The John Batchelor Show

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• 1713: The new new Cold War with China or not. @JoshRogin WashingtonPost GLXXG

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  Sep 25 2021

  Photo: Obligatory reading of Chairman Mao's Little Red Book. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow The new new Cold War with China or not. @JoshRogin WashingtonPost GLXXG https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/23/bidens-strategy-stabilize-us-china-relations-isnt-working/

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• 1713: #PacificWatch: General Sherman is safe for now.@JCBlissHFN

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  Sep 25 2021

  Photo: Fallen giant sequoia. . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #PacificWatch: General Sherman is safe for now.@JCBlissHFN https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/08/us/california-wildfires-heat-updates.html 

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• 1713: More wild boars than ever in the post-pandemic streets of Rome. Lorenzo Fiori, Anslado Foundation GLXXG

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  Sep 25 2021

  Photo:   Wild boar corner aN Italian woman and steal her food from shopping. Video grab. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow More wild boars than ever in the post-pandemic streets of Rome. Lorenzo Fiori, Anslado Foundation GLXXG https://www.thelocal.it/20210923/watch-videos-of-wild-boar-invading-rome-streets-go-viral-in-italy/

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• 1713: The German election is neck and neck for Red Olof Scholz vs Merkel's "merkeln" CDU. Vendeline von Bredow @TheEconomist HFN

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  Sep 25 2021

  Photo:  Election and Coronation of Emperor Maximilian II CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow The German election is neck and neck for Red Olof Scholz vs Merkel's "merkeln" CDU.   Vendeline von Bredow @TheEconomist HFN https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/24/german-election-too-close-to-call-as-spd-lead-evaporates

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• 1714: The unknown cliffsides of Mars. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Sep 25 2021

  Photo: Mars—Burns Cliff Beckons CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow The unknown cliffsides of Mars.  Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/martian-mountaintop/

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• 1714: Boeing Starliner paused; & What is to be done? Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Sep 25 2021

  Photo:  The Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft is guided into position above a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41 at Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in preparation for its Orbital Flight Test. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Boeing Starliner paused; & What is to be done? Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/starliner-unmanned-demo-flight-likely-delayed-until-22/ ...more

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• 1714: Is Stephen Breyer the last SCOTUS Liberal? @RichardAGoldstein @HooverInst

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  Sep 25 2021

  Photo: Justice Stephen Breyer CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Is Stephen Breyer the last SCOTUS Liberal? @RichardAGoldstein @HooverInst https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/justice-stephen-breyer-83-responds-to-liberal-activists-pressing-for-his-retirement/ar-AAOC1v7

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• 1714: Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investing is the new new on Wall Street. @RichardAEpstein. @HooverInst

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  Sep 25 2021

  Photo:  A camel, giraffe, chameleon, dragon, ichneumon, spider, insects and flowers, 1663.  Loggan + Hollar CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)  investing  is the new new on Wall Street. @RichardAEpstein. @HooverInst https://www.hoover.org/research/creeping-coercion-under-stakeholder-banner

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• 1713: 4/4 The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds, by Christopher E. Mason. Hardcover – April 20, 2021

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  Sep 25 2021

  Photo:   Exoplanet travel bureau.  "PSO J318.5-22 - Where the Nightlife Never Ends!"  Poster from the NASA Exoplanets Exploration Program's Exoplanet Travel Bureau 4/4   The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds, by Christopher E. Mason.  Hardcover – April 20, 2021 https://www.amazon.com/Next-500-Years-Engineering-Worlds/dp/0262044404 An argument that we have a moral duty to explore other planets and solar systems—because human life on Earth has an expiration date. Inevitably, life on Earth will come to an end, whether by climate disaster, cataclysmic war, or the death of the sun in a few billion years. To avoid extinction, we will have to find a new home planet, perhaps even a new solar system, to inhabit. In this provocative and fascinating book, Christopher Mason argues that we have a moral duty to do just that. As the only species aware that life on Earth has an expiration date, we have a responsibility to act as the shepherd of life-forms—not only for our species but for all species on which we depend and for those still to come (by accidental or designed evolution). Mason argues that the same capacity for ingenuity that has enabled us to build rockets and land on other planets can be applied to redesigning biology so that we can sustainably inhabit those planets. And he lays out a 500-year plan for undertaking the massively ambitious project of reengineering human genetics for life on other worlds.  As they are today, our frail human bodies could never survive travel to another habitable planet. Mason describes the toll that long-term space travel took on the astronaut Scott Kelly, who returned from a year on the International Space Station with changes to his blood, bones, and genes. Mason proposes a ten-phase, 500-year program that would engineer the genome so that humans can tolerate the extreme environments of outer space—with the ultimate goal of achieving human settlement of new solar systems. He lays out a roadmap of which solar systems to visit first, and merges biotechnology, philosophy, and genetics to offer an unparalleled vision of the universe to come...more

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• 1713: 3/4 The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds, by Christopher E. Mason. Hardcover – April 20, 2021

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  Sep 25 2021

  Photo:  This image shows the deployment of a half-scale starshade with four petals at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, in 2014.  (For explanation, see below.*) 3/4   The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds, by Christopher E. Mason.  Hardcover – April 20, 2021 https://www.amazon.com/Next-500-Years-Engineering-Worlds/dp/0262044404 An argument that we have a moral duty to explore other planets and solar systems—because human life on Earth has an expiration date. Inevitably, life on Earth will come to an end, whether by climate disaster, cataclysmic war, or the death of the sun in a few billion years. To avoid extinction, we will have to find a new home planet, perhaps even a new solar system, to inhabit. In this provocative and fascinating book, Christopher Mason argues that we have a moral duty to do just that. As the only species aware that life on Earth has an expiration date, we have a responsibility to act as the shepherd of life-forms—not only for our species but for all species on which we depend and for those still to come (by accidental or designed evolution). Mason argues that the same capacity for ingenuity that has enabled us to build rockets and land on other planets can be applied to redesigning biology so that we can sustainably inhabit those planets. And he lays out a 500-year plan for undertaking the massively ambitious project of reengineering human genetics for life on other worlds.  As they are today, our frail human bodies could never survive travel to another habitable planet. Mason describes the toll that long-term space travel took on the astronaut Scott Kelly, who returned from a year on the International Space Station with changes to his blood, bones, and genes. Mason proposes a ten-phase, 500-year program that would engineer the genome so that humans can tolerate the extreme environments of outer space—with the ultimate goal of achieving human settlement of new solar systems. He lays out a roadmap of which solar systems to visit first, and merges biotechnology, philosophy, and genetics to offer an unparalleled vision of the universe to come  ..  ..  ..   *This image shows the deployment of a half-scale starshade with four petals at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, in 2014.  The full scale of this starshade (not shown) will measure at 34 meters, or approximately 111 feet. The flower-like petals of the starshade are designed to diffract bright starlight away from telescopes seeking the dim light of exoplanets. The starshade was re-designed from earlier models to allow these petals to furl, or wrap around the spacecraft, for launch into space.  Once in space, the starshade will need to expand from its tightly-packed launch shape to become large and umbrella-like, ideal for blocking starlight. Each petal is covered in a high-performance plastic film that resembles gold foil. On a starshade ready for launch, the thermal gold foil will only cover the side of the petals facing away from the telescope, with black on the other, so as not to reflect other light sources such as the Earth into its lens.  Starlight-blocking technologies such as the starshade are being developed to help image exoplanets, with a focus on Earth-sized, habitable worlds.   http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA20907 NASA/JPL-Caltech/Princeton ....more

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• 1713: 2/4 The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds, by Christopher E. Mason. Hardcover – April 20, 2021

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  Sep 25 2021

  Photo:  NASA—"Rains of Terror on Exoplanet HD 189733b" 2/4   The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds, by Christopher E. Mason.  Hardcover – April 20, 2021 https://www.amazon.com/Next-500-Years-Engineering-Worlds/dp/0262044404 An argument that we have a moral duty to explore other planets and solar systems—because human life on Earth has an expiration date. Inevitably, life on Earth will come to an end, whether by climate disaster, cataclysmic war, or the death of the sun in a few billion years. To avoid extinction, we will have to find a new home planet, perhaps even a new solar system, to inhabit. In this provocative and fascinating book, Christopher Mason argues that we have a moral duty to do just that. As the only species aware that life on Earth has an expiration date, we have a responsibility to act as the shepherd of life-forms—not only for our species but for all species on which we depend and for those still to come (by accidental or designed evolution). Mason argues that the same capacity for ingenuity that has enabled us to build rockets and land on other planets can be applied to redesigning biology so that we can sustainably inhabit those planets. And he lays out a 500-year plan for undertaking the massively ambitious project of reengineering human genetics for life on other worlds.  As they are today, our frail human bodies could never survive travel to another habitable planet. Mason describes the toll that long-term space travel took on the astronaut Scott Kelly, who returned from a year on the International Space Station with changes to his blood, bones, and genes. Mason proposes a ten-phase, 500-year program that would engineer the genome so that humans can tolerate the extreme environments of outer space—with the ultimate goal of achieving human settlement of new solar systems. He lays out a roadmap of which solar systems to visit first, and merges biotechnology, philosophy, and genetics to offer an unparalleled vision of the universe to come...more

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• 1713: 1/4 The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds, by Christopher E. Mason. Hardcover – April 20, 2021

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  Sep 25 2021

  Photo:  Cover art for The Outer Worlds, an action role-playing game.* 1/4   The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds, by Christopher E. Mason.  Hardcover – April 20, 2021 https://www.amazon.com/Next-500-Years-Engineering-Worlds/dp/0262044404 An argument that we have a moral duty to explore other planets and solar systems—because human life on Earth has an expiration date. Inevitably, life on Earth will come to an end, whether by climate disaster, cataclysmic war, or the death of the sun in a few billion years. To avoid extinction, we will have to find a new home planet, perhaps even a new solar system, to inhabit. In this provocative and fascinating book, Christopher Mason argues that we have a moral duty to do just that. As the only species aware that life on Earth has an expiration date, we have a responsibility to act as the shepherd of life-forms—not only for our species but for all species on which we depend and for those still to come (by accidental or designed evolution). Mason argues that the same capacity for ingenuity that has enabled us to build rockets and land on other planets can be applied to redesigning biology so that we can sustainably inhabit those planets. And he lays out a 500-year plan for undertaking the massively ambitious project of reengineering human genetics for life on other worlds. As they are today, our frail human bodies could never survive travel to another habitable planet. Mason describes the toll that long-term space travel took on the astronaut Scott Kelly, who returned from a year on the International Space Station with changes to his blood, bones, and genes. Mason proposes a ten-phase, 500-year program that would engineer the genome so that humans can tolerate the extreme environments of outer space—with the ultimate goal of achieving human settlement of new solar systems. He lays out a roadmap of which solar systems to visit first, and merges biotechnology, philosophy, and genetics to offer an unparalleled vision of the universe to come ..  ..  ..  *Permissions: fair use. Cover art for The Outer Worlds, an action role-playing game developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Private Division. ...more

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• 1713: 2/2. #SmallBusinessAmerica: Christmas prices already climbing @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer

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  Sep 25 2021

  Photo:  Sheet music for Christmas carols. 2/2.  #SmallBusinessAmerica: Christmas prices already climbing @GeneMarks  @Guardian @PhillyInquirer https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/20/business/christmas-tree-prices-2021/index.html

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• 1713: 1/2. #SmallBusinessAmerica: Back to the office is the trend @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquire

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  Sep 25 2021

  Photo:  Desk of two centuries ago.  Henry Rust. Made in Salem, Massachusetts, United States 1/2.  #SmallBusinessAmerica: Back to the office is the trend @GeneMarks  @Guardian @PhillyInquirer https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/sep/23/work-from-home-is-over-hyped/

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• 1713: President Biden refutes the trickle-down economics of Ronald Reagan 1981. Dan Henninger, WSJ editorial board and Wonder Land columnist. @DanHenninger, @WSJOpinion

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  Sep 25 2021

  Photo: Robert Mundell (progenitor of the trickle-down theory) in 1961   President Biden refutes the trickle-down economics of Ronald Reagan 1981.  Dan Henninger, WSJ editorial board and Wonder Land columnist.  @DanHenninger, @WSJOpinion  https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-biden-socialist-reconiciliation-government-expansion-build-back-better-11632338922

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• 1713: The unexpected consequences of Australian wildfires. Scott Mayman @CBSNew Brisbane, Queensland

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  Sep 25 2021

  Photo:  Aftermath of the 2003 Eastern Victorian alpine bushfires showing the Big River and hillsides near the Omeo Highway (probably from the Bundara River picnic ground), north of Anglers Rest, Victoria, Australia.  2003   The unexpected consequences of Australian wildfires.  Scott Mayman @CBSNew Brisbane, Queensland https://sites.nicholas.duke.edu/cassar/phytoplankton-blooms-triggered-by-2019-2020-australian-wildfires/ ..  ..  ..  Photo taken by  John O'Neill. I, the copyright holder of this work—author: jjron— hereby publish it under the following license:  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 only as published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License....more

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• 1712: #NewWorldReport: Mexico agriculture celebrates the bounty of tomatoes. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis GLXXG

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  Sep 24 2021

  Photo: Transplanting tomato plants in February . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #NewWorldReport: Mexico agriculture celebrates the bounty of  tomatoes. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis GLXXG https://www.freshplaza.com/article/9357930/tomato-trade-with-mexico-could-cost-u-s-growers-250m-a-year/

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• 1712: #NewWorldReport: in Mexico City, CELAC gathers with the anti-American Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis GLXXG

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  Sep 24 2021

  Photo: CELAC, The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States.   Representatives of the member nations of CELAC at the Teresa Carreño theater in Caracas, at the opening of the first summit of that organization Representantes de las naciones integrantes de la CELAC en el teatro Teresa Carreño, de Caracas, en la apertura de la primera cumbre de esa organización CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #NewWorldReport: in Mexico City, CELAC gathers with the anti-American Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis GLXXG https://menafn.com/1102824750/CELAC-VI-Summit-supports-Cuba-Argentina-Venezuela-calls-for-powerful-blocs-general-secretariat .. Permissions:  http://www.casarosada.gov.ar  /  Author | Casa de Gobierno en Argentina Attribution: Casa Rosada (Argentina Presidency of the Nation) You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the workUnder the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use....more

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• 1712: #NewWorldReport: The long death of the Shining Path. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis GLXXG

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  Sep 24 2021

  Photo: Shing Path: death.   María Elena Moyano Delgado was an Afro-Peruvian community organizer and feminist who was assassinated by the Shining Path. She grew up in poverty in the Villa El Salvador pueblo joven, then became involved in local activism. She was twice president of the Popular Federation of Women of Villa El Salvador and at the time of her death was deputy mayor. Her funeral was attended by 300,000 people and resulted in a downturn in support for the Shining Path. She received the Peruvian Order of Merit posthumously. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #NewWorldReport: The long death of the Shining Path.  Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis GLXXG https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/peru-says-body-of-shining-path-leader-to-be-cremated/ar-AAOKPvy ...more

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• 1712: #NewWorldReport: Unvaccinated Covid-recovered Bolsonaro at the the UNGA. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis GLXXG

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  Sep 24 2021

  Photo: Methodist Central Hall, London, the location of the first meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in 1946. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #NewWorldReport:  Unvaccinated Covid-recovered Bolsonaro at the the UNGA. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis GLXXG https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/19/jair-bolsonaro-unga-vaccine-honor-system/.

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• 1712: The Russian Duma elections and the new Communist Party. Anatol Lieven, @QuincyInst HFN

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  Sep 24 2021

  Photo: State Duma voting device. Устройство для голосования в Государственной думе CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow The Russian Duma elections and the new Communist Party.  Anatol Lieven, @QuincyInst HFN https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/09/21/statisticians-claim-half-of-pro-kremlin-votes-in-duma-elections-were-false-a75102 .. This file comes from the website of the State Duma of the Russian Federation and is copyrighted. This file is licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence. In short: you are free to distribute and modify the file as long as you attribute duma.gov.ru ...more

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• 1712: Realist Internationalism and the 21st Century conflict zones. Anatol Lieven, @QuincyInst HFN

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  Sep 24 2021

  Photo: Niccolò Machiavelli's work The Prince of 1532 was a major stimulus to realist thinking. here:  Title page to The arte of warre by Niccolò Machiavelli "Realism is one of the dominant schools of thought in international relations theory, theoretically formalising the Realpolitik statesmanship of early modern Europe. Although a highly diverse body of thought, it is unified by the belief that world politics is always and necessarily a field of conflict among actors pursuing power. The theories of realism are contrasted by the cooperative ideals of liberalism." CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Realist internationalism and the 21st Century conflict zones.  Anatol Lieven, @QuincyInst HFN https://quincyinst.org/2021/09/16/vindicating-realist-internationalism/...more

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• 1712: Liberal Internationalists Tony Blair and George W. Bush fail in Afghanistan and Iraq. Anatol Lieven, @QuincyInst HFN

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  Sep 24 2021

  Photo:  Liberal internationalism emerged during the nineteenth century, notably under the auspices of British Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister Lord Palmerston Liberal internationalism, also known as International Liberalism and Pan-Liberalism, is a foreign policy doctrine that argues two main points: first, that international organization should achieve multilateral agreements between states that promote liberal democracy and, second, that liberal states should intervene in other states in order to pursue liberal objectives. Such intervention can include both military invasion and humanitarian aid. This view is contrasted to isolationist, realist, or non-interventionist foreign policy doctrines; these critics characterize it as liberal interventionism. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Liberal Internationalists Tony Blair and George W. Bush fail in Afghanistan and Iraq. Anatol Lieven, @QuincyInst Photo: No known restrictions on publication. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Liberal Internationalists Tony Blair and George W. Bush fail in Afghanistan and Iraq. Anatol Lieven, @QuincyInst HFN  https://quincyinst.org/2021/09/16/vindicating-realist-internationalism/...more

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• 1712: C. Vann Woodward on the liberal internationalism national myths that inspired the Vietnam War tragedy. Anatol Lieven, @QuincyInsy HFN

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  Sep 24 2021

  Photo: Vietnam war. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow .C. Vann Woodward on the liberal internationalism national myths that inspired the Vietnam War tragedy. Anatol Lieven, @QuincyInst HFN https://quincyinst.org/2021/09/16/vindicating-realist-internationalism/

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• 1712: Childcare after the worst of the pandemic begins to lift. Claire Cain Miller, @NYTimes

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  Sep 24 2021

  Photo:  Children, USA. Childcare after the worst of the pandemic begins to lift. Claire Cain Miller, @NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/upshot/child-care.html

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• 1712: The long, long USA abuse of Haiti continues in the borderland. Nayyera Haq @nayyeroar

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  Sep 24 2021

  Photo: Loading sisal in Haiti The long, long USA abuse of Haiti continues in the borderland. Nayyera Haq @nayyeroar https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/23/haiti-us-envoy-resigns-daniel-foote-migrant-deportations-letter Nayyera Haq @nayyeroar, Chief Foreign Correspondent, World Tonight Black News Channel.

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• 1712: The Agatha Christie Solution to the Debt Limit. Veronique deRugy, @Mercatus

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  Sep 24 2021

  Photo:  Bond: New Jersey and New York RR 1892 The debt ceiling is the maximum amount of money that the U.S. Treasury can borrow in the form of bond sales.  The Agatha Christie Solution to the Debt Limit. Veronique deRugy, @Mercatus https://www.econlib.org/misplaced-outrage-about-the-debt-ceiling/

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• 1712: Ebrahim "Hanging Judge" Raisi at the UNGA: meet the new boss. Behnam Ben Taleblu

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  Sep 24 2021

  Photo:  Old saloon in which the famous Texas "hanging judge," Roy Bean, dispensed "law west of the Pecos" along the Rio Grande in a desolate stretch of the Chihauhuan Desert in the "Trans-Pecos" region of Texas. (His grandson, a distinguished man, practices the law in Roswell, New Mexico.) Ebrahim "Hanging Judge" Raisi at the UNGA: meet the new boss. Behnam Ben Taleblu @FDD, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/21/iran-claims-it-will-be-ready-for-nuclear-deal-talks-in-next-few-weeks Behnam Ben Taleblu, @FDD, research Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, focussed on Iranian security and political issues....more

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• 1712: Can the EU arbitrate US vs PRC? Yukon Huang, CEIP . #YukonHuang

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  Sep 24 2021

  Photo:  Beijing, China (Feb. 26, 2004) Sailors and Marines from Commander Seventh Fleet and USS Blue Ridge tour the Great Wall of China during a Blue Ridge Morale Welfare and Recreation (MWR) sponsored tour of Beijing, China. Blue Ridge, the command ship of U.S. Seventh Fleet, arrived in Shanghai, China on a Feb. 24th for a routine port visit. While in Shanghai, Sailors and Marines from the ship and embarked staff took in the local culture and interacted with their counterparts from the People's Liberation Army (Navy).  U.S. Navy photo by Journalist 3rd Class Seth J. Bauer.  Can the EU arbitrate US vs PRC? Yukon Huang, CEIP . #YukonHuang The U.S.-China Trade War Has Become a Cold War - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace https://carnegieendowment.org/2021/09/16/u.s.-china-trade-war-has-become-cold-war-pub-85352...more

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• 1712: #TheScalaReport: Evergrande ruins supply chain breaks; winter is coming & what is to be done? Chris Riegel @scala CEO, @STRATACACHE #TheScalaReport

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  Sep 24 2021

  Photo:  A Mandarin's House, Peking #TheScalaReport: Evergrande ruins supply chain breaks; winter is coming & what is to be done?  Chris Riegel @scala CEO, @STRATACACHE #TheScalaReport https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-makes-preparations-for-evergrandes-demise-11632391852?mod=hp_lead_pos1 .. Permissions: Heidenau Date | April 1980 Collection | German Federal Archives  Current location | Allgemeiner Deutscher Nachrichtendienst - Zentralbild (Bild 183) This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany license. Flag of Germany.svg Attribution: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-W0414-0006 / Häßler, Ulrich / CC-BY-SA 3.0 You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use....more

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• 1712: Claiming to be the coolest dictator in the Americas. @MaryAnastasiaOG

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  Sep 24 2021

  Photo:  Batista sees the Capitol for the first time. Washington, D.C., Nov. 10. Fulgencio Batista, the Cuban Army Sergeant who has risen to the heights of a Caribbean Dictator, arrived in Washington today. This is the first time the Cuban Dictator has set foot outside his native land in thirty seven years, Claiming to be the coolest dictator in the Americas.  @MaryAnastasiaOG https://www.wsj.com/articles/el-salvadors-bitcoin-scam-dollar-crypto-currency-monetary-policy-11631470517 Mary Anastasia O’Grady, Wall Street Journal editorial board and “The Americas” columnist.  @MaryAnastasiaOG...more

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• 1712: Groundhog Day in the Canadian Election. Conrad Black @ConradMBlack

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  Sep 24 2021

  Photo:  VOTE LIBERAL - "THE GATES ARE MINE TO OPEN".  Mackenzie King 1930 Election Posters.  This is the first of three copies of this colour poster. The work depicts Miss Canada, opening the doors, under a "1930 Budget" lintel, of "British Preferential Tariff". Groundhog Day in the Canadian Election.  Conrad Black @ConradMBlack https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/mail-in-delays-and-recounts-canadas-election-tallying-drags-on/ar-AAOKrYg

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• 1711: What is the Traffic Light Coalition & What is to be done? Tom Nuttal @TheEconomist Berlin Bureau Chief GLXXG

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  Sep 23 2021

  Photo:  Horizontal Dallas display viewed from the left turn bay. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow What is the Traffic Light Coalition & What is to be done?  Tom Nuttal @TheEconomist Berlin Bureau Chief GLXXG https://www.economist.com/europe/2021/09/18/the-warring-parties-plans-for-germanys-economy-are-full-of-holes?frsc=dg%7Ce .. "Traffic light coalition" (direct translation of German: Ampelkoalition) is a term originating in German politics where it describes a coalition government of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), the Free Democratic Party (FDP), and the Greens. It arises from the fact that the parties' traditional colours, respectively red, yellow, and green, resemble the normal colour sequence of a traffic light (Ampel). It has subsequently been used to describe similar coalitions between social democrats, liberals, and greens in other countries. ...more

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• 1711: Olaf Scholz all green lights for the Sunday polling for Germany. Tom Nuttal @TheEconomist Berlin Bureau Chief GLXXG

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  Sep 23 2021

  Photo:  Willy Brandt (1913–1992): Vice Chancellor & Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs (1966–1969).  Vice-Chancellor of 1900s mid-century. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Olaf Scholz all green lights for the Sunday polling for Germany.. Tom Nuttal @TheEconomist Berlin Bureau Chief GLXXG https://www.economist.com/europe/2021/09/18/the-warring-parties-plans-for-germanys-economy-are-full-of-holes?frsc=dg%7Ce

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• 1711: Lunar Lander VIPER for the South Pole. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com HFN

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  Sep 23 2021

  Photo:  VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) is a planned robotic lunar rover by NASA, that will be tasked to prospect for natural lunar resources, especially water ice within a permanently shadowed region near the lunar south pole. The VIPER mission is part of the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) meant to support the crewed Ar. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Lunar Lander VIPER for the South Pole. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com HFN https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/landing-site-chosen-for-viper-lunar-rover/ ...more

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• 1711: Multiple commercial space stations. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com HFN

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  Photo: Rotating wheel space station. Wernher von Braun 1952 concept. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Multiple commercial space stations. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com HFN https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-reviewing-a-dozen-commercial-proposals-for-future-government-space-stations/

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• 1711: War Warning Algeria vs Morocco. Rick Fisher, IASC; and @GordonGChang.

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  Sep 23 2021

  Photo:   Traditional peoples of the Mahgreb  War Warning Algeria vs Morocco.  Rick Fisher, IASC; and @GordonGChang. https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/03/12/chinas-chance-to-bridge-the-algeria-morocco-divide/ Rick Fisher, senior Fellow of the International Assessment and Strategy Center; and @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill Gordon G. Chang @GordonGChang. Author, The Coming Collapse of China and The Great U.S.-China Tech War

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• 1711: France is already an Indo-Pacific power. @CleoPaskal, @GordonGChang

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  Photo:  Painting of Two Women of Tahiti by Paul Gauguin France is already an Indo-Pacific power.  @CleoPaskal, @GordonGChang https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/macron-and-modi-vow-to-act-jointly-after-subs-dispute/ar-AAOFdbY https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/news/aukus-big-deal-everyone @CleoPaskal, non-resident Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Gordon G. Chang @GordonGChang. Author, The Coming Collapse of China and The Great U.S.-China Tech War

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• 1711: Biden and Xi name no superpower names. Stephen Yates, @YatesDCIA. Gordon G. Chang @GordonGChang

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  Sep 23 2021

  Photo:  United Nations. United Nations office building from 43rd St. I Biden and Xi name no superpower names.  Stephen Yates, @YatesDCIA.  Gordon G. Chang @GordonGChang https://www.usnews.com/news/world-report/articles/2021-09-21/biden-xi-avoid-referencing-one-another-at-un-as-us-leader-softens-tone-on-china Stephen Yates, CEO of D.C. International Advisory, and former advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney.   @YatesDCIA Gordon G. Chang @GordonGChang. Author, The Coming Collapse of China and The Great U.S.-China Tech War. ...more

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• 1711: What kind of Evergrande bailout? Roger Robinson, @pssi_prague and @GordonGChang

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  Sep 23 2021

  Photo: Chinese buildings of yore. What kind of Evergrande bailout?    Roger Robinson, @pssi_prague and @GordonGChang Roger W Robinson, @pssi_prague , chairman of the Prague Security Studies Institute and former chairman of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission   https://video.foxbusiness.com/v/6273545338001 Gordon G. Chang @GordonGChang. Author, The Coming Collapse of China and The Great U.S.-China Tech War. .

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• 1710: Not your grandfather's Communist Party surprises in the Duma Elections. Felix Light, Moscow Times, @felix_light, @CBS News, @Moscow Times

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  Sep 23 2021

  Photo: Probably north of Brody, eastern Galicia. Not your grandfather's Communist Party surprises in the Duma Elections. Felix Light, Moscow Times,  @felix_light, @CBS News, @Moscow Times https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/09/21/statisticians-claim-half-of-pro-kremlin-votes-in-duma-elections-were-false-a75102

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• 1710: Is Emmanuel Macron the new leader of the EU? Sophie Pedder @TheEconomist

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  Sep 23 2021

  Photo:  Saint-Louis, roi de France + 1270 Is Emmanuel Macron the new leader of the EU?  Sophie Pedder @TheEconomist https://www.eiu.com/n/taking-stock-of-the-macron-presidency/

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• 1710: Paul Ryan takes the Robert Woodson torch. Salina Zito, CNN, New York Post; author, The Great Revolt. @SalenaZito

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  Sep 23 2021

  Photo:  The distinguished Robert Woodson Paul Ryan takes the Robert Woodson torch.  Salina Zito, CNN, New York Post; author, The Great Revolt. @SalenaZito  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/author/salena-zito https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/robert-woodson-retires-after-40-years-of-empowering-communities

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• 1710: Occupy Wall Street 2011 and Evacuate Rikers Island 2021. Harry Siegel, @harrysiegel Daily News and The Daily Beast.

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  Sep 23 2021

  Photo:  This is an odd welcome sign of sorts, for the Rikers Island correctional facility, New York City's main jail complex in the middle of the East River between the Queens and Brooklyn county-like boroughs, is completely inaccessible to all but law-enforcement officers, lawyers, accused criminals and (under strict supervision) their family members. Photographers are especially unwelcome Occupy Wall Street 2011 and Evacuate Rikers Island 2021. Harry Siegel, @harrysiegel  Daily News and The Daily Beast. https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-a-real-get-out-of-jail-card-20210918-3yaozax67zamlkx5ixle7ivx7e-story.html ...more

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• 1710: 2/2 #HotelMars: The Clouds of Venus and the Search for Life. David Grinspoon @@DrFunkySpoon , Planetary Science Institute; David Livingston, SpaceShow.com

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  Sep 23 2021

  Photo:   Range : 1 million miles (1.63 million km) This image of the planet Venus was taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft shortly before 10PM PST when the space craft was directly above Venus' equator. This is the 66th of more than 80 Venus images that Galileo was programmed to take and record during its Venus flyby.  In the picture, cloud features as small as 25 miles (40 km) can be seen. Patches of waves and convective clouds are superimposed on the swirl of the planet's broad weather patterns, marked by the dark chevron at the center. North is at the top. The several ring-shaped shadows are blemishes, not planetary features.  2/2  #HotelMars: The Clouds of Venus and the Search for Life. David Grinspoon @@DrFunkySpoon , Planetary Science Institute; David Livingston, SpaceShow.com https://www.planetary.org/space-missions/davinci David Grinspoon, astrobiologist; Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute; was the former inaugural Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology.  @DrFunkySpoon...more

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• 1710: 1/2 #HotelMars: The Clouds of Venus and the Search for Life. David Grinspoon @DrFunkySpoon Planetary Science Institute; David Livingston, SpaceShow.com

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  Sep 23 2021

  Photo:  Venus and Cupid in the Clouds 1/2  #HotelMars: The Clouds of Venus and the Search for Life. David Grinspoon @DrFunkySpoon  Planetary Science Institute; David Livingston, SpaceShow.com https://www.planetary.org/space-missions/davinci David Grinspoon, astrobiologist; Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute; was the former inaugural Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology.  @DrFunkySpoon

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• 1710: The long Covid testing road home from the South of France. Simon Constable @RealConstable

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  Sep 23 2021

  Photo:  Provencal Farandole and Tarasque / A. Castaigne. People dancing in semi-circle around large monster (bull or dragon?) costume, at the Paris Exposition. The long Covid testing road home from the South of France.  Simon Constable  @RealConstable https://www.gouvernement.fr/en/coronavirus-covid-19 Simon Constable, economist, journalist, currently based in Scotland; and author, The WSJ Guide to the 50 Economic Indicators That Really Matter: From Big Macs to "Zombie Banks," the Indicators Smart Investors Watch to Beat the Market.   @RealConstable...more

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• 1710: Winter is coming for Scotland. Simon Constable @RealConstable

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  Photo:  Skating, Duddingstone Loch Winter is coming for Scotland.  Simon Constable  @RealConstable https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/uk-gas-shortage-how-gas-and-co2-supply-issues-are-hampering-scottish-business/ar-AAOHRHT Simon Constable, economist, journalist, currently based in Scotland; and author, The WSJ Guide to the 50 Economic Indicators That Really Matter: From Big Macs to "Zombie Banks," the Indicators Smart Investors Watch to Beat the Market.   @RealConstable

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• 1709: #StateThinking: @MaryKissel: AUKUS, the French unhappiness and a reflection in Normandy. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. @DeTocqueville14 @TocquevilleFDN

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  Sep 22 2021

  Photo:  Letter of credence, which presents an ambassador to his new assignment; i.e., presents his credentials.  Diplomatic correspondence of this sort is in French. Text below*. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #StateThinking:  @MaryKissel: AUKUS, the French unhappiness and a reflection in Normandy.  @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. @DeTocqueville14 @TocquevilleFDN https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-21/french-call-to-delay-u-s-trade-meeting-gains-support-within-eu?srnd=premium-europe&sref=5g4GmFHo https://www.chateaudetocqueville.com/rooms ..  ..  ..   *Václav HAVEL Président de la République Fédérative Tchèque et Slovaque à Son Excellence Vítautas LANDSBERGIS Président du Conseil Suprême de la République de Lituanie Monsieur le Président, Désireux de maintenir et de développer davantage les bonnes relations qui existent si heureusement entre la République Fédérative Tchèque et Slovaque et la République de Lituanie, j'ai décidé d'accréditer auprès de Votre Excellence Monsieur Juraj NEMES en qualité d'Ambassadeur Extraordinaire et Plénipotentiaire. Les qualités, les talents et les mérites de Monsieur Juraj NEMES me sont de sûrs garants du zêle qu'il mettra à s'acquitter de la haute mission qui lui incombe de manière à obtenir la confiance de Votre Excellence et à mériter par là-même mon approbation. C'est dans cette conviction que je prie Votre Excellence de vouloir bien lui accorder un accueil bienveillant et d'ajouter foi et créance à toutes les communications qu'il Lui fera de ma part et au nom de la République Fédérative Tchèque et Slovaque, surtout lorsqu'il exprimera les assurances de ma haute estime et les meilleurs voeux que je forme pour Son bonheur personnel et pour la prospérité de Son pays. Václav Havel Fait à Praha, le 11 mars 1992. .. Date | 14 September 2011 Source | Own work Author | Alma Pater I, the copyright holder of this work, Alma Pater, hereby publish it under the following licenses: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. | You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the workUnder the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. ...more

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• 1709: Memories of twenty years of columns on 9/11.

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  Photo: Panel S-29: tribute to the Jersey City Fire Department. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Memories of twenty years of columns on 9-11.  @CliffMay @FDD https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/sep/7/after-twenty-911-anniversaries-the-sleeping-giant-/...

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• 1709: The longtime special relationship with Australia Jeff McCausland @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol

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  Sep 22 2021

  Photo: "Australians welcome Americans", postcard 1908. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow  The longtime special relationship with Australia Jeff McCausland  @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/2007/ssi_mccausland-stuart-tow-wesley.pdf

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• 1709: Milley and the flaw in the nuclear code protocol. Jeff McCausland @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol

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  Sep 22 2021

  Photo:  The Gold Codes are the launch codes for nuclear weapons provided to the Presidents of the United States in their role as Commander-in-Chief of the United States armed forces. In conjunction with the nuclear football, the Gold Codes allow the president to authorize a nuclear attack. Gold Codes, as well as a separate nuclear football, are also assigned to the Vice President in case the President is incapacitated or otherwise unable to discharge the duties of office pursuant to the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.Gold Codes are arranged in a column and printed on a plastic card nicknamed "the biscuit." Here:  extract from a video on how a nuclear strike can be launched.. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Milley and the flaw in the nuclear code protocol. Jeff McCausland  @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/general-milley-s-china-debacle-how-trump-revealed-cracks-antiquated-ncna1279665...more

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• 1708: 2/2: Australia on the frontlines vs the PRC. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs HFN

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  Sep 22 2021

  Photo: A Kuomintang political luncheon in Australia in 1942. . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 2/2: Australia  on the frontlines vs the PRC. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs HFN https://www.perthnow.com.au/politics/diplomacy/pm-defends-aukus-french-subs-not-enough-c-4033129

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• 1708: 1/2: Australia on the frontlines vs the PRC. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs HFN

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  Sep 22 2021

  Photo: Lin Sen was the first Chinese head of state (in office 1931–1943) to visit Australia (in 1931–2).. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 1/2: Australia  on the frontlines vs the PRC.  Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs HFN https://www.perthnow.com.au/politics/diplomacy/pm-defends-aukus-french-subs-not-enough-c-4033129

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• 1708: #StateThinking: AUKUS and the French fury. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc.

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  Sep 22 2021

  Photo:  Letter of credence, which presents an ambassador to his new assignment; i.e., presents his credentials.  Diplomatic correspondence of this sort is in French. Text below*.   CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #StateThinking: AUKUS and the French fury.  @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-21/french-call-to-delay-u-s-trade-meeting-gains-support-within-eu?srnd=premium-europe&sref=5g4GmFHo .. *Václav HAVEL Président de la République Fédérative Tchèque et Slovaque à Son Excellence Vítautas LANDSBERGIS Président du Conseil Suprême de la République de Lituanie Monsieur le Président, Désireux de maintenir et de développer davantage les bonnes relations qui existent si heureusement entre la République Fédérative Tchèque et Slovaque et la République de Lituanie, j'ai décidé d'accréditer auprès de Votre Excellence Monsieur Juraj NEMES en qualité d'Ambassadeur Extraordinaire et Plénipotentiaire. Les qualités, les talents et les mérites de Monsieur Juraj NEMES me sont de sûrs garants du zêle qu'il mettra à s'acquitter de la haute mission qui lui incombe de manière à obtenir la confiance de Votre Excellence et à mériter par là-même mon approbation. C'est dans cette conviction que je prie Votre Excellence de vouloir bien lui accorder un accueil bienveillant et d'ajouter foi et créance à toutes les communications qu'il Lui fera de ma part et au nom de la République Fédérative Tchèque et Slovaque, surtout lorsqu'il exprimera les assurances de ma haute estime et les meilleurs voeux que je forme pour Son bonheur personnel et pour la prospérité de Son pays. Václav Havel Fait à Praha, le 11 mars 1992. .. Date | 14 September 2011 Source | Own work Author | Alma Pater I, the copyright holder of this work, Alma Pater, hereby publish it under the following licenses: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. | You are free:to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the workto remix – to adapt the workUnder the following conditions:attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use....more

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• 1708: Can Manhattan make another comeback, starting with the ballet?? @LizPeek @TheHill GLXXG

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  Sep 22 2021

  Photo: Snowflake Waltz, NYC Ballet 1954 . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow  Can Manhattan make another comeback, starting with the ballet?? @LizPeek @TheHill GLXXG https://www.lincolncenter.org/lincoln-center-at-home

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• 1708: Is Evergrande a 2008 Minsky Moment of global contagion? @LizPeek @TheHill

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  Sep 22 2021

  Photo: The Panic of 1873 was a financial crisis that triggered an economic depression in Europe and North America that lasted from 1873 to 1877 or 1879 in France and in Britain. Here:  A bank run on the Fourth National Bank No. 20 Nassau Street, New York City, from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 4 October 1873. (Note: this is a Hyman Minsky moment—an economist—not Marvin Minsky, a leading AI scientist.) CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Is Evergrande a 2008 Minsky Moment of global contagion?  @LizPeek @TheHill GLXXG https://www.smh.com.au/business/markets/chinese-property-giant-s-implosion-unsettles-vulnerable-markets-20210921-p58th5.html...more

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• 1707: Pfizer Nations and Mask Rules. Henry Miller @PacificResearch @henryimiller

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  Sep 22 2021

  Photo: Charles Pfizer, chemist and founder of the corporation. Pfizer Nations and Mask Rules.  Henry Miller @PacificResearch  @henryimiller https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2114255 Dr Henry Miller, Hoover Institution.  @henryimiller, @PacificResearch Institute, www.HenryMillerMD.org

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• 1707: Winter is coming for London! @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

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  Sep 22 2021

  Photo: An Exact and lively Mapp or REPRESENTATION of Booths and all the varieties of showes and Humours upon the ICE on the River of THAMES by LONDON During that memorable Frost in the 35th yeare of the Reigne of his Sacred Maty King CHARLES the 2d, ANNO Dni MDCLXXXIII.   Winter is coming for London!  @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion https://news.yahoo.com/where-does-uk-gas-facing-120045355.html

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• 1707: AUKUS, BREXIT, EU & What is to be done? @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

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  Sep 22 2021

  Photo:  England:  An ornate console with volutes and a panther skin, above it helmets, weapons, a torch, masks and a rectangular frame with a mermaid and an eagle surrounded by clouds, a cross, coins, a cross and the papal tiara.  AUKUS, BREXIT, EU & What is to be done?  @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/09/the-eu-should-keep-out-of-frances-spat-with-australia/

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• 1707: Inflation is here. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

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  Sep 22 2021

  Photo:  Dollars & dimes Inflation is here. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion https://www.wsj.com/articles/inflation-is-all-over-the-place-11631984968?st=3agulqmtf07hco3&reflink=article_gmail_share

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• 1707: After Afghanistan, India rethinks its land and maritime defenses. Sadanand Dhume @AEI @WSJOpinion

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  Sep 22 2021

  Photo:  Three-mast sailship, c. 5th century. Ajanta Cave. After Afghanistan, India rethinks its land and maritime defenses. Sadanand Dhume @AEI  @WSJOpinion https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-afghanistan-withdrawal-india-china-pakistan-the-quad-islamist-terrorism-kashmir-subrahmanyam-jaishankar-11631820293?mod=hp_opin_pos_6#cxrecs_s

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• 1707: Winter is coming without central heating for the Johnson Government. Adrian Wooldridge @TheEconomist

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  Sep 22 2021

  Photo: A stove. LOC photo. Winter is coming without central heating for the Johnson Government. Adrian Wooldridge @TheEconomist https://apnews.com/article/europe-business-london-af906936ae9b65b447d3cd19187c155e

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• 1707: Boris Johnson sails Global Britain to Australia. Adrian Wooldridge @TheEconomist

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  Sep 22 2021

  Photo:  Great Britain in 1853, after her refit to four masts Boris Johnson sails Global Britain to Australia. Adrian Wooldridge @TheEconomist https://news.yahoo.com/world-warned-global-britain-patrol-165322044.html

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• 1707: Cabinet shuffle and deal. Adrian Wooldridge @TheEconomist

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  Sep 22 2021

  Photo:  Queen Victoria convened her first Privy Council on the day of her accession in 1837.   Cabinet shuffle and deal. Adrian Wooldridge @TheEconomist https://www.economist.com/britain/boris-johnson-has-stamped-his-authority-on-his-cabinet/21804794?frsc=dg%7Ce

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• 1706: The Haqqani Family in charge of Kabul cricket @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal

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  Sep 21 2021

  Photo: Hashmatullah Shahidi is an Afghan cricketer. He made his One Day International (ODI) debut for Afghanistan against Kenya in October 2013. in June 2018. He became the first Afghan player to score a test double hundred when he scored 200 not out against Zimbabwe in on 11 March 2021. And the Afghan women's cricket team under Taliban? CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow The Haqqani Family in charge of Kabul cricket   @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/latest-islamic-state-militants-claim-attacks-taliban-80121114...more

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• 1706: Reviewing Al Qaeda's regional capabilities. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal

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  Sep 21 2021

  Photo: al Qaeda media CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Reviewing Al Qaeda's regional capabilities.  @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/09/al-qaeda-affiliated-media-group-stresses-importance-of-idea-development-in-9-11-video.php

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• 1706: Taliban boasts of victory on a Khost Province billboard. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal

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  Sep 21 2021

  Photo:  KHOST PROVINCE, Afghanistan - Paratroopers from 2nd Battalion, 377th Parachute Field Artillery Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, secure a helicopter landing zone, Aug. 16, at the operational coordination center overlooking parts of Khost city in eastern Afghanistan. This particular location was one of the staging points for materials for the Afghan elections, Aug. 20. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Marcus Butler. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Taliban boasts of victory on a Khost Province billboard.   @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/09/taliban-lionizes-haqqani-commander-who-celebrated-ties-to-al-qaeda-held-american-hostage.php ...more

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• 1706: Taliban bans women in government; ISIS attacks Taliban. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal

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  Sep 21 2021

  Photo: Afghan women CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Taliban bans women in government; ISIS attacks Taliban.   @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/taliban-run-kabul-city-government-tells-female-workers-stay-home-n1279616 https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/09/islamic-state-bombs-taliban-convoys-in-eastern-afghanistan.php

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• 1706: 2/2 The joy of the many chapters of the fern and the butterfly. Oliver Morton, Senior Editor, Briefings @TheEconomist. HFN

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  Sep 21 2021

  Photo:  Pressed and mounted fern specimen: Lomaria filiformis . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 2/2 The joy of the many chapters of the fern and the butterfly. Oliver Morton, Senior Editor, Briefings @TheEconomist. HFN https://www.economist.com/schools-brief/2021/08/21/making-your-way-in-the-world 

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• 1706: 1/2 The joy of the many chapters of the fern and the butterfly. Oliver Morton, Senior Editor, Briefings @TheEconomist. HFN

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  Sep 21 2021

  Photo: Four butterflies on a flower.  Rijksmuseum. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 1/2 The joy of the many chapters of the fern and the butterfly. Oliver Morton, Senior Editor, Briefings @TheEconomist. HFN https://www.economist.com/schools-brief/2021/08/21/making-your-way-in-the-world 

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• 1706: DeFi joins Fintech and govcoin in the celebration of cryptocurrency like the Mad Hatter's tea party. Alice Fulwood, @TheEconomist @alice_fulwood

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  Sep 21 2021

  Photo: DeFi is a collective term for financial products and services that are accessible to anyone who can use Ethereum. Here: "emergency currency"—The Dutch cities besieged by the Spanish army for having revolted against Spanish rule in the 1570s experienced severe shortages of virtually everything, including money to pay the soldiers. Emergency money was therefore minted. Gold, silver, paper: anything in the cities under siege could be used as temporary currency. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow DeFi joins Fintech and govcoin in the celebration of cryptocurrency like the Mad Hatter's tea party.  Alice Fulwood, @TheEconomist @alice_fulwood https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/09/18/the-beguiling-promise-of-decentralised-finance?frsc=dg%7Ce ...more

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• 1706: The legacy of Occupy Wall Street 2011. Katrina vanden Heuvel, @TheNation

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  Sep 21 2021

  Photo: Occupy Wall Street: Protesters along the road with signs CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow The legacy of Occupy Wall Street 2011. Katrina vanden Heuvel, @TheNation https://www.thenation.com/article/society/ows-occupy-zuccotti-protest/

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• 1706: Memories of 9-11-01 at the then-Emergency.com reporting desk in late-night Australia. Jeremy Zakis, Sydney, New South Wales.

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  Sep 21 2021

  Photo: State Emergency Service training, Brisbane River, c 1976. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Memories of 9-11-01 at the then-Emergency.com reporting desk in late-night Australia. Jeremy Zakis, Sydney, New South Wales.

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• 1706: Startup Pentagon to combat China's "aversarial capital." Francis Rose FROSEDC

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  Sep 21 2021

  Photo: Chinese Army . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Startup Pentagon to combat China's "aversarial capital." Francis Rose FROSEDC  https://www.fedscoop.com/radio/the-daily-scoop-podcast-september-17-2021/

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• 1706: EU in turmoil over AUKUS. Theresa Fallon, director of the Center for Russia Europe Asia Studies. @TheresaAFallon @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, @TheHill

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  Sep 21 2021

  Photo: Yankee I class submarine submarine  . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow EU in turmoil over AUKUS. Theresa Fallon, director of the Center for Russia Europe Asia Studies. @TheresaAFallon @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, @TheHill https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/20/france-seeks-delay-eu-australia-trade-deal-amid-aukus-fallout

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• 1706: @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. Scott Harold, senior political scientist at The RAND Corporation

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  Sep 21 2021

  Photo: A sort of AUKUS of yesteryear: Anzus.  Australian, New Zealand, and United States aircraft during a military exercise in 1982 CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Japan opines of AUKUS. Scott Harold and Gordon Chang @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill.  Scott Harold, senior political scientist at The RAND Corporation https://www.defensenews.com/global/asia-pacific/2021/09/17/what-are-the-regional-reactions-to-the-new-us-uk-australia-security-pact/ ...more

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• 1706: #NewWorldReport: Europe rejects the Ortegas of Managua. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org Parliamentarian Hermann Tertsch, European Parliament, Brussels, repr

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  Sep 21 2021

  Photo: Steamboat landing on beautiful Lake Nicaragua, Granada, Nicaragua, C. A. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #NewWorldReport:  Europe rejects the Ortegas of Managua. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org Parliamentarian Hermann Tertsch, European Parliament, Brussels, representing Vox Party of Spain. @hermanntertsch GLXXG https://www.confidencial.com.ni/english/nicaragua-faces-worst-historical-context-to-exercise-journalism/ ...more

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• 1706: #NewWorldReport: What is the risk to Colombia? Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org Parliamentarian Hermann Tertsch, European Parliament, Brussels, representin

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  Sep 21 2021

  Photo:    Colombia Cartagena 2c fourth issue, purple overprint, December 1899. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #NewWorldReport:   What is the risk to Colombia?  Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org Parliamentarian Hermann Tertsch, European Parliament, Brussels, representing Vox Party of Spain. @hermanntertsch GLXXG https://www.laprensalatina.com/colombias-duque-says-skeptical-about-venezuela-talks/...more

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• 1706: #NewWorldReport: The ghost of Chavez in Spain. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org Parliamentarian Hermann Tertsch, European Parliament, Brussels, representin

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  Sep 21 2021

  Photo: Anti-democrats of  yore inn Spain:  Francisco Franco at a Meeting at Hendaye, 1940. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #NewWorldReport:   The ghost of Chavez in Spain.  Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org Parliamentarian Hermann Tertsch, European Parliament, Brussels, representing Vox Party of Spain. @hermanntertsch GLXXG https://news.yahoo.com/spain-venezuelan-spymaster-loses-court-145520316.html ...more

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• 1706: #NewWorldReport: AMLO welcomes CELAC to Mexico City Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org Parliamentarian Hermann Tertsch, European Parliament, Brussels, represe

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  Sep 21 2021

  Photo:  STREET SCENE IN MEXICO CITY, long ago. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #NewWorldReport:  AMLO welcomes CELAC to Mexico City  Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave). Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org . Parliamentarian Hermann Tertsch, European Parliament, Brussels, representing Vox Party of Spain. @hermanntertsch GLXXG https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/latam-leaders-express-ire-over-presence-of-cuba-venezuela-at-celac-conference/...more

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• 1705: #PacificWatch: Hot, dry, winds and "critical fire conditions" close in on General Sherman and the firefighters. @JCBliss

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  Sep 20 2021

  Photo: A solitary Sequoia gigantea @Batchelorshow #PacificWatch: Hot, dry, winds and "critical fire conditions" close in on General Sherman and the firefighters. @JCBliss https://www.chron.com/news/article/California-firefighters-scramble-to-protect-16471227.php

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• 1705: #Londinium90AD: Germanicus finds the formula for the transformation of the Republic to the Empire. Michael Vlahos.

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  Sep 20 2021

  Photo:  A Roman soldier triumphs on the battlefield. At his feet lie defeated men. He holds a banner with a multi-headed eagle and a command staff in his hand. In the background right, the ten-horned monster, one of the four beasts from Daniel's vision. In the background fighting armies. In the margin a two-line caption in Latin. @Batchelorshow #Londinium90AD: Germanicus finds the formula for the transformation of the Republic to the Empire.  Michael Vlahos. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ex-joint-chiefs-chair-defends-milley-s-efforts-to-keep-trump-from-dragging-us-into-war-with-china/ar-AAOCdGR ...more

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• 1703: Peak Putin at the Duma elections. H. J. Mackinder, International Relations.

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  Sep 20 2021

  Photo: Владимир Путин.  Young Vladimir Putin in the KGB, 1980. @Batchelorshow Peak Putin at the Duma elections. H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2021/0919/Pro-Kremlin-party-leads-State-Duma-election-in-early-results

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• 1704: Nicholas Thomas, author, Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific; @MAACambridge.

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  Sep 20 2021

  Photo: Palau Islands, Republic of Palau Nicholas Thomas, author, Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific; @MAACambridge. https://www.amazon.com/Voyagers-Settlement-Pacific-Nicholas-Thomas/dp/1541619838 An award-winning scholar explores the sixty-thousand-year history of the Pacific islands in this dazzling, deeply researched account. The islands of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia stretch across a huge expanse of ocean and encompass a multitude of different peoples. Starting with Captain James Cook, the earliest European explorers to visit the Pacific were astounded and perplexed to find populations thriving thousands of miles from continents. Who were these people? From where did they come? And how were they able to reach islands dispersed over such vast tracts of ocean? In Voyagers, the distinguished anthropologist Nicholas Thomas charts the course of the seaborne migrations that populated the islands between Asia and the Americas from late prehistory onward. Drawing on the latest research, including insights gained from genetics, linguistics, and archaeology, Thomas provides a dazzling account of these long-distance migrations, the seagoing technologies that enabled them, and the societies they left in their wake. ....more

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• 1703: The rocky road ahead for the Biden Agenda in the contentious majority in Congress. @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness @TheAmGreatness

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  Sep 20 2021

  Photo:   Congressonal contention: Congresswoman Alice Mary Robertson was colorful, quotable, conservative, and hostile to the women’s suffrage movement and its many leaders. Robertson’s single term in the House hinged on her rejection of a significant piece of legislation—a proposed World War I Veterans Bonus Bill.* @Batchelorshow The rocky road ahead for the Biden Agenda in the contentious  majority in Congress. @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness @TheAmGreatness ..  ..  ..   *Robertson’s missionary work put her within a network of reformers during the early Progressive Era and opened the door to a career in politics. In 1891 she earned the admiration of rising GOP politician Theodore Roosevelt, who later described her as “one of the great women of America.” In 1905 then-President Roosevelt appointed Robertson the postmaster of Muskogee, Oklahoma, where she served until 1913. In addition to her patronage job, Robertson operated a 50-acre dairy farm with an on-site café, which she named “Sawokla,” based on a Native-American word meaning “gathering place.” Both the farm and the café became a social magnet, drawing politicians, former students, journalists, and local folk. During World War I, she endeared herself to many servicemen by distributing food to soldiers in transit through the local train station.  ...more

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• 1702: "In the Tunnel of Love" #Unbound. A story from the collection, _Gordon Liddy Is My Muse,_ by John Calvin Batchelor. The complete 85 minutes. Read by John Batchelor.

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  Sep 20 2021

  Photo:  Amour vaillant: Cupid stands guard by a long burning torch, in the background a loving couple.  . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow "In the Tunnel of Love" #Unbound.  A story from the collection, Gordon Liddy Is My Muse, by John Calvin Batchelor. The complete 85 minutes. Read by John Batchelor. Gordon Liddy Is My Muse, Hardcover;  by John Calvin Batchelor   https://www.amazon.com/Gordon-Liddy-My-Muse-Tommy/dp/080503790X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= In nine darkly comic episodes that range from Moscow to Hollywood, the conservative spy novelist Tommy "Tip" Paine offers this postmodern, picaresque chase across our contemporary oral landscape ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ...more

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• 1701: The difference between Brown Dwarfs and Red Dwarfs. Ken Croswell, Science News

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  Photo:   Young Brown Dwarf in TW Hydrae Family of Stars (Artist's Concept) The difference between Brown Dwarfs and Red Dwarfs. Ken Croswell, Science News Science News:  https://www.sciencenews.org/ar

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• 1701: #ClassiscKenCroswell: #UNBOUND. The Voyager twins can still communicate from interstellar space. Ken Croswell. The Lives of Stars.

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  Sep 20 2021

  Photo:  Artist's concept of Voyager spacecraft in flight The New John Batchelor Show CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #ClassiscKenCroswell: #UNBOUND. The Voyager twins can still communicate from interstellar space.  Ken Croswell.  The Lives of Stars. 1.   I977: to Saturn and Jupiter and beyond. Fascinating moons: Io, same size as our Moon, has erupting volcanoes.  Europa has liquid water oceans under ice.   Saturn: nitrogen atmosphere. 2.  The heliopause. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences:  https://www.pnas.org/content/118/17/e2106371118 https://audioboom.com/posts/7861196-1-2-the-voyager-twins-can-still-communicate-from-interstellar-space-ken-croswell-the-lives ..  ..  ..   ...more

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• 1700: Josh Rogin #Unbound: the complete, eighty-minute interview, March 21, 2021

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  Sep 20 2021

  Photo: Man Leaning on Large Bell, from Huchui Temple Destroyed by Taiping Rebels (1850-62). China, 1875  CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Chaos under Heaven https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08B364SKG/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0 The explosive, behind-the-scenes story of Donald Trump’s high-stakes confrontation with Beijing, from an award-winning Washington Post columnist and peerless observer of the U.S.–China relationship There was no calm before the storm. Donald Trump’s surprise electoral victory shattered the fragile understanding between Washington and Beijing, putting the most important relationship of the twenty-first century in the hands of a novice who had bitterly attacked China from the campaign trail. Almost as soon as he entered office, Trump brought to a boil the long-simmering rivalry between the two countries, while also striking up a “friendship” with Chinese president Xi Jinping — whose manipulations of his American counterpart would undermine the White House’s already disjointed response to the historic challenge of a rising China. All the while, Trump’s own officials fought to steer U.S. policy from within. By the time the COVID-19 pandemic erupted in Wuhan, Trump’s love-hate relationship with Xi had sparked a trade war, while Xi’s aggression had pushed the world to the brink of a new Cold War. But their quarrel had also forced a long-overdue reckoning within the United States over China’s audacious foreign-influence operations, horrific human rights abuses, and creeping digital despotism. Ironically, this awakening was one of the biggest foreign-policy victories of Trump’s fractious term in office. Filled with shocking revelations drawn from Josh Rogin’s unparalleled access to top U.S. officials from the White House and deep within the country’s foreign policy machine, Chaos Under Heaven reveals an administration at war with itself during perhaps our most urgent hour. ...more

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• 1700: John Calvin Batchelor: #UNBOUND. "Hollywood Before the Mast" A story from the collection, Gordon Liddy Is My Muse, by John Calvin Batchelor. The complete 85 minutes. Read by John Batchelor.

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  Sep 20 2021

  Photo: Germany:  Landscape with View of a Farmer's Cottage CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow "Hollywood Before the Mast" #UNBOUND. A story from the collection, Gordon Liddy Is My Muse,by John Calvin Batchelor.   Read by John Batchelor. HFN https://www.amazon.com/Gordon-Liddy-Muse-Calvin-Batchelor/dp/0671690787 In nine darkly comic episodes that range from Moscow to Hollywood, the conservative spy novelist Tommy "Tip" Paine offers this postmodern, picaresque chase across our contemporary oral landscape  .. ...more

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• 1698: #PacificWatch: Fighting the KNP Complex wildfire to defend General Sherman @JCBliss

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  Sep 19 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1950 Seqouia [i.e., Sequoia] & Kings Canyon National Park, July 1950 (11th to 23rd). View from Sunset Rock with suggestive rays @Batchelorshow #PacificWatch: Fighting the KNP Complex wildfire to defend General Sherman @JCBliss https://www.kentucky.com/news/nation-world/national/article254307968.html

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• 1698: #Londinium90AD: Gaius & Germanicus reflect on the death of Domination, 96 A.D.; and Chairman Mark Milley's remarks about violence and succession between October 2020 and January 2021 A.D.. Michael Vlahos. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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  Sep 19 2021

  Photo: Altar of Diana; found in what became Engelond. @Batchelorshow #Londinium90AD: Gaius & Germanicus reflect on the death of Domination, 96 A.D.; and Chairman Mark Milley's remarks about violence and succession between October 2020 and January 2021 A.D..  Michael Vlahos. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/15/milley-held-secret-calls-with-china-others-as-trump-pushed-election-lies.html

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• 1698: 9/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Profile of "well-regarded academic who is also a patriot" Stefan Halper in the Washington Post, June 5, 2018. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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  Sep 19 2021

  Photo: Russia in England: Charles Williams. Polar bears are taught to dance. 1801 Painted etching.. @Batchelorshow 9/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Profile of "well-regarded academic who is also a patriot" Stefan Halper in the Washington Post, June 5, 2018.  Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/cambridge-university-perch-gave-fbi-source-access-to-top-intelligence-figures--and-a-cover-as-he-reached-out-to-trump-associates/2018/06/05/c6764dc2-641e-11e8-99d2-0d678ec08c2f_story.html ...more

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• 1698: 8/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Book Launch Party with a pride of competing intelligence agents, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, May 18, 2018. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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  Sep 19 2021

  Photo: Quadrangle, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University. @Batchelorshow 8/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Book Launch Party with a pride of competing intelligence agents, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, May 18, 2018.  Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/news/2018/aug/1/spy-who-changed-history/

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• 1698: 7/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: American media names Cambridge Professor Stefan Halper as the source of the allegations, May 18, 2018. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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  Sep 19 2021

  Photo:  Turncoats Satrire on clergymen who changed denominational allegiance according to political  convenience with an etching showing the interior of a tailor's shop. On the left, a clergyman tries on a gown asking his tailor, "Can't you make this [High Church] Gown into a [Low Church] Cloak upon Ocasion"; the tailor replies, "Yes Sr. I can very easily". In the centre, a tailor holds out a measuring tape to another clergyman, saying "Sr. let me take ye length of your Conscience"; the clergyman replies, "Let ye Gown be lin'd with a Cloak to turn at pleasure" indicating a cloak lying on the floor in front of him. Behind, a man enters through a door, saying "My Masters Customers are Viccars of Bray". To right, three men sit sewing on a tailors' board, one saying, "We need not fear Cowcumber time", another, "My Master can please Trimmers", and the third, "I'll go to St Mary Overs and pray for the Doctor[Sacheverell]"; in front of these tailors lie a pair of shears, a ball of thread, a tailor's goose (smoothing iron) and a bodkin; on the wall behind hang a coat and a cloak @Batchelorshow 7/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: American media names Cambridge Professor Stefan Halper as the source of the allegations, May 18, 2018.  Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/was-there-really-spy-inside-trump-campaign-president-says-n875516 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/svetlana-lokhova-im-a-mum-under-siege-not-mata-hari-bkggndttq ...more

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• 1698: 6/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: "Glamorous." Daily Telegraph, April 2, 2017. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova.

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  Photo:  Russian belle:  Vasilisa at the Hut of Baba Yaga, by Ivan Bilibin @Batchelorshow 6/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: "Glamorous." Daily Telegraph, April 2, 2017.  Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/01/cambridge-university-dragged-row-donald-trumps-ex-spy-chiefs/

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• 1698: 5/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Allegedly linked to the GRU and Vladimir Putin on the Guardian front gate, April 1, 2017. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova.

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  Sep 19 2021

  Photo:  Spy, in Russian.  Screen grab; fair use. @Batchelorshow 5/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Allegedly linked to the GRU and Vladimir Putin on the Guardian front gate, April 1, 2017. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/31/michael-flynn-new-evidence-spy-chiefs-had-concerns-about-russian-ties

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• 1698: 4/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Over three days, 2/28/17-3/4/17, Svetlana Lokhova is contacted by WSJ, WAPO, NYT, all of whom suspect her as a Russian agent. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova.

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  Sep 19 2021

  Photo: The distinguished Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and New York Times all occasionally descend into tabloidism. @Batchelorshow 4/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Over three days, 2/28/17-3/4/17, Svetlana Lokhova is contacted by WSJ, WAPO, NYT, all of whom suspect her as a Russian agent. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. https://www.wsj.com/articles/mike-flynn-didnt-report-2014-interaction-with-russian-british-national-1489809842 "WASHINGTON-—Former national security adviser Mike Flynn interacted with a graduate student with dual Russian and British nationalities at a 2014 U.K. security conference, a contact that came to the notice of U.S. intelligence but that Mr. Flynn, then the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, didn’t disclose, according to people familiar with the matter. "Mr. Flynn met Svetlana Lokhova at the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar, a gathering of former intelligence officials hosted at Cambridge University, in February 2014. Ms. Lokhova at the time was a graduate student studying the history of Russian intelligence, according to two people who attended the event. "There is no record showing that Mr. Flynn reported his interaction with Ms. Lokhova to security officials in the Defense Department, said a former senior U.S. official with knowledge of the matter. As the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, which is part of the Pentagon and the military’s largest intelligence organization, Mr. Flynn was expected to notify officials about any contacts with foreigners he didn’t know, particularly from an adversary nation such as Russia, the former official said...." ...more

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• 1698: 3/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: The first sign of the attack on Svetlana Lokhova and Michael Flynn, the Financial Times, December 16, 2016. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova.

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  Sep 19 2021

  Photo: The FT. Fair use. @Batchelorshow 3/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: The first sign of the attack on Svetlana Lokhova and Michael Flynn, the Financial Times, December 16, 2016.  Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. https://www.ft.com/content/d43cd586-c396-11e6-9bca-2b93a6856354

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• 1698: 2/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Remembering the Stefan Halper origins, August 10-16, 2016. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova.

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  Sep 19 2021

  Photo: A partially hand-coloured print of Jack or John Robinson portrayed as a rat catcher on all fours in a room of the Treasury. He offers money and pensions to M.P's who are shown as rats. @Batchelorshow 2/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Remembering the Stefan Halper origins, August 10-16, 2016. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossfire_Hurricane_(FBI_investigation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossfire_Hurricane_(FBI_investigation)

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• 1698: 1/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Remembering the Peter Strzok origins, July 31, 2016. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova.

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  Sep 19 2021

  Photo: A GOES-13 infrared satellite image provided by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, Calif., showing the status of Hurricane Irene . @Batchelorshow 1/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Remembering the Peter Strzok origins, July 31, 2016. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossfire_Hurricane_(FBI_investigation)

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• 1699: Nicholas Wapshott #UNBOUND. The complete, forty-minute interview, July 24, 2016.

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  Sep 19 2021

  Photo:  The book cover. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Nicholas Wapshott #UNBOUND. The complete forty-minute interview, July 24, 2016. Samuelson Friedman: The Battle Over the Free Market, by Nicholas Wapshott  https://www.amazon.com/Samuelson-Friedman-Battle-Over-Market-ebook/dp/B08589Z7M9/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Nicholas+Wapshott+%2B+samuelson&qid=1627690920&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 From the author of Keynes Hayek, the next great duel in the history of economics. In 1966 two columnists joined Newsweek magazine. Their assignment: debate the world of business and economics. Paul Samuelson was a towering figure in Keynesian economics, which supported the management of the economy along lines prescribed by John Maynard Keynes’s General Theory. Milton Friedman, little known at that time outside of conservative academic circles, championed “monetarism” and insisted the Federal Reserve maintain tight control over the amount of money circulating in the economy. In Samuelson Friedman, the author and journalist Nicholas Wapshott brings narrative verve and puckish charm to the story of these two giants of modern economics, their braided lives and colossal intellectual battles. Samuelson, a forbidding technical genius, grew up a child of relative privilege and went on to revolutionize macroeconomics. He wrote the best-selling economics textbook of all time, famously remarking "I don’t care who writes a nation’s laws—or crafts its advanced treatises—if I can write its economics textbooks." His friend and adversary for decades, Milton Friedman, studied the Great Depression and with Anna Schwartz wrote the seminal books The Great Contraction and A Monetary History of the United States. Like Friedrich Hayek before him, Friedman found fortune writing a treatise, Capitalism and Freedom, that yoked free markets and libertarian politics in a potent argument that remains a lodestar for economic conservatives today. In Wapshott’s nimble hands, Samuelson and Friedman’s decades-long argument over how—or whether—to manage the economy becomes a window onto one of the longest periods of economic turmoil in the United States. As the soaring economy of the 1950s gave way to decades stalked by declining prosperity and "stagflation," it was a time when the theory and practice of economics became the preoccupation of politicians and the focus of national debate. It is an argument that continues today....more

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• 1699: Jerry Hendrix #Unbound: Naval primacy. The complete, forty-minute interview, March 23, 2021

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  Sep 19 2021

  Photo:  Fountain Group (here: Naval Power), Imperial Palace, Vienna, Austria CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Jerry Hendrix #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, March 23, 2021 To Provide and Maintain a Navy: Why Naval Primacy Is America's First, Best Strategy, Hardcover – December 19, 2020 by Henry J Hendrix https://www.amazon.com/Provide-Maintain-Navy-Americas-Strategy/dp/0960039198 The national conversation regarding the United States Navy has, for far too long, been focused on the popular question of how many ships does the service need? To Provide and Maintain a Navy, a succinct but encompassing treatise on sea power by Dr. Henry J "Jerry" Hendrix, goes beyond the numbers to reveal the crucial importance of Mare Liberum (Free Sea) to the development of the Western thought and the rules-based order that currently govern the global commons that is the high seas. Proceeding from this philosophical basis, Hendrix explores how a "free sea" gave way to free trade and the central role sea-borne commercial trade has played in the overall rise in global living standards. This is followed by analysis of how the relative naval balance of power has played out in naval battles and wars over the centuries and how the dominance of the United States Navy following World War II has resulted in seven decades of unprecedented peace on the world's oceans. He further considers how, in the years that followed the demise of the Soviet Union, both China and Russia began laying the groundwork to challenge the United States's maritime leadership and upend five centuries of naval precedents in order to establish a new approach to sovereignty over the world's seas. It is only at this point that Dr. Hendrix approaches the question of the number of ships required for the United States Navy, the industrial base required to build them, and the importance of once again aligning the nation's strategic outlook to that of a "sea power" in order effectively and efficiently to address the rising threat. To Provide and Maintain a Navy is brief enough to be read in a weekend but deep enough to inform the reader as to the numerous complexities surrounding what promises to be the most important strategic conversation facing the United States as it enters a new age of great power competition with not one, but two, nations who seek nothing less than to close and control the world's seas...more

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• 1699: Devin Nunes #Unbound: Countdown to Socialism. The complete, twenty-six-minute interview, September 15, 2020

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  Sep 19 2021

  Photo: Margaret Thatcher quotation.  CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Devin Nunes #Unbound: The complete, 26-minute interview, August 2021 Countdown to Socialism, paperback, [[DATE]]  by Devin Nunes   https://www.amazon.com/Countdown-Socialism-Devin-Nunes/dp/1641771860/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=devin+nunes&qid=1631483495&s=books&sr=1-1 This pamphlet exposes how the Democratic Party has changed beyond recognition. Once the party of anti-communism and tax-cutting under President Kennedy, it is now dominated by a surging socialist movement and led by a presidential candidate who vows to “transform” America. On a near-daily basis, the Democrats are issuing radical proposals to socialize medicine, industry, and higher education. So how can the Democrats win elections when their agenda is so far to the left of the American people? That’s easy―it’s because the means of public debate are being manipulated. In this explosive Encounter Broadside, Congressman Devin Nunes exposes the nexus between the Democratic Party, the mainstream media, and the social media corporations. These three entities cooperate to blast out the Democrats’ message and downplay their extremism while suppressing and censoring conservative points of view. Tens of millions of Americans are only seeing one side of the debate. The information they get from newspapers and social media is not “news”―it’s contrived content designed to help one political party and punish its opponents. In the run-up to the most consequential election of our lifetime, read this book to learn how your information is being skewed and regulated to force America onto the path to socialism. About Encounter Broadsides: In the late eighteenth century, pamphlets electrified the colonies and helped to forge American democracy as we know it. Encounter Broadsides seek to revive this medium to make the case for ordered liberty and democratic capitalism in our time. Read them in a sitting and come away knowing the best we can hope for and the worst we must fear.  ...more

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• 1699: C. J. Carey #UNBOUND: The complete, 20-minute interview, June 26, 2021

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  Sep 19 2021

  Photo:  Viscount Rothermere espoused Italian Fascism in this article. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow C. J. Carey #UNBOUND: The complete, 20-minute interview, June 26, 2021 #LitCrit:  Widowland by C. J. Carey.  Paperback An alternative history with a strong feminist twist, perfect for fans of Robert Harris' Fatherland, C. J. Sansom's Dominion and the dystopian novels of Margaret Atwood To control the past, they edited history. To control the future, they edited literature. London, 1953, Coronation year — but not the Coronation of Elizabeth II. Thirteen years have passed since a Grand Alliance between Great Britain and Germany was formalized. George VI and his family have been murdered and Edward VIII rules as King. Yet, in practice, all power is vested in Alfred Rosenberg, Britain's Protector. Britain is the perfect petri dish for the ideal society, and the role and status of women are Rosenberg's particular interest. Under the Rosenberg regulations, women are divided into a number of castes according to age, heritage, reproductive status and physical characteristics. Rose belongs to the elite caste of Gelis. She works at the Ministry of Culture rewriting literature to correct the views of the past. She has been charged with making Jane Eyre more submissive, Elizabeth Bennet less feisty and Dorothea Brooke less intelligent. One morning she is summoned to the Cultural Commissioner's office and given a special task. Outbreaks of insurgency have been seen across the country. Graffiti has been daubed on public buildings. Disturbingly, the graffiti is made up of lines from famous works, subversive lines from the voices of women. Suspicion has fallen on Widowland, the run-down slums inhabited by childless women over fifty, the lowest caste. These women are known to be mutinous, for they seem to have lost their fear. Before the Leader arrives for the Coronation ceremony, Rose must infiltrate Widowland and find the source of this rebellion. But as she begins to investigate, she discovers something that could change the protectorate forever, and in the process change herself. https://www.amazon.com/Widowland/dp/1529411998/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Widowland&qid=1625274350&s=books&sr=1-1 ...more

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• 1696: Tireless Curiosity climbs an unknown, unsolved landscape of Mt Gale. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com HFN

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  Sep 18 2021

  Photo: Little Curiosity's organic chemistry lab. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Tireless Curiosity climbs an unknown, unsolved landscape of Mt Gale..  Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com HFN https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/curiosity-into-the-mountains/

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• 1696: Begin private space exploration.September 15, 2021. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com HFN

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  Sep 18 2021

  Photo: Crew Dragon, first private orbital spacecraft. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Begin private space exploration.September 15, 2021. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com HFN https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/the-real-human-exploration-of-the-solar-system-began-on-september-15-2021/

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• 1697: Tireless Curiosity climbs an unknown, unsolved landscape of Mt Gale. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com HFN

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  Sep 18 2021

  Photo:  NASA's portrait of Curiosity https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/mission-updates/ Curiosity is a car-sized Mars rover designed to explore the Gale crater on Mars as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission. Curiosity was launched from Cape Canaveral on 26 November 2011, at 15:02:00 UTC and landed on Aeolis Palus inside Gale crater on Mars on 6 August 2012, 05:17:57 UTC Tireless Curiosity climbs an unknown, unsolved landscape of Mt Gale..  Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com HFN https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/curiosity-into-the-mountains/ ...more

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• 1697: Begin private space exploration. September 15, 2021. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Sep 18 2021

  Photo:  Opel RAK.1 - World's first public manned flight of a rocket plane on September 30, 1929. Begin private space exploration.  September 15, 2021.  Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/the-real-human-exploration-of-the-solar-system-began-on-september-15-2021/

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• 1696: #AustraliaReport: AUKUS encourages; Covid discourages. Scott Mayman, Brisbane @CBS

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  Sep 18 2021

  Photo: MEMBERS OF HMAS SYDNEY WAVE GREETINGS FROM THE TOP OF AND A SHELL HOLE IN ONE OF THE SHIP'S FUNNELS. THE SAILOR FIFTH FROM THE LEFT IN THE TOP GROUP IS LEADING STOKER THOMAS NEVIN GLACKIN. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #AustraliaReport: AUKUS encourages; Covid discourages. Scott Mayman, Brisbane @CBS  https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australian-employment-falls-by-146000-jobs-aug-lockdowns-hit-2021-09-16/

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• 1695: Milley: It's Complicated. Josh Rogin, @WashingtonPost

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  Sep 18 2021

  Photo:  Col Douglas MacArthur Douglas MacArthur's greatness as a World War II general, career military officer and rehabilitator of Japan is unquestioned. His highly publicized recall by President Harry Truman for insubordinate behavior in Korea, nearly bringing about World War III with China, ranks as the greatest act of outright defiance of an American president by an American military leader. Milley: It's Complicated.  Josh Rogin, @WashingtonPost https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/16/milley-is-neither-traitor-nor-savior-republic/...more

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• 1696: #TheScalaReport: Moral Hazard Warnings at Macau, at Hong Kong, at Shanghai & What is to be done? #TheScalaReport. Chris Riegel @scala CEO, @STRATACACHE

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  Sep 18 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication. 1813 Macao harbor. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #TheScalaReport: Moral Hazard Warnings at Macau, at Hong Kong, at Shanghai & What is to be done?  #TheScalaReport.  Chris Riegel @scala CEO,  @STRATACACHE https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-house-cards-evergrande-threatens-wider-real-estate-market-2021-09-14/

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• 1695: In praise of Stephen Breyer, the Last SCOTUS Liberal. Dan Henninger @WSJOpinion

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  Sep 18 2021

  Photo:  Justice Breyer In praise of Stephen Breyer, the Last SCOTUS Liberal.  Dan Henninger @WSJOpinion https://www.wsj.com/articles/supreme-court-packing-justice-breyer-barrett-biden-squad-tinker-roe-abortion-politicized-11631738719

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• 1695: Turkey Is the New Jihadi Highway, and Erdogan Is the Toll Keeper. @AykanErdemir @FDD

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  Sep 18 2021

  Photo:  Gunners aboard Turkish ship, at posts   Turkey Is the New Jihadi Highway, and Erdogan Is the Toll Keeper.  @AykanErdemir @FDD The United States imposed sanctions on Thursday on five al Qaeda supporters working out of Turkey to provide financial services and travel help to the militant group, the Treasury Department said on Thursday. “These targeted sanctions highlight the United States’ unwavering commitment to sever financial support to al-Qa’ida,” Andrea Gacki, director of the Office of Foreign Assets Control, said in a statement. “We will continue working with our foreign partners, including Turkey, to expose and disrupt al-Qa’ida’s financial support networks.” The list included Majdi Salim, an Egyptian-born lawyer based in Turkey, whom Treasury identified as a primary facilitator of a range of al-Qa’ida activities in Turkey. Others were Muhammad Nasr al-Din al-Ghazlani, an Egyptian financial courier who used cash transfers to support al Qaeda and the Turkish citizens Nurettin Muslihan, Cebrail Guzel and Soner Gurleyen. https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2021/09/17/jihadist-financiers-in-turkey/ ...more

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• 1695: The Black Bears Feast along Lake Tahoe. Jeff Bliss #PacificWatch @JCBlisswNews

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  Sep 18 2021

  Photo: American black bear (Ursus Americanus) The Black Bears Feast along Lake Tahoe.  Jeff Bliss #PacificWatch @JCBlisswNews   As people fled the Tahoe region to escape an approaching wildfire, the last thing many did was pull their trash bins out to the curb. But the trash collectors left too. So the bears pigged out, ransacking not only the garbage cans but breaking into dozens of homes. “Bears are just having a heyday of it. It’s just a nightmare,” said John Tillman, owner of South Tahoe Refuse. “There’s so much garbage on the street because of the bears. Oh my God, they are making a mess.” S.F. Chronicle | SFGate.com https://www.sfgate.com/renotahoe/article/bears-break-in-south-lake-tahoe-caldor-fire-homes-16438635.php ....more

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• 1694: 4/4 N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia, by Mark Piesing @PorterSqBooks. Hardcover – August 31, 2021

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  Sep 17 2021

  Photo:  The flying ship.              Photographic reproduction of an 18th century etching showing an airship designed by Brazilian Jesuit Bartolomeu de Gusmão. Ship has a bird's head and feathers, a boat-like body in which a man stands looking through a telescope; a flag with crest is attached to the rear of the ship. Reproduction of an 18th century book illustration. 4/4    N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia,  by Mark Piesing  @PorterSqBooks.  Hardcover – August 31, 2021    "GRIPPING. . . . One of the greatest polar rescue efforts ever mounted." —Wall Street Journal The riveting true story of the largest polar rescue mission in history: the desperate race to find the survivors of the glamourous Arctic airship Italia, which crashed near the North Pole in 1928.              Triumphantly returning from the North Pole on May 24, 1928, the world-famous exploring airship Italia—code-named N-4—was struck by a terrible storm and crashed somewhere over the Arctic ice, triggering the largest polar rescue mission in history. Helping lead the search was the famed Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, the poles’ greatest explorer, who himself soon went missing in the frozen wastes. Amundsen’s body has never been found, the last victim of one of the Arctic’s most enduring mysteries . . .              During the Roaring Twenties, zeppelin travel embodied the exuberant spirit of the age. Germany’s luxurious Graf Zeppelin would run passenger service from Germany to Brazil; Britain’s Imperial Airship was launched to connect an empire; in America, the iconic spire of the rising Empire State Building was designed as a docking tower for airships.              But the novel mode of transport offered something else, too: a new frontier of exploration. Whereas previous Arctic and Antarctic explorers had subjected themselves to horrific—often deadly—conditions in their attempts to reach uncharted lands, airships held out the possibility of speedily soaring over the hazards. In 1926, Roald Amundsen—the first man to reach the South Pole—partnered with the Italian airship designer General Umberto Nobile to pioneer flight over the North Pole. As Mark Piesing uncovers in this masterful account, while that mission was thought of as a great success, it was in fact riddled with near disasters and political pitfalls.              In May 1928, his relationship with Amundsen corroded beyond the point of collaboration. Nobile, his dog, and a crew of fourteen Italians, one Swede, and one Czech, set off on their own in the airship Italia to discover new lands in the Arctic Circle and to become the first airship to land men on the pole. But near the North Pole they hit a terrible storm and crashed onto the ice. Six crew members were never seen again; the injured (including Nobile) took refuge on ice floes, unprepared for the wretched conditions and with little hope for survival.              Coincidentally, in Oslo a gathering of famous Arctic explorers had assembled for a celebration of the first successful flight from Alaska to Norway. Hearing of the accident, Amundsen set off on his own desperate attempt to find Nobile and his men. As the weeks passed and the largest international polar rescue expedition mobilized, the survivors engaged in a last-ditch struggle against weather, polar bears, and despair. When they were spotted at last, the search plane landed—but the pilot announced that there was room for only one passenger. . . .              Braiding together the gripping accounts of the survivors and their heroic rescuers, N-4 Down tells the unforgettable true story of what happened when the glamour and restless daring of the zeppelin age collided with the harsh reality of Earth’s extremes. https://www.amazon.com/N-4-Down-Arctic-Airship-Italia/dp/0062851527...more

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• 1694: 3/4 N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia, by Mark Piesing @PorterSqBooks. Hardcover – August 31, 2021

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  Sep 17 2021

  Photo:  Coastal airship Norge. 3/4    N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia,  by Mark Piesing  @PorterSqBooks.  Hardcover – August 31, 2021    "GRIPPING. . . . One of the greatest polar rescue efforts ever mounted." —Wall Street Journal The riveting true story of the largest polar rescue mission in history: the desperate race to find the survivors of the glamourous Arctic airship Italia, which crashed near the North Pole in 1928.              Triumphantly returning from the North Pole on May 24, 1928, the world-famous exploring airship Italia—code-named N-4—was struck by a terrible storm and crashed somewhere over the Arctic ice, triggering the largest polar rescue mission in history. Helping lead the search was the famed Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, the poles’ greatest explorer, who himself soon went missing in the frozen wastes. Amundsen’s body has never been found, the last victim of one of the Arctic’s most enduring mysteries . . .              During the Roaring Twenties, zeppelin travel embodied the exuberant spirit of the age. Germany’s luxurious Graf Zeppelin would run passenger service from Germany to Brazil; Britain’s Imperial Airship was launched to connect an empire; in America, the iconic spire of the rising Empire State Building was designed as a docking tower for airships.              But the novel mode of transport offered something else, too: a new frontier of exploration. Whereas previous Arctic and Antarctic explorers had subjected themselves to horrific—often deadly—conditions in their attempts to reach uncharted lands, airships held out the possibility of speedily soaring over the hazards. In 1926, Roald Amundsen—the first man to reach the South Pole—partnered with the Italian airship designer General Umberto Nobile to pioneer flight over the North Pole. As Mark Piesing uncovers in this masterful account, while that mission was thought of as a great success, it was in fact riddled with near disasters and political pitfalls.              In May 1928, his relationship with Amundsen corroded beyond the point of collaboration. Nobile, his dog, and a crew of fourteen Italians, one Swede, and one Czech, set off on their own in the airship Italia to discover new lands in the Arctic Circle and to become the first airship to land men on the pole. But near the North Pole they hit a terrible storm and crashed onto the ice. Six crew members were never seen again; the injured (including Nobile) took refuge on ice floes, unprepared for the wretched conditions and with little hope for survival.              Coincidentally, in Oslo a gathering of famous Arctic explorers had assembled for a celebration of the first successful flight from Alaska to Norway. Hearing of the accident, Amundsen set off on his own desperate attempt to find Nobile and his men. As the weeks passed and the largest international polar rescue expedition mobilized, the survivors engaged in a last-ditch struggle against weather, polar bears, and despair. When they were spotted at last, the search plane landed—but the pilot announced that there was room for only one passenger. . . .              Braiding together the gripping accounts of the survivors and their heroic rescuers, N-4 Down tells the unforgettable true story of what happened when the glamour and restless daring of the zeppelin age collided with the harsh reality of Earth’s extremes. https://www.amazon.com/N-4-Down-Arctic-Airship-Italia/dp/0062851527 ...more

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• 1694: 2/4 N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia, by Mark Piesing @PorterSqBooks. Hardcover – August 31, 2021

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  Sep 17 2021

  Photo:  Arctic explorers preparing for the long winter - historic Cape Sabine and Baffin Bay (79 deg. N. lat.) 2/4   N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia,  by Mark Piesing  @PorterSqBooks.  Hardcover – August 31, 2021    "GRIPPING. . . . One of the greatest polar rescue efforts ever mounted." —Wall Street Journal The riveting true story of the largest polar rescue mission in history: the desperate race to find the survivors of the glamourous Arctic airship Italia, which crashed near the North Pole in 1928.              Triumphantly returning from the North Pole on May 24, 1928, the world-famous exploring airship Italia—code-named N-4—was struck by a terrible storm and crashed somewhere over the Arctic ice, triggering the largest polar rescue mission in history. Helping lead the search was the famed Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, the poles’ greatest explorer, who himself soon went missing in the frozen wastes. Amundsen’s body has never been found, the last victim of one of the Arctic’s most enduring mysteries . . .              During the Roaring Twenties, zeppelin travel embodied the exuberant spirit of the age. Germany’s luxurious Graf Zeppelin would run passenger service from Germany to Brazil; Britain’s Imperial Airship was launched to connect an empire; in America, the iconic spire of the rising Empire State Building was designed as a docking tower for airships.              But the novel mode of transport offered something else, too: a new frontier of exploration. Whereas previous Arctic and Antarctic explorers had subjected themselves to horrific—often deadly—conditions in their attempts to reach uncharted lands, airships held out the possibility of speedily soaring over the hazards. In 1926, Roald Amundsen—the first man to reach the South Pole—partnered with the Italian airship designer General Umberto Nobile to pioneer flight over the North Pole. As Mark Piesing uncovers in this masterful account, while that mission was thought of as a great success, it was in fact riddled with near disasters and political pitfalls.              In May 1928, his relationship with Amundsen corroded beyond the point of collaboration. Nobile, his dog, and a crew of fourteen Italians, one Swede, and one Czech, set off on their own in the airship Italia to discover new lands in the Arctic Circle and to become the first airship to land men on the pole. But near the North Pole they hit a terrible storm and crashed onto the ice. Six crew members were never seen again; the injured (including Nobile) took refuge on ice floes, unprepared for the wretched conditions and with little hope for survival.              Coincidentally, in Oslo a gathering of famous Arctic explorers had assembled for a celebration of the first successful flight from Alaska to Norway. Hearing of the accident, Amundsen set off on his own desperate attempt to find Nobile and his men. As the weeks passed and the largest international polar rescue expedition mobilized, the survivors engaged in a last-ditch struggle against weather, polar bears, and despair. When they were spotted at last, the search plane landed—but the pilot announced that there was room for only one passenger. . . .              Braiding together the gripping accounts of the survivors and their heroic rescuers, N-4 Down tells the unforgettable true story of what happened when the glamour and restless daring of the zeppelin age collided with the harsh reality of Earth’s extremes. https://www.amazon.com/N-4-Down-Arctic-Airship-Italia/dp/0062851527...more

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• 1694: 1/4 N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia, by Mark Piesing @PorterSqBooks. Hardcover – August 31, 2021

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  Sep 17 2021

  Photo: "Inventio fortunata. Arctic exploration. With an account of Nicholas of Lynn. Read before the American Geographical Society ... May 15th, 1880. Reprinted from the Bulletin of the Society". 1/4    N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia,  by Mark Piesing  PorterSqBooks.  Hardcover – August 31, 2021    "GRIPPING. . . . One of the greatest polar rescue efforts ever mounted." —Wall Street Journal The riveting true story of the largest polar rescue mission in history: the desperate race to find the survivors of the glamourous Arctic airship Italia, which crashed near the North Pole in 1928.              Triumphantly returning from the North Pole on May 24, 1928, the world-famous exploring airship Italia—code-named N-4—was struck by a terrible storm and crashed somewhere over the Arctic ice, triggering the largest polar rescue mission in history. Helping lead the search was the famed Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, the poles’ greatest explorer, who himself soon went missing in the frozen wastes. Amundsen’s body has never been found, the last victim of one of the Arctic’s most enduring mysteries . . .              During the Roaring Twenties, zeppelin travel embodied the exuberant spirit of the age. Germany’s luxurious Graf Zeppelin would run passenger service from Germany to Brazil; Britain’s Imperial Airship was launched to connect an empire; in America, the iconic spire of the rising Empire State Building was designed as a docking tower for airships.              But the novel mode of transport offered something else, too: a new frontier of exploration. Whereas previous Arctic and Antarctic explorers had subjected themselves to horrific—often deadly—conditions in their attempts to reach uncharted lands, airships held out the possibility of speedily soaring over the hazards. In 1926, Roald Amundsen—the first man to reach the South Pole—partnered with the Italian airship designer General Umberto Nobile to pioneer flight over the North Pole. As Mark Piesing uncovers in this masterful account, while that mission was thought of as a great success, it was in fact riddled with near disasters and political pitfalls.              In May 1928, his relationship with Amundsen corroded beyond the point of collaboration. Nobile, his dog, and a crew of fourteen Italians, one Swede, and one Czech, set off on their own in the airship Italia to discover new lands in the Arctic Circle and to become the first airship to land men on the pole. But near the North Pole they hit a terrible storm and crashed onto the ice. Six crew members were never seen again; the injured (including Nobile) took refuge on ice floes, unprepared for the wretched conditions and with little hope for survival.              Coincidentally, in Oslo a gathering of famous Arctic explorers had assembled for a celebration of the first successful flight from Alaska to Norway. Hearing of the accident, Amundsen set off on his own desperate attempt to find Nobile and his men. As the weeks passed and the largest international polar rescue expedition mobilized, the survivors engaged in a last-ditch struggle against weather, polar bears, and despair. When they were spotted at last, the search plane landed—but the pilot announced that there was room for only one passenger. . . .              Braiding together the gripping accounts of the survivors and their heroic rescuers, N-4 Down tells the unforgettable true story of what happened when the glamour and restless daring of the zeppelin age collided with the harsh reality of Earth’s extremes. https://www.amazon.com/N-4-Down-Arctic-Airship-Italia/dp/0062851527...more

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• 1693: How to compete with Amazon on hiring bonuses. #SmallBusinessAmerica: @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer

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  Sep 17 2021

  Photo:  Competition, and Amazon’s growing delivery expertise. "Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries.  1878" How to compete with Amazon on hiring bonuses.  #SmallBusinessAmerica: @GeneMarks  @Guardian @PhillyInquirer Amazon is Offering $3,000 Hiring Bonuses for New Employees. Here's How You Can, Too. https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/383274...more

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• 1693: Considerable Tax Hike on Small Business. #SmallBusinessAmerica: @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer

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  Sep 17 2021

  Photo:  “Looking out for relief.”   Satire on the Crown and Government Security Bill; an exchange between the common man, weighed down and fettered by taxes and poverty, and his look-out up a tree, eight questions or statements and eight responses on a rotating circle, viewed through apertures cut in the image. Considerable Tax Hike on Small Business. #SmallBusinessAmerica: @GeneMarks  @Guardian @PhillyInquirer House Democrats release bill raising corporate tax to 26.5 percent https://thehill.com/policy/finance/571940-house-democrats-release-bill-raising-corporate-tax-to-265-percent?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0SbrM2XW-SA/YUHzCiZCRDI/AAAAAAAA62g/SzQMBrpI_4MC2LR08yzY2XCobmXTtRWVQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1007/CapUAug2021.PNG ...more

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• 1692: 2/2 What Sixty Years of Immigration Represents for Education, Wages, Opportunities. Robert Krol, @Mercatus HFN

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  Sep 17 2021

  Photo:  Bedouin refugees 1917   2/2   What Sixty Years of Immigration Represents for Education, Wages, Opportunities. Robert Krol, @Mercatus HFN https://www.mercatus.org/publications/immigration/immigration-and-us-labor-market-outcome Robert Krol, @Mercatus Senior Affiliated Scholar Robert Krol is an emeritus professor of economics at California State University, Northridge; a Senior Affiliated Scholar for the Mercatus Center at George Mason University; and a member of the Heartland Institute’s Board of Policy Advisors.   ...more

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• 1692: 1/2 What Sixty Years of Immigration Represents for Education, Wages, Opportunities. Robert Krol, @Mercatus HFN

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  Sep 17 2021

  Photo:  immigrants disembarking; 1912 1/2   What Sixty Years of Immigration Represents for Education, Wages, Opportunities. Robert Krol, @Mercatus HFN https://www.mercatus.org/publications/immigration/immigration-and-us-labor-market-outcome Robert Krol, @Mercatus Senior Affiliated Scholar Robert Krol is an emeritus professor of economics at California State University, Northridge; a Senior Affiliated Scholar for the Mercatus Center at George Mason University; and a member of the Heartland Institute’s Board of Policy Advisors.   ...more

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• 1691: China retreats. Gregory Copley, @Gregory_Copley

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  Sep 17 2021

  Photo: Chinese railroad China retreats.  Gregory Copley, @Gregory_Copley AUKUS Smashing Success Already.

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• 1691: Australia goes nuke. Gregory Copley, @Gregory_Copley.

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  Photo:   A Handful of Australia; a Vintage Postcard from the Early 1900s. 1/2   Australia goes nuke.  Gregory Copley, @Gregory_Copley.  AUKUS Smashing Success Already.  AUKUS Smashing Success Already.

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• 1691: The German Elections look toward Paris. @Judy_Dempsey. @Carnegie_Europe

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  Photo:  Election and Coronation of the Habsburg Emperor Maximilian II The German Elections look toward Paris. @Judy_Dempsey. @Carnegie_Europe Judy Dempsey is a nonresident senior Fellow at Carnegie Europe and editor in chief of the Strategic Europe blog https://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/85333

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• 1691: #AfterAfghanistan: Europe Lessons Not Learned. Judy Dempsey, @Judy_Dempsey. @Carnegie_Europe

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  Photo:  The Afghan King Amanullah Khan with a group of people in 1927 #AfterAfghanistan: Europe Lessons Not Learned. Judy Dempsey, @Judy_Dempsey. @Carnegie_Europe Judy Dempsey is a nonresident senior Fellow at Carnegie Europe and editor in chief of the Strategic Europe blog. https://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/85281?utm_source=ctw&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=buttonlink&mkt_tok=MDk1LVBQVi04MTMAAAF_a6nqhiY-rrkpFqPBVvVSQBKrtaQsNFQWt7U6AAJncFV6Jvu84uKPYoP5fJvowEBgpSNRPsRCN0yBby2vmVxkUEnQc3PqiPddr6kQCHz-mgEpeg https://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/experts/693 ...more

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• 1690: Who knew the Taliban celebrates cricket? @Tunku Varadarajan @WSJOpinion

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  Photo: Non-Taliban cricket. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Who knew the Taliban celebrates cricket? @Tunku Varadarajan @WSJOpinion https://www.wsj.com/articles/cricket-ban-afghanistan-team-taliban-islamist-women-rights-sexism-misogyny-australia-11631568330?st=hi60fhwvfqjfrsn&reflink=article_email_share

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• 1690: Iran unafraid of IAEA or sanctions in run-up to UNGA and an Iran Deal. Behnam ben Taleblu, @FDD

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  Photo: "The Combat of Rustam and Ashkabus", Folio 268v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Iran unafraid of IAEA or sanctions in run-up to UNGA and an Iran Deal. Behnam ben Taleblu, @FDD  https://apnews.com/article/europe-middle-east-iran-united-nations-tehran-cf7a0cde3774f261ff07eba978e266f4 Reuters German police arrested a German-Iranian man suspected of exporting equipment to be used in Iran's nuclear and missile programs in breach of European Union sanctions, Germany's federal prosecutor said on Tuesday. Police searched 11 locations, including apartments and offices in the states of Hamburg, Schleswig Holstein and North Rhine-Westphalia linked to the suspect, the prosecutor said. The suspect, identified only as Alexander J. under privacy rules, had shipped equipment worth 1.1 million euros to an Iranian whose company in Iran was blacklisted by the EU as a front to procure equipment for nuclear and rocket programs. The GBA general prosecutor's office said the suspect was approached in 2018 and 2019 to procure laboratory equipment. He shipped two spectrometers procured for 166,000 euros ($196,510.80) to Iran in Jan. 2020, and six months later shipped another two, procured for 388,000 euros.   The Wall Street Journal Iranian security guards have physically harassed several female United Nations atomic agency inspectors at a nuclear facility over the past few months, diplomats say, and the U.S. has demanded that Iran stop the behavior immediately. The previously unreported incidents at Iran’s main nuclear facility, Natanz, allegedly included inappropriate touching of female inspectors by male security guards and orders to remove some clothing, the diplomats said. One of the diplomats said there had been at least four separate incidents of harassment. A second diplomat said there had been five to seven. A paper circulated by the U.S. among International Atomic Energy Agency members ahead of its member states’ board meeting this week, seen by The Wall Street Journal, demanded an end to such conduct. The first incident was in early June and the most recent was in the past few weeks, the diplomats said. ...more

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• 1690: Boris Johnson's "Global Britain" in search of a global mission in AUKUS. Anatol Lieven

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  Photo:  Patriot's Quick Step . . .  This vision, under Johnson, is of a Britain that is faster-moving and more flexible internationally, tilting its focus away from Europe toward Asia and putting its energy into ad hoc alliances and a more robust defense of democratic values to counter threats posed by autocratic regimes such as China and Russia. It places Britain in a more Hobbesian world, in which like-minded countries need to band together when possible, while remaining flexible enough to change course quickly when necessary. . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Boris Johnson's "Global Britain" in search of a global mission in AUKUS. Anatol Lieven https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/09/15/joint-leaders-statement-on-aukus/ ...more

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• 1690: Scheherazade Doha soothes the savage Taliban. Anatol Lieven @QuincyInst

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  Photo: Scheherazade and the Sultan by the Iranian painter Sani ol molk (1849–1856) . . . The world's powers are now scrambling to exert influence amid the return of the country's Islamist rulers. And in the process two nations from the Arab and Muslim world have been emerging as key mediators and facilitators - Qatar and Turkey. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Scheherazade Doha soothes the savage Taliban. Anatol Lieven @QuincyInst https://econ.st/3jYEawU ...more

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• 1689: Erin O'Toole to join AUKUS immediately upon election. @ConradMBlack HFN

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  Photo: Justin Trudeau and his good working colleague Xi Jinping CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Erin O'Toole to join AUKUS immediately upon election. @ConradMBlack HFN https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/top-trudeau-rival-otoole-would-push-for-canada-to-join-us-uk-and-australia-security-alliance/ar-AAOwv2b

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• 1689: Ex-Im Bank for Stalin, William Bullitt, Cordell Hull, FDR: April, 1934 HFN

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1949 Chinese communists celebrate Joseph Stalin's seventieth birthday. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Ex-Im Bank for Stalin, William Bullitt, Cordell Hull, FDR: April, 1934 HFN Union Guy Gets a Seat on Ex-Im Board | National Review https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/belated-happy-labor-day-union-guy-gets-a-seat-on-ex-im-board/

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• 1689: What is AUKUS for China? @RichardFontaine @CNASDC

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  Photo: Chinese sailors. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow What is AUKUS for China? @RichardFontaine @CNASDC https://www.afr.com/policy/foreign-affairs/a-profound-move-for-both-canberra-and-washington-20210916-p58s5f?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nc&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1631761589    "Beijing is denouncing the U.S. government’s new “AUKUS” technology-sharing working group with the U.K. and Australia as a threat to peace in the Indo-Pacific region. "Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian on Thursday slammed the grouping as a reflection of 'outdated Cold War zero-sum mentality and narrow-minded geopolitical perception' that 'intensified' a regional arms race and harmed international non-proliferation efforts." ...more

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• 1689: What is AUKUS for the US? @RichardFontaine @CNASDC

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  Photo: Typhoon-class submarine at sea; part of AUKUS. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow What is AUKUS for the US? @RichardFontaine @CNASDC https://www.afr.com/policy/foreign-affairs/a-profound-move-for-both-canberra-and-washington-20210916-p58s5f?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nc&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1631761589    "Furious EU complains that it was 'not consulted' on AUKUS submarine deal while France blasts Australia for stabbing it in the back." .. Typhoon class submarine at sea. Date | 8 April 2006 (original upload date) Source | Bellona Foundation Author | Bellona Foundation? The copyright holder of this file allows 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. ...more

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• 1689: #NewWorldReport: Peronistas stumble. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis

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  Photo:  First lady María Eva Duarte, along with her husband, President Perón, checks her dress moments before attending a gala function at the Colón Theater. La primera dama María Eva Duarte, junto a su esposo el presidente Perón, revisa su vestido momentos antes de asistir a una  función de gala en el Teatro Colón. . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #NewWorldReport: Peronistas stumble.  Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/argentinas-markets-rise-after-peronists-bruised-in-primary-vote-2021-09-13 ...more

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• 1689: #NewWorldReport: The Duelling Demonstrations of Bolsonaro and Lula da Silva. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis

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  Photo:  Lula Da Silva upbraids his successor, Jair Bolosonaro.  . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #NewWorldReport: The Duelling Demonstrations of Bolsonaro and Lula da Silva.  Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/07/world/americas/bolsonaro-brazil-protests.html

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• 1689: #NewWorldReport: Maduro on the march. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis GLXXG

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  Photo: In September of 2006, then-President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela explained that the US president left the scent of the Devil.  My firm opinion, as clear as the full moon – irrevocable, absolute, total – is ... that you elect Nicolas Maduro as President. I ask this of you from my heart. He is one of the young leaders with the greatest ability to continue, if I cannot.—Hugo Chávez during a nationwide TV address (cadena nacional) (8 December 2012) CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #NewWorldReport: Maduro on the march. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis GLXXG https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/south-america/maduro-accuses-colombia-of-sabotaging-dialogue.html ...more

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• 1689: #NewWorldReport: Colombia Border War. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis GLXXG

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  Photo: FARC guerrillas marching in formation during the Caguan peace talks (1998–2002) CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #NewWorldReport: Colombia Border War. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis GLXXG https://colombiareports.com/colombia-says-5-soldiers-killed-6-injured-in-guerrilla-attack/ . . .  From the 1970s to the 1990s the whirlwind unleashed by the United Fruit Company converged with the cyclonic forces of insurgency and counterinsurgency. Making things worse, the cocaine boom in the 1980s exacerbated the escalating spiral of political violence. The press started calling Urabá the “red corner” of Colombia, a reference to both the scale of the bloodshed and the unparalleled power of the communist insurgencies. “Urabá, Drowning in Blood” blared a front-page headline of the country’s leading newspaper.¹ An article in a newspaper in Medellín decried the “barbarism” that had seized this “faraway land” .....more

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• In joyful memory of my colleague of decades, Professor of Politics Stephen F. Cohen (November 25, 1930- September 18, 2020): Lecture delivered at McCosh 10, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. December 10, 1983.

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  Sep 16 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication. Stephen Frand Cohen (1938 – 2020), American scholar of Russian studies. @Batchelorshow In joyful memory of my colleague of decades, Professor of Politics Stephen F. Cohen (November 25, 1930- September 18, 2020): Lecture delivered at McCosh 10, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. December 10, 1983.

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• 1688: #AfterAfghanistan: August 30, 2021, South Gate of the Kabul Hamid Karzai International Airport, one story of an American citizen refused evacuation by the US State Department and the US Army. Michael Yon. Locals.com/MichaelYon.

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  Sep 16 2021

  Photo: Afghan evacuees entering a Polish C-130 Hercules during Operation Allies Refuge, 17 August 2021. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #AfterAfghanistan: August 30, 2021, South Gate of the Kabul Hamid Karzai International Airport, one story of an American citizen refused evacuation by the US State Department and the US Army.  Michael Yon. Locals.com/MichaelYon.

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• 1688: PRC building DF-41 silos quickly. Peter Huessy, director of Strategic Deterrent Studies of the Mitchell Institute of the Air Force Association. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

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  Sep 16 2021

  Photo: DF-31 ballistic missiles . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow PRC building DF-41 silos quickly. Peter Huessy, director of Strategic Deterrent Studies of the Mitchell Institute of the Air Force Association.  @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://warriormaven.com/global-security/china-nuclear-silos .. 9 September 2017, 13:12:28 Source | Own work Author | Tyg728 I, the copyright holder of this work, Tyg728, hereby publish it under the following license: w:en:Creative Commons attribution share alike  This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.  You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. ...more

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• 1688: Knowns and Unknowns of the Milley revelations. @BillGertz @WashTimes @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

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  Photo:  Window card for a famous musical of yesteryear, Thoroughly Modern Millie. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Knowns and Unknowns of the Milley revelations. @BillGertz @WashTimes @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/09/did-gen-milley-actually-go-rogue-at-end-of-trump-admin.html

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• 1688: Australia, United Kingdom and USA (AUKUS) link vs PRC. Rick Fisher, International Assessment Center @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill GLXXG

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  Sep 16 2021

  Photo:   The Anglo-Chinese College; from Missionary Sketches XXVIII, January, 1825. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Australia, United Kingdom and USA (AUKUS) link vs PRC. Rick Fisher, International Assessment Center @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill GLXXG https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/09/15/joint-leaders-statement-on-aukus/

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• 1688: Wang Yi Wolf Warrior warns Seoul & What is to be done? . @DavidMaxwell161 @FDD @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill GLXXG

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  Sep 16 2021

  Photo: Mongolian wolf (Canis lupus chanco) pursued by a falcon—who, in fact, is about to.land on and instantly kill the wolf.  Screen grab CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Wang Yi Wolf Warrior warns Seoul & What is to be done? . @DavidMaxwell161 @FDD @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill GLXXG https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/South-Koreans-sour-on-China-ahead-of-Wang-Yi-visit

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• 1688: #AfterAfghanistan: Italy rescues soccer players of Herat. Lorenzo Fiori. Ansaldo Foundation HFN

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  Sep 16 2021

  Photo: The country around Herat : projected from Major Holditch's map . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #AfterAfghanistan: Italy rescues soccer players of Herat.  Lorenzo Fiori. Ansaldo Foundation HFN https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/09/world/europe/afghanistan-women-soccer-italy.html

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• 1688: Delta in Asia. Sondre Solsted @TheEconomist HFN

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  Sep 16 2021

  Photo: In February 1957, a new influenza A (H2N2) virus emerged in East Asia, triggering a pandemic (“Asiatic Flu”). It was first reported in Singapore in February 1957, Hong Kong in April 1957, and in coastal cities in the United States in summer 1957. The estimated number of deaths was 1.1 million worldwide and 116,000 in the United States. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Delta in Asia. Sondre Solsted @TheEconomist HFN : https://econ.st/3zZUFOT ...more

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• 1688: Joni Ernst remembers 9-11-01 and 8-30-21. SalenaZito.com @DCExaminer

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  Sep 16 2021

  Photo: . Captain Daegan W Page, undated photo released by the Marine Corps. U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), a combat veteran of the Global War on Terrorism and a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, spoke on the Senate Floor today to honor the life of Marine Corporal Daegan William-Tyeler Page of Red Oak, Iowa, who was one of the 13 U.S. servicemembers killed in a terrorist attack at the Kabul airport on August 26, 2021. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Joni Ernst remembers 9-11-01 and 8-30-21. SalenaZito.com @DCExaminer  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/joni-ernst-reflects-on-9-11-and-bidens-shameful-handling-of-afghanistan...more

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• 1688: #AfterAfghanistan: Small town America reserves 13 chairs. SalenaZito.com@DCExaminer

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  Photo: Grand Army of the Republic gathering, Seattle, July 4, 1912 ( . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #AfterAfghanistan: Small town America reserves 13 chairs.  SalenaZito.com@DCExaminer  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/americans-mourn-the-dead-in-afghanistan-even-as-the-media-move-on SalenaZito

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• 1690: Gavin Newsom: The Candidate, 2021. Bill Whalen @HooverInst

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  Sep 16 2021

  Photo:  J. Neely Johnson was born in Indiana into a family of prominent Whigs. In 1849, Johnson migrated to California and arrived in Sacramento “dead broke.” His first job was hauling flour from Sacramento to Stockton for $16 a day. On January 9, 1856, Johnson took his oath as Governor–at 30, he was the youngest man ever to assume that office. He was described as "the most startled man in the state" when told of his election. Gavin Newsom: The Candidate, 2021.   Bill Whalen @HooverInst https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/15/after-embarrassing-recall-results-maybe-now-california-republicans-will-wise-up/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Candidate_(1972_film) ...more

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• 1689: #AfterAfghanistan: Doha's Ritz-Carlton looks like a winner. Gregg Carlstrom @TheEconomist

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  Photo;  Doha Ritz-Carlton* #AfterAfghanistan: Doha's Ritz-Carlton looks like a winner.  Gregg Carlstrom @TheEconomist THE TALIBAN-WHISPERERS: America's ignominious exit from Kabul has been a diplomatic boon for Qatar.  https://econ.st/3jYEawU  ..  ..  ..   *  https://www.ritzcarlton.com/en/hotels/qatar/doha?scid=f6948394-19b6-49ab-8602-b14558651ad3&ppc=ppc&pId=ustbppc&nst=paid&gclid=Cj0KCQjws4aKBhDPARIsAIWH0JVGQtCLAdFbYJ3yCmjCXx6XGvoBD3Cqpp8ZX53McatIkx9takBICOYaAgZnEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds ...more

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• 1689: Al Qaeda back in Afghanistan? Jeff McCausland, CBSNews

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  Photo:  Abdur Rahman Khan, Emir of Afghanistan from 1880 to 1901 Al Qaeda back in Afghanistan?  Jeff McCausland, CBSNews https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/al-qaeda-may-be-capable-of-threatening-us-in-as-soon-as-a-year/ar-AAOrFxs https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/14/us/politics/al-qaeda-afghanistan.html

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• 1689: NATO after Afghanistan. Jeff McCausland, CBSNews

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  Sep 16 2021

  Photo: Authentication page for an official copy of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization treaty, signed and sealed by Secretary of State Dean Acheson. NATO after Afghanistan.  Jeff McCausland, CBSNews https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/10/world/europe/afghanistan-europe-stoltenberg.html

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• 1688: 2/2 Doctors on the Flight Deck. Robert Graboyes, @Mercatus For Greater Healthcare Access, License Physicians Like Pilots | Mercatus Center

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  Sep 16 2021

  Photo:   Certification by the American Board of Regenerative Medicine (ABRM)  2/2   Doctors on the Flight Deck.  Robert Graboyes, @Mercatus For Greater Healthcare Access, License Physicians Like Pilots | Mercatus Center https://www.mercatus.org/publications/healthcare/greater-healthcare-access-license-physicians-pilots

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• 1688: 1/2 Doctors on the Flight Deck. Robert Graboyes, @Mercatus For Greater Healthcare Access, License Physicians like Pilots | Mercatus Center

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  Sep 16 2021

  Photo:  A statue of Asclepius. The Glypotek, Copenhagen. Asclepius was the ancient Greek god of medicine, son of the god Apollo and Coronis, the daughter of Phlegyas, King of the Lapiths. He was married to Epione, the goddess of soothing.* https://www.greekmythology.com/Other_Gods/Asclepius/asclepius.html 1/2   Doctors on the Flight Deck.  Robert Graboyes, @Mercatus For Greater Healthcare Access, License Physicians like Pilots | Mercatus Center https://www.mercatus.org/publications/healthcare/greater-healthcare-access-license-physicians-pilots .. * Based on Wikipedia content that has been reviewed, edited, and republished. Original image by Nina Aldin Thune. Uploaded by Jan van der Crabben, published on 26 April 2012 under the following license: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike. This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial reasons, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms....more

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• 1688: The surprising Communist Party of Russia. @Felix_Light, @CBSNews MoscowPhjoto:

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  Sep 16 2021

  Photo:  Brief return to Sovietskii Party deeds:  A Politburo resolution to execute 346 "enemies of the CPSU and Soviet Power" who led "counter-revolutionary, right-trotskyite, plotting and spying activities" (signed by Stalin) The surprising Communist Party of Russia.  @Felix_Light, @CBSNews Moscow https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/09/15/team-navalny-heavily-backs-communist-candidates-to-oust-pro-kremlin-incumbents-a75050

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• 1688: Putin Self-Isolates a Week before the Duma Elections. @Felix_Light, @CBSNews Moscow

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  Sep 16 2021

  Photo:  Grand Kremlin Palace Andreevsky hall Андреевский зал Большого Кремлёвского дворца Московского Кремля. Перспектива Putin Self-Isolates a Week before the Duma Elections.  @Felix_Light, @CBSNews Moscow https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/09/14/putin-self-isolates-over-inner-circle-coronavirus-cases-a75039 .. Permissions: 2012 Source | http://tours.kremlin.ru/#/ru&3_6 Author | kremlin.ru This file comes from the website of the President of the Russian Federation and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. You are free to distribute and modify the file as long as you attribute  www.kremlin.ru.  Note: Works published on site before April 8, 2014, are also licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.  The permission letter from the Press Secretary for the President of the Russian Federation is available here. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing. w:en:Creative Commons attribution This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.  Attribution: Kremlin.ru You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. ...more

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• 1687: #StateThinking: "You cannot make sound policy based on fiction." @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc.

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  Sep 15 2021

  Photo: Newspapers as a source of information.   Giornale d'Italia,  11 June 1940 . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #StateThinking: "You cannot make sound policy based on fiction." @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. https://www.reuters.com/world/biden-failed-secure-summit-with-chinas-xi-call-last-week-ft-2021-09-14/

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• 1687: #StateThinking: Antony Blinken without a plan then and now. @MaryKissel: Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc.

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  Sep 15 2021

  Photo:   Robert Smith, U.S. Secretary of State, March 6, 1809 to April 1, 1811. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #StateThinking: Antony Blinken without a plan then and now. @MaryKissel: Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/key-takeaways-from-blinkens-capitol-hill-testimony-on-afghanistan-withdrawal/ar-AAOqhEW

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• 1687: Opportunity finds the Morning Dew of Mars. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Sep 15 2021

  Photo: Morning dew on a spider web (Earth) CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Opportunity finds the Morning Dew of Mars. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/data-from-opportunity-suggests-surface-dew-periodically-appears-even-in-the-dry-equatorial-regions/

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• 1687: The first-ever, all-commercial manned orbital mission. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Sep 15 2021

  Photo: Crewmember in the D-2 Spacelab. Life with no right-side up. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow The first-ever, all-commercial manned orbital mission. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/watching-the-first-all-private-commercial-manned-orbital-spaceflight/

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• 1687: "Russia moving very very rapidly to consolidate its position." Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs HFN

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  Sep 15 2021

  Photo: A map showing the ballistic missile defense system surrounding Moscow. From Soviet Military Power 1985 . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow "Russia moving very very rapidly to consolidate its position." Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs HFN https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/09/13/mccaul_to_blinken_is_it_true_that_putin_threatened_biden_to_keep_us_spies_out_of_central_asia.html

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• 1687: "US foreign policy is merely US domestic politics carried out abroad." Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs HFN

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  Photo:  Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a major foreign policy address from the Rostrum in The Heart of Texas Coliseum in Waco, Texas.  The speech was part of the graduation ceremony at Baylor University. . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow "US foreign policy is merely US domestic politics carried out abroad." Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs HFN https://www.reuters.com/world/biden-failed-secure-summit-with-chinas-xi-call-last-week-ft-2021-09-14/ ...more

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• 1687: Does the China turmoil damage the markets? @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews GLXXG

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  Photo: Today's massive, annual mega-financial conference, SALT, suspended oil 2020, returns to New York in the Javits Center. The markets may be edgy right now, but most of the richest firms are determined to restore Wall Street. Here: Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, crypto pioneers and Bitcoin billionaires, attended the conference.  (screen grab) . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Does the China turmoil damage the markets? @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews GLXXG https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/chinese-property-giant-evergrande-warns-it-could-default-debt-n1279108 ...more

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• 1687: The 2.2 Trillion Tax Hike on the Not Rich. @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews GLXXG

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  Photo:   The New Altruism    Labour M.P.  "My poor friend, here's five shillings for you." Life-long loafer  "Gawd bless, yer, Gov'nor!"    City merchant  "Here, hang it, that's my money." City merchant  "Yes, I know. But it's my idea." —9 October 1907 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c0/Punch-_Income_Tax_1907.jpg CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow The 2.2 Trillion Tax Hike on the Not Rich. @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews GLXXG https://www.wsj.com/articles/democratic-tax-plan-would-hit-million-dollar-households-hardest-analysis-shows-11631642359 ...more

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• 1686: 2/2 The Kennan Sweepstakes for a Grand Mission. James Astill @TheEconomist

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  Photo: NATO's purpose is to guarantee the freedom and security of its members through political and military means.*   Here:  Moldovan stamp in honor of NATO. 2/2  The Kennan Sweepstakes for a Grand Mission. James Astill @TheEconomist American policy. How America wasted its unipolar moment. ..  ..  ..  * George F. Kennan, a career Foreign Service Officer, formulated the policy of “containment,” the basic United States strategy for fighting the cold war (1947–1989) with the Soviet Union.  Kennan’s ideas, which became the basis of the Truman administration’s foreign policy, first came to public attention in 1947 in the form of an anonymous contribution to the journal Foreign Affairs, the so-called “X-Article.”               To that end, he called for countering “Soviet pressure against the free institutions of the Western world” through the “adroit and vigilant application of counter-force at a series of constantly shifting geographical and political points, corresponding to the shifts and maneuvers of Soviet policy.”             . . . In fact, Kennan advocated defending above all else the world’s major centers of industrial power against Soviet expansion: Western Europe, Japan, and the United States. Others criticized Kennan’s policy for being too defensive.              Remarkably applical to today....more

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• 1685: 1/2 The Kennan Sweepstakes for a Grand Mission. James Astill @TheEconomist

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  Photo: A containment poster. George Kennan was known above all for his policy of containment:  a geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States that's loosely related to the term cordon sanitaire.  "Containment" later was used to describe the geopolitical containment of the Soviet Union in the 1940s.  1/2   The Kennan Sweepstakes for a Grand Mission. James Astill @TheEconomist American policy. How America wasted its unipolar moment. 

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• 1685: Manhattan 2001 vs Manhattan 2021. Harry Siegel

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  Photo:  View of construction of the World Trade Center, New York City. Manhattan 2001 vs Manhattan 2021. Harry Siegel https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-the-city-we-were-the-city-we-are-20210911-ztlbv7lplzf2plvr4fmtcpxieu-story.html

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• 1685: Al Qaeda Never Left, and Returns. John Bolton @AmbJohnBolton

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  Photo:   Salafism is the creed espoused by al Qaeda. In a general sense, it's similar to Wahhabism, which is the Saudi theology.  Here:  Faisal Mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan, is named after the Saudi king Faisal. According to WikiLeaks, Saudis are "long accustomed to having a significant role in Pakistan's affairs" Al Qaeda Never Left, and Returns. John Bolton @AmbJohnBolton https://www.19fortyfive.com/2021/09/joe-bidens-afghanistan-withdrawal-what-will-history-say/ ..  ..  ..   * Salafis are fundamentalists who believe in a return to the original political and moral practices of Islam.   The word “Salafi” comes from the Arabic phrase, “al-Salaf al-Salih” , which refers to the first three generations of Muslims (starting with the Companions of the Prophet), otherwise known as the Pious Predecessors, or “righteous ancestors”.    Rather than being a distinct branch of Islam, Salafism is an intellectual current of Sunni Islam. ...more

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• 1684: Life in 'brolly London's "torrential downpour." #LondonCalling. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

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  Photo:  Thames Embankment in London Life in 'brolly London's "torrential downpour."  #LondonCalling.  @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/59fe2bd2-1547-11ec-8aba-5ab737a99668?shareToken=f59c9b730beca07c3072624d4726014f

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• 1684: Ways and Means for Tax Hikes for Everyone. #LondonCalling. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

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  Photo: Tax office .  Ways and Means for Tax Hikes for Everyone.  #LondonCalling.  @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion https://www.wsj.com/articles/democrats-release-details-of-tax-increase-11631539532?st=prkwrh973n1ilup&reflink=article_copyURL_share

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• 1684: Another lockdown if? #LondonCalling. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

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  Photo:  San Quentin State Prison, Building 22, Point San Quentin, San Quentin, Marin County, CA Another lockdown if?  #LondonCalling.  @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/84ca5574-14a8-11ec-8982-e4706e2eecb0?shareToken=1dbab818ca26fc6ddc0d20b1e5ae00f0

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• 1684: China wants capital without capitalism. #LondonCalling. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

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  Photo:   The gold standard formed the financial basis of the international economy from 1870 to 1914.  China wants capital without capitalism. #LondonCalling.  @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion https://www.wsj.com/articles/soros-beijing-blackrock-mutual-fund-savings-housing-bubble-sse-hkex-ccp-xi-jinping-china-11631221987

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• 1683: #NewWorldReport: Argentina's Fernandez government rebuked by primary voters. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org

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  Sep 14 2021

  Photo: Death of a soldier in Las Viscacheras, 1829 Muerte de Rauch en las Viscacheras CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #NewWorldReport:   Argentina's Fernandez government rebuked by primary voters.  Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org https://www.timeturk.com/en/argentina-s-ruling-coalition-defeated-in-primary-election/news-43939

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• 1683: #NewWorldReport: Maduro advances over the fading Guaido opposition. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org GLXXG

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  Photo: .Venezuela:  Callejón de Los Estribos, Cartagena, Col. = Los Estribos Alley (the Los Estribos Band) CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #NewWorldReport:   Maduro advances over the fading Guaido opposition. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org GLXXG https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/venezuela-political-talks-enter-final-day-mexico-2160296

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• 1683: #NewWorldReport: The prospering Colombia in the time of the pandemic and regional disruption. @Majobernalgavi1 fenalco_ant Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org GL

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  Photo: Callejón de Los Estribos, Cartagena, Col. = Los Estribos Alley. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #NewWorldReport: The prospering Colombia in the time of the pandemic and regional disruption. @Majobernalgavi1 fenalco_ant Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org GLXXG https://www.thestreet.com/economonitor/latin-america/colombia-back-in-the-saddle

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• 1683: #NewWorldReport: The asymmetrical war on the Colombia-Venezuela border. @Majobernalgavi1 fenalco_ant Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org HFN

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  Sep 14 2021

  Photo: The ARC Caldas (FM-52) is an Almirante Padilla class frigate Tensions escalated on August 11, 1987, as a result of the Caldas frigate incident. The Colombian guided missile frigate Caldas refuse to leave the disputed waters claiming they belonged to Colombia.[8] The Venezuelan government reacted by sending a fleet of F-16 fighter jets and almost engaging in combat. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #NewWorldReport: The asymmetrical war on the Colombia-Venezuela border. @Majobernalgavi1 fenalco_ant Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org HFN https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/south-america/colombia-5-soldiers-killed-6-injured-in-eln-attack-in-arauquita.html ...more

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• 1683: Five foreign policy lessons not learned in Afghanistan debacle. Peter Berkowitz, @HooverInst HFN

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  Photo: This photograph of a pile of military "trophies" after the Battle of Peiwar Kotal in November 1878 is from an album of rare historical photographs depicting people and places associated with the Second Anglo-Afghan War. Peiwar Kotal was the site of a battle in late 1878, between British forces under Sir Frederick Roberts (1832–1914), who outmaneuvered Afghan forces under an unknown commander.* CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Five foreign policy lessons not learned in Afghanistan debacle. Peter Berkowitz, @HooverInst HFN https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/09/05/lessons_of_freedom_from_20_years_of_war_against_jihadism_146358.html?utm_source=Hoover+Daily+Report&utm_campaign=00fd9ba5d2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_09_05_04_36_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_21b1edff3c-00fd9ba5d2-72527561.. * The result was a British victory and seizure of the Peiwar Kotal Pass. A young boy is perched atop the pile; he leans against a huge bass drum and sits on a fur-lined sheepskin coat, called a poostin in Dari. He is surrounded by an assortment of military items that were abandoned during the battle or removed from the bodies of slain soldiers. They include swords and scimitars of both British and Afghan design, scabbards, rifles, and a helmet in the center. The Second Anglo-Afghan War began in November 1878 when Great Britain, fearful of what it saw as growing Russian influence in Afghanistan, invaded the country from British India. The first phase of the war ended in May 1879 with the Treaty of Gandamak, which permitted the Afghans to maintain internal sovereignty but forced them to cede control over their foreign policy to the British. Fighting resumed in September 1879, after an anti-British uprising in Kabul, and finally concluded in September 1880 with the decisive Battle of Kandahar. The album includes portraits of British and Afghan leaders and military personnel, portraits of ordinary Afghan people, and depictions of British military camps and activities, structures, landscapes, and cities and towns. The sites shown are all located within the borders of present-day Afghanistan or Pakistan (a part of British India at the time). About a third of the photographs were taken by John Burke (circa 1843–1900), another third by Sir Benjamin Simpson (1831–1923), and the remainder by several other photographers. Some of the photographs are unattributed. The album possibly was compiled by a member of the British Indian government, but this has not been confirmed. How it came to the Library of Congress is not known.. ...more

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• 1683: Time for the US to nominate a replacement for the WHO Director General, Tedros. Anthony Ruggeiro @FDD

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  Photo: The Soviet Union 1988 CPA 5911 stamp (40th anniversary of World Health Organization. Emblem of WHO) . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Time for the US to nominate a replacement for the WHO Director General, Tedros  Anthony Ruggeiro @FDD  "Biden Must Move Fast to Replace WHO’s Tedros," Anthony Ruggiero, Foreign Policy https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2021/09/09/biden-must-move-fast-replace-whos-tedros/ ·       

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• 1683: Memories of 9-11-01 at the Nation office on University Place, Manhattan, NY. Katrina vanden Heuvel @TheNation

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  Photo: .The Nation Magazine 1940 CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Memories of 9-11-01 at the Nation office on University Place, Manhattan, NY. Katrina vanden Heuvel @TheNation

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• 1683: Xi is driving the asset destruction of China. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

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  Photo: The Bar of Destruction [Death as bartender serving rum to a man as two small children beckon from doorway]. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Xi is driving the asset destruction of China.  @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/what-is-china-evergrande-and-why-is-it-in-trouble/2021/09/13/0afb0eea-14a4-11ec-a019-cb193b28aa73_story.html?amp;amp

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• 1683: China buys the Solomon Island government to freeze out Taiwan. Cleo Paskal @CleoPaskal, and @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

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  Photo:  Warrior with wicker shield and parrying club, Solomon Islands. Original albumen photograph, c 1880's  China buys the Solomon Island government to freeze out Taiwan.  Cleo Paskal @CleoPaskal, and @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/news/china-buys-foreign-politicians-case-study Cleo Paskal, associate Fellow at Chatham House; non-resident Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies; Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Geopolitics, Manipal University, India;  adjunct professor of Global Change, School of Communication and Management Studies, Kochi, India. Non-resident senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies,  @CleoPaskal...more

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• 1683: China vs Japan in the First Island Chain. James Fanell, @NavalHistWar @lauchinainst @CCL.org and @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

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  Photo:  Geography of the First Island Chain China vs Japan in the First Island Chain. James Fanell, @NavalHistWar @lauchinainst  @CCL.org and @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill Jim Fanell, retired U.S. Navy captain who served as director of Intelligence and Information Operations of the U.S. Pacific Fleet https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/japan-says-suspected-chinese-submarine-seen-near-territorial-waters-2021-09-12/

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• 1683: Indiana Hoenlein and the Lost Manuscript explain Qumran as a festival site. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1

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  Photo:  Jericho and Dead Sea area and River Jordan. Qumran, caves of Dead Sea scrolls Indiana Hoenlein and the Lost Manuscript explain Qumran as a festival site.  Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-dead-sea-scrolls-site-mystery-solved-qumran-jerusalem-1.10155326

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• 1683: Secret Iran Done Bases for Aerial Terrorism. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1@ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Photo: Lapan website LSU-03 Secret Iran Done Bases for Aerial Terrorism. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1@ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness  http://worldnewskp.com/middle-east/reports-that-iran-has-expanded-kamikaze-drone-base-in-yemen/

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• 1682: 4/4 #AfterAfghanistan. The awakened Al Qaeda. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal

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  Photo: Al Qaeda soon after evicting the Soviet Union; now, the enemy was the US. 4/4   #AfterAfghanistan: The awakened Al Qaeda.   @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/09/ayman-al-zawahiri-promotes-jerusalem-will-not-be-judaized-campaign-in-new-video.php

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• 1682: 3/4 #AfterAfghanistan: What is ISIS to the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan? @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal

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  Photo:  ISIS's capital Raqqa suffered extensive damage during the battle of Raqqa in June–October 2017 3/4   #AfterAfghanistan: What is ISIS to the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan?    @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/08/islamic-state-claims-credit-for-suicide-bombing-in-kabul.php

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• 1682: 2/4 #AfterAfghanistan Zawahiri speaks @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal

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  Photo:  Zawahiri from the year 2001; FBI photo. 2/4   #AfterAfghanistan: Zawahiri speaks.   @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/09/ayman-al-zawahiri-promotes-jerusalem-will-not-be-judaized-campaign-in-new-video.php

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• 1682: 1/4 #AfterAfghanistan The Taliban Cabinet and the Haqqani Network. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal

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  Photo: An Afghan and coalition force arrested a Haqqani bomb 1/4   #AfterAfghanistan  The Taliban Cabinet and the Haqqani Network. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/09/talibans-government-includes-designated-terrorists-ex-guantanamo-detainees.php

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• 1681: "Hollywood Before the Mast" #UNBOUND. A story from the collection, "Gordon Liddy is My Muse," by John Calvin Batchelor. Read by John Batchelor. HFN

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  Photo: No known restrictions on publication. 1800 A whaling scene of 1763 @Batchelorshow Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow "Hollywood Before the Mast" #UNBOUND. A story from the collection, "Gordon Liddy is My Muse," by John Calvin Batchelor.   Read by John Batchelor. HFN https://www.amazon.com/Gordon-Liddy-Muse-Calvin-Batchelor/dp/0671690787

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• 1680: Trillions and Trillions in "the Darkness of August" behind closed Capitol doors. @DevinNunes CA-22 #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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  Photo:   One trillion seconds = 31,710 years @Batchelorshow Trillions and Trillions in "the Darkness of August" behind closed Capitol doors. @DevinNunes CA-22 #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety https://ktvz.com/videos/2021/09/12/manchin-i-will-not-vote-for-3-5-trillion-bill-2/

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• 1680: Memories of 9-11-01 from Visalia, California. @DevinNunes CA-22

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  Photo: Visalia, California. Children of Mineral King Cooperative Farm @Batchelorshow Memories of 9-11-01 from Visalia, California. @DevinNunes CA-22 #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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• 1680: What is the advantage for the Kremlin in the US-China confrontation? H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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  Photo:. Moscow kreml, perhaps late 1700s. @Batchelorshow What is the advantage for the Kremlin in the US-China confrontation? H. J. Mackinder, International Relations.  #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-xi-jinping-china-united-states-relationship/

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• 1680: 8/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Book Launch Party with a pride of competing intelligence agents, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, May 18, 2018. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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  Photo:  The Cambridge Castle Gatehuse, later replaces by the Assizes Curt.              Before Cambridge was called Cambridge, it had the name Grontabricc or Cantebrigie, meaning ‘Bridge on the River Granta,” because the river it stands on was once called the Granta, not the Cam. The change from Grant to Cam is due to Norman Influence. @Batchelorshow 8/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Book Launch Party with a pride of competing intelligence agents, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, May 18, 2018.  Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/news/2018/aug/1/spy-who-changed-history/ ...more

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• 1680: 7/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: American media names Cambridge Professor Stefan Halper as the source of the allegations, May 18, 2018. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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  Photo: . @Batchelorshow 7/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: American media names Cambridge Professor Stefan Halper as the source of the allegations, May 18, 2018.  Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/was-there-really-spy-inside-trump-campaign-president-says-n875516 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/svetlana-lokhova-im-a-mum-under-siege-not-mata-hari-bkggndttq

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• 1679: Russell Shorto #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, April 22, 2021.

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  Photo: FBI chart of American Mafia bosses across the country in 1963. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Mafia#/media/File:CommissionChart1963.jpg CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Russell Shorto #Unbound: the complete, forty-minute interview, April 22, 2021. Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob. Hardcover – February 2, 2021, by Russell Shorto   (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Smalltime-Story-My-Family-Mob/dp/0393245586/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Family secrets emerge as a best-selling author dives into the history of the mob in small-town America. The best-selling author Russell Shorto, praised for his incisive works of narrative history, never thought to write about his own past. He grew up knowing his grandfather and namesake was a small-town mob boss but maintained an unspoken family vow of silence. Then an elderly relative prodded: You’re a writer―what are you gonna do about the story? Smalltime is a mob story straight out of central casting―but with a difference, for the small-town mob, which stretched from Schenectady to Fresno, is a mostly unknown world. The location is the brawny postwar factory town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The setting is City Cigar, a storefront next to City Hall, behind which Russ and his brother-in-law, “Little Joe,” operate a gambling empire and effectively run the town. Smalltime is a riveting American immigrant story that travels back to Risorgimento Sicily, to the ancient, dusty, hill-town home of Antonino Sciotto, the author’s great-grandfather, who leaves his wife and children in grinding poverty for a new life―and wife―in a Pennsylvania mining town. It’s a tale of Italian Americans living in squalor and prejudice, and of the rise of Russ, who, like thousands of other young men, created a copy of the American establishment that excluded him. Smalltime draws an intimate portrait of a mobster and his wife, sudden riches, and the toll a lawless life takes on one family. But Smalltime is something more. The author enlists his ailing father―Tony, the mobster’s son―as his partner in the search for their troubled patriarch. As secrets are revealed and Tony’s health deteriorates, the book becomes an urgent and intimate exploration of three generations of the American immigrant experience. Moving, wryly funny, and richly detailed, Smalltime is an irresistible memoir by a masterful writer of historical narrative. 8 black-and-white illustrations ...more

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• 1679: Nicholas Thomas #Unbound Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific Hardcover. The complete, forty-minute interview, June 15, 2021

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  Photo: Hawaiian navigators sailing multi-hulled canoe, c. 1781 CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Nicholas Thomas: #Unbound : the complete, 40-minute interview, June 15, 2021 Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific. Hardcover – June 15, 2021; by Nicholas Thomas An award-winning scholar explores the sixty-thousand-year history of the Pacific islands in this dazzling, deeply researched account. The islands of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia stretch across a huge expanse of ocean and encompass a multitude of different peoples. Starting with Captain James Cook, the earliest European explorers to visit the Pacific were astounded and perplexed to find populations thriving thousands of miles from continents. Who were these people? From where did they come? And how were they able to reach islands dispersed over such vast tracts of ocean? In Voyagers, the distinguished anthropologist Nicholas Thomas charts the course of the seaborne migrations that populated the islands between Asia and the Americas from late prehistory onward. Drawing on the latest research, including insights gained from genetics, linguistics, and archaeology, Thomas provides a dazzling account of these long-distance migrations, the seagoing technologies that enabled them, and the societies they left in their wake. ....more

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• 1679: Devin Nunes #Unbound: Countdown to Socialism. The complete, twenty-six-minute interview, September 15, 2020

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  Sep 13 2021

  Photo:  Utopian socialist pamphlet of the Swiss social medical doctor Rudolf Sutermeister (1802-1868). CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Devin Nunes #Unbound: The complete, 26-minute interview, August 2021    Countdown to Socialism, paperback, [[DATE]]  by Devin Nunes   https://www.amazon.com/Countdown-Socialism-Devin-Nunes/dp/1641771860/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=devin+nunes&qid=1631483495&s=books&sr=1-1 This pamphlet exposes how the Democratic Party has changed beyond recognition. Once the party of anti-communism and tax-cutting under President Kennedy, it is now dominated by a surging socialist movement and led by a presidential candidate who vows to “transform” America. On a near-daily basis, the Democrats are issuing radical proposals to socialize medicine, industry, and higher education. So how can the Democrats win elections when their agenda is so far to the left of the American people? That’s easy―it’s because the means of public debate are being manipulated. In this explosive Encounter Broadside, Congressman Devin Nunes exposes the nexus between the Democratic Party, the mainstream media, and the social media corporations. These three entities cooperate to blast out the Democrats’ message and downplay their extremism while suppressing and censoring conservative points of view. Tens of millions of Americans are only seeing one side of the debate. The information they get from newspapers and social media is not “news”―it’s contrived content designed to help one political party and punish its opponents. In the run-up to the most consequential election of our lifetime, read this book to learn how your information is being skewed and regulated to force America onto the path to socialism. About Encounter Broadsides: In the late eighteenth century, pamphlets electrified the colonies and helped to forge American democracy as we know it. Encounter Broadsides seek to revive this medium to make the case for ordered liberty and democratic capitalism in our time. Read them in a sitting and come away knowing the best we can hope for and the worst we must fear.  ...more

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• 1679: David Grantham #Unbound. (Intell.) The complete, forty-minute interview, April 5, 2021.

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  Sep 13 2021

  Photo: The Sixteenth Air Force (16 AF) is a United States Air Force (USAF) organization responsible for information warfare, which encompasses intelligence gathering and analysis, surveillance, reconnaissance, cyber warfare and electronic warfare operations.  . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow David Grantham #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview, April 5, 2021. Consequences: An Intelligence Officer's War; Paperback – November 11, 2020. by David Grantham  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Consequences-Intelligence-Officers-David-Grantham/dp/098440631X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= “Very little has been written on the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations efforts in the global war on terror. Consequences by David Grantham provides a unique and fascinating window into the nuts and bolts of OSI counterintelligence operations. You won’t be disappointed.”– Fred Burton, author of Beirut Rules: The Murder of a CIA Station Chief and Hezbollah’s War Against America    In 2020, ISIS followers are being encouraged to use COVID-19 to sicken Westerners. An ISIS supporter attacked a Naval base in Corpus Christi, Texas. Iran and the United States exchanged blows in Iraq. We are still living in the long shadow of the Iraq War. In 2006, David Grantham was fresh out of college and serving as a counterintelligence officer with the elite and secretive Air Force Office of Special Investigations. Iraq was veering toward civil war. The U.S. military desperately needed better on-the-ground intelligence to turn the tide. Grantham found himself in Kuwait and Afghanistan, then at Iraq’s infamous American prison, Camp Bucca. Not only was Bucca the breeding ground for the Islamic State, it was in southern Iraq, where America’s deadly fight with Iran was an open secret. Consequences is both a riveting, behind-the-scenes look at intelligence operations at the height of the Iraq war, and a charming and sobering story of one man’s journey through the pleasures and consequences that come with wartime intelligence....more

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• 1679: C. J. Carey #UNBOUND: The complete, 20-minute interview, June 26, 2021

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  Sep 13 2021

  Photo:  Pierre Laval and Phillippe Pétain ["mal de nom!" comme dissent les francais of the Nazi collaborator], in the Frank Capra documentary film Divide and Conquer (1943) CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow C. J. Carey #UNBOUND: The complete, 20-minute interview, June 26, 2021 #LitCrit:  Widowland by C. J. Carey.  Paperback An alternative history with a strong feminist twist, perfect for fans of Robert Harris' Fatherland, C. J. Sansom's Dominion and the dystopian novels of Margaret Atwood To control the past, they edited history. To control the future, they edited literature. London, 1953, Coronation year — but not the Coronation of Elizabeth II. Thirteen years have passed since a Grand Alliance between Great Britain and Germany was formalized. George VI and his family have been murdered and Edward VIII rules as King. Yet, in practice, all power is vested in Alfred Rosenberg, Britain's Protector. Britain is the perfect petri dish for the ideal society, and the role and status of women are Rosenberg's particular interest. Under the Rosenberg regulations, women are divided into a number of castes according to age, heritage, reproductive status and physical characteristics. Rose belongs to the elite caste of Gelis. She works at the Ministry of Culture rewriting literature to correct the views of the past. She has been charged with making Jane Eyre more submissive, Elizabeth Bennet less feisty and Dorothea Brooke less intelligent. One morning she is summoned to the Cultural Commissioner's office and given a special task. Outbreaks of insurgency have been seen across the country. Graffiti has been daubed on public buildings. Disturbingly, the graffiti is made up of lines from famous works, subversive lines from the voices of women. Suspicion has fallen on Widowland, the run-down slums inhabited by childless women over fifty, the lowest caste. These women are known to be mutinous, for they seem to have lost their fear. Before the Leader arrives for the Coronation ceremony, Rose must infiltrate Widowland and find the source of this rebellion. But as she begins to investigate, she discovers something that could change the protectorate forever, and in the process change herself. https://www.amazon.com/Widowland/dp/1529411998/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Widowland&qid=1625274350&s=books&sr=1-1 ...more

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• 1679: Charlie Pellegrino #Unbound: Vesuvius; the complete, twenty-minute interview, June 18, 2021. LXX GLXXG

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  Sep 13 2021

  Photo: The skeleton called the "Ring Lady" unearthed in Herculaneum @Batchelorshow Charlie Pellegrino #Unbound: the complete, twenty-minute interview, June 18, 2021. LXX GLXXG Finding the Hero of Herculaneum two thousand years later. Charles Pellegrino https://news.yahoo.com/2-000-old-skeleton-roman-135559332.html Ghosts of Vesuvius: A New Look at the Last Days of Pompeii, How Towers Fall, and Other Strange Connections    Paperback – August 9, 2005 by Charles R Pellegrino https://www.amazon.com/Ghosts-Vesuvius-Pompeii-Strange-Connections/dp/0060751002 A fascinating look at Pompeii, Herculaneum and the Vesuvius eruption in comparison with other historically significant volcanic eruptions, including the World Trade Center disaster.  The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, which obliterated the Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum, was a disaster that resounds to this day. Now, the palaeontologist Charles Pellegrino presents a wealth of new knowledge about the doomed towns—and brings to vivid life the people, their last moments, and the aftermath.  The lessons learned from modern scrutiny of that ancient eruption produce disturbing echoes in the present. Dr Pellegrino, who worked at Ground Zero in the aftermath of the 9/11 attack, shares his unique knowledge of the strange physics of volcanic 'downblast' and 'collapse column', drawing a direct link from past to present, and providing readers with a poignant glimpse into the last moments of the 'American Vesuvius'. ...more

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• 1678: #Londinium90AD: Philosophizing (#AfterAfghanistan) on Tacitus opining on the might of the Roman Empire: "To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire; they make a [desert] and call it peace." Michael Vlahos.

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  Sep 12 2021

  Photo: Imperial Roman army.             Vinkhuijzen collection of military uniforms, NYPL The collection assembled by Hendrik Jacobus Vinkhuijzen (1843-1910), a Dutch physician, consists in its entirety of over 32,000 pictures, @Batchelorshow #Londinium90AD: Philosophizing (#AfterAfghanistan) on Tacitus opining on the might of the Roman Empire: "To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire; they make a [desert] and call it peace." Michael Vlahos. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgacus ...more

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• 1677: Two Weeks after the Tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, August 16, 2021. @LongWarJournal.

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  Sep 12 2021

  Photo: U.S. Navy SEALs find valuable intelligence in Afghanistan CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Two Weeks after the Tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, August 16, 2021. @LongWarJournal. https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/08/osama-bin-ladens-security-chief-triumphantly-returns-to-hometown-in-afghanistan.php

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• 1677: One Week after the Tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, August 16, 2021. @LongWarJournal.

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  Sep 12 2021

  Photo: Stamp of Afghanistan - 1964 - Kabul International Airport . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow One Week after the Tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, August 16, 2021. @LongWarJournal. https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/08/talibans-special-forces-outfit-providing-security-at-kabul-airport.php

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• 1677: The Tragedy of the Fall of Kabul: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, August 16, 2021. @LongWarJournal.

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  Sep 12 2021

  Photo: Taliban religious police beating a woman in Kabul on 26 August 2001. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow The Tragedy of the Fall of Kabul: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, August 16, 2021. @LongWarJournal. https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/08/ep-55-afghanistan-falls.php

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• 1677: One week before the tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, August 9, 2021. @LongWarJournal.

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  Sep 12 2021

  Photo: Mazar-i-Sharif. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow One week before the tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, August 9, 2021. @LongWarJournal. https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/08/fifth-northern-afghan-capital-falls-to-the-taliban.php

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• 1677: Two weeks before the tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, August 2, 2021. @LongWarJournal.

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  Sep 12 2021

  Photo:  Dozens of 60mm mortar rounds were discovered in a Taliban insurgent's compound in Helmand province Thursday. Coalition forces destroyed the ammunition to prevent its future use. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Two weeks before the tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete. forty-minute interview, August 2, 2021. @LongWarJournal. https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/08/taliban-afghan-forces-battle-for-control-of-helmands-capital.php ...more

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• 1676: Three weeks before the tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND The complete, forty-minute interview, July 26, 2021. @LongWarJournal.

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  Sep 12 2021

  Photo: Abdullah Ghufar, a generator technician for the Afghanistan Urban Water Supply Corporation, shows members of the Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team-Military the facility’s emergency diesel generator. The Kandahar PRT-M provided Ghufar some troubleshooting advice to help fix a problem with the system in order to provide uninterrupted potable water to the people of Kandahar City. . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Three weeks before the tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND The complete, forty-minute interview, July 26, 2021. @LongWarJournal. https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/07/taliban-battled-afghan-military-for-control-of-kandahar-city.php ...more

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• 1676: Four weeks before the tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete forty minute interview, July 19, 2021. @LongWarJournal.

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  Sep 12 2021

  Photo: Afghan Special Operations soldiers destroy a Taliban weapons cache during a night operation in Ney Meydan, Sar-e Pul province, Afghanistan, Feb. 23, 2018.. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Four weeks before the tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, July 19, 2021. @LongWarJournal. https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/07/nearly-half-of-afghanistans-provincial-capitals-under-threat-from-taliban.php ...more

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• 1676: Five weeks before the tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND The complete, forty-minute interview, July 12, 2021. @LongWarJournal.

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  Sep 12 2021

  Photo: Taliban take over Kabul. (Screen grab). CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Five weeks before the tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND  The complete, forty-minute interview, July 12, 2021. @LongWarJournal. https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/07/taliban-advances-as-u-s-completes-withdrawal.php

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• 1675: Seven weeks before the tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND The complete, nineteen-minute interview, June 28, 2021. @LongWarJournal.

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  Sep 12 2021

  Photo: Proposed structure of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan government under the (unratified) 1998 constitution CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Seven weeks before the tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND   The complete, nineteen-minute interview, June 28, 2021. @LongWarJournal. https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/06/talibans-deputy-emir-issues-guidance-for-governance-in-newly-seized-territory.php ...more

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• 1675: Eight weeks before the tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND n The complete, nineteen minute-interview, June 21, 2021. @LongWarJournal.

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  Sep 12 2021

  Photo: An aerial view from the window of a Blackhawk helicopter between Balkh Province and Kunduz Province . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Eight weeks before the tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND n  The complete, nineteen minute-interview, June 21, 2021. @LongWarJournal. https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/06/taliban-enters-kunduz-city-seizes-control-of-17-districts.php

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• 1675: Nine weeks before the tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, nineteen-minute interview, June 14, 2021. @LongWarJournal.

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  Sep 12 2021

  Photo: Taliban fighters in Kabul, 17 August 2021 . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Nine weeks before the tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, nineteen-minute interview, June 14, 2021. @LongWarJournal. https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/06/taliban-takes-control-of-30-districts-in-past-six-weeks.php

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• 1675: Ten weeks before the tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, nineteen-minute interview, June 7, 2021. @LongWarJournal.

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  Sep 12 2021

  Photo: An Afghan and coalition security force departs base to search for a Haqqani network leader in Khost district, Khost province, Afghanistan, Feb. 4, 2012. The leader directed car and suicide bomb attacks and moved weapons and money for insurgent activity in Khost. The security force captured the Haqqani network leader and seized multiple weapons during the night operatio. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Ten weeks before the tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete nineteen minute interview, June 7, 2021. @LongWarJournal. https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/06/u-n-report-cites-new-intelligence-on-haqqanis-close-ties-to-al-qaeda.php ...more

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• 1675: Twelve Weeks before the Tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal. #UNBOUND @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn The complete, nineteen-minute interview May 24, 2021. @LongWarJournal

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  Sep 12 2021

  Photo: Afghan National Army soldiers in combat with the Taliban. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Twelve Weeks before the Tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal. #UNBOUND @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn  The complete, nineteen-minute interview May 24, 2021. @LongWarJournal https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/05/analysis-predicting-the-coming-taliban-offensive.php

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• 1675: Thirteen Weeks Before the Tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal. #UNBOUND @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn The complete, nineteen-minute interview May 17, 2021.@LongWarJournal

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  Sep 12 2021

  Photo: Taliban border guard, 2001. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Thirteen Weeks Before the Tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal. #UNBOUND @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn  The complete, nineteen-minute interview May 17, 2021.@LongWarJournal https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/05/taliban-leader-boasts-of-security-under-his-islamic-emirate.php https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/05/taliban-has-surrounded-five-afghan-provincial-capitals.php ...more

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• 1675: Fifteen weeks Before the Tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal. #UNBOUND @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn The complete nineteen minute interview May 3, 2021. @LongWarJournal

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  Sep 12 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Fifteen weeks Before the Tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal. #UNBOUND @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn  The complete nineteen minute interview May 3, 2021. @LongWarJournal https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/05/idf-says-it-downed-two-hezbollah-drones-in-recent-weeks.php

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• 1675: Seventeen Weeks before the Tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal. #UNBOUND @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn The complete, nineteen-minute interview April 19, 2021. @LongWarJournal

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  Sep 12 2021

  Photo: CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Seventeen Weeks before the Tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal. #UNBOUND @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn  The complete, nineteen-minute interview April 19, 2021. @LongWarJournal https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/04/taliban-demands-u-s-withdraw-forces-by-may-1-deadline.php

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• 1674: Memories of 9-11-01 at the World Trade Center. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion

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  Sep 11 2021

  Photo: The World Trade Center burns . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Memories of 9-11-01 at the World Trade Center. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion

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• 1674: Twenty years later without consensus in the land. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion

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  Sep 11 2021

  Photo: Civil troubles, by Gustave Doré  CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Twenty years later without consensus in the land. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion https://www.wsj.com/articles/9-11-september-eleventh-partisanship-political-polarization-2000-election-war-on-terror-11631131148?st=xn0zi2o6t3re0wz&reflink=article_gmail_share

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• 1674: 2/2: Memories of 9-11-01 at the West Wing of the White House, at the White House Bunker; at the White House residence. Condoleezza Rice, Former Secretary of State; Former National Security Adviser.

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  Sep 11 2021

  Photo: The West Wing (lower right) by night, December 2006 . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 2/2: Memories of 9-11-01 at the West Wing of the White House, at the White House Bunker; at the White House residence. Condoleezza Rice, Former Secretary of State; Former National Security Adviser. No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington Hardcover – November 1, 2011. by Condoleezza Rice  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/No-Higher-Honor-Memoir-Washington/dp/030758786X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=rice+amazon+no+higher+honor&qid=1631320339&s=books&sr=1-1...more

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• 1674: 1/2: Memories of 9-11-01 at the West Wing of the White House, at the White House Bunker; at the White House residence. Condoleezza Rice, Former Secretary of State; former National Security Adviser.

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  Sep 11 2021

  Photo:   U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne Cheney, in the Presidential Emergency Operations Center following the September 11 attacks. . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 1/2: Memories of 9-11-01 at the West Wing of the White House, at the White House Bunker; at the White House residence. Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State; Former National Security Adviser. No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington Hardcover – November 1, 2011. by Condoleezza Rice  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/No-Higher-Honor-Memoir-Washington/dp/030758786X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=rice+amazon+no+higher+honor&qid=1631320339&s=books&sr=1-1...more

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• 1674: #NewWorldReport: The failed state Venezuela advances; & What is to be done? Latin of Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis HFN

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  Sep 11 2021

  Photo: .Angel Falls, the world's highest waterfall, in Southeastern Venezuela CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #NewWorldReport: The Failed State Venezuela advances & What is to be done?  Latin of  Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis HFN https://www.ft.com/content/7c970ce9-655a-47d4-a553-cd2be4c26fd1

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• 1674: #NewWorldReport: Memories of 9-11-01 at Tysons Corner, Virginia. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis HFN

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  Sep 11 2021

  Photo: .Tysons Corner in 1936 CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #NewWorldReport: Memories of 9-11-01 at Tysons Corner, Virginia. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis HFN . 

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• 1674: Webb vs SLS: last tortoise to launch wins. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com GLXXG

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  Sep 11 2021

  Photo: (From Dutch:)  A tortoise and a hare are standing by a fox. In the background a city. The fable describes the running race between the tortoise and the hare. The hare is much faster than the tortoise. He thinks he has already won and goes to rest before he has reached the finish line. The turtle moves slowly but has perseverance and crosses the line first. The moral of the story is that perseverance is more important than talent. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Webb vs SLS: last tortoise to launch wins. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com GLXXG https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-now-targets-december-18-2021-for-launch-of-webb/ ...more

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• 1674: The blossoming of Commercial Space tourism Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com GLXXG

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  Sep 11 2021

  Photo: Schematic of a fusion-driven rocket; NASA. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow The blossoming of Commercial Space tourism Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com GLXXG https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/questions-raised-about-bransons-most-recent-virgin-galactic-stock-sale/ A fusion rocket is a theoretical design for a rocket driven by fusion propulsion that could provide efficient and sustained acceleration in space without the need to carry a large fuel supply. The design requires fusion power technology beyond current capabilities, and much larger and more complex rockets....more

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• 1674: Memories of 9-11-01 at the University of Chicago Law School. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Sep 11 2021

  Photo:  Entry gate, replete with gargoyles, to the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Memories of 9-11-01 at the University of Chicago Law School. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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• 1674: Memories of 9/11 in Kansas City, Kansas; memories of the Bali Bombing of October 2002; limiting beer. Scott Mayman @CBSNews Brisbane, Queensland

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  Sep 11 2021

  Photo:  President Theodore Roosevelt in Kansas City, Kansas. Creator: Underwood & Underwood.  September 28, 1900 Memories of 9/11 in Kansas City, Kansas; memories of the Bali Bombing of October 2002. Scott Mayman @CBSNews Brisbane, Queensland  Limiting Bottles of Beer in NSW

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• 1674: Memories of 9-11-01 on the Central Coast of California. Wildfires exhaust the firefighters. Jeff Bliss @JCBliss

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  Sep 11 2021

  Photo:  Rocky shoreline of Morro Bay State Park, on the southern tip of Morro Bay on California's Central Coast Memories of 9-11-01 on the Central Coast of California. Wildfires exhaust the firefighters. Jeff Bliss @JCBliss https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/10/us/california-fire-update.html?campaign_id=190&emc=edit_wft_20210910&instance_id=40068&nl=updates-from-the-newsroom&regi_id=48791578&segment_id=68579&te=1&user_id=d2a4600a088d7327fc3f113394208218

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• 1674: Memories of 9-11-1 at the Farragut Square Metro, Washington, D.C. Francis Rose, @FrancisRoseDC. FedScoop.com.

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  Sep 11 2021

  Photo: Farragut North Metro station; google photo Memories of 9-11-1 at the Farragut Square Metro, Washington, D.C.  Francis Rose, @FrancisRoseDC. FedScoop.com.   Francis Rose, host, Government Matters (Washington, D.C.); NationalDefenseWeek.com and francisrose.com; ABC 7 & News Channel 8 at WJLA-TV.  @FrancisRoseDC. 

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• 1674: #HotelMars: Fusion Rocketry for Long Voyages. Stephanie Thomas, Princeton Satellite Systems; David Livingston, SpaceShow.com

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  Sep 11 2021

  Photo:  Schematic of a fusion-driven rocket; NASA. HotelMars: Fusion Rocketry for Long Voyages. Stephanie Thomas, Princeton Satellite Systems; David Livingston, SpaceShow.com https://www.psatellite.com A fusion rocket is a theoretical design for a rocket driven by fusion propulsion that could provide efficient and sustained acceleration in space without the need to carry a large fuel supply. The design requires fusion power technology beyond current capabilities, and much larger and more complex rockets....more

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• 1674: #Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus remembering the unknowns of unexpected horror such as 9-11-01. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Sep 11 2021

  Photo: #Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus remembering the unknowns of unexpected horror such as 9-11-01.   Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis

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• 1674: Not ready to go back to the office. Gene Marks @GeneMarks @Guardian

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  Sep 11 2021

  Photo: Not ready to go back to the office.  Gene Marks @GeneMarks @Guardian https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-technology-business-software-san-francisco-9e49f60362702a18dc7180e6294599b4

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• 1674: The Presidential Mandate for Vaccines Burdens Small Business America. Gene Marks @GeneMarks @Guardian

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  Sep 11 2021

  Photo: The Presidential Mandate for Vaccines Burdens Small Business America. Gene Marks @GeneMarks @Guardian https://www.whitehouse.gov/covidplan/

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• 1673: Memories of 9-11-01 in Brooklyn, Manhattan and at Ground Zero. @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNew @DailyBeast GLXXG

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  Sep 10 2021

  Photo: New York, NY (Sep. 13, 2001) A rescuer takes a break from the toil of the recovery efforts surrounded by the eerie reminder of what once was a bustling area of world commerce.  The World Trade Center was destroyed during a September 11, 2001, terrorist attack.  U.S. Navy photo by Photographers Mate 2nd Class Jim Watson. . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Memories of 9-11-01 in Brooklyn, Manhattan and at Ground Zero. @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNew @DailyBeast GLXXG...more

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• 1673: Memories of 9-11-01 at Toronto, Ontario. @ConradMBlack

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  Sep 10 2021

  Photo: Toronto from top of Rossin House (S.E. corner of King and York Streets looking towards Niagara); 1840s  CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Memories of 9-11-01 at Toronto, Ontario. @ConradMBlack .. National Post    The greatest significance of the dramatic and evil assault on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington 20 years ago was that it initiated a new form of quasi-military violence against the Western democratic powers that had emerged at the end of the Cold War as overwhelmingly the most influential political, economic and cultural force in the world. The national security policy of the leader of the Western alliance, the United States, was enunciated in two speeches to the United States Congress by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941. In his State of the Union address in January of that year he said that America “must always be wary of those who with ‘sounding brass and tinkling cymbal’ would preach the ‘ism of appeasement'.” In his war message of December 8, 1941, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and many other sites in the Pacific, Roosevelt said, “we will make very certain that this form of treachery never again endangers us.” The burden of these assertions was that the United States would not be an appeasement power and that it would thereafter retain sufficient deterrent strength that no country would attack it again as Japan had.     Between Roosevelt and George W. Bush, 10 presidents, five of each party, had essentially upheld that double formula successfully. The United States did not appease competing or adversarial states, although it attempted to compromise with them; and no other country has dared to risk the retaliatory response of American military might. The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, were the fruit of the imagination of the most militant enemies of America and the West: an attack by people who deliberately committed suicide in conducting the attack—not only were unafraid of dying but were eager to die—by forces that could not be directly linked in any command structure to any sovereign state. It was, after 50 years, the double evasion of the Roosevelt formula: forces so shadowy it was not clear how they could be appeased if anyone wished to do so, and so fanatical that they could not be deterred from even the most heinous acts because of their ardent desire to die for their cause. Clearly, and in the most dramatic possible way, a new threat had emerged.  The spectacle on television of the attacks on the World Trade Center towers is rivaled only by the film of the assassination of Pres. Kennedy as the most vividly and widely remembered incident in the lifetime of anyone now living.    It must be said that the American and allied response was impressive. For the first time, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) invoked the war clause and the North Atlantic Council, NATO's governing authority, unanimously stated that an Alliance member had been attacked in an act of war and every country in the alliance responded as if it were an act of war against themselves: “An attack upon one is an attack upon all.” Forces from a large number of NATO countries were dispatched to Afghanistan, [which w]as the training and staging area for the 9/11 outrages. They quickly overthrew the Afghan government, destroyed the training facilities of the terrorist groups and drove them out of Afghanistan; and virtually every country in the world other than a few militantly Islamist or very primitive states united in a vast system of information exchange and paramilitary cooperation.     Those who remember 9/11 well will remember the widespread speculation and the noisy threats of terrorist spokespeople to the effect that this was merely the introduction of an endless series of massive terrorist assaults upon the West. Of course, there have been some such assaults, although very few recently and some of them were very deadly—though none as horrible or spectacular as the 9/11 attacks 20 years ago. We must not be so depressed and scandalized by the shameful end of the NATO presence in Afghanistan, at the instigation of the current U.S. president, that we fail to recognize the very thorough and almost leak-proof protection that the antiterrorist forces of the Western Alliance and its affiliates, such as Israel and Japan, have given the civil population of the West and its allies these 20 years.                     The disorderly withdrawal from Afghanistan has been an appalling fiasco but the West was certainly not militarily defeated. The American government decided, as the Soviet Union decided in the 1980’s and the British Empire decided in the middle of the 19th century, that Afghanistan had few resources, was primitive, landlocked, and terribly inhospitable, had practically no strategic value and was accordingly not worth the military effort to maintain control of the urban areas as NATO was doing with only about 10,000 members of its Armed Forces until a month ago. There is room to dispute this judgment, and I don't agree with it myself, but it was a public relations and not a military defeat. The effect of this withdrawal will be to test whether the Islamist terrorist forces wish to use Afghanistan again as the launching place for their criminal violence or not. If they do, obviously, Afghanistan will be attacked again and probably with much greater violence than it was 20 years ago. Afghanistan has been regarded as rich only in heroin, but the theory has recently arisen that it is rich in rare earths as well.  It sounds like Marxist Herbert Marcuse’s theory that the U.S. was in Vietnam because of the oil (which still has not been discovered). In any case, if China wants to plunge into mineral exploration in Afghanistan and add it to its famous Belt and Road, it is welcome to it.     Terrorism isn't really war: it isn't an effort of one sovereign authority to try to overcome and defeat another. It is an attempt by people who possess no sovereign authority, no legitimacy whatever, to strike at innocent people with such violence that it produces sketchily outlined concessions from legitimate sovereign countries. It has been successful only when it has been the advance activity of ultimately successful revolutionary movements within certain countries. It is conceivable that it could undermine and heavily influence, as it has in the last 20 years, some countries highly susceptible to militant Islam. But even those countries will not explicitly adopt terrorist techniques because the retaliation from the states they attacked would be so overwhelming, it would completely over-power the small number of fanatics and programmed idiots who want to die for their cause.     The terrible events of 20 years ago and their sequels have not threatened our civilization as Nazism and Soviet communism did: Great Powers armed to the teeth and led by satanic dictators. Terrorism horrifies all decent people and kills a comparatively small number, but as an instrument of advancement of the cause in which it is inflicted, terrorism is a failure. The West's error, and it was the mistake of George W. Bush, was to try to eradicate terrorism and war by promoting democracy. This required nation-building so profound that there were not the time or the resources to complete it effectively in the barren soil of primitive and undemocratic societies. And it failed to provide for the democratic selection of anti-democratic political movements: Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the Iraqi electorate may prefer dictatorship to democracy.     Humiliating debacle though it was, the departure from Afghanistan does represent a withdrawal by the West from an overextended position, and an opportunity for the principal Muslim terrorist organizations to try more conventional and less sociopathic methods of advancing their cause. It is obvious that there will be no toleration, anywhere in the West, or by China and Russia (pending Russia taking its rightful place as a western country) for terrorism or any of its espoused objectives. The terrorist attacks in New York and Washington 20 years ago were permanently shocking, but as the dramatic beginning of a campaign to shatter Western civilization, they and their sequels have been almost as conspicuous a failure as were Nazi Germany’s recourse to aggressive war in 1939 and Imperialist Japan’s assault on Pearl Harbor and across the Pacific in 1941.    ..  ...more

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• 1673: The Delta variant is dominant, widespread, relentless, able to push past the vaccines, and unlikely the last of it. @HenryIMiller @PacificReaserch HenryMillerMD.org HFN

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  Sep 10 2021

  Photo:  Pigs can harbor influenza viruses adapted to humans and others that are adapted to birds, allowing the viruses to exchange genes and create a pandemic strain.. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow The Delta variant is dominant, widespread, relentless, able to push past the vaccines, and unlikely the last of it. @HenryIMiller @PacificReaserch HenryMillerMD.org HFN https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03944-y

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• 1673: No fishing Cuba & What is to be done? @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion

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  Sep 10 2021

  Photo: Fidel Castro and Che Guevara participated in the 1960 Hemingway [Fishing] Tournament in Cuba. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow No fishing Cuba & What is to be done? @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion https://www.wsj.com/articles/sanction-cuba-fishing-communists-protests-dollar-remittance-let-cubans-live-petition-emily-mendrala-biden-administration-11630938612?st=cq09rsszku8t5xs&reflink=article_gmail_share . "Reprisals carried out by storm troopers and secret police against participants in Cuba’s July 11 uprising have been widely condemned, including by President Biden. But the international left is trying to help Cuba’s military dictatorship recover from this public-relations disaster by blaming the U.S. for the island’s misery.  . . .  A Caribbean sea teeming with marine life contains abundant protein. Yet it’s nearly impossible for Cubans legally to reel in dinner to feed their families." ...more

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• 1673: Memories of 9-11-01 at the Cato Institute, Washington D.C. @VeroDeRugy @Mercatus

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  Sep 10 2021

  Photo: Cato in Washington . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Memories of 9-11-01 at the Cato Institute, Washington D.C.  @VeroDeRugy @Mercatus

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• 1673: #AfterAfghanistan: Memories of 9-11-01 at the National Security Council. The profound improvement of American intelligence-gathering. David Shedd, Former Acting Director DIA. Heritage Foundation. GLXXG

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  Sep 10 2021

  Photo: This resembles the 17 IC-related agencies within the executive branch of the United States Government (USG). The U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) consists of 16 agencies and organizations under the Office of the Director of National Intelligence that all collaborate with the U.S. Justice Department.. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #AfterAfghanistan: Memories of 9-11-01 at the National Security Council. The profound improvement of American intelligence-gathering. David Shedd, Former Acting Director DIA. Heritage Foundation. GLXXG https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/09/08/yes-were-safer-from-terrorism-because-of-intelligence-reforms-after-9-11-however/ ...more

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• 1673: #AfterAfghanistan: Is this the close of American primacy? Andrew Bacevich @QuincyInst

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  Sep 10 2021

  Photo: Imperial shifts: Rus' under the walls of Constantinople (860 AD)* CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #AfterAfghanistan: Is this the close of American primacy? Andrew Bacevich @QuincyInst https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/02/age-american-privilege-is-over/?mc_cid=7a466249e3&mc_eid=UNIQID .. * The heir to the Roman Empire was the Byzantine Empire. Not only did Byzantium achieve greater feats of art and science than did Rome, it safeguarded (and advanced) for nearly 1,500 years the ancient knowledge of the Greeks and Romans. Combined with exposure to Islamic and far-Eastern (India and China) learning and wisdom, the Byzantine Empire was, at one point, the height of knowledge on Earth. Evidence suggests the European Renaissance was brought about an influx of Greek scholars from 1200—1450. . . . Later, the fall of the Byzantine Empire is thought to have led to the Renaissance. https://www.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=1c13371e97834ac8a835a6ddff6204ef ...more

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• 1673: Memories of 9-11-01 at LaGuardia Airport of the first plane and into Brooklyn as the second plane struck. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1

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  Sep 10 2021

  Photo: The doomed towers from Brooklyn.  Hundreds of thousands of Brookynites watched in horror as the two skyscrapers burned on September 11.  Among them were the small schoolchildren at Bard High School–Early College, one of whom cried out, “My  mother is working there!”   CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Memories of 9-11-01 at LaGuardia Airport of the first plane and  into Brooklyn as the second plane struck. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1...more

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• 1672: President Moon goes to the agitprop CCP war movies. Tara O, @DrTaraO; and Gordon Chang, @GordonGChang,

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  Sep 10 2021

  Photo:  Large sign featuring a propaganda slogan in 1972: "Long Live the Great, Glorious, and Correct Communist Party of China!" President Moon goes to the agitprop CCP war movies.  Tara O,  @DrTaraO;  and Gordon Chang, @GordonGChang, author, The Great U.S.-China Tech War.  Tara O of the East Asia Research Center (https://eastasiaresearch.org/)  https://twitter.com/DrTaraO/status/1435371790017179652 Tara O,  @DrTaraO;  and Gordon Chang, @GordonGChang, author, The Great U.S.-China Tech War; adjunct Fellow, Pacific Forum CSIS, and Fellow at the Institute for Corean-American Studies....more

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• 1672: #TheScalaReport: Normalizing Delta in business travel, hospitality, office work. #ScalaReport. Chris Riegel @Scala CEO, @STRATACACHE #TheScalaReport

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  Sep 10 2021

  Photo:  I1919 Sydney NSW. #TheScalaReport: Normalizing Delta in business travel, hospitality, office work. #ScalaReport.  Chris Riegel @Scala CEO,  @STRATACACHE #TheScalaReport https://www.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-delays-full-headquarters-reopening-to-undetermined-future-date-11631199600?st=lejh2yqcldv2iym&reflink=article_gmail_share https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-to-require-all-federal-workers-government-contractors-to-be-vaccinated-against-covid-19-11631195011

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• 1672: Has the Taliban learned a lesson from 2001? Anatol Lieven, Georgetown University @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst

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  Sep 10 2021

  Photo:  An Afghan and coalition security force arrested a Talibat in Panjwa'i district, Kandahar province, Dec. 24, 2012. The detained Taliban senior leader was responsible for the acquisition, coordination, emplacement and distribution of lethal aid for use in attacks targeting Afghan and coalition forces. (Photo by U.S. Army Pfc. Travis S. Jones) Has the Taliban learned a lesson from 2001?  Anatol Lieven, Georgetown University @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2109/S00022/what-next-after-20-years-of-war-in-afghanistan.htm...more

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• 1672: Memories of 9-11-01 in Washington. Anatol Lieven, Georgetown University @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst

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  Sep 10 2021

  Photo: DoD video of plane hitting the Penagon, September 11. Memories of 9-11-01 in Washington.  Anatol Lieven, Georgetown  University @LievenAnatol @QuincyInst

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• 1671: #AfterAfghanistan: The values of nation-building. Henry Nau, @GWU

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  Sep 10 2021

  Photo:  Nation-building: two views of Dresden, during the war and today; what had been a broken country was later welded into one nation, in large part by the Marshall Plan.  Screen grab. #AfterAfghanistan: The values of nation-building.  Henry Nau, @GWU https://providencemag.com/2021/08/why-nation-building-is-inevitable/ “Nation-building is constructing or structuring a national identity using the power of the state.”

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• 1671: In search of a Biden foreign policy. Russell Berman @HooverInst

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  Sep 10 2021

  Photo:  Empty Oval Office of the White House #AfterAfghanistan: In search of a Biden foreign policy.  Russell Berman @HooverInst https://thehill.com/opinion/international/569654-the-afghanistan-catastrophe-and-bidens-foreign-policy

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• 1671: What is the Biden policy toward China? Stephen Yates, CEO of D.C. International Advisory and former advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney. @YatesDCIA Gordon Chang @GordonGChang

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  Sep 10 2021

  Photo:  Secretary of State  and National Security Advisor  meet with Chinese officials in Alaska, March 2021:  Secretary Anthony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan Meet with CCP Director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs Yang Jiechi and State Councilor Wang Yi. What is the Biden policy toward China?  Stephen Yates, CEO of D.C. International Advisory and former advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney. @YatesDCIA   Gordon Chang @GordonGChang Throughout much of the 2000s, the Bush campaign argued for a move away from of “constructive strategic partnership” of the Clinton Administration towards a more realistic “strategic competition” with China. Through the first eight months of the Bush Administration, a great deal of effort was invested in redefining and resetting US policy towards China, consistent with the campaign. It didn’t happen immediately after 9/11, but soon thereafter the tone and content of Bush Administration dealings with China returned to the emphasis on cooperation over competition.  As the Global War on Terror emerged as the dominant global priority, and counterproliferation challenges from North Korea to Pakistan to Iran leaped to top-tier concerns, the president and other national security principals argued that competition with China was a long-term reality but, in the immediate term, cooperation with China was essential to address pressing national security demands. Somewhat akin to “14 days to flatten the curve” with regard to COVID, the “immediate term” pursuit of cooperation from China on GWOT and counterproliferation stretched from the end of President Bush’s first year in office all the way through the end of his presidency. https://www.cfr.org/timeline/us-relations-china ...more

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• 1671: Memory of 9-11-01 at the Executive Office Building. Stephen Yates @YatesDCIA @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

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  Sep 10 2021

  Photo:  Old Executive Office Building, Washington, D.C. Memory of 9-11-01 at the Executive Office Building.  Stephen Yates @YatesDCIA @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2021-09-07/get-out-now-inside-the-white-house-on-9-11-according-to-the-staffers-who-were-there Stephen Yates, CEO of D.C. International Advisory and former advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney.   @YatesDCIA  Gordon Chang @GordonGChang

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• 1670: #PacificWatch: Flex Alert for California energy demand; Warren and Harris boost the strident Newsom @JCBliss #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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  Sep 09 2021

  Photo:  Governor's Mansion State Historic Park, 1526 H Street, Sacramento, California, USA. The former governor's mansion, built in 1877 for Albert and Clemenza Gallatin. Photography was permitted without restriction.. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #PacificWatch: Flex Alert for California energy demand; Warren and Harris boost the strident Newsom @JCBliss #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/California-Warns-Consumers-To-Use-Less-Power-As-Heatwave-Nears.html ...more

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• 1669: Marines working the State Department for those left behind. SalenaZito.com @DCExaminer

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  Sep 09 2021

  Photo: An Afghan family attempted to return to the United States on Aug. 19 but encountered chaos and violence outside the Kabul airport. (Courtesy of and appreciation to Mohammad Sadeed). CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Marines working the State Department for those left behind. SalenaZito.com @DCExaminer https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/for-these-marines-a-constant-rush-to-zero-hour-to-rescue-stranded-americans

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• 1669: Memories of 9/11 in Pittsburgh as Flight 93 passed over the stadium. SalenaZito.com

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  Sep 09 2021

  Photo: Flight 93 crash site CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Memories of 9/11 in Pittsburgh as Flight 93 passed over the stadium. SalenaZito.com 

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• 1669: #KabulDiary: Panjshir falls; the Taliban designated-terrorists rise. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal

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  Sep 09 2021

  Photo: Earlier days:  Panjshir Provincial Reconstruction Team members and villagers gather outside the Perengal School preceding the school’s ribbon-cutting ceremony in Dara District, Afghanistan, May 17. (Photo by U.S. Air Force 2nd Lt. Ashleigh Peck) . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #KabulDiary:  Panjshir falls; the Taliban designated-terrorists rise. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/09/talibans-government-includes-designated-terrorists-ex-guantanamo-detainees.php ...more

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• 1669: Memories of 9/11 in New Jersey and New York. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal

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  Sep 09 2021

  Photo: .Nacirema ("American" spelled backward) Demolition Company, based in New Jersey, immediately sent enormous demo equipment through the Holland Tunnel to the pile to start clearing the site. Volunteers poured into lower Manhattan from all over the United States.  No one asked them to come; they just dropped everything and raced to help their compatriots who were in trouble. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Memories of 9/11 in New Jersey and New York.  @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal...more

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• 1669: Virgin Galactic remains grounded for cause. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com GLXXG

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  Sep 09 2021

  Photo: Virgin Galactic presents iteslf https://www.virgingalactic.com CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Virgin Galactic remains grounded for cause. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com GLXXG https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/faa-grounds-virgin-galactic-pending-investigationn/

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• 1669: Ingenuity steals every scene from plodding Perseverance. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com HFN

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  Sep 09 2021

  Photo: Mars helicopter https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/# CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Ingenuity steals every scene from plodding Perseverance.Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com HFN https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/ingenuity-completes-13th-flight/

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• 1669: Memories of 9/11 in Manhattan escaping on foot. Simon Constable @RealConstable GLXXG

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  Sep 09 2021

  Photo:   WTC-Fireman requests 10 more colleagues. Photo by the US Government , . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Memories of 9/11 in Manhattan escaping on foot. Simon Constable @RealConstable GLXXG 

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• 1669: France protest the pandemic; Scotland protests the UK. Simon Constable @RealConstable HFN

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  Sep 09 2021

  Photo: The Anglo-Scottish Wars comprise the various battles which continued to be fought between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland from the time of the Wars of Independence in the early 14th century through to the latter years of the 16th century. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow France protest the pandemic; Scotland protests the UK. Simon Constable @RealConstable HFN https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foxnews.com/world/more-than-140000-french-citizens-protest-against-health-pass-for-8th-straight-weekend.amp https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cityam.com/scottish-independence-would-be-ten-times-worse-than-brexit-warns-sturgeon-economic-sage/amp/%3futm_content=bufferd2393&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer ...more

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• 1668: Memory of 9/11 at eight years old. Felix Light @CBSNews @MoscowTimes

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  Sep 08 2021

  Photo: The Battle of Borodino, 1812.   In southwest England, home to Felix Light as a child: The Norse king Sweyn Forkbeard.   In 1013, shortly before his death, he became the first Danish king of England after a long effort. Sweyn was father of the famous King Canute. Memory of 9/11 at 8 years old. Felix Light @CBSNews @MoscowTimes Online voting for the Duma. Magnificent Borodino Re-enactors. https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/09/08/russians-say-they-are-being-forced-to-vote-in-elections-this-time-online-a74999...more

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• 1668: Memory of 9/11 in Jakarta, Indonesia; also, Taliban are the Deobandi. Sadanand Dhume, @WSJOpinion

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  Sep 08 2021

  Photo:   Logo for Darul Uloom Deoband.     Memory of 9/11 in Jakarta, Indonesia; also, Taliban are the Deobandi. Sadanand Dhume, @WSJOpinion https://www.wsj.com/articles/taliban-islam-battle-religion-madrassas-pakistan-11630597409?mkt_tok=NDc1LVBCUS05NzEAAAF_X1FDQ_-1Lh0S1EWsD3U5lmt7iTUNbzpKV8v3ZNvt2gMo5igGXMchaw65F1IJIV709dpSu3yCbGUaeHZbuIhj4K4_Uw30YU1zLlnZMOa9VOw

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• 1668: #AfterAfghanistan: What is NATO's mission? Jeff McCausland @mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsoncol

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  Sep 08 2021

  Photo:  A 1952 US postage stamp commemorating the third anniversary of NATO. Stamps honoring the organization were issued by many member countries. #AfterAfghanistan: What is NATO's mission? Jeff McCausland  @mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsoncol

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• 1668: Memory of 9/11 in Madrid, Spain. Jeff McCausland @mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsoncol

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  Sep 08 2021

  Photo:  Spain (during the Spanish civil war):   Granollers after being bombed by Nationalists aviation in 1938;  Memory of 9/11 in Madrid, Spain. Jeff McCausland  @mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsoncol

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• 1668: Will Beijing permit Evergrande Property to fail? @CharlesOrtel, On the Money podcast & Newport Value Partners,and @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

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  Sep 08 2021

  Photo: Clip from Evergrande Group's gripping, potboiler marketing vid.             https://www.evergrande.com/News/Details/248778 Will Beijing permit Evergrande Property to fail? @CharlesOrtel, On the Money podcast & Newport Value Partners,and @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.reuters.com/business/china-evergrande-delay-loan-interest-payments-banks-redd-reports-2021-09-08/

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• 1668: People's Daily declares war on the United States; & What is to be done? Charles Burton@cburton001 and @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

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  Sep 08 2021

  Photo:   A clip originally posted on the Weibo microblogging platform by the People’s Liberation Army’s Eastern Theater Command.   People's Daily declares war on the United States; & What is to be done?  Charles Burton@cburton001  and @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.newsweek.com/chinas-venom-against-us-ominous-opinion-1626302 Charles Burton, senior Fellow at the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute; associate professor of political science at Brock University.  Charles Burton and Associates consults to governments, educational institutions and businesses to support their programs in China.     @cburton001 ..  ..  ..   "The top uniformed soldier in China, chairman of China's Central Military Commission, stated that war with the United States is inevitable," Coffman said. "That is the first time China has made that statement publicly." https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/03/11/china-declares-war-us-inevitable-army-general-highlights-need-fighting-vehicles.html ...more

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• 1667: The Traffic Light Pulls Ahead with Olaf Scholz. Vendeline von Bredow, @TheEconomist

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  Sep 08 2021

  Photo:  Advert for an "Electric Traffic Regulator" in the Pryke & Palmer catalogue of 1930 The Traffic Light Pulls Ahead with Olaf Scholz. Vendeline von Bredow, @TheEconomist https://www.economist.com/europe/the-social-democrats-surge-upends-germanys-election-campaign/21803922?frsc=dg%7Ce https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/short_news/scholz-warms-for-traffic-light-coalition-on-federal-level/ SPD’s chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz and the party leadership emphasised on Monday that a so-called ‘traffic light’ coalition with the Greens and the Liberals could be an option to form a federal government without the conservative CDU/CSU after the federal elections in autumn. ...more

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• 1667: Memory of 9/11 in Manhattan, at the Central Park Reservoir. Vendeline von Bredow, @TheEconomist

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  Sep 08 2021

  Photo:  The Grotto Reservoir, Central Park, New York City Memory of 9/11 in Manhattan, at the Central Park Reservoir. Vendeline von Bredow, @TheEconomist https://www.centralparknyc.org/locations/reservoir

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• 1666: #StateThinking: @MaryKissel: Memories of 9-11-01 at Goldman Sachs in London connected by voice link to Goldman Sachs in Manhattan. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc.

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  Sep 08 2021

  Photo: City of London coat-of-arms. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #StateThinking: @MaryKissel: Memories of 9-11-01 at Goldman Sachs in London connected by voice link to Goldman Sachs in Manhattan. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc.

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• 1666: #StateThinking: @MaryKissel: Where are the US State Department Consular Services for the Afghans seeking to exit a civil war? @MaryKissel. Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc.

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  Sep 08 2021

  Photo: Old State Department building in Washington, D.C., c. 1865. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #StateThinking: @MaryKissel: Where are the US State Department Consular Services for the Afghans seeking to exit a civil war? @MaryKissel. Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. https://sports.yahoo.com/blinken-says-us-not-aware-154410207.html

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• 1666: Not just Raab and Johnson, but neither major Party distinguishes itself in this Parliament. @Adrian Wooldridge @AdWooldridge @TheEconomist GLXXG

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  Sep 08 2021

  Photo: .John Bull ["hic!'] cartoon—"Give me all your possessions except your porter and perry; keep them out of my sight as I've had enough already." To see the text:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bull#/media/File:WilliamCharlesJohnnyBullAndTheAlexandrians.jpg CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Not just Raab and Johnson, but neither major Party distinguishes itself in this Parliament. @Adrian Wooldridge @AdWooldridge @TheEconomist GLXXG https://www.economist.com/britain/britains-foreign-secretary-isnt-up-to-the-job/21804153 ...more

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• 1666: Goldman Sachs lowers 2021 GDP estimate: Global slowdown, inflation, Delta, taxes. @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews

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  Sep 08 2021

  Photo: Fault Lines Widen in the Global Recovery, & Growth Projections by Region., IMF Projections CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Goldman Sachs lowers 2021 GDP estimate: Global slowdown, inflation, Delta, taxes. @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/07/goldman-cuts-gdp-forecast-on-delta-variant-setback-fading-fiscal-stimulus.html

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• 1666: Memories of 9-11-01 in Manhattan. @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews

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  Sep 08 2021

  Photo: Fire fighters carrying water hose through rubble September 11th following terrorist attack on World Trade Center, . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Memories of 9-11-01 in Manhattan. @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews 

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• 1666: Memories of 9-11-01 in Washington, D.C. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs GLXXG

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  Sep 08 2021

  Photo: Arlington, Va. (Sep. 12, 2001) A section of the Pentagon lies in ruins following the deadly Sep. 11 terrorist attack in which a hijacked commercial airliner was crashed into the Pentagon.  American Airlines FLT 77 was bound for Los Angeles from Washington Dulles with 58 passengers and 6 crew.  All aboard the aircraft were killed, along with 125 people in the Pentagon. U. S. Naval photo by Photographer's  Mate 1st Class Michael W. Pendergrass. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Memories of 9-11-01 in Washington, D.C.  Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs GLXXG ...more

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• 1666: Xi Jinping presents the CCP with a victory over the US in Central Asia. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs HFN

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  Sep 08 2021

  Photo: Xi with a woman in traditional dress CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Xi Jinping presents the CCP with a victory over the US in Central Asia. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs HFN https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/italys-draghi-chinas-xi-discuss-afghanistan-g20-summit/ar-AAObLDp

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• 1666: Memories of 9-11-2001 in Georgetown, DC. Adrian Wooldridge AdWooldridge @TheEconomist

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  Sep 08 2021

  Photo: .View of Georgetown D.C. / lith. and printed in colors by E. Sachse & Co. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Memories of 9-11-2001 in Georgetown, DC. Adrian Wooldridge  @AdWooldridge @TheEconomist

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• 1666: How to defeat China without fighting. @KerryGershaneck, and Gordon Chang, @GordonGChang,

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  Sep 08 2021

  Photo:  Portraits of the martyrs in the first series of the Records of the Warlords of the War of Resistance Against Japan 中文（台灣）‎: 抗戰軍人忠烈錄第一輯中的烈士遺像 How to defeat China without fighting. @KerryGershaneck, and Gordon Chang, @GordonGChang, https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202108310010 https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4132745 Kerry Gershaneck, author of Political Warfare: Strategies for Combating China's Plan to “Win Without Fighting,” and visiting scholar at the National Chengchi University.  Director of Governmental and Public Relations for Pacific Forum/Center for Strategic & International Studies in Honolulu, Hawaii. @GordonGChang, author, The Coming Collapse of China and The Great U.S.-China Tech War ...more

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• 1666: India watching Pakistan dominate Afghanistan. Nitin Gokhale, strategic affairs analyst based in Delhi; National Security Analyst. Founder: http://BharatShakti.in and @StratNewsGlobal.com @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill HFN

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  Sep 08 2021

  Photo:  Afghan citizens returning from Pakistan in 2004 Nitin Gokhale @nitingokhale, and Gordon Chang, @GordonGChang, author, The Coming Collapse of China and The Great U.S.-China Tech War. India watching Pakistan dominate Afghanistan. Nitin Gokhale, strategic affairs analyst based in Delhi; National Security Analyst. Founder: http://BharatShakti.in and @StratNewsGlobal.com  @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill HFN https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/expert-take-how-big-a-concern-is-china-pakistan-taliban-axis-for-india/videoshow/85899885.cms ...more

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• 1666: Boris Johnson breaks his no-new-taxes pledge. Vicki Barker @CBSNews London

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  Sep 08 2021

  Photo:  Tax office. Boris Johnson breaks his no-new-taxes pledge. Vicki Barker @CBSNews London https://www.voanews.com/europe/british-pm-johnson-raises-taxes-tackle-health-social-care-crisis

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• 1666: Memories of 9-11-01 in London at the BBC Headquarters. Vicki Barker @CBSNews London

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  Sep 08 2021

  Photo:  BBC Radio 1 logo from 1990 to 1994 Memories of 9-11-01 in London at the BBC Headquarters. Vicki Barker @CBSNews London

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• 1666: Back to School with Delta: Is There an October Lockdown? Joseph Sternberg, @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion

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  Sep 08 2021

  Photo:  DECODING DELTA: HOW VIRUSES MUTATE AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT Back to School with Delta: Is There an October Lockdown?  Joseph Sternberg,  @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/october-lockdown-would-only-be-a-last-resort-gflcrvqpb

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• 1666: Johnson proposes NHS and Social Care Tax to Tory silence. Joseph Sternberg, @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion

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  Sep 08 2021

  Photo:   Print shows George, Prince of Wales, seated on a throne in the background waiting the results of a tug-of-war over the crown (and regency for the Prince) between the Tories represented by Edward Thurlow and William Pitt and the Whigs represented by Edmund Burke and Charles Fox. The illness of George III (1788-1790) raised the issue of a limited regency for the Prince. Johnson proposes NHS and Social Care Tax to Tory silence. Joseph Sternberg,  @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/working-pensioners-set-to-pay-national-insurance-in-social-care-reforms-mq9sw9pzd ...more

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• 1666: Goldman cuts 2021 GDP estimates. Joseph Sternberg, @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion

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  Sep 08 2021

  Photo:  Photograph shows Mrs. Robert Goldman (Edith Ostend Jacobson) a chorus girl who married Robert J. Goldman, son of Henry Goldman of Goldman Sachs. Robert Goldman sued his wife for divorce in March 1915. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012 and New York Times, March 2, 1915) Title and date from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Goldman cuts 2021 GDP estimates. Joseph Sternberg,  @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/07/goldman-cuts-gdp-forecast-on-delta-variant-setback-fading-fiscal-stimulus.html...more

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• 1666: Memories of 9-11-2001, at school as a sophomore at William & Mary College in Virginia. Joseph Sternberg, @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion

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  Sep 08 2021

  Photo:  View of William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia. Memories of 9-11-2001, at school as a sophomore at William & Mary College in Virginia. Joseph Sternberg,  @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion

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• 1665: #PacificWatch: Pulled the plug on the Oroville Reservoir (24% and sinking). @JCBliss HFN

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  Sep 07 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication. 1930 Oroville Station. Postcard. @Batchelorshow #PacificWatch: Pulled the plug on the Oroville Reservoir (24% and sinking). @JCBliss HFN https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/california-droughts-reduce-lake-oroville-levels-to-an-historic-low/ar-AAO9ec5

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• 1663: "Hollywood Before the Mast" #UNBOUND. A story from the collection, "Gordon Liddy is My Muse," by John Calvin Batchelor. Read by John Batchelor. HFN

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  Sep 07 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1924 Whale catcher delivering whales @Batchelorshow "Hollywood Before the Mast" #UNBOUND. A story from the collection, "Gordon Liddy is My Muse," by John Calvin Batchelor.   Read by John Batchelor. HFN https://www.amazon.com/Gordon-Liddy-Muse-Calvin-Batchelor/dp/0671690787

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• 1664: "In the Tunnel of Love" #UNBOUND. A story from the collection, Gordon Liddy Is My Muse, by John Calvin Batchelor. The complete, eighty-five minutes. Read by John Batchelor. HFN

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  Sep 07 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication. 1616 In een landschap staat een piramidevormig tuinornament, begroeid met klimop. In de lucht vliegt Amor die zijn pijl heeft gericht op een liefdespaartje dat rechts loopt. Links ligt in de verte een kasteel. De prent maakt deel uit van een serie prenten met liefdesemblemen. @Batchelorshow "In the Tunnel of Love" #UNBOUND.  A story from the collection, Gordon Liddy Is My Muse, by John Calvin Batchelor. The complete, eighty-five minutes. Read by John Batchelor. HFN Gordon Liddy Is My Muse, Hardcover;  by John Calvin Batchelor  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Gordon-Liddy-My-Muse-Tommy/dp/080503790X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= In nine darkly comic episodes that range from Moscow to Hollywood, the conservative spy novelist Tommy "Tip" Paine offers this postmodern, picaresque chase across our contemporary oral landscape....more

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• 1662: 4/4: Révolution Française, by Sophie Pedder. @PedderSophie @TheEconomist HFN

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  Sep 07 2021

  Photo: French Revolution. Historical Gallery or paintings of the events of the French Revolution first plate, nº7. Opening of the Estates General in the Salle des Menus-Plaisirs, in Versailles, on May 5, 1789. Révolution française. Galerie Historique ou tableaux des évènement de la Révolution française première planche, nº7. Ouverture des Etats Généraux dans la salle des Menus-Plaisirs, à Versailles, le 5 mai 1789 CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 4/4: Révolution Française, by Sophie Pedder.  @PedderSophie @TheEconomist HFN https://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Française-Emmanuel-Macron-reinvent/dp/1472948602 The extraordinary story of how an outsider candidate—an unknown technocrat and economics minister on the fringes of French politics—made his way to the Élysée palace, with expert analysis of his first year in office. Two years after Emmanuel Macron came from nowhere to seize the French presidency, Sophie Pedder, The Economist's Paris bureau chief, tells the story of his remarkable rise and time in office so far. In this paperback edition, published with a new foreword by the author, Pedder reflects on Macron's troubles and triumphs: his dwindling popularity; the 'gilets jaunes'protests and resulting civil unrest; his efforts to transform France and lead the global fight against climate change; the Benalla affair; his erratic relationships with Angela Merkel, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Theresa May, and the future of the European project.  On the eve of important European elections, and with nationalist and populist forces rising across the continent, she considers whether Macron can hold the centre ground and defend the multilateral liberal order against the axis of such figures as Italy's Matteo Salvini and Hungary's Viktor Orbán. Pedder also analyses the domestic situation in France, the evolution of En Marche, and the fall-out from Macron's controversial reforms. Meticulously researched and written in Pedder's gripping and immensely readable style, this is the essential, authoritative account for anyone wishing to understand Macron and the future of France in the world....more

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• 1662: 3/4: Révolution Française, by Sophie Pedder. @PedderSophie @TheEconomist GLXXG

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  Sep 07 2021

  Photo:  GAME OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, TRACE ON THE PLAN OF THE RENEWED GAME OF OYE OF THE GREEKS. JEU DE LA REVOLUTION FRANCAISE, TRACE SUR LE PLAN DU JEU D'OYE RENOUVELE DES GRECS. . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 3/4: Révolution Française, by Sophie Pedder.  @PedderSophie @TheEconomist GLXXG https://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Française-Emmanuel-Macron-reinvent/dp/1472948602 The extraordinary story of how an outsider candidate—an unknown technocrat and economics minister on the fringes of French politics—made his way to the Élysée palace, with expert analysis of his first year in office. Two years after Emmanuel Macron came from nowhere to seize the French presidency, Sophie Pedder, The Economist's Paris bureau chief, tells the story of his remarkable rise and time in office so far. In this paperback edition, published with a new foreword by the author, Pedder reflects on Macron's troubles and triumphs: his dwindling popularity; the 'gilets jaunes'protests and resulting civil unrest; his efforts to transform France and lead the global fight against climate change; the Benalla affair; his erratic relationships with Angela Merkel, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Theresa May, and the future of the European project.  On the eve of important European elections, and with nationalist and populist forces rising across the continent, she considers whether Macron can hold the centre ground and defend the multilateral liberal order against the axis of such figures as Italy's Matteo Salvini and Hungary's Viktor Orbán. Pedder also analyses the domestic situation in France, the evolution of En Marche, and the fall-out from Macron's controversial reforms. Meticulously researched and written in Pedder's gripping and immensely readable style, this is the essential, authoritative account for anyone wishing to understand Macron and the future of France in the world....more

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• 1662: 2/4: Révolution Française, by Sophie Pedder. @PedderSophie @TheEconomist HFN

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  Sep 07 2021

  Photo: Departure of ex-deputies Billaud, Collot and Barrere, for deportation: April 1, 1795, or 12 Germinal Year 3eme of the Republic, painting n ° 121, extract from the Complete Collection of Historical Paintings of the Revolution french. Départ des ex-députés Billaud, Collot et Barrere, pour la déportation : le 1.er Avril 1795, ou 12 Germinal An 3.eme de la République, tableau nº 121, extrait de la Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la Révolution française CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 2/4: Révolution Française, by Sophie Pedder.  @PedderSophie @TheEconomist HFN https://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Française-Emmanuel-Macron-reinvent/dp/1472948602 The extraordinary story of how an outsider candidate—an unknown technocrat and economics minister on the fringes of French politics—made his way to the Élysée palace, with expert analysis of his first year in office. Two years after Emmanuel Macron came from nowhere to seize the French presidency, Sophie Pedder, The Economist's Paris bureau chief, tells the story of his remarkable rise and time in office so far. In this paperback edition, published with a new foreword by the author, Pedder reflects on Macron's troubles and triumphs: his dwindling popularity; the 'gilets jaunes'protests and resulting civil unrest; his efforts to transform France and lead the global fight against climate change; the Benalla affair; his erratic relationships with Angela Merkel, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Theresa May, and the future of the European project.  On the eve of important European elections, and with nationalist and populist forces rising across the continent, she considers whether Macron can hold the centre ground and defend the multilateral liberal order against the axis of such figures as Italy's Matteo Salvini and Hungary's Viktor Orbán. Pedder also analyses the domestic situation in France, the evolution of En Marche, and the fall-out from Macron's controversial reforms. Meticulously researched and written in Pedder's gripping and immensely readable style, this is the essential, authoritative account for anyone wishing to understand Macron and the future of France in the world....more

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• 1662: 1/4: Révolution Française, by Sophie Pedder. @PedderSophie @TheEconomist GLXXG

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  Sep 07 2021

  Photo: The Historical Gallery, or Pictures of the events of the French Revolution - 7th plate La Galerie historique, où Tableaux des évènements de la Révolution française . . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 1/4: Révolution Française, by Sophie Pedder.  @PedderSophie @TheEconomist GLXXG https://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Française-Emmanuel-Macron-reinvent/dp/1472948602 The extraordinary story of how an outsider candidate—an unknown technocrat and economics minister on the fringes of French politics—made his way to the Élysée palace, with expert analysis of his first year in office. Two years after Emmanuel Macron came from nowhere to seize the French presidency, Sophie Pedder, The Economist's Paris bureau chief, tells the story of his remarkable rise and time in office so far. In this paperback edition, published with a new foreword by the author, Pedder reflects on Macron's troubles and triumphs: his dwindling popularity; the 'gilets jaunes'protests and resulting civil unrest; his efforts to transform France and lead the global fight against climate change; the Benalla affair; his erratic relationships with Angela Merkel, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Theresa May, and the future of the European project.  On the eve of important European elections, and with nationalist and populist forces rising across the continent, she considers whether Macron can hold the centre ground and defend the multilateral liberal order against the axis of such figures as Italy's Matteo Salvini and Hungary's Viktor Orbán. Pedder also analyses the domestic situation in France, the evolution of En Marche, and the fall-out from Macron's controversial reforms. Meticulously researched and written in Pedder's gripping and immensely readable style, this is the essential, authoritative account for anyone wishing to understand Macron and the future of France in the world....more

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• 1659: Terry Anderson #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. April 6, 2021

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  Sep 07 2021

  Photo:  Energy flows between space, the atmosphere, and Earth's surface. Rising greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere are causing a net warming effect to act on Earth's climate system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change#/media/File:Greenhouse_Effect.svg CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Terry Anderson #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. April 6, 2021 Adapt and Be Adept: Market Responses to Climate Change.  Paperback – April 1, 2021. by Terry Anderson  (Editor) https://www.amazon.com/Adapt-Be-Adept-Responses-Climate/dp/0817924558/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1619395663&refinements=p_27%3ATerry+Anderson&s=books&sr=1-1 How can markets help us adapt to the challenges of climate change? The editor Terry L. Anderson brings together this collection of essays featuring the work of nine leading policy analysts, who argue that market forces are just as important as government regulation in shaping climate policy—and should be at the heart of our response to helping societies adapt to climate change. Anderson notes in his introduction that most current climate policies such as the Paris Agreement require hard-to-enforce collective action and focus on reducing or mitigating greenhouse gases rather than adapting to their negative effects. Adaptive actions can typically deliver much more, faster and more cheaply than any realistic climate policy. The authors tackle a range of issues: the hidden costs of renewable energy sources, the political obstacles surrounding climate change policy, insurance and financial instruments for pricing risk of exposure to the effects of climate change, and more. Reliance on emerging renewable energies and a carbon tax are not enough to prevent the effects of global warming, they argue. We must encourage more private action and market incentives to adapt to a rapidly changing climate. . Permissions: This figure was created by Robert A. Rohde from published data and is part of the Global Warming Art project.  http://www.atmo.arizona.edu/students/courselinks/spring04/atmo451b/pdf/RadiationBudget.pdf Original image: http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Image:Greenhouse_Effect_png archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20150909201753/http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Image:Greenhouse_Effect.pnghttp://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/abs_temp.html converted to SVG by User:Rugby471. Author | Robert A. Rohde (Dragons flight at English Wikipedia) Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 only as published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License. ....more

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• 1659: Michael Auslin #Unbound. Asia-Pacific. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 12, 2021. LXX GLXXG

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  Sep 07 2021

  Photo:  In northwest India Mohenjo Daro, with Harappa perhaps the earliest urban center on Earth, was flourishing 4,500 years ago and did so for a good thousand years. (screen grab)  CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Michael Auslin #Unbound. The complete, twenty-minute interview. May 12, 2021. LXX GLXXG Asia's New Geopolitics: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific,  by Michael R. Auslin   Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08563RW9H/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0 The Indo-Pacific is fast becoming the world's dominant region. Now, as it grows in power and wealth, geopolitical competition has reemerged, threatening future stability not merely in Asia but around the globe. China is aggressive and uncooperative, and increasingly expects the world to bend to its wishes. The focus on Sino-US competition for global power has obscured "Asia's other great game": the rivalry between Japan and China. A modernizing India risks missing out on the energies and talents of millions of its women, potentially hampering the broader role it can play in the world. And in North Korea, the most frightening question raised by Kim Jong-un's pursuit of the ultimate weapon is also the simplest: Can he control his nukes? In Asia's New Geopolitics: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific, Michael R. Auslin examines these and other key issues transforming the Indo-Pacific and the broader world. He also explores the history of American strategy in Asia, from the 18th century through today. Taken together, Auslin's essays convey the richness and diversity of the region: with more than three billion people, the Indo-Pacific contains over half of the global population, including the world's two most populous nations, India and China. In a riveting final chapter, Auslin imagines a war between America and China in a bid for regional hegemony and what this conflict might look like. ...more

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• 1658: Roya Hakakian #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. May 29, 2021

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  Sep 07 2021

  Photo: Tehrangeles (تهرانجلس  Little Persia) is a portmanteau deriving from the combination of Tehran, the capital of Iran, and Los Angeles. A Persian community developed in Westwood, Los Angeles, after the Islamic Revolution of 1979 prompted thousands of Iranians to flee to the United States. Here: Iranian shops along Westwood Boulevard in South Westwood. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Roya Hakakian #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. May 29, 2021 A Beginner's Guide to America: For the Immigrant and the Curious. Hardcover – Deckle Edge, March 16, 2021. by Roya Hakakian https://www.amazon.com/Beginners-Guide-America-Immigrant-Curious/dp/0525656065/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1622853677&sr=1-1 A stirring, witty, and poignant glimpse into the bewildering American immigrant experience from someone who has lived it. Also, a mirror held up to America. Into the maelstrom of unprecedented contemporary debates about immigrants in the United States, this perfectly timed book gives us a portrait of what the new immigrant experience in America is really like. Written as a "guide" for the newly arrived, and providing "practical information and advice," Roya Hakakian, an immigrant herself, reveals what those who settle here love about the country, what they miss about their homes, the cruelty of some Americans, and the unceasing generosity of others. She captures the texture of life in a new place in all its complexity, laying bare both its beauty and its darkness as she discusses race, sex, love, death, consumerism, and what it is like to be from a country that is in America's crosshairs. Her tenderly perceptive and surprisingly humorous account invites us to see ourselves as we appear to others, making it possible for us to rediscover our many American gifts through the perspective of the outsider. In shattering myths and embracing painful contradictions that are unique to this place, A Beginner's Guide to America is Hakakian's candid love letter to America ...more

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• 1657: Jeff McCausland #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. May 21, 2021.

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  Sep 07 2021

  Photo: Confederate Commanders Creator: Notman Photo Co, Limited; 1865 CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Jeff McCausland #Unbound. The complete, forty-minute interview. May 21, 2021. Battle Tested! : Gettysburg Leadership Lessons for 21st Century Leaders, by Jeffrey D. McCausland (Author), Tom Vossler(Author), Walter Dixon(Narrator), Gildan Media (Publisher). Audible Audiobook– Unabridged https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Tested-Gettysburg-Leadership-Lessons/dp/1642934534 In order to be a truly effective leader, it is necessary to learn as much as possible from the examples of history—the disasters as well as the triumphs. At Gettysburg, Union and Confederate commanders faced a series of critical leadership challenges under the enormous stress of combat. The fate of the nation hung in the balance. Each of these leaders  responded in different ways, but the concepts and principles they applied during those traumatic three days contain critical lessons for today’s leaders that are both useful and applicable—whether those leaders manage operations at a large corporation, supervise a public institution, lead an athletic team, or govern a state or municipality.   In the twenty-first century, leadership is the indispensable quality that separates successful organizations from failures. Successful leaders communicate vision, motivate team members, and inspire trust. One must move both people and the collective organization into the future while, at the same time, dealing with the past. A leader must learn to master the dynamic requirements of decision-making and change. ...more

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• 1661: #PacificWatch: "Pleistocene" Bliss explores the La Brea Tar Pits in Downtown LA. ; Caldor fire spares Tahoe so far. @JCBliss

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  Sep 06 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1806 Exhuming the First American Mastodon, 1806 painting by Charles Willson Peale @Batchelorshow #PacificWatch: "Pleistocene" Bliss explores the La Brea Tar Pits in Downtown LA. ; Caldor fire spares Tahoe so far. @JCBliss https://www.sfchronicle.com/california-wildfires/article/Sunday-s-hot-weather-could-threaten-Caldor-Fire-16437152.php

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• 1661: #AfterAfghanistan: Americans refuse magical thinking about the Taliban. @ThadMcCotter American @TheAmGreatness

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  Sep 06 2021

  Photo: Today's Taliban.  Screen grab. @Batchelorshow #AfterAfghanistan: Americans refuse magical thinking about the Taliban. @ThadMcCotter American @TheAmGreatness https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/aug-29-sept-1-2021-washington-post-abc-news-poll/899d77db-ef60-46c9-b028-8f3298df8659/ https://amgreatness.com/2021/09/03/the-afghan-endgame-and-the-proxy-myth/

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• 1661: Australia Pandemic: New South Wales, Canberra, Victoria, Queensland stay locked down indefinitely. Jeremy Zakis, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia.

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  Sep 06 2021

  Photo: . @Batchelorshow Australia Pandemic: New South Wales, Canberra, Victoria, Queensland stay locked down indefinitely. Jeremy Zakis, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia. https://www.smh.com.au/national/australia-news-live-extra-pfizer-doses-arrive-as-covid-cases-climb-in-victoria-nsw-and-act-20210906-p58p1r.html 

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• 1660: #AfterAfghanistan: Lessons learned; opportunities for Putin and the Kremlin. H. J. Mackinder, International Relations

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  Sep 06 2021

  Photo:  The new Taliban. @Batchelorshow #AfterAfghanistan: Lessons learned; opportunities for Putin and the Kremlin.  H.J. Mackinder, International Relations https://www.newsweek.com/vladimir-putin-says-afghanistan-catastrophe-us-west-still-have-not-learned-1625810

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• 1660: 7/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: American media names Cambridge Professor Stefan Halper as the source of the allegations, May 18, 2018. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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  Sep 06 2021

  Photo: The devious Cantabrigian, S Halper.. @Batchelorshow 7/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: American media names Cambridge Professor Stefan Halper as the source of the allegations, May 18, 2018.  Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/was-there-really-spy-inside-trump-campaign-president-says-n875516 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/svetlana-lokhova-im-a-mum-under-siege-not-mata-hari-bkggndttq ". . . a long-time, highly sketchy CIA operative, Stefan Halper."  —The Intercept ...more

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• 1655: National Polling turns disapproved for the virus, the economy, the withdrawal & What is to be done? @DevinNunes author, podcaster, CA-22.

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  Sep 06 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication. 1940 (July 29, 1940) President Franklin D. Roosevelt visited Langley Field on July 29, 1940. View of President Roosevelt in a car inside a NACA hangar, two unidentified men stand behind the car, and the wing of a plane is visible in the background.                                                        ..Image # : L-20690 @Batchelorshow National Polling turns disapproved for the virus, the economy, the withdrawal & What is to be done?  @DevinNunes author, podcaster, CA-22. https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/aug-29-sept-1-2021-washington-post-abc-news-poll/899d77db-ef60-46c9-b028-8f3298df8659/ https://www.amazon.com/Countdown-Socialism-Devin-Nunes/dp/1641771860 ...more

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• 1655: Quarter of the nation's food supply now short of water. @DevinNunes author, podcaster and CA-22. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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  Sep 06 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1916 Hill north of Woodlake, Misc. Valleys, San Joaquin Valley and Sierra Nevada. Remarks: Good early valley photos of agriculture. Right panel of three panel panorama from Sand Creek to Blue Ridge. Farmin @Batchelorshow Quarter of the nation's food supply now short of water. @DevinNunes author, podcaster and CA-22.  #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/how-californias-drought-is-stressing-a-water-system-that-delivers-water-to-millions-of-residents https://www.amazon.com/Countdown-Socialism-Devin-Nunes/dp/1641771860 ...more

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• 1656: 6/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: "Glamorous." Daily Telegraph, April 2, 2017. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova

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  Sep 05 2021

  Photo: The 1990 film, La Femme Nikita, starring Anne Parillaud— a glamourous spy (who in the industry are called "sparrows").  (Screen grab).  6/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: "Glamorous." Daily Telegraph, April 2, 2017.  Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/01/cambridge-university-dragged-row-donald-trumps-ex-spy-chiefs/

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• 1656: 5/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Allegedly linked to the GRU and Vladimir Putin on the Guardian front gate, April 1, 2017. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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  Sep 05 2021

  Photo: Ivan the Terrible seems to have created the first Russian espionage service, the Oprichnik.    5/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Allegedly linked to the GRU and Vladimir Putin on the Guardian front gate, April 1, 2017. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/31/michael-flynn-new-evidence-spy-chiefs-had-concerns-about-russian-ties

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• 1656: 4/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Over three days, 2/28/17-3/4/17, Svetlana Lokhova is contacted by WSJ, WAPO, NYT, all of whom suspect her as a Russian agent. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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  Sep 05 2021

  Photo: 1834 Soiree in [honor of] the freedom of the press. (1834 Soirée républicaine donnée dans les salons de la liberté de la presse) 4/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Over three days, 2/28/17-3/4/17, Svetlana Lokhova is contacted by WSJ, WAPO, NYT, all of whom suspect her as a Russian agent. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety https://www.wsj.com/articles/mike-flynn-didnt-report-2014-interaction-with-russian-british-national-1489809842 .

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• 1656: 3/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: The first sign of the attack on Svetlana Lokhova and Michael Flynn, the Financial Times, December 16, 2016. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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  Sep 05 2021

  Photo:  Russian warrior 3/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: The first sign of the attack on Svetlana Lokhova and Michael Flynn, the Financial Times, December 16, 2016.  Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety https://www.ft.com/content/d43cd586-c396-11e6-9bca-2b93a6856354

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• 1656: 2/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Remembering the Stefan Halper origins, August 10-16, 2016. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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  Sep 05 2021

  Photo: 2/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Remembering the Stefan Halper origins, August 10-16, 2016. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossfire_Hurricane_(FBI_investigation)

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• 1656: 1/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Remembering the Peter Strzok origins, July 31, 2016. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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  Sep 05 2021

  Photo: Walmart logo, 1964-1981 1/12: #CrossfireHurricaneDiary: Remembering the Peter Strzok origins, July 31, 2016. Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossfire_Hurricane_(FBI_investigation)

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• 1653: #Londinium90AD: The Senatorial Class (Optimates 2021) cannot and will not acknowledge defeat in Afghanistan. Michael Vlahos.

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  Sep 05 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1918 Senate Chamber CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #Londinium90AD: The Senatorial Class (Optimates 2021) cannot and will not acknowledge defeat in Afghanistan.  Michael Vlahos. https://www.ft.com/content/2a88ac0b-d3d7-4159-b7f5-41f602737288

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• 1654: ClassicGaius&Germanicus: August 29, 2021: #Londinium90AD. Three American empire defeats and the recoveries: 1948, 1953, 1963. Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Sep 05 2021

  Photo:  2RAR withdraw to DMZ Korea 1953 ClassicGaius&Germanicus: August 29, 2021: #Londinium90AD.  Three American empire defeats and the recoveries: 1948, 1953, 1963.   Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis https://audioboom.com/posts/7932429-londinium90ad-three-american-empire-defeats-and-the-recoveries-1948-1953-1963-michael-vlahos

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• 1654: #ClassicGaius&Germanicus: August 21, 2021: #Londinium90AD. Gaius and Germanicus observe that the Roman empire recovered from defeats like . Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Sep 05 2021

  Photo:  Romans Defeated Near the Rhine, from The War of the Romans Against the Batavians (Romanorvm et Batavorvm Societas) #ClassicGaius&Germanicus: August 21, 2021: #Londinium90AD.  Gaius and Germanicus observe that the Roman  empire recovered from defeats like . Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis August 21 https://audioboom.com/posts/7928148-londinium90ad-gaius-and-germanicus-observe-that-the-roman-empire-recovered-from-defeats-like-bo

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• 1654: #ClassicGaius&Germanicus: August 21, 2021: #Londinium90AD. Gaius and Germanicus reflect upon the humiliation of the American empire at Kabul. Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Sep 05 2021

  Photo: #ClassicGaius&Germanicus: August 21, 2021: #Londinium90AD.  Gaius and Germanicus reflect upon the humiliation of the American empire at Kabul. Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis https://audioboom.com/posts/7928147-londinium90ad-gaius-and-germanicus-reflect-upon-the-humiliation-of-the-american-empire-at-kabul

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• 1654: #ClassicGaius&Germanicus: August 14, 2021: #Londinium90AD. Gaius and Germanicus weigh how the Roman empire deals with rebel armies like Boudicea’s. Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Sep 05 2021

  Photo:   Great Battle of Murfreesboro, Tenn.--Jany, 2nd 1863: between the Union Forces, under Genl. Rosecrans, and the Rebel Army under General Bragg #ClassicGaius&Germanicus: August 14, 2021: #Londinium90AD.  Gaius and Germanicus weigh how the Roman empire deals with rebel armies like Boudicea’s.  Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis https://audioboom.com/posts/7924308-londinium90ad-gaius-and-germanicus-weigh-how-the-roman-empire-deals-with-rebel-armies-like-boud

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• 1654: #ClassicGaius&Germanicus: August 13, 2021: #Londinium90AD. Debating withdrawing from the frontiers of the empire, 1st century and 21st century. Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Sep 05 2021

  Photo: The Imperial Gavotte #ClassicGaius&Germanicus: August 13, 2021: #Londinium90AD.  Debating withdrawing from the frontiers of the empire, 1st century and 21st century.  Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis https://audioboom.com/posts/7924075-londinium90ad-debating-withdrawing-from-the-frontiers-of-the-empire-1st-century-a-d-21st-cen

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• 1654: #ClassicGaius&Germanicus: August 7, 2021: #Londinium90AD. Gaius and Germanicus observe that the army becomes a tool to validate or not the . Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Sep 05 2021

  Photo: Military exercise of Manchukuo Imperial Army.  Remember that it was the junior officers who pressed for war. #ClassicGaius&Germanicus: August 7, 2021: #Londinium90AD.  Gaius and Germanicus observe that the army becomes a tool to validate or not the   Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis https://audioboom.com/posts/7920239-londinium90ad-gaius-and-germanicus-observe-that-the-army-becomes-a-tool-to-validate-or-not-th

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• 1654: #ClassicGaius&Germanicus: August 6, 2021: #Londinium90AD. Gaius and Germanicus recognize imperial ascension is twinned with the risk of imperial . Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Sep 05 2021

  Photo: Imperial Chinese decree.  Late Nineteenth Century?     #ClassicGaius&Germanicus: August 6, 2021: #Londinium90AD.  Gaius and Germanicus recognize imperial ascension is twinned with the risk of imperial    .Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis https://audioboom.com/posts/7919947-londinium90ad-gaius-germanicus-recognize-imperial-ascension-is-twinned-with-the-risk-of-imper

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• 1654: #ClassicGaius&Germanicus: July 30, 2021: #Londinium90AD. Gaius and Germanicus debate the transformation from republic to empire in the 21st Century. Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Sep 05 2021

  Photo:   Julius Caesar betreedt de vergadering van de Senaat #ClassicGaius&Germanicus: July 30, 2021: #Londinium90AD.  Gaius and Germanicus debate the transformation from republic to empire in the 21st Century.  Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis https://audioboom.com/posts/7915552-londinium90ad-gaius-germanicus-debate-the-transformation-from-republic-to-empire-in-the-21st — "Rome transitioned from a republic to an empire after power shifted away from a representative democracy to a centralized imperial authority, with the emperor holding the most power." — "The Senate could appoint someone dictator in times of crisis."...more

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• 1654: #ClassicGaius&Germanicus: July 25, 2021: #Londinium90AD. Gaius and Germanicus under suspicion by Domitian as they speculate upon Seven Days in May. Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Sep 05 2021

  Photo:  Gideon overhearing the Midianites' dream #ClassicGaius&Germanicus: July 25, 2021: #Londinium90AD.  Gaius and Germanicus under suspicion by Domitian as they speculate upon Seven Days in May.  Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis https://audioboom.com/posts/7911260-londinium90ad-gaius-and-germanicus-under-suspicion-by-domitian-as-they-speculate-upon-seven-da

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• 1652: #ClassicGaius&Germanicus: July 24, 2021: #Londinium90AD. Gaius and Germanicus philosophize about violent emperor succession episodes. Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Sep 05 2021

  Photo:  Assassination of Julius Caesar #ClassicGaius&Germanicus: July 24, 2021: #Londinium90AD.  Gaius and Germanicus philosophize about violent emperor succession episodes. Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis https://audioboom.com/posts/7910801-londinium90ad-gaius-germanicus-philosophize-about-violent-emperor-succession-episodes-michae

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• 1652: ClassicGaius&Germanicus: July 17, 2021: #Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus remember with foreboding the year of four emperors. Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Sep 05 2021

  Photo:  Year of the Four Emperors (Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian) ClassicGaius&Germanicus: July 17, 2021: #Londinium90AD:  Gaius and Germanicus remember with foreboding the year of four emperors. Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis https://audioboom.com/posts/7907224-podcastextra-1-2-londinium90ad-gaius-germanicus-remember-with-foreboding-the-year-of-four

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• 1652: #ClassicGaius&Germanicus: July 17, 2021: #Londinium90AD: General Milley’s reported remark, “We’re the guys with the guns.” Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Sep 05 2021

  Photo:  Gunslingers in the 19th century. This is the Ned Christie posse #ClassicGaius&Germanicus: July 17, 2021: #Londinium90AD:  General Milley’s reported remark, “We’re the guys with the guns.” Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis https://audioboom.com/posts/7907225-podcastextra-2-2-londinium90ad-general-milley-s-reported-remark-we-re-the-guys-with-the-gu

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• 1651: #ClassicGaius&Germanicus: July 16, 2021: #Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus philosophize of the 2000-year-old tradition of the violent endings of emperors. Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Sep 05 2021

  Photo: Apotheosis of Nero, c. after 68. Artwork portraying Nero rising to divine status after his death. #ClassicGaius&Germanicus: July 16, 2021: #Londinium90AD:  Gaius and Germanicus philosophize of the 2000-year-old tradition of the violent endings of emperors. Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis https://audioboom.com/posts/7906898-londinium90ad-gaius-germanicus-philosophize-of-the-two-thousand-year-old-tradition-of-the-vio

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• 1650: #ClassicGaius&Germanicus: July 11, 2021: #Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus accept that the rise of Christianity signifies the end of empire. Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Sep 05 2021

  Photo: Roman Empire.  Hendrik Jacobus Vinkhuijzen, Collector   #ClassicGaius&Germanicus: July 11, 2021: #Londinium90AD:  Gaius and Germanicus accept that the rise of Christianity signifies the end of empire. Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis https://audioboom.com/posts/7902703-londinium90ad-gaius-and-germanicus-accept-that-the-rise-of-christianity-signifies-the-end-of-em

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• 1649: #ClassicGaius&Germanicus: June 26, 2021: #Londinium90AD: Joseph Warren stares down the Church of Woke. Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Sep 05 2021

  Photo:  Jonathan Edwards sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. (screen grab) #ClassicGaius&Germanicus: June 26, 2021: #Londinium90AD: Joseph Warren stares down the Church of Woke. Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis https://audioboom.com/posts/7894320-londinium90ad-joseph-warren-stares-down-the-church-of-woke-michael-vlahos-johns-hopkins-jhuw

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• 1649: #ClassicGaius&Germanicus: June 25, 2021: #Londinium90AD: The Mithras cult in the 21st Century; & What is to be done? Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Sep 05 2021

  Photo:  Relief with Mithras kneeling upon a bull and driving a sword into its shoulder, at left two smaller standing figures, one holding a sheathed sword and one holding a sword, a frieze with chariots and serpents coiled around figures above #ClassicGaius&Germanicus: June 25, 2021: #Londinium90AD: The Mithras cult in the 21st Century; & What is to be done?  Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis https://audioboom.com/posts/7894042-londinium90ad-the-mithras-cult-in-the-21st-century-what-is-to-be-done-michael-vlahos-johns ...more

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• 1648: #Londinium90AD: Taliban perform a mock Roman Triumph 2000 years later. Michael Vlahos. HFN

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  Sep 04 2021

  Photo:  Triomftocht met de geketende Zenobia @Batchelorshow #Londinium90AD: Taliban perform a mock Roman Triumph 2000 years later.  Michael Vlahos. HFN https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9952053/Taliban-display-suicide-vests-IEDs-weapon-parade-Afghan-state-TV.html

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• 1647: #AfterAfghanistan: Panjshir digs in. @BillRoggio @LongWarJournal @FDD GLXXG

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  Sep 04 2021

  Photo: A scenic view of the Panjshayr River Valley, May 21, 2011, taken from the vantage point of Ahmad Shah Massoud's Tomb. Massoud was a Kabul University engineering student turned military leader who played a leading role in driving the Soviet army out of Afghanistan, earning him the name "Lion of Panjshayr." His followers call him Amir Sahib-e Shahid, which means our beloved martyred commander. Massoud was assassinated in Takhar province two days before the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States. Photo by Master Sgt. Michael O'Connor. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #AfterAfghanistan:  Panjshir digs in.  @BillRoggio  @LongWarJournal @FDD GLXXG https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/09/national-resistance-front-repels-multi-day-taliban-assault-on-panjshir.php ...more

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• 1647: What of Silicon Valley's devotion to Gavin Newsom? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Sep 04 2021

  Photo:  Aerial view of Apple Park, the corporate headquarters of Apple Inc., located in Cupertino, California. The roof is covered in solar panels with an output of 17 MWp, making it one of the biggest solar roofs in the world. Photo taken from a Cessna 172M.. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow What of Silicon Valley's devotion to Gavin Newsom? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst https://www.hoover.org/research/what-drives-california-recall-election Permissions: 15 April 2018, 00:05:32 UTC Source | Own work Author | Daniel L. Lu (user:dllu) Raw file SHA1 sum | d01e7c6d0a14768cbc3b36ba69da6fde7fd2fd5d I, the copyright holder of this work, Daniel L. Lu (user:dllu), hereby publish it under the following license: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. | You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work — to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. .....more

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• 1647: 1. Recall and After. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst HFN

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  Sep 04 2021

  Photo: Submitting petitions for the recall of Seattle, Washington mayor Hiram Gill in December 1910; Gill was removed by a recall election the following February, but voters returned him to the office in 1914. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 1.  Recall and After. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst HFN https://www.hoover.org/research/what-drives-california-recall-election

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• 1647: Mandarin-speaking Ingenuity. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Sep 04 2021

  Photo: 直升機 (helicopter in gwo yu/Mandarin). Here: Mockup of the Mars Global Remote Sensing Orbiter and Small Rover at the 69th International Astronautical Congress 2018 at Bremen. https://futurism.com/the-byte/china-clone-nasa-mars-helicopter CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Mandarin-speaking Ingenuity. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/china-building-ingenuity-copycat/ Permissions: This work is free and may be used by anyone for any purpose. If you wish to use this content, you do not need to request permission as long as you follow any licensing requirements mentioned on this page. In response to the boilerplate request for permission, Pablo de León agreed to release the pictures under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.  You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the workUnder the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use....more

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• 1647: Virgin Galactic Grounded; & What is to be done? Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com HFN

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  Photo: Unity, or SpaceShipTwo: Virgin Galactic photo. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Virgin Galactic Grounded & What is to be done? Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com HFN https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/faa-grounds-virgin-galactic-pending-investigationn/

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• 1647: Wild boar scavengers running Rome. Lorenzo Fiori. Ansaldo Foundation, Milan.

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  Sep 04 2021

  Photo:   Dog hunt for a wild boar. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Wild Boar scavengers running Rome. Lorenzo Fiori. Ansaldo Foundation, Milan. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/09/02/boar-war-erupts-italy-politicians-trade-blame-invasion-rome/?WT.mc_id=tmgliveapp_iosshare_AxstMph9zRlM

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• 1647: #HotelMars: What is Space Solar Power? David Livingston. Steve Wolfe, Beyond Earth Institute GLXXG

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  Photo: NASA Integrated Symmetrical Concentrator SPS concept. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #HotelMars: What is Space Solar Power?  David Livingston. Steve Wolfe, Beyond Earth Institute GLXXG https://space.nss.org/nss-welcomes-beyond-earth-institutes-space-solar-power-initiative-for-a-cleaner-environment/

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• 1647: PM Scott Morrison aims for Australia to learn to live with Covid-19 by Christmas. Scott Mayman, @CBSNews Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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  Sep 04 2021

  Photo: Koala bear. "In a bid to keep the coronavirus out of the country, Australia’s federal and state governments imposed draconian restrictions on its citizens. Prime Minister Scott Morrison knows that the burden is too heavy. 'This is not a sustainable way to live in this country,” he recently declared. One prominent civil libertarian summed up the rules by lamenting, “We’ve never seen anything like this in our lifetimes.' ” CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow PM Scott Morrison aims for Australia to learn to live with Covid-19 by Christmas.  Scott Mayman, @CBSNews Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-04/covid-timelines-states-split-as-christmas-gets-closer/100433208 ...more

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• 1648: Superior Small Business Alaska. Gene Marks, Washington Post Small Business columnist. @genemarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer

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  Sep 04 2021

  Photo:  A real Alaska small business: InterShelter, Inc, makes capacious and comfortable dome homes suitable for everything from mid-desert to temperate climates to the South Pole. Here: a dome that's been in perfect condition for fifteen years in the Antarctic.  Superior Small Business Alaska.  Gene Marks, Washington Post Small Business columnist.  @genemarks  @Guardian @PhillyInquirer https://www.newsminer.com/news/alaska_news/alaska-named-as-a-top-state-to-own-a-small-business/article_a86f6f0c-090c-11ec-960a-ff62185aafbd.html...more

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• 1648: The Global Hesitation in Jobs, Supplies, Confidence. Gene Marks, Washington Post Small Business columnist. @genemarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer

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  Sep 04 2021

  Photo:  The journalist Nellie Bly investigating employment agencies The Global Hesitation in Jobs, Supplies, Confidence.  Gene Marks, Washington Post Small Business columnist.  @genemarks  @Guardian @PhillyInquirer https://www.wsj.com/articles/august-jobs-report-unemployment-rate-2021-11630624394?mod=hp_lead_pos1

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• 1648: More than 15 million excess worldwide deaths to date. Sandre Solsted @TheEconomist

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  Photo: In China under Mao, his mandated Great Leap resulted in tens of millions of deaths, with estimates ranging between 15 and 55 million deaths, making the Great Chinese Famine the largest famine in human history. Chief changes in the lives of rural Chinese people included the incremental introduction of obligatory agricultural collectivization.  Here:  Chinese plague, removing bodies More than 15 million excess worldwide deaths to date.  Sandre Solsted @TheEconomist https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-deaths-estimates?utm_medium=pr&utm_source=us-e...more

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• 1648: Very Good Government at Work in Louisiana; & What is to be done? Dan Henninger, WSJ editorial board and Wonder Land columnist. @DanHenninger, @WSJOpinion

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  Photo:   Louisiana Flood [an earlier flood] - refugees cook government rations Very Good Government at Work in Louisiana; & What is to be done? Dan Henninger, WSJ editorial board and Wonder Land columnist.  @DanHenninger, @WSJOpinion  https://www.wsj.com/articles/hurricane-ida-katrina-biden-pelosi-reconciliation-infrastructure-nation-building-afghanistan-11630529830

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• 1648: Friendly Colombia President Ivan Duque disapproved. Dr. Robert Evan Ellis, @REvanEllis, US Army War College: Latin America scholar in Strategic Studies Institute.

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  Photo:  Antonio Basilio Cuervo Urisarri, a Colombian politician (June 13, 1834 – February 19, 1893). Friendly Colombia President Ivan Duque disapproved. Dr. Robert Evan Ellis, @REvanEllis, US Army War College: Latin America scholar in Strategic Studies Institute. https://colombiareports.com/ivan-duque-bridges-divides-as-colombia-unitedly-rejects-worst-president-ever/

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• 1647: Tri-Border Area business plan; the relentless Bolsonaro. Dr. Robert Evan Ellis, @REvanEllis, US Army War College: Latin America scholar in Strategic Studies Institute

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  Photo:  Panorama from the Paraguayan side of the border. Tri-Border Area business plan; the relentless Bolsonaro.  Dr. Robert Evan Ellis, @REvanEllis, US Army War College: Latin America scholar in Strategic Studies Institute https://thefrontierpost.com/coordinated-law-enforcement-and-treasury-action-against-money-launderers-in-the-tri-border-area/

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• 1647: The Lizard Elite and other prospering conspiracies after Soylent Green. Daniel Knowles; @TheEconomist , @dlknowles ; @REvanEllis ; @henryimiller, @PacificResearch

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  Photo:  The Draco constellation from Firmamentum Sobiescianum sive Uranographia (1690) by Johannes Hevelius. Icke's "reptoid hypothesis" posits that humanity is ruled by descendants of reptilians from Draco.  The Lizard Elite and other prospering conspiracies after Soylent Green.  Daniel Knowles; @TheEconomist , @dlknowles ; @REvanEllis ; @henryimiller, @PacificResearch https://www.economist.com/international/2021/09/04/from-congo-to-the-capitol-conspiracy-theories-are-surging In late July, less than a week after the British government lifted most of its remaining covid-19 restrictions, several thousand people nonetheless gathered in London’s Trafalgar Square to protest against “lockdowns”. Among the speakers were Piers Corbyn (brother of a former Labour Party leader), a climate-change denier who thinks that covid-19 is a “hoax”; David Icke, an author who believes that the world’s most powerful people are secretly lizards; and Gillian McKeith, an advocate of colonic irrigation who argues that a good diet is enough to stop the virus. A former nurse (struck off for spreading misinformation) compared medical staff who have been distributing vaccines to Nazis, and suggested they be hanged . . . with Henry Miller; with Daniel Knowles; with Dr. Robert Evan Ellis, @REvanEllis, US Army War College: Latin America scholar in Strategic Studies Institute ...more

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• 1647: Spiking hospitalizations and the unending jabs. Dr Henry Miller, @henryimiller, @PacificResearch Institute, www.HenryMillerMD.org Hoover Institution.

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  Sep 04 2021

  Photo:  Egypt burning sulphur and tar as disinfectants in streets at night- Cholera epidemic Spiking hospitalizations and the unending jabs. Dr Henry Miller, @henryimiller, @PacificResearch Institute,  www.HenryMillerMD.org   Hoover Institution.   http://www.henrymillermd.org/25669/what-causes-the-covid-19-surges

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• 1646: 2/2: #AfterAfghanistan: The winners include Moscow, Beijing, Delhi and Tehran. Gregory Copley, @Gregory_Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs HFN

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  Sep 03 2021

  Photo: Amenhotep III Slaying an Asian Enemy, Tomb of Amenemhat Surer.             Charles K. Wilkinson; from Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes; New Kingdom CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 2/2: #AfterAfghanistan: The winners include Moscow, Beijing, Delhi and Tehran.  Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs HFN

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• 1646: 1/2: #AfterAfghanistan: The winners include Moscow, Beijing, Delhi and Tehran. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs HFN @Gregory_Copley,

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  Sep 03 2021

  Photo:  England (Great Britain) 1644 Triple Unite of Charles I              The Triple Unite coin featured Psalm 68: EXURGAT DEUS DISSIPENTUR INIMICI, "Let God arise and His enemies be scattered"    CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 1/2: #AfterAfghanistan: The winners include Moscow, Beijing, Delhi and Tehran.  Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs HFN

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• 1646: How to walk the Dinosaur Highway of the Andes. Sarah Maslin @TheEconomist

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  Photo: Argentinosaurus huinculensis  hypothetical life restoration CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow How to walk the Dinosaur Highway of the Andes. Sarah Maslin @TheEconomist https://www.economist.com/the-americas/bolivia-has-thousands-of-dinosaur-footprints-but-few-bones-1/21803906?frsc=dg%7Ce The fossilised skeleton of the biggest dinosaur ever to roam the planet was discovered near Plaza Huincul, in the badlands of northwest Patagonia. Argentinosaurus huinculensis was a herbivore that weighed the equivalent of over 20 adult elephants, stood as tall as a three-storey building, and stretched to 125ft (38m) in length. It existed 90 million years ago, when the Andes were hillocks and the arid badlands of North Patagonia were steamy jungle and lush savannah grassland....more

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• 1646: #KabulDiary:After Afghanistan and Climate Adaptation. @AnatolLieven @QuincyInst GLXXG

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  Photo:  Climate:  Glacier Bay, Alaska, September, 2006.. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #KabulDiary:After Afghanistan and Climate Adaptation.   @AnatolLieven @QuincyInst GLXXG https://quincyinst.org/tag/climate-change/

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• 1646: #KabulDiary: Witnessing four times the fall of Kabul. @AnatolLieven QuicyInst GLXXG

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  Sep 03 2021

  Photo: A view of Kabul as documented by Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) during civil war, which shows destruction caused by in-fighting of fundamentalist groups following the fall of the pro-Russian government of Dr. Najibullah in 1992. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #KabulDiary:  Witnessing four times the fall of Kabul.   @AnatolLieven QuicyInst GLXXG https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/15/the-fall-of-kabul-a-20-year-mission-collapses-in-a-single-day Battle of Kabul (1992–1996), the capture of Kabul by the Taliban in 1996 Fall of Kabul (2001), the capture of Kabul by the Northern Alliance in 2001, as a part of the United States invasion of Afghanistan Fall of Kabul (2021), the recapture of Kabul by the Taliban in 2021 Permissions: I, the copyright holder of this work, http://www.rawa.org [the brilliant, irreplaceable RAWA] hereby publish it under the following licenses: GNU head Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License. w:en:Creative Commons attribution This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license....more

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• 1646: ECB Inflation Hawks take flight against the Fed Inflation Doves. @VerodeRugy @Mercatus

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  Sep 03 2021

  Photo: Red-tailed hawk removing fur from a rodent before eating it. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow ECB Inflation Hawks take flight against the Fed Inflation Doves. @VerodeRugy @Mercatus https://www.reuters.com/world/china/euro-near-1-mth-peak-versus-dollar-supported-by-inflation-shock-ecb-hawks-2021-09-02/ Hawks are policymakers and advisors who favor higher interest rates to keep inflation in check. The opposite of a hawk is a dove, who prefers an interest rate policy that is more accommodative in order to stimulate spending in an economy. ...more

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• 1646: John Kerry's Mission to Tianjin: China builds one coal-fired electricity plant per week & What is to be done? Vijay Vaitheeswaran @TheEconomist

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  Sep 03 2021

  Photo: Coal mine in Chinese-occupied Mongolia.  Predominantly lignite. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow John Kerry's Mission to Tianjin: China builds one coal-fired electricity plant per week & What is to be done? Vijay Vaitheeswaran @TheEconomist https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/us-envoy-kerry-china-crucial-handling-climate-crisis-79783804 China obtains roughly 60% of its power from coal and is opening more coal-fired power plants, while also committing to reducing its use of the fossil fuel.  China's domestic coal is almost entirely lignite, the dirtiest-burning coal. Permissions: A coal mine in Hailar, Inner Mongolia, China. Date | 13 August 2005, 00:20 Source | MongoliaUploaded by Zolo Author | Herry Lawford from London, UK This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.   You are free:to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the workUnder the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. .....more

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• 1646: How does the IMF reward the brute Ortega and the deadbeat Argentina; & What is to be done? @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion

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  Sep 03 2021

  Photo: The IMF was founded in 1944 at the Mt Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire.   Here; the hotel c 1910.    CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow How does the IMF reward the brute Ortega and the deadbeat Argentina; & What is to be done? @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion https://www.wsj.com/articles/dollars-latin-america-imf-special-drawing-rights-dictators-ortega-bukele-yellen-11630271758

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• 1648: FBI tracks the rising anti-semitism. Malcolm Hoenlein, @Conf_of_Pres.Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1

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  Sep 03 2021

  Photo:  aricature of the anti-semitic policies of the Grand Union Hotel in Saratoga, N.Y.   Lithograph by Joseph Keppler.  Illus. in: Puck, vol. 1,  1877 June 27. FBI tracks the rising anti-semitism. Malcolm Hoenlein, @Conf_of_Pres.Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 https://www.jewishpress.com/news/us-news/fbi-report-reinforces-trend-that-american-jews-are-top-target-for-hate-crimes/2021/09/01/

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• 1648: Azerbaijan, emerging bridge among Central Asian nations. Amb Khazar Ibrahim, @hazar_khazar; and Malcolm Hoenlein, @Conf_of_Pres

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  Sep 03 2021

  Photo: Azeri "Hounds and Jackals" game box, hounds and jackals, Reniseneb Azerbaijan, emerging bridge among Central Asian nations Amb Khazar Ibrahim, @hazar_khazar; and Malcolm Hoenlein, @Conf_of_Pres ●           https://caspiannews.com/news-detail/azerbaijani-peacekeepers-remain-in-kabul-international-airport-to-ensure-its-security-2021-8-17-0/ ●           https://jamestown.org/program/azerbaijan-afghanistan-and-turkmenistan-sign-trilateral-roadmap-for-cooperation-on-eurasian-connectivity/ ●           https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-hold-naval-drills-with-iran-azerbaijan-kazakhstan-2021-08-31/ ●           https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/08/03/nato-eu-join-criticism-of-iran-over-merchant-ship-attack.html Mr. Khazar Ibrahim was appointed as an Ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan to the United States of America on July 26, 2021. Previously, he served as an Ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Republic of Turkey during 2017-2021. Khazar Ibrahim also served as Head of the Mission of the Republic of Azerbaijan to NATO with the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary between 2011-2017. In 2005-2006, he worked at the Political-Military Division of the Foreign Ministry, being directly involved in drafting the National Security Concept of Azerbaijan and implementation of the Individual Partnership Action Plan with NATO. ...more

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• 1647: Polling Palestinian Anger and Despair. Itamar Marcus, @ItamarPM; and Malcolm Hoenlein, @Conf_of_Pres

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  Photo:  Photograph of Palestinian woman, early 1900s. Polling Palestinian Anger and Despair.  Itamar Marcus, @ItamarPM; and Malcolm Hoenlein, @Conf_of_Pres https://www.awrad.org/files/server/polls/AWRAD%20-%20Public%20opinion%20poll%20among%20Palestinians%20in%20the%20West%20Bank%202021.pdf

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• 1647: Russian Foreign Policy and the Price of America's Absence. Anna Borshchevskaya, @annaborsh. Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. @Conf_of_Pres

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  Sep 03 2021

  Photo:  The Russian MID (Ministry Foreign Affairs) building in Moscow. Russian Foreign Policy and the Price of America's Absence.  Anna Borshchevskaya, @annaborsh.   Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.  @Conf_of_Pres · https://www.19fortyfive.com/2021/08/how-russia-stands-to-gain-thanks-to-bidens-afghanistan-disaster/ · https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/russia-middle-east-source-stability-or-pot-stirrer · https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/market-insights/latest-news/oil/083121-opec-meets-to-decide-on-production-boost-expecting-a-tight-oil-market-ahead Ann Borshchevskaya, senior Fellow at The Washington Institute, focusing on Russia's policy toward the Middle East; Fellow at the European Foundation for Democracy. In addition, she is a contributor to Oxford Analytica and a fellow at the European Foundation for Democracy. She is a former analyst for a U.S. military contractor in Afghanistan; and is author of, Putin's War in Syria. Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations executive vice chairman for three decades.  @Conf_of_Pres...more

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• 1646: The Red Tory moves ahead of Trudeau. @ConradMBlack

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  Sep 03 2021

  Photo: Canada:  Head Tax Receipt The Red Tory moves ahead of Trudeau.  @ConradMBlack https://www.nationalobserver.com/2021/09/02/opinion/erin-otoole-polling-surge-signal-return-red-toryism Conrad Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, KSG; British former newspaper publisher; prolific author,  @ConradMBlack A Red Tory is an adherent of a centre-right or paternalistic-conservative political philosophy derived from the Tory tradition, most predominantly in Canada but also in the United Kingdom. This philosophy tends to favour communitarian social policies, while maintaining a degree of fiscal discipline and a respect of social and political order. It is contrasted with "Blue Tory" or "High Tory". Some Red Tories view themselves as small-c conservatives. In Canada, Red Toryism is found in provincial and federal Conservative political parties. ...more

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• 1646: #TheScalaReport: Not back to business, office, travel, supply chain, employment, after Labor Day. #ScalaReport. Chris Riegel @Scala CEO, @STRATACACHE, #TheScalaReport

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  Sep 03 2021

  Photo: No known restrictions on publication. 1910 Observation car on a deluxe overland limited train CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #TheScalaReport: Not back to business, office, travel, supply chain, employment, after Labor Day.  #ScalaReport.  Chris Riegel @Scala CEO,  @STRATACACHE, #TheScalaReport .https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/new-survey-reveals-devastation-business-travel

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• 1646: Meet the New Hardliner FM Iran. Behnam Ben Taleblu @FDD

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  Photo:  Contemporary portrait of Karim Khan Zand, the founder of the Zand Persian dynasty (1751). Meet the New Hardliner FM Iran.  Behnam Ben Taleblu @FDD https://www.wsj.com/articles/irans-parliament-confirms-conservative-as-top-diplomat-11629906834 https://iranintl.com/en/world/iranian-fm’s-first-international-appearance-marked-blunders Behnam Ben Taleblu, @FDD, research Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, focussed on Iranian security and political issues.

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• 1646: Iran and the Taliban. Behnam Ben Taleblu @FDD

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  Sep 03 2021

  Photo:  MRAP, Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected Iran and the Taliban.  Behnam Ben Taleblu @FDD US MRAPS now in Iran https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/taliban-may-form-government-after-friday-prayers-hibatullah-akhundzada-to-be-supreme-leader/ar-AAO24A5 Behnam Ben Taleblu, @FDD, research Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, focussed on Iranian security and political issues.

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• 1645: The Left Behind. @JoshRogin @WashingtonPost GLXXG

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  Sep 02 2021

  Photo: UK coalition forces, Turkish coalition forces, and U.S. Marines assist a child during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 20. U.S. service members are assisting the Department of State with a non-combatant evacuation operation (NEO) in Afghanistan.. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow The Left Behind. @JoshRogin @WashingtonPost GLXXG https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/31/us-government-left-its-own-journalists-behind-afghanistan/ ...more

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• 1645: US and Israel R&D together, at long last. Bradley Bowman, @FDD @Brad_L_Bowman GLXXG

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  Sep 02 2021

  Photo: The Israel Innovation Authority previously known as the Office of the Chief Scientist (OCS) (לשכת המדען הראשי‎) of Israel's Ministry of Economy is the support arm of the Israeli government, charged with fostering the development of industrial R&D within the State of Israel.. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow US and Israel R&D together, at long last. Bradley Bowman, @FDD @Brad_L_Bowman GLXXG https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2021/08/31/bipartisan-defense-cooperation-israel/ ...more

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• 1645: More cracks in the Russian part of the ISS. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Sep 02 2021

  Photo: The Great Crevice in New York State. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow More cracks in the Russian part of the ISS.  Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/new-cracks-discovered-on-a-different-russian-iss-module/

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• 1645: The first 100 Days of Zhurong. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Sep 02 2021

  Photo: Zhurong is a Mars rover that is China's first rover to land on another planet. It is part of the Tianwen-1 mission to Mars conducted by the China National Space Administration. The spacecraft was launched on 23 July 2020 and inserted into Martian orbit on 10 February 2021 According to the philosophical texts of Mo-tzu and his followers, Zhurong is a god of fire and of the south. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow The first 100 Days of Zhurong. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/zhurong-completes-100-days-on-mars/ Permissions: 'The "group photo" of Zhurong rover and Tianwen-1 lander taken by a remote camera dropped by Zhurong rover.中文：祝融号火星车和天问一号着陆器的合照，由祝融号放置在火星表面的遥控相机拍摄。 'Date | 11 June 2021 'Source | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7kkt1tPqsY&t=7s Note:  'This photo was "taken by a remote camera dropped by Zhurong rover.", Author not 中国新闻社' .. ...more

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• 1645: Erdogan (member of NATO) takes the Kabul stage; & What is to be done? @AykanErdemir @FDD

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  Sep 02 2021

  Photo: Turkish dress CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Erdogan (member of NATO) takes the Kabul stage & What is to be done? @AykanErdemir @FDD https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/29/erdogan-turkey-diplomatic-embassy-kabul-afghanistan

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• 1645: In Vladivostok, Putin reflects on the American defeat in Afghanistan. @Felix_Light @CBSNews Moscow

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  Sep 02 2021

  Photo:  Vladivostok—glorious city of seven hills but, unlike Rome, with small fjords running around them.  Home of Far Eastern University, and of a sophisticated, independent-minded populace. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow In Vladivostok, Putin reflects on the American defeat in Afghanistan.  @Felix_Light  @CBSNews Moscow https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/09/01/putin-says-us-presence-in-afghanistan-ended-in-tragedies-a74947

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• 1646: India on alert for China in Afghanistan. @CleoPaskal ; @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill Cleo Paskal, non-resident senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

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  Sep 02 2021

  Photo: Chinese army maneuvers of the last century India on alert for China in Afghanistan. @CleoPaskal ;  @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill Cleo Paskal, non-resident senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/31/india-holds-first-formal-meeting-with-taliban-in-qatar Cleo Paskal, associate Fellow at Chatham House; Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Geopolitics, Manipal University, India;  adjunct professor of Global Change, School of Communication and Management Studies, Kochi, India. Non-resident senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies,  @CleoPaskal...more

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• 1645: Scotland goes Green with candlelight. @TheRealConstable Simon Constable HFN

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  Sep 02 2021

  Photo: .Candlelight CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Scotland goes Green with candle light. @TheRealConstable Simon Constable  HFN https://news.sky.com/story/scotland-nicola-sturgeon-says-snps-deal-with-greens-makes-case-for-independence-referendum-undeniable-12395940

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• 1645: Afghanistan is the Saudi Arabia of lithium. @TheRealConstable Simon Constable. @Forbes HFN

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  Sep 02 2021

  Photo:  CR2032 lithium button cell battery with a Japanese inscription. Lithium, atomic number 3, is an element of many uses. It's used in the manufacture of aircraft and in certain batteries. It's also used in mental health: Lithium carbonate is a common treatment of bipolar disorder, helping to stabilize wild mood swings caused by the illness. China has the world's sixth-largest known reserves of lithium ore, but due to the limits of domestic technology, the proportion of brine and ore directly used as raw materials in the middle and downstream fields is very low, industry insiders said. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Afghanistan is the Saudi Arabia of lithium. @TheRealConstable Simon Constable. @Forbes HFN Why China Wants to Get In on Afghanistan’s Reconstruction https://www.forbes.com/sites/simonconstable/2021/08/28/why-china-wants-to-get-in-on--afghanistans-reconstruction/?sh=5d1ebffe62c3...more

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• 1645: PRC threatens passage in the South China Sea. James Holmes, first holder of the Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College and blogger at The Naval Diplomat. @NavalWarCollege. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

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  Sep 02 2021

  Photo: Chinese gunboat, Upper Yang-tze.    Photograph by John Thomson. Nineteenth Century. PRC threatens passage in the South China Sea.  James Holmes, first holder of the Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College and blogger at The Naval Diplomat.  @NavalWarCollege. https://navaldiplomat.com/).  @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill (https://navaldiplomat.com/).  @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.newsweek.com/china-strengthens-claims-over-disputed-waters-new-maritime-law-against-foreign-ships-1624479 James Holmes, first holder of the Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College, and blogger at The Naval Diplomat.  @NavalWarCollege. ...more

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• 1644: Two-lane highway; small-town America. Salina Zito, CNN, New York Post; author, The Great Revolt. @SalenaZito

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  Sep 02 2021

  Photo: Along the road.  West Virginia. Two-lane highway; small-town America.  Salina Zito, CNN, New York Post; author, The Great Revolt. @SalenaZito https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/the-restorative-power-of-the-american-people

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• 1644: Two-lane highway; small-town America. Salina Zito, CNN, New York Post; author, The Great Revolt. @SalenaZito

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  Sep 02 2021

  Photo: Two-lane highway; small-town America.  Salina Zito, CNN, New York Post; author, The Great Revolt. @SalenaZito https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/the-restorative-power-of-the-american-people

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• 1644: Summer camp is back. Salina Zito, CNN, New York Post; author, The Great Revolt. @SalenaZito

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  Sep 02 2021

  Photo:  Summer camp Summer camp is back.  Salina Zito, CNN, New York Post; author, The Great Revolt. @SalenaZito https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/summer-camps-great-awakening

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• 1644: DoD seeks mil-to-mil hotline to the PLA. Rick Fisher @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill Rick Fisher, senior Fellow of the International Assessment and Strategy Center .

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  Sep 02 2021

  Photo: Military comms:  Ottoman Empire:  Three members of the 8th Australian Light Horse Regimental Signal Station, sit with their heliograph set up on the pier on the Sea of Galilee DoD seeks mil-to-mil  hotline to the PLA.  Rick Fisher @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill Rick Fisher, senior Fellow of the International Assessment and Strategy Center . https://www.19fortyfive.com/2021/08/mistake-joe-biden-wants-to-talk-and-engage-with-china/

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• 1644: China's long slowdown. Alan Tonelson, independent economic policy analyst who blogs at RealityChek and tweets at @AlanTonelson. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

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  Sep 02 2021

  Photo:  An economic downturn is a general slowdown in economic activity over a sustained period of time. Here:  China's real GDP growth by decade since 1960s, with estimated rate for 2020s.   China's long slowdown.  Alan Tonelson, independent economic policy analyst who blogs at RealityChek and tweets at @AlanTonelson.   @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-factory-activity-expands-slower-pace-august-official-pmi-2021-08-31/ Permissions: China's real GDP growth by decade since 1960s, with estimated rate for 2020s from the Bloomberg Terminal (WRGDCHIN) Date 8 April 2021 Source Own work based on World Bank data published on the Bloomberg Terminal (WRGDCHIN) Author: Normchou    I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license: w:en:Creative Commons attribution share alike  This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.  ...more

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• 1643: Al Qaeda commands the Taliban to liberate Kashmir. Jeff McCausland, @mccauslJ @D6leadership, @USArmy; retired US Army Colonel & Dean of Academics at the US Army War College; @CBSradio natl security consultant

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  Photo:  View of snow-capped peaks near Kashmir in India Al Qaeda commands the Taliban to liberate Kashmir.  Jeff McCausland, @mccauslJ  @D6leadership, @USArmy; retired US Army Colonel & Dean of Academics at the US Army War College; @CBSradio natl security consultant https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/taliban-affiliate-al-qaeda-calls-for-liberation-of-kashmir-as-part-of-global-jihad-101630507902807.html

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• 1643: Pakistan sees India manipulating Afghanistan. Jeff McCausland, @mccauslJ @D6leadership, @USArmy; retired US Army Colonel & Dean of Academics at the US Army War College; @CBSradio natl security consultant

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  Photo:  Border between British India and Afghanistan in 1934 Pakistan sees India manipulating Afghanistan.  Jeff McCausland, @mccauslj  @D6leadership, @USArmy; retired US Army Colonel & Dean of Academics at the US Army War College; @CBSradio natl security consultant https://www.npr.org/2021/08/27/1031613191/india-taliban-afghanistan-us-exit-china-power

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• 1642: 2/2: After Afghanistan: What of the Great Power alliances: NATO? Quad? Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs HFN

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  Sep 01 2021

  Photo: American, Indian, and Japanese ships participating in Malabar 2019            Ships from the Indian navy, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and the United States Navy participate in Malabar 2020.  Official U.S. Navy Imagery.            ARABIAN SEA (Nov. 17, 2020) Ships from the Royal Australian Navy, Indian navy, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, and the United States Navy participate in Malabar 2020. Malabar 2020 is the latest in a continuing series of exercises that has grown in scope and complexity over the years to address the variety of shared threats to maritime security in the Indo-Asia Pacific where the U.S. Navy has patrolled for more than 70 years promoting regional peace and security. Nimitz Carrier Strike Group is currently deployed to the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations in support of a free and open Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Elliot Schaudt) 201117-N-NH257-1206. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 2/2: After Afghanistan: What of the Great Power alliances: NATO? Quad? Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs HFN https://news.yahoo.com/nato-chief-vows-alliance-wont-145025725.html ...more

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• 1642: 1/2: After Afghanistan: What of the Great Power alliances US-UK; CANZUK; SCO; CIS? Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs HFN

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  Photo:  A doorway for a great power - harbor at Port Arthur. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 1/2: After Afghanistan: What of the Great Power alliances US-UK; CANZUK; SCO; CIS? Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs HFN https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/08/31/joe-biden-us-no-longer-worlds-policeman/

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• 1642: 2/2: Lives of cells: Why do humans and orcas live to post-fertile old age? Oliver Morton @TheEconomist GLXXG

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  Photo: Old age. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 2/2: Lives of cells: Why do humans and Orcas live to post-fertile old age?  Oliver Morton @TheEconomist GLXXG https://www.economist.com/schools-brief/2021/08/21/making-your-way-in-the-world?frsc=dg%7Ce

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• 1642: 1/2: Lives of cells: Why do humans and orcas live to post-fertile old age? Oliver Morton @TheEconomist GLXXG

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  Photo: Captured killer whale lying on the shore. One of the pictures from the expedition to Greenland in the period July 1888 to May 1889. Fridtjof Nansen together with 5 other Norwegian participants crossed Greenland in the course of a 42-day skiing trip from the east to the west coast. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow 1/2: Lives of cells: Why do humans and orcas live to post-fertile old age?  Oliver Morton @TheEconomist GLXXG https://www.economist.com/schools-brief/2021/08/21/making-your-way-in-the-world?frsc=dg%7Ce ...more

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• 1642: #LondonCalling. Extinction Rebellion on the London Bridge. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion GLXXG

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  Photo: London Bridge & the Monument. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #LondonCalling.  Extinction Rebellion on the London Bridge. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion GLXXG https://news.yahoo.com/extinction-rebellion-protesters-block-major-203336132.html

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• 1642: #LondonCalling. Does a Strong Dollar Equal Strong America? @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion HFN

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  Photo: One dollar.  CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #LondonCalling.  Does a Strong Dollar equal Strong America?  @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion HFN https://www.wsj.com/articles/dollar-fed-chair-jerome-powell-jackson-hole-inflation-federal-reserve-emerging-markets-11630012468

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• 1642: #LondonCalling. Boris Johnson's Leaving of Kabul; US leaving Kabul. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion HFN

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  Photo: The Battle of Maiwand on 27 July 1880 was one of the principal battles of the Second Anglo-Afghan War. Under the leadership of Ayub Khan, the Afghans defeated a much smaller force consisting of two brigades of British and Indian troops under Brigadier-General George Burrows; albeit at a high price: between 2,050 and 2,750 Afghan Pashtun warriors were killed, and probably about 1,500 wounded British and Indian forces suffered 969 soldiers killed and 177 wounded.. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #LondonCalling. Boris Johnson's Leaving of Kabul; US leaving Kabul. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion HFN https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/afghanistan-dominic-raab-blames-ministry-of-defence-over-clearly-wrong-intelligence-6fzsc3rnb ...more

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• 1642: #LondonCalling. America closes to Europe, but Europe opens to America @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion GLXXG

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  Photo: A rural border crossing. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #LondonCalling.   America closes to Europe, but Europe opens to America  @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion GLXXG https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/covid-travel-news-live-us-uk-europe-holidays-airports-tests/

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• 1641: 2/2. #StateThinking: Islamabad Delhi Beijing and Moscow after the US departure. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc.

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  Photo:  Mosque in Lucknow 2/2. #StateThinking:  Islamabad Delhi Beijing and Moscow after the US departure.   @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/fleeing-the-taliban-over-land-into-pakistan/ar-AANUKER

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• 1641: 1/2. #StateThinking: Escape to Doha. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc.

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  Photo:  Map of Ancient Arabia - 1720 1/2. #StateThinking: Escape to Doha. #StateThinking: @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Executive VP Stephens Inc. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/30/us/politics/blinken-us-evacuation-taliban-afghanistan.html

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• 1641: Macron, the new DeGaulle. Sophie Pedder @TheEconomist

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  Photo:  The Armistice Day Centennial Commemoration Luncheon Macron, the new DeGaulle.  Sophie Pedder @TheEconomist https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/emmanuel-macrons-grand-plan-to-be-the-next-charles-de-gaulle-jvtdrxtt3

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• 1641: Europe Ecologie — Les Verts! (The Greens!). Sophie Pedder @TheEconomist

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  Photo:  Exactement: Europe Ecologie — Les Verts! (The Greens!). Europe Ecologie — Les Verts! (The Greens!).    Sophie Pedder @TheEconomist https://www.economist.com/europe/2021/08/28/frances-greens-prepare-to-pick-a-standard-bearer?frsc=dg%7Ce

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• 1641: The long, long failure of New York City jails. Harry Siegel, @harrysiegel Daily News and The Daily Beast.

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  Photo;  LUDLOW-STREET JAIL, LUDLOW AND ESSEX STREETS   The long, long failure of New York City jails.  Harry Siegel, @harrysiegel  Daily News and The Daily Beast. https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-where-decency-went-to-die-20210828-7xpt27a7sre5biif7b4eqbt73i-story.html?utm_source=siegeltown&utm_medium=email

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• 1641: After Afghanistan for Moscow and Beijing. John Bolton @AmbJohnBolton

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  Sep 01 2021

  Photo: Afghan coat of arms of yesteryear After Afghanistan for Moscow and Beijing.   John Bolton @AmbJohnBolton https://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-china-biden-iran-retreat-afghanistan-withdrawal-jihadist-taiwan-jcpoa-nuclear-11630336971?st=c8dajml60y6645t&reflink=article_gmail_share

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• 1641: Saigon again. Liz Peek @TheHill

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  Photo:  A member of the CIA helps evacuees up a ladder onto an Air America helicopter on the roof of 22 Gia Long Street April 29, 1975, shortly before Saigon fell to advancing North Vietnamese troops.   Saigon again. Liz Peek @TheHill  https://www.wfla.com/news/washington-dc/saigon-all-over-again-biden-criticized-as-taliban-retakes-power/

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• 1641: White House raises inflation estimate 100%. Liz Peek @TheHill

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  Photo:  Financial debacle. White House raises inflation estimate 100%.   Liz Peek @TheHill  https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/jobs-are-jerome-powells-number-one-job/2021/08/30/9289ea6c-099f-11ec-a7c8-61bb7b3bf628_story.html

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• 1640: #KabulDiary: Al Qaeda and Afghanistan. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal HFN

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  Aug 31 2021

  Photo: Taliban and al Qaeda, closely allied. Screen grab. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #KabulDiary:  Al Qaeda and Afghanistan.  @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal HFN https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/08/osama-bin-ladens-security-chief-triumphantly-returns-to-hometown-in-afghanistan.php

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• 1640: #KabulDiary: The airport attackers and the Taliban. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal HFN

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  Aug 31 2021

  Photo: Afghan postage stamp depicting the airport (1968). CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #KabulDiary:  The airport attackers and the Taliban.  @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal HFN https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/08/islamic-state-claims-credit-for-suicide-bombing-in-kabul.php

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• 1640: #KabulDiary: Why not Bagram? @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal GLXXG

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  Aug 31 2021

  Photo: Soviet fighter jets at Bagram, 1980. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #KabulDiary:   Why not Bagram? @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal GLXXG https://www.longwarjournal.org Permissions: — Спасибо — Operator | Russia (USSR) - Air Forces  Русский: Россия (СССР) - ВВС Date |  1980         Source | http://russianplanes.net/images/to47000/046692.jpgGallery page http://russianplanes.net/f%21b%21t%21a%21c%21d%21l20%21g%21m786%21s0%21u%21r%21k%21v%21h%21i%21reg%21ser%21n%21p8 Construction number This file comes from the Igor Bubin collection and is copyrighted. Note: This permission only extends to photos taken by Igor Bubin at this link, this link, this link, and this link, in addition to files which may be provided via email. It does not include any other content from the above sites which has not been provided by Igor Bubin. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 only as published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License. | 1.2 only This work is free and may be used by anyone for any purpose. If you wish to use this content, you do not need to request permission as long as you follow any licensing requirements mentioned on this page.The Wikimedia Foundation has received an e-mail confirming that the copyright holder has approved publication under the terms mentioned on this page. This correspondence has been reviewed by an Volunteer Response Team (VRT) member and stored in our permission archive. The correspondence is available to trusted volunteers as ticket #2011112610004549. ...more

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• 1640: #KabulDiary: Pakistan and Iran and the Taliban and Al Qaeda. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal

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  Photo:  Jundallah (lit.'Soldiers of God'), also known as the People's Resistance Movement of Iran (PRMI), is a Sunni militant organization based in Sistan and Baluchestan, a province in southeast Iran, that claims to be fighting for the "equal rights of Sunni Muslims in Iran" and is said to be affiliated with al Qaeda.. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #KabulDiary:   Pakistan and Iran and the Taliban and Al Qaeda. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @LongWarJournal https://www.longwarjournal.org ...more

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• 1640: #NewWorldReport: The dramatic Bolsonaro of Brazil. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc

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  Aug 31 2021

  Photo: Student demonstration against the Military Dictatorship .Manifestação estudantil contra a Ditadura Militar 7 CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #NewWorldReport:  The dramatic Bolsonaro of Brazil.  Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org https://nypost.com/2021/08/29/brazil-president-jair-bolsonaro/

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• 1640: #NewWorldReport: AMLO raffles El Chapo's house. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc

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  Aug 31 2021

  Photo:  A room in El Chapo's house . CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #NewWorldReport:  AMLO raffles El Chapo's house.  Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org HFN https://en.mercopress.com/2021/07/06/mexico-to-raffle-assets-belonging-to-drug-lord-el-chapo-guzman

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• 1640: #NewWorldReport: Central America's strongmen Ortega, Bukele, Hernandez. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc

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  Aug 31 2021

  Photo: Caudillos of long ago; here: Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Paraguay. CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #NewWorldReport:  Central America's strongmen Ortega, Bukele, Hernandez.  Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org HFN https://www.economist.com/the-americas/democracy-is-quickly-eroding-in-central-america/21803907

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• 1640: #NewWorldReport: Colombia campaigning. Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc

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  Aug 31 2021

  Photo: .El Tiempo de Colombia CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #NewWorldReport:   Colombia campaigning.  Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org GLXXG https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/30/world/americas/colombia-president-duque.html

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• 1641: The difference between Brown Dwarfs and Red Dwarfs. Ken Croswell, Science News

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  Aug 31 2021

  Photo: Red Dwarf planet The difference between Brown Dwarfs and Red Dwarfs. Ken Croswell, Science News Science News:  https://www.sciencenews.org/article/stars-cool-surface-temperature-failure-lasting-success

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