The John Batchelor Show

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• 1214: #MLB: The grand old man of the Yankees returns for the 14th season. Host..

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  Feb 24 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication. 1915. #MLB: The grand old man of the Yankees returns for the 14th season. Host.. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow#MLB: The grand old man of the Yankees returns for the 14th season. Host..

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• 1216: Colombia's coca crop is bigger than ever & What is to be done? Host

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  Feb 24 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1854 Coca plantation. Peru  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowColombia's coca crop is bigger than ever & What is to be done? Host

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• 1214: 4/12: Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947 Kindle Edition.by Bruce Hoffman (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Feb 24 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow 4/12: Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947 Kindle Edition.by Bruce Hoffman  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Soldiers-Struggle-Israel-1917-1947-ebook/dp/B00N6PER5A/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=In this groundbreaking work, Bruce Hoffman—America’s leading expert on terrorism—brilliantly re-creates the crucial thirty-year period that led to the birth of Israel. Drawing on previously untapped archival resources in London, Washington, D.C., and Jerusalem, Anonymous Soldiers shows how the efforts of two militant Zionist groups brought about the end of British rule in the Middle East. Hoffman shines new light on the bombing of the King David Hotel, the assassination of Lord Moyne in Cairo, the leadership of Menachem Begin, the life and death of Abraham Stern, and much else. Above all, he shows exactly how the underdog “anonymous soldiers” of Irgun and Lehi defeated the British and set in motion the chain of events that resulted in the creation of the formidable nation-state of Israel. One of the most detailed and sustained accounts of a terrorist and counterterrorist campaign ever written, Hoffman has crafted the definitive account of the struggle for Israel—and an impressive investigation of the efficacy of guerilla tactics. Anonymous Soldiers is essential to anyone wishing to understand the current situation in the Middle East. ...more

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• 1214: 3/12: Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947 Kindle Edition.by Bruce Hoffman (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Feb 24 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow 3/12: Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947 Kindle Edition.by Bruce Hoffman  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Soldiers-Struggle-Israel-1917-1947-ebook/dp/B00N6PER5A/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=In this groundbreaking work, Bruce Hoffman—America’s leading expert on terrorism—brilliantly re-creates the crucial thirty-year period that led to the birth of Israel. Drawing on previously untapped archival resources in London, Washington, D.C., and Jerusalem, Anonymous Soldiers shows how the efforts of two militant Zionist groups brought about the end of British rule in the Middle East. Hoffman shines new light on the bombing of the King David Hotel, the assassination of Lord Moyne in Cairo, the leadership of Menachem Begin, the life and death of Abraham Stern, and much else. Above all, he shows exactly how the underdog “anonymous soldiers” of Irgun and Lehi defeated the British and set in motion the chain of events that resulted in the creation of the formidable nation-state of Israel. One of the most detailed and sustained accounts of a terrorist and counterterrorist campaign ever written, Hoffman has crafted the definitive account of the struggle for Israel—and an impressive investigation of the efficacy of guerilla tactics. Anonymous Soldiers is essential to anyone wishing to understand the current situation in the Middle East. ...more

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• 1214: 2/12: Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947 Kindle Edition.by Bruce Hoffman (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Feb 24 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow 2/12: Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947 Kindle Edition.by Bruce Hoffman  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Soldiers-Struggle-Israel-1917-1947-ebook/dp/B00N6PER5A/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=In this groundbreaking work, Bruce Hoffman—America’s leading expert on terrorism—brilliantly re-creates the crucial thirty-year period that led to the birth of Israel. Drawing on previously untapped archival resources in London, Washington, D.C., and Jerusalem, Anonymous Soldiers shows how the efforts of two militant Zionist groups brought about the end of British rule in the Middle East. Hoffman shines new light on the bombing of the King David Hotel, the assassination of Lord Moyne in Cairo, the leadership of Menachem Begin, the life and death of Abraham Stern, and much else. Above all, he shows exactly how the underdog “anonymous soldiers” of Irgun and Lehi defeated the British and set in motion the chain of events that resulted in the creation of the formidable nation-state of Israel. One of the most detailed and sustained accounts of a terrorist and counterterrorist campaign ever written, Hoffman has crafted the definitive account of the struggle for Israel—and an impressive investigation of the efficacy of guerilla tactics. Anonymous Soldiers is essential to anyone wishing to understand the current situation in the Middle East. ...more

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• 1214: 1/12: Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947 Kindle Edition.by Bruce Hoffman (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Feb 24 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow 1/12: Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947 Kindle Edition.by Bruce Hoffman  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Soldiers-Struggle-Israel-1917-1947-ebook/dp/B00N6PER5A/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=In this groundbreaking work, Bruce Hoffman—America’s leading expert on terrorism—brilliantly re-creates the crucial thirty-year period that led to the birth of Israel. Drawing on previously untapped archival resources in London, Washington, D.C., and Jerusalem, Anonymous Soldiers shows how the efforts of two militant Zionist groups brought about the end of British rule in the Middle East. Hoffman shines new light on the bombing of the King David Hotel, the assassination of Lord Moyne in Cairo, the leadership of Menachem Begin, the life and death of Abraham Stern, and much else. Above all, he shows exactly how the underdog “anonymous soldiers” of Irgun and Lehi defeated the British and set in motion the chain of events that resulted in the creation of the formidable nation-state of Israel. One of the most detailed and sustained accounts of a terrorist and counterterrorist campaign ever written, Hoffman has crafted the definitive account of the struggle for Israel—and an impressive investigation of the efficacy of guerilla tactics. Anonymous Soldiers is essential to anyone wishing to understand the current situation in the Middle East. ...more

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• 1215: 2/2 Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle, by Thor Hanson

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  Feb 24 2021

  Image:  Two Native Americans, wearing feather headdresses, looking at photographic film; they stand next to a stream with photographic equipment at their feet and tipis in the background   Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle, by Thor Hanson   As seen on PBS's American Spring Live, one of America's great nature-writers explores the magic and science of feathersFeathers are an evolutionary marvel: aerodynamic, insulating, beguiling. They date back more than 100 million years, yet their story has never been fully told. In Feathers, the biologist Thor Hanson details a sweeping natural history, as feathers have been used to fly, protect, attract, and adorn through time and place. Applying the research of paleontologists, ornithologists, biologists, engineers, and even art historians, Hanson asks: What are feathers? How did they evolve? What do they mean to us?Engineers call feathers the most efficient insulating material ever discovered, and they are at the root of biology's most enduring debate. They silence the flight of owls and keep penguins dry below the ice. They have decorated queens, jesters, and priests. And they have inked documents from the Constitution to the novels of Jane Austen.Feathers is a captivating and beautiful exploration of this most enchanting object.  ...more

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• 1215: 1/2 Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle, by Thor Hanson

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  Feb 24 2021

  Image: Feather  Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle, by Thor Hanson   As seen on PBS's American Spring Live, one of America's great nature-writers explores the magic and science of feathersFeathers are an evolutionary marvel: aerodynamic, insulating, beguiling. They date back more than 100 million years, yet their story has never been fully told. In Feathers, the biologist Thor Hanson details a sweeping natural history, as feathers have been used to fly, protect, attract, and adorn through time and place. Applying the research of paleontologists, ornithologists, biologists, engineers, and even art historians, Hanson asks: What are feathers? How did they evolve? What do they mean to us?Engineers call feathers the most efficient insulating material ever discovered, and they are at the root of biology's most enduring debate. They silence the flight of owls and keep penguins dry below the ice. They have decorated queens, jesters, and priests. And they have inked documents from the Constitution to the novels of Jane Austen.Feathers is a captivating and beautiful exploration of this most enchanting object....more

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• 1213: What good, union, green jobs to replace good, union, fossil fuel jobs? @vincebielski

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  Feb 24 2021

  Image:  Windmill, the Netherlands Vince Bielski, @vincebielski, RealClearInvestigations,  in re: What good union green jobs to replace good union fossil fuel jobs?https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2021/02/18/why_bidens_new_dawn_of_net-zero_is_looking_like_a_dark_day_for_labor_127138.html

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• 1213: Nationalizing California AB5 that aims to tame the gig economy. Michael D. Farren,

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  Feb 24 2021

  Image:  Cactus garden in Riverside, California, ca.1920 Michael Farren, @MichaelDFarren. Mercatus; economist and engineer, in re:  Nationalizing California AB5 that aims to tame the gig economy.   

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• 1212: Does Joe Biden know how Andrew Cuomo has damaged New York City? @LizPeek @FoxNews

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  Feb 24 2021

  Photo:  Berryman Political Cartoon Collection: Tammany Democrats http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowDoes Joe Biden know how Andrew Cuomo has damaged New York City?  @LizPeek @FoxNewshttps://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/as-new-york-city-movie-theaters-reopen-they-wonder-if-people-will-return/ar-BB1dX7ee

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• 1212: Topsy-turvy return of the Inflation Fear. @LizPeek @FoxNews

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  Feb 24 2021

  Photo: From Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowTopsy-turvy return of the Inflation Fear. @LizPeek @FoxNewshttps://www.msn.com/en-us/finance/markets/stocks-battle-back-as-feds-powell-eases-inflation-economy-concerns/ar-BB1dW6Yt

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• 1212: #NewWorld: Vaccine corruption in Argentina and Peru. @MariaFdaCabal & @jmhumire

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  Feb 24 2021

  Photo:  NATIONAL VACCINE & ANTITOXIN INST.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow#NewWorld: Vaccine corruption in Argentina and Peru.  @MariaFdaCabal & @jmhumire https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/20/argentina-health-chief-asked-to-resign-after-vip-vaccine-access

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• 1212: Germany adds 1,200 words for the pandemic. @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion

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  Feb 24 2021

  Image:  Hospital train, Germany Joseph Sternberg:  @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion; Political Economics column; WSJ editorial board; in re:  My favorite new virus story: New German words for the pandemic!https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/23/from-coronaangst-to-hamsteritis-the-new-german-words-inspired-by-covid Covidiot, a term used in the UK, also appears in the German list. More specific isMaskentrottel (mask idiot), for someone who wears their face covering under their nose. But the words also tell a story of connection and community. For example, Einkaufshelfercan be used to describe someone who helps others with their shopping. Möhrs says CoronaFußgruß(corona foot greeting) is her personal favourite because it rhymes and because it shows a human desire ...more

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• 1212: Promises Boris Johnson: London reopens March, April, May and June. @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion

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  Feb 24 2021

  Image: from page 213 of London and its Environs. A picturesque survey of the metropolis and the suburbs . . .  Translated by Henry Frith. With . . . illustrations Joseph Sternberg:  @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion; Political Economics column; WSJ editorial board; in re:  BoJo promises London reopens March, April, May and June —UK Open? Closed?https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/pubs-sport-and-shopping-back-by-may-as-boris-johnson-eases-lockdown-qrfjw9p0s The health secretary, Matt Hancock, has warned that the government will not speed up plans to reopen society after a leading scientist suggested it might be possible to go faster.Professor Neil Ferguson told Times Radio that if vaccine effectiveness was “even greater than current estimates suggest” there was the “potential of accelerating the rate of relaxation” — UK Open? Closed?  Boris Johnson Roadmap:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/02/22/covid-lockdown-roadmap-key-dates-revealed-easing-restrictions/The first step is split into two sections. The focus is on getting schools open again and reuniting families who have spent so long kept apart. All schools in England will open, both primary and secondary. It is possible some schools may initially stagger class returns because of the demand for mass testing.  ...more

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• 1212: #NewWorld: Colombia crop-spraying the coca crop again & What is to be done? @MariaFdaCabal & @jmhumire

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  Feb 24 2021

  Photo: Cocaine bricks http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow#NewWorld: Colombia crop-spraying the coca crop again & What is to be done? @MariaFdaCabal & @jmhumire https://www.ft.com/content/03b032e9-a745-4ea5-a718-13d86fe6fec0

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• 1211: The Chinese Communist Party is the threat. Gregory R Copley: Defense and Foreign Affairs

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  Feb 24 2021

  Image:  Establish a new standard of merit for the people : just as the heroic 4th platoon and commrade Li Wen'chung worked to defeat selfishness and promote the common good, we should convert Chairman Mao's most recent directive into action  Gregory R Copley: Defense and Foreign Affairs; Gregory R Copley, The New  Total War of the Twenty-first Century and the Trigger of the Fear Pandemic, in re:  The Chinese Communist Party is the threat 

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• 1211: Washington's endless, pointless Russia-bashing. Gregory R Copley: Defense and Foreign Affairs

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  Feb 24 2021

  Washington's endless, pointless Russia-bashing.  Gregory R Copley: Defense and Foreign Affairs Image:  The Archangel Monastery-Farchangelsky Monastery, Archangel. The monastery is located in an eight-sided stockade with a little block house at each corner. The church is very ancient, and quite the grandest building architecturally in Archangel, with white wall, green tiled roofs, and five big domes covered with sold gold leaf. It is easily the most picturesque of all the domed buildings in North Russia and the big mushroom-shaped domes have a striking appearance as compared with the more slender domes than some of the other churches. The roofs of the block houses and the stockade walls are bright red. This is the church which is most largely used for important funerals which are always superb performances with bands, a hearse built up on the columns with canopied roof, horses covered with white lace, and preceded by a procession of priests in gorgeous robes of gold and silver before whom is spread a continuous carpet of evergreen boughs. There is always a band that plays splendidly dignified and solemn funeral marches  Gregory R Copley: Defense and Foreign Affairs; Gregory R Copley, The New  Total War of the Twenty-first Century and the Trigger of the Fear Pandemic, in re: Washington's endless, pointless Russia-bashing. ..  .. ..  ..  .. ..  ..  .. ..  ..  .. ..  ...more

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• 1211: Will the Biden Administration follow the Pompeo lead on China? @BerkowitzPeter

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  Feb 24 2021

  Image:  Chinese artillery at Bai ling miao 1936Peter Berkowitz, @BerkowitzPeter, Hoover, in re: Will the Biden Administration follow the Pompeo lead on China?  https://hoover.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de744b88c98cf7f8a268b1808&id=6c5788773d&e=e5a88736d1 The Biden Administration and the China Challenge

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• 1211: The Middle East needs Shark Tank. @VictoriaCoates

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  Feb 24 2021

  Image: 1915 Shark caught on Pacific Coast Victoria Coates, @VictoriaCoates,Center for Security Policy;  in re: The Middle East needs Shark Tank   https://themedialine.org/top-stories/pinballing-leadership-for-americas-middle-east-broadcaster/

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• 1210: Texas electricity was 42% renewable before the cold snap & What is to be done? Host

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  Feb 23 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.Dreyfuss & Son Store, Main & Ervay Streets, Dallas, Dallas County, TX  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowTexas electricity was 42% renewable before the cold snap & What is to be done? Host https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2021/02/21/blackouts-reveal-endemic-problems-in-the-texas-power-market/

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• 1210: SCOTUS ducks Pennsylvania voting irregularities and lets the Manhattan DA pursue allegations against Trump. @AndrewCMcCarthy, @ThadMcCotter, @theamgreatness

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  Feb 23 2021

  Image: Statue of Contemplation of Law at U.S. Supreme Court, front view  https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/02/supreme-court-clears-way-for-new-york-das-investigation-of-trump/ 

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• 1209: How much DOJ trouble for NY Governor Andrew Cuomo? @AndrewCMcCarthy, @ThadMcCotter, @theamgreatness

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  Feb 23 2021

  Image:  Capitol building, Albany, N.Y. Andrew C McCarthy, @AndrewCMcCarthy, Ball of Collusion; and Thaddeus McCotter, @ThadMcCotter, @theamgreatness, American Greatness, in re: Governor Cuomo’s nontransparency anent the pandemic. Why is it not the Southern District of New York investigating, as it's the most competent and practiced. Problem is that Melissa de Rosa, Cuomo’s top assistant whose remarks started this ball rolling, is daughter-in law to Audrey Strauss, attorney of the SDNY [“a superb attorney”]. Strauss appointed not by Trump.  Melissa’s husband, Mr Wing, was working closely with Gov Cuomo. Cuomo’s biggest problem now is that he’s lost the left; faces the politics of New York State, as it was Letitia James released the damning report. She may run for the governorship, as AOC may challenge Schumer. Long knives out for Cuomo. https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/02/the-cuomo-investigation-confusion/ ...more

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• 1209: #IndianaHoenlein: Indiana Hoenlein and the passing of the man who led 120,000 Iraqi Jews to safety. Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres; @ThadMcCotter, @theamgreatness

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  Feb 23 2021

  Image:  The Great Synagogue of Baghdad circa early 20th century  Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres, Conference of Presidents, in re: Shlomo Hillel, who’s just passed away at age 97. At 23 he was recruited to go into Iraq to work with Jewish community; in 1941, the pogrom.  He went there to teach Hebrew, smuggled some out to Haifa in trucks. He found Americans with cargo planes and cleverly managed to smuggle out more. Later, he disguised himself as a Frenchman; got Jews out of Iran, into Iraq, to Paris, to Marseille.   Hillel, as a Briton, “Mr Armstrong,” managed to save thousands more.  Also, Irving Roth, Holocaust survivor, often on the March of the Living in Poland, died at 91; he spoke to thousands and was most esteemed.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlomo_Hillel ...more

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• 1209: No major rival for Abbas in the Palestinian election; & What is to be done? Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres; @ThadMcCotter, @theamgreatness

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  Feb 23 2021

  Image: Mahmoud Abbas (far right) in Moscow at the opening of the Moscow Cathedral Mosque.  Photo: www.kremlin.ru.  Abbas, Vladimir Putin, and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan opened Moscow's Cathedral Mosque, 23 September 2015. Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres, Conference of Presidents, in re:   the announced Palestinian elections. Will they be held?  Often an election is announced there and never comes.  Mahmoud Abbas at age 84 is still manipulating it; he’s thought not to allow any election. An alternative slate is forming called on Marwan Barghouti (who’s still in jail)) to stand on a united slate. Palestinians are tired of and upset at the enormous Palestinian kleptocracy. SO far, no one has emerged to run against Abbas, which controls all the mechanisms. Money missing: 2020 budget no longer has Ministry of Prison Affairs, which has been giving major aid to murderers; looks as though $157 million has gone to terrorists, who also get free medical coverage and education. Officials tried to  hide it in the PLO budget. Iran: Speaker of the Majlis said any discussions with the IAEA goes beyond what’s permissible. No snapback. “Parliamentary law must be implemented this week” – to 60% enrichment; 90% is weapons-grade. Zarif said if Israel attacks it’ll be suicide for Israel. Uranium metal . . .  particles found.  Iran and Russia having talks; supposedly, Iran is sending certain excess nuclear material to Russia for reprocessing.   IAEA demands to know where a lot of nuclear material is coming from.  No answer. All the components of a nuclear program are  emerging. Building a war-crimes case against Assad. A photographer who was ordered to keep photos of the dead (reminiscent of the Nazis’s careful record-keeping); he smuggled out thousands of pictures of people who’d been tortured to death, including children; bombing hospitals, gassing of innocents. Arrow 4 defense system. New technology, a game-changer.  https://jcpa.org/pitfalls-on-the-way-to-palestinian-elections-in-the-territories/  ...more

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• 1208: Major League Baseball's highest paid players per annum led by Mike Trout and Gerrit Cole and including Roger Clemens in retirement. Host

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  Feb 23 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1926. Major League Baseball's highest paid players per annum led by Mike Trout and Gerrit Cole and including Roger Clemens in retirement. Host http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowMajor League Baseball's highest paid players per annum led by Mike Trout and Gerrit Cole and including Roger Clemens in retirement. Hosthttps://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/02/the-largest-mlb-contracts-by-aav.html ...more

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• 1207: What Rush Limbaugh means to the GOP. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @NRO @DCExaminer

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  Feb 23 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1910. The Cape Girardeau paddle steamer and a Benoist flying boat on the Mississippi river (cropped)  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowWhat Rush Limbaugh means to the GOP. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @NRO @DCExaminerhttps://www.nationalreview.com/corner/remembering-rush-a-conservative-messenger-who-changed-the-dialogue/

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• 1207: Cuomo survives unhappy revelations..@DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @NRO @DCExaminer

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  Feb 23 2021

  Photo: Group of elderly people on porch. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowCuomo survives unhappy revelations..@DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @NRO @DCExaminerhttps://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/elise-stefanik-eyes-bid-oust-andrew-cuomo  

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• 1205: Questioning Governor Andrew Cuomo's forceful rulings during the pandemic, starting with the nursing homes. Joel Zinberg, @CityJournal

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  Feb 23 2021

  Photo:  Down with the power of the despot, wherever his stronghold may be. ~ Lincoln and Liberty http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowQuestioning Governor Andrew Cuomo's forceful rulings during the pandemic, starting with the nursing homes. Joel Zinberg, @CityJournal : https://www.city-journal.org/cuomo-under-fire-for-hiding-nursing-home-deaths

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• 1206: Biden prepares Wall Street for trading with the enemy. Roger W Robinson, @pssi_prague; @GordonGChang

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  Feb 23 2021

  Image:  Jacques Callot, “Greed,” probably after 1621 Roger W Robinson, @pssi_prague, chairman of Prague Securities Studies Institute;and Gordon Chang, in re:  Last week Treasury forbad naming companies similar to that of any Chinese Communist firm; for a while, till 27 May. Administration said “most companies whose names are closely similar to but don't exactly match . . .”  Why?   Several opposing analyses of reasons for this. However, clear that Biden is not eager to proceed expeditiously with ban on US investment in known Chinese military companies.  DoD has created the list. Wall Street is screaming, even though it’s obviously of great danger to the United States. It’s the subsidiaries that are taking billions of dollars from the pension investments of scores millions of Americans to fund missiles aimed at their own homes. To fund concentration camps for Uyghurs. Also slave labor. It’s one big regime.  Xi Jinping has re-centralized all major firms, all have party cells, all are subject to the law requiring every Chinese citizen to collaborate with PLA intell.  A monolithic operation, an authoritarian police state. For over twenty years, the infusion of American dollars have flown in with no screening at all. China  tried to exclude [protect] Chinese firms in index funds and ETFs—yet that’s where most of the abuse is occurring. EO 13959 . . .https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-sanctions-idUSKBN29W1JK  ..  ..  .. ..  ..  .. ..  ..  ..  ...more

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• 1206: Europe seeks a side deal with China's Huawei and ZTE. @BrendanCarrFCC, @GordonGChang,

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  Feb 23 2021

  Image:  Instructions for making astronomical instruments from the time of the Qing Dynasty. Brendan Carr, @BrendanCarrFCC, FCC Commissioner; and Gordon Chang, @GordonGChang, Daily Beast; in re:  “There’s currently a game between US and China” – Europeans think they can stand aside, but Europe cannot; they don't have any semiconductor manufacturing and are ”a minnow” in the chip world. This is not a game, it's a very serious endeavor. Telecoms owned by China constitute a serious threat; we've looked at carriers wanting to connect to our network and forbad that. Montana has missile silos with cell towers—they were running ZTE, a cause for real concern. If you bring any electronics into the US, the FCC has to inspect and review it.  China is looking for any sign that the Biden administration is backsliding on the appropriate tough stance the US has taken to protect itself; China will wait, and slide in.  However, in the last six months a significant sea change in how Europe views Mainland China. Covid helped awaken them. If you have Huawei anywhere in the midst of the network, it's very difficult to contain or control the network. A fairly good bipartisan consensus in DC.  Worried that Biden might move back toward an appeasement strategy.https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-seeks-to-decouple-from-us-china-chip-war/https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/microchip-computers-spy-supermicro/2021/02/15/id/1010040/  ...more

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• 1206: The Taliban waits to celebrate Biden's exit. @thomasjoscelyn, @billroggio, @FDD

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  Feb 23 2021

  Image:  A postcard showing the city of Erbil in 1900 Tom Joscelyn, @thomasjoscelyn, Long War Journal and @FDD; and Bill Roggio, @billroggio, Long War Journal and @FDD;  podcast: Generation Jihad,  @LongWarJournal; in re: NATO has urged Taliban and Kabul govt to hasten their negotiations. First: these are notpeace talks.  Taliban are trying to run out the clock. Goal is to have he US withdraw by 1 May, so it has weeks to solve this.    Taliban have been very clear in public statements as well as kinetic attacks against the US. What's the purpose of he US maintaining a small force in Afghanistan when [it can't protect Afghans]?  As soon as the US leaves, Taliban will take over huge swaths of the country. There’s no peace process; Taliban have been hollowing out civil society and are preparing for a takeover. Rocket attack on Erbil.  https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/taliban-call-on-biden-to-honor-trump-deal-to-remove-u-s-troops/ar-BB1cRmVs ...more

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• 1206: Biden at play in the Yemen chaos. @thomasjoscelyn, @billroggio, @FDD

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  Feb 23 2021

  Image:  Abraham hosts angels, folio 2v Tom Joscelyn, @thomasjoscelyn, Long War Journal and @FDD; and Bill Roggio, @billroggio, Long War Journal and @FDD;  podcast: Generation Jihad,  @LongWarJournal; in re: FDD Senior Research Analyst  Varsha Koduvayur, good news (Abraham Accords) and bad news (Biden administration’s policies anent the Middle East, in general). Biden has recommended that the Houthis not be considered as a terrorist organization—a profound change, as the Houthis are Iranian proxies. Washington sees almost everything as binary: one side and the opposite. In Yemen, it's a multi-sided conflict.  Varsha sees Saudi Arabia as divided between a old guard and a new guard. Problem is that the new guard has acted in a most authoritarian manner for a few years. This administration is likely to distance itself from Saudis as it endeavors to grow closer to Iran. Saudi [exported] funding is not likely to dry up immediately. https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/02/ep-44-the-abraham-accords.php  ...more

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• 1205: Remembering one year since the first two Italian cases of Covid-19 & What is to be done? Lorenzo Fiori, ansaldo Foundation

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  Feb 23 2021

  Photo: Sick man drinking tea http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowRemembering one year since the first two Italian cases of Covid-19 & What is to be done? Lorenzo Fiori, ansaldo Foundationhttps://www.9news.com.au/world/coronavirus-italy-one-year-since-covid19-outbreak-lombardy-worst-hit-in-europe/cd2773c9-f173-4fe8-a39e-6a66a323bff6 

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• 1205: Texas energy mix requires natural gas, nuclear and coal to augment and back-up renewables. Bud Weinstein. @DallasNews

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  Feb 23 2021

  Photo: Iowa coal mine, 1936. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowTexas energy mix requires natural gas, nuclear and coal to augment and back-up renewables. Bud Weinstein. @DallasNews https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2021/02/21/blackouts-reveal-endemic-problems-in-the-texas-power-market/

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• 1205: Andrew Cuomo routinely makes blunt telephone calls, because it works for him. @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNews

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  Feb 23 2021

  Photo: 1917 wall telephone, open to show magneto and local battery http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowAndrew Cuomo routinely makes blunt telephone calls, because it works for him. @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNewshttps://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-the-crisis-cuomo-created-20210220-pbqzpqvvdjghzc6vwxdov7yb7i-story.html

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• 1205: Texas cold snap: frozen citrus and avocados; & What is to be done? @HenryIMiller henrymillermd.org

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  Feb 23 2021

  Photo: Damage to an orange grove in Bartow, Florida http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowTexas cold snap frozen citrus and avocados & What is to be done? @HenryIMiller henrymillermd.orghttp://www.henrymillermd.org/25126/feds-freeze-out-frost-fix-for-southern-states

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• 1205: Cuomo's Emmy award; & What is to be done? @JedBabbin @AmSpectator

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  Feb 23 2021

  Photo: Awards: Alfonso XIII of Spain (left) with his cousin, the future King George V (right) during his State Visit to the United Kingdom in 1905. Alfonso is wearing the uniform of a general of the British Army, the Royal Victorian Chain, the sash and star of the Garter, the cross of the Order of Charles III, the neck badge of the Golden Fleece, and the badge of the four Spanish military orders. George, then Prince of Wales, is wearing the neck badge of the Golden Fleece, the sash and grand cross grade of the Order of Charles III, the Royal Victorian Chain, and the stars of the Garter and the Order of St Michael and St George. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowCuomo's Emmy Award & What is to be done? @JedBabbin @AmSpectator https://spectator.org/cuomos-coverup/?utm_source=LibertyNation...more

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• 1204: 4/4 Against the Tide: Rickover's Leadership Principles and the Rise of the Nuclear Navy, by Dave Oliver

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  Feb 23 2021

  Image:  USS Hyman G. Rickover (SSN-709)  Against the Tide: Rickover's Leadership Principles and the Rise of the Nuclear Navy,by Dave Oliver  Admiral Hyman Rickover personally revolutionized naval warfare and altered the outcome of the Cold War. Concurrently, he drove innovation into American industry—which in the decades since has proven to be a wellspring of power for American technology. As a touchstone of his success, during Rickover’s stewardship the Russians had literally dozens of reactor accidents, but Rickover’s single-minded focus on safety protected Americans as well as our lands from nuclear contamination.Rickover did all of this initially by the force of his own personality and, eventually, by insisting on radical culture change. The author had the good fortune personally to know and be involved with Admiral Rickover as well as with many of the most interesting players and protagonists during much of this thirty-year process of wrenching cultural upheaval. The author leaves detailed biographical details of Rickover to others, instead focussing on previously unknown historical events in which he personally participated or had unique knowledge that highlights the management and leadership principles behind Rickover’s achievements.  Oliver places important events (President Eisenhower’s choosing nuclear submarines to counter Sputnik, development of the Polaris Fleet, the relationship of Admirals Zumwalt and Rickover, the loss of USS Scorpion, the superiority of the American submarines over the Soviet fleet, etc.) in an historical perspective.Because of his life’s work, the author is uniquely qualified to apply many of Rickover’s principles to other situations. For example, Oliver well understands the particular navy culture Rickover had to destroy for the author began his own career on a diesel boat. Similarly, since the author spent a decade in US industry as either a chief executive officer or chief operating officer, he understands how to identify situations where Rickover’s principles can be applied to industrial circumstances. This is done at the end of each chapter in the book, providing a starting point for any who wish to use this source for case studies.  https://www.amazon.com/Against-Tide-Rickovers-Leadership-Principles-ebook/dp/B00NE6QZ88/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= ..   ...more

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• 1204: 3/4 Against the Tide: Rickover's Leadership Principles and the Rise of the Nuclear Navy, by Dave Oliver

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  Feb 23 2021

  Image: USS ScorpionSSN589  Against the Tide: Rickover's Leadership Principles and the Rise of the Nuclear Navy,by Dave Oliver  Admiral Hyman Rickover personally revolutionized naval warfare and altered the outcome of the Cold War. Concurrently, he drove innovation into American industry—which in the decades since has proven to be a wellspring of power for American technology. As a touchstone of his success, during Rickover’s stewardship the Russians had literally dozens of reactor accidents, but Rickover’s single-minded focus on safety protected Americans as well as our lands from nuclear contamination.Rickover did all of this initially by the force of his own personality and, eventually, by insisting on radical culture change. The author had the good fortune personally to know and be involved with Admiral Rickover as well as with many of the most interesting players and protagonists during much of this thirty-year process of wrenching cultural upheaval. The author leaves detailed biographical details of Rickover to others, instead focussing on previously unknown historical events in which he personally participated or had unique knowledge that highlights the management and leadership principles behind Rickover’s achievements.  Oliver places important events (President Eisenhower’s choosing nuclear submarines to counter Sputnik, development of the Polaris Fleet, the relationship of Admirals Zumwalt and Rickover, the loss of USS Scorpion, the superiority of the American submarines over the Soviet fleet, etc.) in an historical perspective.Because of his life’s work, the author is uniquely qualified to apply many of Rickover’s principles to other situations. For example, Oliver well understands the particular navy culture Rickover had to destroy for the author began his own career on a diesel boat. Similarly, since the author spent a decade in US industry as either a chief executive officer or chief operating officer, he understands how to identify situations where Rickover’s principles can be applied to industrial circumstances. This is done at the end of each chapter in the book, providing a starting point for any who wish to use this source for case studies.  https://www.amazon.com/Against-Tide-Rickovers-Leadership-Principles-ebook/dp/B00NE6QZ88/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= ..   ...more

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• 1204: 2/4 Against the Tide: Rickover's Leadership Principles and the Rise of the Nuclear Navy, by Dave Oliver

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  Feb 23 2021

  Image:  Crewmen participate in a firefighting exercise during refresher training aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise(CVN 65)  Against the Tide: Rickover's Leadership Principles and the Rise of the Nuclear Navy,by Dave Oliver  Admiral Hyman Rickover personally revolutionized naval warfare and altered the outcome of the Cold War. Concurrently, he drove innovation into American industry—which in the decades since has proven to be a wellspring of power for American technology. As a touchstone of his success, during Rickover’s stewardship the Russians had literally dozens of reactor accidents, but Rickover’s single-minded focus on safety protected Americans as well as our lands from nuclear contamination.Rickover did all of this initially by the force of his own personality and, eventually, by insisting on radical culture change. The author had the good fortune personally to know and be involved with Admiral Rickover as well as with many of the most interesting players and protagonists during much of this thirty-year process of wrenching cultural upheaval. The author leaves detailed biographical details of Rickover to others, instead focussing on previously unknown historical events in which he personally participated or had unique knowledge that highlights the management and leadership principles behind Rickover’s achievements.  Oliver places important events (President Eisenhower’s choosing nuclear submarines to counter Sputnik, development of the Polaris Fleet, the relationship of Admirals Zumwalt and Rickover, the loss of USS Scorpion, the superiority of the American submarines over the Soviet fleet, etc.) in an historical perspective.Because of his life’s work, the author is uniquely qualified to apply many of Rickover’s principles to other situations. For example, Oliver well understands the particular navy culture Rickover had to destroy for the author began his own career on a diesel boat. Similarly, since the author spent a decade in US industry as either a chief executive officer or chief operating officer, he understands how to identify situations where Rickover’s principles can be applied to industrial circumstances. This is done at the end of each chapter in the book, providing a starting point for any who wish to use this source for case studies.  https://www.amazon.com/Against-Tide-Rickovers-Leadership-Principles-ebook/dp/B00NE6QZ88/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= ..   ...more

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• 1204: 1/4 Against the Tide: Rickover's Leadership Principles and the Rise of the Nuclear Navy, by Dave Oliver

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  Feb 23 2021

  Image:  Admiral Rickover aboard USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear-powered vessel. "I did not recruit extraordinary people. I recruited people who had extraordinary potential—and then I trained them."   Against the Tide: Rickover's Leadership Principles and the Rise of the Nuclear Navy,by Dave Oliver  Admiral Hyman Rickover personally revolutionized naval warfare and altered the outcome of the Cold War. Concurrently, he drove innovation into American industry—which in the decades since has proven to be a wellspring of power for American technology. As a touchstone of his success, during Rickover’s stewardship the Russians had literally dozens of reactor accidents, but Rickover’s single-minded focus on safety protected Americans as well as our lands from nuclear contamination.Rickover did all of this initially by the force of his own personality and, eventually, by insisting on radical culture change. The author had the good fortune personally to know and be involved with Admiral Rickover as well as with many of the most interesting players and protagonists during much of this thirty-year process of wrenching cultural upheaval. The author leaves detailed biographical details of Rickover to others, instead focussing on previously unknown historical events in which he personally participated or had unique knowledge that highlights the management and leadership principles behind Rickover’s achievements.  Oliver places important events (President Eisenhower’s choosing nuclear submarines to counter Sputnik, development of the Polaris Fleet, the relationship of Admirals Zumwalt and Rickover, the loss of USS Scorpion, the superiority of the American submarines over the Soviet fleet, etc.) in an historical perspective.Because of his life’s work, the author is uniquely qualified to apply many of Rickover’s principles to other situations. For example, Oliver well understands the particular navy culture Rickover had to destroy for the author began his own career on a diesel boat. Similarly, since the author spent a decade in US industry as either a chief executive officer or chief operating officer, he understands how to identify situations where Rickover’s principles can be applied to industrial circumstances. This is done at the end of each chapter in the book, providing a starting point for any who wish to use this source for case studies.  https://www.amazon.com/Against-Tide-Rickovers-Leadership-Principles-ebook/dp/B00NE6QZ88/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= ..  ...more

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• 1198: 4/4: July 2015 conversation with the late Art Bell (1945-2018) about story-telling on air, Art Bell of Midnight in the Desert, Coast to Coast. Host

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  Feb 22 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1910. [Scenes of open gambling in Reno, Nevada casinos: roulette wheel at left; bar at right]  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow4/4: July 2015 conversation with the late Art Bell (1945-2018) about story-telling on air, Art Bell of Midnight in the Desert, Coast to Coast. Hosthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Bell

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• 1198: 3/4: July 2015 conversation with the late Art Bell (1945-2018) about story-telling on air, Art Bell of Midnight in the Desert, Coast to Coast. Host

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  Feb 22 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1904 Panoramic view of the Tonopah Mining Park (now a historic site) and Mount Butler in the distance, Tonopah, Nevada, ca.1904Photograph of a panoramic view of the Tonopah Mining Park (now a historic site) and Mount Butler in the distance, Tonopah, Nevada, ca.1904.Near the base of Mount Butler and scattered across a large amount of land are mining facilities, buildings, cabins, cottages, tents, and houses that make up the mining park."[Tonopah was] discovered by James L Butler in 1902, local Indian word meaning 'water brush' or 'brush water springs'." -- unknown author.; "Not many mining towns can boast gold and silver production of $250,000,000 but Tonopah can. As was the case with many mining towns, the discovery of gold at Tonopah was quite by accident. It is said a prospector by the name of James Butler was tracking down his mules that were missing. After tracking them down, he picked up a rock to throw at them but did not for he noticed the rock was flecked with something that looked like gold. Indeed, it was. Credit is given to Mrs. Butler who staked out the claim and got things going. She named the mine Mizpah that turned out to be one of the richest producers in the area. Tonopah's peak period was around 1905 when it became the county seat. Like so many before it, the good times were not to last. Production began to decline noticeably about 1913 and the glory days were a thing of the past. However, Tonopah today is far from being a ghost town. Hotels, clubs, stores and restaurants are there for the comfort of the town's visitors. Tonopah is at the point where highway 95 intersects highway 6." -- Henry Chenoweth. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow3/4: July 2015 conversation with the late Art Bell (1945-2018) about story-telling on air, Art Bell of Midnight in the Desert, Coast to Coast. Hosthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Bell ...more

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• 1198: 2/4: July 2015 conversation with the late Art Bell (1945-2018) about story-telling on air, Art Bell of Midnight in the Desert, Coast to Coast. Host

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  Feb 22 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1939.Brakeman on the Challenger. Nevada  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow2/4: July 2015 conversation with the late Art Bell (1945-2018) about story-telling on air, Art Bell of Midnight in the Desert, Coast to Coast. Hosthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Bell

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• 1198: 1/4: July 2015 conversation with the late Art Bell (1945-2018) about story-telling on air, Art Bell of Midnight in the Desert, Coast to Coast. Host

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  Feb 22 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1905. A long stagecoach traveling down an unpaved dirt road towards the mines, Goldfield, Nevada, ca.1905Photograph of a train of a long stagecoach, consisting of 20 mules hauling four wagons loaded with freight, traveling down an unpaved dirt road towards the mines, Goldfield, Nevada, ca.1905. A buggy on the same road can be seen heading in the opposite direction. Shrubs and bushes cover the rocky, dry area surrounding the dirt road. The road originated from a town (or city) visible in the distance. Mountains are also visible in the distance.; "In 1902 gold was discovered in the hills near Tonopah, Nevada. Soon a few tents dotted the barren hills among the Joshua trees, and the boomtown of Goldfield was born. In 1903 only 36 people lived in the new town. By 1908 Goldfield was Nevada's largest city, with over 25,000 inhabitants. Along with the influx of miners and businessmen, came the labor unions. The Western Federation of Miners, the Industrial Workers of the World and the American Federation of Labor all vied for power in the region. During the early years, the unions were able to control wages and working hours. But in November, 1906, the Goldfield Consolidated Mines Company was incorporated by owners George Wingfield and United States Senator George Nixon, signaling the beginning of monopoly control in Goldfield, and the start of an adversarial relationship between mine owners and the unions." -- unknown author.Call number: CHS-5410Filename: CHS-5410Coverage date: circa 1905Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow1/4: July 2015 conversation with the late Art Bell (1945-2018) about story-telling on air, Art Bell of Midnight in the Desert, Coast to Coast. Hosthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Bell ...more

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• 1200: #ClassicLeeMason: Yazidis in Duhoq, Kurdistan, Iraq. December 23, 2014; report by Lee Mason. Executive Producer, John Batchelor Show.

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  Feb 22 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1932. Iraq, Ziggurat, Ur  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow#ClassicLeeMason: Yazidis in Duhoq, Kurdistan, Iraq. December 23, 2014; report by Lee Mason. Executive Producer, John Batchelor Show.John Batchelor Show reporter visits northeasternmost Kurdistan, where hundreds of thousands of Yazidis who fled ISIS are living: entire families in small tents if they're lucky, or rough under plastic sheeting, or in abandoned, half-built concrete commercial structures with no heat in the depth of winter. The UNHCR has provided pretty little white tents on bulldozed paths in hundred- and two hundred-acre camps where facilities may be a quarter-mile away with no light at night; cooking is difficult or impossible; bathing is highly problematic; food supply is rice and cooking oil — sometimes. Occasional low tables set along the unpaved paths with baskets of cheap, sugary candies to keep the children from crying for hunger. Limited or no medical care. Most terrifying is the winter lining of the tents: seems to be one of the most flammable fabrics known to Man; if any spark hits it, it ignites and everyone has forty-five seconds to leave the tent or be burned to a crisp.Despite these fearful conditions, the Yazidi religion (ancient, syncretic; non-Christian and emphatically non-Muslim) obliges all members to be immaculately clean in their person and surroundings. The interiors of the tents and nearby land are pristine.  Mention of interviews with the small number of girls who'd been abducted and brutalized for months by ISIS, and repeatedly sold to Saudi emirs and Sunni men from around the world, then amazingly had managed to escape. This almost-unbearable catastrophe in their young lives has also traumatized their parents, siblings, husband (if they were married), and the entire Yazidi culture. It may be generations before the horror lifts. ...more

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• 1203: 4/4 North Korea and Regional Security in the Kim Jong-un Era: A New International Security Dilemma (Palgrave Pivot), by Bruce E. Bechtol Jr.

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  Feb 22 2021

  Image: This night image of the Korean Peninsula shows that North Korea is almost completely dark compared to neighboring South Korea and China.PHOTOGRAPH BY EARTH SCIENCE & REMOTE SENSING UNITY, NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER  North Korea and Regional Security in the Kim Jong-un Era: A New International Security Dilemma(Palgrave Pivot), by Bruce E. Bechtol Jr.   North Korea and Regional Security in the Kim Jong-un Era is one of the first books to analyze contemporary North Korea and the challenges that it presents to the international community, specifically by looking through the prism of the first two years of the Kim Jong-un regime. Analysing and assessing important capabilities, developments, policy moves, and internal stability challenges, it also illuminates the differences between North Korea under the rule of Kim Jong-il and now the 'third Kim' in this dynastic, isolated nation. In its exploration of international security issues, which are extremely important for foreign policy, Bechtol's analysis offers valuable assessments that will appeal to all those with an interest in the region.  https://www.amazon.com/North-Korea-Regional-Security-Jong-ebook-dp-B00HYEEGEG/dp/B00HYEEGEG/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1613954057  ...more

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• 1203: 3/4 North Korea and Regional Security in the Kim Jong-un Era: A New International Security Dilemma (Palgrave Pivot), by Bruce E. Bechtol Jr.

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  Feb 22 2021

  Image:  The North Korean cargo vessel, So San,being stopped and boarded during maritime interception operations (MIO), conducted by two Spanish Navy ships, the Santa Maria-class Frigate Navarra(F-85) accompanied by the replenishment ship Patino (A-14)  North Korea and Regional Security in the Kim Jong-un Era: A New International Security Dilemma(Palgrave Pivot), by Bruce E. Bechtol Jr.   North Korea and Regional Security in the Kim Jong-un Era is one of the first books to analyze contemporary North Korea and the challenges that it presents to the international community, specifically by looking through the prism of the first two years of the Kim Jong-un regime. Analysing and assessing important capabilities, developments, policy moves, and internal stability challenges, it also illuminates the differences between North Korea under the rule of Kim Jong-il and now the 'third Kim' in this dynastic, isolated nation. In its exploration of international security issues, which are extremely important for foreign policy, Bechtol's analysis offers valuable assessments that will appeal to all those with an interest in the region.   https://www.amazon.com/North-Korea-Regional-Security-Jong-ebook-dp-B00HYEEGEG/dp/B00HYEEGEG/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1613954057 ...more

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• 1203: 2/4 North Korea and Regional Security in the Kim Jong-un Era: A New International Security Dilemma (Palgrave Pivot), by Bruce E. Bechtol Jr.

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  Feb 22 2021

  Image:  Welcome celebration for the Red Army in Pyongyang on 14 October 1945 North Korea and Regional Security in the Kim Jong-un Era: A New International Security Dilemma(Palgrave Pivot), by Bruce E. Bechtol Jr.   North Korea and Regional Security in the Kim Jong-un Era is one of the first books to analyze contemporary North Korea and the challenges that it presents to the international community, specifically by looking through the prism of the first two years of the Kim Jong-un regime. Analysing and assessing important capabilities, developments, policy moves, and internal stability challenges, it also illuminates the differences between North Korea under the rule of Kim Jong-il and now the 'third Kim' in this dynastic, isolated nation. In its exploration of international security issues, which are extremely important for foreign policy, Bechtol's analysis offers valuable assessments that will appeal to all those with an interest in the region.  https://www.amazon.com/North-Korea-Regional-Security-Jong-ebook-dp-B00HYEEGEG/dp/B00HYEEGEG/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1613954057  ..  ..  .....more

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• 1203: 1/4 North Korea and Regional Security in the Kim Jong-un Era: A New International Security Dilemma (Palgrave Pivot), by Bruce E. Bechtol Jr.

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  Feb 22 2021

  Image: The Rooftops of Pyongyang.These images are from the estate of the Utrecht deacon Jan Adriani. He made them on a missionary trip he undertook together with his wife, the artist Elizabeth Adriani-Hovy, in 1907. North Korea and Regional Security in the Kim Jong-un Era: A New International Security Dilemma(Palgrave Pivot), by Bruce E. Bechtol Jr.   North Korea and Regional Security in the Kim Jong-un Era is one of the first books to analyze contemporary North Korea and the challenges that it presents to the international community, specifically by looking through the prism of the first two years of the Kim Jong-un regime. Analysing and assessing important capabilities, developments, policy moves, and internal stability challenges, it also illuminates the differences between North Korea under the rule of Kim Jong-il and now the 'third Kim' in this dynastic, isolated nation. In its exploration of international security issues, which are extremely important for foreign policy, Bechtol's analysis offers valuable assessments that will appeal to all those with an interest in the region.  https://www.amazon.com/North-Korea-Regional-Security-Jong-ebook-dp-B00HYEEGEG/dp/B00HYEEGEG/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1613954057  ..  ..  .....more

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• 1199: #ClassicIndianaHoenlein: Indiana Hoenlein & the Lost Crusader Escape Tunnel of Tiberias. Malcolm Hoenlein @Confofpres. @ThadMcCotter

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  Feb 22 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.Tower of David from "In the brave days of old, the story of the Crusades"  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow#ClassicIndianaHoenlein: Indiana Hoenlein & the Lost Crusader Escape Tunnel of Tiberias. Malcolm Hoenlein @Confofpres. @ThadMcCotterhttp://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=42885 Tunneling through time: An archaeological excavation by the Israel Antiquities Authority has unearthed an 800-year-old tunnel that researchers think served as an escape route from a Crusader fortress in Tiberias to the Sea of Galilee.  The tunnel, which appears to have been constructed by Crusaders some 800 years ago, runs underground for 7 meters (23 feet) and is exposed at one end near the promenade in the Old City of Tiberias. The tunnel, built from carved basalt rocks, was unearthed as part of a program to rehabilitate and preserve the heart of the old city. . ...more

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• 1202: 4/4 Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century, by Christian Caryl

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  Feb 22 2021

  Image: Pope John Paul II in the Netherlands with Cardinal Simonis.The person who associated a work with this deed has dedicated the work to the public domain by waiving all of their rights to the work worldwide under copyright law,  Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century, by Christian Caryl   Few moments in history have seen as many seismic transformations as 1979. That single year marked the emergence of revolutionary Islam as a political force on the world stage, the beginning of market revolutions in China and Britain that would fuel globalization and radically alter the international economy, and the first stirrings of the resistance movements in Eastern Europe and Afghanistan that ultimately led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. More than any other year in the latter half of the twentieth century, 1979 heralded the economic, political, and religious realities that define the twenty-first. In Strange Rebels, the veteran journalist Christian Caryl shows how the world we live in today—and the problems that plague it—began to take shape in this pivotal year. Nineteen-seventy-nine, he explains, saw a series of counterrevolutions against the progressive consensus that had dominated the postwar era. The year's epic upheavals embodied a startling conservative challenge to communist and socialist systems around the globe, fundamentally transforming politics and economics worldwide. In China, 1979 marked the start of sweeping market-oriented reforms that have made the country the economic powerhouse it is today. Nineteen-seventy-nine was also the yearthat Pope John Paul II traveled to Poland, confronting communism in Eastern Europe by reigniting its people's suppressed Catholic faith. In Iran, meanwhile, an Islamic Revolution transformed the nation into a theocracy almost overnight, overthrowing the Shah's modernizing monarchy. Further west, Margaret Thatcher became prime minister of Britain, returning it to a purer form of free-market capitalism and opening the way for Ronald Reagan to do the same in the US. And in Afghanistan, a Soviet invasion fueled an Islamic holy war with global consequences; the Afghan mujahedin presaged the rise of al Qaeda and served as a key factor—along with John Paul's journey to Poland—in the fall of communism.Weaving the story of each of these counterrevolutions into a brisk, gripping narrative, Strange Rebels is a groundbreaking account of how these far-flung events and disparate actors and movements gave birth to our modern age.  https://www.amazon.com/Strange-Rebels-1979-Birth-Century-dp-0465018386/dp/0465018386/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= ..  .. ..  ...more

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• 1202: 3/4 Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century, by Christian Caryl

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  Feb 22 2021

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

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• 1202: 2/4 Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century, by Christian Caryl

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  Feb 22 2021

  Image:  Ettela'at newspaper: Tomorrow Morning at 9, Meeting with the Imam [Khomeini] in Tehran   Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century, by Christian Caryl   Few moments in history have seen as many seismic transformations as 1979. That single year marked the emergence of revolutionary Islam as a political force on the world stage, the beginning of market revolutions in China and Britain that would fuel globalization and radically alter the international economy, and the first stirrings of the resistance movements in Eastern Europe and Afghanistan that ultimately led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. More than any other year in the latter half of the twentieth century, 1979 heralded the economic, political, and religious realities that define the twenty-first. In Strange Rebels, the veteran journalist Christian Caryl shows how the world we live in today—and the problems that plague it—began to take shape in this pivotal year. Nineteen-seventy-nine, he explains, saw a series of counterrevolutions against the progressive consensus that had dominated the postwar era. The year's epic upheavals embodied a startling conservative challenge to communist and socialist systems around the globe, fundamentally transforming politics and economics worldwide. In China, 1979 marked the start of sweeping market-oriented reforms that have made the country the economic powerhouse it is today. Nineteen-seventy-nine was also the yearthat Pope John Paul II traveled to Poland, confronting communism in Eastern Europe by reigniting its people's suppressed Catholic faith. In Iran, meanwhile, an Islamic Revolution transformed the nation into a theocracy almost overnight, overthrowing the Shah's modernizing monarchy. Further west, Margaret Thatcher became prime minister of Britain, returning it to a purer form of free-market capitalism and opening the way for Ronald Reagan to do the same in the US. And in Afghanistan, a Soviet invasion fueled an Islamic holy war with global consequences; the Afghan mujahedin presaged the rise of al Qaeda and served as a key factor—along with John Paul's journey to Poland—in the fall of communism.Weaving the story of each of these counterrevolutions into a brisk, gripping narrative, Strange Rebels is a groundbreaking account of how these far-flung events and disparate actors and movements gave birth to our modern age.  https://www.amazon.com/Strange-Rebels-1979-Birth-Century-dp-0465018386/dp/0465018386/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= ...more

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• 1202: 1/4 Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century, by Christian Caryl

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  Feb 22 2021

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

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• 1200: 2/2: Escape from North Korea: The Untold Story of Asia's Underground Railroad Kindle Edition. by Melanie (Author), Melanie Kirkpatrick (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Feb 22 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1963.1963-11 1963 中国庆祝朝鲜成立十五周年  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow 2/2: Escape from North Korea: The Untold Story of Asia's Underground Railroad Kindle Edition. by Melanie (Author), Melanie Kirkpatrick  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Escape-North-Korea-Underground-Railroad-ebook/dp/B00JD029PM/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=With a journalist’s grasp of events and a novelist’s ear for narrative, Melanie Kirkpatrick tells the story of the North Koreans’ quest for liberty. Travelers on the new underground railroad include women bound to Chinese men who purchased them as brides, defectors carrying state secrets, and POWs from the Korean War held captive in the North for more than half a century. Their conductors are brokers who are in it for the money as well as Christians who are in it to serve God. The Christians see their mission as the liberation of North Korea one person at a time.Just as escaped slaves from the American South educated Americans about the evils of slavery, the North Korean fugitives are informing the world about the secretive country they fled. Escape from North Korea describes how they also are sowing the seeds for change within North Korea itself. Once they reach sanctuary, the escapees channel news back to those they left behind. In doing so, they are helping to open their information-starved homeland, exposing their countrymen to liberal ideas, and laying the intellectual groundwork for the transformation of the totalitarian regime that keeps their fellow citizens in chains...more

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• 1200: 1/2: Escape from North Korea: The Untold Story of Asia's Underground Railroad Kindle Edition. by Melanie (Author), Melanie Kirkpatrick (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Feb 22 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.2008.As North Korean government website states, "The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a genuine workers' state in which all the people are completely liberated from exploitation and oppression. The workers, peasants, soldiers and intellectuals are the true masters of their destiny and are in a unique position to defend their interests." Critics regard it as a totalitarian dictatorship. International organizations have assessed that human rights violations in North Korea have no parallel in the contemporary world.North Korean official ideology doctrine, Juche, was introduced as a "creative application of Marxism–Leninism" in 1972. From 1994 to 1998, North Korea suffered a famine, and the country's food shortage continues. North Korea has total of 9,495,000 active, reserve, and paramilitary personnel. Its active duty army of 1.21 million is the fourth largest in the world. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow 1/2: Escape from North Korea: The Untold Story of Asia's Underground Railroad Kindle Edition. by Melanie (Author), Melanie Kirkpatrick  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Escape-North-Korea-Underground-Railroad-ebook/dp/B00JD029PM/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=With a journalist’s grasp of events and a novelist’s ear for narrative, Melanie Kirkpatrick tells the story of the North Koreans’ quest for liberty. Travelers on the new underground railroad include women bound to Chinese men who purchased them as brides, defectors carrying state secrets, and POWs from the Korean War held captive in the North for more than half a century. Their conductors are brokers who are in it for the money as well as Christians who are in it to serve God. The Christians see their mission as the liberation of North Korea one person at a time.Just as escaped slaves from the American South educated Americans about the evils of slavery, the North Korean fugitives are informing the world about the secretive country they fled. Escape from North Korea describes how they also are sowing the seeds for change within North Korea itself. Once they reach sanctuary, the escapees channel news back to those they left behind. In doing so, they are helping to open their information-starved homeland, exposing their countrymen to liberal ideas, and laying the intellectual groundwork for the transformation of the totalitarian regime that keeps their fellow citizens in chains....more

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• 1201: 4/4 America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder, by Bret Stephens

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  Feb 22 2021

  Image:  Awake! America, awake!  music  America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder, by Bret Stephens   America in Retreat identifies a profound crisis on the global horizon. As Americans seek to withdraw from the world to tend to domestic problems, America’s adversaries spy opportunity. Vladimir Putin’s ambitions to restore the glory of the czarist empire go effectively unchecked, as do China’s attempts to expand its maritime claims in the South China Sea, as do Iran’s efforts to develop nuclear capabilities. Civil war in Syria displaces millions throughout the Middle East while turbocharging the forces of radical Islam. Long-time allies such as Japan, Saudi Arabia, and Israel, doubting the credibility of American security guarantees, are tempted to freelance their foreign policy, irrespective of U.S. interests.Deploying his characteristic stylistic flair and intellectual prowess, Stephens argues for American reengagement abroad. He explains how military intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan was the right course of action, foolishly executed. He traces the intellectual continuity between anti-interventionist statesmen such as Henry Wallace and Robert Taft in the late 1940s and Barack Obama and Rand Paul today. And he makes an unapologetic case for Pax Americana, “a world in which English is the default language of business, diplomacy, tourism, and technology; in which markets are global, capital is mobile, and trade is increasingly free; in which values of openness and tolerance are, when not the norm, often the aspiration.” In a terrifying chapter imagining the world of 2019, Stephens shows what could lie in store if Americans continue on their current course. Yet we are not doomed to this future. Stephens makes a passionate rejoinder to those who argue that America is in decline, a process that is often beyond the reach of political cures. Instead, we are in retreat—the result of faulty, but reversible, policy choices. By embracing its historic responsibility as the world’s policeman, America can safeguard not only greater peace in the world but also greater prosperity at home. At once lively and sobering, America in Retreat offers trenchant analysis of the gravest threat to global order, from a rising star of political commentary.    https://www.amazon.com/America-Retreat-Isolationism-Coming-Disorder/dp/1591846625/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=  .. ..  ..  ...more

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• 1201: 3/4 America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder, by Bret Stephens

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  Feb 22 2021

  Image:  Iranian women physicists, 1968  America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder, by Bret Stephens   America in Retreat identifies a profound crisis on the global horizon. As Americans seek to withdraw from the world to tend to domestic problems, America’s adversaries spy opportunity. Vladimir Putin’s ambitions to restore the glory of the czarist empire go effectively unchecked, as do China’s attempts to expand its maritime claims in the South China Sea, as do Iran’s efforts to develop nuclear capabilities. Civil war in Syria displaces millions throughout the Middle East while turbocharging the forces of radical Islam. Long-time allies such as Japan, Saudi Arabia, and Israel, doubting the credibility of American security guarantees, are tempted to freelance their foreign policy, irrespective of U.S. interests.Deploying his characteristic stylistic flair and intellectual prowess, Stephens argues for American reengagement abroad. He explains how military intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan was the right course of action, foolishly executed. He traces the intellectual continuity between anti-interventionist statesmen such as Henry Wallace and Robert Taft in the late 1940s and Barack Obama and Rand Paul today. And he makes an unapologetic case for Pax Americana, “a world in which English is the default language of business, diplomacy, tourism, and technology; in which markets are global, capital is mobile, and trade is increasingly free; in which values of openness and tolerance are, when not the norm, often the aspiration.” In a terrifying chapter imagining the world of 2019, Stephens shows what could lie in store if Americans continue on their current course. Yet we are not doomed to this future. Stephens makes a passionate rejoinder to those who argue that America is in decline, a process that is often beyond the reach of political cures. Instead, we are in retreat—the result of faulty, but reversible, policy choices. By embracing its historic responsibility as the world’s policeman, America can safeguard not only greater peace in the world but also greater prosperity at home. At once lively and sobering, America in Retreat offers trenchant analysis of the gravest threat to global order, from a rising star of political commentary.    https://www.amazon.com/America-Retreat-Isolationism-Coming-Disorder/dp/1591846625/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=  .. ..  ..  ...more

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• 1200: 2/4 America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder, by Bret Stephens

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  Feb 22 2021

  Image:   1898 political cartoon: "Ten Thousand Miles from Tip to Tip" meaning the extension of U.S. domination (symbolized by a bald eagle) from Puerto Rico to the Philippines.  America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder, by Bret Stephens   America in Retreat identifies a profound crisis on the global horizon. As Americans seek to withdraw from the world to tend to domestic problems, America’s adversaries spy opportunity. Vladimir Putin’s ambitions to restore the glory of the czarist empire go effectively unchecked, as do China’s attempts to expand its maritime claims in the South China Sea, as do Iran’s efforts to develop nuclear capabilities. Civil war in Syria displaces millions throughout the Middle East while turbocharging the forces of radical Islam. Long-time allies such as Japan, Saudi Arabia, and Israel, doubting the credibility of American security guarantees, are tempted to freelance their foreign policy, irrespective of U.S. interests.Deploying his characteristic stylistic flair and intellectual prowess, Stephens argues for American reengagement abroad. He explains how military intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan was the right course of action, foolishly executed. He traces the intellectual continuity between anti-interventionist statesmen such as Henry Wallace and Robert Taft in the late 1940s and Barack Obama and Rand Paul today. And he makes an unapologetic case for Pax Americana, “a world in which English is the default language of business, diplomacy, tourism, and technology; in which markets are global, capital is mobile, and trade is increasingly free; in which values of openness and tolerance are, when not the norm, often the aspiration.” In a terrifying chapter imagining the world of 2019, Stephens shows what could lie in store if Americans continue on their current course. Yet we are not doomed to this future. Stephens makes a passionate rejoinder to those who argue that America is in decline, a process that is often beyond the reach of political cures. Instead, we are in retreat—the result of faulty, but reversible, policy choices. By embracing its historic responsibility as the world’s policeman, America can safeguard not only greater peace in the world but also greater prosperity at home. At once lively and sobering, America in Retreat offers trenchant analysis of the gravest threat to global order, from a rising star of political commentary.    https://www.amazon.com/America-Retreat-Isolationism-Coming-Disorder/dp/1591846625/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= ...more

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• 1200: 1/4 America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder, by Bret Stephens

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  Feb 22 2021

  Image:  Michael III, Tsar of Russia   America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder, by Bret Stephens   America in Retreat identifies a profound crisis on the global horizon. As Americans seek to withdraw from the world to tend to domestic problems, America’s adversaries spy opportunity. Vladimir Putin’s ambitions to restore the glory of the czarist empire go effectively unchecked, as do China’s attempts to expand its maritime claims in the South China Sea, as do Iran’s efforts to develop nuclear capabilities. Civil war in Syria displaces millions throughout the Middle East while turbocharging the forces of radical Islam. Long-time allies such as Japan, Saudi Arabia, and Israel, doubting the credibility of American security guarantees, are tempted to freelance their foreign policy, irrespective of U.S. interests.Deploying his characteristic stylistic flair and intellectual prowess, Stephens argues for American reengagement abroad. He explains how military intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan was the right course of action, foolishly executed. He traces the intellectual continuity between anti-interventionist statesmen such as Henry Wallace and Robert Taft in the late 1940s and Barack Obama and Rand Paul today. And he makes an unapologetic case for Pax Americana, “a world in which English is the default language of business, diplomacy, tourism, and technology; in which markets are global, capital is mobile, and trade is increasingly free; in which values of openness and tolerance are, when not the norm, often the aspiration.” In a terrifying chapter imagining the world of 2019, Stephens shows what could lie in store if Americans continue on their current course. Yet we are not doomed to this future. Stephens makes a passionate rejoinder to those who argue that America is in decline, a process that is often beyond the reach of political cures. Instead, we are in retreat—the result of faulty, but reversible, policy choices. By embracing its historic responsibility as the world’s policeman, America can safeguard not only greater peace in the world but also greater prosperity at home. At once lively and sobering, America in Retreat offers trenchant analysis of the gravest threat to global order, from a rising star of political commentary.    https://www.amazon.com/America-Retreat-Isolationism-Coming-Disorder/dp/1591846625/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=  .. ..  ..  ...more

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• 1198: November, 2017 initial analysis of the Oumuamua passage through the Solar System. David Grinspoon, @funkyspoon Planetary Science Institute.

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  Feb 22 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1930. Naval Observatory. Telescope house, Naval Observatory  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowNovember, 2017 initial analysis of the Oumuamua passage through the Solar System. David Grinspoon, @funkyspoon Planetary Science Institute.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ʻOumuamua

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• 1197: #ClassicKenCroswell: Shakespeare in Space: The Moons of Uranus. Ken Croswell. @newscientist.

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  Feb 21 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1998. This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the planet Uranus reveals the planet rings and bright clouds and a high altitude haze above the planet south pole.NASA/JPL/STScI http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow#ClassicKenCroswell: Shakespeare in Space: The Moons of Uranus. Ken Croswell. @newscientist. Plays by William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream: Titania, Oberon, Puck The Tempest: (Ariel), Miranda, Caliban, Sycorax, Prospero, Setebos, Stephano, Trinculo, Francisco, Ferdinand King Lear: Cordelia Hamlet: Ophelia The Taming of the Shrew: Bianca Troilus and Cressida: Cressida Othello: Desdemona Romeo and Juliet: Juliet, Mab The Merchant of Venice: Portia As You Like It: Rosalind Much Ado About Nothing: Margaret The Winter's Tale: Perdita Timon of Athens: Cupid https://www.newscientist.com/article/2109101-uranus-might-have-two-dark-moons-weve-never-seen-before/ http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/uranus/moons ...more

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• 1196: 4/4 Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century, by Michael Hiltzik

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  Feb 21 2021

  Image:  Hoover Dam, Los Angeles Bureau of Power & Light Lines 1-3, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV   Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century, by Michael Hiltzik  As breathtaking today as the day it was completed, the Hoover Dam not only shaped the American West but helped launch the American century. In the depths of the Great Depression, it became a symbol of American resilience and ingenuity in the face of crisis, putting thousands of men to work in a remote desert canyon and bringing unruly nature to heel. The Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Michael Hiltzik uses the saga of the dam’s conception, design, and construction to tell the broader story of America’s efforts to come to grips with titanic social, economic, and natural forces, for embodied in the dam’s striking, machine-age form is the fundamental transformation the Depression wrought in the nation’s very culture—the shift from the concept of rugged individualism rooted in the frontier days of the nineteenth century to the principle of shared enterprise and communal support that would build the America we know today. In the process, the unprecedented effort to corral the raging Colorado River evolved from a regional construction project launched by a Republican president into the New Deal’s outstanding—and enduring—symbol of national pride. Yet the story of the Hoover Dam has a darker side. Its construction was a gargantuan engineering feat achieved at great human cost, its progress marred by the abuse of a desperate labor force. The water and power it made available spurred the development of such great western metropolises as Los Angeles, Phoenix, Denver, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, and San Diego, but the vision of unlimited growth held dear by its designers and builders is fast turning into a mirage. In Hiltzik’s hands, the players in this epic historical tale spring vividly to life: President Theodore Roosevelt, who conceived the project; William Mulholland, Southern California’s great builder of water works, who urged the dam upon a reluctant Congress; Herbert Hoover, who gave the dam his name although he initially opposed its construction; and Frank Crowe, the dam’s renowned master builder, who pushed his men mercilessly to raise the beautiful concrete rampart in an inhospitable desert gorge. Finally, there is Franklin Roosevelt, who presided over the ultimate completion of the project and claimed the credit for it. Hiltzik combines exhaustive research, trenchant observation, and unforgettable storytelling to shed new light on a major turning point of twentieth-century history. https://www.amazon.com/Colossus-Hoover-Making-American-Century-ebook/dp/B003L7878G/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=colossus+hiltzik&qid=1613863636&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 ...more

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• 1196: 3/4 Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century, by Michael Hiltzik

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  Feb 21 2021

  Image: High Scalers drill into the canyon wall 500 feet above the Colorado River in Black Canyon at the Hoover Dam site. April 1, 1932. Bureau of Reclamation.   Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century, by Michael Hiltzik  As breathtaking today as the day it was completed, the Hoover Dam not only shaped the American West but helped launch the American century. In the depths of the Great Depression, it became a symbol of American resilience and ingenuity in the face of crisis, putting thousands of men to work in a remote desert canyon and bringing unruly nature to heel. The Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Michael Hiltzik uses the saga of the dam’s conception, design, and construction to tell the broader story of America’s efforts to come to grips with titanic social, economic, and natural forces, for embodied in the dam’s striking, machine-age form is the fundamental transformation the Depression wrought in the nation’s very culture—the shift from the concept of rugged individualism rooted in the frontier days of the nineteenth century to the principle of shared enterprise and communal support that would build the America we know today. In the process, the unprecedented effort to corral the raging Colorado River evolved from a regional construction project launched by a Republican president into the New Deal’s outstanding—and enduring—symbol of national pride. Yet the story of the Hoover Dam has a darker side. Its construction was a gargantuan engineering feat achieved at great human cost, its progress marred by the abuse of a desperate labor force. The water and power it made available spurred the development of such great western metropolises as Los Angeles, Phoenix, Denver, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, and San Diego, but the vision of unlimited growth held dear by its designers and builders is fast turning into a mirage. In Hiltzik’s hands, the players in this epic historical tale spring vividly to life: President Theodore Roosevelt, who conceived the project; William Mulholland, Southern California’s great builder of water works, who urged the dam upon a reluctant Congress; Herbert Hoover, who gave the dam his name although he initially opposed its construction; and Frank Crowe, the dam’s renowned master builder, who pushed his men mercilessly to raise the beautiful concrete rampart in an inhospitable desert gorge. Finally, there is Franklin Roosevelt, who presided over the ultimate completion of the project and claimed the credit for it. Hiltzik combines exhaustive research, trenchant observation, and unforgettable storytelling to shed new light on a major turning point of twentieth-century history. https://www.amazon.com/Colossus-Hoover-Making-American-Century-ebook/dp/B003L7878G/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=colossus+hiltzik&qid=1613863636&s=digital-text&sr=1-1...more

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• 1196: 2/4 Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century, by Michael Hiltzik

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  Feb 21 2021

  Image:  Portrait of William Mulholland with a surveyor's scope on a tripod, ca.1908-1913  Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century, by Michael Hiltzik  As breathtaking today as the day it was completed, the Hoover Dam not only shaped the American West but helped launch the American century. In the depths of the Great Depression, it became a symbol of American resilience and ingenuity in the face of crisis, putting thousands of men to work in a remote desert canyon and bringing unruly nature to heel. The Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Michael Hiltzik uses the saga of the dam’s conception, design, and construction to tell the broader story of America’s efforts to come to grips with titanic social, economic, and natural forces, for embodied in the dam’s striking, machine-age form is the fundamental transformation the Depression wrought in the nation’s very culture—the shift from the concept of rugged individualism rooted in the frontier days of the nineteenth century to the principle of shared enterprise and communal support that would build the America we know today. In the process, the unprecedented effort to corral the raging Colorado River evolved from a regional construction project launched by a Republican president into the New Deal’s outstanding—and enduring—symbol of national pride. Yet the story of the Hoover Dam has a darker side. Its construction was a gargantuan engineering feat achieved at great human cost, its progress marred by the abuse of a desperate labor force. The water and power it made available spurred the development of such great western metropolises as Los Angeles, Phoenix, Denver, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, and San Diego, but the vision of unlimited growth held dear by its designers and builders is fast turning into a mirage. In Hiltzik’s hands, the players in this epic historical tale spring vividly to life: President Theodore Roosevelt, who conceived the project; William Mulholland, Southern California’s great builder of water works, who urged the dam upon a reluctant Congress; Herbert Hoover, who gave the dam his name although he initially opposed its construction; and Frank Crowe, the dam’s renowned master builder, who pushed his men mercilessly to raise the beautiful concrete rampart in an inhospitable desert gorge. Finally, there is Franklin Roosevelt, who presided over the ultimate completion of the project and claimed the credit for it. Hiltzik combines exhaustive research, trenchant observation, and unforgettable storytelling to shed new light on a major turning point of twentieth-century history. https://www.amazon.com/Colossus-Hoover-Making-American-Century-ebook/dp/B003L7878G/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=colossus+hiltzik&qid=1613863636&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 ...more

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• 1196: 1/4 Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century, by Michael Hiltzik

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  Feb 21 2021

  Image: Hoover Dam, Nevada-Arizona (Union Pacific Railroad Pictorial Post Card). Less than thirty miles from Las Vegas, Nevada, on the main line of the Union Pacific Railroad, is gigantic Hoover Dam, and huge man-made Lake Mead, 115 miles in length.  Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century, by Michael Hiltzik  As breathtaking today as the day it was completed, the Hoover Dam not only shaped the American West but helped launch the American century. In the depths of the Great Depression, it became a symbol of American resilience and ingenuity in the face of crisis, putting thousands of men to work in a remote desert canyon and bringing unruly nature to heel. The Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Michael Hiltzik uses the saga of the dam’s conception, design, and construction to tell the broader story of America’s efforts to come to grips with titanic social, economic, and natural forces, for embodied in the dam’s striking, machine-age form is the fundamental transformation the Depression wrought in the nation’s very culture—the shift from the concept of rugged individualism rooted in the frontier days of the nineteenth century to the principle of shared enterprise and communal support that would build the America we know today. In the process, the unprecedented effort to corral the raging Colorado River evolved from a regional construction project launched by a Republican president into the New Deal’s outstanding—and enduring—symbol of national pride. Yet the story of the Hoover Dam has a darker side. Its construction was a gargantuan engineering feat achieved at great human cost, its progress marred by the abuse of a desperate labor force. The water and power it made available spurred the development of such great western metropolises as Los Angeles, Phoenix, Denver, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, and San Diego, but the vision of unlimited growth held dear by its designers and builders is fast turning into a mirage. In Hiltzik’s hands, the players in this epic historical tale spring vividly to life: President Theodore Roosevelt, who conceived the project; William Mulholland, Southern California’s great builder of water works, who urged the dam upon a reluctant Congress; Herbert Hoover, who gave the dam his name although he initially opposed its construction; and Frank Crowe, the dam’s renowned master builder, who pushed his men mercilessly to raise the beautiful concrete rampart in an inhospitable desert gorge. Finally, there is Franklin Roosevelt, who presided over the ultimate completion of the project and claimed the credit for it. Hiltzik combines exhaustive research, trenchant observation, and unforgettable storytelling to shed new light on a major turning point of twentieth-century history. https://www.amazon.com/Colossus-Hoover-Making-American-Century-ebook/dp/B003L7878G/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=colossus+hiltzik&qid=1613863636&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 ...more

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• 1195: 4/4 Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York, by Richard Zacks

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  Feb 21 2021

  Image:  Theodore Roosevelt holding his granddaughter.  Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York,  by Richard Zacks    Writing with great wit and zest, Zacks explores how Roosevelt went head to head with corrupt Tammany Hall, took midnight rambles with the muckraker Jacob Riis, banned barroom drinking on Sundays, and tried to convince 2 million New Yorkers to enjoy wholesome family fun. In doing so, Teddy made a ruthless enemy of the police captain “Big Bill” Devery, who grew up in the Irish slums and never tired of fighting “tin soldier” reformers. Roosevelt saw his mission as a battle of good versus evil; Devery saw prudery standing in the way of fun and profit.     When righteous Roosevelt’s vice crackdown started to succeed all too well, many of his own supporters began to turn on him. Cynical newspapermen mocked his quixotic quest, his own political party abandoned him, and Roosevelt discovered that New York loves its sin more than its salvation.     Zacks’s meticulous research and wonderful sense of narrative verve bring this disparate cast of both pious and bawdy New Yorkers to life. With cameos by Stephen Crane, J. P. Morgan, and Joseph Pulitzer, plus a horde of very angry cops, Island of Vice is an unforgettable portrait of turn-of-the-century New York in all its seedy glory, and a brilliant portrayal of the energetic, confident, and zealous Roosevelt, one of America’s most colorful public figures.  https://www.amazon.com/Island-Vice-Theodore-Roosevelts-Sin-Loving-ebook/dp/B005O1BXR4/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1613862148&sr=1-1 ..  .. ..  ..  .. ..   ...more

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• 1195: 3/4 Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York, by Richard Zacks

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  Feb 21 2021

  Image:  Children sleeping on Mulberry Street (1890).  Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York,  by Richard Zacks    Writing with great wit and zest, Zacks explores how Roosevelt went head to head with corrupt Tammany Hall, took midnight rambles with the muckraker Jacob Riis, banned barroom drinking on Sundays, and tried to convince 2 million New Yorkers to enjoy wholesome family fun. In doing so, Teddy made a ruthless enemy of the police captain “Big Bill” Devery, who grew up in the Irish slums and never tired of fighting “tin soldier” reformers. Roosevelt saw his mission as a battle of good versus evil; Devery saw prudery standing in the way of fun and profit.     When righteous Roosevelt’s vice crackdown started to succeed all too well, many of his own supporters began to turn on him. Cynical newspapermen mocked his quixotic quest, his own political party abandoned him, and Roosevelt discovered that New York loves its sin more than its salvation.     Zacks’s meticulous research and wonderful sense of narrative verve bring this disparate cast of both pious and bawdy New Yorkers to life. With cameos by Stephen Crane, J. P. Morgan, and Joseph Pulitzer, plus a horde of very angry cops, Island of Vice is an unforgettable portrait of turn-of-the-century New York in all its seedy glory, and a brilliant portrayal of the energetic, confident, and zealous Roosevelt, one of America’s most colorful public figures.  https://www.amazon.com/Island-Vice-Theodore-Roosevelts-Sin-Loving-ebook/dp/B005O1BXR4/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1613862148&sr=1-1...more

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• 1195: 2/4 Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York, by Richard Zacks

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  Feb 21 2021

  Image:  Bandit roost (59 Mulberry Street in New York City). This famous photo was taken in 1888 by Jacob Riis (May 3, 1849 – May 26, 1914), a Danish-American social reformer, muckraking journalist, and social documentary photographer   Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York,  by Richard Zacks    Writing with great wit and zest, Zacks explores how Roosevelt went head to head with corrupt Tammany Hall, took midnight rambles with the muckraker Jacob Riis, banned barroom drinking on Sundays, and tried to convince 2 million New Yorkers to enjoy wholesome family fun. In doing so, Teddy made a ruthless enemy of the police captain “Big Bill” Devery, who grew up in the Irish slums and never tired of fighting “tin soldier” reformers. Roosevelt saw his mission as a battle of good versus evil; Devery saw prudery standing in the way of fun and profit.     When righteous Roosevelt’s vice crackdown started to succeed all too well, many of his own supporters began to turn on him. Cynical newspapermen mocked his quixotic quest, his own political party abandoned him, and Roosevelt discovered that New York loves its sin more than its salvation.     Zacks’s meticulous research and wonderful sense of narrative verve bring this disparate cast of both pious and bawdy New Yorkers to life. With cameos by Stephen Crane, J. P. Morgan, and Joseph Pulitzer, plus a horde of very angry cops, Island of Vice is an unforgettable portrait of turn-of-the-century New York in all its seedy glory, and a brilliant portrayal of the energetic, confident, and zealous Roosevelt, one of America’s most colorful public figures.  https://www.amazon.com/Island-Vice-Theodore-Roosevelts-Sin-Loving-ebook/dp/B005O1BXR4/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1613862148&sr=1-1...more

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• 1195: 1/4 Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York, by Richard Zacks

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  Feb 21 2021

  Image:  Tammany Hall & 14th St. West  Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York,  by Richard Zacks    Writing with great wit and zest, Zacks explores how Roosevelt went head to head with corrupt Tammany Hall, took midnight rambles with the muckraker Jacob Riis, banned barroom drinking on Sundays, and tried to convince 2 million New Yorkers to enjoy wholesome family fun. In doing so, Teddy made a ruthless enemy of the police captain “Big Bill” Devery, who grew up in the Irish slums and never tired of fighting “tin soldier” reformers. Roosevelt saw his mission as a battle of good versus evil; Devery saw prudery standing in the way of fun and profit.     When righteous Roosevelt’s vice crackdown started to succeed all too well, many of his own supporters began to turn on him. Cynical newspapermen mocked his quixotic quest, his own political party abandoned him, and Roosevelt discovered that New York loves its sin more than its salvation.     Zacks’s meticulous research and wonderful sense of narrative verve bring this disparate cast of both pious and bawdy New Yorkers to life. With cameos by Stephen Crane, J. P. Morgan, and Joseph Pulitzer, plus a horde of very angry cops, Island of Vice is an unforgettable portrait of turn-of-the-century New York in all its seedy glory, and a brilliant portrayal of the energetic, confident, and zealous Roosevelt, one of America’s most colorful public figures.  https://www.amazon.com/Island-Vice-Theodore-Roosevelts-Sin-Loving-ebook/dp/B005O1BXR4/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1613862148&sr=1-1 ...more

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• 1194: 8/8 King John: And the Road to Magna Carta, by Stephen Church

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  Feb 21 2021

  Image:  King John's tomb in Worcester Cathedral   King John: And the Road to Magna Carta, by Stephen Church  King John (1166-1216) has long been seen as the epitome of bad kings. The son of the most charismatic couple of the Middle Ages, Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, and younger brother of the heroic crusader king Richard the Lionheart, John lived much of his life in the shadow of his family. When in 1199 he became ruler of his family's lands in England and France, John proved unequal to the task of keeping them together. Early in his reign he lost much of his continental possessions, and over the next decade would come perilously close to losing his English kingdom, too.In King John, the medieval historian Stephen Church argues that John's reign, for all its failings, would prove to be a crucial turning point in English history. Though he was a masterful political manipulator, John's traditional ideas of unchecked sovereign power were becoming increasingly unpopular among his subjects, resulting in frequent confrontations. Nor was he willing to tolerate any challenges to his authority. For six long years, John and the pope struggled over the appointment of the Archbishop of Canterbury, a clash that led to the king's excommunication.As king of England, John taxed his people heavily to fund his futile attempt to reconquer the lands lost to the king of France. The cost to his people of this failure was great, but it was greater still for John. In 1215, his subjects rose in rebellion against their king and forced upon him a new constitution by which he was to rule. The principles underlying this constitution—enshrined in the terms of Magna Carta—would go on to shape democratic constitutions across the globe, including our own.In this authoritative biography, Church describes how it was that a king famous for his misrule gave rise to Magna Carta, the blueprint for good governance.  https://www.amazon.com/King-John-Road-Magna-Carta-ebook/dp/B00PWX7RPQ/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=  ..  .. ..  ...more

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• 1194: 7/8 King John: And the Road to Magna Carta, by Stephen Church

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  Feb 21 2021

  Image:   John Foxe's Book of Martyrs, officially titled Acts and Monuments, which took a positive view of John's reign  King John: And the Road to Magna Carta, by Stephen Church  King John (1166-1216) has long been seen as the epitome of bad kings. The son of the most charismatic couple of the Middle Ages, Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, and younger brother of the heroic crusader king Richard the Lionheart, John lived much of his life in the shadow of his family. When in 1199 he became ruler of his family's lands in England and France, John proved unequal to the task of keeping them together. Early in his reign he lost much of his continental possessions, and over the next decade would come perilously close to losing his English kingdom, too.In King John, the medieval historian Stephen Church argues that John's reign, for all its failings, would prove to be a crucial turning point in English history. Though he was a masterful political manipulator, John's traditional ideas of unchecked sovereign power were becoming increasingly unpopular among his subjects, resulting in frequent confrontations. Nor was he willing to tolerate any challenges to his authority. For six long years, John and the pope struggled over the appointment of the Archbishop of Canterbury, a clash that led to the king's excommunication.As king of England, John taxed his people heavily to fund his futile attempt to reconquer the lands lost to the king of France. The cost to his people of this failure was great, but it was greater still for John. In 1215, his subjects rose in rebellion against their king and forced upon him a new constitution by which he was to rule. The principles underlying this constitution—enshrined in the terms of Magna Carta—would go on to shape democratic constitutions across the globe, including our own.In this authoritative biography, Church describes how it was that a king famous for his misrule gave rise to Magna Carta, the blueprint for good governance.  https://www.amazon.com/King-John-Road-Magna-Carta-ebook/dp/B00PWX7RPQ/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=  ..  .. ..   ...more

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• 1194: 6/8 King John: And the Road to Magna Carta, by Stephen Church

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  Feb 21 2021

  Image:   Ever since the loss of Normandy John had been building up a coalition of rulers in Germany and the Low Countriesto assist him against the French king. His chief ally was Otto IV, king of Germany and Holy Roman emperor. Plans for a campaign in Poitou proved very unpopular in England, especially with the northern barons. In 1214 John’s allies were defeated at Bouvines, and the king’s own campaign in Poitou disintegrated. John had to withdraw and return home to face his disgruntled barons.  Here: King Otto IV.   King John: And the Road to Magna Carta, by Stephen Church  King John (1166-1216) has long been seen as the epitome of bad kings. The son of the most charismatic couple of the Middle Ages, Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, and younger brother of the heroic crusader king Richard the Lionheart, John lived much of his life in the shadow of his family. When in 1199 he became ruler of his family's lands in England and France, John proved unequal to the task of keeping them together. Early in his reign he lost much of his continental possessions, and over the next decade would come perilously close to losing his English kingdom, too.In King John, the medieval historian Stephen Church argues that John's reign, for all its failings, would prove to be a crucial turning point in English history. Though he was a masterful political manipulator, John's traditional ideas of unchecked sovereign power were becoming increasingly unpopular among his subjects, resulting in frequent confrontations. Nor was he willing to tolerate any challenges to his authority. For six long years, John and the pope struggled over the appointment of the Archbishop of Canterbury, a clash that led to the king's excommunication.As king of England, John taxed his people heavily to fund his futile attempt to reconquer the lands lost to the king of France. The cost to his people of this failure was great, but it was greater still for John. In 1215, his subjects rose in rebellion against their king and forced upon him a new constitution by which he was to rule. The principles underlying this constitution—enshrined in the terms of Magna Carta—would go on to shape democratic constitutions across the globe, including our own.In this authoritative biography, Church describes how it was that a king famous for his misrule gave rise to Magna Carta, the blueprint for good governance.  https://www.amazon.com/King-John-Road-Magna-Carta-ebook/dp/B00PWX7RPQ/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=  ..  .. ..  ...more

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• 1194: 5/8 King John: And the Road to Magna Carta, by Stephen Church

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  Feb 21 2021

  Image: Section of the Bayeux Tapestry showing the final stages of the battle of Hastings   King John: And the Road to Magna Carta, by Stephen Church  King John (1166-1216) has long been seen as the epitome of bad kings. The son of the most charismatic couple of the Middle Ages, Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, and younger brother of the heroic crusader king Richard the Lionheart, John lived much of his life in the shadow of his family. When in 1199 he became ruler of his family's lands in England and France, John proved unequal to the task of keeping them together. Early in his reign he lost much of his continental possessions, and over the next decade would come perilously close to losing his English kingdom, too.In King John, the medieval historian Stephen Church argues that John's reign, for all its failings, would prove to be a crucial turning point in English history. Though he was a masterful political manipulator, John's traditional ideas of unchecked sovereign power were becoming increasingly unpopular among his subjects, resulting in frequent confrontations. Nor was he willing to tolerate any challenges to his authority. For six long years, John and the pope struggled over the appointment of the Archbishop of Canterbury, a clash that led to the king's excommunication.As king of England, John taxed his people heavily to fund his futile attempt to reconquer the lands lost to the king of France. The cost to his people of this failure was great, but it was greater still for John. In 1215, his subjects rose in rebellion against their king and forced upon him a new constitution by which he was to rule. The principles underlying this constitution—enshrined in the terms of Magna Carta—would go on to shape democratic constitutions across the globe, including our own.In this authoritative biography, Church describes how it was that a king famous for his misrule gave rise to Magna Carta, the blueprint for good governance.  https://www.amazon.com/King-John-Road-Magna-Carta-ebook/dp/B00PWX7RPQ/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=  ...more

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• 1193: 4/8 King John: And the Road to Magna Carta, by Stephen Church

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  Feb 21 2021

  Image: John, King of England  King John: And the Road to Magna Carta, by Stephen Church  King John (1166-1216) has long been seen as the epitome of bad kings. The son of the most charismatic couple of the Middle Ages, Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, and younger brother of the heroic crusader king Richard the Lionheart, John lived much of his life in the shadow of his family. When in 1199 he became ruler of his family's lands in England and France, John proved unequal to the task of keeping them together. Early in his reign he lost much of his continental possessions, and over the next decade would come perilously close to losing his English kingdom, too.In King John, the medieval historian Stephen Church argues that John's reign, for all its failings, would prove to be a crucial turning point in English history. Though he was a masterful political manipulator, John's traditional ideas of unchecked sovereign power were becoming increasingly unpopular among his subjects, resulting in frequent confrontations. Nor was he willing to tolerate any challenges to his authority. For six long years, John and the pope struggled over the appointment of the Archbishop of Canterbury, a clash that led to the king's excommunication.As king of England, John taxed his people heavily to fund his futile attempt to reconquer the lands lost to the king of France. The cost to his people of this failure was great, but it was greater still for John. In 1215, his subjects rose in rebellion against their king and forced upon him a new constitution by which he was to rule. The principles underlying this constitution—enshrined in the terms of Magna Carta—would go on to shape democratic constitutions across the globe, including our own.In this authoritative biography, Church describes how it was that a king famous for his misrule gave rise to Magna Carta, the blueprint for good governance.  https://www.amazon.com/King-John-Road-Magna-Carta-ebook/dp/B00PWX7RPQ/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=  ..  .. ..  ...more

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• 1193: 3/8 King John: And the Road to Magna Carta, by Stephen Church

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  Feb 21 2021

  Image:  A silver King John penny   King John: And the Road to Magna Carta, by Stephen Church  King John (1166-1216) has long been seen as the epitome of bad kings. The son of the most charismatic couple of the Middle Ages, Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, and younger brother of the heroic crusader king Richard the Lionheart, John lived much of his life in the shadow of his family. When in 1199 he became ruler of his family's lands in England and France, John proved unequal to the task of keeping them together. Early in his reign he lost much of his continental possessions, and over the next decade would come perilously close to losing his English kingdom, too.In King John, the medieval historian Stephen Church argues that John's reign, for all its failings, would prove to be a crucial turning point in English history. Though he was a masterful political manipulator, John's traditional ideas of unchecked sovereign power were becoming increasingly unpopular among his subjects, resulting in frequent confrontations. Nor was he willing to tolerate any challenges to his authority. For six long years, John and the pope struggled over the appointment of the Archbishop of Canterbury, a clash that led to the king's excommunication.As king of England, John taxed his people heavily to fund his futile attempt to reconquer the lands lost to the king of France. The cost to his people of this failure was great, but it was greater still for John. In 1215, his subjects rose in rebellion against their king and forced upon him a new constitution by which he was to rule. The principles underlying this constitution—enshrined in the terms of Magna Carta—would go on to shape democratic constitutions across the globe, including our own.In this authoritative biography, Church describes how it was that a king famous for his misrule gave rise to Magna Carta, the blueprint for good governance.  https://www.amazon.com/King-John-Road-Magna-Carta-ebook/dp/B00PWX7RPQ/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=  ...more

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• 1193: 2/8 King John: And the Road to Magna Carta, by Stephen Church

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  Feb 21 2021

  Image:  Images of warfare in the thirteenth century.  King John: And the Road to Magna Carta, by Stephen Church  King John (1166-1216) has long been seen as the epitome of bad kings. The son of the most charismatic couple of the Middle Ages, Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, and younger brother of the heroic crusader king Richard the Lionheart, John lived much of his life in the shadow of his family. When in 1199 he became ruler of his family's lands in England and France, John proved unequal to the task of keeping them together. Early in his reign he lost much of his continental possessions, and over the next decade would come perilously close to losing his English kingdom, too.In King John, the medieval historian Stephen Church argues that John's reign, for all its failings, would prove to be a crucial turning point in English history. Though he was a masterful political manipulator, John's traditional ideas of unchecked sovereign power were becoming increasingly unpopular among his subjects, resulting in frequent confrontations. Nor was he willing to tolerate any challenges to his authority. For six long years, John and the pope struggled over the appointment of the Archbishop of Canterbury, a clash that led to the king's excommunication.As king of England, John taxed his people heavily to fund his futile attempt to reconquer the lands lost to the king of France. The cost to his people of this failure was great, but it was greater still for John. In 1215, his subjects rose in rebellion against their king and forced upon him a new constitution by which he was to rule. The principles underlying this constitution—enshrined in the terms of Magna Carta—would go on to shape democratic constitutions across the globe, including our own.In this authoritative biography, Church describes how it was that a king famous for his misrule gave rise to Magna Carta, the blueprint for good governance.  https://www.amazon.com/King-John-Road-Magna-Carta-ebook/dp/B00PWX7RPQ/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= ...more

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• 1193: 1/8 King John: And the Road to Magna Carta, by Stephen Church

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  Feb 21 2021

  Image:  A drawing of the effigy of King John in Worcester Cathedral.   John (24 December 1166 – 19 October 1216) was King of England from 1199 until his death in 1216. He lost the Duchy of Normandy and most of his other French lands to King Philip II of France, resulting in the collapse of the Angevin Empire and contributing to the subsequent growth in power of the French Capetian dynasty during the 13th century. The baronial revolt at the end of John's reign led to the sealing of Magna Carta, a document sometimes considered an early step in the evolution of the constitution of the United Kingdom.   King John: And the Road to Magna Carta, by Stephen Church  King John (1166-1216) has long been seen as the epitome of bad kings. The son of the most charismatic couple of the Middle Ages, Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, and younger brother of the heroic crusader king Richard the Lionheart, John lived much of his life in the shadow of his family. When in 1199 he became ruler of his family's lands in England and France, John proved unequal to the task of keeping them together. Early in his reign he lost much of his continental possessions, and over the next decade would come perilously close to losing his English kingdom, too.In King John, the medieval historian Stephen Church argues that John's reign, for all its failings, would prove to be a crucial turning point in English history. Though he was a masterful political manipulator, John's traditional ideas of unchecked sovereign power were becoming increasingly unpopular among his subjects, resulting in frequent confrontations. Nor was he willing to tolerate any challenges to his authority. For six long years, John and the pope struggled over the appointment of the Archbishop of Canterbury, a clash that led to the king's excommunication.As king of England, John taxed his people heavily to fund his futile attempt to reconquer the lands lost to the king of France. The cost to his people of this failure was great, but it was greater still for John. In 1215, his subjects rose in rebellion against their king and forced upon him a new constitution by which he was to rule. The principles underlying this constitution—enshrined in the terms of Magna Carta—would go on to shape democratic constitutions across the globe, including our own.In this authoritative biography, Church describes how it was that a king famous for his misrule gave rise to Magna Carta, the blueprint for good governance.  https://www.amazon.com/King-John-Road-Magna-Carta-ebook/dp/B00PWX7RPQ/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=  ...more

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• 1192: Last Stand at Khe Sanh: 4of4: The U.S. Marines' Finest Hour in Vietnam Kindle Edition. by Gregg Jones (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Feb 21 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1945.An aerial view of the Viet Cong infested Tay Ninh Province 45 miles northwest of Saigon. - NARA - 531439  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Last Stand at Khe Sanh: 4of4: The U.S. Marines' Finest Hour in Vietnam Kindle Edition. by Gregg Jones  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Last-Stand-Khe-Sanh-Marines-ebook/dp/B00G1SD5GQ/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=gregg+jones&qid=1613864496&s=digital-text&sr=1-2Last Stand at Khe Sanh is a vivid, fast-paced account of the dramatic 1968 confrontation, when 6,000 US Marines held off 30,000 North Vietnamese Army regulars at a remote mountain stronghold. Based on extensive archival research and more than 100 interviews with participants, author Gregg Jones captures the courage and camaraderie of the defenders and delivers the fullest account yet of this epic battle....more

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• 1192: Last Stand at Khe Sanh: 3of4: The U.S. Marines' Finest Hour in Vietnam Kindle Edition. by Gregg Jones (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1962. [Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson standing among group of Vietnamese soldiers and Americans during a visit to Saigon, South Vietnam] / TOH.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Last Stand at Khe Sanh: 3of4: The U.S. Marines' Finest Hour in Vietnam Kindle Edition. by Gregg Jones  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Last-Stand-Khe-Sanh-Marines-ebook/dp/B00G1SD5GQ/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=gregg+jones&qid=1613864496&s=digital-text&sr=1-2Last Stand at Khe Sanh is a vivid, fast-paced account of the dramatic 1968 confrontation, when 6,000 US Marines held off 30,000 North Vietnamese Army regulars at a remote mountain stronghold. Based on extensive archival research and more than 100 interviews with participants, author Gregg Jones captures the courage and camaraderie of the defenders and delivers the fullest account yet of this epic battle....more

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• 1192: Last Stand at Khe Sanh: 2of4: The U.S. Marines' Finest Hour in Vietnam Kindle Edition. by Gregg Jones (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1957.[Paris-Saigon-Wings of Mercy]  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Last Stand at Khe Sanh: 2of4: The U.S. Marines' Finest Hour in Vietnam Kindle Edition. by Gregg Jones  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Last-Stand-Khe-Sanh-Marines-ebook/dp/B00G1SD5GQ/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=gregg+jones&qid=1613864496&s=digital-text&sr=1-2Last Stand at Khe Sanh is a vivid, fast-paced account of the dramatic 1968 confrontation, when 6,000 US Marines held off 30,000 North Vietnamese Army regulars at a remote mountain stronghold. Based on extensive archival research and more than 100 interviews with participants, author Gregg Jones captures the courage and camaraderie of the defenders and delivers the fullest account yet of this epic battle....more

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• 1192: Last Stand at Khe Sanh: 1of4: The U.S. Marines' Finest Hour in Vietnam Kindle Edition. by Gregg Jones (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Feb 21 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1919.Saigon. La Pointe des Blagueurs -- Le Paul-Lecat sur rade.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Last Stand at Khe Sanh: 1of4: The U.S. Marines' Finest Hour in Vietnam Kindle Edition. by Gregg Jones  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Last-Stand-Khe-Sanh-Marines-ebook/dp/B00G1SD5GQ/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=gregg+jones&qid=1613864496&s=digital-text&sr=1-2Last Stand at Khe Sanh is a vivid, fast-paced account of the dramatic 1968 confrontation, when 6,000 US Marines held off 30,000 North Vietnamese Army regulars at a remote mountain stronghold. Based on extensive archival research and more than 100 interviews with participants, author Gregg Jones captures the courage and camaraderie of the defenders and delivers the fullest account yet of this epic battle....more

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• 1188: Recalling Newsom while advancing Harris. @DevinNunes CA-22

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  Feb 20 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.Hudson-Cippa-Wolf Ranch, Granary, Sorento Road, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowRecalling Newsom while advancing Harris. @DevinNunes CA-22https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/california-democrats-scramble-to-fight-newsom-recall-close-ranks/ar-BB1dO7tm?fbclid=IwAR1QNdxtnyjhu8almLVJuMSE_-wVc9yusPRI8qRU8j_u4Ok-HEz0iif_7g4

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• 1189: The Toronto Blue Jays open the season as refugees from the virus. Host.

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  Feb 20 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1876. Downtown Toronto, looking northwest up Church Street from east side of the street, just south of Lombard Street.  Metropolitan Church and St. Michael's Cathedral visible in distance. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe Toronto Blue Jays open the season as refugees from the virus. Host.https://www.nj.com/yankees/2021/02/mlb-rumors-covid-will-force-yankees-to-return-to-florida-for-regular-season-games-vs-blue-jays.html ...more

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• 1191: From what derive a person’s fundamental rights? The debate continues. @GorkaKatie, @KatharineCGorka, @Heritage,

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  Feb 20 2021

  Image:   The Bill of Rights amendments add to the Constitution specific guarantees of personal freedoms and rights, clear limitations on the government's power in judicial and other proceedings, and explicit declarations that all powers not specifically granted to the U.S. Congress by the Constitution are reserved for the states or the people. Here:  Magna Carta, or the Great Charter, was one of England's first documents containing commitments by a king to his people to respect certain legal rights. It reduced the power of the monarch. Katherine Gorka, @GorkaKatie, @KatharineCGorka, @Heritage, HeritageCenter for Civil Society and the American Dialogue; The Federalist; in re:  Hegel was important to the US govt, turning over and over the tragedy of slavery. The slaveholders held that deriving authority from God Almighty was not correct; that authority comes from history. Southerners changed from individual to group rights, meaning that rights can change.  Exact same argument as today’s purveyors of identity politics.   We see a repeat of a contest that played out tragically once before. The winners there held that he Constitution means something; that all Men are created equal, and all are equal before the law. In today’s new thinking, it's not obvious that the progressives challenge [equality]  They hold that there is no absolute truth. Privileged and protected groups; oppressors and oppressed; all hearken back to ideas derived from Hegel. “You derive your rights from custom, culture and tradition” – but pull down statues that precisely illustrate custom, culture and tradition.”  Within minutes of Biden’s inauguration, The 1776 Commission was [effaced.] It was not controversial; merely restated [the obvious].  What do we do with our history? Our history is critical; we learn form the past—without the past, we're not a nation, culture, people and, most importantly, we don't get to learn from our mistakes. Left fails to realize that if you don’t derive your rights from something fixed, then some elite gets to decide what your rights are.   Does the Biden administration have an idea of who decides our rights?  “It’s the role of government.” That’s how the swamp evolved: we can perfect Man and society by having a bureaucracy that makes ever more decisions.   ...more

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• 1191: #NewAmericanCivilWar: What the 1860s teach us about the Democratic surge in 2021. Michael E Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Image: 1860s#NewAmericanCivilWar: What the 1860s teach us about the Democratic surge in 2021. Michael E Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis Michael E Vlahos: @JHUWorldCrisis; Johns Hopkins; in re:  Two impeachment trials, the second unfinished as the [allegations] are repeated again and again.  Secessionists /slavers were derided New England as “lawless.”  The South was nationally dominant—but eventually overreached. Will blue now take over or secede?  Not secede. The Republican party of that time gave us populism similar to what MR Trump brought.  In demanding submission, . . .  to bring down the opposition, find a way to use force to make the opposition submit; but that rarely works. The vast majority of Americans are not ready to embrace the woke-ism of blue. Woke-ism is not the dominant [view].  ...more

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• 1191: #NewAmericanCivilWar: The Show Trial continues; and why? Michael E Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Feb 20 2021

  Image:  Show trial: Bukharin and Rykov, shortly before the trial in 1938.Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (9 October 1888 – 15 March 1938) was a Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician, Marxist philosopher and prolific author on revolutionary theory  . . . Following the trial and execution of Zinoviev, Kamenev, and other leftist Old Bolsheviks in 1936, Bukharin and Rykov were arrested on 27 February 1937 following a plenum of the Central Committee and were charged with conspiring to overthrow the Soviet state. Michael E Vlahos: @JHUWorldCrisis; Johns Hopkins; in re: Are we in a civil war?  Looking for road signs. The escalation becomes obvious only after violence starts. One indication is the show trial of the president at the beginning of the pandemic; then a second show trial ending with a not guilty verdict in the Senate in February 2021.  A show trial is part of the narrative that, here, the Democrats seek to establish.  Blue and red, global and national; urban and rural. The Speaker of the House announces a commission to investigate 6 Jan events. Why?  The new president had said, “Enough about Donald Trump.”  Strategy of persecution/inquisitions of red; now charged with being potentially criminal. In operatic terms, the Show trial of February is he basis fir creating a criminal case against red, being called an evil, terrorist element; blue-controlled media.  Leading to an emplacement of an anti-red pogram, institutional stance by the dominant agencies of law enforcement. Donald rump was the bridge, is now left behind. Salon.com: “Now the Republicans are the party of terrorism.” This commission, like the 9/11 Commission, which provided impetus for War on terrorism, and all that stripped away civil liberties and protection for Americans, the Patriot Act. Blue’s goal is to put aside the electoral factor that’ll keep them in power, instead create a dispensation from outside politics to criminalize red.  Will criminalize the populardimensions of red.  GOP [such as Romney]: You can be rump Republicans, Vichy collaborators. The others will be “terrorists.” Blue will then be in total control.   HR 1: bill that’ll upend electoral politics by creating a system inherently and forever going to wire outcomes in any election for blue; doing this via shenanigans to allow blue to dominate for the next several generations.  Anyone will be able vote with no oversight or control. Reminiscent of 1860s.  https://www.anewcivilwar.com/post/show-trial-bellows-of-civil-war ..  .. ..  ..  .. ..  ..  .. ..  ..  .. ..  ...more

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• 1189: #ClasssicScience: Trilobites. Natalie Angier, @NYTimes.

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  Feb 20 2021

  Photo: Trilobites from, The Geological Story briefly told. An introduction to geology ... With numerous illustrations  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow#ClasssicScience: Trilobites. Natalie Angier @NYTimes.http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/04/science/when-trilobites-ruled-the-world.htmlResearchers have identified some 20,000 trilobite species, which range in adult size from a quarter-inch to the dimensions of a kitchen tabletop. Some scurried on the sea floor or buried into the sediment and ate detritus. Others swam or floated near the surface and may have hunted small invertebrates. “They can have scoops or shovels, be fantastically spiny or beautifully streamlined,” Dr. Hughes said. “They diverged to really explore their evolutionary space, but they maintain that common body plan” — the three vertical lobes, or trilobes, that give the class its name. Researchers were long at a loss to explain the origins of all the architectural partitioning. They believed that early trilobites lived flatly, like flounders, and only later would take advantage of their longitudinal seams to begin enrolling — curling up into a ball, armadillo-style, to protect their soft underparts….” ...more

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• 1189: Man's Best Friends. @JamesGorman

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  Feb 20 2021

  Photo: Watercolor tracing made by archaeologist Henri Breuil from a cave painting of a wolf-like canid, Font-de-Gaume, France dated 19,000 years ago. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowMan's Best Friends. @JamesGormanBased on the differences between the genome of the new species, called the Taimyr wolf, and the genomes of modern wolves and dogs, the researchers built a family tree that shows wolves and dogs splitting much earlier than the 11,000 to 16,000 years ago that a study in 2014 concluded."... http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/22/science/family-tree-of-dogs-and-wolves-is-found-to-split-earlier-than-thought.html?ref=science&_r=0 ...more

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• 1189: #ClassicScience: Flight. @JamesGorman

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  Feb 20 2021

  Photo: A roseate tern uses its low wing loading and high aspect ratio to achieve low speed flight. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow#ClassicScience: Flight. @JamesGormanhttp://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

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• 1189: Massachusetts biosurgical device maker Arch Therapeutics wins FDA approval, raises capital and readies to go to market with its much-needed self-assembling wound system. Terry Norchi, CEO and founder, ArchTherapeutics.com

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  Feb 20 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1882. South Framingham, Massachusetts : 1882  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowMassachusetts biosurgical device maker Arch Therapeutics wins FDA approval, raises capital and readies to go to market with its much-needed self-assembling wound system. Terry Norchi, CEO and founder, ArchTherapeutics.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/terrence-norchi-16529521/https://www.wbjournal.com/article/arch-therapeutics-to-raise-69-millionIN US OTC: ARTHhttps://finance.yahoo.com/quote/ARTH ...more

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• 1190: A Republican who favors $15 minimum wage and why. @genemarks @Guardian #SmallBusinessAmerica

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  Feb 20 2021

  Image:  FSA (Farm Security Administration) client with mules bought by government loan, Southeast Missouri Farms Gene Marks,  @genemarks @Guardian  #SmallBusinessAmerica @Guardian, Philadelphia Inquirer, and at TheHill; in re:  The Payroll Protection Program. Two alternatives if you need financing: 1.  The Economic Injury Disaster Loans at sba.gov; long-term, 30-year maturity loans, 3.75 % interest; a $100,000 loan will cost about $400/mo.2. SBA:  Either Section 7A or 504 loan program; can borrow up to $5 million; first three mos of payments, principal and interest, are automatically forgiven. Need to get it through an SBA lender. Apply for a 7A loan for working capital eqpt, by another business.  Have till 20 Sept 2021. One of Gene’s Republican clients, a manufacturer, supports a $15/hr minimum wage because Alabama competitor needs to pay only half that, which puts unfair pressure on me. The mask-free supermarket: in Naples, Florida: the owner, Alfie Oakes, opposes masks, put up a sign saying “Masks required unless you’re medically exempt.”  Nobody wears a mask.  Very risky business model.   A cash crunch for small-business owners:  Alignable reports that 32% have only one month of cash reserves; may be not as widespread as the report suggests.  Alternatives to PPP loans—if you weren’t eligiblehttps://www.marketwatch.com/story/alternatives-to-ppp-loansif-you-werent-eligible-11613154765 New Report Reveals Cash Crunch For Small Business Ownershttps://www.franchising.com/articles/new_report_reveals_cash_crunch_for_small_business_owners.html A mask-free supermarket has made news – but it's publicity you can live withouthttps://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/feb/14/a-mask-free-supermarket-has-made-news-but-its-publicity-you-can-live-without  More bosses are using software to monitor remote workers. Not everyone is happy about ithttps://www.zdnet.com/article/more-bosses-are-using-software-to-monitor-remote-workers-not-everyone-is-happy-about-it/ My client is a lifelong Republican – and he supports a minimum-wage risehttps://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/feb/18/republicans-minimum-wage-small-business...more

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• 1190: Startups dominate the pandemic. @genemarks @Guardian #SmallBusinessAmerica

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  Feb 20 2021

  Image:  Trade and business.  Sheet with 8 representations of craftsmen and professions, such as street seller and woodworker. Below each image a two-line verse.  Gene Marks,  @genemarks @Guardian  #SmallBusinessAmerica @Guardian, Philadelphia Inquirer, and at TheHill; in re: Not only Philadelphia, but nationally: US Census Data released info about start-ups.  Had 4.3 million apps for new businesses nationwide in 2020, compared to 3.5 million filed in 2019, a 23% increase.  In Philly, large numbers; in PA, a 26% increase. Why and where? A lot are starting up at home—time on hands and a need for income.  Also, a lot of work-from-home employees who can add a little income.  eCommerce increased from 35 to 40%, people selling in Amazon and eBay.  Training companies. Schoolteachers starting educational services. Even in the blue states, with higher taxes, people opened start-ups.  Red states also ranked high in start-ups in per capita.  Make sure your start-up is within walking distance of a Philadelphia cheese steak.  We're on the cusp of what may be an economic boom: industrial production, imports increased, housing starts, retail sales —is the recovery already here and we don't yet see it, or is it imminent?  People are buying online and haven’t even got started yet. Savings rate is at 13% on average, which is high. Build-up of household wealth, fueled by being stuck at home.  As soon as we’re released to go out, we’ll fill restaurants, travel, et al.  The govt will wonder how to rein it in. Today, even dog food is massively delivered, along with restaurant food. If you’re a restaurant owner who’s survived, you’ll have less competition and a hungry population.  A lot of cities are letting outdoor eateries continue. Start-ups are surging across the U.S. It may be a good to time to launch a home-based business in Philly.https://www.inquirer.com/business/small-business/pandemic-home-based-businesses-startup-jobless-free-time-20210216.html Retail Sales Increase 5.3%https://www.census.gov/retail/marts/www/marts_current.pdf Imports Strong, Exports Weakhttps://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2021/02/la-area-port-traffic-strong-imports.htmlhttps://www.freightwaves.com/news/new-video-shows-massive-scope-of-california-box-ship-traffic-jam Industrial production increased 0.9 percent in January.https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g17/Current/default.htmhttps://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2021/02/17/the-big-four-industrial-production-up-0-9-in-january U.S. housing starts fall in January; permits soarhttps://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-housing-starts-fall-january-140133206.html New startups soared in 2020, but 'red' states aren't as attractive as expected https://amp.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/feb/18/new-startups-soared-in-2020-but-red-states-arent-a/...more

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• 1190: Recalling Newsom and abandoning San Francisco. @JCBliss, #PacificWatch

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  Feb 20 2021

  Image:  Stanford University Quadrangle, Stanford University Campus, Stanford, Santa Clara County, CA.  “Too many rich kids are accepted.”   Tuition: $53,529 USD Jeff Bliss: @JCBliss, #PacificWatch, in re: The petition to recall the California governor”: have about 1.8 million signatures so far, need 2 million to assure having 1.5 mil accurate signatures. Will likely get n the ballot; then, in the voting booth, have to decide if you want him recalled, A lot of Democratic money coming in to fight. Why are they recalling Gavin Newsom?  A San Francisco supervisor says criminals are now targeting residents: because so many employees from the suburbs and environs are gone, the crooks are attacking locals.  SF is the center of a great boom; people leaving because it’s too expensive, is clearly unsafe, and doesn’t seem to have a bright future because the governance is so bad. “I’ll move from SF, at $4,000/mo to share a studio, to Dallas, where I can get a large apartment for $1,500.”  Streets are a mess, people are hurting, crimes against law-abiding citizens. In Sacramento, home of the supermajority of the Democrats:  people fleeing because public schools are [closed] thanks to the teachers’s union.  Parents refuse to let their children be hostage to the teachers.  Stanford University:  “It’s letting in too many rich students.”  Has the faculty looked at the tuition bill??  Stanford has had to cut a lot of programs because of the covid crisis.http://endoftheamericandream.com/the-reason-why-a-lot-of-people-are-leaving-san-francisco-might-surprise-you/ ...more

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• 1190: The Democrats turn on Cuomo. @DanHenninger, @WSJOpinion

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  Feb 20 2021

  Image:  Frank Costello, half-length portrait, seated, behind microphone, testifying before the Kefauver Committee investigating organized crime / World Telegram & Sun photo by Al Aumuller. Dan Henninger: @DanHenninger, @WSJOpinion; editorial board and Wonder Land column; in re: Donald Trump left the presidency on 20 January, less than a month ago, and Andrew Cuomo is fighting for his political life: from April and May 2020, he set aside the legislature and everybody in New York’s political life.    Cuomo routinely overruled mayors (incl Syracuse, Buffalo, many others) and school board across the state. It came to pass that he and his health department issued a directive whereby elderly covid patients transferred from hospitals were to go into nursing homes—where, not surprisingly, they passed the coronavirus to other patients.  Cuomo said that about 8,000 people died; it was about twice that number.  Cuomo with an iron fist has refuse d to clarify that number. Now the feds and the state are investigating.   Because this is entirely a Democratic state, none of this could have happened without Democratic approval.  Cuomo is accused of having seriously threatened Mr Kim, a Queens pol. Cuomo routinely rips in to Democrats; until recently had enormous power, but now has only enemies. The AG is Letitia James, left and Democrat, who first issued the startling report. Sen Schumer, who’s looking at a primary challenge from AOC, is, possibly with Cuomo, perhaps considered too moderate to suit the incoming very left. Until a few months ago, Cuomo had the celebrity to be considered a presidential candidate; but almost surely no longer.   https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-catches-andrew-cuomo-11613603167 ...more

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• 1189: Sprout Lands: 4of4: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees Kindle Edition by William Bryant Logan (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Feb 20 2021

  Photo: Nothofagus betuloides, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowSprout Lands: 4of4: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees Kindle Edition by William Bryant Logan  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Sprout-Lands-Tending-Endless-Trees/dp/B07RGR4QKK/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=sproutland&qid=1564441773&s=audible&sr=1-1Once, farmers knew how to make a living hedge and fed their flocks on tree-branch hay. Rural people knew how to prune hazel to foster abundance: both of edible nuts, and of straight, strong, flexible rods for bridges, walls, and baskets. Townspeople cut their beeches to make charcoal to fuel ironworks. Shipwrights shaped oaks to make hulls. No place could prosper without its inhabitants knowing how to cut their trees so they would sprout again. ...more

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• 1189: Sprout Lands: 3of4: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees Kindle Edition by William Bryant Logan (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Feb 20 2021

  Photo: Winter trees, rural New work State. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowSprout Lands: 3of4: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees Kindle Edition by William Bryant Logan  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Sprout-Lands-Tending-Endless-Trees/dp/B07RGR4QKK/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=sproutland&qid=1564441773&s=audible&sr=1-1Once, farmers knew how to make a living hedge and fed their flocks on tree-branch hay. Rural people knew how to prune hazel to foster abundance: both of edible nuts, and of straight, strong, flexible rods for bridges, walls, and baskets. Townspeople cut their beeches to make charcoal to fuel ironworks. Shipwrights shaped oaks to make hulls. No place could prosper without its inhabitants knowing how to cut their trees so they would sprout again. ...more

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• 1189: Sprout Lands: 2of4: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees Kindle Edition by William Bryant Logan (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Feb 20 2021

  Photo: Gnarled trees near the water http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowSprout Lands: 2of4: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees Kindle Edition by William Bryant Logan  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Sprout-Lands-Tending-Endless-Trees/dp/B07RGR4QKK/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=sproutland&qid=1564441773&s=audible&sr=1-1Once, farmers knew how to make a living hedge and fed their flocks on tree-branch hay. Rural people knew how to prune hazel to foster abundance: both of edible nuts, and of straight, strong, flexible rods for bridges, walls, and baskets. Townspeople cut their beeches to make charcoal to fuel ironworks. Shipwrights shaped oaks to make hulls. No place could prosper without its inhabitants knowing how to cut their trees so they would sprout again. ...more

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• 1189: Sprout Lands: 1of4: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees Kindle Edition by William Bryant Logan (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Feb 20 2021

  Photo: Fig tree, sycamore tree, close up  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowSprout Lands: 1of4: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees Kindle Edition by William Bryant Logan  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Sprout-Lands-Tending-Endless-Trees/dp/B07RGR4QKK/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=sproutland&qid=1564441773&s=audible&sr=1-1Once, farmers knew how to make a living hedge and fed their flocks on tree-branch hay. Rural people knew how to prune hazel to foster abundance: both of edible nuts, and of straight, strong, flexible rods for bridges, walls, and baskets. Townspeople cut their beeches to make charcoal to fuel ironworks. Shipwrights shaped oaks to make hulls. No place could prosper without its inhabitants knowing how to cut their trees so they would sprout again. ...more

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• 1188: Mitt Romney's version of Very Big Government: taxing the rich to pay for the young. @VeroDeRugy.

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  Feb 20 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1921.Kindergarten band, 4/7/21 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowMitt Romney's version of Very Big Government: taxing the rich to pay for the young. @VeroDeRugy.https://www.creators.com/read/veronique-de-rugy/02/21/romneys-family-security-act-redistributes-wealth-creates-distortions-grows-government

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• 1188: VA innovation, US Army invention; DoD precaution. @FRoseDC

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  Feb 20 2021

  Photo:  Veteran reunion, 1917 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowVA innovation, US Army invention; DoD precaution. @FRoseDChttps://govmatters.tv/updates-on-the-veterans-health-administrations-innovation-ecosystem/    https://govmatters.tv/deploying-hypersonic-capabilities-in-the-army/  https://govmatters.tv/cyber-survivability-issues-in-deos-and-other-contracts/

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• 1188: California exiting & What is to be done? @DevinNunes CA-22

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  Feb 20 2021

  Photo: The emigrant's farewell. Air: The emigrant's lament. J. Andrews, Publishers, 38 Chatham Street, N. Y  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowCalifornia exiting & What is to be done? @DevinNunes CA-22https://www.wlrn.org/2021-02-11/california-exodus-why-are-so-many-people-leaving-the-golden-state

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• 1183: Perseverance all nominal on the surface of Mars at Jazero Crater. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Feb 19 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.2021. Mars from first glimpse Perseverance. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowPerseverance all nominal on the surface of Mars at Jazero Crater. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/perseverance-has-successfully-landed/

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• 1183: Texas cold bites the gremlins of Big Space Starliner but not the luck of Commercial SpaceX Starship. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Feb 19 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1865Photograph shows a view of Elizabeth Street in Brownsville, Texas, ca. 1865. Commercial buildings line one side of the dirt road and pedestrians walk on the other side.Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022).Title from item.Photograph attributed to Louis De Planque, based on a a variant image in Thompson, Jerry and Lawrence T. Jones III, Civil War & Revolution on the Rio Grande Frontier. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2004, p. 26.Forms part of: The Robin G. Stanford Collection.Digitized 2015 Funding from Center for Civil War Photography. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowTexas cold bites the gremlins of Big Space Starliner but not the luck of Commercial SpaceX Starship. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/texas-power-outages-delay-starliner-but-not-starship/ ...more

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• 1187: Meantime, back on Earth, the Texas cold spell stalls Boeing Starliner while SpaceX Starship adapts. Host

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  Feb 19 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.Relief shown by hachures.Prime meridians: Washington, Greenwich, Paris, and Ferro.In upper left corner: Myer's Handatlas.Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowMeantime, back on Earth, the Texas cold spell stalls Boeing Starliner while SpaceX Starship adapts.  Hosthttps://futurism.com/the-byte/spacex-starship-testing-snowstorm ...more

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• 1183: Even in the pandemic (Bieber tests positive), even after trades and departures, the Cleveland baseball team sports a talented pitching staff. Host

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  Feb 19 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.Original Caption: The entrance to Jacobs Field is toped with a large sign declaring the field to be the home of the Cleveland Indians.Location: Location: Ohio (41.505° N 81.700° W)Status: Public domain. Photo by Katie ArmstrongDigital Photographs Relating to America's Byways http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowEven in the pandemic (Bieber tests positive), even after trades and departures, the Cleveland baseball team sports a talented pitching staff. Host https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2021/02/18/shane-bieber-covid-19-cleveland-mlb/4494338001/...more

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• 1185: Iran taunts the IAEA. @OlliHeinonen, Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres

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  Feb 19 2021

  Image:  Hematite Fuel Fabrication Facility, Recycle Recovery Building, Jefferson County, MO Olli Heinonen, @OlliHeinonen, and Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres, Conference of Presidents; in re:  Iranian nuclear enrichment. We’re at an important junction, but let’s not overdramatize it.   Whatever state you are, you  have rights and also obligatins. Olli Heinonen served for 27 years at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna. He was deputy director general of the IAEA, and head of its Department of Safeguards. Prior to that, he was director at the Agency’s various operational divisions, and an inspector, including at the IAEA’s overseas office in Tokyo, Japan. https://www.israelhayom.com/2021/02/11/former-iaea-official-israeli-airstrike-in-iran-can-buy-time-not-eliminate-the-problem/ https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/16/iran-nuclear-deal-uranium-metal-production-called-provocative.html https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-disowns-ministers-warning-pursuit-of-nuclear-weapons-on-the-table/ https://www.wsj.com/articles/iran-to-tightly-restrict-inspectors-access-if-u-s-sanctions-not-lifted-11613510521  ...more

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• 1184: Erdogan's private army of Neo-Ottomanism. @jonathan_spyer, Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres

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  Image: Ottoman weapons and armor Jonathan Spyer, @jonathan_spyer, director of the Middle East Center for Reporting and Analysis; and Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres, Conference of Presidents;in re: Turkey’s private militias, many of whom are Syrian and former rebel fighters. Has dispatched them into northern Syria vs the Kurds, then against Haftar in Libya, then in northern Karabakh.   Iran uses its IRGC; Turkey is catching up.  . . .  Advancing neo-Ottoman, post-imperial nationalism.Lebanon. Jonathan Spyer  is a Middle East analyst, author and journalist specializing in the Levant and Iraq. He is director of the Middle East Center for Reporting and Analysis (MECRA), a Research Fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Strategy and Security and a Fellow at the Middle East Forum. https://www.meforum.org/62022/turkey-pakistan-inside-the-ankara-islamabad-axis https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/02/16/lebanon-lokman-slim-hezbollah-vulnerable/ https://www.ynetnews.com/article/S1o6VXeWu https://www.arabnews.com/node/1802716   ...more

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• 1186: Iran rocketing Iraq tests Biden. Behnam Ben Taleblu, @FDD, and Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres,

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  Feb 19 2021

  Image:  Early Rockets Behnam Ben Taleblu, @FDD,and Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres, Conference of Presidents;  in re: Iraqi rocket attack.  Why would Iran do this.  Perhaps as a test of Biden—although Iran never ceased these attacks, from May 2019 to late 2020, using rockets designed to kill. NATO and the Iraqi military—which is increasingly penetrated by Iran.  Khadhimi and the Iranian presence.  Biden has delinked all the [villainous ] Iranian regional activity, which is deeply problematic.    Possible that Khadimi has a secret deal with Iran to stop attacking US forces? That’d be hard for him to do. And what could Khadimi have offered? Right after the Erbil attack, the word “Iran” was noticeably absent, but no one else has the capacity to mount that specific attack.  Arms depots struck in western Iraq a year ago probably was by Israel.  But if Israel does this again, how would that affect Iraqi domestic politics?  Turkey: Iraqi KurdsBehnam Ben Taleblu is a senior Fellow at FDD, where he focusses on Iranian security and political issues. Behnam previously served as a research Fellow and senior Iran analyst at FDD. https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/irans-use-of-iraq-as-a-missile-base-threats-and-logistics-analysis-659416 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/iraq-rocket-attack-kills-contractor-wounds-u-s-service-member-n1257963 https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/02/16/erdogan-turkey-tensions-iraq-deaths-pkk/ https://english.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2021/2/12/secret-deal-halts-attacks-on-uss-baghdad-embassy-reports...more

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• 1183: 2/2: The 2020 Covid-19 crisis onboard USS Theodore Roosevelt & Lessons Learned. Tom Modly, former Acting Secretary of the Navy.

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication. 2018.ARABIAN GULF (Feb. 09, 2018) The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) transits the Arabian Gulf. Theodore Roosevelt and its carrier strike group are deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations in support of maritime security operations to reassure allies and partners and preserve the freedom of navigation and the free flow of commerce in the region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Spencer Roberts) File# 180209-N-MJ135-1137 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow2/2: The 2020 Covid-19 crisis onboard USS Theodore Roosevelt & Lessons Learned. Tom Modly, former Acting Secretary of the Navy.https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2021/february/lessons-learned-helm-department-navy ...more

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• 1183: 1/2: The 2020 Covid-19 crisis onboard USS Theodore Roosevelt & Lessons Learned. Tom Modly, former Acting Secretary of the Navy.

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.2014.ATLANTIC OCEAN (Sep. 18, 2014) The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) transits the Atlantic Ocean. Theodore Roosevelt is underway conducting training for future deployments. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Stephane Belcher) File# 140918-N-PG340-937 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow1/2: The 2020 Covid-19 crisis onboard USS Theodore Roosevelt & Lessons Learned. Tom Modly, former Acting Secretary of the Navy.https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2021/february/lessons-learned-helm-department-navy ...more

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• 1183: The Biden Administration, in quest of tolerance, damages the opportunities for young female athletes. @SalenaZito, @DCExaminer @RealClearPolitics

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  Feb 19 2021

  Image:  Woman crosses the finish line in a foot race, ca. 1954 Salena Zito, @SalenaZito,@DCExaminer @RealClearPolitics; New York Post, CNN; Middle of Somewhere column; in re: Young women competing with people who are biological men.  Long-time records are being surpassed by biological males who self-identify as female, especially in track.  Women swimmers cannot be as strong as men.  Jen Psaki, who in a press conference was snarky, in school was an athlete, was a major backstroke swimmer. Had she had to compete against physically-male swimmers, she could never have won as much as she did.https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/these-girls-are-hurt-by-transgender-competition...more

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• 1183: Joe Manchin supports the Byrd Rule, the filibuster, fossil fuels, Senate deliberation and aiding West Virginia in the pandemic opioid tragedy. @SalenaZito, @DCExaminer @RealClearPolitics

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  Feb 19 2021

  Image:  The Ohio River near Wheeling, West Virginia Salena Zito, @SalenaZito,@DCExaminer @RealClearPolitics; New York Post, CNN; Middle of Somewhere column; in re: In Charleston, WV, Salina spoke with Joe Manchin.     His is the vote that the Democrats must hold.  He calls himself “the middle of the middle.” He said that having a 50/50 split Senate is as rare as Halley’s Comet; you have to be very mindful of rules and demeanor, keep these intact. He takes these seriously, so is a wild card for both parties. Senate Robert Byrd: The Byrd Rule ensures that Senators need to discuss and negotiate among themselves.   These days, not much difference between Dem and Republican in WV, although the Democrats have a drop of the New Deal in them, probably from their parents.   Remove the filibuster?  Manchin is for whatever the Democrats favor in this—tack on the perks? He’ll vote to maintain the filibuster. Byrd Rule and the minimum wage: Manchin thinks this should be left to individual states, not in the Covid legislation. Stimulus: Manchin is unhappy with all the tack-ons [pork].  He’s chair of the Senate Energy Committee, which is powerful. He does not believe in eliminating any energy resource, certainly including coal and gas. He favors “all of the above.”  Unions: when you walk out of high school and finish your trade training, you immediately make $70,000 a year, which is enormous in WW. Solar jobs: $38,000/year. Imagine telling a Washington pol: “Here, you’ll just make half as much henceforth.”https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/west-virginias-joe-manchin-will-keep-senates-byrd-rule-flying...more

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• 1183: The Biden immigration plan is open borders. @VDHanson

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  Feb 19 2021

  Image:  Pima County, Arizona's border area with Mexico,  Victor Davis Hanson: @VDHanson; Hoover Institution, and The Case for Trump,in re: The US Citizenship Act of 2021.  Did the campaign promise this was coming?  It’ll be done mostly by executive orders, since most American don't support it. Simpson-Mazzoli Act of 1986.  This is being done in the middle of a pandemic: we’re telling the Southern Hemisphere that they can come n, but US citizens may not cross their own state borders.  Yale study: there are not 11 million undocumented aliens here; more like 22 million.  People here already who’ve gone through the legal process and are still waiting: they might as well go to Mexico and cross the border illegally. This isn’t even traditional Democraticism.  . . .When it gets too big, we’ll just arrange another amnesty. During the campaign, he sat in his basement, never said, “I’ll stop pipelines and fracking, and open the southern border to caravans.”  https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-biden-immigration-bills-idUSKBN2AI2AI ...more

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• 1183: The strange tale of the deceitful Lincoln Project. @VDHanson

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  Feb 19 2021

  Image: Pederasty.  In Greek mythology, Ganymede is a divine hero whose homeland was Troy. Homer describes Ganymede as the most beautiful of mortals, abducted by the gods, to serve as Zeus' cup-bearer in Olympus. Victor Davis Hanson: @VDHanson; Hoover Institution, and The Case for Trump,in re:  The Lincoln Project is so tarnished it can't recover. After the election, in January 2021, with no more Trump to headline, the media decided to let out the dreadful secret and just clear the decks.  https://amgreatness.com/2021/02/14/the-wages-of-trump-hatred/ ...more

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• 1182: Will Biden respond to the Iran backed rocket attack in Iraq? @SebGorka #AmericaFirst

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  Feb 19 2021

  Photo: The Erbil Citadel in northern Iraq Courtesy of the High Commission for Erbil Citadel Revitalisation  [A favorite town of the JBS producer]  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowWill Biden respond to the Iran backed rocket attack in Iraq? @SebGorka #AmericaFirsthttps://www.wsj.com/articles/investigators-probe-rocket-attack-on-u-s-military-base-in-northern-iraq-11613486554

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• 1182: Biden and Harris cannot explain when the children will be back in school. @SebGorka #AmericaFirst

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  Feb 19 2021

  Photo:  Orange, Texas. In the extended school day program in the public schools, some children of families where both parents are employed, come to school as early as 6 a.m. to enable the parents to get to work. They go back to bed on cots in the school corridor. They they get up and go through the regular school day. After school until the parents call for them, up to 6 p.m., they have a recreation program conducted on a hobby basis. These children are playing after school waiting for their parents to finish work  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowBiden and Harris cannot explain when the children will be back in school. @SebGorka #AmericaFirsthttps://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/kamala-harris-pressed-on-school-reopenings-says-teachers-should-be-a-priority-in-receiving-covid-vacccine/vi-BB1dLbeV ...more

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• 1182: Cuomo, Newsom, Lincoln Project, Pelosi: the unraveling of the Trump-hate sessions. @ConradMBlack

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  Feb 19 2021

  Photo: Poor Tammany!  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowCuomo, Newsom, Lincoln Project, Pelosi: the unraveling of the Trump-hate sessions. @ConradMBlackhttps://amgreatness.com/2021/02/15/the-vast-bipartisan-pretense-of-trumps-demise/

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• 1182: #TheScalaReport: Two unanswered questions: When do we return to the office? & How long for travel recovery post-pandemic? Chris Riegel: @ScalaInc @STRATACACHE

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  Feb 19 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1920.View of the Public Trust Office building in Wellington, decorated for the visit of the Prince of Wales in 1920. ATLIB 293530  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow#TheScalaReport: Two unanswered questions: When do we return to the office? & How long for travel recovery post-pandemic? Chris Riegel: @ScalaInc @STRATACACHEhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/another-remote-work-year-looms-as-office-reopening-plans-are-delayed-11613039402?st=r9m90le2ci8p6ge&reflink=article_copyURL_share ...more

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• 1181: Circle of Treason: 4of4: CIA Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed Kindle Edition. by Sandra V. Grimes (Author), Jeanne Vertefeuille (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Feb 19 2021

  Photo:  Trial of Robert Emmet, Emmet replying to the verdict of high treason, Sept. 19, 1803.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Circle of Treason: 4of4: CIA Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed Kindle Edition. by Sandra V. Grimes (Author), Jeanne Vertefeuille (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Circle-Treason-Traitor-Aldrich-Betrayed-ebook/dp/B00B0YPK3WCircle of Treason details the authors’ personal involvement in the hunt for and eventual identification of a Soviet mole in the CIA during the 1980s and 1990s. The search for the presumed traitor was necessitated by the loss of almost all of the CIA’s large stable of Soviet intelligence officers working for the United States against their homeland. Aldrich Ames, a long-time acquaintance and co-worker of the authors in the Soviet-East European Division and Counterintelligence Center of CIA, turned out to be that mole. In April 1985 Ames walked in to the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D. C. and volunteered to the KGB, working for the Soviet Union for nine years until his arrest by the FBI in February 1994.The book also covers the aftermath of Aldrich Ames arrest: the Congressional wrath on CIA for not identifying him sooner; FBI/CIA debriefings of Ames following his plea bargain; a retrospective of Ames the person and Ames the spy; and a comparison of Ames and FBI special agent and Soviet spy Robert Hanssen, arrested in February 2001 and sentenced to life in prison for spying for the Soviet Union against the U.S. for over 20 years. Although not personally involved in the Hanssen investigation, the two authors were peripherally involved in what became, after many false starts the Hanssen case. ...more

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• 1181: Circle of Treason: 3of4: CIA Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed Kindle Edition. by Sandra V. Grimes (Author), Jeanne Vertefeuille (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Feb 19 2021

  Photo:  CIA headquartershttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Circle of Treason: 3of4: CIA Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed Kindle Edition. by Sandra V. Grimes (Author), Jeanne Vertefeuille (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Circle-Treason-Traitor-Aldrich-Betrayed-ebook/dp/B00B0YPK3WCircle of Treason details the authors’ personal involvement in the hunt for and eventual identification of a Soviet mole in the CIA during the 1980s and 1990s. The search for the presumed traitor was necessitated by the loss of almost all of the CIA’s large stable of Soviet intelligence officers working for the United States against their homeland. Aldrich Ames, a long-time acquaintance and co-worker of the authors in the Soviet-East European Division and Counterintelligence Center of CIA, turned out to be that mole. In April 1985 Ames walked in to the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D. C. and volunteered to the KGB, working for the Soviet Union for nine years until his arrest by the FBI in February 1994.The book also covers the aftermath of Aldrich Ames arrest: the Congressional wrath on CIA for not identifying him sooner; FBI/CIA debriefings of Ames following his plea bargain; a retrospective of Ames the person and Ames the spy; and a comparison of Ames and FBI special agent and Soviet spy Robert Hanssen, arrested in February 2001 and sentenced to life in prison for spying for the Soviet Union against the U.S. for over 20 years. Although not personally involved in the Hanssen investigation, the two authors were peripherally involved in what became, after many false starts the Hanssen case. ...more

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• 1181: Circle of Treason: 2of4: CIA Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed Kindle Edition. by Sandra V. Grimes (Author), Jeanne Vertefeuille (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Feb 19 2021

  Photo: Actor Daniel Craig visited the agency to discuss the "Reel vs. Real" of espionage in 2018. (CIA photograph) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Circle of Treason: 2of4: CIA Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed Kindle Edition. by Sandra V. Grimes (Author), Jeanne Vertefeuille (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Circle-Treason-Traitor-Aldrich-Betrayed-ebook/dp/B00B0YPK3WCircle of Treason details the authors’ personal involvement in the hunt for and eventual identification of a Soviet mole in the CIA during the 1980s and 1990s. The search for the presumed traitor was necessitated by the loss of almost all of the CIA’s large stable of Soviet intelligence officers working for the United States against their homeland. Aldrich Ames, a long-time acquaintance and co-worker of the authors in the Soviet-East European Division and Counterintelligence Center of CIA, turned out to be that mole. In April 1985 Ames walked in to the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D. C. and volunteered to the KGB, working for the Soviet Union for nine years until his arrest by the FBI in February 1994.The book also covers the aftermath of Aldrich Ames arrest: the Congressional wrath on CIA for not identifying him sooner; FBI/CIA debriefings of Ames following his plea bargain; a retrospective of Ames the person and Ames the spy; and a comparison of Ames and FBI special agent and Soviet spy Robert Hanssen, arrested in February 2001 and sentenced to life in prison for spying for the Soviet Union against the U.S. for over 20 years. Although not personally involved in the Hanssen investigation, the two authors were peripherally involved in what became, after many false starts the Hanssen case. ...more

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• 1181: Circle of Treason: 1of4: CIA Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed Kindle Edition. by Sandra V. Grimes (Author), Jeanne Vertefeuille (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Feb 19 2021

  Photo: The traitor, the thief, the liar, the murderess, the criminal sits there  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Circle of Treason: 1of4: CIA Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed Kindle Edition. by Sandra V. Grimes (Author), Jeanne Vertefeuille (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Circle-Treason-Traitor-Aldrich-Betrayed-ebook/dp/B00B0YPK3WCircle of Treason details the authors’ personal involvement in the hunt for and eventual identification of a Soviet mole in the CIA during the 1980s and 1990s. The search for the presumed traitor was necessitated by the loss of almost all of the CIA’s large stable of Soviet intelligence officers working for the United States against their homeland. Aldrich Ames, a long-time acquaintance and co-worker of the authors in the Soviet-East European Division and Counterintelligence Center of CIA, turned out to be that mole. In April 1985 Ames walked in to the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D. C. and volunteered to the KGB, working for the Soviet Union for nine years until his arrest by the FBI in February 1994.The book also covers the aftermath of Aldrich Ames arrest: the Congressional wrath on CIA for not identifying him sooner; FBI/CIA debriefings of Ames following his plea bargain; a retrospective of Ames the person and Ames the spy; and a comparison of Ames and FBI special agent and Soviet spy Robert Hanssen, arrested in February 2001 and sentenced to life in prison for spying for the Soviet Union against the U.S. for over 20 years. Although not personally involved in the Hanssen investigation, the two authors were peripherally involved in what became, after many false starts the Hanssen case. ...more

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• 1187: Biden and Netanyahu spoke substantively of their differences. Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres, Conference of Presidents

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  Feb 18 2021

  Image:   Israel from, Palestine Past and Present. Pictorial and descriptive ... Illustrated, etc.  Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres, Conference of Presidents; in re: Biden and Netanyahu spoke substantively of their differences.   . . . Jews in Iran, now fewer than 10,000. Soleimani and an Islamic scholar had set up spy centers to monitor Jews inside Iran in order to charge them with_____. He also set up 22 TV stations; operated in the region as a whole. 

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• 1180: The richly talented San Diego Padres (aka Friars) get richer. Host

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  Feb 18 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1903. Corner of San Diego's Fifth Street and F Street, looking north, ca.1903Photograph of the corner of San Diego's Fifth Street and F Street, looking north, ca.1903. The busy dirt road is lined with tall buildings and shops on both sides. Those on the left have awnings covering the first floor windows. There is a row of utility poles on the left side of the street, and there are two streetcar tracks in the middle of the road. There is a streetcar on the track on the right while horse-drawn vehicles line both sides of the street. There are several pedestrians on the sidewalks and two people can be seen pushing a cart across the street at center. Legible signs include, from left to right: "Cigars", "The Palace", "Book", "[La]undry", "[Ba]nk of Commerce", "Kodaks", "Patterson", "56", "To 31st & National Avenue", "Normandie Furnished Rooms", and "Annual Clearance". http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe richly talented San Diego Padres (aka Friars) get richer. Host...more

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• 1180: "And we won't know for another 11 minutes." Host

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  Feb 18 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1999. Mars Pooh. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow"And we won't know for another 11 minutes." Hosthttps://www.nasa.gov/perseverance

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• 1180: #HotelMars: "Seven minutes of terror" as Perseverance descends to the surface of Mars. William Harwood @cbs_spacenews David Livingston SpaceShow.com

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  Feb 18 2021

  Photo: A cross-section of underground water ice is exposed at the steep slope that appears bright blue in this enhanced-color view from the MRO.[105] The scene is about 500 meters wide. The scarp drops about 128 meters from the level ground. The ice sheets extend from just below the surface to a depth of 100 meters or more http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow#HotelMars: "Seven minutes of terror" as Perseverance descends to the surface of Mars. William Harwood @cbs_spacenews David Livingston SpaceShow.com ...more

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• 1180: Counting the average number of nova explosions in the Milky Way each Earth year (46). Ken Croswell @ScienceNews

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  Feb 18 2021

  Photo: GK Persei: Nova of 1901 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowCounting the average number of nova explosions in the Milky War each Earth year (46). Ken Croswell @ScienceNewshttps://www.sciencenews.org/article/number-milky-way-nova-explosions-per-year-pinned-down

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• 1180: The Pacific Island groups of Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia fragment into factions that the PRC seeks to exploit. Cleo Paskal, non-resident senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

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  Feb 18 2021

  Photo: Three men wave life jackets and look on as a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon maritime surveillance aircraft discovers them on the uninhabited island of Fanadik.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe Pacific Island groups of Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia fragment into factions that the PRC seeks to exploit.Cleo Paskal, non-resident senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. https://thediplomat.com/2021/02/how-the-pacific-islands-forum-fell-apart/...more

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• 1180: PRC threatens to withhold rare earth metals from the F-35 fleet; & What is to be done? Rich Fisher, International Assessment and Strategy Center. @GordonGChang

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  Feb 18 2021

  Photo: Rare-earth ore (shown with a 19 mm diameter US 1 cent coin for size comparison) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowPRC threatens to withhold re=are earth metals from the F-35 fleet & What is to be done? Rich Fisher, International Assessment and Strategy Center. @GordonGChanghttps://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-eyes-rare-earth-export-055144694.html

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• 1179: Who gains from the conflict at the shores of the Red Sea and Mediterranean (RedMed)? Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

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  Feb 18 2021

  Photo:  Destruction of the Egyptian army in the Red Sea  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowWho gains from the conflict at the shores of the Red Sea and Mediterranean (RedMed)? Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairshttps://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2021/02/egypt-sudan-ethiopia-accuse-stalling-nile-dam-talks.html

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• 1179: Why does Egypt drive Sudan to invade the beleaguered and fractured Ethiopia? Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs.

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  Feb 18 2021

  Photo: Hunting in Ethiopia http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowWhy does Egypt drive Sudan to invade the beleaguered and fractured Ethiopia? Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs. http://www.jordantimes.com/news/region/sudan-recalls-envoy-ethiopia-tensions-high

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• 1179: Diverse representation defined and mandated at the Florida Bar. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Feb 18 2021

  Photo: Lawyer; Hans Holbein the Younger http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowDiverse representation defined and mandated at the Florida Bar. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInsthttps://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/florida-bar-imposes-diversity-quotas-for-cle-panels/

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• 1179: Difficult diversity goals for legal representation and Coca-Cola, 2021. @RichardAEpstein @Hoover

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  Feb 18 2021

  Photo: Black children playing on top of a Coca Cola stand. Little Rock, Arkansas. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowDifficult diversity goals for legal representation and Coca-Cola, 2021. @RichardAEpstein @Hooverhttps://www.hoover.org/research/coca-colas-diversity-diktat-falls-flat

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• 1178: SpaceX Starlink an easy-to-assemble, out-of-the-box treasure to use. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Feb 18 2021

  Photo: Starlink is a satellite internet constellation being constructed by SpaceX providing satellite Internet access. The constellation will consist of thousands of mass-produced small satellites in low-Earth orbit, working in combination with ground transceivers.  "SpaceX is leveraging its experience in building rockets and spacecraft to deploy the world’s most advanced broadband internet system. As the world’s leading provider of launch services – and the only provider with an orbital class reusable rocket – SpaceX has deep experience with both spacecraft and on-orbit operations."  Here: a romantic photo of a dish aimed Heavenward to use the admittedly brilliant new constellation of satellites. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowSpaceX Starlink an easy to assemble out of the box treasure to use. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-launches-sixty-more-starlink-satellites-plus-an-installation-report-from-one-customer/ ...more

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• 1178: Mars rover-orbiter reporting on Curiosity, Perseverance, Tianwen-1, Amal. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Feb 18 2021

  Photo: Illustration of the Ingenuity Mars helicopter. NASA/JPL-Caltech. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowMars rover-orbiter reporting on Curiosity, Perseverance, Tianwen-1, Amal. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/rover-update-the-rovers-are-coming-the-rovers-are-coming/

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• 1178: Everything went wrong in Texas & What is to be done by 2035? Bud Weinstein, Far North Dallas.

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  Feb 18 2021

  Photo:  GOES-16 satellite imagery of the February 2021 ice storm at 21:11 UTC on February 10 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowEverything went wrong in Texas & What s to be done by 2035? Bud Weinstein, Far North Dallas.https://apnews.com/article/texas-power-outage-winter-energy-pride-c260c340f619688dd511cc6645b40a04

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• 1178: State of the City, the State, the Union: Should Governor Cuomo welcome an independent investigation of the nursing home tragedy and alleged cover-up? John Catsimatidis @JCats2013 @CatsRoundtable @JohnCats

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  Feb 18 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1915. Photograph shows procession for the inauguration of Governor Charles Seymour Whitman (1868-1947), Albany, New York, January 1, 1915. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow State of the City, the State, the Union: Should Governor Cuomo welcome an independent investigation of the nursing home tragedy and alleged cover-up?  John Catsimatidis @JCats2013 @CatsRoundtable @JohnCathttps://nypost.com/2021/02/16/dems-accuse-cuomo-of-obstruction-of-justice/s...more

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• 1177: Lessons learned from the failure of the random lockdowns. @JohnTamny @RealClearMarkets

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  Feb 18 2021

  Photo: Elegant lock. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowLessons learned from the failure of the random lockdowns. @JohnTamny @RealClearMarketshttps://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2021/02/11/would_you_support_the_lockdowns_if_it_meant_losing_your_own_job_659888.html

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• 1177: Why does Elon Musk bull Bitcoin? @JohnTamny @RealClearMarkets

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  Feb 18 2021

  Photo: Ancient coin. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowWhy does Elon Musk bull Bitcoin? @JohnTamny @RealClearMarketshttps://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2021/02/10/teslas_bitcoin_purchase_is_the_start_of_a_bullish_monetary_future_659764.html

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• 1177: PRC condemns Canada for protesting hostage-taking & What is to be done? Charles Burton @GordonGChang

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  Feb 18 2021

  Photo:  Princelingesse Meng.   Interior of special state room, promenade deck, RMS Empress of Japan at Vancouver circa 1890s  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowPRC condemns Canada for protesting hostage-taking & What is to be done? Charles Burton @GordonGChang Charles Burton, senior fellow at the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3121880/china-hits-back-despicable-canadas-call-end-arbitrary...more

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• 1177: PRC birthrate in sharp retreat, a consequence of the cruel one-child policy. Susan Yoshihara, @GordonGChang

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  Feb 18 2021

  Photo: Chinese children. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowPRC birthrate in sharp retreat, a consequence of the cruel one-child policy. Susan Yoshihara, @GordonGChang Susan Yoshihara, co-founder of the American Council on Women, Peace and Security https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3121424/china-concerned-about-its-population 

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• 1176: The Last Viking: 4of4: The Extraordinary Life of Roald Amundsen Kindle Edition. by Stephen R. Bown (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Feb 18 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves.General information about the National Photo Company collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.npcoThis glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings.Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947.Temp. note: Batch two. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Last Viking: 4of4: The Extraordinary Life of Roald Amundsen Kindle Edition. by Stephen R. Bown  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Last-Viking-Extraordinary-Roald-Amundsen-ebook/dp/B009IU5CIS In the early 1900s, many of the great geographical mysteries that had intrigued adventurers for centuries remained unsolved: the polar regions -- the Northwest Passage, the South Pole, the North Pole and the Northeast Passage -- despite having claimed countless lives, were still shrouded in mystery. One man would claim all these prizes within a span of 20 years.Roald Amundsen was larger than life, arrogant and competitive. He was also a meticulous organizer and planner, willing to learn from the mistakes of others, and humble enough to seek the advice of indigenous peoples skilled in arctic survival -- thus avoiding the early death that was so common among other explorers.But Amundsen's life was one of sharp contrasts: reviled by the British for defeating Robert Falcon Scott, he was loved by his men, hailed as a hero in his native Norway and idolized as a charming and eccentric celebrity in the US. Drawing on hundreds of recently uncovered press clippings, The Last Viking goes beyond Amundsen's conflicted legacy, revealing a humorous, self-deprecating storyteller and a visionary and showman who who won over both his sponsors and his audiences with the same verve that characterized his geographical conquests....more

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• 1176: The Last Viking: 3of4: The Extraordinary Life of Roald Amundsen Kindle Edition. by Stephen R. Bown (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Feb 18 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1926.[Airship Norge, used in Roald Amundsen's polar flight in 1926, being brought out of hangar, Kings Bay, Spitzbergen, Norway]  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Last Viking: 3of4: The Extraordinary Life of Roald Amundsen Kindle Edition. by Stephen R. Bown  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Last-Viking-Extraordinary-Roald-Amundsen-ebook/dp/B009IU5CIS In the early 1900s, many of the great geographical mysteries that had intrigued adventurers for centuries remained unsolved: the polar regions -- the Northwest Passage, the South Pole, the North Pole and the Northeast Passage -- despite having claimed countless lives, were still shrouded in mystery. One man would claim all these prizes within a span of 20 years.Roald Amundsen was larger than life, arrogant and competitive. He was also a meticulous organizer and planner, willing to learn from the mistakes of others, and humble enough to seek the advice of indigenous peoples skilled in arctic survival -- thus avoiding the early death that was so common among other explorers.But Amundsen's life was one of sharp contrasts: reviled by the British for defeating Robert Falcon Scott, he was loved by his men, hailed as a hero in his native Norway and idolized as a charming and eccentric celebrity in the US. Drawing on hundreds of recently uncovered press clippings, The Last Viking goes beyond Amundsen's conflicted legacy, revealing a humorous, self-deprecating storyteller and a visionary and showman who who won over both his sponsors and his audiences with the same verve that characterized his geographical conquests....more

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• 1176: The Last Viking: 2of4: The Extraordinary Life of Roald Amundsen Kindle Edition. by Stephen R. Bown (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Feb 18 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1906.[Deck of Capt. Amundsen's ship "GJÖA," Nome, Sep. 1st, 1906]  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Last Viking: 2of4: The Extraordinary Life of Roald Amundsen Kindle Edition. by Stephen R. Bown  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Last-Viking-Extraordinary-Roald-Amundsen-ebook/dp/B009IU5CIS In the early 1900s, many of the great geographical mysteries that had intrigued adventurers for centuries remained unsolved: the polar regions -- the Northwest Passage, the South Pole, the North Pole and the Northeast Passage -- despite having claimed countless lives, were still shrouded in mystery. One man would claim all these prizes within a span of 20 years.Roald Amundsen was larger than life, arrogant and competitive. He was also a meticulous organizer and planner, willing to learn from the mistakes of others, and humble enough to seek the advice of indigenous peoples skilled in arctic survival -- thus avoiding the early death that was so common among other explorers.But Amundsen's life was one of sharp contrasts: reviled by the British for defeating Robert Falcon Scott, he was loved by his men, hailed as a hero in his native Norway and idolized as a charming and eccentric celebrity in the US. Drawing on hundreds of recently uncovered press clippings, The Last Viking goes beyond Amundsen's conflicted legacy, revealing a humorous, self-deprecating storyteller and a visionary and showman who who won over both his sponsors and his audiences with the same verve that characterized his geographical conquests....more

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• 1176: The Last Viking: 1of4: The Extraordinary Life of Roald Amundsen Kindle Edition. by Stephen R. Bown (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Feb 18 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1920 [Roald Amundsen, full-length portrait, facing left, walking on pier, with group of people]  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Last Viking: 1of4: The Extraordinary Life of Roald Amundsen Kindle Edition. by Stephen R. Bown  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Last-Viking-Extraordinary-Roald-Amundsen-ebook/dp/B009IU5CIS In the early 1900s, many of the great geographical mysteries that had intrigued adventurers for centuries remained unsolved: the polar regions -- the Northwest Passage, the South Pole, the North Pole and the Northeast Passage -- despite having claimed countless lives, were still shrouded in mystery. One man would claim all these prizes within a span of 20 years.Roald Amundsen was larger than life, arrogant and competitive. He was also a meticulous organizer and planner, willing to learn from the mistakes of others, and humble enough to seek the advice of indigenous peoples skilled in arctic survival -- thus avoiding the early death that was so common among other explorers.But Amundsen's life was one of sharp contrasts: reviled by the British for defeating Robert Falcon Scott, he was loved by his men, hailed as a hero in his native Norway and idolized as a charming and eccentric celebrity in the US. Drawing on hundreds of recently uncovered press clippings, The Last Viking goes beyond Amundsen's conflicted legacy, revealing a humorous, self-deprecating storyteller and a visionary and showman who who won over both his sponsors and his audiences with the same verve that characterized his geographical conquests....more

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• 1175: The trouble with renewables is that they don't always renew. Host

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  Feb 17 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1939. Windmill propellers, Dumas, Texas  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe trouble with renewables is that they don't always renew. Hosthttps://www.washingtonpost.com/video/local/weather/how-texass-independent-power-grid-failed-under-pressure/2021/02/16/d18e33f3-1676-489d-8427-f3220650ba5a_video.html

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• 1173: Where in the World is Inflation? Bitcoin? Markets? Das Notgeld? @Joseph Sternberg @WSJOpinion

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  Feb 17 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowWhere in the World is Inflation? Bitcoin? Markets? Das Notgeld? @Joseph Sternberg @WSJOpinionhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/what-inflation-debates-miss-inflation-11613065779

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• 1173: An upbeat Boris Johnson knows that he cannot lockdown the UK again. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

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  Feb 17 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowAn upbeat Boris Johnson knows that he cannot lockdown the UK again. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinionhttps://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/covid-vaccination-is-reducing-admissions-and-deaths-kbqd233qn

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• 1175: #MLB: You get what you pay for! Host

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  Feb 17 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1905.Title: Out at home Creator/Contributor: Ransom, Fletcher C. (Fletcher Charles), 1870-1943. (artist)Created/Published:  Date created: 1905Physical description: 1 photomechanical print : offset photo lithographDescription: Reproduction of a painting by Fletcher C. Ransom entitled "Out at Home."    Christy Mathewson is the pitcher, Roger Bresnahan is the catcher.  Bresnahan is tagging out the Philadelphia Athletics runner while Manager John McGraw, far right, looks on.Genre: Offset lithographsSubjects: Baseball; Baseball players; New York Giants (Baseball team); Philadelphia Athletics (Baseball team)Notes: McGreevey no. 135Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow#MLB: You get what you pay for! Host...more

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• 1174: Good news from the long-struggling South Caucasus. Brenda Shaffer @ProfBShaffer @ElinSuleymanov

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  Feb 17 2021

  Image:  Arrival of Shah Museferdin in Baku. 1902 Elin Suleymanov,  @ElinSuleymanov, @azembassyus, ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan to Washington;      Brenda Shaffer: @ProfBShaffer  @FDD; Georgetown; in re: Trilateral meeting, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey.   I hope one day it will expand to include Armenia.  Turkey: completed [negotiations?] on the Southern Gas Corridor. Also coming : railways automobile roads, toward a general cooperation.  Azerbaijan is offering Armenia a warm peace—a real opportunity to benefit from some of the regional prosperity. Turkey is an investor upstream in the pipeline; also, think of the millions in southern US with no heat—this underlines the importance of infrastructure. Real, physical infrastructure; basic to our safety such as electricity. Azerbaijan intends to build smart cities in the liberated zone.  Because the area is devastated, we can make a leap, utilized new technologies. This is a major opportunity for international firms, including American, to enter commerce and build, in effect, a new country. This is the vision of President Aliyev. We march to the sound of good news.  https://en.trend.az/azerbaijan/politics/3381761.htmlThe 9th trilateral meeting is planned to be held on February 19 with the participation of Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov, Georgian Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. https://turkishpress.com/azerbaijan-to-build-smart-cities-in-liberated-regions/BAKU, Azerbaijani.  Azerbaijan is planning comprehensive reconstruction projects which will include the building of smart cities in the territories  ...more

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• 1174: Lessons learned in Europe and America from surrendering liberty to medical experts and executive authority. @RussellBermanSF

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  Feb 17 2021

  Image:  An April afternoon with Lady Liberty Russell Berman, @RussellBermanSF,director of Stanford's Thinking Matters program; Hoover, in re: The pandemic, worldwide,.  German philosopher: we gave up liberty, commerce, sociability, in March 2020. Why?  Is this the right way to go about this in future? Where I worked, everybody went away.  We weren’t ordered to do that; we gave it all up voluntarily.  A rapid renunciation of the core values that make up our lives—freedom of assembly, of religious practice, even speech.  I recall the New York governor on TV telling me what I was going to do and what not. Yeah? Who are ya?    What’s frightening is how rapidly we did this.  Renunciation of fundamental freedoms – what makes us human is freedom.  In previous epidemics, we didn't shut the economy down. Why this time?   Absolute authority was given to notional scientific expertise, and never balanced by economics, [and all the other aspects of humanity].  The conversations should not have been solely about medicine, but abut all the other central factors.   The other aspect: the legislature should have been involved, and perhaps the courts when individuals th9ught their rights were being infringed upon. In future, executive authorities cold declare emergencies for climate, guns, anything.  This time, the people who are worst affected financially—the poor—are the most damaged all ways. Penn Station was shut down by police power, but there’s not enough police power to shut down fifty million people.  Macron just decided against a continuing lockdown, partly because of resistance against it.  We need democratic legitimation of [these behaviors].  Robust debates in Germany, the UK, the Netherlands.  The difference between dissent and disinformation.  http://www.telospress.com/state-of-emergency-and-the-fragility-of-liberty-facing-covid-19/?utm_source=Hoover+Daily+Report&utm_campaign=5015aa7496-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_09_05_04_36_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_21b1edff3c-5015aa7496-72527561  ...more

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• 1174: Fintech supremacy and what can go wrong early. John Berlau, @jberlau

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  Feb 17 2021

  Image:  Louis L. Klotz, Minister of Finance:  12 September 1917 — 20 January 1920, in the second government of Georges Clemenceau. He was responsible for negotiating reparations from Germany. His policy was characterised by his famous formula: "The Boche will pay!" John Berlau, @jberlau, Competitive Enterprise Institute; author of  George Washington, Entrepreneur; in re:  Fintech; George Washington used alternative monies, incl tobacco warehouse receipts. Today, anything from cryptocurrencies to _____. Bitcoin is at $50,000. CNBC said it poses no threat to the dollar. Is the dollar under siege?  Certainly, bitcoin is volatile. Ethereum is more used, but bitcoin can be used in fractionals.  Robinhood, an online trading site. Gamestop. A young man who destroyed himself when he thought he was in debt, but he was not. Everything needs regulation against fraud.    Young people: Warren Buffet owned stock before he could drive, and Carl Icahn was on Wall Street at 25.  Is this a shakeout stage of fintech? Yes, we’re still learning. Short sellers certainly are learning.   AMC was able to pay off some of its debts; reduced it by $500 million.  https://cei.org/blog/young-investors-tragedy-should-not-cancel-robinhood-and-0ther-fintech-investing-apps/ ...more

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• 1174: What happened in the two-hour phone call to the Communist Party of China? JedBabbin, @WashingtonTimes,

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  Feb 17 2021

  Image:  The F=first Chinese telephone operator in Chinatown, San Francisco Jed Babbin, @JedBabbin, @WashingtonTimes,  American Spectator, in re: The former State Secretary labelled the treatment of Uyghurs as genocide. Does Biden care?  No, but the Quad nations are becoming an alliance to contain China; first meeting will be important. It’s now in a condition where it needs to exercise its puissance—maybe join US Navy for exercises anywhere in the Indian Ocean or the Western Pacific. Confucius Institutes: a brilliant idea from China—they invest in US universities, incl the fanciest, and influence the curricula. The investments are to prevent criticism of China. What Biden did last week was cancel one f Trump’s orders requiring schools to report if they're in bed with China.  The US is still the big dog on the block; we have significant responsibilities, incl with the Quad— India, Australia, Japan, the US. Biden spent over two hours on the phone with Xi Jinping, but naught with Israel.  Biden personally doesn’t like Netanyahu. Biden is an overtly anti-Israel president. https://spectator.org/china-biden-xi-jinping/ ...more

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• 1173: Biden Administration scrambles in reaction to the Myanmar coup & What is to be done? @JoshRogin @WashingtonPost

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  Feb 17 2021

  Photo: Mandalay - tower of palace  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowBiden Administration scrambles in reaction to the Myanmar coup & What is to be done? @JoshRogin @WashingtonPosthttps://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/biden-is-doing-the-right-things-on-myanmar-but-will-it-matter/2021/02/11/8bfa2164-6cae-11eb-ba56-d7e2c8defa31_story.html

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• 1173: Iran tests Biden in Iraq & What is to be done? @VictoriaCoates, Center for Secure Society.

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  Feb 17 2021

  Photo:  Iraq. Arbela (Erbil). Iraq. Arbela. (Erbil). Center of Ishtar cult in Assyrian period, 2200 B.C. Typical group: man, boys, and girl http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowIran tests Biden in Iraq & What is to be done?  @VictoriaCoates, Center for Secure Society.https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-biden-gets-tested-in-iraq-11613497028

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• 1172: The genuine Democratic obsession with Trump launches a commission to hang on to Trump. . @LizPeek @TheHill

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  Feb 17 2021

  Photo:  Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental disorder in which a person has certain thoughts repeatedly (called "obsessions")             Here:  People with OCD may face intrusive thoughts, such as thoughts about the devil (shown is a painted interpretation of Hell). http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowyThe genuine Democratic obsession with Trump launches a commission to hang on to Trump. . @LizPeek @TheHillhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/pelosi-outlines-steps-to-create-9-11-style-commission-to-investigate-capitol-riot-11613424026 ...more

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• 1172: Biden Administration unforced economic errors (aka blunders) begin with canceling the Keystone XL pipeline. @LizPeek @FoxNews @TheHill

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  Feb 17 2021

  Photo: Inspecting the Canol pipeline. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowBiden Administration unforced economic errors (aka blunders) begin with canceling the Keystone XL pipeline. @LizPeek @FoxNews @TheHillhttp://lizpeek.com/bidens-early-blunders-heres-hurt-democrats-2022/

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• 1172: Carlos Menem passes away at 90 but Argentine's debt troubles and unsolved terror attacks remain. @MariaFdaCabal/ @jmhumire

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  Feb 17 2021

  Photo:   Carlos Menem, entonces gobernador electo de la provincia argentina de La Rioja, después de su victoria en las elecciones de 1983. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow#NewWorldReport: Carlos Menem passes away at 90 but Argentine's debt troubles and unsolved terror attacks remain.  @MariaFdaCabal/ @jmhumire 

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• 1172: #NewWorldReport: UN envoy asserts that the US and EU sanctions of the Maduro regime cause Venezuela's failure. @MariaFdaCabal/ @jmhumire

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  Feb 17 2021

  Photo: Slapping the mouth for telling lies.. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow#NewWorldReport: UN envoy asserts that the US and EU sanctions of the Maduro regime cause Venezuela's failure. @MariaFdaCabal/ @jmhumire https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/12/world/us-venezuela-sanctions-alina-douhan-intl/index.html

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• 1171: 8/8: The Return of George Washington: Uniting the States, 1783-1789, by Edward J. Larson

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  Feb 17 2021

  Image: A View of Mount Vernon with Washington Family on the Terrace Artist: Benjamin Henry Latrobe  1796   The Return of George Washington: Uniting the States, 1783-1789, by Edward J. Larson "An elegantly written account of leadership at the most pivotal moment in American history" (Philadelphia Inquirer): the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Edward J. Larson reveals how George Washington saved the United States by coming out of retirement to lead the Constitutional Convention and serve as our first president. After leading the Continental Army to victory in the Revolutionary War, George Washington shocked the world: he retired. In December 1783, General Washington, the most powerful man in the country, stepped down as Commander in Chief and returned to private life at Mount Vernon. Yet as Washington contentedly grew his estate, the fledgling American experiment floundered. Under the Articles of Confederation, the weak central government was unable to raise revenue to pay its debts or reach a consensus on national policy. The states bickered and grew apart. When a Constitutional Convention was established to address these problems, its chances of success were slim. Jefferson, Madison, and the other Founding Fathers realized that only one man could unite the fractious states: George Washington. Reluctant, but duty-bound, Washington rode to Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 to preside over the Convention. Although Washington is often overlooked in most accounts of the period, this masterful new history from the Pulitzer Prize–winner Edward J. Larson brilliantly uncovers Washington’s vital role in shaping the Convention—and shows how it was only with Washington’s support and his willingness to serve as president that the states were brought together and ratified the Constitution, thereby saving the country.https://www.amazon.com/Return-George-Washington-Uniting-1783-1789-ebook/dp/B00I2PD9GW/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=  .....more

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• 1171: 7/8 The Return of George Washington: Uniting the States, 1783-1789, by Edward J. Larson

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  Feb 17 2021

  Image: By the United States in Congress assembled, September 13, 1788 : Whereas the convention assembled in Philadelphia, pursuant to the resolution of Congress of the 21st February, 1787, did, on the 17th of September in the same year, report . . .   The Return of George Washington: Uniting the States, 1783-1789, by Edward J. Larson "An elegantly written account of leadership at the most pivotal moment in American history" (Philadelphia Inquirer): the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Edward J. Larson reveals how George Washington saved the United States by coming out of retirement to lead the Constitutional Convention and serve as our first president. After leading the Continental Army to victory in the Revolutionary War, George Washington shocked the world: he retired. In December 1783, General Washington, the most powerful man in the country, stepped down as Commander in Chief and returned to private life at Mount Vernon. Yet as Washington contentedly grew his estate, the fledgling American experiment floundered. Under the Articles of Confederation, the weak central government was unable to raise revenue to pay its debts or reach a consensus on national policy. The states bickered and grew apart. When a Constitutional Convention was established to address these problems, its chances of success were slim. Jefferson, Madison, and the other Founding Fathers realized that only one man could unite the fractious states: George Washington. Reluctant, but duty-bound, Washington rode to Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 to preside over the Convention. Although Washington is often overlooked in most accounts of the period, this masterful new history from the Pulitzer Prize–winner Edward J. Larson brilliantly uncovers Washington’s vital role in shaping the Convention—and shows how it was only with Washington’s support and his willingness to serve as president that the states were brought together and ratified the Constitution, thereby saving the country.https://www.amazon.com/Return-George-Washington-Uniting-1783-1789-ebook/dp/B00I2PD9GW/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=  ...more

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• 1171: 6/8 The Return of George Washington: Uniting the States, 1783-1789, by Edward J. Larson

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  Feb 17 2021

  Image: Dr. Benjamin Franklin  The Return of George Washington: Uniting the States, 1783-1789, by Edward J. Larson "An elegantly written account of leadership at the most pivotal moment in American history" (Philadelphia Inquirer): the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Edward J. Larson reveals how George Washington saved the United States by coming out of retirement to lead the Constitutional Convention and serve as our first president. After leading the Continental Army to victory in the Revolutionary War, George Washington shocked the world: he retired. In December 1783, General Washington, the most powerful man in the country, stepped down as Commander in Chief and returned to private life at Mount Vernon. Yet as Washington contentedly grew his estate, the fledgling American experiment floundered. Under the Articles of Confederation, the weak central government was unable to raise revenue to pay its debts or reach a consensus on national policy. The states bickered and grew apart. When a Constitutional Convention was established to address these problems, its chances of success were slim. Jefferson, Madison, and the other Founding Fathers realized that only one man could unite the fractious states: George Washington. Reluctant, but duty-bound, Washington rode to Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 to preside over the Convention. Although Washington is often overlooked in most accounts of the period, this masterful new history from the Pulitzer Prize–winner Edward J. Larson brilliantly uncovers Washington’s vital role in shaping the Convention—and shows how it was only with Washington’s support and his willingness to serve as president that the states were brought together and ratified the Constitution, thereby saving the country.https://www.amazon.com/Return-George-Washington-Uniting-1783-1789-ebook/dp/B00I2PD9GW/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=...more

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• 1171: 5/8 The Return of George Washington: Uniting the States, 1783-1789, by Edward J. Larson

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  Image:   Leaving Mount Vernon for the Congress of the Colonies  The Return of George Washington: Uniting the States, 1783-1789, by Edward J. Larson "An elegantly written account of leadership at the most pivotal moment in American history" (Philadelphia Inquirer): the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Edward J. Larson reveals how George Washington saved the United States by coming out of retirement to lead the Constitutional Convention and serve as our first president. After leading the Continental Army to victory in the Revolutionary War, George Washington shocked the world: he retired. In December 1783, General Washington, the most powerful man in the country, stepped down as Commander in Chief and returned to private life at Mount Vernon. Yet as Washington contentedly grew his estate, the fledgling American experiment floundered. Under the Articles of Confederation, the weak central government was unable to raise revenue to pay its debts or reach a consensus on national policy. The states bickered and grew apart. When a Constitutional Convention was established to address these problems, its chances of success were slim. Jefferson, Madison, and the other Founding Fathers realized that only one man could unite the fractious states: George Washington. Reluctant, but duty-bound, Washington rode to Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 to preside over the Convention. Although Washington is often overlooked in most accounts of the period, this masterful new history from the Pulitzer Prize–winner Edward J. Larson brilliantly uncovers Washington’s vital role in shaping the Convention—and shows how it was only with Washington’s support and his willingness to serve as president that the states were brought together and ratified the Constitution, thereby saving the country.https://www.amazon.com/Return-George-Washington-Uniting-1783-1789-ebook/dp/B00I2PD9GW/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=  ...more

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• 1171: 4/8 The Return of George Washington: Uniting the States, 1783-1789, by Edward J. Larson

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  Image: Liberty Bell and stairway, Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania  The Return of George Washington: Uniting the States, 1783-1789, by Edward J. Larson "An elegantly written account of leadership at the most pivotal moment in American history" (Philadelphia Inquirer): the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Edward J. Larson reveals how George Washington saved the United States by coming out of retirement to lead the Constitutional Convention and serve as our first president. After leading the Continental Army to victory in the Revolutionary War, George Washington shocked the world: he retired. In December 1783, General Washington, the most powerful man in the country, stepped down as Commander in Chief and returned to private life at Mount Vernon. Yet as Washington contentedly grew his estate, the fledgling American experiment floundered. Under the Articles of Confederation, the weak central government was unable to raise revenue to pay its debts or reach a consensus on national policy. The states bickered and grew apart. When a Constitutional Convention was established to address these problems, its chances of success were slim. Jefferson, Madison, and the other Founding Fathers realized that only one man could unite the fractious states: George Washington. Reluctant, but duty-bound, Washington rode to Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 to preside over the Convention. Although Washington is often overlooked in most accounts of the period, this masterful new history from the Pulitzer Prize–winner Edward J. Larson brilliantly uncovers Washington’s vital role in shaping the Convention—and shows how it was only with Washington’s support and his willingness to serve as president that the states were brought together and ratified the Constitution, thereby saving the country.https://www.amazon.com/Return-George-Washington-Uniting-1783-1789-ebook/dp/B00I2PD9GW/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=  ...more

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• 1171: 3/8 The Return of George Washington: Uniting the States, 1783-1789, by Edward J. Larson

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  Image:  James Wilson's ideas shaped the American presidency more than those of any other delegate.  The Return of George Washington: Uniting the States, 1783-1789, by Edward J. Larson "An elegantly written account of leadership at the most pivotal moment in American history" (Philadelphia Inquirer): the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Edward J. Larson reveals how George Washington saved the United States by coming out of retirement to lead the Constitutional Convention and serve as our first president. After leading the Continental Army to victory in the Revolutionary War, George Washington shocked the world: he retired. In December 1783, General Washington, the most powerful man in the country, stepped down as Commander in Chief and returned to private life at Mount Vernon. Yet as Washington contentedly grew his estate, the fledgling American experiment floundered. Under the Articles of Confederation, the weak central government was unable to raise revenue to pay its debts or reach a consensus on national policy. The states bickered and grew apart. When a Constitutional Convention was established to address these problems, its chances of success were slim. Jefferson, Madison, and the other Founding Fathers realized that only one man could unite the fractious states: George Washington. Reluctant, but duty-bound, Washington rode to Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 to preside over the Convention. Although Washington is often overlooked in most accounts of the period, this masterful new history from the Pulitzer Prize–winner Edward J. Larson brilliantly uncovers Washington’s vital role in shaping the Convention—and shows how it was only with Washington’s support and his willingness to serve as president that the states were brought together and ratified the Constitution, thereby saving the country.https://www.amazon.com/Return-George-Washington-Uniting-1783-1789-ebook/dp/B00I2PD9GW/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=...more

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• 1171: 2/8 The Return of George Washington: Uniting the States, 1783-1789, by Edward J. Larson

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  Feb 17 2021

  Image:  George Washington's room at Mt. Vernon  The Return of George Washington: Uniting the States, 1783-1789, by Edward J. Larson "An elegantly written account of leadership at the most pivotal moment in American history" (Philadelphia Inquirer): the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Edward J. Larson reveals how George Washington saved the United States by coming out of retirement to lead the Constitutional Convention and serve as our first president. After leading the Continental Army to victory in the Revolutionary War, George Washington shocked the world: he retired. In December 1783, General Washington, the most powerful man in the country, stepped down as Commander in Chief and returned to private life at Mount Vernon. Yet as Washington contentedly grew his estate, the fledgling American experiment floundered. Under the Articles of Confederation, the weak central government was unable to raise revenue to pay its debts or reach a consensus on national policy. The states bickered and grew apart. When a Constitutional Convention was established to address these problems, its chances of success were slim. Jefferson, Madison, and the other Founding Fathers realized that only one man could unite the fractious states: George Washington. Reluctant, but duty-bound, Washington rode to Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 to preside over the Convention. Although Washington is often overlooked in most accounts of the period, this masterful new history from the Pulitzer Prize–winner Edward J. Larson brilliantly uncovers Washington’s vital role in shaping the Convention—and shows how it was only with Washington’s support and his willingness to serve as president that the states were brought together and ratified the Constitution, thereby saving the country.https://www.amazon.com/Return-George-Washington-Uniting-1783-1789-ebook/dp/B00I2PD9GW/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= ...more

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• 1171: 1/8 The Return of George Washington: Uniting the States, 1783-1789, by Edward J. Larson

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  Feb 17 2021

  Image:  Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union between the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode Island and . . .  The Return of George Washington: Uniting the States, 1783-1789, by Edward J. Larson "An elegantly written account of leadership at the most pivotal moment in American history" (Philadelphia Inquirer): the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Edward J. Larson reveals how George Washington saved the United States by coming out of retirement to lead the Constitutional Convention and serve as our first president. After leading the Continental Army to victory in the Revolutionary War, George Washington shocked the world: he retired. In December 1783, General Washington, the most powerful man in the country, stepped down as Commander in Chief and returned to private life at Mount Vernon. Yet as Washington contentedly grew his estate, the fledgling American experiment floundered. Under the Articles of Confederation, the weak central government was unable to raise revenue to pay its debts or reach a consensus on national policy. The states bickered and grew apart. When a Constitutional Convention was established to address these problems, its chances of success were slim. Jefferson, Madison, and the other Founding Fathers realized that only one man could unite the fractious states: George Washington. Reluctant, but duty-bound, Washington rode to Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 to preside over the Convention. Although Washington is often overlooked in most accounts of the period, this masterful new history from the Pulitzer Prize–winner Edward J. Larson brilliantly uncovers Washington’s vital role in shaping the Convention—and shows how it was only with Washington’s support and his willingness to serve as president that the states were brought together and ratified the Constitution, thereby saving the country.https://www.amazon.com/Return-George-Washington-Uniting-1783-1789-ebook/dp/B00I2PD9GW/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= ...more

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• 1170: 2/2: Kissinger on Trump, December 2016: Niall Ferguson, @HooverInst @Nfergus

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1910. Meeting Prince of China Zaitao, St. Petersburg, Russia. 1910  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow2/2: Kissinger on Trump, December 2016:  Niall Ferguson, @HooverInst @Nfergushttp://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/11/21/donald-trumps-new-world-order/ Given a weakened, traumatized, post-imperial Russia, the recognition Putin craves is that of “a great power, as an equal, and not as a supplicant in an American-designed system.” Kissinger’s message to Trump is well calibrated to appeal to his instincts: “It is not possible to bring Russia into the international system by conversion. It requires deal-making, but also understanding.” The central deal, Kissinger argues, would turn Ukraine into “a bridge between NATO and Russia rather than an outpost of either side,” like Finland or Austria in the Cold War, “free to conduct its own economic and political relationships, including with both Europe and Russia, but not party to any military or security alliance.” Such a non-aligned Ukraine would also need to be decentralized, increasing the autonomy of the contested eastern regions, where there has been intermittent conflict since separatist movements received Russian support in the wake of the Crimean annexation. The alternative to such a deal is that we may inadvertently over-use our financial and military superiority, turning a post-Putin Russia into a vast version of Yugoslavia, “wracked by conflict stretching from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok.” ...more

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• 1170: 1/2: Kissinger on Trump, December 2016: Niall Ferguson, @HooverInst @Nfergus

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1910.Meeting Prince of China Zaitao, St. Petersburg, Russia. 1910  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow1/2: Kissinger on Trump, December 2016:  Niall Ferguson, @HooverInst @Nfergushttp://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/11/21/donald-trumps-new-world-order/ Given a weakened, traumatized, post-imperial Russia, the recognition Putin craves is that of “a great power, as an equal, and not as a supplicant in an American-designed system.” Kissinger’s message to Trump is well calibrated to appeal to his instincts: “It is not possible to bring Russia into the international system by conversion. It requires deal-making, but also understanding.” The central deal, Kissinger argues, would turn Ukraine into “a bridge between NATO and Russia rather than an outpost of either side,” like Finland or Austria in the Cold War, “free to conduct its own economic and political relationships, including with both Europe and Russia, but not party to any military or security alliance.” Such a non-aligned Ukraine would also need to be decentralized, increasing the autonomy of the contested eastern regions, where there has been intermittent conflict since separatist movements received Russian support in the wake of the Crimean annexation. The alternative to such a deal is that we may inadvertently over-use our financial and military superiority, turning a post-Putin Russia into a vast version of Yugoslavia, “wracked by conflict stretching from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok.” ...more

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• 1169: Can Third Baseman superstar Nolan Arenado hit in Busch Stadium as he hit in Coors Field? Host

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  Feb 16 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1930-1945.The Arena. St. Louis. Mo.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowCan Third Baseman superstar Nolan Arenado hit in Busch Stadium as he hit in Coors Field? Hosthttps://fansided.com/2021/02/08/cardinals-news-matt-holliday-nolan-arenado/

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• 1169: 2/2: #ClassicScience: Translating climate risk to transnational costs. David Victor, @GPS_UCSD School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California San Diego.

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  Feb 16 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1913.[Woman, holding umbrella, pushing baby in carriage equipped with rain cover (ad?)]  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow2/2: #ClassicScience: Translating climate risk to transnational costs. David Victor, @GPS_UCSD School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California San Diego.http://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/354/6311/421.full.pdf “…Much of the needed data and many methods already exist. What is missing are demonstrations of how these data and methods can be used and improved for understanding systemic risks. In practice, it will be hard to work out the best examples within large intergovernmental processes in which formal decision-making requires consensus. Formal agreements on the best approaches to risk indicators are unlikely.….”  ...more

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• 1169: 1/2: #ClassicScience: Translating climate risk to transnational costs. David Victor, @GPS_UCSD School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California San Diego.

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  Feb 16 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1922.[People standing in rain outside building], 12/28/22  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow1/2: #ClassicScience: Translating climate risk to transnational costs. David Victor, @GPS_UCSD School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California San Diego.http://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/354/6311/421.full.pdf “…Much of the needed data and many methods already exist. What is missing are demonstrations of how these data and methods can be used and improved for understanding systemic risks. In practice, it will be hard to work out the best examples within large intergovernmental processes in which formal decision-making requires consensus. Formal agreements on the best approaches to risk indicators are unlikely.….” ...more

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• 1169: The still-unknown fate of Officer Brian Sicknick on January 6. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Feb 16 2021

  Image: Brian Sicknick's basic training photo in 1997 Andrew C McCarthy, @AndrewCMcCarthy, Ball of Collusion; and Thaddeus McCotter, @ThadMcCotter, @theamgreatness, American Greatness, in re: The remains of the impeachment trial of Donald Trump.  Officer Sicknick apparently may have died of a stroke—no evidence of blunt-force trauma. The impeachers alleged that he’d been killed as a direct result of the Capitol invasion, but that seems not to be true. SO far, no police report. House impeachment managers relied only on a New York Ties article, which has been amended (i.e., weakly retracted).  Misinformation in the fist report, and much reason to doubt the fire extinguisher story; finally concedes that we don’t know how he died. This has always been a political exercise, partisan, to promote a white supremacist narrative and lay the groundwork to disqualify Republicans.https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/02/democrats-squander-their-impeachment-trial-moment/...more

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• 1169: "Indiana" Hoenlein and the lost 5,000-year-old megabrewery of ancient Egypt. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres@ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Feb 16 2021

  Image: Ancient Egyptian clay pots for brewing beery. Screen grab, Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres, Conference of Presidents, in re: A huge beer brewery, over 5,000 years old, near the Nile south of Cairo.  King unified Egypt in the First Dynastic period. Eight enormous production units, 65 feet long.  Found a Roman soldier’s pay slip near Masada: Gaius Maseus, was left broke because they deducted food, barley, leather, clothes—he was thus left broke at the end of the month.https://www.cbsnews.com/news/egypt-5000-year-old-industrial-scale-brewery-unearthed/...more

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• 1169: Biden administration reverts to old JCPOA as Iran speeds into nukes. Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres, @ThadMcCotter, @theamgreatness

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  Feb 16 2021

  Image:  Wrestlers from About Persia and its people. A description of their manners, customs, and home life. ... Illustrated  Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres, Conference of Presidents, in re: Iran says it will end snap IAEA inspections unless it gets the deal it wants from Biden. A violation of the JCPOA and an insult to the Europeans who’ve been favoring the JCPOA.  A potentially explosive game, up February 21.  UN inspectors have found radioactive races and new sites.   . . . Biden took the Houthis, Iranian proxies, off the terrorist list. In Yemen, 30,000 people have been killed.  Turkey is fighting in Iraq vs the PKK—shot Kurds in the head in a cave. Turkey sends jets over Kurdish territory. Israel’s air strikes against Damascus: another Iranian provocation and aggression.  It does so also in Ethiopia and Sudan.   More than 7,000 rockets; Hezbollah has a 30,000 standing army, very sophisticated arms.  Also Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Lavrov: if the EU decides  it's necessary to restore relati9ns, we’ll be ready; but if he EU goes ahead with sanctions because of the Navalny attempted murder, Russia will break relations.   The EU always backs down—“They march backwards”— but sometimes they have spine concerning human rights.  Today the UAE ambassador was sworn in to Israel, and Morocco is shopping for an embassy in Jerusalem.    Iron Dome deployed permanently around Israel.  Very serious concern about the War in the North.   ...more

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• 1167: Nancy Pelosi is a character from an English novel (Miss Havisham?) with one overwhelming obsession to get even with the POTUS who did wrong. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund

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  Photo:  Miss Havisham, in art by Harry Furniss from the library edition of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowNancy Pelosi is a character from an English novel (Miss Haversham?) with one overwhelming obsession to get even with the POTUS who did wrong.  @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-capitol-siege-acquittals-impeachments-trump-impeachment-7ebcbaedd6985537dec0c3918cbf06d9 ...more

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• 1167: The London bookies say 5-1 Gavin Newsom survives recall; & What is to be done? @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund

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  Feb 16 2021

  Photo:  This week’s photograph is Bugg’s Cobblers shop, Beckside circa 1940.  Although officially a cobbler’s,  it appears as though Mr Bugg sidelined as a bookie as well - note the shopfront adorned with lots of displays for racing tips such as ‘Today’s Tips, Starbound, Martell, Grand Royal Nap and Axle Tree’! Another board states ‘A Good Tip after the races visit the Alexandra Theatre, Hull..Presumably, Mr. Bugg is the man standing hands-on-hips outside his shop as Beverley’s resident racing pundit. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe London bookies say 5-1 Gavn Newsom survives recall & What is to be done?  @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/02/californias-coming-recall/ ...more

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• 1167: Biden Latin America policy is back to the Obama Latin American Policy. @MaryAnastasiaOG. @WSJOpinion

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  Feb 16 2021

  Photo: Colombia Cartagenia, San Pedro Claver Church  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowBiden Latin America policy is back to the Obama Latin American Policy. @MaryAnastasiaOG. @WSJOpinionhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/bidens-troubling-latin-agenda-11612732559

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• 1167: Tehran threatens to enrich in secret in order to intimidate Europe and to break the US sanctions. Richard Goldberg @FDD @Rich_Goldberg

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  Feb 16 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1944. Significance: 185-D, 189-D and 190-D, building in what is commonly known as the 190-D complex, were completed in December, 1944 in conjunction with the start-up of D-Reactor.  (190-DA, 195-D, and 1724-DA, the other facilities in the 190-D complex, were added later.)  D-Reactor was one of three production reactors constructed at Hanford during the Manhattan Project and the Second World War.  Two buildings in the 190-D complex, 185 and 189-D, have been determined eligible for the National Register of Historic Places due to their significant role in nuclear reactor technology in the D-Reacto complex.  While 190-D, 190-DA, 195-D and 1724-DA individually are not eligible for the Register, collectively they have significance due to their structural proximity and common functional elements with 185/189-D. Survey number: HAER WA-127  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowTehran threatens to enrich in secret in order to intimidate Europe and to break the US sanctions. Richard Goldberg @FDD @Rich_Goldberghttps://www.reuters.com/article/uk-iran-nuclear-usa-idUKKBN2AF0H4 ...more

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• 1168: 150 minutes chatting with Xi Jinping. Unususal. @YatesDCIA, @dciadvisory, @GordonGChang

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  Feb 16 2021

  Image:  Demonstration of telephone at the Formosa Memorial Exhibition Steve Yates: 葉望輝, @YatesDCIA, @dciadvisory, former deputy national security advisor to Vice President Cheney and currently CEO of DC International Advisory;  and Gordon Chang, @GordonGChang, Daily Beast; in re:  The Biden-Xi phone call.  There are stages in a call: the real time and the after-the-fact analysis.  In real time, usually National Security Council members in the Oval office with the president;  interpretation and transcription in notes done by an NSC staffer; it’s also done remotely.  Xinhua’s report of the call:  the two presidents wishes each other good fortune in the Year of the Ox and discussed substantive matters.  Both US and Chinese read-outs were vcry brief. Why so little information about substance of the call?  US held tight controls and limited access.   A two-hour conversati9on of this sort is rarely anywhere near this long. Emphasis on climate change—filibuster? China never objected to the climate agreements [just never met the targets]. The West always met the burden of paying cash up front.   After the Secretary of State labeled Chinese treatment of Uyghurs “genocide,”  there must have been at least a bit on Uyghurs. Initiated by the US; celebratory on the lunar new year; and the mention of an agenda beyond trade disputes—all three seen as warming signals from the US, and so announced by China.http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2021-02/11/c_139737284.htm  ...more

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• 1167: The inspirational elder Jimmy Lai still imprisoned by China. @Michael_Yon, @GordonGChang

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  Feb 16 2021

  Image:  The charming Star Ferry boats have been faithfully carrying passengers from Hong Kong Island to Kowloon and back since 1888. While the two sides of Victoria Harbour are now connected by a world-class infrastructure system of road and rail tunnels, tens of millions of people still climb aboard the humble Star Ferry vessels each year. Many visitors take the ride for an up-close look at one of the world’s most photographed harbours, while locals have kept their affection for it because, even after a century, it’s still a highly reliable and efficient form of transport. National Geographic rates the Star Ferry crossing as one of 50 ‘places of a lifetime’. Michael Yon: @Michael_Yon, war correspondent;andGordon Chang, @GordonGChang, Daily Beast, in re:  The denial of bail for Jimmy Lai, still in custody by Mainland—Michael will report inside info on this development.  Gordon dined with Jimmy Lai last year, when Mainland sent bully boys to throw firebombs at Jmmy’s home.   Lai publishes Apple Daily, the leading Hong Kong publication.  Jimmy Lai is 82 years old, an inspirational figure; he could have left long ago, but is standing ground, perhaps to be a martyr, will sacrifice himself to help save Hong Kong, He’s a hero. This is normal CCP intimidation tactics; would do the same things to HH the Dalai Lama if they could get their hands on him. They’re frankly worse than the Nazis, which is very hard to do—have been committing genocide for decades.  Eager to do the same thing on Taiwan.  Very likely this [losing] policy is required by Xi Jinping, despite likely dissent by other party members.  Hong Kongers knew that Biden was likely to be a sell-out, I agree with Gordon: the safest thing to do is cut all ties with Mainland.   Return to USSR-type stuff: Hong Kong exit ban, dictatorship writ large in skywriting.  Jimmy Lai knew he’d be persecuted of some sort. He gave up a profitable clothing chain because of his beliefs....more

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• 1167: Italy starts to pull through a rough patch with the virus. Lorenzo Fiori

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  Feb 16 2021

  Image:  Bucolic scene in winter with a pack donkey. Lorenzo Fiori: Direttore Generale Ansaldo Fondazione ; in re: The virus numbers are diminishing in Italy.   The British variant, highly contagious has been spreading in different regions in Italy, a source of real concern. The normal winter tourist business in the Italian Alps is ’way down and disappointing, but March 5 is the date that the most recent degree expires; awaiting to know the degree of freedom to be allowed. Yellow, orange, red. Mario Draghi has managed to assemble a coalition when no one else could.  Was “SuperMario” as a central banker.  We’re very enthusiastic to have him as PM, to manage the recovery plan. Before him, have needed speed of action.  We expect recovery by the second half of 2021, same as in the US.  ...more

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• 1166: "Indiana" Hoenlein and the lost Roman payslip from the siege of Masada. Host

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  Feb 16 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1898. Masada  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow"Indiana" Hoenlein and the lost Roman payslip from the siege of Masada.  HostMalcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres, Conference of Presidents, in re: A huge beer brewery, over 5,000 years old, near the Nile south of Cairo.  King unified Egypt in the First Dynastic period. Eight enormous production units, 65 feet long.  Found a Roman soldier’s pay slip near Masada: Gaius Maseus, was left broke because they deducted food, barley, leather, clothes—he was thus left broke at the end of the month.https://www.timesofisrael.com/hail-seizure-roman-soldiers-masada-payslip-shows-unfair-wages-go-way-back/ ...more

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• 1166: Al Qaeda explains that US travails are theologically foretold and deserved. @thomasjoscelyn, @FDD

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  Feb 16 2021

   Image:  Barely visible among the rocks, US Marine Corps (USMC) Marines assigned to the Battalion Landing Team (BLT), 1ST Battalion, 6th Marines, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), Special Operations Capable (SOC), deploy against entrenched Taliban fighters in a valley near the village of Khabargho, Afghanistan during Operation Asbury Park. Tom Joscelyn, @thomasjoscelyn, Long War Journal and @FDD; podcast: Generation Jihad,  @LongWarJournal; in re: Al Qaeda leader ship in the Arabian peninsula (AQAP) commented on the January 6 tragedy, believes this is all either foretold or deserved Al Q is a major, major actor. Khalid Batarfi: an ideologue, respected for religious knowledge, and an operator globally.  He was said to have been captured; was not. Remarking on the US, he cites hurricanes, tornadoes, diseases, ____, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.  Taliban has surrounded some provincial capitals in Afghanistan. Primed to take over Kabul.  Americans consistently underestimate Taliban presence in Afghanistan. This administration us reviewing the Taliban deal – there’s not much to it, it’s simply a withdrawal deal. In exchange for which the US endorses Taliban. ...more

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• 1165: 4/4 The Founders at Home: The Building of America, 1735-1817, Illustrated Edition, by Myron Magnet

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  Feb 16 2021

  Image:  A Committee of Five, composed of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston, drafted and presented to the Continental Congress what became known as the U.S. Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776.  The Founders at Home: The Building of America, 1735-1817, Illustrated Edition,  by Myron Magnet  Through the Founders’ own voices — and in the homes they designed and built to embody the ideal of domestic happiness they fought to achieve — we come to understand why the American Revolution, of all great revolutions, was the only enduring success.The Founders were vivid, energetic men, with sophisticated worldviews, and this magnificent reckoning of their successes draws liberally from their own eloquent writings on their actions and well-considered intentions. Richly illustrated with America’s historical and architectural treasures, this volume also considers the houses the Founders built with so much care and money, for they are revealing embodiments of the ideal of life they strove to bring into being. That so many great thinkers — Washington, Madison, Hamilton, Jefferson, John Jay, the Lees of Stratford Hall, and polemicist William Livingston — came together to accomplish what rightly seemed to them almost a miracle is a standing historical mystery, best understood by pondering the men themselves and their profound and world-changing ideas.Through impressive research and an intimate understanding of these iconic patriots, award-winning author Myron Magnet offers fresh insight on why the American experiment resulted in over two centuries of unexampled freedom and prosperity.  https://www.amazon.com/Founders-Home-Building-America-1735-1817-ebook/dp/B00COQ6XCM/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= ...more

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• 1165: 3/4 The Founders at Home: The Building of America, 1735-1817, Illustrated Edition, by Myron Magnet

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  Image:   Stratford Hall, established by Thomas Lee in the 1730s, is one of the great houses of American history. Four generations of the Lee family passed through its stately doors, including Richard Henry Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee, the only two brothers to sign the Declaration of Independence; the Revolutionary War hero “Light Horse Harry” Lee, and his son, the Civil War General Robert E. Lee, who was born at Stratford Hall in 1807. Here:  View of the garden at Stratford Hall II The Founders at Home: The Building of America, 1735-1817, Illustrated Edition,  by Myron Magnet   Through the Founders’ own voices — and in the homes they designed and built to embody the ideal of domestic happiness they fought to achieve — we come to understand why the American Revolution, of all great revolutions, was the only enduring success.The Founders were vivid, energetic men, with sophisticated worldviews, and this magnificent reckoning of their successes draws liberally from their own eloquent writings on their actions and well-considered intentions. Richly illustrated with America’s historical and architectural treasures, this volume also considers the houses the Founders built with so much care and money, for they are revealing embodiments of the ideal of life they strove to bring into being. That so many great thinkers — Washington, Madison, Hamilton, Jefferson, John Jay, the Lees of Stratford Hall, and polemicist William Livingston — came together to accomplish what rightly seemed to them almost a miracle is a standing historical mystery, best understood by pondering the men themselves and their profound and world-changing ideas.Through impressive research and an intimate understanding of these iconic patriots, award-winning author Myron Magnet offers fresh insight on why the American experiment resulted in over two centuries of unexampled freedom and prosperity.  https://www.amazon.com/Founders-Home-Building-America-1735-1817-ebook/dp/B00COQ6XCM/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=  ...more

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• 1165: 2/4 The Founders at Home: The Building of America, 1735-1817, Illustrated Edition, by Myron Magnet

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  Image:   William Livingston The Founders at Home: The Building of America, 1735-1817, Illustrated Edition,  by Myron Magnet   Through the Founders’ own voices — and in the homes they designed and built to embody the ideal of domestic happiness they fought to achieve — we come to understand why the American Revolution, of all great revolutions, was the only enduring success.The Founders were vivid, energetic men, with sophisticated worldviews, and this magnificent reckoning of their successes draws liberally from their own eloquent writings on their actions and well-considered intentions. Richly illustrated with America’s historical and architectural treasures, this volume also considers the houses the Founders built with so much care and money, for they are revealing embodiments of the ideal of life they strove to bring into being. That so many great thinkers — Washington, Madison, Hamilton, Jefferson, John Jay, the Lees of Stratford Hall, and polemicist William Livingston — came together to accomplish what rightly seemed to them almost a miracle is a standing historical mystery, best understood by pondering the men themselves and their profound and world-changing ideas.Through impressive research and an intimate understanding of these iconic patriots, award-winning author Myron Magnet offers fresh insight on why the American experiment resulted in over two centuries of unexampled freedom and prosperity.  https://www.amazon.com/Founders-Home-Building-America-1735-1817-ebook/dp/B00COQ6XCM/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=   ...more

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• 1165: 1/4 The Founders at Home: The Building of America, 1735-1817, Illustrated Edition, by Myron Magnet

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  Image:  The Founders at Home book cover The Founders at Home: The Building of America, 1735-1817, Illustrated Edition,  by Myron Magnet   Through the Founders’ own voices — and in the homes they designed and built to embody the ideal of domestic happiness they fought to achieve — we come to understand why the American Revolution, of all great revolutions, was the only enduring success.The Founders were vivid, energetic men, with sophisticated worldviews, and this magnificent reckoning of their successes draws liberally from their own eloquent writings on their actions and well-considered intentions. Richly illustrated with America’s historical and architectural treasures, this volume also considers the houses the Founders built with so much care and money, for they are revealing embodiments of the ideal of life they strove to bring into being. That so many great thinkers — Washington, Madison, Hamilton, Jefferson, John Jay, the Lees of Stratford Hall, and polemicist William Livingston — came together to accomplish what rightly seemed to them almost a miracle is a standing historical mystery, best understood by pondering the men themselves and their profound and world-changing ideas.Through impressive research and an intimate understanding of these iconic patriots, award-winning author Myron Magnet offers fresh insight on why the American experiment resulted in over two centuries of unexampled freedom and prosperity.  https://www.amazon.com/Founders-Home-Building-America-1735-1817-ebook/dp/B00COQ6XCM/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=   Praise for The Founders “The Founders at Home is rich in insight, wit, and wisdom about the men who created America. It’s superb — a pleasure to read on every page.” — Thomas Fleming, author of The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers “The Founders at Home is a fascinating exploration of America’s founding fathers at the most intimate level. Highly original and intensely absorbing — Myron Magnet has produced an outstanding work of historical research.” — Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire “Myron Magnet has produced an excellent book from this excellent idea: We can better understand the Founders, who shaped how we live, if we better understand how they lived in the homes they designed and social circles that radiated from those homes. The American Revolution, he argues, was a success because of its moderation, and this virtue suffused the Founders’ lives.” — George F. Will, author of One Man’s America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation “Americans have long admired our Founders from a respectful distance. Now author Myron Magnet pulls us closer, into the framers’ homes and minds, so that we suddenly see not only what drove them but also how very much we share with those first Americans. Accurate, skillful, and utterly charming.” — Amity Shlaes, author of The Forgotten Man “The Founders of the American Revolution avoided the excesses of other major revolutions, not just because of their seminal ideas but also because they were practical, good men, both at work and at home. Myron Magnet, in this strikingly original thesis, shows how the protection of liberty and property were natural extensions of the way the Founders organized their families and homes. We owe him thanks for this timely reminder that how we live and what we think should not be antithetical, but properly complementary.” — Victor Davis Hanson, author of A War Like No Other  ...more

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• 1164: John Quincy Adams: 4of4: by Harlow Giles Unger Kindle Edition

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  Feb 15 2021

  Photo: John Quincy Adamshttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow John Quincy Adams: 4of4: Kindle Edition. by Harlow Giles Unger  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Quincy-Adams-Harlow-Giles-Unger-ebook/dp/B008EMEH5A/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1613363047&sr=1-4He fought for Washington, served with Lincoln, witnessed Bunker Hill, and sounded the clarion against slavery on the eve of the Civil War. He negotiated an end to the War of 1812, engineered the annexation of Florida, and won the Supreme Court decision that freed the African captives of The Amistad. He served his nation as minister to six countries, secretary of state, senator, congressman, and president.John Quincy Adams was all of these things and more. In this masterful biography, award winning author Harlow Giles Unger reveals Quincy Adams as a towering figure in the nation's formative years and one of the most courageous figures in American history, which is why he ranked first in John F. Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning Profiles in Courage.A magisterial biography and a sweeping panorama of American history from the Washington to Lincoln eras, Unger's John Quincy Adams follows one of America's most important yet least-known figures....more

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• 1164: John Quincy Adams: 3of4: by Harlow Giles Unger Kindle Edition

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  Photo:  John Adams, residence in Quincy, Massachusetts. Kitchen, to stoves http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow John Quincy Adam: 3of4: Kindle Edition. by Harlow Giles Unger (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition4:  https://www.amazon.com/Quincy-Adams-Harlow-Giles-Unger-ebook/dp/B008EMEH5A/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1613363047&sr=1-4He fought for Washington, served with Lincoln, witnessed Bunker Hill, and sounded the clarion against slavery on the eve of the Civil War. He negotiated an end to the War of 1812, engineered the annexation of Florida, and won the Supreme Court decision that freed the African captives of The Amistad. He served his nation as minister to six countries, secretary of state, senator, congressman, and president.John Quincy Adams was all of these things and more. In this masterful biography, award winning author Harlow Giles Unger reveals Quincy Adams as a towering figure in the nation's formative years and one of the most courageous figures in American history, which is why he ranked first in John F. Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning Profiles in Courage.A magisterial biography and a sweeping panorama of American history from the Washington to Lincoln eras, Unger's John Quincy Adams follows one of America's most important yet least-known figures....more

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• 1164: John Quincy Adams: 2of4 by Harlow Giles Unger Kindle Edition

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  Photo: Engraving of Young John Quincy, 1783  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow John Quincy Adam: 2of4: Kindle Edition. by Harlow Giles Unger (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition4:  https://www.amazon.com/Quincy-Adams-Harlow-Giles-Unger-ebook/dp/B008EMEH5A/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1613363047&sr=1-4He fought for Washington, served with Lincoln, witnessed Bunker Hill, and sounded the clarion against slavery on the eve of the Civil War. He negotiated an end to the War of 1812, engineered the annexation of Florida, and won the Supreme Court decision that freed the African captives of The Amistad. He served his nation as minister to six countries, secretary of state, senator, congressman, and president.John Quincy Adams was all of these things and more. In this masterful biography, award winning author Harlow Giles Unger reveals Quincy Adams as a towering figure in the nation's formative years and one of the most courageous figures in American history, which is why he ranked first in John F. Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning Profiles in Courage.A magisterial biography and a sweeping panorama of American history from the Washington to Lincoln eras, Unger's John Quincy Adams follows one of America's most important yet least-known figures....more

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• 1164: John Quincy Adams: 1of4: Kindle Edition. by Harlow Giles Unger Kindle Edition

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  Photo: Woodcut of the Residence of John Quincy, 1846 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow John Quincy Adam: 1of4: Kindle Edition. by Harlow Giles Unger (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition4:  https://www.amazon.com/Quincy-Adams-Harlow-Giles-Unger-ebook/dp/B008EMEH5A/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1613363047&sr=1-4He fought for Washington, served with Lincoln, witnessed Bunker Hill, and sounded the clarion against slavery on the eve of the Civil War. He negotiated an end to the War of 1812, engineered the annexation of Florida, and won the Supreme Court decision that freed the African captives of The Amistad. He served his nation as minister to six countries, secretary of state, senator, congressman, and president.John Quincy Adams was all of these things and more. In this masterful biography, award winning author Harlow Giles Unger reveals Quincy Adams as a towering figure in the nation's formative years and one of the most courageous figures in American history, which is why he ranked first in John F. Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning Profiles in Courage.A magisterial biography and a sweeping panorama of American history from the Washington to Lincoln eras, Unger's John Quincy Adams follows one of America's most important yet least-known figures....more

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• 1163: #ClassicScience: Wary of Mayan self-deception in the 21st Century: 2of2. Avi Loeb, Harvard.

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1844.[Scene of ancient Mayan Indian monument in the Yucatan Penninsula of Mexico]  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow#ClassicScience: Wary of Mayan self-deception in the 21st Century: 2of2. Avi Loeb, Harvard.https://www.nature.com/news/good-data-are-not-enough-1.20906 Abraham Loeb Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science, Harvard University Chair, Harvard Astronomy Department Director, Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) Founding Director, Black Hole Initiative (BHI) Chair, Breakthrough Starshot Advisory Committee Vice Chair, Board on Physics and Astronomy, National Academies ...more

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• 1163: #ClassicScience: Wary of Mayan self-deception in the 21st Century: 1of2. Avi Loeb, Harvard.

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1844.Scene of ancient Mayan Indian monument in the Yucatan Penninsula of Mexico]  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow#ClassicScience: Wary of Mayan self-deception in the 21st Century: 1of2. Avi Loeb, Harvard.https://www.nature.com/news/good-data-are-not-enough-1.20906 Abraham Loeb Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science, Harvard University Chair, Harvard Astronomy Department Director, Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) Founding Director, Black Hole Initiative (BHI) Chair, Breakthrough Starshot Advisory Committee Vice Chair, Board on Physics and Astronomy, National Academies ...more

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• 1162: Heretics and Heroes: 4of4: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World (Hinges of History Book 6) Kindle Edition.by Thomas Cahill (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Feb 15 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Heretics and Heroes: 4of4: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World (Hinges of History Book 6) Kindle Edition.by Thomas Cahill  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Heretics-Heroes-Renaissance-Artists-Reformation-ebook/dp/B00CNQ7G7Y/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1613359732&sr=1-1In Volume VI of his acclaimed Hinges of History series, Thomas Cahill guides us through the thrilling period of the Renaissance and the Reformation (the late fourteenth to the early seventeenth century), so full of innovation and cultural change that the Western world would not experience its like again until the twentieth century. Beginning with the continent-wide disaster of the Black Death, Cahill traces the many developments in European thought and experience that served both the new humanism of the Renaissance and the seemingly abrupt religious alterations of the increasingly radical Reformation. This is an age of the most sublime artistic and scientific adventure, but also of newly powerful princes and armies and of newly found courage, as many thousands refuse to bow their heads to the religious pieties of the past.  It is an era of just-discovered continents and previously unknown peoples. More than anything, it is a time of individuality in which a whole culture must achieve a new balance if the West is to continue....more

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• 1162: Heretics and Heroes: 3of4: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World (Hinges of History Book 6) Kindle Edition.by Thomas Cahill (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Heretics and Heroes: 3of4: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World (Hinges of History Book 6) Kindle Edition.by Thomas Cahill  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Heretics-Heroes-Renaissance-Artists-Reformation-ebook/dp/B00CNQ7G7Y/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1613359732&sr=1-1In Volume VI of his acclaimed Hinges of History series, Thomas Cahill guides us through the thrilling period of the Renaissance and the Reformation (the late fourteenth to the early seventeenth century), so full of innovation and cultural change that the Western world would not experience its like again until the twentieth century. Beginning with the continent-wide disaster of the Black Death, Cahill traces the many developments in European thought and experience that served both the new humanism of the Renaissance and the seemingly abrupt religious alterations of the increasingly radical Reformation. This is an age of the most sublime artistic and scientific adventure, but also of newly powerful princes and armies and of newly found courage, as many thousands refuse to bow their heads to the religious pieties of the past.  It is an era of just-discovered continents and previously unknown peoples. More than anything, it is a time of individuality in which a whole culture must achieve a new balance if the West is to continue....more

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• 1162: Heretics and Heroes: 2of4: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World (Hinges of History Book 6) Kindle Edition.by Thomas Cahill (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Feb 15 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Heretics and Heroes: 2of4: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World (Hinges of History Book 6) Kindle Edition.by Thomas Cahill  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Heretics-Heroes-Renaissance-Artists-Reformation-ebook/dp/B00CNQ7G7Y/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1613359732&sr=1-1In Volume VI of his acclaimed Hinges of History series, Thomas Cahill guides us through the thrilling period of the Renaissance and the Reformation (the late fourteenth to the early seventeenth century), so full of innovation and cultural change that the Western world would not experience its like again until the twentieth century. Beginning with the continent-wide disaster of the Black Death, Cahill traces the many developments in European thought and experience that served both the new humanism of the Renaissance and the seemingly abrupt religious alterations of the increasingly radical Reformation. This is an age of the most sublime artistic and scientific adventure, but also of newly powerful princes and armies and of newly found courage, as many thousands refuse to bow their heads to the religious pieties of the past.  It is an era of just-discovered continents and previously unknown peoples. More than anything, it is a time of individuality in which a whole culture must achieve a new balance if the West is to continue....more

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• 1162: Heretics and Heroes: 1of4: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World (Hinges of History Book 6) Kindle Edition.by Thomas Cahill (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Heretics and Heroes: 1of4: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World (Hinges of History Book 6) Kindle Edition.by Thomas Cahill  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Heretics-Heroes-Renaissance-Artists-Reformation-ebook/dp/B00CNQ7G7Y/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1613359732&sr=1-1In Volume VI of his acclaimed Hinges of History series, Thomas Cahill guides us through the thrilling period of the Renaissance and the Reformation (the late fourteenth to the early seventeenth century), so full of innovation and cultural change that the Western world would not experience its like again until the twentieth century. Beginning with the continent-wide disaster of the Black Death, Cahill traces the many developments in European thought and experience that served both the new humanism of the Renaissance and the seemingly abrupt religious alterations of the increasingly radical Reformation. This is an age of the most sublime artistic and scientific adventure, but also of newly powerful princes and armies and of newly found courage, as many thousands refuse to bow their heads to the religious pieties of the past.  It is an era of just-discovered continents and previously unknown peoples. More than anything, it is a time of individuality in which a whole culture must achieve a new balance if the West is to continue....more

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• 1161: Mermaid: 2of2: A Memoir of Resilience Kindle Edition. by Eileen Cronin (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Feb 15 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.Detail of a miniatures of men in a boat, and a mermaid holding fish. Image taken from f. 28v of Bestiary. Written in Latin. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowhttps://www.amazon.com/Mermaid-Memoir-Resilience-Eileen-Cronin-ebook/dp/B00DX5X91G/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1613359098&sr=1-1 Mermaid: 2of2: A Memoir of Resilience Kindle Edition. by Eileen Cronin  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition At the age of three, Eileen Cronin first realized that only she did not have legs. Her boisterous Catholic family accepted her situation as "God's will," treating her no differently than her ten siblings, as she "squiddled" through their 1960s Cincinnati home. But starting school, even wearing prosthetics, Cronin had to brave bullying and embarrassing questions. Thanks to her older brother's coaching, she handled a classmate's playground taunts with a smack from her lunchbox. As a teen, thrilled when boys asked her out, she was confused about what sexuality meant for her. She felt most comfortable and happiest relaxing and skinny dipping with her girlfriends, imagining herself "an elusive mermaid." The cause of her disability remained taboo, however, even as she looked toward the future and the possibility of her own family.In later years, as her mother battled mental illness and denied having taken the drug thalidomide--known to cause birth defects--Cronin felt apart from her family. After the death of a close brother, she turned to alcohol. Eventually, however, she found the strength to set out on her own, volunteering at hospitals and earning a PhD in clinical psychology.Reflecting with humor and grace on her youth, search for love, and quest for answers, Cronin spins a shimmering story of self-discovery and transformation....more

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• 1161: Mermaid: 1of2: A Memoir of Resilience Kindle Edition. by Eileen Cronin (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1660.Een schildpad, een krab, een zeemeermin met kam en spiegel en een zeemeerman die op een schelp blaast. Deze prent maakt deel uit van een album. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowhttps://www.amazon.com/Mermaid-Memoir-Resilience-Eileen-Cronin-ebook/dp/B00DX5X91G/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1613359098&sr=1-1 Mermaid: 1of2: A Memoir of Resilience Kindle Edition. by Eileen Cronin  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition At the age of three, Eileen Cronin first realized that only she did not have legs. Her boisterous Catholic family accepted her situation as "God's will," treating her no differently than her ten siblings, as she "squiddled" through their 1960s Cincinnati home. But starting school, even wearing prosthetics, Cronin had to brave bullying and embarrassing questions. Thanks to her older brother's coaching, she handled a classmate's playground taunts with a smack from her lunchbox. As a teen, thrilled when boys asked her out, she was confused about what sexuality meant for her. She felt most comfortable and happiest relaxing and skinny dipping with her girlfriends, imagining herself "an elusive mermaid." The cause of her disability remained taboo, however, even as she looked toward the future and the possibility of her own family.In later years, as her mother battled mental illness and denied having taken the drug thalidomide--known to cause birth defects--Cronin felt apart from her family. After the death of a close brother, she turned to alcohol. Eventually, however, she found the strength to set out on her own, volunteering at hospitals and earning a PhD in clinical psychology.Reflecting with humor and grace on her youth, search for love, and quest for answers, Cronin spins a shimmering story of self-discovery and transformation....more

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• 1160: 4/4 Enduring Courage: Ace Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker and the Dawn of the Age of Speed, by John F. Ross

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  Image:  DC-3 Aircraft at Houston Municipal Airport, Eastern AirlinesEnduring Courage: Ace Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker and the Dawn of the Age of Speed, by John F. Ross   At the turn of the twentieth century two new technologies—the car and airplane—took the nation's imagination by storm as they burst, like comets, into American life. The brave souls that leaped into these dangerous contraptions and pushed them to unexplored extremes became new American heroes: the race car driver and the flying ace.No individual did more to create and intensify these raw new roles than the tall, gangly Eddie Rickenbacker, who defied death over and over with such courage and pluck that a generation of Americans came to know his face better than the president's. The son of poor, German-speaking Swiss immigrants in Columbus, Ohio, Rickenbacker overcame the specter of his father's violent death, a debilitating handicap, and, later, accusations of being a German spy, to become the American military ace of aces in World War I and a Medal of Honor recipient. He and his high-spirited, all-too-short-lived pilot comrades, created a new kind of aviation warfare, as they pushed their machines to the edge of destruction—and often over it—without parachutes, radios, or radar. Enduring Courage is the electrifying story of the beginning of America's love affair with speed—and how one man above all the rest showed a nation the way forward. No simple daredevil, he was an innovator on the racetrack, a skilled aerial dualist and squadron commander, and founder of Eastern Air Lines. Decades after his heroics against the Red Baron's Flying Circus, he again showed a war-weary nation what it took to survive against nearly insurmountable odds when he and seven others endured a harrowing three-week ordeal adrift without food or water in the Pacific during World War II.  For the first time, Enduring Courage peels back the layers of hero to reveal the man, himself. With impeccable research and a gripping narrative, John F. Ross tells the unforgettable story of a man who pushed the limits of speed, endurance and courage and emerged as an American legend. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GET8TVI/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i1  ...more

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• 1160: 3/4 Enduring Courage: Ace Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker and the Dawn of the Age of Speed, by John F. Ross

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  Image: Racing car, c. 1915  Enduring Courage: Ace Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker and the Dawn of the Age of Speed, by John F. Ross  At the turn of the twentieth century two new technologies—the car and airplane—took the nation's imagination by storm as they burst, like comets, into American life. The brave souls that leaped into these dangerous contraptions and pushed them to unexplored extremes became new American heroes: the race car driver and the flying ace.No individual did more to create and intensify these raw new roles than the tall, gangly Eddie Rickenbacker, who defied death over and over with such courage and pluck that a generation of Americans came to know his face better than the president's. The son of poor, German-speaking Swiss immigrants in Columbus, Ohio, Rickenbacker overcame the specter of his father's violent death, a debilitating handicap, and, later, accusations of being a German spy, to become the American military ace of aces in World War I and a Medal of Honor recipient. He and his high-spirited, all-too-short-lived pilot comrades, created a new kind of aviation warfare, as they pushed their machines to the edge of destruction—and often over it—without parachutes, radios, or radar. Enduring Courage is the electrifying story of the beginning of America's love affair with speed—and how one man above all the rest showed a nation the way forward. No simple daredevil, he was an innovator on the racetrack, a skilled aerial dualist and squadron commander, and founder of Eastern Air Lines. Decades after his heroics against the Red Baron's Flying Circus, he again showed a war-weary nation what it took to survive against nearly insurmountable odds when he and seven others endured a harrowing three-week ordeal adrift without food or water in the Pacific during World War II.  For the first time, Enduring Courage peels back the layers of hero to reveal the man, himself. With impeccable research and a gripping narrative, John F. Ross tells the unforgettable story of a man who pushed the limits of speed, endurance and courage and emerged as an American legend. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GET8TVI/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i1  ...more

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• 1160: 2/4 Enduring Courage: Ace Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker and the Dawn of the Age of Speed, by John F. Ross

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  Image: S.C. aeroplane, 1916  Enduring Courage: Ace Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker and the Dawn of the Age of Speed, by John F. Ross   At the turn of the twentieth century two new technologies—the car and airplane—took the nation's imagination by storm as they burst, like comets, into American life. The brave souls that leaped into these dangerous contraptions and pushed them to unexplored extremes became new American heroes: the race car driver and the flying ace.No individual did more to create and intensify these raw new roles than the tall, gangly Eddie Rickenbacker, who defied death over and over with such courage and pluck that a generation of Americans came to know his face better than the president's. The son of poor, German-speaking Swiss immigrants in Columbus, Ohio, Rickenbacker overcame the specter of his father's violent death, a debilitating handicap, and, later, accusations of being a German spy, to become the American military ace of aces in World War I and a Medal of Honor recipient. He and his high-spirited, all-too-short-lived pilot comrades, created a new kind of aviation warfare, as they pushed their machines to the edge of destruction—and often over it—without parachutes, radios, or radar. Enduring Courage is the electrifying story of the beginning of America's love affair with speed—and how one man above all the rest showed a nation the way forward. No simple daredevil, he was an innovator on the racetrack, a skilled aerial dualist and squadron commander, and founder of Eastern Air Lines. Decades after his heroics against the Red Baron's Flying Circus, he again showed a war-weary nation what it took to survive against nearly insurmountable odds when he and seven others endured a harrowing three-week ordeal adrift without food or water in the Pacific during World War II.  For the first time, Enduring Courage peels back the layers of hero to reveal the man, himself. With impeccable research and a gripping narrative, John F. Ross tells the unforgettable story of a man who pushed the limits of speed, endurance and courage and emerged as an American legend. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GET8TVI/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i1 ...more

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• 1160: 1/4 Enduring Courage: Ace Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker and the Dawn of the Age of Speed, by John F. Ross

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  Feb 15 2021

  Enduring Courage: Ace Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker and the Dawn of the Age of Speed, by John F. Ross   At the turn of the twentieth century two new technologies—the car and airplane—took the nation's imagination by storm as they burst, like comets, into American life. The brave souls that leaped into these dangerous contraptions and pushed them to unexplored extremes became new American heroes: the race car driver and the flying ace.No individual did more to create and intensify these raw new roles than the tall, gangly Eddie Rickenbacker, who defied death over and over with such courage and pluck that a generation of Americans came to know his face better than the president's. The son of poor, German-speaking Swiss immigrants in Columbus, Ohio, Rickenbacker overcame the specter of his father's violent death, a debilitating handicap, and, later, accusations of being a German spy, to become the American military ace of aces in World War I and a Medal of Honor recipient. He and his high-spirited, all-too-short-lived pilot comrades, created a new kind of aviation warfare, as they pushed their machines to the edge of destruction—and often over it—without parachutes, radios, or radar. Enduring Courage is the electrifying story of the beginning of America's love affair with speed—and how one man above all the rest showed a nation the way forward. No simple daredevil, he was an innovator on the racetrack, a skilled aerial dualist and squadron commander, and founder of Eastern Air Lines. Decades after his heroics against the Red Baron's Flying Circus, he again showed a war-weary nation what it took to survive against nearly insurmountable odds when he and seven others endured a harrowing three-week ordeal adrift without food or water in the Pacific during World War II.  For the first time, Enduring Courage peels back the layers of hero to reveal the man, himself. With impeccable research and a gripping narrative, John F. Ross tells the unforgettable story of a man who pushed the limits of speed, endurance and courage and emerged as an American legend. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GET8TVI/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_ ...more

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• 1159: 4/4 The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream, by Thomas L. Dyja

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  Feb 14 2021

  Image:  Jimmy Carter and Mayor Richard J. Daley at the Illinois State Democratic Convention in Chicago, Illinois  The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream,by Thomas L. Dyja Before air travel overtook trains, nearly every coast-to-coast journey included a stop in Chicago, and this flow of people and commodities made it the crucible for American culture and innovation. In luminous prose, The Chicago native Thomas Dyja re-creates the story of the city in its postwar prime and explains its profound impact on modern America—from Chess Records to Playboy, McDonald’s to the University of Chicago. Populated with an incredible cast of characters, including Mahalia Jackson, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Chuck Berry, Sun Ra, Simone de Beauvoir, Nelson Algren, Gwendolyn Brooks, Studs Turkel, and Mayor Richard J. Daley, The Third Coast recalls the prominence of the Windy City in all its grandeur.https://www.amazon.com/Third-Coast-Chicago-Built-American-ebook/dp/B008EKOKMW/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=… ...more

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• 1159: 3/4 The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream, by Thomas L. Dyja

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  Feb 14 2021

  Image:     Howlin’ Wolf performing in 1972  The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream,by Thomas L. Dyja  Before air travel overtook trains, nearly every coast-to-coast journey included a stop in Chicago, and this flow of people and commodities made it the crucible for American culture and innovation. In luminous prose, The Chicago native Thomas Dyja re-creates the story of the city in its postwar prime and explains its profound impact on modern America—from Chess Records to Playboy, McDonald’s to the University of Chicago. Populated with an incredible cast of characters, including Mahalia Jackson, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Chuck Berry, Sun Ra, Simone de Beauvoir, Nelson Algren, Gwendolyn Brooks, Studs Turkel, and Mayor Richard J. Daley, The Third Coast recalls the prominence of the Windy City in all its grandeur.https://www.amazon.com/Third-Coast-Chicago-Built-American-ebook/dp/B008EKOKMW/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=…...more

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• 1159: 2/4 The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream, by Thomas L. Dyja

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  Feb 14 2021

  Image:   Map showing the burnt district in Chicago : published for the benefit of the Relief Fund In the ditty about the origin of the Great Chicago Fire, the song goes:Late last night, when we were all in bed,Old Lady Leary left a lantern in the shed.Cow kicked it over, and as she did she said,“There’ll be a hot time in the old towntonight.”  The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream,by Thomas L. Dyja Before air travel overtook trains, nearly every coast-to-coast journey included a stop in Chicago, and this flow of people and commodities made it the crucible for American culture and innovation. In luminous prose, The Chicago native Thomas Dyja re-creates the story of the city in its postwar prime and explains its profound impact on modern America—from Chess Records to Playboy, McDonald’s to the University of Chicago. Populated with an incredible cast of characters, including Mahalia Jackson, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Chuck Berry, Sun Ra, Simone de Beauvoir, Nelson Algren, Gwendolyn Brooks, Studs Turkel, and Mayor Richard J. Daley, The Third Coast recalls the prominence of the Windy City in all its grandeur.https://www.amazon.com/Third-Coast-Chicago-Built-American-ebook/dp/B008EKOKMW/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=…  ...more

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• 1159: 1/4 The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream, by Thomas L. Dyja

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  Feb 14 2021

  Image:  Sun Ra, c. 1973   The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream,by Thomas L. Dyja  Before air travel overtook trains, nearly every coast-to-coast journey included a stop in Chicago, and this flow of people and commodities made it the crucible for American culture and innovation. In luminous prose, the The Chicago native Thomas Dyja re-creates the story of the city in its postwar prime and explains its profound impact on modern America—from Chess Records to Playboy, McDonald’s to the University of Chicago. Populated with an incredible cast of characters, including Mahalia Jackson, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Chuck Berry, Sun Ra, Simone de Beauvoir, Nelson Algren, Gwendolyn Brooks, Studs Turkel, and Mayor Richard J. Daley, The Third Coast recalls the prominence of the Windy City in all its grandeur.https://www.amazon.com/Third-Coast-Chicago-Built-American-ebook/dp/B008EKOKMW/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=…...more

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• 1158: 4/4 Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats, by Kristen Iversen

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  Feb 14 2021

  Image: A weapons-grade ring of electrorefined plutonium, typical of the rings refined at Los Alamos and sent to Rocky Flats for fabrication. The ring has a purity of 99.96%, weighs 5.3 kg, and is approx 11 cm in diameter. It is enough plutonium for one bomb core. The ring shape helps with criticality safety (less concentrated material). Permissions:  below.  Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats,by Kristen Iversen  “An intimate and deeply human memoir that shows why we should all be concerned about nuclear safety, and the dangers of ignoring science in the name of national security.”—Rebecca Skloot, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks A shocking account of the government’s attempt to conceal the effects of the toxic waste released by a secret nuclear weapons plant in Colorado and a community’s vain search for justice—soon to be a feature documentaryKristen Iversen grew up in a small Colorado town close to Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant once designated "the most contaminated site in America." Full Body Burden is the story of a childhood and adolescence in the shadow of the Cold War, in a landscape at once startlingly beautiful and—unknown to those who lived there—tainted with invisible yet deadly particles of plutonium. It's also a book about the destructive power of secrets—both family and government. Her father's hidden liquor bottles, the strange cancers in children in the neighborhood, the truth about what was made at Rocky Flats—best not to inquire too deeply into any of it. But as Iversen grew older, she began to ask questions and discovered some disturbing realities.Based on extensive interviews, FBI and EPA documents, and class-action testimony, this taut, beautifully written book is both captivating and unnerving.https://www.amazon.com/Full-Body-Burden-Growing-Nuclear-ebook/dp/B006L7I4AE/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1613259803&sr=8-1 ..  .. ..  Permissions:  This image comes from Los Alamos National Laboratory, a national laboratory privately operated under contract from the United States Department of Energy by Los Alamos National Security, LLCbetweeen October 1, 2007 and October 31, 2018. LANL allowed anyone to use it for any purpose, provided that the copyright holder is properly attributed. Redistribution, derivative work, commercial use, and all other use is permitted. LANL requires the following text be used when crediting images to it: (link) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plutonium_ring.jpg   Unless otherwise indicated, this information has been authored by an employee or employees of the Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS), operator of the Los Alamos National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-AC52-06NA25396 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The U.S. Government has rights to use, reproduce, and distribute this information. The public may copy and use this information without charge, provided that this Notice and any statement of authorship are reproduced on all copies. Neither the Government nor LANS makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any liability or responsibility for the use of this information.  Scanned from: Christensen, Dana (1995). The Future of Plutonium Technology. Los Alamos Science (23): 170.  ...more

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• 1158: 3/4 Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats, by Kristen Iversen

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  Feb 14 2021

  Image:  Rocky Flats Plant, Plutonium Fabrication, Central section of Plant, Golden, Jefferson County, CO Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats,by Kristen Iversen  “An intimate and deeply human memoir that shows why we should all be concerned about nuclear safety, and the dangers of ignoring science in the name of national security.”—Rebecca Skloot, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks A shocking account of the government’s attempt to conceal the effects of the toxic waste released by a secret nuclear weapons plant in Colorado and a community’s vain search for justice—soon to be a feature documentaryKristen Iversen grew up in a small Colorado town close to Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant once designated "the most contaminated site in America." Full Body Burden is the story of a childhood and adolescence in the shadow of the Cold War, in a landscape at once startlingly beautiful and—unknown to those who lived there—tainted with invisible yet deadly particles of plutonium. It's also a book about the destructive power of secrets—both family and government. Her father's hidden liquor bottles, the strange cancers in children in the neighborhood, the truth about what was made at Rocky Flats—best not to inquire too deeply into any of it. But as Iversen grew older, she began to ask questions and discovered some disturbing realities.Based on extensive interviews, FBI and EPA documents, and class-action testimony, this taut, beautifully written book is both captivating and unnerving.https://www.amazon.com/Full-Body-Burden-Growing-Nuclear-ebook/dp/B006L7I4AE/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1613259803&sr=8-1...more

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• 1158: 2/4 Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats, by Kristen Iversen

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  Feb 14 2021

  Image:  Rocky Flats Plant, Bounded by Indiana Street & Routes 93, 128 & 72, Golden, Jefferson County, CO  Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats,by Kristen Iversen  “An intimate and deeply human memoir that shows why we should all be concerned about nuclear safety, and the dangers of ignoring science in the name of national security.”—Rebecca Skloot, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks A shocking account of the government’s attempt to conceal the effects of the toxic waste released by a secret nuclear weapons plant in Colorado and a community’s vain search for justice—soon to be a feature documentaryKristen Iversen grew up in a small Colorado town close to Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant once designated "the most contaminated site in America." Full Body Burden is the story of a childhood and adolescence in the shadow of the Cold War, in a landscape at once startlingly beautiful and—unknown to those who lived there—tainted with invisible yet deadly particles of plutonium. It's also a book about the destructive power of secrets—both family and government. Her father's hidden liquor bottles, the strange cancers in children in the neighborhood, the truth about what was made at Rocky Flats—best not to inquire too deeply into any of it. But as Iversen grew older, she began to ask questions and discovered some disturbing realities.Based on extensive interviews, FBI and EPA documents, and class-action testimony, this taut, beautifully written book is both captivating and unnerving.https://www.amazon.com/Full-Body-Burden-Growing-Nuclear-ebook/dp/B006L7I4AE/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1613259803&sr=8-1 ...more

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• 1158: 1/4 Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats, by Kristen Iversen

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  Feb 14 2021

  Image:  Rocky Flats Plant, Bounded by Indiana Street & Routes 93, 128 & 72, Golden, Jefferson County, CO   Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats,by Kristen Iversen  “An intimate and deeply human memoir that shows why we should all be concerned about nuclear safety, and the dangers of ignoring science in the name of national security.”—Rebecca Skloot, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks A shocking account of the government’s attempt to conceal the effects of the toxic waste released by a secret nuclear weapons plant in Colorado and a community’s vain search for justice—soon to be a feature documentaryKristen Iversen grew up in a small Colorado town close to Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant once designated "the most contaminated site in America." Full Body Burden is the story of a childhood and adolescence in the shadow of the Cold War, in a landscape at once startlingly beautiful and—unknown to those who lived there—tainted with invisible yet deadly particles of plutonium. It's also a book about the destructive power of secrets—both family and government. Her father's hidden liquor bottles, the strange cancers in children in the neighborhood, the truth about what was made at Rocky Flats—best not to inquire too deeply into any of it. But as Iversen grew older, she began to ask questions and discovered some disturbing realities.Based on extensive interviews, FBI and EPA documents, and class-action testimony, this taut, beautifully written book is both captivating and unnerving.https://www.amazon.com/Full-Body-Burden-Growing-Nuclear-ebook/dp/B006L7I4AE/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1613259803&sr=8-1 ...more

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• 1157: 3/3 We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People (American Empire Project), by Peter Van Buren

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  Feb 14 2021

  Image: M1A1 Abrams pose for a photo under the "Hands of Victory" in Ceremony Square, Baghdad, Iraq.  We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People (American Empire Project), by Peter Van Buren   A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title.From a State Department insider, the first account of our blundering efforts to rebuild Iraq—a shocking and rollicking true-life tale of Americans abroad.Charged with rebuilding Iraq, would you spend taxpayer money on a sports mural in Baghdad's most dangerous neighborhood to promote reconciliation through art? How about an isolated milk factory that cannot get its milk to market? Or a pastry class training women to open cafés on bombed-out streets without water or electricity?According to Peter Van Buren, we bought all these projects and more in the most expensive hearts-and-minds campaign since the Marshall Plan. We Meant Well is his eyewitness account of the civilian side of the surge—that surreal and bollixed attempt to defeat terrorism and win over Iraqis by reconstructing the world we had just destroyed. Leading a State Department Provincial Reconstruction Team on its quixotic mission, Van Buren details, with laser-like irony, his yearlong encounter with pointless projects, bureaucratic fumbling, overwhelmed soldiers, and oblivious administrators secluded in the world's largest embassy, who fail to realize that you can't rebuild a country without first picking up the trash.Darkly funny while deadly serious, We Meant Well is a tragicomic voyage of ineptitude and corruption that leaves its writer—and readers—appalled and disillusioned but wiser.https://www.amazon.com/We-Meant-Well-American-Project-ebook/dp/B004ULOJA2/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1613259346&sr=8-1..  .. ..  ...more

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• 1157: 2/3 We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People (American Empire Project), by Peter Van Buren

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  Feb 14 2021

  Image:  العربية: أصيب جسر الصرافية بتفجير انتحاري في شاحنة أدت إلى تدمير جزئي للجسر ومقتل ما لايقل عن 10 اشخاص وجرح حوالي 26 شخصا وسقوط عدد من السيارات في نهر دجلة والحاق أضرار بالمنازل المجاورة بالجسر ولاسيما من جهة منطقة العطيفية. Post-US invasion: Al-Sarafiya bridge 13th April 2007,destroyed as a result of an explosion caused by a car bomb   We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People (American Empire Project), by Peter Van Buren   A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title.From a State Department insider, the first account of our blundering efforts to rebuild Iraq—a shocking and rollicking true-life tale of Americans abroad.Charged with rebuilding Iraq, would you spend taxpayer money on a sports mural in Baghdad's most dangerous neighborhood to promote reconciliation through art? How about an isolated milk factory that cannot get its milk to market? Or a pastry class training women to open cafés on bombed-out streets without water or electricity?According to Peter Van Buren, we bought all these projects and more in the most expensive hearts-and-minds campaign since the Marshall Plan. We Meant Well is his eyewitness account of the civilian side of the surge—that surreal and bollixed attempt to defeat terrorism and win over Iraqis by reconstructing the world we had just destroyed. Leading a State Department Provincial Reconstruction Team on its quixotic mission, Van Buren details, with laser-like irony, his yearlong encounter with pointless projects, bureaucratic fumbling, overwhelmed soldiers, and oblivious administrators secluded in the world's largest embassy, who fail to realize that you can't rebuild a country without first picking up the trash.Darkly funny while deadly serious, We Meant Well is a tragicomic voyage of ineptitude and corruption that leaves its writer—and readers—appalled and disillusioned but wiser.https://www.amazon.com/We-Meant-Well-American-Project-ebook/dp/B004ULOJA2/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1613259346&sr=8-1..  .. ..  ...more

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• 1157: 1/3 We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People (American Empire Project), by Peter Van Buren

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  Feb 14 2021

  Image: Bombed-our street, Baghdad.  UN photo; and work of a U.S. Air Force Airman or employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image or file is in the public domain in the United States. .  We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People (American Empire Project), by Peter Van Buren   A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title.From a State Department insider, the first account of our blundering efforts to rebuild Iraq—a shocking and rollicking true-life tale of Americans abroad.Charged with rebuilding Iraq, would you spend taxpayer money on a sports mural in Baghdad's most dangerous neighborhood to promote reconciliation through art? How about an isolated milk factory that cannot get its milk to market? Or a pastry class training women to open cafés on bombed-out streets without water or electricity?According to Peter Van Buren, we bought all these projects and more in the most expensive hearts-and-minds campaign since the Marshall Plan. We Meant Well is his eyewitness account of the civilian side of the surge—that surreal and bollixed attempt to defeat terrorism and win over Iraqis by reconstructing the world we had just destroyed. Leading a State Department Provincial Reconstruction Team on its quixotic mission, Van Buren details, with laser-like irony, his yearlong encounter with pointless projects, bureaucratic fumbling, overwhelmed soldiers, and oblivious administrators secluded in the world's largest embassy, who fail to realize that you can't rebuild a country without first picking up the trash.Darkly funny while deadly serious, We Meant Well is a tragicomic voyage of ineptitude and corruption that leaves its writer—and readers—appalled and disillusioned but wiser.https://www.amazon.com/We-Meant-Well-American-Project-ebook/dp/B004ULOJA2/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1613259346&sr=8-1...more

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• 1156: 4/4 Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York, by Ted Steinberg

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  Feb 14 2021

  Image:  New York City — 40 Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues, from Salmon Tower at 11 West 42 Street, Manhattan. Berenice Abbott, photographer. September 08, 1938  Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York, by Ted Steinberg  A “fascinating, encyclopedic history . . . of greater New York City through an ecological lens” (Publishers Weekly, starred review)—the sweeping story of one of the most man-made spots on earth.Gotham Unbound recounts the four-century history of how hundreds of square miles of open marshlands became home to six percent of the nation’s population. Ted Steinberg brings a vanished New York back to vivid, rich life. You will see the metropolitan area anew, not just as a dense urban goliath but as an estuary once home to miles of oyster reefs, wolves, whales, and blueberry bogs. That world gave way to an onslaught managed by thousands, from Governor John Montgomerie, who turned water into land, and John Randel, who imposed a grid on Manhattan, to Robert Moses, Charles Urstadt, Donald Trump, and Michael Bloomberg.“Weighty and wonderful . . . Resting on a sturdy foundation of research and imagination, Steinberg’s volume begins with Henry Hudson’s arrival aboard the Half Moon in 1609 and ends with another transformative event—Hurricane Sandy in 2012” (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland). This book is a powerful account of the relentless development that New Yorkers wrought as they plunged headfirst into the floodplain and transformed untold amounts of salt marsh and shellfish beds into a land jam-packed with people, asphalt, and steel, and the reeds and gulls that thrive among them.With metropolitan areas across the globe on a collision course with rising seas, Gotham Unbound helps explain how one of the most important cities in the world has ended up in such a perilous situation. “Steinberg challenges the conventional arguments that geography is destiny. . . .  And he makes the strong case that for all the ecological advantages of urban living, hyperdensity by itself is not necessarily a sound environmental strategy” (The New York Times).https://www.amazon.com/Gotham-Unbound-Ecological-History-Greater-ebook/dp/B00HB62NM4/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1613259466&sr=8-1..  ..  ..    ...more

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• 1156: 3/4 Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York, by Ted Steinberg

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  Feb 14 2021

  Image:  Henry Hudson's Half Moon, 1609. Ship at anchor in Hudson River, New York.  Indian canoes approaching Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York, by Ted Steinberg  A “fascinating, encyclopedic history . . . of greater New York City through an ecological lens” (Publishers Weekly, starred review)—the sweeping story of one of the most man-made spots on earth.Gotham Unbound recounts the four-century history of how hundreds of square miles of open marshlands became home to six percent of the nation’s population. Ted Steinberg brings a vanished New York back to vivid, rich life. You will see the metropolitan area anew, not just as a dense urban goliath but as an estuary once home to miles of oyster reefs, wolves, whales, and blueberry bogs. That world gave way to an onslaught managed by thousands, from Governor John Montgomerie, who turned water into land, and John Randel, who imposed a grid on Manhattan, to Robert Moses, Charles Urstadt, Donald Trump, and Michael Bloomberg.“Weighty and wonderful . . . Resting on a sturdy foundation of research and imagination, Steinberg’s volume begins with Henry Hudson’s arrival aboard the Half Moon in 1609 and ends with another transformative event—Hurricane Sandy in 2012” (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland). This book is a powerful account of the relentless development that New Yorkers wrought as they plunged headfirst into the floodplain and transformed untold amounts of salt marsh and shellfish beds into a land jam-packed with people, asphalt, and steel, and the reeds and gulls that thrive among them.With metropolitan areas across the globe on a collision course with rising seas, Gotham Unbound helps explain how one of the most important cities in the world has ended up in such a perilous situation. “Steinberg challenges the conventional arguments that geography is destiny. . . .  And he makes the strong case that for all the ecological advantages of urban living, hyperdensity by itself is not necessarily a sound environmental strategy” (The New York Times).https://www.amazon.com/Gotham-Unbound-Ecological-History-Greater-ebook/dp/B00HB62NM4/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1613259466&sr=8-1..  ..  ..  ...more

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• 1156: 2/4 Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York, by Ted Steinberg

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  Feb 14 2021

  Image: New York when it was the oyster capital of the world  Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York, by Ted Steinberg  A “fascinating, encyclopedic history . . . of greater New York City through an ecological lens” (Publishers Weekly, starred review)—the sweeping story of one of the most man-made spots on earth.Gotham Unbound recounts the four-century history of how hundreds of square miles of open marshlands became home to six percent of the nation’s population. Ted Steinberg brings a vanished New York back to vivid, rich life. You will see the metropolitan area anew, not just as a dense urban goliath but as an estuary once home to miles of oyster reefs, wolves, whales, and blueberry bogs. That world gave way to an onslaught managed by thousands, from Governor John Montgomerie, who turned water into land, and John Randel, who imposed a grid on Manhattan, to Robert Moses, Charles Urstadt, Donald Trump, and Michael Bloomberg.“Weighty and wonderful . . . Resting on a sturdy foundation of research and imagination, Steinberg’s volume begins with Henry Hudson’s arrival aboard the Half Moon in 1609 and ends with another transformative event—Hurricane Sandy in 2012” (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland). This book is a powerful account of the relentless development that New Yorkers wrought as they plunged headfirst into the floodplain and transformed untold amounts of salt marsh and shellfish beds into a land jam-packed with people, asphalt, and steel, and the reeds and gulls that thrive among them.With metropolitan areas across the globe on a collision course with rising seas, Gotham Unbound helps explain how one of the most important cities in the world has ended up in such a perilous situation. “Steinberg challenges the conventional arguments that geography is destiny. . . .  And he makes the strong case that for all the ecological advantages of urban living, hyperdensity by itself is not necessarily a sound environmental strategy” (The New York Times).https://www.amazon.com/Gotham-Unbound-Ecological-History-Greater-ebook/dp/B00HB62NM4/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1613259466&sr=8-1...more

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• 1156: 1/4 Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York, by Ted Steinberg

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  Feb 14 2021

  Image:  North American gray wolf  Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York, by Ted Steinberg  A “fascinating, encyclopedic history . . . of greater New York City through an ecological lens” (Publishers Weekly, starred review)—the sweeping story of one of the most man-made spots on earth.Gotham Unbound recounts the four-century history of how hundreds of square miles of open marshlands became home to six percent of the nation’s population. Ted Steinberg brings a vanished New York back to vivid, rich life. You will see the metropolitan area anew, not just as a dense urban goliath but as an estuary once home to miles of oyster reefs, wolves, whales, and blueberry bogs. That world gave way to an onslaught managed by thousands, from Governor John Montgomerie, who turned water into land, and John Randel, who imposed a grid on Manhattan, to Robert Moses, Charles Urstadt, Donald Trump, and Michael Bloomberg.“Weighty and wonderful . . . Resting on a sturdy foundation of research and imagination, Steinberg’s volume begins with Henry Hudson’s arrival aboard the Half Moon in 1609 and ends with another transformative event—Hurricane Sandy in 2012” (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland). This book is a powerful account of the relentless development that New Yorkers wrought as they plunged headfirst into the floodplain and transformed untold amounts of salt marsh and shellfish beds into a land jam-packed with people, asphalt, and steel, and the reeds and gulls that thrive among them.With metropolitan areas across the globe on a collision course with rising seas, Gotham Unbound helps explain how one of the most important cities in the world has ended up in such a perilous situation. “Steinberg challenges the conventional arguments that geography is destiny. . . .  And he makes the strong case that for all the ecological advantages of urban living, hyperdensity by itself is not necessarily a sound environmental strategy” (The New York Times).https://www.amazon.com/Gotham-Unbound-Ecological-History-Greater-ebook/dp/B00HB62NM4/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1613259466&sr=8-1...more

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• 1155: Fallujah Awakens: 4of4: Marines, Sheiks, and the Battle Against al Qaeda Kindle Edition. by Bill Ardolino (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1932. Iraq. (Mesopotamia). Baghdad. Views, street scenes, and types. Iraq types. Coming off the Katah Bridge  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Fallujah Awakens: 4of4: Marines, Sheiks, and the Battle Against al Qaeda Kindle Edition. by Bill Ardolino  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Fallujah-Awakens-Marines-Sheiks-Against-ebook/dp/B00C4GUXQE/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1613266942&sr=1-1The cradle of an insurgency that plunged Iraq into years of chaos and bloodshed, Fallujah conjures up images of the brutal house-to-house fighting that occurred during the 2004 U.S. invasion of the iconic city. But attacks in the area actually peaked two years later, when American and Iraqi government forces struggled with a reinvigorated insurgency and the prospect of premature withdrawal by U.S. forces. Fallujah Awakens tells the story of the remarkable turnaround that followed. Journalist Bill Ardolino explains how local tribal leaders and U.S. Marines forged a surprising alliance that helped secure the famous battleground. It is one of the few books to recount events from both American and Iraqi perspectives.Based on more than120 interviews with Iraqis and U.S. Marines, Ardolino describes how a company of reservists, led by a hospital equipment salesman from Michigan, succeeded where previous efforts had stalled. Circumstance combined with smart, charismatic leadership enabled Americans to build relationships with members of a Sunni tribe—once written off as dangerous and intractable— who pushed al Qaeda and other insurgents from their notoriously rebellious area.Accidental killings, intertribal rivalries, insurgents, and intrigue all conspired to undue the tenuous alliance forged between the Americans and tribesmen on Fallujah’s Peninsula. But the partnership was cemented after a Marine commander’s risky decision to welcome nearly 100 injured civilians onto a secure American facility after a ruthless chemical attack by al Qaeda.The book’s gripping storyline will appeal to readers of historical nonfiction. Its exhaustive documentation will prove valuable to military students, analysts, and historians and will help policy makers better understand what is possible in counterinsurgency. Photographs and maps further enhance the reader’s understanding of everything from tribal dynamics to the geography of firefights....more

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• 1155: Fallujah Awakens: 3of4: Marines, Sheiks, and the Battle Against al Qaeda Kindle Edition. by Bill Ardolino (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Feb 14 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1932. Hilla  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Fallujah Awakens: 3of4: Marines, Sheiks, and the Battle Against al Qaeda Kindle Edition. by Bill Ardolino  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Fallujah-Awakens-Marines-Sheiks-Against-ebook/dp/B00C4GUXQE/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1613266942&sr=1-1The cradle of an insurgency that plunged Iraq into years of chaos and bloodshed, Fallujah conjures up images of the brutal house-to-house fighting that occurred during the 2004 U.S. invasion of the iconic city. But attacks in the area actually peaked two years later, when American and Iraqi government forces struggled with a reinvigorated insurgency and the prospect of premature withdrawal by U.S. forces. Fallujah Awakens tells the story of the remarkable turnaround that followed. Journalist Bill Ardolino explains how local tribal leaders and U.S. Marines forged a surprising alliance that helped secure the famous battleground. It is one of the few books to recount events from both American and Iraqi perspectives.Based on more than120 interviews with Iraqis and U.S. Marines, Ardolino describes how a company of reservists, led by a hospital equipment salesman from Michigan, succeeded where previous efforts had stalled. Circumstance combined with smart, charismatic leadership enabled Americans to build relationships with members of a Sunni tribe—once written off as dangerous and intractable— who pushed al Qaeda and other insurgents from their notoriously rebellious area.Accidental killings, intertribal rivalries, insurgents, and intrigue all conspired to undue the tenuous alliance forged between the Americans and tribesmen on Fallujah’s Peninsula. But the partnership was cemented after a Marine commander’s risky decision to welcome nearly 100 injured civilians onto a secure American facility after a ruthless chemical attack by al Qaeda.The book’s gripping storyline will appeal to readers of historical nonfiction. Its exhaustive documentation will prove valuable to military students, analysts, and historians and will help policy makers better understand what is possible in counterinsurgency. Photographs and maps further enhance the reader’s understanding of everything from tribal dynamics to the geography of firefights....more

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• 1155: Fallujah Awakens: 2of4: Marines, Sheiks, and the Battle Against al Qaeda Kindle Edition. by Bill Ardolino (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1932. 10/6/32 at the palace etc., Baghdad, parade  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Fallujah Awakens: 2of4: Marines, Sheiks, and the Battle Against al Qaeda Kindle Edition. by Bill Ardolino  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Fallujah-Awakens-Marines-Sheiks-Against-ebook/dp/B00C4GUXQE/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1613266942&sr=1-1The cradle of an insurgency that plunged Iraq into years of chaos and bloodshed, Fallujah conjures up images of the brutal house-to-house fighting that occurred during the 2004 U.S. invasion of the iconic city. But attacks in the area actually peaked two years later, when American and Iraqi government forces struggled with a reinvigorated insurgency and the prospect of premature withdrawal by U.S. forces. Fallujah Awakens tells the story of the remarkable turnaround that followed. Journalist Bill Ardolino explains how local tribal leaders and U.S. Marines forged a surprising alliance that helped secure the famous battleground. It is one of the few books to recount events from both American and Iraqi perspectives.Based on more than120 interviews with Iraqis and U.S. Marines, Ardolino describes how a company of reservists, led by a hospital equipment salesman from Michigan, succeeded where previous efforts had stalled. Circumstance combined with smart, charismatic leadership enabled Americans to build relationships with members of a Sunni tribe—once written off as dangerous and intractable— who pushed al Qaeda and other insurgents from their notoriously rebellious area.Accidental killings, intertribal rivalries, insurgents, and intrigue all conspired to undue the tenuous alliance forged between the Americans and tribesmen on Fallujah’s Peninsula. But the partnership was cemented after a Marine commander’s risky decision to welcome nearly 100 injured civilians onto a secure American facility after a ruthless chemical attack by al Qaeda.The book’s gripping storyline will appeal to readers of historical nonfiction. Its exhaustive documentation will prove valuable to military students, analysts, and historians and will help policy makers better understand what is possible in counterinsurgency. Photographs and maps further enhance the reader’s understanding of everything from tribal dynamics to the geography of firefights....more

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• 1155: Fallujah Awakens: 1of4: Marines, Sheiks, and the Battle Against al Qaeda Kindle Edition. by Bill Ardolino (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1932. 10/6/32 at the palace etc., Baghdad, British officers  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Fallujah Awakens: 1of4: Marines, Sheiks, and the Battle Against al Qaeda Kindle Edition. by Bill Ardolino  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Fallujah-Awakens-Marines-Sheiks-Against-ebook/dp/B00C4GUXQE/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1613266942&sr=1-1The cradle of an insurgency that plunged Iraq into years of chaos and bloodshed, Fallujah conjures up images of the brutal house-to-house fighting that occurred during the 2004 U.S. invasion of the iconic city. But attacks in the area actually peaked two years later, when American and Iraqi government forces struggled with a reinvigorated insurgency and the prospect of premature withdrawal by U.S. forces. Fallujah Awakens tells the story of the remarkable turnaround that followed. Journalist Bill Ardolino explains how local tribal leaders and U.S. Marines forged a surprising alliance that helped secure the famous battleground. It is one of the few books to recount events from both American and Iraqi perspectives.Based on more than120 interviews with Iraqis and U.S. Marines, Ardolino describes how a company of reservists, led by a hospital equipment salesman from Michigan, succeeded where previous efforts had stalled. Circumstance combined with smart, charismatic leadership enabled Americans to build relationships with members of a Sunni tribe—once written off as dangerous and intractable— who pushed al Qaeda and other insurgents from their notoriously rebellious area.Accidental killings, intertribal rivalries, insurgents, and intrigue all conspired to undue the tenuous alliance forged between the Americans and tribesmen on Fallujah’s Peninsula. But the partnership was cemented after a Marine commander’s risky decision to welcome nearly 100 injured civilians onto a secure American facility after a ruthless chemical attack by al Qaeda.The book’s gripping storyline will appeal to readers of historical nonfiction. Its exhaustive documentation will prove valuable to military students, analysts, and historians and will help policy makers better understand what is possible in counterinsurgency. Photographs and maps further enhance the reader’s understanding of everything from tribal dynamics to the geography of firefights....more

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• 1154: Colonel Roosevelt: 2of2: (Theodore Roosevelt Series Book 3) Kindle Edition. by Edmund Morris (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1918. Richard Derby Jr., Kermit Roosevelt, Mr. & Mrs. Emlen Roosevelt, and Edith Roosevelt on the porch at Sagamore Hill, 1918. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Colonel Roosevelt: 2of2:  (Theodore Roosevelt Series Book 3) Kindle Edition. by Edmund Morris  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Colonel-Roosevelt-Theodore-Book-ebook/dp/B003EY7IQI/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= This biography by Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning author of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt and Theodore Rex, marks the completion of a trilogy sure to stand as definitive. Of all our great presidents, Theodore Roosevelt is the only one whose greatness increased out of office. What other president has written forty books, hunted lions, founded a third political party, survived an assassin’s bullet, and explored an unknown river longer than the Rhine? Packed with more adventure, variety, drama, humor, and tragedy than a big novel, yet documented down to the smallest fact, this masterwork recounts the last decade of perhaps the most amazing life in American history....more

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• 1154: Colonel Roosevelt: 1of2: (Theodore Roosevelt Series Book 3) Kindle Edition. by Edmund Morris (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication. 1905.Haying at Sagamore Hill. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Colonel Roosevelt: 1of2:  (Theodore Roosevelt Series Book 3) Kindle Edition. by Edmund Morris  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Colonel-Roosevelt-Theodore-Book-ebook/dp/B003EY7IQI/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= This biography by Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning author of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt and Theodore Rex, marks the completion of a trilogy sure to stand as definitive. Of all our great presidents, Theodore Roosevelt is the only one whose greatness increased out of office. What other president has written forty books, hunted lions, founded a third political party, survived an assassin’s bullet, and explored an unknown river longer than the Rhine? Packed with more adventure, variety, drama, humor, and tragedy than a big novel, yet documented down to the smallest fact, this masterwork recounts the last decade of perhaps the most amazing life in American history....more

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• 1154: #ClassicKenCroswell: 2 of 2: How to study the earliest oxygen-starved galaxies that are too distant, too dim.. Ken Croswell, Sky & Telescope

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1997.(September 16, 1997) Penetrating 25,000 light-years of obscuring dust and myriad stars, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided the clearest view yet of one of the largest young clusters of stars inside our Milky Way galaxy, located less than 100 light-years from the very center of the Galaxy. Having the equivalent mass greater than 10,000 stars like our sun, the monster cluster is ten times larger than typical young star clusters scattered throughout our Milky Way. It is destined to be ripped apart in just a few million years by gravitational tidal forces in the galaxy's core. But in its brief lifetime it shines more brightly than any other star cluster in the Galaxy. Quintuplet Cluster is 4 million years old. It has stars on the verge of blowing up as supernovae. It is the home of the brightest star seen in the galaxy, called the Pistol star. This image was taken in infrared light by Hubble's NICMOS camera in September 1997. The false colors correspond to infrared wavelengths. The galactic center stars are white, the red stars are enshrouded in dust or behind dust, and the blue stars are foreground stars between us and the Milky Way's center. The cluster is hidden from direct view behind black dust clouds in the constellation Sagittarius. If the cluster could be seen from earth it would appear to the naked eye as a 3rd magnitude star, 1/6th of a full moon's diameter apart...Image # : PR99-30B http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow#ClassicKenCroswell: 2 of 2:  How to study the earliest oxygen-starved  galaxies that are too distant, too dim.. Ken Croswell, Sky & Telescope http://www.skyandtelescope.com/sky-and-telescope-magazine/inside-april-2018-issue/The Little Galaxies That CanStar-making dwarf galaxies with a trace of oxygen provide insight into the first galaxies and even the Big Bang itself.By Ken Croswell ...more

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• 1154: #ClassicKenCroswell: 1 of 2: How to study the earliest oxygen-starved galaxies that are too distant, too dim.. Ken Croswell, Sky & Telescope

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.2020. National Parks, Milky Way from Stehekin  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow#ClassicKenCroswell: 1 of 2:  How to study the earliest oxygen-starved  galaxies that are too distant, too dim.. Ken Croswell, Sky & Telescope http://www.skyandtelescope.com/sky-and-telescope-magazine/inside-april-2018-issue/The Little Galaxies That CanStar-making dwarf galaxies with a trace of oxygen provide insight into the first galaxies and even the Big Bang itself.By Ken Croswell ...more

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• 1153: Inferno: 4of4: The World at War, 1939-1945Kindle Edition.by Max Hastings (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1945.Germany Under Allied OccupationGerman civilians watch the entry of British forces into Berlin. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Inferno: 4of4: The World at War, 1939-1945Kindle Edition.by Max Hastings (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Inferno-World-at-War-1939-1945-ebook/dp/B004SOQ198/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1613260311&sr=8-1Through his strikingly detailed stories of everyday people—of soldiers, sailors and airmen; British housewives and Indian peasants; SS killers and the citizens of Leningrad, some of whom resorted to cannibalism during the two-year siege; Japanese suicide pilots and American carrier crews—Hastings provides a singularly intimate portrait of the world at war. He simultaneously traces the major developments—Hitler’s refusal to retreat from the Soviet Union until it was too late; Stalin’s ruthlessness in using his greater population to wear down the German army; Churchill’s leadership in the dark days of 1940 and 1941; Roosevelt’s steady hand before and after the United States entered the war—and puts them in real human context.Hastings also illuminates some of the darker and less explored regions under the war’s penumbra, including the conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland, during which the Finns fiercely and surprisingly resisted Stalin’s invading Red Army; and the Bengal famine in 1943 and 1944, when at least one million people died in what turned out to be, in Nehru’s words, “the final epitaph of British rule” in India. Remarkably informed and wide-ranging, Inferno is both elegantly written and cogently argued. Above all, it is a new and essential understanding of one of the greatest and bloodiest events of the twentieth century....more

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• 1153: Inferno: 3of4: The World at War, 1939-1945Kindle Edition.by Max Hastings (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1945.Germany Under Allied Occupation, 1945German women form a chain gang to clear rubble from bomb damaged buildings in Berlin.  The women were required to work before they were permitted to apply for a ration card. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Inferno: 3of4: The World at War, 1939-1945Kindle Edition.by Max Hastings (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Inferno-World-at-War-1939-1945-ebook/dp/B004SOQ198/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1613260311&sr=8-1Through his strikingly detailed stories of everyday people—of soldiers, sailors and airmen; British housewives and Indian peasants; SS killers and the citizens of Leningrad, some of whom resorted to cannibalism during the two-year siege; Japanese suicide pilots and American carrier crews—Hastings provides a singularly intimate portrait of the world at war. He simultaneously traces the major developments—Hitler’s refusal to retreat from the Soviet Union until it was too late; Stalin’s ruthlessness in using his greater population to wear down the German army; Churchill’s leadership in the dark days of 1940 and 1941; Roosevelt’s steady hand before and after the United States entered the war—and puts them in real human context.Hastings also illuminates some of the darker and less explored regions under the war’s penumbra, including the conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland, during which the Finns fiercely and surprisingly resisted Stalin’s invading Red Army; and the Bengal famine in 1943 and 1944, when at least one million people died in what turned out to be, in Nehru’s words, “the final epitaph of British rule” in India. Remarkably informed and wide-ranging, Inferno is both elegantly written and cogently argued. Above all, it is a new and essential understanding of one of the greatest and bloodiest events of the twentieth century....more

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• 1153: Inferno: 2of4: The World at War, 1939-1945Kindle Edition.by Max Hastings (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1945 Berlin Linden http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Inferno: 2of4: The World at War, 1939-1945Kindle Edition.by Max Hastings (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Inferno-World-at-War-1939-1945-ebook/dp/B004SOQ198/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1613260311&sr=8-1Through his strikingly detailed stories of everyday people—of soldiers, sailors and airmen; British housewives and Indian peasants; SS killers and the citizens of Leningrad, some of whom resorted to cannibalism during the two-year siege; Japanese suicide pilots and American carrier crews—Hastings provides a singularly intimate portrait of the world at war. He simultaneously traces the major developments—Hitler’s refusal to retreat from the Soviet Union until it was too late; Stalin’s ruthlessness in using his greater population to wear down the German army; Churchill’s leadership in the dark days of 1940 and 1941; Roosevelt’s steady hand before and after the United States entered the war—and puts them in real human context.Hastings also illuminates some of the darker and less explored regions under the war’s penumbra, including the conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland, during which the Finns fiercely and surprisingly resisted Stalin’s invading Red Army; and the Bengal famine in 1943 and 1944, when at least one million people died in what turned out to be, in Nehru’s words, “the final epitaph of British rule” in India. Remarkably informed and wide-ranging, Inferno is both elegantly written and cogently argued. Above all, it is a new and essential understanding of one of the greatest and bloodiest events of the twentieth century....more

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• 1153: Inferno: 1of4: The World at War, 1939-1945Kindle Edition.by Max Hastings (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1945. Berlin. Reichstag http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Inferno: 1of4: The World at War, 1939-1945Kindle Edition.by Max Hastings (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Inferno-World-at-War-1939-1945-ebook/dp/B004SOQ198/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1613260311&sr=8-1Through his strikingly detailed stories of everyday people—of soldiers, sailors and airmen; British housewives and Indian peasants; SS killers and the citizens of Leningrad, some of whom resorted to cannibalism during the two-year siege; Japanese suicide pilots and American carrier crews—Hastings provides a singularly intimate portrait of the world at war. He simultaneously traces the major developments—Hitler’s refusal to retreat from the Soviet Union until it was too late; Stalin’s ruthlessness in using his greater population to wear down the German army; Churchill’s leadership in the dark days of 1940 and 1941; Roosevelt’s steady hand before and after the United States entered the war—and puts them in real human context.Hastings also illuminates some of the darker and less explored regions under the war’s penumbra, including the conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland, during which the Finns fiercely and surprisingly resisted Stalin’s invading Red Army; and the Bengal famine in 1943 and 1944, when at least one million people died in what turned out to be, in Nehru’s words, “the final epitaph of British rule” in India. Remarkably informed and wide-ranging, Inferno is both elegantly written and cogently argued. Above all, it is a new and essential understanding of one of the greatest and bloodiest events of the twentieth century....more

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• 1147: #MLB: California Angel Mike Trout does not need a post-season success to confirm his dominance. Host

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1920.Ambitious Home -Run Hitters  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow#MLB: California Angel Mike Trout does not need a post-season success to confirm his dominance. Hosthttps://www.republicworld.com/sports-news/other-sports/mike-trout-contract-net-worth-rookie-card-value-and-personal-life.html

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• 1147: Discover Asteroid Farfarout. Host

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.2010.(June 13, 2010) The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa spacecraft leaves a streak of light behind the clouds is as it re-enters Earth’s atmosphere over the Woomera Test Range in Australia.  The Hayabusa mission was launched on May 9, 2003 to research new technologies that would return planetary samples to the Earth for study. The mission rendezvoused with the near-Earth asteroid Itokawa in September 2005. On November 25. 2005, Hayabusa touched down on the asteroid, becoming the second man-made craft to ever do so (the first was NASA’s Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous-Shoemaker spacecraft which landed on Eros on February 12, 2001). The Hayabusa spacecraft marked the first attempt to ever sample an asteroid’s surface and became the first craft to land on an asteroid and then return to Earth. The reentry craft landed on June 13, 2010 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowDiscover Asteroid Farfarout. Hosthttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/02/210210153315.htm ...more

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• 1152: Listening to Pain: 2of2: Finding Words, Compassion, and Relief Illustrated Edition, Kindle Edition.by David Biro (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Listening to Pain: 2of2: Finding Words, Compassion, and Relief Illustrated Edition, Kindle Edition.by David Biro  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Listening-Pain-Finding-Compassion-Relief-ebook/dp/B0035XOQW2/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1613200400&sr=1-1

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• 1152: Listening to Pain: 1of2: Finding Words, Compassion, and Relief Illustrated Edition, Kindle Edition.by David Biro (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Listening to Pain: 1of2: Finding Words, Compassion, and Relief Illustrated Edition, Kindle Edition.by David Biro  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Listening-Pain-Finding-Compassion-Relief-ebook/dp/B0035XOQW2/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1613200400&sr=1-1

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• 1151: 4/4 Inferno: The True Story of a B-17 Gunner's Heroism and the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History, by Joe Pappalardo

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  Feb 13 2021

  Image: B-17 Flying Fortresses Over Europe during World War II  Joe Pappalardo's Inferno tells the true story of the men who flew the deadliest missions of World War II, and an unlikely hero who received the Medal of Honor in the midst of the bloodiest military campaign in aviation history. There’s no higher accolade in the U.S. military than the Medal of Honor, and 472 people received it for their action during World War II. But only one was demoted right after: Maynard Harrison Smith.Smith is one of the most unlikely heroes of the war, where he served in B-17s during the early days of the bombing of France and Germany from England. From his juvenile delinquent past in Michigan, through the war and during the decades after, Smith’s life seemed to be a series of very public missteps. The other airmen took to calling the 5-foot, 5-inch airman “Snuffy” after an unappealing movie character.This is also the man who, on a tragically mishandled mission over France on May 1, 1943, single-handedly saved the crewmen in his stricken B-17. With every other gunner injured or bailed out, Smith stood alone in the fuselage of a shattered, nameless bomber and fought fires, treated wounded crew and fought off fighters. His ordeal is part of a forgotten mission that aircrews came to call the May Day Massacre. The skies over Europe in 1943 were a charnel house for U.S. pilots, who were being led by tacticians surprised by the brutal effectiveness of German defenses. By May 1943 the combat losses among bomb crews were a staggering 40 to 50 percent.The backdrop of Smith’s story intersects with some of the luminaries of aviation history, including Curtis Lemay, Ira Eaker and “Hap” Arnold, during critical times of their storied careers. Infernoalso examines Smith’s life in a new, comprehensive light, through the use of exclusive interviews of those who knew him (including fellow MOH recipients and family) as well as public and archival records. This is both a thrilling and horrifying story of the air war over Europe during WWII and a fascinating look at one of America's forgotten heroes.,,  ...more

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• 1151: 3/4 Inferno: The True Story of a B-17 Gunner's Heroism and the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History, by Joe Pappalardo

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  3/4  Inferno: The True Story of a B-17 Gunner's Heroism and the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History, by Joe Pappalardo   Image: Medal of Honor  Joe Pappalardo's Inferno tells the true story of the men who flew the deadliest missions of World War II, and an unlikely hero who received the Medal of Honor in the midst of the bloodiest military campaign in aviation history. There’s no higher accolade in the U.S. military than the Medal of Honor, and 472 people received it for their action during World War II. But only one was demoted right after: Maynard Harrison Smith.Smith is one of the most unlikely heroes of the war, where he served in B-17s during the early days of the bombing of France and Germany from England. From his juvenile delinquent past in Michigan, through the war and during the decades after, Smith’s life seemed to be a series of very public missteps. The other airmen took to calling the 5-foot, 5-inch airman “Snuffy” after an unappealing movie character.This is also the man who, on a tragically mishandled mission over France on May 1, 1943, single-handedly saved the crewmen in his stricken B-17. With every other gunner injured or bailed out, Smith stood alone in the fuselage of a shattered, nameless bomber and fought fires, treated wounded crew and fought off fighters. His ordeal is part of a forgotten mission that aircrews came to call the May Day Massacre. The skies over Europe in 1943 were a charnel house for U.S. pilots, who were being led by tacticians surprised by the brutal effectiveness of German defenses. By May 1943 the combat losses among bomb crews were a staggering 40 to 50 percent.The backdrop of Smith’s story intersects with some of the luminaries of aviation history, including Curtis Lemay, Ira Eaker and “Hap” Arnold, during critical times of their storied careers. Infernoalso examines Smith’s life in a new, comprehensive light, through the use of exclusive interviews of those who knew him (including fellow MOH recipients and family) as well as public and archival records. This is both a thrilling and horrifying story of the air war over Europe during WWII and a fascinating look at one of America's forgotten heroes....more

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• 1151: 2/4 Inferno: The True Story of a B-17 Gunner's Heroism and the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History, by Joe Pappalardo

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  Image:  Boeing Y1B-17 in flight  Joe Pappalardo's Inferno tells the true story of the men who flew the deadliest missions of World War II, and an unlikely hero who received the Medal of Honor in the midst of the bloodiest military campaign in aviation history. There’s no higher accolade in the U.S. military than the Medal of Honor, and 472 people received it for their action during World War II. But only one was demoted right after: Maynard Harrison Smith.Smith is one of the most unlikely heroes of the war, where he served in B-17s during the early days of the bombing of France and Germany from England. From his juvenile delinquent past in Michigan, through the war and during the decades after, Smith’s life seemed to be a series of very public missteps. The other airmen took to calling the 5-foot, 5-inch airman “Snuffy” after an unappealing movie character.This is also the man who, on a tragically mishandled mission over France on May 1, 1943, single-handedly saved the crewmen in his stricken B-17. With every other gunner injured or bailed out, Smith stood alone in the fuselage of a shattered, nameless bomber and fought fires, treated wounded crew and fought off fighters. His ordeal is part of a forgotten mission that aircrews came to call the May Day Massacre. The skies over Europe in 1943 were a charnel house for U.S. pilots, who were being led by tacticians surprised by the brutal effectiveness of German defenses. By May 1943 the combat losses among bomb crews were a staggering 40 to 50 percent.The backdrop of Smith’s story intersects with some of the luminaries of aviation history, including Curtis Lemay, Ira Eaker and “Hap” Arnold, during critical times of their storied careers. Infernoalso examines Smith’s life in a new, comprehensive light, through the use of exclusive interviews of those who knew him (including fellow MOH recipients and family) as well as public and archival records. This is both a thrilling and horrifying story of the air war over Europe during WWII and a fascinating look at one of America's forgotten heroes....more

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• 1151: 1/4 Inferno: The True Story of a B-17 Gunner's Heroism and the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History, by Joe Pappalardo

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  Image: Sergeant Maynard H. Smith, B-17 Flying Fortress gunner, receiving the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an enlisted man from United States Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson.  Joe Pappalardo's Inferno tells the true story of the men who flew the deadliest missions of World War II, and an unlikely hero who received the Medal of Honor in the midst of the bloodiest military campaign in aviation history. There’s no higher accolade in the U.S. military than the Medal of Honor, and 472 people received it for their action during World War II. But only one was demoted right after: Maynard Harrison Smith.Smith is one of the most unlikely heroes of the war, where he served in B-17s during the early days of the bombing of France and Germany from England. From his juvenile delinquent past in Michigan, through the war and during the decades after, Smith’s life seemed to be a series of very public missteps. The other airmen took to calling the 5-foot, 5-inch airman “Snuffy” after an unappealing movie character.This is also the man who, on a tragically mishandled mission over France on May 1, 1943, single-handedly saved the crewmen in his stricken B-17. With every other gunner injured or bailed out, Smith stood alone in the fuselage of a shattered, nameless bomber and fought fires, treated wounded crew and fought off fighters. His ordeal is part of a forgotten mission that aircrews came to call the May Day Massacre. The skies over Europe in 1943 were a charnel house for U.S. pilots, who were being led by tacticians surprised by the brutal effectiveness of German defenses. By May 1943 the combat losses among bomb crews were a staggering 40 to 50 percent.The backdrop of Smith’s story intersects with some of the luminaries of aviation history, including Curtis Lemay, Ira Eaker and “Hap” Arnold, during critical times of their storied careers. Infernoalso examines Smith’s life in a new, comprehensive light, through the use of exclusive interviews of those who knew him (including fellow MOH recipients and family) as well as public and archival records. ...more

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• 1150: 2/2 After the Show Trial Fails. Michael E Vlahos: @JHUWorldCrisis, #newamericancivilwar;

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  Image:  Prosecutor General Andrey Vyshinsky (centre), reading the 1937 indictment against Karl Radek during the 2nd Moscow Trial  Michael E Vlahos: @JHUWorldCrisis, #newamericancivilwar; Johns Hopkins; in re: Show trial has three phases. 1. Theatrical ritual. 2 . The prosecutor is the judge. 3. Anyone attached to the opponent party is intimidated, cowed.  None of these is happening:   Democrats are weak not because they are intrinsically, but because they've pursued a losing strategy.  Vanity, narcissism.  Working against themselves; have created a dynamic in which the enemy – GOP—are incentivized to fight back.  This is how show trials always fail.  Also, the unprecedented event of stripping a Congresswoman of her committee assignments. Tragic.  Not only a strategy of inevitable defeat, but they're locked in to it.   Persecuting “extremists,” making a new Patriot Act – the more violent they become, the stronger the resistance. We believe ourselves to be rational; all wrong:...more

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• 1149: Bailing out the airlines is Washington routine. @veroderugy, @Mercatus

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  Image:  Douglas DC-3 American AL with Shirley Temple Veronique de Rugy, @veroderugy, @Mercatus; Mercatus Center, in re: Continuing Washington tale: $1.9 trillion.  Always with lobbyists.  The airline industry: $42 billion to transportation and workers; also, more funding for US airlines and contractors. In the pandemic, people still worried about air travel (despite superb air filtering eqpt).  American is threatening to lay off 30,00 employees – whom they don't need because of reduced passengers numbers; govt is offering ten times what’s actually needed.  Bailouts are for shareholders and executives. This is the third bailout in less than a year.  Were there a time when no bailout appeared, what would happen? Either layoffs, or bankruptcy: bankruptcy means restructuring.   And, if an airline disappeared, another would replace it. GOP Democrats, Populists—everyone—no matter who’s in power: airlines, and Boeing, keep getting bailed out.  Sen Toomey is unhappy about this. For some reason people think it's normal to bail them out.  Will this happen again—say, in autumn of 2021: more bailouts? I think so.   Airlines keep threatening to lay off the same 30,000 people. ...more

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• 1149: Cyber espionage is a given and a constant. @FRoseDC, @GovMattersTV, @ABC7News

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  Image:  German Espionage Activity in Britain, 1914-1918  Francis Rose,@FRoseDC, Host of @GovMattersTV @ ABC7News & WJLA 24/7 News. Washington D.C., in re:   Solar Winds, the huge hack.  Brigadier General: “We need an overall investigation!” Many believe the Russian govt is behind the attack, Senators Warner and Rubio want one person in the Executive Branch to oversee the investigation. Part of any breach of this size: there may be others we don't know about, Russians Chinese, Iranians, North Koreans, Chinese, perhaps the US —all are real pros at this. Govt stopped trying defend the perimeter; now, “zero trust”—anyone wanting to access info must prove his credentials to do so.  OPM Act.   A76s, forms to get a security clearance.  Are we asking the right questions?   C4ISRnet. A cyber hack:trying to disable something or cause something bad to happen (damage a water system, for example).  Cyberespionage:  same as traditional; one nati0n-state trying to get info about another nation-state. Certainly, China is an imminent threat. ...more

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• 1149: 1/2 The Show Trial, 18571/2 ,1859, 2021. Michael E Vlahos: @JHUWorldCrisis, #newamericancivilwar

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  Image:  "The Judgment of Judges"La Caricature politique, morale,  littéraire et scénique (Group title)Planche HT parue dans La Caricature politique, morale,  littéraire et scénique, volume 9, 23 avril 1835   Michael E Vlahos: @JHUWorldCrisis, #newamericancivilwar; Johns Hopkins; in re: “Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered”—Thomas Paine. Quoted by Mr Raskin. The Democrats believe that they’re saving the country from the Devil. Those who can stage a show trial are orchestrating their legitimacy majesty, and power.  A fantastic national performance, goal to beat down to submission their former rivals—to transform them into raw evil. Punished collectively; abnegation and redemption to let them back in to the political process.  Asserts the power and legitimacy of the [theatrical ] power to reduce their opponents in a way that keeps h party on power for as long as possible. The essence of the show trial is to stage an event overwhelming in its dramatic staging to overwhelm the electorate and reduce the “traitors” into long-term submission. In the 1850s, the US was splitting in parts, like today. The Democrats were the bastions of the peculiar institution named slavery.  They felt [history] moving against them. Only safe way was to make slavery a national institution, govt-anointed. Dred Scott decision. Instead, it rekindled the voters to greater opposition to slavery.  John Brown was painted as a domestic terrorist; his hanging was to warn the North—which dug in heels; this was the last straw.  Same thing happened in France and Russia.  ...more

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• 1148: China in Mars orbit pending a lander. Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com

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  Image: An earlier Mars Exploration Rover MER spacecraft—areoshell encapsulating the rover and lander plus cruise stage.  NASA/JPL  Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com; in re:   The audience’s generous donations are enormously appreciated. FarFarOut is the farthest-out object known in our Solar System. About 250 miles across, and 132 AU from the Sun, 12 billion miles.  Its orbit is very eccentric – 175 AU from the Sun at its extreme, then comes in from 27 AUs, which is inside the orbit of Neptune.  It may interact with Neptune and get flung out.       Voyager 1 and 2 are beyond the edge of the Solar System, the heliosphere, but maybe not farther than FarFar Out.      Alpha Centauri. Maybe an exoplanet – may have detected the actual light of an exoplanet orbiting Alpha Centauri A.  Not a habitable planet, but within the habitable zone.       Then, to Mars: the PRC has achieved orbit, carrying a lander and a rover.   The UAE (al Amal)  has succeeded this week, also.   US lander, Perseverance, will roar through the atmosphere for seven minutes.  Aspirations of sovereign powers: Turkey and Saudi Arabia. The new colonialism....more

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• 1148: The long failure of SLS. Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com

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  Image:  Expedition 39 Launch Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com; in re:   SLS, space launch system (a NASA name), a dcendant if Ares rocket from the Bush adm. A heavy-lift rocket, reuses shuttle engines. Mandated by Congress to do it their way—a used car begun in 2012, intended to have an unmanned mission in 2018. Continuous problems and really embarrassing foul-ups, a static fire test ban needed to be rebuilt.  The Senate really did this, micromanaging NASA.   Congress never said what the mission was, and demanded NASA spend $3 billion a year, year after year.  It'll probably add up to $31 billi0n for one manned flight.  A century from now, what will we see as the driver for the program?  Not to get into space, but pork. It's an unmitigated boondoggle, a Potemkin village. Richard Shelby’s memorial, although not only he; although he’s always been in Washington agitating for funds. Falcon Heavy: a slew of stories in the last week that Congress and White House are getting ready to say goodbye to SLS. Ergo, Falcon Heavy was awarded a contract by NASA to launch; about $1 billi0n. Has two-thirds of SLS power, so it’s good....more

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• 1148: Why doesn’t Gavin Newsom wear a tie? @JCBliss, #PacificWatch

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  Image: Little boy wearing a bow tie. Jeff Bliss: @JCBliss, #PacificWatch, in re: California Lt Gov: “Gov Newsom does not deserve to be recalled; it would be shameful for any Democrat to sign the recall petition.” We’re close to the 1.5 million needed signatures; aiming at 2 million [to accommodate any unverified signature].  1. Do we recall the governor?  2. Whom do we choose to replace him? (A list will be appended.) We have a few Republicans, including John Cox and Kevin Faulkner.  The length of the lockdown has extended too far and the economy is in trouble. Newsom is bringing in proxies to campaign in his favor; saying only white supremacists and QAnon believers want the recall. He comes from the Bay Area, which is producing headlines on parents vs school boards- which are changing school names rather than getting the school up and working. Ezra Klein is from California, liberal elite; but we’re facing almost-overwhelming problems in this state.  Disneyland: might or might not open; tens of thousands of jobs gone and huge amounts of income. High-speed rail: now they’re looking for more money for 171 miles in the Central Valley, the train to nowhere. Way behind schedule and unneeded. Jerry Brown never put the stake through its heart, so it lurches on. ...more

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• 1148: Reality czar. @DanHenninger, @WSJOpinion

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  Image: Surreal performance Dan Henninger: @DanHenninger, @WSJOpinion; editorial board and Wonder Land column; in re: The New York Times published a an op-ed column calling for a Reality Czar.  They think the 74 million who voted for Donald Trump need a Reality Czar, a sort of reality checker, to correct false thinking.  As though they’re been reading George Orwell’s 1984as a how-to manual.  Thinking that everyone else is wrong and one’s self is correct is a form of insanity. Cynically, this is just another weapon to disc9urage people from associating with Republicans; but I think something strangely psychological is going on: liberals in a sort of mass psychosis holding that half the country is engaged in false thinking. How one person and his personality could drive to so many into such amass rage. Many didn’t care for Pres Obama but it didn’t evolve into this psychosis/rage.  This second impeachment: I think that the Democrats have done well in diminishing Trump’s ______ and deciding to move on. In 2020, the GOP grew by 12 seats; are within 6 of controlling the House.  The Democrats are creating a situation where they’ll receive payback.   They Stripped Marjorie Taylor of her committee assignments; perhaps he GOP will do that to Ilhan Oman. Does Biden want all this?  I don't think so; but he’s [caved in to teachers’s unions and other matters].    ...more

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• 1147: SCOTUS, not Newsom, makes it possible to go to church again in CA. @DevinNunes CA-22

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  Photo:  Ste Brigitte's chapel http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowSCOTUS, not Newsom, makes it possible to go to church again in CA. @DevinNunes CA-22https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/california-revise-indoor-church-guidelines-ruling-75730702

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• 1147: Andrew Cuomo and Gavin Newsom have damaged their locked down state economies with questionable pandemic success to show. @DevinNunes

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  Photo: San Quentin State Prison, Building 22, Point San Quentin, San Quentin, Marin County, CA http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowAndrew Cuomo and Gavin Newsom have damaged their locked down state economies with questionable pandemic success to show. @DevinNunes

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• 1147: The success of parenting makes for success of small business. @GeneMarks @Guardian

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  Photo: Music to, "My dear old parents' home' http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe success of parenting makes for success of small business. @GeneMarks @Guardianhttps://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jan/31/small-business-entrepreneurs-success-parents

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• 1147: The $15 per hour minimum wage will push small business into needed change. GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer

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  Photo: Panama Wage Scale Committee, 10/21/21 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe $15 per hour minimum wage will push small business into needed change. GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirerhttps://thehill.com/opinion/technology/538163-why-a-15-minimum-wage-is-exactly-what-small-businesses-need?rnd=1612967592 Like working from home, this legislation will force us all to do what we should have been doing in the first place: Get rid of our unskilled hourly employees and replace them with technology....more

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• 1146: 2/2 American Tempest: How the Boston Tea Party Sparked a Revolution, by Harlow G. Unger

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  Image:  Tea tax, and Humble wish. Sold retail and wholesale by L. Deming, No. 62 Hanover Street, Boston   American Tempest: How the Boston Tea Party Sparked a Revolution, by Harlow G. Unger  On Thursday, December 16, 1773, an estimated seven dozen men, many dressed as Indians, dumped roughly £10,000 worth of tea in Boston Harbor. Whatever their motives at the time, they unleashed a social, political, and economic firestorm that would culminate in the Declaration of Independence two-and-a-half years later.The Boston Tea Party provoked a reign of terror in Boston and other American cities as tea parties erupted up and down the colonies. The turmoil stripped tens of thousands of their homes and property, and nearly 100,000 left forever in what was history's largest exodus of Americans from America. Nonetheless, John Adams called the Boston Tea Party nothing short of "magnificent," saying that "it must have important consequences."       Combining stellar scholarship with action-packed history, Harlow Giles Unger reveals the truth behind the legendary event and examines its lasting consequence—the spawning of a new, independent nation.https://www.amazon.com/American-Tempest-Boston-Sparked-Revolution-ebook/dp/B004JN0UEK/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=  ...more

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• 1146: 1/2 American Tempest: How the Boston Tea Party Sparked a Revolution, by

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  Image:  Destruction of tea at Boston Harbor  American Tempest: How the Boston Tea Party Sparked a Revolution, by Harlow G. Unger  On Thursday, December 16, 1773, an estimated seven dozen men, many dressed as Indians, dumped roughly £10,000 worth of tea in Boston Harbor. Whatever their motives at the time, they unleashed a social, political, and economic firestorm that would culminate in the Declaration of Independence two-and-a-half years later.The Boston Tea Party provoked a reign of terror in Boston and other American cities as tea parties erupted up and down the colonies. The turmoil stripped tens of thousands of their homes and property, and nearly 100,000 left forever in what was history's largest exodus of Americans from America. Nonetheless, John Adams called the Boston Tea Party nothing short of "magnificent," saying that "it must have important consequences."       Combining stellar scholarship with action-packed history, Harlow Giles Unger reveals the truth behind the legendary event and examines its lasting consequence—the spawning of a new, independent nation.https://www.amazon.com/American-Tempest-Boston-Sparked-Revolution-ebook/dp/B004JN0UEK/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=...more

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• 1145: Eisenhower stops at Buchenwald, April 12, 1945. Host.

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1995 Dwight D. Eisenhower  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowEisenhower stops at Buchenwald, April 12, 1945. Host.

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• 1144: 4/4 No Man's Land, by Pete Ayrton (editor)

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  Image: The flag of the 43rd battalion of Senegalese soldiers decorated with the fourragère.Mahmadou Fofana de Raymond Escholier est un recueil de onze nouvelles rédigées entre 1917 et 1919, paru d'abord en 1928 puis augmenté en 1934, qui narre les péripéties d'un soldat africain pendant la Première Guerre mondiale sur les différents fronts d'Orient   No Man's Land,by Pete Ayrton(editor) The Great War gave birth to some of the twentieth century's most celebrated writing; from D. H. Lawrence to Siegfried Sassoon, the literature generated by the war is etched into collective memory. But it is in fiction that we find some of the most profound insights into the war's individual and communal tragedies, the horror of life in the trenches, and the grand farce of the first industrial war. Featuring forty-seven writers from twenty different nations, representing all the main participants in the conflict, No Man's Landis a truly international anthology of World War I fiction. Work by Siegfried Sassoon, Erich Maria Remarque, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, and Rose Macaulay sits alongside forgotten masterpieces such as Stratis Myrivilis'sLife in the Tomb,Raymond Escholier'sMahmadou Fofana,and Mary Borden's The Forbidden Zone.No Man's Landis a brilliant memorial to the twentieth century's most cataclysmic event.https://www.amazon.com/No-Mans-Land-Fiction-World-ebook/dp/B00KRKNK46/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=..  .. ..  ...more

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• 1144: 3/4 No Man's Land, by Pete Ayrton (editor)

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  Image: Stratis Myrivilis's Life in the Tomb Life in the Tomb,a war novel written in journal form by a sergeant in the trenches, has been the single most successful and widely read serious work of fiction in Greece since its publication in serial form in 1923-1924.    No Man's Land,by Pete Ayrton(editor) The Great War gave birth to some of the twentieth century's most celebrated writing; from D. H. Lawrence to Siegfried Sassoon, the literature generated by the war is etched into collective memory. But it is in fiction that we find some of the most profound insights into the war's individual and communal tragedies, the horror of life in the trenches, and the grand farce of the first industrial war. Featuring forty-seven writers from twenty different nations, representing all the main participants in the conflict, No Man's Landis a truly international anthology of World War I fiction. Work by Siegfried Sassoon, Erich Maria Remarque, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, and Rose Macaulay sits alongside forgotten masterpieces such as Stratis Myrivilis'sLife in the Tomb,Raymond Escholier'sMahmadou Fofana,and Mary Borden's The Forbidden Zone.No Man's Landis a brilliant memorial to the twentieth century's most cataclysmic event.https://www.amazon.com/No-Mans-Land-Fiction-World-ebook/dp/B00KRKNK46/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=...more

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• 1144: 2/4 No Man's Land, by Pete Ayrton (editor)

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  Image:  First World War 1914–1918; War Poets   No Man's Land,by Pete Ayrton(editor) The Great War gave birth to some of the twentieth century's most celebrated writing; from D. H. Lawrence to Siegfried Sassoon, the literature generated by the war is etched into collective memory. But it is in fiction that we find some of the most profound insights into the war's individual and communal tragedies, the horror of life in the trenches, and the grand farce of the first industrial war. Featuring forty-seven writers from twenty different nations, representing all the main participants in the conflict, No Man's Landis a truly international anthology of World War I fiction. Work by Siegfried Sassoon, Erich Maria Remarque, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, and Rose Macaulay sits alongside forgotten masterpieces such as Stratis Myrivilis'sLife in the Tomb,Raymond Escholier'sMahmadou Fofana,and Mary Borden's The Forbidden Zone.No Man's Landis a brilliant memorial to the twentieth century's most cataclysmic event.https://www.amazon.com/No-Mans-Land-Fiction-World-ebook/dp/B00KRKNK46/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=..  .. ..  ...more

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• 1144: 1/4 No Man's Land, by Pete Ayrton (editor)

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  Image:  German trenches on the Aisne  No Man's Land,by Pete Ayrton(editor) The Great War gave birth to some of the twentieth century's most celebrated writing; from D. H. Lawrence to Siegfried Sassoon, the literature generated by the war is etched into collective memory. But it is in fiction that we find some of the most profound insights into the war's individual and communal tragedies, the horror of life in the trenches, and the grand farce of the first industrial war. Featuring forty-seven writers from twenty different nations, representing all the main participants in the conflict, No Man's Landis a truly international anthology of World War I fiction. Work by Siegfried Sassoon, Erich Maria Remarque, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, and Rose Macaulay sits alongside forgotten masterpieces such as Stratis Myrivilis'sLife in the Tomb,Raymond Escholier'sMahmadou Fofana,and Mary Borden's The Forbidden Zone.No Man's Landis a brilliant memorial to the twentieth century's most cataclysmic event.https://www.amazon.com/No-Mans-Land-Fiction-World-ebook/dp/B00KRKNK46/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=..  .. ..  ...more

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• 1141: #MLB: If he scores, who gets charged with the runner placed on second base in extra innings? Host

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1912.Cardinals infielders Arnold Hauser (shortstop) and Miller Huggins (second base) in play at second base  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow#MLB: If he scores, who gets charged with the runner placed on second base in extra innings? Hosthttps://www.foxsports.com/midwest/story/mlb-runner-second-base-seven-inning-doubleheaders-2021-020821

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• 1143: 2/2: Getting Caught Trying the Unlikely; & What is to be done? @RHFontaine. @CNASdc,

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  Image:    The field of international relations dates from the time of the Greek historian Thucydides. Richard Fontaine, @RHFontaine; CEO of the Center for a New American Security, @CNASdc, in re:   The Case against Foreign Policy Solutionism.  The 2015 JCPOA:  “We’ll get this nuclear deal, open new possibilities”–and of course nothing good happened.  Russia, the recent Navalny affair; mass arrest of protestors in a hundred cities. Dismissing Russia as a second-tier power did not work. Sergey Lavrov, and Vl. Putin: do they practice Getting Caught Trying?  No, they play a fairly weak hand very well. Assiduous use of [diminished] resources. The Middle Kingdom:  get used to having to manage it.  https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2021-02-08/case-against-foreign-policy-solutionism?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=tw_daily_soc&utm_source=twitter_posts ...more

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• 1143: 1/2: Getting Caught Trying the Unlikely; & What is to be done? @RHFontaine. @CNASdc

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  Image:  The Eccentric March  Richard Fontaine, @RHFontaine; CEO of the Center for a New American Security, @CNASdc, in re: The Case against Foreign Policy Solutionism.  Biden Adm ambitions; and back through half a dozen previous.  “Getting caught trying: the notion that there are hard troubles afoot in the world; may not reach a full solution, but better to get caught trying.”  NOT. Plunging into something unsolvable can make things much worse. Some people advocated solving the Cold War with roll-back: roll back the Communist presence in Eastern Europe; or let’s just acquiesce.  Wiser heads demanded managing it till it went away; took seventy years, but did. The Abraham Accords made some real and genuine progress.  Does “caught trying” in Washington mean you have to go big?  For a Nobel Prize, have to. Each new administration blames the worst on the previous administration.   Pres Obama said that Afghanistan was the smarter war; Iraq was the lesser.  Now Afghanistan is [fearful]; in Iraq, ISIS took over and now still is very much alive, having metastasized.   https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2021-02-08/case-against-foreign-policy-solutionism?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=tw_daily_soc&utm_source=twitter_posts ...more

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• 1142: Politics of Middle America 2022 SalenaZito, @DCExaminer @RealClearPolitics

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  Image:  Overlooking the Ohio River Salena Zito, @SalenaZito,@DCExaminer @RealClearPolitics; New York Post, CNN; Middle of Somewhere column; in re:All the prospects in PA. John Fetterman, native of York, PA; 6’8”; Lt-Governor of PA.  Sean Parnell. Bill Johnson. Josh Mandell.    Joe Manchin, WV, chair of the Senate Energy Committee; holds that the Keystone XL Pipeline is essential.  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/john-fetterman-leaps-into-pennsylvanias-senate-race

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• 1142: America rides to the rescue. SalenaZito, @DCExaminer @RealClearPolitics

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  Image:  Allegory of Charity (Generosity, Bounty) Salena Zito, @SalenaZito,@DCExaminer @RealClearPolitics; New York Post, CNN; Middle of Somewhere column; in re:Woman loses iPhone on a snowy trail while hiking; it grows dark and a great storm is coming. She drives home for four hours, finds it with her iPad. Posts the location on Facebook; a fellow sees this, drives forty minutes, hikes up the snowy trail, finds it.      Teachers union says schools in Pittsburgh will stay closed till there’s no more Wuhan flu.  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/a-lost-iphone-and-a-small-act-of-kindness-and-courage  ...more

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• 1142: Top-notch vaccine distribution in Israel. @IsraelNitzan & Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres

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  Image: Palestine disturbances, train derailed in 1936 Israel Nitzan, @IsraelNitzan; and Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres, Conference of Presidents, in re: Israel COVID-19. Iran. Israel Nitzan is the acting Consul General of Israel in New York.  https://www.timesofisrael.com/congressman-urges-israel-to-continue-vaccinating-palestinians-laments-disparity/ https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/02/01/dont-fall-for-the-cynical-covid-19-vaccine-propaganda-against-israel/ https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-medics-vaccinate-some-palestinians-with-permits-to-work-in-israel/ https://www.conferenceofpresidents.org/news/press/2021/feb4/jewish-leaders-contest-claims-israel-withholding-vaccine-palestinians https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/hezbollah-like-groups-surged-when-iran-deal-lifted-sanctions-study-finds-658486 https://www.jns.org/opinion/revoking-the-houthis-terrorist-designation-gives-iran-leverage/   ...more

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• 1142: At the ICC, a non-state is irregularly granted status. Amit Heumann, & Malcolm Hoenlein @conf_of_pres,

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  Image:  Palestine disturbances 1936. Scene of derailment [near Ras el-Ain] The ICC lacks universal territorial jurisdiction, and may investigate and prosecute only crimes committed within member states.  Amit Heumann, and Malcolm Hoenlein, @conf_of_pres, Conference of Presidents,in re: The ICC. The ICC deliberates on inter-State relations; Palestinian are, um, sort of —well, we’ll call it a state. We’ll call it irrelevant. Amit Heumann is the Director of the International Law Department at the Office of the Legal Advisor, Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is currently legal advisor for the Israeli negotiation team for the Israeli-Lebanon maritime boundary negotiations. Mr. Heumann has represented Israel at many international legal and diplomatic forums and conferences, and he served as Legal Advisor of the Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations in New York from 2013-2018.  https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/eight-things-to-know-about-the-icc-war-crimes-suits-against-israel-658164.  ...more

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• 1142: A century ago, railroads pointed us to legal solutions @RichardAEpstein

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  Image: First American locomotive on rails at Castle Point, drawing, Hoboken, c. 1826 Richard Epstein: @RichardAEpstein, Chicago Law, NYU Law, Hoover Defining Ideas, in re:   Railroads and the automobile industry. Long-haul and short-haul inversions. Sherman Act. Railroads were 85% of the firms on the stock exchange in the 1890s. Theory of conglomerate merger: turns out it doesn't work. Diversification at shareholder, not management, level. Synergies can produce gain; beware of damaging the goose that laid the golden egg...  ..  .. ..  ..  ..  ...more

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• 1142: Rethinking corporate-state relations to protect the citizenry. @RichardAEpstein

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  Image:  Sen. John Sherman (R–Ohio), the principal author of the Sherman Antitrust ActThe purpose of the [Sherman] Act is not to protect businesses from the working of the market; it is to protect the public from the failure of the market.  Richard Epstein: @RichardAEpstein, Chicago Law, NYU Law, Hoover Defining Ideas, in re:Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, and Clayton Act of 1914.   Amy Klobuchar (a past student of Richard’s) of Minnesota: applying Clayton Act to Facebook. “I want to rethink this thing, including the way we look at existing companies that have been acquired. Even the break-up of FB is not off the table.”  Two kinds of difficulties:  mergers examined by a govt agency; and acquisition: have to reorient the law about nascent competition. Tim Wu. Qualcomm case. Case law. Strong pushback. . . .  Double-marginalization practice...more

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• 1141: #TheScalaReport: How will the $15 per hour minimum wage shape the future of retail? Chris Riegel: @ScalaInc @STRATACACHE

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1920. Interiør, Gaupen Handelslag, landhandleri, butikk, Ringsaker, 1918-20.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow#TheScalaReport: How will the $15 per hour minimum wage shape the future of retail? Chris Riegel: @ScalaInc @STRATACACHEhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/15-minimum-wage-would-cost-1-4-million-workers-jobs-lift-900-000-from-poverty-cbo-study-finds-11612800875?page=1 https://www.wsj.com/articles/reality-check-for-a-15-minimum-wage-11612827957?page=1 This would mean imposing the urban labor costs of San Francisco and Manhattan on every out-of-the-way gas station in rural America. The U.S. economy is made up of local and regional labor markets with prevailing wage rates that depend on varying standards of living, the kinds of employers, and the availability and skill of the workforce. Some 20 states have a minimum wage no higher than the current national minimum of $7.25....more

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• 1141: An impeachment trial exercise in "Two Minutes Hate" of Emmanuel Goldstein. @COnradMBlack @NRO

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowAn impeachment trial exercise in "Two Minutes Hate" of Emmanuel Goldstein. @COnradMBlack @NROhttps://www.nationalreview.com/2021/02/trial-and-error/

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• 1141: Biden seeks jaw-jaw accommodation with Xi about Hong Kong repression and Uyghur genocide. @SebGorka

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  Photo:   Familiar chat http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowBiden seeks jaw-jaw accommodation with Xi about Hong Kong repression and Uyghur genocide. @SebGorkahttps://www.nationalreview.com/news/biden-raised-chinas-coercive-and-unfair-economic-practices-on-first-call-with-xi-white-house-says/

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• 1141: What does impeachment manager Raskin mean by "our victory"? @SebGorka #AmericaFirst

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1868.This engraving details the April 1868 removal trial in the Senate following the impeachment. Johnson was acquitted of the charges against him by one vote and remained in office as president until the end of his term in March of 1869. Benjamin Butler, Johnson's fiercest opponent, can be seen at the far table in the center just to the right of the curving desk on the speaking dias. Butler opened the trial for the prosecution with a three hour speech reviewing historical impeachment trials starting with King John in 1215! Image from Harper's Weekly, 1868. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowWhat does impeachment manager Raskin mean by "our victory"? @SebGorka #AmericaFirst...more

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• 1142: Anti-science is weaponized against Dr Scott Atlas at Stanford. @VDHanson; @HooverInst

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  Image:  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in his Discourse on the Arts and Sciences (1750), claimed that science can lead to immorality. Galileo's championing of heliocentrism and Copernicanism met with opposition from within the Catholic Church and from some astronomers. The matter was investigated by the Roman Inquisition in 1615, which concluded that heliocentrism was "foolish and absurd in philosophy, and formally heretical since it explicitly contradicts in many places the sense of Holy Scripture"   Here:  Galileo Galilei. Victor Davis Hanson: @VDHanson; @HooverInst, Hoover Institution, and The Case for Trump,in re:  Dr Scott Atlas, on trial in the senate of Stanford University—for what? For serving the president of the US—during a pandemic; and has been denounced by his colleagues.  Before he worked for Donald Trump, he was an esteemed colleague, head of radiology department. He began looking at global data became convinced that he shutdown were destroying people, leading to starvation, deep medical problems, suicide. He proposed careful reopening with masks; but this went against Fauci, in an election year, so it was weaponized. Much of his data came from Stanford Medical School.   I also am being condemned. The people making charges want a long record, an anti-fascist network (familar-sounding?),have students disrupt traffic on San Mateo Bridge. ...more

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• 1142: The Israeli vaccine success and the Palestinian vaccine falsehoods. Israel Nitzan is the acting Consul General of Israel in New York.@IsraelNitzan Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Photo: Jenner's 1802 testimonial to the efficacy of vaccination, signed by 112 members of the Physical Society, London http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe Israeli vaccine success and the Palestinian vaccine falsehoods. Israel Nitzan is the acting Consul General of Israel in New York.@IsraelNitzan Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres Related Articles https://www.timesofisrael.com/congressman-urges-israel-to-continue-vaccinating-palestinians-laments-disparity/ https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/02/01/dont-fall-for-the-cynical-covid-19-vaccine-propaganda-against-israel/ https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-medics-vaccinate-some-palestinians-with-permits-to-work-in-israel/ https://www.conferenceofpresidents.org/news/press/2021/feb4/jewish-leaders-contest-claims-israel-withholding-vaccine-palestinians https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/hezbollah-like-groups-surged-when-iran-deal-lifted-sanctions-study-finds-658486 https://www.jns.org/opinion/revoking-the-houthis-terrorist-designation-gives-iran-leverage/  ...more

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• 1142: The American bifurcation much relieves China. @VDHanson; @HooverInst

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  Image:  A House Divided.  1960 SCENES FROM AMERICAN HISTORY, NO. 5 - A HOUSE DIVIDED, 1960.  DRAMATIC FOOTAGE SUPPLIED BY THE AMERICAN MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY ILLUSTRATE[s] SOME OF THE CONCEPTS OF FREEDOM ON WHICH THE COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED. A BRIEF SUMMARY OF GEOGRAPHICAL EXPANSION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH OF THE NATION, AND AN EXPLANATION OF THE DIVISIVE FORCES WHICH SPLIT THE NORTH AND SOUTH, EVENTUATING IN THE CIVIL WAR. Victor Davis Hanson: @VDHanson; @HooverInst, Hoover Institution, and The Case for Trump,in re:     China’s thinking, Give ’em enough rope. This is like what Mao did; “they’ll self-immolate.” Uyghurs, Tibet, Hong Kong, Taiwan. That’s our enemies; as for our allies, they’re uncertain of the US. Macron heavily criticized the woke culture, called the US nihilistic and Bolshevik. Democrats let a genie out of the bottle. Biden is watching this: passively or wittingly? “If you can't beat ’em, join ’em.  I’ll just ride the wave.” This is all the most radical deeds since FDR. Somebody will go too far: Jacobins’s executions? Or, as with McCarthy: Have you no decency? If it gets out of hand, and Kerenskyites take over . . .  Mao, after having been dismissed, took over. People here may say, I need to be woke as an insurance policy. ...more

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• 1141: The International Criminal Court blames Israel not Hamas for the 2014 crimes.Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Photo:   The Izz al-din Brigades are the military wing of Hamas. Here:  Izz ad-Din al-Qassam http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe International Criminal Court blames Israel not Hamas for the 2014 war crimes. Amit Heumann, Foreign Ministry State of Israel. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_presAmit Heumann is the Director of the International Law Department at the Office of the Legal Advisor, Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is currently legal advisor for the Israeli negotiation team for the Israeli-Lebanon maritime boundary negotiations. Mr. Heumann has represented Israel at many international legal and diplomatic forums and conferences, and he served as Legal Advisor of the Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations in New York from 2013-2018. Related articleshttps://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/eight-things-to-know-about-the-icc-war-crimes-suits-against-israel-658164 ...more

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• 1141: How the Israelis targeted killed Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Photo:  Science in Iran:  Alluvial Fan in Southern Iran. Image from NASA's Terra satellite http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowHow the Israelis targeted killed Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_preshttps://www.thejc.com/news/world/world-exclusive-truth-behind-killing-of-iran-nuclear-scientist-mohsen-fakhrizadeh-revealed-1.511653

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• 1141: How Ike Led: The Principles Behind Eisenhower's Biggest Decisions Kindle Edition. by Susan Eisenhower Kindle Edition @eisenhowergroup

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  Photo:   President Dwight D. Eisenhower Delivers His State of the Union Message before a Joint Session of Congress Assembled in the Chamber of the House of Representatives at the Capitol in Washington, DC http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow How Ike Led: The Principles Behind Eisenhower's Biggest Decisions Kindle Edition. by Susan Eisenhower  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition @eisenhowergroup Susan Eisenhower is President and Chairman of The Eisenhower Group, Inc. (EGI), a Washington D.C. based consulting company founded in 1986. For more than thirty years, the company has provided strategic counsel on business development, public affairs and communications projects. ...more

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• 1137: Moonbase Race, 2021. Host

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1969. Apollo 11 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowMoonbase Race, 2021. Hosthttps://www.newsweek.com/russia-china-want-build-base-moon-together-1149249

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• 1133: The juiced baseball of 2019 to be "slightly" deadened in 2021. Host.

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.Base ball ditties  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe juiced baseball of 2019 to be "slightly" deadened in 2021.  Host.https://www.si.com/mlb/2021/02/09/baseball-changes-dead-ball-era

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• 1140: Trump trade deal with the PRC falls short. @AlanTonelson, @USBIC1, @GordonGChang

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  Image:  Guangzhou's harbor in 1850 Alan Tonelson, @AlanTonelson, @USBIC1, U.S. Business and Industry Council Educational Foundation;  independent economic policy analyst who blogs at RealityChek and tweets at @AlanTonelson, and Gordon Chang, @GordonGChang, Daily Beast, in re:  Trump Trade Deal with the PRC falls short.     . .  . China is not a market-driven economy: could easily have decided to make the agreed purchases.  They knew the virus was coming. By Jan 15,  . . .  Let’s acknowledge that China simply does not honor its trade agreement. Right now, high tariffs on $360 bil of Chinese goods entering the US.  Biden has powerful tools at its disposal if it chooses to see them.  Does contract law exist in China? It exists, but there’s no enforcement; pols look at the matters in advance and instruct the court what to do.  The CCP has confidence in law: they use it against you. In good faith?  No.   No such thing as rule of law in Chinese politics or court or business.  The imperative is to create leverage and force them to accede or suffer. Why does Biden have to spend so much time reviewing Trump policies? Suggests that they don’t know what do to. Pursuing any deal with China is a loser.  Climate, trade, healthcare: Biden really wants deals with China.  https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/22/china-failed-to-buy-agreed-amounts-of-us-goods-in-phase-one-trade-deal-data.html https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/22/china-failed-to-buy-agreed-amounts-of-us-goods-in-phase-one-trade-deal-data.html...more

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• 1139: Tibet is the model for the Uyghur concentration camps. @bhuchungtsering, @GordonGChang

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  Image:  The trench in front of the concentration camp at Kharkov. Along the cement pathway which crosses the photograph there appeared one day three representatives of the labor union at Kharkof. The unionists had voted to plead with the "extraordinary council" of the commune for less drastic measures in overcoming the sentiment against Bolshevism. The three delegates came unarmed and with the most peaceful intention. Without warning the guards of the concentration camp shot them as they crossed this bridge over the trench and they fell into the pit Bhuchung Tsering, @bhuchungtsering, vice president of the International Campaign for Tibet; and Gordon Chang, @GordonGChang, Daily Beast, in re:  Tibet is the model for the Uyghur concentration camps. So many people protested China’s retreatment of Tibet that China had to hire bullies to push people away as the Olympic torch was being run. In 2008, we were assured that giving Olympics to China would improve treatment of Tibetans. Quite the opposite: the whole country now looks like a prison. Tibet has been the model where China experimented with extreme social control; the leader of that has been transferred to Xinjiang to do the same there. Why would the IOC award he games to China?  Based on what  happened in Tibet after 2008, need to see if the spirit of the games has been upheld by China.  Not. China increased its clampdown; Xi introduced the Sinicization of Tibetan Buddhism!   Now demands that the whole religion be controlled by China, to the degree of appointing the Dalai Lama. Monasteries have been closed; an essential Tibetan ritual at New Year.   Most recent self-immolation was 2020; but China began to hurt the suicide’s entire family.  There are protests in multiple countries against CCP brutality. “When you lie down with wolves, you do not get up.”https://www.thetibetpost.com/en/news/international/6948-i-want-to-urge-the-world-to-join-our-movement-and-boycott-the-upcoming-beijing-olympics-gonpo-dhonduphttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/mar/24/tibet.olympicgames2008 ...more

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• 1138: Trump Trade Deal with the PRC falls short & What is to be done?. Alan Tonelson, independent economic policy analyst who blogs at RealityChek and tweets at @AlanTonelson,

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1942. Production. Marine boilers. End plugs are fitted in headers for marine boilers as a large Midwest manufacturer turns over all plant facilities to the production of Navy requirements  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Trump Trade Deal with the PRC falls short & What is to be done?. Alan Tonelson, independent economic policy analyst who blogs at RealityChek and tweets at @AlanTonelson, https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/22/china-failed-to-buy-agreed-amounts-of-us-goods-in-phase-one-trade-deal-data.html ...more

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• 1136: Gathering storm to boycott or move the Beijing Winter Olympics. @nuryturkel, @GordonGChang,

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  Image:  The 1936 Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany Nury Turkel, @nuryturkel, co-founder of the Uyghur Human Rights Project and a commissioner of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, and Gordon Chang, @GordonGChang, Daily Beast, in re:    Gathering storm to boycott or move the Beijing Winter Olympics. The genocide of the Uyghur people in Xinjiang. Our govt trades with a country actively committing genocide. The intl community needs to take account of this. Our civilization made this mistake once before: in 1936, the camps were already being built to kill ethnic minorities. If this doesn’t awaken the intl community I don’t know what will. Then another mistake; [awarding the Olympics ] to China.  Recall the Olympics in Germany. China is vulnerable; there’s a year to go; China has threatened to sanction countries that boycott, showing that China is worried. Recall also that Olympic refsed to accept Apartheid South Africa.  The young Uyghur who went to Europe to train, and on returning home immediately was thrown into a concentration camp. Companies and govts are not doing what they need to do; this situation is much, much bigger than it looks. The threat of sanctions must be [attended to].  Tibetans are gathering in Dharmsala on this.Can we move the games?  Possible—but how comfortable is the world in participating in this event when it rests in part on genocide.  Could move the winter games to Mongolia.  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9236073/China-threatens-sanctions-2022-Winter-Olympics-boycott-calls.html ...more

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• 1136: The hole in the Democratic charge: POTUS is not a king to command any citizen in any fashion. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Image: Medallion of an actual king  Albrecht II of Germany. Andrew C McCarthy, @AndrewCMcCarthy, Ball of Collusion; and Thaddeus McCotter, @ThadMcCotter, American Greatness, in re:The hole in the Democratic charge: POTUS is not a king to command any citizen in any fashion.  They called Trump the commander-in-chief of America.  He was commander-in-chief of the military, not of the country or population. He’s not king. They have no proof that Trump intended violence; was trying to stoke political pressure in counting electoral votes. The president works for us, not the other way around.   . . . Their video left out all of Trump’s words saying that he expected the march to be peaceful....more

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• 1136: Impeachment opens with Democratic-edited video. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Image: The lure of editing film or video.  Here: Motion picture film crew Andrew C McCarthy, @AndrewCMcCarthy, Ball of Collusion; and Thaddeus McCotter, @ThadMcCotter, @theamgreatness, American Greatness, in re: Impeachment opens with Democratic-edited video. Mr Raskin opens the trial with a video. No chance of convicting Trump (can't get 17 GOP votes), so this is done to achieve political objectives, communicate that Trump supporters are neo-Nazi white supremacist villains.  They want to divide Republicans for the next few cycles. Cruising toward a verdict on Monday or Tuesday.   John Yoo said that an adequate defense would take weeks or months to prepare.  He’s quite right, if this were a real trial. Instead, it’s political theater....more

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• 1135: Launching the new outside-grown cannabis farming of temperate British Columbia. Joel Dumaresq, CEO ChristinaLakeCannabis.com

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1935.Flume crossing trestle. Tumberton, British Columbia  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowLaunching the new outside-grown cannabis farming of temperate British Columbia. Joel Dumaresq, CEO and Director Christina Lakes Cannabishttps://christinalakecannabis.comUS: CLCFFCanada: CLF"Christina Lake Cannabis Corp. is a licensed producer of cannabis under the Cannabis Act. It has secured a standard cultivation licence and corresponding processing/sales amendment from Health Canada (March 2020 and August 2020, respectively) as well as a research and development licence (early 2020). CLC’s facility consists of a 32-acre property, which includes over 950,000 square feet of outdoor grow space, offices, propagation and drying rooms, research facilities, and a facility dedicated to processing and extraction. CLC cultivates cannabis using strains specifically developed for outdoor cultivation and in its inaugural harvest year produced 32,500 kg (71,650 lb) from its existing facility before developing an adjacent 99-acre expansion property, which will bring its annual cultivation footprint to over 4.35 million square feet or over 88,000 kg (194,007 lb) of low-cost, high-quality, sun-grown cannabis."...more

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• 1133: OSIRIS-Rex visits Bennu for the last goodbye. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1996. This view of the asteroid 243 Ida is a mosaic of five image frames acquired by NASA's Galileo spacecraft solid-state imaging system at ranges of 3,057 to 3,821 kilometers 1,900 to 2,375 miles on August 28, 1993.  http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00135NASA/JPL http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowOSIRIS-Rex visits Bennu for the last goodbye. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/osiris-rex-has-begun-its-return-to-bennu/ ...more

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• 1133: Musk's SpaceX Starlink readying for IPO. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1965 Musk's Activities at Green Mountain Tracking Station, Alabama, during lift-off of the Saturn I, SA-9 mission, showing the overall view of instrument panels used in tracking the Pegasus, meteoroid-detection satellite. The satellite was used to obtain data on frequency and penetration of the potentially hazardous micrometeoroids in low Earth orbits and to relay the information back to Earth. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowMusk's SpaceX Starlink readying for IPO. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/musk-starlink-to-go-public-once-operational/ ...more

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• 1133: Why do the narrow majority Democrats press extreme partisan outcomes? WJMcGurn @WSJOpinion

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1921 Alice Robertson, 12/8/21  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowWhy do the narrow majority Democrats press extreme partisan outcomes? WJMcGurn @WSJOpinionhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-keep-america-polarized-11612826788.

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• 1134: Who believes the WHO in Wuhan? @WeTheBrandon

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  Image: Wuhan Institute of Virology, screen grab Brandon Weichert, @WeTheBrandon, author, Winning Space, How America Remains a Superpower;andGordon Chang, @GordonGChang,Daily Beast, in re:  Who believes the WHO in Wuhan? We don’t yet know the origin, so it's inappropriate for anyone in the WHO to say if it did or did not originate in a wet market or lab.   So far, after all this time, there’s still been no honest investigation into the Wuhan lab—after over a year.  Mike Pompeo: “We pulled out to the WHO for good reasons: it's corrupt, and is politically pro-China.” And all the original samples have been removed. What audience does the PRC hope to persuade?  Seven.point four billion people.  “If you don't see the cleverness in CCP actions,  you're not looking hard enough.”   All the original source material has been so badly tampered-with and removed;  the WH people were finally allowed in in a limited fashion. Forensically, unlikely we’ll ever know the original source—so we won’t understand it, or how it mutates. Or how to fight it. The WHO spent 3-1/2 hour looking. Gen Chen Wei had already completely cleaned it. For the least decade, China has been buying into UN intl organizations—many—to persuade them to become more Chinese in outlook.   The WHO’s report says hat China can keep misbehaving as long a it keeps pouring money into organizations.  https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/10/asia/who-china-coronavirus-intl-hnk/index.html...more

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• 1133: State of the City, the State, the Union: Will POTUS Biden reverse the cancellation of the critical Keystone XL pipeline? John Catsimatidis @JCats2013 @CatsRoundtable @JohnCats

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1942.Andrews County, Texas. Bringing pipelines to new oil line  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow State of the City, the State, the Union: Will POTUS Biden reverse the cancellation of the critical Keystone XL pipeline? John Catsimatidis @JCats2013 @CatsRoundtable @JohnCatshttps://www.wsj.com/articles/the-costs-of-killing-keystone-xl-11612915089

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• 1134: Zuckerberg/Facebook/Groups fail. @WillRinehart

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  Feb 11 2021

  Image:  Facebook's Oculus VR headset[106]  Will Rinehart, @WillRinehart, Utah State University Center for Growth and Opportunity, in re:  Zuckerberg/Facebook/Groups fail.The events in Washington; starting in 2016, FB was blamed for false information on Donald Trump. Axios: it's hesitating in growth; not growing commensurately with its earnings forecast. Why?  A serious trust problem: people don't trust FB or twitter.  FB pitches, Zuckerberg in front of a big screen; Groups:  allow people to connect on a wide variety of issues, sort of private chat rooms.  More limitations to come on them. Reddit: Star Wars Armada.  Discussion boards.  Some supported Donald Trump; FB doesn’t want that, political conversations, any more.  WSJ wrote of some Albanians pretending marketing, actually practicing larceny.  FB is now working with law enforcement.  How profound a threat is this to FB’s business plan?  Not known.  Center for Growth and Opportunity https://www.axios.com/facebook-booming-business-sinking-reputation-b7035f9d-0b8d-40e0-a98e-7fe0ff677362.html...more

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• 1134: The Magic Kingdom for the troubled Golden State. Bill Whalen: @Hooverwhalen, @HooverInst

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  Feb 11 2021

  Image:  The USS Cyane taking San Diego 1846. Bill Whalen: @Hooverwhalen, @HooverInst,Area 45 blog, in re:  The Magic Kingdom for the troubled Golden State. Gov Gavin Newsom is under pressure because of the recall petition.   April 29 will be 100 days of the Biden presidency: Biden promised to have schools reopened by then, but teachers aren’t in a hurry, They all want to be inoculated first, also, “only so long as the school is covid-free.”  Mayor Bree said schools won’t be open this year. Newsom won’t pressure teachers because he’s a wholly-owned subsidiary of the teachers union. Things are so rough in California that they might actually elect a businessperson—maybe Bob Iger, who ran Disney.  Rolling blackouts, Disneyland.   Hackers have ripped off billions from the state. Voters are angry.  https://www.hoover.org/research/iger-sanction ...more

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• 1132: 8/8 Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America, by T. J. Stiles

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  Feb 11 2021

  Image:  Mark Twain, others in background  Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America,by T. J. Stiles   The key to understanding Custer, Stiles writes, is keeping in mind that he lived on a frontier in time. In the Civil War, the West, and many areas overlooked in previous biographies, Custer helped to create modern America, but he could never adapt to it. He freed countless slaves yet rejected new civil rights laws. He proved his heroism but missed the dark reality of war for so many others. A talented combat leader, he struggled as a manager in the West. He tried to make a fortune on Wall Street yet never connected with the new corporate economy. Native Americans fascinated him, but he could not see them as fully human. A popular writer, he remained apart from Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, and other rising intellectuals. During Custer’s lifetime, Americans saw their world remade. His admirers saw him as the embodiment of the nation’s gallant youth, of all that they were losing; his detractors despised him for resisting a more complex and promising future. Intimate, dramatic, and provocative, this biography captures the larger story of the changing nation in Custer’s tumultuous marriage to his highly educated wife, Libbie; their complicated relationship with Eliza Brown, the forceful black woman who ran their household; as well as his battles and expeditions. It casts surprising new light on a near-mythic American figure, a man both widely known and little understood.  https://www.amazon.com/Custers-Trials-Life-Frontier-America-ebook/dp/B00S3RIMD4/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=..  .. ..  ..  ..  ...more

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• 1132: 7/8 Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America, by T. J. Stiles

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  Feb 11 2021

  Image:  Wall Street in 1883  Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America,by T. J. Stiles   The key to understanding Custer, Stiles writes, is keeping in mind that he lived on a frontier in time. In the Civil War, the West, and many areas overlooked in previous biographies, Custer helped to create modern America, but he could never adapt to it. He freed countless slaves yet rejected new civil rights laws. He proved his heroism but missed the dark reality of war for so many others. A talented combat leader, he struggled as a manager in the West. He tried to make a fortune on Wall Street yet never connected with the new corporate economy. Native Americans fascinated him, but he could not see them as fully human. A popular writer, he remained apart from Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, and other rising intellectuals. During Custer’s lifetime, Americans saw their world remade. His admirers saw him as the embodiment of the nation’s gallant youth, of all that they were losing; his detractors despised him for resisting a more complex and promising future. Intimate, dramatic, and provocative, this biography captures the larger story of the changing nation in Custer’s tumultuous marriage to his highly educated wife, Libbie; their complicated relationship with Eliza Brown, the forceful black woman who ran their household; as well as his battles and expeditions. It casts surprising new light on a near-mythic American figure, a man both widely known and little understood.  https://www.amazon.com/Custers-Trials-Life-Frontier-America-ebook/dp/B00S3RIMD4/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=..  .. ..  ..  ..   ...more

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• 1132: 6/8 Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America, by T. J. Stiles

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  Feb 11 2021

  Image:  Brigadier-General George A. Custer   Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America,by T. J. Stiles   The key to understanding Custer, Stiles writes, is keeping in mind that he lived on a frontier in time. In the Civil War, the West, and many areas overlooked in previous biographies, Custer helped to create modern America, but he could never adapt to it. He freed countless slaves yet rejected new civil rights laws. He proved his heroism but missed the dark reality of war for so many others. A talented combat leader, he struggled as a manager in the West. He tried to make a fortune on Wall Street yet never connected with the new corporate economy. Native Americans fascinated him, but he could not see them as fully human. A popular writer, he remained apart from Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, and other rising intellectuals. During Custer’s lifetime, Americans saw their world remade. His admirers saw him as the embodiment of the nation’s gallant youth, of all that they were losing; his detractors despised him for resisting a more complex and promising future. Intimate, dramatic, and provocative, this biography captures the larger story of the changing nation in Custer’s tumultuous marriage to his highly educated wife, Libbie; their complicated relationship with Eliza Brown, the forceful black woman who ran their household; as well as his battles and expeditions. It casts surprising new light on a near-mythic American figure, a man both widely known and little understood. https://www.amazon.com/Custers-Trials-Life-Frontier-America-ebook/dp/B00S3RIMD4/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=...more

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• 1132: 5/8 Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America, by T. J. Stiles

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  Feb 11 2021

  Image:  Makah Indians from Nee-oh Bay; resting on the beach at Port Townsend while en route for the hop fields up Pudget-Sound, ca. 1890.  Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America,by T. J. Stiles   The key to understanding Custer, Stiles writes, is keeping in mind that he lived on a frontier in time. In the Civil War, the West, and many areas overlooked in previous biographies, Custer helped to create modern America, but he could never adapt to it. He freed countless slaves yet rejected new civil rights laws. He proved his heroism but missed the dark reality of war for so many others. A talented combat leader, he struggled as a manager in the West. He tried to make a fortune on Wall Street yet never connected with the new corporate economy. Native Americans fascinated him, but he could not see them as fully human. A popular writer, he remained apart from Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, and other rising intellectuals. During Custer’s lifetime, Americans saw their world remade. His admirers saw him as the embodiment of the nation’s gallant youth, of all that they were losing; his detractors despised him for resisting a more complex and promising future. Intimate, dramatic, and provocative, this biography captures the larger story of the changing nation in Custer’s tumultuous marriage to his highly educated wife, Libbie; their complicated relationship with Eliza Brown, the forceful black woman who ran their household; as well as his battles and expeditions. It casts surprising new light on a near-mythic American figure, a man both widely known and little understood. https://www.amazon.com/Custers-Trials-Life-Frontier-America-ebook/dp/B00S3RIMD4/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=...more

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• 1132: 4/8 Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America, by T. J. Stiles

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  Feb 11 2021

  Image: Slave elder. Arkansas  Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America,by T. J. Stiles   The key to understanding Custer, Stiles writes, is keeping in mind that he lived on a frontier in time. In the Civil War, the West, and many areas overlooked in previous biographies, Custer helped to create modern America, but he could never adapt to it. He freed countless slaves yet rejected new civil rights laws. He proved his heroism but missed the dark reality of war for so many others. A talented combat leader, he struggled as a manager in the West. He tried to make a fortune on Wall Street yet never connected with the new corporate economy. Native Americans fascinated him, but he could not see them as fully human. A popular writer, he remained apart from Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, and other rising intellectuals. During Custer’s lifetime, Americans saw their world remade. His admirers saw him as the embodiment of the nation’s gallant youth, of all that they were losing; his detractors despised him for resisting a more complex and promising future. Intimate, dramatic, and provocative, this biography captures the larger story of the changing nation in Custer’s tumultuous marriage to his highly educated wife, Libbie; their complicated relationship with Eliza Brown, the forceful black woman who ran their household; as well as his battles and expeditions. It casts surprising new light on a near-mythic American figure, a man both widely known and little understood.  https://www.amazon.com/Custers-Trials-Life-Frontier-America-ebook/dp/B00S3RIMD4/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=..  .. ..  ..  ..  ...more

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• 1132: 3/8 Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America, by T. J. Stiles

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  Feb 11 2021

  Image:  American frontier: Calamity Jane    Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America,by T. J. Stiles   The key to understanding Custer, Stiles writes, is keeping in mind that he lived on a frontier in time. In the Civil War, the West, and many areas overlooked in previous biographies, Custer helped to create modern America, but he could never adapt to it. He freed countless slaves yet rejected new civil rights laws. He proved his heroism but missed the dark reality of war for so many others. A talented combat leader, he struggled as a manager in the West. He tried to make a fortune on Wall Street yet never connected with the new corporate economy. Native Americans fascinated him, but he could not see them as fully human. A popular writer, he remained apart from Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, and other rising intellectuals. During Custer’s lifetime, Americans saw their world remade. His admirers saw him as the embodiment of the nation’s gallant youth, of all that they were losing; his detractors despised him for resisting a more complex and promising future. Intimate, dramatic, and provocative, this biography captures the larger story of the changing nation in Custer’s tumultuous marriage to his highly educated wife, Libbie; their complicated relationship with Eliza Brown, the forceful black woman who ran their household; as well as his battles and expeditions. It casts surprising new light on a near-mythic American figure, a man both widely known and little understood.  https://www.amazon.com/Custers-Trials-Life-Frontier-America-ebook/dp/B00S3RIMD4/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=..  .. ..  ..  ..  ...more

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• 1131: 2/8 Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America, by T. J. Stiles

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  Feb 11 2021

  Image: George and Libbie Custer Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America,by T. J. Stiles   The key to understanding Custer, Stiles writes, is keeping in mind that he lived on a frontier in time. In the Civil War, the West, and many areas overlooked in previous biographies, Custer helped to create modern America, but he could never adapt to it. He freed countless slaves yet rejected new civil rights laws. He proved his heroism but missed the dark reality of war for so many others. A talented combat leader, he struggled as a manager in the West. He tried to make a fortune on Wall Street yet never connected with the new corporate economy. Native Americans fascinated him, but he could not see them as fully human. A popular writer, he remained apart from Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, and other rising intellectuals. During Custer’s lifetime, Americans saw their world remade. His admirers saw him as the embodiment of the nation’s gallant youth, of all that they were losing; his detractors despised him for resisting a more complex and promising future. Intimate, dramatic, and provocative, this biography captures the larger story of the changing nation in Custer’s tumultuous marriage to his highly educated wife, Libbie; their complicated relationship with Eliza Brown, the forceful black woman who ran their household; as well as his battles and expeditions. It casts surprising new light on a near-mythic American figure, a man both widely known and little understood.  https://www.amazon.com/Custers-Trials-Life-Frontier-America-ebook/dp/B00S3RIMD4/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=..  .. ..  ..  ..  ...more

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• 1131: 1/8 Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America, by T. J. Stiles

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  Feb 11 2021

  Image:  Gen. George Custer, U.S.A.  Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America,by T. J. Stiles   The key to understanding Custer, Stiles writes, is keeping in mind that he lived on a frontier in time. In the Civil War, the West, and many areas overlooked in previous biographies, Custer helped to create modern America, but he could never adapt to it. He freed countless slaves yet rejected new civil rights laws. He proved his heroism but missed the dark reality of war for so many others. A talented combat leader, he struggled as a manager in the West. He tried to make a fortune on Wall Street yet never connected with the new corporate economy. Native Americans fascinated him, but he could not see them as fully human. A popular writer, he remained apart from Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, and other rising intellectuals. During Custer’s lifetime, Americans saw their world remade. His admirers saw him as the embodiment of the nation’s gallant youth, of all that they were losing; his detractors despised him for resisting a more complex and promising future. Intimate, dramatic, and provocative, this biography captures the larger story of the changing nation in Custer’s tumultuous marriage to his highly educated wife, Libbie; their complicated relationship with Eliza Brown, the forceful black woman who ran their household; as well as his battles and expeditions. It casts surprising new light on a near-mythic American figure, a man both widely known and little understood. https://www.amazon.com/Custers-Trials-Life-Frontier-America-ebook/dp/B00S3RIMD4/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=...more

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• 1130: Biden policy at the border, with Central America watching. @jmhumire, @securefreesoc, @MariaFdaCabal

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  Feb 10 2021

  Image: After a lift of five miles by a passing motorist, the family of homeless, walking people are left at the edge of the next town  New World Report.Joseph Humire @jmhumire, @securefreesoc, and Senator Maria Fernanda Cabal @MariaFdaCabal, in re: Biden’s decision to end the previous agreements: will the caravans start again?  Certainly.   We eed to be very careful about rushing through border-policy changing.  SIA: special interest aliens—migrants form Asia, Africa ,Middle East, countries having a high density of terrorists. Eleven Iranians hopped into the US across the Mexican border.   The sources of disorder: narcotraffic is deeply destabilizing; Panama. Honduras, Guatemala, then Mexico, then the US.  Enough money to corrupt the authorities.  Govt is extremely corrupt—the covid crisis, which is leading people to socialism than ever before, They don't understand how economics works.  Corruption inequilty—all these lead to a terrible end. Chile – referendum to change the constitution; all the failed countries began by changing their constitution, letting tyrants rule forever ...more

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• 1128: It's agreed, Spring Training starts February 17! Host.

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  Feb 10 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1927. Title devised by Library staff.Date based on date of negatives in same range.Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955.General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hecTemp. note: Batch seven. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowIt's agreed, Spring Training starts February 17! Host.https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/among-new-mlb-rules-in-2021-greater-roster-flexibility-elimination-of-expanded-playoffs/ar-BB1dxUiF ...more

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• 1128: Central Park Climate Mitigation. Host

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  Feb 10 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1954. [View from 146 Central Park West apartment, 9D, New York City]  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe promise of New York Central Park Climate Mitigation. Hosthttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-010-9965-8

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• 1130: Ecuador, Peru and Chile: democracy wobbles. @jmhumire, @securefreesoc, @MariaFdaCabal

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  Feb 10 2021

  Image:  The young cascarillero, and Colonel Thorndike's adventures; a story of bark hunters in the Ecuadorian forests, and the experiences of a globe trotter,  New World Report.Joseph Humire @jmhumire, @securefreesoc, and Senator Maria Fernanda Cabal @MariaFdaCabal, in re: An outbreak of democratic voting across South America. Begin with Ecuador.  The economist Andres Araos, socialist candidate, leading at the polls.  Also an indigenous candidate; and a perennial candidate. . . .  In Ecuador, Iran is helping socialists.  A threat network that includes Cuba, Iran, and Venezuela; “the Bolivarian network.” Colombia is a holdout from the trend of strongmen government funded from the outside plus narcoterrorists within, and illicit gold; trade-based money laundering. Colombia is therefore a target. Amlo in Mexico; Bolivia.    Cocaine and mafia businesses. Maduro helping the guerrillas.   ...more

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• 1129: The Democrats unite over Trump-bashing. @Liz Peek

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  Feb 10 2021

  Image:  The four freedoms. No government censor passes on what may appear in these publications. Crowded newstands such as these, with journals representing every political party and every social theory are possible only in a democracy, where there is freedom of speech and of the press Elizabeth Peek, TheHill and Fox News; in re:   The impeachment trial:  sentence then verdict of what use?  The country is ready to move on.  People are so alarmed by the censoring and cancelling of voices that they’re not paying that much attention to the trial. We need freedom of speech to be important. Democrats come across as being wildly vindictive, not only against Trump but against the 74 million who voted for him. The transgender sports thing, and so forth—a shame that Biden has climbed on that train. Are they anxious that this is all that holds them together? They have no other theme.  Schumer looking over his shoulder at AOC primarying him.  The far left is on the ascent with energy and money.  https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/raskin-opens-impeachment-trial-with-devastating-video-of-january-6-capitol-riot/  ...more

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• 1129: Fossil fuel bull market; & What is to be done? @LizPeek

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  Feb 10 2021

  Image:  Technology from The History and Description of Fossil Fuel, the collieries, and coal trade of Great Britain. By the author of the Treatise on manufactures in metal in Lirdner's Cabinet Cyclopædia [J Holland] Elizabeth Peek, @LizPeek, Fox News and TheHill; in re:  Oil is near $60; false trap, or are we coming out of the troubles? Covid and hospitalizations are diminishing, most people will have been vaccinated by July; a turnaround. Economy largely shut down, but may recover by September. Things are kind of coming in to place—raising questions about the $1.9 trillion stimulus—the economy doesn’t need that huge an injection going to couples making $175,000.    The extra $400/week may seriously slow economic recovery  as poor people realize they make more on unemployment than at work.  Savings are high, net worth has increased.    Oil wells today are short-lived.  Biden can mess this up by bad policies cancelling Keystone pipe line. Cuomo will let cafes open—have dodged a $15/hr minimum wage.   CBO report: Biden will cut 1.4 million jobs.  People in charge think of this on racial lines.   Play-acting from Cuomo, Newsom, et al.https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/energy-stocks-could-surge-42-25-as-oil-prices-extend-one-year-highs-fundstrats-tom-lee-says/ar-BB1dxBrI...more

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• 1127: Is Joe Biden the end of the Special Relationship? Gregory R Copley: Defense and Foreign Affairs; The New Total War of the Twenty-first Century and the Trigger of the Fear Pandemic.

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  Feb 10 2021

  Image: Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain inspects an Honor Guard during her visit to the Marine Corps Recruit Depot The original threat by Obama, that if GB went ahead with Brexit  the US wouldn’t consider it as a major trading ally—envy among EU states.  Trump reestablished the “special relationship, which Biden is undoing.  BoJo is undermining independence of Scotland, demands free travel between Ireland and England.  In the last week, UK has added to its defense revitalization with 20 billion or so; bldg. a range of new vessels and a world-class fighter and a lot of surface combatants, working with Australia and Canada. Britain has a lot of friends in Washington, but not enough.    Biden’s DC thinks th EU is the cat’s whiskers – but  the real defense capability came from Britain; without it, the EU is weak.https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/joe-bidens-administration-doesnt-trust-boris-johnson-because-of-his-ties-to-trump/ar-BB1desJJ ...more

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• 1127: Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye: 2of2: A Family Field Trip to the Arctic's Edge in Search of Adventure, Truth, and Mini-Marshmallows Kindle Edition. by Zac Unger (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Feb 10 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.Polar bear  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye: 2of2: A Family Field Trip to the Arctic's Edge in Search of Adventure, Truth, and Mini-Marshmallows Kindle Edition. by Zac Unger  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Never-Look-Polar-Bear-Mini-Marshmallows-ebook/dp/B00AXS6B4SWelcome 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, 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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• 1127: Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye: 1of2: A Family Field Trip to the Arctic's Edge in Search of Adventure, Truth, and Mini-Marshmallows Kindle Edition. by Zac Unger (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Feb 10 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1803. Polar Bear (Bechstein, 1803)  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye: 1of2: A Family Field Trip to the Arctic's Edge in Search of Adventure, Truth, and Mini-Marshmallows Kindle Edition. by Zac Unger  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Never-Look-Polar-Bear-Mini-Marshmallows-ebook/dp/B00AXS6B4SWelcome 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, 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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• 1127: As the US, the EU and China slip from grace. Gregory R Copley: Defense and Foreign Affairs; The New Total War of the Twenty-first Century and the Trigger of the Fear Pandemic.

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  Feb 10 2021

  Image: Desiccation in China:  camel pulling cart, Gobi Desert Gregory R Copley: Defense and Foreign Affairs; Gregory R Copley, The New  Total War of the Twenty-first Century and the Trigger of the Fear Pandemic, in re:  The US has continued its slide from grace: in a helter-skelter fashion. Is seen as being of questionable resolve and ability to address its internal preoccupation, one year out of four it ignores the world; the only great power in history spending a quarter of its time ignoring the world. Strategic decline, will have increasing less cash to spend on dominating the global envt.  Trump put the US on a confrontation course with the Communist Party of China, which [the CCP] is in great doubt for an array of factors—cash, food, shortage, water shortage—was in danger of abandoning its ___. The US 3 Nov election gave the CCP a new lease on life. What this will all come to is not clear. China wants to reduce the military differential between the two countries; but both are in a [phase of] reduction. My money is on hte the US, if we don’t blow it.  “Dead Men Walking, Dead Men Waking.” – unless the EU collapses, and we see a resurgence of [small states].  Italy, others, and even France, seem to be thinking of leaving the EU.  Brussels has official power, but without Germany is nothing.  Creating a new Soviet Union; as the head of Czech Republic said, “We didn't leave one Soviet Union in order to join another one.”  EU was designed to contain Germany’s [aggression]; instead, just rechanneled expansionism via the currency.    PRC is currently testing the Biden administration, with a carrier in the South China Sea—no response from Biden: “probing our adversary to the point of contact.”  Trump had the PRC on the run; now, PRC has Biden on the run (with documentation on the Biden family, for example).   Food, water, and energy shortages in China: PRC is still using Mickey Mouse schemes to evade sanctions on Iranian oil; PRC has run out of cash, is in tr0uble.  PRC relying on the US being not a cornerstone of any pushback. However, the Quad states are pushing back, along with _____. EU cannot deal with a Russian threat just now, although Russia isn't in a good position to threaten; what it wants is a stable relation and to control the EU by the flow gas and oil. ...more

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• 1127: Êtes-vous Draghiste? SuperMario rides to the rescue of tragic Italy. @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion

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  Feb 10 2021

  Image:  Italy Joseph Sternberg:  @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion; Political Economics column; WSJ editorial board;  in re: Italy, reorganizing with a surprising hero.Guseppi Conte didn’t put together a coalition; return, Mario Draghi,, former EU central banker.  “SuperMario” saved the euro from the jaws of debt crises.  Rome has been wracked by conflicts.  Draghi has assembled disparate small parties, may be a bridge till the next election. Who’ll spend the money? The groups don’t trust each other but all trust Draghi.  The bad part is that he comes out of the electoral system, but one needs to have had that experience to spend the money wisely.  The rest of Europe will face a similar problem. Will they also call on central bankers?  Washington did this with Yellin.  Italy is the most flamboyant example.  https://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-politics-idUSKBN2A92TM  ...more

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• 1127: Travellers: gaol for failure to quarantine; London calmer with the vaccine @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion

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  Feb 10 2021

  Image: Joseph Sternberg:  @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion; Political Economics column; WSJ editorial board;  in re: London Times, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, all have forborne to have an alarmist  headline for some days, although the intl variants of the virus are moving around the world.  Still have many patents ill in hospital.   The danger that the [policy goal posts might start shifting. purpose of lockdown was to reduce number of patients overwhelming hospitals; and not clear that the virus will ever be eliminated.  Travellers:  arrive in Great Britain hiding arrival from a mandatory isolation country, will pay £10,000 and go to jail. The whole quarantine and travel restrictions are because the govt is trying to look as though it’s doing something. They'll soon kill the economy, plus there’s the broader issue of: is it good for the govt constantly to be responding to pressures without controlling the virus?  People still think there’s an end in sight; if I were Boris Johnson I'd be worried about [having a real plan].  Retail pubs, hospitality, people socializing in their own homes.  https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/covid-19-vaccines-will-turn-virus-into-the-sniffles-says-oxford-professor-60db3ll8w  ...more

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• 1126: Washington fails to lead the vaccine recovery of the global population. @JoshRogin @WashiungtonPost

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication. 1905 NATIONAL VACCINE & ANTITOXIN INST.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowWashington fails to lead the vaccine recovery of the global population. @JoshRogin @WashiungtonPosthttps://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/the-united-states-is-still-failing-to-lead-the-coronavirus-battle-abroad/2021/02/04/b4a616ae-6727-11eb-886d-5264d4ceb46d_story.html

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• 1126: The Clubhouse App defeats evades the Great Chinese Firewall for weeks. @JoshRogin @WashingtonPost

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  Feb 10 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1908. Chinese Wall, Pekin--China - the Great Wall, Peking - Rebels have passed another part of the wall and are marching on Peking  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe Clubhouse App defeats evades the  Great Chinese Firewall for weeks.  @JoshRogin @WashingtonPosthttps://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/09/clubhouse-briefly-gave-chinese-citizens-free-speech-now-make-that-permanent/ ...more

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• 1126: Bright Water and Climate Mitigation: 2of2: Russell Seitz. Senior Research Fellow, The Climate Institute

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1900. Central Park, New York, boat pond and Temple Beth-El  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowBright Water and Climate Mitigation: 2of2: Russell Seitz. Senior Research Fellow,  The Climate Institute    https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Russell_Seitzhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-010-9965-8

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• 1126: Bright Water and Climate Mitigation: 1of2: Russell Seitz. Senior Research Fellow, The Climate Institute

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1862. Central Park, Winter: The skating pond  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowBright Water and Climate Mitigation: 1of2: Russell Seitz. Senior Research Fellow, The Climate Institute    https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Russell_Seitzhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-010-9965-8

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• 1125: 2/2 The Tinkerers: The Amateurs, DIYers, and Inventors Who Make America Great, by Alec Foege

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  Feb 10 2021

  Image: Tesla demonstrating wireless lighting by "electrostatic induction" during an 1891 lecture at Columbia College via two long Geissler tubes (similar to neon tubes) in his hands  The Tinkerers: The Amateurs, DIYers, and Inventors Who Make America Great,  by Alec Foege   From its earliest years, the United States was a nation of tinkerers: men and women who looked at the world around them and were able to create something genuinely new from what they saw. Guided by their innate curiosity, a desire to know how things work, and a belief that anything can be improved, amateurs and professionals from Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Edison came up with the inventions that laid the foundations for America's economic dominance. Recently, Americans have come to question if our tinkering spirit has survived the pressures of ruthless corporate organization and bottom-line–driven caution. But, as Alec Foege shows in The Tinkerers, reports of tinkering's death have been greatly exaggerated.Through the stories of great tinkerers and inventions past and present, Foege documents how Franklin and Edison's modern-day heirs do not allow our cultural obsessions with efficiency and conformity to interfere with their passion and creativity. Tinkering has been the guiding force behind both major corporate-sponsored innovations such as the personal computer and Ethernet, and smaller-scale inventions with great potential, such as a machine that can make low-cost eyeglass lenses for people in impoverished countries and a device that uses lasers to shoot malarial mosquitoes out of the sky. Some tinkerers attended the finest engineering schools in the world; some had no formal training in their chosen fields. Some see themselves as solo artists; others emphasize the importance of working in teams. What binds them together is an ability to subvert the old order, to see fresh potential in existing technologies, and to apply technical know-how to the problems of their day.As anyone who has feared voiding a warranty knows, the complexity of modern systems can be needlessly intimidating. Despite this, tinkerers can—and do—come from anywhere, whether it's the R&D lab of a major corporation, a hobbyist's garage, or a summer camp for budding engineers. Through a lively retelling of recent history and captivating interviews with today's most creative innovators, Foege reveals how the tinkering tradition remains, in new and unexpected forms, at the heart of American society and culture.   https://www.amazon.com/Tinkerers-Amateurs-DIYers-Inventors-America/dp/0465009239  ...more

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• 1125: 1/2 The Tinkerers: The Amateurs, DIYers, and Inventors Who Make America Great, by Alec Foege

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  Image:  Thomas Edison with phonograph. Edison was one of the most prolific inventors in history, holding 1,093 U.S. patents in his name.  The Tinkerers: The Amateurs, DIYers, and Inventors Who Make America Great,  by Alec Foege   From its earliest years, the United States was a nation of tinkerers: men and women who looked at the world around them and were able to create something genuinely new from what they saw. Guided by their innate curiosity, a desire to know how things work, and a belief that anything can be improved, amateurs and professionals from Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Edison came up with the inventions that laid the foundations for America's economic dominance. Recently, Americans have come to question if our tinkering spirit has survived the pressures of ruthless corporate organization and bottom-line–driven caution. But, as Alec Foege shows in The Tinkerers, reports of tinkering's death have been greatly exaggerated.Through the stories of great tinkerers and inventions past and present, Foege documents how Franklin and Edison's modern-day heirs do not allow our cultural obsessions with efficiency and conformity to interfere with their passion and creativity. Tinkering has been the guiding force behind both major corporate-sponsored innovations such as the personal computer and Ethernet, and smaller-scale inventions with great potential, such as a machine that can make low-cost eyeglass lenses for people in impoverished countries and a device that uses lasers to shoot malarial mosquitoes out of the sky. Some tinkerers attended the finest engineering schools in the world; some had no formal training in their chosen fields. Some see themselves as solo artists; others emphasize the importance of working in teams. What binds them together is an ability to subvert the old order, to see fresh potential in existing technologies, and to apply technical know-how to the problems of their day.As anyone who has feared voiding a warranty knows, the complexity of modern systems can be needlessly intimidating. Despite this, tinkerers can—and do—come from anywhere, whether it's the R&D lab of a major corporation, a hobbyist's garage, or a summer camp for budding engineers. Through a lively retelling of recent history and captivating interviews with today's most creative innovators, Foege reveals how the tinkering tradition remains, in new and unexpected forms, at the heart of American society and culture.   https://www.amazon.com/Tinkerers-Amateurs-DIYers-Inventors-America/dp/0465009239  ...more

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• 1124: 2/2 Going Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969, by David Eisenhower and Julie Nixon Eisenhower, with Arthur Morey as narrator. Tantor Audio is publisher.

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  Feb 10 2021

  Image:    Meeting with President Eisenhower. President Kennedy, President Eisenhower, military aides. Camp David, MD  Going Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969,by David Eisenhowerand Julie Nixon Eisenhower, with Arthur Moreyas narrator. Tantor Audio is publisher. After President Dwight D. Eisenhower left office in 1961, he retired to a farm in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Living next door was his teenage grandson, David; they would be neighbors for the rest of the decade. Based on personal stories, letters, diaries, and the reminiscences of Eisenhower’s closest friends, Going Home to Glory is both an intimate chronicle of the elder statesman’s final years and a coming of age story.  In this book, Eisenhower emerges as both a beloved and forbidding figure, whether relaxing at home or playing golf, advising presidents Kennedy and Johnson and 1968 presidential hopeful Richard Nixon, or rendering sage advice to young people—including the author. Set amidst the turbulent 60s, the author describes Eisenhower's many efforts to influence a bewildered nation on civil rights and Vietnam.  David Eisenhower's first book about his grandfather, Eisenhower at War, was a best seller and a finalist for the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in History. Going Home to Glory, a personal sequel, offers completely new insight into one of the country's most respected presidents.https://www.amazon.com/Going-Home-to-Glory-audiobook/dp/B004991TDU/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2SG2LHZXE3ODR&dchild=1&keywords=going+home+to+glory+eisenhower&qid=1612896601&s=books&sprefix=going+home+eisenhower%2Cstripbooks%2C150&sr=1-1  ...more

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• 1124: 1/2 Going Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969, by David Eisenhower and Julie Nixon Eisenhower, with Arthur Morey as narrator. Tantor Audio is publisher.

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  Image:  Perspective view of the main house of the Eisenhower Farm, Emmitsburg Road (U.S. Route 15), Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania   Going Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969,by David Eisenhowerand Julie Nixon Eisenhower, with Arthur Moreyas narrator. Tantor Audio is publisher. After President Dwight D. Eisenhower left office in 1961, he retired to a farm in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Living next door was his teenage grandson, David; they would be neighbors for the rest of the decade. Based on personal stories, letters, diaries, and the reminiscences of Eisenhower’s closest friends, Going Home to Glory is both an intimate chronicle of the elder statesman’s final years and a coming of age story.  In this book, Eisenhower emerges as both a beloved and forbidding figure, whether relaxing at home or playing golf, advising presidents Kennedy and Johnson and 1968 presidential hopeful Richard Nixon, or rendering sage advice to young people—including the author. Set amidst the turbulent 60s, the author describes Eisenhower's many efforts to influence a bewildered nation on civil rights and Vietnam.  David Eisenhower's first book about his grandfather, Eisenhower at War, was a best seller and a finalist for the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in History. Going Home to Glory, a personal sequel, offers completely new insight into one of the country's most respected presidents.https://www.amazon.com/Going-Home-to-Glory-audiobook/dp/B004991TDU/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2SG2LHZXE3ODR&dchild=1&keywords=going+home+to+glory+eisenhower&qid=1612896601&s=books&sprefix=going+home+eisenhower%2Cstripbooks%2C150&sr=1-1  ...more

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• 1121: #ClassicScience: 2of2: Worldwide butterfly distress continues.. Jeremy Thomas @ScienceMagazine.2016.

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  Feb 09 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.Vier vlinders  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow#ClassicScience: 2of2: Worldwide butterfly distress continues.. Jeremy Thomas @ScienceMagazine.2016.http://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6296/216.full Butterflies are better documented and monitored worldwide than any other nonpest taxon of insects (1). In the United Kingdom alone, volunteer recorders have sampled more than 750,000 km of repeat transects since 1976, equivalent to walking to the Moon and back counting butterflies (2). Such programs are revealing regional extinctions and population declines that began before 1900 (3, 4). In a recent study, Habel et al. report a similar story based on inventories of butterflies and burnet moths since 1840 in a protected area in Bavaria, Germany (5). The results reveal severe species losses: Scarce, specialized butterflies have largely disappeared, leaving ecosystems dominated by common generalist ones. Similar trends are seen across Europe (6) and beyond, with protected areas failing to conserve many species for which they were once famed. ...more

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• 1121: #ClassicScience: 1of2: Worldwide butterfly distress continues.. Jeremy Thomas @ScienceMagazine.2016.

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow#ClassicScience: 1of2: Worldwide butterfly distress continues.. Jeremy Thomas @ScienceMagazine.2016.http://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6296/216.full Butterflies are better documented and monitored worldwide than any other nonpest taxon of insects (1). In the United Kingdom alone, volunteer recorders have sampled more than 750,000 km of repeat transects since 1976, equivalent to walking to the Moon and back counting butterflies (2). Such programs are revealing regional extinctions and population declines that began before 1900 (3, 4). In a recent study, Habel et al. report a similar story based on inventories of butterflies and burnet moths since 1840 in a protected area in Bavaria, Germany (5). The results reveal severe species losses: Scarce, specialized butterflies have largely disappeared, leaving ecosystems dominated by common generalist ones. Similar trends are seen across Europe (6) and beyond, with protected areas failing to conserve many species for which they were once famed. ...more

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• 1123: The Biden Doctrine; & What is to be done? @JedBabbin @WashingtonTimes

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  Feb 09 2021

  Image:  NATO Headquarters and NATO Council, earlier building. Jed Babbin: @JedBabbin @WashingtonTimes , American Spectator, in re: The Biden Doctrine; & What is to be done?   Will France and Germany be able to carry their own weight—not pay the requite percentage to their own defense? Yes, Biden will allow NATO to have its last gasp, and let the deadbeats revert to [pocket-picking].  NATO nations believe that the US will shoulder their defense costs, Navalny’s poisoning: unless we impose sanctions or do something, [Putin runs free]. Same thing with Biden’s remarks on Myanmar.   The Quad: does Biden know that it needs a fleet?  Nope.   The 355-ship Navy?  Not under Biden. Will do nothing to bolster defense spending.  In future, will need 555 ships?  Our fleet is old, nuclear carriers about to be retired; US world presence not at all similar to the last 70 years. Abraham Accords? Biden is [undermining] it.  Eroding the Accords hostile to Israeli national security, Biden seems to think that Iran can become an anchor of peace in the Middle East—[irrational].   Biden gives concessions of US security and gets nothing in return. That’s appeasement.   https://spectator.org/biden-foreign-policy-doctrine/...more

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• 1123: Why no John Roberts at the impeachment trial? John Yoo, @BerkeleyLaw; @HooverInst ,

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  Feb 09 2021

  Image:  Demonstrators hold signs reading "Stop the impeachment" and "Stop the bombing" at an outdoor rally sponsored by the Rainbow PUSH Coalition protesting the impeachment of President Bill Clinton John Yoo, @BerkeleyLaw; @HooverInst, AEI; in re:  Why no John Roberts at the impeachment trial?   Severe doubts on the part of the Chief Justice as to the Constitutionality of the impeachment/trial. Funders knew that to try a president would raise so many conflicts of interest, so brought in an impartial Justice. Leahy is far, far from impartial. They were trying to make the president more independent, and hard for Congress to remove; note “high crimes” and misdemeanors.    https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/02/the-impeachment-trials-stacked-deck/ ...more

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• 1122: What is the best impeachment trial outcome for the Democrats? for the Republicans? @DavidMDrucker, @johnfund

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  Feb 09 2021

  Image:  Daily Press and times. Extra. Saturday May 16, 1868. Impeachment. The vote on the 11th articles. The President found not guilty. John Fund, NRO, & David M Drucker, Washington Examiner, in re: Expect Impeachment2 will be shorter than Impeachment1.    

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• 1122: At last, Reagan the Movie starring Dennis Quaid @DavidMDrucker, @johnfund,

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  Feb 09 2021

  Image:  1981 Inauguration Ball: President and Mrs. Ronald Reagan David M Drucker, @DavidMDrucker, Washington Examiner, & John Fund, @johnfund,NRO, in re: Huckabee Sanders Sarah will run for governorship of Arkansas as an ally of President Trump.  Ronald Reagan, the Movie,stars Dennis Quaid.   . . Simon & Shuster publishing a biography of Hunter Biden.  

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• 1122: Biden calls Kim a thug; may be harbinger of a wholesome policy. @GregScarlatoiu, @committeehrnk;

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  Feb 09 2021

  Image:  Gulf of Aden (Dec. 09, 2002) Containers found to have scud missile parts in the cargo hold aboard the North Korean vessel, So San, discovered  after being boarded by Spanish Special Forces.  So San attempted to evade capture, forcing the Spanish Santa Maria-class Frigate Navarra (F-85) to fire warning shots across its bow.  Special Forces troops then conducted a hostile boarding by helicopter and small boat.  The boarding team later found 15 disassembled Scud missiles concealed by bags of cement, bound for Yemen.  U.S. military experts deployed in the area were called in to further examine the cargo.  U.S. Intelligence sources had been tracking the vessel since it departed a North Korean port in mid-November. Greg Scarlatoiu, @GregScarlatoiu, @committeehrnk; Executive Director of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea; and Gordon Chang, @GordonGChang, Daily Beast, in re: . . .  Thousands of Americans des to protect South Korea, which has become a miracle.   . . . Biden’s foreign policy will have two pillars: values, and  [multilateralism?].  Moon Jae-in will have to understand that we care about human rights in North Korea. Moon has banned launching balloons into the north; is weak on human rights. Biden has called Kim a thug. Consensus that it’s a criminal regime masquerading as a sovereign state. Exports arms, missiles, drugs, counterfeit money, et al.  Expect a provocation? Probably yes.  Eventually will need relief from virus and horrible policies; will try to get attention by [misdeeds].  Seoul and Tokyo have t get over the tragic wartime legacy; thee are two natural allies. Need resumption of UN agencies’s focussing on North Korea. We must retake the high ground we used to hold concerning North Korean human rights. https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3120758/can-biden-and-moon-form-united-front-north-korea-amid-policy...more

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• 1122: New START treaty advantageous to Russia, China, Pakistan, North Korea, etc. @hobeyoco, @HuessyPeter,

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  Image:  Grand Forks Air Force Base Painted Murals, Missile Alert Facility Mike-Zero, Grand Forks, Grand Forks County, ND Peter Huessy: @MitchellStudies , @hobeyoco, @HuessyPeter, director of Strategic Deterrent Studies of the Mitchell Institute of the Air Force Association; and Gordon Chang, @GordonGChang, Daily Beast, in re:  New START treaty: 700 bombers that US and Russia may have; 1550 warheads. Plus only warheads 60 on bombers, being 2400 for Moscow.  For all these years we’ve been treading water. Pakistan, India, North Korea, et al., aren’t parties to the treaty. If __ threatens use of nukes, the US will back down and the other guy will win.  Dangerous to have any agreement with Russian Federation on arms control, as China is not a party and Russia and China work together. Not only does China go free, but via the Khan network in Pakistan has been the world’s most important proliferator. Russia has built 21 types of new nuclear weapons; US: zero. “If we don't modernize, . . .   The FAS says, “Let’s talk with Russians and see what they say” before making our own plans – totally crazy fairy tale.  Land-based missiles are critical: least likely is Russian attack on our 400 silos; most likely is attack on our ICBMs. Arms-control community said to get rid of ICBMs--- totally wrong. Peace through strength, not appeasement.  Biden Adm may get rid of one element of the triad—and we absolutely need the triad. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3119913/china-may-seek-close-nuclear-gap-after-us-and-russia-agree ...more

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• 1122: US again underestimates al Qaeda, while Batarfi may be in Saudi. @thomasjoscelyn, @FDD; @billroggio, @Long War Journal @FDD

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  Feb 09 2021

  Image:  Arab fighterTom Joscelyn, @thomasjoscelyn, Long War Journal and @FDD; and Bill Roggio,  @billroggio,  @Long War Journal and @FDD;  podcast: Generation Jihad,  @LongWarJournal; in re:For years we’ve documented al Qaeda in Afghanistan, while US administrations have [seriously] underestimating it, pretending that it was at death’s door for years. Twenty years after the US [invasion], al Q is still very much there, and closely allied with Taliban.    For the US to extricate itself, al Q can’t be there strongly, so US has tried to de-link al Qaeda and Taliban—but a UN report says the ties are strong.   AQAP: Khalid Batarfi, was head of al Q n Yemen.  Lived and fought in Afghanistan. Is both an ideologue and an operative. An unlikely report says he was captured and handed to the Saudis.https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/02/aqap-leader-reportedly-captured.php...more

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• 1121: Afghanistan: yes, al Qaeda and Taliban are still allies. @thomasjoscelyn, @FDD; @billroggio, @Long War Journal @FDD @LongWarJournal

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  Image:  1950s Afghanistan - Mothers and children at a city playground Tom Joscelyn, @thomasjoscelyn, Long War Journal and @FDD; and Bill Roggio,  @billroggio,  @Long War Journal and @FDD;  podcast: Generation Jihad,  @LongWarJournal; in re:Feb 29, 2020, Trump Adm intended to exit Afghanistan in some fashion,  However, violence increased. Trump Adm pretended that Taliban were living up to the deal; Biden Adm is re-evaluating.  The “peace talks” are a withdrawal deal. Pentagon is suddenly acknowledging hat this isn't working. From Taliban’s perspective, there’s no there there.  Why pretend they’re a partner for peace? They’re fighting for the so-called Islamic emirate.  Biden might keep 2,500 troops there on the pretext that they're counterterrorism trainers. Taliban call it “Termination of Occupation Agreement.”  The doc is written entirely to facilitate US withdrawal.  US calls it “Reducti9n of Violence Agreement” or “peace deal,” when it's nothing of the sort.  There exists no obvious plan to complete this.  https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/02/ep-42-groundhog-day-in-afghanistan.php  ...more

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• 1120: RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) and the January 6 rioters. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Feb 09 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1909. Inauguration of William H. Taft on the Capitol's East Front in March 1909. ..-----.This official Architect of the Capitol photograph is being made available for educational, scholarly, news or personal purposes (not advertising or any other commercial use). When any of these images is used the photographic credit line should read “Architect of the Capitol.” These images may not be used in any way that would imply endorsement by the Architect of the Capitol or the United States Congress of a product, service or point of view. For more information visit www.aoc.gov/terms ( http://www.aoc.gov/terms ) . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowRICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) and the January 6 rioters. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatnesshttps://www.nationalreview.com/2021/02/doj-should-think-twice-before-aiming-rico-at-capitol-rioters/#slide-1 ...more

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• 1120: The Senate impeachment trial is not a court of law trial. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Feb 09 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1788. A view of the tryal of Warren Hastings Esqr. before the Court of Peers in Westminster Hall on an impeachment delivered at the Bar of the House of Lords by the Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled February 13, 1788 / drawn by E. Dayes ; engraved by R. Pollard, aqt. by F. Jukes.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe Senate impeachment trial is not a court of law trial. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatnesshttps://www.nationalreview.com/2021/02/rand-pauls-confused-attack-on-the-flawed-incitement-charge-against-trump/ ...more

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• 1120: "Indiana" Hoenlein and the lost 6,600 year old olive pits in the sea off Haifa that point to consumption for food and oil. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Feb 09 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1898 Haifa & environs. Haifa panorama, section I. (View from Mt. Carmel)  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow"Indiana" Hoenlein and the lost 6,600 year old olive pits in the sea off Haifa that point to consumption for food and oil. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatnesshttps://www.timesofisrael.com/evidence-of-olive-consumption-6600-years-ago-found-off-coast-of-haifa/ ...more

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• 1120: The International Criminal Court aims to make trouble for Israel at the direction of Palestinian war-criminals Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Feb 09 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.Mauritshuis te Den Haag  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe International Criminal Court aims to make trouble for Israel at the direction of Palestinian war-criminals Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatnesshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-icc-palestinians-israel-idUSKBN2A52CW

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• 1120: Rebuilding the baseball so that it stays in the ball park, 2021. Host.

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  Feb 09 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1897. Baseball  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowRebuilding the baseball so that it stays in the ball park, 2021. Host.https://www.prosportsdaily.com/articles/mlb-reportedly-making-changes-to-baseballs-to-control-home-run-rate-675203.html

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• 1120: Mournful, resolute Italy aims to start again with Central Banker Mario Draghi Prime Minister. Lorenzo Fiori Ansaldo Foundation

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  Feb 09 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1900. Roma Panteon  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowMournful, resolute Italy aims to start again with Central Banker Mario Draghi Prime Minister. Lorenzo Fiori Ansaldo Foundationhttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-politics-5star/italys-5-star-to-hold-online-vote-on-whether-to-back-draghi-idUSKBN2A829R

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• 1120: What we didn't know then about the Adam Schiff led impeachment of Donald Trump, 2019-2020. Mark Hemingway @Heminator

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  Feb 09 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1920.Department of Justice. Flags on 10th St. side of Department of Justice  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowWhat we didn't know then about the Adam Schiff led impeachment of Donald Trump, 2019-2020. Mark Hemingway @Heminatorhttps://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2021/02/04/hiding_biden_how_democrats_crafted_the_first_impeachment_helping_defeat_trump_with_media_help_127009.html ...more

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• 1120: 2/2: Biden cannot rejoin the Climate Treaty with an Executive Order. @RichardAEpstein

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1957. [Paris Mosque]  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow2/2: Biden cannot rejoin the Climate Treaty with an Executive Order. @RichardAEpstein https://www.hoover.org/research/bidens-unlawful-re-entry-climate-accord

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• 1120: 1/2: Biden cannot rejoin the Climate Treaty with an Executive Order. @RichardAEpstein

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  Feb 09 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1892..Fruit-Shop, Paris (Greengrocer's Shop, Paris)  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow1/2: Biden cannot rejoin the Climate Treaty with an Executive Order. @RichardAEpstein https://www.hoover.org/research/bidens-unlawful-re-entry-climate-accord

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• 1119: 4/4 Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe, by George Dyson

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  Feb 09 2021

  Image:  A portion of Babbage's Difference Engine   Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe,by George Dyson “It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing’s Cathedral, George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, who built one of the first computers to realize Alan Turing’s vision of a Universal Machine. Their work would break the distinction between numbers that mean things and numbers that do things—and our universe would never be the same. Using five kilobytes of memory (the amount allocated to displaying the cursor on a computer desktop of today), they achieved unprecedented success in both weather prediction and nuclear weapons design, while tackling, in their spare time, problems ranging from the evolution of viruses to the evolution of stars. Dyson’s account, both historic and prophetic, sheds important new light on how the digital universe exploded in the aftermath of World War II. The proliferation of both codes and machines was paralleled by two historic developments: the decoding of self-replicating sequences in biology and the invention of the hydrogen bomb. It’s no coincidence that the most destructive and the most constructive of human inventions appeared at exactly the same time. How did code take over the world? In retracing how Alan Turing’s one-dimensional model became John von Neumann’s two-dimensional implementation, Turing’s Cathedral offers a series of provocative suggestions as to where the digital universe, now fully three-dimensional, may be heading next.   https://www.amazon.com/Turings-Cathedral-Origins-Digital-Universe/dp/1400075998 …....more

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• 1119: 3/4 Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe, by George Dyson

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  Feb 09 2021

  Image:  IBM punched-card accounting machines, 1936  Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe,by George Dyson “It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing’s Cathedral, George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, who built one of the first computers to realize Alan Turing’s vision of a Universal Machine. Their work would break the distinction between numbers that mean things and numbers that do things—and our universe would never be the same. Using five kilobytes of memory (the amount allocated to displaying the cursor on a computer desktop of today), they achieved unprecedented success in both weather prediction and nuclear weapons design, while tackling, in their spare time, problems ranging from the evolution of viruses to the evolution of stars. Dyson’s account, both historic and prophetic, sheds important new light on how the digital universe exploded in the aftermath of World War II. The proliferation of both codes and machines was paralleled by two historic developments: the decoding of self-replicating sequences in biology and the invention of the hydrogen bomb. It’s no coincidence that the most destructive and the most constructive of human inventions appeared at exactly the same time. How did code take over the world? In retracing how Alan Turing’s one-dimensional model became John von Neumann’s two-dimensional implementation, Turing’s Cathedral offers a series of provocative suggestions as to where the digital universe, now fully three-dimensional, may be heading next.   https://www.amazon.com/Turings-Cathedral-Origins-Digital-Universe/dp/1400075998 …....more

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• 1119: 2/4 Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe, by George Dyson

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  Image:   At the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton; left to right: Albert Einstein, Abraham Flexner, John R. Hardin, and Herbert Maass at the IAS on May 22, 1939  Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe,by George Dyson “It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing’s Cathedral, George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, who built one of the first computers to realize Alan Turing’s vision of a Universal Machine. Their work would break the distinction between numbers that mean things and numbers that do things—and our universe would never be the same. Using five kilobytes of memory (the amount allocated to displaying the cursor on a computer desktop of today), they achieved unprecedented success in both weather prediction and nuclear weapons design, while tackling, in their spare time, problems ranging from the evolution of viruses to the evolution of stars. Dyson’s account, both historic and prophetic, sheds important new light on how the digital universe exploded in the aftermath of World War II. The proliferation of both codes and machines was paralleled by two historic developments: the decoding of self-replicating sequences in biology and the invention of the hydrogen bomb. It’s no coincidence that the most destructive and the most constructive of human inventions appeared at exactly the same time. How did code take over the world? In retracing how Alan Turing’s one-dimensional model became John von Neumann’s two-dimensional implementation, Turing’s Cathedral offers a series of provocative suggestions as to where the digital universe, now fully three-dimensional, may be heading next.   https://www.amazon.com/Turings-Cathedral-Origins-Digital-Universe/dp/1400075998 ...more

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• 1119: 1/4 Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe, by George Dyson

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  Image:   Passport photo of Alan Turing at age 16  Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe,by George Dyson “It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing’s Cathedral, George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, who built one of the first computers to realize Alan Turing’s vision of a Universal Machine. Their work would break the distinction between numbers that mean things and numbers that do things—and our universe would never be the same. Using five kilobytes of memory (the amount allocated to displaying the cursor on a computer desktop of today), they achieved unprecedented success in both weather prediction and nuclear weapons design, while tackling, in their spare time, problems ranging from the evolution of viruses to the evolution of stars. Dyson’s account, both historic and prophetic, sheds important new light on how the digital universe exploded in the aftermath of World War II. The proliferation of both codes and machines was paralleled by two historic developments: the decoding of self-replicating sequences in biology and the invention of the hydrogen bomb. It’s no coincidence that the most destructive and the most constructive of human inventions appeared at exactly the same time. How did code take over the world? In retracing how Alan Turing’s one-dimensional model became John von Neumann’s two-dimensional implementation, Turing’s Cathedral offers a series of provocative suggestions as to where the digital universe, now fully three-dimensional, may be heading next.   https://www.amazon.com/Turings-Cathedral-Origins-Digital-Universe/dp/1400075998 …....more

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• 1118: 2/2: #ClassicRichardEpstein: The known perils of Blue States & What is to be done? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst 2016

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1917.State Fair Grounds, Springfield, Ill  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow2/2: #ClassicRichardEpstein: The known perils of Blue States & What is to be done? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst 2016http://www.hoover.org/research/blue-state-model-has-failed"You simply have to look at blue states like Massachusetts, Vermont, California, Connecticut, Illinois, and New York to see the harm done by excessive regulation, taxes, and public expenditures…" ...more

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• 1118: 1/2: #ClassicRichardEpstein: The known perils of Blue States & What is to be done? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst 2016

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1917. The Capitol, Springfield, Ill  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow1/2: #ClassicRichardEpstein: The known perils of Blue States & What is to be done? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst 2016http://www.hoover.org/research/blue-state-model-has-failed"You simply have to look at blue states like Massachusetts, Vermont, California, Connecticut, Illinois, and New York to see the harm done by excessive regulation, taxes, and public expenditures…" ...more

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• 1117: Intrepid Sailors: 4of4: The Legacy of Preble's Boys and the Tripoli Campaign Kindle Edition. by Chipp Reid (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Feb 08 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1898.Tripoli from castle.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Intrepid Sailors: 4of4: The Legacy of Preble's Boys and the Tripoli Campaign Kindle Edition. by Chipp Reid  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Intrepid-Sailors-Prebles-Tripoli-Campaign-ebook/dp/B00AHEZR5W/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=prebles+boys&qid=1612746960&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 ...more

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• 1117: Intrepid Sailors: 3of4: The Legacy of Preble's Boys and the Tripoli Campaign Kindle Edition. by Chipp Reid (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1911. Photograph shows Italian soldiers with horses in Tripoli, Libya during the Turco-Italian War (Italo-Turkish War) which took place between September 1911 and October 1912. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Intrepid Sailors: 3of4: The Legacy of Preble's Boys and the Tripoli Campaign Kindle Edition. by Chipp Reid  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Intrepid-Sailors-Prebles-Tripoli-Campaign-ebook/dp/B00AHEZR5W/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=prebles+boys&qid=1612746960&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 ...more

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• 1117: Intrepid Sailors: 2of4: The Legacy of Preble's Boys and the Tripoli Campaign Kindle Edition. by Chipp Reid (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1869. Mehemed Ali Pascha  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Intrepid Sailors: 2of4: The Legacy of Preble's Boys and the Tripoli Campaign Kindle Edition. by Chipp Reid  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Intrepid-Sailors-Prebles-Tripoli-Campaign-ebook/dp/B00AHEZR5W/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=prebles+boys&qid=1612746960&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 ...more

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• 1117: Intrepid Sailors: 4of4: The Legacy of Preble's Boys and the Tripoli Campaign Kindle Edition. by Chipp Reid (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1893. is image has been taken from scan 000081 from "Algier og Sahara. [With plates, including maps.]". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, created by users of the British Library's flickr photostream http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Intrepid Sailors: 4of4: The Legacy of Preble's Boys and the Tripoli Campaign Kindle Edition. by Chipp Reid  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Intrepid-Sailors-Prebles-Tripoli-Campaign-ebook/dp/B00AHEZR5W/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=prebles+boys&qid=1612746960&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 ...more

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• 1117: 2/2: #ClassicScience: What could go wrong with FOIA & What is to be done? Patrice McDermott, openthegovernment.org @ScienceMagazine.

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1900.Pathological laboratory - COMFORT  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow2/2: #ClassicScience: What could go wrong with FOIA & What is to be done?  Patrice McDermott, openthegovernment.org @ScienceMagazine.http://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6294/35.full President Lyndon Johnson signed the first FOIA on 4 July 1966, enshrining in law the public's right to access to information from executive branch government agencies. Scientists and others around the world can use the FOIA to learn what the U.S. government has done in its policies and practices. Proposed reforms should be a net benefit to public understanding of the scientific process and knowledge, by increasing the access of scientists to archival materials and reducing the likelihood of science and scientists being suppressed by official secrecy or bureaucracy. ...more

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• 1117: 1/2: #ClassicScience: What could go wrong with FOIA & What is to be done? Patrice McDermott, openthegovernment.org @ScienceMagazine.

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1922. #6588 X-Ray Laboratory  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow1/2: #ClassicScience: What could go wrong with FOIA & What is to be done?  Patrice McDermott, openthegovernment.org @ScienceMagazine.http://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6294/35.full President Lyndon Johnson signed the first FOIA on 4 July 1966, enshrining in law the public's right to access to information from executive branch government agencies. Scientists and others around the world can use the FOIA to learn what the U.S. government has done in its policies and practices. Proposed reforms should be a net benefit to public understanding of the scientific process and knowledge, by increasing the access of scientists to archival materials and reducing the likelihood of science and scientists being suppressed by official secrecy or bureaucracy. ...more

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• 1119: 4/4 The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers, by Gillian Tett

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  Feb 08 2021

  Image: Sony:  Aerospace Audiovisual Service video cameraman, in CBR protective gear uses a Sony Betacam to videotape on the flight line next to a C-130 aircraft.    The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers,by Gillian Tett   The Silo Effect asks a basic question: why do humans working in modern institutions collectively act in ways that sometimes seem stupid? Why do normally clever people fail to see risks and opportunities that later seem blindingly obvious? Why, as Daniel Kahnemann, the psychologist, put it, are we sometimes so “blind to our own blindness”?Gillian Tett, “a first-rate journalist and a good storyteller” (The New York Times), answers these questions by plumbing her background as an anthropologist and her experience reporting on the financial crisis in 2008. In The Silo Effect, she shares eight different tales of the silo syndrome, spanning Bloomberg’s City Hall in New York, the Bank of England in London, Cleveland Clinic hospital in Ohio, UBS bank in Switzerland, Facebook in San Francisco, Sony in Tokyo, the BlueMountain hedge fund, and the Chicago police. Some of these narratives illustrate how foolishly people can behave when they are mastered by silos. Others, however, show how institutions and individuals can master their silos instead.“Highly intelligent, enjoyable, and enlivened by a string of vivid case studies . . . , The Silo Effect is also genuinely important, because Tett’s prescription for curing the pathological silo-isation of business and government is refreshingly unorthodox and, in my view, convincing” (Financial Times). This is “an enjoyable call to action for better integration within organizations” (Publishers Weekly). https://www.amazon.com/Silo-Effect-Expertise-Breaking-Barriers-ebook/dp/B00UDCNMXM/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1612742075&sr=1-1  ...more

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• 1119: 3/4 The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers, by Gillian Tett

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  Image: Siège nord américain d'UBS:  UBS Investment Bank's former offices in Stamford, Connecticut. At roughly the size of two American football fields, it was the largest column-less trading floor in the world.  The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers,by Gillian Tett   The Silo Effect asks a basic question: why do humans working in modern institutions collectively act in ways that sometimes seem stupid? Why do normally clever people fail to see risks and opportunities that later seem blindingly obvious? Why, as Daniel Kahnemann, the psychologist, put it, are we sometimes so “blind to our own blindness”?Gillian Tett, “a first-rate journalist and a good storyteller” (The New York Times), answers these questions by plumbing her background as an anthropologist and her experience reporting on the financial crisis in 2008. In The Silo Effect, she shares eight different tales of the silo syndrome, spanning Bloomberg’s City Hall in New York, the Bank of England in London, Cleveland Clinic hospital in Ohio, UBS bank in Switzerland, Facebook in San Francisco, Sony in Tokyo, the BlueMountain hedge fund, and the Chicago police. Some of these narratives illustrate how foolishly people can behave when they are mastered by silos. Others, however, show how institutions and individuals can master their silos instead.“Highly intelligent, enjoyable, and enlivened by a string of vivid case studies . . . , The Silo Effect is also genuinely important, because Tett’s prescription for curing the pathological silo-isation of business and government is refreshingly unorthodox and, in my view, convincing” (Financial Times). This is “an enjoyable call to action for better integration within organizations” (Publishers Weekly). https://www.amazon.com/Silo-Effect-Expertise-Breaking-Barriers-ebook/dp/B00UDCNMXM/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1612742075&sr=1-1  ...more

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• 1119: 2/4 The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers, by Gillian Tett

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  Image: Secretariat  The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers,by Gillian Tett   The Silo Effect asks a basic question: why do humans working in modern institutions collectively act in ways that sometimes seem stupid? Why do normally clever people fail to see risks and opportunities that later seem blindingly obvious? Why, as Daniel Kahnemann, the psychologist, put it, are we sometimes so “blind to our own blindness”?Gillian Tett, “a first-rate journalist and a good storyteller” (The New York Times), answers these questions by plumbing her background as an anthropologist and her experience reporting on the financial crisis in 2008. In The Silo Effect, she shares eight different tales of the silo syndrome, spanning Bloomberg’s City Hall in New York, the Bank of England in London, Cleveland Clinic hospital in Ohio, UBS bank in Switzerland, Facebook in San Francisco, Sony in Tokyo, the BlueMountain hedge fund, and the Chicago police. Some of these narratives illustrate how foolishly people can behave when they are mastered by silos. Others, however, show how institutions and individuals can master their silos instead.“Highly intelligent, enjoyable, and enlivened by a string of vivid case studies . . . , The Silo Effect is also genuinely important, because Tett’s prescription for curing the pathological silo-isation of business and government is refreshingly unorthodox and, in my view, convincing” (Financial Times). This is “an enjoyable call to action for better integration within organizations” (Publishers Weekly). https://www.amazon.com/Silo-Effect-Expertise-Breaking-Barriers-ebook/dp/B00UDCNMXM/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1612742075&sr=1-1  ...more

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• 1119: 1/4 The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers, by Gillian Tett

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  Image:  Executive offices  The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers,by Gillian Tett   The Silo Effect asks a basic question: why do humans working in modern institutions collectively act in ways that sometimes seem stupid? Why do normally clever people fail to see risks and opportunities that later seem blindingly obvious? Why, as Daniel Kahnemann, the psychologist, put it, are we sometimes so “blind to our own blindness”?Gillian Tett, “a first-rate journalist and a good storyteller” (The New York Times), answers these questions by plumbing her background as an anthropologist and her experience reporting on the financial crisis in 2008. In The Silo Effect, she shares eight different tales of the silo syndrome, spanning Bloomberg’s City Hall in New York, the Bank of England in London, Cleveland Clinic hospital in Ohio, UBS bank in Switzerland, Facebook in San Francisco, Sony in Tokyo, the BlueMountain hedge fund, and the Chicago police. Some of these narratives illustrate how foolishly people can behave when they are mastered by silos. Others, however, show how institutions and individuals can master their silos instead.“Highly intelligent, enjoyable, and enlivened by a string of vivid case studies . . . , The Silo Effect is also genuinely important, because Tett’s prescription for curing the pathological silo-isation of business and government is refreshingly unorthodox and, in my view, convincing” (Financial Times). This is “an enjoyable call to action for better integration within organizations” (Publishers Weekly). https://www.amazon.com/Silo-Effect-Expertise-Breaking-Barriers-ebook/dp/B00UDCNMXM/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1612742075&sr=1-1  ...more

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• 1119: 4/4 How to Survive the Titanic, or the Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay, by Frances Wilson

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  Image:  The story of the Titanicand its terrible downfall    How to Survive the Titanic, or the Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay, by Frances Wilson Books have been written, films made, we have raised the Titanic and watched her go down again on numerous occasions, but out of the wreckage Frances Wilson spins a new epic: when the ship hit the iceberg on 14 April 1912 and a thousand men prepared to die, J Bruce Ismay, the ship's owner and inheritor of the White Star fortune, jumped into a lifeboat with the women and children and rowed away to safety. Accused of cowardice, Ismay became, according to one headline, 'The Most Talked-of Man in the World'. The first victim of a press hatred campaign, his reputation never recovered; and while other survivors were piecing together their accounts, Ismay never spoke of his beloved ship again. With the help of that great narrator of the sea, Joseph Conrad, whose Lord Jim so uncannily predicted Ismay's fate—and whose manuscript of the story of a man who impulsively betrays a code of honour and lives on under the strain of intolerable guilt went down with the Titanic—Frances Wilson explores the reasons behind Ismay's jump, his desperate need to make sense of the horror of it all, and to find a way of living with lost honour. For those who survived the Titanic,the world was never the same again. But as Wilson superbly demonstrates, we all have our own Titanics, and we all need to find ways of surviving them.https://www.amazon.com/Survive-Titanic-Sinking-Bruce-Ismay/dp/1408809222/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1612741886&sr=1-1...more

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• 1119: 3/4 How to Survive the Titanic, or the Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay, by Frances Wilson

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  Image:  Titanic survivors on their way to the rescue ship Carpathia   How to Survive the Titanic, or the Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay, by Frances Wilson Books have been written, films made, we have raised the Titanic and watched her go down again on numerous occasions, but out of the wreckage Frances Wilson spins a new epic: when the ship hit the iceberg on 14 April 1912 and a thousand men prepared to die, J Bruce Ismay, the ship's owner and inheritor of the White Star fortune, jumped into a lifeboat with the women and children and rowed away to safety. Accused of cowardice, Ismay became, according to one headline, 'The Most Talked-of Man in the World'. The first victim of a press hatred campaign, his reputation never recovered; and while other survivors were piecing together their accounts, Ismay never spoke of his beloved ship again. With the help of that great narrator of the sea, Joseph Conrad, whose Lord Jim so uncannily predicted Ismay's fate—and whose manuscript of the story of a man who impulsively betrays a code of honour and lives on under the strain of intolerable guilt went down with the Titanic—Frances Wilson explores the reasons behind Ismay's jump, his desperate need to make sense of the horror of it all, and to find a way of living with lost honour. For those who survived the Titanic,the world was never the same again. But as Wilson superbly demonstrates, we all have our own Titanics, and we all need to find ways of surviving them. https://www.amazon.com/Survive-Titanic-Sinking-Bruce-Ismay/dp/1408809222/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1612741886&sr=1-1..  .. ..  ...more

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• 1119: 2/4 How to Survive the Titanic, or the Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay, by Frances Wilson

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  Image:  Captain Edward J. Smith and theTitanic   How to Survive the Titanic, or the Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay, by Frances Wilson Books have been written, films made, we have raised the Titanic and watched her go down again on numerous occasions, but out of the wreckage Frances Wilson spins a new epic: when the ship hit the iceberg on 14 April 1912 and a thousand men prepared to die, J Bruce Ismay, the ship's owner and inheritor of the White Star fortune, jumped into a lifeboat with the women and children and rowed away to safety. Accused of cowardice, Ismay became, according to one headline, 'The Most Talked-of Man in the World'. The first victim of a press hatred campaign, his reputation never recovered; and while other survivors were piecing together their accounts, Ismay never spoke of his beloved ship again. With the help of that great narrator of the sea, Joseph Conrad, whose Lord Jim so uncannily predicted Ismay's fate—and whose manuscript of the story of a man who impulsively betrays a code of honour and lives on under the strain of intolerable guilt went down with the Titanic—Frances Wilson explores the reasons behind Ismay's jump, his desperate need to make sense of the horror of it all, and to find a way of living with lost honour. For those who survived the Titanic,the world was never the same again. But as Wilson superbly demonstrates, we all have our own Titanics, and we all need to find ways of surviving them. https://www.amazon.com/Survive-Titanic-Sinking-Bruce-Ismay/dp/1408809222/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1612741886&sr=1-1..  .. ..  ...more

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• 1118: 1/4 How to Survive the Titanic, or the Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay, by Frances Wilson

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  Image:  The main dining room on the salon deck of the ill-fated White Star Liner Titanic   How to Survive the Titanic, or the Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay, by Frances Wilson Books have been written, films made, we have raised the Titanic and watched her go down again on numerous occasions, but out of the wreckage Frances Wilson spins a new epic: when the ship hit the iceberg on 14 April 1912 and a thousand men prepared to die, J Bruce Ismay, the ship's owner and inheritor of the White Star fortune, jumped into a lifeboat with the women and children and rowed away to safety. Accused of cowardice, Ismay became, according to one headline, 'The Most Talked-of Man in the World'. The first victim of a press hatred campaign, his reputation never recovered; and while other survivors were piecing together their accounts, Ismay never spoke of his beloved ship again. With the help of that great narrator of the sea, Joseph Conrad, whose Lord Jim so uncannily predicted Ismay's fate—and whose manuscript of the story of a man who impulsively betrays a code of honour and lives on under the strain of intolerable guilt went down with the Titanic—Frances Wilson explores the reasons behind Ismay's jump, his desperate need to make sense of the horror of it all, and to find a way of living with lost honour. For those who survived the Titanic,the world was never the same again. But as Wilson superbly demonstrates, we all have our own Titanics, and we all need to find ways of surviving them.https://www.amazon.com/Survive-Titanic-Sinking-Bruce-Ismay/dp/1408809222/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1612741886&sr=1-1...more

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• 1117: Avenue of Spies: 4of4: A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied ParisKindle Edition. by Alex Kershaw (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1889. ntérieur de la galerie des machines à l'exposition universelle de 1889.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Avenue of Spies: 4of4: A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied ParisKindle Edition. by Alex Kershaw  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Avenue-Spies-Espionage-Resistance-Nazi-Occupied-ebook/dp/B00PEPR6QW/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Kershaw+Avenue+of+Spies&qid=1612742375&s=digital-text&sr=1-1The leafy Avenue Foch, one of the most exclusive residential streets in Nazi-occupied France, was Paris's hotbed of daring spies, murderous secret police, amoral informers, and Vichy collaborators. So when American physician Sumner Jackson, who lived with his wife and young son Phillip at Number 11, found himself drawn into the Liberation network of the French resistance, he knew the stakes were impossibly high. Just down the road at Number 31 was the "mad sadist" Theodor Dannecker, an Eichmann protégé charged with deporting French Jews to concentration camps. And Number 84 housed the Parisian headquarters of the Gestapo, run by the most effective spy hunter in Nazi Germany. From his office at the American Hospital, itself an epicenter of Allied and Axis intrigue, Jackson smuggled fallen Allied fighter pilots safely out of France, a job complicated by the hospital director's close ties to collaborationist Vichy. After witnessing the brutal round-up of his Jewish friends, Jackson invited Liberation to officially operate out of his home at Number 11—but the noose soon began to tighten. When his secret life was discovered by his Nazi neighbors, he and his family were forced to undertake a journey into the dark heart of the war-torn continent from which there was little chance of return.Drawing upon a wealth of primary source material and extensive interviews with Phillip Jackson, Alex Kershaw recreates the City of Light during its darkest days. The untold story of the Jackson family anchors the suspenseful narrative, and Kershaw dazzles readers with the vivid immediacy of the best spy thrillers. Awash with the tense atmosphere of World War II's Europe, Avenue of Spies introduces us to the brave doctor who risked everything to defy Hitler....more

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• 1117: Avenue of Spies: 3of4: A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Paris. by Alex Kershaw Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo: American hospital, Paris  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Avenue of Spies: 3of4: A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied ParisKindle Edition. by Alex Kershaw  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Avenue-Spies-Espionage-Resistance-Nazi-Occupied-ebook/dp/B00PEPR6QW/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Kershaw+Avenue+of+Spies&qid=1612742375&s=digital-text&sr=1-1The leafy Avenue Foch, one of the most exclusive residential streets in Nazi-occupied France, was Paris's hotbed of daring spies, murderous secret police, amoral informers, and Vichy collaborators. So when American physician Sumner Jackson, who lived with his wife and young son Phillip at Number 11, found himself drawn into the Liberation network of the French resistance, he knew the stakes were impossibly high. Just down the road at Number 31 was the "mad sadist" Theodor Dannecker, an Eichmann protégé charged with deporting French Jews to concentration camps. And Number 84 housed the Parisian headquarters of the Gestapo, run by the most effective spy hunter in Nazi Germany. From his office at the American Hospital, itself an epicenter of Allied and Axis intrigue, Jackson smuggled fallen Allied fighter pilots safely out of France, a job complicated by the hospital director's close ties to collaborationist Vichy. After witnessing the brutal round-up of his Jewish friends, Jackson invited Liberation to officially operate out of his home at Number 11—but the noose soon began to tighten. When his secret life was discovered by his Nazi neighbors, he and his family were forced to undertake a journey into the dark heart of the war-torn continent from which there was little chance of return.Drawing upon a wealth of primary source material and extensive interviews with Phillip Jackson, Alex Kershaw recreates the City of Light during its darkest days. The untold story of the Jackson family anchors the suspenseful narrative, and Kershaw dazzles readers with the vivid immediacy of the best spy thrillers. Awash with the tense atmosphere of World War II's Europe, Avenue of Spies introduces us to the brave doctor who risked everything to defy Hitler....more

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• 1117: Avenue of Spies: 2of4: A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied ParisKindle Edition. by Alex Kershaw (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo: Entrée de l'allée réservée aux cavaliers sur l'avenue du bois de Boulogne, actuelle avenue Foch, 16ème arrondissement, Paris; Entrance to the alley reserved for riders on avenue du Bois de Boulogne, now avenue Foch, 16th arrondissement, Paris . http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Avenue of Spies: 2of4: A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied ParisKindle Edition. by Alex Kershaw  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Avenue-Spies-Espionage-Resistance-Nazi-Occupied-ebook/dp/B00PEPR6QW/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Kershaw+Avenue+of+Spies&qid=1612742375&s=digital-text&sr=1-1The leafy Avenue Foch, one of the most exclusive residential streets in Nazi-occupied France, was Paris's hotbed of daring spies, murderous secret police, amoral informers, and Vichy collaborators. So when American physician Sumner Jackson, who lived with his wife and young son Phillip at Number 11, found himself drawn into the Liberation network of the French resistance, he knew the stakes were impossibly high. Just down the road at Number 31 was the "mad sadist" Theodor Dannecker, an Eichmann protégé charged with deporting French Jews to concentration camps. And Number 84 housed the Parisian headquarters of the Gestapo, run by the most effective spy hunter in Nazi Germany. From his office at the American Hospital, itself an epicenter of Allied and Axis intrigue, Jackson smuggled fallen Allied fighter pilots safely out of France, a job complicated by the hospital director's close ties to collaborationist Vichy. After witnessing the brutal round-up of his Jewish friends, Jackson invited Liberation to officially operate out of his home at Number 11—but the noose soon began to tighten. When his secret life was discovered by his Nazi neighbors, he and his family were forced to undertake a journey into the dark heart of the war-torn continent from which there was little chance of return.Drawing upon a wealth of primary source material and extensive interviews with Phillip Jackson, Alex Kershaw recreates the City of Light during its darkest days. The untold story of the Jackson family anchors the suspenseful narrative, and Kershaw dazzles readers with the vivid immediacy of the best spy thrillers. Awash with the tense atmosphere of World War II's Europe, Avenue of Spies introduces us to the brave doctor who risked everything to defy Hitler....more

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• 1117: Avenue of Spies: 1of4: A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied ParisKindle Edition. by Alex Kershaw (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1886. Vue panoramique de Paris, prise de la rue Victor-Massé.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Avenue of Spies: 1of4: A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied ParisKindle Edition. by Alex Kershaw  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Avenue-Spies-Espionage-Resistance-Nazi-Occupied-ebook/dp/B00PEPR6QW/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Kershaw+Avenue+of+Spies&qid=1612742375&s=digital-text&sr=1-1The leafy Avenue Foch, one of the most exclusive residential streets in Nazi-occupied France, was Paris's hotbed of daring spies, murderous secret police, amoral informers, and Vichy collaborators. So when American physician Sumner Jackson, who lived with his wife and young son Phillip at Number 11, found himself drawn into the Liberation network of the French resistance, he knew the stakes were impossibly high. Just down the road at Number 31 was the "mad sadist" Theodor Dannecker, an Eichmann protégé charged with deporting French Jews to concentration camps. And Number 84 housed the Parisian headquarters of the Gestapo, run by the most effective spy hunter in Nazi Germany. From his office at the American Hospital, itself an epicenter of Allied and Axis intrigue, Jackson smuggled fallen Allied fighter pilots safely out of France, a job complicated by the hospital director's close ties to collaborationist Vichy. After witnessing the brutal round-up of his Jewish friends, Jackson invited Liberation to officially operate out of his home at Number 11—but the noose soon began to tighten. When his secret life was discovered by his Nazi neighbors, he and his family were forced to undertake a journey into the dark heart of the war-torn continent from which there was little chance of return.Drawing upon a wealth of primary source material and extensive interviews with Phillip Jackson, Alex Kershaw recreates the City of Light during its darkest days. The untold story of the Jackson family anchors the suspenseful narrative, and Kershaw dazzles readers with the vivid immediacy of the best spy thrillers. Awash with the tense atmosphere of World War II's Europe, Avenue of Spies introduces us to the brave doctor who risked everything to defy Hitler....more

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• 1116: The Book of Universes: 2of2: Hardcover – International Edition, March 7, 2011. by John D. Barrow (Author)

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.2006NASA Hubble and Spitzer telescopes combined to make these shape-shifting galaxies taking on the form of a giant mask. The icy blue eyes are actually the cores of two merging galaxies, called NGC 2207 and IC 2163, and the mask is their spiral arms.NASA/JPL-Caltech/STScI/Vassar http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Book of Universes: 2of2:  Hardcover – International Edition, March 7, 2011. by John D. Barrow  (Author) http://www.amazon.com/Book-Universes-Exploring-Limits-Cosmos/dp/0393343111/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1460855140&sr=1-1&keywords=BOOK+OF+UNIVERSES John D. Barrow is professor of mathematical sciences and director of the Millennium Mathematics Project at Cambridge University, as well as a Fellow of the Royal Society.Our story will encounter universes where the laws of physics can change from time to time and from one region to another, universes that have extra hidden dimensions of space and time, universes that are eternal, universes that live inside black holes, universes that end without warning, colliding universes, inflationary universes, and universes that come into being from something else -- or from nothing at all.Gradually, we will find ourselves introducing the latest and the best descriptions of the Universe we see around us today, together with the concept of the 'Multiverse' -- the universe of all possible universes -- that modern theories of physics lead us to contemplate. These are the most fantastic and far-reaching speculations in the whole of science.Other cosmology and astronomy books focus on particular topics -- dark matter, dark energy, the beginning of the universe, inflation, life-supporting coincidences, or the end of the universe -- but this book introduces the reader to whole universes in a coherent and unified way. ...more

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• 1116: The Book of Universes: 1of2: Hardcover – International Edition, March 7, 2011. by John D. Barrow (Author)

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.2014. Millions of galaxies populate the patch of sky known as the COSMOS field, short for Cosmic Evolution Survey, a portion of which is shown here. Even the smallest dots in this image are galaxies, some up to 12 billion light-years away.NASA/JPL-Caltech http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Book of Universes: 1of2:  Hardcover – International Edition, March 7, 2011. by John D. Barrow  (Author) http://www.amazon.com/Book-Universes-Exploring-Limits-Cosmos/dp/0393343111/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1460855140&sr=1-1&keywords=BOOK+OF+UNIVERSES John D. Barrow is professor of mathematical sciences and director of the Millennium Mathematics Project at Cambridge University, as well as a Fellow of the Royal Society.Our story will encounter universes where the laws of physics can change from time to time and from one region to another, universes that have extra hidden dimensions of space and time, universes that are eternal, universes that live inside black holes, universes that end without warning, colliding universes, inflationary universes, and universes that come into being from something else -- or from nothing at all.Gradually, we will find ourselves introducing the latest and the best descriptions of the Universe we see around us today, together with the concept of the 'Multiverse' -- the universe of all possible universes -- that modern theories of physics lead us to contemplate. These are the most fantastic and far-reaching speculations in the whole of science. ...more

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• 1115: #ClassicKenCroswell: Pan-STARRS1 first sighting of the unsolved 'Oumuamua, October 2017. @Nature

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1742.A synopsis of the universe, or, the visible world epitomiz'd /  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow#ClassicKenCroswell: Pan-STARRS1 first sighting of the unsolved 'Oumuamua, October 2017.  @Naturehttp://www.nature.com/news/astronomers-race-to-learn-from-first-interstellar-asteroid-ever-seen-1.22925 Researchers with the Pan-STARRS1 telescope atop Haleakala in Maui, Hawaii, spied the first images of the intruder, made during the new Moon, in mid-October. “It didn’t move like comets or asteroids normally do,” says astronomer Rob Weryk at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, who first noticed the object on the morning of 19 October. Comets and asteroids usually move on elliptical orbits around the Sun. These orbits have an eccentricity — a measure used to describe orbital shape — of less than 1. But an object zipping through the Solar System from beyond should instead follow a hyperbolic orbit, whose eccentricity exceeds 1. The latest observations of the asteroid’s changing position indicate that its orbital eccentricity is a whopping 1.20. “It is virtually certain that the object moves in a hyperbolic trajectory,” says Carlos de la Fuente Marcos, an astronomer at the Complutense University of Madrid. The asteroid skirted the Sun on 9 September, when it was inside Mercury’s orbit, and then passed by Earth at a distance of 24 million kilometres on 14 October. Astronomers know little else about the exotic visitor. It’s faint, which means that it’s small: fewer than 400 metres across. And despite its excursion near the Sun, it did not develop a tail — as a comet would — and so astronomers are currently classifying it as an asteroid. ...more

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• 1114: The Science of Liberty: 2of2: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature, by Timothy Ferris Kindle Edition

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  Photo: The author proposes that the fortunes of science and liberty rise and fall together. The scientific revolutions of the 17th and 18th centuries were, he argues, a powerful inspiration for the concurrent revolutions in government; together, they produced what we know as the modern world. It was no accident that many of the American revolutionaries were also successful scientists, and it is no accident that today’s liberal societies produce vastly more scientific research than do their dictatorial counterparts.   Here: Benjamin Franklin.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Science of Liberty: 2of2: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature Reprint Edition, Kindle Edition. by Timothy Ferris  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Science-Liberty-Democracy-Reason-Nature-ebook/dp/B0035D9URS/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=timothy+ferris+liberty+science&qid=1612662065&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 in The Science of Liberty, award-winning author Timothy Ferris—called “the best popular science writer in the English language today” by the Christian Science Monitor and “the best science writer of his generation” by the Washington Post—makes a passionate case for science as the inspiration behind the rise of liberalism and democracy. In the grand tradition of such luminaries of the field as Bill Bryson, Richard Dawkins, and Oliver Sacks—as well as his own The Whole Shebang and Coming of Age in the Milky Way—Ferris has written a brilliant chronicle of how science sparked the spread of liberal democracy and transformed today’s world....more

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• 1114: The Science of Liberty: 1of2: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature Reprint Edition, by Timothy Ferris Kindle Edition

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  Photo:  Eudoxus of Cnidus.  In the fourth century B.C. at Plato's Academy, where the geometer Eudoxus surmised that the firmament was more than an inverted bowl through which the fires of the gods flickered. Anxious to craft a model that could make accurate predictions of celestial movements, Eudoxus envisioned the stars and planets as fastened to a series of invisible concentric spheres, with a motionless earth poised prominently in the center.  Eudoxus http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Science of Liberty: 1of2: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature Reprint Edition, Kindle Edition. by Timothy Ferris  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Science-Liberty-Democracy-Reason-Nature-ebook/dp/B0035D9URS/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=timothy+ferris+liberty+science&qid=1612662065&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 in The Science of Liberty, award-winning author Timothy Ferris—called “the best popular science writer in the English language today” by the Christian Science Monitor and “the best science writer of his generation” by the Washington Post—makes a passionate case for science as the inspiration behind the rise of liberalism and democracy. In the grand tradition of such luminaries of the field as Bill Bryson, Richard Dawkins, and Oliver Sacks—as well as his own The Whole Shebang and Coming of Age in the Milky Way—Ferris has written a brilliant chronicle of how science sparked the spread of liberal democracy and transformed today’s world....more

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• 1113: The Jesus Dynasty: 1of1: The Hidden History of Jesus, His Royal Family, and the Birth of Christianity. by James D. Tabor Kindle Edition

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  Photo:  The Annunciation  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Jesus Dynasty: 1of1: The Hidden History of Jesus, His Royal Family, and the Birth of Christianity Kindle Edition. by James D. Tabor  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Dynasty-Hidden-History-Christianity-ebook/dp/B000GCFCYG/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=james+tabor+jesus+dynasty&qid=1612657565&s=digital-text&sr=1-1In The Jesus Dynasty, the biblical scholar James Tabor brings us closer than ever to the historical Jesus. Jesus, as we know, was the son of Mary, a young woman who became pregnant before her marriage to a man named Joseph. The gospels tell us that Jesus had four brothers and two sisters, all of whom probably had a different father from his. He joined a messianic movement begun by his relative John the Baptizer, whom he regarded as his teacher and a great prophet. John and Jesus together filled the roles of the Two Messiahs who were expected at the time: John, as a priestly descendant of Aaron, and Jesus, as a royal descendant of David. Together they preached the coming of the Kingdom of God. Theirs was an apocalyptic movement that expected God to establish his kingdom on Earth, as described by the Prophets. The Two Messiahs lived in a time of turmoil as the historical land of Israel was dominated by the powerful Roman Empire. Fierce Jewish rebellions against Rome occurred during Jesus' lifetime. John and Jesus preached adherence to the Torah, or the Jewish Law. But their mission was changed dramatically when John was arrested and then killed. After a period of uncertainty, Jesus began preaching anew in Galilee and challenged the Roman authorities and their Jewish collaborators in Jerusalem. He appointed a Council of Twelve to rule over the twelve tribes of Israel, and among the Twelve he included his four brothers. After Jesus was crucified by the Romans, his brother James—the "Beloved Disciple"—took over leadership of the Jesus dynasty. James, like John and Jesus before him, saw himself as a faithful Jew. None of them believed that their movement was a new religion. It was Paul who transformed Jesus and his message through his ministry to the Gentiles. Breaking with James and the followers of Jesus in Jerusalem, Paul preached a message based on his own revelations, which would become Christianity. Jesus became a figure whose humanity was obscured; John became merely a forerunner of Jesus; and James and the others were all but forgotten. James Tabor has studied the earliest surviving documents of Christianity for more than thirty years and has participated in important archaeological excavations in Israel. Drawing on this background, Tabor reconstructs for us the movement that sought the spiritual, social, and political redemption of the Jews, a movement led by one family. The Jesus Dynasty offers an alternative version of Christian origins, one that takes us closer than ever to Jesus and his family and followers. This is a book that will change our understanding of one of the most crucial moments in history....more

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• 1113: Men of War: 8of8: The American Soldier in Combat at Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima Kindle Edition. by Alexander Rose (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo:  Traumas during WWII led to the development of PTSD.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Men of War: 8of8: The American Soldier in Combat at Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima Kindle Edition. by Alexander Rose  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Men-War-American-Soldier-Gettysburg-ebook/dp/B00N6PEOW6/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=men+of+war+alexander+rose&qid=1612657154&s=digital-text&sr=1-1Drawing on an immense range of firsthand sources from the battlefield, Alexander Rose begins by re-creating the lost and alien world of eighteenth-century warfare at Bunker Hill, the bloodiest clash of the War of Independence—and reveals why the American militiamen were so lethally effective against the oncoming waves of British troops. Then, focusing on Gettysburg, Rose describes a typical Civil War infantry action, vividly explaining what Union and Confederate soldiers experienced before, during, and after combat. Finally, he shows how in 1945 the Marine Corps hurled itself with the greatest possible violence at the island of Iwo Jima, where nearly a third of all Marines killed in World War II would die. As Rose demonstrates, the most important factor in any battle is the human one: At Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima, the American soldier, as much as any general, proved decisive.To an unprecedented degree, Men of War brings home the reality of combat and, just as important, its aftermath in the form of the psychological and medical effects on veterans. As such, the book makes a critical contribution to military history by narrowing the colossal gulf between the popular understanding of wars and the experiences of the soldiers who fight them....more

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• 1113: Men of War: 7of8: The American Soldier in Combat at Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima Kindle Edition. by Alexander Rose (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo: The thousand-yard stare is a phrase coined to describe the limp, unfocused gaze of a battle-weary soldier. A characteristic of post-traumatic stress disorder, the despondent stare reflects dissociation from trauma. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Men of War: 7of8: The American Soldier in Combat at Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima Kindle Edition. by Alexander Rose  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Men-War-American-Soldier-Gettysburg-ebook/dp/B00N6PEOW6/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=men+of+war+alexander+rose&qid=1612657154&s=digital-text&sr=1-1Drawing on an immense range of firsthand sources from the battlefield, Alexander Rose begins by re-creating the lost and alien world of eighteenth-century warfare at Bunker Hill, the bloodiest clash of the War of Independence—and reveals why the American militiamen were so lethally effective against the oncoming waves of British troops. Then, focusing on Gettysburg, Rose describes a typical Civil War infantry action, vividly explaining what Union and Confederate soldiers experienced before, during, and after combat. Finally, he shows how in 1945 the Marine Corps hurled itself with the greatest possible violence at the island of Iwo Jima, where nearly a third of all Marines killed in World War II would die. As Rose demonstrates, the most important factor in any battle is the human one: At Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima, the American soldier, as much as any general, proved decisive.To an unprecedented degree, Men of War brings home the reality of combat and, just as important, its aftermath in the form of the psychological and medical effects on veterans. As such, the book makes a critical contribution to military history by narrowing the colossal gulf between the popular understanding of wars and the experiences of the soldiers who fight them....more

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• 1113: Men of War: 6of8: The American Soldier in Combat at Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima Kindle Edition. by Alexander Rose (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo: Marines conduct a patrol during the final comprehensive bilateral force-on-force training evolution March 2-3 during Exercise Forest Light 13-3 at the Hokkaido-Dai Maneuver Area, Hokkaido, Japan. Forest Light is a semi-annual; bilateral engagement that enhances the partnership between the U.S. and Japan, solidifies regional security agreements, increases interoperability of forces and improves individual and unit-level skills in a bilateral environment. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Pfc. Kasey Peacock) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Men of War: 6of8: The American Soldier in Combat at Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima Kindle Edition. by Alexander Rose  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Men-War-American-Soldier-Gettysburg-ebook/dp/B00N6PEOW6/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=men+of+war+alexander+rose&qid=1612657154&s=digital-text&sr=1-1Drawing on an immense range of firsthand sources from the battlefield, Alexander Rose begins by re-creating the lost and alien world of eighteenth-century warfare at Bunker Hill, the bloodiest clash of the War of Independence—and reveals why the American militiamen were so lethally effective against the oncoming waves of British troops. Then, focusing on Gettysburg, Rose describes a typical Civil War infantry action, vividly explaining what Union and Confederate soldiers experienced before, during, and after combat. Finally, he shows how in 1945 the Marine Corps hurled itself with the greatest possible violence at the island of Iwo Jima, where nearly a third of all Marines killed in World War II would die. As Rose demonstrates, the most important factor in any battle is the human one: At Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima, the American soldier, as much as any general, proved decisive.To an unprecedented degree, Men of War brings home the reality of combat and, just as important, its aftermath in the form of the psychological and medical effects on veterans. As such, the book makes a critical contribution to military history by narrowing the colossal gulf between the popular understanding of wars and the experiences of the soldiers who fight them....more

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• 1113: Men of War: 5of8: The American Soldier in Combat at Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima Kindle Edition. by Alexander Rose (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo: An aerial view of the island of Iwo Jima with Mount Suribachi on the southeast end of the island  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Men of War: 5of8: The American Soldier in Combat at Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima Kindle Edition. by Alexander Rose  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Men-War-American-Soldier-Gettysburg-ebook/dp/B00N6PEOW6/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=men+of+war+alexander+rose&qid=1612657154&s=digital-text&sr=1-1Drawing on an immense range of firsthand sources from the battlefield, Alexander Rose begins by re-creating the lost and alien world of eighteenth-century warfare at Bunker Hill, the bloodiest clash of the War of Independence—and reveals why the American militiamen were so lethally effective against the oncoming waves of British troops. Then, focusing on Gettysburg, Rose describes a typical Civil War infantry action, vividly explaining what Union and Confederate soldiers experienced before, during, and after combat. Finally, he shows how in 1945 the Marine Corps hurled itself with the greatest possible violence at the island of Iwo Jima, where nearly a third of all Marines killed in World War II would die. As Rose demonstrates, the most important factor in any battle is the human one: At Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima, the American soldier, as much as any general, proved decisive.To an unprecedented degree, Men of War brings home the reality of combat and, just as important, its aftermath in the form of the psychological and medical effects on veterans. As such, the book makes a critical contribution to military history by narrowing the colossal gulf between the popular understanding of wars and the experiences of the soldiers who fight them....more

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• 1113: Men of War: 4of8: The American Soldier in Combat at Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima Kindle Edition. by Alexander Rose (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo: ELVIN BELL - AWARDED THE NAVY AND MARINE CORPS MEDAL FOR DISTINGUISHED HEROISM  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Men of War: 4of8: The American Soldier in Combat at Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima Kindle Edition. by Alexander Rose  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Men-War-American-Soldier-Gettysburg-ebook/dp/B00N6PEOW6/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=men+of+war+alexander+rose&qid=1612657154&s=digital-text&sr=1-1Drawing on an immense range of firsthand sources from the battlefield, Alexander Rose begins by re-creating the lost and alien world of eighteenth-century warfare at Bunker Hill, the bloodiest clash of the War of Independence—and reveals why the American militiamen were so lethally effective against the oncoming waves of British troops. Then, focusing on Gettysburg, Rose describes a typical Civil War infantry action, vividly explaining what Union and Confederate soldiers experienced before, during, and after combat. Finally, he shows how in 1945 the Marine Corps hurled itself with the greatest possible violence at the island of Iwo Jima, where nearly a third of all Marines killed in World War II would die. As Rose demonstrates, the most important factor in any battle is the human one: At Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima, the American soldier, as much as any general, proved decisive.To an unprecedented degree, Men of War brings home the reality of combat and, just as important, its aftermath in the form of the psychological and medical effects on veterans. As such, the book makes a critical contribution to military history by narrowing the colossal gulf between the popular understanding of wars and the experiences of the soldiers who fight them....more

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• 1113: Men of War: 3of8: The American Soldier in Combat at Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima Kindle Edition. by Alexander Rose (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Photo: 2d Rhode Island Infantry http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Men of War: 3of8: The American Soldier in Combat at Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima Kindle Edition. by Alexander Rose  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Men-War-American-Soldier-Gettysburg-ebook/dp/B00N6PEOW6/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=men+of+war+alexander+rose&qid=1612657154&s=digital-text&sr=1-1Drawing on an immense range of firsthand sources from the battlefield, Alexander Rose begins by re-creating the lost and alien world of eighteenth-century warfare at Bunker Hill, the bloodiest clash of the War of Independence—and reveals why the American militiamen were so lethally effective against the oncoming waves of British troops. Then, focusing on Gettysburg, Rose describes a typical Civil War infantry action, vividly explaining what Union and Confederate soldiers experienced before, during, and after combat. Finally, he shows how in 1945 the Marine Corps hurled itself with the greatest possible violence at the island of Iwo Jima, where nearly a third of all Marines killed in World War II would die. As Rose demonstrates, the most important factor in any battle is the human one: At Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima, the American soldier, as much as any general, proved decisive.To an unprecedented degree, Men of War brings home the reality of combat and, just as important, its aftermath in the form of the psychological and medical effects on veterans. As such, the book makes a critical contribution to military history by narrowing the colossal gulf between the popular understanding of wars and the experiences of the soldiers who fight them....more

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• 1113: Men of War: 2of8: The American Soldier in Combat at Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima, by Alexander Rose. Kindle Edition

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  Feb 07 2021

  Photo: Portrait of Pvt. William T. Carter (2nd from right in white collar) and group of 3rd Maryland Infantry http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Men of War: 2of8: The American Soldier in Combat at Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima Kindle Edition. by Alexander Rose  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Men-War-American-Soldier-Gettysburg-ebook/dp/B00N6PEOW6/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=men+of+war+alexander+rose&qid=1612657154&s=digital-text&sr=1-1Drawing on an immense range of firsthand sources from the battlefield, Alexander Rose begins by re-creating the lost and alien world of eighteenth-century warfare at Bunker Hill, the bloodiest clash of the War of Independence—and reveals why the American militiamen were so lethally effective against the oncoming waves of British troops. Then, focusing on Gettysburg, Rose describes a typical Civil War infantry action, vividly explaining what Union and Confederate soldiers experienced before, during, and after combat. Finally, he shows how in 1945 the Marine Corps hurled itself with the greatest possible violence at the island of Iwo Jima, where nearly a third of all Marines killed in World War II would die. As Rose demonstrates, the most important factor in any battle is the human one: At Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima, the American soldier, as much as any general, proved decisive.To an unprecedented degree, Men of War brings home the reality of combat and, just as important, its aftermath in the form of the psychological and medical effects on veterans. As such, the book makes a critical contribution to military history by narrowing the colossal gulf between the popular understanding of wars and the experiences of the soldiers who fight them....more

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• 1113: Men of War: 1of8: The American Soldier in Combat at Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima, by Alexander Rose. Kindle Edition

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  Feb 07 2021

  Photo: Bunker Hill after the battle. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Men of War: 1of8: The American Soldier in Combat at Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima Kindle Edition. by Alexander Rose  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Men-War-American-Soldier-Gettysburg-ebook/dp/B00N6PEOW6/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=men+of+war+alexander+rose&qid=1612657154&s=digital-text&sr=1-1Drawing on an immense range of firsthand sources from the battlefield, Alexander Rose begins by re-creating the lost and alien world of eighteenth-century warfare at Bunker Hill, the bloodiest clash of the War of Independence—and reveals why the American militiamen were so lethally effective against the oncoming waves of British troops. Then, focusing on Gettysburg, Rose describes a typical Civil War infantry action, vividly explaining what Union and Confederate soldiers experienced before, during, and after combat. Finally, he shows how in 1945 the Marine Corps hurled itself with the greatest possible violence at the island of Iwo Jima, where nearly a third of all Marines killed in World War II would die. As Rose demonstrates, the most important factor in any battle is the human one: At Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima, the American soldier, as much as any general, proved decisive.To an unprecedented degree, Men of War brings home the reality of combat and, just as important, its aftermath in the form of the psychological and medical effects on veterans. As such, the book makes a critical contribution to military history by narrowing the colossal gulf between the popular understanding of wars and the experiences of the soldiers who fight them....more

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• 1113: The Lightning Keeper: 1of1: A Novel Kindle Edition.by Starling Lawrence (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Feb 07 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe Lightning Keeper:  1of1: A Novel Kindle Edition.by Starling Lawrence  (Author)  Format: Kindle Editionhttps://www.amazon.com/Lightning-Keeper-Novel-Starling-Lawrence-ebook/dp/B000OVLK36/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=lightning+keeper+starling+lawrence&qid=1612656892&s=digital-text&sr=1-1This is the story of an unlikely love at the dawn of the electric age in America. In 1914, Toma Pekocevic is a penniless immigrant in New York recently escaped from the bloody politics of the Balkans that has claimed most of his family. He is also a gifted inventor who designs a revolutionary water turbine while working with Harriet Bigelow, scion of a proud Connecticut iron-making dynasty now fallen on hard times. Their attraction is immediate and overwhelming, but every circumstance is against them. Toma's invention is all he has after losing Harriet to a wealthy politician, but he is determined to win her back, setting the stage for a confrontation that could change not only his life but the course of scientific progress...more

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• 1113: Endgame: 1of1: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall - from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness. by Frank Brady Kindle Edition

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  Feb 07 2021

  Photo: Bobby Fischer in 1971This is an image from the Nationaal Archief, the Dutch National Archives, donated in the context of a partnership program.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Endgame: 1of1: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall - from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness Kindle Edition. by Frank Brady  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Endgame-Fischers-Remarkable-Americas-Brightest-ebook/dp/B003EI2EI6/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=brady+bobby+fischer&qid=1612656647&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 Possessing an IQ of 181 and remarkable powers of concentration, Bobby Fischer memorized hundreds of chess books in several languages, and he was only thirteen when he became the youngest chess master in U.S. history. But his strange behavior started early. In 1972, at the historic Cold War showdown in Reykjavik, Iceland, where he faced Soviet champion Boris Spassky, Fischer made headlines with hundreds of petty demands that nearly ended the competition. It was merely a prelude to what was to come. Arriving back in the United States to a hero’s welcome, Bobby was mobbed wherever he went—a figure as exotic and improbable as any American pop culture had yet produced. Commercial sponsorship offers poured in, ultimately topping $10 million—but Bobby demurred. Instead, he began tithing his limited money to an apocalyptic religion and devouring anti-Semitic literature.  Bobby reemerged in 1992 to play Spassky in a multi-million dollar rematch—but when the dust settled, he was a wanted man, transformed into an international fugitive because of his decision to play in Montenegro despite U.S. sanctions. Fearing for his life, traveling with bodyguards, Bobby lived the life of a celebrity fugitive—one drawn increasingly to the bizarre.  Drawing from Fischer family archives, recently released FBI files, and Bobby’s own emails, Endgame  is unique in that it limns Bobby Fischer’s entire life—an odyssey that took the chess champion from an impoverished childhood to the covers of Time, Life and Newsweek to recognition as “the most famous man in the world” to notorious recluse....more

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• 1113: Year Zero: 4of4: A History of 1945 (ALA Notable Books for Adults), by Ian Buruma. Kindle Edition

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  Feb 07 2021

  Photo:  NATO Council Sees No Change in Soviet Foreign Policy] http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Year Zero: 4of4: A History of 1945 (ALA Notable Books for Adults) Kindle Edition.by Ian Buruma  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Year-Zero-History-Notable-Adults-ebook/dp/B00C5R7H02/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Year Zero is a landmark reckoning with the great drama that ensued after war came to an end in 1945. One world had ended and a new, uncertain one was beginning. Regime change had come on a global scale: across Asia (including China, Korea, Indochina, and the Philippines, and of course Japan) and all of continental Europe. Out of the often vicious power struggles that ensued emerged the modern world as we know it.In human terms, the scale of transformation is almost impossible to imagine. Great cities around the world lay in ruins, their populations decimated, displaced, starving. Harsh revenge was meted out on a wide scale, and the ground was laid for much horror to come. At the same time, in the wake of unspeakable loss, the euphoria of the liberated was extraordinary, and the revelry unprecedented. The postwar years gave rise to the European welfare state, the United Nations, decolonization, Japanese pacifism, and the European Union. Social, cultural, and political “reeducation” was imposed on vanquished by victors on a scale that also had no historical precedent. Much that was done was ill advised, but in hindsight, as Ian Buruma shows us, these efforts were in fact relatively enlightened, humane, and effective.A poignant grace note throughout this history is Buruma’s own father’s story. Seized by the Nazis during the occupation of Holland, he spent much of the war in Berlin as a laborer, and by war’s end was literally hiding in the rubble of a flattened city, having barely managed to survive starvation rations, Allied bombing, and Soviet shock troops when the end came. His journey home and attempted reentry into “normalcy” stand in many ways for his generation’s experience.A work of enormous range and stirring human drama, conjuring both the Asian and European theaters with equal fluency, Year Zero is a book that Ian Buruma is perhaps uniquely positioned to write. It is surely his masterpiece....more

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• 1113: Year Zero: 3of4: A History of 1945 (ALA Notable Books for Adults), by Ian Buruma. Kindle Edition

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  Feb 07 2021

  Photo: United Nations Headquarters, United Nations Plaza, New York, New York County, NY http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Year Zero: 3of4: A History of 1945 (ALA Notable Books for Adults) Kindle Edition.by Ian Buruma  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Year-Zero-History-Notable-Adults-ebook/dp/B00C5R7H02/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Year Zero is a landmark reckoning with the great drama that ensued after war came to an end in 1945. One world had ended and a new, uncertain one was beginning. Regime change had come on a global scale: across Asia (including China, Korea, Indochina, and the Philippines, and of course Japan) and all of continental Europe. Out of the often vicious power struggles that ensued emerged the modern world as we know it.In human terms, the scale of transformation is almost impossible to imagine. Great cities around the world lay in ruins, their populations decimated, displaced, starving. Harsh revenge was meted out on a wide scale, and the ground was laid for much horror to come. At the same time, in the wake of unspeakable loss, the euphoria of the liberated was extraordinary, and the revelry unprecedented. The postwar years gave rise to the European welfare state, the United Nations, decolonization, Japanese pacifism, and the European Union. Social, cultural, and political “reeducation” was imposed on vanquished by victors on a scale that also had no historical precedent. Much that was done was ill advised, but in hindsight, as Ian Buruma shows us, these efforts were in fact relatively enlightened, humane, and effective.A poignant grace note throughout this history is Buruma’s own father’s story. Seized by the Nazis during the occupation of Holland, he spent much of the war in Berlin as a laborer, and by war’s end was literally hiding in the rubble of a flattened city, having barely managed to survive starvation rations, Allied bombing, and Soviet shock troops when the end came. His journey home and attempted reentry into “normalcy” stand in many ways for his generation’s experience.A work of enormous range and stirring human drama, conjuring both the Asian and European theaters with equal fluency, Year Zero is a book that Ian Buruma is perhaps uniquely positioned to write. It is surely his masterpiece....more

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• 1113: Year Zero: 2of4: A History of 1945 (ALA Notable Books for Adults), by Ian Buruma. Kindle Edition

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  Feb 07 2021

  Photo: General panoramic view of Hiroshima after the bomb ... shows the devastation ... about 0.4 miles ... / official U.S. Army photo.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Year Zero: 2of4: A History of 1945 (ALA Notable Books for Adults) Kindle Edition.by Ian Buruma  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Year-Zero-History-Notable-Adults-ebook/dp/B00C5R7H02/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Year Zero is a landmark reckoning with the great drama that ensued after war came to an end in 1945. One world had ended and a new, uncertain one was beginning. Regime change had come on a global scale: across Asia (including China, Korea, Indochina, and the Philippines, and of course Japan) and all of continental Europe. Out of the often vicious power struggles that ensued emerged the modern world as we know it.In human terms, the scale of transformation is almost impossible to imagine. Great cities around the world lay in ruins, their populations decimated, displaced, starving. Harsh revenge was meted out on a wide scale, and the ground was laid for much horror to come. At the same time, in the wake of unspeakable loss, the euphoria of the liberated was extraordinary, and the revelry unprecedented. The postwar years gave rise to the European welfare state, the United Nations, decolonization, Japanese pacifism, and the European Union. Social, cultural, and political “reeducation” was imposed on vanquished by victors on a scale that also had no historical precedent. Much that was done was ill advised, but in hindsight, as Ian Buruma shows us, these efforts were in fact relatively enlightened, humane, and effective.A poignant grace note throughout this history is Buruma’s own father’s story. Seized by the Nazis during the occupation of Holland, he spent much of the war in Berlin as a laborer, and by war’s end was literally hiding in the rubble of a flattened city, having barely managed to survive starvation rations, Allied bombing, and Soviet shock troops when the end came. His journey home and attempted reentry into “normalcy” stand in many ways for his generation’s experience.A work of enormous range and stirring human drama, conjuring both the Asian and European theaters with equal fluency, Year Zero is a book that Ian Buruma is perhaps uniquely positioned to write. It is surely his masterpiece....more

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• 1113: Year Zero: 1of4: A History of 1945 (ALA Notable Books for Adults), by Ian Buruma. Kindle Edition

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  Photo: Warsaw, Poland: Result of the war. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Year Zero: 1of4: A History of 1945 (ALA Notable Books for Adults), by Ian Buruma. Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Year-Zero-History-Notable-Adults-ebook/dp/B00C5R7H02/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Year Zero is a landmark reckoning with the great drama that ensued after war came to an end in 1945. One world had ended and a new, uncertain one was beginning. Regime change had come on a global scale: across Asia (including China, Korea, Indochina, and the Philippines, and of course Japan) and all of continental Europe. Out of the often vicious power struggles that ensued emerged the modern world as we know it.In human terms, the scale of transformation is almost impossible to imagine. Great cities around the world lay in ruins, their populations decimated, displaced, starving. Harsh revenge was meted out on a wide scale, and the ground was laid for much horror to come. At the same time, in the wake of unspeakable loss, the euphoria of the liberated was extraordinary, and the revelry unprecedented. The postwar years gave rise to the European welfare state, the United Nations, decolonization, Japanese pacifism, and the European Union. Social, cultural, and political “reeducation” was imposed on vanquished by victors on a scale that also had no historical precedent. Much that was done was ill advised, but in hindsight, as Ian Buruma shows us, these efforts were in fact relatively enlightened, humane, and effective.A poignant grace note throughout this history is Buruma’s own father’s story. Seized by the Nazis during the occupation of Holland, he spent much of the war in Berlin as a laborer, and by war’s end was literally hiding in the rubble of a flattened city, having barely managed to survive starvation rations, Allied bombing, and Soviet shock troops when the end came. His journey home and attempted reentry into “normalcy” stand in many ways for his generation’s experience.A work of enormous range and stirring human drama, conjuring both the Asian and European theaters with equal fluency, Year Zero is a book that Ian Buruma is perhaps uniquely positioned to write. It is surely his masterpiece....more

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• 1110: The Legend of the Brooklyn Dodgers signs ace starting pitcher Trevor Bauer. Host

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  Feb 06 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1912>  Front row: Eddie Stack, Red Smith, Sandy Burk, Bill Dahlen, Ed Phelps, Otto Miller, Zack Wheat, Herbie Moran; Second row: Syl Breen, John Hummel, Earl Yingling, Eddie Dent, Bob Higgins, Dolly Stark, unidentified; Third row: Enos Kirkpatrick, unidentified, Bob Coulson, Bert Tooley, Bill Schardt, Red Downs, unidentified, Jud Daley; Fourth row: Tex Erwin, Pat Ragan, Bill Davidson, Willie Keeler, George Cutshaw, Nap Rucker, Frank Allen, Jake Daubert. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009) -  No. 51698. -  Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowThe Legend of the Brooklyn Dodgers signs ace starting pitcher Trevor Bauer.  Hosthttps://www.upi.com/Sports_News/MLB/2021/02/05/Reigning-NL-Cy-Young-winner-Trevor-Bauer-signing-with-Dodgers/2211612568628/ ...more

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• 1109: #NewAmericanCivilWar: The Show Trial begins. Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Feb 06 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.Along the Tiber http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow#NewAmericanCivilWar: The Show Trial begins. Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisisanewcivilwar.com.

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• 1109: #NewAmericanCivilWar: No weapons in the Curia, 60 BCE; Check your guns in the Senate, 1859; Metal-detectors in the House, 2021. Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Feb 06 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1845.Roman Ruins  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow#NewAmericanCivilWar: No weapons in the Curia, 60 BCE; Check your guns at the Senate door, 1859; Metal-detectors in the House, 2021. Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisisanewcivilwar.com.

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• 1112: 4/4 Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness, by Roy Richard Grinker

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  Feb 06 2021

  Image:  Stockton City, Baptist Church and Insane Asylum.  Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness, by Roy Richard Grinker  For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobody’s Normal, the anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental-illness stigma—from the eighteenth century through America’s major wars, and into today’s high-tech economy.  Nobody’s Normal argues that stigma is a social process that can be explained through cultural history, a process that began the moment we defined mental illness; one that we learn from within our communities, and that we ultimately have the power to change. Though the legacies of shame and secrecy are still with us today, Grinker writes that we are at the cusp of ending the marginalization of the mentally ill. In the twenty-first century, mental illnesses are fast becoming a more accepted and visible part of human diversity. Grinker infuses the book with the personal history of his family’s four generations of involvement in psychiatry, including his grandfather’s analysis with Sigmund Freud, his own daughter’s experience with autism, and culminating in his research on neurodiversity. Drawing on cutting-edge science, historical archives, and cross-cultural research in Africa and Asia, Grinker takes readers on an international journey to discover the origins of, and variances in, our cultural response to neurodiversity. Urgent, eye-opening, and ultimately hopeful, Nobody’s Normal explains how we are transforming mental illness and offers a path to end the shadow of stigma.  https://www.amazon.com/Nobodys-Normal-Culture-Created-Illness-ebook/dp/B08D4QZ7Q5/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1612573644&sr=1-1 ....more

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• 1111: 3/4 Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness, by Roy Richard Grinker

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  Feb 06 2021

  Image:  The incurable.Fox, in a strait-jacket, with straw disposed in his hair, is represented as mad beyond recover. Doctor Munro, the King's physician, in his court-dress, is examining the patient through his eyeglass.  Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness, by Roy Richard Grinker  For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobody’s Normal, the anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental-illness stigma—from the eighteenth century through America’s major wars, and into today’s high-tech economy.  Nobody’s Normal argues that stigma is a social process that can be explained through cultural history, a process that began the moment we defined mental illness; one that we learn from within our communities, and that we ultimately have the power to change. Though the legacies of shame and secrecy are still with us today, Grinker writes that we are at the cusp of ending the marginalization of the mentally ill. In the twenty-first century, mental illnesses are fast becoming a more accepted and visible part of human diversity. Grinker infuses the book with the personal history of his family’s four generations of involvement in psychiatry, including his grandfather’s analysis with Sigmund Freud, his own daughter’s experience with autism, and culminating in his research on neurodiversity. Drawing on cutting-edge science, historical archives, and cross-cultural research in Africa and Asia, Grinker takes readers on an international journey to discover the origins of, and variances in, our cultural response to neurodiversity. Urgent, eye-opening, and ultimately hopeful, Nobody’s Normal explains how we are transforming mental illness and offers a path to end the shadow of stigma.  https://www.amazon.com/Nobodys-Normal-Culture-Created-Illness-ebook/dp/B08D4QZ7Q5/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1612573644&sr=1-1 ...more

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• 1111: 2/4 Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness, by Roy Richard Grinker

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  Feb 06 2021

  Image:  National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Pacific Branch, Mental Health Buildings, 11301 Wilshire Boulevard, West Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA  Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness, by Roy Richard Grinker  For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobody’s Normal, the anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental-illness stigma—from the eighteenth century through America’s major wars, and into today’s high-tech economy.  Nobody’s Normal argues that stigma is a social process that can be explained through cultural history, a process that began the moment we defined mental illness; one that we learn from within our communities, and that we ultimately have the power to change. Though the legacies of shame and secrecy are still with us today, Grinker writes that we are at the cusp of ending the marginalization of the mentally ill. In the twenty-first century, mental illnesses are fast becoming a more accepted and visible part of human diversity. Grinker infuses the book with the personal history of his family’s four generations of involvement in psychiatry, including his grandfather’s analysis with Sigmund Freud, his own daughter’s experience with autism, and culminating in his research on neurodiversity. Drawing on cutting-edge science, historical archives, and cross-cultural research in Africa and Asia, Grinker takes readers on an international journey to discover the origins of, and variances in, our cultural response to neurodiversity. Urgent, eye-opening, and ultimately hopeful, Nobody’s Normal explains how we are transforming mental illness and offers a path to end the shadow of stigma.  https://www.amazon.com/Nobodys-Normal-Culture-Created-Illness-ebook/dp/B08D4QZ7Q5/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1612573644&sr=1-1 ...more

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• 1111: 1/4 Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness, by Roy Richard Grinker

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  Feb 06 2021

  Image:  Insulin shock procedure, 1950s  Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness, by Roy Richard Grinker  For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobody’s Normal, the anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental-illness stigma—from the eighteenth century through America’s major wars, and into today’s high-tech economy.  Nobody’s Normal argues that stigma is a social process that can be explained through cultural history, a process that began the moment we defined mental illness; one that we learn from within our communities, and that we ultimately have the power to change. Though the legacies of shame and secrecy are still with us today, Grinker writes that we are at the cusp of ending the marginalization of the mentally ill. In the twenty-first century, mental illnesses are fast becoming a more accepted and visible part of human diversity. Grinker infuses the book with the personal history of his family’s four generations of involvement in psychiatry, including his grandfather’s analysis with Sigmund Freud, his own daughter’s experience with autism, and culminating in his research on neurodiversity. Drawing on cutting-edge science, historical archives, and cross-cultural research in Africa and Asia, Grinker takes readers on an international journey to discover the origins of, and variances in, our cultural response to neurodiversity. Urgent, eye-opening, and ultimately hopeful, Nobody’s Normal explains how we are transforming mental illness and offers a path to end the shadow of stigma.  https://www.amazon.com/Nobodys-Normal-Culture-Created-Illness-ebook/dp/B08D4QZ7Q5/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1612573644&sr=1-1 ...more

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• 1109: Run-up to the Impeachment trial: the smearing of multiple members of Congress. @DevinNunes CA-22

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  Feb 06 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1919.CONGRESS, U.S. OPENING OF CONGRESS, MAY, 1919  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowRun-up to the Impeachment trial: the smearing of multiple members of Congress.  @DevinNunes CA-22  

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• 1109: What about China and the Bidens? @DevinNunes CA-22

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  Photo: A branch of the Bank of China located in Toronto's Chinatown http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShowWhat about China and the Bidens?  @DevinNunes CA-22https://www.theepochtimes.com/rep-devin-nunes-suggests-hunter-biden-special-counsel_3612925.html

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• 1109: Hell and Good Company: 4of4: The Spanish Civil War and the World It Made, by Richard Rhodes Kindle Edition

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  Photo:   The Church was a frequent target of the revolutionary left in the Republic and in the War. During the Civil War, revolutionaries destroyed/burned some 20,000 churches, along with church artwork and tombs, books, archives, and palaces. A vast number of affected buildings are today defunct. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Hell and Good Company: 4of4: The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made Kindle Edition. by Richard Rhodes  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Hell-Good-Company-Spanish-Civil-ebook/dp/B00LD1S0AC/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=The Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) inspired and haunted an extraordinary number of exceptional artists and writers, including Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Martha Gellhorn, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, and John Dos Passos. The idealism of the cause—defending democracy from fascism at a time when Europe was darkening toward another world war—and the brutality of the conflict inspired some of their best work: Guernica, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Homage to Catalonia, The Spanish Earth.The war spurred breakthroughs in military and medical technology as well. New aircraft, new weapons, new tactics and strategy all emerged during this time. Progress arose from the horror: the doctors and nurses who volunteered to serve with the Spanish defenders devised major advances in battlefield surgery and frontline blood transfusion. In those ways, and in many others, the Spanish Civil War served as a test bed for World War II, and for the entire twentieth century....more

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• 1109: Hell and Good Company: 3of4: The Spanish Civil War and the World It Made. by Richard Rhodes Kindle Edition

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  Photo: Soldiers in the ruins of the Alcázar.Nationalist soldiers walk through the ruins of the Alcázar in Toledo, during the siege by the republicans in the summer of 1936 during the Spanish Civil War.On the back stamps and leaf with press text in German. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow. Hell and Good Company: 3of4: The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made Kindle Edition. by Richard Rhodes  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Hell-Good-Company-Spanish-Civil-ebook/dp/B00LD1S0AC/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=The Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) inspired and haunted an extraordinary number of exceptional artists and writers, including Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Martha Gellhorn, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, and John Dos Passos. The idealism of the cause—defending democracy from fascism at a time when Europe was darkening toward another world war—and the brutality of the conflict inspired some of their best work: Guernica, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Homage to Catalonia, The Spanish Earth.The war spurred breakthroughs in military and medical technology as well. New aircraft, new weapons, new tactics and strategy all emerged during this time. Progress arose from the horror: the doctors and nurses who volunteered to serve with the Spanish defenders devised major advances in battlefield surgery and frontline blood transfusion. In those ways, and in many others, the Spanish Civil War served as a test bed for World War II, and for the entire twentieth century....more

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• 1109: Hell and Good Company: 2of4: The Spanish Civil War and the World It Made, by Richard Rhodes: Kindle Edition

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  Photo: Republican soldiers resting in France http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Hell and Good Company: 2of4: The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made Kindle Edition. by Richard Rhodes  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Hell-Good-Company-Spanish-Civil-ebook/dp/B00LD1S0AC/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=The Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) inspired and haunted an extraordinary number of exceptional artists and writers, including Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Martha Gellhorn, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, and John Dos Passos. The idealism of the cause—defending democracy from fascism at a time when Europe was darkening toward another world war—and the brutality of the conflict inspired some of their best work: Guernica, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Homage to Catalonia, The Spanish Earth.The war spurred breakthroughs in military and medical technology as well. New aircraft, new weapons, new tactics and strategy all emerged during this time. Progress arose from the horror: the doctors and nurses who volunteered to serve with the Spanish defenders devised major advances in battlefield surgery and frontline blood transfusion. In those ways, and in many others, the Spanish Civil War served as a test bed for World War II, and for the entire twentieth century....more

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• 1109: Hell and Good Company: 1of4: The Spanish Civil War and the World It Made, by Richard Rhodes: Kindle Edition

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  Photo: Soldiers on their way to the front during the Spanish civil war http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Hell and Good Company: 1of4: The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made Kindle Edition. by.Richard Rhodes  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Hell-Good-Company-Spanish-Civil-ebook/dp/B00LD1S0AC/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=The Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) inspired and haunted an extraordinary number of exceptional artists and writers, including Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Martha Gellhorn, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, and John Dos Passos. The idealism of the cause—defending democracy from fascism at a time when Europe was darkening toward another world war—and the brutality of the conflict inspired some of their best work: Guernica, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Homage to Catalonia, The Spanish Earth.The war spurred breakthroughs in military and medical technology as well. New aircraft, new weapons, new tactics and strategy all emerged during this time. Progress arose from the horror: the doctors and nurses who volunteered to serve with the Spanish defenders devised major advances in battlefield surgery and frontline blood transfusion. In those ways, and in many others, the Spanish Civil War served as a test bed for World War II, and for the entire twentieth century....more

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