophe; an industry that had no reason to succeed except for the perseverance of a few intrepid entrepreneurs; and a man who had nothing—and everything—to lose as he struggled to rebuild his life a second time.  None of Skinner’s peers who lost their factories in the Mill River Flood withstood the shock of their losses, but Skinner went on to stage one of the greatest comebacks in the annals of American industry. As a result of his efforts to survive, he became one of the leading silk manufacturers in the world, leaving an indelible imprint on the history of American fashion and style. More striking still, this achievement would never have been possible if Skinner hadn’t been ruined by the flood and forced, at age forty-nine, to start all over again, rebuilding everything with just one asset: the knowledge in his head.  With masterful skill Kilborne brings to life an era when fabric was fashion, silk was supreme, factories were beacons of American success, and immigrants like Skinner with the secrets of age-old European arts possessed knowledge worth gold to Americans. Here is a story of ambition and desire, resilience and faith, disaster and survival. It is about making it, losing it, and then making it again despite the odds. An enthralling tale, American Phoenix offers a new twist on the American dream, reminding us that just when we thought the dream was over, it may have only just begun....more

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• "Skinner then branched out, to launch his own mill, upriver, in an area where -- there was nothing there..." American Phoenix: 2 of 3: The Remarkable Story of William Skinner, A Man Who Turned Disaster Into Destiny by Sarah S. Kilborne

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  Sep 04 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Skinner then branched out, to launch his own mill, upriver, in an area where -- there was nothing there..."  American Phoenix: 2 of 3: The Remarkable Story of William Skinner, A Man Who Turned Disaster Into Destiny by Sarah S. Kilborne https://www.amazon.com/American-Phoenix-Remarkable-William-Disaster/dp/1451671792/ref=sr1fkmr0_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1536023960&sr=1-1-fkmr0&keywords=sarah+kilbourne+american+phoenix The incredible story of nineteenth-century millionaire William Skinner, a leading founder of the American silk industry, who lost everything in a devastating flood—and his improbable, inspiring comeback to the pinnacle of the business world  In 1845 a young, penniless William Skinner sailed in steerage class on a boat that took him from the slums of London to the United States. Endowed with rare knowledge in the art of dyeing and an uncanny business sense, he acquired work in a fledgling silk mill in Massachusetts, quickly rising to prominence in the nation’s new luxury industry. Soon he opened his own factory and began turning out one of the bestselling silk brands in the country. Skinner was lauded as a pioneer in the textile industry and a manufacturer who knew no such word as fail. His business grew to sustain a bustling community filled with men, women, and children, living and working in the mill village of “Skinner-ville,” producing the country’s most glamorous, fashionable thread.  Then, in 1874, disaster struck. Hundreds of millions of gallons of water burst through a nearby dam, destroying everything in its path, including Skinnerville. Within fifteen minutes, Skinner’s entire life’s work was swept away, and he found himself one of the central figures in the worst industrial disaster the nation had yet known.  In this gripping narrative history, Skinner’s great-great-granddaughter, Sarah S. Kilborne, tells an inspiring, unforgettable American story—of a town devastated by unimaginable catastrophe; an industry that had no reason to succeed except for the perseverance of a few intrepid entrepreneurs; and a man who had nothing—and everything—to lose as he struggled to rebuild his life a second time.  None of Skinner’s peers who lost their factories in the Mill River Flood withstood the shock of their losses, but Skinner went on to stage one of the greatest comebacks in the annals of American industry. As a result of his efforts to survive, he became one of the leading silk manufacturers in the world, leaving an indelible imprint on the history of American fashion and style. More striking still, this achievement would never have been possible if Skinner hadn’t been ruined by the flood and forced, at age forty-nine, to start all over again, rebuilding everything with just one asset: the knowledge in his head.  With masterful skill Kilborne brings to life an era when fabric was fashion, silk was supreme, factories were beacons of American success, and immigrants like Skinner with the secrets of age-old European arts possessed knowledge worth gold to Americans. Here is a story of ambition and desire, resilience and faith, disaster and survival. It is about making it, losing it, and then making it again despite the odds. An enthralling tale, American Phoenix offers a new twist on the American dream, reminding us that just when we thought the dream was over, it may have only just begun....more

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• "...May 16, 1874. And he had branched out to having his own wholesale store, downtown, in New York..." American Phoenix: 1 of 3: The Remarkable Story of William Skinner, A Man Who Turned Disaster Into Destiny by Sarah S. Kilborne

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "...May 16, 1874.  And he had branched out to having his own wholesale store, downtown, in New York..."  American Phoenix: 1 of 3:  The Remarkable Story of William Skinner, A Man Who Turned Disaster Into Destiny by Sarah S. Kilborne [ https://www.amazon.com/American-Phoenix-Remarkable-William-Disaster/dp/1451671792/ref=sr1fkmr01?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1536023960&sr=1-1-fkmr0&keywords=sarah+kilbourne+american+phoenix](https://www.amazon.com/American-Phoenix-Remarkable-William-Disaster/dp/1451671792/ref=sr1fkmr01?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1536023960&sr=1-1-fkmr0&keywords=sarah+kilbourne+american+phoenix) The incredible story of nineteenth-century millionaire William Skinner, a leading founder of the American silk industry, who lost everything in a devastating flood—and his improbable, inspiring comeback to the pinnacle of the business world  In 1845 a young, penniless William Skinner sailed in steerage class on a boat that took him from the slums of London to the United States. Endowed with rare knowledge in the art of dyeing and an uncanny business sense, he acquired work in a fledgling silk mill in Massachusetts, quickly rising to prominence in the nation’s new luxury industry. Soon he opened his own factory and began turning out one of the bestselling silk brands in the country. Skinner was lauded as a pioneer in the textile industry and a manufacturer who knew no such word as fail. His business grew to sustain a bustling community filled with men, women, and children, living and working in the mill village of “Skinner-ville,” producing the country’s most glamorous, fashionable thread.  Then, in 1874, disaster struck. Hundreds of millions of gallons of water burst through a nearby dam, destroying everything in its path, including Skinnerville. Within fifteen minutes, Skinner’s entire life’s work was swept away, and he found himself one of the central figures in the worst industrial disaster the nation had yet known.  In this gripping narrative history, Skinner’s great-great-granddaughter, Sarah S. Kilborne, tells an inspiring, unforgettable American story—of a town devastated by unimaginable catastrophe; an industry that had no reason to succeed except for the perseverance of a few intrepid entrepreneurs; and a man who had nothing—and everything—to lose as he struggled to rebuild his life a second time.  None of Skinner’s peers who lost their factories in the Mill River Flood withstood the shock of their losses, but Skinner went on to stage one of the greatest comebacks in the annals of American industry. As a result of his efforts to survive, he became one of the leading silk manufacturers in the world, leaving an indelible imprint on the history of American fashion and style. More striking still, this achievement would never have been possible if Skinner hadn’t been ruined by the flood and forced, at age forty-nine, to start all over again, rebuilding everything with just one asset: the knowledge in his head.  With masterful skill Kilborne brings to life an era when fabric was fashion, silk was supreme, factories were beacons of American success, and immigrants like Skinner with the secrets of age-old European arts possessed knowledge worth gold to Americans. Here is a story of ambition and desire, resilience and faith, disaster and survival. It is about making it, losing it, and then making it again despite the odds. An enthralling tale, American Phoenix offers a new twist on the American dream, reminding us that just when we thought the dream was over, it may have only just begun. ...more

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• "Perry does not feel, at this particular stage, that Eliot is an honorable man..." "Oliver Hazard Perry: 3 of 3: Honor, Courage, and Patriotism in the Early U.S. Navy" by David Curtis Skaggs

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  Sep 04 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Oliver Hazard PerryIssue of 1894 Other stamps depicting Perry: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Perry does not feel, at this particular stage, that Eliot is an honorable man..."  "Oliver Hazard Perry: 3 of 3: Honor, Courage, and Patriotism in the Early U.S. Navy" by David Curtis Skaggs https://www.amazon.com/Oliver-Hazard-Perry-Patriotism-Biography/dp/1591147921/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1536023081&sr=1-1&keywords=skaggs+perry Hailed for his decisive victory over a Royal Navy squadron on Lake Erie in September 1813 and best known for his after-action report proclamation We have met the enemy and they are ours, Oliver Hazard Perry was one the early U.S. Navy's most famous heroes. In this modern, scholarly reassessment of the man and his career, Professor David Skaggs emphasizes Perry's place in naval history as an embodiment of the code of honor, an exemplar of combat courage, and a symbol of patriotism to his fellow officers and the American public. It is the first biography of Perry to be published in more than a quarter of a century and the first to offer an even-handed analysis of his career. After completing a thorough examination of primary sources, Skaggs traces Perry's development from a midshipman to commodore where he personified the best in seamanship, calmness in times of stress, and diplomatic skills. But this work is not a hagiographic treatment, for it offers a candid analysis of Perry's character flaws, particularly his short temper and his sometimes ineffective command and control procedures during the battle of Lake Erie. Skaggs also explains how Perry's short but dramatic naval career epitomized the emerging naval professionalism of the young republic, and he demonstrates how the Hero of Lake Erie fits into the most recent scholarship concerning the role of post-revolutionary generation in the development of American national identity. Finally, Skaggs explores in greater detail than anyone before the controversy over the conduct of his Lake Erie second, Jesse Duncan Elliott, that raged on for over a quarter century after Perry's death in 1819....more

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• "...an awful of dueling in the early Army and Navy, particularly among junior officers..." " Oliver Hazard Perry: 2 of 3: Honor, Courage, and Patriotism in the Early U.S. Navy by David Curtis Skaggs

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  Sep 04 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Mural: Battle of Lake Erie, 10 September 1813. (1959) by Charles Robert Patterson and Howard B. French, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. Niagara joins the battle. Detroit and Queen Charlotte at right.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "...an awful of dueling in the early Army and Navy, particularly among junior officers..."  " Oliver Hazard Perry: 2 of 3: Honor, Courage, and Patriotism in the Early U.S. Navy by David Curtis Skaggs https://www.amazon.com/Oliver-Hazard-Perry-Patriotism-Biography/dp/1591147921/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1536023081&sr=1-1&keywords=skaggs+perry Hailed for his decisive victory over a Royal Navy squadron on Lake Erie in September 1813 and best known for his after-action report proclamation We have met the enemy and they are ours, Oliver Hazard Perry was one the early U.S. Navy's most famous heroes. In this modern, scholarly reassessment of the man and his career, Professor David Skaggs emphasizes Perry's place in naval history as an embodiment of the code of honor, an exemplar of combat courage, and a symbol of patriotism to his fellow officers and the American public. It is the first biography of Perry to be published in more than a quarter of a century and the first to offer an even-handed analysis of his career. After completing a thorough examination of primary sources, Skaggs traces Perry's development from a midshipman to commodore where he personified the best in seamanship, calmness in times of stress, and diplomatic skills. But this work is not a hagiographic treatment, for it offers a candid analysis of Perry's character flaws, particularly his short temper and his sometimes ineffective command and control procedures during the battle of Lake Erie. Skaggs also explains how Perry's short but dramatic naval career epitomized the emerging naval professionalism of the young republic, and he demonstrates how the Hero of Lake Erie fits into the most recent scholarship concerning the role of post-revolutionary generation in the development of American national identity. Finally, Skaggs explores in greater detail than anyone before the controversy over the conduct of his Lake Erie second, Jesse Duncan Elliott, that raged on for over a quarter century after Perry's death in 1819....more

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• "But Perry is a commercial captain in the period after the American Revolution..." "Oliver Hazard Perry:1 of 3: Honor, Courage, and Patriotism in the Early U.S. Navy" by David Curtis Skaggs

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  Sep 04 2018

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

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• "People didn't want to believe that a new, even more devastating war was coming up..." "Shanghai 1937: 3 of 3: Stalingrad on the Yangtze" by Peter Harmsen.

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  Sep 03 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Chinese treating casualties from Japanese gas attacks ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "People didn't want to believe that a new, even more devastating war was coming up..."  "Shanghai 1937: 3 of 3: Stalingrad on the Yangtze" by Peter Harmsen. https://www.amazon.com/Shanghai-1937-Stalingrad-Yangtze-2013-04-30/dp/B017WQARQQ/ref=sr12?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1535941699&sr=1-2&keywords=shanghai+1937 “In the voluminous literature on World War II, few books treat the Sino-Japanese War, and few of those are accessible to non-specialists. Thankfully, seasoned East Asian correspondent Peter Harmsen has written an engrossing study that goes far to fill the gap in the historiography of a neglected theater of operations and the first large-scale urban battle of the war.” ―Michigan War Studies Review This deeply researched book describes one of the great forgotten battles of the 20th century. At its height it involved nearly a million Chinese and Japanese soldiers while sucking in three million civilians as unwilling spectators and victims. It turned what had been a Japanese adventure in China into a general war between the two oldest and proudest civilizations of the Far East. Ultimately, it led to Pearl Harbor and to seven decades of tumultuous history in Asia. The Battle of Shanghai was a pivotal event that helped define and shape the modern world. Actors from a variety of nations were present in Shanghai during the three fateful autumn months when the battle raged. The rich cast included China's ascetic Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his Japanese adversary, General Matsui Iwane, who wanted Asia to rise from disunity, but ultimately pushed it toward its deadliest conflict ever. Claire Chennault, later of “Flying Tiger” fame, was among the figures emerging in the course of the campaign, as was First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. In an ironic twist, Alexander von Falkenhausen, a stern German veteran of the Great War, abandoned his role as a mere advisor to the Chinese army and led it into battle against the Japanese invaders. In its sheer scale, the struggle for China’s largest city was a sinister forewarning of what was in store for the rest of mankind only a few years hence. It demonstrated how technology had given rise to new forms of warfare, or had made old forms even more lethal. Amphibious landings, tank assaults, aerial dogfights and most importantly, urban combat, all happened in Shanghai in 1937. It was a dress rehearsal for World War II―or perhaps more correctly it was the inaugural act in the war―the first major battle in the global conflict....more

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• "His entire army got bogged down by the rains and the mud..." "Shanghai 1937: 2 of 3: Stalingrad on the Yangtze" by Peter Harmsen.

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  Sep 03 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Japanese troops in the ruins of Shanghai) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "His entire army got bogged down by the rains and the mud..."  "Shanghai 1937: 2 of 3: Stalingrad on the Yangtze" by Peter Harmsen. https://www.amazon.com/Shanghai-1937-Stalingrad-Yangtze-2013-04-30/dp/B017WQARQQ/ref=sr12?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1535941699&sr=1-2&keywords=shanghai+1937 “In the voluminous literature on World War II, few books treat the Sino-Japanese War, and few of those are accessible to non-specialists. Thankfully, seasoned East Asian correspondent Peter Harmsen has written an engrossing study that goes far to fill the gap in the historiography of a neglected theater of operations and the first large-scale urban battle of the war.” ―Michigan War Studies Review This deeply researched book describes one of the great forgotten battles of the 20th century. At its height it involved nearly a million Chinese and Japanese soldiers while sucking in three million civilians as unwilling spectators and victims. It turned what had been a Japanese adventure in China into a general war between the two oldest and proudest civilizations of the Far East. Ultimately, it led to Pearl Harbor and to seven decades of tumultuous history in Asia. The Battle of Shanghai was a pivotal event that helped define and shape the modern world. Actors from a variety of nations were present in Shanghai during the three fateful autumn months when the battle raged. The rich cast included China's ascetic Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his Japanese adversary, General Matsui Iwane, who wanted Asia to rise from disunity, but ultimately pushed it toward its deadliest conflict ever. Claire Chennault, later of “Flying Tiger” fame, was among the figures emerging in the course of the campaign, as was First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. In an ironic twist, Alexander von Falkenhausen, a stern German veteran of the Great War, abandoned his role as a mere advisor to the Chinese army and led it into battle against the Japanese invaders. In its sheer scale, the struggle for China’s largest city was a sinister forewarning of what was in store for the rest of mankind only a few years hence. It demonstrated how technology had given rise to new forms of warfare, or had made old forms even more lethal. Amphibious landings, tank assaults, aerial dogfights and most importantly, urban combat, all happened in Shanghai in 1937. It was a dress rehearsal for World War II―or perhaps more correctly it was the inaugural act in the war―the first major battle in the global conflict....more

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• "One reason is that it made tactical sense to fight the Japanese in the Shanghai area..." "Shanghai 1937: 1 of 3: Stalingrad on the Yangtze" by Peter Harmsen.

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  Sep 03 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Exterior of Shanghai's Cathay Hotel after an ROC NRA bombing run on August 14, 1937[10][11] ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "One reason is that it made tactical sense to fight the Japanese in the Shanghai area..."  "Shanghai 1937: 1 of 3:  Stalingrad on the Yangtze" by Peter Harmsen. https://www.amazon.com/Shanghai-1937-Stalingrad-Yangtze-2013-04-30/dp/B017WQARQQ/ref=sr12?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1535941699&sr=1-2&keywords=shanghai+1937 “In the voluminous literature on World War II, few books treat the Sino-Japanese War, and few of those are accessible to non-specialists. Thankfully, seasoned East Asian correspondent Peter Harmsen has written an engrossing study that goes far to fill the gap in the historiography of a neglected theater of operations and the first large-scale urban battle of the war.” ―Michigan War Studies Review This deeply researched book describes one of the great forgotten battles of the 20th century. At its height it involved nearly a million Chinese and Japanese soldiers while sucking in three million civilians as unwilling spectators and victims. It turned what had been a Japanese adventure in China into a general war between the two oldest and proudest civilizations of the Far East. Ultimately, it led to Pearl Harbor and to seven decades of tumultuous history in Asia. The Battle of Shanghai was a pivotal event that helped define and shape the modern world. Actors from a variety of nations were present in Shanghai during the three fateful autumn months when the battle raged. The rich cast included China's ascetic Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his Japanese adversary, General Matsui Iwane, who wanted Asia to rise from disunity, but ultimately pushed it toward its deadliest conflict ever. Claire Chennault, later of “Flying Tiger” fame, was among the figures emerging in the course of the campaign, as was First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. In an ironic twist, Alexander von Falkenhausen, a stern German veteran of the Great War, abandoned his role as a mere advisor to the Chinese army and led it into battle against the Japanese invaders. In its sheer scale, the struggle for China’s largest city was a sinister forewarning of what was in store for the rest of mankind only a few years hence. It demonstrated how technology had given rise to new forms of warfare, or had made old forms even more lethal. Amphibious landings, tank assaults, aerial dogfights and most importantly, urban combat, all happened in Shanghai in 1937. It was a dress rehearsal for World War II―or perhaps more correctly it was the inaugural act in the war―the first major battle in the global conflict....more

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• "..and now he brings the brand-new science of PR to the Rockefeller cause..." "More Powerful Than Dynamite: 3 of 3: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy by Thai Jones

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  Sep 03 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Colorado National Guard soldiers entering the strike zone ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "..and now he brings the brand-new science of PR to the Rockefeller cause..."  "More Powerful Than Dynamite: 3 of 3: 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]...more

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• "The weight of being the son of the world's wealthiest man..." "More Powerful Than Dynamite: 2 of 3: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy by Thai Jones

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  Sep 03 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:John D. Rockefeller Jr., financier ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "The weight of being the son of the world's wealthiest man..."  "More Powerful Than Dynamite: 2 of 3: 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]...more

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• "...and he (Mitchel) was going to turn this corrupt 19th Century city into a 20th Century city, run on scientific grounds..." More Powerful Than Dynamite: 1 of 3: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy by Thai Jones

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  Sep 03 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: John Purroy Mitchel and Leonard Wood reviewing the 30th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment on January 20, 1915) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "...and he was going to turn this corrupt 19th Century city into a 20th Century city, run on scientific grounds..."   More Powerful Than Dynamite: 1 of 3: 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](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]...more

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• "...a lot of people at the time said, No, Roosevelt wasn't any reformer..." "Heir to the Empire City: 3 of 3: New York and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt by Edward P. Kohn

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  Sep 03 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Colonel Roosevelt and the Rough Riders after capturing Kettle Hill along with members of the 3rd Volunteers and the regular Army black 10th Cavalry ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "...a lot of people at the time said, No, Roosevelt wasn't any reformer..."   "Heir to the Empire City: 3 of 3: New York and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt by Edward P. Kohn https://www.amazon.com/Heir-Empire-City-Theodore-Roosevelt/dp/0465024297/ref=sr16?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1535939000&sr=1-6&keywords=Edward+Kohn Theodore Roosevelt is best remembered as America's prototypical "cowboy" president-a Rough Rider who derived his political wisdom from a youth spent in the untamed American West. But while the great outdoors certainly shaped Roosevelt's identity, historian Edward P. Kohn argues that it was his hometown of New York that made him the progressive president we celebrate today. During his early political career, Roosevelt took on local Republican factions and Tammany Hall Democrats alike, proving his commitment to reform at all costs. He combated the city's rampant corruption, and helped to guide New York through the perils of rabid urbanization and the challenges of accommodating an influx of immigrants-experiences that would serve him well as president of the United States. A riveting account of a man and a city on the brink of greatness, Heir to the Empire City reveals that Roosevelt's true education took place not in the West but on the mean streets of nineteenth-century New York....more

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• ".. something that really troubled Roosevelt. He made a very public stand...against Blaine..." "Heir to the Empire City: 2 of 3: New York and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt" by Edward P. Kohn

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  Sep 03 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: NYC Police Commissioner Roosevelt walks the beat with journalist Jacob Riis in 1894—Illustration from Riis's autobiography.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow ".. something that really troubled Roosevelt. He made a very public stand...against Blaine..." "Heir to the Empire City: 2 of 3: New York and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt" by Edward P. Kohn https://www.amazon.com/Heir-Empire-City-Theodore-Roosevelt/dp/0465024297/ref=sr16?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1535939000&sr=1-6&keywords=Edward+Kohn Theodore Roosevelt is best remembered as America's prototypical "cowboy" president-a Rough Rider who derived his political wisdom from a youth spent in the untamed American West. But while the great outdoors certainly shaped Roosevelt's identity, historian Edward P. Kohn argues that it was his hometown of New York that made him the progressive president we celebrate today. During his early political career, Roosevelt took on local Republican factions and Tammany Hall Democrats alike, proving his commitment to reform at all costs. He combated the city's rampant corruption, and helped to guide New York through the perils of rabid urbanization and the challenges of accommodating an influx of immigrants-experiences that would serve him well as president of the United States. A riveting account of a man and a city on the brink of greatness, Heir to the Empire City reveals that Roosevelt's true education took place not in the West but on the mean streets of nineteenth-century New York....more

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• "Samuel Gompers... wanted Roosevelt to champion a bill that would forbid cigar-rolling in the tenements..." "Heir to the Empire City: 1 of 3: New York and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt" by Edward P. Kohn

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  Sep 03 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Roosevelt as NY State Assemblyman, 1883 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Samuel Gompers... wanted Roosevelt to champion a bill that would forbid cigar-rolling in the tenements..."  "Heir to the Empire City: 1 of 3:  New York and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt" by Edward P. Kohn https://www.amazon.com/Heir-Empire-City-Theodore-Roosevelt/dp/0465024297/ref=sr16?s=books&ie=UTF8&;qid=1535939000&sr=1-6&keywords=Edward+Kohn Theodore Roosevelt is best remembered as America's prototypical "cowboy" president-a Rough Rider who derived his political wisdom from a youth spent in the untamed American West. But while the great outdoors certainly shaped Roosevelt's identity, historian Edward P. Kohn argues that it was his hometown of New York that made him the progressive president we celebrate today. During his early political career, Roosevelt took on local Republican factions and Tammany Hall Democrats alike, proving his commitment to reform at all costs. He combated the city's rampant corruption, and helped to guide New York through the perils of rabid urbanization and the challenges of accommodating an influx of immigrants-experiences that would serve him well as president of the United States. A riveting account of a man and a city on the brink of greatness, Heir to the Empire City reveals that Roosevelt's true education took place not in the West but on the mean streets of nineteenth-century New York. ...more

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• "Southerners saying that, Harriet Beecher Stowe had spread the kindling of anti-slavery feeling in the North..." "Mightier Than the Sword: 2 of 2: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America" by David S. Reynolds.

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  Sep 03 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: "The fugitives are safe in a free land." Illustration by Hammatt Billings for Uncle Tom's Cabin, first edition. The image shows George Harris, Eliza, Harry, and Mrs. Smyth after they escape to freedom.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Southerners saying that, Harriet Beecher Stowe had spread the kindling of anti-slavery feeling in the North..."   "Mightier Than the Sword: 2 of 2: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America" by David S. Reynolds. “Fascinating . . . a lively and perceptive cultural history.” ―Annette Gordon-Reed, The New Yorker In this wide-ranging, brilliantly researched work, David S. Reynolds traces the factors that made Uncle Tom’s Cabin the most influential novel ever written by an American. Upon its 1852 publication, the novel’s vivid depiction of slavery polarized its American readership, ultimately widening the rift that led to the Civil War. Reynolds also charts the novel’s afterlife―including its adaptation into plays, films, and consumer goods―revealing its lasting impact on American entertainment, advertising, and race relations. 15 illustrations https://www.amazon.com/dp/0393342352?encoding=UTF8&isInIframe=0&n=283155&ref=dpproddesc0&s=books&showDetailProductDesc=1#product-descriptionfeaturediv...more

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• "They all rebelled against Calvinism. They believed in a loving God, a loving Christ..." "Mightier Than the Sword: 1 of 2: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America" by David S. Reynolds.

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  Sep 03 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Little Eva and Uncle Tom by Edwin Longsden Long) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "They all rebelled against Calvinism.  They believed in a loving God, a loving Christ..."  "Mightier Than the Sword: 1 of 2:  Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America" by David S. Reynolds. “Fascinating . . . a lively and perceptive cultural history.” ―Annette Gordon-Reed, The New Yorker In this wide-ranging, brilliantly researched work, David S. Reynolds traces the factors that made Uncle Tom’s Cabin the most influential novel ever written by an American. Upon its 1852 publication, the novel’s vivid depiction of slavery polarized its American readership, ultimately widening the rift that led to the Civil War. Reynolds also charts the novel’s afterlife―including its adaptation into plays, films, and consumer goods―revealing its lasting impact on American entertainment, advertising, and race relations. 15 illustrations https://www.amazon.com/dp/0393342352?encoding=UTF8&isInIframe=0&n=283155&ref=dpproddesc0&s=books&showDetailProductDesc=1#product-descriptionfeaturediv...more

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• "...they want it banned, and they will use the cover of high science..." 2 of 2: The ever higher price of the EPA. Roger Meiners, @PERCTweets

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  Sep 02 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: File:2008-07-11 Air conditioners at UNC-CH.jpg) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "...they want it banned, and they will use the cover of high science..."  2 of 2: The ever  higher price of the EPA. Roger Meiners, @PERCTweets Agencies are required to conduct cost-benefit analysis for regulations estimated to cost more than $100 million. Thankfully, there are hundreds such rules underway, and they forecast tremendous growth for our sluggish economy. Consider one such regulation, the Utility Mercury and Air Toxic Standards (MATS), which applies to coal-fired power plants. Finalized by the EPA in 2011, the regulation is estimated to cost the economy about $10 billion per year. But the EPA claims the annual benefits from the rule will be between $37 billion to $90 billion. In other words, its benefits will be four to nine times higher than its costs. The EPA doesn’t claim such benefits are theoretical. The agency says they are “monetized,” meaning they will show up in higher gross domestic product. And since GDP is about $16 trillion, this one rule should add as much as half a percent of growth to the economy—hardly a trivial amount. Regulations have costs as well, a fact the EPA acknowledges. Implementing the MATS rule will result in the loss of 23,000 megawatts of electricity production and 200,000 jobs by 2015. It’s just one of seven major rules that will eliminate between 544,000 and 887,000 jobs and cause a 1.5 percent reduction in the nation’s electric generation capacity. https://www.perc.org/articles/regulating-our-way-prosperity...more

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• "The justification is largely in terms of what they call the social cost of carbon..." 1 of 2: The ever higher price of the EPA. Roger Meiners, @PERCTweets

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  Sep 02 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ファイル:Microwave ovens, Media Markt, Svagertorp, Malmo.JPG) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "The justification is largely in terms of what they call the social cost of carbon..."  1 of 2: The ever higher price of the EPA. Roger Meiners, @PERCTweets Agencies are required to conduct cost-benefit analysis for regulations estimated to cost more than $100 million. Thankfully, there are hundreds such rules underway, and they forecast tremendous growth for our sluggish economy. Consider one such regulation, the Utility Mercury and Air Toxic Standards (MATS), which applies to coal-fired power plants. Finalized by the EPA in 2011, the regulation is estimated to cost the economy about $10 billion per year. But the EPA claims the annual benefits from the rule will be between $37 billion to $90 billion. In other words, its benefits will be four to nine times higher than its costs. The EPA doesn’t claim such benefits are theoretical. The agency says they are “monetized,” meaning they will show up in higher gross domestic product. And since GDP is about $16 trillion, this one rule should add as much as half a percent of growth to the economy—hardly a trivial amount. Regulations have costs as well, a fact the EPA acknowledges. Implementing the MATS rule will result in the loss of 23,000 megawatts of electricity production and 200,000 jobs by 2015. It’s just one of seven major rules that will eliminate between 544,000 and 887,000 jobs and cause a 1.5 percent reduction in the nation’s electric generation capacity. https://www.perc.org/articles/regulating-our-way-prosperity...more

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• "They're frankly perplexed by the passion of the Christian Right, the Evangelical Right, the so-called Family Values Right..." "All in the Family: 3 of 3: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s" by Robert O. Self

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  Sep 02 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Jerry Falwell, whose founding of the Moral Majority was a key step in the formation of the "New Christian Right" ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "They're frankly perplexed by the passion of the Christian Right, the Evangelical Right, the so-called Family Values Right..."  "All in the Family: 3 of 3: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s" by Robert O. Self https://www.amazon.com/All-Family-Realignment-American-Democracy/dp/0809026740 In the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty promised an array of federal programs to assist working-class families. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan declared the GOP the party of "family values" and promised to keep government out of Americans' lives. Again and again, historians have sought to explain the nation's profound political realignment from the 1960s to the 2000s, five decades that witnessed the fracturing of liberalism and the rise of the conservative right. The award-winning historian Robert O. Self is the first to argue that the separate threads of that realignment―from civil rights to women's rights, from the antiwar movement to Nixon's "silent majority," from the abortion wars to gay marriage, from the welfare state to neoliberal economic policies―all ran through the politicized American family. Based on an astonishing range of sources, All in the Family rethinks an entire era. Self opens his narrative with the Great Society and its assumption of a white, patriotic, heterosexual man at the head of each family. Soon enough, civil rights activists, feminists, and gay rights activists, animated by broader visions of citizenship, began to fight for equal rights, protections, and opportunities. Led by Pauli Murray, Gloria Steinem, Harvey Milk, and Shirley Chisholm, among many others, they achieved lasting successes, including Roe v. Wade, antidiscrimination protections in the workplace, and a more inclusive idea of the American family. Yet the establishment of new rights and the visibility of alternative families provoked, beginning in the 1970s, a furious conservative backlash. Politicians and activists on the right, most notably George Wallace, Phyllis Schlafly, Anita Bryant, and Jerry Falwell, built a political movement based on the perceived moral threat to the traditional family. Self writes that "family values" conservatives in fact "paved the way" for fiscal conservatives, who shared a belief in liberalism's invasiveness but lacked a populist message. Reagan's presidency united the two constituencies, which remain, even in these tumultuous times, the base of the Republican Party. All in the Family, an erudite, passionate, and persuasive explanation of our current political situation and how we arrived in it, will allow us to think anew about the last fifty years of American politics....more

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• "All of the people who are outside the hall in '68 are inside the hall in '72..." "All in the Family: 2 of 3: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s" by Robert O. Self

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  Sep 02 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Anti-war protests ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "All of the people who are outside the hall in '68 are inside the hall in '72..."  "All in the Family: 2 of 3: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s" by Robert O. Self https://www.amazon.com/All-Family-Realignment-American-Democracy/dp/0809026740 In the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty promised an array of federal programs to assist working-class families. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan declared the GOP the party of "family values" and promised to keep government out of Americans' lives. Again and again, historians have sought to explain the nation's profound political realignment from the 1960s to the 2000s, five decades that witnessed the fracturing of liberalism and the rise of the conservative right. The award-winning historian Robert O. Self is the first to argue that the separate threads of that realignment―from civil rights to women's rights, from the antiwar movement to Nixon's "silent majority," from the abortion wars to gay marriage, from the welfare state to neoliberal economic policies―all ran through the politicized American family. Based on an astonishing range of sources, All in the Family rethinks an entire era. Self opens his narrative with the Great Society and its assumption of a white, patriotic, heterosexual man at the head of each family. Soon enough, civil rights activists, feminists, and gay rights activists, animated by broader visions of citizenship, began to fight for equal rights, protections, and opportunities. Led by Pauli Murray, Gloria Steinem, Harvey Milk, and Shirley Chisholm, among many others, they achieved lasting successes, including Roe v. Wade, antidiscrimination protections in the workplace, and a more inclusive idea of the American family. Yet the establishment of new rights and the visibility of alternative families provoked, beginning in the 1970s, a furious conservative backlash. Politicians and activists on the right, most notably George Wallace, Phyllis Schlafly, Anita Bryant, and Jerry Falwell, built a political movement based on the perceived moral threat to the traditional family. Self writes that "family values" conservatives in fact "paved the way" for fiscal conservatives, who shared a belief in liberalism's invasiveness but lacked a populist message. Reagan's presidency united the two constituencies, which remain, even in these tumultuous times, the base of the Republican Party. All in the Family, an erudite, passionate, and persuasive explanation of our current political situation and how we arrived in it, will allow us to think anew about the last fifty years of American politics....more

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• "And all the fierce arguments whether a male citizen's duty is to serve, to go to Vietnam, or, in fact, to protest..." "All in the Family: 1 of 3: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s" by Robert O. Self

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  Sep 02 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:U.S. soldiers searching a village for potential Viet Cong ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "And all the fierce arguments whether a male citizen's duty is to serve, to go to Vietnam, or, in fact, to protest..."  "All in the Family: 1 of 3: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s" by Robert O. Self https://www.amazon.com/All-Family-Realignment-American-Democracy/dp/0809026740 In the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty promised an array of federal programs to assist working-class families. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan declared the GOP the party of "family values" and promised to keep government out of Americans' lives. Again and again, historians have sought to explain the nation's profound political realignment from the 1960s to the 2000s, five decades that witnessed the fracturing of liberalism and the rise of the conservative right. The award-winning historian Robert O. Self is the first to argue that the separate threads of that realignment―from civil rights to women's rights, from the antiwar movement to Nixon's "silent majority," from the abortion wars to gay marriage, from the welfare state to neoliberal economic policies―all ran through the politicized American family. Based on an astonishing range of sources, All in the Family rethinks an entire era. Self opens his narrative with the Great Society and its assumption of a white, patriotic, heterosexual man at the head of each family. Soon enough, civil rights activists, feminists, and gay rights activists, animated by broader visions of citizenship, began to fight for equal rights, protections, and opportunities. Led by Pauli Murray, Gloria Steinem, Harvey Milk, and Shirley Chisholm, among many others, they achieved lasting successes, including Roe v. Wade, antidiscrimination protections in the workplace, and a more inclusive idea of the American family. Yet the establishment of new rights and the visibility of alternative families provoked, beginning in the 1970s, a furious conservative backlash. Politicians and activists on the right, most notably George Wallace, Phyllis Schlafly, Anita Bryant, and Jerry Falwell, built a political movement based on the perceived moral threat to the traditional family. Self writes that "family values" conservatives in fact "paved the way" for fiscal conservatives, who shared a belief in liberalism's invasiveness but lacked a populist message. Reagan's presidency united the two constituencies, which remain, even in these tumultuous times, the base of the Republican Party. All in the Family, an erudite, passionate, and persuasive explanation of our current political situation and how we arrived in it, will allow us to think anew about the last fifty years of American politics....more

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• "After the 1960s, a resurgence of Francophone power in Canada, and Wolfe just passed out of style..." "Northern Armageddon: 6 of 6: The Battle of the Plains of Abraham and the Making of the American Revolution" by D. Peter MacLeod

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  Sep 02 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:The Death of Montcalm  Marc Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté - Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec Sketch for La Mort de Montcalm by Marc Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté (1869 - 1937). Oil on canvas, 1902. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "After the 1960s, a resurgence of Francophone power in Canada, and Wolfe just passed out of style..."  "Northern Armageddon: 6 of 6: The Battle of the Plains of Abraham and the Making of the American Revolution" by D. Peter MacLeod https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1101973501/ref=dbsadefrwtbiblvppii0 The battle on the Plains of Abraham lasted twenty minutes, and at its finish the course of a continent was changed forever: New military tactics were used for the first time against standard European formations; Generals Wolfe and Montcalm each died of gunshot wounds; France surrendered Quebec to the British, setting the course for the future of Canada; and British control of North America east of the Mississippi was assured. Also American participation in ousting the French spurred the confidence of the people of New York, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts, who began to agitate for independence from Great Britain....more

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• "This is how Highlanders make war. You fire one volley at the enemy, and then charge with your claymores... "Northern Armageddon: 5 of 6: The Battle of the Plains of Abraham and the Making of the American Revolution" by D. Peter MacLeod

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  Sep 02 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:General Montcalm, mortally wounded on the Plains of Abraham, is taken to Quebec. Watercolour by Louis Bombled (1862–1927) ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "This is how Highlanders make war.  You fire one volley at the enemy, and then charge with your claymores... "Northern Armageddon: 5 of 6: The Battle of the Plains of Abraham and the Making of the American Revolution" by D. Peter MacLeod https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1101973501/ref=dbsadefrwtbiblvppii0 The battle on the Plains of Abraham lasted twenty minutes, and at its finish the course of a continent was changed forever: New military tactics were used for the first time against standard European formations; Generals Wolfe and Montcalm each died of gunshot wounds; France surrendered Quebec to the British, setting the course for the future of Canada; and British control of North America east of the Mississippi was assured. Also American participation in ousting the French spurred the confidence of the people of New York, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts, who began to agitate for independence from Great Britain....more

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• "The French have to come off this forty-five foot hill, cross and interval of plain..." "Northern Armageddon: 4 of 6: The Battle of the Plains of Abraham and the Making of the American Revolution" by D. Peter MacLeod (Author)

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  Sep 02 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Montcalm leading his troops into battle. Watercolour by Charles William Jefferys (1869–1951) ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "The French have to come off this forty-five foot hill, cross and interval of plain..."  "Northern Armageddon: 4 of 6: The Battle of the Plains of Abraham and the Making of the American Revolution" by D. Peter MacLeod (Author) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1101973501/ref=dbsadefrwtbiblvppii0 The battle on the Plains of Abraham lasted twenty minutes, and at its finish the course of a continent was changed forever: New military tactics were used for the first time against standard European formations; Generals Wolfe and Montcalm each died of gunshot wounds; France surrendered Quebec to the British, setting the course for the future of Canada; and British control of North America east of the Mississippi was assured. Also American participation in ousting the French spurred the confidence of the people of New York, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts, who began to agitate for independence from Great Britain....more

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• "So he beat both Democrats and Progressives, combined..." "Coolidge:" 3 of 3: by Amity Shlaes.

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  Sep 02 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "So he beat both Democrats and Progressives, combined..."  "Coolidge:" 3 of 3: by Amity Shlaes. “A marvelous book that is in many respects as subtle and powerful as Coolidge himself. Shlaes’s masterly command of economics, policy, and personal portraiture illustrates the times, talents, character, and courage of the consummate New Englander.” (Mark Helprin) “Coolidge is a welcome new biography of a great American president. Amity Shlaes shines fresh light on a leader of humble persistence who unexpectedly found himself in the presidency and whose faith in the American people helped restore prosperity during a period of great turmoil. Amidst today’s economic hardships and an uncertain future, Shlaes illuminates a path forward -- making Coolidge a must-read for policymakers and citizens alike.” (Paul Ryan) http://www.amazon.com/Coolidge-Amity-Shlaes/dp/0061967599/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1459657723&sr=1-1&keywords=coolidge+s...more

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• "And yet, because of the violence, because of what he saw, Coolidge fired the policemen..." "Coolidge:" 2 of 3: by Amity Shlaes.

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  Sep 02 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "And yet, because of the violence, because of what he saw, Coolidge fired the policemen..."  "Coolidge:" 2 of 3: by Amity Shlaes. “A marvelous book that is in many respects as subtle and powerful as Coolidge himself. Shlaes’s masterly command of economics, policy, and personal portraiture illustrates the times, talents, character, and courage of the consummate New Englander.” (Mark Helprin) “Coolidge is a welcome new biography of a great American president. Amity Shlaes shines fresh light on a leader of humble persistence who unexpectedly found himself in the presidency and whose faith in the American people helped restore prosperity during a period of great turmoil. Amidst today’s economic hardships and an uncertain future, Shlaes illuminates a path forward -- making Coolidge a must-read for policymakers and citizens alike.” (Paul Ryan) http://www.amazon.com/Coolidge-Amity-Shlaes/dp/0061967599/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1459657723&sr=1-1&keywords=coolidge+s...more

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• "Imagine a tiny village, and an incredible struggle for self-sufficiency…" "Coolidge:" 1 of 3: by Amity Shlaes.

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  Sep 02 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Imagine a tiny village, and an incredible struggle for self-sufficiency…" "Coolidge:" 1 of 3: by Amity Shlaes. “A marvelous book that is in many respects as subtle and powerful as Coolidge himself. Shlaes’s masterly command of economics, policy, and personal portraiture illustrates the times, talents, character, and courage of the consummate New Englander.” (Mark Helprin) “Coolidge is a welcome new biography of a great American president. Amity Shlaes shines fresh light on a leader of humble persistence who unexpectedly found himself in the presidency and whose faith in the American people helped restore prosperity during a period of great turmoil. Amidst today’s economic hardships and an uncertain future, Shlaes illuminates a path forward -- making Coolidge a must-read for policymakers and citizens alike.” (Paul Ryan) http://www.amazon.com/Coolidge-Amity-Shlaes/dp/0061967599/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1459657723&sr=1-1&keywords=coolidge+s...more

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• The U.S. Forest Service: "It used to be they were growing timber. Now, it's protecting timber, and fighting fires..." Fire season came early this year, but the same old confusions continue. Roger Sedjo @PERCtweets

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  Sep 01 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Judith Station, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was built in 1905 and is now a rental cabin on the Lewis and Clark National Forest, Judith Ranger District, west of Utica, Montana Date circa 1920 Source Judith Station, ca. 1920 Author Forest Service Northern Region from Missoula, MT, USA ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The U.S. Forest Service: "It used to be they were growing timber.  Now, it's protecting timber, and fighting fires..."  Fire season came early this year, but the same old confusions continue. Roger Sedjo @PERCtweets What will be the future mission of the Forest Service? Traditionally, national forests have provided industrial wood, water, wildlife habitat, and general environmental services. Recently, in response to concerns over climate change, other “uses” have emerged, such as the role of forests in capturing and storing carbon dioxide. As discussed above, in the post-war period, the Forest Service had primarily focused on wood production. But this emphasis has declined over the subsequent decades, and other uses and values have gradually developed in response to new constituencies. However, these constituencies often provide little support to the Forest Service and its budget. Is there a new mission for the Forest Service? If so, what is the appropriate ownership, what are its goals and objectives, and how should it be managed? And do any of the current proposals offer a viable alternative? Ever since timber production declined, the Forest Service has struggled to find an acceptable mission. An overarching problem is that without timber revenue, the agency has had a harder time securing funding. As a government agency now almost entirely reliant on Congress for funding, the Forest Service finds itself in an undesirable situation. To face this new reality, the Forest Service likely needs a new and clear mission. One option could be a return to the custodial management of the pre-World War II era. Alternatively, the agency could focus on providing recreational amenities. A third option might be to support wildlife, biodiversity, and the maintenance of ecological systems. These are arguably good choices, but in many cases it would result in a Forest Service mission that is almost identical to that of the National Park Service. With the dramatic reduction of timber harvesting that has already occurred, however, few may contend against this outcome. https://www.perc.org/articles/future-forest-service...more

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• Jeremy Corbyn's anti-Semitism: "Where are the voices of the Labor Party? Tony Blair, everyone else...? @MichaelRubin71 @AEI Malcom Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Sep 01 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: President Barack Obama meets with Jeremy Corbyn, Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition, at Royal Horticultural Halls. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) 日期 2016年4月23日 来源 photo, article context 作者 Pete Souza, Chief Official White House Photographer) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Jeremy Corbyn's anti-Semitism: "Where are the voices of the Labor Party? Tony Blair, everyone else...? @MichaelRubin71 @AEI Malcom Hoenlein @Confofpres...more

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• UNWRA: "But then, don't cut out all the funding that actually affect real infrastructure and humanitarian needs..." US said to intend to end its funding for UNWRA. @AmDennisRoss @WashInstitute Malcom Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Sep 01 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Centrum města Ramalláh, náměstí Al-Manara ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow UNWRA: "But then, don't cut out all the funding that actually affect real infrastructure and humanitarian needs..." US said to intend to end its funding for UNWRA.  @AmDennisRoss @WashInstitute Malcom Hoenlein @Confofpres Ambassador Dennis Ross is counselor and William Davidson Distinguished Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Prior to returning to the Institute in 2011, he served two years as special assistant to President Obama and National Security Council senior director for the Central Region, and a year as special advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Related Articles: · https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/08/29/unrwa-israel-palestine-trump-zilber/# · https://aijac.org.au/australia-israel-review/dennis-ross-on-the-us-peace-plan/ · https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/a-path-forward-for-team-trump-on-israel-and-gaza-follow-nickolay-mladenovs  · https://www.npr.org/2018/04/30/606990263/dennis-ross-comments-on-pompeos-first-trip-as-secretary-of-state · https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/08/29/unrwa-israel-palestine-trump-zilber/ · https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-abbas-appears-to-soften-peace-demands-pa-officials-say-his-views-unchanged/...more

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• "UNWRA has done the exact opposite. UNWRA has been an enemy to Palestinians..." @HillelNeuer @UNWatch Malcom Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Sep 01 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:UNRWA logo Date  Source UNRWA Author UNRWA ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "UNWRA has done the exact opposite. UNWRA has been an enemy to Palestinians..." @HillelNeuer @UNWatch Malcom Hoenlein @Confofpres Hillel Neuer is the Executive Director of United Nations Watch, a human rights group based in Geneva, Switzerland. The Tribune de Genève described Neuer as a human rights activist who is “feared and dreaded” by the world’s dictatorships. He chairs the annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights, a gathering of dissidents organized by 25 NGOs, and was recently awarded an honorary Doctorate of Laws from McGill University. In 2016, the City of Chicago declared a “Hillel Neuer Day” in honor of his human rights work. Neuer has published widely on international law and human rights, and has appeared in debates on CNN, BBC and Al Jazeera. Prior to UN Watch, as a litigation associate at the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, Neuer was cited by the U.S. Federal Court for the high quality of his pro bono advocacy. He holds four degrees in law and politics, and is a member of the New York Bar. Related Articles: ● https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/unrwa-historic-decision/ ● https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2018/08/285428.htm ● http://www.defenddemocracy.org/content/uploads/documents/FDD-Summit-Ambassador-Haley.pdf ● https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/theamericas/iran-goes-to-uns-highest-court-over-us-sanctions/2018/08/27/cdc26fc2-a9c7-11e8-9a7d-cd30504ff902story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.7e55d800145b...more

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• "...why Israel and perhaps the United States can't hit it, is because it's right adjacent to a Russian S-400..." New Iranian missile factory in Syria. Malcom Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Sep 01 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: S-400 Triumf air defence system transporter erector launcher Date 13 April 2012, 17:52:28 Source http://vitalykuzmin.net/?q=node/449 Author Vitaly V. Kuzmin) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "...why Israel and perhaps the United States can't hit it, is because it's right adjacent to a Russian S-400..." New Iranian missile factory in Syria. Malcom Hoenlein @Confofpres

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• "He (Churchill) was always very pro-American. He knew American well..." Flight of the Eagle: 3 of 6: The Grand Strategies That Brought America from Colonial Dependence to World Leadership by Conrad Black.

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  Sep 01 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: Photograph of Winston Churchill pinning a flower on the lapel of President Harry S. Truman's tuxedo jacket at a dinner in honor of the British leader at the British Embassy in Washington, D. C. Date 8 January 1953) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "He (Churchill) was always very pro-American.  He knew American well..."  Flight of the Eagle: 3 of 6: The Grand Strategies That Brought America from Colonial Dependence to World Leadership by Conrad Black. Like an eagle, American colonists ascended from the gulley of British dependence to the position of sovereign world power in a period of merely two centuries. Seizing territory in Canada and representation in Britain; expelling the French, and even their British forefathers, American leaders George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson paved their nation’s way to independence. With the first buds of public relation techniques—of communication, dramatization, and propaganda—America flourished into a vision of freedom, of enterprise, and of unalienable human rights. In Flight of the Eagle, Conrad Black provides a perspective on American history that is unprecedented. Through his analysis of the strategic development of the United States from 1754-1992, Black describes nine “phases” of the strategic rise of the nation, in which it progressed through grave challenges, civil and foreign wars, and secured a place for itself under the title of “Superpower.” Black discredits prevailing notions that our unrivaled status is the product of good geography, demographics, and good luck. Instead, he reveals and analyzes the specific strategic decisions of great statesmen through the ages that transformed the world as we know it and established America’s place in it. https://www.amazon.com/Flight-Eagle-Strategies-Dependence-Leadership-ebook/dp/B00N01VM1C/ref=laB001HPC3ZC1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1504235770&sr=1-4 #Germany...more

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• "As Lincoln said, all knew that slavery was the cause of this war..." Flight of the Eagle: 2 of 6: The Grand Strategies That Brought America from Colonial Dependence to World Leadership by Conrad Black.

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  Sep 01 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: Abraham Lincoln and George B. McClellan in the general's tent at Antietam, Maryland, October 3, 1862. Date 3 October 1862 Source ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "As Lincoln said, all knew that slavery was the cause of this war..."  Flight of the Eagle: 2 of 6: The Grand Strategies That Brought America from Colonial Dependence to World Leadership by Conrad Black. Like an eagle, American colonists ascended from the gulley of British dependence to the position of sovereign world power in a period of merely two centuries. Seizing territory in Canada and representation in Britain; expelling the French, and even their British forefathers, American leaders George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson paved their nation’s way to independence. With the first buds of public relation techniques—of communication, dramatization, and propaganda—America flourished into a vision of freedom, of enterprise, and of unalienable human rights. In Flight of the Eagle, Conrad Black provides a perspective on American history that is unprecedented. Through his analysis of the strategic development of the United States from 1754-1992, Black describes nine “phases” of the strategic rise of the nation, in which it progressed through grave challenges, civil and foreign wars, and secured a place for itself under the title of “Superpower.” Black discredits prevailing notions that our unrivaled status is the product of good geography, demographics, and good luck. Instead, he reveals and analyzes the specific strategic decisions of great statesmen through the ages that transformed the world as we know it and established America’s place in it. https://www.amazon.com/Flight-Eagle-Strategies-Dependence-Leadership-ebook/dp/B00N01VM1C/ref=laB001HPC3ZC1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1504235770&sr=1-4 #Germany...more

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• "He (Franklin) was inspired by the thought that, with the French out of the way, the Americans were much less dependent upon the British..." Flight of the Eagle: 1 of 6:q by Conrad Black.

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  Sep 01 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Hidden within the City of Westminster, nearby Trafalgar Square is 36 Craven Street. Former home to Benjamin Franklin (on of the American Founding Fathers) - who lived here from 1757 - 1775. It is a Grade I listed building. It dates from 1730. Opened as a museum in 2006. I enjoyed my visit here. It has a Historical Experience, where you watch videos on walls, with a woman dressed as Polly Hewson, daughter of Franklin's landlady who becomes a "second daughter" to Franklin. 36 Craven St - Heritage Gateway Black plaque on the house from London County Council. Date 16 October 2009, 14:50 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "He (Franklin) was inspired by the thought that, with the French out of the way, the Americans were much less dependent upon the British..."  Flight of the Eagle: 1 of 6: The Grand Strategies That Brought America from Colonial Dependence to World Leadership by Conrad Black. https://www.amazon.com/Flight-Eagle-Strategies-Dependence-Leadership-ebook/dp/B00N01VM1C/ref=laB001HPC3ZC1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1504235770&sr=1-4 #Germany Like an eagle, American colonists ascended from the gulley of British dependence to the position of sovereign world power in a period of merely two centuries. Seizing territory in Canada and representation in Britain; expelling the French, and even their British forefathers, American leaders George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson paved their nation’s way to independence. With the first buds of public relation techniques—of communication, dramatization, and propaganda—America flourished into a vision of freedom, of enterprise, and of unalienable human rights. In Flight of the Eagle, Conrad Black provides a perspective on American history that is unprecedented. Through his analysis of the strategic development of the United States from 1754-1992, Black describes nine “phases” of the strategic rise of the nation, in which it progressed through grave challenges, civil and foreign wars, and secured a place for itself under the title of “Superpower.” Black discredits prevailing notions that our unrivaled status is the product of good geography, demographics, and good luck. Instead, he reveals and analyzes the specific strategic decisions of great statesmen through the ages that transformed the world as we know it and established America’s place in it. ...more

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• "What you have right now is a clash of regional powers..." The imminent massive firefight in Idlib Province of Syria. @Jschanzer Malcom Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Sep 01 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:During the offensive, rebel-held towns in the Idlib Governorate, such as Bidama, above, were again hit by Syrian and Russian airstrikes, the first series of airstrikes in the area since the ceasefire attempt from July 2017. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "What you have right now is a clash of regional powers..." The imminent massive firefight in Idlib Province of Syria. @Jschanzer Malcom Hoenlein @Confofpres Since joining us in February 2010, Dr. Schanzer has been singularly focused on ensuring that FDD delivers not only accurate and timely research, but also research that is useful to decision makers inside the Beltway, across America, and around the world. Dr. Schanzer brings solid scholarship and public policy credentials to his job of overseeing FDD's research. He worked as a terrorism finance analyst at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where he played an integral role in the designation of numerous terrorist financiers. A former research fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Dr. Schanzer has studied Middle East history in four countries. He earned his Ph.D. from King's College London, where he wrote his dissertation on the U.S. Congress and its efforts to combat terrorism in the 20th century. ● https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/irans-response-to-sanctions-ignore-them ● http://www.defenddemocracy.org/content/uploads/documents/FDD-Summit-Brian-Hook.pdf ● https://www.timesofisrael.com/france-says-iran-cant-avoid-talks-on-missile-program-regional-meddling/?utmsource=dlvr.it&utmmedium=twitter ● https://www.wsj.com/articles/you-can-run-but-you-cant-hide-from-iran-sanctions-1535495571 ● https://www.wsj.com/articles/expose-the-palestinian-refugee-scam-1530833146...more

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• "Mission Control people detected a drop in air pressure... It wasn't enough for them to wake up the crew..." Status of the the leak on ISS. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Sep 01 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:File:STS-134 International Space Station after undocking 2.jpg ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Mission Control people detected a drop in air pressure... It wasn't enough for them to wake up the crew..."  Status of the the leak on ISS. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com http://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/update-on-the-leak-on-iss-its-cause-and-repair/

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• New Horizons bound for Ultima Thula rendezvous, 1/1/2019. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Sep 01 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: An annotated overlay of 5 Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 discovery images of 2014 MU69 taken on June 24, 2014. The images were taken at 10-minute intervals. The positions of 2014 MU69 in the 5 images are shown by the green circles.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow New Horizons bound for Ultima Thula rendezvous, 1/1/2019. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com http://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/new-horizons-snaps-first-picture-of-ultima/...more

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• "..a conglomerate whose name is out of a James Bond Spectre movie, called the International Union of Virtual Media, was identified as having been run by Iran..." Tehran's cyber threat. @SebGorka

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  Aug 31 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Description  English: One of the Aston Martin DB5s used in the James Bond Skyfall film. Photographed in the Great Court at Blenheim Palace where it was on display for the premiere of the documentary DB10: Built for Bond.[1] Date 8 November 2015 Source Own work ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "..a conglomerate whose name is out of a James Bond Spectre movie, called the International Union of Virtual Media, was identified as having been run by Iran..." Tehran's cyber threat.  @SebGorka https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/08/29/iranian-influence-operation-targets-users-around-world/...more

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• "The Clintons bought off dirty cops, spies and reporters, and used them to frame their rivals…" The next Russiagate declassification. @LeeSmithDC

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  Aug 31 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Hounsditch, bullet marks on interior of front wall) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "The Clintons bought off dirty cops, spies and reporters, and used them to frame their rivals…" The next Russiagate declassification. @LeeSmithDC https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/08/27/themethodintrumpsdeclassification_madness.html There's Method in Trump's Slackness on Opening Files President Trump’s allies in Congress and the media have long wondered why he doesn’t declassify documents withheld by the Department of Justice that could vindicate him in the Russia probe. What's stopping him from exercising his constitutional authority, they ask? Doesn’t he recognize the growing danger of inaction with the midterm elections at hand, which could spell his impeachment if he loses his Republican congressional majority?...more

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• "The threat is not removed from North Korea. They're still a 1.1 million man army very close to the DMZ..." US and ROK military lose readiness in Korea. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeastBob Collins.

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  Aug 31 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:View of Seoul; circa 1900 Date circa 1900 Source "Highschool Korean Textbook"; Published by en:Ministry of Education and Human Resource Development Author Unknown ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "The threat is not removed from North Korea.  They're still a 1.1 million man army very close to the DMZ..."  US and ROK military lose readiness in Korea. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeastBob Collins....more

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• "And all of a sudden, he (Xi) looks to be, not globalized, but isolated..." Trump vs Xi. Stephen Yates @YatesDCIA @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Aug 31 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Four men pulling a cart full of wooden boxes, Shanghai, Shanghai Shi, China, ca.1900-1919 "Shanghai. Note the young boy in front. In modern-day China there is, of course, far more use of machines; but failing them, man-power is still resorted to." Four men are pulling a heavy load of wooden boxes on a cart.; Captions for this set of lantern slides from the papers of Oliver and Jennie Logan, American Presbyterian missionaries in Hunan, were provided by their daughter Elsa. Subject (aat): general views Photographer: Unidentified Filename: IMP-YDS-RG008-358-0008-0052 Geographic subject: Shanghai Shi; China Subject (unesco): Transport; Urban areas Part of collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960 ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "And all of a sudden, he (Xi) looks to be, not globalized, but isolated..."  Trump vs Xi.  Stephen Yates @YatesDCIA @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast...more

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• Turkey at the crossroads of failed history. @BlaiseMisztal Malcom Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Aug 31 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:No Known Restrictions: Azapkapisi and Galata seen from the Sultan Selim by Ali Riza Bey, ca. 1880-1893 (LOC) ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Turkey at the crossroads of failed history. @BlaiseMisztal Malcom Hoenlein @Confofpres 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. He has testified before Congress and published op-eds in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, The New Republic, and Roll Call. · http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/dr-aykan-erdemir-the-fallout-of-qatars bailout/ · https://www.cfr.org/blog/we-wanted-turkey-be-partner-it-was-never-going-work · https://www.cfr.org/article/west-must-face-reality-turkey · https://www.axios.com/turkeys-economic-woes-could-spell-trouble-for-syrian-refugees-d1eaae2e-fcd3-45ff-a1b1-a26567115e8b.html · https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-turkey-currency/falling-lira-hits-syrian-enclave-backed-by-turkey-idUSKCN1LD195 · https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/30/turkish-lira-sinks-after-reports-that-a-key-central-bank-member-could-resign.html...more

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• Australia Bulletin: Another spill of the Liberal Party & What is to be done? @MaryKissel Peter Gregory. James Bolt. @TheIPA

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  Aug 31 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: Aerial photo of the South Melbourne cricket ground with a football match in progress. Date 1920–1940 Source http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/primolibrary/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=MAIN&resetconfig=true&docId=SLV_VOYAGER1684630 Author W. Garrett Sir 1900-1994) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Australia Bulletin: Another spill of the Liberal Party & What is to be done? @MaryKissel Peter Gregory. James Bolt. @TheIPA https://ipa.org.au/the-young-ipa-podcast/the-young-ipa-podcast-episode-74-with-john-roskam-and-daniel-wild https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/video/2018/aug/28/australias-new-pm-who-is-scott-morrison-video...more

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• What happens when the president cancels the 2019 raise for civilian Federal workers? @MaryKissel @FRoseDC

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  Aug 31 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:The Capitol and Mall, Washington, D. C.  Collection: A. D. White Architectural Photographs, Cornell University Library Accession Number: 15/5/3090.00602 Title: The Capitol and Mall, Washington, D. C. Photographer: Fairchild Aerial Surveys Photograph date: ca. 1930-ca. 1938 Location: North and Central America: United States; District of Columbia, Washington Materials: gelatin silver print Image: 6.9291 x 9.0551 in.; 17.6 x 23 cm Provenance: Transfer from the College of Architecture, Art and Planning ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow What happens when the president cancels the 2019 raise for civilian Federal workers? @MaryKissel @FRoseDC https://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-says-hell-eliminate-pay-raises-for-civilian-federal-employees-next-year-1535652233?mod=hpleadpos3...more

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• Trolling America with Anti-Vaccine agitprop. @HenryIMiller @MaryKissel

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  Aug 31 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Jenner and his two colleagues seeing off three anti-vaccinat Description  Jenner and his two colleagues seeing off three anti-vaccination opponents, the dead are littered at their feet. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1808. Iconographic Collections Keywords: Edward Jenner; Vaccination; Caricatures as Topic; Thomas Dimsdale; George Rose; Isaac Cruikshank; Disease Transmission, Infectious; Smallpox Vaccine; Immunization; Smallpox) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Trolling America with anti-vaccine agitprop. @HenryIMiller @MaryKissel  https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45294192. ...more

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• Pacific Watch: Surfing Meets Gavin Newsom's Streets of San Francisco. @JeffBliss1 @MaryKissel

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  Aug 31 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Pacific Watch: Surfing Meets Gavin Newsom's Streets of San Francisco. @JeffBliss1 @MaryKissel https://finance.yahoo.com/video/gavin-newsom-calls-free-healthcare-003130991.html

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• Rethinking the Russiagate Trump Tower Meeting of June 9, 2016. @AaronKleinShow @Breitbart

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  Aug 31 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Trump Tower : ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Rethinking the Russiagate Trump Tower Meeting of June 9, 2016. @AaronKleinShow @Breitbart https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/08/30/email-correspondence-between-clinton-associate-fusion-russians-trump-tower-meeting/

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• Hotel Mars: Searching for Liquid Water on Mars. Jeffrey Plaut, NASA. David Livingston SpaceShow.com

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  Aug 31 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Mars' South Pole Ice Deep and Wide) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Hotel Mars: Searching for Liquid Water on Mars. Jeffrey Plaut, NASA. David Livingston SpaceShow.com https://science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/Plaut/ http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/07/liquid-water-spied-deep-below-polar-ice-cap-mars

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• Reopening the Emmett Till hate crime murder of August, 1955: "T. R. M. Howard: Doctor, Entrepreneur, Civil Rights Pioneer" by David T. Beito , Linda Royster Beito , Jerry W. Mitchell

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  Aug 31 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955). He was a fourteen year old African-American from Chicago, Illinois who went to stay for the summer with his uncle, Moses Wright in Money, Mississippi. This is used in the blog article "Tennessee Republicans Yearn for Days of Lore" on Truthmonk blog. Date 29 May 2008, 15:25 Source 14EmmettTillBefore Author Image Editor) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Reopening the Emmett Till hate crime murder of August, 1955: "T. R. M. Howard: Doctor, Entrepreneur, Civil Rights Pioneer" by David T. Beito , Linda Royster Beito , Jerry W. Mitchell https://www.realclearhistory.com/articles/2018/08/09/emmetttillanewinvestigationandvindicationoftrmhoward344.html...more

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• "Yes, it is this laundry list of fascinating, science-fictional things like..." The DoD goes Future War. @DefTechPat

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  Aug 31 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:English: France in 2000 year (XXI century). Future war cars. France, paper card. Automobiles de Guerre. Русский: Карточка серии "Франция в 2000 году" - "Боевые машины". Репродукция публиковалась в журнале "Очевидное и невероятное", 2008 год. Date 1910 Source A reproduction of the early 20th century, scan / Репродукция, скан бумажной версии Author  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Yes, it is this laundry list of fascinating, science-fictional things like..."  The DoD goes Future War.  @DefTechPat https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2018/08/how-us-preparing-match-chinese-and-russian-technology-development/150768/...more

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• "I wonder, who was hurting? How did I need see it?" Tragedy of disgraced priests in North Pittsburgh. @SalenaZito @WashingtonExaminer

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  Aug 31 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:Jones and Laughlin steel mills, Pittsburgh, Pa. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "I wonder, who was hurting? How did I need see it?" Tragedy of disgraced priests in North Pittsburgh. @SalenaZito @WashingtonExaminer  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/when-the-beloved-priest-from-your-childhood-turns-out-to-be-a-monster

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• Proto fake news: "Axis Sally: 2 of 2: The American Voice of Nazi Germany" by Richard Lucas.

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  Aug 31 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Proto fake news: "Axis Sally: 2 of 2: The American Voice of Nazi Germany" by Richard Lucas. A “fascinating, well-researched account” of Mildred Gillars, the failed actress who turned on her country and became a Nazi propagandist during WWII (Publishers Weekly). One of the most notorious Americans of the twentieth century was a failed Broadway actress turned radio announcer named Mildred Gillars (1900–1988), better known to American GIs as “Axis Sally.” Despite the richness of her life story, there has never been a full-length biography of the ambitious, star-struck Ohio girl who evolved into a reviled disseminator of Nazi propaganda. At the outbreak of war in September 1939, Gillars had been living in Germany for five years. Hoping to marry, she chose to remain in the Nazi-run state even as the last Americans departed for home. In 1940, she was hired by the German overseas radio, where she evolved from a simple disc jockey and announcer to a master propagandist. Under the tutelage of her married lover, Max Otto Koischwitz, Gillars became the personification of Nazi propaganda to the American GI. Spicing her broadcasts with music, Gillars’s used her soothing voice to taunt Allied troops about the supposed infidelities of their wives and girlfriends back home, as well as the horrible deaths they were likely to meet on the battlefield. Supported by German military intelligence, she was able to convey personal greetings to individual US units, creating an eerie foreboding among troops who realized the Germans knew who and where they were. After broadcasting for Berlin up to the very end of the war, Gillars tried but failed to pose as a refugee, and was captured by US authorities. Her 1949 trial for treason captured the attention and raw emotion of a nation fresh from the horrors of the Second World War. Gillars’s twelve-year imprisonment and life on parole, including a stay in a convent, is a remarkable story of a woman who attempts to rebuild her life in the country she betrayed. https://www.amazon.com/Axis-Sally-American-Voice-Germany-ebook/dp/B00CE34UVG/ref=sr11?ie=UTF8&qid=1503710100&sr=8-1&keywords=lucas+axis+sally...more

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• "But what they show is that, a year and a half into the Trump presidency, the blue-collar voters are tremendously optimistic..." Working-class Heroes for Trump. @MonicaCrowley @TheHill

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  Aug 30 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: English: Dominion Coal Company's Reserve Mines Colliery, Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia ca 1900 Date circa 1900 Source Print source: Cape Breton at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century, Toronto: Nation Publishing, 1903 Author C. W. Vernon) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "But what they show is that, a year and a half into the Trump presidency, the blue-collar voters are tremendously optimistic..."  Working-class Heroes for Trump. @MonicaCrowley @TheHill > http://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/404122-the-hidden-trump-voters-that-may-save-him-and-the-gop-in-november ...more

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• "It's money-laundering and other crimes going through the US financial system..." Crumbling dialogue North Korea. BruceKlingner, @Heritage @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Aug 30 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:USAF light bombers destroyed this railroad bridge north of Pyongyang, North Korea. (U.S. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "It's money-laundering and other crimes going through the US financial system..."  Crumbling dialogue North Korea. BruceKlingner, @Heritage @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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• "He has to promise these kinds of things, because his only opponents are to his Left...." Modi of India campaigns anti-reform to the Hindi Belt. Sadanand @Dhume @WSJOpinion @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Aug 30 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "He has to promise these kinds of things, because his only opponents are to his Left...." Modi of India campaigns anti-reform to the Hindi Belt. Sadanand @Dhume @WSJOpinion @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast https://www.wsj.com/articles/modi-abandons-reform-for-populist-nostrums-1535063402?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWXpBMllUYzJNRGczWm1OaSIsInQiOiJMNURtU2Zob0ZiQ3M2NjBlQjhDUll3b0V6OWw2bjZicFJxbTNjSXJOdjU2RnFXbkRrN2lCVmNFOTlYWUNVWlV2SDFnQytRb0pcL0o2eWs4d3dcL1g0WXZySmxqSVJDQzRMXC8xMmNmcEFEaWlra2tDak9NNDFzeFZaVnZERUNyamd1eCJ9...more

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• Congress moves against Red China's ethnic cleansing of the Uyghurs of East Turkestan. Nury Turkel, @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Aug 30 2018

  AUTHOR. (PhotoUyghur king of the Turfan region attended by servants. Mogao Caves, 409, 11th-13th century.: ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Congress moves against Red China's ethnic cleansing of the Uyghurs of East Turkestan. Nury Turkel, @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast https://www.wsj.com/articles/lawmakers-push-to-sanction-chinese-officials-over-xinjiang-camps-1535554800

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• "Wake-up and protect our space assets..." Losing the Space Arms Race to the Foes. Peter Huessy Geostrategic Analysis.

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  Aug 30 2018

  AUTHOR. (Photo:A vision for the future of the US Space Command for 2020: a space-based high-energy laser destroys a terrestrial target ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Wake-up and protect our space assets..."  Losing the Space Arms Race to the Foes. Peter Huessy Geostrategic Analysis.

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• "Erdogan has already vowed to defy US sanctions on Iran..." Eyes on the upcoming meeting between Putin of Russia, Erdogan or Turkey and Rouhani of Iran..

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  AUTHOR. (Photo: Русский: Заявления для прессы по итогам встречи Президента России Владимира Путина с Президентом Ирана Хасаном Рухани и Президентом Турции Реджепом Тайипом Эрдоганом в Сочи. Переговоры были посвящены проблематике сирийского урегулирования. Date 22 November 2017 Source http://www.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/56153) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Erdogan has already vowed to defy US sanctions on Iran..."  Eyes on the upcoming meeting between Putin of Russia, Erdogan or Turkey and Rouhani of Iran..  Aykan Erdemir @FDD...more

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